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EDITORIAL PAGE TW Thursday; July 25, UMMA. Ooosright. 1918, by The Ere Piibiinhing Co. (Toe Now York Eventug World.) YSTARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, “Publised Daily Except Sunda; the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to 7 By Albert Payson Terhune 63 Pari Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63_Park Row. Copytigut, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row. | No. 21—CATHERINE THE GREAT. JOSEPH PULITZER,’ Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Kow. \ | santa’ Rien Gana Oe STOCKY figure, clad in the gorgeous uniform of a Rus- MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, ' ; ee wretch - sian General, stood brandishing a sword at the top of 0 nie " - - et PS ST SN Ure Fullaee tee aoe SoIssons — ‘ the palace steps at Petrograd one morning in the middle ~ WOLUME 59 NO. 20,792 | _ ° of the eighteenth century. ‘The great palace square below was thronged with toldiers and their officers, all gazing upward at that solitary sword-brandishing form at the top of the stone stairway, \ ‘The lone figure in the gaudy uniform at the slair + head was not a General at all, but a girl—a German \\ girl at that. She was shouting fiercely at the as#mbled sol- diery, bidding them proclaim her Empress of Russia— a title to which she had no right whatsoever. By her dominant personality and warlike aspect she was seeking to enforce a demand which, by rights. should have landed her in a prison cell. ‘The girl had begun life as the daughter of an obscure German Princess in Stettin, She had been christened “Soph Her mother was wretched!y poor, The child was almost entirely self-educated. She was left to pl iy ali day in the Stettin streets with gutter children, | From these playmates she learned an independence and self-will thi! few princesses ever acquire. She learned the customs of the plain people aad the best way to appeal to their loyalty, Incidentally she learned from the gutter brats a wealth of vile language, a vocabulary of profanity and a distorted moral sense that clung to her through life. A VOTE OF THANKS TO JUDGE SEABURY. TTIZENS of the State of New York owe a vole of thanks to former Justice Samuel Seabury for special services rendered PF ell the Democratic Party of this Commonwealth at Suratoga on f Taesday of the present week. It was little that Judge Seabury had to expect or to ask from a, Democratic conference in which Tammany and Hearst were to sharoj or fight for control. Nevertheless the man who ably represented the better element, of the Democratic Party in this State as its candidate for Governor two years ago journeyed to Saratoga this week and administered to} the convention there assembled an early dose of loyalty and selt.| respect which effectually cleared its system of the Hearst germ, For that service not only Democrats but all good citizens of the! : State are grateful. | It was what the late Tom Grady admitted to have been “the dirtiest day’s work of my life” that gained Hearst a stolen nomination for Governor in the Democratic State Convention of 1906. Judge Seabury can congratulate himself upon one of the best: days’ work in his life in having gone to Saratoga and done his part toward preventing a similar degradation of New York Democracy in the Democratic State Conference of July, 1918. EE | It was an odd upbringing for a princess, and in Panne aiter yours sho turned it all, good and bad alike, to Making the Most § account. of Chances. lizabeth, Empre bearers} own, 0 she adopted nephew, Peter Ulric. The legal heir, Ivan, had been thrown into prison by E th) Having established Peter as heir apparent to the Russian seeptre, Eliz «beth began to look around for a fitting wife for him, and, for some strane reason, her choice fell upon little Sophia of Stettin. The obseure German girl thus became all at once a very great personas She was conducted, in ceremony, to the Russian Court. ‘There her nan was formally changed from “Sophia” to “Catherine,” and she became the wife of Peter Ulric. From the first she despised her stupid, hard-drinking, weak- will bridegroom and took no pains to hide her contempt for him. Peter was no more interested in her than was she in him, He cared for nothing eacep: s of Russia, had no sons of her heir to the imperial crown, her (Peter was not the legal heir, CHATEAU drunkenness and all other forms of dissipation ty The army raincoat scanda! has uncovered other trails of graft While Peter was wasting bic time in worthless ways Catherine was \ and fraud in the furnishing of equipment for the Nation's soldiers using hers