The evening world. Newspaper, April 3, 1918, Page 18

i aa ne ec © Celhianfienes smo - es : f : \ Per >) York vote m favor of the woman muf- _help to deal the enemy a smashing blow—at the time the blow will ) potatoes went to the high mark in) any ore pemannneer ameremnanneeRaaea sli ‘ tae Wednesday, April 3 | HED BY JOSE! ay by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to Bark Row, New York. LITZDR, President, € ANGUS SHAW, Treamtre H PULITZBU’ Jr, Secreta: MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PNTSs, he Arrested Prose jn enctnslvely entit) for remmublication of all newp despatetree eretitng hor ot Orberwue erediicu in tale Lager and aise the local news puliated herein, | VOLUM PedeccsecavdonvevecsedsvevccececssNOy 20,679 THE DIRECT ROUTE. ESIRE to keep intact the American fighting force in Europe yields to the imperative need of applying the full power of the United States with utmost speed and directness. If American Army units are to be brigaded with British and French forces, Americans at home will realize that it is because in that way this Nation can best help to strike on the western front a Siow sufficiently hard and swift to shorten the enemy's term of endur- ance and aggression. , American pride will not get in tho way of American clear’ headednons: Here are the Germans committed to « gigantic effort upon which thay have staked the most of what remains to them. Much as this effort has already cost them, they may be prepared to keep it up for Weekes and months in desperate hope of victory. To annihilate that hope now, in this present battle, to hurl back shattered German armios to o dismayed dofensive, to convince the war lords that German troops have made their last advance, is the Allies’ strongest chance of hastening tho end of the war. Whether the battle lasts till June or till November, the weeks immediately ahead invite the Allies to summon all their strength and put upon a Germany exhausted by its present thrust a pressure that shall prove decisive. If it is to be decisive such pressure must needs include all that the United States can bring to it. A million husky American soldiers rushed from tho training camps of this country to the British and French lines may do far more to lessen the ultimate cost of victory in lives and sacrifice than could the same million kept here until their training was complete and they were ready to be sent as distinct units against an enemy , by that time might have recovered his balance and repaired Me to. At the same time it is fully understood by tho British and French Governments that the formation of a distinct American Army in Europe is steadily to continue, also that partly trained American troops merged in British or French divisions are to be regarded as the inaterial of that American Army in process of preparation. As the official British announcement puts it: The Government of our great Western ally is not only sending large numbers of battalions to Europe during the goming critical months, but has agreed to the use of such of Its regiments as cannot be used im divisions of their own being brigaded with Frenoh and British units so long as the neces- eity lasts, By this means troops which are not yet sufficiently trained to fight as divisions and army corps will form part of sea- soned divisions until euch time as they have completed their training and Gen. Pershing wishes to withdraw them in order to build op the American Army. No American pretends for a moment that he would not rather see an integral American force fighting the Germans under the Stars and Stripes, as one of the great Allied participants in the conflict. No one pretends for « moment that it is going to be easy for American soldiers to fight any other way. But here is the test of American determination, of American adaptability. The Nation has not the two million or three million of fully trained troops it needs to meet the emergency. Nevertheless it can mean most-—by hurrying its man power to the front and getting the final touches of its war training beside its Allies on the battle line, ‘American pride trong. American pride, however, will not stand in the way of getting into the fight with speed and thorough- ness to save the lives a long-delayed decision must cost. 2 The women street car conductors who have been a marked success in New York this past winter are confident they can do just as well on the running boards of the open cars, ‘Thero will be natural misgiving about telling