The evening world. Newspaper, April 16, 1918, Page 18

EDITORIAL PAGE Tresday, April 16 ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to tt Park How, New York. SAMY RALPH PULITZDR, President, 63 Park Row, J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr tary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Me It 0 the nee fi ent! on okt tah RAST SE A TY a VOLUME 58. ..c.ccscecssecsceeees seccecccccese NO, 20,692 PERFECT SOME DAY OR PRACTICAL NOW? HE part that airplanes are playing in the great battle now raging in France is brought home to Americans by a wounded Canadian flyer just arrived on this side of the Atlantic, who only three weeks ago was fighting in the air over the thick of the German drive toward Amiens. No one can miss the meaning of the picture this airman, Major Gordon P. Howe of the Canadian Flying Corps, brings straight from the battlefield| The German bombardment “such a bombardment as none of us had ever seen,” the German push forward terrific. “But the planes—God, the planes! The air was full of German flying men—black with them. I never had seen #0 many German planes in the sky at once, They must have concentrated two-thirds of thelr flying equipment for thi attack. They flew in advance of the moving gray lines. They spotted for their gunners, They swooped low and fired thou- sands of rounds from their machine guns into our troops. “Supremacy of the air was the thing we fought for. And for those first two days supremacy wavered between the British and the Germans. On the third day the British defi- nitely gained the upper hand.” | A shrapnel shell nearly did for Major Howe. But what he saw! and experienced in two days of air fighting has since focused into one earnest appeal: “Take my word for it, the Allles in their dark hour need your American flyers and planes above all else. Send them now-—send them as quickly as you can.” If the aircraft programme of the United States looks better| fitted than at any time yet to make swift response to such an appeal,| it is because of one salutary change: | Search for final perfection in an airplane motor is giving place to concentration on the practical, tested, READY article that can be put into action in this war NOW when it is needed. The Aircraft Production Board has had“its eyes opened to the fact that two or three first class motors turned out in steadily increas- ing quantities will decide a lot more in the present conflict than one ideal motor that hovers indefinitely among things hoped for. | American airplanes can take the air against the Germans, as! Mr. Frederick Upham Adams points out in The World, without wait- ing for the Liberty Motor to be tinkered to a state of superlative! excellence that may be five years distant. There are at least two other highly successful types of aviation motor used by this Nation’s allies upon which American money and American energy could be concentrated to immediate purpose and with immediate results. It’s a Long, Long | Fa | Stories of Spies | By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) No. 15.— AGNES FORD; Civil War Spy. GNES FORD was the belle of the old Virginia town of Fairfax Courthouse. Her father one of the richest and most respected men there. Fairfax Courthouse was in a region which nowadays might be called “No Man's Land.” It lay in a strip of country that was forever changing hands with the shift- ing fortunes of the Civil War. Sometimes the Ford mansion would be the local a AG headquarters of a Confederate General. Then, after days of ever-approaching artillery fire, the Southerners would retreat and a Union corps commander would requisition the big house as his own headquarters, Union officers would fill the house. Union soldiers would swarm through the streets. Until, presently, an- other move of the iron chess game of war would drive the Union Army out of the town and garrison the place once more with Confederates. Agues Ford was a Confederate spy. When other Joyal Southern woman would leave Fairfax Courthouse in disgust at the arrival of a Union force, the girl stayed where she was. She did more. She kept “open house” for all Northern officers who cared to avail themselves of the Ford hospitality. She explained to every one that she was an ardent Union sympathizer é and that whe hated the Confederacy. The only Wr or Lovalty ¢ thing she could do to help the North, she said, Vows Hor Loyalty H was to make pleasant the stay of its army in her ; to North. 