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| i | j / ESTABLISHED ‘By JOSEPH PULITZER, @udbiished Daly Pxcept Sunday by the Press Publehing Company, Nos. 63 to| Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITE KR, President, 63 Park Row, ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JosFT PULITLEN, Ira Becrelany, 63 Park Tiow, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Associated fp etclustvely entitled to the for reumbiication of aft anuae to it or not otherwise credited in this taper and aleo tie local news published been Dhl omer ener VOLUME 53 oooNO, THE GERMAN PAUSE. ROUBLE. great German drive has brought upon the war lords. The German people want to know what has gone wrong. he war has reached a stage where the Imperial German Govern- ment must find the failure of its earlier plans and promises a heavy, handicap upon its powers of further persuasion, There has been evidence of late that many Germans in Germany would subscribe word for word and without qualification to the state-/ ment the British Premier made at Edinburgh yesterday regarding the U boat situation: The submarine {a still a menace, but no longer a peril; {t is still formidable for inflicting injury, but it cannot cause the winning or losing of the war. | Early in the present month the German naval authorities) found it necessary to assure the German public that it would be sui-| cidal for the German navy to try to stop the transport of Allied) troops and munitions across the English Channel. And what about the Americans? Can the German Government keep from the German people the truth about the numbers of Ameri- can troops in and on the way to France? More than 650,000 American fighters already on French soil,| 90,000 transported safely across the Atlantic betweén May 1 and 10, 200,000 landed by the 8 month and 1,000,000 by July 4!) ‘i 7 4] ‘That of Americans—proclaimed by German military last day of t “handful” chiefs the pitiful most this Nation could possibly get to the front in @ year’s time—a million by July 4 and two million by Jan. 1 next! | The German notion that Americans could work hard at nothing but money making has had a terrible jolt. | Ame other job—is capable of achievement every bit as rapid and as big as ican energy turned into another channel—put behind an-| that shown in the production of wealth. That same dynamic power Americans bring to the making of | money they can direct with the equal force and zest to the spending} of money and the last ounce of their strength as well in defense of their freedom, their honor and the principles to which as a nation they are pledged. rmans made another colossal mistake in their estimate of the length of time it would take the United States to make its military power felt in the present conflict. Germans—both in and outside official circles—begin to see what that mistake is going to cost Germany. The men under arms soon to be counted in millions, the billions of dollars already applied to purposes of war without yet touching the! resources of the Nation—these formidable facts of America’s weight in the struggle after less than fourteen months, are now bearing dowa| heavily upon the German mind, American troops have not had time to make their presence at the front felt as it will be felt later. | But the Germans have discovered one thing about the American| Ile shoots to hit. European tactics, favoring for many soldier. ears advance formation in solid columns with volley fire, did not always keep alive the instinct of individual marksmanship. But the American, when he shogts, ia desperately k There is left in him some of the n to hit something. pioneer of earlier American days who, with one bullet in his belt, one charge of powder in his pouch, went out to get a deer—and got it. Allied strength has forced the German to pause in his great drive and reflect, | Be sure his reflections are no pleasanter for what he has felt of | the America he belittled or from his certainty that hundreds of| thousands more fighters from that same America are headed overseas} and will arrive in spite of anything he or his submarines can do. “A race between Hindenburg and Wilson,’ summary of the situation. is Lloyd George’s deceive a disappointed and impatient Germany as to the war stride] with which the United States is getting over the ground? nae the | Wants Letters From More About 5! yard Slackers. To the Biiwr of Tue Evening Works The letter in your paper from a petty | Ty the Eaitor of officer of the navy, signed "Bailor,”| A and telling about the shipyard slackers, is | People Enemy Aliens With First re Pat Army. prentag World are both B unmarried young men and in the same business, only too true, I wonder why the United States Government permits|4 ‘san American, his classification | such conditions? This slacking