them to try it, When it comes to balancing on a foot-board, ringing in fares, taanaging the'stop and start signals, and clinging to a fast moving car a!) at the eame time, it seems distinctly not a ‘woman's job. But it fs also true that women in Europe have abundantly demonstrated their capacity for handling almost any man's work when the man ts needed elsewhere. —_—— <4 = With Secretary of War Baker in Rome the Italians have another chance to impress the United States with Italy's desper- ate need of coal, It would seem that last year's German drive in Ttaly might have shown the unwisdom of keeping a deaf ear turned toward this Ally. ; we Letters From the People iment Carri 074,006 to CMS.0. Did the voters of the State of New Qny appreciable reduction, what is true of New Y. other large cities, Induce hotel and reataurant keepers to go back “to 1915-16 prices and there will be more force in your argument and you wili find that the people will eat more po- tatoes, If they eat potatoos with Probably ork is true of frage amendment inet Election Day, and what wes the amount of votes cast for and against it? G. 3. Asko Restaoran Redace Potato Prices. We the Biitor of The Frening Word: moat, fish or eggs they will not eat so BLL. P, much bread, Wants Unfriendly Al ‘To the Editor of ‘The Bvening Recording the OR @ year or more Sybil Brown had been extolling the virtues of Rich- ard Hughes, the young architect who made exist- ence so pleasant for her. Dick was one of Bob Brown's most in- timate friends. And as the limit of Bob's endurance, by way of an en- tertainment, was a comic opera, he was glad enough to have Dick escort Sybil to the “high-brow stuff.” Although Sybil often told me I would agree with her that Dick was @ wonderful “find,” she never made any attempt to have us meet, But whenever she saw me she would in- quire about my matrimonial prospects id repeat the friendly advice that 1 “ought to marry.” One day not long ago Darwin Yorke, the millionaire with a wife and half @ dozen daughters some- where west of the Mississippi, invited Sybil and mo to tea at one of the big hotels, Mr, Yorke remarked: “Miss Con- stance, why are you so cold-hearted? must be dozens of fine young pining to marry you. When are ng to invite us to your wed- Sybil immediately chimed tm, say- ing, “I toll Connte all the time she ts foolish not to marry," And, jokingly, I said to her, “Sybil, you always tell mo Dick Hughes is such a ‘find’ Why don't you fix it for us?” She was candid enough to announce right in Mr. Yorke's presence, “I can't 1 road a lotter in your p. 0 por headed “The Allon in Our Midst, man of 5 birth, who, years in this country ts not T uote your ed@!torial urging people) to eat more potatoes. [like the sound of the editorial as addressed to the but you mits the Important! yet @ citizen and who, if drafted, will in New York City. If youcould|@ppeal to the Swedish Consul. The inaue hote! and restaurant keepers} °Dly remark I can make about that to go back to the old prices for po! man is that we do not want him as logs you would do some good, When | ® itlzen of this country, and if I hy bing to ay regarding such re I would land him on a boat and ship him back to the place he came I sorry to that we bles of other 1916-17, resteurents that furnished potatoes froo with a moat or fish or- det commenced to onarge 10 centa| f #24 20 cents for one potato, This when potatoes became cheaper | Swedish nationality as well hotels fae Learnt. forgot | nationalitie prices or make AMERICAN OF SWEDI8H BIRTH, Experiences of A Young Girl of Thirty By Wilma Pollock ‘Copyright, 1018, by the Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World,) The Architect Who Built His Own Fortune | Sho said to Dick, “Mr, Yorke wishes to talk to Constance, There ls & charming young girl who has been wanting all evening to be introduced to you.” Dick, of course, went, and—beoutl- ful as Gloria Kilgour was—brought her back to where Mr, Yorke and 1 were sitting, after they had danced only once, Wo had all been talking for a few minutes when Dick sald to me, “I might as well write down your telephone number now, so that I will surely have it." Gloria immediately and very cor- dially invited Dick to call on her also, and volunteered her telephone num- ber, which ho took, Dick had already asked if I would let him escort me home, I went off to get my wrap. When I returned Sybil was talking to Dick and I heard her say, “I am giad you like Constance. She's such a nice