The evening world. Newspaper, March 9, 1918, Page 12

Che eit nig Bisrld, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPT! PULITZER. Poditehed Daily Except Sunday, by the I: Mahing Company, Nos. 69 te RALPH PULT J. ANGUS SHA JOSEPH PULITZE! President, 63 Park Row. Treasurer, 63 Park Row, Secretary, 64 Park Ro’ W, R, MEMBER OF Th ABSOCIATED PREAG tad Prean ie oxcuel rely * to toe pee for renubitention of all abe paper and ale the local news gubltehed OMUME C8 isassicsvevinusceearns THE CITY'S PAVING PROGRAMME. F THE $3,500,000 granted by the Board of Est paving in the City of New York, the Borough of Manhattan gets $2,000,000, and not all of this $2,000,000 is to be spent) im the shopping and “company” sections. | The lower and business end of Manhattan is down for attention this time. Streets like Chambers, Centre, Nassau, Warren, Worth, Duane, Mercer, Houston, liver, Catharine, Monroe, Horatio, Front, Water and Vesey are promise] the new surfaces that some of thom! have needed for more years than anybody can remember. | Streets under which new subways have been constructed will aaturally require repaving; altogether it should prove a record year, for smoothing ruts and holes out of New York’s thoroughfares | Upon one point let there be special emphasis: | It ought to be possible Le these new pavements are laid to! eompel every public service corporation to put its pipes, wires or! tracks in such repair that ti need be no question of ripping up the new surface for such work a few months after paving is com: | | Areratcnae rein, p for new , New York has suffered enough in the past from confusion and| ehaos of that sort. There should be municipal authority sufficient | to enforce the kind of co-ordination that will insure the speedy begin-; ining and completion of a!) underground work when new pavements! are to be put down. | High authorities have maintained that the condition of a cit pavements is a fair gauge of its civilization, Part of the test should be the frequency with which it permits public service corporations to tear them up. At this time of nation-wide egonomy New York @ epecial effort to spend efficiency and without afte rt ught to make 50°00 on improving its streets with waste, | | ‘When the great “German Truet” in America, consisting of steamehip lines, lumber companies, woolen mills, chemical plans, lead pencil factories and beer, tobacco and sugar con cerns—all of them German property, some of them itn close | relations with the German Government and most of them { making enormous profits—is put up in parvels and knocked | down to the highest bidders, maybe the Kaiser will be leas confident about that restorative time In the sun that was to succeed the war, when Germany would again do business to i her profit with the nations she has challenged and outraged. —— BUYING FOR THE STATE. HE attention of taxpayers is called to a measure recently) introduced in the Legislature at Albany providing for the! establishment of a State purchasing system, the aim of which is to save dollars in the epending of the public money, The State of New York buys each year departmental supplies to the value of nearly 89,000,000. Under the present system—or lack of it—at feast one hundred and sixty-five distinct and separate | officials exercise the purchasing function, The result is confine uplication of effort and a total absence of that centralization which any big private corporation would consider essential to economicel | baying. State Comptroller Travis points to one the worst features of} the decentralized plan in the fact that under it from 60 to 7 cent. of supplies are bought in the open market: Buying the greater per cent. of purchases in the open market is a fact the advocates of the present syatem cannot uphold, and {s directly the result of @ lack of central control One naturally cannot obtain quantity prices by open market purchasing. Buying in smal! Mtitles results in little com- petition, which in turn means retail prices. An organization buying millions of dollars’ worth of supplies 18 entitled to something better than retail prices, ny per Stockholders in any private corporation would look at it that way. Taxpayers certainly hove the right to expect the most up-to. | date and economical methods in the purchasing of the thousand and | | WO prominent army officers are to court martialed ad a re tn tloas to whieh his s | EDITORIAL PAGE | Saturday, March . | [“Don't I Get Any Credit? ” ( eee ei some oer, THE COMPLETE }; } VICTORY FILLS ME witTH GRATITUDE. ‘ yr PERMITS US TO Sy piwe AGAIN ONE OF THOSE GREAT JU, moments am WHICH i we CAN REVERENTHY] ) ADMIRE GOD'S ‘J HanND IN HISTORY | 1 1 The Public Spirited Father The Jarr Family By Sophie Irene Loeb By Roy L. McCardell “J Cougrlaht, 1915. by the Pree Pubiisflng Co, (The Now York Evening World), O18, by the Pie Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) Hotel Copyright or “I'll have no influence.” To all YOU would know if it were onions. of this the answer ts that if every one notice the chairs he thought like this the world would be cently gilded—gold 4 very poor place in whieh to live in- ha-like perfume.” to show that united, we ure going to have the sex | A ratification meeting at the| | | is e have been re- paint has of 1) sult - the public spirit of a ved father t. Croesus this afternoon,” re- | na gon died] Joed marked Mrs, Jarr, “so if I am late 's onions eaten by sume board. | pfalleged| Where the cuse mentioned ts one] this evening you will know the rea-| ing-house person, I suppose! Mrs. | treat-lof life and n, there are many, Mudridge-Smith retorted. | a many other ways in which service] +7 go not know that I will" sald! This was another stab. People who y camp, could be rendered to the publle at] str, Jarr, “uniess you tell me what| "knew her when" whispered that ere therwin-|large by just a little effort here anc vestigation was] there mnducted in The wr da ugh and un-|abusing a bh Jin a street ered. He such a way you ladies are going to ratify.” | the days of her bu. and's making {1 don't know,” replied | money in munitions Mrs, Stryver had | “All T.do know is that be- | conducted a genteol boarding-house. we got the vote we held meet-| “How is your husband, my dear?” | ings to ratify, and r wo got the | asked Mrs, Stryver sweetly, as though | vote we held meetings to ratify.| ignoring the ignoble tople of ohions, Then, when we voted, we again met| “L understood be was going South— and ratified, and now that Atianta, I beliey elected four Congressmen don't} Mrs. Clara Mudridge mean women Congressmen; Miss Kan-| white to the lips, Old us he was, kin of Montana is still our only lady| wealthy as he was, her busband, Congressman—still, everybody magnate of the woollen trade, was at we elected four by tt votes prevent moment, it was whispered, = I saw a huckaster as I was passing by A crowd had gath pulling the horse in to make It apparent was hurting the animal. woman who was the saw the situation tn an in- “ant, and got off the car at a cross- the horse, She went right! policeman and called him Mrs, Jarr, oar was mpassioned man- ner, It changing Aimee oy was done | condi. | the Interest of as hat the 9 n was subjec bit Ss ave }A youn treet he whole work was carried on by him in the hop would make things bett soldiers, His effec on uth turned that his son's death | for oth not b have constructive ing near up a sald | of made in yain y we one things the total annual cost cf w v they are called upon to pay. land not revengeful to wh the small group had| women--why, we are going to ratify! the subject of Secret Service Inquiry Now that the Federal Government has bec a buyer on an| So honest were the father's ob gathered officer was soon tak-| again, Whatever 1t means.” vecuuse of alleged shoddy in cloth fur- adraealelit Ae onpye aii more tok Kies eae vations that the pector’s report] ing the name of the driver and the} ¢ means there will be a big row| ished on contract for uniforme, In- unprecedented scale IRONY GAG THONG LOBE ENS et ALON) gtaton: “In fet, poustbly every com-| witnesses to the incident, The youns| among all the dames and damsels| cidentally, also, the Governm of purchasing functions in a few responsible heads. The same poliey| print made by the privates father] woman had performed a dit of civic] fair, il bet," remarked Mr, Jarr. prison is In Atlanta. which a number of other States have already adopted—might wel! | ¥ 4 found to be t ig < ; nervice Mrs, Jarr regarded him coldly, “1' Mrs. Mudridge us auained it 44 in waa 4 splendi of work fn the case of crowds, T have} beg your pardon,” she sald, “But best to infer that her husband di Prove to the advantage of taxpayers in this monwealth Jthat will certainly things so /scen public spirited citizens demand inerd will be NOTRING of the Sea not contemplate being anywhere in +62 thet similar suffering will be saved |the right of way for women and chil-|Ail tho old feminine animosities are’ the vicinity of Atanta, Bo she acidly many soldiers, T the death of}dren, One of the greatest