The evening world. Newspaper, June 13, 1918, Page 18

a Sats at tone _s cere ant wians 5 OUEST A PULITZER, Cued Daly Exceet Sunder by he Fives Fubtshing Company, Nos. 63 to ery pay eat Serene Sener Laem ee AS THE PUBLIC SEES IT. IE subway constroction earl is no nearer disentanglemenl. Respective plans of Board of Extimate amd Public Service Commission have jamméd with that of the Mayor. The contractors have been offeretlynothing to which they can agree. Dismal deadlock is the result. “Every day the matter remains ‘ansettled,” as Secretary Walker of the Public Service Commission points out, “adds to the danger that the force of laborers will disintegrate.” If they tire of waiting and seek other jobs, who can blame them? Neither to them nor to the public do the justice and common sense of the situation appear so hopelessly obscured. Admittedly these subway workers can easily get better wages elsewhere. Employing subway contractors cannot hold their men to obsolete wage scales drawn up under conditions which have since radically changed. Nor can the city justly hold the contractors to contracts made under the same no longer existing conditions. The workmen must have higher wages. The contractors must be enabled, to pay them higher wages. Otherwise work on the new subways, comes to a standstill. AG If it were a question of some:costly, embellishment the city was) completing for itself the case would be different. Delay would not mean so much. : But the new Wybwa: sare no luxury They are plain utiiity,| sorely needed relief, speedily to secure which the city pledged its) anoney and its partnership. They were to have been finished long) since. Five million five hundred thousand people wait for them with impatience. Under such cireumstances it is amazing that a Municipal Admin | istration should not have felt its paramount responsibility to the public, that it should not have pushed straight to the practical adjust- ; ments that must be made if the new subways are to be put in the near. future at the service of those for whom they were built. There is a forlorn hope that the Board of Estimate may take some decisive action at its meeting to-morrow. The city wouldn’t have been reduced to this forlorn hope of breaking a deadlock—with the need meanwhile of making desperate «fforts day by day to keep subway laborers from quitting their jobs for better ones—if it had had in the City Hall a Mayor capable of quick action in straight lines, a Mayor whose first thought was of his duty to the public, Mayor to whom the petticr points in policy and method were less congenial. ———-4- UTILIZE GARBAGE. | EEP kitchen garbage separate from other house refuse, the Federal Food Administration urges housewives. | From one ton of “clean” kitchen garbage—unmised, that is, with dirt and rubbish—can be extracted “sufficient glycerine to make the explosive charge for fourteen 75 millimetre shells, enough tatty acids to manufacture 75 pounds of soap, fertilizer elements to grow eight Yushels of wheat and a score of other valuable materia!s essential in the making of munitions.” - In twenty-four of the larger cities of the United States which have no plants for utilizing garbage, the Food Administration figu that a combined population of 5,000,000 wastes 4,400,000 pound? nitro-glycerine, 40,000,000 twelve-ounse; cakes of soap and enough fertilizer to produce a 3,000,000 buthel wheat crop—the materials logt being together worth some $5,000,000. Even in cities which have garbage plants, millions of pounds of valnable grease are destroyed by burning or rendered useless by being , mixed with other kinds of refuse, : Here is where the housewife ¢an step in and do her part by keep- ing the table waste in a separate container so that it can be readily available for such converting processes as her locality adopts, In many sections this same kitchen garbage, if “clean,” can be need as hog feed It is estimated that {f 350 American cities of ‘between 10,000 and 100,000 population who bre not utili garbage would turn it into hog feed, they could add 60,000,04 %to the country’s yield of pork. : zing their) 100 poun'ls Well worth thinking about. | There are no sounder, more sensible ways to add to the Nation's resources than by utilization in ali directions of what hag heretofore gone to waste, A little sober, practical study along these lines promises more for the future of America than