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eee cx , ing |Gett ESTABLIs Published Dally Except Su Company, Nos. 63 tal RALPH PULITZDR, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Lark Row, JOSEPH PULITZEL, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row, \ MEMMER OF THE ASSOCIATED PR The Associated Prom ie excineicely entitied to the nee foe reroblication of a) news dematdhes G@redited to it oF not oucrwise credited in this paper and also the local news published heran | “VOL NO. 20,813 | THE PENNY LUNCHEON. | IE penny luncheon for school children is not a charity. It is T a duty which belongs to the public. Its fulfillment means) much to the city and the coming generation. | Ml-nourished children have no place in a land of plen That! there should be so many is due not so much to poverty as to parental} ignorance of food values and proper knowledge of cookery. No greater plan of uplift could be devised than one which would send economic instructors into the tenements to show the women how food should be prepared so as to be wholesome and nourishing. Nature starts everybody about even in the nutritive values of articles sold for domestic use. The housekeeper does the spoiling and wasting. One great merit of the penny lunch is ita tastiness. The funds should be provided without delay to preserve its benefits. —— The bombs are beginning to reach the civil population fn | Germany. The shield of the Most Highest will soon prove to be a poor protection. | +--———— CHINA. CIVIL WAR is raging in China, It does not make much noise emid the greater turmoil of the great European conflict, but is fairly bloody and persistent. The issue seems vague to the Occidental. It seems mainly South against North, in a test as to which really can apply the most democratic principles to self- government. The rest of the world is too busy to intervene, 80 the yellow folks may be able to fight it out satisfactorily without foreign interference. Matters of principle always require a good deal of blood-letting, i would appear from the reading of history. j But economically and industrially China is doing well in spite of ite troubles. Trade increased $200,000,000 last year. The U.S. A. sent over $25,000,000 in goods against a previous record of $8,000,000, and bought $80,000,000 from the Flowery Kingdom. So there is no! occasion for despair. ee The passengers who are cramped on the subway by the cutting out of trains can take comfort in the thought that there are now many miles more of tunnel to ride in and that the city paid for them! ————$___——_— TAXICABS AND PUBLIC SERVICE. | HE Public Service Commission has halted the hearing of the Westcott Company, operating taxicabs from the railroad sta- tions, to decide whether it has jurisdiction over these vehicles. ICI enerae rena tele Thursday, August 15, older! _B ‘or years this company has defied the city and has operated unlicensed. But recently it dropped an injunction restraining the city from enforcing an amendment that specifically included cabs operated from railroad stations and steamship terminals, | Then they arranged with the city authorities to have all their| cabs licensed, and have been operating accordingly. XT month the Fourth Liberty, ane i Loan will be offered, What | This license provides that they have use of the streets of the re you doing about it? Ger- city and the public hack stands under public rates. many does _ not | Wek. descite (his, the Fa (a Gna nee. isa cel hel know how much et, despi is, they now seek to come under the wing of the we are doing be- Public Service Commission and ask this body to raise the rates. ‘ cause all the news| Tn a word, they want to “have their cake and eat it too.” The: from hikes Need at ant not only to claim to be a common carrier—a part of the rail- eee ea Rit road-—but also public hackmen, licensed by the city. . that the man be- hind the gun needs | your Liberty Bond| Semiamenaros® i order to secure for you the very freedom that you are enjoying and for which he is fighting. The Liberty Loan Committee is very | busy these days, It is trying to in- terest people to interest You to make ready for the next drive, Therefore this committee writes to me as fol- low “The public will read a certain amount of official statements on the |nature of the Loan and its aims and! |then it will turn over the page and | settle back to read one of your syn- dicated articles. If, through occa- sional mention of the fact that there will soon be launched a loan drive And statement of what it is after, you This is the most paradoxical position ever assumed by any public| vebicle organization in the city. It should