The evening world. Newspaper, May 4, 1918, Page 12

a Genii Ta, Che Cuening World, LSTABLISHED BY JOsuPH PULITZER, Bubuered Latly Except sun rena Publdehing Company, Nea 68 to 63 w York. sident, 69 Park Row, ssurer, 63 Park Row, . Secretary, 63 ‘k Row. ER OF THE ASSOCTATED PRMAB, eee ee a tie el? gated to he, pin tm, comareaien, Se are carne — snared VOLUME 58... Fevevee socecccecccccsceces NO, 20,710 pS naeene aceon NO PRESENT PRICE TOO HIGH. HE draft call for 250,000 men which the Provost Marelal General is expected to send out to-day puts into immediate action ary Baker’s plan for expanding the Nation’s fighting forces to “un army without limit.” With approximately 2,300,000 men under arma by July 1, and ansport service speeded to get 2,000,000 American troops to Burope by the end of the year, even the most impationt critics of the Gov- @roment will have to go back and harp on errors or delays already Sergotten in the rush ahead. Secretary Baker's trip to Europe “opened hie eyes,” he says, “to @re magnitude of operations.” During the past two days }.* has been doing his best to open the eyes of Congress to the magniiude of the part the United States has got to play in bringing the German mili- tary power to ter: When it comes to money, the country is already thinking in Willions. It must be ready to think in tens of billions, Fifteen Billions is the total of the estimates the Secretary of War submitted to the House Military Committee as required for the first steps of the military expansion programme upon which the Nation must enter with @ll speed. Not even the menace of indemnities need be invoked to convince ‘Americans that billions spent now may eave many times as many billions later. This war must not drag on if the full mobilization of American resources can hasten its end The country and Congress ought to see it first of all as a caso $f American energy and American dollars poured forth at once, with- @ut stint, to lessen the cost in American lives, Secret 2.9 No price can be too high for a comparatively quick victory as! @gainst a long drawn out conflict, levying year after year its terrible @plls upon the Nation’s youth. | — THE BLEEDING HOHENZOLLERN HEART. HE kind of picture the Kaiser's favorite war correspondent draws of Majesty contemplating the battlefields of Flanders may have a special significance as showing what a consider- @dle part of the German nation is felt to require at this stage of its @acrifice. The German is never so sentimental as when he begins to be @fraid he is going to be the fellow to get hurt. The great German @ffensive in the west has developed an ominous slowne: It is im- possible to conceal from the German people the whole dismal truth about the lengthening lists of dead, the endless trains of wounded. Tt is not a moment when the war lord, with flashing eye and lifted sword, shouting in triumph over a vanquished foe, is the kind of! Picture that fits the national mood. Therefore we have a pensive Kaiser, with brimming eyes and} bleeding heart, turning from the ruins of St. Quentin to gather violeta| for his absent hausfrau! ' Overdone, it would seem. But this war correspondent knows his Germans. They like their sentimentality warm and copious. At bad moments it refreshes them and nerves them to new frightfulness, oeeeeeniemetad SHAD IN THE HUDSON AGAIN. HERE is one piece of good news this spring for New Yorkers| struggling with ‘the high cost of most kinds of food and at the same time doing their patriotic best to ye the things Mr. Hoover asks them not to eat: | The Hudson River full of shad again—millions of them.| Fishermen who have caught so few shad in the Hudson’ in recent| years that they had almost given up trying are now netting thousands every night between Stony Point and Hyde Park. The price has already dropped from 40 cents a pound to 15 the wharf and seems not unlikely to go as low as 5 cents, American shad are the best in the world—far superior to the varieties tllat swim up the Severn, the Seine or the Elbe to their spring breeding grounds. Conn ‘ut and Hudson River ehad ha for years been recognized as unsurpassed in America, along withou is ecti So let New Yorkers eat fine, fresh Hudson River shad while they last. Before the season is over the housewife hereabouts ought to be able to buy for thirty or forty cents the same weight of shad she had to pay a dollar and over for this time last year, Shad lovers will need no urging to eat more of this food, which for a time will be plentiful and which cannot be sent across the Atlantic to t Nation's