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ee ] oe ee oe ESTABLISHED ‘by “JOBEPHE PULITZER, Dally Except Oungey by Pe ee ren Company, Now. 6) ( MBMDER OF THE ASSOOIATED PRESS, seit de Sead ote SPUUIN BBs siccicvescrvevsccervevccvvvssovery NOs 20/008 DOES IT SATISFY THEM? | NCREASING need of persuading the German people not to expect too much of their U boats appears in an article written by Capt. Kuehlwetter, naval critic of the Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger, to explain why submarines fail to destroy American transporte. The Captain’s explanation amounts to a plain admission thet {American troopships get safely through the war zone because they ef 00 efficiently convoyed as to make it practically suicide for any VD boat to attack them. Therefore, the German people are told, these hundreds of fousands of American soldiers will have to be permitted to land in Brence. A}! the German submarine can do is to try to starve them @e death there by torpedoing supply ships! Also Germans must Temember that nets, alleys of mines and patrols guarding tho English | Ohannel and Allied ports, are “peculiarly unfavorable for the sub- marines.” So it appears. But are the German people satisfied with these, @pologics for the failure of the weapon that was guaranteed more than a year ago to win them speedy victory? After fifteen months of the U boat warfare that was to starve Bngland and later to keep American troops from landing in Europe, | Bo wonder somebody has to find answers for the question why Eng-| lan‘ still refuses to be starved and why American fighters aro being) ferried by the tens of thousands unharmed across the Atlantic. Capt. Kuehlwetter ought to try his hand next at showing the| Gorman people how still more patient they must be about the U boats if the British Navy goes on with the kind of thing it did at Zocbrugge. i the Pulitzer School of Journalism, made in his address before the American Academy of Political and Social Scionce. “Taking the experience of this war,” said Dr. Williams, “yon | ean almost say that unless a country has 4,000,000 tone of pig iron a year for every 1,000,000 men in the field, it cannot make war. | “Germany, Austria and the works seized in Belgium and Northern France had a total iron production of about 24,000,000 tons. The two Central Empires, Turkey and Bulgaria, had to moet the needs of a total force steadily under arms of about 5,000,000 with as much more fn various reserves. “If the United States had not advanced tts pig tron product to 40,000,000 tons, France and England, with only 12,500,000 | production of pig tron, would have collapsed. As it was, this increase in our product kept Italy supplied and would have done this for Russia if transport had been available. “Tho United States will have to raise {ts pig iron product to 60,000,000 tons a year ff the war continues and it raises the force needed to win the war.” In 1912 the pig iron production of the United States was 29,000,000 tons, while in 1900 the pig iron produced in all the prin-| cipal countries of the world totalled only 40,000,000 tons. | What proportion of thie immense increase of iron production! will remain at the end of the war in the shupo of vast acrap heaps| ef rent, remoulded, many times shattered ateel ? | Copyright, 1018, by ‘The Prone Publiahtr | -+- 66 the facts there ts no ques- THE PARAMOUNT CONSIDERATION. ~~ *! ts mite. sven hana and his wife, Never has a| case come to my| UMORS of a yet stricter exclusion of music and artiste German hea ae Nee or Austrian from the Metropolitan Opera House next season crane aa he ikan are sure to start further debate as to how far the American » this, Of course public shows adult national judgment in deciding there shall be, enemy art, music and literature. | To the whole question whether the language of Goethe and! < —_-+ --___ | PIG IRON AND WAR. | HAT was an interesting point Dr. Taloott Williams, Director of | The Crime By Sophie the ancient ‘step- mother - tn - the- house’ ts the ap- parent surface Sehiller and the music of Beethoven ought or ought not to be studied! ipl Rut oer and enjoyed by Americans while they are fighting living Teutons of, he relent a to-day, there is now just one common-sense answer: |eaused ys to doubt whether there ts The supreme business of the Nation at the present moment is|2¢t something deeper in this thing to fight and fight hard. Where instinct or intense feeling tend ton ee ore en pee increase the number of fighters and the backing those fighters must! world. have, it is better to give instinct and fecling their way than to attempt, “The treatment noconted there ten- to check them by dictates of pure reason, |Geh SRUATAA OAM PRIORAS G0. more rg than anything that has come to my At this