The evening world. Newspaper, June 28, 1918, Page 18

+o ER as bow IO Rg NRE ase tx She Giesing orld, ESTARLISUED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Publised Daily Macept Sunday Press Publishing Company, Nos, 53 to 651 New Yor RALPH PULIT t. 6% Park Row, 1 ANGUS SMA Park Row JOSEPH PULTTZARE, J y, 6 Park How. Bow: MEVAER OF THB ASSOCI ERD PRESS The Aww Paes + to fine ee for republication of al) news deepatahen tel ton ounerstisa te 2 "yaver aod also the loca! wews yuieued bereim. VOLUME 58 . vee sees NEEDED: A RALLYING POINT. Y WAY of Manchuria comes confirmation of the report:that Ausiro-German war prisoners commanded by Austrian and German officers have seized Irkutsk on the ‘Trans-Siberian railway. Meanwhile the Bolshevik Voreign Minister in Moscow is per- & turbed by indications that large German forces are preparing to advance on Smolensk. In the light of such news, what is likely to be the fate of another non-military commission, sent via Siberia, bearing to Russia more offers of Amerjgan help and more millions of American money, in the hope that some good may come of it? Granted Russia is, politically, a chaos; granted no government in Russia is yet strong enough to stand on its legs; granted the first thought of the great majority of the Russian people is how to keep irom starving, Are German armies to march through Russia imposing German solutions of Russian political and economic problems according to well-known German methods, while the United States and its Allice oppose this conquering spread of Teutonism with nothing stronger than kindly advice and proofs of friendship for the Russian Are American locomotives, American machinery and Ameri¢an labor to.help build up a new Russia, with no guarantee that this new) Russia may not be surrendered or sold by some Judas, under the pres- eure of Prussian sword-diplomacy ? | ‘Are the resources of a vast empire {o the east to enable Germany indefinitely to prolong the struggle, while ihe Allies take no direct measnres to foil the colossal scheme of exploitation? What Russia needs is a rallying point of etrength—a nucleus of force and concentration around: which can gather the beat of its disrupted elements prelimimary to some consistent move toward re- construction, ee Ff Such a rallying point might be provided by the arrival of a great Allied military expedition pledged on the one hand to drive out the German invader and on the other to act toward Russia with a disinterested helpfulness for which no surer guarantee could be asked than the participation of the United States, Besides hetping to eave Russia from becoming Germany's prey, such an expedition might go far to crystallize Russian thought and motive out of their present targidity and create a party strohg enough even to bring Russia backs astable power to jts place in the fighting line with the Allies. ap, Of risks,.as things stand, which is immeasurably the greatest? SS ony ki German prisoners say the great German drive that will end Jece is echeduled for August and von Hindenburg again ™ up as the big “planner” on the Western Front. Bvi- », demtly the Ludendorff time tables were recognized to be totally { | | iy @nrellable, "o ——_—___-+. “THE EX-CZAR REPORTED KILLED. ERSISTENT reports that the Bolsheviki have killed the former Czar—with or without the form of a trial—incline us to believe it may be so. ‘Aithough the Czar business is in bad enough repute these days, few would have wished euch an end for Nicholas Romanoff. De- throvement, exile, life imprisonment even—but not the fate of Obaries I. or Louis XVI. The Bolsheviki go far back for their wevolutionary models—as might be expected of them, For years we were told nothing could ever take the place of he “Little Father” in the Russian heart and that the Czar was Grereforo secure if he could keep clear of chance bombs and bulleta, Yet fn a twinkling they toppled him off his throne and hustled him out-of sight, and the least of later worries has been what became of him. He-may have been dragged out and killed behind the sceves, but hestage, whereon he made go conspicuous a figure, long since filled with so much battle and blood and carnage that the world cannot feel deep emotion over his individual exit, If the former Czar of All the Russias is dead, 60 is the vegime without which he was only an unhappy man whose temperament was such that life could have brought him little further save days of melancholy and despair. : 4+ This is War Savings Day—the wind-up of the great drive to enlist war-savers in New York. If you're not already en- rolled in the Thrift Army, your pledge should be in before midnight. x Letters From the People. Mere About High Rente. the Péter of The Brnian Wer: What has become of the agitation Suys Barbers Showld Give Up Tips, To the Editor