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i ed —_ (Y CUD ee CREAR Sty EDITORIAL PAGE Monday, July i5, 1918 ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Gungay by the Prees Publishing Company, Nos. 63 te Row, bel York. RALPH LITZBER, Presi 63 Park Row. U8 KIAW. "treasurers Park Row. 3. ANG ‘ JOSEPH PULITZER,’ Jr MEMBER OF THE ASROOLATED PRES. Aeration Niated herons et a el VOLUME 50.'.ssecsscscssccscsscscesceececesssNO, 20,788 GERMANY’S LEAD TO THE END? S$ IT to be Germany who—to the uttermost limit of her power e and endurance—takes all initiatives? Is German strength, #0 long as it lasts, to ect the pace? Without in the least pretending to grasp a military situation, the many factors and colossal complications of which cannot be fully known to them, Allied peoples vitally concerned in the great struggle can nevertheless hardly help asking themselves from time to time the above questions. . At the present moment particularly, amid a buzz of Allied sprcu- lation as to reasons for the strangely prolonged halt in the great German offensive in the west, the old query comes bluntly to the fore: Why always “What is Germany going to do?” Why invariably a wait for Germany to strike, followed, when the blow comes, by heroic and successful defense—then another wait fur Germany to strike again? At earlier stages of the conflict preponderance of numbers on the German side accounted for the waiting policy of Allied commands. According to latest estimates the Allied forces on the western front, with American reinforcements, now outnumber the Germans by some 500,000. The Prussian Landtag heard last week from one of its own mam- bers that American fighters arriving in France already “more than balance the Allies’ losses and the German gain in man power through new drafts and release of men from the eastern front.” It is true that since the Ludendorff drive stopped for repairs, Gen. Foch has held to his well known policy of harassing the enemy by a never ceasing succession of minor attacks. But is it strange that Allied peoples are impatient for something bigger—something that shall demonstrate Allied capacity to seize the initiative and force Germany to fight on the defensive and in retreat until the end? With the German Chancellor trying to soften the harsh impres- sion made by the Kuchlmann statement regarding Belgium, at the same time putting forth another characteristic German peace feeler, the Allies might well look for the long-promised counter blow in the west (o make a telling rejoinder and convincing proof of Allied purpose. Since Gen. Poch took supreme command official assurances that the Allied forces can strike and will strike have been more fre- quent than explanations why a waiting policy must still prevail. ‘The peoples of the Allied nations are therefore only hoping that which their military leaders have bidden them hope. The two great offensives of the past six months the other on the Italian front—were both Teutonic. Both were bravely met, but in both cases the Allics appear to have settled down to the usual programme of watching to see whore the enemy will mass his forces for the next blow. Tf these tactics are to stand indefinitely as the quickest or even the surest means of winning the war for the Allies, Allied Govern- ments and military experts should take care that the public in each Allied country is provided with authoritative statements and argu- ments that will reconcile public opinion to the slow and waiting game. Just now doubt as to precision of Allied planning and quickness of Allied action is depressingly deepened by the situation in Russia. Here German initiative and advance are menacingly apparent. Yet here again the Allied attitude is to wait and see the evil done instead of trying to avert it. To say Allied attitude in this case, however, is not strictly fair. Great Britain, France and Japan are urging definite and imme diate action in Russia. It appears to be the United States Government that hangs back and yields Germany the lead. —_+-____ “We make onr pledge to the people of France. We make oar pledge, and it is the pledge of a people able to redeem it. We make our pledge that France shall be restored, her beau- tiful territory regarnished, that once more she shall be re- newed in all her strength. We make our pledge that Alsace- Lorraine shall be returned.” ~Charles Evans Hughes at the Rastille Celebration, Madison Square Garden, July 14, 1918. The