The evening world. Newspaper, March 29, 1918, Page 20

FSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER mc Bund hy the Pre Pub! Company, Penne SMEY MRNNY PONE LE dows Rev tok. PULITZER, President, €3 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘treasurer,’ 6s Park Row. MPH PULITZMR, Je Seere 63 Park MEMBER OF THD ASSOCIATED PRESS cae Y Aepeeleted, Pry, cactunirly enzo to. the yee for cmmhitation of to Tt or pot otberwise credited in this paper and alo the local news putlla WONT FRUIT iiiv ec svces ses thiV ass te vNOW | GERMANY OVER-REACHING IN RUSSIA? HE retaking of Odessa by Bolshevik forces on land and sea— confirmed by official despatches received at Petrograd—may prové the signal for a new orientation of Russian zeal. The German policy of following up peace with plunder and dic-| tation has apparently exasperated even Russian elements that care least for fighting. ‘The workmen and peasant farmers of the Ukraine} are anything but pleased by the prompt requisitions of grain and cther foodstuffs which a “protecting” German Government has made upon their liberated province. | By way of Stockholm we learn tha Ge n of an independent Lithuania is a Lithuania that at once ec omes a eit of| tae German confederation and helps pay the coloseal German war| debi. Now 52 to nowy Aopatenee a here 20,674 | These revelations of Teutonic purpose ought to be sufficient to! ike sparks from whatever patriotism is left in Russia. Urging the immediate creation of n new Russian army, Assi Minister of War Podvoisky declares: Russians must take a rifle in one hand and a hammer fn the other, submit to the most strict discipline and work s!x teen hours a day. ‘That is exactly what Ru themselves Jcast inclined to do. } uve shown) ¢3 to fresh| resistance it will be because Germany’s over-reaching desire for domi- nation has defeated its own ends and spoiled tho tric statecraft worked on a disturbed and shaken people. ans since the Revolution If they rouge themse: k that German} ——_- 4 -———___— The Germans are reported to be “bombing Amiens ruth lessly.” No doubt one of the expected rewards of the present German drive was the pleasure of shelling another famous cathedral at easy range. Bombing from airplanes is s!ower sport. —_ MR. MORRIS AND THE DRAFT. ORD comes from Chicago that Nelson Morris, Chairman of) the Board of Directors of Morris & Co., the big packing concern, “has accepted a position in Washington in the Quartermaster’s Department, ” while his industrial alate to be placed) in Class 4 of the selective draft is still in the hands of the District Exemption Board. This is the same Nelson Morris who a few weeks ago told the| Wage Arbitration Board that $1,288 a year is far more than is n eaty to support a family of five, that three pairs of shoes a year is one pair too many for a child—820 per year being an extravagant eum for the child’s clothing—and that ther for a twelvemonth in going thre: is quite enough amusement) times to the theatre. | hat an intelligent American public thought of these statements was sufficiently shown by a symposium of letters on the subject in vited and printed by The Evening World. Mr. Morris is twenty-six years old and unmarried. He is Morris & Co. do a business of $40,000,000 a vear, Judging by the slandards of liv “urges upon his fellow] Americans, his conception of American patriotic duty should be} likewise rigorous, | t is to be hoped the Exemption Board has not forgotten about Mr. Morris or for any reason deferred action on his case indefinitely. There is already too much clamor in this country concerning the privileges and exemptions of the rich. We want no more Socialists, no more malcontents, no sneers at the impartiality of the selective arett, tied, he + Mrs nde R. Whitehouse seems to have found it up- | Work trying to be a propaganda agent in Switzerland, After all there are no triumphs like those at home-sweet-home hill SS THE LLOYD GEORGE MESSAGE. | HE message from the British Premier, Lloyd George, cony to the American people by the British Ambas United States, Lord Reading, ought to where with the seriousness and literalness to whic! ‘This battle, the greatest and most