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ee cee Neen TS ae es eae EN NEY Fe me ee eee er ee Da r BR Se Na ae t rr”, EDITORIAL PAGE Tuesday, July 16, 1918 | Stories of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune Beginning the Fourth I By J. H. Cassel York ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH P Published Daily Lxcept Gunsey, the Press Publ ITZER, | ishing Company, Nos. 63 to - Park Row, New York. | : RALPH PULITZER, Presiden ‘ Park Row. | ‘ Copyright, 1048, by te Vreas Publishing Co, (The New York Kreniag World), JOSEPH PULITZBR, Jr, Beoretary, 62 Park Row, | / No, 41—“PRIVATE” MORGAN; The New Jersey Spy Who Helped to Bring About Cornwallis’s Surrender. MEMAER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, | | ’ The Amociated Press exclusively entitied to the nse for remublication of all news Aewatehag | HEY called him “Private” Morgan, not only because he se eliadlnllellaethcestattelleeenteinllethedlecetlemmedlh eee letsodlmceneaedbenars) | Was @ private soldier in the Revolution, but because he UTES fo, ee tee nvevehievevecdererisOeUTneD | he steadfastly refused to be anything else. Again and ; again he declined promotion. This is the reason pee if he gave: te WAR TAXES. “I have ability enough for a private, I am not ae, — ee . . sure my ability would be equal to the work of an i PPOSING precipitate and promiscuous taxing of so-called officer. I prefer to serve within my known capreity.”* “4 i. i luxuries, Senator Thomas of Colorado points a finger straight Private Morgan's first name, by the way, wal ‘ F 7 Charles. 2 N rough a 4 at the place where war levies should fall first: NGAEHBNT TH RUT Leone \ throughout the Revolution in the band of deathlessly famous heroes who were known as the “Jersey Brigade.” Two strong British armies upheld England’s power in America in 1781. One of these, under Gen, Clinton, occupied New York City; while Washington menaced it from the north. The other, led by Cornwallis, wag barrying the South and had its headquarters at Yorktown, Va. Lafayette was seeking to stem the tide of this second redcoat army's activities with a little force of New Jersey men and local raw militia. If either of the two British armies could be destroyed the other must soon surrender or withdraw and America would be free, Washington eluded the British in New York. Before they knew what he was planning to do he had marched around them and was on his way southward to join Lafayette and hem Cornwallis in at Yorktown. At tho same time a French fleet blockaded Yorktown, cuttine off communication with New York. Cornwallis, thus cooped up in Yorktown, would be caught petween our land and sea forces, While this mangeuvre was going on it became necessary, of course, to learn every possible fact concerning Cornwallis's army—its size, its food, its munitions, the weak spots in its defences, “We should provide for a war profits tax as distinguished from the abortion we now have, and which is called an excess { profits tex. I mean a tax on profits resulting from war con ditions as distinguished from profits in normal times. This is the method pursued by other warring nations on both sides of 3 the conflict. It 1s the only sort of war profits tax that can | be consistently imposed without seriously embarrassing busi- | ne: Ra conditions. “A tax on real war profits of 75 per cent. would raise an enormous sum and dispense with the necessity of taxing every- thing in sight.” Great Britain taxes 80 per cent. of the amount by which profits = & have increased since the war. Why shouldn't such a tax be 90 per cent.—or even 99 per cent.? | Onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn® And Lafayette sent for Private Morgan, ve ‘ ; A Spy Is Needed Morgan had been a Jersey farmer before he ki er. National peril ought to make no man the richer. i for Bold Plan. went a-soldiering. He had little education, but Greed should have no chance to sit at home and fatten while the garners Dlenty of brains and a fearless heart. Lafayette was a shrewd Judge of men. That was why he chose Morgan out of all his little army to go into Yorktown as a spy. | Morgan willingly accepted the task. ‘The only stipulation he made was: | “If Lam caught and