The evening world. Newspaper, April 15, 1918, Page 14

re i ee eS ee ee eee ee eee ee ee ——e- —————— ESTABLISHED BY Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to 63 Row, ‘JOSEPH PULITZER, New York. BALER FULETZER, President, 63 Park Row, US SHAW, ‘Troasurer, 63 Ps |. AN "ark Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr. Park Row. EM exc: “! ER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . i ot eR ea pd entitied to the for repubi of st) Jeanatenree (th sla teaches VOLUME 58.... SE fer and Gisele cal ‘neve pried herein: NO. 20,691 THE TURN. | ITH last week passed a dark seven days of the war. May it) prove the darkest, | Continued German gains in Flanders, the furious con- centration of German attack upon the British, the appeal from Lloyd George for more man-power uttered with an urgency that eeemed| compelled to risk even the chances of Irish rebellion, uncertainty as| to ths existence of Allied reserves in strength sufficient for a counter thrast against the enemy—all added to the tenseness that has pre- vailed since the beginning of this greatest of battles three weeks ago. | Then on Saturday came Field Marshal Haig’s special order to all ranks of the British Army in France and Flander ‘With our baoks to the wall, every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. Straightway the British line stiffened. The German advance wes checked. Neuve Eglise was retaken. In the neighborhood of Bailleul, of Meterin, of Locon, of Merville, of Festubert, German attacks were beaten off. While further south the French smashed their way ahead between Lassigny and Montdidicr. At this writing there seems strong reason to believe the turn has come and that the German offensive, having been halted at points where its concentration appeared most threatening, can be dealt with as a force that is steadily losing the advantage of its initial momen- tum. The battle will go on. But either the Flanders coast or the destruction of the British Army must seem to the German High Com- mand to be rapidly receding hopes. Most significant and encouraging of all news is the British cas walty list for the week ending April 12. The total of 8,129 officers and men killed, wounded or missing may be large compared with the weekly lists of last month, but it is strikingly small compared with totals of 27,000, 26,000 and 23,000 for the weeks of British fighting in Flanders during September of last | year. Thege British losses for a week in which the British Army has had to stand the flercest assaults the German war chiefs have yet directed against it, bear testimony to the skill and economy with which the British have yielded ground. There is no indication here of anything in the remotest degree suggesting rout or disorder, For Americans at home last week was the heavier by reason of the lengthening casualty lists from American headquarters in France and from the probability that American troops would be insufficient — to bear alone the brunt of German attack on any extended ‘ron! But here again the news of what American forces northwest of | Toul did to the Germans in a first all-day encounter last Friday, repulsing two attacks in force and inflicting heavy casualties upon the enemy, with only slight losses in the American ranks, comes to thrill the country with confidence and pride, A brighter, better week has begun. Here in New York the skies signal the change. Under the clouds and anxiety of last week this city ran its ‘Third Liberty Loan total up to nearly $240,000,000. A billion it ought to be in the next five days. Over in France the lines are holding. Back them to the limit for the counter-blow CRS Pia With scarce a word of kindness and not one of praise, un wept and unregretted, the Legislature has shut up shop and shuffled forth from Albany. So far as its work 1s concerned, | the commonwealth {s chiefly thankful for what this Legislature | ‘Was scared into not doing. But the pressure of public opinion | | | as not enough to prevent the old sordid rush of extravagance and petty grabbing for handfuls of the public money at the end. A war session of the Legislature of the Empire State what a difference between what might be and what ts! ——__-+ > ____. No more Czernin peace feelers—not, at least, with the Count peaking as Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister, Autocracy's statecraft may be a very hard and polished article. But the disclosure of a 240 mm. lic fs a bombshell that will crack it nine times out of ten. Neither Hmperor Charles nor his mother-in-law can be punished for that letter with the paragraph about Alsace-Lorraine. On the other hand Count Czernin ts conveniently at hand to be awatted and thrown out as the cause of the whole row. —_—__—_— Here's a Member