The evening world. Newspaper, May 9, 1918, Page 18

~ SRE Tt oT Fea YE \After ESTABLISHED LY JOSEYH PULITZER, Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Fubiening Company, Now, 63 63 Park Row, New York. ba ary PULITZDR, President, 63 Park Row, AN HAW, “Treasurer, 63 Park Kow, gost PHL PUL ft, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. | MEMAER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘i “ ta exclusively entitled to th rabicatte enpatchiee een ete tea le PS et khd"Ces "Ta ney fled ere VOLUME j . veseee eNO, 20,715 | HE Lloyd George Ministry in Great Britain faces a crisis B.! the | involving its existence because Major Gen. Frederick War Office, Ixchequer with deliberately mis-, has charged t Maurice, formerly of Premier and the Chancellor of the stating facts concerning certain British military operations. | Gen. Maurice may be a loyal and devoted Briton, At the samo time the fact remains that he has recently been disciplined by the Lloyd George Government, and his attack, based upon what seem not very essential points of military policy, is open to the suspicion of being to no small extent retaliatory, Here in the United States a most important department of war is under a heavy cloud which has un- ‘ t the activity—aircraft production } questionably been made to seem darker n facts warrant ly through extravagant reports and exaggerations eagerly seized upon and enlarged by those who see no reason why the war should not} 1 At a moment when the Allied cause more than ever needs con-| furnish by-products in the shape of political and party weapons. sistency, co-operation and continuity of leadership, it is easy to! become bitterly impatient with those who criticize ministers, cabinets) or departments. | But make no mistake. To condemn all criticism because there are misinformed, prejudiced and malevolent critics is the gravest of errors. Better a thousand times meet and overcome the disruptive effects of vicious criticam than seck to suppress all fault-finding as wicked and treasonable. Criticism of the Conduct of war is the surest sign of health| and energy in any democratic people engaged in war. If the United States and England need proof of that fact let them remember what has happened in France since 1914; After the Battle of the Marne the Viviani Ministry slipped into a state of overconfidence. watchful, upon action—turned out the Viviani Ministry. Briand followed— only to be forced out in his turn when lack of energy and initiative made the critics restless. Then came Painleve. Where would France be now if the critics had been hushed and Painleve had continued Premier; if Malvy, then Minister of the Inte- rior, instead of being to-day tried by the Senate, sitting as a High Court of Justice, on charges of complicity with the enemies of France, shad continued in office to the present time; if Caillaux and Bolo} | Criticism—nervous, insistent Pasha had been free to burrow deeper in their underground schemes and the Bonnet Rouge still flourished and prospered? By this time France might have been where Russia is —betrayed| ‘into ignoble peace and vassalage. Criticism saved France. By Sophie 1013, by The Frew Publi came to me wailing, Copyright, WOMAN to A Why be blind to its immense power for about how abused she was, Her | good among other free peoples? The people of the United States BUNS & ieee Nba ventines ere the last who should fall into euch error. she thought was | rah ; due her and she| By every principle and ideal to which this Republic is pledged inal D taariye | it is too unjust that patriotism, disinterestedness, hones unbar- in her own eyes. | as . * In graphic terms gaining service should be found in their purity among the men who she told how it! offer their lives on the battlefield, while machinery maintained to PApPENSA, | Z f i at a party given supply their nceds is permitted by those at home to fall permanently by some mutual friends. When into the hands of another kind of men whose chief concern with war is to get fat profits out of war contracts or to further their political ambitions so long as silence protects them. Americans are ready to put billions of dollars of their earnings} and savings into Liberty Loans to back fighters at the front. she came down- airs her sister- In-law looked up at her with “stab. bing” eyes as much as to say, “Ah, you have stolen my brother; there- | fore, I will ‘snub! you, 1 will not | deign to look at you." She Just felt But whether the money goes for airplanes, ordnance, clothing! tM? “stab” of those eyes wag meant 5 | tor ner. or food—not one dollar of those billions ought to be held back by| She was miserable during the