momentous in the history of the world, is only just beginning. Throughout it the French and British are buoyed with the knowledge that the Great Republic of the West will neglect no effort which | van hasten its troops and its ships to Europe. In war, time fs vital. It 1s impossible to exagge importance of getting American reinforcements syed 0 received every. is entitled: ate the across the Atlantic in the shortest possible space of time. | ‘Neglect no ¢ esn’t mean military effort alone. Every American old enough to think or work is in honor bo mae siudy ovt how and where the call for extra means hit : ar este ieersoeeeneteiaretis Easter lilies are scarce. So are many other joyous und Peaceful accompaniments that belong to the season. Hits From Sharp W its Success iy a monument built of sur “E he ts a eo 3 mounted obstacles, — Philadelphia | gested the Wise Guy Hoo! au lecord. earns the Wine Guy ut the Stich Simple Mug eter People who can't rufa ribbon | econl, counter can always tell you how to run the universe.—Binghumton News. | who thinks of flytinie wh |timist t# thin A She, Oe ee of golden summer. Nearl: ry ae bringa us the | ~Milwaukee cheerful assurance that yesterday's he Worst apprehensions are not realised. Garden hint: In time of war ~Albany Journ, |pare for peus.—Indlanapolls Seay ae Why worry ve) at war New cee No, you cannot call yourself a vet eran just because you eat war bread, ~Memphis Commercial Appeal. eee Aviation may not be quite as sute | our alms 4 hits tha A doub) as dominoes or ping pong, but Ut /of putting two and tno toperienn leant, there are “not any ' railroad | Piladeiphia Tecord. crossings up in the air.—Savanah ° ° N | Some men succeed by taking a jchance, and others succeed by taking Pork {# #0 hien th a4 al’, over oan tell, Bven a deaf) must have eaten the fees have sound judgment.|fool cast before them —Memphts Philadel ta Record, Commercial Appeal P ders, EDITORIAL PAGE Friday, March 29 . Winning Out Before Forty go ee om One Young Man Upbuilt a World Trade a Became Vice-President of the Texas Company By James C. Young Copyright, 1918 by ERHAPS very thas the Amer! expanding mors rapidly than at any previous time tanda to the | Metta viee-pr Company, and export departmen jselling and shipping America’s pre- clous petroleum in ini He has direction Tat Jor to tho! one young man tore: he Drone F few of us wrested this! ership from otber competitors, there whose personality R. He is J, of the manave Mr, Mighetta allon or- ton in its eventful history, But a good part of all the « in the world is now handled by Amer fean or tions, Among those who have Mig- ‘Texas a business that extends around the globe, touch- ing almost & a few that are not so civ) just thirty Withia a short per jhas been v | nucle’ | ready had ventured in that doing t bellef that he could ma |i Migietta lare | call to take He a time when the feeling its way in came to Mr, an 0 » | @ success. d the| the compar was ited the yur ye charge He | from ¢ exan ( lds. lepartmen: preign f thi ountry and | toinpany was t Migiletta because he al- | the opportunity « |to the Uni Another Idea of the pessimist—one | Cone Mis rise to prominence is a ro} He rning the & lire hings which war began with tion, lishing Co, (The New York ¥ know | gan to progress. n oll trade ts | demon. of hard work ome- thing less than the usual advantages, | for ho ja a na’ Italy and cam la country ¢ Not to learn him, ve ¢ Soon only w bu afte States Mr. and there entered with | everything else— Hyhgnamton Preany |The petroleum Aeld of tho # it necessary pore 1 r ea g the U Migitetta went to the ol s to begin oh he knew ni ning World.) He perceived t the situation of the Texas oll fl made them especially destrable as ds a At that period only small | w Tex oll were 2 tta svon t could be made} business, quantitte shipped M ted that et profitable trad ‘Texas the of the Company had | same goal. | boudoir. nd a man who wos) Will Know M for enth uw “ erle maid had ushered tho callér tnto the You have children and you wh by T Congaht, 1918 e Frese Biivisuling Co. The New York Ereuing The Jar By Roy L. \ j Wild ‘Bohemians’ | Have By Helen Rowland. Coprright, 1918, Ly