The evening world. Newspaper, June 27, 1918, Page 18

we & % } sore atta EDITORI —_—_—_—_— AL PAGE | | Thursday, June 27, 1918 The Eaeiig ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZE Daily Exce y by the Press Publishing Company, ot ioe 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Pr nt, 63 Park Row. J.pANGUS SHAW, ‘Tre W. JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr. § MEMRER OF THY ASSOCIATED PRESS. 1) news dewratcties Amoctated Pree is exctsively entitied to the use for remblication of a oat eee ee SS i ee od tie al neo poblaherwn Nos. VOLUME 58...... that cleared the last Germans out of Belleau Wood. A “brillian BELLEAU WOOD. A MERICANS may well be proud of the kind of fighting operation” the French official report calls it Upwards of 350 prisoners were taken and from these came admir ing (estimony to the overpowering energy of the American attack and the fierceness shown by individual American fighters fn hand-to-hand encounter among the boulders and shell holes, The American artil lery did its thirteen-hour preliminary job with terrific effect Altogether there is by this time plenty to show why Gen Pershing is confident he has enough of the stuff that first-class armic are made of to warrant using it more and more in all-American units instead of brigading it with French and British. Tt was only a year yesterday since the first American division landed in France. Experienced army officers assumed then that it would take months of training to prepare successively arriving troops for even their first trial at the front. Yet to-day, out of 900,000 American soldiers already in France, between 65 and 70 per cent., on the authority of Secretary Baker are combat troops. The account they have given of themselves—a' Cantigny, Tauglonne, Veuilly Wood, Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood ~—has been extraordinary. Americans at home are full of pride and enthusiasm. The Allies. have taken a new lease of energy and confidence. No wonder a depressed German public is pondering the German Foreign Secretary's warning that the end will not be as early or as, easy as Germans had been led to believe and indeed “can hardly be expected through military decisions alone. No wonder Berlin is busy concocting lies abont the fighting qual ities of the Americans. The truth is too gloomy to be permitted to crosa the Rhine. — + PROTECT GAS REBATES. | FUND of $267,000 deposited with the Empire ‘Trust Company, A represents the difference between an eighty-cent gas rate! and the ninety-five-cent rate which Kings County gas con- sumers have been paying the Kings County Lighting Company on the understanding that this difference shall be refunded if Referee Charles E. Hughes decides the cighty-cent rate to be constitutional and valid. Claiming that it is unable to borrow on favorable terms money, badly needed for construetion work in its territory, the Kings County Lighting Company has applied to the court for permission to take! this $267,000 refund deposit and use it in any way it wees fit— without puttiug up any sabstitate security. Obviously such permission would be in the highest degree unjust to consumers who have been paying the higher rate and who are entitled to full protection until the question as to the validity of eighty-cent gas is settled. In the view of the Public Service Commission, the court has no| discretion to grant such permission without express guarantees that. the company will replace the deposit with “substantial and equiva- lent” security. Why the company should expect to be allowed to act otherwise, why it should not be ready to deposit bonds in place of the cash, are questions hard to answer, unless it be assumed that the attitude of a gas corporation toward the public hereabout can never rise to the level. ‘ quite ++ CALLED TO PRODUCTIVE WORK. MONG the 40,000 New York men in Classes 2, 3 and 4 of the draft, who after next Monday must be reclassified for pro- ductive jobs, are sure to be many who can make the neces- sary change of occupation on their own initiative, For those who need the help of the United States Employment Bureau there is encouragement in the fact that Unele 8: employment agency in this city has placed more than 20,01 productive jobs during the last month, Some of the 20,000, reports Supt. O'Leary of the Department of Labor district which includes this State, are getting their new jobs than they earned at the old. Farms, shipbuilding, munitions, manufacture of Army and Navy equipment and railroads. Here are the industries upon which war depends most, in the order of their ir nee, They need every ounce of man-power the Nation can muster from among the