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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ted Prom ie exclusively entitied to te lication of alt Arepatchen ecettad ocr ne eras cello 1S" eet and tas Toca nee lind bere VOLUME 58.. , 20 7 NO, 20,741 GERMANY SHOWS HER DREAD. | ERTAINTY that German U boats are operating off the American coast not a hundred miles from New York produces no sort of pan On the contrary the first feeling of Americans is one of grim satisfaction that Germany is thus forced to belie her pretended confi dence that the fighting strength of the United States must be felt in Europe too late. ‘ Every German U boat near American ports is proof that the great oversea movement of American troops to France has astounded and dismayed the German war chicfes American fighters at the front in such numbers and with such speed were not in the German reckoning. ] Attempts to sink American transports in the war zone have noto- siously failed to diminish the eastward flow of this Nation’s fighting torce. The German war lords have been driven to a desperate stroke ‘n or near American waters in the hope of showing that the dreaded tide can be stemmed, as they so confidently assured the German people ) | it would be stemmed. | For the Imperial German Government must regard any kind of submarine campaign it can expect to keep up on this side of the Atlantic as a costly and dubious undertaking—mainly intended to demonstrate that nothing haa been left undone to stop Americans from getting to France and turning the balance. In the meantime no one dreams that American naval forces will eave transports and shipping at the mercy of Germany’s submersible cruisers. Destroyers, submarine chasers, sea and air planes will redouble their vigilance in Atlantic waters. Germany can haye no endless supply of transatlantic U boats capable of remaining for long periods thousands of miles from their base. Rendezvous with mother ships would be soon discovered in North Atlantic waters, Nor could ‘bases in Mexico remain long concealed. U boat mortality hereabouts should be high. Furthermore the British, French and American navies have not fost their grip. The successful convoying of American troopshipas, which has been one of the most notable achievements of allied war- tare, is not going to break down merely because a few long-range U boats have made a raiding trip to American waters, When—in the fall of 1916, before the United States entered the war—the U-53 crossed the Atlantic and sunk six merchant vessels off Nantucket Lightship, the raid, instead of heralding a submarine} campaign in this part of the world, turned out to be only a daring exploit. German submarines seek bigger prey in American waters now, than they did in 1916. It was food and supplies they were after then.| Now it is the fighting power of the United §tates—ferried in ever- increasing volume across the Atlantic. But the U boat job to-day) is correspondingly harder and more dangerous. The present raid off this country’s coasts may prove proportionally no longer-lived or pro- ductive of results than the earlier one. To make certain that whatever Germany's U boat plan, that plan shall fail, the Nation will take prompt measures, . Menwhile Americans and their Allies will be all the stronger in spirit and resolve for their present great task in France because Ger- wany has revealed the intensity of her fear that America will soun be casting decisive weight in the scales. “A race between Hindenburg and Wilson,” was Lloyd George’: recent summary of. the situation, The arrival of U boats in these waters is further indication how menacing to Germans begins to seem America’s war pace, nt Secretary Baker deplores what he calls Col. Harvey's “ex. | traordinary and depressing lack of information. Lord Morley, in his “Recollections,” recalls Cromwell's | exhortation to a group of pernickety Presbyterians: “My brethren, I beseech you, in the name of Christ, to think it possible that you may be mistaken Letters From the People Ny be proved by looking up their aub- Worke: ‘ scriptions to Liberty bonds ; ; and the ‘To the Biltor of The Latte vem nipyara | Red Cross. Why ts tt that so many About the jacker = shipy! Scandinavians (as the writer asserts) worker” controversy, permit me to} hold executive positions with all this express my views in defense of the worker. Of recent years the ma- jority of our young men entering the business world have chosen the cleri- Opposition against them. | hot gained it through origienny? yy dently the writer has been up against @ Scandinavian foreman who required Fesults instead of bluffs. We have a cal fields, and but few, relatively} Just Government and surely the @peaking, have learned mechanical Be abine been pald