crisis the country needs most from men and women] office for @ long time. Why, a Ger- whose mental processes, however simple, itnpel them’ to act. ‘The'™an autocrat would not treat hts pris- instinctive demands of such people are, for present purposes, Battan| Cote tes tniketanian worth considering than reflective criticism that may come from pet-| vernns ems who pride themselves upon the broadness of their minds and the purity and diversity of their tastes, Neither Beethoven nor Goethe wil) holp America to win thie war, Therefore neither ehould weigh too heavily against forme of anti- German feeling which can be shown to intensify among able class of good Americans the determination at all co trict Attorney, a ran at the County Bar, charac. tarizes this case in which parents branded children with hot pokers and otherwise mistreated them, tt is alleged. The story, as It is told, makes one shudder—shudder at the possibility of such a thing occurring right in our midst. And it was not until the neigh any consider- st or sacrifice) Saturday, EDITORIAL PAGE April 27 She’ll Swallow Anything hs Ke, a a ZFEBRUGGE ATTACK a FAURE of Cruelty to Children Irene Loeb va Co, (The New York Evening Worki), ‘ fortable, and was secking advice toward that end, There are hundreds of good step- mothers inthis twentieth century— | women that lovingly clasp to thelr | arms the little ones they are called | vpon to mother, Family conditions | aro getting better, contrary to the| cynic. Women ere beginning to appre- ciate the rights of little children that ore confided to their care, Such women understand that they are ap- preciated by their neighbors and frionds when they do the right thing toward children that are placed un- | der thetr charge. Also there ts a| great Innate satisfaction that comes | to these women—of doing their duty. | And in that very duty they learn to| love the little ones, Therefore such’ cruelty as is re- | corded here is not common. And/ wherever possible it ahould be rooted | out and examples made. Many, | many times little children suffer in- definitely because those who know of these situations are afraid to com- plaln or hesitate to meddle, Know this thén, gentie neighbor. It ta not only your privtiege but your duty to report any such conditions as you find them. It ts @ part of your community care, and your civic affair to do your part in the interest of | helpless humanity, | | | | to beat Germany to her knees, bors interfered that the case finally hed the courts, According to the testimony, for a long time the chil- jdren had borne these cruelties and Hits From Sharp Wits. [Md been BABEL ASAT Ves ALHOmRD Sh @ wouldn't be so bad if your sins! res than symphonies, parents are well to do. further than ; rutting in a good word d that the maximum sen Would not tell on you after finding | wien the hat iy passed ined hort gs conse is a term of three You out.—Chicago News. Record, i ibid typ . a. Paes \ydars in the penitentiary. If the alle ‘The new generation is as deeply! No wonder the way of the trane: | ons are true It 1s not enough. For Interested ts sutomobiies as former freasor ty hare when one considers | how many years they have taken out ones were in horses, yet there are| ‘he amount of travel thereon.—Chi- sen ol e children cannot those who miss something Lecause | caso News, on-—Chi+ | of the lives of th Dildr cannot they can't pat an automobile on the 2 2 be estimated, There ts no crime in Bese and talk to it—Albany Journal.| The Ohio ftate Journal ditterly| the calendar equal to that of cruelty | : © Walls that the fashions of the day|to children, and the neighbors are to The Cynical Bachelor rises to re-|Are such that “hiding behind one's be commended who brought these mark that after a man is married his) Wife's skirts” is no longer practicable. ‘ place of justice troubles never come singly.—Phila- bar wan j ohiidren to'® pinee of sustigg, delphia Record, / Tt ts also well not to look ao long| Parent# who mistreat little ehil- 2-8. 6 before you leap that when you are! dre 6 not only & menace to those Zima Beane says it has taken Am-| done looking there ts nothing left for | of their own family but to the entire ericans one hundred and four years| Which to leap.—Albany Journal, | neighborhood. They strike terror into to memorize the first verse of “The Pesnr wipe’ | " Star Bpangied Banner."—Toledo Blade,| Sometimes the weather uses good| the hearts of other Little ones and ce 8 Judgment : to follow thy | create impressions that are never One way to reduce the price of the | Mredictions.—Toledo Milade. effaced, Yoat would be to reduce the number a } Home time since I wrote an article ef fhe loafera—Columbia (8, C.)