the Prees Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) The “Radical.” B loves to toss back what he calls a “picturesque mane,” trom whl he fondly fancies is a “leonine head He enjoys posing, in a soft collar, a flowing tle, and = brows study—when he thinks some fascinating woman * looking. Ho delights to think of himself as a wrecker-of hearts! He talks brilliantly of the “equality of-the sexe: but his wife has never yet found him equal to wip! the dishes after a midnight supper. His idea of ART {s “something different.” He believes that “freedom of thought” me “knocking” everything; and {f you will Msten to bi long enough he will try to prove to you that “whate H “Fateh tome ever is, is WRONG He 1s all for “LABOR”—but he never does any. He yearns passionately to liberate the world—but he smiles | superior, bored way when you suggest that he might buy a Liberty Bond. He ts all for “brotherly love’—but what hoe loves most is his dinney his profile and his own voice! The “Temperamentalist.”” She has painted the family furniture a passionate purple. She wears Nile-green smocks under a Leet green complexion, She sits around in alleged “!tea-rooms,” down in dank basement smoking cigarettes, when she ought to be busy doing Red Cross work. She would DIL if she thought you knew she came from Brooklyn! She goes to all the “bohemian dances,” as a “Nymph,” clad in bits from her mother’s scrap-basket. She adores Freud—and imagines that she understands him. She loves to “shock people.” She earns her living as a cashier—but she has taken up “classic danes ing as a profession.” ¥ All I can think of when I look at her is ‘ i} r ee McCardell : Copyright, 1918, by the Proas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) RS, JARK arrayed herself in|“there are poor little war orphans the latest mode—or at least /abroad now-—French babies, Belgian what was middle-class ersatz e, and called upon her wealthy friend, Mrs, Stryver, at the latter's mansion, the sam usiastl ney and no child: I'm so glad you Stryver >h, a Mra, v M hat may childless wi ers hi ad when the Jarr was very ally interested in a wa source of oll for exportation, So he/|time philanthropy that had lately cast about for means to start such @/come to her notice-the adopting of by babies, English babies, we may also have many war orphans right here, and our society 1s arranging to list comfortable homes, now childless, that will be glad to be brightened and blessed by adopting’”—— “Oh, my dear Mrs, Jarr!” inter- Ithy|rupted Mra, Stryver, “I am 4il {fjheart! Don't be telling mo terrible things to get mo upset, now at a me!" | time, when, as you can see, my latter's | nerves are alrcady on edgo because be the matter of the alarming condition of my dear Fitit" “AM the dog needs is exerc of a common mind and who was put-| With my darling Fifi!” Anc she held| fresh air, it’s ull that a lot of people ting into effect the very plans which|up an old, blear-eyed and obese|I know need, also,” said Mrs. Jarre they had formed. ‘Then Mr, Migiet- | poodie. : with nome agperity ta 8 invited to take hold of the| Mrs, Jarr hated wheezy poodics of} “But our new car is not in serv larger enterprise, He accepted and}any ikind 1 ebe was not wholly}said Mrs, Stryver y hss carried the undertaking to a move! pleased because Mrs: Stryver had con-| Piet so refined, st ply tmportant conclusion than any one! nected children w t dogs. How-|NOT ride with the mu! any of could then foresce company jever, Mrs, Jarr was on an errand of|the o!d cars!” At this point, as operates a fleet of its own tankers in| wartime mercy and she was patient, | though a coincidence, the second man iddition to many chartered vessels,| "What's wrong with the Ittle|came to announce that the new car, and recently hag established « num-|beast, I-er, mean the poor thing?” ; happily now in repair, had come ber of distributing stations abroad, |avked Mrs, A foreign business also is being up- | | built In other prod fine Very few you wax and lubricating olls, ; men of thirty e done so well with their years as a such as parat- | four fron | up. m its nan Who had the vision to t be accomplished if he but it co. Aad the chan camo |* ‘8 heart to him, as chances have a way of do-| “Did you ing when a man ty respite 50 ing. —~<— MODERN IMPROVEMENTS, | YOUNG man carrying a small} eather covered box saw in one of the cross streets of upper aa fully provi a| New York @ window placard beari rent both aa to{t!