The evening world. Newspaper, May 23, 1918, Page 20

ae pet es ee ee EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, May 23 ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Sunda by the Prees Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to| 6 rk Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row, ‘Treasurer, 63 MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Amoctated Pres is exclusively entitied to the jee for republ ‘ot aL am appateen ered Se eH SAY PUSS eT oe eee pall VOLUME 58. + NO. 20,729 ] to compel attention—from the Irish in America. From Irish in America, that is, who are loyally of and with the chief democratic peoples of the-world in the great allied fight| against autocracy bent on conquest. Another kind of Irish in this country have been busy enough. | American sympathy, American dollars, American propaganda! and plottings have contributed only too much to the support of a sinister Irish fanaticism that would buy Irish independence at any) price—even treason, betrayal and shameful compact with the enemy. It is time a different sort of Irish in the United States were and threats of the Sinn Fein. There are thousands in whose veins Irish blood runs rich and) strong who believe Ireland’s wrongs can be righted without stabbing fighting England in the back. Clumsily as British Ministers have handled the touchy Irish and| their problems, there are thousands of true Irishmen in this country WILL THE IRISH OF NEW YORK RESPOND? TIS TIME the Irish in Ireland heard a message—voiced in a tone heard above the mutterin, who would rather see Ireland struggle on fifty years more for her) political rights than know that one German gun had been fired by! Irish hands or that one Irish leader had sought the aid of the Kaiser. | If Irish liberty is the dearest hope of Irishmen, is not Irish honor dear to them too? | What would history say of an Ireland who, at such a crisis in the| progress of free peoples, with a constitution almost won from British obstinacy by constitutional means, nevertheless let herself be bedev-| illed by Irish hot-bloods into an alliance with the war lords of Pruss Tine guarantees of freedom Ireland could expect from a “pro- tecting” Imperial German Government! A model charter of Irish liberties would be one drawn up in 1 Berlin! i Hand over Ireland for Germany’s present aid and comfort—to be treated later like Roumania and the Ukraine? Not that level-headed Irishmen in this country overlook mistakes of British statesmanship in dealing with the Irish question; not that they approve the policy of Lloyd George which has made conscription | seem a hideous wrong to the Irish because it has the ugly look of a condition; not that they do not recognize that Britons have for generations made similar blunders because of inveterate inability to understand the Irish. “Most Irishmen in America, however, have come strongly to feel that if Ireland is to play a part worthy of itself there must be room in the Irish heart and mind for motives not solely and blindly anti- British, As one of the greatest of Irishmen, Edmund Burke, put it: England and Ireland may flourish together. The world 1s large enough for us both. Let it be our care not to make wurselves too little for it. By Sophie Copyright, 1018, by The Preas Publishi ESTERDAY a@ man called me on ¥ the phone. to sell. He had something “1 will look at it to- morrew at 3 o'clock,” I an- ewered, I thought that would settle it. “busy at the mo- ment, Yet be 4 Went on talking, “I will go over {t with you at 3 o'clock — to-mor- row,” I persisted, It was this larger Irish spirit that spoke in the late John Redmond when, on a memorable August afternoon in 1914, he declared to a crowded and cheering House of Commons that “the British Govern- ment may to-morrow with safety withdraw every one of its troops from Ireland, and the coasts of Ireland will be defended from foreign invasion by her armed sons.” It is the same spirit that now moves the Nationalist leaddr, Tohn| Dillon—even at a moment when the British: Government has just} ‘ closed its hand upon another group of Irish plotters with no word of| what it has ag t them or what it means to do with them—to do-, Still he continued to explain how very |important it was for me to see this |thing and I repeated that I would be pleased to discuss it with him at 3 o'clock to-morrow, Still he would not say good-bye and went on talk~ ing, And when he finally was throug, he sald, “I'll tell you about tt to- morrow at # o'clock!" nounce the treason of the Sinn Fein and to send overseas: “An urgent appeal to all those of Irish blood in the United States (o support