| What @ happy old world this would! Home Hime since I wrote @ toying be if men who didn't know anything | ®vout & stepmother who was trying es 0 68 would anly keep it themselves so hard to make the tle ones In- Many @ man’s patriotism gets no Chicesro News trusted to her care happy and com- , { Bo not afraid to be brought for- | ward, It is in a good cause—the | greatest cause in the world—that of defenseless children. That is what the world is fighting for to-day--that proper rights may be maintained for them and that no one shall rule them in an autocratic man ner-that each little citizen may be | Properly protected from blows that | thay cannot defend, and give them | thelr prover herituge—that of decent Justice 18 vested in each of us— that 18, to see that it is done, os | THERE'S A REASON, ‘6 AK,” cried the liverish man, | curse and a disgrace, an abomination and @ blot on civiliga- | tion! Wa | cent man | arose and | showing s: ls enough to make a de- >and hang himself!" He left. the room, his face ns of strong emotion, The Jarr Family § - Dus Cad Stories of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune Ouprright, 1018, by the Press Co, (The New York tvening World.) | No. 18.—EMMA BELLOMO, the Czar’s Spy. ! ! i} | SR naate was Emma Beilomo. She was an Italian, an@ Was the widow of the Itallan Count della Torre, Her husband's death left ber stranded in Russia, @ beth Mant and daring and unscrupulous woman of great personal charm, and with practically no money, Bhe resolved to capitalize her brains by taking service in the Russian Secret Police. She found it easy enough to secure the job she sought. For wit and beauty and conscienceless daring were @t ® premium in the dreaded “Thira Section,” But Emma was not content to dig out Nibilist plots or even to wheedle secrets trom foreign diplomats She was playing for higher game, Her ambition goaded her toward the pinnaclo of Russtan spydom—a post- ton in the immediate service of the Czar himself, | She kept this alm ever in view, and she pre; performing with almost uncanny skill avery, teak wallotied' $0" Hor fp 4 superiors in the “Third Section.” Says one Bugii#h chronicler: | “Whenever @ document had to be secured she wecured It And the | allowed nothing—not even a life—to stand im | Orr, hor way.” : The Woman Who vent © Such work ae hers could not long go un- i at Any Price, rewarded. Presently, by dint of ber recerd and her own manocuvring, she wae asyigned to @ task that brought her in! | with the Czar himself. et ae ee Russia was bubbling with plots against the Czar’s life. | Weeks the “Third Section” used to Unearth a new one. | of these that Emma Bellomo was now set to work. The police had news that_a Mammoth conspiracy to kill the Czar was a | formed and that details of thA&plot were organizing in Rome and in Parts. | Tho chief conspirator was apparently some me uber of the Czars own {mpertal household at Petrograd. But the gloverest efforts of the “Third stery, | Section” were not able to identify this man of my Was put on the case, She | Matters had progressed thus far when Exnma Went at once to Rome. here, by pretending to be a political refugee, she thiliste, made friends with a group of exiled N Sho told them she was a foo to all rulers, espectally to the hated Czar, | Bo shrewdly did she play her part that the Nihilists believed her, They admitted her to membership. And soon she learned from them the outline of the plot they were fomenting against the Czar. By means of wit and allurement Emma finally discovered the name | of the Russian high official at Petrograd who was the prime mover in the j conspiracy. She was oven intrusted with docunients to carry stealthily | to him. This gave her the excuse she wanted for returning to Petrograd. Sho sought instant audience with the Czar and told him her etory. | When she named the man who headed the plot the Czar flew into a rage and declared Einma was lying. The man was hie dearest and most trusted friend. He flatly refused to credit his friend with treachery, Emma bowed mevkty and left the imperial presence, asking leave to come back in half an hour, She went to the suspected man and told him she was a messenger trom the Nihilist group at Kome. And she handed | over to him the treagonablo papers she hed | meng Deon told to deliver, if Tell-Tale Papers Thence she went back to the Czar and Are Delivered. told what she had done. She added: Beene “I beg Your Majesty to summon him im. mediately to your presence, and to wate his face when he sees me at your side.” The Czar, still unbelieving, sent for the man. At mght of Enms i every standing beside the Emperor the traitor trembled and turned y pale. Two police oMotals stepped forward and seized him. Searched, the papers Emma had given him were found hidden in one of his riding boots. The prisoner was condemned to