The evening world. Newspaper, April 6, 1918, Page 12

STARLISHED BY. Published Daily Except Sunday by tho Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to 64 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZPR, President, 68 Park Row, ANGUs SILAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row, J JOSEPH PULITZDR. Jt, Secretary, 63 Park How, MEMBER OF TE ASSOCIATED Pamas, EDITORIAL PAGE Saturday, April 6 Lg ce RLS aR OOH AMM Maretaatiaganal ceetan oes Because of Bad Weather” By J. H. Cassel aera A Yale TS | | a : ms rears f, i i. we ‘ e Stories of Spie By Albert Payson Terhune Coprri ht, 1018, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Lvening Work No. 12—ENOCH CROSBY, the Spy Whom Cooper's Novel Made Immorta * titled to the pee for reyublication of afl Aeapatcere THIN, pallid-faced young fellow was sloucbing along’a ash Pu Fs nas beamfhe-e it~ bn Bresette senonerna Patten lane in Westchester County, N. Y., one day in 1777 LS eed VOLUME 0. 20,682 the Nation begins a second year of war. The anniversary should find Americans in no mood to @well upon errors, delays, shortcomings of the twelvemonth that is| The Reyolution was in full sving. This bit of land was neutral ground between the American Army to the north and the British Army in New York City, It was infested with Torte One of these Tories accosted the young gun-bearer and asked him whither he wasbound. The youth an- swered that he was trying to get to New York to join the British, The Tory warmly applauded this plan,) and took him to @ secret meeting place in the woods where a band of disloyal Americans were preparing past. to march to New York to offer their services to thy we . . English commander there. oe did not go to war like a power that for years od ll deren taltel da A | That night tho young man aunounced he was not had made fighting efficiency its chief aim. Asa peace-loving people going to wait for the others but would press on to New York alone, And ‘Americans met the challenge with full consciousness that they must dtd be en rl later @ Css of eae Arendt nee rn | jurried to the meeting place, surrounded it ang captured every traitor ere. iY train themselves to many new tasks, wet their brain and muscle to The thin youth was Enoch Crosby, a utlonary soldier, home on creating much new machinery before they could ‘hope to deal tho sick leave. Without orders he had gone Tory hunting, and had carried his ; news to tho nearest American garrison. = enemy blow for blow. This exploit won for him the favor of John Jay, head of the patriot Certainly they have made mistakes. Certainly they have stum- rs Ps oie 1 tun Matter Witvine DADEHTCA LE DAA Toor dled here and there, lost time, Preparing a peacefui democracy to A Perilous Honor § as perilous as would have been the gift of a pount s i as Reward, of smal!pox germs. y grapple with a dynasty of professional war-makers is no exact process i aaneaaaannn aaa By order of Jay, nobody outside the commit! ie th Crosby as a Dy, oO to be completed in a month by rule of thumb. Why harp on the was a patriot. Thus bu th wan le oonarant dang ‘ten the Briton ana . w | from his own people alike, In return the committee pledged itself to do # mistakes? Why dwell ais the delays? everything possible for his escape in case the Americans should chance to Look on the other side: capture him. 7 Crosby set forth, carrying @ shoemaker's kit, and travelling as tramp In one year's time a busy, tranquil nation, utterly unprepared for cobbler from village to village. In this capacity he soon learned of a new ° ; ‘ ; ee : rally of Torles—a band of men‘who were drilling and recruiting for the war, has turned itself into a formidable organization of forces applying British Army. The cobbler offered himself as a recrult and was accepted. wer and machine er in ever-increasin He was taken to their hiding place, There, while he remained with them, i muse “power,” money power Pee) , 8 ho easily found the names of the “men higher up" who were engineering the 4 volume to help crush the menace that threatens civilization. affair and the various plans that had been made for strengthening and . arming the band. z Man power? During the past few days have not long columns of One night while he was on guard he slipped away to White Plains and, * ern France, ready for front line positions in the job of rolling up the Tories and his usefulness as a spy weuld be gon: Va - ‘ ‘ 2 Next day a patriot force rounded up the Torte Capt. Townsend, the : great German offensive into a great German disaster? What kind of American commander, ordered the prisoners locked into a church at IMsh- troops? The tst—clear-eyed, clean-limbed, with the indomitable Perea ire cemuaaneee them, A score of armed sentinels were Arive of intelligent Americanism in them. New York has seen euch Word was secretly brought to Crosby from ommittee that a wiry dow in the church would be unbarred at a n time that night. 