acc rding to trades. On the other hand, the ma- pap e Scandinavians feel jority of Scandinavian or foreign-|"°MtY for this “infuriated Ameri- ro young men do engage in me- | CA?" (his own quotation), who seems chanical trades, Tiereiure, in the | jealousy that is tease et, oe present crinis, Uncle Sam needs & his whole personality, Now, to be patriotic, let skilled mechanica for shipyard work. | Uy get aside our’ personal iithersnces | and cannot get enough American mechanics, Ree hase i the common course we Shipyard work ts not all a “bed of us, roses” as some writers would have Saye Ali Are Worst Shipy us believe, The men are not pald s ra, tor loafing, or for {me that they doj to r the most part Lib yea sng not work. It hard, jaborious, dirty work, with, 1# answer to a letter signed “A. 0,," long’ houra, and there are slack|>Y & man who doubts the reports times and lay-offs, In many cuscx| about shipyard slackers, would like to | the worker is obliged to travel long distances to and from his work Therefore, in view of the increased cost of living, If the Government har seen fit to Kive the shipyard worker @ living wage, why should any one | of the out-of-the-wa a of-the Y places b puid object? “If the laborer 1s worthy of |probably find quite a few parriens his hire," he should be paid a wage | shipyard workers sleeping away their that will permit bim and his family | time, especially after the full day, at to live. the comfortable rate of 60, 70, 80 or 90 at believe all ot our shipyards doing | cents per hour - ernment work would give prefer- a ence to any American abipyard liaging Gover ety Holding Up or do- worker who would apply, and who BE WOrk St the prede |say that A. O, probably never was | near a shipyard. If AO. went aboard some of the ships lying in any of the Brooklyn yards and went in ¢ some A EDITORIAL PAGE Tuesday, June 4, 1018 PPASSIVE rt HAMMER The Girl VW7ho Longs For “Over There” By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Krening World), YOUNG woman writes as {truth is the girl who thinks she 1s follows: going over on a jaunt will find she “I am aolneteen years of age, |1s mistaken. All activity there 1s employed as ex-|somc.hat of a military character. pert clerk and| While many women are doing won- typist in @ bI® | derful work side by side with man in New York CoM-/the most difficult places, yet every cern, Just @t | girl who wants to do war work cannot present business |compete with those who are fit. If routine is very |it is so with men, then how much slack on account| more so with women who have not of conditions due | been accustomed ty meeting emer- to the war and I | gencies, difficulties, &c. Out of the become _restles® | hundreds of men who apply for mili- sitting aroun djtary duty, many are rejected. Why when I know there is 80 much to b@|should it be any different with done in war service. In fact, I am | women? anxious to do active work elther ‘over here’ or ‘over there.’ I have boen a big success in business, there- fore I think I could make myself fit Besides, if ono is truly pa- triotle there ‘s plenty to do right here. I would say to this girl that she should remain on her job, All busl- |ness ts in need of our sex at this for war work, Could you suggest 2 —|moment. To keep the commercial branch where I might make myself| wheels going {% of paramount im- useful and where I might apply?” \portance in helping to win the war. ‘A number of letters come to me Nothing must be neglect Thou like this one, The desire to go “over| sands of girls do not realize what a there” is evident on all sid Most| big part they are playing in war of the girls who think they would|work by faithfully performing the like to go have no real knowledge of | services they aro required to do in what they muat face and what they| their everyday Job. will bo called upon to do. If they! N would all truly admit it, many of| them think only of the romance, the} ver in the history of the world was the demand for women's brain and brawn so essential to the wel- excitement, the Journey and the ad-|faro of the world as it ty to-day. venture, The hardship, the toll, the] Without our women the war would expenditure of energy and strength, | gait, and the trials and tribulations that) 4, gin can believe that she te must be faced ts thrust in the back- ground in the longing to be “in it” | 1 know a very nice girl who had {the “urge to get to the other side] doing her bit if she sticks to her post in any industrial pursuit. I¢ she feels she is not doing enough, there ts op- A Rude Awakening! x2 Ceprriaht. 