whole | waste or worse from those for whom it is all meant—not while Ameri-| "She pitied herself and pon- j j é dered what she had done to deserve can love of justice, American instinct of inquiry and fair criticism) such a fate, She went home and survive to demand an accounting based on openness anc apent a sleepless night pacing the | adhd: iach seine Dh penness and plain truth, | oor, during which she had a “scene” | “7 -|with her husband. | H it s F rom Sh arp Wi its laos ite to Bia es ripe to what | A lot of folks who Think they're] Asa matter of fact, the things that! m, , Making the world etter are Only!comv to him that waite Agi hy VER SiR ROA Ry al making it noisier. Binghamton] those which the hustlers have plik’ the heroine; for he too seemed to be} Press, Nurses sidered not worth taking.—Albany | “@s@inst" her, In a word, the woman Journal, had actually worked herself up to the Buying thrift stamps is mere prac- ic oak TRE MR HARTIAG: Poin hoe NURRARA | {ical than cussing Germanyl—Toledo| Warm weathor is the beat aubstle| eet of BATtAe from her husband Blade, tute for coal cont Bil who has been most devoted to ber : . . e : . . a jin every way. Prunes appear at their worst when) A Nachelor's a guy who i Once before she came to me with trying to bat for strawberries.—To-| lot about Women Lares eres wos. hla sane her edo Blade. | Binghamt 38, bocaitial Bi . ba ‘ epee PEPRSRONOR EOS es | husband's love Was on the wane, One morning be had barely time to ake Letters F rom the People Re teats ana Rad tarwotien to cleat Wants Legislation Rent Evil. | fect before we entered oun her pede one Me nt bas to her Fo the Valitot of Tire Kvenina World | Can't something be d MP: | room. and) Drodusd=-HrAoned over the f quite agree with others of your| years of loneliness that would surely vdéaders that something must be done) Says Fish Pr | come. | about the rent situation, Landlords | To the ful Sho pictured how she would suffer ‘Do You Dramatize Y ourself ? | form of fate has played hi |the woman dramatizes herself. jand give little | that you do not | opera glasses thoy evase being actors, | they EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday May °® Law WZ Them Both! Irene Loeb Co, (The New York Evening World), most dramatic terms and she is ever] the centre of the picture, Always she} Is the wronged one. S one in the a “trick.” arises to the occasion! » Which she will so tell st tra languag In short Sometimes sh and retaliat you in m » views herself as you would look at play, and almost in every mo- ment of her life there is a setting in which she is the principal, This might not be so bad, but most of the timo she magnifies herself, She looms larger in her own eyes than she real- ly is. She assumes this attitude wi others about her, All assume theat- rical form in her mind and the play is on, here are man people like that. You meet them every day, They will tell you the slightest occurrence to; themselves in the most graphic man-| ner, You are keyed up to a-thing, and when it is all done it is nothing} but an eryday happening, You re- Alize at once that you have been fooled, | | of course are harmless, | everlasting pe Such people Rut it is the who inflicts himself on ot ho live with him who causes the] trouble. ‘The cure for such is to lg- | nore them, Let them rave and rant heed, When they sev look at them through Like real actors on the stage they must have an audience or they realize | have worked themselves up for nothing. ‘The best to stop it !s in childhood, ‘The Little who for- ever poses becomes the egotist in later way life. ‘Teach her not to take herself seriously, that there are thousands of | ittlo girls just as nice as she Is; also that there are thousands of Mttle girls who have grievances just as painful | | to | ing 1918, Lud ORT Pittiiahing Co, (the New York Brening Word.) The jar By Roy L. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishis HE chronicles of the Jarr family record the home events of morning and evening mostly, for Mr, Jarr takes his business man's lunch downtown, He is usually late for both break- fast and supper, and that makes talk. Being late for supper makes the most talk, for though he be late for breakfast, yet Mrs. Jarr knows where he is. In fact, Mrs, Jarr, as she dis- covered herseif and much to her own surprise, was the original discoverer of Saving Daylight. every morning when the man WON'T get up. Moving time thus ahead was not for the purpose of saving daylight—it was wave Mr, Jarra job, “For,” as Mrs, Jarr will tell you, “if I didn’t tell that man it was after 8 when it ly 7, he'd NEVER get up in » to be at his office is because Mr, Jarr always