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yet Berlin. ‘ Che. CseHiiy oro, ESTAPLISIIED BY JOS H PULITZER, 4 Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to| paradise 63 Park Row, New York, | RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer,'63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER. Ir. Secretary, 63 Park Row. ™ Publisie {NER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRMSS, ne tor regu) Thee Aso! Wredited to it VOLUME 58 NO PROFIT IN NO. KEEPING BACK WHEAT. 20,642 HE President's formal proclamation fixing the guarantecd price for 1918 wheat at figures ranging from $2.28 at New York to #2 bushel at Salt Lake City oug to remove every vestige of the kind of uncertainty that keeps whi from finding its way readily and regularly to market. body of loyal American farmers who , that it} and unprofitable must prove Tt is only just to the gr nt demand for whea e¢ done their best me Bhould be made clear how utterly us the policy of the product in t od Administrator Hoover i few wheat growers who hoard their last year’s of higher hope prices more insistent than ever upon the} necd of loading at least 8,000,000 bushels of wheat daily for (he Allies. Director General of Railroads MeAdoo will not admit that} wandling 8,000,000 bush the railroads are not capable o da | says that 6,000,000 bushels are all that haye geen reported on hand | each day for shipment } The moment is, therefore, a particularly fitting one for the Pr. dent’s plain statement of the prices that must be reckoned on for this t year’s wheat harvest, coupled with the reminder: Those peculiar circumstances governing the handligg and consumption of wheat put the farmer at the very centre of war service, Next to the soldier himself, he ts serving the country ‘and the world and serving it in way which {#8 absolutely fundamental to his own future safety and prosperity The American farmer ttle fault with the guaranteed prices for 1918 wheat, which insure him a fair profit even while he does his part toward winning t a ean find 1 war, Far to #2 ter raise all the wheat 8 a bushel than take f having the price of future crops discussed and settled ia! he can a chance nd sel] it promptly at from $2 4 ee Now it's: The Bear that crawls Ike a Worm Of Orem LET ALL LABOR LEADERS SUBSCRIBE. | N FORCEFUL, unequivocal terms, Samuel Gompers, President of | the American Federation of Labor, again pledges the loyalty | of the country’s organized workers in carrying through the g war tasks it has undertaken: “The Republic of the United States is not perfect; it has the imperfections of the human—but ft is the best country on the face of the earth, and those who do not love it enough to work for ft, to fight for It, to die for it, are not worthy of the privilege of living fn it.” “I say to the Kaiser, I say to the of the American labor movement; You can't talk peace with American workers; you can't talk peace with can't talk to us at all We are fighting now, Elther you smash your Kaiser autocracy or we will emashi it for you,” rmians, in the name us; you now. Admirably said, Mr. Gompers. There are few things of which the country would more You MaCar war experiences, on | | be convinced than that every Jabor leader, every president of W t d M t B $ tenced to death: of the most sensational of ader, esident of 4 Copyright, 1915, b Prev Dui Co, (The New York Evening Worl ne : C exarail hut tel be convineed than that evry Jabor I ante e to Be renee odes of the most een brotherhood, every head of ocal labor union could be relic HE Jarrs were taking an after-| they wanted to go to the Knitting! i) Kod at fervently to echo and stand by Mr. Gompers’s sentiments whenev« MINOR C,. KEITH Noon out, g a cabaret tea. | Ch They said they would rather} —” ree : ‘ i , I by , 0 ttle! go to 1. Now when they learn . end wherever the temptation to call a strike at the cost of holding! Head of the Pan-American