fighters or to its Allies Others would do w to get better acquainted this spring with| what is unquestion the most delicious known fish—not to bel improved upon unless some Luther Burbank among the fish culturists succeeds in er 1 w t fish without altering its flavor, its From Sharp One kind r 1 ‘ few are preferred cred- who, after tha Lord for b ora ft wit ° supper, proce fau i indy -S« ‘Teucher—What les the cook. + ) we from the busy bee?" ; . Ville Wise--N to get stung. Des a * is or Philadelphia Record @ignity would fin H in Just] sone beat kina of opte Bae sould ot est kind of n works ar as r . ard hope t Free Pross . The quitt p accepts Lima Beane says the old story that the inevita 1 uns never seared any ; is..-'Te Blade Inspirat pa Ds An inventive us is one wh worn the r ‘ pportur for shrewd th ledo i t & lot of mo . . 4 y Journal at eo 8 ng 1 1 i art Mer that the nay buy hls bonds; don't . 1 it of e.— Mem If the man igging a \ Man re eycle is joy-riding hi t it pi —Mempals Commercial Ay atement giv- -* 6 t ulation of pok When a 1 nteresting.—-'T &@ Good ed his cons: re 1 ® Binghamt " understand ther oe elves always think they are mtsun Phough the world muy owe us a, derst Dinghimton Prese, was, EDITORIAL PAGE Saturday, May 4 | | | | | | Patriotism and the East Side By Sophie Ocqrright, 1018, by The Press Publish: NE of the most significant signs that patriotism has taken firm root in the most seething sec- tions of the city was tho great pa- rade of the woek when 25,000 chil- dren and 2,000 mothers marched for the Liberty Loan on the east aide, O This showing wae further strengthoned by announcement from the grand stand on Delancey Street as to investments made in Uncle Sam's bonds by this most cos- world—anany, many of whom do not understand our language Already the Third Liberty Loan drive has brought in more than §7, 000,000 from this dictrict and bids fair to double that amouwt, This ts mest marked tn view of the fact that in the last loan this section of the city contributed but $250,000, “When the report was spread down hore that the east aide was lacking in patriotism,” said Justice Aaron J Levy, a well known figure of this district, who presided, “enthusiasm ran high to refute charge, and the figures speak for themselves “The leading citizens joined hands and saw to it that the populace re sponded to dts full quota, regretted that in the last loan anti!- war influence was agitated by a few dangerous leaders, but we are glad |that this banaful influence has been j dispelled. Our people have rea wisely and well, and the mark at every ey This ts as it should be, Indeed have they reasoned wisely and well What country should they support if not the United States ned they will reach this portion Founder of the HE first mar | to organize a mu 7 ing this post, but he soon ratsed the office to lis own level mopolitan population of any tn the}! It is to be! Tbe rendarmes couutrics, \ Irene Loeb 06 Co, (The New York Evening World j of the populace that is mostly for- eign? Hasn't Uncle Sam supported them? Their own Government has evidently not presented to them the opportunity that they crave. So they came to Uncle Sam. And now he asks them to show thelr appreciation by merely permitting him to make their savings safe and pay them interest. In the words of Schumann-Heink: |"For years I plodded on the other | side in my native country without a {sign of recognition, And it was not until I came over here that I eecured it, America was the Good Samaritan, It took me in and gave me all I hav I'll not fail to giv: 1 I have in re- turn." if the truth were known, this is | the case with nearly evory individual of this congested area, Many, many |of them must reflect on the terrible conditions that now exist among their relatives and friends across the ocean as compared with their own, It is well they have shown that they do not lack in patriotism, They might well lead in it, And from present indications other sections of the city may wall look to their laurels, That the seed of patriotism ts be- jing sown among the children was enced by the 26,000 child march- And their remarkable total of saving stamps ts commendable, to say the least, The more these im- |pressionable ttle humans get of | American ideals the more thoy will impart to their parents. | Americanize the child and he will }be American when he grows up, One | ood way to begin 18 to inake him |{nvest his quarters in saving stamps. | It will not only make dollars for him, | but will democratize him as well, That the east side, with all its