the one party in Ireland which is fighting for Irish liberty without betraying the cause of liberty in other lands." To this appeal the Trish of America could make a response tha:| om,» “good-bye-less” telephone talker would ring through Ireland and frighten the Sinn Fein here into 1s the parasite of time and the per- lence. sonal and public pest, He drains Why don’t your energy and makes you form a| the Irish of New York get together and frame one? | dislike to him that injures his friend~ lenip with you When, ob when, will jearn to say good-bye over the te!o- Letters From the > we Peo ple phone at the proper time? 1 know Snys Deuggints Are Profiteers ing is largely bosh. Here ang | business men who have u list of peo- To the Kditor of The Krenina World some merchants ‘may bave | Me Who are taboo us fur as telephone Somebody referred to the price of | drugs in your paper the other day, 1 think that this is a subject which cer- tainly should have attention, fast year a doctor prescribed a tonic for my little girl which cost me 65 cents, This year sha began to all and I had tha Prescription filled again. It cost $1.59! Everything that the drug stores sell, from talcum ‘powder to medicine, has increased to unheard of pr' 1 can- not believe that all of this increase due to war conditions, It would s« connections are concerned, Their telephone operators are instructed that when so-and-so calls the answ is either “out” or “in a conference,’ These men must do this In self-pro- tection, The reason is obvious, On does not like to be rude over the tel phone because it 18 so casy to ho rude and to be misunderstood, Yet |in order to avoid talking to a persou who does not know when to say good-bye, the busy person has but one alternative, and that is not to driven a hard bargain, but the Breatest number of them are having all the can do to get lving prices for th goods, And with the increase in wages why shouldn't the merchants get more? I think we are fully entitled to an advance on everything, matter of business, Searcely an arti- cle that not cost more. Why should we sell it at a price including only this advance over the old cost? | With everybody eise getting more! money we are due to Ket more for our | y| merely as does tn that between the wholesale druggists | goods, Ask any business man and neo |t#!K at all. und the retailers they are trying to) if he does not confirm what I say, J¢| When, oh when, will we reallzo the wet rich by taking the money that poor] ix simply a matter of two and two. Tho | :taportance of brevity on business people cannot afford, I am certain that | @ great many persons in New York City are going without needed medi- cines simply because they have not the money to buy them, Is there no way of protecting us from profiteering druggists? MRS. R. O, M. Thinks High Prices Justitic To the Editor of The Evening World: publi the telephones? Brevity is not only tha oul of wit, but the stimulant and strength of business success. Wheo will people understand that whon they ring a telephone they are “but- tng In" on some one’s time and occu- |pation? And if they aro seeking |womething for themselves they are |intrudera pure and simple. | If @ business man receives a jotter ‘he can take hie own time about read. ing it or answering it, as tho tm. portance of the communication pre. has no real complaint against merchants. GROC SUGAR WAS HIGH IN 1786, Bome Idea of the , Charien lamb's, day maybe gutne from ‘Rogers's in may be gathered story of Agriculture i “amb was eleven ye Jot age, Ane loat sugar waa In ith | pound, in York, although tn the previous ~ x year twenty- ounds of pow: The clamor in your paper about high |§igar had been sold for, 16a, loa? sugar prices seems very inadvisable to me at | then standing at 10d. a pound. @ time when merchants can scarcely |, “MP suaer in the same year was 84., also ist es meet thelr expenses. This talk of Chr r—~London More Rivets! The ‘Good-bye-less” Telephone Talker: 1 was very | Copytabt, 1018, by The Troe Pribuemiang Co, (Tbe New York Eventag World.) | | | | | Womenin War By Albert Payson Tethune Conrrigat, 1018, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), ' NO. 13.