of Parliament wishing the government of Ireland on the United States! It never rains but it pours, When Mad, saw that my affair with | unsympathetic and show plainly that rerio Harry and two or three others falled| you do not care for me, 1 shall never| * > to end in matrimony, she wanted me|recover from my disappointment in L etters F rom t h (J I eop ] e |to meet Mr, Hewlltt again, and ar-| you, Constance.” Sow D by Gas Compantes. ; stalment pl and still have 45 cents |Tanged to have him take us for a9) Ten days ago he went to the sant- To We EAitor of The Evening World left to buy ‘Thrift Stamps, Perhaps | afternoon ride in bis car, ‘This time,|tari-m, and this morning I received Tam giad to see the article and tab- |¥0l don’t Ike a pipe. All right, how | a# soon as I saw bim, I felt convinced) @ letter from him saying he had de- About cigarett Vhat brand of | ty, " © to . | etde 20," fe ulated figures of the profits made bY | Cigarettes do vou smoke? eae S| that he was the ape for me, Being] cided to marry bis nurse, "she un the gas companies in The Evening] one of thove fellows that spend trom | fortystive years old, he was more set-| derstands mo perfectly," he wrote, World. With last month's bills the| 18 t ente for a package of cigar. | tied and reliable than most of the) "If you had been more sympathetic, Consolidated sent a statement to|“" ry the cheaper kind, men I had thought I could care for.! our ives might have been differen! fits effect that ai! gs stoves would | t M ahave. -vouresit? Eyer] Not knowing that Harry had Jilted) Madelane saya somo men aro as bad . sah a aafety razor? Try it, tt’! me, he very considera sked about! e The on’ 7 reafter. 6 Jl cookers, now | Woulc How about shining | bin. Made e guile said “he was | what they want, mavoasten = eae and made up ao |X2U!,oWN shoes? Would you do that | terribly In love with Connie, but she! And I tried so Lard to please him! renting for $1 a year and made up |to help the United Stat Whe decided sbe did not care for him! —- sheaply that they quickly wear ont, | you eit n You £0 to a theatre? | enough.” ‘aie to be $2, The colored woman who | Why not a slightly che: ; N Th does my Washing tells u.. that #9] 2% tne and save the differ Mr, Howlitt 100! tly. pleased. Newest 1 hings ? t a plan of economi We had a glorious spin in his motor, + : has bad hers for ten years and tast ae” Tone tonne 0 | “| S nie it can't | p d not stop for toa bec: Mr.| apply in her case. It seems to me |!0W Just like you, and T have tried it " . ane Of European invention ts a machine and made it that this {9 an outrage. Truly ce tions are unbearable for the poor timate consumer,” who has so litve redress. will keep up this fight. | work, Besides savin |your money and being proud that yoo [have 4 stronger will power than the Boone ae ertig lother fellow you will have the close. I hope the E Mn Gu’|ure of knowing that you wre yoas |Your little bit to help How to Save for a Liberty Bond, | Ka\scr.” To the Editor of Tue Brening World: aba Gare cet Laugh at Fe, Although no economist I offer @) 19 tne jaiitor of ng World Ever Yew suggestions that may assist) a ans Young men between the ages of eev- | ai),nave read W. F L's letter about @ateen and twenty-one who are! Doint ‘is my pont aise this view - earning anywhere between $10 and] mans here ive Pe Ger- $20 a week to pay for a Liberty Bond.) ong else in the world, Pe ant Firat of all, about smoking. In-| have to fight. They don't have te stead of spending 40 cents a day for elgars 1 commenced to smoke a pipe. Now my smoking expenses are less work when put in detention camps. Little do we know how often they stab Uncle Sam from the rear, The His Back to the Wall! unite, By J. H. Cassel | | | | Recording the Experiences of A Young Girl of Thirty By Wilm a Pollock Copyright, 1918, by the Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) When Truth Came in the Door, Love Took Flight LANE RIVERS and I met Esra Hew- litt, the well- known lawyer, in Atiantic City, He seomed very much attracted: to me, But my cap was set for Harry Williams, And as it was a case of love at Ps first sight with Harry and me, I had no cyes for any other man, Mad, sald I could un- doubtedly bave married Mr, Hewilitt if Harry's presence bad not discour- aged him, But ho was a valuable ad- dition to Mad's list of unattached men, so she invited him to call on her in town dinner ruined bis appetite | On the way home he had the chaut- Jfeur raise the top of the car and }iet down the sides because the air after sundown was bad for him, over him!” thought I than 5 cents a day! A saving of 36 conte a day or $2.46 a week, which alone is sufficient to pay for a hun- @red-dollar Liberty Bond on the In- pro-Germans laugh at us, saying