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} CRON. | Che Csening Wier, STARLISIIED HY JOSEPH PULITZER, Pobitdted Dally Bacopt sunday by the I shing Company, Naw 63 Park Ko RALPH PULT J. ANGUS SF JOSEPH PULITZI 63 Park Row retary, 63 Park Kovw. - MPMNER OF THN ASSOCIATED PRMIAS sonctaten Prom te excinsively, enti enol oer core edited to th VOLUME 58...... NEED FOR ALL WE CAN SAVE. HE cable from the British Ministry of Food mad@ publ yesterday by the Federal Food Administration shouldjremoy any doubts Americans may have as to the urgent pecd of saving food for their allies in Europe. Great Britain, France and Italy each and all report tle same ertreme need of meat. In the United Kingdom the Food fin Led authorized a system of local rationing, but already im uy plies have fallen off #0 seriously that the contemplated rafon will have to be reduced. I'rance will soon have to adopt a genqal fou card. Italy is badly in want of cereals, dried fish and fataas we as meat. Messages from Americans in active service in Europe ie no question as to how much all tht food we can epare and sen{ mour both to our forces abroad and to the nations with whose armes they are fighting side by side. | In a letter, also given out by the Food Administration, ag Amer can boy writes from “Over There”: | “You in the United States have no {dea what these pedio {tn England and France are sacrificing, Sugar is an unkn quantity, Why, the undissolved sugar in the bottoms of coffee cups in the United States would be a godsend tofis all over here. It ts not necessary to cut yourselves short. |If the American people will merely plan 60 that not a crum¥is wasted {t will help an untold amount.” n he “The undissolved sugar in the bottom of the coffee cup! That may well stand as a permanent reminder and rpul ‘Americans who have not yet entered into the food saving sfrit and who give no thought—so long as they themselves still ig ey ~ to the comforts that have gone out of the lives of those fighing for the Nation’s safety at the front } Never forget that the eaving of food by individuals anfunts ini the aggregate to stores that can be measured in shiploads. According to estimates prepared for the State Food |dminis trator in Massachusetts: Food enough to feed an army of a million men for fir days was saved by hotels, restaurants and clubs in Massaqu- setts In one month, Conerete and convincing. It should be kept constant} in the minds of Americans to what formidable reinforeements of om supply the quarter-loaves and half-pounds will pile up if 100,000,9) people | do the saving. | SCHOOL LUNCHES. WELIL-NOURISHED schoolboy means a better sturdy fighter later. hgce ofa The German authorities redied that conclusion years ago when they began feeding schoorhildren. | 1 was duc For “fighter” substitute “citizen” and include girls. {he argu- ment for providing children with proper food, furnished jt school, remains equally cogent for peace-loving communities whosqdeals ure not Prussian ones The development of the school luncheon plan in this f to the efforts of The Evening World, which steadily mainfined that undernourished children are poor civic assets and that food could be furnished youngsters at least once a day er to the great benefit of their health and without any suggestin of phi- ianthropy or charity, From small beginnings, The Evening World’s public aol penny lunch plan has grown until penny lunches are served inhore than # hundred schools in the city, and it is now proposed t¢make the providing of these school meals a regular function of the sade of Education, The Board of Aldermen held a public Igring yes terday on an ordinance framed for the latter purpose The ordinance provides that food supplied in this maher “shall de furnished free of charge, or, in the discretion of the pard, at a nominal charge, not to exceed two cents a portion.” ; Rather than permit anything like a charity line t/be drawn between children who can