1 swinging down Fifth Avenue—many of them clerks a few months At the appointed hour Crosby jumped out of window and made a ; : Josh for the nearest woo¢ The sentries fired on ago, already made into etalwart soldiers, admired by British and Oar hilt. But tn the dim light he got safely away. ’ French. No failure or error about them. Week by week hundreds } AA pla i pe isisa aba Botry Hs! py heh ld dienes f of thousands more will take ship. Thére will #hortly be a million of Garner Meantime Crosby had ferreted out another Tory ° : . company which a British officer was drilling in tho | them in France. forests near the Highlands. He joined this company and managed to get word of its whereabouts to the committee. t Money power? 89,000,000,000 the first year of war has cost the Capt. Townsend was detailed to round up the traitors. Recognizing ‘ United States. Of this nearly $5,000,000,000 went to help the Hooked Ini ani tanrorantareaii ey Aleswele cAgsia reel committee eee him a y . Again the committee got him 1 Nation’s allies. The monthly expenses of the Government are now free without rousing suspicion. | estimated at close to $1,000,000,000. During the year the country wom terved unt the end of the Revolution Then he wetiod gowns oversubscribed two Liberty Loans, the first $2,000,000,000, the second }a farmer ‘ Putnam ees N, an : 7 4 5 James Fenimore Cooper is said to have used him as the original of , $3,000,000,000. Buying of @ Third Liberty Bond issue of $3,000,- apace Harvey Birch tn “The Spy." A play was later written around his ad- : cai eran shit et ventures. Crosby's chief joy in life was to go to this play every time tt was 000,000 begins to-day. War taxes aggregating $2,000,000,000 will Sete oem ON aatitan tr NM acted within a hundred miles of his farm, be paid during the next few months. Millions more have been and < —— - = will continue to be found for War Savings and for War Aid. Yet the Fabl of Ev er d a Folk T he arr Fa il K : tt : ty : | t prosperity of the country remains undisturbed. Its resources are ) W y m y | nl ing 1ves nven ors strong and inexhaustible as ever. By Sophie Irene Loeb By Roy L. McCardell | . . Machine power? Though guns and aeroplanes have not been Copyright, 1018, by the Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Breving World ) A Copyright, 1018. by the Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) e W 1e or e nl us ; dale The Big Idea and the Small Town €6] T'S soon the motor boat season, | should not have this apparatus in turned out with Krupp-like speed and efficiency, the reorganization pe eee mei ane ¥ Gus,” said Mr. Jarr as he en-| plain sight, so when asked ‘What is ici Outfit Makes Knit-| stk ana bonedae Th fae i NCH upon ia time there was aior mati his order and it wow! tered the popular cafe on the| that? you could answer, ‘Oh, & more Efficiency Outfit Makes Kni ick and emery boards. In sho ‘ of its industries for war has not been of a slowness that a peaceful man who lived in @ small| forthcoming without bis going nea /oorner, “Ig yours a ai Sai bagatelle’,” inquired Mr. Dinkston in ie Fasi says the Mlustrated World, the d¢- , nation need be ashamed of. What is more, American constructive town, He ee ei peveronelse ws) SPO aa "You bet she is!” said Gus. “She}some amazement, | ing aster. aa go ithe pad ena vou f if ndividual—a very 0 be brief, @ very food business lis fast at the dock and she is fast} “By gollies! You're right!” cried HE war has made knitting eas- | YOUN? Become so abso! a ad energy at the same time managed to perform no inconsiderable ser- progressive —in-|was bullt up in this way and Billlin the mud. By gollies! Sho'o the|Gus. “I always wanted one of them [ Tein these cu ee . | vices in Russia and France. American shipyards must do better than dave Pie Te ornare ee cans seer | fastest boat on the river! Hinge YH ibet Never sores what | % a ee * s Fs sas Py small town). ied “"You’ Jus.” hasn't the business I do here has} his device for holding the bal! their best so far. Yet be it noted that while the British Admiralty man was born |and into larger quarters. ee a dilated iedl pictine oz |thom Mere Bagatelles.” | pili s = | ‘ " tas ,! od ps ” | of wool, picture and) figures the total, tonnage of new British merchant vessels completed and brought up| | His enterprise was now the biggest guess I think up more funny things| “Why, certainly!” sald Mr. Dink- | | F ¥ in this ema!!| Jepartment store in this small town, than anybody else around here. And ston, “And this {s useful as well as deseribed in the Tlus- and entered into service during March at 161,674 tons—a record for town. He hac |and also in that section of the State. 17 oe more jokes about my motion|FHamental. See, I obverve the head- trated World, Chi ; many friends, io. | fo Bill it was a big idea, He had gear of Mr, Slavinsky over the sc | id i the last twelve months, the American output of completed ships for ing of a fovia. | tot been to the large city very often peat I thong WB ec, | Why ots | ee ee) hes Dead cand, dt ja a etandl { the same month was 166,700 tons. Gispoaition, he but he know about the big depart-|'t mY motion boat 1s Uke the crackers} 16. 60a wi annoy you. All | » ’ * : and cheese and radishes over there- y you, your the top of which ; rae drew people to | ment stores there, customers annoy you"—— Be it remembered, furthermore, that during this first year the tan Many times he thought of them and |Deceuse £1) the bume around here exe) ight, You may be a low moasitres 744 Inches | ; . ' of ish pec! ride in it for nothing?" nt. * Government of the United States has taken over railroads, assumed| From the time he was a little boy fee Hy, PANN asolabaraa trae guae “EN bite,” sald Mr. Jarr. “Why {s| life, but you are a smart feller,” said in diameter, It also 4 position in the dry gooda store of he piseay: “B . it is, And every establishment in- the contrivance keeps Al yed, ecause,” said Gus, pausing im-| ,, 4 | tt has overcome troublesome opposition with a euccess that many] the town. He Laeeaei very port In @ word he had the urge and|preasively, “because they will both be eee She heey ATS: Ont, your ball and hank of ‘Americans would have thought impossible in the very stronghold of] *PpeaTance Ane Om mae neaotomer to {Wee ® Man gets to urging himself |free lunches, I. guess that’s bad.| yoy wit remark, ‘What you say 19 yarn from becoming |xnitting some night while viaitin, a . long enough ho acts. Bill did this, | what? 1 foe soiled that it would be too late ft t ocr: y jealous ver 1, . mere bagatelle to me! That will be q or you to vigilant democracy j oe very right the place. Ho wold out his business to a rising) “The ‘a’ being silent, es in| the signal to ine. ‘Then watch it| Thig Uttle device ts | Feturn home, In one year, too, the Nation has got the uppor hand of sedi-| Pretty soon be grew out of this| young man who had been left a good|‘wheese,’” sald Mr. Jarr. “Yes, it's work. " " h ‘e but | >, c = n | not y a ju ne nitty 4 fon, pfo-German propaganda, La Follettism in forms both rampant|>usiness, @# such young then usually }@um of money, and departed for con-| very bad. Where's Kimer? idan Haedle wash’ wala Gun ine only a handy but |Curved Knitting Needles for and insidious. It only remains for it to KEEP the upper hand by a| 0”, and with some aid froin father be | gested areas. “Should it be that I am the boss! sult me, Balvinsky!" he added, au attractive addition | : and have all the hard work with the For that patron was now tinside| to any home Making Sweaters. more uncompromising watchfulness and severity toward enemy aliens.