The evening world. Newspaper, June 29, 1918, Page 12

' The Evening World, Published Dey oetihh tts SkVH PULITZER. * Publishing Company, Nos. w York. RALPH ANG Sit 1 PULITZ MEMRER OF THK ASSOCIATED PRESS, Ammoistad Prem ie. excite aitication of Tl news dewpatehes Te ee eters ced "ule local neww publistied bere. VOLUME 58.. vesgeceseesssNO, 20,766 PRODUCE COAL. HAT are you doing to save coal?” te } That is a fair question from the Fuel Administra- tion to the coal consumer. But—There is another just as fair, the other way round—from the coal consumer to the Fuel Administrator: “What are YOU doing to KEEP UP THE PRODUCTION . f coal?” 7 It requires no great administrative exertion to warn industry fiat it must husband coal against future famine. It takes little administrative energy to impose upon the public a programme of coal economy which includes echemes like the one to prohibit the use of hot water four days a week in 14,000 apartment houses in the Bronx. : It needs no high order of administrative ability to decide, when winter comes and there is no coal to be had, that factories must shut down and families shiver. But why is all the fuel administrating done on one side of the fence? Why was the output of anthracite coal, domestic sizes, for the Month of May, 1918, 174,896 tons lees than the output for the eame month a year ago? Why is the force of anthracite mine workers smaller by 82,000? Why is the populous, industrial centre of New York left without & Coal Administrator during the very months when fuel preparations fer the winter should be at their busiest? These are questions a responsible Fuel Administration should fee] bound to answer. i Only one and seven-tenths per cent. of mine workers were taken by the Army draft, Provost Marshal General Crowder assured an i Byening World correspondent. As to the “inroads made upon mine labor by the activities of munition plants and other war industries,” as reported recently by the Anthracite Bureau of Information, Gen. Crowder said: : \ “If only the various departments would stop didding for al labor in order to insure enough men in their particular indus- tries, @ considerable adjustment would result. There ought to ‘be geome means by which the rivalry in securing men for war f ‘work could be equalized, thereby eliminating the shortage of ‘men in the more important industries.” What is Federal authority, as now exerted over labor, worth if %# cannot contro! and equalize the demands of even its own depart- ments? What is e Fuel Administration worth if it cannot work to keep eeal production from falling off at a time when the country should be @eriving special strength and comfort from its immense coal resources? Coal is the first essential for continued industry, confidence and 1 Yeoeperity. If Fuel Administrator Garfield can see no better prospect than ® repetition of his policy of last winter, the country might as well j get ready to fight paralysis and panic. ———— THE NEWS FROM AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. I8 HARD to get a line on the seriousness of what is happening im Hungary and Austria. Garrison mutinies, strikes, violent peace demonstrations— ‘the reports sound significant enough. But Allied opinion has be- @ome wary. It has learned not to jump to the conclusion that the i @entral Empires are on the verge of revolution every time the Im- Berial censors let through a batch of mutiny and strike news. Following the staggering come-back blow administered by Italy } f Austrian armies in the field, the accounts of revolt and intense popular desire for peace within the Dual Kingdom seem unquestion- tly based on large sized fact. On the other hand, Imperial German news disseminators are werved to be exceptionally busy just now with all sorts of material from Germany, Austria and Russia. Every now and then German - Propaganda takes the form of yeneral release of report and rumor cs waleulated to obscure and confuse—after the well-known method of ‘the cuttlefish. If conditions in Austria-Hungary are as bad as they seem to be, : all the better. But there is no longer much chance that rumors ! ef revolution in the Central Empires will cause a relaxation of Allied effort. On the contrary, such reports should act as direct stimuli to greater Allied concentration and speed, Tt became plain long since that the only sure way to bring mili- tarism to final ruin at home is to smash it to pieces