The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1918, Page 18

| es ia ln EDITORIAL PAGE Ly 238 CASI Published Daly No: OUR ARMY OF CONSTRUCTION. HE w \ are doing in France toward winning th war reaches a : way back of the trenches, of what Yankee hustle is accor » Frer il t d the war front comes home in the fhe Evening World’s special staff corre n Green, who has been seeing how Uncle Sam’s young 1 time build sections of railway lines, lay out great th hun !s of miles of switches and sidings, put et Ar in locomotives to haul big American freight cars| over rails heavier than any used in France, construct huge repuir| plants and depots, and store away the eformous quantities of con war materia! constantly arriving in the holds of steamships. | It takes,” as Mr Green says, “an army of mechanice and engineers behind the army of infantry, artillery and cavalry, to carry | on the war.” | this vast arthy of construction there are the constant play of and skill, the stimulus of tackling and putting through big! exciting in their way as the activities of the destructive; ng lines. n ingenuity and organizing capacity had such ppor Co to prove how quickly they can adapt themselves to new conditions, er have Amer needs ull her man power, at and behind the front, to er own war efficiency. The American fighting force in France—however many millions it must eventually include—aims .o far as may be to supply its own needs and become more and more} self-sustaining. | Americans at home will not forget to cheer the battalions of} killed American mechanics and engineers now straining every nerve | ut their part of the fight, over miles of French roads and railway | of busy French centres behind the battle| ines and in hundred fronts. COL. BRYAN’S SLUR ON NEW YORK. OES Mr. Bryan think he can scold this State into ratifying the| Federa) Prohibition Amendment? | “It is about time New York State was leading in eome-| thing that is good,” declared the great ice water orator at Albany, in| the course of his drive to induce this commonwealth to banish “the! outlaw, Alcohol.” | + That’s a hard rap from Col. Bryan, especially considering that} ew York has given him some of the biggest moments of his life| and some of his best opportunities for weaving his peculiar spells, The Empire State is not ashamed of its leadership. The quality since the Nation has been overtaken by the greatest crisis in! ite history, will compare favor. with anything to which the ex- | Secretary of State can lay claim, At a moment when every bit of the virile force and energy ot the American people should be exerted outward against their enemies| overseas, the State of New York can see little honor in leading a pusillanimous movement to surrender the rights of local self-govern- ment in the United States and set up instead an arbitrary and aweep- | ing control over the personal habits of 100,000,000 Americans wro| had been thought worthy to be deemed free-born and self-regulating, | —— CONFIRMED BY THE DRAFT. OTING the large number of rejections under the selective draft, for physical defects traceable to malnutrition, the United| States Public Health S co-operation with State, county and munici the purpose of safeguarding the health jation specially emp’ } thereof, al health authorfMes hool children One recomme development of sound, althy bodies in the rising generation is to see that school children are provided at mid-day with warm, properly balanced meals Long before th Evening World pointed out that undernourished not be expected to grow up and» mah ealthy citizens, » was any whisper of war or selective draft, The This newspaper n the City of New Y are now gerved in more| ha than « dy 8 1 of Aldermen is con dering an ordinance which w roviding of these schoo! a t it sh —a Tr a of Department | tw If t liscovery that rfed ol n turn out to poo |? r r r st st i nt for the tematized fur Ui n v t v ) provide simpl PETS RS en at nominal cost, or wen f | i ) ge ch or to be reated as Letters From the People Please limit communications to 150 words, United Sintes Ping Is the Oldest| many hundred years, and was later Whe |ured (in when the triple m Te the FA\tor of The Preinine Worlds archy