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EDITORIAL PA Thufsday, June 20, | Womenin War Md By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), f No. 17—JOAN OF ARC, the Martyr-Maid of France. — PEASANT GIRL, simple of dress, bronzed of face, stand fast of eye, was conducted into the crowded throme room of the Blois palace. The room was full of more or less gayly attired) courtiers, On the throne sat a handsome man, resplend- ent in robes of gold cloth and with a coronet on his brow. The highest nobles of Fratice stood about him In attitudes of reverenci The peasant girl passed through a double line of men and women, all of whom were eying her Im amused curiosity, But after a single careless glance she paid no further heed to the gorgeous figure on the throne, Instead, she turned her back upon him and walke@ quickly to a far corner of the great room. There sh¢ |} dropped upon her knees in front of a shabbily dressed youth who was | standing there, half hidden in the shado | From the crowd of courtiers went up a gasp of amazement that was | tinged with awe. For the man on the throne was a mere nobody who liad | been dressed in the robes of the young King of France, while the shabby | youth was the King himself—the King whom this peasant girl had come | thither to week. She had never before seen him, and her recognition of him seemed | scarce less than a miracle, ‘Thus did Joan of Arce begin her immortal career—by turning a throng’ of gay scoffers into acared believers. France was at its last gasp. England had conquered {t and was crush- s Your Name Written There? «srt iy Biorld, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. id “Rubiseed Dasty Except the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 4 Bunt OL how. New Tork. g :. J. ANGUS titk rer, 63 Park WV, ‘Treasui JOSEPH PULITZEU, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park ~ MEMRER OF THE ASSOOCIATET PRPRS, | eal Sree reich ce ee CAL © lhe heaien atlllhnedlaanlinal nlled Else amare VOLUME 58...... 0. 20,757 | I ° “| P uncer tetteas, By J. H. Cassel ing # $17,320,000 FOR THE B. R. T. NNOUNCEMENT from Washington that the War Finance, A Corporation has approved a direct loan of $17,320,000 to the! B. R. T. was certain to be received in this city with lively! interest on both sides of the Kast River. Joy in the B. R. T. offices would be quickly matched by hope. im the hearts of thousands of suffering strap hangers on B. R. 'T. trains and trolleys were it not that the loan is to be used to help meet 4 $57,000,000 note issue which falls due July 1. , | © It has come to be generally understood that when the B. R. T., has persistently evaded orders of the Public Service Commission requiring it to add to the number of its cars, straighten out its! transfer system, improve its connections and otherwise better its) ‘ice, allowances must be made for its financial struggles to over- @ome the consequences of past mismanagement. . Here, however, is substantial help for the B, R. T.—817,320,000/ “first aid”—loaned, it is to be hoped, at least without leaving the; te 4 {ng out its very life, The English were at Paris, the capital. The English eempany further ground for demanding six-cent fares. | were besieging Oricans, the last powerful French: j " > Even in ite new role of open-handed protector of railroads and| i iagerep ar sere | ibe ren and vested don to capture it, The. : . ‘ on jour of Peri Snglish were everywhere, [ transit corporations, the Government should hardly lend millions of} | } tor Pints, i The French King Charles was a lazy incom- : ‘the public money to a company like the B. R. T. without an express} enn Detent, selfish and weak. He had not even taken 3: i ‘ the trouble to go through a coronation ceremony ; téndition that some benefit therefrom shal) accrue to the public. after his father’s doath. So, while he was sole monarch of the shattered : a What is expected of the B. R. T. in the present case? jMaedom, he had never been crowned. With his ragtag court Charles idled w Here“ls matter with which to relieve weary hours spent on its ie canapnpreniiens eee ae ee oe eee ee limes in hopeful speculation. a ‘Thanks to heavy rains and melting snow tn the mountains, yo te flooded Piuve helps to deliver attacking Austrians into the bands of the Italian arnsies. j ‘The battles at this stage are more than ever of the rivers, The Oise, the Marne, the Piave--great actions, great names. May they herald the Retreat Across the Rhine, + A GERMAN THREAT. ARIS declines to ehudder at German predictions of a closer bombardment of the city. ; To make good the bluff, the Germans must trundle their guns twenty miles nearer—and the going is bad. So bad that th: In the village of Domremy lived Joan of Arc, a poor farmer's daughter. While she was guarding her father’s sheep in the