has! A-1, and has responded to the call of been going on since the United States | hiy country. He sacrifices everything entered the war, and it is getting | erything | | that is precious and dear to him. 1 came with his parents from Aus- | tria when a youngster and has do- | worse all the tl Thousands of big, able-bodied Scandinavians ure put ting in overtine for work they neve do, and, just as “Sailor” said, clared bis intention of becoi prolonging the war. Hefore the war|Ciuru "is Intention of becoming # They were paid from $18 to $26 a week, | Citizen by taking out first papers. Hecause pers he Now they are making fre a week. Even the forem A H10 to $100 | e Finns, | he neglected to get final pa- ip considered an alien enemy | Swedes and Norwegians, and very few | 4nd put in the fifth class. B is there- | of them American citizens, although | fore staying at home, enjoying all they have been in this country for| privileges cur free institutions offer, and busir clear MA years, The mafority of them are pr German, It 1s common talk in Brook- lyn that they are the men who ha all the money and are buying up t reaping good profits from his 4%, taking advantage of thu path creatéd by the absence two-family houses, with our grand| 1 believe that the law should be young men “over there" fighting for| amended to place sume. responslbili- the iike of them, Surely some one is| ties on these so-valled “allen ene- | responsible for these conditions, 1| mi The unfairness of these In- miggest that they shouki ‘be made to| stances where good Americans are work for their buard and keep or sent| fighting while Austrians and Ger- back to where they came from. It is 8 are en, themselves In leis. enough to infuriate an American citi- | ure aud profiting by the war can bo zen to see these tng rich a t enactment laws over night. Th ave taken fen enemies” out citizenship papers are ridiculed by ‘ their intention of their countrymen now because “they | beowning American citizens be made have to go to war.” JR to figh Coie Py 8 at the front are not the only troubles the halt in tie’ | Almost every Saturda ‘EDITORIAL PAGE May 25 Help the Red Cross! It Helped Me! By J. H. Cassel Conran, Wis, Nin Viek ive Sik (Og SUGGESTED BY FRED. Ware Ane When Frankness Makes Friends By Sophie Irene Loeb Coyriaht, 1915, bi The Press Publishing Co YOUNG woman writes about her inability states that Boonie ate Lone to make friends “My girl friends tell and | me [ am too frank and ough to forget myself once in a while 1 have tried it} bug I find it hard | suse told you the story@to anything | to tell else but the truth at all times. boys from. schoolhood say | thing. Thanks to my p: been brought up very and have a good education.” 1 want to say to this girl that while it Is very commendable minded it is more to t that 4 truth (big-minded. to look for 8, n br the ‘The my days same ents I have ad-minded » be broad des! while it it is d to b ROU sometimes worth while to overlook it Being frank is certainly | use to one's welfare, | abuse of frankness that Has the Impe rial German Government any idea that it can long! trouble and often detracts from a quaintance dread meeting N economy in expensive drawing | because we know that he or she will ink, ordinarily used with a always confront us with something ruling pen, was effected by inful or unple t substituting common writing ink for T am thinking A woman right | the ing ink on many kinds of cur tanarralih hepa | work in which permanence ix not a Ww ‘ne special fac y jar Meehan will say in a Now, ies, A convenience, In using this sub dearie, I think you ¢ to know | stitute ink in the ordinary containers, about this, Of course V't want | 18 to insert a pen point by the pointed to hurt you. L ight to pal bY des ah ruling-pen filler, sim- gometbing wbvul it.” Aud then ebe but it of good is the causes the of us has whom we personality that might otherwise at- t. ‘Truth is the mast important thing in the world. The seck of truth are the saviors of the race | This is constructive truth, At times it is very ugly and may hurt, but it does gomething in the progress of things. It fills its part and gives opportunity for correcting mistakes,| nowhere in the end, No one need ever discount the} Of course there are the “touchy” truth and its value, and frankness! people to whom you can never tell is an element of truth t there ta] the trath ey are Weaklings and aa being too frank-—| #fe, to be.avolded, The great value such @ thing as being OK) Gf being frank IM to be frank with brutally frank «fa tho truth|out belpm offensive. Tt in laveeio a that if used too much rather hurts] matter of tact and discrimination, To : : | be frank and leave one with the feel R iy Are some people i than helps. people) ing that you have rendered him a who are always telling you the