any amount of glib talk about shnttin, down non-essential industries. J eee Letters From. the People feand fame Good Workers andjcan employer who will “; prefer* a Fighters. man because he is a slacker or loafer. apm of The Prening Word: ‘ Take noti¢e of the youn, In the shipyard controversy going | draft age. Are the: on in your paper the Scandinavians|No, sir, Listen pity el come in for @ severe drubbing. They|giye you for being in the shipyard are accused of being slackers, pro-|at this particular time. Patriots? German, &c, What are the facts? |Not much. From the little chureh I Lerd Northcliffe recently mates | belong to we have sent seventy-five that 90 per cent, of the work in) young men into the army and navy American yards was fof Norwegian|and every one a volunteer. Of my orders and the Norwegian merchant] personal friends, nine left shipyara marine is exclusively in the ser¥ice|work at good wages, went in tho ‘ of the Allies, and America most of all, / army and two are already dead “over Water any yard and You will find) thera” Norwegians slackers? No, about 75 per cent, of the woodworkers| indeed! Gtve the Seandinavians ao are Scandinavians, When carpenters charce and you will have to do some are wanted, why is “Scandinavians tall old hustling to keep up with preferred” always ipserted in your them, both in patriotism and compe. men of EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, June 13, | | | By Sophie Caprright, 1918, by The Prem Publish AST Sunday I was on the beach, L and if you had seen what I saw well, there's something to be said about girls’ bathing suits, As J looked about me I could not but wonder at the need of stringent — rules, police moth- ers, &e, 1 wonder why It is that girls who are so careful about their attire on the street and at home, yet when they get to the seashore lose all sense of decorum and the fitness of things. Is it the freedom of the sea that causes all sense Of civilization to be swept aside with the sand? What is there about it that makes some young women assume a fashion of dress for bathing that is inexcusable and often borders on the need of po- lice control? us more sensible in the line of dre for all sports and physical exercis yet surely modesty not be thrown to the winds without some detriment to womanhood, If a girl docs not care for herself she ought to be taught to respect her sex. may them. I do not believe in false modésty— wear while bathing, the bathing beach, If ever a girl of womantiness It is at such a time, have taken her evening were no arm openings and it over the shoulders, herself, that had all the colors of the rain- bow. draw attention; paper? I have yet to img an Ameri- tency, G. B NILSSEN, Vor sense some og ‘ ‘ , i= the beach—well, ther While modern methods have made | It is small wonder that pitfalls | confront young girls at bathing re- |*PParel, reflect the real woman, sorts, Many, many times she invites If there ever ts a pudlic place it is shows her breeding and innate sense I saw one young woman who must dre A i erage etl em6ne |Marie bitterly resented the violation was cut very low, back and front, with | only ribbons to hoki tho gown on I could not help wondering what that girl thought of 1 saw another with a striped affair Every one who saw !t knew it was only put on for one purpose—to| Premier Eyxc @nd the girl who | Rorts to the dresses to draw attention to herself “y something to Girls in Bathing Suits Irene Loeb ing Co, (The New York Evening World) wrong with that kind of girl, there are no two ways about it. I saw another*young woman who ing suit; but she was quietly asked to leave, I hope it will teach her a Jesson, What, oh, what, is there about it— this seeming Indifference to the ap- pearance of things? In the words of the Sceotchman— © wad some power the giftic gi'e us ‘Lo see oursel's as ithers see us, I know @ young woman, a great swimmer, She loves the sport be- yond everything else. She swims at great length, and therefore her clothes must not hamper her move- ments, This girl wears as simple things as possible for this purpose, and yet no one could accuse her of immodesty, for her appearance, her behavior and her actions speak louder than words. Bhe does not assume that the shore is a,tea garden in which to sit around and gossip. She takes her sun bath in the sand, gets into the water, does her swimming, and out again, Bv- |erybody loves