The evening world. Newspaper, March 20, 1918, Page 20

She EVeHiy tori, PSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to es 7 BxcePt Butt) Park Row, New York. ssesnce RALPH PULIT it, President, 63 Park Row, ANitbs SHAW. ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row, EtG Jr, Becretary, 63 Park How, OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ‘entitled to the vine for romnblication of al) newp Aeanatehne e tiie paper ond lee the local ewe pulligbed bersins VOLUME 38.... + NO, 20,665 NOT TOO FINE FOR TRENCHES. | SECTOR of French trenches reproduced in the Central Park A sleep pasture must seem to most New Yorkers au exhibition of deep and stirring interest placed exactly where patriotism, public &pirit-and common sense would naturally combine to place it: 1; is notea question of a Louis XV, summer house or a Chinese | pagoda, It is a question of the gravest reality in the world to-day, the supreme thing upon which American minds and hearts are fixed and for which American lives are being sacrificed, Could there be any lesser meaning in those grim, serrated, inter- connecting ditches, certain to carry the thoughts of all who see them to the boys who are fighting in just such ditches cut into the soil of France? It is outrazeous to eay an exhibition of euch deep and poignan’| significgnce to any Arnerican community would bo better relegated to tonfh empty lot or squeezed into « building site in some odd corner of the city. Since it has been found possible to bring over the materials for a faithful reproduction of war trenches to stimulate American imag- ination in the interest of the Third Liberty Loan, the place for those trenches is in New York’s most central, beat loved, most frequented park. To say that park is too fine for them is to cast a elur upon the men who are offering up their lives in similar trenches, and in whose aypport the Third Liberty Loan will be subscribed. The trenches wil! do no harm. They will take up no permanent portion of park area, They will leave no trace that spade and sod will not speedily cover. Central Park, moreover, is big enough to furnish epace in one of its meadows for war trenches without crowding a single New Yorker out of his park privileges and pleasures. From the Times one would infer that there was hardly room to turn round in the great playgroun? and that even an extra tool house deprived scores of persons of their proper recreation space. Surely one can defend the sanctity of Central Park sod without becoming so obsessed with the responsibility to raise a din of defense even when there is no real attack. Only a lamentably narrowed view of what constitutes actual menace to the park could have made such a pother over the eminently fitting proposal to dig war trenches in the North Meadow for a Third Liberty T.oan campaign. Finicky protests and objections voiced in this city echo badly in those distant trenches overseas, +——___—___ The German war chiefs are reported to have sent out in- vitations to neutral correspondents to be present at the open- ing of the great German offensive on the western front. Maybe so much publicity means Germany 1s anxtous to have the Allies deduce that no drive would be pulled off where so much advertised, leaving the prospects better for a sudden blow exactly there. Students of deeper detekativism will catch the idea in a jiffy. — THE BEST OF ITS KIND. “WAT with this week’s round-up of Counts, Barons and} Vv. “Beautiful Turks” and the seizure of more suspicions documents and code messages, the public hereabouts is more than ever impressed by the amount of high-class, Continenta! spy-work that appears to have been lavished on plain, straightforward America, Among the latest arrests figured brilliant and comely ladies whose expense accounts alone are reckoned at $1,000 per month and whose suspected activities in the service of the Nation’s enemies never took them far from the most expensive hotels and the most luxurious surronn dings. When the history of the war is written this country can furnish ite own chapter on Fpies and eecret agents. Americans—without envy—have always regarded certain types of these mysterious, highly paid and often fascinating persons as peculiarly the property of Europe. All such exclusiveness is at an end. The United is now forced to watch for and grapple with as polished and silken specimens of the secret agent as ever served an older statecraft, + The price of milk 1s coming down