non-productive and the idle, in order that the permanent, prosperity-producing fibre of the Nation’s organism may continue to guarantee jam’s big} 00 men in more pay at industrial! unlimited endurance. Letters From the People. Saye This Is the Time to Stop Tips.) quit and go By al! means let us stop this prac. | READ tee of tipping barbers, It is one of | He Thinks Barbers Must Have ‘Ti; the many unfair forms of robbery to which the public has submitted for these many years. There is no ground upon which it can be defended, and with barber shop prices going up every day this is the time to defin- itely stop the tipping graft. It ts worse in New York City than any- where else, simply because the Now York public is so used to being robbed that it hasn't the backbone to even protest any more, Barbers should get a fair salary for their work, The plea that they are under- paid merely indicates that they are Rr ips to Live, ‘To the Fititor of The Wrening World. T see that some of your readers want to do away with the custom of siving small fees to the barbers, Perhaps if they knew Just how tuch those little gifts meant they would not feel that way. Most barbers re- celve only a very small wage and could not live were they deprived of It 18 well enough to say that wo should receive fair wages, but quite another thing to get such Wages from the boss barbers, osity of patrons be checked through any thoughtless agitation, I don't the fees given them by the public. | Should the gener- | egret eI AT to say, my friend, who has a large house, allows her friends to share it with her and thi pay her a nominal sum for this pur- pose, They are g& vmatly peonte al who aro doing omnia marae things, busy people who want homelike surround- ings, and who lack the wherewithal to have a home. ‘This old lady came there through the recommendation of a friend of my friend, She was going to sta few weeks in the city Appreciate it very much if sh have a room.” In the true sen: didn’t appreciate it at all, In th first place she was a very rich old lady und didn’t need to presume on my friend's hospitality, The old lady had a maid and a motor, as it devel oped later, Almost after the first day she demanded attention and tested at this, that and tho thing. Her own servants They constantly sly disposition.” During her stay friend husband came for a visit, but he too confided in my friend how mis erable he was, since his wife was so pro- other detested her. complained of her hard to Pp “She holds on to a dollar as tf her very life depended upon it," he com plained, “and it Is 80 needless, She s0 much. Everybody around her must eater to her and sometimes it becomes unbearalle” As my friend was telling her trou bles I could not but think of another old lady—somewhere in Pennsylvania She has several children whom sho has reared, Her husband died when they wero quite young. All the children are now grown up and able to take care of the Sho is a grandmother; but six in fact, nselves time and joy tw still in the doing, > hes a heart of gold and always she is somewhere, some place, doing some- thing for somebody, the victims of their own system. So Jong as they accept gifts from the public the barber shop owners will not pay ther: any more than posstble, Stop the tips, pay fair wages, If ey can't get fair wages r them see how the average New York bar- ber could continue at his trade, Aad certainly the amount given by each Individual is so small as to be scarcely felt by any one. of) ) Her particular province ts the poor. She is always among them, giving a ‘tired mother @ helping hand and a word of cheer, aiding a struggling boy or girl to get somewhere. When. over ber children send usr money or; tolew age have made no difference. |@id not fold her hands and say, “1 have done any share.” In truth her | could have seen how they enjoyed it, how glad they were to get it and how much good it did me to give them,” In a word, her life is full of useful- ness, She hasn't a selfish chord tn |ber makeup, At this very moment she is basking in the sunlight; but her hands are moving fast. She is knitting, knitting, knitting for the soldiers, Oh, what a Iifet She has gone through so much hardship, so many j tria and she has come out un- sca fine, sweet, giving her heart le anity, “What moro is there in the world?” she will say, for others! fae “What fun it is to do What is money, wealth, When you haven't got a heart to feel the joy and even the sorrow f another —a heart to clasp a@ sym- | pathetic band—a heart with which to love Little children, a with wh she say: |to sympathize? Ah, me, } Would ‘not exchange places with a queen,” And I know tt's true, because this | nan is my moth