2 home town. Which she did. Her beauty and charm and her outspoken loyalty won for her the hearts of countless susceptible Yankee officers, Her home wag their rallying spot. They paid fervid court to her. They did more, Under the lure of Agnes's blandishments, they babbled sacred military secrets to her. And these secrets she sent to the Confeder- ate authorities at Richmond. More than one brilliant Union move was checkmated by tnformatien received by the Southerners through Agnes Ford. She became one of the South's most useful secret service agents. Then, on the night of March &, 1863, the Confederate guerilla leader, Moseby, swooped down upon Fairfax Courthouse, under cover of darkness, with a throng of mounted “irregulars.” The town was in Union hands at the time, The attack was a complete surprise, Moseby captured the Union commander, Gen, Stoughton, and a drove of nearly two hundred much-needed cavalry horses, besides many wagon loads of supplies and ammunition, It was an attack so preposterously daring that there could be only one explanation of It. Some one must have gotten word to Moseby of the pres- nee of the unguarded Union plunder in the town and must have told him of the safest time to make the raid. ‘The United States Secret Service took up the problem and began to ask questions, Suspicion narrowed down to Miss Ford. But there was no proof. So the Government resolved to fight secrecy with secrecy. A detective was sent from Washington to {Wena Resi } Fairfax Courthouse, This detective was a woman ry —a Union spy. 3 » _ She went to Miss Ford with a hard luck story WN? of being a Southern secret agent whom the United States Government was pursuing. She asked Miss Ford to hide her from the law and to help her get through to Richmond, Now, it seems strange that any girl as clever as Agnes Ford should have been taken in by such a story. But no one can be wise for twenty- four hours a day, and every day. Not even a spy. And the other woman acted her part splendidly. When the visitor began to brag of her own secret service exploits in pehalf of the South, it was more than Miss Ford could resist. So she ad- iitted that she, too, was a Confederate spy and had done great things for Signs are unmistakable, Mr. Adams thinks, “that the period of the South, ee ry fs ; ‘3 She finished her recital by drawing from under a mattress a commission , muddling with our aviation programme is at an end. The day is at RCN. 3 ee 2 Baer? a 3 snot, We z h cr, Salt signed and sealed by the Confederate General, J. B, B. Stuart, appointing her » mechanic he engine ow Re " eS Y q » Tebty ‘ oe ees ? ia iy aide-de-camp. hand when the mechanic and the engine lathe will supplant the aR es ch orks 4 24 ve qi Lie FE See m * Nl# WVhereat the erstwhile admiring Yankee woman promptly turned the draughtsman and when the alert production expert will no longer NEEDS ¢ WAV ct p tar babbler over to a Union Provost Marshal, be held back by the swivel-chair theorist. The way to get aviation motors is to build them, not to draw them.” 1 wr? ama | 7 - ; = aia e or Girl R eflec tlo That is how the public generally sizes up the needs of the aircraft Th E] } vg H d | i h J F | B h | sitdation now that ie begin to be Rr te Following the Mar-! € even- ear 00 00 e a r r a m 1 hf ac ns shall committee’s report, the country waits to see an infusion of new) By So p hie lrene Loeb B y. Ro y L. McCardell B y Helen Rowland purpose and new energy of direction imparted to aircraft production, |" ‘“Toprright, 1018, by the Pres Publishing Co, (The New York kvening World.) Copyright, 1918. by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York kivening World.) Fe atts hae re bel cacao yal da pay balsaed Mais) , with all the pressure for definite accomplishment and speed the Presi- AA reieren writes to me about her for so much, That is, they will tell] 66 HESE berty Bonds “We never knew,” said Mrs. Jart. D —The American idea of a “sepmate” peace pact, , dent can bring to bear, eleven-year hoodoo.” It seems You as much of the past, present and printed beautifully, so th t when six months was up oe : pi that once uponatime she meta future as you care to bargain for in must be all right,” rema took them to the man she bough! It is hard for Americans constantly to hear proofs—as from this Every normal boy is born a “consclentious objector;” first to ‘wicked woman.” | coin, “d Mrs, Jarr as Mr. Jarr, with & them from, a Mr. Con M, A. Long his medicine, then to discipline, then to education, then Canadian airman—of the imminent danger that Germany may rain “| grew friently| Every day a new cult is born with |“0urish, presented her with one thee h me was, and we found his piace nt to work, and last to matrimony—but when it comes : : : . 