The evening world. Newspaper, July 23, 1918, Page 14

as ESTARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Publidhed Daily Except sun Y, by Publishing Company, 63 Pal ‘ew York RALPIT Pt dent, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH P MEMDER OF THR eee Stas ey tnt te Tae pot otherwise crwilted in th — VOLUME 5: THE FIRST HOT SPELL. EDITORIAL PAGE | Tuesday, July 23, 1918 Nos, 53 to) | OT WEATHER has hit New York—just as wise New Yorkera| for a month past have b “because the pn reminding one another it would, w of averages is bound,” ete., ete. after year, season after season, everybody trails along after the weather with the same formulas to console for the little that can be done about it. Up to the present hot spell, the city hasn’t had to complain much of the heat this summer. under way there are only about six.weeks ahead during which ary thing like periods of sustained sweltering need be dreaded. ‘Though the second half of September often brings hot days, it does not bring many at a time. Last summer is remembered for a cruel seven days and nights in August the cumulative effect of which wore heavily upon worker in the city. The preceding part of the summer, however, had b nothing like as coo! as latter June and the first half of July this year Not only have the earlier cool days left New Yorkers mo vitality than usual with which to meet a hot wave, but there is also the fact that never has a summer found almost every one with so much to do and think about beyond taking care of his personal comfort. Tdleness is against the law, prolonged pursuit of pleasure is not looked upon with favor and the great majority of Americans are taking vacations mainly for the renewed health and strength to be gotten therefrom. Conditions that stimulate persons to extra interest and energy leave them loss time to think about the heat and consequently dimin ish their sufferings from the heat. For it is well known that the] coolest people in hot weather are those who manage to keep the} height of the thermometer among the things that rest least heay v| on their minds. to push steadily ahead through all weathers with work upon which the winning of the war dircetly depends as well ax with that wider! industry which must be the country’s strongest ass \ war lasts and after victory is won. Whenever they think of those other young New Yorkers toiling,| . fighting, pursuing, straining every fibre of body and soul to the task] 4 © of pushing Germans back across the fields of France—where also the {# sammer gun produced a temperature of 91 degrees Fahrenheit dur’ } some of thé fiercest fighting of the past few days—hot weather ~ going to seem worth surrendering to in New York. ———_-+ A GERMAN TO GERMANS. OT ALL the celebrating of the anniversary of Belgian inéo | pendence came from Allied peoples. What about the, following? bl et both while the 4 i | w Yorkers have not shown themselves behindhand in resolve ; tag] t| “Can a country be regarded as an independet state which fs only to be returned to the owners when negotiations with twenty other states have reached a favorable conclusion? “Can a country be regarded as independent which before its return must undertake to adapt its policy and economy and consequently its entire state life to the will of any enemy power still ruling its soil, which must guarantee that power against British, French and American thirst for revenge and must even be friends of that power and grant it privileged confidence? “International law forbids Germany to retain even one pebble of Belgian streets and commands Germany to restore Belgium to the conditions before invasion.” The above might have been uttered behind the shutters of any| Buse in Brussels last Sunday or cried aloud at any celebration of Belgian Independence Day in Paris, London or New York. Nevertheless the words are the words of Maximilian Harden, | @iscussing in the current number of Die Zukunft the recent evasive! declaration of the German Chancellor regarding Belgium. | ‘They were written by a German for Germans to read. Letters From athe to eu People Are “Requisitions” Fair Play? ut from the Mst. Still you can | ‘Te Be Editor of The Evaing Word at) And as next week will see Augvst One Woman's Will Oorrriatl 1918 by The Prem Publisiit Oe, have been hit in the strugysio, yet as (The New York Evening World) | soon as they are well they go out on will the battlefield just the same as the was probated in a Surrogate's! soldier, court, and it was found that she bequeathed the residue of her estate to aid suf- fering animals. In one clause she provided for the | painless killing of old family horses It is worth while, in passing, I venture to say that future history will record great deeds of animals hn war time, Therefore it is certainly ‘of note that they are earning their tight for protection, This woman doubtless considered tt all During