hanged I ask that a notice be inserted by you in the New Jersey newspapers saying that I was not a traitor but was acting under orders of my commanding officer.” Lafayette readily granted this condition, and Morgan set out on his life-or-death mission. He slunk into the British camp as a deserter from the Yankee Army, He brought along a hard luck story and several bits of well prepared in- » #4 formation (or misinformation) that secured him an instant welcome from the British. Morgan kept his eyes and ears open. He learned much that was to be of mighty use to Washington and e, Within a few days he had made himself perfectly familiar with every detail of the British defenses. ‘At last he was ready to go back to Lafayette. His work at Yorktown was done. But, with a queer twist of American humor, he decided not to go back alone, |" His tales of the fine treatment enjoyed by the Yankee soldiers had | borne fruit. He was able to persuade a squad of British soldiers to desert | with him and accompany him to Lafayette’s best of a nation’s youth and manhood is fighting and falling in the| field. id A man works his hardest for such normal increases of profit as) he can expect in time of peace. Why should huge unearned increments accrue to him out of the mity of war? To go deeper: [very unnecessary dollar drawn from those who toil and make sacrifices while others grow richer is a drain a thousand times more serious pon a naiion at war. . War taxes hastily piled upon fonsumers and workers—from whom such taxes can be collected with least resistance—strike at, industries and disturb earning power at a time when industry and_ + irl 4 * army. earning power are the assets upon which a people must base their) i Ha Obie: Oaserters Oho date night they made thee way stealth, , ' ly ro} yn—Mor} nd his squad o e F British. lly out of Yorktown gan a q Beste hope tortie tarts: | ¢ Vint deserters—and reached the American camp in safety. ‘There Morgan gave Lafayette a full report of everything he had found On the strength of what the spy had told him Lafayette revised cer- tain of his own plans, as did Wastington, Asa result they were far better able to execute their daring plan against Cornwallis than otherwise they could have been. | orhe rest is an old story. Surrounded by with the French cutting off his retreat by sea, Cornwallis was forced to | | | $s | surrender. every sort of programme to take billions of dollars out of the ct ny [oon phe fall of Yorktown marked the real end of the Revolutionary War. ie | | | | | | | for war purposes. And that victory was due in no small degree to the pluck and cleverness of Dead Men’s Shoes By Sophie rene Loeb’ The Jarr Family A A it | Private Morgan of New Jersey, who, by the way, still refused promotion But these bureaus seem so far little concerned with the prob! Coorriatt. 1918 by The Prem Pubittine Ce, on the highest kind of service, but| Doubtless the publisher reasoned ja | Coovrisht, 1918 by The Prem Pusishine Gx, | “Spill them big wolds in this ear,| Said the object of these remarks, ris- Even under pressure of war, Federal authority in the United * Stafes should yield to the Government of no other country in the! care and intelligence with which it goes about the business of war, taxation. | Americans to landward and War bureaus at ‘Washington in their first zeal are ready with 2 | or reward of any kind for what he had done, of leaving in place of those billions an indispensable collateral of in- dustry, confidence and continuing prosperity. The people of the United States have not been accustomed te} war chests. Autocracy never taught them to hand over vast sums (Tae New York Evening World). never served anybody in their lives, | a similar way. He had watched meal tee. Kock Brealsa: Work!) ea | He other's full,” said the artless|ing to her feet. “I ain't making no URING the last week the will of “My troubles were many. Often ‘ JST you really go?” asked) h “But my holler is| cracks at your frien she added to rine . ; he ai) : , t} c ve in his office and workrooms—men | prattler wearily jut m of money to be stored away until rulers saw fit to use them. the famous restaurateur, Jean | then some prominent patron growled|who had given long and