assets of! gone with ail the other littlenesses remarked, “Oh, you are misinformed, Is there a more p today than the King of this father’s son will perhaps save | being a citizen is to take a civic pride! our sex, aa Josephine lessington Mr. Smith is in Toronto on business," Roumania hoping that the Allies, and espectally the American | many other tives, A that must] in the city and endeavor to correct| Blotch mays, With the whole world, ‘Hut 1 didn’t think Canada was at caiahe will not turn their backs upon his kingdom because tt be & source of consolation to the | abuses as they come along. at war, our sex 1s at peace all safe, 1 should say healthy for has chosen humiliation rather than certain defeat and rulo and if th Was only a lite! Our metropolis is often spoken of| This might have been true e him,” murmured Mrs, Stryver, But —_ — —_——————— eh public spirtt on the part of/in other cities as one of the few] in a r whether she meant because of the Letters From the People viavel many things would be| places where there ts no clvte Interest | tion macting M ther or because of allied extra- Please limit communications to 150 words tie part of the eitizen—lack of in- upon two old frienda with a grudy dition treaties she did not say. est in the w | ries of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune Copsriaht, 1018, by the Prem Pubtishtug Co, (The Now York iveaing Work), ‘MACABEBE MARIE,’’ Funston’s Filipino Spy. ER name, to-day, {s lost—except perhaps when & group of old time "Caribaos” meet to talk over their fights, Yet, years ago, many columns of newspaper space were devoted to her exploita. She was known to our men tn the Philippines as “Macabebe Marie.” Gen. Funston promoted her to a position on his personal staff and valued her as on of his very best spies. Marie was a Filipino woman—well educated, fine looking, fearless, In the days when the Philippines were still under Spanish rule, her husband was onge of the leaders in a native insurrection against Sp In @ battle with the Spantards near Ballaug, in Luzon, her husband was killed, Marte was fighting at his side when he fell at the head of his men, at once she snatched up the dead man's sword and took command of the native troops, urging them on to victory. After that, as long a# the insurrection lasted, #he wore her husband’s uniform and served as a Captain. Soon after the United States took possession of the Philippines another native revolution broke forth—this time against the Americans. The revolt 9 Was headed by Emilio Agutnaldo, who cost our ! } ge Soldier country much money and many lives before he was ; ee Diery, at last captured. Marie received a commission as Captain Aguinaido's army, Once more she donned a uniform and performed eg lant feats of valor, Then an odd grievance made her renounce her alles glance to the native cause and become one of the stanchest friends of the Americans, Here is the story: Aguinaldo tried to stir his less valiant officers to @ false courage OF declaring he would pay Mfty pesos to any such officer who was wounded in actual battle against Uncle Sam's troops, Marivg the day after this generous offer was made, was wounded white she ded her men in a skirmigh against the Americans, At once she sent in to Aguinaldo a request for her fifty pesos, Before any reply could be received she took gal | battle and received two more serious wounds, At thia rate she was due to become richer than any local profi | She cancelled her first demand and sent Agutnaldo & bill for one hun ind fifty pesos—fitty for each of her three wounds, | Aguinaido had always been lavish in the matter of promises, But he t part in another had a sad habit of forgetfulness when tt came to making good on hig pledges. He curtly refused to pay her one hundred and fifty pes indeed any money at all, | The woman, wounded now tn mind as well as in body, swore a great f vengeance against the swindler. As a first step in the fulfilling of er ), she Joined the American Army. ' Here she quickly proved her value, As a secret service agent she wi |a treasure, She had an almost uncanny influence over the natives. 