—EMP RESS EUGENIE and the Franco-Prussian War, NE day in the summer of 1914 all Paris throbbed witht the strains of martial music and re-echoed to the rhythmic tread of marching feet. France's troops were marching to war against thelr olden foes, the Germans, On a balcony overlooking the gayly moving army stoo@ a withered little old woman swathed in crepe. No one noticed her, But her old eyes glittered as they watched the passing troops. Suddenly her wrinkled lips parted and she cried aloud in exultant rage: “This is my revenge! This is what I have waited fox so long I have sald no one in the crowd paid any heed to the little figure in crepe, Yet the parents of that crowd hi once clamored for her life. And their grandparentg had cheered themselves hoarse as she drove through Parts. She was Eugenie, former Empress of the French. Eugene de Montijo was a Spanish beauty whose mother was a downe at-heel adventuress. When Napoleon III. overthrew the French Republic during the middl@ of the nineteenth century and had himself proclaimed “Emperor of thé French,” no European princess would consent to marry him. He wi looked on as an upstart. (He had taught school in New Jersey during bis years of exile, and had served as a special policeman {n London.) Fatling to make a royal marriage, the new Ema peror decided to wed the woman he loved. And he loved Eugenie de Montijo, He married her, crowning her Empres: It was a falry-book rise for the down-at-heed Spanish girl. And she revelled in the wonder of !€ all, Her beauty made her the idol of Paris, She set the fashions in dress for the whole world, But soon all this grew tiresome, and she craved fresh excitement. she began to dabble in politics, and thereby brought France to ruin. Napoleon Ill, not only loved her, but she had an almost hypnotic 1 fluenco over him, In her clever hands his ordinarily shrewd brain was ag malleable as hot wax. Even as Eugenie ruled Napoleon Ill, so ber crafty | advisers ruled Eugenie, Bismarck knew this as did all the world. He and the rest of the Prus« sian statesmen were longing for a chance to humble the French. as th@ French In 1806 had humbled Prussia. \ Ho saw that greft eof corruption were rife in the Napoleonic courts | and that the army fend8 were misapplied. As a result the gallant Frencts army was ig ‘rretched condition. This seemed an ideal time for Peussia’s revenge @erman spies and German bribe money were sent to F Presently {t occurred to Eugenie that a war with Prussia would be @ plendid thing. Probably she herself did not realize how first she got the idea. But soon she had implanted it in her husband's heart, Secretly Bismarck manipulated the strings of state until, in the sume | mer of 1870, France and Prussia were at war. Bugenie was delighted. Sh | took the whole credit for bring! on the hostilities. She spoke proudly | of the conflct as "MY wa he Was assured by her advisers—and im | turn assured Napoleon Il.—that the French would be masters of Berlln in« | side of a month. | The carefully prepared Prussian hosts smote france’s disorganized jarmies in @ succession of bloody batties and crushed them. Bismarck-« | thanks to Eugente's unconscious help—had done his | ® work well. France was beaten and lay at Prussia’ Her Fond Hope mercy—at the mercy of the merciless! | Wrecked. The people of Paris stormed the Tuileries Pala [oars ace to wreak vengeance on the Empress who had | caused their def They did not find her. For Dre | Fvans, an American gentist, had spirited her away to England, Evans ade | sisea her to wear a black dress in her Might, But out of her wardrobe of | hundreds of costly dresses not one of them was black. Since then she hag | worn no other color, Napoleon IL, was captured by the Germans and was dethroned by hig own people, When he got out of prison he joined his wife in England—w Orr janupee by Ladie of Royalty, « | broken and ruined man with the hand of death already upon him. Buge« jnie's only son was killed soon afterward, and her own lonely later year | were spent tn cheerless exile, Smal! wonder th: the marching | French troops in 1914 she exclaimed: “This is my revenge!” Irene Loeb jing Co, (The New York Evening World), | sents itself, But when he ts called cn the telephone he is taken away | from that which he is doing and, made to respond immediately. ‘There- fore there is nothing so inconsiderate as to take this unfair advantage just because it is easy to ring a telephune | bell, ‘Three safe rules to follow are: State your business. Get your aa- swer. Say good-bye. If every one would only realize how often too much explanation injures | their cause, they would realize the | tremendous importance of being to | the point. You can readily recognize the thie: of your time on the telephone, He who Introduces himself at length by | inquiring into your health and the | weather wants something from you. | The person who insists on making «| ‘sonal appointment without telling | you the nature of his business has | | something to “put over.” When the | | visiting’ stranger phones to tell you | bow he knew your whole family, be | hae some favor to ask, And as for the social side of It, | there is a limit and a price on pa- tience, ‘There is the habitual talker | who does nothing but make talk, He thinka he 1s being friendly, wher, | most of the time, the person on the | other end of the line is thinking whoo | will he ever quit? There js the person whom you tn- vite to dinner, One sentence would settle it; but he will begin to tell you how sorry he is, If you had called up little sooner; or how Uncle Jobn came to town and how he would have to entertain him that evening, and so forth and so on, until you wish ho had just said “Il am very sorry, T have another engagement and cannot come to-night; would he glad of an- other opportunity.” train yourself in talking over} @ telephone is the saving grace in| the scheme of things to-day. ‘Time is more precious than radium, _> OUR LONGEST CROSS STREETS, HB two longest east and west le thoroughfares {n Manhattan are said to be 14th Street and 23d | Street. It has been computed that the distance from the foot of West léth Street to the foot of Past 14th | Street Is two and three-eighths miles, and {t ts the same distance from the foot of West 234 Street to the foot of | To The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Covrriaht, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), HE Cackleberry girls of Philadel- T phia, who were visiting Mrs. Jarr, were highly elated In be- lieving they were foremost in the Red Cross drive because they were riding through the main thoroughfares of our great city with vapid young Edgar Bullwinkle in his costly chummy | roadster, He and the Misses Cackleberry felt sure they were making the world safe for democracy because the car bore Red Cross flags and mottoes and went #o fast that solicitors for the fund could not halt it, Besides, the flags and mottoes on young Mr. Bull- winkle’s classy cur gave It the aspect of either being an official car of the Red Cross Commissiou or else that its occupants had already given tll tt hurt. Therefore, convinced also that her visitors were working for the drive, Mrs, Jarr, who had really tolled in the cause and given until the local tradesmen were hurt, leaned back in her chair to knit aud wonder had her little boy been big enough to enlist whether a naval or an army officer's uniform would be most becoming him, She had just decided on the uniform of a Colone) of Infantry, with a sam Brown belt and all attach- ments, including a radiolite wrist weteh, when tne doorbell :ong, The visitor was Mrs, Margaret Marmaduke Mink, publicist, Mra, Jarr had never understood what a publicist was, exvept that a publictat, it she were a lady publicist, found that nothing succeeded like success in public speaking at women's clubs, and who at dinner always ate very little and smoked cigarettes «. great deal. “I have called to interest you In our few movement for ‘Mothercraft as the War Affects It, sald Mrs. Margaret Marmaduke Mink, “You know that in Germany the junker- tum has decreed polygamy Jor the masses? The Kalser has decreed that the birthrate must be increased,” Mrs. Jarr blushed and faltered that ghe didn't see how the opinions of the Beast of Berlin should interest her, She had two children, and Ger- many could have polygamy and other horrtwie things all it wanted; but, personally, increasing the birthrats in Germany was no concern of hers, “Buy it concerns our organization vawatly, eald M Marmaduke Mink, who affected the pronunciation of our Britiab allie, “We must begin now @ propaganda to place Mothercraft on a broader basis of | Hast 284 Street, State sociology.” Little Miss Jarr came jn to ask her mother for five cents to buy an ice cream cone, and stood swaying and gazing at the strident visitor. "Ye., after the war, Mothercraft nust be fostered by the ¢ e. rmaduke Mink went on, patriarchal system has Women, passed, being now politically and economically freed, must not again relapse into outworn family group conditions, We mu: lish the old idea fhome—a #! market. the wife and penitentlary for the chil- dren! I wish you'd stop wiggling, little girl!” “1 don't Ike '00,” remarked the little Jarr girl, who inherited her mother’s frankness, but who had not as yet developed her mother's tact, “Leave the room, you naughty girl!” cried Mrs, Jarr to little Emma, “You are very rude.” ‘L admire rudeness, St indicates tho expression of eelf,” sald the visitor grimly. Mrs, Jarr was about to romark that it Indicated selfishness, but sho re- trained. “Ay I was saying,” Mrs, Marma- duke Mink went on, “the family group, or home, under the patriar- hal system, now happily passing, | has been a slave