continne3| Mrs. Jurr as she saw that| because we go out for big doings and| Mr. Silver, “but I'm about as happy The only war chest the American people know is their ability Haptiste Martin, was probated, | at me for having spilled a drop of| service, doing their best to make his | her guests, Mr. Jack Silver | im put to playing small time!” as a crutch in this snare, and, any- ek 1 and in that will he shares his busi- | water on his coat sleeve, or some sim-| business a success. erstwhile bachelor, and Miss Birdie) yy, jarr rightly conjectured that Way, non-professional people git on to work and earn ness with his employees ilar trifle, and then reported it to the| Douptless he had seen these human , Maginnis, Professionally known 48/ tne young lady had expected a joy- | My noives esides, it cheapens a per- Weaken their faith in that ability by hit-or-miss prodigies of tax-| A.few days ago a publisher died | manager. The humiliation he meted] horses of his industry grow gray in| «+ Superba, the Firefly Venus,” were} ,45 evening, and was disappointed former Prince Yellow Boy woiked 6 od and left the bulk | Out to me was almost more than I about to depart. They had surprised) that Mr. Silver had brought her to|!M 4 billiard parlor in Albilene one of his fortune fur | could bear. the Jarrs very much by the call. | winter, and after that he was # dead the building of a| “Yet L kept on. I stood the ‘gaff’ “Me for the fade away,” replied [card as an attraction on the alfalfe. home and the| and worked through. Although peo-| minute and alive, Miss Maginnis, with a bored air, ciroult and got canceled right and care of needy | ple might say that I owe all of my| fe would not forget “them. ana|{WHeR all a young girl bas is her] ee That's why, if pessible, every- men who work in| Success to my own efforts, yet L never! ie died with the feeling that, he haa | *88er and that means to cut the swell | id the | PUY scoffs and eps in the car or that line of busi. | Could have made this money alot Paid them in full, and if they did not ep biaes — a ai n on the grounds. I know a sword . ON a ° , sh " % ge arjecte swallower who done a Anwcae ness. No man can 90 anything alone.|pyeneft then, their brothers would, a syed Un bad fe tag t al r WA lone window a Both of theso|He must have helpers, And there] ne balance waa thate: | Mrs, Jarr with some hauteur. “No one : » ne a new brand of bake things are wo! h | helpers helped me to my fortune 1 When you read of such cases ag | ee scoffing, and while I might ques- os en and he ain't had time since. thinking about, |Can feel their pain, because I have |this you want to shake the band of| Hom the tani ees gl airtight cabin of this kind, T uowgnt Haste work People who prate|S0ne through the same process. Uline dead—or rather the living, for h pn me 7 2s eae interrupted) y way goin’ to be brung to a rond-|)¢ ind stall for a ring-drop fleet of that the world is getting worse might |°#® understand their trials and tll-| such nand can never die, It points ne reny etiet But a Mawr ouse or two,” she added, plaintively esate a © street carn may be carried ont with a wisdom that shall never lose sight of the| Nel! Teview this and many other in- |Ulations because I was in their shoos.| ine Anger of progress in the realm of| © tp the scofin’ till you'd think she'd) ..1¢ | was to pass up starchy food and |? , ny like to make Pe eae ‘ stances of the growing work of the |A BUmber of them were not as strong | mankind, bust, and to know YOU must pass up| i 44 Jemonades, at least £ might act that the purpose and destiny of the United States extend beyond| brotherhood of man." It is not |#% Ty and therefore were not equal Compare him with the rich Seer ae nase ta yca cutie | be. took where there is Juss musi . : ee : ‘ ‘ % Moers ith the rich man : wig, | Be, took h s the winning of the war, into an era of re-established peace, industry 4™s-Pambs. be ORS RHC like me, yet they | who provides for all his lasy relatives ey a eae ead Win: RS vm 18-8 GU Aa Nel lee it is somethiag fo " metic i be mah ON | but I want to know what's goin’ on. ‘ L and national well-being. | Also it is somethiag for men of who have been waiting for years for| has worked up from a lady swimmer | PUt ! want to kno remarkable! Amid cultured su:- ; , [money to think long nd earnestly dead men's shoes, content to live in| with water carnival shows to color! “The young lady pines for excite- | roundings she would make a charm- A reminder to this effect should hang in each House of Con.