a peg next month. But nobody 1s sure yet—even after the coldest winter on record what will be the warm weather cost of the fce to keep the milk on Letters From the People Please limit communications to 150 worde. Approves Plan to Commandeer the )Jr.," asking “Does not a person whol Idle. buys a Laberty Bond lend to his coun- To the Piitor of The Frer ‘w ny eat try, a8 @ mother lends ber son?" Can J read with interns your eMMtorial ne ‘bo wertous with uch a eueetyny “No Shut Downs: Commandeer the! 1, tp Idle” 1 certain if all the Staten |—? tbe Aret piece, @ person who buys ed cana 6 ating act as New |° averty Bond makes an investment ‘ ed . return of hi closing the so-called non-essential in- is money with interest Can they guarentee to return our gee heen in nearly an the prin- | rere mee Who. are kolng over there? aT eities of this country, and from AN OFFICER'S WIPE, general « jon I think if all the|Meminée Mayor of te Btates Would Hans MUCH AN ACE LE la i, rinoe Anant Btreets, farmers would have plenty of help.| “ype 7 3 In Chicago alone there is enough tdle man-power to turn the whole State of Ulinois into a thriving garden, There are enough idle men loafing about the Union Station to work a half dozen farms. We are no exception, as train- | 00 iat ehcrmantna eileen loads might be sont to the wheat|us and how long it will take tovacc|the picture. The boat has rowlocks fields from this city alone. oUuL™M,. More About Lending Money, and Giy-|Highth Avenue, ing Soni ‘De the Editor of The Evening World In answer to a letter signed “G. F, 40th = Street Avenue and 18th Strei Promine | Pout keeping promises that he made in bis pushing away floes of ico campalgn for Mayor when he said toric fact ia, with hardly # doubt, that that the condition of the streets of Washington sat down in that boat on New York was an outrage. Now, Mr,|the early moruing after Christmas | Hylan, that you are in power let us Day of 1176. Ballors have found other faults with Curiosities of By Philip T may bo asserted against little opposition that the most widely known figure painting In the United States is “Washington Cross- ing the Delaware.” The original bangs in the Metro- Politan Museum of Art. It was painted in 1851-1862, The artist was Emanuel Leutze, who was born ‘at Wurttemberg, Germany, tn 1816, and as a boy came with his father to Fredericksburg, Va. The .on went back to Germany to study art and mac? his home at Dusseldorf on the Rhine for twenty years, He visited America in 1851 and planned @ 1 .n- ber of paintings depicting avents tn Amercan history. The best of these shington Crossing tho Dela- Samuel Isham, io “The His- tory of American Paintin, eritl. cisea the work from the artistic view- point. He write “Tt is a good picture of ita kind, well drawn, well composed, with the details of the scene realized by the imagination until it carries convic- tion of its reallty. Above all, sentiment of the subject ts there ren- dered in such @ way As to be under- stood by all, It has taught succea- xive generations of school children, ‘as text books could not, the high for- titude and faith of Washington amid discouragementa and dangers, There }{s something German rather than American in tho faces, showing where the models were obtained; just as the | {ce-filled river was painted not from | the Delaware but from the Rhine.” Despite the picture's popularity men lof the United States Navy have as \werted that it te absurd to the prac. \tieal eye of @ sailor, First of all, |they say, the artist has violated one lof the oldest rulea m tho code of sea~ | manship: Never stand up tn an open | under way." Artist Leutze | painted Washington standing up tn that Doat, and tho boat is assurediy n is somewhat slack tn’ rocking, for three men are vikorously The his- on it, Take @ took at Broadway and and four oars. Three mon have cary side stroeta, an well as 13th Street and | in hand, but two of them are pushing and away the Ice and only one Is “pull Broadway, lth Street and Bighth !ng.” although the boat ts heavily 5 mich HAUFFEUR, power to wet the Commander tn Chisf bined loaded with twelve men not Critics Say Washington Never Crossed the Delaware in Manner Shown by Famous Picture Copyright, 10918, by the Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), the | Consett 191 o Brews 1 U.S. History| The Jar By ‘Roy LU. se HO'S the letter from?” W asked Mra, Jarr, as Mr. : Jarr opened the one let- ter that came in the morning mail for him, “Hem!” said Mr. Jarr. “It's from— why, yes—it's from Mr, Dinkston.’ Where is he, somewhere in France?" Mrs. Jarr inquired, “Has he a commission? Did he enlist? Was he drafted? Is he in the Army or the Navy” | “No,” replied Mr, Jarr, interrupting | the flow of interrogations, “Dinkston’s R. Dillon Across the Miver. Obviously the boat has little If any steerage way, 90 why should the coxswain so strenuously hold the rudder with both hands? So say the saflors, However, the sailors are comparatively few, and thelr crttl- cism has not affected a hundred mill- fon Americans who have been tbrilled by the picture. “Battle of Lake Erle” 1s another famous painting that has been critt- im fail.” cised by naval men, and here they are J critics by right, “sticking to their) “It’s the place f last," as did the shoemaker art critic Mrs. Jarr coldly of Athens, This painting exe- | use for that man, cuted by W. H. Powell upon the order mitted?” of Congress. It was commenced in| “Alimony, I believe," Mr. Jarr re- 1871 and finished in 1873. As most plied, “But he writes that we must schoolboys have been told, the picture | not mention it, especially if we call visualizes that dramatic moment wren to see him at tho Jail Oliver Hazard Perry left the wrecked — “well, I am glad he Is ashamed of lawrence to go to the uninjured Ni-| what he has done, not supporting his agara, and thereby won bis victory.| wife by paying “her the allowance Here 1s no lack of nautical reallsm.|tne court decrees, And he should bx ‘The oarsmen in the cutter or gig are | aynamed of It! ‘giving way together” with swing and) 4 gink you misunderstand him,” power, There 4s considerable wind, 43) narked Mr. Jarr. “I gather from shown by the flags and pennants und) 4. jeter that Dinkston In supposed a choppy sea. It is all true, except the a spy, a burglar or a murderer, figure of Perry standing up in that | ane others i the jail can't jun: ex- open boat! Every sailor knows that! Jy make out what he ts, as the Perry would not have done it, Stand-| 8°08 Oana Keepers like Dink and ing thus he was Hable to be toppled | ¥&" Mts TecHiy aaaFatlions overboard. Benides, why should he | ¥°°P stand up to be @ special target for the| “Why, do you mean to tell me that British riflemen on ,the British yardy| man ts proud of being In jail, but only bis fe jailbirds him,” remarked never had any What has he com- How and tops? ashamed of a | knowing it is for contempt of court in non-payment of alimony? Shortest Names “something like that," said Mr Jy JAVED you been to ? Perhaps) Jerr “In fact Dink writes that tn iH you have. It ie the name of|wiuential or yous, element bellev: & town iu Sweden. There arc| he is & Doted safe blower. It gives at east seven Kuropean rivers called | him standing next to being a popular Aa, murderer, he writes liut the hig It not, possibly you have been to| class burslare are not a bad sort Of This is a@ plain, common sense | either, he says They are courteous question, which any one familiar with | all Who have @ long cr inal ree the highways and byways of Nor-| ord, and even to bexinners, where it mandy would tmmediately under-|'s pot some petty offense--such ax stand, For in Normandy, twenty | sneak thieving “{ hope he stays in jail, a man can talk, or rather write, like t remarked Mrs. Jarr grimly: needn't write to you to beg you t sip bim out, J won't tet you." miles from Argenton, there is a vil- | lage of the name of O, where th local magnate is the Marquis d’O, Nor ts he the only gentleman of this name. Both in Brussels and in |p Paris this surname, the shortest in| “Oh, he doesn't want ty get out the world, ts to be found. said Mr, Jarry, “In f says ‘There are several one-letter places | wag never so comfurta His cel in the world's geography. In. the and light and airy, he Zuyder Zev there is w bay culled 1, |! aie doesn't think Abe reeysehy and there is a town called ¥ in China, | @"% v China has also a city called U, in cho {exist in ® hall bedroom again, ‘The Province of Honan. Jtood, he says, Is scient pared and Js @ balur lably selected for th habits; the company that ) Js the short. | surname in the w lest of sedentary shortest Christian and su name con is probably Eda Ek. - Copyright, 1018, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Kvening World), | “H is select, but} By Helen Coprrtedt. 