The evening world. Newspaper, June 6, 1918, Page 16

PubVshed Daily Except Sunday by the Prees Publishing Company, Nos. 63 ¢ K rs w, New York. “ President, 68 Park Row, asurer, 63 1 t w 6% Park Row, MEMBER OF TT The Associated Pres te exciusitely eniitie! to the vee for repub'ication of all ne Crefited to it oe mot otherwise cretited to (is onper and t * r VOLUME 58... FORWARD AND FASTER. | ‘OTHER spur to American war effort. Another stimulus for American spe There is no mistaki with which France and England ¢ in the American forces now hel; “The Germans may read tlcir certain doom,” declares the Loa- don Daily Express, “in “the s and skill of the Americans in the fight at Veuilly. During the past weeks the transport of American troops across the Atlantic has been quicker than we dared to hope for. Better still, the qua officers and men has astounded the most competent military judy Germany will find herself i the last great fight faced by troops equal to the be: ever produced.” The military correspondent of t} the official French war report w ASSOCIATED PRES 7 the meaning of the enthusiasm claim the fighting power revealed : to block the German advan Europe ba e same news per, referring to} described American troops meet-/ ing an enemy advance on Veuilly Wood and “by a magnificent counter attack hurling back the Germans north of this woo “Few communiques issued by the French command have contained a statement more vital to the ultimate Issue of the baitle than these to the soldiers of America in action,” | writes: | references French correspondents speak in similar tone of “the splendid eight of American regiments covering the roads leading to the battle} front,” and the fine bayonet work with which the bavk the Germans from Taul But this ap Americans drove riean with the hope and confi-| dence it inspi yond the military experts, | e most impressive avowa! yet made of Allied depend-| t and simple appeal in which| on Tuesday of this week Premier Clemenceau asked the Frenca Chamber of Deputies for a vote of confidence: “We are staking the game upon the help of the America “The Americans are coming. Our effectives and Eng- land's are being exhausted as are those of the Germans, The struggle now turns upon American participation.” ‘This does not mean that French and British resistance is near the yielding point. It means the force to turn the tide must be a fresh force. It means that French and British after nearly four years of fighting cannot hope to inflict smashing defeat upon the enemy with the speed and completeness for which America alone can now provide the required momentum. The French Premier would hardly have spoken as he did had not the fighting qualities of the Americans-in France filled him with confidence, “Only have patience to wait!” he says to Socialists and others of the less steadfast. ‘There comes an ally who has no weariness to combat, whose resources are enormous and hardly yet touched, whose fighting arm already shows what may confidently be expected of it. And that, be it noted, is pretty much the way Germany sizes up a situation which has developed with a speed the German war lords “eemed impossible, Prowling proofs of Germany’s dread are now being hunted down —after their futile efforts to destroy American troopships in Ameri- can waters had to be abandoned for a profitless raid on merchant shipping. From Germany a desperate U boat attack that measures German fear of Americans in France, From France and Great Britain outspoken recognition of what those same Americans in France are doing and what millions more of them can be counted on to do, Here is double impetus for a Nation that finds it need be leas and Jess ashamed of what it has accomplished in fourteen months toward making itself a formidable fighting power, To the challenge of its enemics and fle praise of its Allies thers fs the same reply—a command passed down the lines of its fighters, of ite organizers, of its workers: Forward! Forwat and faster! ence upon American aid was the direc a) Having become the most scintillating town on earth after sundown, New York naturally finds it takes time and study to get itself dimmed ta a point even approaching inconspicuousness When thgre is reason the city can go about turning down the lights as cheerfully as ever it turned them up. New York might as well