|*20ut these worthy deeds. 1 am the meantime on a so-called respecta- | effeck poses in vaudeville and has to| ment,” said Mr, Jarr, “She, if 1 do /ing and ideal confident that when Martin was his service, weary and wan, and un- able to keep up with the young blood | necessary to keep the work up to the ation that check the normal flow of money and paralyze indusiry| this quiet home. “Now, Birdie, child!” said Mr ver, eagerly, “you know that wh your mother entrusted you to me “That's all Mawr's bunk, wearied Miss Maginnis, “She thinks that’s the best ballyho with you, but if 1 can’t hit the scoffin in the swell cabarets, I ain't to be brung to an} after industry, and you undermine more than their power and endur-| ance for war For, again, there is one prayer—it cannot be too often insist-d } | ja which should be constantly jn every American heart: That for the sake of the future in a wider sense than t of | security won by a victorious conclusion of the war, the great procs little white stone out- Dorwin ek one of turning this peace-loving Nation into a formidable fighting power! myself cheap with priva "I think you @ very shrewd “Shrewd! Her ady friend aid Me, Jarr intelligence “L know their needs, One of them is the bit of help when it is needed t.ost—the chance in business, the op- wie.” gress 5 e, do! t iti : stake, 10! or excitement |. . ess, in every Committee Room and in every Department and War portunity to go forward a step, the Ble Mame, doing nothing but waiting| starve yerself for the sake of yore | not mistake, longs for the exciteme Are you engaged?” asked Mrs. Bi Was! . thinking about his will he spoke to |titue upward pu whep it is needed | UBtil such a time as they can spend. shape?" and pleasures of cabaret guyety and | y,,,. ureau in Washington, | himpelf something like this most, Therefore 1 am going to give| W8atethers have earned. Surely this| “She means that for the sake of| colored ragtime singers, even thOUBM | ate, to this party aeked the on + a “L came to this country with $$ in/it to them, They deserve it more|CO™MParison ts significant. More and|her art she must maintain a diet to) as she plaintively admits, eer ty | my pocket. 1 have accumulated »|than any others beca: hall more are people awakened to study | keep her shapely contour,” said Mr,| deny herself pleasures of ne . > more | t ° cause they helped if ‘ A L et ters rom ‘ h € I eop | e than a million, T went into one busi- | make it the question, "Am I my brother's) Silver, “She pratties like an artless | tabl i Prenivi ton an the People See 1 the Government doesn't think| POS# and stayed in it, Of course 1| And thefefore Martin's work wili| Keeper?” (child, you know! |__ "ie you ain't a-going to Aut TOM" ined for having a husbin’ botherin’ the or ‘he Even n ‘orld | Sepa a _ ' . I have just recei letter | Worked hard—very, very ha as} go on, becaus ft his bus! une e, read a letter in your paper on have just received a let i a y ry hard. It was|go on, because he has left his busi- nd om Bip tod <—— from my boy in France asking if 1| 0 easy thing to wajt on discriminat-|oess with those who will continue it ¢ “You see, she h Prohibition signed “A Daily Reader,’ | sanihg tft} ; Hnate | i] continue it, leslie ordon , she hasn't eich : Ftias en pia persia 1 forgotten that I had a boy “over| [nf people with their fancies and foj-| 4nd better things will come because (@) fe) omen Ss By L thought!" cried the. del ap ye ee ued ¢ ‘91 there," as he had received y three | bles—people many of whom insisted|of such beneficenc 8 come home after a hard day's work by i received only ‘three rene ne WOM nsiated such beneficence 1 and have to drink near beer, but that afer Jan. 1, 3818, "we won't Ogu gent nin Reeeees heen ace team, Locomotive May BeDoomed Make Your Own Rugs Wine euarats ertatcaeagn re aro MUStl young lady, “4 s me tired! Mawr thinks she's fallen for somepin soft, but not | fpr me! I'm too re- nercenary hted Mr, “When