The evening world. Newspaper, March 13, 1918, Page 18

ESTANLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Dally t Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos 53 to | Bacopt Suntsy TL how. Now Yorke LPH PULITZDR, President, 63 Park Ro <8 re 8 SHAN Presmurers 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZE dr, Becrotary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRERS, | exclusively entitied to the ape for revubiict WI exealet ANCE She otras liad’ she peter ahd"Gie "we ocal “sev Peand Let ee VOLUME 58. +e. sNO, 20,658 THE SPELL BROKEN. HE Assembly at Albany has come to. Breaking loose from powerful Anti-Saloon League in- fluence, Assemblymen have suddenly decided that the Federal | Prohibition Amendment shall not be ratifiéd until it has been voted! on by the people of this commonwealth next fall. j Tn view of this awakening in the Lower House, the Senute is more than ever unlikely to declare iteelf in favor of suspending the right of local self-government and regulating the personal habits of Americans by Federal authority, without submitting a question of such importance to popular vote. | Nor can we believe that Gov. Whitman would veto a referendum! Dill involving fundamental principles of personal freedom and State «sovercignty. The Federal Prohibition Amendment wil) go squarely before the | people of New York next fall. | Meanwhile there will be plenty of chance for intelligent thought and discussion on the part of voters, male and female, concerning a proposition which reverses the American conception of Constitutional | \ guarantees. ' eo DEFEND THE NEW GATEWAY. | LBANY interests are again endeavoring to block an improve- ment which aims to relieve traffic congestion at one of the most constricted points in the East, j Under present conditions, freight moving between the West and New York or New England over the New York Central must cross the Hudson River Valley at Albany, where drawbridges cause constant elays and where the grades just west of the city are so eteep that extra engines with difficulty do the hauling and trains are in constant | danger of breaking loose and rolling down hill. The lay of the land is euch that it is impracticable either to reduce the grade or enlarge the already overcrowded freight yards at West Albany. Thus, in relation to an immensely expanding traffic, Albany has become a tight bottle-neck which seriously impedes the flow. As a remedy the New York Central several years ago proposed | the “Castleton cut-off,” consisting of a connecting route branching off from the main line at Hoffmans, west of Schenectady, using ihe | West Shore Railroad tracks to Feura Bush, continuing from there | across the Hudson by a high-level bridgo to be built south of Castle- | ton, and connecting on the east side of the river with both the Central | andthe Boston and Albany, | By its great reduction of grades and the facilities for Sitidalie | classification yards for freight cars at Feura Bush, this cross-cut, it| is claimed, would save from one to five days in the transit of freight | and almost double the freight-carrying capacity of the New York | Central and its connections between the port of New York and the! West. When it was a question of transporting troops, trains could | de put through in two or three days instead of ten. | As against the substantial and obvions advantages promised by | the Castleton cut-off improvement, obstacles have been repeatedly raised at Albany—mainly taking the form of objections as to the pro- posed type of bridge across the Hudson, As the case now stands, however, the two-span bridge at present planned has the approval of the Federal Government, following the War Department's careful consideration of the evidence, and more | recently Major Gen. Goethals has given his emphatic endorsement to | the iwo-span type. Qn the one hand, therefore, we have a thoroughly worked eat project sanctioned by the highest lederal authority and calculated to| be of immense benefit in expediting the movement of freight over avily-taxed routes in the country, On the other we have the hostility of local Albany interests striving, with the help of such measures as the Sage-Welsh bills now| pending before the State Legislature, to hold up indefinitely the Castleton cut-off improvement by forbidding the building of any but | a single span bridge across the Hudson River, | There ought to be no question as to the outcome. Nothing should be permitted further to de! of @ plan which means a wider gutew ‘ay for tr: portant point. The City of New York need not be o in declaring that the Sage-Welsh t z ’ ; ig th ne Sage-Welsh bills ought never to emerge froim| committee. | lay the carrying ou! affic at this most