to the v best advantage, She was fudy tatecraft and down the grafters! roilitary strategy. She wax winning the worship of the army and the wo! aTuere are no more contemptible scoundrels in the country during approbation of statesmen, At lust came the hour for which she had waited. to-day than men who have schemed to put extre profits into their Elizabeth died. Peter happening to be absent from the capital on vg dirty pockets by manufacturing and .passing on paper shoes or | debauch, Catherine prerabely : ay cea eee te and shoddy overcoats to the fighters at the front. HE aac before the army, bidding the o look upon her as their new commander. B GG Ee ee Catherine had not wrought In vain to win the favor of the soldiery. W 4 Eee tw SEO 1G) DEAS AREAS: wild shouts of enthusiasm they acclaimed her as th _—+ Onn Empress, With the army at her back the rest w | $ Catherine Seizes $ easy for a woman of Catherine's brains, THE JUSTICIA. Regal Power. Back to the cupital hurried Peter to claim nis darren throne, But the throne no longer vacant. Pete F H ‘ ‘ protested, and he was quickly put to death, His was ¥ HE report that a twenty-four hour fight with submarines pre- | the tast real protest against Catherine's rulership. Pe ceded the sinking of the big Allied troopship Justicia would ‘And now the young Empress launched out on ing & seem to indicate that the present practice is to let some | made the name of Russia terrible, r armies ko devils for her sake, and they did not fight without reward. One soldi: ifter another rose to title and wealth because of his military prowess, and such rewards made every other Russian soldier eager to win a like priz n war's lottery. ie “Catherine not only knew how to make soldiers ficht, but she knew how to lead them and to map out their campaigns. With absolute confidence her troops carried out her plans. As a result of her warlike prowess and statesmanship Catherine became e third ruler of her century upon whom history bestowed the title of “The cat'—the two others being Peter the Great of Russia and the Prussti1 Frederick the Great. transports at least return from Europe to the United States with no _- protection save that of their own guns. That troopships bound eastward across the Atlantic laden yq with men must have the strongest guard the combined resources of ‘American, French and British Navies can provide goes without saying. That a million and a quarter of American troops have been landed in France with the loss of less than three hundred is suffi testimony to the high efficiency of the eastward convoy system. ent BE worm isi ite iatseckiedentree| Lhe Idle Public Schools 21 Sophie tee loch |The Jarr Family 8x Rex &. McCardell the Justicia, which could carry between 7,000 and 8,000 troops, is} Ooorrient A . Mt. 1918. by The Crem Pubiiiine CO. | head should be appointed to s| bY their school buildings. Unless a| Gooyright, 1918. by The Prue Publiaaing Oo. just like Clara Mudridge - Smith. | Signor is a refor ed plumber ape lees to be considered than the chance of weakening by ever go little Pied etal ed capesnes Dh ci the agent of the people in their com-| dualified man is secured, a man of AS JANR, halted and tn cool at- | idn't she? a kel ape aire . i the sea guard for the great eastward procession of loaded transports. BS Lag penne woe munity centres, ‘This matter has been] Vision and of democratic feeling, ts M thea, latned powdering her nose. 7 don't Femtemnner ul naa ers bade ; er ‘ if pare u i 8 to me as fol- s be tuca-| Whole idea of community centres ¢ ¥ family’s history," replied Mr. Ja ow does he teac ‘4 / J ‘ pending before the Board of roves i y omy 2” asked y A ae . ; t ‘The Justicia is said to have only just lost sight of land when she lows “ * tion because the law has put the] Will be largely one of “pull” and coa- | yy, fd tai away, lass PRd Cagis ia) masini IDS! : ert th brig id ' was attacked. There is noihing to indicate that there was any escort have corn power of creating such a bureau into] trolled by private groups. ‘ * poe | away?” rte raise 'm not going to withcr away | plied Mrs, Jarr, “At least, I hope I won't for some years to come,” and of destroyers to defend her, and one of the crew stated that severai of the enemy’s torpedoes were exploded by gunfire from the ship that body All right-thinking people, as the “And I tell you I do not like the}on a couch and he piles brick aftes Just now, when the demand on the| man who writes the above letter, dc- how much time expression,” Mrs, Jarr rejoined. “And t mand they” Uroughout the brick on their dixphra ; :3 ; aie veather {8 terribly | must sing the scales with the brick i Fea e public | CommUnLY’ Is Of paramount imper-| plore this unnecessary waste of PUL- line looked again in her glass to con- [Oh doar, the hot weather is err\bist| ts Rio spelen WIth Use bile iteelf. echools atanad| ance these school buildings, in which lic property. If each person would | grm her hopes. byes, but ool our aiid ing the # with five oF six brici.s i 1 . rer bs ions are ested, stand idle, Too] take the interest that this man does] « a cual eave) ing,”| Victories in France and”— sing the . e ors rt While the lost troopship was one of the largest of her kind, it is dia: Aloo you are | milena 450 invowsed, aland:1¢ ne E meant whare) Wire You /o Ae: long has the school been regarded as} in seeing that common rights are but after a while some of the st explained Mr. Jarr. “I'm reading here But,” interrupted Mr. Jarr, firm familiar with the not to be imagined that there will be any reduction in the 300,000 . | ¢ a place for children - | conserved and would write to his leg-|an old English romance, and that's| “still remains the question ‘Where a nts a sing w o forty brick : cna vast amount of ARR ‘ i ye neir diaphragms, It's wonderfu ral troops per mopth which the British Shipping Ministry has announced Money spent in| Pie themselves do not rei at, islators and aldermen, it would not|the way they talked in the spacious| wandereth thou ; are | FE THEaC Peay f h a ve after all, the school houses were es-] be very long until there would be| Elizabethan days — Shakesperian! “I'm going out with Clara Mud-| she y itis as the rate already reached by Americans and British in the trans-] *% a rents for various. |) iiisied by the people and belong|an ened spirit that would not|stuff, As a fact, the words are|ridge-Smith, She's taking up vocal) Jarr. “ut why can't Mrs, Mudridg t porting of men to France. Reowte orn wane adele passive primarily to the people: that no one|down—a spirit that would demand |*whither away, wench? ” lessons now. She thinks she mus no} m take lessons from * hod-car- ; : ‘ Mere ae) oer ds (for example, cht te e |) ope f the schools of each com- yell, I'm glad you didn’t quote; longer neglect her voice for war| rier at the union rate of 80 cents an - Occasional losses from the continued, though di 4 stipj.| LY wnnecessary noe 4. | 48 4 prior right to the use of the) opening of the 3 of each com: Well, I'm glad you 4 | longer neg | ae } - 4 Perigite | din i ishing, activi-} election places, local board bead buildings. ‘Too long have these build-| munity in its interests with a repre- | verbatim,” said Mrs, Jarr, “And if] work, now our soldiers are winning, | hour? ties of U boats are discounted in the Allied shipbuilding programme. | quarters). |ings becn wasted by disuse, to the re-| sentative body of that community in| Shakespeare talked like that to his| so she is going in for vocal lessons} “Hod-carflers haven't any studios,” all | Jarr, “But one could prac- Secretary Daniels announced this week that if the United States goes| “This expense is eventually sulting detriment of the people. charge. family it's no wonder his eldest) again.” | said ildi ¢ the public, which #8 | 1 ees a 7 he da] Et ° ge in?” asked | tise breathing,at home, Only if the on building ships at the present rate 200,000 more men will be needed charged up to the p It is only by permit of the school] ‘The ery is growing and will not|daughter ran away from home and How far is she going in y to show that the public building | authorities that various organigu- Jdown, but each must do his share, [married a man older than she was.| Mr. Jarr. “You speak as though iLL BeoRECsull CH GhOK RiMDHFAGRIOICEN by fall to man the newly launched vessels. be, belong to the piilie, Therer| toe sive bees allowed io man tne Sasarawinmina floor the tenants in the apartmen ici ‘i > e idle public The Justicia and more like her may be lost. None the Jess will] fT, WhY not wse the idle | 5 floyd bile’s needs? |2CR0ol Buildings, ‘These orguniza~ . ° ‘Bhe's getting along swimmingly,” below srould complain, ane tt Ps buildings for the public's ora tons are usuall te ones th : as to going in, | '% Where could one get bricks? ir, the great overseas march of Americans go on in swe! a AW. . # arc usually private ones with was the reply, “and as to going in, er go on in swelling volume. July 1 the ‘Work oF RR ee ae ae eewenndas ae ia| ac e or ] e ec 10ns r ws we ft Go lars’ | 8 the Signor says, on account of the “ss gone in about a hundred dollars’ | ® t Already the transmission of American power across the Atlantic] went into effect, and the Government she's gone in about @ ‘ ‘ yap ‘ bricks have gone up terribly in high time that the people of