® name John J, Diogenes, He 1 more eapeciatiy | touched the bell button, “Have I tho . Diogenes philosop! honor of addressing ndant of the the t logenes bowed id Mr ing 100 to 115 po A burn for about hours without the n Mr biue flashes giim broke Diog- e.|mered through the openings of the tate waa) portieres, “wo no longer use any sort then developing into ite latter-day | of lantern tn looking for an honest impor’ opportunit it M nee, Migs and there was abundant! man. for a man able to grasp ta loom heed aud Le- Ch Tam just now X-ra didate for a Job as bank rring and think- | Stryver doleful Mrs, Jarr could truthfully say she And she made some in- o what | so | teurized | Dr, risk wo take w | iv yo Mrs. hought it remembered her er: pitifully cre t 1 am smerk Pitts s in the 4 speci a know 1 he r vol it "You see, Jarr, Mrs. Stryver t , dovsn't it break your| the mbnogrammed handkerchief for i | {ts little nose, and in due time, with |* te ds and man, kisses of farew s and stric most distressin and in tedrful injunctions, the di almost break Mrs, | }uxurious limousine, attended also by ja Mveried footman, by the liverted ever hear your children ,Shautteur, painful asked Mrs, “I should have gone myself, one en the war was oy asking ne | Poor dear on a diet m a owed of rn ou here never had | ward res ns as t would do w Mrs, Stryver for }question, Pir indignation, Mrs. might bo indigesti “It can't be indlge | Stryver declared. “Dr, nd fs Dr. Mrs. should Mra, have chloroform, Stryy sation," Smerk has the! But it appeal me that I gave it ba broiled ourse by pep Smer Stryver “L think the dear t hes neurasthenia’ Jarr was about to nd. kk the obese poodle silken cushion and held it such ing ed tha a hig Kt say sue sald, Mrs, around from the garage. The maids to put a the dog's velvet to hold bustled jacket with on little pocket can never trust even the highest pald servants with our loved ones!” whim. pered Mrs, Stryver, turning from th ndow, ‘as it you were say~ e jing, Mrs, Jarr to a # i ars, her i they u That 1 am war orphan diy, “But I annoy your dog! evening she told Mr, Jarr Ithat if we were ever bombarded by long distance guns there was one house she would like to see shaken up with a shot or two. afraid pata RETNA GR synony-| Strong on the Englisl. side, The the heavenly fragrance of the chi ( mous wit mnar> | postchaise bearing the lovers toward| Its fumes are remintacent of a/ Heat inte |the border, while father followed on | factory, plus a fish cannery, plus ur : {| behind, is a favor fiction | Jersey- meadows. The and not far fr dealin, in that Father al-| treat) fellows loser to the bound ange | va land, Under the old Scottlsh law, a] Any one could Chorus (in stifled accents) —Aj nly inight be ma mony, the der ¢ tell tida! ° coo esses {the blacksmith, acksmith usu-| 3 (suddenly getting wt Do|s y in tho presen f witnesses) viiy officiated, In 1856 @ law was! mreqaio nara Fi Be el hin lows | that they were msn and wife, A cers] ois ot tnaking twelve days’ residence ‘ ose eb ving yer Jing the etna Green became| Andy, What fight did you ha’ eb o long ective to elopers, A! him? she! ‘This easy route to matrimony| 20 ot re, \ the goal of many somev hat similar law in jersey a) A (wrathfully)—You big sti made tna Green the go few years ago put an end to run- ardent thelr marriage Marrying i in Haste Forbidden tificate was given and the job was|{n Sec who found parentallaway marriages of New Yorkers in two! Hoboken and other nearby that I would like to give he@ a spanking, a spring tonic and a shampoo 4 She would be a nice girl, then! The “Wild, Free Woman.” She is married—but she bas cut off her hair, refuses to wear a wees ding ring and declines to use her husband's name. \ She will be NO man’s “slave!” She arises every day in her “wild, free way,” at the wild, free hour «@ six A. M.