6) could wheedle them into telling her anything she wanted to know, And would carry such Information straight Sometimes disguising herself as a man, , she wandered at will through facts as to its plans and movements, the perils of a night attack ne of Aguinaldo's most » seorned to bear a charmed life, Ag! Nor were any of the men to whom he o eae her capture, fe, y Price on Her Head to Funston. tines as @ ragged beggar no Army, picking up all Her news often saved the ftener it told them never able to catch ered glittering rewards for way of change, used to go tious on ber own account. ericans Wanted to disarm as many of Agul ya men as possible, knowing new ward to obtain in the {nsurgent army, Therefore, she would go out of the American camp at dusk, returning at sunrise with a great armfu! of Fillpino rifles. This she did night after night. No one could ss how she got the rifles, and she never volunteered to tell. rescued two of Uncle Sam's sergeants from a band of that ambushed them. This she did by emptying her two revolvers assailants and holding them off until the sergeants could get at a were own GUNS. On May 4, 1902, the following press {tem was sent out from Wash- ngton: ‘Mucabebe Marte,’ known to every soldier in the Philippines as one jes in the American servi Ia dea 1018, Ur the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brecing World), “Away, thou seeker after conquest and domestio the folly of the love game, I have never yet lost my head! “aaiey owas the earth. I have walked with thee beside the sea to A hou hast clung to me in times of danger; thou hast plucked the not lost my balance; and my sense of self-preservation has kept me safe! . Sayings of Mrs. Solomon. dauguter, hear now the Bachelor's Hymn of Defiance, which he chanteth tn secret. tyranny! “For lo, I have dodged thee once more! “Lo, for hours have I sat with thee in the moonlight and held thy hand—yet always did I carefully escape Maine and upon the sands of Florida and beside the opalescent waters of the Golden Gate—yet I have not fallen into thy nets! unseen speck from my coat-lapel; thou hast ‘mothered’ me tenderly; thou hast wept thy troubles out upon my willing shoulder. “Thou hast fed me from the chafing-dish and tempted me with home- Af cooking—but I have closed mine eyes and prayed for strength and bave* By Helen Rowland , M Behold, after each flirtation and every escape from matrimony doth he set himself upon a pedestal and repeat his song of triumph, “Behold, I am stili single, unconquerable, immunel Yea, though many times I have lost my heart tm a jv” the hook therein! f $ ' “Thou hast pursued me to the uttermost parts of “Thy mother hath batted moe with flatterfes and dinner parties and cajoleries and hints—yet 1 have not swallowed them. Yea, thou hast marked me for thine own, and anointed me with thy pet perfume, and bathed my forehead with fragrant cologne, yet I hi not proposed marriage! ‘Thou has ‘vamped’ {n vaint ‘Thou hast lured me with babblings of nm are wor are of others Clara Mudridge-Smith and Mrs, Mro, Mudridge-Smith only re-| platonic friendship; thou hast goaded me with jealousy! Yet all thy No Chane: De me people. In my opinion, Mussta fur-lpied with the mmedinte world trouble AAS A | aa gh . papery mut BOBASUAD) "HOGS risa ¢ Be ra winnlea | Dlonen an (htnrentliw exeanple to Alpes [oto se rouble with many of us ts we) Stryver, Mra, Jarr was glad Mr,Jarr) marked Mat she REALLY could net) suntnity was nought. For I have ‘watched my step! {Po the Fatitor uf Tuo Evening Wo! ¥ }and will not tah to pre-| leave tt to o a to correct our civic] was not among those present to hear, d Mr. Smith's business affairs, I noted in your columns rent languages.) troubles for others. ‘The general | wrong i; aaah thet dellowen: ‘ waa era ay important Govern.| "Al! the Seven Stunts of Woman hast thow practised upon me—the wany | ven y The genera ngs e clash that followed, na he joing importa govern. | ; 7 letters of readers who compl riche | te "Why othe Waital” Our ewi interost would ‘be better! ‘art ee eee a eeaee uid tot tender and the ebilly, the cute and the motherly, the domestic and the i f be hat there was t t vo! a a one cou) ell terly of the failure of tne I can't t hig eeu lnonaarset (fae anc horad.& Uttie ott > a aaa idle my Bee cereail an ‘aaeialhe areas intellectual, the chummy and the mysterious. homes" to do thelr bit . all “T aa only one person and| public responsibility dally a8 WOlthe two old friends with « arudee wie] This was a dig at Mra, Stryver, Yet I have seen through thy camouflage and am still a Bachelor! re ean aa, ae “A ea Bes | at | J won't be wet by with tt, ae, and it es | : b ly and kiesed| Who had made much of a friendship “Tell me, ob, foollsh one, why shall I marry? Yea, why, because I Nee evar) ea ed | . ; | vicko vith the Baroness Von Grabbenstein ‘find a damsel falr, shall I permit her to annex me? Why shail 1 contract sede: bi . the | | 3 e ” . 