fields she heard angel voices bidding her find a sacred sword, long since buried, and go to the | defense of her country, | The voices told her to present herself to the King, at Blols, and demand {from him permission to lead France's armies to the rellef of the besieged city of Orleans; and Joan obeyed. Finding the sword, and Interesting some minor offfsials in her cause, |she secured audience with the King. So imprefsed was Charles by her | recognition of him he granted her request. At the head of an army of men who believed she was gcuided by Heaven | the hero-girl advanced upon Orleans, After a series of desperate battles she dispersed and drove away the besieging English army. | This peasant maid, with no experience in war, had defeated and out- | generalled the foremost army leaders of the age. Small wonder the French looked on her as a saint! Small wonder, too, that France's dy.ng national spirit fared up into new life! Orleans saved and Charles crowned, Joan declared her heavenly mis. sion was accomplished. Refusing all honors and «a a '. | Barnes rewards, she begged the King’s leave to go buck t | i . va? , Hero Maid Refuses $ her father's hut. | Jatest German drive stopped dead after only three days’ desperate j All Menere. i But Charles insisted she remain at the head af bucking at the barriers, The Germans have not yet got back the peyrr s his armies and clear all France of the English foe Sorely against her will Joan obeyed the royal order. But she felt her divino inspiration had departed and that she wes now no more than a mortal woman. Soon afterward, in battle, she was wounded and was captured by the English, Charles, whose throne and whose kingdom she had saved, would not raise a hand to help her. The English denounced her as a witch and she was burned at the stake, ~ Thus died Joan of Arc, holy martyr-maid and white-souled patriot But, deserted though she was, she did not die in vain, For the now spirit { she had kindled in heartenéd French lived on after her martyrdom, and within a fow years they hid driven the invaders completely out of thelr country and had regained their freedom—thanks to one inspired woman, | The Office Force By Bide Dudley ‘Dteath that was punched out of them in the Battle of the Oiae, Nevertheless Paria, though refusing to tremble, calmly prepares iteelf for every possibility. That the Germans would not seize the firet chance to drop more ehells into Puris from any practicable Tange is, of course, unthinkable. Indiscriminate slaughter of non vombatants, killing and mangling of women and children, ruthless flestruction of monuments and works of art that the whole civilized world has cherished—these long since revealed themselves as every day practices in the German plan of warfare. «_ The people of Paris have proved that they are superbly eapabl: of mecting any emergency. In thé case of an intense bombardment they will take care of themselves and do all that can be done for their beloved city. ‘ The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Publishing Ov, (Tbe New York Krening World,) By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ‘Man Who Keeps His igi Copyright, 1918, by the Pre * © The German mind no doubt regretfully recognizes the certainty that priceless trearures of the Louvre, the Luxembourg and the Biblio his word." These are the his skill won't stand him in good shaped affair of wetallic gray Il chaperone the party, #0 I had ¢¢™PvHE boys in France are huving | minutes! Then wo'd have a new of- fheqne Nationale were long ago removed to places of safety, words of suc-|stead in view of the fact that his that resembled a land submarine better ride in front,” suggested the i he He apes Lakanto a Papi, lajla ah the subiane® 4 But it Md be Aye ta havertie : ‘ cessful man word ts worth littl. You have to add | if there is any such animal, As Mr, newcomer with merry maliciousness. ball," said Popple, Ship-| | “Ploase, let's change the subject, would be something to have the noble towaga of Notre whose work 18) to it or discount 4t. |Jurr looked at it from the front win-| At this the Cackleberry sisters ping Clerk, looking up from a letter | came from Spooner, “My sister, over Dame, the Pantheon, Garnier’s matchicss Opera, the Invalides and weil known, “| On the other hand, I know a man, dow he thought it might be a war Sank all their differences and formed he had been reading. “Jimmy Hop-| in wark, sent me a pie by pidrcel its august Tomb, the Are de Triomphe, the Theatre Fra is, Sai Sulpice and a hundred other beautiful and famous structures expos to a more terrible rain of German shells—even if the German aim could not have the accuracy that battered Rheims and its great church to ruins, The German war lords would make German prospects no bette: is the man who keeps eet Ne most important man