in the field, d Letters From the People. j & Regiment of Which We Can Be | engineers, who a few weeks after war f was declared were in service, camped il latives ot pne of it, Fert Totten, T, 1, and who this the men in the 11th Engineers an ar-|2U1¥, Will have seen one year'a active Service abroad. We feel that these |men should be as well known as {some of our other New York units, which did not leave until a much later date, A great many of these men are now in base hospitals in America. We hope that you will be able to give to these men the credit that is due them. We feel The Rvening World would be proud to Know that New York is being represented by such a regiment. A MEDPTING OF RELATIVES, ticle was read from the Evening World about the feats of American engineers fm France, This article aroused a seat deal of interest and we are| pleased to see that The Evening World| Printed something in regard to the Men who volunteered as non-fighting units but who have gained for them- ives the title, “The Fighting Lagt- meers.” ‘We fool that a great many people) @f New York hardly know that the Gity of New York has to its credit EDITORI Backing Him Up! Soturday, June 29, 1918 AL PAGE by DONTE tb on B (The New York Evening World.) MA J. H. Six Sweethearts of Yours By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) No. 2.—THE HEN a young woman falls in love she buys a new hat. When a young man-—-of, say, twelve —discov- ers there is a “best” girl he al- most automatic- ally loots his father’s tle-rack. To the young human male the necktie is as the : iridescent — plu- fom mare to the peacock, the branching antlers to the buck. Jn /ioc signo vinces; @ brilliant cravat gets | you by with a girl, even if the shoes | below need polishing and the hat above wants brushing. When I was little and lived tn the country the inevitable tributes to @ best girl included big, shiny red ap- ples and tight-packed bunches of the earliest arbutus But fashions doration change, I asked the twelve-year- old son of the suburbs whom I know best, “do the boys in your set give to the girls they like best? He blushed and tried to flee, but 1 bribed him with peanut Ddrittle—so easy !s it to corrupt the young and obtained my ansWer, Sodas, he sald, particularly pink or chocolate ones, were the method of attack most successfully employed by the financially flush, “Frank Heaton," he added, between BEST GIRL school with a girl {f you Iike her best and she likes you, and you carry her books and take her to the movies and play tennis with her. And you know she's—well, just one pippin!” As a matter of fact, the most dom!- nant characteristic of the school days sweetheart {s the utter convention- ality of her charm, She who between twelve and sixteen has unlimited chances to de a best girl is just ike every other girl In her “crowd,” only more so, If blue eyes are the fash- fon, the “pippin's* eyes are a trifle bigger, a shade more heaven colored n those of everybody else, If uchy slenderness is the model fig- ure, she displays the diameter and posture of @ hop pole bent over by the wind, After twenty-one a man oceasion- Ally learng to soe and think for him- before that age, never, Exotic mance is, for him, simply non- existent. The dest girl, then, the being who first reveals to some young hobble- le-hoy the white truth that skirted creatures of his own ago may be in- teresting, 1s usually a slim, neat- nosed, curly hatred Christmas ecard girl, She is valuable in that she rouses him from an egotistic, almost surly self-absorption, Grown men remember her tender- envy and scorn, “has the nerve to go and call on his girl, but I don't know anybody else who docs thing. Newest Thin The more extensively it 1s used the Why, you walk home from better are tho results obtained from a Bwedish system for stimulating |packward children by circulat electric currents through the air of the rooms In which they study, * 8 For automobile tourists a fireless cooker, refrigerator, get of vacunm bottles and dishes and silverware for six persons have been combined 20 compactly that the outfit can be Jearried on the running board of a \ ear, 8 6 ‘Fo eafeguird the health of painters ® British commission has advocated & law prohibiting the importation, male or use of any paint material @ Oegiment of men, and well known 11TH BNGINBERS, { ye containing more than 5 per cent of ha | ly. ‘The poet Whittier wroto one of the most