every worth. But she's going to change ‘ or farm) 8 onde: mare < >| has reached a scale and a sureness that make the effect of a German| *! are e ANEe ey pamunition | COWMMUBILY organized and secured By Helen Rowland her teacher. she doesn't like his| Iw ad Aug ar our “ ; work, shipbu wir right to the uso o eho ne : : ‘ . tae hem to throw at the torpedo not worth, to the German war lords, the cost of firing it, Binnie. THOLGMREALY, SISOS TUIY a Ciel Cnn Seen’ to) MP MeO OF the) Rahimi HEN It comes to marrying, every girl is looking for a man with a| method, although he has the loveliest | ‘ nublic schools are idle during vaca- buildings. sixty horsepower devotion and a one-track heart. summer studio, with Japanese mat- I Auld nie Ne RURGRIRAD To aAIE M1 4 t There $e at least one school| %¢ bas been urged by this news- nisi tings and beautiful old copper vases | | a surp "said M ie jon, Z as bne schoo Jarr, “but on your way!" x ‘The Germans have never put up a more desperate resistance | which can be reached by every per=|PAPAT fiat & propel Marcas a y Marriage is nether all comedy nor all tragedy; it's| W!th Teses, and everybody ra Za ahs = than that which they have hastily organized in the Marne salient, | on in @ very short time, i re hy AD occ abo pcause he has such dark, just an old-fashioned melodrama, full of both, and | bout him because he has such da ymantic @y Yet his wife is the j f : kT early always sure to turn out happily it you wee tt| Tomantic exea | Net his wite ™ th Clever New Device Tiilts through to the end | charge who might accessible ts suggest that} 2 » converted into | ‘@® people in widing them to benoit “| would therefore public schools could Yet the Franco-American advance continues day after day, balance relentlessly settling toward its final Is the bureaus for recruiting and employ- "Oh, you saw her, did you Eyeglasses at Any t and such other public activi-| NEWEST THINGS IN SCIENCE. — “y ignor del Swanquo is only Letters From the P 1 ment acs wink, GC HOW Boh BeOk A yacht may be called “she”; but a motor car, fn] teaching Clara breathing, to begin Angle eople ties, ,|are prongs to hold live bait with @ view of the fact that it is constantly “stalling” and| and I went with her when she took Defends Prot ef Waekages feF the boys can buy extras over there.| This man’s contentions are worth | ininiuium of injury, ; : bs : lear hee tn EH you compelled to wear spec Soldiers. The restrictions will be lifted as soon | While. Every effort that ts made for ae haying to be hauled in by e.towllne, might epproprh | ber fray lsreon tn learning Bow 1 tacle If so, a clever littl To the Editor of The Kroning World as it is possible to again transport |a wider use of the school bulldings| A British scientist haus invented a| ately be called “be.” breathe: edt dev! recently patented wall I should like to reply to those half-| Parcels, and, until that time any loyal| and the development of activities | Microseop that will measure a a Great Scott! Has she never , em. | American should be ashamed to pro- hearted Americans who sign them=| est acainst things whiclt canvor te [during unoccupied hours of the and) helped and which would delay the | school is certainly w step ip the right millionth of a neh | be of interest to you. The devic thed until now?” cried Mr. Jarr. "|consists of a friction hinge connecting gelves “Fair Play” and "M. A. E d Mrs. Jarr Somebody has discovered that women are picking up all the little bad habits that men have dropped. ‘ot orrectly,” That he can send pictures by wire the end piewes with the lenses in guch who e| move: oop | , 1 is, not for singing. Signor del eecereninin: BAT agsinn’ thal GeYenent of trodpa wad qupplite. | direction, in their natural colors ty claimed” by Well, dear me! Isn't that natural—considering that a) eee ee ee eae rson to | manner that by # slight turning uf parcels for our boys with the A. BE. F Where Do the Cigarettes Got | The kvening World nae long ATOe | RO SHED BOP woman has had to pick up everything that a man dropped for all thes€] 1.4.) one how to breathe.” the frame of the giasses the ler be Kiditor of The ca » establishment of proper ; | years? rf pe . : The Government is doing everything | "yr of ind Word ated the establishment of proper! 