The evening world. Newspaper, March 30, 1918, Page 12

eee a ee eee Voz, Hity slor'd, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Publishes Daly Except Sunday, by the Press Publishing Company, Nov. 54 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. ‘i ANGUS SHAW, urer, 63 Park Row, EPH PULITZER, Jr. Secretary, 63 P MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED Prtwas, Pree ve! to tor lication of all Acapatehoe ete A STS SH eS MUN, Sealed Berks VOLUME 58......... Heseeeeressrceteersres NO, 20,675 AFTER NINE DAYS. T HAS BEEN a week of tension and deep anxicty—a Holy Week not to be forgotten in this generation, . It ends, however, with relief and further strengthening of ‘Aled confidence. The British and French lines are holding. The most terrific and costly drive the enemy has yet made has gained him nothing he can count worth a hundredth part of the price. He has Grawn heavily on his reserves. The Allies have kept theirs intact,| while exacting terrible payment for every foot of German advance. Allied power to resist the utmost effort Germany can make has never been more convincingly demonstrated. And the hour for a oounterblow seoms close at hand. For Americans the week closes with news from Europe that arouses epecia) interest and satisfaction, Gen. Pershing’s offer of the entire strength of the United States| forces in Europe for the great battle now in progress has the ap- proval, instant and deep, of this entire Nation. As for the appointment of Gen. Foch to the supreme Allied com- mand, nothing could be more certain to win American applause. In his telegram of congratulation, President Wilson eaid: Such unity of command is @ most hopeful augury of ulti- mate success. Such unity of command {s exactly what this Nation has, from its first entrance into the conflict, urged upon the Allies as their greatest need. No influence has been eo strong as that exerted by the United States to repair the most dangerous defect in the earlier Allied conduct of the war. a Anyhow Hizzoner will find more of the peepul up to at Atlantic City than at Palm Beach, queeze A SOUND DEAL IN DAYLIGHT. | O-NIGHT, at the expense of one hour of darkness, the country secures to itself upwards of two hundred extra hours of day- light during the next seven months. It is @ deal worth celebrating. Though it is pretty certain the majority of New Yorkers will be content to conclude their share of the bargain by setting their watches an hour ahead at their usual bedtimes. Members of the New York Daylight Saving Association can be relied upon to sit up until 2 A. M. and see that the big hands of the Metropolitan Tower clock in Madison Square are pushed ahead with due flourish and ceremony. This association is fully entitled to the local honors of the occa- tion, It has worked hard to bring about one of the most sensible and practical adjustments the Nation has ever agreed upon—the suc- cess of which is guaranteed in advance by the experience of England, France, Italy, Germany, Austria-Iungary, Denmark, Sweden, Holland and Portugal. The newness of the improved daylight schedule will make a strong appeal to Americans. The exhilardting sense of an earlier whrt in the morning, the pleasant realization that the sun is sti two or three hours above the horizon when work is over, are certain to give added zest,and interest to the routine of daily life. There is also a chance that it may increase in Americans that fondness for sitting, eating, talking and listening to music out of doors and ip public places which is one of the fundamental instincts and inexhaustible resources for inexpensive recreation and amusement en- joyed by the peoples of Europe. To foreigners it always seems amazing that Central Park in summer is not a place of scores of restaurants and tea and coffee pa- vilions, with bands playing at a dozen points, surrounded by thousands of happy people sitting at tables, sipping mild drinks or nibbling cakes. And toward evening they would expect to see hundreds more dining under trees and on terraces at prices suited to all pocketbooks. Central Park is nothing like that. Who says it wouldn’t be a better playground if it were—with big band concerts refreshing tired brains, stirring pulses anf rousing patriotism twice every day—instead of semi-occasional music doled oat parsimoniously by a city that does not yet appreciate either the value of public music or the full possibilities of public parks? It may be an extra hour of daylight during the out-of-door season will suggest to New Yorkers now kinds of quiet recreation for the late afternoon and early evening hours. It may be the habit of eating out of doors and delight in open-air gatherings and open-air music may develop to a point where they will win municipal recognition and