The evening world. Newspaper, March 1, 1918, Page 18

| —S— FSTARLISIED HY JOSEP PULIT: Published Dally Except sunitsy the P hing C RALPH PL JAN JOSEPH I ese fu ompany, doc w York. nident, 63 Park Tow, er, 62 Park Row 63 Park Row. ATED PReAG, se foe penn a to MEMBER OF THR Assoc Amocinted Prem | r-F, sy aR Arwvatchte exettted to TC oF bot othe stat paper and aot VOLUME 58.0.5 .ssccrsecvasvonns «NO. 20,646 BUT “ONE THING 10 COUNT 0 ON. EPORTS of a wariike Veter with constant streams of workingmen at the Smoiny the defense of the « Germans, should be received There is no rea eager to dig trenches for to the front against tuc y more than a similarly « j yutroll American interest in rumors of » rerious rupture between the German Kaiser and the Austrian Em r over the Russian policy It may be that Austrian patience with Prussian dictation is strained to the brea It may be that nya n bear to see troops advance ) Ukrainia or other Russian with which Dual Monar mnie elf at peace It may be that Germany will p y have to chastise Austria Tt may be tha { i threatened German iny Russians will throw off the Bo as a relf-re It may be ihe Socialists in the enough to lead a genuine p It may be. But if there is one thing of which this Nation should be by now convinced, it is the folly of trying to fight this war with a too wan dering and hopeful eye for possible weakness or disaster that may be overtaking the enemy “| It hardest It many, d sine how leheviki and stand up agaiu Fatherland are nearly strong drive against the war lords. to count on anything but tle and its allies can do, is madness at ing the Unit | States advantage from disruption in Ger- Austria-Hungary or rehabilitation in Russia. » the epeedy despatch of 600,000 grim admission on the part of th | the strength that is in them to | ia from adding five ye to the war, ion in Far more to the point would and a Japanese troops to Sity Allies that it is going to take a German ¢ nattest of Ru ———_—_<4e-——. THE WAY TO TACKLE CITY TRAFFIC PROBLEMS. ORES IGHT, initiative, constructive imagination—are the thinge that are going to selve New York’s complicated tratlic probleins. It looks as if the city had found in Dr. John A. Warriss, the now Special De sees difficul removing them. His suggestion of overhead roadways on Sixth Avenue to bi built on a level with the elevated railroad structure from Bryant Park to Central Park, as graphically presented by The Evening World yesterday, is one of the most interesting contributions that has yet| appeared amony proposed means for relieving the traffic jam in Man- hattan’s upsand-down thoroughfares, ity Police Commissioner for Traffic, a man who, when he ean go whead and visualize practical scheines for According to T Harriss’s plan, these elevated roadways on either side of the Sixth Avenue “L” would be used for through | vehicular and general pedestrian traffic from 40th Street to Central | Park, tly relieving Fifth Avenue, Broadway and other | north and south arteries, | The objections of Sixth Avenue property owners might readily | thereby gre EDITORIAL PAGE Friday, meren 1 The By merge, ths, Y 66 QOMEBODY to Mrs, Jarr, retu My Matrimonial Chances Recording the Experiences of |, A Young Girl of Thirty By Wilma Pollock door. Mrs. Jarr. said tt so Stories of Spies - By Albert ce 8.8, Ly the Prees Vu Payson Terhune lishing 09, (The New Tork Evening World), _Sam Davis, the “Nathan Hale of the Confederacy.” HIS time was 1863. The State of Tennessee was one huge battlefield. The Union arules were at the climax’ of thelr mighty effort to drive the Confederates out of the “everybody's fight’ thus far, A ehade way, seemed enough to turn the tide of the cainpaign. If the Confederates could get @ OoF- rect fdea Union arniies’ movements, numbers aud forifivations, the tables might ly bo tured against the Governinent troop: Geil, Bragg, the Confederate leader, sent for a nite teen-yearold boy—Sam Davis by name—a trooper du the Second Kentucky Cavalry. Davis was a gonlemen by birth, highly educated, strikingly