The evening world. Newspaper, May 29, 1918, Page 12

PROPER OWe NINA 00 EDITORIAL PAGE Wednesday, May 29 ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Sei Pudlidhed Daily Except sund the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 tc a Park how, New York 7 RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treamurer, 63 Park Row, EPH PULITZER.’ Jr., Skeretary, 63 Park Row. -~ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. aa on ena A Sheets STAY SMe aE aT ee Palthereae NOMUME Uys eed reevacseusvitveveyvigviysvedsNOr 20/105 A GERMAN TRAIT. HE Germans have renewed their offensive on the western front —long range bombardment of Paris and all. It appears to have become a fond belief of the German High Command that it renders its onslaughts on the battle line doubly imposing and terrifying to the Allies by at the same time dropping a shell every fifteen minutes or so among the Parisians. The Parisians, it is true, still refuse to be panic-stricken. They, insist on regarding the bombardment with a lively interest in which) is no trace of dismay. But German psychology has this twist: If it has planned a thing to be formidable or frightful, a long time is needed to convince it that the effects can possibly be otherwise. Germans are as sure that Paris is in a pitiable state of terror as they are that the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of German troops to advance the German line a few miles nearer the Channel ports must persuade the Allies that they are beaten. This German trait 1s one the Allies can turn to good account. The Germans are prepared to lose a certain number of men on the western front in a drive so colossal that German confidence therein will remain a long time blind to facts. If Gen. Foch doubles and trebles the German losses before Germany wakes up to the price that is being exacted for a hundredth part of what she expected to gain at the cost her war lords set, her situation will be critical indeed. The Germans are striking hard again—this time against the French. The enemy has taken the heights of the Chemin des Dames and crossed the Aisne. The battle is on once more in full foree. As always happens, there must be further yielding before deliberately organized and massed advances. | Since the initial German blow in April, however, the Allies have had time to consolidate under their supreme command; Ameri- can fighters have been brigaded in a way to strengthen British and French divisions and at the same time develop American experien>>; a complete plan for meeting the German offensive as it continues Jia unquestionably been worked out. | During the next few days or weeks. therefore, news of Gerinan advances at various points need not shake the confidence and calm | of the allied nations. | Trust to Gen, Foch and his reserves. Be sure he, if any one, knows how the German military machine, committed to supremo faith in its own might, can be smashed with the aid of its own blind adherence to formula: _ oH lot of troubles and worries merged to rest in one big express company for the U. 8. A, ——————-¢-——_____ TACKLE COAL PROBLEMS NOW. Coal consumers of all classes will do well to inform themselves at once as to the facts of the coal situation in order that they may co-operate with producers and the railroads to ure a sullivient and economica! distribution of coul to sections of the country where it is most needed, At the producing end, as important as quantity of labor, accord- ing to Editor A. J. Casey of the American Coal Journal, who has made a special analysis of the coal problem for The Evening World is a quality of Iabor and method that, even with fewer men, shull be! capable of adding to the amount of coal mined and “prepared” freed from rock, dirt and impurities—so that it reaches the in a form that he can use with least waste On the other hand, it. is particularly necessary that buyers of coal adapt themselves to the new zone system, which requires that industries in any one part of the country shall, so far as possible, supplied with coal ‘only from the nearest producing fields. For everybody concerned, the time After July 1, consumer be study fuel problems is! now—not next January, when preparedness can he only a what might-and-ought-to-haye-been, —-+-—____ A Brooklyn woman charged with attempted arson explained to the Fire Marshal that, having failed to persuade her husband to get up and go to work by pouring scalding water on him, she finally lighted kerosene soaked rags under his bed. Thereupon he rose and stayed awake long