The evening world. Newspaper, March 23, 1918, Page 12

ar yan ning Cttorid, JOSEPH PULITZER, Press Publishing Company, Nos. 68 to Now York. vident, 63 Park Row, rer, 63 Park Row, ary, 63 Park How, ASSOCIATED Pits, rely entitied to the nae for rermib ited’ ih this vaper and also the local news publebed berea, WOLUME 58...ccccccscsevcccccveccccsecscceessNO, 20,668 SAFEGUARD THE 80-CENT GAS. HE Wicks Bill, which provides that the Public Service Com- mission shall have power to fix gus rates, “nothwithstanding that a different rate or charge may have been prescribed by statute or otherwise,” has all the earmarks of legislation designed to deprive the New York public of the assurance of 80-cent gas. To cut off gas consumers in this city from the continued bene! of the 80-cent rate would be to destroy the fruits of hard-won victory and put New York again at the mercy of the gas companies. The Evening World fought long and hard for 80-cent gas. The Bening World made a subsequent fight to extend the 60-cent rate to certain excepted sections of Brooklyn. Both these fights ended fm the complete triumph of 80-cent gas. The Evening World is not going to stand by now and see the guarantees of 80-cent gas slyly legislated out of the way. The record of the Public Service Commission in dealing with gas companies is anything but reassuring. Nobody has forgotten that it was mainly the relations between Public Service Commissioners and Brooklyn lighting corporations that discredited the Commission and forced a drastic overhauling of its membership at tho close of the year 1915. Eighty-cent gi the Public Service Commission. the courts, to be kept hanging there for months and years while the public pays higher charges. The first great German attack on the British front was checked with heavy German losses, With sufficient repeti- tion this can become as decisive as anything else. HEAVY ON THE WRONG SIDE. HE British Admiralty figures of submarino losses and Allied and neutral shipbuilding since the war began leave a clear 5,000,000 ton deficit staring the Allies significantly in the face. The British authorities make no attempt to soften the facts for the British public: The figures to-day will not stimulate the enemy, and the Admiralty recognize that the policy of silence, necessary as they believe it to have been from a ni point of view, has had this serious defect—that it falls sufficiently to impress upon the people of this country the vital necessity of indi- vidual and united effort to make good tho losses caused by enemy submarines, Great Britain, the Admiralty warns, must rely in the main on its own shipyards and its own labor. There is reason to believe that British labor needs the spur, with the reminder that high wages will mean little if England slips behind in the great race to get abreast and ahead of the U boat losses, Meanwhilo the United States can ponder the Admiralty figures end pile on the work in its own shipyards. The work there is gather- ing speed, the labor unions are learning the meaning of co-operation, the outlook for record achievement in the launching of ships was never better. But in this direction, particularly, American effort has got to leave all records far behind. Sanna Seti Go ahead, dig those trenches and let's see if we can't live down and forget @ silly opposition that tried to make out Cen- tral Park too pretty to be mixed up with patriotism, een LAWS LIKE OTHER LAWS. EW YORK restaurant and moving picture house proprietors need to get it into their heads that Thursday and Sunday are still “lightless nights” by @ law that isn’t wholly toothless because it’s young. Last Thursday there were between 500 and 600 violations of the} rule forbidding the turning on of unnecessary electric light signs. Two hundred warnings were sent out. Deputy Fuel Administrator Norman has had to order the electric current turned off in the estab- lishments of the most flagrant offenders, “Lightless night” is still required in this city two nights a week, and nobody is to be excused cither for not knowing the fact or for deliberately ignoring it. The number of restaurants that will h to close for twenty-four hours, beginning next Tuesday at midnight, because they defied the beefless and porkless day order, is eightcen, as against fifty-seven last time. This marks improvement. At the same rate another week should find all New York restaurant proprictors, so far as meatless day is concerned, in the ranks of the loyal and law abiding, Se “Art artists,” says the Mayor, “should take a vacation until the end of the war,” Right. Leave it to law lawy« its and publie office ofeials. Wits peor © 80 dull that even most cutting sarcasm is wasted them.Pailadelphia Record, a. ee From NS) Variety is the spice of life. Even the actress who is wedded to her act] th temptation of a| on After a ewears ho! his money times finds it) her gratitude by mart a living for her.