to be with her, It is |all so wholesome, If some girls could really see them- |selves they would shrink at the sight. | After all, there is a happy medium. ‘The extremist only draws attention jand nothing else. | Bathing suits, above all Kinds of Think it over, Does Luxembourg’s Girl the kind that causes one to be un- | eeable in enter te, copes] _FRuler Favor Germans? highly respectable;" but one cannot | RAND DUCHBSS MARIE, the help to deplore the extreme of this Cc titular ruler of the little state in the clothes some young women | of Luxembourg, is about to cele ebrate her twenty-fourth birthday. Many conflicting reports haye come out of Luxembourg as to the attitude of the girlish ruler toward the Ger- mans who invaded her country and who are in practical possession of het territories, It has been thought that of Luxembourg, and that she has be- |come a voluntary prisoner in her pal- ace, refusing to have anything more than is absolutely necessary to do with the Kaiser and his officers, Another report is that the Grand Duchess welcomed the Teutons and made no pretense of opposition to their violation of her country’e neu trality, This much is definit known—that on the day the Ge mans invaded Luxembourg, the late handed his pass- eneh Minister and or- to eave the wunuy, wid a Minister was permitted the Germa Copreent. 1918 pow Purbviiwts ™. Rove ork Preutne Word.) and |¢¢7qruER Mr. must have put on her brother's bath- | Now, as a mi 18 Ree Se | ‘By J. H. Cassel The Jar By Roy L. Copsright, 1918, by The Press Pubtiahi "S no use taiking,” said arr, “there is a lot of swank about ‘doing our bit.” ter of fact, hardly one of us is really doing any servicvable | work for our country, Maybe {t ts only because we do not know what serviceable work to do, Yes, we }bought Liberty Bonds, and we are buying Thrift Stamps, and we donated to the Red Cross funds, but every good American did all those things Now, I say that we should give sume g00d practical service, too." “Right you are!" declared Mr. Rangle. “But what can we do? Don't you know, I think the Bureau of Public Information should give out to the papers some practical instruc- tions, They should tell citizens of middle age what they might join, and they might instruct boys and girls as to what they could do, F’rinstance, if my boy was not old enough to enlist, how would I go enter Annapolis or West Point if, say, he was about@fifteen or sixteen? Or how could hi e 1 in one of the preliminary training schools for the navy or the aviation corps or the signal corps or what not?” Never ming your boy, what can My line of business is dead.” “Well, we might get up an organi zation of some kind to help in case alr raiders—you know there 1s talk that the Germans have submarines that can bring over bombing air. planes, or they could be brought over by swift raiding warships, We were talking about it at my house, and | find that the only thing most civil- | jans think of is flying to the cellars. Now, I don’t want to hide tn any cellar and be tortured by a phono- graph or anything like that at such ‘a* time, I want to be out doing something,” said Mr. Jarr, “There's the auxillary police. We der,” suggested Mr. Rangle “I gotter tdear,” remarked Gus, for ‘all this discussion was taking place in that forum of public debate, the cor. ner cafe, “I gotter idear we should form @ wotunteer fire department to help the real Fire Department. For if them airplanes come along they would drop them fire bombs, I bet. | cher.” “How much should the 4 bem i saan Slavinsky, the glazier, “I could. WE do?” sald Mr. Jarr. “What do you think we might do?" | asked Rafferty, the builder. “I've got lots of time to do most anything. our fair city was bombed by German | could join that and help preserve or- | | | | | | P| | \ | | | | r Family McCardell ng Co, (The New York Brening Worl.) n't run up any ladders, I can climb @ ladder to put in glass, but I couidn’t run up @ ladder and carry down fat ladies that scratch and bite you !n ex- citement, like @ regular fireman does. And anyway my wife would kick if 1) did it, and would say I should stick around to carry her down, because she is as fat as any other lady what lives around here, so I will be treas- “I don't believe in dues,” Bep-| ler, the butcher, “except wha is due| me. Let people pay me what they owe, then maybe I can pay dues, but hot before.” And he looked around |bim