1 4 rock!"* | befor hi ince the war the |to pay ‘ludemaity’ for life? Not succeeded. 1 have studied chem- win Esk m W, V | d ( m gs f cried | before the war, 5! fea! engincering two yeors, huve been uN. | 1mos ear ent ate ostu es » recover trom) Baroness had been suspected of being | “La, now have I all the comforts of home at half the expense! @ well trained clerk for four years | Would Have Women spend Yaontinn | VEN fa the Arctlo Ctrel eisgsome portion of his body partly un- suing, “But fon't 1% just a @ % because she had plenty of “Whither soever I wish to go, whether {t be to India or to my club, , more and have enough patriotiam to Form E nger of perspiring when th the aly to pene- high on one side? | Money and an accent I um free to wander, without havin, y { . ate pit . iis i | ven the we | a ae c er, g to pawn my coat or to perjure my soul yr Bees May comates 00 AMISRICAN Ki ‘ neal ae ae af eG virile or! bs es HCAS RAV OE a ‘vy furs and ble as very| Seeing Mrs. Stryver was about tu) “Behold, I can take my days, my joys, and my loves a la carte, x * oes Bae a ‘8 OF ‘drop through the therimiom The is costume, shoulder that! retort and penhaps be more explicit | gh 1 , a off ond the! 0. wills; an ! ed-tuk table d’hoto, t # Tinks he ea thenie Weleome erie DmponG tals Hon colder the weather water tht woman from Bast] Was just a little higher than another,| regarding her husband going to At- PARSE AN Ay Ae fe not as ar re he samo to-day, To the Kastor of The Evang World eens ea berae an umes | ti" b heavy fra, aw the | Gr enland re out of doors for] she winced, But only remarked: | lanta rather than Canada, Mrs, Mud- 7° peda pe haa ‘ ER A 5 Thave read with wreut interest yourland feel that dine agile ; ys ‘work | Wuite NO: hy! Ok Overn | HOME ENO IB the moat vavere part of "WHO has boen eating spring| ridge-Smith exclaimed, "Oh, I have ereforo do I cilng to my freedom. #, give me liberty or give editorial, “Har the Itoad," in which |mmight be us bon, ng to| nested "bile traveling. Whon he stoptt the open’ apaco above hoe Pes With |OMtons, and, to make it worse, en-| ost my diamond lavailiere!"’ | me deat! you say “It may well neem unfortun- | the weastiore or countey ply on| to make camp, he will freezy in w vers} belts of foxtalls, but adjusted in aucn|deavored to disguise the fact with) And in the confusion that attended Verily, verily, my Daughter, eo spoke the Bolsheviki! Ate that a practical plan to keep Ger- | Pleasure, The trouble would be to| short 4a, Terrible suffering is thea way that she will get the necessary | heavy perfumes?” the search for she Glabing Jemelrys | For every bachelor ts a Bolshevist at heart and all his boasts are ag find out where one could be of help! result, fair ventilation Mrs. Stryver paled. This was «| Which was later discovered in tt man domination out of Aalatic|raher than a hinienae nd where | "rw Rekime Uae « In North Greenland, the men's sults} gounie shot ve home Mre | owner’s Knitting bag-—the original the wind ; Russia by sending & Japanese ex: 1 nage |_ Tee Rekimo bas solved’ the pre | ns Noo around the waist, solng home, TS | skirmish between Mrs. Jarr'a two old So, when the psychological moment arriveth, the Woman of the Hour itionary force into Siberia should of how to keep wari without per-| between t and trousers, while| S¥ver had not been able to resist | friends with a grudgo was forgotten, shal] walk straight through his barrage of words, and lead him bli ve been made to bristie with diplo- lat war epiring, in a alm riginal mao Jthe Greeniand tri Northern| a craving for spring onions—but that _— eaeuaaie he Kingd on ndtolg matic difficulties and dangers “ Manaia \ into the Kingdom of Matrimony, i hr 4 + | ply nor, ay explain ex r Chris. |Unada weur wide, trousers,| had been at Dreakfast, hours ago. HITES HAVE GOOD EYES. | 7 That should have becn on the front | Wor ¥ | powe the ki t of the| w And he shall sign a “Shamoful Peace Pact" and gtve up hi where everybody could huvelicne t. un Leden, ln I ence Month Boeh tae Kae g.and part of fe} Some people ato indeed too "nosy," LINDNESS {8 more prevalent @ he up his Wberty | @een it, ag Lam certain that you voice sensible Instead of NROIe BOTS Tartly ene tee BRAY “Are you sure It 1s, ab, perfume, among Indians and nogrocs Without a struggle! $ rt you f iNelf Cou par prote when walking oF B Selah. the gentiment of 90 per cent of tho pletely With Arctic Lure, be leaves Working. or, ab, onions?” whe asked. Of course than the white population, | f° ' ' !