encouragement. If so, daylight saving will have performed a service of more than. economic and war value, New York should take hold of the daylight saving programme with the determination to profit by all there is in it, To-morrow is Sunday. Those who do not go to bed an hour earlier to-night can in most cases easily make it up to-morrow morn- ing. Everybody will have plenty of opportunity to get in step before to-morrow night. There is no reason why Monday morning should not find each New Yorker starting the new schedule to the minute, with a sharp lookout for every advantage either for work or play. eee t May another Easter be differe: Hits From Sharp Wits Most of our ‘nce is passed in get-) Luckily, the Baster ting used to the things we didn't ex-| have been financed peot.—Chicago New . bonnets will before the next Liberty Loan comes along.—Baltimore . American, Gaye the “chaser” to the submarine Pe een “Ob, U ‘oat!"—Columbia (8. ©)! When a man has been married for State a while becomes thoroughly con- see |vinced that he can make his wife do | A Mttle tatty judiéTously applied | just whut she wants to do makes a humble man stuck up—Chi- | Commercial Appeal, ate cago News, .e Don't grumble if food and The man that tries to mend his|short; the crop of diamonds js un- ways generally finds that a lot of the|usually | large—Columbia (8. parts are missing. — Bivvy iamton| State, * Press, | ee eee It's all right to save daylight, but Men accomplish most are tireless, but automobiles are dif- ferent.-Philadelphia Record, t when they| what can you buy with it afte have got some saved up?—Ind olls News, Memphis you nap- Han g the ay. ITORIAL PAGE ¥ \ (Ey Expense! Reve tien, | | batten Ye Laila ee a Stories of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune a Copyright, 1918, by tho Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) No. 10—JOHN ANDRE, the Ld lade: of Benedict Ai Treason to the United States. £ was John Andre—young, handsome, brilliant, plished—a Major in the British Army, He was one the most likable and popular men in King George's service, } In England he had fallen in love with @ girl who returned his affection in ample measure. Her parents had forbidden the match, Andre came to America t@ forget. The girl died of heartbreak. Into the Revolutionary War young Andre oN himself, heart and soul, winning distinction for ‘ age and for every other soldierly quality, While a British force was stationed at phia, in 1777, he met Peggy Shippen, a Tory belle, when the British evacuated Philadelphia he sponded with her from the English headquarters at New York, The Americans occupied Philadelphia. Gen, Benedict Arnold was apq pointed Military Governor of the city. Arnold had done gallant service is the Revolution, Also, he was George Washington's trusted friend. He thought he had been unjustly treated by Congress and that less worthy officers had been promoted over his head. So by the time he reached Phila delphia he had a bitter grievance against almost everybody. re Arnold met Peggy, who enslaved his heart at once, In @ very short time he married her, Skilfully she played upon his grievances, until presently he was induced Arnold's Affection i open negotiations with Sir Henry Clinton, Won by Peggy. British Commander in New York, Andre Orn ® On Clinton's staff there. He was still corres] ing with Peggy. And it was he, under the of “Anderson,” who now carried on Clinton's negotiations with Arnold. Peggy Shippen has been called “The Delilah of the American Revoll tion” for her alleged feat of sapping Arnold's loyalty and helping to tur patriot-hero into a traitor, pie Arnold was put in command of West Point. This fort was not only the key of the Hudson, but also the key to the Revolution. If West Point whould fall the Revolution could not hope to survive, Arnold arranged t@ sell this priceless fort to the British. It was the blackest bit of treason, perhaps, in history, And Jobil Andre was chosen by Clinton to make the final arrangements to consume mate the deal. 7 Armed with a passport, Andre came up the Hudson in the British of-war Vulture to a spot near West Point. There, by stealth, he met and received from the traitor the necessary documents for the He did not come thither as a spy; but, against his wish, he speedily came one, Gunfire from the shore ecared the Vulture away from the where she awaited Andre's return from the conference with Arnold. thus could not get back to New York except by land. Arnold lent him @ horse and he started on his Journey. He was not in uniform. He was rying documents of treasonable information through the enemy’s cow! This male him a spy. For safekeeping Andre hid the papers between the soles of hie feet and his silken stockings. He rode southward, New York, with no mishaps until