pay ard children who cannt pay, far better let the city furnish the luncheons free After all what sounder municipal investment healthy bodies for coming citizens? here than sts —_ i Letters From the People Please limit communications to 150 words. Baye There In No Need of Women on Wants One Law § AML the On | To the Pitter of The Ha wd To the Diitre of The Lrening Wond I note in your pap) an article I would Ike to say that as regards} touching upon the enfooment of the pincing of women on street cars! food regulations. Whil you devote that the labor organizations are right|a large part of your afle In praise tn waying that there Is no neod for| of the # and condopation of the them, as there aro plenty of men who| slacker restaurateur, tteeme to mo are willing to do this work if offered| you omit the most tingtant essen 4 ving wose, How can the traction] tial to any food rogulapn, and that companies expect men to work for] js, impartial applicatid of regula the miserable sum of $15 per week Of} tions to all food pupyors ullko. seven days at ten hours a day? That is! Hotels and re tauranthire not the what t).o Interborough pays {ts plat-| only places that @ell mba W ot form op the and subway Js of delighsson When they are promoted to the! butcher shops, drug pores, candy traing they receive the sum of! stores, Y. M. C. A, caberias, clubs, ’ a day. Some time ago | cant omments, lunch copers and em- they were given a $3 bonus] p raurants—ul they not 1 the end of each month, which was| be amenable to the sag law? increvsed to $6 when the men began] A imeutiess day shoy be meatless A. While $15 a week may all alike, There t@ved of f be fair waxes for 4 single girl to liVe/ noss, impartiality anghoroug on, it is a mere pi aa tee ererie Ve all things in pd ares. ing man with a family t prort.| tion, Delegating thelower of the Let the traction companios give a liv-| State t suclety Lidthe hotel or ing wage and they will find it is not} restay ax0c , whose necessary to put women in the men's rship ts en wlipd whose in- placee. They will alao find that It ‘ted to fo amall area will make the work of the labor agi-|of the wh establishints, ls child's tator more difficult, Lot them not} play Saving the Najn ls a man's rest in the hope that the women can't] job, Starvation lw a feater general be organized, for they can be, and|than Hindenburg; {ust be fought are more’ prone to become dissatisfied | W!th ths whole etrem of the Na- with wages and working oonditions| (0% Wo than the men, with strong men THIRD AVENUP “L" GUARD. ere tt defeats us, STEWARD. i holesome Great Inventor's Father Placed an Education Before All—| | | EDITORIAL PAGE iday, February 15 i ah Wanted Me to Be HUDSON MAXIM By Roy L. McCardell Coprright, 1018, ty the Press Pu ung Oo, ASTER WILLIE JARR stood | while Did y fidgeting by the window and | skate? asked h eniffling. “Kin I go out, The little girl denied | maw?" he whimpered, "Kin jour?’ | : New York Kvening World nO. bay I g0| the missing article as she hu Taught His Son to Study and Aspire, Though They Lived in the Wild. !to her wraps, and Gertrude, Not when you ask me that way,” | vant girl, reported that she hi |satd Mrs. Jarr, going calmly on with | the missing skate in the loo Cengright, 1918, hy to Hreas Publishing Co, (Tae New York Breatng World), her knitting. | she had left it there that his mother such @ receptacle in) URING my arly boyhood in) to encourage us to work hard and |" OTe 1 yf out chear’| might aoe just how Master Jarr com-| the dark, say | Maine my parents lived ion the} study hard and embrace every honest | 1st. oy, — plicated the burdens of her duties. | lar Mechanics. ‘The | borders of the woods that}opportunity to get on in the worlt| ness ‘can,’ Willey} Mrs. Jarr stalked to the ice box, paper is provided extended norther-| but above all things to get @ good | “Why do you not say eae ceting [and there was tho rotier skate in be- with a rectangular | lyin ab