we're 80 “easy going.” If we had fewer factories blown up. M. I, Ie { ‘ ) more shooting of spies we'd have! him and then the most st places to | with chore | drea to dinner, exclusive dine, He and 1 | Simultaneously, immediately began to worry about his health and told him be really must| “What a privilege it will be to watch | anese resident of Los An Every after-| paratua for treating disease noon for a week I went automobiling| plications of heat gradua d’hote place with camouflaged food, nolse and clouds of smoke would have jarred his sensitive nature. Hera ordered only broiled or baked food. I craved indigestible mixtures However, knowing the mere sight of these would distress him, I ate the same as he, But is there a woman who does not glory in making sacri- fices for the man she loves? What else makes life worth living? Although nothing apparently alled him, Ezra worried more and more about his bealth and 1 worried more and more about him, Finally I per- suaded him to consult my physician, who advised him to go to a sanita- rium up-State for a complete rest. In confidence Dr, Brown told me that Ezra was well; that the way be complained was ridiculous. I foolishly told Bara these things. LHe nearly ; broke my heart by saying: “You are |uhat emproiders designs on three |dozen pairs of stockings at once, a battery of needios making 288 stitches e 8 6 A shoulder shield for tcomen has been invented, which protects their | pare of himself, | Sake care OF Din |shouldera from cakes of ice carried Ho said: “I have been working too ‘ and also leads tho drippings away jhard, I need @ fine girl like you to! “nei clothing show an interest In me and tell me ples eae what to do for myself," | Patents have been granted a Jape 8 for ap- by ap- increas- ing in degree until a patient becomes able to withstand the maximum A table | temperature, My Matrimonial Chances) The Jar r Fa mily By Roy L. Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) | 6é HAT’S that terrible shouting W down %n the street?” asked Mrs, Jarr as raucous cries from below came floating in the open window. “Is it more of those fake It it is, those shouting, roaring ruMans ought to bo arrested. One runs out and pays five cents for a war extra, thinking some dreadful calamity bas happened, only to be disappointed to find the ugual head- line ‘Haig Halts Germans!’ It sounds to me somehow like a patent medi- cine—something to take in spring, like sarsaparila” It's not fake extras,” salad Mr. Jarr, turning from the window, “it's @ peddier with a wagonload of gera- niums.” war extras’ “Well, I know we ought to have a war garden and grow vegetables in soap boxes on the fire escape,” said Mrs, Jarr, “But by the time city peo- ple, who live in flats, pay for good rich earth and the seeds and buy a hand trowel and a claw trowel and a watering pot, and little cabbage plants and little tomato plants a flat-' house war garden costs more than tt raises, And then tho fire department wants to arrest you for having your war garden on tho fire escapo, and neighbors complain to the Board of Health when you use bone meal fer- | tilizer, and it certainly does smell! dreadfully, If you put the bone meal on your plants dry, like I did once, | the wind blows !t through the house—| for It's as light as powder—and {t gets all over your best clothes, even thone | that are hanging in the bedroom clos-| ets, and !t takes a day's airing in the! sun and a dollar bottle of scent to} destroy the emell of the bone meal—" | ever mind a war garden then, If/ it's all that trouble,” interjected Mr. Jarr. “We can best do our bit by buying Third Issue Liberty Bonds.” “Thank goodness, they are selling them on instalments or I couldn't do it!” remarked Mrs, Jarr feelingly. “pm sure I want to be patriotic, and I'd buy all the bonds the posters screech at me to do, If I could afford it, Did it ever occur to you, when the bond selling drive is on, that you are a guilty wre because you haven't $10,000,000 to buy Ldberty | Bonds?" “No, it doesn't,” replied Mr, Jarr. “put if it makes us feel guilty if we do not buy one on instalments, the drive and the posters must be doing good work with the consclences of those who can afford to buy more." How much does the man ask for te eee | McCardell ; the Wattress went on. Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Coprright, 1018, by the Pres Publishing Oo, (The New Tork Brenine World.) The Star on the Service Flag of Judie O'Grady Is as Bright a Symbol as the Star on the Service Flag of the Banker’s Lady ERILY, verily, my Daughter, as salt in a strawberry ae % a Scotch conscience at a bohemian dinner, as a missing toot . pleasant smile—so is a SNOB at a soldiers’ dance. . She dampeneth the spirits and blotteth the “pic- ture” and causeth an intense feeling of mai-de-mert Now, it so happened that I entered a ce in club house, where the women were gathered together for WAR WORK. ‘And it chanced that I came among them at a time when they were entertaining the Boys from Camp, And ALL the lights were lighted and the lemonade flowed headily and the jazz band was doing its cru fa cer ellest. aN ay ooaborennd And I observed the soldiers—how they {rater nized and were as brothers one to the other, though some of them were | the sons of wealth, and some of them were the sons of college professors, and some of them were the sons of toll and poverty. Yet Algernon vt Fifth Avenue and Mike of Avenue A took turns in dancing with (We PRETTIEST girl! , And I espied seven women huddled together in a corner who danced not with their guests, but sat aloof, as if in great pain, And ‘I approached them hastily, saying: erefore are ye not dancing, Sisters? For many lads lack parw And one of them gazed at the floor and pleaded a “bad ankle.” and an- other gazed at the ceiling and spoke of a “headache,” but the third emiled wearily and answered frankly, saying: “MY DEAR! Some of the soldiers are SO crude, and thetr manners are SO odd, and their conversation SO quaint, and their cuffs SO per spiry! In short, they are not at all REFINED! Then I turned upon them and covered them with my long-range eye and let the liquid-fire of my scorn fall upon them, saying: “For the love of Maud! Are ye all SNOBS—or are ye Americans? “Verily, verily, we are not fighting this war for ‘Reflnement’—but for Democracy! “Go to! A soldier 1s chosen not for his ‘manners,’ but for his MAN-+ LINESS! Not for the way in which he holdeth his napkin, but for the way in which he handleth a gun! Not for the color of his cuffs, but for the color of his courage! Not for the whiteness of his hands, but for their ability to throw grenades! Not for his grace in a waltz step, but for his bravery and agility in a ‘quick-step’ over the top! “And the star on the service flag of Judie O'Grady {s as bright @ | Symbol of Glory and Sacrifice as the star on the flag of the Banker's Lady! erily, verily, ye are more deadly than a gas attaci Come forth {from your peevish poses and leave ‘CULTURE’ to the Germans! “For they are SO ‘refined!’ “Doth not the Kalser admit it? And HE should know! “But in America a lttle Snobbishness {s an obsolete thing!” Selah. Lucile the Waitress By Bide Dudley Coprright, 1018, by the Prem Pubitabing Co, (The New York Brening World.) G6 CRAY.” sald Lucile, the Waitress, “Well, air, I wisht you could ‘a’ | S to the Friendly Patron, “what|!amped him. It sort o' got his nanny. | would some of these popular! “ ‘Say,’ he spouts, ‘why don’t you song writers do if ‘home,’ ‘roam’ and ‘foam’ didn’t rhyme? Got any idea “I guess they'd starve,” replied the riendly Patron, smiling. “You certainly said a basketful,” he gla who faked up the English language sure must ‘a’ boen thinking of those get out of here an’ annie? “ ‘Because,’ replies little me, ‘when I come here I decided no more td roam.’ “Got it? I was givin’ him an exe pert from his own song, an’ from — thousand other guys’ eongs, so far as be a commedts As ier aes or, Mind of humanity, It's a good bape that goes air, it was like pink? 94 | for them nobody eaterantdutes Ceasar killin’ Brutus, He sinks down Gertrude, the maid, who had come | those rhymes. You Mapas at in his lar an’ snaris. into the. room to’ announce. dinner |{% Here this! morning, A priori “‘L suppose you think you're was eetved by saying “Supper’e| °* T9 Pan Alley comes tn a fae|witty,! be says, ‘All rteht—teave it ready, mum!" immediately assistea| to my lot. When I quis him for his) gor want you to know I used that Mr. Jarr in-looking out of the window. | She gave a glance down on tho street | and then turned to Mrs. Jarr and re-| marked, “They are a beautiful Fire Department red, mum!" Soldiers and sailors may draw the yes of other damsels, but the love of ertrude was more uniform, #0 to ak. Her heart was truo to Claude, the freman, and all that pertained to him, “I know wo should spend the money in Thrift Stamps," said Mra, Jarr. “But I've always bad a few flowers at the window; they make home more bright and beautiful, Go down, Ger- trude, and see how many of the flow- cring geraniums the man will give you for a dollar, Ido hope geraniums don't get their name from Germany. It they do, I won't buy a single plant untess the man lets me have them for| two for a quarter; that’s all I paid} last year,” The price of gerantums, on ac-| count of the war, geraniums being used, doubtless, to make ammunition, | had gone up to twenty-five cents a plant. Rut because of Gertrude's! blandishments, the peddler with the fog horn veice cut his prices