im-| harged with self-interosr They are against the larger interests of State and N; are against the whole present American spirit o and directness in the ation, Thev ; f intensified efficiency | solving of ruilroad and traffic problems. se _ a eenpeeneeeyrerey ere si Letters From the Please limtt communications to 150 Woes of a Subway 6 ra. Fo the .litor of The Evening World: No soubt many straphangers go| Then you get home from work with some complaint | Waste a whole day dow OF other about the subway, particu- | cause if he docs iat yon, ere larly the guards. |' for the following day, 6”? “ork It Not long ago there appeared a) ‘Then how can fhe mann notice in the cars which read muard to go back to’ we #We instruct our employees to treat | humor? Tet cack passengers as they themacives would |tcr and we wit Uke to be treated, &e. ' “PRESIDENT SHONTS." He should post this Instead: | People words, “AN right, wee the boss." < ior | will way walt outside and ( hours’ wait. another lecture © expec: to work in bosses treat us b Feat the public better A GUARD, Youth Wants Training at Arma, To the Editor of The Evening World: > “Our employees treat you as wo EDITORI Wednesday AL PAGE » March 13 ty Te (Toe New York THE UNITED STATES Wthh STAND BEHIND RUSSIA ny Cee a fillies premises ‘ ‘ at F Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Coprrigt, 1918, ty the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bvening World), O man who has ever answered all bis wife's questions when be ar- N rived home at 2 A. M, will have any difficulty in filling out a ques- tlonnatre, Every woman {s a perfect little Trotzky,‘when it comes to boasting about the beauty of “freedom and independence,” until she gets the first chance to sign them over to some would-be domestic “Kaiser.” Many a man who rushes {nto a spring filrtation like a lion comes out ke a Bolshevik, The ideal husband would be that happy medtuiw between the sort of man who Insists on salting down ‘ all his money and bis sentiment, and the kind who insists on burning them up. The difference between masculine and feminiue bravery ts purely a matter of quality. For instance, a brave man {s one who would rusb {ato a burning railway train to save a life, but only a woman would calmly walk out of that train without tipping the porter, Evo was the first feminist. She wanted to “llve her own life’-—which, of course, meant that she wanted Adam to “live her own life.” And he did, just as all husbands Lave done ever since, without question, Marriage {s the prop on which a woman leans, the shield that defends | and he made a move as though to; ber from the world, a crown that glorifies her—and a chain and ball that hold her down to the commonplace At times ft {8 difficult to believe that some of the complexions one sees on Fifth Avenue are not accidents or afflictions, but really premedl- tated! All of Life Summed Up in Proverbs ROVERBS einbraco P sphere of human How many there are in exist-/op men's lives and thelr observations, ence no man could say. To Solomon|it ts really not so odd, afone are attributed no fewer than| The docile’sheep reminds one of 1,000 proverbs, and though tt is noted} obedient children oF tractable ser- that Americans bave few of their/Vants, the strutting peacocks, with own, gur weather proverbs alone ake | Vial large and beautiful tails, of lected by the United States Govern-| @audily dressed women; the rock- ment some years ago, made a book of| climbing goats, of bold adventurers; no fewer than 148 pages. jthe cunning foxes, of unprincipled That “there ts no proverb which ts|4Md shrewd tradesmen; the chirping the wide; largely animal aro referred to tn existence. | Proverbs, but since proverbs are built Coury. 1919, ve Veen Vrubhlad waing Wont.) By Roy L. Copyright, 1918, by We Pride Publishivg Co, (The Yew York Crening World), R. JARR roused up trom comfortable position on sota in alarm. “Hey!” crled, “if you worthy matrons are golng. to talk spring fashions, I'm going to beat a retreat from this listening position, I say it!” “Oh, you say too much!" retorted Mrs, Jarr. “What do you wish us to discuss—war? It's bad enough to know it {y golmg on without having to talls about it all the time, and | hope you don’t think I am a pacifist © say sol” “Perhaps Mr, Jarr would like us to discuss politics?” remarked Mrs. Rangle, who bad dropped iu with a fashion paper. | “And Jf we do," added Mrs, Jarr, “we have as much right to discuss politics as the men have—and we don’t need to go to corner cafes to do it We women have the vote, and ‘YD say right now that since we have {the vote there will be less politics | talked tu such places—because there | won't be any such places left!" | That's right!” grumbled