| {ellow,—Chicago News . oung man has blown tn all The young chap w Would die for ber some mighty hard to make vile Some other Binghamton liess, “ he It ts proposed that candy be There is one advantage in being] duced as a part of the mend af ike your own boss—you can work over-|toldicr.—Los Angeles | ni } time and on holidays if you want to, iteha aa Chicago News If all men were yg ae spect equal all A charity thief who has been steal-| orders and none tng funds donated by generous peo-| take th rally in every re. would want to gi would be willing to Albany Journal iors eat * ple to some of the activities of t War has been given @ penitentiary! Folks who cultivate the habit of wente wat ought tu help.—Lvs/ hatred end by hating themselves, Angelos Times, li inghamton Prose, A TOO sie Ne: Hon of all news Asapatches EDITORI Saturday, AL PAGE March 23 By J. H. Cassel | needs the solid safeguarding of the statute. There is nothing but danger in putting it wholly into the hands of Experience has shown that from that precarious protection the 80-cent rate is too easily dragged into na Kitt she often showa| What Does By Sophie usual, the spring. the warmest March day in years. The sun shines bright and there is laughter in the alr, What is it ali going to mean to you? Doyou know that in a@ few days you are going to turn your watch for- ward and have ‘fan hour more of daylight? What are you going to do with it? Are you going to mope in some of- fice to finish up a piece of work be- cause of your accustomed habit to work until it 1s time to turn on the light? Or are you golng to spend the extra hour to go home and do some- thing there—pore over accounts, or— if you are a woman—to sew or bake « cake? Are you going to let the spring 60 by as you have other years, thinking that there will be plenty of time to enjoy it—thinking that it ts not fully here and looking forward to the sum~- mer? Ob, the lives that are lost and the love that is wasted and the joys that are never tasted because of that looking forward—hat elusive looking forward to things that are never real- tzed, If there is anything In the uni- verse that brings regret it 1s the | golden days that are gone, in which the sun shone and you made hay but no happiness. People procrastinate their life away in hearkening only to their problems rather than their pleasures, I do not mean the everlasting pastime-seck- ers, but the workers of the world who lose springtime and love because | of the “some day" for which they are storing up, the "some day" that finds them gray and wrinkled and wan and | weary. I know 4 little woman who always spent the winter Ketting ready for the spring. And when the spring came she was busy making clothes for the summer. Every season found her pre- paring for the perlod to come, One day she began to sum up her source of happiness and found that she worked all the time, thinking she was \q thrifty person and that there was no better thing than to prepare for the future. | “and by doing this,” she said, “1 This Spring Mean to You? Irene Loeb Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Kvening World), has come early—eariier than |never lived in tho present. We have had|and gray, and my children have all Tam old gone to homes of their own. It 19 spring and I am tired. I cannot «0 out and bask in the sunshine as I could have done in the years gone Dy. As I look back on it now, | belleve I would have been just as far along and the children, too, if we bad bad a little less of the business of life and more of its beauties.” Ah, there it is! We are so busy doing things, fearing the future, fight- ing the present and meeting prob- lems, that we forget TO LIVE, How many people have come to me with this same plaint—forgetting to live! ‘They continue in the rut so long that they lose the capacity for enjoyment. Come out of it, have a little less and wet something of nature! It ty a very large sky, Take the extra hour for walking and exercise, and breathe some of the God-given sunshine, Take the children out to the nearby park and let them see the | buds come, It will make you, too, realize that the world takes care of itself In the present, knowing that the