The evening world. Newspaper, June 18, 1918, Page 16

} rt } ; Tuesday, Ju EDITORIAL PAGE ome ne 18, 1918 ESTABLISHED BY JOJKPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to * Sund*Park How, New York. LPH PULITZER, President, ¢3 Park Row, RATS SHAW Treasurer, Bark Row: JOSEPH P aK, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOOLATED ram coat herrea, Page i etctuaisy sma, ts eS alSMeat aeme pelaaies era LOYALTY AND THRIFT. SE are Loyalty Days, during which the President has appealed to the country to concentrate its attention upon the need of saving labor, material and time for the great business of war. To the call for mdivided loyalty in word and thought to the Nation’s present task and purpose the vast majority of Americans long since responded. Of a emall residue of traitors, plotters and low per cent. Americans, the most are either already imprisoned or closely watched. The kind of patriotism the country is getting down to now is practical patriotiem—the patriotism of systematic saving, planning and pradence upon which power to endure depends. This is the kind of patriotivm which each individual American muet translate into terms of his own personal living, apply to the eonduct of his household and cause to appear on his table, in his family budget and in the disposition of his savings so far as each of these is affected by the epecial demands of war. During the next ten days no one need be at a loss to find a epecific channel for practical patriotism. A great Thrift Campaign began yesterday with the object of inducing Americans old and young to pledge themselves to buy Thrift Stamps regularly. Individuals are to be enrolled in war savings societies which stand for the practice of small, every day economies and the regular investment of money thus saved in Thrift and War Savings Stamps. Fight hundred thousand school children have already been thus organized and will be active workers in the drive. Beginning June 21 the New York War Savings Committee will make a week’s campaign to enroll every man, woman and child in this city as « War Saver. June 28 will be National War Savings Day, when it is hoped the goal of $2,000,000,000 may be reached and passed. Here is something for loyal New Yorkers of both sexes and all ages to prepare for. Pennies are as good as dollars to make a start with. And every saver is saving for himself as well as for Uncle Sam. Loyalty and thrift are close allies. Patriotism in the last analysis is 50 per cent. willing service and 50 per cent. ungradging self-denial. —_—_—_—_—_——_—_— MAN’S OPPORTUNITY. ERE?S a ehance for man to set a noble example to woman by accepting Government regulation. for his waistcoats, pockets and coat-tails in a spirit of cheerful acquiescence. Ne stamping af the foot when the tailor says “no trouser cuff”; ne frowns when his pockets are cut down to only twelve; no cross looks when the favorite double-breasted model is refused. ‘The man who has to go about with only one slit in the back of fie cost when his every aesthetic instinct yearns for two, can and LITZ! ——_. should so carry himself as to compel the admiration of all women— ri even his wife. ‘This is his opportunity to prove what he has always said to ime—and to strengthen her by his own greatness of soul for the moment when Uncle Sam begins to tackle her cherished styles, So far nothing has happened to her beyond the rather alarming Walt imposed upon the futile but commendable efforts of her boots to catch up with her skirts, Will the Government dare, even in the name of war and its @eonomies, boldly to shorten both? eee Letters From the People ‘Wr Bewark Fast Asleep on Goodlas patriotic and as thoroughly dedi- Ronds to city? cated to the winning of the war as ae, sieces 40 tho Bonen Wald any equal number of citizens, in this Newark, so progressive in many rw-|nation. They, themselves, are watch- spects, with a population growing|ing for slackers and disloyalty, and -faster than that of any city in the| they will not permit any one to work country, seemingly is content to re-/among them who has not in his soul main cut off from New York except] enough loyalty to our Government to by one roadway. You approach New-|/make him stand up and do bis duty ark by @ grand concourse over the/as a soldier in the shipyards meadows to run plump against two] 1 also know the management of the miles of cobblestone and car tracks] yhipyards intimately, and I am thor before you reach the main part of the/ oughly convinced that as a body the: city, ond through streets that, to say| will bear comparison with any tae the least, in no wise reflect credit upon | group in this nation for unselfiahneas the city's progress. Newark has miles] joyaity and untiring effort in helping and miles of beautiful streets, but|to