7 ) er.” she lite “ifs and “ands.” ‘The majority fair actross \ > ce had | in confusion and him about to mov’ to a good fight, thank heaven, he gladly puts that sort the upper hand in the air, while American aircraft boards have bee Bese) ee i pper. 1 aircraft boards have been, says, and then of them produce nothing but imagin- | “heedied him into purchasing, jtfe burst into tears when mamma told of “conscience” behind him and gets a new one, bending their noses over plans of the perfect motor they hoped to)" came a bresk|ary ills and thri ome patent ‘Oh, they all right, you vet. |!m some one had informed her that ee huild—some day which this ne ist descriptions tler A ave pa ven He ty ae handrome, § id Mr 1 ioe Risa tamara tra err No man is really old until the pockets tn which eS describes us ft eakish philosophers a and for arr ‘ou know the actors have | Pa ock ¥ o good and that Mr. a ¢ 4 peed leet hoodoos. ‘This use of action. | been downtown selling them, Doug-|Con M, A. Long had been arrested Be: once oakriee PhetoeTeEie, geet ictearatiae and MAKE iT POTATOES “ghe turned Ike | Delve iniy tie fucure much as yo 1s Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin, and wae out on batl. jidee a en v lyspeps! ets, “ss |wish in beauti r t} ind every! r A. Lo: burst in 3 anc - ie Ng snake, ws If to] Wish In beautif ms, but | ind everybody bad to buy. The boss ng burs! 3 i 1 4) " a 6 it . 7 hi ¥ The first sound of the enemy's guns nevi 2 ET the potato come into its own again sy) am nring, and abused [Cut out tie ni ares, * There are[iet us take them home, and he's going was more dastardly work of t! ib guns er mad Rea thik ris nanan an: ay , |e reat fod aa [enough tros in reality without io see the instalments are paid to that the Wolves of Heit Momma any man tremble half so violently as the first notes of ; ie ” ; PORUDOTS GFE ured of potatoes at $1.45 me again and th Well, believe ve, [Wishing them on yourself and without) bin, trow our sa save bis were dragsing him “ere Comes the Bride!” when he knows that the next moment he will be a bushel delivered, maybe the impression that this first class |" Of her wre ageless wn |looking for toodeos and bad luck | cl ok." 7 ee hundred pairs of eyes and a clergyman's que: bticle of food un s : 1 his first cla since that day I have never known EYL cA ect ene get pee eRe ‘ latte gaueunvineuaet igs Mentile under fire of thr pi ida BY’ ‘8 Questions, article of food is still too expensive to be eaten will vanish, peuco or comfort and not one year |*ina ie © it ar Aman mmol 8s Chaplin as funny and ts air leatle Ca gtan laine steak abt aad , Now that farmers can count on 90 cents a bushel for U, §. N rolls by but that either onthe) os . ait arty | banks as funny, when they are soli. |{NllY prin Why 1s it that, in thinking of women, a man always confuses gooducss t } j 1 BO ne ee te et Ot ANOS ee recuier ancOctober brings ms an)|) | ° pt when young did eagerly | ing bands?” arsed Mra Jars, “70 | Mt Jarr. Pees “Mfr. Con | With stupidity and intelligence with acidity? potatoes at the railroad, maybe t millions of bush. hoarded for ne to draw be requent you think they will come around to | Yes,” replied Mrs, Jarr. j } accident, neve Doctor and saint, and heard great rn M. A. Long told mamma when he came prices better than cents will find their way to market matter to my attention, It makes no Asai | pecule’s houses to sell them, like Tc ty cae Alacts ahold ear intere Of course men are NOT vain! But every mortal one of them secretir w avoid 1. veddlers? W ‘ rand? | > ‘ | by , be It has been a big error in economy that at a time when the, difference bow 1 plan ws Baga About it and about; but evermore |; sera ee srand? | ‘sting news about her investment, |{magines that, on the day he marries, there will be @ loud explosion of i re ‘This for eleven years. na 9 . Same oO » same or where- |) fae bediad eo fh a d re] >» a f ri opes. country is urged to do its utmost to enve wheat, one of the best aub-|q) sk of that. Is not that a pins] & sit by me door WheFe* |) iberty Bond Committee, seniing | Hut she nev Leahy cnet man | Afty of sixty feminine hearts and hopes, } io “9 ot back fro! anta yet? | — stitutes for wheat foods has been lying in enormous quantities ready| case of | odoo? A would a hansome young actors around. I ee Ne : ae Mr. Jarr, “But| Oh, pshaw! Outside of a Mttle nagging or couxing at breakt . ’ ” | snow I'd buy, and tor Cl erhaps HE scetudhgead epviahd , iu sce 4 at breakfast, a to rot because the demand for it is still cheeks ‘you dot “ * oo] ' as for Clara Mud- * {1 not shake | ' = of ef pe ee esas til ked by the memory of na on eit ond wont’ The Hard Boiled Guy | riage-smith, you know how c rt hope hher_ exp. fence will nots Mttle argument wih the matd batons lunch, a ttle gossip at teatime, a Vb iy tale bla would 1 do? HEN tho recruit urst goes Into] SHE Is about handsome film acto.