Siberia for life, although at Petrograd there was a sinister rumor that he was murdered in his cell before the Journey into exile could begin. This exploit won for Pmma Bellomo the job she yearned for—a post as the Crar’s person spy. The Office Force By Bide Dudley Ouprright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Workt), ‘ ELL, whaddye know about|and he eald he wasa Ddaker. I thonghé this?” said Popple, the|it extremely wisty,” said Migs Primm, Shipping Clerk, referring “Some bakers make pies,” suggest- fy etal a A Het edly ony tL aa! Every tow It was upon one (ad By Ro y L.. McCardell |to * story in the panicaper be was Oopyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Work), reading, “Two sailors have been ar- 66IRTOW pleaso don't go running|the Out Door Speakers’ Committes.” | Tested in Honolulu for trying to steal ed Miss Tillie, “Well, naturally my friend referred to a man who makes bread,” enapped out of the house as soon as| anybody comes to see me,” Mrs. Jarr, “You won't want me, now you've got company,” replied Mr. Jarr, "I Just want to etep out a minute to see | the baseball score and the war news.” “As you do not play ball and as you are not in the army, I cannot see why either should interest you,” remarked Mra, Jarr. “Perhaps you would not de 90 interested in either battles or baseball if the reports of both were posted in ice cream parlors instead of corner cafes!” Mr. Jarr sighed and stayed where he was, and that dashing young so- clety war worker, Mrs, Clara Mud- ridge-Amith was admitted, all out of breath. She always came in all out of breath, but not of conversation. The all-out-of-breath thing was to imply that she wasn’t used to walk- ing up stairs, especially since becom- ing an ol@ man’s darling and being elevated to her luxurious apartments in lifts that looked Mke solid gold, even if they were not, “guch @ day as I have had!" sho burbled, when she got her breath, “How I have sacrificed myself for! my country this day.” “How 90, Clara?” asked Mrs. Jarr, | felling Liberty onda!” was the! reply, “At the noon open air meeting | to-day Madam Pazzino, the grand) opera star, sang, and then when 1| got up to speak I said. ‘What can I do? And somebody in the crowd | cried, ‘Ti bwy @ bond 1f you will give me a kiss!" “Yes, yes!" interrupted Mrs, Jarr. “Go on! Was he good looking?" For this camo under the bead of adven- ture and romance. “Not very, but what could T do?” replied the younger matron, “I was so anxious to sell Liberty bonds in| this hour of peril.” “How many did you eel! by kissing patriots?” inquired Mr. Jarr, “About fifty, but never let my bus- | band know,” was the reply “Fifty Kisses. Were they. all good- looking men?” inquired Mrs, Jarr, “Those I kissed were,” was the re- ply. “If they weren't very handsome I pretended to be busy and had Madam Pazzino kiss them, Poor old | fatr young matron, | | committee came around the business | “And T am glad my husband has | bad eyesight,” remarked the visitor. | Why, he wasn’t there, was he?” asked Mrs, Jarr, | “No, but one of the film companies | took news pictures of it, and on ac- | count of his bad eyesight my hue- and doesn't like to go to the mov- ing pictures.” | “L think It's dreadful!” said Mrs. Jarr, "Sull, we mustn't forget France and Belgium." { “Or England or our own United States,” interjected the fair young matron, “And don't forget Ja lant and beautiful Ital Mr, Jarr. “My intentions were platonic with | patriotism,” said Mrs. Mudridge- Smith sentimentally, “I can not see | why even the most exacting moralist should question such @ thing. If my husband DOS find ft out, I will say, ‘Wouldn't you have done as much?’ But who would want to KISS him, | even for a Liberty bond?” added the | mn and gal- suggested | Mr, Jarr grinned, “I hate to tel! tales out of school,” he remarked, “but last week @ pretty movie actress district, and they kissed your hus- band when he subscribed liberally to their st.” “WHAT? Tho old wretch! never said a word!" exclaimed Mudridge-Smith, cuse me! Iam going right home, I'll show him! ‘atriotism indeed!" And she rushed out, Andhe Mrs, r “Now I have done it,” said Mr, | Jarr rucfully, “I thought she al g00d sport. Gee! Suppose she the old man that I snitched on “Her poor heart 1s broken,” sald Mrs, Jarr, “Poor Clara! Little dots @ woman know what her husband | does when he is out of her sight.” Then she turned upon Mr, Jarr and remarked tensely: “And will YOU| please explain the circumstances un- der which you filled out that blank | father was @ Spanish nobleman and| at the offlce last week? Was it the same day your employer was so Itb- | erat™ | And tn vain Mr, Jarr stoutly clatmea | his bonds were purchased on a purely platonte patriotic basis, | the skull of a King. “Rather extraordinary, I must say,” sald Miss Primm, Private Secretary to the Boss, “Why did they want the skull?” "Oh, everybody tries to get ahead in this world," chirped Bobbie, the Office Boy, “Please don't interrapt @ g@ensible discussion with your silly jokes, Boh- bie” satd Miss Primm, “Children should be seen and not heard.” “I read something about that Inoi- dent,” sald Spooner, the Bookkeeper. 