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{ sro as ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Dally Except Sunday, by the Press Fuplonine Company, Nos, 63 to, ‘ark Row, RALPH PUL DR, President, 68 J. ANGUS © é Treasurer, 63 JOSEPH PUL dt ry. 63 Park Row, fate MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED Pheas, ' t ly entitied C for ibtieat! of news 4 tet OE ae Ra I RM EPR Ka VOLUME 58...... iver .NO. 20,666 | WISCONSIN. | ILL the narrow margin of loyalty revealed in its primarics be a shock to the commonwealth of Wisconsin? Will patriotic voters in that State now rally to the defense of its honor by casting their ballots for the All-American Democratic candidate for United States Senator, thereby administer: | ing the more convince to forces anti-American and anti-! Administration | ng defeat The La Follette man quietingly large. but won. The Socialist vote was dis: Between now and the date of the special election April 2, 100 per cent. Ameticans in Wisconsin ought to do some sober, non-partisan thinking if they want their State to stand safely and) ‘clearly on the loyal side of the line. | The German element and the partisan element have pretty nearly, put Wisconsin beyond the pale of sound Americanism. | It would be a tragic thing if this State were to fall so low as to, become in American affairs little more than an explanation of the presence of a La Follette in the United States Senate | | —___—_—»4e— NEARING PETROGRAD. ESPATCHES indicate that German forces have reached a point, only 150 miles south of Petrograd and that the occupation of | the city is a question of hours. | No more fine talk of Russian resistance! ' On the contrary, great disquietude lest Teutonic armics close inj on Moscow, and it is suggested that the so-called Russian Govern- ment had better be put aboard a train for Saratoff or Nizhni-| Novgorod. In the meantime the Patriarch of the Russian Church at Petro- grad has issued a proclamation declaring to. the orthodox population that the Church cannot regard as binding a peace which dismembers the country and places it under the domination of a conquering for-| eign power. Tt will be seen the Patriarch is one of the few authorities in Russia still capable of facing things and calling them by their right! names. There might have been a patriotic hope ine the Russian, Church if the Bolsheviki had not outgrown religion. | When German Gencrals have taken up their quarters in Petrograd and Moscow as well as Odessa, it may dawn more forcibly upon the) Allies that the Germany they are now fighting is in fact a conquering | power. It may appear more clearly that the western war front has become, from the German point of view, a protective line to be held— with occasional experimental alarums and excursions—while the ex- tension and consolidation of German conquest in the east goes se- curely forward. | There is no more iron ring around the Central Powers. There} is an entirely new phase of the conflict—one certain tc have its special | name and volume in the histories. | The war has become—the Allies might as well admit it—a more determined, fiercer war against a winner, whose gains must be offset | by the infliction of still heavier and more positive losses. From the Allies’ side it cannot be a war of slow pressure, count- ing in part upon the progress of economic attrition or political revolt in Germany or Austria-Hungary. | The enemy is now in a state where only aggression on a big scale can stop his recovery and spoil his plans, where only repeated and costly blows can strike him low. That is why the tramp of German troops in Petrograd should be the signa) for a smashing thrust through the German lines in France. | THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS WAR FUND. ATHOLICS of this city are to be congratulated on the pace at | which they have started off to raise their $2,500,000 quota toward the $15,000,000 the Knights of Columbus are after for overseas and training camp work In two days’ time the New York Catholic War Fund “drove” close to $1,500,000 worth, The teams are among the liveliest of any yet organized for col- lecting war relief money in Greater New York. ‘They have fine results to show, not only from the financial districts, but from the 297 parishes of the archdiocese, several of which have yielded twice and three times the amounts allotted them. . ; The money the Knights of Columbus collect is spent on service which is free to every man who wears Uy what his creed New York Catholics are pro war aid. le Sam's uniform, no matter ng themselves star campaigners for They are out