darkly, - “Come, Bopler, don't talk shop,” |said Mr. Jarr, soothingly. ever |mind what people owe you. You | wouldn’t think of such a little thing as| | that when the bombs began to fail.” | | “It ain't such a litle thing, some, |Accounts around here,” said Bepler. ‘of, |“And talking about the bums falling, \about putting him in preparation to|Where is that feller Dinkston? He's! 7. americans lost Capt. Lawrence the biggest bum I know.” “Talking about that feller makes me think of what he owes me!" cried }Gus. “You are might, Bopler; tot everybody pay their bills before we! Join anything.” Then, fearing this ht be construed as German propa-, nda, Gus added, weakly: “I don't mean our crowd, of course, So le! |have the war-time fire company, KE wou?" “I'l be treasury and cofect the| dues for the work I do,” said Skavin- | |sky. “I won't have to pay dues my- self, My dues will be permitted by, |a wote of the bodgn.” | “You mean remitted,” | Rang | “Never mind,” sald Mr. Jarr, “there | won't be any dues. Hold up your bands and be sworn in!” ‘This was done, and Mr. Jerr an-| | nounced the war time auxiliary fire) brigade was duly established. | “Now we'll have a drink on it."| said Gus, seeing that business lan- | guished. ¢ “No,” said Mr. Jarr firmly, “Now| we are in the service we cannot buy or be bought any drinks." "By gollies!” cried Gus, “now I have helped to put my business on | the bum by trying to keep bombs off my business sail NEW HORSESHOE WANTED. _ A British road improvement society | has offered a prize for a horseshoe that will minimize the damage done to highways by steel shogs and at the same time give horses safe foot- ing on smooth pavements, + t said Mr, ‘ By Albert Payson Terhune Coprright, 1918, by The Irom Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) No. 16—JOSEPHINE, Empress of the French. HE was a Martinique Creole; pretty, indolent, stupid, Yet, indirectly, she had more to do with the wars glory of France than nearly any other woman in his tory. As you shall see, ¢ Her husband, the worthless Vicomte de Beaa- harnais, had his head cut off during the French Revo- * lution. His wife, Josephine, was left penniless by his death. She attracted the favor of a corrupt poll- ticlan named Barras, who was rising high in the confused turmoil of public affairs that followod the ” revolution, But Josephine was not so young he had been, Her complexion was yellowing and her teeth were growing black. Barras began to tire of her and to look for a chance of getting rid of her. é Then it was that she met a young Corsican officer, down-at-heel, half. . starved, awkward and unused to women. His Corsican name was “Nabu- one Buonaparte.” History knows him as “Napoleon.” He was a soldier ” of fortune in the French Army. And, thus far, his fortune had been bad, At sight Napoleon fell insanely in love with Josephine, who was some years older than himself and who did not love him at all. Napoleon begged her to marry him. Barras at last saw a splendid Napoleon Adores § °PPortunity to get rid of the woman. He strongly ad- dosephine, ; vised her to marry the young Corsican, and he prom. Brrr © ised to help along the latter's future career. Josephine ™ consented. Barras kept his promise to her by Napoleon commander of France's “Army of Italy." To Josephine this seemed a glittering promotion. To people who understood the real state of affairs the position seemed a cruel joke. For the “Army of Italy,” despite its high-sounding title, was a rabile sed, hungry, mutinous ruffians, short of uniforms, guns, powder ana © food—a half-organized mob that had a habit of murdering its own officers and of obeying no one's orders, Napoleon must have known all this. But, in the first glow of wedded bliss, he resolved to perform marvellous deeds for Josephine’s sake and for her greater advancement. He eagerly accepted the command and rushed | away from Paris directly after his wedding to take charge of his new army. | Ho begged Josephine to go along with him. She refused. So he went alone. He used to send her three letters a day from the front, and he said @ prayer every night, kneeling in front.of her portrait. Spurred by love and ambition, he proceeded to turn the mutinous rable into the mightiest fighting machine in all Europe. He led tt to victory after victory. He thrashed Austria. He drove all of France's enemies out of * Italy. He made whirlwind campaigns that annihilated larger and better equipped armies than his own. The down-at-heel Corsican at last had his chance in life—thanks to a woman. And to thas w n he sent the first news of every victory. Meantime, in Paris, Josephine was openty carry- ing on a disgraceful love affair witt! another man—a young officer named Hypolite Charles. Eve knew about the affatr—except her own adoring husband. 