fifty per cent, “Fer no other wren on the block | would I cut me price. T? m blooms | cost t'ree dollars a dozen wholesale," | sald the harb’vger of spring. | “I shouldn't have bought them, I know," said Mra, Jarr, “I have no 1 re for luxuries, But, | still, flowers breathe so of gentleness. | Who could see thelr beauty and in- hale thelr fragrance without feeling their refining influence? Oh, look! | That peddier has kicked his poor! horse! And now he's fichting the policeman and trying tu bite him!" . os | SUSPICIOUS, i HARLEY, dear,” said young | Mrs, Torkins, “that young man in the Bureau of Infor- | mation wouldn't answer a single ques- | tion I asked bim this morning.” “Whaddigy ask him?” “I asked him how long the Govern- | ment will operate the railroads, and whether trains will run any faster and fares be any cheaper, All he would say was that he didn’t know, | I believe that young man 1s being| bis potted gerantuma?” asked Mra, censored.”--Washington Star, food ambitions he begins to bum @ ditto, Finally I says: ‘Hurry up an’ finish the chorus an’ we'll get busy on the non-starvation stuff. Whaddye take this place for—a carbaret show?’ “He looks up an’ says: ‘That's my latest song. It’s called “No More to Roam."' “Well, nachurally I got the connec- tion but I just felt devilish because the chef had called me a big-foot nontentity, so I give him @ look of derivision, “'Some guy don't want to go back to Rome, eh? I says, ‘Well, I don't blame him. One loses his preliction for these New York towns after ho's starved a while around the big city. Can you dance it? “you ain't caught the fdea,’ he says. “This guy didn’t come from Rome, N. Y. Me's far away, but he's coming home no more to roam.’ “‘aAcross the foam, eh? 1 says. “You got It,’ he tells me, ‘Say, you could write songs yourself. Why don’t you try it?” “*Done done {t,) I shoot back. ‘Didn't you never hear my latest called “The Engine's Whistle?” ’ . replies he. ‘Is it a funny ay,’ I says, Engine's Whistle” is a 8 9am, ‘home” rhyme years ago in “The Face Across the Foam, “There was me feelin’ more chipper all the time, so I ups an’ pays: ‘Ory you mean the song about the fellow lookin’ over the tall glass of beer,’ “‘I do not,’ comes from him, mean the one about the boy who's across the foam but Is coming homa,' ‘No more to roam? I saa, “His faco lights up. You ses, he's y song, Jantern-jawed. Ha, ha! A bit of a Jest, eh? Oh, I'm always doin’ the funny in here. “ ‘Sure!’ he says, “Then I let bim have it. ‘Listen, I says, ‘you don't write songs—you assemble ‘em. Now sing me that lite tle ditto called “Bring Me Son Beans, Bartender". Come on—lesg go!’ "It aquelched him, He munches away on his portion an’ I retreat to @ previous prepared position," “Did you ever write a song, really” arked tho Friendly Patron, “Sure!” she replied, “It am dreaming of a village the ocean's foam, and my mother sits there wishing that from her 4 never roam,’ tarts: ‘T st Across ECORDS and models in the Pat- R ent Office at Washington afford an interesting study of the pos- sibilities of the human tmagtnation, but it 1s probable that for remarkable conceptions the fled of aviation leads all the rest, Patents have peen granted for @ flying machine propelled by nitro-glycerine, another in which dynamite was to be the motive power, while a third was to be kept in the air by means of “reciprocating para- chutes.” ‘The latter, exclusive rights for which were awarded In 1897, was the invention of Henry Heintz of Elkton, $. D. He proposed to carry on both freight and passenger business with his airship, which was to be a big car with doors and windows, contain- ing an engine room, quarters for the crow, a pilot house for the skipper and all the comforts of home for the passengers, A "sigar shaped balloon” Aviation Leads in Queer Inventi “Oh, it's got those rhymes tn tt. ile, “but mine's differs pW—=More BEnsibie!” ons surmounted the car, but the really hovel foature was the “reciprocating parachute” arrangement. A steam engine was to operate these paras chutes, which, by working up and down and suddenly expanding, wore to obtain a grip on the a mos, that would pull the car right up “by Its bootstraps," 60 to speak, Tho parachutes were simply toa! raising purposes ordinary pro« pellers were to be used to drive thq car ahead, On par Plan ape pears quite feasible, although tt 1 hot recorded that the Heintz trange continental alrship jing was : ever ace tuat!, put into operat) n. Moreo the Heintz car w bi. uld appear to be much safer than those, ¢ hose, for instance patented by 5. I. attey of an York and Edwin Pynchon of Chicago, ! aa the metropolitan Inventor proposed o derive his motive poy > nitro-glycerine, — while tho. Winds City man apecitied dynamite, ry .