The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1918, Page 18

Che eaenniig Siarlo, Published Daily Except ¢ RALPH | J ANGI EPH PULITZEt ew Yor cident, 63 Park Row, er, 63 Park Row. etary, 63 Park Kow, ——e mbcahihanst ARS ———— MEMAER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRKSS | The Assoctated rliieely entitled to the use for remblication of atl newp & eneattet Aas in tis paper and cles te local ‘seve publaieg Ree EDITORIAL PAGE Wednesday, February 27 Good News By J.H.Ca ess Publishing Company, Now. 63 to VOLUME 58....c00c0008 tocecceoeseesNO, 20,644 GERMANY LIKES THE MOMENT. ITH Russia betrayed and at its mercy—to be overrun or at will—the Imperial German Government might ive been expected to put out the sort of peace feelor exp Giscoverable in Count von Iertling’s Reichstag speech, The Russian cards—and they are high ones—begin to seem nd, An auspicious moment, if it can bo d, for Germany to be urged to draw up to the table and eturt securely in the G n the great peace game! Of course President W toward a mut “fundamentally agr Wi on's mes e with tl on'’s view must be applied in a mutual exchange of views.” Of course—if there is a chance the President of the United States, flattered by this Teutonic approval and trust, will use his influence to persuade Great Britain to give up its Lorraine! Nor does Chancellor von Hertling hesitate to throw in pledges of respect for the neutrality of Switzerland, Holland and Scandinavia, together with assurances that the Central Powers are euger to give| self-government to Courland and Lithuania—anything to suggest to} the United States and through the United States to its allies that! here is an opportune moment to beg the Imperial German Govern-| ment to discuss terms, There will be no h begging. When it comes to pledges the value of the German article was ’ declares Count von Hertling,| “even where it must be aggressive in action, is defensive in aim.” Does anybody doubt the readiness of the Imperial German Govern. | ment to turn “defense of the Fatherland, maintenance of its terti-| fong since revealed. “Our warfare, torial integrity and fr and excuse for a comp istic parlance, “safety is the aame thing as “domination.” To belittle, however, the immense stroke Gerinany has achieved | in its present position of ascendency over the vast territories, the s potentialities, the enormous populations of the dis-, pire, is the most dangerous folly to which the | food producin, integrated Russian United States and its aliies can descend. They are not yet sufficiently awake to what it means and to the heavier tacks it imposes upon them. Gen. Foch, as quoted in the! ‘Times yesterday, did not overstate the case: “Germany {s walking through Russia. America and Japan, who are in a position to do so, should go to meet her in Siberia. Both for the war and after, America and Japan must furnish military and economic resistance to German penetration. There should be {mmediate steps in this {mportant matter, Don't wake up after it ts too late, Don't walt until the enemy has too much of a start, “One of our troubles has been our letting Germany take tho lead and following after her. A live country MWke America should reverse this process and be there with a surprise when Germany arrives.” Two thousand Germans are reported armed and drilling at! Irkutsk in Eastern Siberia, The Cossack General in Siberia hos| already appealed to Japan for aid. Here is immediate work for Jap- anese armies—American troops, too, if they are needed, There must be no uncontested German conquest of European and ‘Asiatic Russia. There must be no ear for German peace proposals obviously meant te invite a parley in which Gerinany can arrogaptly parade and use Russian triumphs. In what has happened in Russia Germany has scored and scored heavily. The more reason for the United States and its allies to fight ‘harder east, west, and on all fronts, without thought or word of peace, | until the Prussian power is humbled and its fleets and armies beaten beyond pretense of conquest. Hits From Sharp Wits ORTNOETTEL FOE GAT EHO Neo cc] AME hae Sarit 18 the ome * |firm that weathers all storms.—To- | Are they that care not who make |ledo Blade, a bad . . ° Nor who make @ongs nor who make} Don't do your bit one day and undo | ped) ft the next.—Memphis Commerc 6o they make tape to bind them. | Appeal Memphis Commercial | —Columbla (8. C.) State. | ativan Se ae Only the unexpected interests us Dito oF Wis wartne onte~4has Grane. | Hiktory. yooeeda fae pase eae ee On| not to hoard the gold going tortoise, but says nothing News, | ce 8 many pr ~Chicago News, aioihines Hut eA not necessarily a good one.~-Albany| Laugh and the wor }, y tut it irther.