19 A whole hour AHEAD! Do you know Tt means that hour sooner It does not! It means that tee” —a ow from the office night” and say, “What? Only 11? Oh, well, the happens to be doing at the moment? And does it mean that when the He will spring from his couch Ii And rush through his shave and his newspaper, Or does {t mean that he will turn Just as he has ALWAYS done? Ah, me! Does it mean that he will come Saturday afternoons? Or that he will still continue to It does! Does {t mean that when he prom He will be there ON TIME, But it means EVERYTHING to waiting” All her life! | For “time and tide wait for no Waiting for him to call, waiting | perately Along with the clocks? And if they CAN! | honor,” on a throne— But I have never yet known one ON TIME! Amen! hat Every Woman Hopes him to propose to her, walting for him to marry h And forever afterward waiting for him to come home nights, or to get up mornings, or to get rich, or to reform, or to die—or something! | And that’s why every woman holds her breath and WONDERS des- Rowland by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), N March 31st O They are going to set all the clocks in the country what that means? if you're in love You'll see HIM a whole hour sooner! . But does it mean that he'll go HOMH @ whole And allow you to get your beauty sleep”? if you're married the sla wm will go off in the morning at 7 instead of at 8 But DOPS—oh, does—it mean that He'll be home At 6 instead of at 7? And that He'll be back from the club at 10 instead of at 117 (Every woman holds her breath—and listens for the answer!) Or does it mean that he will merely glance up at the clock at “mid night's young yet!” And go right on playing cards, or reading his book, or arguing about the war, or “sitting up with a sick friend,” Or flirting or dancing or supping or wining—or whatever else he jarm goes off in the morning e the young gazelle his shower and his poached egg and And get out of the house—and out of the WAY? over and groan And fall sweetly back to sleep again, breezing in in time for luncheon on sidle in at any hour from 2 to 7 redolent of cloves and “inspiration”? ses to meet you, In order to go shopping or to take you to a matinee or a pink tea Or that he will be there twenty minutes late, as usual? Dear Lady, YOU know the answer! Ms And perhaps all this may not mean anything to you, ~ the women who's been a “lady-in- man,” But every woman “tied or untied” HAS to wait For any man who chooses to keep her walting! for him to fall tn love, waiting for If the Government and Uncle Sam and President Wilson Will be able to get ANY man’s mind a whole hour ahead of time Oh, won't it be grand and glorious! | For a man may be “on the level” on the Stock Exchange, “on his of them to be r Family McCardell not aloof, and one, he writes, who has | the good fortune to be in jail leads} a shejtered life. No need to worry) about the coal shortage or the Ligh cost of Hving. It is, in fact, the true | Aid Serbs Pe (ei ll eay Stata trom) P MEANT have been the achieve- the bitter struggle for existence one aes of military engineers in meets out in the world under the @ present war, particularly those of the Italian Army, but for sheer audacity none surpasses the feat of a remnant of the Serbian forces, making a last stand in a wild section of their native mountains, The story was told by an “Ameri- “Let him say what he will, and tet | kansky,” a Serb who had given up a him tall all the silly gibberish he| Prosperous business in Montana to wishes, but he 1s in jail, and that's | answer the call to arms, writes Lewis one good thing about it, for a lot of |R. Freeman in Popular Mechanics, reasons!” ' | The “Amerikansky,” now an officer, “Why, yes," replied Mr. Jarr, “he | was one of a band of several hun- agrees with you fn that. He says he| dred which had made its way up a wishes he had known of a nice quiet | steep, rugged valley. Attacks fail- jail like this long ago. His morals | ing, two Austrian regiments encamped are guarded"— at the mouth of the valley to hem the Mrs, Jarr sniffed in bigh disdain, defenders in, Just above their post- “His morals are guarded, he | tion a dam had been built across the vrites," Mr, Jarr went on, “because | ravine to store water for Irrigation, there are no cabarets with their ex- | It was known to be defective. itements and Incitements to animal-| Huddled about the fires in their ism with sinister dancing and jazz |winter quarters, the Serbs conceived music, There is no liquor, or late| the {dea of building a second dam far hours tn jail, he says. One is not an-| up