of The Bvening Werld: I observe that at least one barber to keep New York landlords in the| undertakes to defend in your columns bounds of reason? ‘Their demands) the practice of tipping and says that are 6 stent as ever, but we see men of his trade cannot live without o relief for the tenant, It looked at|tips. 1 that is the case and no rem- be found, let us close the shops as non-essential indus- With the Government offering jto obtain employment in war plants for all-comery at 40 cents an hour 4nd above there is no reason for any so much a barber to work at a trade that will who are using the war to grow Rot pay him a fair return without the over night, This profiteering \s Public being made to support a form eral, but particulariy Qagrant among | of graft. 1 think that the sooner we landlords and venting agents, 1, tor|do something about this Upping ques- ome, stand ready to join any league | tion the better for all concerned. Not ne as though some legal steps|edy ¢ uld be taken to check their greed. | barb this movement fallen through? ‘There never was a time when the tries people of New York needed protection now from the profiteers ch of citizens that will take the matter|oniy barber shop tips, but those of EDITORIAL PAGE Friday; June 28, 1 Russia’s Plight! By J. H. Cassel || b By Roy L. 66 THE boss has gone out of town 4B for a few days,” remarked Mr. Jarr. “Jenkins took yes- terday off, Johnson is going out to a country club to play golf, so I guess I'll slip off this afternoo “Well, please don't complain to me about how hard you work and how long you work after this," replied Mra. Jarr, interrupting him at this Point. “To hear you and tho other men talk one would think you were gallery slaves!” “Galley slaves, gested Mr. Jarr, “It's all the same!" was the reply. “T only know that once in a while you men betray yourscives, I am won- dering how many other afternoons you havo taken off from what you you mean,” sug, concerning which you have silent.” kept “I can't remember just now,” said Mr, Jarr, generously repressing his great busbandly indignation at being thus wounded and wronged. “I only know,” he added, “that if I get any more afternoons off I shall not be #0 silly as to speak of it.” “Ien't that just what Mrs, Dinkston sayo!" cried*Mrs, Jarr, “She has re- sumed her Iast married name since she and Mr. Dinkston have been rec- onciled.. But, of course, she says, she might as well, seeing that she has a lot of her engraved ‘Mrs. Dinkston' cards she hadn't got a chance to use before she and her hushand parted over incompatibitity on his part and non-sypport on hers, and all her Mrs, Grateh’ cards were used up, although she has the plate in case she and her husband part again; for, she says, it is just as well to great crises in life, ing?" What was I say- again Finnegan domestic ments, 80 far as her ¢ tes du visite, “No, before that ing before that?” with a puzzied look asked Mrs, while life lasts—yes, 1 can }can—that my moiory tel" “TL was telling you that | @p and push it home. The rent-pay-|every kind should be stopped. in ere of this big city should not accept | these days of economy it is a waste reasion at the hands of| of that into _Soprimeat owners, 1) wmnader,. |°* @OMY (hat Tuna ie lange Sarees a eugeest that we might go to eee ree Copyright, 1918, by The Prew Publishing Oo, call ‘the constant grind,’ afternoons) © prepared for these “You were speaking of Mrs. Gratch- Dinkston’s off-again, on-again, gone- arrange- as they say in Paris, Kentucky, were concerned," replied Mr, Jarr sweetly, What was I say- Jarr You get me so upset, you burt my feelings so with the bitter words I can never forget and do! | FORGIVE them, but torget 1 never sinply deserts had a chance to get away from the office McCardell (The New York Evening World.) gan to quote what Mrs. Dinkston, as! she again calls herself, was kind enough to say about recreant hus- bands. Well, she should know—she | has a recreant one." | “He is not; he is a knight-errant, | sve says,” replied Yrs, Jarr, “Mrs. Dinkston says that Mr. Dinkston has the artistic temperament dnd is not suited to strive for dross inp a com- mercial age"”— “So he lets her strive for dross for him!" interposed Mr. Jarr. ‘Well, I should worry and contract strabis- mus! n seo right now that wo will have many an incentive for disagreement if Mr, and Mrs, Dink- ston are ‘to continue to be our non- paying guests.” “Don't blame them, please!” sald Mrs, Jarr sharply. “We nave quar-| relled just as much about your rela- tives, When THEY visit us it is a constant expense to amuse a» well as board them. But at least Mr, Dink- ston recites poetry to us, whilo wil you think of is your old tiresome office downtown, and Mrs, Dinkston invites me to go with her to all her war ac- tivities meetings. “That costa