enough to help the neighbors put out tho fire—whether returning sub- sequently to his slumbers or going to work does not appear in the record, For the methods employed by this wife there can be no defen: But there is something to be said for her motives. At @ moment when, as never before, the country needs every able-bodied man out of bed and busy, where shall the Govern- ment look for hearty co-operation if not from wives? Letters From the People Geye Ben ageinece Li c ef/year around would certainly buy ‘To the Editor of The Brent: 14 mo for the. army and navy than In reading the sporting page of that care only conn league parks, Your paper recently, one of the sengon now ya tee ne AUINMeL articles I saw was by Ban Johnson, | wrereay trogruil is not w necessity, as follows: “I do not believe Ube matron he: aoe Government lias any intention of ATRIOTIC FA: | sball ciogether, ‘wut It| Me Would Make y | Wor 7 te Eaivor of The Evening! World ave read several letters tn yo) paper about labor slackers emplorad by the navy and shipyards, First it was & petty officer who called atten. on to this condition, and then « worker who said that’ many of tho shirkers were forelgners—particularly Scandinavians. 1 am a@ naturalized American of Swedish birth, and I fully agree with this man ‘that. all foreigners — Beandinavian or other. wise--now employed in shipyards should be made to do thelr full part or “sent back where they came from.” Foreigners who take advantage of American opportunities, who fail to become citizens and then earn big wages doing nothing, are not fit to work on American ships. The sooner we get rid of them the better, wiping out b: I had my way | would close eve’ theatre, ball park and other pl: recreation in the country and make the people realize that they are in the ble war in the history of ere To me this is a pure and simple case of “sour grapes.” Ban Johnson is evidently suffering under the delusion that the dollars he may miss at the parks would go to the theatres. In the first place the theatres are a necessity, as they have proved in England, Also, Secretary Baker sanctioned them, and last, but not Jeast, the stamp of approval has been placed on them by our President. Iam a basebal! fan, but first a fan of patriotiom, and in all my visits to ball games have never heard a speech made for any patriotic movement. ‘The reason {s obvious, as one would M Sir. 1 ff ve ‘Up Against a Stone Wa ake * o t. 101 by Tre rome inhi (The New York kvenin li! By J +H. Cassel | y Matrimonial Chances) Recording the Experiences in Pursuit of Love of a Young Girl of Thirty By Wilma Pollock Comsright, 1918, by ‘The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), The Se ADELANE. RIV- fl | ERS has al i { ways said that nothing stimu | < |} lates a man's | ardor for a girl WA fo much as the knowledge that other men ad- - mire her too. ] “And they tust 3 be real flesh and Dodd rival hot phantoms,” Madelane bas oe gued Yo 1 have considered inyself for tunate when T have had even one Jadorer, Recently Madelane inti @ od me to Ernest Strickland, a fine, serious-minded young st, who lked ine very much and asked that he be permitted to visit me. one to Willard Weston, who was still infatuated with the grass widow Towne; one to Lemuel Harvey, the widower, who had promised not to marry again until his five children were grown up; one to Harry Will- fams, the writer, who could not aff: matrimony after he discovered I wa d several times who had propo Bit never in earnest, I asked each one to call on Wednes- not an heiress; one to Stephen Henle, | the musician, who was wedded to his art; one to Stephen Wingate, who had loved me ten years ago, but had since quite recovered, and one to Royal Moore, the millionaire poet, day evening as a special favor, saying | quel of the Six Suitors what if Mr, Strickland ever discov- d that they there by my special Invitati Mr were Bt rrived at 8 o'clock He rming and we were having such a delightful time that I regretted the Intrusion of all the others, But I knew the effect on Mr, Strickland would be invaluable and I could afford to sacrifice one & ning in order to gain a whole lifetime of them, Ats.30 Mr was vals Strickland's bogus rt By Roy L. Cog right, 1918, by The I'rese Publishi “ee AN you make a getaway to- Ee night asked John W. Ran- gle, cautious! “We cele- brate the success of our Red Cross drive with a big amateur pocket billard at Sam Greun's Bi tournament parlors.” ee how T can, old man, said Mr. Jarr, who was bearing hom ward a can of bathtub ¢ some