The evening world. Newspaper, March 11, 1918, Page 14

EPH PULITZER, bUshed Dally t Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 03 to - cara Bacopt Sung ark ow, New York. Ld PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, RAUETIUS SHAW. ‘Treasurer, 62 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Now. MEMBER OF TH® ASSOCIATED Pras, ee LT cE Ne STILT SU Ned eM ea Galles eee VOLUME 58. NO, 20, DEMAND AT LEAST A REFERENDUM. HETHER or not the Federal Prohibition Amendment is ratified by the Legislature of the State of New York without submitting the question to the people of this commonwealth, ‘is expected to depend upon the votes of five State Senators from New York City. | Five legislators chosen, among others, to represent the enlight- enment, the experience, the sound, consistent Americanism of the Greatest single community in‘the country. | Surely among these five New York might still find eanity and courage enough to defend the Federal Constitution, so far as this State has power to defend it, from misguided meddlers who, without thought or scruple, would chenge its character and pervert its purpose. Once and for all, prohibition of the manufacture, sale or use of intoxicating liquors has no place in the Constitution of the United | Staves. The framers of that great document expressly designed it to be) first, last and solely the broad foundation and guarantee of politi:al liberties and national safety. They put nothing into it which im-! posed moral codes. ‘hey put nothing into it which regulated private conduct or standardized personal habits, The very first words of the First Amendment to the Constitution “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”—ought to stand as a signifi- cant warning to moral reformers who would invoke Federal authority to back their particular beliefs or decree nation-wide conformity to their special standards of behavior. If the Prohibition Amendment gets into the Federal Constitution. it will be because, at a time when war is causing the thoughts and hopes of the nation to vibrate with unwonted spiritual energy, tir forces behind Prohibition have seized the chance to drown sense in tontiment, and at the same time, on the practical side, to apply the most powerful political pressure that has been felt by legislators, Btate or National, in a generation. It will be because inthe excitement of a great national crisis the true principles of American constitutional freedom are lost sight of and the rights of local velf-government left undefended. It will be because while the American people are earnestly occu- pied with the war their representatives allow thdmselves to be prodded and bullied into the gravest legislative iricongruity ever per-| petrated upon a free nation, Once the Federal Prohibition Amendment is adopted there is little chance that it can ever be repealed, Thirteen States can always prevent a repeal. And though, a8 has been pointed out, those thirteen States might be the smallest and the furthest from the great centres | of population, though they represented but a twentieth part of the| nation’s 100,000,000, so long as they chose that the 100,000,000 should | temain bone dry, bone dry the hundred million must remain. If the American people as a whole have really reached a point where they recognize themselves as too frail to trust themselves, save under a powerfully centralized paternalism; If the average American has ceased to exult in that self-deter- mined strength of balance, restraint, temperance, by which he builds | hia character four-square against temptation or excess; | if the nation is too timid to go on unless the Constitution of the fathers is turned into a protective code to keep out moral dangers— | Then, .by all means, Jet the Federal Prohibition Amendment be the first step toward safety. Before such a decision is finall however, self-reliant, self-| determining American manhood—and womanhood, too, for that) matter—ought to have a more direct say. For the credit of the Empire State and the people of this city, let | these five Senators from districts of Greater New York declare and! hold firm for at least a referendum. y mad 2 nN ~ ye Hits From Sharp Wits Sometimes the defendant is so very; Many a train of thought pretty that the Jury does not have to|frelght.—Chicago Nowee Ore ne &o out to the jury room to find a ver-| . . . diot—Memphis Commercial Appeal. One way not to win the war is to! (ake agi believe that luck will do more than Military training is a mighty good | pluck. Charleston (8. Cd News nad thing, It takes a certain amount of | Courter, drilling to even be a dentist.—Phila~ € "6 | telpbin. Recon. oe tility to tall of millions at night Many a nervous system hae gone| stand off the milkman next mornin, broke paying interest on borrowed | —Toledo Blade. | trouble.—Binghamton Press. | * 8 ee Where there ts beef there te bound Anyway, half of the world knows|to have been a hide; then why the that the other half is looking for the! high ¢ of shoes Memphis Com- best of it.