The evening world. Newspaper, April 4, 1918, Page 16

SO ee ee ee ay eine ne Heemeiete Tt a ile Hh ee OOO eee ——EEI™~S ee eee eee “ - << 7 She Epeniny Wiorid, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Publishes Daily Except Sunday by the Prees Publishing Company, Nos. 6% to 63 Park Row, New York RALPH PULITZER, Preside J AW, Treasurer, aR, Je US Sb —— JOSEPH PULIT: MEMBER OF TID ASSOCIATED Pitt Associated Pros is exclusively entitled to the nse for rembiication of all dervatrinas on RO Re cee eg te nar Raters EAR K-« — VIA VIENNA. C pretty well recognized that his slyness is the slyness of Berlin. If the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister could stir up trouble among the Allies by hinting that France had been angling earncetly for peace, and that her obstinacy about Alsace-Lorraine might be the only obstacle in the way of a happy gathering around the peace table, it can readily be understood that Berlin would ri such 4 situation as offering distinct elements of hope after a breakdown of; the great German offensive in the west. This would not be the first time Count Orernin hes performed the delicate functions of a “feeler.” Only om this occasion it is deemed safer for him to check, or at least to cover, certain currents of thought in the Dual Kingdom by a declaration of Austria-Hun- giry’s undying devotion to its desperate partner: We are fighting together for the defense of Austria Hlungary and Germany. Come what may we will not escrifice Germany's interests any more than she will leave us in the lurch, The only anewer to this, if it were necessary to make one, would sbe a reiteration of Allied purpose to stand by France to the end in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, and to remain eqnally firm in the resolve that all dictatorial spirit ehall be definitively hammered out of the German war lords. If the Kaiser and his counsellors count on following up Count Czernin’s utterances with another German peace proposal, they need not reckon ou a war ravaged atrip of French soil to support them in taking the usual Prussian tone, The decision is not yet. ———__ ++ +_____— | The election of a Republican Senator pledged to unre served eupport of the Nation’s war programme vouches for Wisconsin, despite ite vote of 90,000 for a Geclalet candidate who demanded “the withdrawal of American troops from the invasion of Europe.” Wisconsin still goes with the Union, a THE ACCUSING GARBAGE PAIL. HATEVER may be the difficulties of enforcing such an) ordinance, New York Aldermen show themselves awake to. urgent need in working out a measure which shall make it) possible to fine or send to the workhouse those who waste food. The city is not proud of thriftlessness like that disclosed by the} Health Department in its investigation of the garbage pails of well- to-do homes on the upper west side of Manhattan. ‘Two hundred pounds of eatable bread in loaves and part loaves thrown out in one day, fifty pounds of breadstuffs, twenty-three pounds of vegetables and eleven pounds of meat discovered in the garbage from 400 apartment house families in a single street, con- stitute a severe indictment against a section that ought to include New Yorkers among the most intelligent and patriotic. At a time when the Nation is depending upon every ounce of food its citizens can eave, to throw away good bread, meat or vegetables is nothing short of a crime. ‘These are not the old days when extravagance and waste in cating were foolishly regarded in this city as the sign and proof of prosperity, when families had a sneaking dread of being rated by their neighbors according to what they couldn’t afford to throw into the garbage can, Sterner times are here. Food saving is the first fashion. Noth- ing is “worse form” than table and kitchen waste. It shouldn’t require a $50 fine or ten days in the workhouse to genvince any considerable number of New Yorkers that throwing | | OUNT CZERNIN is a sly dog. By this time, however, it is) {‘‘Such Ano | Thursd nother Victory and We Are U EDITORIAL PAGE » April 4 err ndonel” By J. H. Cassel 2h By Sophie MOTHER wept in telling me the story of how her boy got into trouble all because she had not kept her promise to him. For a long time she had promised to «et him something !f he did certain things for her. But she aid not keop ‘her part of the agreement and the boy sought away good'food is stupid and vulgar as well as criminal, Oo 1 “Crernin lied."—-Premier Clemenceau, e | Highty economical check to the Austrian peace drive. — Oo oo “WITH NO SIGN OF PANIC.” T HAPPENS again and again. | I But every time it happens it deserves to be apecially noted] as a etimulus for devotion to a safoty measure which has saved) this generation thousands of lives. This time it was in Public School No. 69, at No. 184 West 54th Street. Fire in « closet under a etairway filled the four floors of the} building with smoke at an hour when 1,600 pupils were at their| studies in its classrooms, | Thanks to the discipline of the fire drill, the whole 1,600) marched out through the emoke to the street in perfect order and without a vestige of panic, And in this caso a score or more of erippled children were helped out by the stronger ones aooording to a programme which the latter had been taught for such emergency, Full praise for the public school fire drill and for all teacher; keep it constantly at top notch efficiency and readiness, eS Shoes cost $88 @ pair in Hungary. They trail in the U. 8. A 8 who ve hit the same Hits From Sharp Wits Most people would rather blame a -M™an for what he doesn't than give him credit for what,he does.