country owes Mr. Hughes its thanks for a worthy ex- Pression of its feeling. Mis words will stand as the platform upon which the American people unanimously yoted to adopt and to observe henceforth Bastille Day. ————————- —one in lrance, U. 8. Control of Tobacco and Rationing of Supply Likely. —Headline, A just and reasonable war measure, every wife 7 Letters From the People Brother France Can't Get M | D. To the Editor of The Brening World To the Piigopelg’ ba! FAS oe Why is it my brother in France| w, gg hice ould you kindly explain why so does not receive mail from here? Can't} many men in uniform are ready to the Government do anything in re-|C@ll a man in civilian clothes “a gard to this? Have three brothers in |" acker™ army, one in France, whom I bave|_ 7% reason T ask is this: At Rock- away three boys in khaki uniform sent cigars, candy and cigarettes | were walking along. One happened which they have never received. One |to drop two quarters and my brother ie mow in hospital, and this is the | Put his foot out to stop one, which fourth letter I've received from him|Folled in hie direction. One soldier asking why he doesn't hear from me. cried, “Wait a minute, you slacker,” 3 mail bim a letter every week, which | NOW. my brother has a wife and a he never receives. six months’ old baby, and my mother agrees, CONSTANT READER, [40d his wife's mother are both 3 | widows. His wife's two brothers are “Amertca,’ fees bara over in France and already injured in Save ¢ Len " Jaction, If there were any possible Written Long Before the Other. . hig chance of his joining the colors he Te the Editor of The Brewing Work! would Kindly let me know if the English - netional anthem, “God Save the| NOW: ™y-version of a slacker is King,” or whatever their national |®°t ® man who has a sickly wife and ong 1, was writien to the same young baby. My husband is at pres- if ent in France fighting for bis coun- meato as our song, “My Country “Tis! iry, and if I ever thought he acted lke 1 would eather see him shot. , ecencumainnssirs By Nixola G HENEVER I meet a girl in the impression that I have seen her before. And nearly always it turns out that she seems to me a familiar friend, becauso of a labo- riously cultivated resemblance to some heroine of the The Listening Post Copyright, 1918, by The Proms Publiahing Oo, (Th No. I.—THE MOVIE GIRL, By J. H. Cassel T admire physical beauty, A woman's natural choice goes always to the man she considers handsome. 1 know that women have a stock re- mark, “I Just love homely men!” but. Poor dears, they are merely trying to reconcile themselves to what they can get. The movie hero may be of a low order of physical beauty. ‘There is | seldom a hint of intellect or power in his smooth countenance. But at least he looks as if he shaved every day, and he is certainly convincing in the love scenes, If you are a young man you despise the movie hero, beyond a doubt, You reeley-Smith yw York Wrening World). not she is going to be laid off next week or she may have the deeper anxiety which attends a love affair far less certain to end happily than if she had paid fifteen cents (not in- cluding war tax) to see it, Thore is always ‘somebody home” in the head of the girl who works for a living. Even in the rare cases where she starts with an emptiness, some sort of fermentation must go on in her skull if she wants to keep her job, The only absolute doodle | wits among women to-day are cer- tain idle wives, who, knowing noth- films. Mary ford has Pick- have much to learn from him, For it does not matter in the least that you love a woman well enough to die hairpin calling out “Cash!” to June Caprice or Marguerite Clark, Theda Bara has condescended to sell me hats some- times, Olga Petrova has assured me languidly that “this really ts a decen little gowu for such a small pric There is probably no star of the movies who has not her double in every department store, I have wished often that I were a movie heroine, for though the movie girl gets rather more exercise than I like, ber mind enjoys such complete repose, she is so inevitably secure in the hero's love, 60 absolutely guaran- teed against all disturbing thoughts and heretic “isms” that I Ond it in my heart to envy her. A movie heroine may be bound hand and foot and thrown among yawning crocodiles, but how much better to have the crocodiles yawn than to yawn yourself! ‘The movie girl falls in love with the well-dressed