The evening world. Newspaper, May 28, 1918, Page 16

| Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 93 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, r, US SHA rer, 63 Park Row, Jo! 1 PULITS! 63 Park Row. PRESS rr ty Sal hte 34 | Re Jr Moe Armoaiated Pow io ort @redited to it or not otherwise «re VOLUME A CALL CONGRESS SHOULD HEED. | HE-sound good sense of the President's appeal to Congress for war tax legislation now and at once instead of later will be] strongly indorsed by thousands of Americans who are just} now painfully aware of the fact that June 15—the last day for paying their income taxes is only eighteen days ahead. | We cannot in fairness wait until the end of the fiscal year is at hand,” the President urges, “to apprise our people of the taxes they must pay on their earnings of the present calendar year, whose accountings and expenditures will then | be closed. We cannot get increased taxes unless the country | knows what they are to be and practices the necessary economy to make them available.” Straight to the point. The reason many Americans are with-! “Arawing savings bank deposits or even borrowing money to pay tho} income and excess profits taxes due next month is that there wax no way of foresceing the formidable weight of these taxes during the greater part of the period when the income on which they are levied was being earned The size of these war taxes, plus the purchase of Liberty Bonds} and demands in the name of the Red Cross and other war aid, have made a serious drain upon modest resour which had not time to strengthen themselves by extra thrift for such a crisis. | To persons in this situation it would have been a great relief it the ‘I'reasury could have seen its way to permit inc profits taxes to be paid in installments after June 15. me and excess The more reason to leave no uncertainty as to what next year’s taxes will be, in otder tut all may squarely face the obligation with as much time as possible in which to prepare to meet it. | A further increase of taxation is inevitable, As the President points out: | “The war profits and incomes upon which the Increased ta: will be jevied will be the profits and incomes of the calendar year 1918. It would be manifestly unfair to wait until the early months of 1919 to say what the taxes are to be. “It might be difficult, 1 should imagine, to run the mill with water that had already gone over the wheel. The calendar year 1918 is already five months old. Fat war profits are not the only ones to be taxed. Ordinary business profits and incomes to which the war has brought no increase are called upon to pay what may prove for them a proportionally heavier share. In view of the many extra war demands which the latter class of | incomes are striving with thrift and patriotism to meet, it is only just that Congress should come to an early decision as to war taxes thet must be paid next year. \ —_>-———____. THE RAILROAD RATE INCREASES. HREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS more yearly pay for 2,000,000 railroad employees. Freight rates advanced 25 per cent., passenger rates put on a three-cent-a-mile basis, excursion and tourist fares suspended, commutation fares raised 10 per eent., sleeping car, parlor car and excess baggage charges increased—to add from $800,000,000 to $900,000,000 to railroad revenues. The biggest wage increase ever granted any class of workers in one lump. The biggest rate increase in railroad histor Everything is the biggest ever th the biggest emergency American ener ean machinery ever had to meet. The Treasury decided such extension to be impracticable. e-days. It has to be to match ‘y, American resource, Ameri- The railroads of the country must be worked to their capacity. Tt is no time now to sit down and wail over past mismanagement which has left some of them inadequate for their present jobs, It is| no time to haggle over the price of putting them in the shortest pos sible time into shape to meet demands that must be made on them. The railroads are under the control of the Government. The Government is responsible for getting out of them the last iota of war service. Director General McAdoo is determined that the rail roads shall not fail in that service through lack of money, Though the increase in freight and passenger rates must add to the burdens Americans are carrying, the additional weight will he taken on cheerfully so long as the country is assured