truth] service is truly the Nughest Kind) of | that wounds without doing any good. | friendly service. | ‘Phat tm the. only n , ind that counts in the lon, whi They do this under the guise of run, That is the kind ti akes 4 0 friendship and there assume that Enda n Nat makes and holds they have the right to be frunk to = an unilmited degree, Yet there in a : Naslt and @ price to euch ¢rankness, (Cremery inkeBottlc Corks The New York Evening World). will fill your ear with some gossip that | when sifted down is meaningles: You leave her with 4 sense of ing been hit, and a feeling of resent- ment swells up in your heart until] you actually grow to dislike her and | try to keep away from | You know instinetively that she “hand you and gradually you try to avoid such @ person, I do not mean by this that there | |are not @ great many friends whose | frankness and criticisin are wel- ne, You know you that they things but | rather her. | has one," they exper only you ure trying to help | nee shown | tell you such | kind things as | well, They the friends who are with you, right or wrong. ‘They handle you with boxing gloves when you are strong and with silk mittens when you are weak, hey frank when they fight for u as well as being frank when they t with you. When they leave you, having told you something that hurts because has not tell are are | ize the importance of but the pe Just for the sake dieses e the their confl- e who are frank of telling the truth, consequences, usu- troublemakers and get dence; ally of the Fitted With Pen Fillers. The Jarr Family By Roy Le Covreiaht, 1918, by 7 STAND for a principle!” re- marked Mrs, Margaret Mar- Mink My remarks jon Mo! reraft and Fathereraft may fall on deaf ears. My great work for the establishment of State Parent- hood, that home may no longer b a slave mart for the wife or a peniten- tary for the children, mored may be | for such a comparatively trivial mat- ter as the w in Europe. But 1 in | sist that the pressing need to better soclal and biol ‘Home Reform devote myself to plain high thinking.” And she passed ber plate for another helping of steak and potatoes, with plenty of gravy. gical Like conditions is merson, L living and Mr. Jarr sat silent at the table and the two Cackleberry girls giggled and snickere: “Gimme my dessert,” finally re- marked Mr, Jarr. “You will excuse me if I have an engagement with our local Men's Red Cross Driv tee. Rafferty, the mored, won on the we want to take from him for the man race And Edgar Bullwinkle Commit- builder, it is ru- races to-day, and his winnings away benefit of the hu- is going to still you respect them for their frank- | take us out in his car after dinner, ness, and ” stment, i¢ any,|He ts to meet a man who has prom- | leaves immediately because you real- {ised to get Edgar a rol) top commis- sion of the ber Th longer ested the two young lady visitors, Mrs, Marmaduke Mink was not now discussing biological every aid one Misses Cackle conversation no inter matters had known what the or how to pronounce them It was one of Gertrude every evening out, and Mrs left alone with the protagonist of State Parenthood for other peop | children, she having none her OWN as Mrs words 1 the ma! Jarr was the protagonist was saying, Jarr coaxed little Miss Jarr mothercraft, know 1 hywienieally how ntly take to efficl | care their lar to the usual quill stoppers, offupring.” young girl should know, perhaps After all, it is the wife and mother who is generally the martyr, In du time Mr. Jarr escaped, and the Misses Cackbleberry join ndthrift| * slacker Edgar Bullwinkle—his jaw slacked, his shoulders slacked, his patriotism slacked and the Cackle berry girls scorned him, but he had a chummy roadster, and perhaps he was a consclentious objector, if he to permit her face to be washed, for r meals every child needs at least a dry rub—"yes, few if any mothers, | unless they have taken a course I McCardell The New York Evening World) . yes, Mrs, Mink ing,” ‘sald Mrs, Jarr. i there Is no more L N of the candy and play “State in the streets!" m listen-| darling, | left. sides, you've just had your dinner, | No, Willie, I don't want you to go out parenthood,” continued the By Albert Payson Terhune Coovriaht, 1018, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), No. 26—BARON TRENCK, the Man of a Million Adventures. CCORDING to several plays and a novel or two and his own autobiography, be was a hero and a genius. According to plain facts, he was an Austrian spy and & most amazing liar, He was an Austrian Baron, Vroiherr von der Trenck, known to history as “Baron Trenck.” He Was a swashbuckler and fire-eater by choice, This led him to leave Austria and enter ‘the Prussian Army of King Frederick the Great~this aud the chance it gave him to gain private information for his own