charming personal tributes ever paid her “tangled golden curls and brown eye! He tells how she | waited one night after school— For near her stood the little boy | Her childish favor singled, nce of a soluble lead gs in wicie its dry weight mean obtain a powerful searchileht comparatively weak current, a n has mounted a number of pandescent lamps on a@ revolving ¢, each in turn being {lluminated fly and their combined rays be- ing collected by @ reflector, coe with li ohn That he has discovered @ partly electrical and partly chemical process for the production of nitrogen sutt- able for fertilizers from relatively cheap and easily oltained materia jis the claim of « Brown Untversity | professor, | cee Loops to hold neckties in position |feature @ recently patented collar, Ifls cap pulled low upon a face Where pride and shame were mingled, “I'm sorry that I epelt the word, I hate to go above you, Because’—the brown eyes lower fell— ‘Because, you see, I love youl’” Just to prove that these things are not all one-sided, a well known lit- erary man who happens to be a nat- ural speller told me laughingly of how, at twelve, he jockeyed himself about in hie spelling class in order that he might always sit next to a certain gir. When he could, he prompted her under his breath, so that the two advanced together to- ward the head where my friend might always have remained. But once the best girl missed his helpful whis- per and so “ichthyosaurus;” he promptly defaulted on “parallelop!pe- don” and followed her down the line, Tho best girl, the sweetheart whom the bashful t ‘ue of boyhood never so names, is a chapter In the Book of Romance without bitterness and without tragedy. Copriight. 1918, ty The Press Publishing Oo. (Tue New York Brening Workt), URING the week I was on my way to Washington I stopped @t several terminals and rail- road stations and noted that many young girls were travelling alone. In Washington to-day there are girls from all over the country work- ing in all kinds ‘ of clerical em- ployment In other largo cities the aituation is similar with the large army of war workers. Hun- dreds are leaving the home haven to Play & part in winning the war. Many of these girls travel alone and are cast among strangers. A few safe and sane rules are of paramount importance, Many a girl, unsophisticated and perhaps living in the small town and among friends, does not realize that all strangers are not to be trusted. The Girl Who Travels c lewd of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by Mrene Wutdishing Co, (fie New York Evening World.) No. 36—CAPT. LUX, the Spy VWihkum No frisvi Could Hold. FEW years before the outbreak oj (ie Great War the statement was publiciy made that Germany had Me ¢! fewer than 6,000 spies in Frauce alone. Urged by popular clamor, France took steps not only to rid the country of this swarm of spies but to strengthen its own Sccret Service. Fy # One of the brave men who voluntecred to go b> Gem © many on military spy duty was a tall and powerfully) built young French army officer—Capt. Lux. ’ He was more of a soldier than a spy. So, although he did his secret service work cleverly, yet he was not able to dodge discovery. The German authorities caught him and put Bim on trial. As Germany was not then at war with France it was not deemed best, in view of international law, to put Lux to death. Instead, he was condemned to six years’ imprisom ment in the grim German fortress jail of Gratz. He was put in a barred dungeon for the most part of the time end wae heavily guarded. The Germans took every precaution, and they decided that no mortal man situated as was Lux could possibly escape. Lux thought otherwise. Tt was during the summer of 1911 that he was locked up at Gratz. Al« most at once he began to make plans for getting free. His tron-grated cell's one window looked out on an inner courtyard of the prison. An armed sentinel was always on duty in this courtyanl. Lux was confined to his cell twenty-two hours a day, For two hours in the morning he was allowed to walk, guarded, up and down the inner courtyard, and sometimes to pace along the prison ramparts with a rifie-carrying soldier at his heels, There did not seem a very bright chance of escaping, but Lux did not waste time in despair. His first move was to collect and hide every piece of string he could lay hands on. He stole strings from parcels and picked them up on