hero, gets him in the eighth reel, and of course loves him devotedly to the very last picture on life's screen, ‘The movie heroine is never divorced. She is not much in- terested in woman suffrage, She has never heard of birth control, State en dowment of motherhood, the revolt against marriage, any of the modern nostrums for the alleviation of an- t wrongs, Tho movie girl in real life is not, of course, so untouched by twentieth century thought as her original model upon tho screen, She may look like her, but she cannot be like ber aito gether, For, however lonely or poor the movie heroine may be, we know that love and riches will be hers in the last reel, we know that she will marry the hero, that all her children will have curly hair, never give her @ moment's worry, and turn into bank presidents, Senators and generals ‘The movie girl in real life bas to for her mother if you are too inartic- ulate to tell her so, and all the devo- tion in the world may go for nothing if you kiss her with a day's beard on your face. | A woman told me once that she got a divorce from a model husband be- jcause she could not stana the way [he cleared his throat in the morning on waking up. ling themwelves, do not even realize that there is anything anywhere to know, They are the mental paupers, the intellectual vagrants of life, who, jhaving no resources of their own, |seek amusement tn midnight caba- |rets, and even there are made mis- erable by the sight of other weaithlor| @ttoi#,the surface erace, the easy |paupers wearing better clothes and| makes women admire him, And they moro jowels, ‘The patriotic appeal|do not share the belief of men that he of war service has greatly reduced | Must be a villain because he speaks sinoothly, has his clothes pressed and the number of these parasites on the |js not ashamed to talk about love, New York Girl Types You Know |The Jarr Family Ovorright, 1918. by The Prem Pubiidine Ce. (Toe New York Brenine World) 66] OOK who's here!” cried Mr. Jarr, who happened to be gaz- ing out of the window and down the street (in the direction of Gus's place, according to Mrs. Jarr). ‘The children rushed to the window in the hope it might be a pushcart man with ice cream or something of real interest, It's Uncle Henry!” Mr, Jarr went on, His tone was surprised but not joyous, “Run down and meet him, chil- dren!" exclaimed Mrs. Jarr, who was crossing the room to see. “I feel sure he's come to town to take us all back for & good, long visit to his farm!” The prospective excursion to Arca- dian delights made no great appeal to the Jarr offspring. Little Miss Jarr stuck out her tongue in derision at the idea and Master Jarr frowned sulkily, “I'd rather stay in town and see the movies,” declared Master Jarr, By this time Uncle Henry had ar- rived in the doorway, He removed a large handkerchief from around his neck (disclosing the fact that he was collarless), mopped his face with the there are still some choice specimens to be found among us. brains and energies of others, but| Thore is only one way to win the movie girl and that is to find out her favorite hero and study him nightly on the screen till you get all his little manneriyms down so completely that you might be bis cherished refiect‘on | in the glass. A woman of fifty told a group re- cently with tearful eyes that she thought it a scandalous shame he teverite movie hare shou oh} beth was England's most famous siped about, The man for years was notorious about New York, and noth- Heinen and her history, her ability, her ing new could be sald about him to| Popularity and her vanity are persons familiar with Broadway life. | known No compliment was Yet, to this admiring spinster he was | ever too great for her to believe, and a model man, “I know from the| when Hatton said to her: “To see you beautiful way he makes love,” she| is jeaven, to lack you is hell,” be im- said, “that he could never do any-| mediately won her favor. thing wrong.” Elizabeth Stuart married Friedrich Rather thoughtlessly I joined in the | of Bohemia and they occupied the scoffing that met this innocent pane-| throne but a year when a revolution gyric, for when we were done, the|doposed them, Elizabeth of Russia elderly movie girl said sadly, “I can! was the daughter of Peter the Great never go to see him again now, Ho| She had no desire to rule, and her was my ideal!"