Railway Wanted to Be a} coiorea pos, only thittecn years of) we to the Knitting Circle | h O f f ee: F O Yr Ce wp important war work threatens to thrust aside specially provided Pioneer in His Early Youth, and Soon Set age, is a master of the viol vey will both carry on!" ie (o) qmeans of arbitration and adjustment of, Ihe ° j me 1M Jarr, apropos Don't them the sald Mr A La i uo (Bast aria a iy " ‘ Out to Satisfy This Longing. OW dC APL WORGRFIRE IE Gb! i By Bide Dudley ‘or American labor generally in its relation to war tasks, Pres Covsright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Lrening World) Emma isn't old enough to take up| +1 hope 1 Sehen hay anima tna 2 Prose Publishing Co, ‘Tee Now York Trening World i } | 0” ay a mo | Copyright, 1918, by the Press * ri Gent Gompers speaks nobly. Would that his broad pledge of loyalty Y ancestors were hardy Ameri-| The Costa Rican railroad planned! the in, whi aw overy difficult] that can tel children everything | ¢ gy sick by the Md Pop ‘Or a man who writes a check on ld be made binding in particular cases where, when diffieulti pane and sete mT listened | by my brother and myself bona in a! instrument, everybody says.” It dot” sald Mea; Jarr ¢ | ple, the #8 Clerk, “that| bis bank," came from POrbi # ise, individual heads of brotherhoods or unions are seen to bo Be reas , Peal eed ghd baal oe Ob. a thin I ts too young | erhat's the Modern Mother'a Club | five highway robbers were ar 1 t understand,” sald the yn eae nene ees r o4 call of the wild, In |Jungle, It was necessary to traverse | for anything like that,” replied Mr-| propaganda, ign't it?” asked Mr. Jarr.|rested in one day in Boston Bookkoene ees } oncerned with the nation’s needs than with the chance to ix my early youth Tj flood-swept valleys and deadly’ Jarr Me eAVa fio Fimute tone ohildees| iy) wepeRtA GUROA Me td OI “Why, a man who writen a cheek te + crease their own power and prestige determined to/ swamps and then to climb a Jutting | apy: our Will Jd enough,” said |ara bound to respect, and that sort | hold-up men.’ om drawer, isn't he ; abel: > SESS ES seek opp! eke ete ade of ety belay ving 50 he pre “Of course, while L would jet ture?” } “My unele, who was in the su BA good, Mr. TER ald iy in new and unde- | altitude exceeding 5,000 feet in order A ‘ ! ed in Boston,"| Private Secretary, beaming on the | not expect him to be a professional ” Hie pender business, failed in Trotaky outzky? voloped flelds, but|to gain the plateau on which is lo-| not orbeck tp fo be & promiaslelit’ | No" sald Mr aH bday tis eid Bobble, the O88 HOY Shipping Clerk a { , ing} cated the city o: ‘ se, 1 . an AE bah ‘| mean just what I say and no more, | 64\d | . witt * sang out o 7 Hi Ss -| without for te at 7 th ; ye ft ny a re ae can play the violin-and that makes | qua t ways hope T shall never do| “What has your uncle to do with ing ow Bobbie heaped 4 s 7 that ultimately | appalling hardships and risks Un le carendae 1 havanewd ee come nn way , baat Mr. Popple's statement?” demanded | the between a farmer ‘ : Dts rom Sharp | my ambition| enterprise may faintly be underatooa| ™? Wonder if having a dark com: |anycning £ wouldn't want my chil-/Mr. Fopple's statement’ Cemik ey i sills Ink in hie mone No, Maude dear; when the Bible | sharp one skins yo s { Joad me to| When it is stated that the construc- Con 5 a : Re " tae Be ven to do, And T hope you can say) > S " Arawort speaks of asking for bread and get m of the first twenty-fiv e Repu FD Mae SAAD RE BIAE | che eamia,! jg . tive it up, kta" ting a stone there were no wisanen| The fu t is that if the ro | I beets i rf i a, an st eaad loeel fo violin, and ure dark com ; it) I tell you we should have| “He was a hold-up man, wasn't he “Give ip, kia replied Miss *hiladel SS) was a short orn meal every- | ans Ameri- | of this bad cost tho lives of more! ji sioned. ‘Or c our Willi ; ” 8. Ja Well, t declare!” gang out Miss) Tile days.