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en ee — wn Dever EDITORIAL PAGE @] Aer URetitetes Monday, April 8 |Why Soldiers Marry | By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by the Drees Publishing Co, (The New York Ereaing World.) J . H., Cassel aby 1 oes Pabliabing Oo, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, of ma Reet ded by the Press Publishing Company, Now, 63 to 6 bark Row, New York. RALPH PULITZDR, President, 63 Park Row, 63 Park Row, tary, 63 Park Row, NEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. | aii Pree ja x rvsiled 10 Ter toe elerntos credlind iS" Uhis beret nnd'aiss te local ‘weve Published berwens eee alinaetatasadainiaaaiai VOLUME 58....... cece eceeeeseeseeeceeeeeeees «NO, 20,684 ., IT WON’T WORK TO WESTWARD. UST a little over a year ago He was SO bored, and biase, and “cynical,” and girl-weary! Dear me! And he had NO illusions, you know, about love—or, ‘That “two can live as cheaply as one.” And he kept the telephone busy saying “No,” sweet ly and politely, ‘To all the dear young things who pursued him with’ flattery and invitations to dinners and dances and) week-end parties, i ! ‘ ‘ ; ; W ITHOUT referring directly to the recent utterances of the | Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister, President Wilson managed, in his speech at Baltimore turday, to knock squarely on the head the insidious Czernin suggestion that obstacles in the way of an early peace might be narrowed down to Alsace- Lorraine and a few other territorial complications in Western Europe. With a wider gaze and a finger pointed at another part of the map, the Pre lent dwelt upon the war lords’ shameless exploitation of Russia, with a warning that if Germany, feeling its great offensive in the West has failed, “should propose favorable and equitable terms with regard to Belgium, France and Italy,” we must conclude it to be done only that German-ambition may assuro itself “a free hand| én Russia and the East”: Their purpose is, undoubtedly, to make all the Slavic peoples, all the free and ambitious nations of the Baltic penin- sula, all the lands thet Turkey has dominated and misruled, subject to tl ir will and ambition, and build upon that dominion an empire of force upon which they fancy they can then erect an empire of gain and commercial supremacy an empire as hostile to the Americas as to the Europe which it will overawe—an- empire which will ultimately master Persia, India and the peoples of the Far East. No such Teutonic “empire of force” shall be permitted to develop on this earth. The principles of liberty and national sclf-determina-| tion for which the United States and its Allies are fighting shall be defended and established without compromise, That is this Nation’s answer—in advance—to any contemplated proposals from Vienna and Berlin sions in the Wost for Teutonic domination in the Kast. is preposterous and impossible.” Force, force to the utmost, the righteous and triumphant force which shall make right the that try to trade Teutonic conces-| “Tho thing! force without stint or Mmit, law of the world and cast every selfish dominion down in the dust. That is the response the President makes in the name of the United States—though without affixing the specific, official addresses—to the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister and those who, direct him from Berlin when the attempt is made to turn attention from German arrogance in one quarter by a parade of promised Ger- man conciliation in another, The Central Powers had better get it through their heads that the statecraft that works to the eastward is no good when they try to turn it west. “ ed SUNDAY BASEBALL. A the Senate at Albany last week. MEASURE permitting local governing bodies in this State to allow Sunday baseball, providing no games are played on that day before 2 o’clock in the afternoon, squeezed through How the bill will fare in the Assembly remains to be seen. At @ time when persons inveterately impelled to dictate and control the personal habits of others are finding national emergency of first rate assistance in forcing legislation of the sort they have hankered after, further struggle. week they are free to seek them, it it is a safe guess that Sunday baseball will not get by without a A better, safer, healthier way for boys—or their elders either, for that matter—to get exercise and recreation on the one day of the is hard to imagine. If New York! youth of this generation never did anything more ungodly with its| | } Recording the ILL WESTON and his chum Peter Newcomb kept bachelor quar- Experiences