«! | °F 1200 in ee ene ty Bonds.” | little running rehearsal of all the day’s events at dinner, a little small tall Tei ugsabtoe Housekesnars toccnen thale evs and ears and cca MoteiMe Weide hlalbl ova tide Ab: W Ene Ce ci cee (Bul auppres Susbande’ conis ton, E % ey ee nye (Mt evening and: © little curtain lecture at bedtime, the average woman potatoes again, “|right foolishness and if 1 were this spec ot : f homo, ‘alls MoM : tores are selling them. ‘They'll send searcely gets a chance to say a single word \Also hot estaurants. Ne latte 3 woman and had such 4 silly dea, 1} person Wantedhe w to think ould wive: Jealous if hand-|them home C. O, D., I suppose, al- = - ie ‘0 hotw and restauran The ter can do a special service would go to the window, throw up the| he ts “hard boiled" + he Great | some actresses visited offices and «std | though they want you to carry pur- A man may not be able to tell you the exact color of a pretty gir!’s wy helping to repopularize the potat Too many restaurants have sash, wave my hoodoo goodby shes Bulletin, pu 1 at t Liberty Bonds?” ash-1 Mr. Jarr, p Chases home since the war,” replied | yes after the first meeting, but he can usually tell you the exact shade scorned the potato in the past |ireathe the fresh air { sunshine, | Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, |, aring to conf ail, and especially | Mrs, Jarre. “Lf the stores are selling} of hosiery she wore with her slippers, ; While wheat-saving is all-impo every patriotic hotel i and take myself to task foe boing ii\ae bisa ew the bene felt the blond | them, don't you think there will be} ee ‘ triotic hotel ¢ eature. his “ba vot charmer of the footlights, aay, pe atch} erno! order to be a “brillls non veiee re Siataurant Keener should cive Data 4 ; And such heat Epes Ade ree ia : ne . ts, marked down ‘ ae us Be te | As rm n, ei re Poh ah ipnt: sce marae lenis it ts nor 4 ; 3 bs Special and conspicuous} Oh, the heartaches i ho mise i ‘ d scorn to be Jealous,” said Mre,| the papers for the advertisements uecessary to be ready to er with anybody, anywhere, on an: rT place on his bil of fare, with prices calculated to make thom more | tat women cause themselves by just | ™ and ; Jarr, “But still | think that woulg| “They'll never be any cheaper,’ )pyat's belng a “radical.” ything than ever a favorite food Nore | such imaginary woes! The mysteri-|' ‘ J be carrying things too far—an actregy| sald Mr. Jarr. “Your mother better] Sais Nadine ant oh ne P ous things seem to be the attractive) Aaa . going to my husband's office to aelj|buy her Liberty Bonds now. They N he : ° ating and planting—this should be a potato yoar ones, and they gloat over their own] crult a ¢ i 7 {im Liberty Bonds. 1 wouldn't pe|are a gilt-edged investment, don't) ewest Ings In clence i} . ¥ ssn’t he bt the ts ” Ch AR Saas Sea) | misfortunes-actually taking pleasure a an be } mill) jieased if MY husband was only sei. | turget that | sevttiah aviators have found shat i418 ereaier becportion of large sized ys 7 ~ — [in pain, ssa : zl nd patriotic because But ber Phantasmagoria mining |). ossible to use netic com, sjcoal than blasting — Hits From Sharp Wits _ |"s september or Ovtoter came) itt Ke Sed Sim tater’ nia® |sioste were glivedged, woot the conn |, Dezel to wa ronnie compass [onal Shen bleating -powda, baal No, Maude, dear; we have neve epee rea Jaround and this woman did not have ined open F ‘O erty Bonds from HEL," showed us the gilt on the edges,"|iony, which counter Ses ES s'8er Of explosions, ; at for years, Com a4 1 be disappointed, | Weeks ne is! Mtr, Jarre, who had been uz | Sire snswered. “So J think we ° An electric beadligh considered that time hangs heavily on | mercial Ap, accident she would be disappointed 4 Mr : Nn upon the | Mrs. Jarr of avroplanes ght for hunters the hands of a clock.