—Chicago News. mercial Appoal. = Letters From the People Please limit communications to 150 words. More About Daylight Saving. dishes im all groceries, delicate Po tbe HAitor of The Evening World shops and butter and egg stores: E. J. A's lettér relative to “daylight faving’ is rather interesting, It 1s quite true that an equally good effect | th! would be produced by simply chang- lng hours of employment. In other en Five ik there Is any necessity for weigh. ing them with purchases during the cold weather, when the butter does Words, instead of pushing the hands|not stick to paper, thereby cheating pf the clock one hour forward he be-| the public by using these unneces- Heves it would bo better to get on the | 8ary Wooden dishes? Don't you think fob one hour earlier in the morning | it would be @ good idea to ask the And quit one hour earlier in the eve-| housewives of New York to refuse to t buy butter welghed in these wooden dishes? MRS. M. P, Why the Park Ins Dirty, ‘To te Ea. of The Evening id Answering tho inquiry of “A Lover of the Park” which appeared in your | paper, 1 wish to suy 1 am an employee | of the Park Department and the an- | swer seems very plain. The city will ing. EB. J. A. forgets that we are crea- turea of habit. We would find it dim- pult to accustom ourselves to the change. Thero is 4 psychological fac- tor to be considered. If we have been in the habit of getting up at seven and the clock says seven even though ft fe only six we will find it much easier to arise, and it is only @ ques- tion of @ short time when habit will reassert itself and everything will run Rong smoothly as heretofore, Tassume that FB. J. A. is heartily in work and those they have are under- paid. I had my salary raised Jan. 1, Monday, a quits: EDITORIAL PAGE March 11 Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Conyright 1918. by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), married man's mouth is as eloquent as a cry of Before marriage a girl waits and prays for a hus- band; after marriage she goes right on waiting tor lim, and praying for him, too, dearie, Every bachelor regards marriage as a banana peel on the road to succe: Just now, between fasting for Hooverizing tor her country’s sake, and banting for her figure's sake, the average woman's dally food allowance would scarceiy sustain a goldfish. No woman ever won a man's love by trying, nor kept {t by working overtime, The fire that never goes out of {ts own accord ts al ‘a the one that you started by accident, and forgot to watch, F her soul's sake, (7 Why fs it the average man seems to fancy that once he has kissed o girl and permitted her to imagine that he might learn to love her her whole life is changed forever? There are three kinds of women: Those who look upon marriage merely a8 a matter of “getting a husband”; those who anticipate it as the | pleasant state of being a “married woman,” and those who look forward in the world—"a wife.” Wonder {f any New Yorker can imagine how {t sounds to a woman frum “Dixie” to hear people URGING her to "eat cornbread” as a “patriotic sacriflce”—when her heart has been aching for a taste of tt through all the bleak and barren cornmeal-less years! Mas, a dull woman bores a m&n to death—and a bright one frightens him to death dauared of tnean dishes weigh about "Tanks May Plough War-Ruined Farms | ser revert « tanting wort HE usefulness of the tank, most| Freeman tells of a visit last summer T spectacular invention of the|to the bitterly contested flelds of an- war, may not end with the sign-| ders, the Somme, the Champagne and ing of peace, ‘The great work has|Verdun. ‘These regions were cov- been suggested for it of making pro-| ered with a luxuriant growth of wild ductive once more the shell torn flelds| Mowers, weeds and some domcstie Boleluen'ond France plants, except where the soll had been In the farming regions where hard |stripped to bedrock, is fertility fighting has taken place, the and has! seemed to have been Increased, the been blasted and ripped open by high | T@#ult obtained by the use of dyna- explosive vhells, and drenched with | ute in subsoil cultivation in America. poisonous chemicals, A number of] ‘The surface was so crisscrossed aciontiats expressed tho gloomy view|with trenches and blasted Into dec p that the topsoll had be Nn 40 scattered | shell craters, however, that farming, | ductive strata brought to tho surface | possible, until a Canadian officer sig- 1018, to $8 per day and was told Toowd | nt added to the poisoning, many | gested the use of tanks, Attached to| exposed to the draft, and when he By Roy L. Copyright “ee ND don't go putting any of those aroma fluids on me, either! Get me?” remarked Mr. Jarr as he climbed into the chair for his monthly hair trim, “If my hair is getting thin, let it get thin. There isn't any dope you've got will make two blades of hair grow where one grew before, and you know it!" with the whip—it's a hired replied Dred, the sporting barber, in an injured tone, “You ain't got no right to start giving me a bawling out lke that, Anyway, it ain't fashionable to offer balderine dope to anybody, What they seem j to want is something that will re- | move the hair without pain.” “What do you mean, remove the |halr without pain?” asked Mr, Jarr. ‘It's the bullet-proof boys,” whis- pered Fred, the sporting barber. “Hist, T think (here's one in the next chalr. | erator if we had a pedicure professor here who knew a good way to tip a guy to catch flat feet. and falling | arches. You know there's going to | be @ lot of service flags in this war that won't be as popular with the horse, Lima Beane says it requires versa- ‘to it as the divine opportunity to be that most useful and beautiful thing | people that’s the cause of them as they are with the people who Sing | them