falls late to mess, as we say In the that Mrs, Jarr first got bold the first mall delivery every in army, of all morning, and in the course of a more of less happy married life she has come to believe the mail is solely for her, to be read and censored before Mr. Jarr gets a peek at even a cir- cular, This also goes for the morn- | ing paper, Even when Mr, Jarr, up early for him, comes to the table when Ger- trude, the maid, brings up the morn- mail, Mrs. Jarr gets it first, If ho hasn't been out late the night before playing pinochle with Sam Young or if he isn't otherwise report- ed for punishment, Mrs, Jarr will tell him who her l-tters are from, especially if they are from people Mr. Jarr doesn’t like or {sn’t interested in f af The Kventna W “Don't look 80 Inquisitive,” re- of New York are taking shameful ad-| I saw an article in your paper about |? silence because of the “thrust” that] As hers. | eee es . . Feely ahve ® Wantage of our present critical con | the Hudson hay . full supply of | had been dealt her on the stage of| ‘The self-dramatist ts suffering from | marked Mrs. Sarr thie morning, ‘It's Bitton, Partioularly is she true of fish, and urging people to eat fh life. When this wo! writes letters! vanity which ¢ only be cured by} Omly & letter trom Mrs, Blodger of Vashington Heights landlords, where | No matter how t - as ste [Stee * os r re H : z oe | Philadelphia I elph T live, and where tho rents have been | bo tn the Hudvon, of the aceam city (situations are always set forth inl lack of interest in his “‘grouch." pees rs gitar tae lucreased anywhere from 15 to 60 per | the fish dealers always chase top : si ART OU St Aula eaten cent. This is done boldly and with-| prices. Fish ts Bak torte Al S ill N d h | b “To halt the Kaiser We Coughed Up si is Neifing foi OBL Ais | ’ out caring what tenants think. A|much as meat and will n prone a Irmen Ot ee ree Inventions Our Muni'" remarked Mr. Jarr, who Reece er ac UMTt eeette (ated o | poodttg eater Ge cit Wnt UR airmen and those of our) Vice would be of incalculable value at | had strained his brain inventing Lib- people should be made to suffer that | what they like and there is ne one nautle instruments, of which | {hat will func ton trust worthily ae an | arive a letter from Mrs. Blod a oe jeeshen pay saree, Eas Rat Hel psp help the helpleas consumer, While | no practical 1 reliable forms have | times, regardless of the bomition as- | ger!” rep d Mrs, Jarr, She made 4 certain way to undermine patriot. | we have legislation to seige private been found, although many have been | sumed by an aeroplane. A'device that | this remark in the sume tone that d ; Ove pushers, to make the Individual do | iavente gach of them presel f ow fast @ plane Ja ri “ Pi ment doesn't protect the citizen wiy | this and that, and yive the co pce He ms complicate Aha Frage eh sit rien ee i ie on 1s reine at Jan actor in melodrama says “Hal A should the citizen support the Gov-| ment all power—why is it that some. difficulties that can theoretically, but | need. ‘The tet et Not | Dilet-doux from the Barones mment, is a thought expressed by | thing Is not ubout food prices? not easily, be overcome, says Popular|be dependent upon any contrivance | But she didn't or hadn't taken the many. Of course with so many im-|How much will the corpora-! Mechanics, To be concrete: Pilots|for observing drift 1 th cond | letter fro tive: tr portant things to be done, the rent) tions and the retail Red Hat tans Jaen ae IMMBSUBORAE: GA petHA GETROTG | eeULe HOC ee recite aman [LCM rete te Sear. SBNVAR: STAM te evil may bo overlooked. But it would | mitted 10 charge as much as they cating With accuracy’ tho position | rat and third’ peotlete ee eee ne |liveried servitor, torn the edge trom be a simple thing to put through leg-|1.ke and give as little ax they can? of a craft When it in flying tn clouds | leas related at Prpplema are more Of | the envelope, extracted the folded islation in Albany p»hibiting land-/ It is a fine stato of affairs or darkness, In the interests o Bee | these tihammene PER SOR Os, BRO Oe te and spanked it Aig haere Hae al RR r dar f safety |them therefore inight solve also the|note and spanked it open, as they lords —-: ‘8. 