Mr. Jarr. “Find ut where mea are comfortab: ‘and drive them out of such places. his the he jleave the sofa, “You can stay where you are; you needn't think we are going to disturb you,” -cmarked Mrs, Jarr, "Mrs. Rangle Just brought over that fashion | paper to show me a schoo! dress that ‘can be m@de inexpensively for our little Bama.” “Yes, the cutest patterns!" sald |Mrs, Rangle enthusiastically, "I'm | gomg to have one made for my litte | girl” — “Oh, that's one of the new bolero (suits, isn't it? usked Mra, Jarr, jcatcbing sight of the pictured resem- |blance of @ very silm young woman Jerght feet tall, | “Yes, but I don’t think {t ts as ‘smart a8 this military effect, with |the aviation hat to mateb, do you?” asked Mrs. Rangle. | “The three-piece suits are darlings!" By J. H. Cassel|| The Jarr Family MEST Women eT HD was a short, She is known name was nelth frst name was il she married enlisted in the the Revolution, her husband, | stalling herself as official water band was serving. This water-arrylng job was no | less woman must lug heavy jugs of rr battery. | pitcher shoe always carried) “Molly them, But Mol Continentals Fell Back, MINAS sans, thus firtr The hext year, in June, 1778, | haminering away at the enemy in tl battic of Monmouth, The thermome' | of wind was stirring. Men by the do F were suffering agonies of thirst. He: parched warriors or lifted the heads the water thelr fevered throats crave | Prosently the British gunners | was serving stood a little in advance Hayes dropped dead across the | | Place th | such a risk, The whole battery wav | Then tt was that Molly Pilcher the deserted gun. oidding them stick to thelr guns an tating. | A laughing shout of ic applause went When Molly Pitcher Led. ae Tho next d services, As a reward Washington H The war over, she went back to of marrying one George McCauley, jher and drank up most of her money a laundress and as nursematd. | Pensioned her, This was {n 2622, burted with military honors. | American woman, McCardell noring her friend's husband's moan. | “Yet if you have a hat that is ene! ~ tirely out of the common, you may | look like a freak,” replied Mrs. Jarr. | “Clara Mudaidge-Smith bad a black | horsehair lace hat, Henri Quatre ef- | fect, that she was assured was the only model imported. And when she} wore it out of the shop a mau foe lowed her for blocks,‘till sho lost bim| uniform, The last time I had seen in darting {nto a crowded store.” } him he had come to inake report on “What did sbe want to lose him the tungsten flelds in Alaska, almost for?” asked Mr. Jarg. “Doesn't that,within the Arctle Circle, Ho had dame wear freak styles to attract at- | spent more than twenty summers tp tention?” that distant territory, “Tt wasn't an admirer, if you please | “1 have come to say good by,” he Clara said," remarked Mra, Jarr, “He | sald. “My next address will bo Was no gentleman.” somewhere in France as a member “Ho, bo!” cried Mr, Jarr. “A pri-|of Gen. Pershlug’s staff." vate detective, what? Is her vid man| I naturally asked the kind of work getting suspicious?” that an Alaskan geologist would be Both ladies regarded him with | called upon to do with an army. scorn, Vor ladies may speak thelr] “My work,” be repiled, “is to be suspicions to husbands tn private, but|concerned with the location of they will never bear testimony against | trenches and dugouts, We must 4 woman friend in the presence of | have trenches into which the ralo female witnesses. will not drain, These slashes in the "A detective!” snapped Mrs. Jarr| arth can be made so that they will |indignantly. “How can you say such |40 thelr own draining, & thing of a friend of mine? Now,{™Ud. That is the trench curse which you know better than that!" | orings on trench feet and puts the “It was one of those man miliiners | S°ldler out of business,” trying to sketch the imported hat, Wasn't It?” asked Mrs. Rangle. “It may havo been the hat or it may have been her new gown, which Was also {mported," replied Mrs, Jarr. thank Heaven, the Germans ‘did not nor never will capture Paris, And ao long as Paris is Paris, we will get styles.” “I hear that Clara has changed her | figure,” remarked Mrs. Rangle. “With ‘tho new blouses the waist «8 more de- fined, From what 1 can seo they are sti slipping down, although some { say no,” “The new peplum biouses define the Wwalst more," sald Mrs. Jarr, “But the new sleeveless overblouse doesn't, do you think?” Mrs, Rangle inquired, Mr, Jarr groaned again and, arising, Secretary of 'T was not long after our entrance into the war that one of our de- partment geologists came into my office proudly dressed to an army drew the slope of a hill and explained how, if located in one place, because of the peculiar