The evening world. Newspaper, May 30, 1918, Page 10

EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, May 30 ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, PMBaed Daily Except sunday by the Press PubMehing Company, Nos. 63 to “a Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOBEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Kow. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ene Aoprctet ed Pape. te sztertrets ont led to the nae for regmtbitention of all to it oF not otherwise ited im thi ——— i» paper and alm the local news pub DREMM ER 54 (sirccieviiociccveisvsseeevevsshOsNOee MEMORIAL DAY. HE PRESIDENT has proclaimed this day for the United States “a day of public humiliation, prayer and fasting.” No urging, no eloquence is needed to bring home to tho Nation the meaning of such a Memorial Day. Instinctively the spirit of America goes forth to stand beside its ~ glorious dead in France even as in former years it has bent in love! * and reverence over the flag-marked graves of the home land. | The living who search for some expression of that which fills their heerts should find it only in the great words for whose simple,| undying fitness Americans ought to be this day more than ever) f grateful: Re “That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to ® that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—| + that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died) in vain.” : Ten thousand and ten times ten thousand words cannot mean as much as those few—silently spoken, silently marshalling the deepest} forces of the Nation’s life, silently recording the only worthy Memorial Day pledge to the memory of those American dead who sleep forever in France. rd From Gen, Pershing's report it is plain American troops are nolding on to Cantigny with 4 grip that doe# not mean to let this first town to their credit be taken from them at any easy price. “Renewed counter-attacks broke down under our fire we | have consolidated our positions in spite of heavy artillery and machine-gun fire.” Out of the great battle now renewed, Can- Ugny sticks up as @ special signal for American cheers, . ————_++. ' SPICES Ms OIST the warning signals in the interest of gas consumers in 4 this city and throughout the country, } A scheme is on foot to make them the victims of a colossal imposition for which the gas companies are seeking Federal eanction. Federal Oil Fuel Administrator Requa is understood to have ’ under consideration a plan which would limit the amount of oil supplied to gas companies by fixing a standard of 528 B. T. U. (British thermal units) as a maximum quality of gas, which gas companies must not exceed if they expect to yet oil. See what this means/to the gas companies: In the first place there is no provision that lowering the heat standard of gas shall be accompanied by any lowering of rates. Losses) ; in this direction aro all for the éonsumer. The company gets tho tame money for gas of a reduced standard, In the second place, since toluol—needed in immense quantities _ for explosives—is best obtained in the production of gas from oil according to methods used by the big gas companies, and since the contracts made by the Ordnance Department with the larger gus companies provide that the Federal Government shall pay the cost of producing toluol, these companies see an excellent prospect of getting extra supplies of oil at the Government's expense—thereby reducing the cost of producing a lowered standard of gas which they tent dipped into the law recognize in this caption division made by Blackstone in famous “Commentarie: Persons and T By the Rev. Thomas B. Gregory Copyright, 1916, by The Press Mublishing Co, LL those who have to any ex- will the his van still sell to consumers at the old price. With thin remark we may diame ’ , Do! , er and his boo! For the gas companies’ extra profit it is thus planned that, both {ree Uh i. es Al Ray with th: directly and through the Government, the public shall pay \\ and the “Things.” Heretofore, as Public Service Commissioner Whitney of this city points out in his protest against this latest gas manoeuvre, “the relationships between gus companies and their consume @ matter of State and local concern.” One of the later phases of The Evoning World's long fight to protect the jnterests of gas consumers in Greater New York was its recent blocking of attempts on the part of local gas companies to secure from Albany or through the Public Service Commission, legislation or sanction that would permit them to