Norway-Denmark-Aweden | A Dartah reader questions the @¢-| was formed und. Erte of Pome- curney of the statoment that “Ol4/rania, The flag was no longer th Bory” is the oldert national Mae lof Denmark, but of the tripie mon- that files, claiming that the Mag of larchy, $1 Denmark a ofater of the dual monarchy of Den The Danish nation, tn tte prevent land Norway, Ae the fag form, did not come ox ee | day Denm 1 not eome into | oo until! the Vienna Congress of 1814 existence | weparated the pation of Nor To quote rian, A, M way-Denmark, ” ay with|won, In ry Swed Thus, at the time of "Old | quest Mog Mlory’s” adoption (J 14,1777) Dens | “Allhough we are . eomparatively merk, aa a4 m, did not exist, In| young nation, the Mtare and @tripes “op ent form, may oii sy among tlonal The Gag of ye back “Auge,” A wiofhue seiehlew-thaw lemme For even as a khaki suit or a sailor jacket store fyeth a man in the eyes of women, even as shoulder. 4 straps and brass buttons exult him among damselg,” { ‘saewmonwe go doth a little uniform magnify the charms ofuae | woman and make her frresistible to men. : o to! Hath not a damsel in a riding-habit or a woman in a widow's | veil or @ tralued nurse {fn a cute apron always been a magnet for mas: ,culino eyes? i How then shall ANY man resist a pink-and-white thing In a condw | orette cap and a girly-girly skirt and military leggings? |’ And if she smileth sweetly when she taketh his fare and sufth “PLOASH (A: Most Valuable Woman | Sophie Irene Loeb 1918) by tho Pross Publishing Oo, (The New York Kvening World), Rear Admiral The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) URING the wo dential secretary of the concern and to-day is one ot the junior parcners, was very fond of fun. She only worked pecause it had to be @ made little or no effort to| how to make Interested in her work. purely a matter of pay with her. did what she had to do— | She longed for the closing hour and |G heaved a sigh of relief when she could call it a day,” "M tired of hearing you fellows talk about war pr high cost of living “Oh, let us suppose be ts the AVE | ae ene that conveya the | Capt Wayne. He was going toaewt I man, like any one of gas bere, s the booze let him cut out foist or he'll maybe get canned, lone get more money from his boss," remarked Gus. ndignant protest arose trom an | the ‘that he! {t was all a question as to| a man could do. Bepler pon- “all the strong young fellers what ain't got falling arches or grow- to the ats So more money—without | being a profiteer or anything of that ihe | sort, of course nd no ioure. commission, this being the first for a woman, taking place keeps track various ships. The success or failure of the enter. rive Was of no concern to her, viewed herself as hired to do a tain amount of work a day at so much| ervice urges a national programme of | never began ngle finally, work wth this Job be taken away {concerning 1,5 asized as tending to the! | be from you by majority of make herself essary to the stenographer her piace. | Were She did not try to make her work any | ! speaker with gre Iways strong. plenty of meat concluded those presunt lenty of meat is what I says ind you'll get big wages,'” local buteher y big "Yo eal : Foil aye allt y for the | When we're & ute and let {t go at| hil | o vorth hool children could man worth 1" x ‘unless, en she made mistakes knows how to get by tn order the It takes them awfully long to make ammon's and smelling salts, z up their minds, doesn’t it? A—He's certainly an enigma. Lol: 4 wit, A. (raising bis brows)—By “they"'| he’s dropped his book. What kind of elghborhood edit till a man and is thus able enough money the school lunch plan} m save extra tro ‘ids up on aj the armholes of ron : to make| ernment. I “That's the way and rocked back on his ne ng @ fair average, hia chops | y¢ woman are t tho fdear at all!” was aswiftone! The kid nearly went| passage, L your| to p y to pay your me ull,” Mr. | can't make that youngster out, Ever] three-quarters of the time.” know fellers what | been on the verge of hysteria, Looks os 4 wok & better | as though he's, * y for| — pe ides, Hiatt wl Fightsg | Shinutins With * ‘Depth Charge” ‘\: should have AN igen loss of the Tuscanta