whose happi- lies in the reflected happiness of others, ‘There are many, many good mothers like her, I wish all irritable »" woud take mote of them and » what a splendid thing it is to old gracefully, doing good and yple “rather than dis- | uld old age be crahbed When it can be so comforting aad harming? If you are growing old, think it over, It is so nice to be on the right end of the horseshoe—the horseshoe that magnetizes love and holds it, | Training Sea Gulls to Spot” Submarines. AVAL officers have frequently had the opportunity to observe that swarms of sea yulls follow in the wake of submarines, The birds are attracted by the unusual spec- tacle of halelike monster moving through water, and are eager to pick up garbage his observation which, In a few instances during the present said to have led to the tim ar, is ov- ery of the dreaded proximity of a U boat, suggested to Dr. A, D, Penta jr, of Now Brighton, N. ¥., the plan of trai gulls ‘to “follow in flocks in wako of submarines, ‘ys Popular Selence Monthly, He ests the use of a hopper, fifty- | four inches long, made of sheet steel. | It is bolted to the top of a subma and filled with chopped fish, This bait is released from time to time by the turning of a crank op- erated from the inside of the sub- marine used for training the gulls, The bait, which would naturally rise jto the surface of the water, would attract (he gulls and cause them to the submarine, ' The Irritable Old Lady! By Sophie Irene Loeb Owysright, 1918 by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), HE other day a friend of minc| pretty presenta they know that #he|¢¢ @IMD-NEY!" The queer nasal p told me her tale of woe, She | will rarely use them herself. She will S tone, with a rising inflection, had a visitor in the house—an | irive them away. And when you re- came down upon Mr. Jarr old lady, ‘That 1s! proach her she will say “Ob, but if you from above and scemed to rebound from the sidewalk as if it were thrown at him, Mr. Jarr looked mp to the second story of the apartment house on the business avenue near the street where he lived uptown. The rasping voice with the rising final inflection utter- ing this strange name of nothing known on sea or land came, Mr. Jarr soon perceived, from one of his ac- quaintances, Slavinsky, the glass- put-in man, “Shid-ney!™ Again the raucous cry, and Mr. Jarr, keeping his eyes above the darkened little glazier shop on. the ground floor aud the equally small but brightly lighted delicates- sen store nearby, saw that Mr, Sla- vinsky was not directing bie remark to him, “Shid-ney!” bawled — Stavinsky again, And then Mr. Jarr was aware of a very good looking young man, with dark curly hair, somewhat over- dressed and be-ringed, coming out of a cigar store across the street and looking up at the little glazier with a frown, “Ey, yi! and go there you are, mine fine chentlemans!” bawled Blavinsky, “What do you want, father?" asked the young man, “Vat iss it I should vant, vat ise tt I don’t should vant?" asked Slavin. |sky. ‘“Ikey go in, Izzy comes out, no- body mind the store! Vy can’t you stay, yes?” | “There isn’t any business with the store open at night,” replied the young man, sullenly. “And there ain't no business mit the store shut,” said the irate Slay- insky, “Such @ business! vat you are! Shoot the dud And Slavinsky, after gesticulating in rage, slammed down the window, “Don't mind father,” aid the young man, apologetically, “Don't mind him, Mr, Jarr, He's only @ greenhorn and he don't understand he's living in an advanced age, “He understands it well enough,” said Mr, Jarr, with some asperity, “He suffered enough before he got his family, and he's worked hand enough to school, feed and dress y all, for you're his son, aren't you?" “Well, yes,” stammered the young fellow, “but I don't call myself Slay. insky!" “What do you call yourself?” asked Mr, Jarr, who now remembered the young fellow, having seen him grow up from @ dirty=fawed Ute boy in the i] $$$ $$ $$$ $$$ E The Jarr Family | | By Roy L. McCardell | Copyright, 1918, by The Prew Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening Work), | | the |itor had sent word up that Willie had SS fe $ store, This change into a would-be| swell was a matter Mr. Jarr had not watched, as it more or less quickly took place, ‘The young fellow drew out a silk handkerchief aggressively scented. Then he handed’ a card to Mr, Jarr which read “Sidney Slavin, Comedy Camouflage Four.” ‘Tm only playing the camps now,” said the young man with the cur- tailed mame, “but I'm going into vaudeville with a neat song and dance | act as ‘Sidney Slavin, the Jazz Dance Swell!” “So far the ewel has onty gone to