handsome, ag@ vas clever and resourceful beyond bis years, Bragg gave the ud fostructions as to what to do, and also gave bim the nanre lof a traitor in the Union camp who would turn over a set of vitally important papers to him. Then Davis set out, with several companions, on hie Tile or-death mission — No. 2 State. It wa: of welght either of the Th stg «py edolly made lls way Inside the Unton Ines. THe got Bil he inforination, documents, ete, he had been sone fur. After Wwany Hades breadth «pes, he turned back agaln toward lils own aroy. To guard Ris d thew luside his sadile, thing to ride safely pers againet dlvcovery in cave uf capture, be se It fs one thing to ride into a trap and quile auyth out of it, as Davis soon found out As lie and his compar o ging a try, under covert of darkness, they were attack sop of t Davio was uptured and was ti be n Dodge, the luce! Union commander, The papers hidden in uddle wore error ore and Were Iild before the Genera 5 , ingle glance at the de J Dodro that Boy Gets Secrote A sin, of the Army. te bey Ad ts which wouldy » have cau ve ter Uf ever thew Dodge, after studying the papers, red Ixo that Davis could no possibly have secured some of them without tho help of Ne accomplices) in the Union Ariny. It was clear that a trator had furnished the epy with his most value able documents. By the capture, Gen. Dodge hoped not only to keep tha from tl derates, but 4 » (0 arrest the, Unidus ‘ a ymmunication with the er ¥ prisoner, Davis would say nothing, ' promis wore tried ou him tn vaio By ided hie acm: tiled, and would make 0 very young,” said Dodge, on who the yuuth’s manner and scem to realige ot" — of my posl« on, “and y4 1 reveal the name Dav I know the dunger consequences.” ade u stron u do not the gr of your position “General.” quietly interpo id I stand ready to take all nentroated him to tell his acvomplice’s name, assuring. @e boy way in which he could aren ts hope to sive Davis seviied: fad Spurns Bribe} “L know But 1 will not tell you to Save Life. ’ is no power on re doing your duty iid Tom doing mine, Tf o wy country and to appearance had mt Dodge ag lus own “cim my tnformation, ‘There can Wak er, Gen, Dy ¢iny duty to God and rewols Pulaski, the lad's attitud vas courtmartialed as @ Venn, on Nov, 27, 1863, He made ready 1 efforts falled to shake 1 1 to be han did not eh: was sentence once of death to aia irned deaf curs to all bribes of safety, Gen, Dodge offered him full pardon if he would tell, Davis remained steadfastly silent. , Me wa { at lust to th aft The rope wus placed about hie Kk. The p was about to fall, Ci Chickasaw of Dodge's staff rusbed ip the scaffold vde tinal offer trom the eral to set Davis free and give bin fuct to the Confederate lines If he would tell, The boy sm ito the Captain's werrled face and made sturdy T would lose them all here before I would: the gallant bey carried bh ose-guarded secref onfederacy.” A colossa . The Office Force Heuer _ By Bide Dudley of hedonism an ‘4 ; Press Publ Yor Jarre Family | Roy L. McCardell ie shine Co. New York Eve c ne Spee Re tempera ring from the only a distinet ¢ Platonic repudiatic Copstignt. 1018 Lrewing World), coidly that Mr. Jarr was not sur-| the tdentifieation of virtue and hap- toast yleld to the prospect of a brand new shopping street, with unobd- | right. 1918. by the Press Publishing Co. (‘The New York Uvening World) prised to 1 the caller way Mr.