reduce the thermal unit standard of gas in New York without the corresponding reduction of rates which Chicago yas companies under similar cirfumstances were forced to grant their consumers. Finding the ground too well guarded locally, the gas companies} appear to have planned a campaign from Washington under Federal auspices. They will find it difficult, however, to convince the country | that the war will be sooner won by making gas consumers in New winter and well out into the suns! zone wo may safely reflect a bit v the “coal f that came making an end of us. The great Shakespeare said, “T! is some soul of goodness in th evil.” But would the poet have cluded tn his optimistic have been | rk through it with us? I don’t know, But all the same, famine was not without coal > other fuel being at hand, stoves and furnaces wont ¢ tables, lounges, hatracks, chiffoniers and whateve be lald hold of; for, you know, ca POI tT ETI ite." : ‘And it is right here, In this bur up ef “furniture,” that we find moral Just alluded to, Is it not a fact that far too i so full of “things here ¢ take cheaper gas at the same pri — ‘The dire food shortage in the United States, as reported by the Cologne Gazette ditions in the eastern part of th try being such as to come close to @ famine’ homes w un- will be found by NER room tw left in them for the folks rsonally know of homes in which | think of them again-your hou Now that we are fairly through the shine spon nea here ings in- our late midwinter misery had he yassed | , the Ata into very spare thing that would burn-chatrs, | bureaus, | ould ‘all that a man hath will be given for his ning the nany tno ot hings (The New York Evening World), combined splendor of field, forest and mine, and starve our minds and learts, | We forget the answer that was siven by the grand old Roman to rtain enterprizing parties who vanted him to ald them in enlarging snd beautifying the private houses ¢ he Hternal City answered old Roman, “our dwellings are | the iready large enough and five enough. | Hut Iam with you if you want to, nake for the Romans bigger thoughts ind grander charactors, How distressingly slow we are tn} discovering the fact that it ls not what we have around us, but what we have within ourselves, that counts. Socrates, Jesus, Emerson, Glad- stone, though found If a garret, ts in- finitely superior to the brainless, characterless person who lives and Juxuriates in the palace What a pity and shame it is that we cannot be induced to read carefully And lovingly the little book known as he Now ‘Testament. One day the Carpenter's Son was! talking in a heart-to-heart sort of fashion to the people about him, when @ very rich young man, noted far and wide for his “great possessions,” asked him this question: jood Mas- what shall I do that I may inherit | | Eternal Life? Immediately Jesus anawe him tn substance, as fol-| lowa: “Heave your great possessions lover among the rubbish, and never nericans good breakfast table and after-dinner re here is scarcely room to turn round, | furniture, and lands, and cattle. | Am i’ there i ES. ne . cus lene things are so congested, amount to nothing when it comes to . the thing = Letters k rom the People In other words, the “things’ aye te matter you a ve ihe about Sour r crowded the “persons” to the wall,[only assets He within yourself, in Wants shiprard siackere Made 1) at home or abroad, against one or| ‘tho without dominates the within, |What you are as a living soul, ‘Ther: ‘Werk, Hany, enemies within or without? | vivesin the] is the Kingdom of God." the Editor of The Evening World Wake up, America! CITIZE We live not within ourselves ta th dont es ey t {strength of our personal-| What are you worth? You are f By all means let us do something Me Doubts cn, beauty and streng 2 | but in our properties, in the} worth Just what you are as a person. | about those shipyard shirkers whom yard St ithes, ut Your ¢ reonal pr rty . j dome of your readers have reported itor of Te Kveniog World jects that are round about us. | eH y ne a at Hd your *re ul |} fe te a glaring evil that foreigners! !