her nothing; you could © to such meotings if she didn’t in- vite you," a Mr. Jarr. “But sh one of tho leaders of the work,” said Mrs, Jarr, “and she is always elected Treasurer, She doesn't care who is President or Sec- retary; for, she says, some one bus to look after the funds and céntribu- ons; and she is always Chairwoman of the Printing Committee, and when there are any affairs to raise funds for the work Mrs: Dinkston has pow- er to put her friends’ names on the printed list of patronesses un the programme, and that means much in social prestige these days.” “Weil, I'm sorry I spoke,” remarked Mr, Jarr sadly, “L (hougut you'd be pleased if 1 had an afternoon off and we could go around town to- wether a little in daylight,” “If you really wanted me to go with you you'd have let me know in time, but I've promised Mrs, Dinkston to ask questions, Yes, ask questions. After she is through speaking she asks for questions. Then I ask one from the audience and she has @ crushing retort that brings applause. “That's 4he way they do now, It isn't safe not to have your own question ask If the speak: out in the audience asks for questions Family | | pe | ho ocd | ssed some woman will reply to her reqi getting up and inquiring py this afternoon and I was going to a matinee or something when you warted.in-4o woum megand you be. Jarr, “What's the use?” speaker gets her dross to fil so Ww over the hips, and If it's.) impust m, 80, You see, duty ceils me. ‘What's the use?” , surgled Mr, Ell RED SS me nits, eles RCE w spar ey a wee x 4 abelle Mae Doolittl By Bide Dudley Copyright, 1918, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) HE appearance of a circus in Delhi Friday gave Mae Doolittle, the noted poet- ess, a fond admirer of children, an opportunity to do a very generous act, Gathering ten of the little ones in her neighborhood, she had each one get fifty-five cents from his or her father, and then sbo took them to the show on the eleven fifty-five-cent tickets the money bought. It was in- deed a gala day for the youngsters, and Miss Doolittle said she enjoyed it as much ag they did. Miss Doolittle decided to make the event one of instruction as well as enjoyment. As they went through the menagerie tent the poetess took time to explain the various exhibits, “This,” she sald, stopping before a big cage, “is the lion. He comes from Africa and is known as the King of Beasts.” A moment later sbe showed hor little charges the gorilla. The big animal held a club in his left hind hand. “Miss Doolittle,” sang out Petey O'Brien, son of Mra. Cutey O'Brien of the Women's Betterment League, “is that the King of Clubs?” The noted poetess indulged in a quief chuckle, realizing that the boy undoubtedly got his knowledge of playing cards from the poker games his parents are said to hold at their home, ," sho replied, sweetly. “That i¢ the gorilla. Don't you rembmeer the little poem I wrote about the gorille last fall? Georgie Ptpp recited it in school and created a furore,” “I remember it, Miss Doolittle,” said Mamie Scroggins, a pretty tittle girl, rather demure in her manner. "It began: . ‘Ob, look at the bie goriflal careful or be'll kill you,’ “That is correct,” said Miss Doo- little, beaming with pleasure over the idea that her poem had lived in the juvenile mind, “Well, this ty the “Ho looks Ike Mr. P. Silas Petti- bone,” came from little Oochie Pat. terson, a dear Uttle fellow with a i the poctess. little Ouehte'’s comment. But relied. The cage conteingd mooksyy, Ellabelle Mr. Pettibone, Dethi’s promier ton- sorial artist, is @ particular friend of Indeed, rumor hes tt they are engaged to be married. Nat- uraily, Miss Doolittle di€ not relish she passed it over, resolving to tell it to her friend the first ttme they quar- At the next cage there was trouble. Bing, son of the Keeper of the City Dump, selected one and, pointing at Petey O'Brien, yelled: “He looks lke you.” A fight followed. Petey placed one fist on Albert's left eye and Albert countered on the nose. Each boy was knocked down four times, much to the delight of the monkeys When Miss! Doolittle decided the crowd had been entertained sufficiently, she gave cach youngster a swift kick and thg battle was over. “Boys,” she said. “Aren't ashamed to be fighting like that?” “But I don't want to look like a monkey,” bawled Petey. “Now, now, Petey!" sho said, con- solingly. “Let us all be merry and way.” After the show Miss Doolittle took all thechildren toGrabb's drug store, where she prevailed on Mr. Grabb to set ‘em up to toe cream soda. While they were eating and scrapping, the noted poetess wrote a poem for them, After the soda was gone she read it, ‘The poem follows: We're been to we the cirous, And it was very fine, We did not let it irk um When the final lime had been spoken the children applauded with great gusto, All were pleased, Printing Liberty Bonds a Big Task. LE approximately 6,000,000 Bonds were printed for the first Liberty Loan and 17,000,. 