the head,” said Mr. Jarr, and he looked with displeasure at the young fellow, who stood smoking cigarettes at his father’s stin darkened door. Presently Mr. Slavinsky came down, told “Shid-mey” he could fo, locked up the store and then walked with Mr. Jarr up to Gus's place on the cor- ner. “Vat good ts tt you ratse children if they are ashamed of you?" asked Mr. Slavinsky. “He ain't never done no work and he shoots ertps. He's a loafer, and don't get in the army from flat feet from tight patented leather shoes.” “The rising generation,” etwhed Mr. Jarr, “they don't appreciate us old tories.” “Ach, never mind! said Slavinsky. “Tet him go. Such a great idea I| have to make business. I bought | cheap from the ball ground feflera such a bunch of old basebatls—the | big, hard baseballs—and I am going | to gif them away. Tkey and Izzy will help, and I give them to all the chil- dren to play mit, If Shid-ney was only not such a swell loafer he could help too, because he knows the glass—put- in business and ball playing.” “If you can tell me how giving away | baseballs will help business I’ be greatly interested,” sald Mr, Jarr. “Listen to it," said Mr. Slavinsky. “I gif the baseballs to the Uttle boys to play in the street, My, how the vinders 1s broke!” “Great scheme,” “Here's tuck!" But he was not so enthusiastic over great scheme when he reached home and Mrs, Jarr told him the jane said Jarr, thrown a basebal! through the base- ment window, and to send down a dollar, please, AREA OF GREENLAND. Corrections made recently in maps | of Greenland have shown it to be about 150,000 square mries larger thag! monty beloved. aan : Sweethearts of Yours: By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Kvenily World), g No. I.—THE BEAUTIFUL LADY / RITTEN on the heart of every man fs a legend of fair women, an}; honor roll of those whom he has decorated for ‘beauty, wit, allure, | congeniality, tenderness, This 1s true in the case of the most coldly cynical husband, the most sentimental bachelor—to reverse ,, just for onee the conventional and inaccurate desorig» 4 tions, The dust of years and custom may have @‘” secured the names of his series of sweethearts, and it ™ is @ fact that a man is far less likely than a woman to w put away a past love tidily, with plenty of sachets:4, She is never quite sure, you see, that it may not come te into style again! W af To the average man, on the contrary, two fe‘ ig Fone mances with the same girl seem as zestless as eating. the same dinner twice. But two romances, half a dozen romances, each” with a different heroine—they are the escape valve for the Turk in him,, Haroun-al-Raschid had his harem, Bluebeard his closet. For the modern |. | American, his sweethearts—all the girls he ever loved! No matter how many come after, you will not forget the first ones For she was the warm, golden sun which drew up through the crust of your soul the first young shoots of romance. She was of one flesh wit the beautiful princess, starry-eyed and tall, of whom you read in fairy” stories; boys’ stories with lots of giants and dragons and magicians to ba” Killed. It was for ladies like her that King Arthur's knights—of whom shew told you—fought and bled. ‘he I am sure you remember at least one day when you fought for hgreZ § | Ned Stevens said he had a better one; said his would let him go dshing on Sunday and everything. It was Friday night after school and you weye y | not ready with a glove to fling in his face; your one pair, which you woraw to Sunday school, was put away in the top bureau drawer in the guestw room. fe You told him he lied, however, and then the two of you clinched, Iikef” @ pair of desperate puppies, rolling over and over on the grass behind the? barn. “WIN you take it back?” you demanded, finally and fiercely, your knee %, planted in his stomach while one hand gripped his hair and another crus pled his left ear. “Say you never said it!” Ned Stevens mumbled repentance. Your valor, of course, did not make !! an instantaneous hit with the Empress of your young affections. Women, |, the best of them, have pacifist tendencies, and must understand clearly |/ that a fight ts for civilization before they approve. You were not a pubil- f? eist with a vocabulary to explain how you were battling with a German " tn defense of an ideal, So she said regretfully, “Fighting again!” and seat |! you for the witch-hazel. i Other tributes, though, that first sweetheart of yours warmly appreei- HH ated. To later loves you sent orchids like purple arabesques and deep red 1) roses, They never evoked for you such a warm smile of utter delight, | such qnick, clinging arms, as greeted the first flowers you ever gave a woman—the little bunch of grubby, scentless, short-stemmed blue violets, you picked on the way home from school. You brought her no baskets of rare frult, But once you carefully and shaped a horn of birch bark. You filled ft with round, hard, spi wintergreen berries—“checkerberries” you called them—and laid it ia bei’ lap. She kissed you and told you nobody ever mado her a nicer preacnt, Surely no woman had such beautiful eyes as hers, deep and dark brown.