to roll up that $2,500,000 in record time and they deserve the kind of help that means a spirited finish, Letters From the People Please limit communications to 150 words. The Alien tm Our Midst, ‘To the Editor of The Evening Wor! I read your editorial boys, and there are no doubt hun dreds more of the same wort, who a Beginning of | wish to he able to get uway from the & New War,” and was very much im- | responsibillty of backing up our coun. pressed, I personally know of @| try, but are permitted to enjoy ite young man of Swedish birth who has! prosperity BSeu | been in this country ten years and Paths dan ike Ohl has never become a citizen In his ay ine paiicret tue Rreainy Word, own country he was poor, .ut has thrilled and mage happy become very prosperous here. He re-| when I read the news in your pee marked tho other day, in discussing jow the gallant 69th is living up to the recent treaty between Great Brit- it reputation. 1 was especially de ain and this country, wherein they! tighted that among the seven men have 1 to conacripting subjects, cited by the French Commander for that if he should be conscripted he tie Croix de Guerie, Int ognition of would appeal to the Swedish Consul. | their bravery under fire, appehra the He has often remarked that he would name of Abraham Blaustein, Tt cor- never go back to his own cotiatry, 48 tainly {s interesting to hear that a he could not tolerate the life the 1) Jewish boy was decorated for bravery was feel that this is unjust to American in an Irish regiment, AR Trouble isn't like opportunity; {!t| the reformed crook, “a man must Aoeen't stop to knock; it walks right| have nerves of tron.” “And a con- in-~Albany Journal, stitution of steal, | suppose sug P86 gested § the sympathetic friend “We be o successful bunglar,” said Philadelphia Recgrd, EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, March 21 Setting the Clock BACK! «2th. By J. H. Cassel ¥ By Roy L. Copyright, be be out a little late this eve- Respect Cripples By Sophie Irene Loeb Coppright, 1018, Ly the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). FEW days ago I wrote an ar- | to have the child understand the suf- ticle, “Do You Stare at Crip- | fering It causes by staring and it ples?” Many letters have come | should be urged to respect unfortu- from deformed | nate humans. Especially must a sym- persons —- letters | pathetic strain be encouraged tn case that would wring | of junior cripples, How much more the heart of a] they must endure when stared at by stoic over the suf- | children of their own years who are fering caused by] well and strong. To the child the the stare of curi-| longing to be like others Js more 4 only keen than In the grownup, and every One of the let- | effort must needs be put forth to ters reads as fol- | help them bear their burdens, lows: "L hope the | As another cripple, who Is bent with article did a great) rheumatism, writes: “L am growing: that the offenders | older, I can bear U: eumatisin, 1 It does ning, my dear,” remarked Mr. Jarr. “You know Rangle and 1 are Four-Minute Men"—— “I know you are four-hour men,” Mrs. Jarr interrupted to retort. “You and he go out at 8 o'clock In the eve- ning and never get home till after midnight"— “Now, have some said Mr, Jarr, ve plenty of patriotism, but 1 have very little credulity,” was the reply. “And I must say I have my doubts about this Four- Minute busi- between you and that man 1 don't belleve itt” your pardon,” remarked Mr hat did patriotism, my ness Rangle. v Jarr in an injured tone, }you say?” Palins Apr vedivons deal of good tn read it and took it to heart can bear the inconvenience it brings | sald 1 didn't belleve it,” Mrs. seem so hard and sometimes useless | put 1 just can't stand being stared ats| sary repeated to try to educate people on this point. | It's the hardest cross 1 have to Bear, ASA Ti AKaihc aay iti: traellaald Jt is simply a ‘heart’ matter, and still) Before L was a pip myself Tale) yee jarr firmly. It is an athletic I believe a great deal of ou Ways managed to be ‘looking thet ionegit, and Mr ngle and myself, staring ts thoughtlessne or way" if T passed a poor, deformed]. your-Minute Men, must be “While I am not exactly of man or woman, and L cannot under= | ore cones cripple class, still I too have suffei atand the rudeness and cruelty of |" '.tig very odd to me that you and unbearably at times in 5, &c., | pergon who deliberately stares at de-} oat man RS eonrEntall we of @ peculiar facial birth | formity.” of a sudde remarked Mrs, Jarr ts the thing to teach to to divert theig attention And that | the children bec mark, and my