|piness in contradistinction to the In- 66 PSHE by the papers,” said Pop-| “Putt tut id Spooner, “It look¢ strucied light and air, and the creation of new frontage values along No. vie ~The Ep'sode of a Young an Who Was Led Astray. | Michael Av Dinkston, poet and fon of the more lberal iawa the Shipp as : d mah rai ¥ wante peuee Vr? ond story levels while the present sidewalk levels remained as | PO THER. and. 1) to bis fondness’ tor’ me, she sald DOOREDH: OU) GAGrEwelERt SLAM PION # mG forth by Pytiogeras 7 behrlasdh TA rau pat ‘ane fealaeat a eg : rented a tiny] will make a wonderful husband, But | of the English language. | suid Counsellor Me . mus, gh fi aske 63 des, bungalow near| he will only ma a girl with money, | Mr. Jarr also noted, which Mrs./"we must not ignore the passage .» factory.” , . . Granted a new north and south roadway for vehicles is urgently the summer| Money must be bis first conside [see seared foliane , that Mr, Dink- | hit ‘s A yas then es aves swe t soeamnele ee ae ave feelers,” saug out tn at r je . ° « | tion.” on was not alone. es iy decent cnough to admit gested Bo " ee te needed in the congested middle section of Manhattan, Dr. Harriss’s | oto et T had confided in Henrietta she} “My old collegiate companion, Coun-|that some pleasures aro in themselves list Are you £ There le goes again,” sald Misg overhead roadway plan for this portion of Sixth Avenue would, as Sound Beach | would © shared my joy, for we | sellor Casabianca McGlew," sald Mr. | better than others. eV Primm, f ng at the boy. Then he eays, “cost comparatively little to carry out”: | last July, and| were such dear friends, But 1k Dinkston briskly. “Behold us, we) Mr. Jarr begun to fecl dizsy, but . to Mi 1 ermany is looking * ' it was there|that she would soon learn the tnjus are upon tho Socratic Quest! he wtuck it out mantu ne peace hints, She's seeking tips, All other plans which have been proposed, such, for | that met shalnad donécd Mrs, Jurr was heard to mtrmur| “We just remark, however," re- are,” sutd E “And togera Instance, as the tunnelling of Fifth Avenue from 23d Street to f ward Barton, | bls engagement to me something anent “birds of u feather”! plied Mr, Dinkston, ignoring aid you'd tak» have tips. Now, ay t going’ —— Central Park and the opening of a new avenue between Fifth his mother and | Myself teaching Kinders she slipped from the room, Aj Jarr’s air of bew wid sped Rha hel at all from you,"* and Sixth Avenues from @4th Street to the Park, would his = marrled | would never marcy for moment jater both Mr, Dinkston and ling to his old ¢ companion tid Popp 1 “ nged the tremendous sums of mor With the co-operation of the aister, Henri-| On the train going le {his collexiate companion were eb-\"we must remart that At nd | sub. f continued, “f owners of abutting property, the plan I propose could be Lie eclarci lk realy tube See Aa tre ciein Ga unis roc point 1 vat pads ve inatniai ci rom para y # px pe Moenrletta and | to my dance on Wedner a arr out the dining room) pis jrenteally exu ’ se ‘ KO.” wal <a ig nar Hyaied pug you a guava I were chummy ulmout trom tho be- | Ed immediately asked », | locking the family sidebourd Joy!" ob Init were a prophetic % une | Bs Traffic conditions in Manhattan are steadily becoming more ginting, Our mothe Avveloped a tnuy T come for you? | 3e was w cold day for the Socratic | triumph over the hosts ophitsts nutand)cAiHeEI ted Thay sata ue werious. The problems they raise have got to be met. The way to friendship and Mrs. Barton entirely| Menrietta interfered, saying: Quest, so far as Mrs *s carefully | Th one of th cat mo- | violinist, has been an aviato m ten duya ago,” come from Mig Rant thers is continued recapitulation of difficulties but by |2PProved of me, Ld came down for} Ed, how absurd for you to take that) guarded stock of stimulants for fam. | of philosophy, the moment | with Pershing’s t : T : ) } Y | week-ends and he also tricd In every |unneceasary trip away uptown for | ily medicinal use was concernod, As} when pass from the Socratic) “It's natural,’ said Miss Tillie tors ‘tact 4 Mise plenty of intel formulation, presentation and live discussion |way to pleaso me. Ho had an in-|Connte!” Jehe said herself afterward, “It was|Quest tu the Platonic Ques ‘What is?” ail woked Beg of concrete plans for improvement and relief. Commissioner Harrias | cipient crush, Wisely we were build. Ed answered: “{ want to come for) bad enough before the war, when | | Ebunesiiag satya ew lige 5 Pies aes a violinist should take ip the the past two weeks, He duan'to bi valuable aoure shay ana hERATIA auht ing our future