7. J. He and successful operation, such @ de- other, always do on the stage and in the ! By J. & Cassel, She always an- | nounces, and angrily, to Mr. Jarr that | paper out of Mr. Jarr’s grasp, keep- | it 1s an hour later than it really 13| ing her elbow on the rest of the mail| hot. r Family McCardell na Co, (The New York Evening World) movies, Gertrude, the maid, never srought the mail in on a salver. And Mrs she ran a hairpin under the flap and sit it deftly. "What else did she say besides the jeratifying news that Philadelphia j|woke up?” asked Mr. ing to reach for the toast while he | tried to get hold of the morning paper | jwhich Mra, Jarr held under her arm | |while she acted as family postal in- spector. Mrs, Jarr moved back to keep the |she had not yet looked over, and gave, as Mr. Jarr would have ex- Pressed it, “another slant” at Mrs, | Biefger's missive. It would have been | correct definition, for Mrs, Jarr wag holding up the letter at an angle in order to read what Mrs, Blodger had written around the edges. Then she dipped to the bottom of the last sheet to read the postscript, for there's where the reason for writing the letter may be found, the main body of a lady’s epistle being gen- erally camouflage concerning Illness, death, operations, hard luck and er cheerful tidings to mask the real purpose of the letter. "Yes," said Mrs, darr, have known it! Irene Cackleberry expects to come to see us, Gladys, too, most likely, Ever since their mother married that fellow Bernard Blodger, young enough to be her son, those girls make their mother's life 80 miserable she's glad when they go visiting, Mrs, Blodger says that Irene js all run down with war work She's tinted her hair auburn, and simply because her mother told her she should have consulted her first— for Mrs, Blodger 1s getting gray and was thinking of tinting her own hair audurn—tIrene v so sullen and snap- pish that there is no living with her, “Ah, auburn hair and angry atti- tude?” remarked Mr, Jarr; “and she thinks she is doing Red Cross wor nat isn't funny,” said Mrs, Jarr coldly, ‘“Iren one in for Red Cross work. She has been busied a the canteens for soldiers and sailor; in Philadelphia, and the more matu: women think young gins ar l¢rivolous for such social activities. | "Yes," replied Mr, Jarr, “I hear most of the soldier and satlor boys |complain about being, mothered and old-imaided too much.” MOTORCYCLES GAIN FAVOR, REATER NEW YORK has about 6,500 motorcyclists, There are| footdeep. By using almost 25,000 in thej, whole! * nps whose denominations vary trom the lowest sums to $400 ell the @e- State, aired shades of color were obtained, Jarr never tore open an envelope, | Jarr, pretend- | v) . 7 Serer in “War By Albert Payson Terhune. Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), No. 11.—LOUISA ALCOTT, Civil War Nurse. O the war hospitals near Washington, in the Civil Wary second year, came a New England school teacher, She was homely, sweet of expression, carelessly dressed. She had left home and career at her country’s call for volunteer nurses. The war was exacting a terrific Wounds were innumerable. Sickness and pestilence were rife in all the armies, The sick and wounded filled every inch of available hospital space. Private houses and public halls were set aside for recetvi the hundreds of cases the regular hospitals had not room for, The science of trained nursing was still more or less in its infancy. Medicine and surgery had not reached the high excellence they now hold. And notes | only were doctors at a premium but so were all women who had even @ esti of experience or skill at nursing. | e urgent call for nurses reached a shabby old house in Concord, Vere, with his wife and daughters, dwelt a vist bo ; ‘fa ecee niet Shee | pher, Bronson Alcott. He was fu!l of wisdom but sadly lacking in practical common sense. So his family often went hungry. His second daughter, Louise, taught school. She also tried to eke out the shaky family fortunes by writti sapere, ing flashy dime novel stories for some of the sensational weekly A toll of life When the call came for nur dropped her work and answered to Washington and there was pital. The months that followed were crowded with Miss Alcott's great heart went out to the sufferers Day and night she labored in the wards to make the patients’, , Louisa Alcott it, She came assigned to @ hose drudgery and horror. | eround her, | lot less sad, She proved an angel of mercy among the sick. But she did moi y turned her hand to such hard labor as for the hospital she would spend her nings cheering and goothing the wounded or in writing | % home to thetr families, Her work was never finished, for she undertook more duties than a dozen women could have performed. @ She wrote home to her father an account of one Here it {s in. part: Dress by gaslight, When help was scarce, cooking and she ¢ \ eve day's duties at the run through my ward and throw up the (though the men grumble and shiver); poke up the fire, add : | blankets; joke, coax and command, but continue to open windows, “Till noon I am on the run, giving out ra , cutting