not take the Public Service Commission long to determine that it has no jurisdiction over the taxicabs of the West- cott Company. | In fact, this determination should have been made long since and} stopped the high rates that have been charged by this concern, Se News from the coalflelds about Seranton Indicates that the miners now ride to and from their work {n autos and are as thoroughly emancipated industrially as most plutocrats. Letters From the People, faye Now Subway Service Is Bad. | should Te the Editor of The Evening World of us I am a New Yorker who s proud of ii Rad rega could let your readers see that it is listment, the me ent su his olty, but I certainly must protest; isunent. the Wa Pane ripe Mays not entirely an affair of the Treasury against the way the Interborougt | received at this office: ‘Enter college | Pepartment, you would be furnishing Rapid Transit is running its trains. | if you are fitted to do so and regurn | af appesl which would reach corners Before the “H" system came into ef- |to collegn if you are already enrulled | of the reading public's mind,” ar up the matter for all hatter of en- and enlist | Ply Wa: adhe wigs fect traina uscd to run ‘on what is /and eniat In the SAT C' This| rhe man or woman who thinks it| now the Lexington Ayenue branch at |(inited States Army. te ly subject to entitely an affair of the Treasury: Dc of abott haif minute or. the rate draft when his call comes, but will be | partment is very much mistaken, { lot an Are You Preparing for Next Liberty Loan? By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1915, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evehing World,) Sam to keep the fires alive against the Boche, What matters for what use the money is to be used? Food or clothing or ammunition or ships—all, all, are necessary and vital to the great issues at stake, They tell us that this loan will be shorter in duration and will aim for 4 much larger amount than any other preceding campaign, The com- mittee says “This simply means that the effort will have to be just that much more concentrated and the ‘publicity’ just that much more in- tense Here it Is then—a bit of “publicity” in advance, So that you may save here and there in order to meet the ory when it comes, As I have stated before, the Liberty Bond ts the only “Scrap of Paper” that the Kaiser will not fail to recognize, With it our fighting forces can be kept strength- ened to the nth power, The nth power means ultimate victory. Besides what is this Uncle Sam 1s asking of you—you who stay at home| and enjoy the privileges of protection | against all harm? It is not taking | from you, In fact the Govern- is adding unto your store, y dollar t you invest gives a rate of interest in return, ‘Thousands of times investments are made not only with no assurance annua) percentage of profit, but a dead loss is often the result, Yet here i» a proposition the most secure of any ever offered, It means that the American Government is be- hind this “Serap of Paper’ with which you make German Bill realize Launched in England specd up production, more particu- larly in the of bulkhead lock structures, fittings and other in- |cerior work. It is on thiv experimentai sel and other Admiralty work that ) per cent. or possibly 25 1 be effected in both assembly | ves a saving of per cent. cou and mater ne United States Shipping Board have been in close touch with this experimental work, with the result that arrangements are in hand for |the manufacture of a number of 10,- 000-ton standard ships, in the produc- ‘tion of which “riveters” will become vals, Now they run at the rate of ff. |feturned by his draft board to col-|iy your affair and mine, Never was teen and twenty minute intervals, | (BD for the Lipari gr of Als course |anything so much, our business causing great inconvenience to the !jco until that course is finished, un. {tbs Matter of lending money to Unc public both by losing time and being |less in event of extreme crisia.” ; : . mixed up in the great rush to get | IW.D. IF R ] V | one tr The new train system will ‘Avors Drafting of Youths, | rst ivetless esse be in no way better than the old if | To the Falilr of ‘The Erening Word | HIS launching recently took place the Interborough does not run more) With further reference to the draft on the southern coast of Engl uid frains. 