uinbboken /eduoatons: My tether used to)tell me) WY. G9 FRUiRRy RINT Rb Route ee Ee ie) latent opening so that the wildernes# to the/that a man's education for a chosen | Greaatul, What nose @ ty vi food conserving recipe) and the label {8 surrounded, Canadian xettle: | pursuit {4 his best tool of trade, ers do We have these days, any Bassler Taine aia Rachiavery \eviE but not covered, A| ments, Hard times} 7 had a pretty hurd the of tt get-| “Kin I xo out a sey He kw |dence of having been burglarized gummed tab permits Wes a chrome! ting an education, but I had set my inquired, Master err in way without the ald of a knife, | the device to be ition, I Le face to Mt, and 1 never looked back. on a allel ea 1 not, But, as Master Jarr confessed, tha! Wiickly and securely attached ae over-present prob: ee enticed me fet topméacl 1 cxeh you say ‘can’ and no| é saat pais : lem of where the] bade ae eet : Mauineee at tkin’"" replied his mother, “T mean | ‘Bdictme ay Ce rey Me ota (nate ty Sharpener for Scissors | washing \t with soup and water halt next me ltece recs area enna | ’ ‘ y and not ‘reprimand, Mrs. Jarr feeling some 2 little A reliable comt n next meal WAS’ Kent's Hill I had but thirty doniars | it bal aerd SOSH SUARUY ANA HOE CORR: | re colauned tbat ‘Her! ermute, and Knife eet Devi ayes wee oealte: fe m was) with which to pay my tuitton, buy | § saa icin eay can.’ the boy re<|minceless, mince ple had been ‘con EEPING «keen edge on knives| sesopenyine sk ms to Afialliaanibereioe ee books and board myself for a joined. “I seen Johnuy Rangle and|S!d¢red good enough to be worthy and scissors ia made easy by | invention desert! y Popular Sole ve ig? “en “We term of three months, When the hi- \Gussie Bepler from the winder’ raiding. } baving In the home this re- lence Monthly Ita strings are ot he: family | bernating groundhog out | us : 7 «| “Wel 6 said Mrs. Jarr,| y paten vic ‘1 S fathor once facettonsly iemarked that |in ine geet and T came Out)“ wyou saw them from the window,”| “Well, Wille,” said Mra. Jurr,| cently patented device described tn | covered with twisted bras poverty had damaged him more than | 1 '8e SPring I was aa lank and hun | 90.4 gure corre “since you admit eating the pie, and| the Mlustrated World, Chicago. It 1s nich ia juet rough cnough te oe gry aa he. By home study I got On) “cen I go out, mamma, T saw them | leaving your skate in the tee box,|constructed in auch a way that a serape the sidex of the teeth and thn rapidly, however, in eplte of all ab- | . jand since you ara trying to speak|child may operate it with perfect Ragged and hatlesy und stovless un-| stactes, |trom the window, too,” remarked itt- 3 y » Vening bottom wpaces, without iit dian Tnittean yeaetat see, had - |tle Emma Jarr, presorving all the | correctly, mother will forgive you this safety, If « Anite is drawn alter-|muking the teeth. themectecs rougtt Wide epnonenies Met ohoat | wer & Jong time 1 was undectded | niceties of diction, | time. Now be careful ane don’t run | ‘whe tramewore te aeiunea ic reste during tho inclement Maine wintors, | Shether to be a lawyer or @ doctor, ®) nut stra. Jarr pald no heed to the Saad Cav esveme 88 a a ous styles. Some of them are nick- and tn the summers thud to work, 1/000 « geek ry ae i ie | tte sirl, thinking {t @ time to give IM bg oot he | elled, some finished in copper and d no chance 1 sun. | Satlor oF a poe Inally succeede: , le Ja ef but tm. |e = some tn oxydized bras wads fey Ulin submerging most of my cherished | Mate? wa je Leblr ‘potter | Mister Jarr kissed his mother and | {dj fi bi pret - ) HLT was almont 1 RS: avosationnl RONILOe wed etnes [pen are moa 1a ae ars Ob IRE NG coe the streak, III)" eel Adjustable Paring Knife. } ho only ! 