future will follow naturally and in due time. Plan your spring so that you will Kot something out of It. Who knows but that the very change you make in meeting tho spring will be the means of your meeting more readily the things that seem dificult, It is a war year and every energy must needs be conserved. Hardships may come, but the spring is here now. Get all you can of it! — A POLITICAL “MEDICINE HAT.” ROCK-RIBBED Republican p PX cinct in the of which Texas lays claim to a tew. One of these precincts is known as Mountain Springs, Uonal election its eleven unanimously for the publican Presidential candidate, Mountain Springs canno, boast of any telephone or railway connections, but it has a mail service once @ week, It was nearly a week after the jast national lection Day that the precinct Chatr- man took the returns to the county seat. and in the na- votes Ro 1 “Who waa ele, "asked the of the Uirst man be met. was the reply, he retorted, “Why, he ot a singie vote at Mountain Springs. ; re st be something crooked about this thir Lvery~ body's Magazing, ores South is an oddity | The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1018, by the Preae Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), 66 © you are in the army, I see?” remarked Mr, Jarr geniaily, as he encountered the young dentist of the neighborhood at the street corner. “Yes, in the Dental Corps, Medical Division,” replied Lieut. Gilbert |Gumm. “But bad I known, had | known!" “Had you knoy,.. what? asked Mr. Jarr, “Had I known that in the Medical | Division tho highest rank obtainable with few ceptions, seldom “Yes, 1 eee that Major Gen. Gorgas complained to Congress about It,” re- marked Mr. Jarr, “Major Gen, Gorgas?’ Lieut. Gilbert Gumm. “Why, he's but 4 mere med ,,@ noted sanitarian, | grant you. But what the modern arms needs 1s an effictent dental corps. What did Napoleon say?" “Napoleon :aid @ lot of things," re- pied Mr. Jarr. “In fact, he said so many things, or people say be said so many things, that it's perfectly sate lto quote anything you like and as- Jeribe the statement to Napoleon. Yes, Napoleon ts a eafe bet in the Paraen Stakes.” The erstwhile Dr, Gilbert Gumm was paying iittle 1f any attention to Mr, Jarr’s remarks. "Napoleon," bo said gloomily, “once sald ‘an army marches on It) atemact*” “Sort of an army worm? ventured Mr. Jarr. Vhat did he ean?” Lieut. Gumm of the Dental Corps, U. 8. A., went on. “1 tell you what he meant. He }meant an army had to have good sation to be able to arrive on the ficld tn condition to vanquish the enemy. How can an army have good sion unless It has good teeth? can {t have good teeth unless 8 attached to do it? And yet the Mne outranks us," he added gloomily. “We of the Dental Corps upon which the army must de- pend for the condition of its teeth, and | without good teeth how can the army win?” “Well,” replied Mr, Jarr dubtously, “| thought the army shot the enemy, or bayonetted the enemy or bombed the enemy, but now | seo I was mis- taken; according to your theory, vie- tory depends upon good tecth—the army that can outbite the other wins, repeated How it bas good he Whe dentist | Mr. Jarr with scorn, | “Napoleon says," he began, “that if |e dook tor VIClOry" Jeutenant regarded \p ‘We must see that the army 1s well shod,” interrupted Mr. Jarr. “Foot- ner, who runs a shoe store down town, told me in Gus's the other night that Napoleon said ‘An army fights on its feet.’ And by that Napoleon meant an army had to be well shod. Footner told me that the regulation army shoe was radically wrong, and that he, Footner, had pat- ented an army shoe that was guar- anteed to prevent bilsters on long sneered Lieut. Gumm of the Dental Corps. “Why, Washing- ton's gallant army had no shoes at Valley Forge.” “Yos," said Mr, Jarr, “but {if you will remember, no fighting was done at Valley Forge. The army suffered without shoes, left bloody footprints in the snow. That shows the brave, courageous hearts of our forefathers, but you must admit {it would be somewhat difficult to charge oven the barbed wire entanglements of No Man's Land of to-day without shoes, No, Footner was right’ An army fights on its feet, It MUST have good shoes!" “Yhe Southern Army in the Civil War fought practically barefoot the last years of the war,” Lieut. Gumm, “Tt was only when their teeth gave out because they had few if any dentists with the Confederate Army that Lee surrendered. No, as Napoleon says, ‘AD army fights with its teeth,’ “I thought yot! sald Napoleon said ‘An army fights on its