1 am not a crank, but 1 am|!0® of youths of eighteen and nin of the first steel vessel built] forced to put in my protest, J. [teen Wish you would print the fol- | without rivets, It Is considered that Dake Mi ail Sates de sell wing in answer Dr, “A.'s" ob. | the production of this vessel may| ‘De te Evening Wo | mark an epoch in the shipbuilding in- Tam f the college uch as the Gé®ornment does | dustry, who wi affected by th nd to send thi “over there’ | Instead of riveting and calking the draft. Perhaps, therefore, my idea of | fF some time, it would do them more | Plates they are joined together in one Wtwill be interesting. Dean Laycock |!4 to have military training than | process by electric welding, This mean of Dartmouth told us last spring that me : tandin, Heys iy street corners | hat the plates are held together tem- bir SF ir ia veh ys porn » pits, and that the joint ts Students not yet of draft age would | Of course, it would hit the colleges porarily by ait and t ih joint 4 do best by staying in college. From | rather then, were not ‘aij | then submitted to local heat by means thle 1 felt that i, was my place to} men created equal, and should they |Of an electric are, so that the two plates @tay in eoliege, for at faith t all be entitied to the same/!are fused together, Though the pro- im Dean Layeo t now, when jamount of education? Why not have! cesg itself is not new, as certain this new n fellows froin |instructors in the army and navy to [Come Holt Is not new, as certain eighteen proposed, i |further their education? | auxiliary k on ships has #eems by the saiuc ¢ that it is} 1 also believe that this would help | done by electric welding in the past, fame for me to get 4 on improve the health of the considerable developments have n gpl d th ug hat | we niol [gorpia : neration nee are Always made in the st twelve months, and at ries would be al hygiene, why not help. to Ren Wear f ue wable, accord T wrote. to| make this hygienic a by giving this is the fi time that a v 1 injon, viv ec Lam reg ved for next e€ young and old helpful military 48 been produced entireiy by the new eam The following lettep in answer training? WAR WORKER, method, Its general adoption would “welders.” While the first vessel just launched is rivetless, it is calculated that these vessels will only have about 2 1-2 per cent, of the originally in- tended number of rivets, It is seen, therefore, that in nearly all cireum- at REN Bally, ‘York Kveuing World that you are in dead earnest and will not fail. Wisely indeed is the Liberty Loan run for the poor man as well as the rich, In truth, when all is summed up, it 4s an opportunity by which the man of moderate means may safely put aside his money, having surety that it is drawing interest with the American Eagle as its em- blem of security, It should not be necessary for the Liberty Loan Committee to urge writers to make known to the public the great issue at stake and the consequent needs, We are all fully alive to the situation, Every penny should be forthcoming with as little advertisement as pos- sible, True patriots will respond, and this notice is just far enough in ad- vance to remind them of looking ahead, Perhaps thoughtlessly you are in- vesting a few dollars right now in something else. You may have doubts about it. Keep your money for the Government's coffers, where it cer- tainly will do the most good to all concerned, Prepare yourself for preparedness. “Forewarned is Forearmed.” Women to fame as Caesar Augustus. better remembered as Mark Antony. beqame eramored of Cleopatra. schemes of world mastery, happy in their lotus land, of world rulership. | build up his own power. received such small revenues from ———eeeee | Evil Tidings | of Antony. (eet his fingers. Cleopatra came out in her royal jall with Antony. jalovg the line he was successful, The two rival fkets met and clashed off Actium (Sept. 4 in War } By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. 0. 24—CLEOPATRA; Who Turned the Tid2 of au | /Baitleé pee HIS is the story of a woman's cowardice—or whim— that lost a world battle and thus changed all historys The woman was Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt.” She was red-haired and snub-nosed—and one of the most fascinating sirens whose deeds the annals of “Superwomen” have ever recorded. ae Two men had formed a partnership to divide bed tween them the rulership of the entire world. Rotnd governed the world, younger of the two was a crafty, cold-eyed, bloddless politician; nephew of Julius Caesar, His name was Octavius. He is known (The New York Evening Wort.) f nd these men governed Rome, The The other man was the direct opposite of his partner. He was brave, open-hearted, dissolute, magnetic, brilffant, He was Marcus Antonitts, When he and Augustus divided the world's rulersnip, Antony chose thé eastern half for his, and made his headquarters in Egypt. Thore, at once he And in his love for her he forgot