win the war. ‘Those men, with the they can be reached by only one road | help of the workers, have performed from New York. Motoring to New-|miracies in the last year. ark is certainly not a pleasure. Are} One neod only point to th. the city authorities aslvep? ‘And inet-} syipys © great ds in Newark Ray which have | Sprung out of the muck swamps by jMagic, and which are already putting ships into the water, There are ship. mis around New York which are 100 per cent, efMcient. ‘The public also knows of the mag- nificent patriotism of the shipwork- road is the only military ast outside of the Staten Island Ferry and road. A fine spe tacle in preparedness! Think of mov- ing heavy artillery over the present road through Newark. WAKE UP, dentally th roud to th Says Shipworke: ve Werformed | ers in their subscription to the Lib- : mi eh ‘? erty Loan and Red Cross Fund. To the Editor o Thr ‘ond $ ee i ter signed “Assistant Foreman, Sbip-|tion of the United States riot ioe yard,” with accusations against the|poard Emergency Fleet Corporation management and men of the ship-|with names, dates and places Im cote Wards in the New York District of so stantioti his charges, I will 8, kuar- antee that the abuses he complains Krave a character that I feel it my Jo, if they exist in any degree nay duty to make some reply ever, will be instantly done away I know these yards intimately, and] With. while in some « there have been|,, Meanwhile, T think it unfortunate You Measure Up to That? aniths, By J.H.Cassel a | Stories By Albert Pa Copyright, 1918, ty The Preas Publishing Co, (The New Tork Evening World), of Spies yson Terhune ‘ No. 33.—P RICE LEWIS, Union Spy in the Civil War, War spy. He had building. lewis NE December afternoon in 1911 the homebound crowds hurrying along lower Manhattan Island were horrified to see a man’s body whiz downward through the enowy air and crash into the strect, dead and mangled, ‘The man was Price Lewis, detective and former Civil escaped death a dozen times in halt~ breadth ways—only to end his own life at last by jumping from the top of a New York skyscrapen in his career as a Pinkerton detective, ‘When the Civil War began he gave his services to the Union Government. Gen. McClellan sent him to gleam information for tho Department of the Ohio, ing himself as an English tourist—he was of British Disguise birth, anyway—Lewis assumed the name and titlejog Lord Tracy, @ veteran of the Crimean War. riage, had bis watch and gold cigar stuck a monocle in his eye and set forth for the Confederate lines south the Ohio River. From one Confederate camp to He hired a travelling cam case engraved with tho Tracy crest, of another he made leisurely progresmy hobnobbing with Southern Generals, telling stories of the Crimea (which he had learned from a book), assuring the South that England sympathized with the rebellion. He made a splendid impression everywhere and was warmly welcomed, tncidentally, he picked up much precious information as to the numbers and disposition of Southern armies and de tails of Confederate forts, When his work was done he made his way safely to the Unton new and sent to Washington the results of his mission, He Learns Plans of South, | His reports of conditions in border States were a@ valuable to our Government that they served tq block the plans of several of these States to secede, It was on the strength of these reports, for example, that Gen. Cox was able to cut off tha Confederate army of Gen. Wise and independent State, Lewis, it was cintmed, was the fi to establish Western Virginia as aw rst Union spy to penetrate the Cone federate lines after the Civil Ware outbreak. On his occasional “rests” inp dent Lincoln's persdnal bodyguard. | Washington he was more than once assigned to the duty of acting as Presie ‘Then came an incident that has been touched on in another article of this series—an incident for which, it 1s sald, Lewis was never able to tore give himself. Timothy Webster, @ daring Union spy, went to Richmond while the war was at its height on special Secret Service work. There he fell sert+ ously ill at a hotel. he get out of Richmond. He could get no word through to Washington nor could ‘The authorities in Washington became worrted about Webster's long gilence. They sent Price Lewis and another spy to Richmond to find aut what had become of him. ‘The two had no trouble {n finding Webster, who still lay eick in his hotel, As they sat talking with the invalid somo Confederates entered the room to see how Webster was getting on. Up to this time the Confederates had believed Webster to be one of their own spies, Now, howover, they, became suspicious of his two strange guests, ‘When the Southerners left the room Webster bade Lewis and the other wee Landlords