4. ing-controlied arms engage the | Years? I should think a price like that| der “Letters From the People” 1) community centres and civic forums) Te Gra pocket and prevent a new | im its power, with the aid of the Red | si 4 have seen complaints that soldiers do | in public school buildings. Through] pocketbook being stolen, not receive letters sent to them, The | the efforts ef this newspaper a law ee a other private funds, to keep our boy¥| people at home are requested to wiite | was secured that made it imperative| Automobile bodies g@upplied with everything necessary to “often"* a ‘ aise ovepen a com. |mentally of coner their comfort. Tobacco and chocolate | %¢ boys “often” and write “cheery” | for the school boards toNpen w come |e ios arg would take one’s breath away,” said | It 1s so hard for a man to find just that happy medium between the| Mr. Jarr. | (ie experi-| Kind of wife who keeps a house in the chaotic jumble of a stage property-| | rhe price he charges doesn't do <4 with} room and the hind who keeps it in the frozen orderliness of @ church, that, but the little time he gives for Crom, the Y. M. C. A. and numerous uy t —— less does,” replied Mrs, Jarr, have been added to the daily rations. | letters. What's the uso if the boys| munity centre in any school building Jang jighter Mian Wooden uns magmas Site Fey rem earner fanltaentaindtrou uelitancen tor ae But because ithe, lack ot space on do not get the letters? We have|upon the request of twenty-five citl- . eS Of course a girl knows that three-quarters of se glowing promises 4, A ships prevents e carrying o the tten fifte letters o ens, Miss Margaret Wilson, the Vor reading pr thousands of parcels thai friends are | WTitten fifteen letters to our son and | zen " immes in dark}a man makes before marriage are pure imagination; but she can’t beip| room during the lesson to get a |theatres engl anxious to send to their men in ser-| UF friends have written more than | daughter of the President, came her¢ tt an hinan has patented bol » the: . ° e 1) metronome, or the tuning fork, or ME ne | 4 Pe a TAREE Ne ERE BAER dry battery electric light that is ah Belg 4 RA? THOR via she can resist putting faith in the beautify) Pa ere Title Cound evar hcies vice, this hue and ery has gone forth, | that and he bas never had a line from |in the interes ' ‘ fouled in ah epera Klass case, pictures in a 5 Bue, they give you the pitch of ‘a’ with, without so much as a thought for the| home. Where do th lette aving studied the tremendous pos- | . — Pressing needs of the army; things | Mhousands of people are coniplaining nilities of community centres as| Malan experimenters believe that which must get across at all hazards| that their letters do not reach the | ie ceganizations throughout, the (tematocs KraWA In vineyards KUL Ot and which must take precedence over | front civic ore (he hutnber of inseets that cause | man dainties and gifts our kind friends} ‘The soldiors are begging for cigar- | Country: phylloxera in. y After he gives a bre ath lesson the Signor always takes the piteh of your you for going times, when a girl says that she has never been kissed before, a ayy ainfully disappointed—to discover that she is telling the truth, voice, but ho char — struments, ‘That is, he goes are eo anxious to send. I have be ttes, chocolate, &c “ not | 9 5 ETE ae aie’ : for his instrumen ge able to send numerous parcels sisted to ein than ecmace | Tnie matter af community centre nawa GAL will miay in’ ulnoa in If they keep on galling, about the only young men left for the summer], get them in the next room and gon in France and ull have been] Where are all the cigarettes that the | Which Would create a wider use of woodwork have been invented with| girl to fiirt with will soon be those that she used to regard merely as in good condition, until the| people of the United States have paid | this public property has been be-lan opening from the slot to one side takes his time about it, and it all may be brought into any angle rel ‘ tise 9 t of your fifteen minutes’ the eyes a id : leck of ships demanded a curtail-|for? The boys I have heard from|fore the Board of Education for|through which « tiny pin is driven piazza furniture, t Somes 0 2 Hye te | 40 Sune a8 held in tins bch My last parcel was courteously! have not seen them. I hope the| many months. It has been suggested i Bi ; i 1 3 P vy, |BeW end pieces are simple and bhuve 6 post office. am now publicity you give this matter will a A decorative shield, easily removed, A husband {s someiiing lke Pate—you have to demand such an awful) +m, getcha, kid,” said Mr. Jarr, “But}no party that 1 t money orders and would ad- result in an improvement i the mail {PY authorities who have studied the/nas been invented for excluding duct Sa 2o' isk th ppdie'to-aek tulad ‘a'lidila BU lay, you ted to one that’ this ae pay a tha Wilh got out of order. ~ do ‘am wervice at least, P, {importance of the Work that @ proper!trom telephone woutuplecea, lot of bim in order to gel 8 mee J Pilar Relence Monthly,