—-Phil t Tecord, . Dor t a inan when he Is down on when he 19 up a tree, x 4 before he can get down. News. Letters From the People Please limit communications to 150 words, I the Word, f many nations, w To ious dom, busin for equality ican-spirited men 4! dertook jab; 1 our inte tuality T our sons of waste it!" jto-day and our sons come One Wo of "lp achat Ahie. ! ket y weona he t ip f im Kennet Bur 4 prevent future w jewu 4 a oO populated 4 KAD he German Chancellor can go as far as to “admit that e of Feb, 11 constitutes perhaps a small step rapprochement.” Of course Count von Hertling cun} » four principles which in President! imperialistic war aims” and induce Vrance to forget that impossible question of Alsace-_ lom of economic development” into motive te German conquest of Russia? In Prussian-| ly think of spring, Mr. Rafferty?” Mr, Jarr inquired of the leading bullder and contractor of “ ow j the neighborhood, who had entered at this point, “The war orders against bullding | wattross, as she shoved the sult and will set us back this spring, “Ot course, ~The Jarr Fami By Roy L. McCardell 66]T has been SOME winter, hey, Gus?” remarked Mr. Jarr, “And {t isn’t over yet.” believe you!" replied the cafe ‘Lincoln's Birthday Washington's Birthday and Ground Hog Day 1s gone by, and pretty soon April Folst, and then we will have spring, maybe.” “You wouldn't class April First with our other national 2” asked Mr. Jarr, ot since the war, for I gotter be I say,” replied Gus “Other people can make them bhyper- remarks about anything to; but me, I gotter be careful. Why, if you heerd how Raf- ferty talks about somethings, you'd wonder I ain't arrested for Hstening By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1018, by the Presa Publishing Co, (The New York HWreatug Worlt), Rubaiyat of a War-Husband LOAF of war-bread underneath the bough, A jug of watered milk, a prune. Bestde me knitting. Can win the war? “What do YOU But what's THAT, {f wo 'Twere Paradise enow! replied | pepper toward the Friendly Patron “Last weels the} “What have you been doing that's | comes in here ar carpenters have gone into shipbulld- | wrong now?" be asked. of serubw ing where they can get their six to! eight dollars a day and nine dollars tm a bit jerky with people some-| tired out, I get sorry for her, me! for Sundays, and even common la-|tjmes when I hadn't ought to be. All | his borers get thelr three and @ half—s0 | of us ought to study people deep be maybe {t 1s Just as well that building | fore we carnsign thei to tho ast | for ber. and contract work for private parties | peap of our co A divorce is merely a treaty of peace by which the man usually agrees to pay all the costs of the war and eternal indomnity. Many a young man has spent three months fn the) , trenches without getting even a touch of shell shock and then come home and experienced all its horrt- ble effects, just walking down a satin-ribboned alsie with a girl {n a white tulle and orange blossoms, they want “And Iam afraid we are going to| “Well, you see, it was like this. |daughter and get her good things to aid Gus gloomily. | About six months ago a dame von ' . retorted Rafferty | “And ag for Slavinsky Prohtbition will make bim a rich !the whole world have Prohibition,” “I should worr, Qu sone = Somehow, a married man always seems to feel that) 't¢ he smartens up his boots and his neckWear and puts on both gloves {n/ order to go out with hig wife, his {riends won't recognize bim, r why?" asked don't drink much schnapps, and when I do often I am treated.” “You and I will be building « un | place clean? blamed weak and, say man, but @ber parlors to private residences in P: hibition commiunitie: tH, the weather Is a safe topic,” remarked Mr. Jarr, “ of the year, if discussed even by an alien, will not get one Into a jam, % “1 don't know about that,” said Gus, cautiously looking around. ‘My Uncle talked about buying @ flivver for a spring drive, riotie notice he'd be from friends a. d enemies.” “Well, spring {4 all right for poets,” “Dinkston can say or write anything he wants about spring drives or spring beds or spring water or spring onions and not get What do you Bhe would not look at him, though his eyes spoke love! not answer, though he pleaded! had finished counting that row of stitches, anyhow! nd the seasons Well, I should say NOT—not until she} remarked Mr. stocked up on| ‘Please don't be fantastt window glass, and there {y no war' gays. ‘My fork hay egg dried onto lover a ten to the SerubWOLte the law against adding to present resi-| {ts fangs.’ Pretty soon we get Every house In @ Prohibition State, or at least most of them, will have sun parlors added to them." . why?” asked Gus. Because,” explained Mr. Rafferty, “tt has been found that if near-beer 1s allowed to stand several hours in the sunlight It develops 40 per cent. Obsolete expressions: “Worth o king’s ransom: “A prince of good “royal generosity,” “kingly grace.” In these days of abbreviated ekirts and marriages, what woman wiil |aamit that she can remember the time when her husband always rode gracefully {nto @ ballroom on the train of her gown? and he got @ remarked Mr fous racey won by “Pyery cloud has a German silver lining,” dearte! {n your favorite restaurant 1s becoming 60 poor that it takes away half| your appetite, the portions are becoming so sinall that you ueed only of it, anyway. While the cooking 1 longhs in any trouble at think of spring, Mr. “By gollies!" said Gus, “1 gotter an How about getting up @ bIE|— 5 sir “Ee certainly is," enid the ite i} company to make and ee! portable) «epnis one is rough-looking, slic! Paton " sun parlors?” | 0," sald Mr, Jarr. and Slavinsky do that, and Gus, you furnish the near-beer,” “Where do you come in?” asked ail right to have a strong pull, tue push will generally Of course uo girl will adinit that she can udm{t 1t, how could she enjoy Mstening to all the aol Pocket If she did] who had Just entered “Don't ax m sald Mr, Slavinsky, Government ~|has put @ war law on glass that It shun't be made #0 much during the things men ay to “Let Rafferty ~ Europe's Republics orra, which boasts of | think that was because it waa tn the papers that spies put broken glaes in | soldiers’ candy?" “f do not know, T am sure," “But I don't see why you themselves | complain about You once told me time for your business, hecause the mote section tho fate of the remainder |from S* Oh, I'll be su said Mr, Jarr. arlor prod- | ~~~" ucts Inspecto! cost of unnumbered lives ———__—_—— War Savings Songs Mary had a little card (Of Savings Stamps, you know), And everywhere that Mary went That card waa sure to go. cattle g, the sale spring was a good Ae a tle raising, the sale | the women are proud of their Inde- ‘as the wo games in the street break windows.” “I know they do,” replied Mr. Slav- “But look at this war order about glass, and I don't know any- thing about it and don't get stocked | up ke T should if I had known tt, My boy Shidney is in the army, and he don’t send me no word about this | new war law against glass, and yot alt | juut the other day his mommer 18 80 | The other children cry; d off the north | giag phe gets @ postal card from him from somewhere in Yaphank, which | ntry Cain't never heard of!" ng the smail square mile in a independent It is situated part of the has never b Basses-Pyrenees that en worth the gz powers to so {ts population of 150 govern thi are governed which elects 1 President every four years. accorded us our rightful place as ine ectual equals, If American wom- ent into munition plants or un- ious work we would | For doing well at school, She'd save {t for another stamp, And soon her book was full, does she work so hard for council of twenty-four, numbering twelve strip of land five “Because she knows how good ¢ d the righ and self-govern The teacher 414 repiy Albert Payson ‘Terhune 1818 by the Prose Vublisilug Uo. (The New York bicniog World), N other days woman's chiet duty in wartine was to watt and to suffer I and, Ut a minur way, to do what could to help In the present war women's work bulks large. In Red Uross, bustneas office, in conductor's wntfari, in home tadors, in econdmics, it @ thousand needful spheres, woman is hot only “doing her bit,” but do» | tng tt as efficiently as any man, The American woman to-day is ae formidable a foe ta the Kaiser as ts the American soldier Yet, in all times, tn alt tunds, every war has been marked by the ewe | plolts—good or bad—of some woman or group of women. It is of auch | women that this series will tel INCE NIGHTINGALE, Angel of the Crim HB Crimea—a bleak and rugged stretch of land? Black Sea-was the theatre of a death strty tween England and Russia, Allied witty § wero I’rance, Turkey and Sardinia. ‘The Caar o£ sla knew the Crimean climate and counted’, off ald. Ho said, in grim Jest: “lg “My two best officers are Gen, January mh ‘o. I—FLOR February! ° Ho was right, Tu the bitter winter of 286) land's soldiers froze aud they suffered dgonien a vation, ‘They were fll clad and ill provicioned, ‘Theil hospital servico was wretched. Their whole equip4 ineut was a ghastly monument to 1 epidentea tah wea Cold, toll and bad nourlshinent caused epidemics killed or {ncapacitated 18,000 brave men out of ono | “The commonest acer sh officer wrote home. “There !s not the least css, ‘The fetta air can barely strugglo out, of tho chinks and chimneys to taint the attege ' ® phére, For all Tecan observe, men die withoue’ army of 45,000, orles of a hospital are wanting,’ ention paid to clean No Effort to ab least effort to auve them. ‘Thy sick appear to tended by ‘the sick, the dying by the dying! by joy When news of the Crimean horrors. reac! lund it was not a ttn, but a woman, who @ ef of the stricken, The woman was Ploreuce Nihtingule, t a rich man's daughter, Years earl sic had won a % for eccentricity by turning ber back on all social gaycties and devoting Bi life to the nursing of tue eick, ‘Tratned nursing, as a profession, wast its infancy, Florence Nightingale thus had to 4. her trade from pital experience rather than from books or instructo When ¢he Crt War broke out she ha ablis a private hospital In London and had (put herself in charge of ‘ Now she volun ‘to lead them to th the Dying. ern to the re! d of nurses, trained by herself, and sh Government had the zvod sense! 