—Philadelphia Tecord body would be craxy to get vonwtc| ? < REEMA Rallwage:. | Man: 4008) man. Net. only AYO sare lon, te ane | rouse the children nevi Tarr | cviille, thettond stenographer, “That's| “0: + the goll and the other ee nee Charleston (#. C.) News-Courlor ixt Jamaican negroes but scores of young je ve eckles in the | @ sho gave Mr, Jarra nudge. “That's Tillte, the r i : rae e guy , wa-Courler T was a litte more than sixteen | Jamaican negroes res Of YOUNK) nme tut the 4 the id a good one, Reminds me of the time ie til ‘The guy who hits the pace gener | os ‘ fathor in the lum-| American engincers and othera of | Summer. But tt # out in the!) nursery song ie vers hung to telegraph p: ous!” grunted Miss Primm, ally has to walk back,—Binghamton| M lowly, but don't think | ¥!en 1 Joined my fe ' he air so much, That is what makes : ¢| {Wo men were hung grapt 0d Press. . y tin, yw sl Industry, Bud { remained with | skilled professions together with) | o. precied in th ummer, and| Before them lay a dining room of},, pou troctous amked Mr, cas, | anywhere when you're dusty | 0 freckled in the summer, ani ope 0 a Tat | j only king up.-Iinghamton Press, {him only one year, having earned |three of my own brothers gave UP] ioe Winter ho will NOT Wear his Hh ceilinged place around Which) “wwe, they highway robbers’ Boss, stepping from his Some people's charity consists in| g eae $3,000 as a lumber surveyor, 1 then| thelr lives to conquer the mere fringe | coves no matter what I say, and he |?" @ balcony, A cleared space Wis) 2164 spooner, the Bookkeeper. private room “ Biving advice.Chicago News. Su sis a big target, but it takes! entered the tleld by myself In 1865, |" the fever-infested jungle. gets his hands all chapped and ho| !” the centre, and here to the mustc “No, but they were a pair of sus: “A cheap joke Bobble Just told, o Pasi iat at ikea aot to Wt the bul'se | "shortly after this the cattle bust- | It topk nineteen years before the) re enc hurt. nen when. he “Long Boy" and to the words| 40". nal the private secretary, There are worse patriotic speeches oe ness in ‘Texas attracted my attention |foad reached San Jose, less than one) ITU A | tll kl NM which @ Jane orchesirta was SINBING, Ota. content for peo-| “Say.” sald the Boss, frowntngs than a hea's cackle, and We Have) Aiso remembor that folka, wh and 1 struggled to win and hold a[hundred miles away. But almoat in| Whey Mhbm | aus L stand right but twenty couples were dancing tn j As ay We Ail snapped Mivs| “this place ts a workshop, not @ min- er ahir§ you blow your own horn,—Hingham= | my ratiroud then in ‘Texas | Scure some articles of freight which | ° At email tables at the edges of the| sete mt wne vow both | Tealixe that, the better, Mise Wem To be controlled by force of habit)? Pres | a Nea could be found and developed in the, “His hands aren't chapped in the) |“! 5m iatcestal anesh should enter It, I'm sure th contie. big gun of this office is good if habits are—Albany |. \iny Ane i, H , t Une, leas than forty miles) jingie, In 1872 1 planted the first|summer, but h cts to washing | dancing mpace sa lary cwhich’ wael ee A force, If anybody Jokes while on dournal, har AG > ulwaya foots his own jin all, connecting Galveston and] a itapie bananas in Central| them Just the Ne," wald Mr, Jarr,| tors From the gallery, ‘ “You'd make 1 good judge ud let mo | and I'll fire the wee eee | nar n everybody dodging! Houston, I beeame possessed of an eet Men ae 1873. until 189% fel) T never sat El eran ed Iso crowded, poured a huge search-! Roypie, a et mo know anc Even when two hearts beat as ono! WC" he approaches,—Albany Jour-| ambition to build a chain of railroads | *™Merc’ and from 1873 until % bi Pane RE ABM she re of changing colored lights. |v nik vena Tatil offendk you can't always tell which is going, ™ embition to bulla § railroads | tne year when the United Fruit Com. | was always finding fault