7 et When, at last, Napoleon learned of his wife's conduct, he threatened to divorce her. He thought better of it, presently, and let her live on a» Mis wife and ghare in his glory. But from that time his love for her was dead, His career, however, was well launched by this time—the career whose Desinnings had been due to Josephine. Years later, when state reasona made him divoree her for a wife of royal birth, Josephine had the of many maudlin people. You have just seen whether or not she deserved ” that sympathy. . But, worthless or not, {t was through her that the Napoleonte wars had their birth—wars which turned all Europe into an armed camp and whieh changed the history of the world. How Our Torpedo Boats: Got Their Names’ By Henry Collins Brown Covrright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World,) ; The Lawrence in command, almost in tho first ex= | FAMILIAR sight to New York-|Change of shots, The third ofMfeer A ers 4s the monument in Trinity | Made the mistake of helping to carry Churchyard erected to the mem-|C@Pt. Lawrence to the deck below, + ory of Capt. Lawrence, comman- thus ving the crew without an 4 der of the Chesapeake, On the aide | Mcer. of the monolith is carved the never-| It was an old-time hand-to-hand * to-be-forgotten words, “Don’t give up|@ncounter. The British waited for the ship.” Before Capt. Lawrence's|the Americans to come up, which death in the War of 1812 he had won| they lost no time in doing, Once renown by his capture of one ship,| alongside, the battle was fast and two brigs, one schooner and one man-jfurious. The first shots disabled sert- of-war, a record that made him the | ously the stcering wheel of the Chesa- idol of the nation, peake and tore away the spanker and His great fight with the Shannon, a|Jib sheet, Having no head sails, she 38-gun frigate of the British Navy, | 800 pointed up in the wind and lay ‘ commanded by one of its most able|€xposed to a merciless fire from the Captains, was for its day the blood-|enemy. Lawrence was wounded and lest fight ever recorded. More men|his sailing master killed, Thus the were killed and wounded in this| two upon whom the safety of the ves- single action than were lost by both| sel depended were rendered helpless, the French and English fleets at Cape |The next broadside tnflicted the seo- St. Vincent, where forty-two ships|ond and fatal wound on Lawrenee, were engaged, Yet the figures seem | who was then carried below, very small compared with to-day’s| All of the officers, including the standard. On the American side| Captain of marines and sailing mas- sixty-two were killed and ninety-| ter, and every one in authority were’ seven wounded; on the British, forty- | now out of action, Left thus with- three killed and twenty-nine wound- The Man of F: Has His Hour. age ey fectual resistance and in a few mo- ments the colors of the victorious Shannon were flying over her vane quished opponent, Fibor-Lamp Made of Old Table The contest lasted fifteen minutes. and Lieut, Ludlow, first and second BASE SAweD FROM ' ToD 4 TABLE OOD ase was made of the turned, portion of one of the legs was trim S legs of an old table, and almed to an octagonal section, as section from the table top, by|shown, and two of the lower @ ‘ converting them into a floor-lamp|were joined in @ halved joint, ag in. standard, as shown in the illustration |dicated at the left, ‘Tho joint waa from Popular Mechanics, The oc-|siued and fastened with counter. tagonal base was mado by sawing|sunk wire nails. The octagonal part four gectians from a part of the table|of the standard was fastened to the top,’ and joining them carefully in|upper portion by mea glue joints, held by corrugated tacks, | bolt, Sittod tg ht The base ary Sha ade ened to the ndaird. w: was ag shown in the detail, ‘Tho edge of | fiv'ened {0 the standird with screws, the base Was neauy peveuie 1 and scraped, wave cated in the photograph, Tho heavy|papered to a cabinet figih ‘ out officers, the crew made an Inet. | * ( b Y