con- gestion and strife, has found America "a decent place to live in,” and that {t wants the whole world to corre- | war spond, was unmistakably demon- strated this weal, It is a wholesome reflection. Secret Service Jof Paris were made into a highly ef- nictpal pol stem along|ficient force, and d'Argenson also | modern lines was the Marquis|formed a body of secret agents, such @’Argenson, who died in Parks 197/a8 would now be called detectives, years ago. D'Argenson was a native|Later he laid the foundation for the Jor Venice, and first achteved fame in| irench secret service, and rent epies that republic, where was tate|to all countries with which France secret agent, In 1697 he went to|might become involved in war, The France and became the head of the|systemn of international espionage he police dep: tin Paris, Coming |{naugurated was perfected by Karl of a high family, he was considered | Stieber, who organized the Prussian to have degraded himself by accept. | Secret service and sent thousands of |his men into Austria and France prior to Prussia’s wars against those i, The lar By Roy L. ohildren, my deur!" gushed | Mra, Jarr, as Mrs. Rangle entered the Jarr domicile with her! Uttle boy and girl. “And Mr. Rangle | with you, too!” Mrs, Jarr made this) last remark with a rising inflection | that implied she would have thought | @ man ike Mr, Rangle would rather have apent his social hours in the cafe on the corner. But Mrs, Rangle was not the per- | son to submit: to rising tnflections, She remarked sweetly that she was! surprised to see Mr. Jarr at home, as| she had thought she had heard his | voice as she passed the corner, but ghe did not oare to look around to eee. | Mra, Jarr thought it best to let the matter rest with honors even, so | she simply replied the visitors must take off their things, and she knew her little dears would be so pleased | to see their childish visitors, It 1s hard to say why the Jarr chil- | dren were overjoyed to see the Rangle children unless tt were to resume| some Incipient hostilities of earlier in the day on the street, for Master Willie Jarr poked Master Johnny Rangle in the eye, as he hed seen a German guard torture an American prisoner in a war etory film, and li tle Miss Jarr trod on the toes of little Maury Rangle. Master Rangle prompt! countered on Master Jarr with a retaliatory | poke, and little Mim Rangle as promptly pinched Httle Miss Jarr and cried to her to stop stepping on her new slippers. “What ever is the children these days?" Jarr sharply, as she separated combatants. “Do you think it because the whole world t# embattled and even the children are getting warlike?” Mrs. Rangle felt ike saying that tn | her opinion it was because the Jarr | children were little demons by na-| ture, but she emiled wanly and said she supposed it was the war. | Mr. Jarr had taken Rangle over tn| matter with osked Mrs. the is the corner and asked him if he had| brought in any ciwars with him. ‘Phis| was to prevent Rangle expecting his! host to have the smokings and also it migh# lead to a permit from the Home Department to go out and get smoke sereen materials. “Why do you stand there and let the children act #0 rudely?” asked Mrs. Jarr turning to the fathers, accordingly addressing her remarks only to Mr, Jarr, but including Mr. Rangle also, i Mrs. Rangle eased the situation for } want ~ By J. H. Cassel hgh AN Family McCardell Dopyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), “} ]°s sweet of you to bring the} HER husband by administering @ slap to her own offspring while giv- ing a look at the Jarr children as though she would like to include them in @ general reprisal. “Why did you insist on the children | coming? What shail we do with them?” asked Mrs, Rangle of her hus- | band. Mr, Rangle's private opinion was that it would bo best to let them fight It out and settle it, but he knew bet- ter than to voice such sentiments. However, Mr. Jarr and Mr, Rangle took the belligerents aside and se- cretly bribed them with movie money to behave, Quiet being thus restored, Mrs. Rangle was heard to ask if Mrs, Jarr bad heard from Mrs, Jenkins, Mrs. Jarr replied that she had, and was surprised at Mrs, Jenkins writ- ing her that she wished help from the elty on the women's war committees \in East Malarta. "Yes," said Mrs. Rangle, ‘I met | Mra. Jenkins tn town shopping to- day, and she wishes us to come out to East Mafaria and bead their local committees.” “I don't see what for,” remarked Mrs. Jarr, ‘We have our own war work to look after.” “Mra, Jenkins explained it to me,” aid