furniture 5 Red Cross drive has been a good excuse every night this week, but I think the Home Guard has bad some one with | Keon pars on listening post.” | nel and “But your Missus has been working for the drive knows we gan to come, I tried to f r-) haven't been camouflaging of prise. But the best i the other nights you were out." sumetines fail kor ew one of just it,” replied Mr. Jurr, my callers immediately blurted out | s been working for the fund, te remark like “What's the big} and it busted right into the middle juestion, Constance?” or “Why such 4 mysterious note?” or “I was cer- tainly surprised to hear from you, old girl,” or “You heard of my engage- in Science holds of vessels a revolving nozzle has been invented that can 1,400 rallor an area of of water a minute over 25 feet square, tose as compared with . Vessels that are lined with meta 55 last year, phir Nqutk Newest Things For fighting fires in cellars or the seatter Norway expects to produce 100,000 |countyy having 216 machines at work that will conduct electricity to heat are poured from one | her brightening up the home for sum- mer with paints and such, And now she made me go buy her this stuf and I got to stay home and brighten ment to Clarice Cook?” &e., ae. the corners where I am, as Billy Sun- We made an engagement for last] And to increase my humillation|day say: Wednesday evening. Madelane had every blegsed one announced that he| “To.night's the night, old top, and arned mo not to let Mr. Strickland jcould only remain a little while as you mustn't miss it," remarked Mr. think he was the only one suing fF (ho had another engagement. They | Rang “L have everything squared my affection and I wondered how 1 ere anything but devoted lovers, for a getaway by having a grouch could make him believe I was pob-| Mr, Strickland must have realized|thg last few days. There's a good ul Naturally the only way to ac }thay 1 had collected these men tol pian, when you haven't any extra compliol Gils ef make an linpressiva on He} mazuma to purchase immunity, go y former admirers {ioeKes thoroughly displea and| home witb a grouch and be so crusty, “Mr, Strickland need never know jleft while the others were still there,| without being really unkind, that the trat they long ago grow weary,” I [although it was not yet 10 o'clock. | wire will suggest you take a walk in thought, “He will of course take it} 1 know now that a girl can scare esh air and get in better tem- for granted that they are in love with off a man by having too many ad- me." | DMFOre-BE Ine Wrong: Bork od idea, even though drawn Accordingly T despatched six notes— from the wood,” sald Mr, Jarr, re- garding Mr. Rangle's ingrown brow with admiration, “I'll try it on.” They parted, and the best of hus- bands entered his home, seemingly in the worst of spirits, “There aro the dad blamed things!” he growled, throwing down the can of paint so that it dented the dining room table, “Well, you needn't act like a bear about it, and now you'll bave to [tons of peat for fuel this year and} scrape that table and varnish tt Denmark 500,000 tons, the former . where you have marked it up. “L got a headache,” mumbled Mr. Jarr, “Stuck in that old office all day and then having to bustle to bh de- partment store before it closed and charge an army of women shock The Jarr Family — Ellabelle Mae Doolittle McCardell og Co, (The New York Evening Worlt), need the fresh air,” grumbled Mr. Jarr, “And I need the fresh air, too, but I will do without it this evening and so will you,” said Mrs. Jarr, “But 1 sorry I asked you to do anything for me. But now I've got everything off the kitchen shelves to paint them, We might as well do it.” “Why don se Cackleberry girls, who have been visiting us, b beaux in the NavaleReserve? Mr. Jarr, “Jenkins, in our who lives in East Malaria, says there | is a Naval Reserve cantonment near there, and the folks out that way en- | nt things ertaln the boys and they p for them, for in the Naval Reserve] tle's rhymes, the rostrum and held up one hand, boys all learn to paint.” | Mra, ilisha @. Pertle, Promptress | She ®4s dressed in a clinging gown of "That is all well enough for that!og the League, presided at the Satur. | Packulacka, disguised with real hokum \ Jenking to say.” repHed Mra. Jartel gay meeting. In openin= address | lee from the Magnet at Wichita, ‘But even if the Cackleberry girls had | she said loaring her throat partially, he nb? Lads See: oo USUI Ah My dear sisters, Volvalina Esther! “rhe woman lied. 1 didn’t steal. ¢ sood would that do me? All