with his| ht glare of chang ee Pept ae T get you, kid!” said Mins The Boss retired In his private of« to be the Philadeiphia Record P oe, | which would cee UP new and strange | ony was organized, I dovoted all|children as you do!” Mrs, Jarr do-| It was 3 o'clock Nee v noo-|¥ou mean she knows all the old |? dh sete ysical culture is one thing and| territories, but I stuck to the cattle | J ” at? ; |but no ray of sunlight entgred joy yecause she heard them year Pa: he timo I could spare from the rail-|clared, “You object” to our little kes | yee eye The dull man bores you and the Tying Up three Mights of stairs | trade as the most promising chance Lae SL ela baie JA va | place ‘The Hghts were tumed on) 14 years ago and” As Big Gun, as Mr, Snooks calle The dull_man_ bo: a t honpet Nad | Jroad to the development of the| Emma taking up the violin, and you ied je aca a ace a canarte ae bab of making my dream po re are riers Iynow she recites wonderfully. ‘The | Drilliantly as if it were midnight, “That will do, if you please, Miss | Me i) 1nake | & ea ° | fore long 1 owned 4,000 he ——|next* time wo have company I am| Several groups of middle-aged pinie! said Miss Primm firmly. | (Nhe advil! sang ont SERIE ® ° rT b 0 : “re ¥ vider = | cone mf t # loke already! Yaltic ules for Air H anid punpiite eGpitn) Which lured ms THE ONLY WAY. going to have her recite some of her| Women, shoppers evidently, and knit-| «your tnainuation that 1 am ancient | , “A Joke alrendy’” sale bat Nestle Ig. Ww ays pte attempt to construct railroads | ¢ grat Carnegie Foundation's re- | pieces. She's #0 cute," ters, for they clutched shopping and jp qippant, On ey next birthday Lil “f Dave a no O GRE heen the succ | through vi ands, : ” : t the place.| po i gun is fired RSRRAD bas bean) tha susreal Of) to. the rtynt! and mao 0.1 tint they | Trees mentite sate 2 | ‘ solution to the effect] you won't have any company it| Knitting bags, were IA Ut Died |be thirty. Miss Primm flushed up, but gat ear ‘ie n uilding up keep at least 100 yards apart. With had: pt ae . that the only way to insure] you tell them what's to occur,” s Young business met 1 up ang| What? came from Bobble nothing PEA ici ey esipaalirrepeebadaiaiet 4 Tie tire Betta yi pL Bi POR OF E religtay tae Puerto | Permanent word poace ia to crush) de, Jerr, sipped tea, ate pastry and BoUP AAT) qf gay, on my next birthday TN be] think,” came f:om Pople, look= that as ry GAY h a 00 iHome necnuit | Shout t nore this 4 narrow Q one ruet i NB 8 relly m Hustle | Germany," sata W. E. Dame] «And she's such a good child,” Mas. | “need | thire tae Git ad aeladan, teratcal eee r ° th tng flelds Is) ! flying in the same dic | mon 12 Mae ° 0 sapital ¥ Jof the Rough Riders, in his New York | arp went on. “W s xanaet th The floor manager came over and! «No, T mean thirty what?" | . aes thronged with student aviators and ling Juncle, Henry Melges of Peru, had a jJa report thi ‘ | b ; an,| 89M more snow their instructors, oft | Mie thie Bad ite tree ts with th 1 M8 office, “reminds mo of the stockys| month from school only had D for| bowed to the Jarrs: . ou're a very idiotic young man, oe mtructors, often Se many sa f the ono to t ur | contracts e Coste Rice Goy ell-dressed » in the police sta- Aus “Woulk ly like to dance?” ha! yrereafte: " q efrain | fity at a time. Axa protection to lite | is ited'enoigh ta hus f miiut |ernment to construct tho ratiway and | el ' Pelee MAY Vaeportinent; He got 0 ton aimaas| ON ee Mee oe ot Gut YouNE Te edtaaee tear, ot (Cement Made From Baste hos a Sees cep 100 yards away if he goes hy on! pac cennA tthe a ieade jon, everything els 6 told me the | Aske 7 »m addre “ sales ls pohapifeneines nee al Fy : ae Fea a ee ne att ‘A big. ky fellow had been! other day if 1 let him go to the mov-| Military men." | “Vd suggest,” sald Spooner, smil BY-PRODUCT is obtained tn * e lying [18 not pern cut act " . h sht h ‘ , » ns, that we “t t anufac ° Corpa, have been adopted, When the of the cratt When Po | Otr crs waa tan Het © foral ought “in on a stretcher, and the! ing pictures he would try to get A| And as he spoke Mrs, Jarr gave &| ing, “that we change the subject and manufacture of beet ugar war {8 over and most of these another app TEL MTA RELL OR ATR PREETI South eer Ce [eee 1 to the stocky chap] gor everything. Do you think we/little squeal, Coming toward them try to be friendly this morning, By from which cement can be Ree ee evista tay TT Ceie miet cree ms his own Ne! Grande See teinng t ; 0 iio |rather sternly should have broug children thia| With a sine was Mr. Angelo Dink-|tho way, if wheat and corn continue | made, according to a Paris report, raffle may become #0 heavy that Pate, must give way trande oe Isth of Panama ‘What have yoy got to say for|* 2 ny 1 ; "i o aK > price, ldn’ ne | 8 Popular Mechanics, In_ boli or national police will be needed in No aviator may {with the exception of the Sart tine ily J, you ¢ to say f0r] agternoon? They would have enjoyed | ston nee it ady e in price, wouldn't it t panve ay Miah Aha an sill pps Hag crowded aerial thoroughfares another machine ani Hondares. tie ah etd alte eonraelt ; it” | Me was in full uniform, a very full! well for us all to become farmers and | beets Nc sugar there col- The greatest danger of accident is|at least $00 feet nrate ; ret Pai ‘Sergeant, sald the stocky chap,| |, ‘ ‘ iniform, consisting of an aviator's! till the soll?” }Iects a thick scum which haa beem found near the surface of the aviation them, no: y he fy pe. Of Central America stand on bight! nave merely been acting the part of/ “AT@ YOU speaking of taking our) ¥ ms Fe cota and BOUeal| | enncuaia found to contain considerable cors field between machines just rising and |low or ¢ ano ro | Plateaus, ‘There we pendable| a peacemak chikiren t ople fox trotting at} ap, a@ cavalryman’ . el here'd be money tn the till, all) ponate of ln Tho amount of gal- those ehout to land. Those aloft aro | ruler de safety | foot or Wagon roads. These republics} ‘But, good gracious,’ said the|a cabaret tea?" asked Mr. Jarr aud marine’s tunic, and an @ y |right,” sald Bobbie cium cart which can be © prerned 4 a red fag when an aircraft | wh n airy ar miloons | were cut off by pestilential lands,| Sergeant, u ke #ix Of this man's| “Why, yes," sald Mrs. Jarr If, man's trousers. “Another Joke, | presume!” snapped tained from i fone, of beste is JP ey BB 9 sakicl er anal ‘1 Wess | Wealthy citizen’ approached tha| "28." | » is no harm in our going, there rybody's doing tt," remarked | Miss Primm, | play i ee ‘The rules of the road for vehicles on easily handled A ) ached reaay Gators? wae cain tie (Gta ‘ going, there | ’ bt ramen kad Alles Prem rine, | citY {8 added and the substance ‘the surface apply to two airplanes flying over towns t frown: coast in fear and trembling. Thou-| stocky chap. at whece “Wash. | would be no harm in bringing them| Mr, Dinkston affably tm Military | hat ts a till isked Miss Tillie.) burned, a high grade of cement le Spproaching Read-on, they must turn upom . @ande could not be \atueod vw wy it. [pnaton sa. * “, |with us Besides, 1 asked them if Messenger from the King oJ Spain! “A money drawer,” replied Spooner. obtained, H f r 4 EDITORIAL PAGE Monday, February 25 As a Peace Bird Copreiaht. 