1 helleve some’ argument has arisen between the Government officials and the Honolulu police over the custody of those men.” “What's the bone of contention?” arked Miss Primm, “The skull, Probably,” replied Bob- fe, z Pretty good, kia!" sang out Mise Tillle, the Blonde Stenographer. “That's what T call a natural Joke” “It looks to me,” ead Popple, “ thoush Bobble ‘pulled a bone.” “I have ab ache this morning,” said Miss Primm, “I greatly fear your asinine jokes will make {t worse. It |s the result of a cold I slighted.” slight heafliache, eh?” said Bob- There's another terrible joke, Real- ly if they were good ones I wouldn't mind.” “L de "t belleve there are any good Popple, re are. Last night, for instance, ® young man Wag calling at my home and he said he had seen a loafer on the subway, I asked him how he knew the man was a loafer Ex-Empress Eugenie Aids Injured Soldiers T is probable that few French women have prayed more de- voutly for the success of the Allies than the ex-Empress Eugenie, whose throne was toppled over as @ result of the Franco-Prussian war. Her her mother @ daughter of William Kirkpatrick, then American Cogsul at Malaga. She Is now ninety-two years old and the passing of time has changed her from an imperious beauty into a bent, old woman with —_ | wrinkied face and anow white hair. ‘The former Empress has never for-! Jear, she's fat and not very young, 1 “Gentlen is rather strong on ] the subse id & commercial trav- eller, “La ne near relative?" "He has," replied a man, grimly. ie has lost his wife's first hug- band!’ AUaueapolts Pribune Jeome an exile in England. Of late years she has spent most of her time | watsiotiams b suppose I hope such a value as to destroy even the bacillus ‘ching doesn’t happen when I aim on of typhoid feven will all Ko to the propasand and she was complimented,” | SHAVING LATHER ANTIORPTIC. lena the Germans for the defeats in- Festoration of ther « mpire. ante oe "1 think it was not necessary, and| According to an English authority | ficted upon her husband, and sho minis Rob en he ch we quite bold," sald Mra. Jarr, “Still, it|lather applied to a man's fs for hates them as bitterly now as she did Three iaten Rist hoe pune ‘She will ‘ can all be excused under the head of|shaving has such high antiseptio| whon ehe fled from France to be- be buried in the Benedictine Abbey Miss Primm, “How about e man who makes load sugar?” asked Bobbie, “Now, don't be silly!” “I presume ff the man had deen maker of pies," eald the doy, “your friend would have called him « pirate instead of a loafer “I think,” satd Miss Primm, “that I shall epeak to Mr, Snooks when he comes in and see if I cannot bave my desk moved to another room I simply cannot stand !t in here,” “Would you leave us fiat?” asked Bobbie “I would and principally on your account,” Mr. Snooks entered the room, Mies Primm felt she had to carry out her threat, “Oh, Mr. Snooks,” sata she, “may IT have my desk moved to another room? Bobbie's alleged jokés are driving me crazy in here.” “Has that kid been trying to be funny again?” asked the Boss, “He ha, “What's his latest joke?" “Oh, it was something about @ man who made ples being a pirat “A pirate, eh? Well, that's not ee bad. Now, just suppose Le bad eaid a man who makes bread is a loafer. Then you would have had just cause for your complaint. I think you'd better reconsider the matter.” Mr. Snooks entered bis private of fice and shut the door. There waa silence for a moment, Iinally Bobe bie spoke up. “Now, just suppose T had eatd @ man who makes bread Is @ loafer!” he said with a grin lease close your face, you Ittle smart Alec ided Miss Primm, "And that ended the morning's discus. ion, Jat her country seat at Farnboroug! England, where she has turned ove r house for use as convalescent hospital for soldiers. The officera and Tommies who are sent to the beautiful Hampshire estate to re- cover from their wounds «onsider | themselves very fortunate, for there pf they are privileged to pay court to the woman who was once the centre of regard at her brilliant salons in [the Palace of the Tuileries. For all her devotion to France in | these days of stress, Pugente {s still the foe of tho republican form of Government and the defender of the Bonapartists, It 1s understood that her fortune, estimated at $15,000,000, at Farnborough, where rest her bus band and her son,