he reached strip of ground near Tarrytown, which was @ sort of No Man's Land, ravaged by scouting partied from both armies, ” Here he came upon three men who were playe ing cards at the roadside. He hatled them as Englishmen. They were Americans, and they arrested him, Instead of using his wits, Andre tried to bribe them to let him go, They refused, and carried him to theircoms — | mander. Andre was searched. The damning papers were found inside saat Peewee anrecnaateet a Through the Lines to Capture. arr ings. Word of his capture was sent to Arnold at his own request, took advantage of the warning. He boarded the Vulture and escaped to New York. ‘The luckless Andre had saved Arnold, but he could not eave He was tried and convicted as a spy and was sentenced to be hanged, he was led out to execution he turned to the American officers who escorting him to the scaffold and sat 2 eae “Bear witness, gentlemen, I die as a brave man should Nb By Sophie WOMAN came to mo to tell me JX something of her work. She was speaking of what sho in- tended to do at the Laster week-end. She wilt apend tho time in getting re- eruits, "It 1a the day of the Prince of Peace and Lam going to try to explain the true meaning of peace as I see tt,” she sald. “I shall tell them what I think the Prince of Peace would have sald to them were he alive to-day, Summed up, it 1e— to fight for peace that will be sure and safe; that peace with oppreasion Is sought only by the weak and the cowardly. “Lioyd George's appeal to send men, men, men, should be answered and there 4g no time lke Easter to begin. It seems to mo the great mission of |‘peace on earth’ 19 to work for the peace that will be everlasting—the kind the Prince of Peace would have ‘been willing to die for again and ‘again jf he had more lives to give. “And I wish you would say in your paper," urged this woman, “that the great resurrection that !s most need- Jed in tho world ts the arousing of all | the forces that can fight—the fight for peace—that does not pass understand- Ing, but that which is firmly estab. |Mshed in every creed and in every | ianguage. | “Po my mind it ts the one big Eas |ter message, and I am hopeful that many of our women will be enlisted in the big drive for recruits—recruits |for such an army as will bring about |the great aim of our country. Tell ‘your readers to urge the women of Jeach little section where they live to ssgage of ‘Arise!’ It ts Beenie mane onm send the Haster, and the best time in the world One Woman's Copyright, 1018, by the Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Irene Loeb | to be aroused ‘from one's dead self +o better things, ‘There 1s much wisdom tn this wom- an's words, It is the momentous thing of the day. And woman can play her great part in creating the spirit that makes soldiers, The dix battle that Is raging et this momeat should thunder over to us as @ bugle call in the interest of the one thing the world has ever striven for—tne assurance of freedom to all nitions, great and small, Surely there can be no better fight—no greater way to die. The humblest private plays hia fine part in the entire scheme. Every man counts, In truth he counts more now than he ever did. Many people say that we over here are not truly awake to the enormous thing going on over there, Well, then, there ts no Ume like the present—no time to lose. It 1s not now @ question of doing one's best. When all is summed up, we have not begun to summon all of our strength, Summoning strength means for the individual; giving meuns the in-| dividual; meeting the crisis means the | individual. In @ word the individual | must needs meet each tssue of war, 4s hia very own, and then there will be, in truth, @ union in strength and a strength In union, There are those who have sacrificed everything, thelr Lest But there are many, many of us who have | done too lite, Each must put forth | his particular effort, if ali would benefit. It 4s better to die in euch effort than to live in the feeling of having shirked. For, after all, in the words of a worthy soul, "If when in your en- deavor to achieve high purpose you meet with misunderstanding and ap- parent defeat, let your solace be jound in the memory of Him whose mission on earth culminated in alvary¢’ ' beloved and thelr money. NCLE SAM'S navy, which bas hey so often given proof of its valor and which in this war is | playing 80 great a role, had its start 124 years ago, when Congress author- ized the construction or purchase of six frigates, The war veasels of the Revolution had been destroyed or fuel are | sold, and tn 1793 the infant Republic was utterly without a navy On March 27, 1794, Congress re- sponded to this need by appropriat- ing $700,000 for six frigates, but it was thriftily provided that work on the