and Children | By Sophie Irene Loeb. Coprrigt, 1918, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Rvening World), MOTHER writes to me as fol- low ‘t would like to know whether a land-| lord can put out} @ tenant simply Decause sald ten ant has children, | and the landlord claims he wants no more children in the house—| they are too much trouble. | What are wel Americans to do if we are not wanted in apartments on account of our children? | “What is to become of the next generation if we are to be put out of} our homes because we have children| and not dogs? The tenants who bay pets are catered to and the childless tenants are the ones who complain of the children. “Ia ghia a way of decreasing the| futuré generation by making apart- | ment house life so difficult with ehil- dren? Are we Americans who are decent, home-loving, quict be deprived of our rights as citizens? | Does not the future of the Amoric nation depend on these little ones | citizens to| Yes, indeed, the future of American | citizens depends on little ones, The world citizenry ls being depleted ant every country ts making 1 drive in the interest of conserving children, Even ix months before the war in| France they took p' tions to en- courage the care and welfare of chil dren by appropriating ‘several million dollars in a new children’s bureau It is high Ume something were done with landlords im connection with children. It is certainly a war measure if there evor was one; and as mich a law might well be made by which no landlord could exclude any respecta. ble family on account of children. There are certain things in which public welfare comes before private ownership, It 18 a well known fundamental principle that no man's private fmterest. may Interfere with the general welfare of the poople; and lawa are made that not only super. vede these private ririts, but take them away altogether when the ne- ingly, and the common good is main- tained. It is the prime principle in the Con- stitution under which we live. But some landlords seem to go on the theory that they are a little Monro | Doctrine unto themselves; that they may enjoy the privileges of owning Property without allowing the public prerogatives. Often in these columns T have made a plea to landlords in answer to such letters as the above—a plea from the humane point of view-but It ls no longer a time for pleading. Tho rights of the children will be con-| served above that of tho landlords. | The war has hastened matters and Drought about seemingly drastic merly seemed many y ara away verybody. welfare of the mae | Jority rules, and the welfare of the| majority to-day means the children. ‘They are the assets of the nation to| come, and it is our duty to see that! things are bettered “for ourseives | and our posterity.” | Especially may the landlord “sit up| and take notice” these days if he| rststy in his demands for highat| Jients and at the sume time excludes| © little children, The people are going te the situation, and Mr. 1 needs be satistied w on the basis of this 5 other hand, the look inte fiord will @ little less | " iefactor, she who does not wa't for laws, but welcomes children than expels He who not only mukes way for them, but makes that way easier and better, is ¢ nly the better eitigeb. > |First Steamer Crossed Atlantic 99 Years Ago D first vessel fitted with steam engines to cromjthe Atlantic was the Savannah, which reached Liverpool ninety-nine years ayo. ‘The Savannah, ip of 850 tons, had sailed fr Georgia city for which she was named on May %, 181% the passage requiring |nearly | twenty-seven days, Most Ue voyuge Was imide under sail, the coal pply having been exe hausted after ten days at sea, Six |years later the steaiship Enterprise | went from Falmouth, Kngland, to the Hast Indies, the first voyage of the | cessity arises, that statements of such general aud dar clrew! abi these conditions have grown ut of the terrible necessity for haste ‘The men of the shipyards not only in this district, but throughout the owumiry Lanch ws a WOIG, are W-cay tion when the upon reality, CHARLES A. EATON, Head of National rvice Section U, 8. Shippmg Board Emergency Pleo) Corpurmiiou, do not rest A man can only hold property as ing character should be given ‘long as the public welfare is not im- | 1N3%, paired. As soon as it is declared that he, by his action, interferes with the ¢® general welfare of the people, his so Ounibod wily Shebe be mer ed evade kind ever made. HKegular navigation | of the ocean between Europe and America was commenced in June, when the st Western crossed ven days, Th wnar first steamer, the ica, a gide- wheeler, began service to ‘Halifax ang besive ie idk, | Stamps with the mon Secret Service erners came in. man escape at once. Before they could do