—Chicago News. thrift stamps they would raise the price to thirty-five or forty cents on account of the war.—Toledo Blade, o 8 8 “Does your wife keep you when you're out #0 I “The later I am, tho surer she ts have somet! dinner for A woman takes her husband's name or Just as neturally as she takes every- thing else he has. Binghamton Press.) . . hot waiting for me," wnbla (8, C.) State, oe \ “To rise o not to rise," you ask} Be sure you are right, but not too yourse! sure that every one els yrong.— At the break of day; Chicago News die bibin ses But the little hen debates tt thus: eee “To iay or not to lay Memphis Commercial! Appeal. | where credit is due, wee Ut spot cash Is hicago News, It may be all right to give credit! that which he wanted from other sources. “He ie not a bad boy,” watied the mother, “but it is all my fault, As] look on it now, most of the times he disobeyed was due to the fact that f had not kept my promises. I know now what a terrible mistake tt was.” MH is one of the truths that have dean proved by long experiences, One of the greatest means for encourag- ing loyalty in the dh!ld and stead- fastness and backbone ts to keep promises made to him, Promises that do not even seem to the grown- up to have any e@ignificance are of momentous importance to ohtldren. ‘They think about thom and build on them, and then when the promise {a broken they are not omy met with disappointment but with disbelief in the person who has promised aud failed to make good. | Jane Addams, the well-known soctni worker, tells many @ story of ‘hia failing on the part of the parent or guaniian to keep faith with young people, One of the marked incidents set forth by Miss Addams ts the story | of @ girl who worked tn a department |store and who had to give all ner | money to the care of the family. The girl was In Kroat need of @ pair of shoes, but every penny had to be used by the mother in (he care of hor Uttle household, and the girl wors her Keep Promises s Children Irene Loeb Copyright, 1018, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brentng World.) shoes until they were full of holes. For several weeks the mother prom- ised the «irl that dhe should have tho shoes, Dut something came up cach woek and the mother did not keep her promise, In heer desperation and shame of wearing such torn shoes the girl finally secured the shoea—but through a means that was terriMy regretted by both the mother and girl. I know another young woman In better circumstances whose father was well to do. He had to go away on @ tong journey, and he promised his daughter that ff she would take care of things while he wae gone he would present her with a little house —one that she toved dearly—and fix tt #o that it would always be her very own, The girl worked incessantly while her parent Was away, and took care of things eo well that everything en- hanced in value. But when the father came home he spoke something like this: “You have done fine, my dear; but of course everything is yours along with the other children any- #0 why not let things be a ‘The gin’s hopes and plans and am- ditions were shattered, and she could not tn ber disappointment readily forgive her father. She left home and went to work for henself—to work out her own salvation, It was dith- cult, because she had not been ac- customed to hardships such as ehe had to endure, She lost her health and became a wreck, and when hor father wanted to make amends it was too late, Young people are very susceptible They will never believe tn any one who fails toem. ‘They dislike to be fooled and soon lose their interest and faith in any one who disap. points thom ad ‘The vital thing is to make no ° tse to children unless you can keep them. More Than 750,000 ROM the arrival of the British tei Expeditionary Force in Belgium ay in the late of 1914 down to the present time the motor- cycle has steadily gained in impor - tance in different branches of the military service, Its use hay not been restricted to the Allied arp he nmer tes. Motorcycles in War [French had about 11,000. Phe Ital- fan forces up to the present have 10,000, according to recent estimates, says Popular Solence Montuly, It has been figured that more than 760,000 motoreyeles have been in use for military purposes by the bellig- erent powers since July, 1914. This Many ‘a man gets tn on the ground floor only find that the elevator} You gotta remem this: If you don't ruaning.