person. She sup- ports herself teaching kindergarten, And is not Gloria wonderful? And only twenyy! You've certainly made an impression upon her. Her parents intend to build a palace at Bar Har- bor. I know they have not yet decided on an architect.” Dick left that night, assuring me he would call soon, Two days later I saw him riding up Fifth Avenue in a limousine with Gloria Kilgour and her mother, Soon after Sybil Informed mo that Dick was to be the architect for the Kil gour'a new Bar Harbor home. And now Dick and Gloria are engaged, But 1 still belleve that Sybil could have managed a match between Dick and me if she bed not been determined to keep him for herself, Somehow that affair was bungled, Dick nover even telephoned to me. And I do so ad- | mire architects! let you mect Dick, g need him too much my ‘ Sybil had arranged an impromptu |dance in honor of Mr, Yorke, He | dances atroci must be hu usly, but enjoys it and yred on account of his wealth, Dick Hughes had not been mv d, But luck was with me, for |he unexpectedly arrived. We met in and 1 spite of Sybil's precautions, girl he oticed, We were very co! nial and spent hours together, He kept asking mo why I had not let him know me be- tore, During one of the intermissions Sybil happened along with Mr, Yorke, was the only 1 Inch—100 Miles | 4EPHONE experts declare that | if a person speaking over | phone holds the transmit four inches from his mouth it is equiy- alent to adding about 220 miles to the line over which he is conversing, says Popular Mechanics, Care. lessoss in the manner of using a telephone instrument is ono of the common causes for indistinct trans- mission, The best results are obtained by allowine about half an inch to in- tervene between tho mouth and the transmitter, a Over There—Over Here! ban | Luve been home to supper, were play- 1 ty Te Pra (rte New York EANWHILB, at the Jarr home, Mrs. Jarr and Mrs, Jenkins watted for their recreant hus- %, Who, all the while they should int Kelly pool for Thrift Stamps. ‘If we had known they would not com» home together as they prom- {sed,” said Mrs, Jarr angrily, “you and I could have gone to a cabaret or something!" “It would serve them right!” Mrs, Jenkins assented, “I've half a mind to do it anyhow!” But it was only half a mind, spite the wider vision of women since the war, despite their entrance tnto broader activities, the old feminine in- stinct of having a man around to pay the bill still holds, Something of this was in Mrs, Jen- kins's thoughts, for 6 lded, after @ moment's reflection, “If I only knew of a place where we could charge tho check to our husbands, we'd go out and dine somewhere!” Mrs, Jarr knew of a place where she could charge it to her husband, but she didn't feel called upon to so entertain Mrs, Jenkins, “Should we telephone Mrs, Rangle and Clara Mudridge-Smith not to come over?” asked Mrs, Jenkins, who suspicioned Mrs. Jarr know of a place, “If we were out at my homo in Hast Malaria and Mr, Jarr didn’t come home with my husband when you were there, I'd take you to a road house—-a very gay place, they say it is, but I don’t care!” ‘This was passing the buck to Mrs, Jarr, but that lady stood firm, “What excuse could we give to Mrs, tangle and Clara?’ Mr arr asked, “They'd think It so strange, after me telephoning them to come over Just a sew minutes ago. We haven't had dinner, Let us eat before those wom- ‘en come, and never mind our hus- bands!" “We'll have to epeak to the men tf they do come home while these wom- en are here, won't we?” asked Mra, Jenkins, who saw her hopes of being taken out to dinner at Mrs, Jarr's expense go agiimmering. “Yes, they are both such gossips, Mrs, Rangle and Clara Mudridge- Smith, 1 mean,” replied Mra, Jarr, “But, oh, dear, I wish your husband hadn't taken my husband off with him.”" “My husband didn't have to coax Mr. Jarr, Im sure!” said Mrs, Jen- kins, with some asperity, But before one word could lead to a whole lot De- | My Matrimonial Chances!) The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1918, by the Pros Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World,) “Where is Mr. Jgrr and Mr. Jen- kins?" were tho first inquiries of the newcomers, “They've been detained downtown in conference regarding some large war contracts,” remarked Mrs. Jen- kins with rare presence of mind. “Ob, that dreadfu! war!" gushed Mrs, Mudridse-Smith, “MY husband says that a patriotic business man is not appreciated, If he does take War contracts he Is re 1 with