0 exp! no. ’ yC O of ao | - ble to buy wit ir down to Invention and chemical and even wil avoid bein ian ale led. “Your overcoat | US ematl, adjusting device may pees Gite SH" | echanical engineering ve vee. aig ncizs tod baci Master Jarr returned for his over- | be attached to any paring knife My first re Rete] _ in your language and grammar, Wil- t i panied’ of Kuatn, CAR toc ke . \ ting of an education 1 1 toa rel = ‘ she wuld, “Now repeat after COM! and sta mas ‘ & gage In alicing oF tive who offered +1 woudl W, S ae Fi | Tala Ath D have Go noth. | YOUr knitted trench helmet you muds a ree veut) War Surgery Finds Sugar|mo 1 « VO Gone Dold TT vou when J) was knitting it learn to rea \ ter} ej «hel ep sg ; . ; y. | for a soldier!” she cried r w Ustake Cure for Wounds, “But I atn’t done nothing, maw! Geis AGiWaben SORA a DRARIS peeling frult or vegetables. It penis se A ESPITE tho terrife Ayhting in; Vhned the boy, “Did you tell on) sre, Jarre protested. But under | be reversed so as to sult etther ® nin cla Nt aie wan the present war there will not |M% tattle tale?” he added, turning | ewe ovo ne donned. it and right or left landed person, and ean Reece : mar armed and |#ccusingly on bia little wlater, | ti ited for outdoors again | also be adjusted to provide for outs Is opie On oa ere have been No, T didn't!" replied the litte ne back! called bis mother harp-| of different depths, so it can be used tuasrice with \ Jonging {2 Past wa © ‘oason roats with |Sith "FT didn't aay @ word about |uyoy sorgot your gloves!” {ened on houlder | for both paring and slic There ta nia haar ae ah ; the surgeons and methods of | What you did Master Willie returned for uly | Provide which | a place for one every kitehen w oh which 1 ked atmient given (he wounded, says! Mra. Jarr affected not to hear this. | gioves and then sped away selssors aro firmly held as they are| where many vegetables are prepared Hoth my fat pular Science M Dr. Alexis} Whatever !: was that Master Jorr| ana your rubbers!" bis mother |@t@WO through in order to insure a the table, says the Mustratedl geniuses in tee acl wef Carrel has been doing some remark- | had done, would learn i yood|catied after him correct bevel, A delivate file, which World, Chicago SPIER a hiea in the |&ble work in ¥ He bas made | time If it was very bud. If it was a! “put how kin I. I mean how CAN | . = seamen iy Knew tho natu herb an the] ie fam mgm | ines mikimeton “i woah at ater ey mt |WW7hen “Dixie Became the South hae cent Gtehuman ; 1 But for| matter Mf sie continued 1m ignorance poreinieal He ey sae | *n- Vixie Became the Southern Anthem Sree ate ona has in ant as to be given | of it Any Ay, at this time » @ waa | ‘ My" ollr shaven res | 66 ia Was first played by a! When Prof. Arnold was asked tor ® emergency, and i 1 the right { Germany, He | correcting faulty expression und did) peated Master Jarr. “But, maw, they | and on a puvile occasion) band programme for the inaugural thing. My fat n excellent| haa cured wounds with sugar [met wish to complicate matters by] ain't reully mine, I ewiped them from Afty-seven years ago, when|of Davia he decided to pee mechanic and @ real 5 hor, He] After washing out the wounds hoe) Any investigation into irregularities | Johnny Kangie” the tre ip |TeMerson Davis was inaugurated) "Dixie" for the variov j pepe: : ‘And he rushed for frevh alr | 7 | arlous instrumented had a remarks K ko of| has dressed thom with ordinary | of conduct, | without his mother noticing he had | President of the Confode: | = morning of Feb, 18, 1861, whem Ancient history and Knew the Bible] Branulated sugar covered with a| "Kin we, T mean CAN we go out,| forgotten to put bis cap on over his| Montgomery, Ala, As a vaudeville! sidential carriage, drawn byl from cover to cover sb he was| compress, renewing tho sugar every maw?" repoated the boy. beanie. song it had boen dashed c8, swung into place {af an agnostic, It wa my father] second or third da This simple} “Yes, seeing you have so thought- WE SUSPECTED IT! j minutes by Daniel Deca munet to ‘MeWal procession to the Ala I learned that the is 's an inex-| treatment, eecording to Dr, Meyer, | fully Included