has tin-|tirely destroy any deeply submerged he began nervy 1 would say, as |! myself anyw , I'd be more tn- neot every ; wages Gown than | The way to make ringing them up. anmahing the | more fervent the bh By|of the day when the power of thes: That's what evervbody ought | assassins of the sea shall be checked fault and wanted | row a sum of money on a note, 1 a growing neighbor Red Ink Plant ap Now parcel of land hood with the on @ first mortgage to cover the buildings some boob— to ‘do ‘a this country, maybe 2 Tevolue | against them, . Rangle. | public, is the “depth charge, tion 40 any ¢ “And how would it get you dare inquired, am stocked nor matters @ ralse|containing the ates that the 40 | conta ' information are nearly complete, get agricultural Ir 1 winder | modern torpedc It is a marvel of] feet below the surface, It is attracted) onaire I|gimplicity and ingenuity, and ranks|toward the ron hull of a submarid® mprove the meth: | mortgage in a sum large permit you te, and then sell hae advised the Mex! eral of Agriculture that | y boen discovered in off your original i your equity In the| 1" declared the glazies, “For| with the “tank” as a triumph of in- | pass! vat should | care for vages?” Director Ge! there has recen ‘Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland | Covrralit, 19:8, by the Prone Publishing Co, (The New York brening World), ivi SRILY, verily, my Daughter, what is so fascinating as a woman 4 a UNIFORM? Bebold, sirens are no more and the “chicken-fever” hath passed away, the show girl mourneth the loss of tee laurels dod the vampire and the grass-widow are bas “also rans!” “hf But the Red Crgss Girl and the Conductore' and tho Hlevator Girl aud the Farmerette and Aviatrix and the Chauffeurette—they are all with Aud, L charge thee, BEWARE of them! en she requestoth bim to “step lively” how shall he stay his heart frogs ‘ futtering and his lps from smiling back at Ler? 4 For a “polite conductor” is a heavenly thing? . Yea, how shall a devoted husband turn away his eyes from a farmety lette in bluo overalls and a yellow sun hat? For tho former are cuter: |than # chorus girl's skirts aud the latter crowneth her as a halo, agg tho rose of her cheeks is NOT {mported in a’ box! And her lure {s the lure of novelty! \ Yet were thy Beloved strong enough to restst all of these how shall. ‘any man fail to fall down and worship a damsel in a Red Cross vei}? |For since the Persian first invented veils there hath been nothing Ike |a velled woman to fascinate man's heart! Yea, my Daughter, and the vision of a damsel KNITTING dettebatn | the eyes of men more than the undulations of a corypheet For nothing so charmeth him as the sight of a woman AT work, | and no woman so Interesteth him ‘as tho woman who is interested in | something besides HIMSELF! Ob, ye followers after fads and ye wearers of: frills and .pearl ear. rings, verily, verily, I say unto you, ye are no longer “in { | Ye clinging vines and simpering squabs, ye sirens and playthings, ye. j{dlers and bridge players and shopping-flends and doodle-wits and fudge j eaters, I charge you “get into the GAME!” For your day as charmers-of-men and breakers-of-hearts hath passed? x { And men have come to see that a woman can be useful and at the, | same time feminine and beautiful, and that a BUSY woman 1s a fascinate | ing woman! And from now on a little Laborette-In-uniform shall GET them! Selah. es Camp Comedies | By Alma Woodward Covrriaht, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), | THE AVID AVIATOR. tlme—and dots see ‘em at. night te no: Camp Tallaferro, Fort| Templo tells me he shivers until fe Worth. |rocks the boat hours at a time at v1 Afternoon. | night—h tent mate. And yet he- (Three flyera in the trig “unt” of the /Se°ms Possessed to get to England on |r. #. ©. are standing outside & hangar, | the first t rt, watching the first batch of afternuon| © (point See, he's stopped Mi flights, §uddenly a tall, slender youth ike | comes Pr ba behind the hangar, Ue ts ng to him. J wonder ? pale—and carries a book.) o walk toward the other! Her and is talk (AS a machine takes the air)— "The es Fowler. That's hts|men. Just as they get within eae first flight since they Jet him|shot th hear Buddy ask: “Have out of the clink. you heard wen we sall for Engq B (approaching, timfdly)—I couldn't | !and?") 1elp overhearing. What's the clink?