so more South ‘One of them—who had lived in Washington—recognised | Lewis, All three of the Union men were arrested. Lewis and his assistant were prevailed on to save thelr own Ives by giving evidence against Webster—who was hanged on the strength of thetr testimony. He Turns Witness ‘Against Comrade. o before he was ‘Lewis was then locked up in a Confederate war prison, whers he remained for seventeen month allowed to return to Washington, In later years Lewis ran a detective agency of bis own. nsion. “ His application was rejected. But he grew old and poor, and at last applied for a Government, A few hours later he kifled himself, The Jarr Family |Lucile the Waitress By Roy L. Copyright, 1918, by The Preas Publishing “ HAT do you think of this?” W asked Mr. Jarr, “No more limes are being imported! A fellow can't have a rickey unless he takes a lemon in it, A rickey without a lime isn't the real thing. Sherman was right!” “I should worry about the lime be- coming extinct,” said Jenkins, the sookkeoper, who lives in the suburbs. “The whitewashing variety 1s plentt- cul, I know, because I kalsomined my ellar last Saturday afternoon on my balf-day off.” “Gee, you do have a good timo on your half-holidays out there in East Malaria among the bing and bens jand trees and grass and fresh alr— whitewashing the cellar!” said Mr, statutes, the enactment of which for-| Jarr, “But haven't you any culture— | Market.” I don't mean kultur? Don't you care | ‘There is no time to-day to satisty) for a real rickey, nature's best hot-| limes in Lima were obtainaD! weather gift to man?” i} “Nope,” replied Jenkins; “the high | cost of drinking bids me pause.” “Gimme a match, then?” sald Mr, Ja ve Jenkins, stopped smoking,” replied “On account of the scarcity of foodstuffs, tobacco has gone up 80 | high that five-cent cigars are now ten, and ten-cent elgars are fifteen. So [ don't carry any matches.” “Don't you even smoke a pipe any more?” asked Mr. Jarr. “No,” replied the virtuous Jenkins, “T have cut all that out and buy Thrift “I think you've stopped smoking a pipe for pure stinginess,” said Mr, Jarr with charming frankness. “You aro like the Scotchman who stopped amok- ing becausg/ when he smoked his own tobacco It was expensive, and when he smoked other people's he filled his pipe so full 1t wouldn't draw, and he got no comfort out of it” “Think what you Ifke,” said Jenkins, “T'm a better man than you are, Gunga Din. I'm a patriot, Iam! In times like these you are complaining about the scarcity of limes and the dearth of rickeys, while I buy ‘Thrift Stamps ia my country’s time of trial.” | “You have your country’s interest at | heart, so to speak,” said Mr, Jarr, “the interest on the ‘Thrift Stamps. And you need not swell up about being @ pa. triot on percentage.” “I am sacrificing all such luxuries as smoking and drinking, fust tho same, which Is more than you are doing!" retorted Jenkins. “We pook- keepers are men of plain drinking and high ving—no, I mean high thinking | and plain living, And we can be| heroic in the time of danger too. Some ‘of the best soldiers England had wero i McCardell 1% Co, (The New York Evening Work’), bookkeepers and clerks from London And I read in the paper the other day how a bookkeeper and accountant out on the Arizona deserts, with a party | Lucile the Waitress, as she handed of mining men, saved them from dy-|the Friendly Patron the bill of fare. ing from thirst when their automobile broke down a hundred miles froin water on those arid plains.” “How?” asked Mr. Jarr, “Tapped one of the springs on the car?” “No,” said Jenkins scornfully, “he had @ fountain pen with him.” “Can't see the point to the fountain} about shoes. Now less go on with ben,” sneered Mr. Jarr. “You may not be a good fumigator or trrigator either; you are not even ® good prevaricator. You only #ay) You don’t care for @ rickey becaus You know there isn’t @ lime in the | “I tell you I don't care if all the} as | | serted the virtuous Jenkins. “Every | time J feel thirsty 1 take a drink of water and buy @ Thrift Stamp. Be-| % I never did caro for fruit or vegetables in liquid refreshments.” “I saw some fresh, crisp mint In @ bow! of cracked ico on the bar iu Tom's | place when I stepped in to-day to see bat thme it was,” remarked Mr. Jarr. | “Do you mean to tell me you would) refuse to take a mint Julep, made in #) silver cup, with the frost om the cup, as ‘tom knows how to make them in real Kentucky style? Do you mean to tell me, ‘Thrift Stamps or no Thrift Stamps, you Would refuse to join me if 1 told you this hot day that I would treat you to a genuine Kentucky mint julep, made Ln @ silver cup, if you came with me?” “Why, no,” said Jenkins, weakening. “It you'll lead me to one I'll give you | a Thrift Stamp!” enh WISHED