that results will be forthcoming to aid in the efficient conduct of the war, | For the rest, the public should find food for no little thought! and encouragement in Mr, MeAdoo’s point as to the vital distinction which’ makes these increas es “fundamentally different from any rate! increases ever proposed or allowed when the railroads we vate control”: ‘This distinction fs that there ts no way in which the pres | ent increases will inure to private profit If they turn out to be more than are needed to meet tho grave public exigency they will be promptly readjusted so as to prevent any un necessary burden upon the public, but pending such readjust ment the excess, if any, will be for the benefit of the people of the United States as a whole and not for the bene vate railroad owners. Government control of railroads during war may te one lesson as to how railr: fit of pri- ach more than is can be managed so as to lay fewer un necessary burdens upon the public jn times of peace i If #0, such lessons will be worth many millions of dollars of | present cost. | Letters From the Thanks From the Salvation Army: Support In our multifario To the Editor of The Evening World From Salvationiate everpahors Both on behalf of the Salvation| thelr adherents an rwpere, Army in America and on my own|°M® to me eapremsions of arprecias account as the Commander in Chiet| VO" = peratttude for your timely of that organization, 1 must trouble] vinced that the good necomminen ty you with an expression of our pro-|the assisfinca you have, iven ath found and heartfelt thanks for the| rebound upon yourself. und yell exceptionally helpful publicity. you| splendid newspaper not only. In aha wave our cause In our recent drive| dant « but will bring to. your to secure funds with which to suse |own heart decp aatisfaction and rast tain and expand France, Tam confident thavfor all tine we shall continue to merit your conf- denoe, and thereby qualify for your our wa r work in] b’ ng. For many good p understand prayer, will pray for you EVANGBLINE Hyorh Commander Salvation Army tn Amer- toa, ople, who | earnest | deavor. EDITORIAL Tuesday, May 28 PAGE | i By J. H. Cassel cap ae rid Stories of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune - Coprriaht, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), NO. 27.—HELEN TUDORINA; the Opera Singer Spy. HE was an opera singer. When the World War broke out in 1914 she was no longer in her first youth. She claimed to be a Roumanian, and called herself Hejen Tudorina, Long ago she had won a fairly bright reputation in opera, In the United States and in South Ameri ca, a8 well as in Europe, she had sung many times, She was a familiar figure in many capitals. Then the war began. Roumania, from the first, was friendly to the Allles, The sweet volced Helen was an ardent Roumanian patriot and vehemently pro-Ally. Opera, in most of the warring countries, suffered Helen came to Amer! She spent much of her time tn going back and forth between New York and Buenos Ayres. As she had sung in both places, these trips at first caused scant come ment. Then one of the Secret Service agencies—that of the United States, it is sald—began to show a quiet interest in her actions. Several bits of knowledge were picked up as a result of these ine vestigations. For example, in Argentina she was seen in conference with Germans who were proved to be in the employ of Count von Luxburg. This was the same Count von Luxburg who was to gain ugly notoriety by the exposure of the “spurlos versenkt” campaign—Germany’s scheme for her U boats to sink neutral vessels in such a way as to leave no trace of the crime and no survivors to tell the story. Helen Tudorina was closely watched and every possible effort was m: to prove her a German spy. But she was clever, and she made practically no false moves. ® @ At last she set sail for Spain. The English : secret service learned of her voyage. Its chiefs na Shy Suepeee had reason to belleve she was carrying des« Eludes Watchers. patches to German agents in Madrid. Whén | Qe arr Helen's ship reached Cadiz a British torpedo boat destroyer was waiting for her. The singer was arrested and her baggage was seized. Helen's angry protest at such harsh treatment seemed amply justifida. |For a thorough search of her clothes and of her trunks brought to Nght | nothing at all incriminating. There were a lot of papers, &c. in her luggage, but they were of ™ harmless nature, varying