| as water running through pine forests. Her smile came into her eyes // before it touched her lips. If one thing in her was stronger than tender- || ness it was truth, For many reasons you have loved many sweethearts, it but at eight the beautiful lady was—your mother. qv iN Women in War By Albert Payson Terhune yright, 1918, by The Preay Publishing Co, (The New York Brening Work), ! SEMIRAMIS; First and Greatest Woman Warrior. HW mighty fortified city of Bactria was besieged by the {| army of Ninus, King of Nineveh. The time was about | 800 B.C, Ninus had planned a wholesale overrunning of his enemy's country. But he could not seize Bactria, the key-fortress of his foes, Unless Bactria could be 4, taken the whole campaign must fail. r A woman—a twenty-year-old girl—solved the | problem, She was Semiramis, the young wife of Oannes, who was one of Ninus’s Generals, Semiramis sought audience with the downhearted King and briefly out- lined to him a plan of attack that was so simple and< yet so brilliant that he stared at her in dumb amase- ment. Then Ninus put her scheme into effect. And by means of it he quickly forced the surrender ot Bactria, Semiramis had had no strategic training She was merely @ born military genius. Ninus, after the triumphant campairn, sent for Oannes and curtty, bade him divoree his wife #o that the King might marry her, Oannes adored Semiramis, He refused to divorce her. But the King’s word was law. Sooner than live without her, Oannes killed himself, And Ninus | married the beautiful young widow. Now tn those days women were regarded ns little better than slaves, They were allowed no voice in public matters or even in the conduating! of their own lives, But Semiramis did not intend to live as other women lived. Oannes had been her devoted slave. An now, by her charm amd her beauty and her genius she proceeded to enslave her new husband, Before long Ninus had grown to rely on her judgment in everything, He let her map out his war campaigns and shape the laws of Ninewes, Through her suldanve t one of the most powerful en earth? “7 Desame Then Semiramis was ready fo 3, fully planned step in her ae re Ninus—as a mere joke—into making he ruler of Nineveh for the space of five days, She sald she woul tai remember, in her old age, that for five short davs she had ruled the tend The humor of the idea appealed to the doting aus, who could fefuse her nothing, In due form he turned over his scomre end his abpsoh royal power to her—for the aforesaid five days ft ie Her first act, as sole ruler, was to put Ninus to proclaimed herself Queen of Nineveh and killed acknowledge her sovereignty, Her next step was to bogin the conquest of the who! had begun life as a shepherd's daughter, Her levelinees nan ee = heart of Oannes, military governor of the province in which she wag bo Ninus next had married her. And now she was Queen of Nineveh Agee a rise like that the conquering of the rest of the world did not soem an impossible Job. She raised and drilled a tremendously effective army. she marched in person against the kingdom of Persia and conquered . , She outgeneralled the cleverest Persian lead S Woman Warrior} ond her troop. outfougnt the overwhe eee eae } numerous Persian armies, Next she invaded and conquered Heypt, followed that by the conquest of Bthiopias every battle she led her army personally and risked her life a. th times in the thick of the fight, . From Ethiopia she led her victorious armies into India, And (as must always happen, somewhere and some time, to every we world conqueror) she was ignominiously beaten, Back to her own country, in defeat, returned Semiramis, shattered remnant of her once invincible host. wis She spent the rest of her days in improving Ni quered lands that still were under her sway, Amo she founded the city of Babylon, which was the glory of the o Old, Wornout, her own son conspiring to kill her, the well noe 4 last—no one knows where. Because of her mysterious vanishing. hee peopte believed Semiramis had peen carried to heaven, and bensumea they worshipped her as = spddecs ~_—_—_—_——r 4 One Clever Woman Rule ineveh, death. Then ohe all those who refused te At its heads © heveh and the con other lasting deeds, ‘