of A Young Girl of Thirty By Wilma Pollock Coprright, 1918. by the Press Publishing Co, (Tee New York Evening World.) The Romance of the Wrong Young Man met a man so gracious, charming, handsome and Interesting, He invited me to go to dinner the hext evening, and every night for a My Matrimonial Chances The Jar By Roy L. Coprright, 1918, by the Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) 66] ]NIFORMS!" muttered Mr. U Jarr. “Uniforms!” He gazed again down the quit resi- dence street. There were soldiers in khaki, sailors in blue, and even Albert, the popular and refined street sweeper of the block, in the natty white duck of the street sweeping brigade. A few aslckly trees lining the r Family McCardell said Mr, Jarr, “I’) vance at the office.” As Mrs. Jurr had just about nine dollars tucked away in the stocking safe deposit Mr, Jarr alluded to, she did not greatly object. Nine dollars wouldn't do much toward purchasing male attire, anyway. “It's dreadful that one has so little get a cash ad- he knew, course! freedom and his peace of mind, And vowed HE'D from all the others,” And then, America declared WAR! Mess him! And profoundly pitied his ol4 claemates, who fell by the wayside And were led up “the white-ridbon aisle,” one by one. ver “tie himself to one woman—and untie himself And that all ¢he comforts of a Club we And he thought “EVELYN” the sweetest, finest gir) And honestly belleved that she would make ® dandy wite for some nice fellow—some OTHER fellow,” of But, as for HIM, he though! he'd never marry, Because he regarded marrige as @ “trap,” and « “gold-brick,” and » “hitching-post,” and a “lifewencence at hard labor’—and all that! And looked on every waattached woman as an “allen enemy” to bis « good enough for HIM! And being a “regular fellow,” he Jost no time.in getting into khaki And all of a sudden, something seemed to open up in his soul, and his pose of cynicism dropped from him like a cloak, and the whole world looked different! And he began to think of France, and of how far, far away it was, And to feel awfully lonely and awfully sorry for himself! And, in camp, he mot some of those “other fellows,” who had “passed ‘up the white ribbon aisle,” And saw them getting letters from “home,” and “Her,” And dreaming gloriously of coming back all covered with medals and glory, to SOMEBODY who adored them, ‘And would weep over them, and pet them, and feed them, and coddla them, and BRAG about them, and lonize them! And it occurred to him that they were going out to fight for something dearer and greater, even, than an abstract ideal, or world-freedom! And that nobody—except his tailor and his haberdasher, and perhaps, his favorite waiter. Would care whether HE came back with medals—or didn't come back at all. And he had shuddering visions of EVELYN “walking up the white rip bon aisle,” with somebody ELSE—~ A rich civilian with a motor-car, or @ gorgeous oMficer with gold stars on his shoulders! And before he knew ft he found himself vowing that she should never “eacrifice herself” like that. And asking for leave, and hurrying back to her, with a scared, little choky feeling in his throat, And the next thing, he was DEMANDING that she marry him that day, and that instant—as soon as they could get a license and a parson— | and before he was “called!” And, after that, he doesn’t remember exactly what happened, Except that he gulped through the ceremony somehow—— And, now he {s GLAD that he did it! And he {s going to be “Somebody's Boy,” over there, stad And he knows that there is SOMEBODY who oares, and who will work, and wait and pray, night and day—just for HIM! And he wonders how he ever could have been that poor, pathetic, dull, posy thing—a “Cynical Bachelor.” And why it required the great, white light of War to make him eee that Home, and LOVE, and loyalty, and “somebody to belong to,” Are the greatest and eweetest things in the world, After. all! Camp Comedies By Alma Woodward Copsright. 9, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Daylight Saving. Scene: Camp Upton, i Time: Evening. } Sunday afternoons than to spend them a \ ters, 1 had never! whol t ither took me out,|*ewalk across the way seemed to| money for anything, with Liberty | ‘ a ee Mcasanteaed poor t baseball, what a hope for| | met Poter, but| called on nee co artanned some eheia| be waking to llfe and new uniforms| Bonds and Thrift Stamps to buy, and (Two boys are deep tn a game of checkers, ‘A third is poring over the It would seem that communitibs in this commonwealth of free- born Americans might be left to create Sabbath restrictions for » themselves, But in view of the strange influences now potent in and around Will always told me how attrac- tive he was and how much wom en admired him, But a few weeks ing party, low happy I was! And how secure! But of course I always knew that when I married it would be some one very wonderful, I was completely exhausted from of green tn honor of the spring also. “If I could even get a commission in the Quartermaster’s Department I might get a uniform and have some- thing new to wear too,” murmured Mr. Jarr. all that,” said Mrs. Jarr with a sigh. | “I have an {dea that if the stores gave Thrift Stamps instead of trad- ing stamps it would help." “It would help a great deal,” re- plied Mr, Jarr, “Maybe they will sporting page of an evening paper.) B (stretching)—It's the spring, I guess, We miss grandma's eul- phur and molasses. A fyawning in sympathy)—That's in the east. Guddenly a penetrating bugle blast rends the camp quiet. Faces appear at barracks windows, looking out, blankly, Here and thera 4 : a figure stumbles th rway legislative bodies, we shall not bo surprised to hear that the war ago Will com-| late hours, but a girl who ts courted! “Pleaso don't talk to me of some- orencanuly, but, sais oa bg uae of the ae Laser pages and approaches ae ee 7 lained that Pe-] accord! oyle should not mind! thing ne~ to wear!” remarked Mra.| Stores give you Thr mps for ‘ 2 cannot be won unless the State of New York ects its face sternly tere aai ao pene cel Bere a oe Jars: who bad cverheard bis marmurs| change,” USD) Reying ‘Srunhs T18) BOF me OR ao Pac betdog p tir bed hades : against Sunday baseball. “lionger a gay Lotharlo. “Now,” said] Last Friday I expected Peto, Mad,|1ngs, “If there isn't any other way| “Get your muit at one of those | out St pind: 605 boost AIL Lae for mine! Some oe ae ae | L wi —~| Will, “he is developing Into a bridge] and Jack for 7 o'clock dinner, 1 was|1. get spring clothey except to dpe then,” said Mrs. Jarr, “Re- | Somehow, ery m LJ bal in blazes do you mean by blowing e ers es at Petato Prices, Evening ' I read your article about eating J} more potatoes and the 15,000,000 From the People with nice, comfortable quarters and elegant meals down South for the duration of the war 1 getting on the fiend. He has a game almost every night. Our place will soon be pinched, and there's no rest for weary Willy, The trouble is," Will continued, “Pe- ter hasn't been seeing snougb girls. preparing everything alone and was very nervous, Fearing I would not be ready, I telephoned Mad not to come until 7.80, Then I called Peter and over the wire sounded his deep the army I think I'll enlist in a woman's regiment or something my- velf, I only know that with every- thing getting higher except your sal- any, I personally see no other way to member, the children are saving ‘Thrift Stamps, and so am I.” “I think I'd like a uniform,” re- ;marked Mr, Jarr finally. “I've wanted to do my bit, too; and it blow revellle I say to myself, “You poor nut, who're you kidding?” B (smiling)—It's got my goat, too. I feel as though I haven't caught up with myself yet. It's harder for you “taps” at daybreak? C (stammering)—I—er—1, B (coming to his ald)—Perhaps this Daylight Saving stuff has rat- tled him too, Art, Quick—grab the " ih 4 “ | seems one can't really believe one 18| though because you're bugler, nerves of loyal Americans. ‘They I can't drag him out. voice anxiously saying, “Operator,| get anything new to wear this ° 6 bugle; bere comes an 1b} dushels that cannot be sold for 15) pooon mt ve Amen Minne tae “Oh,” cried I, “let's give him a sur-| this Ine ts busy. Please keep off."| spring!” |doing one's bit unless one has a unl-| q (pointing to the boy reading) |, pri ofticer—biutt ; cents a bushel. Where were all those! tobe an alien enemy and get all of| Prise party some evening!" Next, a baby-blue voice cooed “Peter,| agome day, my dear,” said Mr,| frm on.” Charlo, over there, ts Just wild to! Omcer (coming up)—What's th j Potatoes last winter? Here in Yon-| those oasy comforts and freedom from | “Great idea!” Will agreod, ‘“There| darling, 1 wanted to know if you real- * . ch don't think you should g0 to/ now revellle some morning, Says od kere © workingman was lucky 1¢ he| work and worry instead of beating villa tesa CAP oa La aK ‘had them once a week. Many a time the brunt and burden incident to war. are always eight or ten chaps at the ly intended to marry that Constance Uncle Henry may die and leave us war!" cried Mrs. Jarr, “Let the} hoe used to be fancy bugler in the A (apologetically)— It the United Staten Government | sPartment during a bridge-fest, I'll] Somebody, So I Just had to telephone |i, money, and then we will both have | Sckers go, let tho pacifists go, let/ vinage Symphony Quartette of Keno- | nis Davitent maven ae on e may family had to be watiatied with) oroecty to win thie War ond rant |have Okt fix the refreshments, You ” complete new outfits of clothes at the | ‘"® German sympathisers go—but) .,., wis, although he's out of prao-| got mo all—- pean a one potato, sometimes two, at dinner.