market for the wife and a penitentiary for the chttdren, The State will encourage the birth rate by establishing general mater- nity institutions for the care of chil- dren from infancy to adolescence’——~ “Emma, leave the room! Excuse rupting, but children are sald Mrs. Jarr, “They should be curious,” retorted the visitor, ‘hey should be grounded at an early age in all the fundamen- tals of sex hygiene.” Mrs, Jarr suggested that perbaps such matters were better left for the contemplation of more mature minds, “Nonsense!” replied Mra, Marma- duke Mink, “Children should be tn- structed In thelr very first stages of consciousness in all fundamental bio- logical facts!" Just then the honking of young Mr. Bullwinkle's chummy roadster could be heard, and Mrs. Jarr knew the ckleberry girls had returned, ‘ell it all to Gladys and Irene Cackleberry, please,” sald Mrs. Jarr. “Such discussions are not suitable for wives and mothers.” —$—$<———— PLAYING WAR, “You ought to be ashamed of rourself, Aix boy ll uu Jumping on a little fellow like t We aren’ war, And he's many.” —Detroit achalar Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Coprright, 1919, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Ev € RASS WIDOWS @re the Bolsheviki of matrimon. It is easter to keep a husband in the straight aud narrow patty by putting blinders on him than by trying to drive him with a curds In these days of food conservation there is nd thrill of patriotism more ecstatic than that which surges through a man at the sudden discovery that h@ cap draw his belt in another notch, Every respectable middle-aged man fondly fancies that he was once a “young devil”; and every “young devil” trembles between the hope and the fear that he will some day settle down into middle-aged respecta bility. Any woman who sues for fifty thousand dollars for the alienation of her husband's affections is simply “profiteering”—bvecause the klud of affeo { tons that can be “alienated” aren't worth two cents. | Of course every woman respects the “mighty masculine reason,” but somehow it totters in her estimation when her husband exclaims sleepliy ‘tn the morning, “Oh, I can get down to the office in Afteen minutes,” and mutters indignantly In the evening, “Well, how do you expect me to get all the way home tn less than an hour?” A few weeks of army life appears to take all the concett out of a mam | and to put a lot of self-reliance In its place. When you read the columns on “Styles for the Modish Man” don't forget that, next to @ uniform, there {8 nothing quite so smart and be leoming this year as @ shiny last year's sult embellished with a Liberty | Bond button and glorified with a Red Cross badge. | No bride can afford to “booverize” dn tatty and soft soap, Somehow a man will trust almost anybody's judgment sooner than that of the woman who showed hers by marrying him, Some Uses of Wood in the War Wood !s used for fuel by the armies and here at home when coal cannot he had. About 200 feet of the cholcest lum« ber is used in making an airplane, and nearly 10,000 feet of standing timber must be cut to obtain enough of this perfect wood for one airplane, Boxes made of wood must be used. for packing food and munitions, Long poles calied piles ate driven into the earth under the water to make wharves for the ships thas carry our soldiers Yood Is used in makin for packing food hy excelsior for p | ILLIONS of feet of lumber are M used in the bullding of ships to carry our soldiers, supplies and ammunition. It is used for |homes for the sbip bullders and houses for the eoldiers in cantonments. Charcoal used in making gunpowder comes from wood, Tbe charcoal for this purpose 1s rade mainly from dog- wood, willow and alder, Wood alco- hol, used in large quantities for heat- ling and in ~anufacturing ammunt- | tion, is made from wood, The stocks of guns are made from wood, Black | walnut is the best wood for gun stocks, but birch 1s used to some ex- tent. Bridges are bullt of wood to re- aper boxes 1nd algo in making e ng other articles. The paper we use comes from Wook ‘Trees are used by all armies wherever they exlat to screen the soldiers and ; ar from the ene! place those destroyed by the enemy. | cannon my. Sugar and Millions of railroad ties must be used its 4 ae made from tho sap of the in building railroads that carry sup-| soft absorbent surgical cotton ia plies to the soldiers in the trenche Huge quantities of lumber are re. quired in constructing the trenchos and dug-oute to protect the goldiei made of wood cellulose. §| made from tough crepe paper aad the splints used to hold broken bones i: place ai so made from fibre, boarday