attempts in trying to “L's very odd to me." draw attention away from myself sverything is odd to you,” replted | have been almost identical to those | when a cripple passes. The best WAY] 4s. “Sarr, “Yet when you have to of the case you deseribe « to tell all the reasons to the child. | oo (o Rod Cross aftairs and when “L always heave a algh of reiiet on | Children are very syimpathellc If\ you have to be present at benefits, getting out of a car with a focing, | mothers would make the little ones] 1 over gay a word." ‘Well, that's over again,’ 1 suppose |tealize how unfortur thowe | “Well, I'd be very sorry to misjudge one of the hardest th: is to put| Who have @ deformity and cannot) voy of course,” remarked Mrs, Jari one’s self in the other fellow's place, | hide It, and how badly they peti relenting somewhat. "And I am sure I think ft should be part of a child's | being made the object of curiosity. | anxious for you to do everything school training, otherwise so much |the child would soon understand “to] ii, your power to help win the needless pain is caused just because | iook the other way he | war. If you are Interested in tho people don't know how much it| And if everybody would tre the | Catholic 500,000 drive I'm glad of Santa! [cripples as a matter of cx fen’ fit, But L can't see where that man ripples would regacd their mistor- H HH be of This sufferer makes a very good | °!'P) ty 1, |Rangle fits in. ow can 3 of suggestion—bexin with the children, |tunce as lese of @ curse, The plea | ny value as a Four-Minute Man? It would certainly be worth while to |of the unfortunate ym mentioned | 10¥ ite that it 1. id $9,600,000 to \ should be heard—begin with the ehil- t 1'd hesitat tart such @ propaganda in the public | * | ive to any war fund I'd hesitate, at Aehaole, Thelehiid, of a natural thin, | CS ee . an wympathizes with little deformiti Leather From Fish and Frogs and wants to help such rtunate Ahad ; scomes necustomed to a! + Sturgeon skin affords a handsome pee Tt be med t0 1. the hunt for new sources off Re Hea CARN HET crippled schoolmate and doves not pay Heanor eee eure tarn-/ornamental leather, und the hi more attention to it than others, But See eitacn ae Ined | the armored. garfish uch valued when the children leave their particu ibe Wp. dt has been asoerte in Burope, being covered with horny : a thas the skink of frogs and toads cM) yiates that can be polished ty an lar precinets and are con(ronted with : ' be tanned and turned to account oF] ivory-like finish. an unfamiliar kind of cripple they tan ATA APPR ee eA Dae ae acae © prone to stare without any ree SArO-cases 8 clous little creature that often attacks nlehard wrongdoing. The Government Fisheries Bureau) persone who venture in wading alone ‘An effort should therefore be made | S#y8 that the skin of the codfish fut | the rocky seashore of New England RAR bade | Vishes an excellent leather, tough as! ja now being Useu tor card-cases and peney parchment and very durable, ‘The| shopping-bags ( i AUTOMATIC WHISTLES NOW. fame is true of aalmon skin, which| The green leather called “shagreen, i remarkable for wearlng quality the Indians along the Yukon River, in Alaska, have long utillz For blowing whistles ringing bells at set times there has beon in- vented an glectrical device that inaxes contacts by the use of a punched paper ribbon, casily replaced when « echedule is to be changed, and imperviousness to water, Is made for clothing. | {rom the hide of the “angel shark" of & ‘the Mediterranean n Europe) '"Tn Tartary dried and oiled fish-skins gor ding b and In Egypt shoe-| serve a8 A substitute for glass in soles are made from the skins of cer-! windows, being sufficiently translu jean {ishep caught in the Red Bem céat for (be purpose, Sel-akins are emp res, 1018, by the Press Pubiisbing Co, Why Children Should) The Jarr Family | McCardell (The New York Evening World) east, if that man Rangle came and asked me for it!" Now that's most unkind,” id Mr. Jarr reproachfully. {am s..0 Mrs. Rangle doesn’t .veak + way about me “How could she?” asked Mrs “I hope she doesn’t think you ar kind of a man HDR husband Is.” Tt may be stated at this point that Mrs, Jarr's hope in this matter was Justified, Mrs, Rangle did NOT think Mr, Rangle was the kind of a man ber husband was, Tarr, the Jarr,"" and continually protested that he was not a fit associate for her paragon of husbands. As for Mrs. Jurr, Mrs, Rangle felt sorry for her E nice a woman," said tangle repeated'y, “to be married to HIM! Well, I suppose i. can't be helped if the committee arranged for you & around with that man Rang Mrs, Jarr