to the breeze.” “1 don't get you," replied Mr. Jarr. “Look at my brother-in-law,” eaid Fred, the sporting barber | “Where is he?” asked Mr, Jarr. “Oh, you can’t sea nim now, and I never could,” was the reply, “He's in the arm now, Egbert is. Of course his real But I consider Egbert « me isn't Egbert, it is Miki nore insult- In fact, I con “So do I,” said Mr, Jarr. “But what about Mike, lias) Egbert, your brother-in-law?" | "Well, you know {t's a poor family that hasn't got one bum,” replied the | | sporting barber, “Now our family had | plenty of bums in it which 1 got by inheritance. I didn’t need to marry inte any, did }?" } “Hardly,” said Mr, Jarr, °T think T remember Mike-Bsbert; he was the guy you sent to me a couple of times looking for work.” | “He was always looking for work, not hire enough laborers to do the |and so much of the lower and unpro- even by powerful tractors, seemed im. | DU something was wrong with bis | eyes,” Fred replied, "Well, he gets Acoord with the daylight saving plan, (not work more than six days any week | years must pass before fertility could | tremendously strong harrows and] sets his card to come to camp he as bis only objection seems to be and would also have to lose all holi- against the method of operation M days, This week, after waiting two R weeks for my pay, I received $15, and out of that I have t® support myself, wife and four ohildren, Not muoh left out of that for Liberty Bonds, Thrift Stamps or any other kind of stamps! 4 PARK WORKER, Weighing the Dish With the But Ho te Editor of The Krening Warid I wish to call your attention to the weighing of butter and lard in wooden be restored, These opinions had a) sera ers, they may go back and forth serious effect; generous sums were|across the fields, uprooting endless pledged, many in Americe, to restore lengths of barbed wire, unexploded towns and villages, but few cared to shells and other debris, and Alling in contribute toward rehabilitating Jand the cratera unti! the ground is fit to hopelessly ruined. [be turned over to its owners for the Ip Popular Mechanice, Lewis It planting of crops | comes a running to look me up, just as if there wasn’t any strained fam- ily and financial tions be- fetween us w Hid he want with you? avhod Mr. Jarr | “bbe wWanled me to pul somelbing 918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Event I heard him ask the Wop op-| PERSE APE. SEN VUE N LT 6 TE. — nema’ S . . tories of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune rigut No. 5—1TO, the Spy Whom an Emperor Honored. HE Russo-Japanese War had just begun, Russia was hurrying troop trains and provision cars southward to the front. On the safe arrival of these trains de- pended the chief hopes of the Russians, To capture stich trains meant great stores of food for the hun+ gry Japanese as well as a chance to cut down the size of Russia’s army A little Jap officer named Ito hilt on a plan to seize one of the largest and most important of the Russian troop and provision trains. The plan was very simple. ‘The train was to start south from Mukden at @ certain time, It had to cross a bridge over a deep gorge at Hsifeng, and another bridge, some miles away, over the Liao-Kiang, both in Russian territory. Ito arranged to blow up the Liao-Kiang bridge as soon as the train should | have passed over it. He gent @ fellow-spy named Shibata to blow up the Haifeng bridge before the train should reach the latter spot. Thus the trhin would be trapped in a desolate region between two wrecked bridges, unable to go forward or back. A picked force of Japanese troops, secretly stationed in a mountain | gorge, several miles away, were then to descend upon the helpless train and take possession of its rich contents, Ito, after blowing up the Liao- Kiang bridge, was to run to this gorge on foot and notify the walting troops that the time had como 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), eee | Carrying the Word to strike their great blow. |} of Opportunity. ‘The scason was midwinter. Ito crept, under lower cover of darkness, to the bridge unseen by tho Russian sentries Who guarded cach end of it, Up among the girders Ito climbed and fixed his charge of explosive, re touch a match to the fuse the moment the train should have pu the trestle. Thus tar everything had gone according to schedule. the tide of luck all set the other way. The train was due at the Liao-Kiang bridge before 8 o'clock at night. |1t was seven hours late. The weather was bitter cold. Ito was not dressed for such tomperature, nor was he used to it, Clinging to the | ice-coated girders, fourteen feet above the frozen and snow-choked river, he almost froze to death, He dared not move about to keep himself warm, for the two Russian sentries were forever passing and repassing just above * his head. The night grew colder and colder, Ito was numband drowsy, He could no longer control his frozen limbs, Every now and then he would wring his tcy hands together to keep them from losing all power of mot ‘After an eternity of torture the train thundered over the bridge, dts tmpact almost shaking the benumbed little Jap from his perilous perch among the girders, As soon as it had passed on Ito strove to strike a mateh | for the lighting of the explosive's fuse. But his finger muse dead. | At last, by biting and massaging them, he restored some semblance of |}ife to the fingers of one hand. Feebly, awkwardly