stomach’? Mr. Jarr retorted, and he yawned, It was @ fatal opening. “Ob!” cried the newly commissioned army den- Ust, “Although 1 am an army ofticer I mustn't forget my private practice, so to speak, 1 notice you have a cave ity in the second lower bicuspid!” Ho took a probe from 4 pocket of bis military jacket rapped the tooth smartly, pain that left a dull a follo’ Mr. Jarr was led off, the tirst’ war prisoner of the militant Dr, Gilbert Gumm, inner and A thrill of hing behind it ~_ TOY DOG ANSWERS CALL, TOY DOG which, at the word of | command, will rush from its kennel is one of the ingenious | products of those \7hose business it is to please the child A inicrophone is placed inside the kennel, auses it to Vibrate and come in coniact with a plece of metal, ‘This closes an electrical circuit, equipped with a small battery and connected with an electro-maghet, The pull of the latter on its armature releases the catch of the spring and out pops the toy animal. persisted | wed the blows of the probe, and | A sharp| Stories ol By Albert Payson Coprrisht. iv18 by the Press Pub No. &Generiere Allan; the “Beauty of &iciinond” Spy iy oeauctiul, sun Atal, & oer and vrought versop Allan was a tatner.) Terhune The New Lore meruug World), ng Uo ME was « Cincinnati girl by birth, a. ti and of regally gracious wealthy young Virgin warricd ber to bis Richmond home ( the son of Edgar Alan Voe's ado, Genevieve Allan s veauty and ade her @ belle of the Southern capital. kven (han ber young | usband’s wealth and sucial position, her own loveline * won for uer ap enviadie piace iu the city’s alfections, Why she should have become a Union epy at the start of the Civil War it ts bard to guess. She did not need the pay. Her husband and bis family were ttanchly loyal to the South, Perhaps Geneviove’s own girlhood in Ohio had given ber a love for her country and for the old flag, which could find its only outlet in secret service work for our Government, ‘The Civil War dragged on. Ltke all Richmond people, the Allane felt the growing pinch of poverty and hardship. But the beautiful Gene~ vieve uttered no complaint Instead, she woo praise for her efforts at cheering and helping others who were in distress. Nobody suspected that she was continually sending messages to the North; revealing every Confederate secret she could learn. manners bat more Both North and South were eager to enlist the acti friendship of England in the Civil War, The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was sent to . London in behalf of the Union to win British wee j sympathy for us by means of bis magical ora« tory. | The Confederates followed the North's ex¢ ns ample by sending to England the most brilliante ly eloquent clergyman in all the South—the Kev. Dr. Moses Hoge, Dr Hoge sailed for England on @ blockade-runner, arrived there safely, along with other Confederate emissertes, and began his task of propaganda Naturally, it was much to the interest of the Union to capture him and Aid of England Sought by Both. “No, I saya “They don't come extra’ ‘I notice they don't come extra good,’ he says. “Now, don't sympathize with moi deserved it, There wasn't any use setting into a provocation with him, but it's up to me to make @ return sally, so I gays: “‘Them whiskers ought to be ree moved. I'd like to meet you tace to face.’ “For @ minute he's got a faraway. look. Then he says: “"By the way, Desices? “'No,' T tell Bim, ‘It's MoGrooty, + Why? Do you want to send me a Christmas present by pastel post next winter?’ “‘Not exactly!’ he says, ‘But thought It might be Deslees,’ “‘And why did you thought that? Task, “ ‘Because, he says, ‘you're gabby,t “Say, Msten, brother! I turned onto my heel and I went to the kitchen and bawled out the chef good, He needed it and I needed to got it out of my system.” \dn't you get even with the be whiskered fellow?” asked the Friends ly Patron, en with him?" came from Luetle, I didn't have to, ‘That par-exe his fellow-emissaries before they could get back to Virginia, A stricter |had arranged that Dr. Hoge and the others should emoark privately from England at @ date not generally known, and slip into some Virginia oF One of Dr, Hoge's children, in Richmond, fell ill, Genevieve Allan’ went at once to the Hoge house to offer her help and comfort. Mrs. Hoge was been an intimate friend of the Hoge familly, | By chance, or by skill, the Southern secret service: presently tntere in New York. This letter told the date of Dr. Hog proposed departure from England, the route his ship would take and the way in