Government. erick’s*army, soon becoming a member of the King’s Personal staff. In such a@ position as this it was easy for Trenck to learn many things of value to Austria, But, being young, his heart for once got the better of. his head and he plunged into trouble by a violent secret love affair with King Frederick's sister Amable, This alone was enough to ruin him with the Prussian King, but while Trenck’s fate still hung in the balance the Prussian secret agents found proof that he was in private correspondence with Austria. For the double crime of spying and of lese majesty in falling in love with a Prigces: > , the unlucky Baton was condemned ono 0 dic, But Frederick softencd the penalty to lite His Specialty } imprisonment at the gloomy fortress of Glatz. |} Breaking Jail Trenck was an ardent lover, and a shrewd epy. But his chief accomplishment was J used to boast that there was no dungeon which could hold him. Now, at Glatz, he proceeded to inake good his boast. He was loaded with chains and confined in a close-guarded irom eell. Yet, within a few months he had escaped. Not only did he get out of prison In safety, but out of Prussia ag well, He went back to Austria—presumably for instructions. fonger be of use as a spy in Prussia. So, alinost at once in the Russian army. His work there was soon finist eee l-breaking. Ho He could no he took service He ventured to try his luck once more in Prussia, But he did not take the vengeful spirit of old Frederick the Great into account. The Prussian police arrested Trenck, and he was sent to Magdeburg prison, And at Magdeburg, for the next few years, he | exciting for rybody connected with the prison. One attempt after another he made to escape. Some of the attempts were unbelievably during and clever, One or two of them almost succeeded. This, in spite of the fact that Trenck was kept chained in an under- 4, Sfound dungeon, with sentinels on guard at the tron door at all time He was forced to answer to his, Prison Marvel $ name every fifteen minutes of duy and night, so tha Often Escapes $ he could not le dimmy in his cell while he Grwrrrrrrrrrrny escaped. Yet more than once he was recaptured at the outer walls of the fortress, At last the Austrian Government intervened in Trenck’s insisted on his release. Not that Austria was intere: oner, but because she needed his services as a spy in ingland, r | When the French Revolution begun Trenck went to Paris, where he was hailed as a hero, and where he was loud in his praise of the new French Government's principles of human ltbert He was Honized by the people of Paris. Hstened to with reverent credulity. After seemed at last to have found a safe haven, Then, at the acme of his career as a local hero, the French police ais- covered that he was all the time serving as a spy for Austria, and that he was supplying his Government with France's most closely guarded military secrets, Trenck was arrested, and tried and con 1794, he was beheaded. proceeded to make life ve a behalf an 1 in him as pris His most astounding lies were his years of misfortune ho ted as a spy. On July 26, By Bide Dudley Coprriabt, 1918, by Tue Press Publishing Co, (The New Ye t 66 ELL," said Lucile, the Wait- | gether to-nigh other fresh W « as the Friendly Patron | flirtation like that, So I just give took hie seat, “I guess the| him one look, garden season is on full stiit now.| ‘'Can the kid stuff’ I says, ‘You Are you suffering from gardenla,/and me can be casual friends, but not too?” casualty I'm very reserved, so let's “No,” he replied. “I haven't time to | turn off the hot und save fuel* * Well,’ he garden, says, ng back to the I planted some onion sets to- do any gardening | ge “And I guess you're better off,” Lucile went on, “Oh, it's all right to garden, but {t's all wrong to be boring | t? Task, others who are immune from the fad| “ “That's what they call the plang’ with a lot of gab-fest about it. You) he says. know, so far as raising garden turks,| “ “All right, I "How many ina s tell him, ‘But let'e y reformer, raising her voice base and me not get too , rs Du and ot get too comple: above the murmuring requests of the |°F Whatever they call them goes, I) tr) alt Me abt Bet too complex with children for candy and the larger |*m totally in the dark. I don't know is ach other?’ tise Rene \treedom of the sidewalk, "State | Whether a radish has to be salted be- IAgGs (hevapeavoanite culties Parenthood must begin with ‘Better | fore you pick it from the bush or/. 