in the mountains to accufnulate a noyed with the irritations of @ crue! | great quantity of water. This would ec.uomie condition that bears so hard |be released when the spring freshets on the or classes, No bill col- | came, in the hope that it would sweep rs are allowed to annoy those in jail, says Dinkston.” “It's too bad about him!" sneered Mrs, Jarr, “He should have been tn Jail long ago, if he likes it so much.” "Yes, he suggests that be may evolve a jail course "by correspond- capitalistic system, ‘Then, too, he says, one ts not annoyed, even the most elass conscious, by the smug Jominance of the bourgeolste.” “The man writes the same nonsense ho talks!” snapped Mrs. Jarr. 1m the enemy. With no tools save a few axes, shovels and picks, and but a little dynamite, they set about the task of bullding a crib of logs across the channel, Some were put in position, but the bed of the stream was too wh ence when he comes out. One can \ave @ private jail at home, under {shallow and rocky to float the more his proposed plan, and thus get ail [distant trunks Into place, The water {8 benefits without the expense of |could not be raised because it flowed solng to court and hiring 4 lawye through the ere 8 between the logs omurked Mr, Jarr " ‘s what Jalready in position. ‘ liGinkaton:serites ine wbout Having worked in mines tn this ountry, the “Amerikansky” diverted "tell bis wife he likes it in jail , cascade against the face of a cliff Nofix hint" says Mrs. Jurr, Um afraid not," replied Mr, Jarr Dinkston writes that every time bis}cracks. The only result was liquid | wite calls to see him be sends out} mud, which flowed downst Then | word he’s not in.” camo a torrential rain, and the swol- Newest Things in Science urved, double ended knitting needle | As early as the sixteenth century |has been invented Ui was producing sugar commer- | ally | Par wet | . For heating smatl rooms a gus radi- ator resembilug the usual hot air radiator bas been invented. Pia | Storm curtains have n designed of motor- |for protecting occupants . yele side care, With a view to making Jagon self ® bd supporting in wool production, the | To enable a knitter to keep her) Government is ning to raise pI ais at her sides and also to better| 7,900,000 head of sheep within the Jar ribute the weight of her work, al next twenty years, away the defective barrier and over-| to sluice down earth to fill up these! Brilliant Engineering Feats and Italians ten current swept all their work away, The gallant band was in despair when there came a tremendous roar; the cascade had undermined the clit and it had fallen, completely blocking @ stream. Soon i atten & great Inke filled Again the “Amerikansky" hy inspiration, The nozzle of his aie was turned upon the mass of debris, through which It quickly cut away and the accumulated water wont roaring down the valley. The second dam collapsed and the enemy was wiped out. The Austrian papers ed. mitted that a regiment had perished through “an act of God,” with which the Serbs agreed, for they believe the hand of Providence guided their work, pan During the recent retret, the Ttallan army halted with its back to jthe Plave River in a desperite at. |tempt to check the advance « the | Teutonlo hordes, if only for » day, writes E. T. Bronadon in Pomist Sclence Monthly, Mertelli, an Itaan |engineer, sought his commander, Yho ordered eight miles of the secod. line trench evacuated. The bottomot |this was lined with all avatiaje pieces of metal, dug-out armor, a carded machine guns and even ca. non, to which were attached cable leading from electric power plant across the river, | Early next | the German shoot |troops advanced, overwhelined the first ne and swept on to the second Into the trench plunged wave after |wave of the gray-coated fighters, ney Never rose aguin. Before thety commanders realized what had b dat had bay pened ¥,000 men were dead. Not less thrilling 1s the story tota in the same magazine of the bridging by the Itallans of @ treacheruus stream at the bottom of an Alpine gorge, which lay between them and the Austrians, Powortul searchlights along the Ttallan side and on the night selected a blinding flood of light was thrown upon the leaving the opposite position rkness. Down a forty-foot bank the pontoons were akidded, many to be swept away, but when dawn caine. though the Austrians had kept up a random bombardment, the Italta: had crossed and the foo retreated in disorder, were erected my