the summer as you go a the streets you will see stray hung ‘has left behind when ‘he moved away to state that this OF Went to the country for the sea- woman, Lola M,|900. I would like to see such people Hendrickson, had thought long and /Punished by due process of law. carnestly before she made her will.) There ts no greater cruelty to ani- Liv sat cln mals than this, saw many a hors Only a few days ago I was passing streets. She saw cruel drivers beat-'one of the fashlonable streets near ing horses unmercifully, thinking they /fMufth Avenue when I heard the cry could “get away with it." In a word, ofa cat in some cellar, It was a she felt the great need of aid for ani- | fine house, but the cat had been im- long cats, that some thoughtless owner | mals who could not speak to tell their prigoned there and could not get out Cormriedt, 1918 we Howe Prihuahing (0, New York Brenig World), By Sophie Irene Loeb | ° jhe had seen the cat around bat had done nothing to get it food, Such tack of feeling is inhuman, I suggested to the man that if ne |didn’t want to get food for the cat ll he need do was telephone to the Society for the Preventfon of Cruelty Animals, to some similar or- ganization, such as the Bide-a-Wee ome, to come and get the cat re for it or painlessly put it out of its misery, to or | and Anyone can do this, at least, It ts not only our privilege but our etvic duty—to spend a nickel on a tele- phone call in the of some poor, speechless, living thing. While we all haven't got money to leave in wills for the help of poor, dumb crea- tures, we can do our little part every day, interest | As we go along and see a suffering | is here too? Well, I'll admit the Dink-|than you'll have here if you insist | Mr. Dinkston. one, we can pause for a minute even in our busy existence and do some- | thing, It is so easy. By J. H. Cassel Stories of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune Cooyriht, 1918, by The Pram Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World). No 43—STEIBER, the Master Spy of Bismarck. E was a cringing, oily chap, with big ears and a swollen nose and shifty little eyes, and with large, long hands, which he used to clasp and unclasp as if washing them in an unseen basin. Everybody de- tested him—except Bismarck, who put him at the head of Prussia’s huge spider-web spy system. The arch-spy’s name was Steiber, He called himself @ doctor. It was in 1864 that Steiber first caught the atten- tion of Bismarck, who was even then dreaming of changing Prussia frum a mere kingdom into the cen- tral point of a German empire and of making that empire the most power ful on earth—all by means of brute force aided by trickery. Bismarck was a granite giant, as unscrupulous as he was brilliant. He was Chancellor to the King of Prussia (the present Kaiser's grand- father), and the essence of all that is deadly in Prussianism. Among other traits Bismarck was a hog. He could eat and drink mcre, it was said, than He could swallow a quart of champagne at one Here is Barton's account of Bismarck's usual breakfast: “It consisted of six eggs, a beefsteak, several slices 6f pheasant, a dish of fried potatoes, a plate of rye bread, cakes, three hugs cups of coffee and a quart of red wine. He was # ‘chain-smoker,’ each cigar being lighted by the stub of its predecessor.” In 1864 Bismarck decided that Bohemia would look well on Prussi map, So he sent Steiber to spy out the country. As a result of Steiber’ ample reports Prussia fell upon weak little un- Camm prepared Bohemia and crushed it at one mighty Prussia Crushes blow Weak Stat Next Bismarck lured Austria into taking the rr iion’s share of the work and the blame for stealing the Elbe duchies (Schleswig-Holstein) from Den- ef war of 1866, he snatched them from Austria and any other man in Europe. draught. mark, ‘Then, in the b added them to Prussia, By this time he was ready for larger game, Summoning Dr. Stefber, he sent him to France at the head of a spy system that included thousands of crafty men and women. For two years (from 1867 to 1869) Steiber and his subordinates worked secretly and brilliantly throughout France, They disguised themselves when necessary—sometimes even joining the French Army, sometimes hir- jing themselves as servants in statesmen’s hous Under the very noses of the unsuspecting French this secret horde of Steiber's labored. Maps of forts, of guns, of territory, of garrison cities were obtained, and countless photoeraphs. Military and diplomatic facts of a hidden nature were ferreted out, The methods of drilling the French Army, the |Corps manoeuvres, the personnel of the General Staff—all were studied. Trinkfuls of documents were smuggled across the frontier to Bis- marck, who, with Moitke and other strategists, studied these maps and lists ind photographs and reports and laid their plans according! | It seems impossiMte that all this could