happiness on a strong | her. Constance, you may exp those things didn't cost half what|testing hand. “You refute ull my/alir, He plays so many atrs and’—— me in my case Promises t he a val al na 0 of nergy and practical suggestion, | ¢riendahip aihiae’ hae ga) y, sudden| I fixed over a dress and was ec-| they do now, But certainiy | am not | Scholastic pretensions,” be said warm-| “Who's looney ne asked Bobble. | beginning of this weelt. This ts ey aa i fe t t are From th a People [infatuation Mis mother , aopended ala nionli? Hae wiewing Bd Ne | Eoins to encourage the weakness of|! aie ia quite tant avo, tania vay doke ves wood one." res | day” | 4 upon him for support, and until he| going ropose, a pdnesdu costing what it does} of 0; OW- turned Misi lle. ‘our us| "He ine the same thing,’ apf Please Umit communications to 150 words. ‘met me Ed had not permitted himself} Morning Henrietta sent im note | ' © hospitable!" [ats that Mf we examine the context silly.’ Popple. 600m: ra uaiee Urges Farm Work for Soldiers’ I deposited a coin in one box ang | t think of marrying, lived lux- | suying that she had indefinitely post- | a plight seemed to have fallen upon 1S re will see that Socrates merely ex-| “1 thought them both silly," satd | he'll ren our ar ation’ Dependents. jot wet ny return Wasted four | uriously with the Sheld In a] Poned tho dance because he her! the visitors at the ominous sounds|<ltimed, ‘Alay, Callicles, how untair) sfisg Primm, Private Se ytothe| Mr. Snooks, the B ase to valle Ste ara Chane arnt erica more coins and still no return elther charming house in tho Chelsea sec. | was Ill 1 she adde ishs Me] from the dining room, In the ver | you are It I were to make a Joke|ing off his automobile gloves. He The other day I read that the| machine’ on tr I Ay d another tion, to say he will not call fe 1 {nacular, the cratic Quest seemed | Mr. Dinkston retorted, “she jut an ueroplanist who was #|bowed and wan about to enter bieg United States had ntention of | with the yame result and t ied | With the return to the busy Ife of | ext 1 heard that Henrietta had) to have gone suddenly upon the ntlal error Hes deeper. Lt cui usiclan, I should say he probably | private offi he had a sudde mportini f for our farms, | nother machine further downtown |the elty summer acquaintances are! #iven her dance a few nights later, | pink, Sts In taking too seriously the dia- yed a wind Instrument tbo as it w » women couldn't ee AOt vote Same result. T know often dropped, Not so with Henrietta | forgetting to include me. All of this} wana what's the Idea, the Socratic | l€ctical word, fen “That's right," said Bobbie. "Horn| * the wy, folks!” he eal@ and the t s sun, Well, Tl with mo that something should be (fd me. Ours was ar ry com inet eT rae we a ear from | " -ashed Mr. Je | "L should say 1t does!” erled Mr. int’ "You've all waked me for # raise and don't think it much bar an being | done to elt holiah these 1 Panionship, ‘There was hardly a do eee Te eived an | MeGlew placed — his | Jarr wking into the conversation.| “Horn in? Say, that's my joke," | I've arranged mutters to that end,” 1 the cars Rolng through congested | Machines or fine the owners f ¢/tall upon which Henrietta and her| mont, addressed in. Henrte | tt upon the floor be: |"Why encumber thts confab with the! sald Miss Tiilie, Whore did you get! ‘That's tine Sohal" het ea t weather. My grand-|turn the coin. say READE mother did not consult me | te oF H's mart lage tot th shabby gloves, | Yoebulary of obtuse and pedantic | tt Primm, beaming him. parents had a farm, and when the) woatd Force Out sootall Md won't th wholesale taniware | ee cubic, "lfotded them ¢ tuck them in|@etlon? Let us exchew congl:-| eMr, Snooks told It to * said] ‘Yon, Boss went on, “you'll al! Eat MAAthay Atkrind GVEbICOne wan iG at business and often went away, T saw | Ed was in love with me, 1h the upper left St pockot of |eMation, What you two mean by the Pobbie, ‘He sa nd he wok ty | Ket a rise the first of the month, I nd out