1918. The Jarr Family By Roy L. 66XTTE must get him to enlist!" Mid cried that dashing young/| matron, Clara Mudridge- | Smith. Dashing in this instance 1s, Quite correct, for she was dashing up to Mrs, Jarr, “Yes, we must save| him." “Who?” asked Mrs. Jarr, | “Why, young Alfred Bullwinkle,” | replied the other. “His mother was to see me, weeping fit to break one's heart. It seems her darling son ts a} conscientious objector to going off to) the war and getting shot, and in, order that he may escape the draft by having some one dependent on hin he raves about marrying one of those dreadful Cackleberry girls and wants his mother to increase his allowance so he can keep @ wife and another motor car,” Mrs. Jarr did not remark, “Ono of those dreadful Cackleberry girls," for those two, modern maids from ancient Phila. | delphia had met young Mr. Bullwinkle while visiting her. “You must think you are a rerular| Flora Barton or Clara Nightingale, | talking of saving people,” remarked | Mrs. Jarr coldly, "The little work | you have done for the Red Cross has turned your head.” quite ike the’ “L was a helpful | heart, I'll admit, lied Mrs, Mud- ridge-Smith, “Even before the ited | Cross drive 1 wanted to be of service | to humanity, I have always longed, | even before the war, to be a Salvation Army lassie 4nd go as an angel of| the slums by day, and at night collect money in my tambourine when the | theatres were turning out, And when spoken to ingultingly, and with an portunity to fill odd moments and in some eres we ee Psire had) hours, in & word, there Is no reac | always stayed at home, and hac Ce ee N }little burdens of any kind to bear y ng around’ | wetting lonesome for something to Yet she applied for an opportunity | 4, pvery purposeful effort on this to go. She began training {or the] i , work and the very routine of tt site 1b Ae. TaNeh, war work as it ts getting up early in tho morning, oe studying certain things, becoming] efficient, was a truly difficult task] 1 for her. In fact tt was hard work. | First Storage Battery. ‘was worthy of his hire. ent we cannot be very patriot AMERICAN SHIPYARD WORKER, | ADO {here are certainly « large num. Denies There Are Shipyard Slackers| ooo) ee sole Ht (mostly aliens) ny tea pellncgede ss gale Ships, of course, cannot be built with Bel: ne Brent jorld out men, but they can be built by Ing & constant reader of your| Americans. If 4 man is earning his paper I have seen the letters about | money in this country and living ne: shipyard slackers and noted especially re he should become a citizen or go back z, to his home across the sea. He prob- the one signed “J. R.” In justice tol abiy would, only he would mer Hr the Scandinavians I challenge the|much in a week there as le makes in writer to prove his assertion that they |4 day here, Another reason he docnn't are slackers and pro-German, On tho | become & citizen in the fact that If he does he will probably have to go into contrary the Scandinavians are the|the army. Fine chance of such aliens most patriotic people, @nd it can eas- becoming citizens! READER, n- When she came to realize the things | she would be called upon to do, phe HE storage battery or electric ac- I cumulator of Faure was first she was not only physically | exhibited {n London thirty-sev- unfit but would no able to carry|e@M years ago. Since then the inven- lout the programme for any length| tion has been greatly improved by of time. fe | Edison and others and {s now suce It wan suggested to her that {f she|cessfull¥ applied to the was truly patriotic she might do her| street cars and ot u bit right here in a very effective way. | been predicted by trical authorl- She joined a Red Cross group and! tles the "w ‘" system of 5s made good. She showed manage- | electr operation ‘y eventually ral traits and they gave her a purt| extend to all the rally insolent leer, by @ coarse man-about- | town in a fur overcoat, then I wili| be defended bv Clarence Throckmor ton, who saved the football game for Harvard by breaking the legs and arms of the members of the riy eleven, ‘For a gentler knight never rescued fair lady,’ as the subtitle in the picture says, He will knock the brute sprawling in the snow and escort me to his luxurious bachelor | apartments and treat me with every respect, and we would part, not know- ing each other mes, to meet again on the battlefield, where 1 would recognize the wounded officer I had| ads and tram- & of the work that suited ber, The! ways of the world, |Jected Mrs, } Miles thrown on McCardell Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), “Why 1 was talking about that young noodle Bullwinkle,” replied the other; “but 1 got to thinking of @ more interesting type of young man to me, They always have brain fever—that 1s, they did before the war pictures were so popular, because {t Is a tidy sickness. Of course, If & hero has to be wounded he can be wounded in the arm, or a slight scalp wound—only