one has met the shal- rficial, designing girls 1 hays company of un unspoilod | ous Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) it a little tighter. From time to time | low, etters from me since go able to get any beer at ali.” Also 4 a HE old fashioned braided or the thickness of the material—that is, on who scorns to flatter a . never been delivered and never re 8S THE at agp " ; ue he » keeping it flat. jis positively refreshing!” By that he has a feeling of rebellion) turned, 1 can conceive of no 1 3 steam locomotive, which, the cguntry's waterfalls and streams crocheted rugs our grandmoth-|heavy’ material should not be cut) por 4 round rug begin to coil tho] #7 Mi fa bis heart at the way a minority'| getter culonlated to discaue Ry dat ter many years of faithful ser-|Much of Which could be utilized in| ets loved to make in their/more than three-fourths of an inch| paid round and round and keep it|acidly, “ont do said Mrs, Jar> uted to discourage and| ‘ ee acid! “but as the young lady is as in the oval rug. “Hit or|iémpatient to be amid more congent Surroundings, it were a pity to de- tain her.” of selfish Probibitionists can make inem ; ae vico, bas been developed to a point | HIViS Our greas railroad trame lieisure moments are now much used | wide, and thin material, if it is at all| qa: elent a > fellow ndeed, one stern lw r d 7 c g people where it cai but litte impro ay sys ol 8 e' - | sh y, may have Y ches laws to deprive the working people! wway from home than. not hearing | ni a a be ut Je impr ved: \tem is ilready operating trains by |!) all well furnished summer bunga- | sleazy, may have to be cut 14 inches of things they want und wish to| regularly from his friends, Second |v’ t9 Sradual disappearance? | power generated at hydro-electric | lows as well as in the most preten-|wide to make it the same weight IM] ooiors, are most effective made with Use in moderation. 1 wish to say he| only to the ultimate success of ine The gravest modern industrial charge | plants high in the Rocky Mountalns.| tious houses, They also make de-|the rug. About a pound and a quar —_~.»—____ ] either plain centres or borders, ot A "5 ie brolat a “0; | From Harrowton, Mont. to Ave cove! . ’ a s ‘ is not the only one who has the| war \s brought against it. Compared with | yano, a distanes Of dO) talee etd |lightful Moor coverings for apartment | ter of rags will make one square yard /yorn, In changing from one band of Our First Rear Adnmirals, same feeling of rebellion. In fact, I Soll render miss” rugs, that is, rugs of mixed is our interest in our loved ones Jand we huve a right to expect and | (he seetric locomotive, it is ineMcient. | which Includes the difficult. section | bedrooms. A woman who has had |of rug. Lap the ends of the pleces| ior to another let a color band end HB first Rear Admiral 5 personally know several hundred) demand that our Government deliver | Of te energy in the coal consumed by |erossing the Continental Divide, its| foresight enough to keep a rag bagjand sew them several times with!,, inch beyond its beginning. ‘Th United Giataneity wet , (i f the best steam locomot ont ».| trains are now hauled by e ie lo- © 1 pasure trove. | strong y a i sf mh if ea Navy were com- A ppc in this elty (Hartford, | the letters that they a al home| iit Dest sisem toooractive only’ ber | iehine, dee Ram Nauled by electsio 10> will and It s veritable treasure trove. |a\rong tread. aM uke long striPs 19 lgives the rug a betier appearance tissioned in 1863, when thes : orn.) working in munition factor-|so anxiously look for, The Evening | and elivered in| to the Pacific, ’ Any material can be used to je way and wind them® into balls!” praided ruga can be very quickly|rank was created by act ot Goo” jes, who feel the same way. This| World would |tractive force at the driving wheels one of these rugs, from heavy wool-| before beginning. Some people can render a great public country of ours has been taking ad-| service by correcting Coal saving does not tell the whole 4 made if a piece of carpet is used for| 8Tess. David F and drawbar, The remaining 92 to|story; at a time last winter whe gut, for his valor in the Civil Wa » was made this matt lien to the flimsiest of