to- da wish you would | write an article, about it" he! said, “because never in the his- tory of the world has a man's word proved so He has made money, Wut he ts belt ; to make mistakes {n his calculations | R. ALFRED BULLWINKLE'S found out, He is a skilful man, bu | smart roadster wa. an egs- tank. It was studded with nut or rivet heads like a raliroad bridge and was dou tless bomb-proof, The children of the neighborhood greatly enjoyed its presence at Mr. Jarr’s door, The boys wero doing slides for life off the sloping metallic a plumber, who is always in demand. He Is a very modest individual, and when he gives an estimate on a job you can “bank” on it; and when he makes a contract he sticks to it, Several times I have known this man and to lose money on a contract; but dor in her own car, driven by her new Japanese chauffeur, a defensive alliance against the beau- per, Who ts over there, writes me he snatching the young matron. is leftfelder for one team, In a | “No, you sit in the back, Mrs, game about 4 month agu he was burt | Smith," said Miss Irene Cackleberry, sliding to second.” it's more comfortable for older peo-| ‘Guess they took him to the sec- ple.” ond base hospital, didn’t they?’ asked Bobbie, the Office Boy, grin- 8, my dear, but you know what the dust will do to your complexion Coysright, 19:8 by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), post. Oh, it was a bird!" “Ple—bird?” chuckled Bobbie, must ‘a’ been @ magpie.” Miss Primm swung around in her chair and faced the bookkeeper. “There!” she said. “Now you have it brought home to you, Why defend |such a little tdiot? Wouldn't {t be a fret! {t does now. h with It Just th Back And the [ttle wise: DPOMENE | eee Theres coved Mrs, Mude| ie, ‘1 day with! S004 thing If Mr, Snooks had to sit i nhe nc ats 5 effective he goes through with It Just the same, a Kted Cross dolls to ha: » | ! "ct . -| “You're starting early to-day with! Mr. Bnooks ha Lod bombarding Paris, 7 he Fri neh morale is proof against such} “on account of the war there ts 4) without any clamoring about it. Hela toon * i acd ee cane re. |Tidge-Smith bitingly, By this she your cheap jokes, @ren't you, Bob-|@hroush some of those jokes’ shocks. As for the Allies of France, further barbarous destruction |*Portage of so many, many things that goog this in order to keep the conf-| garded it curiously and wondered | Meant that if Miss Irene Cackleberry joo" asked Miss Primm, Private| Wouldn't tt?” wrought by German bombs and shells in Paris could only increase the| (nx. use impnaae to arue dence that is reposed in him, how much {t cost, elther cash or in- | *ttempted to remove the dust her secretary to the Boss, “Aren't you! “i Presume it would," admitted demand for grim reprisals. And not the least eager among the avengers of the Frene Government for the use of the Navy and later condemned as anfit has come within the last few duys as a reminder that in the matter of these huge food orders for the Nation's fighters, control of sources and supervision of private pur surety of securing the necessary co- ©, ration in this connect!on, to way, whether they really do what they say Uy will do, To me it is the) biggest asset a man can have, “1 would much prefer a beginner who | jexpect the other person to pay. Such ‘The great demand of the day !s for stalments, the reliable man. I know many peo- Miss Irene Cackleberry was !n the It is always something that they fortably, kK had nemlected to do for which they |>¢ Dlaced, most uncomfortably, like jtwin Jacks-in-the-boa, people need hard and fast rules, They Beside Miss Irene Cackleberry on complexton would come off with It! ioe to tell us the new one xbout Mrs, Mudridge-Smith, as a rich old) i144 q chicken crosses the road?” solved to be the last lady, with all As Mrs, Jarr ‘listen to Bobbio's alleged wit for shed the course of more or less true | about an hour,” soapied the Private ve to run smooth, except for an en-/| Secretary. ‘Tl bet he'd fire the vious sister’s interference, she took | young man.” | the distinetion implies, Spooner, quietly. | The door of the Boss's private officu { sede h cap ple who make agreoments to do things | Man's bride, used an expensive com-| "x44 replied Bobble, not a bit| "ew open and Mr. Snooks came out ital would be thousands of young Americans, many of whom have|: Rent h ae ad Arontite In ® mupernclal wey. They do not g0 eee ices ines ar the | eee bi) eee eae came «| sone “but I got another one about | ee moe he me : P. by |. Miss Gladys Cackle! y ” 8, sir!” replied the bi Yately seen its glories and felt its welcome for the first time. for FOU Sun tem tall down’ ed it, Hear Maaice tater cee costly roadster that Mis Cacklc- | ner dear sister's ald, "Oh, wo don't|® little aera lenient tho) “What about these Jokes you'r pi q « ¢ ¢ bated There is nothing 80 responsible for oe aaeiilae to the burdon of | Derry: who was in a reclining position, | mind washing our face, you know,” “Tell it, "8 8 le, iiwasatichnatie cut nies a the troubles of everyday as the fel- 1 Mh = 1 the other | !9oked like a modern reproduction of | she said, Blond Steno! |e wny—nothing, sir!" News that all stockyards in the country are to be put low who fails to deliver what ho jas |thelr own carelessnoss, and the other) Vang Recamior in the famous! ‘Thig was to imply that Mrs, Mua.