% answer to w letter signed J. ne] Charles the Bold, after bis famous pele aii gia el ae aL RE are employed for good American dol. S>0Ut shipyard slackers 1, asa citizen, | qefeat at tho ds of the liberty} train possessions, your beare token fare when our young manhood is off doubt the truth of it, In fact, it in|ioving Switsers, Kot away from the] gions, to the war that such as theso may UMtTue and unpatriotic on his part to|qeld in such heste that he left be-| You may have millions in the ba ain in peace and security, And|WPte such a letter, J. R. saya most {pind him t yal Casket, with its and mult b fh Dalper You m uy live tem or he Scandina s » wih Dei t P } t vital he though that were not suMcient it Rg Avene working \n 9} Crown Jewels, A wlan peasant| (i) | n freight train, and sti Sh tainly ts heaping coals upon our ag are slackers and should be sent|gound the rich prize, and throwing | intellectual and spritial noneatity head that these foreigners get exorbi- DAK ! This would greatly ine!ine precious stones away, took the} —_— 4 tamt waxes for Ittle or no work tarts with the building of ships, ag! cave home as & present to his w fet] FIFTY-FIFTY, While we are attempting to wipe the a ing ane A. built without men. | it is what the most of us are do ANNY and Bobbie had been loft ‘ slate. clean in Europe, let us clean this ntry. hie in Re © Of ling, Wo live not In what we but in the care of their big sister f) owe own doorstep, We have more in calling them slackers, as you ead jin what We have; not in the great while thelr mother went out i enemies here in America than are not cal) « t of anc ¢ thoughts of the mind and the noble} At bedtime they war y up facing our soldiers in France to-day. |a slacker. If lie will only look the soul, but in the } for mother,” but t lent And we as a nation are committing he wi 1 t arke p impulse loxsly put them t vine & grave evil to coddle these enemies andin ng. he: dasheries of environmen PMT aa Any longer Where is the old Ame my wid t our « We throw the Jewels away and eried Iustily, 1 sister Jistened d}} gm apirit Have we become soft.) Talk out alackere, why’ t keep the em ane at the Foot of the stairs, huping they bra as well as soft-handed something & slackers hat ‘ Set ROL and dwart| Would soon be quiet. At last Hobbic We Mo loneer deserve liberty and op-| around ¢ sand in the We build gr h 1 dwa od, and listoner: heard him portunity because we have not the and nor about th working for the OUF Persynalities You ery a bit, Danny; I'm courage to fight for it and maintain good of untry? 4. 6 We deck our bodies out ‘ip the! tired. Pit- Bits, ‘ \ wins |The Jar By RoyL. Copyright, 1018, by T Prom 1 on 66] DO declare!” rem Mrs. I Jarr nervously, “when you | come home to your dinner ahead of time you are the most fid- ty thin “Yes, and when I come home for dinner behind time, YOU are the most fldgety thin «rumbled Mr Jarr in self-justification “I’m hungry, too, Maw!" erled Master Wi Kin 1 have 8 will melt aw" How many times have I told you not to say ‘kin,’ Willle? Say ‘can/" replied his mother "If I say ‘can’ kin T have some, rn?" asked the boy. ‘And I want some ice cream, too, * whimpered little pm a Jarr, “und 1 can't wait ice cream? Mayb: the ice box. Kin 1 it in M here, you * exclaimed Mrs Jarr, turning to her husband, “you've started the children!" “Look at the flying machine~a wa aeroplane!” remarked Mr. Jarr, € a humming sound was eitedly as heard far out and up, and he ran to » window with the children, Don't the children,’ mislead sald Mrs, Jarr, “that'd just a nolsy auto- nfobile in the next street, Wil-l-l-t-e! You will fall out of the window! And she selzed Master Jarr and the little girl by their collars as they leaned far out the window with their father “There It way up hight T Yincen it!” cried the boy excitedly And, while his mother and father bota held him he thrust maself forward out of the /indow, obstructing his Ht. tle sister's lino of vision, 1 wanna eo it I wanna see it! Willie's right in front of me!" pro- tested the litthe Jarr « “L seen the soldier tor! I seen the soldier alligator! shouted the Say say, Maw! Kin I be y alligator when I'm big ‘Aviator,’ Willie,” his mother cor- rected, “An alligator is a horrid ani- mal.” “Ley Slavinsky ts going to Invent a in says," panted the ing to give tamp book flying mac boy, fan’ his father ts him stamps for his Thrift every time Lzay lety something fall out of his flying machine and breaks glass skylights, lazy Slavinsky sa that} w ‘ow him around ina full of und make | millions and millions putting in glass when lazy lets things fall «through skylights.” 