-P nia rord.’ plant a garden you won't have 90 much back yard to i“ mow. bi HM the profiivers had control of the Commercial Appeal. , mee phis |best quthorittes place the number of | motorcycles employed by the armies of the Central Powers at the time of the Ba of the Ms © at 18,000. The British had at least 40,000 in ser vice in the apring of 1915, wuiie the] all, does not include those at p: jthe United States Ar prior {Wa mor ery to the Ame than pe our entrance in Arm t have ines In ps 160 ma The By Roy L. Jarr ache ——— Family McCardell Ooprright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) “N OW you #re mad at me for something that wasn’t my fault at all, and I suppose you won't speak to me for a week,” remarked Mr. Jarr, sadly. ‘Well, it's ‘the last time I'll do any one a favor!” “Do you call it doing a favor to keep me waiting and waiting for you, and to have that Mrs. Jenkins here re- proaching me because her husband didn't show up?” asked Mrs. Jarr with some ascerbdity, “She blamed you for keeping her husband, and after Mrs. Rangle and Clara Mudridge-Smith had left here Mrs. Jenkins took the last train home for Fast Malaria and we'll never be invited out there this summer!” “What could I do with Jenkins?” asked Mr. Jarr, “I'm always the) goat. IT had him on my hands telling | me all his troubles, and he wouldn't | come up here with me. Said his| wife was mad at him and would only bless him out, so he took « train | home.” “You might have telephoned, least,” said Mra, Jerr, “I couldn't get away from bim 4& moment. I had to watch him,” Mr, Jarr explained. ‘THe was sore at the world and liable to say something that could have been construed as se- ditious and then all the barroom pa- triote present would have mobbed us. You know how those suburbanites drink?” “Yes, and T know how some men | who are nut suburbanites drink also,” replied Mrs. Jarr. “But we are going at to have prohibition and that will close the drinking places, thank goodness!” “We did start to come home,” said Mr. Jarr moodtly, “But Jenkins had an armful of rose bushes that he bad bought at a downtown seed store to take out to bis little place in the country and plant, You can tmagine what happened in the crowded atreet | cara at the rush hours to a man who carried an armful of jagged rove bushes?” “Bspecially if the man was jagged too,” said Mrs, Jarr sweetly. ‘Well, wo got put off the car, of course,” Mr. Jarr went on, “and then Jenkins insisted on going out to bis | home in East Malaria, for on the wuburban trains, he said, @ man's right to carry an armful of rose pushes og @ gigantic cactus, or a pet porcupin® that he might be taking | home to the children, was respected.” This story of the rose bush was aj fable of a quick imagination and an old memory, but it bad its! born effect, ' ee nn é [yor the big-tom “Do you think he got home all right with the rose bushes?” asked Mrs, Jarr, ‘I know he 4!4," Mr. swered, now spinning a veritablo mesh of lea, “I put him on the train myself, and I put most of the rose bushes on the seat beside him, but [ stuck a couple down the back of his neck when he fell asleep. So when the conductor or brakeman awakened him at East Malaria the rose bushes down the back of his neck would re- mind him of the others on the seat beside him.” “But suppose the trainmen didn't wake him at his station?” said Mrs. | Jarr, “Oh, but T know they did,” replied Mr, Jarr, “for I left a call for him with the brakeman of the smoker. Besides, commuters of the Jenkins! type are so used to sleeping the ex- act distance to their own stations that they wake automatically, or else | rise and walk off the train !n thetr sleep, them.” “Well, I suppose T whould be angry at you for the way you have acted this evening,” satd Mra, Jarr, “But T suppose It was all the fault of that Jenkins, I'd rather it happened that way than to have you bring him home here when he was drinking, for that awful gossip, Mrs. Rangle, was here, and so was Clara Mudridgo-Smith, and even if you hadn't touched a drop, as you say you haven't, there ts no telling what they would have had to say about {t. Anyway, maybe we will be making a fortune out of the war, as a lot of people are doing, and then we won't need to know suoh People.” “What's this?” asked Mr. Jarr, eur- Prised at the statement as well an at the temperate view Mra. Jarr seemed to take of his coming home so late, "Are we going to knit ammunition here at home, or anything like that?” “No, we are not,” replied Mrs. Jarr. “But Clara Mudridge-Smith says the Government 1s buying all the big plants in the country. And you knew what big ones my mother has, Now taking their packages with is the time for you to make friends with her and sell them to the Gov. ernment Everybody should do their our mother has some but--oh, well, never mind,’ added Mr, Jarr weakly, thinking It best to leave explanations to another day, — AN UP-TO-DATE SHOE, Although it looks from the outside noe, n ment oth one nv @ any ted i ngland has a separate cox Jarr an- Women in War By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by the Prose Publishing Co Sew York Brening World.) | NO. 6—BETSY ROSS; The Maker of Old Glory FEW years ago adout million loyal Americang | raised the sum of $25,000, to buy and maintain @ | narrow, little, two-and-a-half-story cottage at No, 388 | Arch Street, Philadelphia The plain lNttle house is a shrine, for in tts quaing back parlor Old Glory born. The house, 141 years ago, was the home of.a Quaker widow, who worked as an upbolsterer and seamstress, She was Mrs, Elizabeth Ross, History remembers her lovingly as “Betsy Ross.” For centuries, the various flags of England had waved over our land. When we declared our inde pendence we had no regular fiag of our own for our new-born country. Massachusetts troops carried a white flag with a green pine tree on it, New York's armed ships flew a banner bearing the device of a beavery South Carolina had a@ rattlesnake flag, &c Presently