which he The authorship of this letter was traced to Genevieve Allan, A Cone federate officer went at once to the Hoge house to arrest her, Tne sick ¢ to defend Genevieve and to declare the arrest an outrage, Genevieve loudly and fiercely protested her own Innocence, Apparently, family influence, &c., was strong enough to raise a “reasonable 4 doubt" for the Confederates did not hang the | 3 Confederates Spare Ma Papotic et thes Whole, aitult Wad: BREE | ud dab aso in a New York newspaper. The story also come “At the time of Mrs, Allan's arrest, a child of Dr. Hoge's lay dead in the hous: for the tirst time, of his child's death, And he did not even know which of his several children was referred to. Payton Cushman at Shelbyville, the Confederates left the city in such haste ‘ that they did not walt to dispose of Genevieve In any way. And she waa, Dr. Hoge would not believe in her guilt, He was her champion when- ever any one spoke of her as @ spy—until, a few years after the war, he “Yes," said the official, “l remember her very well indeed. She was one of our cleverest spies.” By Bide Dudley Coprright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), Waitress as the Friendly) say: Patron took @ seat in the res- or four wrong misjudgments @ week in here while sizing up the person- that nothing is absolutely definite tn this world. Some of the time you're stewed. How's that for @ logical sequence, eh?” “that's how I look at ft. Now, there was @ man in here to-day that come to judging him, He's all dressed up like a reuben glue—you know, with tbe funny papers. When he files on a claim at the trough I figure it's swish up to him and say: “Wal, Si, haow's yer appertite?’ | swvould you kindly endeavor to procure for me a small steak of unusual *eD- tight away I see where I've mie | uaged him wrong and it’s rather ua~ erectify the insinuation, “Oh, I says, ‘then you aln't @ reg- | wp peside onto a farm,’ he says, ‘but {i'm from the city! | Blockade watch than ever was maintained. But the South, foreseeing thi Carolina port, grateful for the younger woman's presence there; as the guest had long cepted a letter, smuggled out of Richmond and addressed to Morgan Dixy mnight most easily be intercepted and caught. child had Just died. Mrs, Hoge, through her own bitter grief, found ttme There was a tremendous lot of public feeling, pro and con, in Ricnmond, spy. Instead, they locked her up. Crrnrnrnrw~wNEY tained this sentence: Dr. Hoge, in London, read this New York paper. From tt he learned, Not very long afterward Richmond was evacuated. As tn the case of released when the Federal troops entered the deserted capital, | chanced to mention Genevieve's name to a Unton official of high rank. . . Lucile the Waitress GG]T seems to mo,” sald Lucile the in fine, He gives me one look and , taurant, “I Just have to make three alities of the victims. It just shows right and the rest you're wrong oF t's logic, all right.” \gave mo the willygrubbins when tt halfalfies just like you réad about in me for the rural stuff, ao I do a “fie looks up at mo and says: | gerness and excellence?” | quidting to me. So I try my best to ular hayseed ? wewell’ I says, ‘you must pardon ere’ ower born me, child, There many a flowel 4 {have to, That pavers to blush under the wrong camera- Rihear broke: Ain 8 fluwse- pisuspldore trying to cat ier” MeRy “He takes it good-natured and tS Bad BI shows a pleasant Intent, As he argues with that par-excellent steak he says to me: ‘Farm life ts the only life, Kitchen Food Machine Saves Time and Labor, Did you ever see a barn dance? | pa large residence kitchens @ “1 think he's kidding me, you know, medium-capacity model of @ so 1 just reply: ‘What kind of a bighly-deveiuped elecirie foode dance does the barn do—a turkey pEa pare trot?’ machine bas “*~, barn dance,’ he says, stiff-like, esa. tateee ‘js a dance in a barn, That's plain duced, enough! By sla “Oh, hot So he's getting peevish! nating about I pee it's time to break off diplomatic a third of relations, so I say: “Then I persume page eh | | that a square dance 1s @ dance pulled work’ nate off in a square, ike Sherman Square, clated with lor some other little beauty spot in foes pen our wonderful city, aatlen OE | “He looks at me a minute and says: pre io te *We'll just forget the dancing idea for +2) since the time being. Now, where can | get peer ii) a shave and siege “'On your face! I aya, There ditton te wasn't nothing new or particularly co nservi likable about !t, but it seemed to Mt materials, says Popular Mecbaaion