Mrs, Rangle, “She says there ts so much Jealousy between the ladies of East Malaria some women who live gain social precedence there may if they are allowed too much say in the Knitting | League, or any of the other organi. zations. I suppose she is right. She Wasn't elected President or Chair. woman of anything, and she's stirred | UP @ lot of trouble, I suppose,” “Well, it's too bad at such a tine as this that petty social foalousies should arise!" Mrs. Jarr declared. “But then, it's always that way in those small and snobbish suburban towns.” “Mrs. Jenkins thinks that If we came out, representing ourselves from the bigwer city organization, we could take entire charge and end the antmosities,” jadded Mrs, Rangle. “I would have nothing to ¢o with it!" said Mrs. Jarr emphatically, “1 never mix up in those squabbles, Be- | sides, if we put in our time going to a suburban town on war work Mrs, Stry- ver and Clara Mudridge-Smith would to run everything here In our own Knitting League.” At this point the children began an- other skirmish, due to the fact that thelr fathers were busy quarreling as to whether criticism of the conduct of the war was constructive or destruc- tive ‘They are all afraid! Stories of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (7! ‘ew York Erpning World), No. 20—GRETA NASSI, Germany’s Spy in Austria. HE was one of the bright stars of the whole choice ool lection whose headquarters is at the Wilhelmstrasse, in Berlin. Her name was Greta Nassi and she was strikingly handsome, Also she was clever. At last she became too clever for her own good, us you shall see, Out of the millions of dollars which Germany spent every year on spies a goodly precentage of the money went to the upkeep of a big staff of secret agents in Austria, For Germany seems to have distrusted her unlucky Austrian allies more bitterly than she distrusted Eng- jand or France, and every item of secret news from Vienna was bought and well paid for by Berlin. Same years ago Greta Nassi was sent to the Ags | trian capital by orders of the Kaiser. There she posed as a rich widow. As sho was well introduced she had little trouble in oot ting invitations to houses which the Emperor of Austria was in the habit of honoring with his presence, Ol4 Hmperor Frans Josef ever had an eye for a charming woman, His career as a Itbertine did not cease when his beard began to turn white and his head to grow bald. He met Greta—as the Kaiser had planned he ehould— and her arts presently enslaved the old fellow, as the Kaiser had also planned, Franz Joset became a+constant vieitor at the lovely Greta’s Vienna house, and he invited her frequently to be a guest at his castle of Schonbrunn, He babbled willingly in reply to her artful ques- | tions about state affairs, So sure was he of her devotion to himself that |it never seems to have occurred to him to be on his guard in talking to her. She Sells Secret to a Foe. Every few days Greta’s detailed reports of these conversations were sent to the Wilhelmstrasse, Ske sent more than mere reports of the Em- peror’s confidences, For at Schonbrunn she was often able to get a peep In- sido the old Emperor's own desk and to read important state documents and letters hidden there. Coptes of these went regularly to Germany. Greta was earning her pay easily and pleasantly, and it was good pay. |"Mhe salary and bonuses from the Kaiser were increased by costly presents from her elderly advrer—presents for which (in more ways than one) the \overtaxed Austrian nation was made to pay. But Greta was not content. She scented digger gama There was a pricelessly valuable Austrian state secret for which several rival nations | eteod ready to se ryan sum, Germany expected Greta to get hold | of that secret tf she cou | But Germany expected her to procure it at a price far lower than certain | other countries were willing to pay. It was part of her job and called for jno special reward from the Wilhelmstrasse, | And here 1s where Greta’s cleverness expanded into genius. She procured tho precious secret. No outsider knows just how she aid {t, except that {t was through Franz Josef’s infatua- 4 tion for her. And no outsider to this day knows the exact nature of that secret, | i Greta took the secret to the agents of another ' government and offered {t for sale, It was bought | from her most eagerly and at a price that made the spy rich for life, Then Greta retired from business and went to the Riviera to enjoy Mfe tn lazy luxury, But she had not counted on the German apy. system nor the Kaiser’s revengeful