| “Skeered to ™~ 8, alr! bu fellow is always the sufferer, ‘The ox- This was to imply » Mu vy at ‘You ought to hear them, ai . under Federal license is welcome. Testimony presented before agreed to do by word or deed, cuses are always: “Well, I didn't|/Drnt It would appear that a trap- | ridge.smith did. | “why? 11 it a ‘oheop’ | 800ks,” gaid Miss Primm. 4 r : the Federal Trade Commission tending to show that hundreds “Whenever 1 hiro men the frat thing [000 Om AAS calculated on (door could be ralscd In tho after-) Mra Jarr arrived down on the|, “Miss Primm might call it a ‘cheop’) “Nts AN lat Bria f, of thousands of pounds of mouldy ham wero delivered to the T try to find out about them 19 whothe: {tun when 1 looked into ft and" {deck of this land U-.51, making @| stroet at this juncture, having re- | soke i\Bohisie, ‘and tall ecme:ar the: ia 4 they live up to their contract—that is | | manhole in which two people could “I wish Mr. Snooks had to sit and ' hem to me, Bobbie went Into the Boss's room and the door was closed. The rest of the office force grinned. “He'll catch it now,” ald Miss veyors cannot trict, . should be made to pay even at a sac- | the front seat, young Mr. Bullwinkle, Primm,’ Five minutes late: he toast ibe Peal can do to keeps his word to me ai any coat liiice, ‘The next thine, then, they |the genius of the machine, was lying | command of the situation and drew| “Now, now!" came from Spooner, t.4 peared, ater Bean - protect thelr meat and rather than one of brains who ts care-|{\\ make foolish mistakes ana(so far back with the levers at hand|the vampire young matron into the|the Bookkeeper. “Don't be too hard) '“1P0°OIN other food supplies, is the least tt can do for the men who are less about his promises. Many people Popple, “What did - fighting for {ts socurity. ,;.Letters People From \are prone to prate about what they can do and promise to do it, yet never do it, “If this human trait could be over- lightly go into contracts, If you want| that it appeared as though he were to take @ chance you have no right to take it at somebody's else expenso. You should pay the bill, It is worth while, There is nothing | air. ‘This was the evening that young | Mr. Bullwinkle was to take bis flance preparing to take a siesta in the open | tehway at the back with her, on the boy. He really has a sense of Mr, Jarr was “to stay behind” to/numor, The other day ho told me watch the house, although Mrs, Jarr| that a hen wasn’t a hen at night be- justly suspected he would do 90 from|cause then she 1s a rooster, Now Gus's cafe on the corner. | jhe do? | “I told him ten,” said Robbie, “aud ‘he's goin’ to use ‘em all to-night in his |speech at the Hardware Dealers’ dine | ner." Werm Praise for Evening World cot a jail sentence. 1 r : | " " take ove: - {come everything Would go sinoother ” y a i The car started off and tts wire) “What a fowl mouthed = lad! if Le Comte “Little Mary Mixup.” Portunity I have to praise good work | for everybody. I wish It could be tm. |/iK0 the old adage that “A man's wopd| and a few of hor bitterest friends cut | | oOo, San t of insul Mxled Popple. —-Misn Prinm| The First Game La Tobe Kaiter of The Rvening World: of tho cartoonists and likewise do 1| pre, RO aeka caren cefon,, {Should ba as good as his bond.” to his model farm to give them an| Wheels and general aspect of insult- | chuckle opple. | \ w. teacher of the poune and ei- take | every opbertanity ta lneaneon pretenl La jedi to ES rtorm!” if you have given your word stand! igea of the hardships of military iifo | 0% opulence 80 aroused the animoaity | laughed. | HB first game law for the pro- tm my capacity of teacher of | of ohustic wid Cihear ere, wie, Reunca Sage “i i ne rest by it Like @ soldier and bear the cost. | py showing them the portable dug. ° the bicycle policemen that they) s«pnat's a good one, Mr: Popple,"| tection of wild entmals and arts, 1am often pained | sincerely yours, | 1 <RMAN VUIL- LEUMIBR BUCHER, Ph. Dp. Martin Greew's W. ‘To the bilitor of The Evening World Where was Martin Green, your war Letterr, {France in The Evening World are the 1} clearest und most interesting of any Published iu any daily paper in New York or anywhere elee. I never aaw the man, but I never mis reading his you success in|1etters in The Evening World. They