your Uttle sister in the | HE Russian peasant smoke: fil @ gap in his New Yo pro-| bama State House, Arnold's band [ed haustible source of ful poetic] has been notably successful, In @| request,” replied Mrs, Jarr, kind of tobacco called Mak: | "me, but it reinained for Herman |of with the strains of “Dixie!” Ti diction. number cf Instances amputations! “Hooray! Where's my other roller] horka, described as eastly rec- | Ard @ band leader at Montgomer: ers 1 the air and the song The only directive tnt * of my|have been prevented because the | skate?" eried the boy. “Where's my lognizea from afar because of itts|t? orchestrate Was to becom te . many times ther dive parents upon th dren was] wound way wugar-cured other roller skate? Thad ‘em both « “extremely pungent odor,’ the great patrlotle wong of the Buurh. ent ip every army of the | i " “marching to ibe tua 1 p , ' ‘ She uray 44 A. aby The Woman of It! By Helen Rowland Gright, 1018, ly the Peat Publisuing Co, (The New York Ereuing Wort) AST night I dreamed that I had LOST her ——— ‘The woman to whom I owe everything that I have or am or hope to be! The woman who has been my greatest insp’ the motive-power of my every effort, The spur to my every achlevement—the source my every success! ’ For HER sake, I have dragged myself out of ti slough of despond and smiled bravely into the eyes d Fate—oh, many times! For her sake, { have resisted every folly or tem tation, from a foollsh fllrtation—to a fattening potato! When I have felt myself “slumping” —~— “Letting down,” getting careless or lazy or frumpy I have thought of HER! And instantly I hurried out and bought a new corset and a new braad jot face powder and a new hat and a new book on beauty-culture, | And a@ ticket for a matinec! Often, when I have folt inclined to “let things go,” } When I have felt restive or impatient of my work, and vowed I wor | “lake things easy” —— Oh, YOU know that “Oh-what’s-the-use” feeling! —— HER face has risen suddenly before me, like a fatthful monitor And I have pulled myself together with a mighty jerk And done the very best thing of my life! Sometimes, When IJ have felt grippy und spring feverish and { bed and send for the doctor, T have closed my eyes and summoned up HER image, And presto! +I have braced up and gritted my teeth and given myselg & good dose of mental science And “carried on” until I forgot my headache or my heartache, In the sheer excitement and stimulation of “playing the game!” And when I have felt blue and discouraged and down-and-out And been tempted to go about with a face of woe, drenching*uy frienda | in gloom and tears, i} And telling everybody how badly the world was treating me, I have come suddenly face-to-face with HER, And held up head, and tossed my chin a few inches higher And LAUGHED the old world in the face! And then, somehow, loverything would seem to go right again, And I would th.uk Her, from the bottom of my heart Oh, I know 5 ‘That if all my best and nearest friends should die I should be very, very desolate; But, without HER, life would hardly be worth the living, And T should never do or be or amount to anything! Vor SHE—1s my dearest ENEMY! | And yet, last night, 1 dreamed that she came to me and kissed me And wanted to “make up!” And in a moment of weakness I FORGAVE her! And I woke up weeping To think that I had lost the greatest asset, the most wonderful inspii jon to success ‘That any human being can have— A good, true, faithful enem: oe enough lo go Wy Practical New Inventions ‘ | gr Meet Old N y ee eedas | Sandpaper Band Designed | may be removed when worn out, far | For Poison Bottle. stm ji sharroing ruta, | a hening 4 4 other OR bottles con-| oon PES OUEO a) “" taining poison a Comb’s Usefulness. ing seen} sandpaper BEPING the comb in a sa 4 lem inet guard has been intro- €ondition ts not so easy « task Necnare duced which, when as it would seem ca tound| applied, enables aj box, and | person to distinguish