1 give Tay Slavinsky a Th Biamp and he's going to let me ride Pai McCardell & Oo, (The New York bvening World), in his flying machine when he builds t. And he ain't going to let you ride n it because you didn't give him a Thrift Stamp!" sald the little girl, ad- Iressing her remarks to her brother. “Ha, girl can't be alligators—! nean ap eried the boy, “lazy Slavinsky is only fooling you to ret his Thrift Stamp book filled!” The little girl began to whimper and otest at being deprived, in prospect, f her patd-for spin in the glazier’s ons not yet invented glass-put-out | roplane, “Don't tease your little arr commanded, n't you worry, Emma aviators as well as bo: Girls are conductorg on the cars and doing men's work to help win the war, and, besides, Ruth Law, a very nice young sirl, is an aviator, and was the first person to fly from, Chicago to New York in an aeroplane, I beltve. And Miss Stinson flew tn a aerial mail veroplane just the other day for ong distance, so Willie mustn't tease sister, girls may be you." Being thus encouraged in her high- ‘ying ambitions by her mother, little Miss Jarr was emboldened to stick ut her tongue derisively at her rrother, the attention of both her varente heing attracted toward the far distant aeroplane, now a speck in he sk he stuck her tongue out at mo, Maw! She stuck her tongue out at me ried Master Jarr, “L won't let her stick her tongue out at me!" That was y rude for mamma‘s little girl,” remarked Mrs. Jarr re proachfully, “Little girls shouldnt stick out their tongu “I have to stick out my tongue for | out her tongue except for the doctor, And, Willie, if you tease your litte ter any mére I shall punish you. “And we won't let him ride in m: aeroplane, will we, Mamma? addeu the little girl | “you see, Willle, this Is getting to be a woman's world, and you'd ber- er be getting prepared t is vised his father, “I wouldn't be sure 1 if that was a lady ‘alligators, as you'd say, that just Mew b; y.' “And | a Womenin War By Albert Payson Terhune z Covrriaht, 1918, by The Press Publishing Go, (The New York bvening World), No. 14—BOADICEA, the First Woman to ky,ht sor éngland EAR Newmarket, in England, you will find an irregular and sunken line of earthworks—all that is left to tell the story of Englaiid’s first warrior-Queen, Boadices, Boadicea was’ a “new woman” in an age and & land when women were looked on as mere chattels—, little higher than animals. She welded together # sroup of disorganized savage tribes and ruled them with an iron hand. She welded their masses of bar« baric warriors into a formidable fighting machine and she governed them with a rude but wise justice. Rome had conquered all continental Europe and was stretching covetous fingers toward the rich Brit- ish Isles. Boadicea's husband, King Prasutagus, bit ou @ plan to keep at least a part of his realm for bis dying, he left a will dividing his kingdom and his great Wealth in equal parts between his own two daughters and Nero, Emperor of Rome. This did not suit Bondicea at all, When Prasutagus died she selzed the reins of Government herself, which bothered Rome about as much as @ | child's slap might affect Jess Willard, | A Roman “army of possession” came across the Channel to occupy Eng- |land, Boadicea's refusal to live up to the terms of her husband's will was | not allowed to go unpunished. The Queen was publicly flogged in the pres | ence of her own scandalized people, to show her the folly of trying to oppose | the power of Rome. own people, The flogging had. just the opposite effect on her blazingly flerce spirit from that which her conquerors expected. The mo- ment she could get free from her captors she raised the standard of rebellion and called her Warlike tribesmen to arms against the invaders. The savage . army answered eagerly to her summons. | At the outset her army numbered 120;000 men. With this horde she fell upon the Roman garrison city of London. She over- came the local army of Rome, burned London to the ground and turned her barbarians loose against soldiers and civilians allke. In the massacre-battle that followed the warriors of Boadicea slaugh- | tered 70,000, Then they attacked other forts and towns in the same regien, | flat 4 each to ashes and slaying every Roman soldier and civilian subject | of Rome. | __ News of Boadicea’s successful revolt against the hated Romans flashed |through England, Recruits came flocking to her camp ‘from all directions. | } Oar | } Indignity Row | Rebellion. Serer Her army of 120,000 quickly swelled to 230,000. The Roman commander-in-ohief, Suetonius, mustered every soldier ef | Rome, in all England, stripping cities and forts of their garrisons to form ao army strong enough to stem Boadicea’s tide of red conquest. ched upon the Roman camp, near St, Albans, where legionaries of Suetonius were mobilized, and late in 62°A. D., a mighty battle was fought. Suetonius posted his little army