an hour lier, cume in at} To the mM of ‘The Krening World him only occasionally, Dut he wrote tel ity adored im t 4 n hiny frock coat and turned to | Seer Quest fs that you stepped dinner with him nt, 1 rhe are Ye this office one floor up 4 Viaatook worked around T think {t would be a good thing to Me @nd with time o lallonship opt bien, 1 rian some one would Mich Aieeia: Gtiincen fe Jint > Gus's pli at the corner and jim, Where were y at rhe aa the n tu ne 1 and, with a e barn Jock, then went Ouse the ey alist Ald rmen who oy became more and more sutiful eons vo the mystery | gentleman to rept uscert t there were two, “None of your business!" pestis r n his private eae acras cea [Res th AnGbrNameRE OF ha Wars A ap Peseminr lei Neue ta house | A Poisoned Sea ~ | ne Sucratic Qu pn ale at sores oldters ta! prop unstruck, | doing thelr bost to help themact os IR sit ides . is t ie Ads a oli without M: | nal H d Fi A L i raat GHG || AUR SHRI TD. GONRrRINE ae lee tao minis BR ine ele ag aay ary and Flad First merican egislature } he #0 called 4 peopta, | r try tot aber colnlns ee i Talkie oF Hed the lawyer and the peet a ee 8 colon mbly ta had the po of enacting a to that expense why hot} se rpisip’taehrvie ela ed that Mv. Jarre intuition enjoy the right of initiatingleary Jawa ¢ She All Bepan a list ur soldiers’ und sailore’ | y, eines ot Rane om ue Lak aiid Aer , 8," sald Counsellor MoGlew | Was uncanny. legisiation was the Maryland|advice, consent « panel bes iependents a » would be Mt] 4 in American barn: ied: wis e had @ week of 6 oi ka playfu “but you forget we are| "Well," eald Mr, Jarr, “@o far as agsenbly, which conv in LGAs the tchamen or | pein or such work? Make them a fair| teen years of would iku to . aie nstantly enc rw ture | thle nictle is concerned your! ang was composed of representa-| Assembly demandod the right offer, Th cuty in nee this: We tear a tot matiye skepticism, a Phyronic | Socratic Quest has Platonic results. tives of the whole people—a purely|ating legisiation, pret, nat inte work. At J citizen ¢ Yaphank wbout all. kindy of sreaned, | 5! drifting in w system of sophistry tbat |! Mrs, Jarr coming with & qemocratic legislature, In the be-| ras granted by Lord Baltimo " be asked, T like pty Why not give us #ixteon-jand 1 thought of how ideal every. | Wat reported In October may proceed from the Socratic Quest | Pit of lemonade!" ginning every adult male citizen was|163%, and tho following yea teeta.” Ing them a c MRS, HP of udu a chance to go over | hing Reanidt die eban’ Nel orsneasa | ber of dene tile ree: through the Platonic Quest to the | reine permitted to ait in the Assembly,|sembly mot and onncted the ne Wants Slot Machines Kept in Order.| have done just sa hard wore, one afternoon I was 5 4 to admit, Socratic Paradox.” | THE BALTIC SEA, but with the increase tn population {t/atatutes of Maryland. in thelp bs To the KAltor of The Bxening Word men in compe. T, for instance inner, Henrietta came 1 nyestigation “| grant you,” sey Mr, Dink- HE Baitto Bea, of which we heay was found necessary to limit the|making the pioneer saranda Blot machines for chewing guma| Worked as | Fr, Dlacksmith's, W- |) oom, We talked of Kd, und. Is jatrange ooourre ston promptly, “but you are waisiea| | so much, gets Ite name from number, although there was atill no|were entirely intenendont fs lore ought to be inspected by the author- t tee ae Works | ee it would make her hun; explanation ady | by the innocent yet edifying sentence balteus (@ belt), because the legal reatriction on the number of| British Pariiamer: and phe the itles for the reson that two out of ati give you the « pvaiaaa’ Win aint 4 lt the close of the Chormides whieh etralt or entrance to {t hae nlwnve delegates the peopla might send. greator demren of wutonomy treet three wre cul of order. Jor instance, | rot G@ ANERIC A. ries Mf ally oad btew oblivious gutew from Uv wed butte — biutes, “You will be liappler us You been called the “Beit Under tha charter Tord Baltimere ether Mngityn an ang ~