the pavement of the courtyard. And when he was alone at night he began the tedious job of weaving all these scraps of twine into a stout rope He also wrote to friends to send him dainties from Paris to vary the prison fare. He worded one of these letters in such a way that its reciplen® understood what the captive really wanted. In the next batch of provisions from Paris a small file was hidden, ‘Then Lux set to work in real earnest. On Christmas Eve everything wae ready for his supreme venture. The priapn soldiers were celebrating the holy festival by getting drunk—ss many of them as could get liquor and the leisure to drink it, Discipline was req laxed. ‘Under cover of darkness Lax drow his file from tts hiding place and’ sawed through the bars of his gell window. Hg worked fast, but cautiously. In four hours he haA ] sawed away enough bars to enable him to wriggie out i On the sill he pause’, The drop to the paved Also, a sen« ground of the courtyard was 16 feet. q was ¥ turned, Quty in the yard. Waiting till the sentinel’s back was baie Dimself jp to the pavement by means of the rope he had made. As gilently as an Indian scout he crawled across the inner courtyar@ to the door of a passageway leading to the outer grounds of the prisons door and the outer door he forced and came to an $-foot spiked fence barr: him from liberty. anllpapteyl outside the fence and a strong ligh@ _ ps made the whole place dangerously bright. passed the spot where ais erouoned the peisoned ctmbed ‘and lowered hims' the fence by meee the sentinel turned back. In another ppeared into the darkness of the winter night, cea sy ached Paris—to be acclaimed as a hero! Six days later he re: By Sophie Irene Loeb By wopnie a by a person or advertisements withou® information, “Do get a travellers’ aid card of identification from the Christiam Association or other organization e@ place where you are known. “Don't part with {t “When in doubt seek the matrod Oe in Cell Guard, Saws Prison Bars in Four Hours. and This which was the last A sentinel was ma! from several street lam ‘When the sentinel had to be on the alert accord- | ae asa many a mother or deol might save endless later sorrow she fortified « girl by giving her the counsel that will stand her in good wn Washington station there 1s & ‘ ‘Travellers’ Aid Bureau with a matron | ac ja charge ‘At one of the stations on} at the wetlon: my way I found a sign bearing the; I wish sach placards could b@’ yw injunctions to “The Girl| printed and posted everywhere in} Who Tra | railroad stations and terminals s@ Who Travels Alone,” from the Inter- | railroad s Board of Women's and/|that she who runs may read, During national 4 ristian Assocta- | Various investigations I have learne@ 5 nee ‘Women's On yot several giris who, through lack of “Do not start to a strange city or| knowledge of the pitfails that migh® town even for a night without pre- | befall them in public places, have vious information of @ safe place to|Come to grief unwillingly and une + stop. | wittingly. “Do not leave home without some| “Forewarned is forearmed” is stil money for emergency. jthe practical adage, Lf a girl mus@ ~ “Do not ask or take information or | travel alone she should prepare hers » directions except from officials, | self to cope with conditions, Ale “Do not trust attentions on the| Ways every girl should realize tha@ trains or elsewhere from men or| there are good people ready to help women, {her tt sho will but let them know “Report annoying attentions to con-| her needs. Many a girl makes the ductor or policeman. mistake of hiding small occurrence “Do not accept offers of work either | that could be readily remedied if she Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening Work), 667 tho Pr Ame: ] adopted in the § indoor sport of treating wil. soon become a lost art,” said Mr, Jarr, as he and Slavinsky, the glazier, strolled into Gus’s place, the square pills and the leather cup,” “Nothing didding,” said Gus. “No gamblink in my place any more, dice for, ¢ asked Mr. Jarr, “You run a respectable place.” “That's choost it,” sald Gus, “It's the fellers what runs the respectable places that gets it in the neck when there is @ reform business on, Don't you remember when there was @ big kick about flat robberies, and then the police went around and pulled the chop suey restaurants? Don't you remember when there was @ holler when gangsters was shooting people