the Revolutionary Army adopted a flag with thirteen alternate red and white stripes, one for each patriot colony, and with the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew on a blue field in one corner. But there was hot protest against using these two Hritish cross designe on an American flag, so Congress appointed a committee to plan a Na« tional banner, The coat of arms of the Washington family consisted of a shiel@ bearing dive stars and red stripes. A modification of this coat of arma one was was decided on by the committees as the device for our country’s new flag. A rough sketch of the design was drawn. Them the committee carried this sketch to Mrs. Ross'a | § Aid of Mrs. Ro shop to have a flag made from it which should Ja Requeste serve as a model for all others. | Mra. Ross was a meek Quaker, but she had | some very decided ideas of her own, and she did not hesitate ng these ideas before the committee. After a glance at their sketoh she led the delegates into her back parlor and then proceeded to point out certain errors in the design they had shown her, Chief among these was the fact that they had drawn stars with six Points. These stars belonged to Hnxlish heraldry, but Betsy explained they did not belong on an American flag. in their place she suggested fives pointed stars. With a folded sheet of paper and a pair of shears she filustrated her meaning by cutting out a star which had five points. The committee ao~ cepted this and other amendments ehe offered, and they left her to sew tha flag. In @ day or two Mrs. Ross proudly handed over the completed banner | to the committee, unfurling to their gaze the first model of Old Glory. " | before Congress formally adopted this (on June 14, 1777), Betsy was kept | busy, day and night, sewing flags ordered by enthusiastic patriots, This forma! “adoption” by Congress read as follows: stripes, alternate red and white; that the ‘union’ be thirteen stars, white, in @ blue field, representing a new constellation.” | , Congress also placed an order with Betsy for « ———rrerr > New Fog eee H job she received 14 pounds 12 ghillin and of Stare, 2 2 pence, and the appointment of official flagmaker for the Government. | ton Crossing the Delaware.’ In this picture the Father of his Country i@ | depicted as standing up in the boat, while near him waves the American | flag. Washington crossed the Delawaro in December, 1776. The Ameri« picture has often been pointed out. \ It is now claimed that “Washington Crossing the Delaware” was painted by | Leutze in Germany, not in America, and that the Rhine, not the Delaware, | for the Continental patriots In Washington's boat. One of these atriots’* | in the picture is said to bear a striking resemblance to pictures of Fred« [erick the Great. Bachelor Girl Reflecti | By Helen Rowland i Copyright 1018, dy the Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Prening World ) | “RESOLVED, That the Flag of the Thirteen United States bo thirteen set of flags for our country’s tiny fleet. For this A German named Leutze Iater painted the familiar picture of “Washing« joan flag was not even designed until the next year. This blunder of the | 1a the river he depicted. Also, that he used German soldiers as his modela | a a Paar, eee VOW of eternal love on paper {s worth two on the spring moon, A bride needn't hesitate to invite al! of her husband's old girle to dinner—but, if she {s wise, she will refrain frou inviting any new ones. | | | | The woman whom a man finds {t tmpossible to re sist is the one who can glance at him in a way to give bim a warm thrill one moment and a cold chil! the next, The happlest wife 1s one who regards her husband's follies and faults through a diminishing glass and hig perfections through a microscope | Did you observe that sad, set, “curfew-shall-not-ring- tonight!" exe Pression on the average man's face the first few evenings after the clocks were set forward? No woman expects to find a lover who reseuiwi ing verve she sees on the stage, but sometimes she does fondly hope to find a capable, devoted, respectful servant who resembles the ones she sees there, Why 1s it that, no matter how much a man thinks of one gir) |help thinking a lot of others at the same time? he can't The enthustastic admiration with which a man talks about his new motor car has tempted many a girl to marry, in the hope that hw would feel the same way about her, Men don't deliberately “go into matrfmony;” they s! {t when they have lost contro! of their steertug gear inply “skid into Nothing spots @ man's memory #0 quickly as @ habit of promising things to @ woman. Simple Test Detects Glucose in Fruit Preserves in fruit LUCOSE prese e discovered t 5 fottow! ( test, described in Popy nee Monthly phen ef in teaspoonful should 1 ed in two tables ¢ ST name tained in a glass ves- sel. In the case of jam or marmalade the same proc ts carried out, but ft ts necessary to filter off the solid matter by running the mixture through a piece of muslin, Allow the solution to become 38 p ly cool, and jthen add an equa! |volume, or a little |more, of strong alco- hol, If glucose 1s present a dense |white precipitate slowly settles down, Where no glucose has | been employed there ts no precipit | sediment of proteld mat be mistaken an adulterant in supposedly pure preserves for extra profit, named isn ’ ©