suspicion as a profiteer, and if he doesn't take them the Government ts Mable to ¢ hd His plant?” repeated Mrs. Jenkins. “Yes; my husband says it is his belief that the Sovernment will take over every large plant in the coun. try before tho war 1s over." mandeer his plant “Rubber plants, do you think?" asked Mrs, Jarr. “Yes, my husband said rubber plants too to make tires for war trucks and ambulances and airplane wheels," sald Mrs, Mudridge-Smith. “Some people lose money when their plants are taken and some people make money. But my husband says he'd lose money.” “My mother has more success with rubber plants than anybody I know of,” remarked Mrs, Jarr. “They al- ways wither and die on me, but she has one that has grown so big it reaches to the ceiling of her bow win- dow." “The Government will take it from her then,” said Mrs. Mudridge-Smith, “and if your mother resists she will be fined and they won't pay for her plant till after the war 1s over. That's what my hn and says. He'll have tc give up his plant, and he knows," “Do you think I should telephone my mother and tell her to hide her big rubber plant in the cellar?” asked Mrs. Jarr, “But of course if the Government pays her well for {t”—~ “In that caso she'd better be patri- said Mrs, Mudridge-Smith. And ‘all the other ladies regretted they had not raised rubber planta too in the time of the Nation's need, So OBLIGING MAN, URRYING to the side of the conductor, a passenger eagerly inquired: “Do you think that “Oh, yes,” answered the conductor, “But suppose,” suggested the thirsty passenger, “that the train should go on without me? “We can easily fix that,” promptly replied the conductor, “I will go of others, Mrs, Rangle and Mrs, Clara Mudridge-Smith arrived. along and have one with you,"—Ar- SODA ty Copyright, 1918, by the Pres Publiehi T was the first night after the clocks had been set ahead. And all the clocks in the house pointed to halt » And while I trotted around fix and performing al! sunrise, another hour, he exclaimed blithe! “Want to hear Curel—or somethin, But | raised my eyes virtuously “What? Oh, no! It's BEDTIME,’ “Pshaw! famished. It's only half past 9, And he eat there and pretended t meal like that, And desides he wanted to finish only 10!) And after while I heard him tra And I said, “What are you doting, And he answered casually, “Oh, | shave in the morning if we've got to And then I heard him turning open fire, “Marseillaise,” and taking books off And after about an hour I called “Oh, no, you're NOT! I'll tell yor ald and comfort to the enemy! But in the morning When the alarm went off at the paper wouldn’t print it. “At @ PATRIOTIC hour. And goodness knows I'm grateful For I do love my “beauty sleep,” And heaven knows I NEED it! Is inwardly gloating in the same By Bide “cc ELL, I suppose you're help- light,” said Laetle, the Waitress, to the Friendly Patron, as he took bis usual seat at the lunch counter. “Yes, I turned my watch ahead,” he replied, “I guess {t's a great thing,” she went on, “but it certainly bas been causing a lot of conversation around this beanery. They was a fellow in here this morning who was simply full up on the subject. Them kind al- ways falls to my partition ,of the counter, somehow or other, and I have to listen to their prologues. This Jone I speak of decides on Irish stow and then says: “Well, what you golng to do with your extra hour? “‘Oh,' I says, fictitlously, ‘I guess I'll lock it up in the safe along with the hard coal.’ “He gives a hoe haw and says: ‘You understand the scheme, don't you? Well,’ I tell him, ‘I wouldn't con- sider myself sufficient to do any lec- turing on the subject.’ “Tn explain,’ he says. ‘You see, you take an hour off the efternoon and put it on the morning, Then you got one more hour of freedom ip the afternoon and one more hour of work in the morning.’ “Oh, I see,’ Leays, ‘That adds two hours to the day.’ “Oh, no,’ be says. ‘Thé sun regu- lates the length of the day. Now if we had a modern Joshua to make the gun stand still your argument would ve sound.’ “‘Like the water along Long Isl- and,’ I chirp, feeling in a laughable mood. “What do you mean?’ “‘It's Sound,’ I says, “Don't do that,’ he tells me, ‘I don't belleve you ever heard of Joshua.’ And then he threw down his pipe and said bitterly, Anything to eat in the foe box?” And then I went into the kitchen and hunted up a lot of cold things and set out an elaborate lunch for him, again, and prowling, and prowling, and PROWLING! “Oh, what on EARTH are you doing now?” And ho answered sweetly, “Oh, just reading.” And then I sat up in bed and retorted bitterly, And every married woman I know Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World,) st 10. ing windows aud p ng up pillows the little “last afds to beauty,” HE sat there gazing gloomily into space And looking as though he expected to be shot at And I could seo that bis mind was groping despare ately around in space for a “good excuse” to sit up fom ‘And suddenly his eyes lit on the phonograph and a Caruso record, Dear—or a Gall st” and answered, and you KNOW it! Besides, I'm > eat as long as ho could, And then he declared that he COULDN'T go to bed on top of a hearg reading the morning newspapers (And all the clocks in the house pointed to 11—but he KNEW it was mping around, , Dear?” just shaving! Won't have time to get up at that unrighteous hour!” on the shower and poking up the and scratching matches to light bis pipe, and humming the the shelves and putting them back out impatiently: ju what you're doing! You're giving “And the Kaiser would be perfectly dee-lighted if he knew that you were burning electric lights at this time of night!” And after that there was a dead silence, And then he came in and kissed me good night and tiptoed off to his | room, And ten minutes later I heard him breathing gently and peacefully. , NEW time I heard him turn over and groan, and say——— ‘Well, I’m too much of a lady to repeat what he sald—and anyway thé And every night since then he’s gone promptly to bed to Uncle Sam. { way. But WHY does !t always take @ “longtange gun” To shake a man out of his little habits? i Lucile the Waitress Dudley battle and he knew that if he could get a lite more daylight be could win, So he ordered the sun to stand sull and it did. ‘Then Jushus went ahead and won his fight.’ “Just then @ voice behind me says: ‘He's got ‘em. You better humor him.’ I look around and there's Lily, the towhead from the ple counter, ab« sorbing the debate. For once I got the idea Lily was right. “'That's nice,’ I says to the man, ‘It's a pleasant day, ain't it?’ “You see, I @ot the notion he'd soon be telling me he'd just sold Cincins natl, or something Ike that, He trowi “Bay, in here?’ “ ‘Sure!’ I says, ‘or we wouldn't be here, “What's place?’ “Come around some day when you want to spend your extra hour and Til tell you all about it,’ I says, ‘How's things up at Danny Mora‘s?’ You see, that’s a bughouse up-State, He finally tumbles, “‘Say,’ he says, have you got the idea I'm vacant in the lott?’ “I just says: ‘Well, ain't you? yu he says, ‘are you all crasy the matter with the ‘Well, then, extricate that Joshua stuff, will you?’ I says. ‘If you're solng around spilling tales about the sun standing still I won't be the only one that thinks you're crazy, My name will be legend.’ “It stops him, He eats his stow mildly and goes out just as meek as the fatted calf," “The Joshua story 4 you very much, did it #riendly Patron, “Why should it?’ demanded La- cile, “Everybody knows the sun ain't taking no part in the fighte of mankind, Now if he had a’ eald the ‘t impress asked the “Well, he probably never heard of ‘I says ‘So that makes it fifty. “ ‘Joshua,’ he says, ‘was fighting a earth he might a’ got awa: ‘The earth does recolte on its atest it might a’ stopped through phinominos, but believe me, boy. ¢ gun's on fixed post. I got all that when I studied arithmetic in school,” HE criticism which has been ma‘e a in recent years regarding the too great height of school seats also applies to the chairs in the home and office, according to persons whg have been giving the matter careful study and who have mado practical tests along this line, The average office or home chair, it is claimed, is so high that when occupied by a per- gon of medfum stature or less the front edge of the seat presses against ‘the limbs, causing more or less pro- ‘pounced congestion of the blood and Inefficient? Maybe Your Chair's Too High nervous irritation, with a correspond. ing loss of efficiency, says Popular Mechanics, Ono person interested ia this question shortened the logs of a number of chairs in his home and de. | clared that the increased comfort of the family completely justified the rather drastic measure. When one is seated and tho fect are flat on the floor the chair should be sumcleatly low, It 18 said, to lift the limbs above the front edge of the chatr to permit the open hand to be inserted botweem either limb and the chair spat, |