hate of all who outwitted him, A few weeks after she reached the Riviera she went one day for her usual drive on a nearby road. She did not return. Next morning the dead body of Greta Nassi was found tying at the road- aide, The Wilhelmstrasse'’s arm was tong. And its revenge had been ewift. | | | he ayor o elhi | By Bide Dudley Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Xventng Werld), AYOR CYRUS PPRKINS| “Ladies and gentiemen,” the Mayer M WALKER of Deshi has issued | began, “I would like to etate posi- } an edict prohibiting future! tively that this little lady on |appearances of Templeton’s Rolster- stage has been grossly mist: ers, a theatrical troupe, in Delhi. aa my personal habdits.” ‘This action followed a fracas at = ‘You're right, Mayor!” yelted Hugus Hall Wednesday evening dur- meee Les, a switchman on the tng a performance given by the Tem- Pies & Ww. Z pletons, Considerable gossip bas re- - ry Sen, dear friends,” the Mayer; | sulted from the mix-up, and there are rapauess "I have corroboration. |hints that a scandal may follow, sie jon't use no funnel—you use, In the second act of the “revue” | ® hose,” sang out Lee. offered by the show people Miss aoe after laugh greeted th |Queenle La Belle, ingenue of the| *@ly, and the Mayor was deeply tn- ltroupe, was programmed to sing rene Lee is a member of the some loca] verses in her number, psdahibe sal faction of the Dethi “Now What Do You Think of That?" | erncraiie Party and tne Mayes Her appearance was preceded by an ais er baad to discredit him és announcement from the comedian, is race re-election, Jepp Hester, who anid: T want to say that T never drisi “These verses mentioned in the Sea in any form,” Mayer program were supplied by a resident ae ae Bheates, “That goes for Lee of your beautiful little city. We are eer oat of the bunch he | glad to see you all here tonight, netgh~ | OAT es with, bors. ‘To-morrow night we will put in 2 vou re through set @ewn new songs and dances. Popular prices han A * vou ll break a dottte eome will prevail, One 30-cent ticket ad- rg 2 9 clothes,” replied Lee. mits lady free when accompanied by | 57 Pabst pill rod for the Ereoutive. t. I thank you.” rd mage. wrThe firet verse of Miss La Belles Palma ric vee eg Brown im the introductory nature, | °\Y at elaine | “On duty, sir!” replied the oftoer, Tee teed of jor ume at coming down the eitsle. 1 think it nloe and very pretty Eject that man!” If 1 could only have my Brown leaped at Lee and grabbed In Delhi I would surely stay, him by the collar, A After rendoring it in a soft Con-| i, which the Seta ee . tralto, she sang the chorus, starting | down eignt times, but he wane “Now what do you think of that?” | ce: ree outside by rei managed and won an enthusiastic round of @D-| maxing taces at him. ieeating one plause. The next verse caused On! with their exit the uproar te uproar, me Sellomtes aaa ae creased, and, taking advantage of Your ayor 7 the barrage of noise, the actors left the theatre and caught the 11.95 Bot unee e funnel, in his beste, Pollywog for Dallas, The Mayor As she began the chorus Mayor) brands the entire affair as @ polttioal Walker, seated with his wife in the/ tick and threatens to investigate. third row, stood up and held up one| The whole town is talking. The singer stopped her song Phere is much indignation on the sober, temperance plea, Wait He lite no wivegisas to bis face | hand. hings in Scienc produced Eritrea Newest T Ore from Bolivian tin mines ew plant in Chi ss « e ‘n colony ef veing the Italian smelted at an | A phonograp! attachment makes a|, Pressing a lever at the driver's eat new clock speak the time every quar ial ater enirariddiog ohaiae under the rear wheel of an autome- ter hour. ro ae b SAY EC ov Lt in| The Argentine Government will iM-| po stall an electric voting machine in its| Te development of the use of eaal gas for *hamber of Deputies. ee 0 snot Tpoiea power has Machinery has been invented £ | Bamiend Fiplacile shredding waste payer into an ac! 4 Cgifornia inventor's suit ease te Jed and set up to form a writing The Swiss Government is conduct-| desk ing experim in the use of com-| . 2 4 pressed turf as a substitute for coal.| Malian ads are experimenting s 4-8 vith lignite, peat and peat mixed with substances as A novel window » a storage spuce extended to forr . for clothing, can be a single bec ard somotive fuel, ee Tho United States Weather Bureag, has established « station in Hondurag have demonstrated |thot reports to Washington by wires can be profitably .-i Experiments that sisal homp .