went on, after a pause. | But you can give the committee a bint, orel will, the next time” ‘Oh, Rangle isn't 80 bad," remarked dare carelessly, “No, 1 won't my dress suit, ‘This is an ath- nefit, purely informal affai f “Then wear your dtess cuit,” Mrs, advised, "“L know that man e won't wear his, and you will he advantage of him,” But Mr. J. evidently did not want to have the advantage of that man Rangle; in fact, aside from a clean collar, he made no sartorial mp. vements on his appearance be- going out for a strenuous eve- ning's work as a Four-Minute Man, “Well, good by," said Mr. Jarr, when he had his hat and overcoat, Don't be so suspicious next time, If Rangle calls me up tell him Tl meet him on tho corner," “You'll find him AT the corne: plied Mrs, Jarr acidly, meaning Mr, ingle would be waiting in Gus'a cafe at that point. But Mrs, Jarr was mistaken, Mr, Nangle called up on the telephone, Tell Mr. Jarre not to hurry, as the preliminary bouts are but I'll be there in thr 1 lemons, for the star bout.” sald Mr, Rangle over the tele- phone. “But tell him not to let any f those grafting hicks that get In an admission take my seat, for and speak as a I've got to go out Four-Minute Man.” Oh!" gasped Mrs. Jarr, “I don't believe either of them! But wait till Mr, Jarr gets home! Vit give bim something more than @ four-minute She alluded | to Mr. Rangle's friend as “that man | Mrs. | v7 Women in War By Albert Payson Terhune. Covyrlght, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), 7 77) 1 No. 4.—CLARA BARTON, Mother of the American Red Cross HE is best remembered as the “Mother of the Amemi- can Red Cro: But long before she triumphantly planted the Red Cross banner on our shores she had already won our country's deathless gratitude. Clara Barton was the American Florence Nightin- gale. The noble exploits wrought by Miss Nightin- gale in the Crimea were duplicated by Miss Barton in our own Civil War. She was a delicate little woman who had wrecked her frall health by school teaching and by responsibilities that no one woman could carry, Yet, when the Civil War began she threw herself, heart and soul, into the task of nursing the wounded and bettering the condition of camp hospitals. She | . Morr was at the front, tolling fearlessly amid shot and shell, br at no less than sixteen of the conflict's flercest batties. | When the Civil War ended Miss Barton found wotk to do which was still more needful, There was a tremendols throng of Unton soldlert listed as “missing.” More than 80,000 names were on this grim list— names of men whose friends could gain no definile news of them, | Miss Barton founded an Inquiry bureau. All her own scant funds and More scant health and unfailing energy were enlisted in the task of finding o » Some trace of the horde ofanissing men, For four long years she toiled at this task, investigutin Four Years Spent } the records of hospitals, war prisons and, bate at Hard Task. tleflelds Then her feeble health broke down | orm? completely, Sho was ordered to Europe for a |rest. Her blazing spirit could not obey the weak body's demand for repose, And. on this trip to Europe she planned out the work that has made her name immortal, The Franco-Prussian War was on. Miss Barton enrolled herself as a nurse and as a general helper for the unfortunate. And here she came Into Active contact for the first time with the Red Cross. |. At the Treaty of Geneva nearly every nation on earth had subscribed its name as a supporter of the new-formed Red Cross Society for the ald of war's sick and wounded and afflicted. But for some reason the United | States had held aloof and had not signed the Treaty of Geneva, It was the Jonly nation of any size that had not joined the Red Cross, Miss Barton saw the wonderful work the new charity was performing on foreign fields and in foreign hospitals. She wrote late “I sald to myself: ‘If I live to return to my country I shall try to make my people understand the Red Cross and the Treaty of ‘Geneva.’” She kept her word, which was a way she had of doing. Back to Amer- fea she came, to find herself facing a stone wall of opposition when she | tried to interest our Government in the Red Cross. “Why should we make provision for the wounded? one official sneer- ingly asked her, in answer to her plea. “The United States will never have another war. We have learned our lesson! Yet, tirelessly, Miss Barton kept on. By sheer energy and genius she gradually won people over to her way of thinking. And—thanks entirely to |her own mighty efforts—the United States (on March 1, 1882) signed the | Treaty of Gene The American