|the co-operation of the people, it ia|invite the six peach! creamlest arry Constance!” said Peter. you have a family.” We had to get used to getting along with small portions and must atill continue to do so, Patriotism is all right, but why were the farmers not patriotic enough to let the poor have them at reasonable prices? 4 YONKERS RBADER. What We Sheuld De With Allen high time the policy of “kid glove" handling of allen enemies was dis- continued, Ww. FLL Says Potatoes Sell Too High, ‘To the Patttor of The Evening World; On your editorial page you had article about fifteen million bus! Of potatoes going to waste in Arnos. girls you know, Get Madelane Rivers for the chaperone and we'll wake up good old Peter, But be sure tho girls are young and pretty, for Pete is @ regular crank.” Mad and I corrafied sx very alluring flappers, Then, as long as Poter only “What an absurdity! I thought you bad dropped me, dearest, for Charlie Frost. So I quit. Constance helped me out of the blues, But neither of us ever entertained such a ridiculous thought as marriage. She's not in love with me any More than J am same time for the first time tn our domestic history.” “You do need a new sult of clothes, that's gure,” said Mrs, Jarr, “Ag soon as the children leave the room I'll see how much I have to spare—but we all need new clothes. Little Emma just ruined her best school dress playing | “It wouldn't be a very effective or] loyal army if you reotulted it,” said Mr, Jarr, “Something strenuous / | Should be done to strafe the gentry | you apeak of, but we don't want them in our American Army; our Amer!- can jails are good enough for them.” tice now, B (slapping his knee)—Well, why don’t you give him a chance at it to- morrow morning? You're tired, It'l) make him happy—give you fifteen minutes more on the hay—and nobody will know the difference, ‘A (grabbing the fdea)—It tsn't the Officer (sternly)—I want to gee’ you in my quarters! B (as victim ts led away)—Now spill it, Charlle—what on earth got into you? C (on tho verge of tears)—I prac- tised so much last night my Ups and! Enemies. 1 bt” replied tongue got all sore—so this morning took County, Maine, becauso the | cared for very young girls, 1 wanted] with her. I'm coming rigbt up, little les," “I suppose you are right,” replie fittcen minutes so much—tt's just the | When I woke up I couldn't blow auee the Rattor of The farmers couldn't sell th to back out myself, But Will insisted] sweetheart.” ‘ Mrs, Jarr, “But it seems too bad that) t! f getting fi thing faster'n “taps” ; ES of The Kreving World jem for 7 cents Li ‘ “Playing marbles! A little girl] satisfaction of getting free of tt for pa"—and I didn't I wish to compliment you om the|PeF bushel. You say potatoes are so| that he would need my help, Simultaneously with Mad and Jack ying Sirl!our brave and patriotic men should| eartoon showing “An Alien Pnemy Stabbing Uncle Sam in the Baok.” ‘This ts right to the point, and it is a plentiful and cheap that Americave should go back to this admirable arti- cle of diet. Here in Mount Vernon We have to pay from 46 to 66 cents a ‘The arrival of eight unbidden, un- known fair visitors certainly sur- prised Peter and his friends, 1 expected to be a sort of chaperone. arrived vicgram from Peter saying he detained for the evening and would explain later, Days have gone by without a word from him. He is probably too deeply playing marbles?” asked Mr. Jarr in surprise. “Yos,” said Mra, Jarr. “AN the ittle girls play marbles and ell the other fo to war, and those creatures be} safe from danger, Still, I don't see | why you talk of wanting to wear a | uniform just because you need # new | one morning. But I'm afraid I'll be “called” for it, B (reassuring him)—Who's going to be the wiser? Everybody's got too want to fall down altogether, so—- B (earnestly)—Say, Kenosha lost some ivory mine when she lost you! _ Bi. that the Dig newspapers de not | ocx tor potatoes, and they are of| But although the other men bussed| !2, love with his doll-baby ever to! boy gumes these days. Boys play| sult of clothes.” mien: aleap ta Falk xem And te fs How Dust Causes Fires, publish more of this sert of pictures such poor quality that we b about the debutantes, Peter gave his think * me gene. But I have ti | nothing but ‘Fighting the Germans,'| “Well, I do!" Mr. Jarr declared.