from innocent personal letters to opera contracts. The British authorities were too sure of their ground to let her go without more careful search, They turned the mass of papers over to @ Government Scientist, who examined them more carefully. Still he found nothing damaging until it occurred to him to treat some of the white shects with chemicals. Then he began to get results. Under the power of the chemicals new words and sentences sprang to view, bé« | tween the lines. | —e—“~—“~«_—— Scientists Discover The papers had been written over with sen« sitized ink. When this had disappeared a lot of innocuous things had been written above Invisible Ink. them, to mask the real import of the messages. barr Even then the British secret service were | not much better off than before. For the chemically written messages were viv in cipher, and no one could decode them or make any sense from thelr contents. ‘Another order was given, Helen was taken to an inner room and en attendants removed the upper part of her clothing, ‘Then the white wome™tween her shoulders was coated with a new set of chemicals, the ivory surface of her flesh, strange letters and figures skin be Bit by bit, on SOC caplals key to the cipher papers had been written in sensitized her shoulder blades. | ink betwe By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) PRACTICAL WOMAN farmer came to me yesterday urging that women work on farms and setting forth possibilities women krasped portunity, “But I you would an article," she said, “and make it as strong as you can that only © women who really want to work should s the farms. 1 tired of this novel and sensational senti- ment that has crawled into the move- ment for women workers. Young women wto think they are going out on a lark or @ vacation when they get te work on farms should be debarred in some way from entering the field, They hurt the element that is trying to If felt, It ts all very woll to don overalls, shoulder a hoe, strike a pose, look picturesque, and get your photograph in the limelight. “it looks well in. print, but’ in actual practico farm work — for women is @@wnright carnest The poetry of the w will help a whole tot, but the busin of potato planting and similar vice is serious business with profits and loss and other sober calculations to consider. There is a great oppor- tunity for women," she said, “but if we are to accomplish something we are to look at this thing not as a pic- A the for who the op- wish write make it ance." ture perfe ‘This woman, who has successfully developed a farm and is now working on others, speaks from experience She went on to tell how some of th women who worked with her were de veloping workers But that women a large who percentage of the seek this field are not ready to Ml the duty before them is ploaly evident It is very well to go to a modern farmhouse with all conveniences, hot and coid running water, and other comforts, for a few weeks in the summer time. But these various city accessories are not installed in every farmhouse, nd the would-be woman farmer, has proved a constant com- plainer so thi districts much so, that in many are resentful of cause of the extra trouble caused by then and their unwillingness to meet the matter as it ts found, and not as | they would like to find it | | woman exp! the farmers | women workers be- ned, | ‘There is considerable truth in this woman's words. Over in Prance wo- men have turned to the fields and ire doing excellent work, It is grim Juty with them, ‘They are tireless in| efforts and accept the hard- | ships that come, They do not take to the Freneh heeled slippers and powder | puffs, Women are doing the principal farming to-day in the warring coun- tries their flelds with Our women are willing to do it here hundreds of them, Every effort should be put forth to weed out the undesirables, and only those go who are fit and willing to stand some sacrifice, In this spirit there 1s patri- otis, pure and unadulterated—the willingness to take the place of man ind do a real service, without bra bands and cameras. There is much joy to be had in the doing as well as| real results to show | Let us face farming as farmers and not as stage stars NCLE SAM Is doing his part for the war gardens, He dis- tributed almost 500 tons of flower and garden seed this spring among the thousands of citizens whose names appear on his free mail. ing list, To supply this demand our Government has become