cotton or silk |braid more evenly by fastening one t the centre, Shape this into a round, | x vice and lessons from our Allies on A SOLDIER'S FATHER, | "3 Pet cent is wasted in friction and every bt a locomotive in the Rocky | fabrics, Old silks make very beau-jend of euch strip to a chair, But) ouare or oblong that embodies a Vice Adm. in 1864, and two yea varfare "Theat lc . writes H, Wintleld Secs Mountain district was frozen, traffic Pieces of woollen dresses, | ichever we ou braid be sure to ‘ nbodies a roth wank of Admiral in’ th Sierrining rewarding Warfare 8nd! Ave Neuve Soldiers OUBRIEGT [ye iuccteiet) ec ceriten eee oom" | went ahend as usval'on this division, | eu) Fuge Pieces Of woolle Kee ee ae eee hee tioch aa eyag [pleasing design. If the square form| United States Navy was establishe how to win the war. We also should | To te kavior of Toe Ewning Wor'd al Exp . In zero weather it i# dificult to make | old stockings and winter underflan- | fold in the edges of the cloth as you) i, chosen, round each corner a little, | fo" the purpose of honoring him, follow suit on the liquor question and| Will ome one tell the colored peo- © railroads of the country con-| steam, but the hauling power of t have our light wines and our becr|ple of New York City why no can. {%¥Med 150,000,000 tons of coal in 1917, ony rie Lononia tive tually increases.) mats, Heavy rugs can be braided | always on top. the same as they have, and which| teen service is ever at the disposal of | Miectric locomotives substituted for eu ignreee Pavone ine for) com bits of old trousers, coats, vests | ‘To make an oval rug begin by doub- they find to be indispensable, colored troops when they go through| tie steam type would have saved!erease in avallable capacity of tracks |or blankets. Even old towels and| ling a length of braid sixteen inches T. P. 8—-ANOTHER WORKMA the city? Why, when colored soldiers |tWo-thinds of this vast amount, or|and other facilities has been demon- | sheets can be used, for they may be | long, taking great care to keep it flat. a alesttg ine ' eavy canvas or} miral. ‘The title Pe “ade ogi are estas Se he, White. contac | 100,000,000 tons, and at a time when|stfated. Electric locomotives have | sete 7 Sabah caith Gini Rane inal minien the wronm aide awit : Y / fle of Admiral waa ‘To the Kikor of Toe Kmening World Buse avn) wanlnats Wissanerss (tual lathe country's vital problem, | Permitted a speeding up sof train Signed tn dye, 9F Wael F ‘4 ticking and tacked securely in s@y-| first used in France, and the firet + badued J b schedules by some 25 per cent, under | ap. a heavy waxed thread, Using an over-| ora) places, When the cary French Admiral was appoint ‘One of your correspondents asks] Why colored canteen workers cannot] Furthermore, electric motive power|average conditions, says EW, Tice | “Hit or miss” effects are the easicst | hand stitch sucn as ane employs to B Sarat le Ot) tat Ate ra later the title wae «, OK y y y t b thi % ¢ i, the question, “Are our beloved sol-| D6 placed on duty. to see their own (sh not be entirely dependent on {JF President of the American ‘Insti- | for peginners, Cut or tear the material | sew lace on underwear. If the rug is|too tive and eave sence eg (fe at-| adopted by ‘the English, and the nels are useful in producing strong |braid and try to keep the flat part The grade of Admiral was revived Bits of Brussels or tapestry carpet | in ish) und conformed way TN are especially suited to tHis, as they| Dewey, the hero of Manila. ‘The are so firm they cannot pucker, If| highest rank of American naval offic ingrain carpet is selected it shouid| C/T", IN active service was, up to a first be lined with h | RODEd UE rerhat of Roar Ads ) 4 t tt and sa’ oy ers who are giving their 8 not wish to be troubled with them? It Is estimaged that 25,000,000 | ‘ute of Klectrical Engineers. A speed | io" string grom one inch to 1% inches | inclined to bind on the edge hold the a Hy ere oie maraaane TAG Of Acmiral of the Hngtish seas pare = civic DEMOCRACY, ? of 130 mil ee! first pownE gan be developed trom|ina special tose DM Dee Made] ove width should depend bm bruld a trifle loose, It it ruffles hele 'gart to shape. +l eourae by Komatsu” wate cow bo 4