have been done without arousing French suspicion. Yet it was. France just then was misruled by Napoleon |1IT., a charlatan, whom his people later kicked off the throne. Graft and |incompetence were rampant in ofteial circles. iber took due advantage jot this rotten state of affairs, and of gallant France's rank unpreparedne | | When all was ready he returned to Berlin. Bismarck then set in motion the s machinery which presently produced the Franco-Prussian war, Steiber had done his work with a devilish thoroughness, France was in | the position of one who sits with his back to a mirror to play poker with 4 There could be but one result. The French, when adequately led, have usually Provea themselves the very greatest soldiers in the whele world, History shows that. But against an enemy who knew their vital military secrets and could forestall each step of theirs they battled in vain. Says one war chronicler: “Two armies were responsi! for the defeat of France in the Franco- was the German military army in 1 and one was army which invaded France in 1867, 1868 and 1869." } ber was laden down with decorations for his treach | Pockets were stuffed with gold, marck actually invited him to dinner as ja mark of his princely esteem, But his methods were too dirty for even the average German officer to endure. Many such officers refused to shake hands with him, mucn less to let him eat at th regimental mess, i Among the namerable smears on the greasy page history not the least filthy is that which was left there by the bony fingers of Dr Stetber—the arch-spy of the nineteenth century, Barrer card sharp. } Spy's Cleverness } eee rous work, His Coowright 1018 by The Prem Publishing Oo, he New York ing World.) S Mrs, Jarr opened the door to admit Mr. Jarr, that individual remarked gayly that he could hear she had company. “It is not my company, it is YOUR company!” replied Mrs. Jarr in cold storage accents, | “My company? Why, I'r1 just get- ting home," replied Mr. Jarr, | “Well, you don't mean to say that | this man Dinkston 1s any friend of MINE, do you?” asked Mrs, Jarr angrily. | Mr, Jarr had caught the grating voice of Mrs. Gratch advocating cruel and unusual punishments for those Senators who are cold to equal suf- | frage. with great deliberation and said: “Oh, Dinkston's bride, Mrs. Gratch, ston, But I deny the Gratch,” ‘Never mind he: said Mrs, Jarr. And when you|"But I want you to get that man The Jarr Family So Mr. Jarr hung up his hat By Roy L. McCardell and will not professional married to Dinkston take his All pleaders for any Cause are expec to be more or less eccentric mever to have carfare or the money to get out propaganda printing. | “They've always lost their purse or have temporarily overdrawn the accounts, or need for postage, to get out pamphlets ¢ the printer won't give up till he's p: But that man Dinkston! His senti- | ments on marriage are Bolsheviki, | and no good wife would countenance | Such things from callers, even if it’ her own husband." “Am I only a caller at your home sked Mr, Jarr. ' “It would se Mr, have there! Don't you havn't seen me Hush! Intuitively that a weighty where." Mr. Jarr won reproach me because for six months, you must deduce matter held me else- name red if the weighty matter had been a ball and chain, Were you on a secret mission for the Government?” asked Mr, Jarr, “I thought perhaps you had gone to fight in Flanders and had been num- bered with the dead.” “On the contrary, I was numbered among the living,” said the tactful Dinkston This also was had been 2,127 “It was too bad you neglected us 0 jlong. Were you in welfare work, con- nected with some educational institu- tion?” inquired Mr. Jarr. exactly educational,” rejoined “But I in @ meas- jure cloistered from the world. Like Wait a min-| Othello, I have ‘done the State some cash or true. His number m 50," is preg more meals un¢ was the reply. ring himself pr this roof Dinkston it “Not [1 put up with it, But I won't!" “But wait a minute! a go into the stores here and purchase any quantity you desire and throw | jit away if you like, But our boys are deprived of it—the one luxury | they ask for, Can't I note in your paper two letters! signed “Fair Play” and “M. A. E,,” relative to “Requisitions.” I heartily agree with both writers and protest | woes, It is commendable, to say the least. While the war is on and human life is at stake, and human blood is being uid Mr, Jarr soothingly. “You | service.’ They would not let me go." say Mrs. Grotch is a pleader for| “Your health good?” asked Mr, Jarr, various Causes; does she only plead,| “Oh, fairly so, save my old affliction or is she also militant?” of chronic thirst. Ahem! That re- Upon investigation I found that the tpeople who live in the house had tone to the country for the summer, Right next to this place isa noted |have gone home and thought apout| Dinkston out of here, and right away, it the smile of satisfaction will come | too! What would I do if Mrs, Stry- {almost unconsciously, for there !s|ver were to call, or Mrs, Goldieigh, noth.ng so exhilarating, so inspiring|or even Clara Mudridge-Smith, or - against this unfair method. 