one of the lurgent buyers of seed in the wo: About one-fourth of this huge quan- tily Is seoured from the surplus stocks | of the dealers; the \s krown on contract under the super vision of the Department of Agricul All classes of seed are remainder ture. care fully tested and must come up to w Bigh standard, Uncle fun a Bic Seed Peale Deliveries to the Government begin jin the late fall, and from the middle of December to late in April the work Jof préparing them for mailing gos | on, Almost all the work is done by machinery, one Ingeniou bit of | mechanism accurately measuring the |soed into thd envelopes and sealing |them, A battery of twenty of these | machines can turn out 1,260 pack- into real constructive a | ages a minute, Another machine | envelopes into which A parcels put, and] dure ready to be mailed seals the large [ihe ansort then the se to those whoa Congresamen hav been thoughtful enough to put them on the lt Women Farmers Must Work! The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), § Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Erening World) sighs the Anti-Suffragette, Copyright. i H, woman's place fs in the home! ERE comes Mrs. Stryver up| kuow, on account of this dreadful “C) But she won't get there until 6 P, M. if she's a Conductorettet the steps!” cried Mrs, Jarr,| war!" Mrs, Stryver went on, “Oh, air woman thrives best in the shade,” says the Anti-Suffragetto, retreating from the front) t? I could only to Baden!" But she’s got to stand in the sun and spade if she’s a Farwerettes, window. “Oh, dear! I know she saw] “Jt would do you good, ma'am, to pli ig me, or I could have you tell her 1/get to bed," interjected Gertrude. It doesn't matter much, after all, whether you go wasn't in! , "Baden-Baden corrected Mra through Ife in a limousine or a jitney-bus—it's what These remarks were addressed to|Stryver, giving the Jarr maid of all you have the eyes to see~aud the heart to enjoy along the ever faithful—despite the call of] work a baleful glare, and addressing A Tat CACERNLUR SBUFALS Worn) @hUle ammunition factories and the street} her further remarks to Mrs. Jarr SUS Way LBS ie ’ : car companies for conductorettes—]"When I was in Baden-Baden five re tmatd of all work, and then some, Ger- trude. years ago, Dr. Smertzkoppf, the Em peror's own physician, treated me How do I know that he was not a Imperial German spy, seeking t wrest the secrets of our nav an Gertrude, whose hair was swathed in that impromptu housework head- gear known as a “dust cloth,” to diw- tinguish it from “a dust rag,” whico is a rag to dust with, was cheered by | any interruption of the ceaseless in- | gave him no information except abou dustry which Mrs, Jarr inspired, She| my liver, and as that was a patient’ stood stock still and grinned, dust] confidence, even a German rag in hand. physician must have respected “Put on your apron and cap us| ethics of his profession. quickly as you can!” commanded Mrs. |™e @ thousand marks, which Is abou Jarr, "Oh, dear, why do people al-|five hundred delars in Ameri yet I am proud to remember that th ways call when you are trying to get| money, just for one consultation, and army from me to tell the Kaiser? And | court | He charged | In these days the difference between dining at aa expensive restaurant and dining at a cheap one appears to be merely the difference between eating hot-house things without any taste and cating cold-storage things that have lost their taste, n d 1) ty | HS ane Speaking of optimism, a nice young soldier sald td me: “Great Scott! but I'm glad I've escaped this anti-loating law! Thinie of having to sit in a swivel-chair in a hot office and WORK all summer, ¢| when you might be ‘over there’ lying in a nice, cool trench, with nothing to do but watch the bullets go by!” a Funny, how a woman who is going away for the summer will put her silver in the safety vault, her furs in cold storage and her dog in @ your housecleaning done?” Mrs, Jarr| when 1 protested at the sum he ad-|jourqing kennel—and then leave her husband around loose for the love went on plaintively. “And especially | mitted Americans were easy marks, nike ta tua) people who bave a dozen servants to| so to speak. Oh, he was very humor- moths . do their work for them? What does | ol indeed, Do you think the Ger- Mrs, Stryver want now, anyway’|man spy system is such that he wa, Well-to-do people never call on poor| compelled to reveal a people unless they want something!" | toms about her liver to the K By this time Mr ryver was at} Mrs, r remarked that she ond Gertrt holding the put thing p 4 moment to put on ber) «7 am thinking of trying the High: cap and apron, admitted her, ler Thought, up ‘above the housetop! didn’ lady's symp War {s the Great Surgeon which has opened the eyes of a luxury blinded world to the ‘beauty of {deallsm and courage and the wonder and splendor of the human soul, t sy Aimost any man over thirly can hulestly all those women whom I ought not to have kiss those whom I ought to have kissed!” ry “Alas, T have kissed —and left unkissed all 8 Well, this is a pleasant surprise!