recognize, however, that {t cannot expect to blend by night with the surrounding country to such ex- tent as may be possible for London and Paris, The Kast River, the North River and the harbor provide st y outstanding and Ineffaceable guides for the bombing aviator, On a moonlight night Manhattan, even with every light oul, y i as well Good Night! ‘ EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, June 6, When the Enemy Comes By Sophie Irene Loeb a black catfip a pan of peak of the skyserape a vi the bridges furnishing uy b HMleis nes even under the stars, The most New York can hope to do {s to render {ts streets and squares indistinguishable and be calmly prepared to deal with emergency, There ttle chance the city will be bombed. But in war any chance, however small, calls for Letters From the People Wants Americans to Build Americ To the Editor of The Hrening World Ma we I certainly agree with several of tw your readers who are demanding 1 ‘ form in shipyards where it reed ning ¥ that workmen are re: ing big pay|! ae for little effort. We should not per: |*!" % mit these conditions to continue an- | hed im other day. It hi nh gald that) f WY tir-tip 2 many of these shirkers are not Amert-| he for These ene cans, but aliens who openiy bonst| /"' nele Sen that they need not go fo war. Not for) juy ORGY) “Rot ene moment should we allow thoac| Red Cr hbanestce men to work on American ships, They | "°Y when the ere unfit for such a fine task. Send| |" sarve shough them home post haste and hire Aner- e What tf eat thoy g ar zone Would Germany allow any to work in her navy yirde or Kun fo es? I don't think so They would be branded as apien, CONSTANT READER, Temunerative employm will not fai! when the time cores, 4et us do something about this nigt- Pe CT Copyright, 1918, by The Vress Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) HE Police Department has given| Every mother uld teach her warnings of possible air ralds}children what sugh signals mean—to and set forth the following/obviate danger and to bring them signals: home wherever they may be as rap- Siren hornsor|idly as possible whistles will be] Teach them something about the sounded contin-}enemy and the need for scif protec- uously for ten|tion. Teach them how to swim. Cre- minutes. When ]ate in them a sense of confidence in this signal 1s[the police instead of striking terror e 4 «given every one]into their hearts at the approach of should immedi-]an offcer, Encourage them in seek- ely open the]ing an officer instead of running . windows of thetr|away from him, Serna menavoee = homes or offices] The trouble with » panic-stricken and go at once to the cellar of the|children is unpreparedness or ignor- premises, ance of what to expect, Jf they “When the danger has pased a sig-] knew something about the ibiN nal will be given by short blasts of|tles they might prepare themselves siren horns or whistles at Intervals} for the actualitios of one minute cach for a pertod of} The lesson to be observed in twenty minutes. me ¢ il is to y Jnstructions + many ‘ting Thomas]! an orderly manner, If one just Will read thes sand smile and [takes the time and pat t is easy srombtie eonael us “imposstole, |to Awaken courage in children, But nothing is impossible. ‘The a In the public schools where fire expected alw happens, Fantastic [ills are a part of t 1 curric- ns of yesterday are the realities (Wum and where ebildren are taught of to-day, The r course, the |What to do in time of such troubli patriotic one, 1s to be prepared, re-|the thing 18 dono with despateh, R gardiess of what personal belicfs or ]ords show that thousands of lives are vines niee te. jsaved by the almost instantaneous | shor Hey sidan ff u hwo won \ 1 ; nyem. OQnEN ; Above } expecially \ w en—in the ney them ' k ugainst loan i Fe ype \ \ A campaign - it at net ee eptlon roughly worth real rs are made men Ti women sol 1 7: . oa ? NEWEST THINGS IN SCIENCE. cially int perid i nt 1 slot ma gested int pad ¢ 4 instead of sands of W . ! tren in ft tomy ; ‘ : eof a b en ins pact iy i ph 1 for use shments No one can tall how soon each w ed Informally, be called upon to d yonuch a tea Por be obta At any mome y be made by w operate linto soidiers of ¢ do the Dig thing, +. be ready electr ade th im the Pyrenees The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright Jarr,” said Johnson, the book | the gloomy gent. keeper, “my brother-in-law, Mr. | Phil Graves of Rochester, | ls my friend and office Jarr.’ Mr, Jarr shook the flabby hand of | an obese and mournful individual, | and remarked that he was pleased to | meet him, He wasn't, but you can’t | be brutally frank to the caster’ brother-in-law. “Take Phil out and fill him,” sald Johnson, who was renowned for bis flashes of wit. Mr, Jarr suggested ‘a smile’ to Mr Goaves. It was good advice in the real meaning of the expression, tor Mr. Graves was most melancholy, “Don't you find rickeys depress. ing?" asked Mr. Jarr, after the visi- mate, Mr. tor from Rochester had taken sev- eral Lverything is depressing,” groan- ed Mr. Graves. “Now, I got to leave you," remark- ed Johnson, the cashier. “L got work to do, Jarr can stay with you, bis work isn't important. But cheer up, Phil," he added to his relative by rriage, "Mamie expects you at the house for din you know, Mr. Graves shuddere im sate! muttered, "Women can ' and, remarking that eve And 1 had my w P me, my whole life be he, and yet 1 would marry!” aiurmured gloomy man You seem he a misogynist, a woman hate remarked Mr. Jar He? Why he helped the whee And I bad my whole replied Mr, Graves an ever news Was always broken first y agers W him to with, pee ot Joh haken us," eal 0 work 60 you'd me homo with me and have Jarr had no ‘dea hig avitation would be to his dismay, it wi “Pd i Com) Che Kaas DADRABA 44 Mr.. Jarr was somewhat s Pail, thls when Mr, Jarr brought home expected guest. so welcomed. of s But palpably unhappy shine, Mrs, company 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wor! “i ig is my brother-in-law, Mf. | me no,;, 11] go home with y the guest that Had he been a ¢ Jarr, Ww would have suspected him being no fit n Land, With men of the joy iusbands enjoy themselves t for The gay dog type lure men delights and virtues of homé life “You seem sad, Mr Graves. you lost a dear one?” Mrs, Mar "On, dear! How Mrs, Jarr condolingly, she pass on?” “She didn't pass saat” " waid the v “and on, u passing on to her home n called,” sald the morbid v am on my wedding trip al speak." Mrs. Jarr looked her ec ost “I do not wish to burden " some friends, office Quartermaster’s Department g Jaluimore—to get a dr piness wite Is ¢ conviv thought mn ov nore and she was seeing the sig ngton with friends. It } three little Innocent pride had hysterics and nottfec po.ice and the Gove ” Bervice: she whispered to Mr hie friend out and lose | Ba, Ag Use LF BLAIR Ah esore en they visit Washington,’ Jerr n Ave _ Smugglers 1 manner of accomplices, ineude C ut are ing dogs, children and seductive 3 s to| young women, who distract the ate the| tention of the s are the village of Ludwig alone, where «ening | smuggling Is very eapanl ‘ the official German censor, forty s live t rie and rubbe wave yr Pe A good deal of the rubber jp feat of catapults, and both the : and receiver have developed : - & skill after months ° , ; ath rkness being apparently n@ sy Rives obstacie. , For the transit of cottom i “ feminine subtlety is available. Att ‘ er Hundreds of young women Used y \ ty be employed | URtt thelr little fraud was detected, man jachrymatory | % ara high wages by merely passe 1 to Neer ey ing the barrier, apparently without hid i tte paper bage| 8K! Of any sort; arrived at the tac ated the frontier to ae. | @PPointed cache, they would divest Women in War By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by The Prese Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ’ \O. 15.—-HANNAH SNELL; the Woman Who Became a 4Sol« dier for Her Country’s Sake. SLENDER young fellow who called himself Gray” enlisted one day in 1743 in an English cavalry regiment. England was beset by peril of wer by land/and by | sea, and there was an urgent call for mem—a call _ which, thus far, had not been answered by enough | recruits to ensure the country’s safety. a “George Gray” declared himself eager to servephia motherland in any warlike capacity and for any length of time. He was pointed out to “slackegs” ag _ a fine example of patriot. And he threw himself/heary * and soul into his new military duties, Now, “George Gray” was not a man at all, but @ gallant patriotic girl, twenty years old, Hannah Snell | by name, who had heard and answered bergeountry'g In those days there was