veszels should cease in the event The Birth of Our Navy of a peace with Algiers being secured In 1795 @ treaty was made with that country. ‘The construction of the vessels was suspended, which emboldened the of- | ficers of English cruisers in boarding | American ships and — impressing Yankee seamen into the English ser- vice, declaring that such men as they took had been deserters from the British Navy. Congress then awoke to the seriou: ness of the situation and ordered the work on three of the frigates to pro- ceed, In 1197 the Constitution, the Constellation and the United States took to the water. By 1812, when the war with England broke out, the navy had been increased to twenty vessels. / jremarked Mrs, Jarr plactdly. By Roy L. Tart Family McCardell Copyright, 1918, by the Prens Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World,) with Mrs, Jenkins to-day,” sald Mrs, Jarr as Mr, Jarr was pre- paring to leave home to buck the Jaily bread line, "Mrs, Jenkins is voming in town from East Malaria and will meet me‘at the Big Bargain Bazaar, and then she's coming home with me, She wants Mr. Jenkins to come up from the office with you in the evening to take his wife home. “Fine!” said Mr, Jarr, “What else? “Why, nothing else, only don’t for- get to tell Mr, Jenkins, “Doesn't he know? Jarr. “She must have forgot to tell him," said Mrs, Jarr, "She telephoned last night to tell you to be sure to tell him at the office to-day.” “How could she forget to'tell her husband when she remembered to telephone you? Doesn't he come home these days?” “Now don't be too inquisitive about other people's affairs,” replied Mrs Jarr, “Maybe Mr, and Mrs, Jen- kin: en't speaking.” “If that's #o, if they’re having a tiff, maybe he won't come up to our house to have dinner with us and his silent bride?” Mr, Jarr suggested. “Now you mind your business,” “He'll come all right. It's only when @ wo- man ts kind and too amiable to her husband that.he imposes on her.good nature.” “Well, I'll tell Jenk his wife will de here this evening, but I don’t see why they can't do their fighting at home like we do,” said Mr. Jarr, “Tio a string around your finge: so you won't forget to tell him to come up with you,” sugg ed Mrs. Jarr. “l want the Jenkinses to make themselves at home, for now the spring {8 coming East Malarta, where they live, 18 a nice place to have friends. We can take the children out there and visit when the nig weather comes, and gather violets and pussy willows’— ‘And coughs and colds and poison jvy," sald Mr. Jarre gravely. “How- ever, I'll tell Jenk his wife will be here this evening and we would like them to meet and get acquainted,” fi going downtown shopping asked Mr. “Please don't try to be funny Mrs. Jarr retorted. ‘The Jenkinses get along as well as any married couple I know." “Yes, I guess they do,” said Mr, Jarr, “But I don't want them to pull off any combats in our home," “It's human nature to have differ- ences of opinion,” sald Mrs. Jarr placidly, “L’eople do not quarrel be- —— cause they are married: in fact, 1 think they quarrel! much less when they are. After all, maybe it is be- cause we love #0 strongly that we quarrel at all, I am sure I don't care what people do whom I do not like or am indifferent to. But I am very sensitive where those I am fond of are concerned. Sensitive of what they say and what they do. And that's the way it is with everybody else, I suppose.” Mr. Jarr said he imagined this was the true psychology of marital tiffs. “AN right, then, that’s all ar- ranged,” said Mrs. Jarr, “So when you are coming home, stop off at the butcher's and get a nice steak, It isn't a beefless day, !s It Mr, Jarr said he didn’t think It was. “And get a loaf of bread, rye bread if It 1s wheatless day,” added Mrs. Jarr, “And get some strawberries If ‘hey are not too dear, If they are too dear get grapefruit.” “Why don't you send out for those things yourself, let Gertrude, the girl, go shopping? Why should I come home loaded with bundles like a horse? asked Mr, Jarr indignantly, “To put Mr, Jenkins in a good humor, you goose!" replied Mrs. Jarr, “He's a commuter and has to carry everything home they use from the city, almost, That's what he and Mrs, Jenkins had a tiff about, He stood for everything till she had him exchanging corsets in the city for her —then they had words,” “And when he sees me packing home bundles, right in the city’s heart, it will make him content with his suburban lot, so to speak, and | then he will let his wife forgive him for rebelling?" asked Mr. Jarr, “Certainly! ‘eplied Mrs, Jarr, “Now run along s See DIPLOMATIC APPROACH, LADY in the suburbs was con- siderably annoyed to find her neighbor's fowls continually overrunning her garden and playing havoc with her geraniums, "Go around to the next door, Jane," she said to her new English maid, “and point out to Mrs, Jones that ha fowls bother us a good deal, and ask her if she'll Kindly try to keep them at home.” The girl returned with a satisfied look on her face. “I don't fancy we shall ‘ave ‘em round ‘ere again in a ‘urry, ma'am,” she replied, T hope you were polite, Jane," re- marked her mistress, “Oh, yes, ma'am," came the reply. “‘Missus respects,’ I sez, ‘and if your fowls ain't kept at ‘ome you won't be gettin’ o' many heggs of a mornin’ and we shall be eatin’ poultry!’ "— Christian Regi Lucile the Waitress By Bide Dudley Coprright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) ‘“ 11S place {s really very cos- how the American veterinartans in cs mopolis,” sald Lucile, the, France are taking the bray out of the Waitress, to the Friendly | mules over there,’ “‘*Putting mufflers on, their eh? I says. ii ‘Yes, after @ manner’ comes from him, ‘You see, they operate on mule's nose and then he can’t i Patron, “You mean—?" “I mean people in all walks of life come in here. Some of them are noted and others just of the common clan. But they all conglomerate to make y more.’ . this place quite cosmopolis. Who do ‘They rob him of his alte horn, you think we had in here to-day?” | ch?" I says. “I give it up.” “A famous horse doctor, To look at him you wouldn't never a thought he was so noted. He really looked like “‘Quite so, he says, “The soldiers diin't want the mules to bray secretig to the enemy, Now, I don’t Popa the same operation can’t be . he'd been called and couldn't answer, but it turned out he was some baby in the horse world, No sooner do 1 60 to get his order than he smiles at}I didn't like the instigation at all, I me and says: ‘Like the horse? didn't. But I was quite reserve ““We ain't begun to serve it in here | it. With « cyndical manner I yet,’ I tell him, him one look, Pete “‘You don’t understand me,’ he| “‘Are you trying to tell me I bray? pipes. ‘I meag have you a fondness |I ask. Nese for man's best friend.’ "Oh, not at all) he says, ‘But you ‘Man's best friend,’ I tell him, ‘ls| will admit that some of us talk too the dollar bill. However, since you | much.’ sR | desire to elucidate about horses, go to| “ ‘Yes,’ I says, ‘so I'm noticing? |\t—t like the horse.’ “Well, sir, 1t hit him decidedly aue« | “ ‘I'm @ veterinarian,’ he says. ceptible. He takes a long inhale ‘te “‘Veterinarian of the Civil War?'|spout, but don't. With @ second Pais afterthought he just looks at me ead “He corrects me and I see where |says, ‘Liver and bacon!" I'm wrong. I'm not a veteran, he| “Our talk being over, he say#’ho says, ‘I'm @ veterinarlan—horse doc-|more to me, and really I'm sorry I ve ( ” formed on human beans, “Say, Uncle, dear, I got the ides he was casting pearls before wine at me, | dor, the final curtain down on the show, | “IIe peeves me just a cunning ttle bit so I turn loose my seventy-six | mile verbose gun. ‘Well, we ain't got any sick horses in here,’ I says, ‘al- though I sometimes think Billy, the bug boy there, has got horse in him,’ anted ‘o know more about that operation,” “Why?” asked the Friendly Patron, ¥ “Well,” replied Lucile, after @ mg- ment of thought, “if there was any demerit to it I thought I'd lke te ( Why?" he asks. plain it to the old lady up hi ‘Oh, he's such @ staller’ I says. /You seo, just between you and mie, ‘It was @ good Ittle joke and no won- fold man brays all over the der he laughed, ‘But,’ I shoot st him, |when he runs afoul of a couple of long ‘Lam all in the murky bout why you]swigs of joy juice, I thought told me you are a horse doctor, Spill|/we could slip one over on him, i me the rest of the tale, friend, know, charity begins at home as@ “I was just going to tell you about 'the devil takes the hindmost,"* 6 Newest Things in Science An Alabama inventor's revolver !s|parts of Texas, Arizona and Gals! | practically a miniature machine gun | fornia, P . - rf ) i Jas instead of a cylinder, ita care} 4 0 vty *| tridges aro loaded into a chain of al-! ror ait mobiles pre itte i ener eaae) ieeieea Wiener. ing to the right or left to. indlomeg’ tial : wet aul |the direction a car 1s going to gaee, iw Nearly a quarter of @ century of| or both arrows to show it is abf fae’ # | service has been obtained tn England|Stop when buttons on the a} from an electric cable that is in-| Wheel are press sulated with a specially prepared! paper and carries 10,000 volts, |a method for the removal of |4 a aoe |substances from human bodi(A After extensive experimenting the/|the aid of ex-rays, whereby Department of Agriculture has an-| 2° can see the fleld of opie tgemm with one eye normally, and Ay nounced that Bermuda onton seed) jijumination by the sk} a rays w can be profitably grown in some other, °” ete An Austrian scientist has de!