|of the mundane,’ they call ft," Mrs. a cried Mrs, Jarr in greeting, “You are|Stryver went on, But in spite of how awe come to tell me about Memorial|l suffer, for I have the most intense | No New Yorker ought to have any trouble In dodging a little thing Day.” pains when I eat anything that dis-| Jike a bullet, constdering that he has spent nearly his whole life in dodging “Well, no,” said the visitor, "I just agrees with 1 and, really, climbing | trolleys, automobiles, debt, taxes, umbrellas and his wife's questions. dropped in to seo you. I haven't}all the steps to your apartment been well at ail for the last week or| gives me palpitation, yet duty is dut overexertion with all my Red|in this hour of our Nation's neec Dr, Smerk says I simply} and I have called to 4 must go away for rest and recres-|at least five dollars’ worth of Thrif tion. ‘Lt must be your wonderful will} Stamps from me. I am out power that keeps you up, Mrs. Stryv-| er!’ Dr, Smerk says. And he pre- Cross work. in m and yesterday We ran on a flat tir suffer!" But as Mrs amps, Stryver droy k you to buy car all day long selling Thrift Stamps, y «| Newest Things in Science the ribbon of a new To make badly broken bookmark is a cellulold panel through ; unite more rapidly an openings in which appear various ref- | geon has inven | erences that can be altered by moving |to be passed t! t| Carried on bones ree English sure a system of screws ugh the fragments y! scribed a tonic, But I can’t seo it tl that cost me sixty dollars, But 1| Pointers with which 1°- device 1s/and press them into position, dot me one bit of good, for I have| sold twenty dollars’ worth of stamps, | ¢4¥!Pped: r Se he Seas of my dull headaches for the | And that at least mn prenbey . oS An Oregon invensnr ta'the patented | 1" cating | Por shipping perishable goods long|of a sanitary drinking cup to be past few days. But I never let on, Thrift . NBER AEGUnA' ins TAuanies Nee distances a Russian has invented an|mo..ited on a faucet so as to be T Keep ihose argues ered up| And, it being a rich woman who] artificial ice, made by freezing solu-|swung out of the way when the and never complain, no matter how I| solicited, Mrs. Jarr bought the Thrift | tion of salt t various degrees of con- faucet 1s used for its usual purpose. ©] centration, ete te “Tam just the same, my dear,” said | away in her costly limousine to incul- aleeeqatea eA rt. Mrs, Jarr. “I never say ® word and 1, cate thrift in others, Mra. Jurr leaned) mo aia men to carry heavy burdens | parti discovered the secret pros keop on my fect. 1 think it's my Mya gilt window and imurmured: | on their backs an Englishman has In-|cesses used in the manufacture of nerves, Clara Mudridge:tmith save " _ has vented penumatic shoulder pads, the|German and Dutch decolorizing care the Higher Thougnt has done so THEN AND NOW. Bred caninlc’ being eaiiiae’ ne | ecneoe teal runeR nice: much for her; she has lassitude, you IE citizens of Albany experienced | a central reservotr, 8G know.” Mra, Stryver was no more T @ thrill on Feb. 28, when | a ae) Tero French gelenileta acahenle Interested in Mrs, Jarr's nerves or 00 emigrants’ sleighs passed| An Investigation by the Upited| that 10 per cent. of the chickens Clara Mudridge- Smith's lassitude through that city on their way to thi ates Bureau of Standards has indi-|that country have tuberculosis and distant and_ little known lhe ner han she was In Gertrude’s cap and | country of Western New Yor pron, Genesee Valley was then con “and I can't go ta Europe, you|the “Far Weat,” Genesee The ered rior in any w | cated that tinned copper not supe- | that the disease runs as y to ordinary tin plate| per cent, for roofing purposes, other nation, ° high as 28 among poultry in some | . more or less of a slump on account of the war. 80