—and cooks her husband's breakfast, while he sweetly dozes, When He has been nourished and soothed and his clothes ha’ found for him, she rushes off to a “wild, free” office (where there are tme-clock and an efficiency expert), and “lives her OWN life” pounding typewriter, until five P. M. NO man rules over her except the manager—and the assistant = ager, and the chief clerk, and the office boy. She will be NO man’s slave! After office she hurries home, in order to do her marketing and wea her husband's dinnef—while he reads the evening paper If he does not like the way in which the asparagus bas been she soothes him and apologizes. Then she'clears the table, washes the dishes, puts the house in and sits down (in her wild, free way) to make over her last hat and mend her husband's socks. She DESPISES a “parasite”—a woman who allows her husband tq support her, and does not “do things” in the world! She will be NO man’s “slave! » [ Coupelant ae: Comedies » Alma Woodward # Press Publishing Co. (The New York Fvening World.) FLAVORING Scene: Camp Upton Time: Night. (A bunch of boys are hanginy around who fondies, lovingly, package unmistakably from home—equully unmistakably containing cate, Their fervent and uncalled for attention peeves the owner.) 1018. by one (HUGGING his package weer) ete ace ta: A 3: quit shoving! You'll |#ot the cheese? You fellows are awk have the stuff all squashed. fully handy w suggestions—sups B (always instantaneous with re-|Po8e you do some work onée in @ partee)—Well, tt's got to} squashed | While. to make tho rarebit, anywag, | B (smiling)—Didn't you hear abou® © (oubting Thomas)—Aw, how're | the scrap Andy and Freddie bad? Ne, you going to cook a rarebit—why not |one knows what {t's about—dut thes) (/ eat it as just cheese? sure ain't friends since. I'll go ge@ B (in disgust)--Say you'd crab any | the mitk party—you ¥ ve t you see the (Ben trots over to the kitchen ant lark of joking a 1 Welsh | bones Freddie for the can of cow.) rarebit out in the dark over a camp| (wlstfully)—You're gotng to ma fire in a tin dipper—t the kind]a sure enough rarebit? Gee, dot’ of stuff you ought to put Im your/! wish I was in om ft, I love diary, enimals, The only thing I ask you 5 (suddenty)—It won't be a reai a |‘ bulid the fire far enough away a@ Welsh rarebit though. Dan—We|that the tumes won't s haven't got any beer and we have “|Sure I'll give you the mile (starte swell chance of getting any, away), Say, who's the guy who’ D (soberly)—T wonder can you make | got the cheese and where aid he get it@ one with water’ y Andy got a hunk as big as you® % (speaking up)—Naw. But you nad from home, can make ‘em’with milk, That's the) ¥ (shrilly)—Andy! way they make ‘em in boarding Be Yeh—his folks keep @ delicates¢r schools and church socials, My sis-|8en, y'know, Come on, kid, they're ter sbo used to have giggle partles—| waiting, sometiines they'd make fudge and) I (coming back with the can)—Li etimes they'd make rareblts and ten! Here's something I sneaked yoo they used milk for both—'cause 1/—It’N go grand in the rarebit—it@ used to go out and get the milk flavoring, something Uke conéentrate@ A (blankly) —W who's got tle) essence of onion, or garlic, oF som thing—anvhow it's great stuff, Ta! crith | much Say, it, with my compliments. And te! the boys J wish ‘em hearty appetites: A pie ly)—-Aw, he's doing kitchen | (A few minutes later, over @ roate police—have another think. ing fire, the boys inhale the fragrante PB (indignantly)—Of course, he's do- Of Melting cheese, with mouths watere ing kitchen police~he's our ‘salvation | {nw 1n anticipation.) —he can skin a can of that condensed| A (who's superintending the job)—« cow they use out to us. IV taste | It's time to put in the milk, Go ond all right when it's cooked; anyhow! B (feeling in his pocket)—Say, be: the cheese’ll drown it! | here's something Freddie ked foe C (spirits revived)—You go ask him | me—hich clase flavoring —I guess it’ tor it, Andy lexpensive, because ho was chilis A (firmly)—I will not. Haven't I| careful with tt. lien (indifferently) —All right, Slip in, (Instantly a terrible odor josie ? was and I told him it was, 1 necessary bef ‘did you tell him for? I was towns. who got him put on kitchen p|