on a hill, where its rear and flanks were protected from attack by thick for Boadicea hurled her cloud of warri up the hill's steep slope to sweep the Romans from The rude arrows and stones and bolts of the British off the long shields of the heavy-armored Romans. The ed as easily as a promontory of rock repulses the dash of Boadicea eagerly m \ the there | ther bre. | glanced at n Suctonius gave the order to charge, Through the loose-ranked | British host Romans hewed their way in an trresistible wedge. They clove the yelling and spear-waving lines of barbarians and drove them back, in mortal panic, Then upon the demoralized Britsh the Romans launched themselves in a wholesale massacre that completed the wreck of the Queen's once gallant ny. Suetonius lost less than 1,000 men that day. Boadicea, finding every hope was lost, killed herself rather than fall into | the conquerors’ hands, . Bachelor Girl Reflections | By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), GIRL'S idea of “No Man's Land” will be the average summer resort, this season, with nothing but babes, octogenarians and married men to flirt with, No woman can help feeling that the world is growing sweeter and better, in spite of the war, waen she sees her husband's favorite “corner cafe” being painted white and turned into a dairy lunch. The average man is never Weary of exclaiming bitterly “All women are alike!"—and never tired of changing one woman for another, About the time when a wife begins to think a Iittle regretfully of that old sweetheart she might have married and didn’t, her husband {s usually beginning to think cf him a little enviously Sane A lie may be either a sin, a charity, or an accomplishment, according to how, when and why you tell it. A beautiful woman's eyes are the windows of ler soul, through which a man never sees quite clearly because she always keeps them velled with laughter, filled with tears or curtained with mystery. To a woman {t seems as though a man spends half his life in a dew perate effort to keep his mind concentrated on business and the other half {in trying desperately to get it off again. You can tell when a woman has reached the zenith of her’ charm by | the way in which she ceases telling about her conquests and begins deny- ing them. “Sweet woman's arms were made to cling!” Says the Anti-Suffragette, But she can’t do that and make SHELLS, poor thing— 1 tt i th ——= Renews Memory of Great Dates ECORATION DAY this year will b of the mos®@ impressiv anniversaries in American bis- e the nation is fight- Above the American observance, as no other nae tion has a similar holiday, It is net at all Improbable, however, that after this war the European nations may adopt a one tory. Onee m ing for liberty and ju Nar n in remem. the doctor, Mamma, An' I have to|graves of our gallant dead who have | brance of the thousa who have | stick out my tongue when [ Hck |already given thelr lives in the strug | died on the present battlefelds, Cone ‘Thrift Stamps, don't 1" whimpored | gle and are buried on French soil will federate Memorial Day ts observed the little girl, who desired the mater. |be planted the pangied Banner | in Alabam, Plorida, Georgia, Mise hal good will until the tce cream waa}and the Tri of our sister re-|sissippi and Virginia on April’ 26, 19 served for dessert |public. In t r-off Philippines, in the Carolinas on May 10, in Tennesse “I's all right for the doctor, bur | Shangiai and spots see on the ond Friday of this Thrift Stamps should be moistened | where lie the bodies of American #ol- | month, and in Louisiana on June 8 with a sponge, my di " said Mrg |diers and sailors me al services| = py host Impressive of the annual jJarr, “A Uttle girl should not stick {are to be he | ceremonies are thove w ich are hela stion Day movement had seenaiie nal ration Day ™ Jat the national cemetery at A¢lings n in Philadelphia in 1866. The D its or ton and on the battlefield at G 4 +l rottowing year Cincinnatt held a simt | burg, ngton © neler ieee . and 11 1888 Gen. Joha | terraces from the Potomac and ovat 4 ‘ommander-in-Chief of | jooking the nation's capital, ts the rmy of the public, |jast earthly resting place of thous ssued an order calling upon all vetes| sandy of America’s soldiers, ‘The rans aMliated with that organizatio: nies Gectysburg are very to repair to the cemeteries on May 30|impreasiy 1ire at the rostrum, and there flowers on the | w stan t the spot where Prege pray comrades. Iident Lincoln delivered his Gettyge | Dec Day is a distinctively burg speech, 4 l ' a