000 for the second, 21,100,000 were re~ quired for the third. This was so big & task that greatly, increased facili- ties were needed by the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. At the out- set fifteen huge presses, running night and day six days a week, were used, says Popular Mechanics, Later this mumber was increased to fifty-eight. About 400 persons were employed for several months in producing the bonds for the third tasue. To specd up the output a system was installed whereby six bonds were printed for each four produced “ormeriy, and whereas four printmgs had been nec- venery for what is called surface work, @ plant was installed which did the work in two printings. In the work done by the skilled bank note engravers, the bureau had difficulty in adding to its it LY it is eaid that are tor ™q plz Sot mare cen ane Seatses mre ta the world COIR ate. | world’s sweetest and most beautiful story. you | that Inishings were synonymous. it is, of course, true that certain more | R . . i eal Christianity; By the Rev. Thomas B. Gregory | Coprnant, 1918, by The Pree Publishing Co. (te New York Evening Weld) r has been said a thousand times since the breaking out of the” War: “Christianity is a failure. After twenty centuries of it the situation we are in!” be | But the simple answer to this charge 4s that Christianity hae been tried except in isolated cases, and therefore the charge that it failure is ds unjust as it is premature ‘ ae. An item from a Western paper may serve to make the matter to us A resident in a Chicago suburb was robbed of considerable 1m Jewelry and clothing. Upon the discovery of the loss the head of the” hold started in pursuit of the thief and succeeded im catching him | recovering the stolen goods. * The next step, according to the usual procedure, would. have — turn the burglar over to the Jaw to be punished, but this particular holder, instead of turning the man over to the police, took him ta bis home—the home that he had just robbed—in order that he might quiet heart-to-heart talk with him about the Better Life in general burglary in particular. . ’ | Breaking through the crust of the fellow’s criminality: and getting down to the real man in him, the promise was secured from him that in | future he would lead a better life. ‘ The robber was hungry and he was given something to eat. He-was offered shelter over night, but the dumfounded man refused to aeeept this, very much to his credit, since it showed that he still had the remains | of a conscience. | Of course the plundered householder knew that the fellow was a eri inal, but he thought less of the crime than of the reformation of the orim- | inal. He knew full well that the man had done wrong, but his chief thought was to prevent him from doing wrong again. | You can call the action on the part of the Western man “quixotie™ it you like; you may go so far as to call him a downright “idiot;” Outdis | treatment of that burglar was nothing more nor less than the practical | lustration of the SPIRIT OF CHRIST. It was an attempt to praction the | true Christian Religion. ae Christ did not once overlook wreng-doing, never condoned sin, norwiid | He ever forget the fact that the sinner was his brother, and that ft was | His duty to love him even in his sinfulness. | ‘To the woman who had been brought to Him for condemnation by the hard-hearted Jerusalem doctors He said, “Go, and sin no more.” What a master of the sententious was this noblest of the Sons ef Ged? |“Sin no more’—only three Jittle words, and yet how much they meant! The one word, “sin,” made the woman feel that she had not been doing | right, while the other two words, “no more,” told her that the Master lewed | her and wanted her to do better in the future. | | death; but Jesus felt the force of a law that was more sacred and binding { than that which was written down in the books, even the Law of Love,end @ By the strict letter of the Old Law the Magdalene was-deserving-ot| | in His treatment of the trembling woman He laid the foundation for the The Law of Love, reduced to actual practice im all our } with another—that is real Christianity, the Christianity that wae taught and lived by Jesus of Nazareth but-that has been4aught and practie@@g, very few since the Master left us. Except in spots and by spells—very small spots and very brief we have never tried the simple religion of Jesus. It has been gtvem chance to show what it might do for us. Therefore ét is most unjust say that it is a failure. If we will faithfully try4t for the mext2,000 we may have a better opinion of it. ' And here is the heart of the religion of Jesus—the