the paint- ng those girls would be interested in would be to paint themselves.” Mr. Jurr now began to doubt the success of the grouch system sug- | gested by his friend Rangle. It would |scem there were two people who jeould encourage and augment # srouch, and Mrs, Jarr was one of them, so Mr, Jarr threw himself on y of the court, “I do need the fresh air, dearte |ho pleaded, “I wouldn't say it if I I didn't.” | “Very well, then,” replied Mrs, Jarr. |"You shall have all the fresh air you d. After dinner you can sit by the window for an hour, and then |you can paint the kitchen shelves for me and the bathroom too,” | An hour or so later John W. Rangle passed through the street below, a |free man on his way to the last pool tournament of the season, But Ed- ward Jarr sat at the window, a pris- oner of war, flying signals of distress, — Women Learning to Knit Two Socks at Once. | HB art of knitting two sockg at once—one inside the other— has recently been introduced into this country from Europe and ts exciting much Interest among Red | Cross workers, reports Pypulur Me- chanics, Two, instead of orc, bale | of yarn are required, buc the resulur ope have to do the talking through al” But why blame such men shen we|!. "84 something very important to!s “another hs hect ne ented by an | OP bargain raiders to get this number of neadion ry dais! _peitohes megaphone with a siren horn echo. I|know that there are people incapanie|ascuss: 1 expected not more than) once in Ver ait paint Inately. The outer sotk Is made need not go into details as.to what|of any appreciation? It seems to me|twWo out of the six to answer the sum eo cae “It won't hurt you to do a wrong side out, while tho inner one the theatres all over the country have|that the fault lies with the Govern-|mons. Hut to my surprise they a the Brazilian Govern =f: s de-| Shopping for me, or w little fs knit in the regular way, Expert eee ett yA an [ean Wenibed tontineete iwsy Means Of wrote that they would stop In as Teed that 4 tw offered for sale aa| around this house, cither; the smell) kr tera | ater as to whether this be 9 are) ; osh paint nd fe eadache, Method is as fast 4 6 oly y. bi so, Then, again, we have thousands|no good e them work—at the | eauested. |butter must contain at leest 80 per| of fresh paint is good for a headache, method js aa fant an the old May, bie of theatres throughout the United point of a bayonet if necessary—or! I felt as though I should hire camp! cent of butter fat and not move than romarked Dire, Jars, attention if mistakes are to be ‘The taxeg contributed all the sgod them home 4. 7 6, W, obaira and serve pink lemonade And 1) per cant of acid content, jas for mam Ab dan't; 1 toll you 3 avoided - ) ‘ Jone of her rhymes. Turning a “Lady” Into a Citizen By Helen Rowland. Copyright, 1918, by ‘The Press Publishiog Co, (The New York rening World), Last Week I Enrolled. It Was the Queerest Sensation, as Though | Were Going to Be Married or. Divorced—or Something!” It’s all over! ; Last week I enrolled as a voter in the primaries! And I'm going to VOTE—and be a “citizen” at last! But I wonder ‘if every woman felt as I did she Was putting on her hat to go out and take plunge. It was the queerest sensation—just as were going to be married or divorced or operated for appendicitis or tried for murder—or somethin And my hands trembled, and I felt all choky strange and frightened, And kept making excuses to put It off. Until HE came in and said: “Oh, hurry up! I'll go with you, if you're afrald, “And if they pull any rough stuff, you just scream, “Thank heaven, they've got a ‘Ladies’ Day!’ “I'd hate to see you women jostled around in that rough gang! “It's enough to rub off all the bloom and modesty and sweetness of—e why, you don’t know what men ARE, my dear!” Well, that was enough! I pinned on my hat and threw up my head and answered flatly; “I'm NOT afraid! “And I don't see WHY they have a ‘Ladies’ Day “Because I'm not a ‘lady!’ I'm a citizen! “And if the men are ‘rou; that’s just why they need the women around! “And it won't take the ‘bloom’ (whatever that 1s!) off a woman. “But it WILL put a lot of polish on the men, perhaps, “Because, after all, “Man is only a savage—slightly tempered by woman. “And the more ‘tempering’ they get the less savage they'll. become, “Until, after a while, they will be almost HUMAN! “And it's the strangest thing in the world to me “How proud a man ts of his sex and of man as ‘MAN, “But how little respect and regard and faith and trust he has in the. finer instincts of ‘MEN!’ ‘ “Because, for my part, I don’t find anything so inspiring and ishlug and remarkable in Man. “But I think MEN are simply wonderful! “And now I'm going out and let my ‘refining influence’ radiate all over the ‘polls.’ ‘ So just watch me! And I DID! And T found a nice, pleasant policeman who told me where to go. And a charming woman ushered me in, with a smile of welcome And gave me a chalr among a lot of other charming women. And it was all so cozy and “refined” that I half expected somebody to | offer me a cup of tea. And the only rude thing anybody did Was to ask me my AGE! And here I am—back again! j And I don’t feel the least bit different and I’m just as full of bloom and modesty and sweetnes» and light ae ever! And I'm perfectly sure i That I can wield a curling iron wits one hand { And broil a steak or swing an incense burner witn the other Just as skillfully as I used to Before | became a ‘CITIZEN.’ t By Bide Dudley Compright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York sfrening World) HE Women’s Betterment League| up?" she asked. “Why should we let ah of Delhi met in Hugus Hall] this woman advertiso cows here? Ate Saturday and by a unantmous| We not artistic or ts this lengue merely vote declared it highly apparent that] a facteal body the claim of Volvalina Exsthe: “Dictionary!” shouted Mra B® ora nd & that Dingitt. Mae Doolittle, the noted Dell poet- romptress Pertle rapped tor ess, had stolen the “Dear Summer" When she had a sufficient suppl rhyme from her was unfounded, The| wrapped up she raid: principal reason for the action taken| “Let us not forget our object In s the fact that Miss Kerbang|ing this meeting. While a cow is falled to appear before the league, as she had promised to do, and show that Miss Doolittle was a plagiarist. ‘The argument arose a week ago when the Delhi Razoo printed Miss Doolit- necessary animal I would Itke to troduce Ellabelle Mae Doolittle, the! accused, and let her blow off steam, Come forward, Ellie!" ‘The gentle girl slid tothe front of | Kerbang, of Grand Saline, has taken occasion to claim that our fellow member, Ellie Doolittle, has copped We were to hear her back up her statements here to- day, but she has not come, Miss | Doolittle is here, however, and ready lto defend her reputation against all comers. I move that, owing to the deflectancy of Miss Kerbang, we | s. award the palm to Miss Doolittle ant Het it go at t. Aby remarks?” Mrs, Cutey Boggs arose. “Va lke to make a few remarks, Promptress,” she sald. “ghoot!" replied Mrs. | tasctnatingly. | “I'd like to say,” Mra, Boggs went on, “that my husband, Pete Boggs, has |, a good fresh cow for sale cheap. He), | says that If he sells her he'll buy me @ new hat and"~ am here; she Is not. Ain't that to make one hot?" “Skin her alive, Elie!” O'Brien, hands, “Leave me read you a rhyme,” she sald. And then she read the following poesy plum: . Miss Doolittle held o> be ten) my ‘do. of When | wnia tthe od Romane Te ie original ‘ait ‘the “way. eel) untgrnlabed, Miss’'Kervang: porme, ae thie ay that it ba don.) Bhe ma Pertle very With the lost line the noted ed into the air and clicked In together, ‘Then she gracefully up stage, stepping om am old New Foundland dog that hed Frapial . come in to lie about and scrateh, Mrs. Skeeter O'Brien interrupted at ‘The ladies arose and applauded thir point. with great unto, “Is this a cattle sale or a poetry mix- All were pleased, Lords of the Desert Become Bankers HOSE who always have thought, prohibition of interest ts also @ | ot the Arab ax a florea indi. | Cate ther tn “ Moslem comme ' | he conservative ax Tunis, where | vidual with a long barrelled | join depositors sometimes, waive if tun and a prancing denert ateod may| interest on. thelr. deposite. ip " y | be surprised to hear that he in turn-| French banks of the city, | ing to trade, A ewtablishment of this bank te Nhe f interest as showing the result en Of contact with the French in devel: oping the often nied ability of the An interesting tn financial world of Tuninia tn the tablishment in the Houk-Wi-Grana,| Arab to organta This ability has vata, of the firat Moslem bunk in the| already been shown. in the, Ghedh Tame ney, the Comptoir Commercial | WhO! Hot tall arocnee ne i managed entirely by Djerbians: LJ whose capital of 400,000 trans | Lotus Katers of Homer), whe q "| heures ssful monopoly of rade and are ev gis considerable share . limited to transactions, | trade in spite the capital being too small for a gen-| from the city's #rench, Duelpeme The Kosanio'Jewied arocere, ch. Sa