| te own. Ho began tn a small way,|pegan to look about for a place to| motion boat?” asked Gus, “Should 1 and looking Ba De eAarety URVED knitt dl } ’ } hoy e rT ake iJ we 99 ’ yy - stling needles are now } Altogether, considering that Congress and a national habit of }of course 1” & sail shop near ta plant his proposition, worry and break my back down at| ‘I can't say anything so quick,"|2his “Shell” Loaded With being manufactured for yt ! A , ; jain street. Aa is the case in suoh| All the fin ' : a ey i oll | obi ( panute : 4 publicity would instantly be pronounced two impossible handicaps by u Pe dee orcs Meta we ms he had dealt with| the river, while my bartender he has | remarked Mr, Slavinsky, ‘But never | Your Knitting | convenience of persons making ; h 1a’ best Aan uthorit j 7] town, al § Reon . were ready, of course, to help, for|it easy here playing on the cash reg-| mind, you know what I always think | 3 sweaters, or other t eo wore 8 greatest modern authorities on the art of making war, the] ‘give him a Sname ; So they patron: | here was 4 new possible revenue. He] ister and polishing the brags and | of you,” } ROBABLY to remind knitters| large articles ° United States has not used its first year so badly. ued ue oe sige nei meats nts had much advice from them as to] giass? Ni I have hired myself} “Work the machinery!" cried Gus, | that they must hurry and fin-| Each needle ; , F no went on, he added ow to go abot . * " "ie : In that year, among shifts in the great conflict which have dee ae to! ; how to go about things in @ larg®/as bartender in Wime:'s place and| I can't remember tho woids!" elr sweaters for the sol-| 2vout 20 ’ & 1a Ceply |) tepartment here and a little depart- | way, - wr ; h thelr h sate } . de” Fime! present of the motto: vher Mr, Dinkston made sh | long, a eencerned America, two stand out: (1) The bedevilment and with-| nent there, and almost ail the needs| It would take a long long time 10 | maa bear me pr t the net n Sneaey blak made e ru ee a oar cour. ith fh Bi ae . ia 1 Tekh sei ° oy > of Bill’ se 20 is down by the river | wit ck at Mr. Slavinsky an eine straight a drawal of Russia; (2) the failure of Germany's U boats to accomplish] i mag eriood re foon cen- | tell the ors of Bill's endeavors, HOw |i eaxing his back trying to get {t| that gentleman was borne out into| bit of knitting para- the Fem ainda? ; n Bill's shop. He saved money,|he opened a sn | | j what the German war lords swore they would accomplish. tet . ae red money, | he opened a small store, thinking he | +. ed. Now, go on out of here, and| the street and dumped into the gut-| phernalia, illustrate bent into a grace b P * but usually put it right back into the | would begin modest and grow; how : tae | atic ie Russia’s defection made America’s part in the task longer and| oustness. difficult it was for him to secure fo. aus before ou come ta Just wtat I wanted!’ cried jie. Penner MeshaRe In’ thie ‘illuetration y ‘This last command was 8 4 u tae. 3 nen designed lustratior herder. The U boat failure, forcing the German military power to] One day ® salesman came along | 'TAde, as he had 60 much competition: | i te Mr Jarr but i leas ‘How lovely to give everybody the | © has been designed from Popular Me an immediate supreme effort on land, has radoubled the demand upon|*"4 made oe stion to him, (The how, hare ty. mas ip make prices 12 | Angelo Dinkston, who was making a| UM'S rush now I have the bag of| in the forme of a shell. jehanios, This he United States for sped salesman had much goods to sell). Juccordance with the bigger stores, | spectacular entry at this moment | °!8 =) ali | Only, this shell comes leugth affords : A ‘The suggestion was that Bill reach | Who bought in larger quantities; how alte a taierhaslaa Nana teak — apart noiselessly, for enough space so At this moment, then, speed ‘s the wore out into the surrounding 1 his few customers secured from the ! ; WOULDN'T NEED TO, | that the work 7 be ‘ eerie - uM one of those tilted barrows with emal! | the top holds a ball! | ri i For executive heads in the War and other rtmenis, for labor eee an Lage » oye aps aoe Renae ng Aina 4 nue Rao iron wheels in front that longshore- AT walked into the Post Ofice. Jot wool, while the | Reed ; not be n factories and shir t plan te a well known one of reaching | him for a little time, then told him! men and freight handle : After getting into the tele- | : re , crowded. It is saic f : ta the munition factories and shipyards, it means work. For goldiers people who cannot come to your| NOW much | henper the gould buy jean nd f° undlers are ad tiene Lot Me called a winn,| body 19 a cabinet form Ge os ee i ining camps it means readiness 088. ere; how