enough to stun him— isn't messy. And the crusty old army surgeon will think he is dead, but into the loving eyes of Grace Thorne Who had been the demure and win- some Salvation lassie before she be- came a seraph of mercy on the, battlefiela”—— | “If you are talking about young Bullwinkle, talk about him,” inter- | Jarr. “And if you are talking war drama gush, talk It to yourself." And she prepared to go upon her way. “Would you take all romance from life?" asked the younger matron. “Simply because I gave my hand where I could not give my heart’ Nonsense!" sniffed Mrs. Jarr. You gave your hand where you could find a fat pocketbook to put it on, 1 think your old husband Is rather an old dear, You should be |nice to him and let other people's heart affairs alone But would you call young Bull- winkle's desire to marry one of those verry girls to escape the draft art affair? 1 should consider tt a case of ‘safety first,'" said the old man’s darling. It's better for him to marry one of the Cackleberry girls and be man- aged, for they would manage him,” replied Mrs. Jarr, “That would be better than for him to fall a prey to @ girl who has nothing bright about her but her hair and that needing constant attention to keep it s0o--a girl whose only Indication of good form is that she wears tights in Vaudeville and has colored moving pictures of flowers, birds and butter- her, concluding ber part of the entertainment as a rather too plump backgraund of the flags of our Allies, ending with the American flag and patriotic airs—you know such an individual came near marry- ing young Bullwinkle?" "Yet Mrs, Bullwinkle is terribly dragged from the hel) of fire and} ups about the Cackleberry girls, shot"—— She thinks her booby of a son ts throwing himself away," said Alry, “are you talking about Alfred Bull- | Mudridge-Smith, winkle or a moving pic full of Well, L think she needn't worry," . a) gush and alu asked Said Mra, Jarr. “Young Bullwinkle the ANe) Buen One (& asked | ithe silliest person | know, except Mrs, Jarr, interrupting My friend's | Ho ler flow of romantic sloquese~ ‘aim person who would marry| gates present from America, Canada, — Stories of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune Coprright, 1918, by The Prees Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), No. 29--Lieut. Schorveder and a Strange Human Doc T began with a@ love story. In the German garrison Posen, in 1912, was a young agtillery Heutenant 7 Bchorveder by name. He was engaged to be married to @ pretty Prussian girl, {da Mullerthal, whom be adored. But he, was wretchedly poor and in debt. Ida had no money of her own. There was no hope that the couple could ever afford to marry. This fact made Schorveder sulky and miserable, His unhappiness was the theme of much gossip in Posen, where the oiroum- stances of his love and of his poverty were well known. At the acme of his despair Schorveder was ap- proached by a Russian secret service agent, who of fered to suggest a way by which the leutenant eould quickly earn enough money to marry. The agent promised Schorveder should receive from Russia the sum of $25,000 in return for an accurate copy of the plans of the powerful German fortress of Posen. The young man was very much in love, Also he was embittered by poverty. He consented, k But it proved impossible for him to steal a map of the fortress and get it safely into Russia. Germany, even then, was planning war againet the Russians—a war which was to engulf the whole world in blood two years later, And German secret agents kept @ sharp watch on officers who might be tempted, by hope of gain, to betray their country. Orr, Schorveder knew he was watched. He knew German Officer Fears} ‘the authorities had seen him in company with To Take Chan &@ man suspected of being a Russian spy. He 0, could see no way of earning the $26,000 for Onnanananannnnnnnnrnn® which he longed. He took his troubles to Idm eet ae his sweetheart, And her shrewd woman wit solved the prob= em. She told Schorveder to tattoo the plan of the fortress on her back, be~ tween her shoulders, He had some slight skill at tattooing, And he knew every Inch of the fortress by memory. Schorveder set to work at his strange task. Fo. several days he toed with the tattoo needle and the pigments, copying the lines of the fortress on Ida's bare shoulders dally, until she almost fainted from pain, It was a slow job; but at last It was finished. : Across the snowy surface of Ida Mullerthal's shoulders was @ perfect reproduction of the Posen fortress, done in many colored tattoo dots. As soon as the sketch was complete Ida went to Russia. There (through the influence of the agent who had corrupted Schorveder) she secured an audience with the Governor of Warsaw. Ida entered