11005 10° wee Nis | Bul some Habies' and end with the Perfect |after. So you see, I'm some ignorant |" tlt a aul Amos when it comes to eatable veg- eee e ne say T ask, ; PEA oo 8i ‘It’s a plant, “Now, Emma, behave! ‘There ia|!tation. But I wae going to tell you) go" We! i bout a guy who came in here this ne power house that, fure NO more candy, I tell you, And,|@bout & Buy s 9 |nishes us with electric light,’ I spiel Willie, you CANNOT go out on the {morning and began to talk garden to J sidewalk and play shooting with that Bepler boy and tho sples other off gayly. "This time he forgets to grin, “Fe takes a seat on a stool and,!he says, ‘ure you joshing me? me. ‘Bary’ Hess little ruffians, ‘They have an alr gun, |after shooting an eye up and down! y am trying to talk sensible about ind one of you will get an eye put|the cheap side of the poison pro- | g. d you keep shooting back ou something, oh dear!" |gramme, signals for pea soup and perfectly punk replies, I believe you “I say, beginning with Better] then begins the day’s discussion, | got bats in your garret,’ Babies, fostered under State Parent-| ‘Know anything about gardens?’| “On, maby, but it makes me pore! hood, there will be no family ant-|he says, smiling lovingly at me. | List I says, ‘the next time soy nosities inculcated, Hence, there will] “Only Mary, I tell him, I seen her|want to dig a garden in thie food be no neighborhood feuds, no racial no prejudi and national antipa- In the pictures. |factory don't use a hoe—use a whoa! "Pretty good!’ he re-echoes, ‘But|Get me? , thies, War will be unknown, Better] pm talking about real mud gardens| “He just says ‘piffie’ and out he | Babies! "— v' pour ‘alse vi ef | —you know—to raise vegetables, Did! goes, Imagine him trying to strim | “Oh, they were good babies all| you ever raise any head lettuce?’ |me! He must ‘a’ erage if Fas! ght, mine were,” said Mrs. Jarr.| «1 gee where he's got to be stopped, | pean." but I wish they were bet ‘than they are now, Now, r children do keep! so I just effect lackadasicalness and | ‘Once. ly you don’t care for gar- reply but the heads got tor Suggested ihe Friendl | quie tured with head-ache, so I locked up| patron, jendiy This last was addressed to the) the garden and quit’ | “Oh, I wouldn't say that. In fact, hildren, but Mrs. Jarr, in her heart,| — « ‘you 1 He just has to grin, ‘You're a/I got a Uttle plot o: nd +: meant it for the strident visitor, ‘ | : f ground outs as | “The great looked now, movement may be ove! when the world is war} funny kid,’ he says, t-) “Now, [ain't old, but I'm old enough | to plant some olive vines." to understand that ‘kid’ stuff the min-| “Have you got a snade |mad, but the day ts dawning for State) ite jt pumps into my ear-drums.| Lucile frowned she said Parenthood.” sald Mrs Marmaduke The next thing them kind is,|"what do you think I want to raise— ibs i: egal |*Well, what movie do we to- a deck of cards? Gwan, you!" w An, Not bound by household cares pring upon her time, will be cope with man, and he will ne female spider gives No thought its offspring, and after the safeguarded the species by the parent function, the female devours him. An | man will yet cower!" able I don't want my husband to cower; he wouldn't Ike it," said Mrs, Jarr|to @ doubting world @ sctentifie truth, | Lady Mary, herself a medical student, | teebly. Such, however, was Lady Mary Wort- became ccnviner of the value of An hour later, Mr. Jerr, lurking in Montagu, who, two hundred years | inoculation, experimented successfully Gus's cafe, saw Mrs. Marmaduke Mink | 48 Inoculated her own son mish | ve her son and wrote many letters depart, and he returned home. “Well, | Virus from a smallpox Fattent, home to England telling of the treat- thy dear,” he sald, “are you sonrerted| For corsurie He ce ase, intros | ment jelly through her efforts, it to State Parenteraft duced from Asia into Europe, had] was eventually adopted No.” replied Mrs. Jarr, “I think/yeen one of the greatest scourges | materially Mheken tee ee it would do too much to restore sa-| a he ravages of iooncran# jthat ever afflicted mankind, In an] smallpox, ‘There was a grave obs —_——— Jeffort to find a cure, the fection to the inethod, A DRY TIME HAD BY ALL. HI first national convention c the Prohibition Party was held in Columbus, Feb, 2 \isia, 0. on Nee the incessant demands of her off- ower! male has to} Woman Introduced Inoculation Against Smallpox PW mothers have been willing to| inoculated patient ordinarily develop- subject to an ordeal one of thetr| ing a light case own children in order to prove| In 1718, whit to | al | nd | of the disease. living in Turkey, peoples ot however: a » Orient had resorted to Inoculation, |{noculated patient became @ soure of | transferring the infection from alof infection and aided in spreading 4) mikl case to a well person, in order | th? disease. so the treatment was 2,!to render the latter immune, ‘The | 2bandoned | anor vanner 4 front die- treatment was usually successful, the smallpox of most of jis lerrora eee t ‘ Py oe |Stories of Spies He rose rapidly in Fred~* * Lucile he Waitress, ’ day , |hind my apartment that 1 may use* ‘ 1