impossible he found ed to. ‘ litesee cane cate! Sab apes | wm ine traning Pier eerete ae hired the fn rry pis customers from home; | Fastened to the hand truck was a| "Umber, As there was no such num. | ti@work, ‘Tho entire cree and nly operated aa straight For millions of other Americans it should megn to-day concen u ine Sen wee Bee Tnont tc in eee] [acne frayed mattrms that eridentiy | DY the switch atiencent oid not an- | contraption is. made pee : a Neen apt to he Bib ‘ 1 ; 3 7s hia new source of business, The| were in comparison the smal 5 ewer Sim. Pat shouted again, bi , passers-by | tration first of al] on the progress the Natior 2 5 ree y ome | was once part of the equipment of a gain, but| of mahogany, i eeerath erating aft Lib ton has made during the} salesman agreed to shaw him what | Place: and how when he hadn't ready | ity orgy recelved no answer. | Eee > : } firet year’s handling o its mighty task, with a resolve to get behind could bo don and secured a month's |ie did at home, where he wes weil | ‘This"" replied Mr, Dinkston, “this,| The lady of the Post Office opened | Hold-All Knitting Bag MOST VALUABLE TREC end push harder every minute. ante of abse re oe 7 % hy The} known. Even when he appealed to | Gus, is a mere bagatelle.” the door and told him to shout a lit- | ERE is a bag to vie for first N alligator pear Ww * - salesman made goo © had > his very nds at ho i. 4 ’ 5 c! $ jane h 1 ye eit itt Why mourn over pest mistakes? Rather be contident they have| mma ‘ante, Boe: ad a very| hia very oud friends, at howe | for paid Gus. “I often heard ot| tle louder, which be did, but still no place with the popular knit- Cal., 8 probably the most war been noted and their lessons built into stronger ass sa af ating customed to rur mm rites it | of the hazard In the large city, ‘em, bug never seen one before.” answer, ting bag. There ts not only | uable ¢; tre . pid ronger assurance of quocom, jSuetemel 18 rural communiting To make a long fable short, Bil| “Lt ts an indispensable adjunct for| Again ehe sald he would require to| plenty of space for the aweater you | It is insure ai More than ever at this moment w national movement] "aan t innk Orr hd the | just saved enough out of tho deluge | every well-conducted cate.” | Speak louder, are knitting, but the bag comes al-| Lloyds of London for mast be forward at double quick. ne es at 1 \ heli of) 1a Soma Back one bes n again. | ‘What good is tt to met” asked| Pat got angry at this, and, turning | ready furnished with the following, | year it produced 3,0 t udiin, V's delivery | He at le ad courage and Wasla. way bar is | to the lady, sald: each in its special compartment: One means of increasin, ) t ay: [service was arranged and every: able to face the future fer a new | GUS “My ba bods is put down in| J each compartment: | aging the grower 5 rtd. z 1 day eon ph ote aco yy ei iored start. But he learned this mc the cellar from outside, 1 don't need| “Bexorra, 1¢ I could shout any | Nightgown, talcum, washcloth, soap,|also produced $1,500 worth f ; Buy a Third Liberty Loan t a teeertata n days, All! ‘The big idea in @ little town Ja but [it louder I wouldn't use your bloomin’ pins, hairpins, powder puff, tooth |wood, making @ total MI n ‘0 do was to telephone @ germ of an idea in the big city. “Do you mean to tell me that you] ould telephone at all!”—Tit-Bits, paste mirrom, tooth brush, orange! $2,000 for the yoar, production ef q { FORE ” eentrol of industries, established food and fuel dictatorships and in general centralized the functions of government to meet the needs of war. Yt has done al! this with a degree of smoothness and despatch, he was somewhat of a leader. When ne went to schoo! he originwted many thinga, such a8 forming little clubs, &o, After he graduated he secured launched tnto @ amall enterprise of his ‘big idea into the big city, If it could be done here, why not there, he argued, and saw himself on the top of @ skyscraper, master of all Bill put his money in the bank and your motor boat that your customers expect to ride in for nothing like crackers and cheese and radishes they expect to eat for nothing?” Gus, “Well, then,” Mr. Dinkston went on, ‘I lurk in the apartment adjacent, with the ejectory apparatus, for such has a small peg on! each side to hold the hank, By this means