|folng to poor rube PONTANEOUS combusti Sie Fee fice WaAsior 10 AID 0 GAN? | ac et ae artes Te ne te ee eee ately to me. Nera teat action of Knowing why I lost| sng, as a matter of fact, the Mttle| "I'm over the draft age, and my boy | happy— caused, #0 the chemists tal ce ernment wake up to the seriousness |. turers claim they cane soem | girls play that with them, too, as Red|!8 a good many years under it, but,| A (suddenly)—AN right—I_ will, by floating particles of x tell us, of the situation, The only thing that | ony g bushel, but if ah SESE Wg Cross nurses and ambulance drivers, | the truth is that while I NEED a suit | (Calling) 5: e! Come on of coal dust a fair-minded man oan criticise the Government for regarding its war policy is its “pussy footing” polloy of , virtually ignoring the menace from alien enemies. Turning loose convicted eriminals } simply because they are sick, yet well enough to automobile in the parks in ‘the daytime and promote pro-German Propaganda at night; stmply “slap- ping on the wrist” Austrians caught carrying bombs on ships and eim- them and tried to buy some they would charge us the retall pricy. If they would advertise tn the papers, quoting prices, I dare say they would | get rid of thetr entire holdings at a| fair profit, instead of holding the potatoes for a bisher price and then having them left on their hands to rot, If some responsible farmer | food grade of potato: IT would be OMB safety hints for the wise whioh are intended to guard against serious accidents and a possible loss of life, are being sent out broadcast by the electric ight companies, says Popular Science Monthly. From thom may be selected the following: Do not cover en eleo- would quote me @ fair price for a | tric globe with paper or cloth, It may | start @ fire, Do not hong an ordinary “Don'ts” for Users of Electricity touch any wire that ts down on the ground, whether it is an electric, tele- phone or guy wire, In an emergency, remove @ wire with an instrument equipped with a wooden handle, keep ing the full length of the handle be- tween your and the wire, —— FIFTH AVENUB POTTER'S FiELD, HERE were four pottor's fields, at one time or another, alon, In fact, the whdle world has changed with this terrible war and the chil- dren have changed with it. The only thing that stays the same !s that we must eat and we must have clothes, and, as I said, I'll seo what I can spare for a suit for you,” “Oh, never mind digging {t up when the children leave the room—waiting for that in deference to matroniy modesty that still survives despite jof clothes, what I really WANT to | wear 19 a uniform!” | “Of course you do!” said Mrs, Jarr | proudly, “and I know that's what) levery REAL American man {9 think. | | tng these days” | ——_~____. LESS BLINONESS HERE, HE total number of blind per- sons throughout the world is roughly estimated at 4,300,000, over, I want to tell you something, (rolling off his cot)—I'm coming. A (smiling at him)—Say, Charlie, how'd you like to be bugler to-mor- row morning? C (wild with Joy)—Say, do you mean it, Art? Gimme the bugle and I'l go off Into @ corner of the woods and polish up a bit. A (as C disappears with bugley— It certainly beats all what some peo- or other Inflammable material jost- ling and clashing against one an- other until the friction they set raises their temperature to nition point, says Popular Sclence Monthly. If this explanation ts cor. rect, It would appear as if such fires could be prevented by perfect ven. tilation, Such, however, is not the case, for ventilation may actuany help to bring about fire by spontane- ous combustion t up the ig- Alr facilitates 9; | . | 4 Joy int datic lly Ker only too glad to give him an onler,|JAmp cord over a nail or motal work, | Fifth Avenue, The |the world being turned upside down the United States having something| ple fin ation, really fanning the w ply supplying German spies, pay- sad 3 know of @ number of orhers Do not Joave @ cord connected when | were located where vasslartan ee --tho habit of carrying the money in over 67,000, Bilndness Is less common| (The night passes on lightning|/ino a blaze, Keep air tan ~ , mamere. frebuge ond agenouing that would do Ukew,. in vou em: through with i, De metiaod Madiaon Oquare ara now, anne DMA 1 the stocking, oa to spank,” | bere than in moss athe counttion, wings, Sireake of silver aray break! quiet to avoid fmm, _ * ae a!