1 have been told that officers “over there” receive packages daily, but when a man in the ranks needs some things “wich he cannot purchase “over ~W there,” ne has a hard time getting |... 4) ome of these abominable requisitions. | Ts this fair? ‘There are thousands of others who, | #1 am sure agree with me, and if any| of them read this letter, 1 appeal to them to voice their protest and in = that way cheer our boys as much as) ie im our power. Asa daily reader! We are told to write often, and| et your valuable paper, 1 know that] always cheerful letters: Ayplrnt ney ip Foe are “with the public.” and 1. in| mind one package of clgarettes and the mame of humanity, call upon you! war of chocolate from home d : e does * to help us tn eee f B.H.K. | more good than half a dozen letters, Why Can't the Boys Have C: The boys miss the little luxuries that Po te Eater of The trang Wort: | we tormerly were able to send. over Being © constant reader of your! nq some of them are fecling very paper and noting your interest in the |) 1top, boys “over there,” I would thank you to publish these facts. My son sent me two letters from France post- marked June 28, and I received them two weeks ago, On July 191 received two additional letters postenarked 4 18. Can you tell me the reason for this? Im the month of March I sent him ‘three boxes and up to June 21 they "were not received. That seems a pity something be done to give them some little pleas ure and make them feel as if som one 1s thinking of them? ; A MOTHER, No More Candy from Home. the Editor of The Evening Word I have been much Interested in the letters about “Requisitions.” Several dear friends of mine have} been in France for almost a r | during which time I was able to send them packages regularly, but now they can't get them, A letter I received last week wus written by a chap who had read an article in one of our daily papers, in which some one assured the folk back home that the boys are able to buy candy and tobacco at cost from Canteens. This chap indignantly wrote that only once In his entire year over there was he within three miles of a canteen, The men see the French and English soldiers getting their packages from home. Is there any reason why they shouldn't feel bitter? The Evening World usually gets everything it goes after, Won't Last week 1 went into a store that spilt every minute, the majority of US| oiup house, and here was thie poor are paturally thinking how we can cat almost starved to death, One of best alleviate the distress of human |yng men from the club house told me kind, In this effort we ore prone to Jas the fecling that during the {you have done a kind act in the ald of a defenseless animal, any | any of the other nice people I know— and find him here? Mrs. Gratch | they can understand, even if she Is forget the dumb brute because he has a secondary claim upon us, Yet when e read the history of the war, every day you will find that dumb anim are doing their bit right on the b tlefield. You are told of rescucs of suffering soldiers made oy faithful dogs. You are told how such avimals | right 1918 by The Prom Publid\ine Ca erTritie New York Hrenine, Work) 66TAID you ever run across one D of those dreamers who al- ways try to spill the idea FAITH. | tnat they're so heavy with cash that “cs ED have more prayers an- | they'd bust any scales they hopped W swered,” said Hishop Hoss | onto?” asked Lucile the Waitress of of Muskogee, “if we had |the Friendly Patron, as he began on faith.” | his cantaloupe, ‘oo anany of us are like Willie,| “Often,” he replied. Willie, on @ visit to his uncle's in the| “I guess everybody knows them wountry, admired a fine colt, bicind,” she continued. “You know— “‘Unele, give me that oolt, wili| they're the class of pro bono publico you? he asked, |that tries to wish themselves into “Why, no, William,’ said his uncle, | affluence, or influence, whichever ‘That's a very valuable colt, and 1/| the word is, according to old Dante wouldn't afford to give him to you, | Webste Do you want a colt so vegy badly? | “You mean Noah, don't you?” “Td rather have a colt than any-| “Naw, I'm not talking about the thine else in the world,’ aid Willie, | flood, I mean the guy that faked up “Then, said his unole, ‘TU tell you| the dictionary, A while ago there what you ought to do, Sines you| was one of these mental wealthies ‘want a oolt that much, you ought to in here, I know him; ho's always pray for onc, Whenever I want a| careful with his coin for fear of thing | alwaya pray for it, and then | being cleaned, but he's never very it is sure to come to me’ \dirty when he first comes in, Well, “‘ls that #0, uncle? said Willic,| this particular victim balances him- It please concentrate on the subject of “requisitions” for a while? M. B accepts orders for goods to be sent eagerly. ‘Won't you please give me! self upon a stool and gets my nanny this colt, then, and pray for one for Might away. yourself?’ "Washington Star, ' Lucile the Waitress jout ten thousand bones in a stock | market deal “ ‘Good,’ I says. ‘ow you can get a new twenty-five cent necktie.’ “What's the matter with the I'm wearin'?’ be asks. ‘It cost new | | | # What was wrong with it? T ask ‘Didn't it suit the man who gave it to you?’ “‘'T paid that for it, myself,’ he says. “You don't show it by the way you juggle the poison card in here,’ I tell him, ‘But how did you win all that money on stocks? “"T was short, Consolidated gas.’ sten, old kid,’ I says, ‘you was never short on gas in your whole existence, You can talk more and say less than anybody who comes in hei When it comes to the noise stuff you got Willis Jenkins O'Brien backed clean out of the boarding house, Conserve your happenstances, kid, Remember, the little lady in the lupron wasn't borned yesterday.” nybody could see that,’ he says. Now that was dirty mean, Him hinting that I wasn't ip the bloom By Bide Dudley when I'm that way I'm apt to get | advice to diners. 1} pointed in my give him one look. “ ‘Listen,’ I says, ‘Tl have know I ain't hit twenty-five what do you think of that “I think,’ he answers, ‘that | marksmanship ain't very good. raaybe you went by it in the dark,’ “That sure was the straw hat that the camel wore on his back. ‘Well, listen,’ I says; ‘you been telling me |for a long time that you just made j4 roll out of this or that, I wisht you'd quit it, Or if it's so, buy your- self a porterhouse steak once and | prove it. All this stock mark stuff ts bluff and I don't care to be made a tin-foll fer your jazz dreams.” “*Pooh!’ he says, ‘You don't even know where the stock market's at.’ “Down at the stockyards,’ 1 say: feeling that a little display of knowl- edge Would stop him, “It did. He eats his fifteen cents’ worth in quietude and then goes out completely sqnshed. ‘Do you think he may have some money in the stock asked the Friendly Patron, “Not a chance!" replied Lucile, “That guy don't know any more about cattle than I do, and I don't know a veal cow from a round-steak you Now your Or mad market “Well’ he says, I just knocked of youth any more made me sore and gteer," aan aueienen minds me that my physician advised Mrs, Jarr, “but, as Taald, T can atana | Me t© Keep the thorax and epigiotus ther. You take her husband, that| Constantly moist, May I aak"— And despite Mra, Jarr’ Dinkston, out of here. It's a pretty emis dares coughing @ state of ra if those are the only |*/a"P negative, Mr. Jarr went out to kind of friends we are to have after | ‘2° sideboard and Mr. Dinkston was BIAS Or OEnGE enabled to follow his physician's ad- vice, But, as Mrs. Jarr said afterward, wait till nation-wide prohibition goes into effect. Then her household will not be visited by the Dinkstons and such like visitations >___ NEWEST THINGS IN SCIENCE. The tall tower of a church in Swit- zerland been equipped to receive time signals sent out by the Riffel Tower in Paris by wireless, * 8 e@ Chiefly for roofing automobdiles, an imitation glass that resembles cellue joid has been invented in Burope, enough,” replied “I guess it won't be hard ‘act Dinkston from remarked Mr. Jarr. | out Gus'y on the corner, and 1} xuess he'll come all right." “You will NOT take him to Gus's, YOU wil not go to Gus's, declared Mrs. Jarr emphati- to sub- the premises,” ‘I can ask him | to and either!" ally Here she sighed “Oh, dear! I suppose that is the only way to get rid of him!" she | added, “Why is it; oh, why is it, that the sort of people you are ashamed of always know where you live, al- ways come to sce wou? While the os nice people you'd like to have visit| Drinking cups are made from phi. you can't even remember you are in ROCeFS horn by natives of Sumatra, the telephone book; especially when| Pomona, ‘at ‘hey counteract they are out automobiling and tell » 86 you afterward of what @ good time they had and how they al! said they wished you had been along. But people who haven't automobiles—who havn't anything but nery Here Mrs, Jarr sighed changed the doleful sub, on in," she added, “He's YOUR friend, So make the most of him!" “Ah, my old roommate at college. My old frat. fellow!" cried Mr, Dink- eton, as he greeted Mr, Jarr, ‘There! More than half of Sweden Is covered jby forests, only Finland having a Breater proportionate area of Umber and, * 8 A patent has been granted for an electric ey operated sand box for jautomol » controlled by butto. on the dash, + 6 ie again ot Pome and eae er Bavaria has a suspension bri¢ with but one tower, the cables arene other end being anch Foes bud, © anchored in @ high