LESS APPETITE, | ISS BDNA G, HBNRY, social | service worker, tells a story of | the unusual ailment of a negro Woman she once met in a local hos- pital, relates the Chicago News, The wotnan, one of unusually large pro-| portions, was seated on a frail little bench outside her ward and her face | bore only too plainly the marks of her evident distress, | “What's the matter?” asked, “Law, miss, the doctor didn't leave | me any medicine,” was the reply, “Didn't leave you any medicine?” | “Well, yes; but 1 want some for my appetite.” she was “Isn't your appetite all right?” “Law, yes,” cam he answer, “It's too good. | want some medicine to| cut It down, 1 cgn't afford such an appetite with the price af food so Wigh” By Bide Coryright, 19 66QXHOES are an infinite Tittle S thing when you come to thirk of them, ain't they?” asked| “But they're very necessary,” he eplied. “Ob, sure!” she went on, "“They) isn’t any of us what wants to pitty- pat about in back-to-nature feet. But I wasn't thinking of that. I tad another idea in my cognomen tbe story. “They was a fellow come in here} this morning and sets down look- ing mournful. He looked like he'd been kissed by a torpedo or some other subterfuge of war and, natur- ally, me being always of the light- hearted kind, wonders internally what's up. When I approach him to do the honors I just grin and say: ‘'Twas a dark and stormy night." He gets me and his frown looks like it grows worse, “ ‘Gimme two boiled eggs,’ he says. “One boiled on one side and the other on the other, I persumea’ I reply. It was meant as a mere gaiety, but he ain't in the funny mood by a large sight. He looks dreamy and says: “Three minutes!’ “That means the old cook's got| to sing “Everybody's Doin’ It” once,’ fd says, ‘It takes him just three min-| *' utes." “It was another mere gaiety, but it |< don't get a look in with the gloomy guy. He just says, ‘Fix it up to suit yourself,’ and relapses into a condi- tlon of more quietude, That gets my goat a little, because when it comes to curiosity I'm little Nemo off the yacht. I give him @ rather hatred | says. Dudley ty The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), look and say, ‘What's the matter witty you—got the Seventh Avenue blues this morning?’ “*I don't feel any too good, he says, “‘Well, don't be spreading the troue blesome atmosphere about here,’ ‘We got enough worrles about the food and its antics without having you in here conjourning with old Hara Luck like you been doing. Smile and the hash house grins with you; weep and you lose your popularity.’ “He just studies a minute and says¢ ‘Like to look at shoes” “'Oh, ho!’ I shoot at him. ‘So you're a shoo salesman, ch? Well, I got my Dedal extermities pretty well clothed, So you can't rope me into any silvers plated bargains,’ “‘I never sold a shoo tn my Ife," he so ‘But I was thinking of one? “Well, sir, I'm all mixed up about that man, He seems to be talking ber adventure and yet, maybe not, I'm beginning to think he's « nuttiag when it happens. And believe me, Uncle, little Lucile gets hers, fellow fishes from his side sate pocket & Hay, dirty shoe that was cr ite, It's shows it to me, bie esi dated = “"Ever put one on a kidy “Well, you could up like a jiffy, ‘No! | couldn't say ‘anything more, ‘My kid wor he Roem 1 ere T atand Ike & enough to ask aby more about it ie back into his sclemnie and {ike he's dreaming again Bet your eggs,’ Wke, “And I'd, H*' + Saya, quieg “That's 1 the story,” conetaai point, no Plot, aataded ing, but, somehow ‘or other, him eee ing that dirty little shoe out Pain pocket after me being wo hard om me is ge 0 atic: 1 felne to stick in my mind all ny Lucile. pec Seal all ea What Your Thrift Stamps Will Buy For Soldiers of United States NB Thrift Stamp bays one waist O belt or one hat cord, two pairs | of shoelaces and four jdenti- fication tagy. wo Thrift Stamps buy one trench tool. Three Thrift Stamps buy one pair of woollen gloves, Four Thrift Stamps buy one bed- sack, and 11 cents over, or one pair of canvas leggings, Five Thrift Stamps buy one bayo- net scabbard. Six Thrift Stamps buy a summer undershirt or,woollen stockings, nrift Stamps buy a service hat, “wight ‘Thrift Stamps leave 15 cents lacking to buy & bayonet, Amy MPS buy & ehele el helmet. ft Stamps Twelve Thritt s ter tent or one Fourteen Th poncho, Fifteen ‘Thritt st ter undershirt or One War §. cartridge belt, One War Savings and o War Savings stam woollen shirt or 0. -D, brand Three War Savings s two pairs of shoes orn SitmPs bug, Four War Savings Stamps tee D. coats or woollen plankere PUY Oe Five War Savings st rif buy @ amMDS buy a wing undergarments’ ‘avings Stamp buys @ PS bu: he? ® ; amps buy @ hirty-eleht War Savin, equip @ soldier completelyy S™pe Wet Geriugs aud pow cemmtoe £ |