1918, hy The fh By prening What My Parents By Ro ee ene J. H. Cassel. The Jarr Family dell * Stories of Spies | By Albert Payson Terhune. “Spy” is generally used as a term of reproach. Sometimes thatre | proach ts well deserved, Sometimes it is not. Every spy. in war time, works under peril of sure and immediate death if caught, A life-and-death adventure is always worth the telling. Here are stories of some of the most exciting spy exploits from the days of Nathan Hate down to the present war: Copyright, 19:8, by the Press Poblisuing Co, (The New York Evening World), | No. 1-—-BELLE BOYD, the South's Most Daring Spy. WEST VIRGINIA woman and her beautiful ffteen-year- | old daughter sat on the step of their home one summer afternoon in the first year of the Civil War. The mother was an invalid, the wife of a Confederate officer, A drunken Union soldier came slouching along the street from a nearby camp. He spoke insultingly to the sick Woman, She answered him in sharp rebuke, The soldier strode over to where she sat and struck her’ across the face Her daughter, with a cry of fury, darted Into thé house, snatched her absent father’s revolver from a degk drawer, ran back to the porch and shot the soldier dead. The fifteen-year-old girl was Belle Boyd, destined to become the most spectacularly famous spy of the Civil War, The insult to her mother had changed Belle in one moment wom ranrrnnnrrr fron a child into a vengeance secking warrior, @he Crisis Changes Girl § offered her services to the Confederacy. Her wit to a Warrior. and her dauntle courage instantly won for hera penanwemnmwmnne® position in the Southern secret service. sho won the confidence of many tmpressionabl F young Union officers, in V t Virginia and elsewhere inside the Federal s. Adroitly the girl” ied these swains to tell precious military ts to her These she promptly forwarded to her eniployers a hmond. As a result one Union plan after another failed. Belle was at last suspected. She we aced under arrest and sent te prison at Washington. After th is in # cell there she was ex. changed for a captured Unton € and once more she took up her ‘hazardous task of spying. For her services now she received a commission ax Captain in “Stone. wali" Jackson's army, and was mé an aide de camp to the General, For ta tim she served brilliant in this odd capac Presently she fell in love with a Major on Jackson's staff, ‘Th married early in Sep. ‘tember of 186 On thelr wedding r bridegroom was killed at the Battle of -Antietam, two were To drown her g plunged recklessly into new perlis, She did valuable spy service in Tennessee and then in the Gettysburg campai@ny, , risking her life a th 1 times. risked it once too often, For after’ Lee mado his rapid t southw m Gettysburg sho was caught. This time Belle was ly tricd as a spy at Washington, and wag con. Jemned to be shot Abraham Lincol of 4 woman to death—even she were a spy. was exchar sain—this time for @ eap- tured Gemeral. With secret she sailed In May, 1864, for North Carolina om a! blockade runn yckade runner was overtaken and seized ®¥ \the U. S warship Connecticut, in command of young Lieut. Samuel Hard. ing. Belle turned upon Harding all charm, Under the spell of her love the Lic id flag. He the Queene e's pleadin: $ Capture Follows i own oftl $ on Flight. the powers of her bewitohing utenant forgot his loyalty to the captain the blockade runner at but also turned over to the gint all 1 signal books, papers, &c. Belle pri« these valuable Union documents to the runner to send to the Confederate author- not only released blockade ties at Richmond. Harding begged her to marry him. She consented on condition he | leave the service of the United Sta Tho infatuated fool did so, The couple were caught and taken to Bc llarding was kicked out of the | ne elle was sentenced once moro to be shot as a spy. ou verilied woman, LAneoln (to n) commuted her death sentence to where Harding Joined her. There Prince of Wales (afterward Again merey cam re War the disgust of shment, an’ two were marri 7 Edward VIL) being honor at the ceremony. But a life of safety hud no charm for the war eager bride. Back to Richmond she at the very first opportunity, She brought Harding along and coaxed him into the Confederate Army, When the War en lvoreed Harding and married Col. Hammond, a Massachusetts office After Hammond's death she married N. R. Hig n 1 Ohio clergyman. 1900) she eked out a Hving 1 by writing of her thrilling mes imprisoned—twice sen- lived until as an