up food for helpless boys, washing faces, teaching my attendants how beds are made j and floors are swept; dressing wounds, sewing bandages, dusting, rushing f | up and down would p after pillows and spon y down all I po and t ss for fifteen mir oka, vutes* Ull it seems as t¢ 144) p) rest he answering of letters from friends, after some one ha } jthe saddest and hardest duty.” eae la as Human nature could not stand the endless { She Breaks Down i Near Hye Beas tt threw upon her own system, } : ast s| proke down and ud to go home, 3 From Strain. Thi in her convalescence, she w VAAAALCCALLEAAIERD of “Hospital Sketches,” to show the | needs of our disabled soldiers. had not done red Inta this series she } in any of her sensational stories, ding world by storm, rom that moment Miss Alcott's career as her. No longer did she write catchpenny st turned out a quality of it of the world to the other. For heroic labor in the war had thus opened for her ine success and gre her real self as she As a result they took the an author was laid out for tes for catchpenny papers, but ture which soon made her famous from one end a field of ever grow- The Reason ° Wiig? a Pr Scientific Facts Applying to Questions You Should) Be Able to Answer s Tron Turn “Red |e ale consequently it keeps Hot’ | paola, Why Doe Bubbies are nd because the afr | HE answer is that the piece of| which forms the inside of the bunple: | fron has been heated to the/exerts an equal pressure in all direc | point where it gives off light of | tions, its own, The red you see 1s only one | stage in the development of iron to | It presses eq sides of the bubble Why Do Roses ally the a same times Have Thorns?) the point where it makes its own | |light. If you heat it still more it will es thorns of roses and othe! make a white light, You know that plants which have thorns’ ort it produces the light itself, because ir] nally w for the purpose 61 you take a piece of Iron into a per- |°?“bling the plants to fasten them- fectly dark room and heat it to a abe on to other things, thus help-{ |white heat It will show better than |!"# them to climb, Mar ants with where there ig other light. If you |torns are permitted to grow now ia Jcontinue the process the iron wil!|Places where they can use their melt and change in form |thorns for climbing, but many othe An fron kettle on the stove, even if | ¥!th thorns are cut down by the gar- | placed directly over the coals, will|@¢ner to make the plants shapely not get red hot as long as there is|%"4 to make them produce more any water in it, ‘The water inside |"9Wers and less branches, but they keeps the kettle from bi keep on growing their thorns just tho same, coming red Why Are Soap Bubbles Round? BUBBLE is merely a hollow ball of water with air inside. The air in coming up throagh jthe water is caught in the water in such a way as to form the bubble, and since the ability of the air inside of the bubble to rise‘is r than is nature's Why DoWesHt “ink” Our Eyes? the eyes, he gar wink a littl ing from under the eye! spreads it all over way of protect~ Every time yow ear is releaselt 1, and the wink eyeball, This washes down the front of the eyeball | And cleanses it of all dust and other that of the water which forms th.|things that fly at the eye from the | bubble, and which has a tendency to|% Then the tear runs along a ttle pull It down, the bubble rises into the Channel at the lower part of the eye air, The water ball is very thin and| 8d out through a little hole in the keeps running down to the bottom of | ©¥@ and in this case the tear Is only the ball, where you see it form into| 4" eye Waxh. When you cry the tears drops, and soon this makes the walls | CMe so fast that the little trough of the water bubble so thin that the {4nd the hole at the corner of the ege | ff air bursts through the ball of water,|“"e too sma \ to hold them or carry and that is what makes the bubnic|them off, so th over the © edge burst. Mixing soap in the water | of the eyelid ” kes the walls of the water bal fi lpamente »e found to prove that patier + reprinted here ‘on paper,” for more th reon ce is gn an obsolete Mechanics, proves nan 26,000 cancelled United State from Popula Goan Eleven eng Used 25 000 Stamps to Make This Patriotic Design iS virtue. This picture. this at least * used in construct. ing this patriotic OME ONF always can b stamps have design representing an eagle with spread wings, perched on a shield, The task | occupied the mak- | ers spare time for | eleven years, In- stead of placing the stamps flat he roll- ed them into cor- nucopias, This ex- tradrdinary plece of handiwork 1s 54% feet wide and 4 feet high and nearly a