the Governors presence clad In a decollete evening dresa, with an opera cloak wrapped about it. Laying aside the cloak, she turned her back to the Governor. The wondering official stared for a moment at the tattooed map Then he sent for expert draughtsmen to make a copy of it. And he was loud in praiso of the two spies’ cleverness. Onn Ida Mullerthal returned There to Posen with §$25,- was no longer any 000 In her wallet. Map of Big Fortress} ci staclo to her marriage with the man she On Her Back. teed %, For a time everything went well, then the German police began to suspect something was wrong. For Ida and Schorveder were living in luxury and were spending their money by the double handful. There seemed to be no end to their wealth. Now, everyone knew the couple had been penniless. Their new pros~ perity was a mystery the police resolved to probe. They paid secret vis to Schorveder’s elegant new home, in Its tenants’ absence. But they coulé find nothing to justify the visit. Next, on suspicion, they arrested Ida and the Lieutenant. demanded a strict search of the captives’ clothes, Women police ants forced Ida to disrobe. hideously distinct on her white baci, Police rules ttend~ was the map of the At the court-martial of th. sples, on a charge of The game was up. And both the prisoners were high treason, the whole story came out. convicted. Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), WWADAYS every new cult offers a different recipe for prolonging eens and beauty—but the rouge and rice-powder counters @# Ne drug-store go right on doing the same old rushing business, Now that the boys are learning to knit and the giris are running street cars, you seldom bear of any- body having time to worry about the “equality of the sexes,” and all that sort of thing, any more. A man will never have any trouble in convincing a Woman that he is perfectly wonderful or perfectly fascinating, if he will merely begin by convincing her that SHE 1s perfectly beautiful, ort Ane “el The saddest and most beautiful and glorious sight in Ameri That of the old blue serge business suit, hanging in the closet, where he left it to put on his beloved uniform. It must be simply awful to be a man, and to have to walt until you hear or see or read about a thing that a woman kuows all about by intul- tion long before it even happens. As soon as a woman has given a man the key to her heart, he seems to fancy that he has merely to prop it open and go off and leave it that way while he tries a few other locks, In selecting @ husband or @ wife, let your heart be your gulde/ but for heaven's sake use ydur brains as a “brake” occasionally, Nobody rgally “falls in love.” A woman dives into {t deliberately, and a man just skids into it when he isn’t looking, and flounders around unt the girl pulls him out on the dry banks of matrimony. The average husband's most annoying weakness consists in his deter- mination to show his “strength of character” around the house, Strange how time files when a man is trying to kiss a girl, and how it hobbles along when he feels that she {9 expecting him to, Founder of the Y. M. C. A. HILE the war ts not yet ended, ;Continental Europe, There are now W the American ¥. M. C, A. and| 19,000 branches in the world, of which 2,192 are in North Am rica, brother organizations amon&|he international headquarter: of our Allies have already won praise|the Y. M. C, A. are at Geneva, from the highest military command- ers for their work in maintaining the Switzerland, TS spirit of the armies of democracy. Sixth Avenue “L ; This great organization originated in an invitation extended by George Thirty-Nine Years Old Williams, a London dry goods mer- HE first successful elevated ratl« © ant, to his young men employees t> way In the world wa opened in meet in an upper room of his store Sixth Avenue, New York, a a tor a period of Bible study and| June 5, 1879. The following Au, fonyer, thie was in 1844, ‘The meet-|Thind Avenue line was opened ane ings were so successful that larger and better quarters were secured and other young men were invited to join. Similar associations were formed in other English cities, In 1851 the movement reached America, that year average cost per mile of the: was very high, and steam wee oe used for motive power. Brooklyn rf Chicago were the next cities to adopt the overhead transportation oyeten The latter was the first city to use witnessing the formation of the Y, | electricity on elevated lines, M. C. A. branches in Montreal and jattempt at an overhead railroad on Loston, In 1854 the first International |made in New York in 1868, Tt eres conference met in Paris, with dele-|short, sin wae 8 -t.ack road, supported 4 single line of tron plilar aa and eeveral countries of'a complete