almost no way whereby @ woman ‘could be o@ | use In war-time. And Hannah chose the only path open to her by enlisting as a soldier. . had been married at elghteen to a drunken German, who ha@ squandered her property and then had deserted her at the time thetr omit, child died. Her parents were dead, and Hannah had no home ti She borrowed the clothes and the name of her pacifist brother-in-law and weag to the wars. _— 1, As ant In her regiment—a man named Davis—was planning to kde jo lived near the barracks, Hannah learned of his plas Davis, in revenge, trumped of “neglect of duty” against Hi girl w and warned the girl. up a char Gawwrrmrnnrrd © Flees to Escape sé ouera © was sentenced to receive a flogging of 60® | t Terrible Revenge. § jashes on, her bare back. To escape this.eke deserted from the regiment. « her way to Portsmouth, she enlisted in Fraser's regiment, whit : in India. On the voyage the ship was s. A fierce sea battle ensued tm nctive service e enemy's f ght so gallantly t she received public praise from her ‘ 1 India, her regiment plunged at ones into the native wae And uin Hannah was tn the thick of every fight. More ut of her company to be praised for he@. led a charge of her company when elf d of her men she forded a river, shouldes: and storm an enemy position. ey ny 4 langerously wounded, Fearing to bey takes tot p hospital, she crawled away to @ native hut, where ‘an o@ " “ an nursed her back to health er way to her regiment again and fought throughout the res@ of the campaign. When the war was over Hannah returned to London, where eh¢@ promptly dropped out of military fe. Her country no longer needed her fares, Services. And she was ir constant dread lest it % should be discovered that she was a woman and } ParoUne tba cil } not the swaggering young cavalryman she had $ From the Army. & :9 long pretended to be, For her heroism in bat~ AY NAAAAA Yt the British Government gave her a pension af 1 far larger sum in those days than now. Hannah eked out ince for a while by singing tn musie halls. ight an inn which she ran with much profit. By this time war experiences had become public. And Hannah profited In honor of her soldier days she called her tng Female Warrior.” $100 ay this p Later she t by ¢ oy the notoriety, By Helen Rowland c é 1918, by The Press Poblishing Co, (The New York Evening World), | LAS! ifa woman only could’send her soul out “into the invisible” t@ IA » fitted these enervating days, while she stays at home and sip@ iced lemonade! The average man is just what a woman expects him to be. Give him a few compliments to live up to and you won't have to give him so many injunctions to fall down on. A summer widower's hardest cross 1s not to be able q to brag to his wife about the “peaches, and queens, and chickens” who tried to flirt with him while she wag away. Now that long skirts are coming into fashion again the »p bemoaning the “demoralizing effect” of feminine ) harping on their “unsanitary effects.” Ah me! men merely will § clothes and b ». | mye average husband spends half his time in trying to cure bis wife of the —and the other half in giving her something ta worry about. worrying habit” nism ja the cheering draught (usually the third) which makes @ n ci of getting away with that little fairy tale he has planned to teil nis where there should have been only one, two cbance No matter how “purely academie” a man's love for you may be, somes w it always becomes perfectly concrete and materialistic after you have 4 boon out in the moonlight with him for a little while. he | A womar dea of a “crowded house” is any house with a man sitting around it all day long Use Clever Tricks Getting Contraband to Germany AN thelr more or loss shapely persons of 1 7 © erprist: 1" t : ride “ll yoluminous — cotton —_underclothing \B Boer) supplied by Germa: et lw P | Tho Swiss newspapers have ¢ Mis ; L have met with| months been full of advertisenteute ap aA t sky jar, | £2% Copper {nh amatl quantities; - ite rey vn uniuelty 4aT | not patlafied with aucn sources x r 13 of tho pepper.| supply, tne German agents e: Sab 1 way, as ti-luck would | @ W band of thieves to go rou! Se it, to the nostrils of a custome | More than one Swiss frontien teu sng | got and wrench the bri as th@| from the front doors of doctor Obs baci etd Lb Swim laa, oer bob mweiwuad men, , as wel