as a baby, he struck a | match and lighted the fuse. | ‘A nentinel, Just above him, heard the sound of the sputtering powder and called td the other sentry to come and help him investigate. Ito dropped into a snowbank, fourteen feet below. Only bulf of his task was done. He must still give the signal to the hidden Japanese troops, | But after that | 8 wer », | The Russian sentinels saw him, and they fired, Pit | perme One bullet struck Ito In the shoulder us he floun- 4 Still Presses On, dered to his feet, knocking him f_s Before he h Dying. could rise—before elther Russian could fire again—- Weta the bridge blew up. Both sentinels were killed. Ito was stunned and horribly bu As soon as he recovered his tortured s his errand to the troops. He was numb fror From the waist up he was in agony, Stumb! how covered the miles between him and the w and delivered his message to the commander, Y into unconsclousness. Dying, senseless, Ito was carried to the howpity! at Mire he was roused to consciousness for a few minutes by stimu that he might receive an Imperial envoy, sent to his bedside by t peror of Japan to thank and to praise him, in the Emperor's own name, bis gallant exploit. ‘An hour or two later Ito died. ned by the explosion. e little Jap set out on, the waist down from cold. The Jarr Family = = McCardell , Chicago, imed that {t will cut the gas bill 75 every month. | Y Réichen Table on Rolls | ERE is a novel kitchen table equipped with sides which on his bean to make his hair fall out. | 2 4 He sald he guessed anything we bad | i the K itchen ‘If you've got any grudges against mo m , |aaye the Illustrates W now ia the time to get even, Remem- Pilot Lamp Warns When| 1" te sb ; many meals I have et in your house and gimme blood polson or barber's Bicliatt out da equipaedl with pilot lights which serve aa @ ing sanitary tonsorial parlor of this | 1, electric iron or other extension fair city, to hear the coldblooded | gavice, ‘They enable the operator to Was he blackmailing you?" asked Mr, | watchman and signals danger when Jarr. | to look over thirty-two, so be gould | ket out of the draft, Why, he vven| steal the money if I'd help bim out, "Did you?” asked Mr. Jarr. on, as Bertha M. Mudd, the novel | vriter eays, I told bim I'd fx him all | athlete, Why, he looked so much like a real soldier that the army just made| ‘ . . | ... Science Promotes Efficiency in the shop would do that,” explained | the sporting barber, “He says to me, | ber all the rfoney I owe you, and 7 . make me bald-headed. Think of how Electric Iron Is On. FEW heater control Just ltch—why, you'd have thought this Was a pest louse instead of the lead | story check on the woman who uses way that jobble talks to me.” play safo and avold waste of current “What did be really want, money? ‘phe pilot light acts as a allent “Not at all," said the sporting bare | ber, “He wanted me to make bim up offered to pay me back what be owed | | me if f would tell him where he could | "I lured him on,” remarked the sporting barber arimly. “I lured him) right, And I did, When I was through [with bim he looked I!ke an {ncurable | up its mind it couldn't do without} him, and so's to keep from losing| him they keep him secure in the! guard house.” | | soles ond Ong: Of 10s fran setae eta service flax Gying | the Heating device ia left in circuit | chief advantages is the Mangos which See tars z . junattended, says the Electrical lock tn place, enting any of the A silk one that set me back six] perimenter, dishes from falling. Another ad- bucks," replied the sporting barber. | Say, I've just been Wondering how on an ordinary padded | many ginks there is like me who are} ‘ | proud to fling a service flag to the|{!roning board: place it In circuit and | breeze for family reasons’ For, be-! leave it, with “heat on,” for say fit- que me, every family bas its bum!” minutes or more. ‘The probabil: Ar. Jarr said perbavs this was true, | iviog are that quite an impression will| but it 8 ther tactful nor patri- |e mado in the pad, and quite pos- | otic to openly say | Bel : |sibly on the board also; perhaps the | ACCIDENT GAVE US BLOTTERS. | jron will even burn tts way right | Cc NESS on the part °f | through the board, And then again, Take the ci |for instan se of an electric iron, teen @ workman and the quick wit! if the iron is left to itself long enough of bis employer gave us blot-| with the current on, tho chan ting paper, The workman forgot to | th Ae tential Sheen {put in the sizing one day in be | een. hie shire, Mngland, pi er mill and (he/ minimize fir Whols lot was rejected, | The anger of the owner was in-| creased when he tried to use one of Single Byrner Oven Cuts Down the sheets, for his pen made only a : amear, It occurred to him, however, Gas Bill. that the paper might be used in- stead of sand for absorbing surplus ERE is a way to get mor at! ink. Tt proved successful and the H from the same amount of gas, | ‘ lot was sold under the | vantag =r iesipareapen: it wenn eat according to the firm that is{atlow 1 y ais neral use putting this new single-burner oven in dines s red rags ave hard to bleach for the top of the stove on the m it any f much use in making wr Hel, de commit Of three’ patte=an f and towel paper, they were utilized in ractions for the manufacture of blotters, which for bestos-lined stand for baking, the the illustrated | yeare were always plak é boal-distributing pi aud @ cover,