—Philadelphia ae a BS Such women, who superstition a Mert ac A pont of TELLING ALL, checkeg| iad better not say that about the an ae has been invented that gets its cur- Record. : close, would rather suffer than be pote fe men | himself in the nick of time, |Liberty Bonds to mamma, What dol At thas boos Issued for @ gar~ [rent from dry batteries carried tn a e143 fp doubt, You might as wel! | gisappolnted In finding they have] WiH BIN ashe ea, they are printed beautitully,|¥9U SBIBK?” i inet ne agreed |ten, when worn oul, 6 rubber ear ove Bestel 4 switch under its Everybody expects everybody else a SDINGhaton eet | ee ven the men ¥ have navy [Just like money, and money, like the that eau be best to simply say ese oa by a 8 of ch to ire sable hes it Vida! Me reye. ) ; Press. | py the actions of some peopl he ae shions, is always be De ot y replaced by @ piece of elastic, pro- to set a good example.—Chicago News ‘ By the act beople, even] io. one “hits or ree ey | fashions, Is ’ autiful,” added | they were us good and as} y store. Co: le ea, age | ee : in this twentieth century, one would or i : i“ ! Ae dl ae Mrs, Jars'examining the bond. “H F Lae er ‘ © with |eurable at almost any | tore nevis Ganon cianoverss in Iceland he men who have been exemptec Drei oand vine . have been to 5 i the world | |. smembe ri ; whic nt to make the| pirhe m eloped satista, y It is easier to obey the admonition | from Muth cau ee ee oe 1 think we were stil! living in the days! 4 pit, ‘They are “hard” in the sense | “Stilt re tockea oe. nother bought | orig once more happy for humanity!| Some of the world’s finest carpets scientists are investigating eet il (ova ats gnamian haa thay in Be Ath ttaeye F duty when they executed women as witches, | tat they*are Well al shares or stocks or bonds or some. peti wre made in Bulgaria, where the Gov- |found on the Bear Islands. | Dorits down and out.—Albany Journal. gia Tice stamp.—Los An- | @uch TAN ARAENS TAPE are mostly | 6 themselves in thing 4m the Phantasmagoria Mining GIVING IT A NAME. lernment alds the industry by main-|tween Spitzbergen and Norman Chas wer ier cee results tram Apes ye big piienaiane they aren't afraid of Company tn Honduras, and they ‘ '¥ complaints, Corporal?’ | taining @ technical school for the ine, eee *Man wants little here below’ — Don't stan ee eaay anetuine Dit asrtia ten walks, They are y Sait Me hele del bite. The | § A gsked the Colonel, making | struction of skilled weavers, | aie Dalia States is estimated to ‘Where do you get that stuff? people refuse to re Bo Me st enarentan 4} they don't have Higure a white | Bentiemanly ‘i mamma pee nes Teracceition | oe 6 tise more than 100,000 elaborate elec The Prussian would grab the earth, | 4nity without a for nae suffering a a Hon and sleop-| iit to proclaim t ut to dinner in his own automobile, | Wo leave a telephors user's bands ihe p eye syateme against crime, ’ > me ght omen Wear thelr se 4 old er they would double pection, | tts) - x aller ve And then not have enough. Philadelphia Record leas nights, Women wear thelr souls] “nese men never give a recruit ap [told her they would double tn value |*POCtlOM, ot sas, ain paid ihe | reer the recelver of & uew desk eet | more than OULU) ceinoe aeehies ANS Philadelphia Inquirer, | i. 8s es ee er “might-be"| yneivil answer. ‘They ‘don't heap |! #% months il Liberty Bonds ' can be mounted In position for use on eee onl rf Awormary ie Wha Oasimineavan propositions. They find something to} abuse on a recruit if be doesn't know | double in value in six months? said, “that's | Ted attached to the transmitter and! A Japanese naval officer has in- ivery man should gt every particular prophecy, all about the navy | “No, but they will increase in " ne ud, “that's , vented @ chemical proc Those advertised “evening dresses look ai ee Meeaiin ee inne other Kian’ of , b ase in value Raion balanced by counterweights process for water- eue-thind off" are certainly old simi es, | And still stalking abroad, although Las she ew hard bolled | ay time goes on,” said Mr. Jarr, “But < ‘and Wa ear proofing « tough Rative paper so that y - | enables a-feliow to wntinish, ag » law, are the p onal SU; the one the ow an up ev ' , ' ' noe ic curuidg | douathy eaten Or mae fashioned. We bave seen them worn | —Hhiludelphia Record, i Agent theta Pre fonal against, is short liv He gete|E never Knew your mother bought | ing k ants tu call it coffee Hydrau idges used to break | usually requiring Vextile tabries sag j pretenders, WHO Bie you ‘ey much gosieued in w Low moutha, paluiia elec. Wid it double We vei?” Boeiuy Zrepeerinls Mowe cual Ww Lieb Wines produce bpather, : ; els Ik Y ee