character of the earth, the trench would act as a cesspool or reservoir, gathering in all the waters of the neighboring terrain, but if placed elsewhere it would be im- mune from this disadvantage and through certain strata furnish a nat- ural wastepipe for tho superficial waters, So was the American soldier to be given a healthier place tn which to live and work and be more efficient. A short tline later came a group of topographers, chief of whom was an- other of Gen, Pershing’s staff, They too were ip full khaki! and bound for Europe, Theirs was to be the game of surveying, platting and most vividly and accurately present- | retreated in disorder from the listen. By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1018, ly the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), NO. 3—MOLLY PITCHER, Battle Heroine of the Revolution,. | When Molly was only twenty her husband's battery was ¢ | Clinton against an overwhelming British forco. | forward to # final attack the order was given to abandon the fort. | The artiilerists sulienly retreated, Hayes .amonst obeying orders, cannon and discharged {t Into the advance | Hayes's battery and to pound It into silence. ‘ presence of Gen. Washington, who publicly thanked har for her Also, two monuments were erected to her mem one in New Jersey—in an age when such bonors Mud, mud, | And then on a sheet of paper he| in War stocky, red-haired, freckled Irish gifl when she wade her first gallant bid for war-hero fame, to history as “Molly Pitcher.” Her er “Pitcher” nor “Molly,” though ber Mary. as She was born tn Carlisle, Pa, in 1756, daughter of Irish emigrants, She worked as a servant girl um John Hayes, a Carlisle barber, who patriot army at the very ouvbreak of Molly would not be left at home to darn socks and tend her baby son while Jobn Hayes was risklug his Ife for bis country. So she went to the front with There she made herself useful in a hundred ways, not only by cooking and washing and mending for the soldiers, but by ime ler for the battery in which ber hws sinecure, For it meant that the fenre water from the nearest spring to the | firing Ine throughout the flercest battles, Her pluck and cheery good fellowship made Molly the {dol of the The artillerymen nicknamed her (in honor of the big water Pitcher.” And the nume stuck, ending Fort Aw the redcoats swarmed ly, who never could seo the sense of sprang forward, sighted a loaded bs Brilsl ng the last shot of the batile. John Hayes's battery was merrily 10 most exposed position of the bloody ter Was 96 in the shade. Not a breath opzen were keellng over froin sunstroke, Molly was terribly busy with her huge water pitcher, for the soldiers edless of the British volleys, she tolleg along the firing line, panting and perspiring as she carried cool drinks 4 of the wounded s0 they could swalld' d, were ordered to centro thetr fire om ‘The gun thet Hayes himgel of the rest of the battery. And it was | the target for the redcouts’ deadliest fire, gut. Nobody volunteered to take hie . Death was the almost certain fate of any one who should incur ered under the galling British firw, threw down her water jug, wrenched the rammer from her dead huyband’s grasp and begaa to swab and reload As she worked she shouted furious commands to the rest of the battery, id berating them as cowards for hesl< Her example, rather than her angry words, stemmed tho tide of fear, up from the gunners. Led by Molly Pitcher, they set to work again loading and firing. The battery was saved. that loudly scolding and gulluntly battllog womam fought on unafraid, No man would retreat while ay Molly Pitcher was taken into the pleut gave Molly the rank of sergeant and placed her on the list @f half-pay officers for lite. Carlisie, where she inade the mlstuk® a Revolution veteran, who ill-treated + To carn more she weut to work ad | After she had endured years of this drudgery tho State of Pennsylvania A few months later ele died. She wag —one tn Pennsylvania e seldom granted to ad Science Plays Big Part, In U. 8: Var Pians.. By Franklin K. Lane ; the Interior. prsigel 2 makers were on thelr way to join 4 force for the remaking, possibly, oI the map of Europe. In studying a isap of southern ore deposits with relation to the placing of a nitrate plant, it became evident that pyrite was to be found In a stretch of the mountains running from Northern Georgia to Central Ale Fabama, And just when thiy wag found there caine into the office one ‘of the most forceful of southern | manufacturers, who entered with a statement that he was looking for @ Place “not under the spotlight, I'm | not a prima donna; just a man's job; | something somebody else would shy | at.” Why not find the pyrite ore your southern