* @ mere infant, was placed on 1 felt as if 1 had told a child that|the throne with his mother as regent. there is no Santa Claus or criticised | But Elizabeth had the love of the pro- her first baby to a young mother, | ple and as o result the little King’s The movie girl's admiration for the | mother wanter to get rid of her. First soreen hero is really a part of the| she propose¢ to marry Elizabeth off to instinct of natural selectign which has brought man up from the chim- ELIZABETH LIZABETH has been a favorite E name of royalty, Queen Eliza- r be well to all cousin, he ‘Little Mother’”’ Of the Red Triangle By Helen Rowland Copright 191%, by The Press Publishing Go, (The New York Evening World), “The Ache and the Loneliness in the Heart of a Weil Soldier Hurts Just as Much as a Wound—The Worst Sickness in the Trenches Is Just Plain Homesickness.” a was so pretty that I had to look at her three times Before I could BELIEVE it! She had an aureole of red gold hair, And cheeks the exact shade that one always tries to match at the beauty parlor—but never can! And brown silk eyes full of glints and twinkles, And little white teeth like grains of rice— AND dimples when she laughed! And when we got to talking—as women SOME- TIMES will—— She told me, with a catch of eagerness in her throat and a glow in her eyes, That she was going to France, “gh, almost any day, soon,” For the Y. M. C, A. And when I looked at her and exclaimed in astonishment, “Why, what in the world can YOU do?” She answered quite frankly, ' “1 @on't KNOW! “You see, “The Red Cross wouldn't take me because I can't do much of any- thing, “But I can do a LITTLE of everything! “I can speak French, and cook pretty well, and mend and darn, and sing a little, and play the piano, “And act well enough to fill in minor parts in the plays they give, “And tell a story entertainingly, and read aloud for the lantern slides, and give ‘first aid,’ and make pancakes, and play almost any game. “But MOST of all I can WAIT on people and MOTHER people! “And that’s what every blessed one of those boys over there needs and longs for and misses most-—just ‘mothering!’ “And the very nearest thing to ‘home and Mother’ that any but the sick and wounded ever gets “Is the Y. M. C. A. HUT! “And it's fino and glorious, of course, to be able to nurse a wounded soldier back to life and make him happy and comfortable, “But the ache and the loneliness in the heart of a WELL Soldier “Hurts just as much and more than a wound, “And sometimes he needs ‘mothering’ more than anybody else on earth! “And the worst sickness in the trenches is just plain homesickness! “And so “I am golng over there prepared to do ANYTHING his Motber would do for him, “From checring him up when he's blue, or in the dumps, or bome- sick, “To cheering at his baseball games! | “In short, I am going prepared “Yo work for bim, wait on him, nurse him, amuse bim—— | “And to pray, or sing, or laugh, or sympathize, or play with kim—— “Just like a Mother with a little boy! “Because that’s what it MEANS “To be one of the ‘Little Mothers’ “Of the Red Triangle!” And when she had finished, I looked ‘That SHE could have carried “The Message to Garcia!” ber again, and somchow knew By Roy L. McCardell their own children in the coal and cotton factories? What's to be did with young ones? of kerchief and declared he was “plumb tuckergd out!” “Howdy, Howdy, Clara!” be continued. ad to see you! How's! n' them in idleness and fillin’ the young varmints?” their head with foolish book larnin'! ‘his last was a playful vernacular | They ought to be out in the finids at allusion to the Jarr children, and, to| sun up, bugging the ‘tater vines. emphasize the fact, the rural visitor |Look at me! I hain't got the gift of grasped Master Jarr by tho ears and |gab, but I could go into the halls of essayed to lift him off his feet by |Congress and talk p'intedly to them those auricular appendages. j ter. : “Just to wee,” Uncle Henry ex- | hirelings of Wall Street on the mat- plained, “how much pluck the littie| “What good js education?" ecop- skeozicks has!" jtiaue @ \ nole Henry excitedly, “The The little skeezicks emitted a hor-| Youngsters of to-day learn their | A-B-abs and then they are spiled far ible yell and kicked his venerable u : honest work. What's the good ot relative vigorously in the shins, “Ob, uncle, you mustn't do that!" cried Mrs. Jarr. “The Child's W |'rithmetic? It only shows your hired man that you are cheating him, as be says, out of half his wages. And be {quits you right in harvest!’ So saying, Uncle Henry removed his linen duster and his hat and pushed jhis battered old telescope valise un- Jer the sofa with a kick and declared dinner was ready HE was. fare Society has issued a pampilet pointing out the danger of lifting children by the ears, It ruptures the Hgaments and affects their sense of hearing!” “Drat the boy!" retorted Uncle Henry. “He's taken the bark off my shins! When I was a youngster 1| “How's everything at the farm? was raised to respect my elders, As | How's Aunt Hetty?” asked Mrs. Jarr for them Child Welfare Societies, let | wien the visitor bad ceased hia com- ‘em mind their owi. usiness, Hain’t | plainings. they trying to pass laws to prevent haceinit Bal eink (ein parents living on the honest earnings and all the time, nothin’ complatnin’ Your Namesake? Famous Characters in History and Fiction Who Have Borne the Same Given Name as Yours By Mary Ethel McAuley Copyright, 1918, by The Proms Publishing Co, (The few York Evening World), succeeded in overthrowing th» existing government and placing herself on the throne. Saint Elizabeth of Hungary was the daughter of Andrew, King of Hun- gary, and at the age of four years was betrothed to Louis IV. of Thuringia. From her earliest years to have had an aversion to all worldly pleasures, making the early Christians her model, She married at the age of eighteen, and her husband adopted all her doctrines. After the death of her husband she was deprived of her re- gency because the ministers said she was wasting away her estates in alms, and for several years she and her children lived with only the bare ne- cessities of life. She died at Marburg in 1231 and was cannonized by Pope Gregory IX. on account of the mira- cles reported to have been perforined at her tomb, One of the best beloved Queen Eliza- beths was Elizabeth of Roumania, who a worthless nobleman, and this failing, / died @ few years ago. Elizabeth was|was thirty-seven years old when the she wanted Elizabeth to take the veil.|a German Princess." She married | wedding took place, but no two people OROUL Whaler Oi! Ranen Women, Lac mare Shan Wen, ‘Them pots aroused sieubatin wad ebe| Charles halore be came ta the until I just had to come away for my bealth!" replied Uncle Henry. “I'll tell you what,” be added, “It's ali due to wimmen flyin’ in the face of natur’ these days. They pamper themselves so, and want hired gals to do werk while they sit around not iftin’ a rand, and they live too long. It uster bs that wimmen washed and baked and scrubbed and cooked and |biled soap and worked in the (elds from sunup till sundown, She published many volumes of poetry under the name of “Carmen Sylvia The Queen of Belgium ts also a man Princess named Elizabeth. Wliza- beth Farnese was the Queen of Spain. | She had been married by proxy, but soon obtained complete control over her weak husband. Flizabeth Ross, or Betsy Noss as | was called, made tao fir “In consequence, at forty they was old wimmen and died naturally, and she American flag; Elizabeth Felix was the truc|@ man got another wife, another |name of Rachel, the good, stout, willin' woman, and Elizabeth Fry was a gr started in again taking up more land pist, Elizabeth Sewell of | Wight wrote “Amy He beth Stuart Phelps was a lecturer wrote "Gates Ajar;" Elizimty sid was the wife of Dante Gabriel Ros: and payin’ off another mortgage. But nowadays, what with sittin’ at their ease in rockin’ cheers and buyin’ store clothes and canned goods, wim- men have it too easy and live beyond thelr natural span of life!"* “Your conservative beliefs do you great cred jd Mr. Jarr, “Well, I hain't braggin’ none about them,” said Uncle Henry in a grumbe ling tone don't complain none j when T hain’t feeling peart. But what tt, She was a poor girl, a millinery assis. | tant when the artist married her, At) first she served as his model. She died when quite young from an over disc | of laudanum which she had taken for neuralgia. Elizabeth Barvett Browning ts the |best known writer by the name of| I do say is that since Congress ma! Elizabeth, and she is perhaps the| a law agin patent medicines and they greatest poetess of the world, Her has to print what's in ‘em, my bittere don’t seem to do me good, Wal, here I am in town, anyway, to buy canned goods, as we are going to give fresh country board to you dwellers again,” | athe : or, marriage to Robert Browning was one of the great romances of all ayes. She wore apples together,