they stopped the boys playing ball in the streets?” “There was a regular outrage for you!” orted Mr, Slavinsky. ‘When the boys is stopped playing baseball in the street my glass-put-in business falls off 60 per cent.!” “And now you vatch!" Gus tnter- jected. “Mit all the talk of why don't the police etop oltermobile killings, the police will arrest dancing mit Jazs music.” ‘ I Rafferty, the builder, had sidled in i nate, the great | “Hand us| “What are you afraid of us shaktng | The Jarr Family about this time and had caught the drift of Gus’s remarks. “And so they should!” he growled. “it's that Jass dancing and the moving pictures that has killed the grand old Irish drama.” “Maybe it ts the Sinn Fein move- ment in Ireland that killed the Irish drama, or the war?” suggested Mr, Jarr. “Well, I iiss them,” said Rafferty. “There'd be a scene in the Wicklow Mountains with the Widow Magoo- gin's cabin forninst the Fairies’ Glen. |On would come the hero in fine silk clothes, but without his coat, and he'd say, ‘I'm betrayed by Hennessy, the process server! The pursuers are leven now coming up the Fairies’ Glen.’ “This would be the clue for the fife and drums to be heard playing tn the distance. ‘I'll hide in the Widow Ma- googin’s little cabin and escape,’ the hero would say. “They shall never take the Bogtrotter alive, until Ire- land fs free and Eileen Machree has become my bride!’ “Then he'd sing his song ‘Hlack-Eyed Eileen Machree.’ And, just as be would be captured by his enemies if he took another encore, he'd run into the widow’s cabin, shutting the door in the fase ef hte parsuers!” Mr. Rafferty was now groatly tnter- ested fm the recalling of this stirring scene, With @ atiff military step and simulating the rat-a-tat-tat ef a { By Roy L. McCardell! sail would but make them known to the Proper persons, For example, if any stranger molests her or intrudes, proper appeal to an officer will secure the desired result, If a girl cannot obtain @ night's lodging there are hundreds of Young Women's Christiarf Associations an@ similar organizations ready to help her on application, The ttouble with most girls, however, is that they de not seek such atd for fear of possible publicity, This is all folly. Of the two evils In such cases they oftes choose the greater, ‘ It is much better to explain a diffe culty and get help in time before any« thing disastrous happens, specially is this important for the young girl who goes to the big city from the smal town. Coming from @ place where she knows almost every one she meets it is not unusual for her to teust strangers, thinking they are lke the “home folks." There is where the Better go slow, my dear gir. Don’ make friends too readily when trat oneanitiecaeaniel BEYOND HiM. [ "usr sister and brother ber mother endeavored to establish friendly relations, hot the sun go down upon wrath.” said, “Now, Edward, are you goin, let the sun’ go down on your wrath looked Into her pleading face. “Well, how can I stop it? he first mistakes generally are made, ling alone, ‘ quarrelied, After an early quoting to them the Bible verse, “ Turning to Edward, the elder, Kdward squirmed a little as tioned.—-Harper's, drum beating time he marched over to the icebox. Then, as the Irish Con- stabulary, he rapped on the icebox with his knuckles, ¢ “Halt!” (this to the constabulary). “Open in the name of the King!" (this to the icebox), Then Mr. Rafferty drew his coat up over his head and, bending over, felgned to be the Bogtrotter, disguised in a shaw! as the aged Widow Magoo- gin, coming out of her cabin icebox. “An’ what is {t you want with an ola widdy woman?” piped Mr, Raf- ferty as the fugitive Irish patriot feigning to be Widow Magoogin, “We seek the notorious rebel and outlaw, ‘The Bogtrotter!'" continued Mr. Rafferty in the hoarse voice of Hennessy, the process server, “‘He's gone since daybreak, down tho Glen of the Fairies.’ ‘ia, we are baffled! Right about | face! March! A thousand pounds for him, men, dead or alive! Rat-a- tat-tat! Rat-a-tat! Rat-a-tat-tat- tac" And Mr. Rafferty marched back from the widow's cabin at the ice box to his place at the bar, “And what's that got to do mit the police or prohibition?” asked Gus. “Nothing at all, maybe,” said Mr. Javr, with a sigh, “except, with the war all over the work to worry us, its hard to do without @ drama or a dram. Roll the bones, Kafferty, you're in this with Slavinsky and me.”