bills?” I asked, | “Never heard of the stuff, but if It's there and you say we need it for | the war I'll get it.” That was almost iiterally the cou+ | Versation that led to the opening of five mines uow yielding 400 tons m day, which it is promised before thr winter 13 over will be increased ‘ 1,000 tons a day; and 30,000 tons mouth {g more than fifteen good sh" could bring from Spat to our ov if kept in a continuous circle, When the Bureau of Mines wa created by Congress five years a bot was hardly to have been {ma that the methods used for the tted of Ife in coal mines of the (a,” States would become of vital ser the problem of saving lives 4jm: stroying lives in @ world wieni this is Just what has happenhor To meet the new method 4 by deadly gases, the weste sw promptly provided gas mie contained chemical absaste} other agents that wouhe ¢ the effects of the gases -— their enemies, These notinew to the world, 1 ime \ é ' \ treat them,” I have heard that boy of stxteen ‘not true” {8 {taelf a proverb on pro-\CFickets, of care-frea merrymakers, | cried Mrs. Jarr, “Especially that Lane |i) "000" ing to the eye the land over which| on by those who went)”. It Me the Suty of a guards, ff they | 4M over, bur under the draft age, | verbs, but when proverbs contradict the sllppery eel, of unreliable em- | vin model, And it's so praciical, tuo! | oe the new railroads would run, the| where polsonous gas¢ |), cannot report for duty to telephone | May be required at certa; mes dur. ! wre ta Museo ,| ployers. uit, the costume will do for the| hat 1 % or fires were) thelr despateher and inform him wo. | ing the weex to drill at the differs |, both be accurate? Even Solomon ployera, eww Saw san tak ft a eal SOME MONUMENT! siete cle rou y(t ose pond to exist, ‘pveT htt The answer will be: “Go down and | rmories throughout the city. 8 offered the choice of direct opposites: | This readiness to see resemblances stray 70 v off the coat] He tne greut pyramid of Cheops tn! plies and foun ons te the front and | pose ie “ bE hs Gb the bose (trainmaster).”” Going | the boys he aticneg ceogtty. “Answer a fool according to his folly, ¢Verywhere shows itself in proverbial | tt can be worn indoors ut any after. ] Vgypt were to bo built to-day ite/carry back the wounded, wore then Meine no easy mat-|I'4 suggest that. the Go leat he bo wise in his own concelt,” | Smiles und comparisons — the man | noon function, The bat to go with tt total cost would be uot less than| The Major who led this squad of| that it bad improve!’ | tee cg BOR Fe te amg reeks | mIEDE !ake Donseasion of the different | “Answer not a fool according to hiy| With a sluggish mind 14 “ay stupid as | is of lisere straw, very bigb La the | $150,990,000, according to experts who| scientific men had spent most of his| lish, Germap and £) | presen’ ons in New York which * u also be ike unto him.’?| 4 auk’; a cheerful companion is “as! crown and narrow as to brim, with} jey, t structure, | life upou the rivers and tp the moun-| the masks which ft MAD who acts as the boss's office boy, | train boys, weld them together into folly. lest thou a ke unto him. ul p | 4 f |'mvo etudied the vas! i He will ask you: “What's the|one organization and give them r One cynic regarding proverbs has|>@PPy 4% @ clam"; the headstrong | faring Wings of goura, | Cheops is 480 feet high—270 feet Jess| tains of the Far West, He and his| At auy rate wh at trouble?” You try to explain that | military training. | am a m mber » that | Youth “as wild as a buck’ f even gone mo far as to decia the dill: | Brat Ses ee Le. eeplaln tt "Ob, gourd gourd!’ moaned Mr./ than the top of the Woolworth Bulld-|men had been for years platting the| the war we found your m- urn one of the organisations and agree ‘pyer, f overt t went workman ia “as busy as a bee"; | Jarr, an , Imost thirteen|lands of the United States, showing| with the knowle: Possible for you to report. “Oh.” wh ‘ re p 1 agree “phere are forty proverbs about the| KeMt works y | |ing—and covers almost ti ‘el Mays, “if every one's wife was sick be | with Tite eho aers when he wear, und the forty are mere rub- the courageous soldicr is “as brave @#| “But don't you think that modeljucres, Upwant of 90,000,000 cuble/drainage and elevations, which the|and the men to |); wrouidn't have any trains running” | wen give wou the gnats bish concerning him." |fall oe Atuture ie "as grunt aaa greys | Will be copied extensively and bocome|feet of stone werv used in dullding|farmor calls “the lay of the land.*| need of gas lust After be bes called you down he YOUNG AMERICA. Is We slugular. wt ret elgbt, Bow bound,” ¥ anh gy ‘tov comuvut’’ aoke Me, Rangle, ige it, 4 __ }And these modest American wap-| aud of u guperl 9 { ' { L