provide simple and| re right to the point, G. T. W, New York Eve-| Binghamton, ‘There i8 wisdom in this wan'y words |The great fault that is found wit) | workers to-day ts inaoility or unwill- sults, but when it is all sifted down it Is because they have failed to do some- thing they have agresd to do. on building hovses. The cost is us- ually double the price that he sets Mr. Green is a native of Chicag: w Who Must Reg He 1# Josing his customers daily anc |woon he won't have any. Always, his \ingness to fulfil their part of a con-| {1 know @ man who gives estimatos | | outs he had thought up out of his own head. There was only room in front for two people comfortably, so M | SO SOON FORGOTTEN, | HUY had quarrelled bitterly, and| I for a month not a word passed “Kindly return my photograph. 1) x5. yutwinkle. Already Gave it to you in 4 moment of girlish | aaee girls were waging a gestury |folly, and now regret I was so| 0" t, punctured by Merce cibow oige {ur " 2 | Gght, pup F houghtless i such a matter, because it was utterly impossible tur She imagined that to part with her | 28°" hree to recline, and if oro ¢ photograph would be so painful je: threat “ p painful thas in a smart roadste, one the young man would repent and re- | Rot recline turn to her; but she got a severe | looks so normal that one might as shock when a bulky parcel arrived, 11. | well be riding in an ordinary auto. the two instinetively pursued it on sight. But! .y said, “It's refreshing to hear a such was the land submarine's speed gogq joke now and then.” that they failed to overtake it or even | wpiuni sneered Bobbie get its number, But its starting place| sorings an old one you laugh. You “Don't you ever say euch I am in love with no- screamed. ja thing again, Mr, Jarr accepted the deputy police) “won, ain't that what T sata?” de- luiy with pleasure, He knew youns! .. v4ed’ the boy. Bullwinkle was an old offender, and|'"y/ook a’ here, kid!” said Popple. the Magistrate would give Lim his! isng you mean to call me nobody? I'll ‘cholee of enlisting in the War Tank | give you a swift kick, And don’t call Service or going up for the duration] FY". 0) ” my you I'm Mr. Popple. “the fish-faced bird in the wray oanane ’ ‘ | birds was enacted in 1068 by | William the Conqueror, This decree “If Pop|of the Norman king awas called a forest law, but its principal purpose | was the preservation of game. "hor: ’ | een m. 4 one of the ee ” between them. Then th 5, ¢ esoly os a been marked, an must be in love with that guy. PA pota ah UipopidL correspondent, born and what na-| tract. They will squirm every way to! wrote 1 BIEL Giaays Cackleberry resolved to share | wheel sleuths rode around to Cus's| At PY Mi Paced ss | cba at property was made the tonality iy he? His letters trom | make themacives blameless of bad re. the seat with her sister and young} y),co and gave Mr. Jarr a summons 7 ing or disablidg any jkind of wild beast, while the la: of a stag, buck or bear, if convicted, had his eyes put out, These laws, of jcourse, applied only to the masses, jsince the royalty and nobility were jPermitted to kill ax much as they | pleas Tn fact, the principal pur- pose of the pioneer game law was to | provide sport for the faw, The clergy | prot vigorously Nagainst tho | amelioration of these laws by Heary To the Kaitur uf Tho Prening World e ade: which Was & Rol sile-even a lowly flivver, of the war, “Now, now!" said pooner, “The| AR fiat oe ny Be 9.3 Freed World patrons have added this or added! "1 rogrety” it ran, “that at this late | MObHE-* “ a | Now, 1 bald efit rhe tr i barilamentary pean vou nfora: me that, and they are his excuses for in-jdate 1 am unable’ to pick ont your! ‘That dashing young matron, Clara SHAMPOOING MADE EASY. | boy _means r i ingland was parsed tn lap Austrian, Hungarian, ing the price, The add rhotograph. » However, 1 send ‘you dge-Smith, was to be of (h Ap aluminum drain board to extend) + glad Mr. Bopple called him | (me laws in America have becotme Polish-Austrian wom'n have to cham ne F ntire dollectio 1 you | Muar i tand las beon y Miss P “Oh, if Me | Bcreasingly strict of late years, but ister av well ay German women! never ja proportion io what he has le \ a al inne - bray eae bh party, and of course she beld it up a ° hal f + Washstand has beon! down da 9 h, 1 aA ape adopted tow taiortetmens baht or a Pe MOF Ad POs 1 : vented to enable a barbé My nooks only bad to sit In here and} man cles “ 8. FOX. agreed to do. turn the rest to mo by express at my | ne as possible by being late at the ition a shampoo without the latter 3" Bo te ena ® an | many species, notably” the buttulo, » This man ia alWaya ta bob water, expense,’ uiren = wendosvous, arriving 14 Breas spleds joaving bis seale ’ Mas listep tg Bobbiew awful Jokes for ten | from ulus complels exunetion, Reantt