criminaPtee, a member of the human family, with rights that are bound up inseparably with the rights of all the other members of the family. His crime does set put him outside the human pale, does not ofttiaw him, does not society in treating him otherwise than as a brother, an erring brother, but a brother still. t The so-called “Christianity” that we have tried bas actually fated. The real Christianity is Love, and it is written that “Love never faileth” Pretty Rooms and Ugly Ones By Andre Dupont . ; Covrright, 1018, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Worl? Overcrowding With Furniture or Bric-a Brac—The Wrong Colors—Pictures Badly Hung—Unsuitable Furni- 6 ture—Some of the Mistakes Made. i “ ‘OUT rooms always look 90] linene or crash and see how Testta® nye pretty, and yet there is noth-| that particular corner of the geom ing very expensive in them,”| becomes. Dull blue denim cam be said a June bride to me lately, She | used also if blue suits your other seemed very much puzzled about] holstery. Of course if you haveeres| it, too, for she evidently made|tonne stip covers for your ‘furnftare the mistake of so many people} for summer use you should havethem expenso and beauty in fur-|for the sofa pillows also, but de net Though | use more than two or three of these pillows, for although cretonne forme ' or loss costly furnituro is made on|a most gttractive decorati petter lines than some of the cheaper| much of it has an varieties, and that portieres and cur- | effect, tains and cretonnes of good quality are usually made in more artistic pat- terns and colorings than the low- priced ones, this is not invariably the case, and if a jittle taste is used in se- lecting, many of the cheaper furnish- ings will be found that are both ar- tistic and pretty. If you are dissatisfied with the ap- pearance of your house perhaps you can do a great deal to alter it for the better without spending a cent if you go tho right way about it. Hirst of all, try to give each room as critical a look-over as if you were a etranger. Perhaps half the trouble with your living room is that It is too crowded, Have you too many chairs or tables or too many cushions on the sofa or couch? Sco if possibly you ‘Table covers and lamp shadesaré offenders against good taste in homes, so keep them in soft eo! not too elaborate. Remember they. for use as well as ornament, Tas en runners or table centres with ored embroidery or stencilling pretty and artistic for summer and well with nearly all colors. rooms have a great deal too many naments, This makes them look and cluttered and hot in summer, away more than half the vases, and candiestichs and photo frames wath the cold weather and see if your room does not look much more attractive, Next take a look at your pictumed, Perhaps you have become ao ’ them that you never notice them, so try standing in your doorway and cannot exchange a large table in a small room for a small table taken from somewhere else. Consider the rerrangement of your furniture so as to get more space. Do not be in too much of a hurry to do this, but think the room over carefully and experi- ment until you get the best effects, In arranging any room there are certain important points to consider, First and foremost I should put the right color combinations, for this is what first strikes the eye. Sometimes one color when placed beside another detracts from it, while another will set it off or make just the right color ‘harmony. But unless one has the eye of an artist it is dangerous to have more than two or three colors in any room, The average woman is the worst offender in this respect in re- gard to sofa pillows. The pillows she often ‘piles on her unoffending couch or davenport are like Joseph's coat of many colors, If you feel a little guilty in this respect try just for this summer covering them with some plain materta! such as cool gray, green ox oltve ereen denim or even tm viewing them critically, Are they balanced rightly and hung where can be seen easily? ‘They shoate want flat against the wall, not ay og away from it at the top How ff do we not see a profile portrait or) Jarge photograph placed so that the poor man or woman is everlastingly looking into a corner. Unless: you have a grudge against the sitter éom' arrange things that way, It looke much like a child sent into a for misbebaving. If a picture is ly colored it does not need as light as # delicate etching or gravure, And now a word or two about. ability, Chairs that are too to be sat upon, brocaded chairs gilt frames mixed in with more aday furniture are never beaut re out of place. Such room and is not for the age home, And wher in the room from which tea is never or a tall lamp beside the plana cannot be lighted? Common needed in home decoration everywhere eles, hy