1 to equip # ea, The Br to accept tho offer. 1a venture at that t us unheard of. Yet work merely “efficient It hod cle ory, veraonall tenderness that wade the sick soldiers adore her and christen her “th Angel of the Crimea,” From dawn to dark, « ‘ very day, fragile woman tolled at} isk of organizing a decent Hospitadl eurly every night she wan- us the forehead of e ; ful invalids ‘te; words of cheer and hope to the! ay there, by r wrote ono convalescent soldiers} her shadow ay across our pillows, and then laid our) heads back ugain, content, We found strong suppe ler mere presences?’ For a nd a Nightingale | 1 thus, unceasingly. Fler health—alwave delica » dowa comple under the ceaseless strain. But she would not give up | Among a million other reforms, red forever the silly belfet that * rw the one | | tal windows were Sclared, “is caused by pe The Crimean Wa find herself a national heroine sh showered upon her by a nolsil teful wor A purse of $50,000. way raised for her. Sho devoted every penny of the gift to founding a traidigg home for nurses. The Crimea had utterly wrecked her frail he | period of illness she died—killed by her g errr jos of Marat Adored by All. Rann) dying. “We lk nd we kisse “Half of all "she dew} with their window t."” Atter a Mngertiig! rvices to mankind, | ‘Lucile the Waitress | By Bide Dudley ; agli pe n phon se 1 a : ne sa aii hair iresser war. admit {t without Indiserim- | the street, She eats and beats {t, BO inativo,” said Lucetle he | f. O. K. Now comes the fringe om) e, ‘ ne custur front of the house. She works hard and gets all "Oh, nothing much! Only I gues ing a tender heart. So yesterday) Task her if the work ain't too muéh, i tempt. Get me? “Tm afraid tt ts, she says, ‘but a “Not exactly.” wot to do it, T got to take care of my, eat. She’ tn here and, say, friend and fellow) “1 walk zen, you'd 4 ; ay feeling bad. When thought she owned | the serub lady gets ready to go bome® nd had tt in the |] resolve to go with her and maybe, bank. Sho was dressed loud rich! be hor Angelica of mercy. We wi and when [ do the hop, skip and | over to a tw w flat In the wath jump to her table, sho looks at me | Irorties and [ win allowed to meet se persilly-i!ke and says: “Girl, is this | ste gir lying there pretty} ‘Lady,’ I tells her, It ought to be. needs chicken soup —~ you know =f | We bathe it once per diem.’ | s ; oT dig Into the savings and alip! she | broth and soup} 1 recipro- | nice mashed potatona for the girl cate, ‘Fat {t and be merry.’ slip ‘em to ber, ‘Then comes the “"f never come tn here to bo in-| purt. Asx I hand her the fork she sulted,’ she 8 ‘I do not care for | tooks up and smiles one of them pale exe on my fork, Get me another one.” “Me being in servitude had to with grace. So ! slips her you are, Ain't 16) fork and {t's got some of the nickel | str 1 pride can take be plate scraped off, Does 1 please nev | tumble when it gots started? i feeble-like; ={ any egg on this for, anoth: ‘put it will do, elnce this i “True!” cume from Lucile, *Buth cheap restaurant. ther u certain sick batndresser) “Woll, you know! She would 'a toward the Mudson whgeel Vked to hyve the people at lange | pride’s goin’ to quit falling, And eh@al think she got {nto this place by mul going to havo plenty of chigkem: take or was abducted into it. See?! broth, too ‘ poses ! Tower of Babel Only 140 Feet ‘| HE Tower of Babel was only 149) brick, faced with burned brick: If} feet high, but as it was built) was probably toppeu with an astro! upon an elevated foundation It, nomical observatory, or rather opes was the loftiest object in Babylon, | for the uso of astrologists, @ calling? city of low buildings, spread over a| followed by many priests of Babli? flat plain, This description of the! lonia, / |most famous structure of anc t| Babylon, with a population vee t] times has been obtained from recent | 2,000,000, was then the metropolis of translations of old Assyrian records,|the world, and its great ared, ) some inscribed on tablets of burnt) that of London, was encircled by), }f clay. wall fifty-flve miles in length, The Tower was & temple and the| Tower of Bane! was a temple, nf architectural pride of Babylon, The| taining wonderful golden statues nd it wi lowest of tts seven stories wae 272) other treasures, io feet square, and it was conatructed of| tempting to dosortbe these that on rr) the only available material, sin-aried ‘ongmos of mov wore sontuams, : ’ q