National Red Cross was founded with Clara Barton as its first President. Not yet satisfied, Miss Barton continued her labors until the International Congress of Berne U. 8. Red Cross n Amendment," which en- larged the activities of the Red Cross so that it was no longer contined merely to war relief. By Miss Barton's new plan its splendid help was ‘extended to cover such great peace-time calamities as famine. pestilence and flood, - | Millions of people had cause to bless "The Mother of the American Red | or “Our Lady of the Red Cross,” as Miss Burton was gratefully known, She lived to see her glorious charity grow into one of the might- jest and holiest forces in all national lif First Formed, | earn? { adopted the “Americ world has abun- [Bachelor Girl Rstlections By Helen Rowland 1918, by the Prose Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Worl ‘ the love game most women have to choose between running a kinder- garten and starting an almsbouse for the sentimentally bankrupt There comes a time in every man’s life when he knows exactly what kind of woman would make him perfectiy happy—usually about a year after he has married the other kind. Copyright Balzac declared that “A man should find all women !n his wife! Just like a man to imagine that he ought to get a whole harem. for the price of oné wedding ri: In the moving pictures the fascinating question Is al- “een Womans Ways, “Will she succeed in escaping him?” In real life it is usually “Will she succeed in getting him?” Nearly any sorrow {n a woman's life can be alleviated at this time ot | year by a new and attractive hat; nearly any sorrow in man’s can be cured by a new and attractive woman, Nothing so annoys a married pair as to be interrupted in the beginning of a quarrel. Just as they bad started to brighten up a dull domestic eve- ning that way | Marrlage is like playwriting. In order to make a success of tt you have to be born with a special genius for it—yet there never was an amateur who hesitated to try it on that account, | The Dally Newspaper—The great American bulwark behind which @ man intrenches himself from gas attacks on his pocketbook or his ch acter at breakfast, hides his boredom at dinner, and defends “his religious inertia when his wife wants him to go to church on Sunday morning. ‘The average woman's love lasts until she gets tired of listening to » man talk about himself Why Lightning Hits Coctain Trees HAT some kinds of trees are) greater lability of being struck by more likely to be struck by | lightning, althou the cottonwood lightning than others, and for| seemed to be most frequently struct, no apparent reason, !s an old belief.| Vanderlinden concludes from all ob ‘The ancient Romans belleved that! servations that the height of the mulberry, laurel, peach, larch and box| trees, especially of isolated ones, and trees were lightning proof, Not a|the character of the bark have much few foresters of modern t ’s are of| to do with its liabi ty to be struck by the opinion that certain trees are| lightning. | more or less lable to destruction by| Forestems say that the tall cottone lightning. | Wood, with its rigid bark, Is more apt In a recent interview, Prof, Charles] to be struck than the lower beech and 8. Sargent, director of the Arnold) that in a great forest the taller trees Arboretum, the living tree museum]}are much more liable than the lower of Harvard University, is quoted as| trees. saying that “as a result of many| —_—_~>_ observation he convinced SHE WAS NO PIkER, year that the oak tree comes first among] HE lovely lady consulted the pop- those most liable to be struck by ular attorney in regard to get. lightning, the Scotch pine second, and ting @ divorce, Sho was par- perhaps the fir third." Prof, Sargent] ticularly interested in knowing how says that he has never known of a|imuch it would cost After looking awyer 6 beech tree being struck by lightning Vanderlinden, the Belgian meteor- ologist, recently puliished the results of many years’ systematic observa- tions, which were made chiefly in Bel- over the case the id: “This is comparatively easy, I can get you a divorce without any publicity what- ever for $500." She looked at him haughtily, “I have plenty of mone; glum, By subdividing the territory; she said. “How much will tt cost into five sections, this authorjty says nie plenty of publicity and every. plist hat tha ont | thing?” He saw that she c he established that the different | [DINE | Ho sam that ahe was a per- species of trees did not take the Shr na Reatite revised hue ae right, yank in each section us regards Cleveland Plain Dealer,” “SU ees