} M (greeting them)—Hello, boygt & A (g00d-naturediy)—The elink’s the | Going up this afternoon? jug—guardhouse—ball and chatns— A (glumly)—I was going up with ivity—|me how to get a Ynachine out of » don’t you w spinning dive. But it locks as though biing)—And what was|this dampness ts going to bring om this chap Fowler put in the er—er—| fog, so I suppose I’m out of It, worte 4 clink for? luck! C (chiming in)—Oh, for a stunt he] 4 (interrupting breathlessly)—You | pulled at a coast resort. Saw can't fly {n fog, can you—I mean. you’ restricted liber close ho could fly to the ba an't ever fly in fog, can you? beach without scalping the merr © (squelching him Instanter)—Say, and wrecked a perfectly good plane | how long do you have to go to achoel! in the operatl 18 (gasping)—Wasn't he r-reckless? | fly in A (sarcastically)—Oh, frightt so! He must have been at | twenty feet In the alr when he ca . cropper. Maybe some day you'll be doing fresh Ike tricks lke that, Buddy. B (in mort never! (iHurriedly)—Do you know ng to sail for England? ‘4 to learn your a, b abs? Yow can't. in, snow or fog—never in togt (Buddy attempts a graceful exit), M (impatiently)—That fellow very time he meets en we're going to | Every time he meets’ | any one he asks when we've Yong terror)-Me? Oh no—|s.‘l fér England! And yet if an ctor suggests his taking the wi y have to send for sromatte aotiea me w for England suppose you mean the British Gov-| literature does the read, y'd be disturbed by] Way? (Picks It up)— ment, I am sure, Impressions of England.” (Turns, jers away)—That | pages)—Here’s a beavily underlined ton! “The thing whieh * mpresséd me most was the fact that | A (meditatively)—You know, 1] Kt land ts enveloped in dense Sop) r cor (as Buddy w ‘he’s down from Canada he's} Chorus (enlightened) — England ~ Flyir Ab! Now it comes AE things" in the | a of the submarine and makes | destructive effect is greater at lower 56 for tho coming |depths because the berated gases” cape to the. sur- The most effective weapon being used} An uncanny invention by W, Be | » far us has been made| Lewla of New York ts being *ele * a bomb} It is a depth charge, equipped with me amount of| powerful electro-magnet and’a@ tank f compressed air, Floating fifteen } pressed Americans with the poril|U boat within 125 fect of th ‘Tbe | 1 annot so easily 0 to 850 pounds, as the cose by, while at the same Wiatien aé-tie WAT time a magnetic valve releases: the |1and and building a good sum, | , | eer of first and second morteage— and there you are “I'm not talking about real estate . | speculating, t na inter it was the flag| She sumeeatod Uttle timitly at produors red War Savings Songs Simple Simon met a pleman Going on @ spree; Said Simple Simon, And buy eome sta Said the pieman to these Thrift Stamp: ‘To help YOU save your coin, of pronent: | eotrnars ‘I'm asking instead | fol’ ke how woyld you, any somo one be! sratt.” you emart All Jeaignated to make @ careful atudy of rpone of asoertulning |one of you, mot an increMte of salary | to meot the tncranaed cont of “Ie this foller who {a to get more | 1| money & hod ‘Simon, |which a torpedo has buret or the|bomb minsos, the explosion for?’ |frailer submarine at some distance | column of cloar water into the al anid from the explosion, According to| but If {t reaches its mark, a ring of “ 1p ue wh the business boveme a dons ‘And help ue win tbe war The effectiveness of the depth| alr, propelling it toward Sts victim, It | charge 1s based on the fact that water | attaches itself to the bull and Js quite | cannot be compressed and will carry| harmless until the U boat, dives tn all directions the force of an ex-| lower; then comes the explosion, }plosion below the surface, This force} Siti and dash are required in chase 4 the line of least resistance, |ing a U boat which has shown tte tor of @ ship against] periscope above the surface, If the nde the hollow int Hudson Maxim, 600 pounds of T, N.| bubbles and a film of oil rine to the T, wot off deop under water, whi ea- surface rh