his, He had fought hard, He had lived hard. It was sweet for the griaicd j Warrior to dream away his days in drowsy busy outer world reached him so faintly, He and Cleopatra were gloriousl¥ He neglected his task of conquest, and eved ncglectéd to send home to Rome the rich revenues of tho East. Meantime, in Rome, Augustus also was dreaming. But his dreams were He took every advantage of old Antony's laziness to He set the Romans to grumbling because they ypt, where the roar of the the Orient, and spread exaggerated stories among them as to Antony's worthless mam- ner of life in Egypt. As a result Augustus was strong enough at last to have Antony declared a public enemy and | to proceed against him with a Roman army. | Now Augustus (or “Octavius,” as he was still called) did not care in the least how old Antony spent his time. But he wanted to overthrow him | !n order to rule the world alone and to proclaim himself Emperor of Rome, On news that his former partner was crossing the sea to wrest his power away from him, Antony's warlike genius once more flared up.’ He |marshaled a mighty fleet and prepared to give battle to Augustus for the | mastery of the world—to win back, at one blow, all he had let slip through 31 B.C). galley to watch the progress of the |battle and to cheer Antony by her presence, From the moment the hostile fleets came together the advantage was He way outfighting and outgeneraling his enemy. All | Then suddenly Cleopatra ordered her galley turned about and driven shoreward with all speed. Antony saw her go. | oar feared a chance arrow had wounded her. Forgetful tremendous Cleopatra Turns to Shore. issues of his valor~ forgetful hung upon the of what battle--he | eer ordered his own galley rowed at full speed in pur- | suit of Cleopatra's, In other words, he forsoo« tho fight at the most critical moment for the sake of a woman. | into panic flight. - It was the death blow to Antony's chances. ally an army or a fleet to resist the onslaught of Augustus. | surrender he killed himself. | Seeing Antony desert the battle, the Captains of his other galleys | save the order to retreat, And in a moment, impending victory was turned Never again could he Sooner than Cleopatra learned that Augustus planned to lead her in chains through | the streets of Rome. In despair, she too commited suicide—having wrecked a gallant man's lifts and career and having changed the story of the wnole | world, by a single act of cowarice or caprice. F Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) N the cool of the evening, little Emma Jarr was sitting on {he steps of the apartment house “playing lady.” ment consisted in Emma assuming an attitude of easy elegance, feign- ing that a tattered copy of “Cinder- ella” was the latest best-selling volume of gush; while her attendants, in the persons of little Mary Rangle and little Becky Slavinsky, acted as her hair dresser and maid. In this impersonation of a society queen in her boudoir, little Miss Jarr was giving as faithful a portrayal as the accessories would permit, of a recent beholding of Mrs. Clara Mud- ridge-Smith in the mysteries of her tollette, where the child had been taken early one day to visit that ele- gant young matron, “Softly, Felice!” Miss Jarr—Felice was little Miss Slavinsky. “You distract me from my book at the very moment when the Duke has challenged the Count to a duel because he sees him kiss the hand of the Duchess,” “Aw, say, ain't I to play lady murmured Uttle This form of amuse- | il now asked little Miss Rangle, she paused in tying little Miss Jarr’ shoestrings. “If you don’t let me be the lady now I'll pull off your blue satin slippers with the red heels and diamond buckles and throw them out in the street.” “Shame on you, Mary Rangle!” cried Fifine, the French hatrdresser, otherwise Becky Slavinsky. “Shame on you! When Emma Jarr, who is the Countess, gave you her chewing gum and me her ball and jacks s0 she cduld be the lady and get waited on! And for why should you throw them beautiful diamond and satin slippers mit the red heels into the street? Such slippers, they don't cost the Countess less than three dollars and a half, maybe!” Little Miss Jarr stamped her foot in exact duplication of the lady she was imitating. “Dear me, Barker ! How awkward you are! Now you have cut the cu- ticle!" she cried, "I ain't cut anything,” sald little Miss Rangle, “let me play the lady countess! “You will cut the cuticle when you come to do up my finger nails, Lucile th Copyright, 1018, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) IN’T it funny,” said Lucile, the Waitress, as the Friendly Patron dropped his lump of sugar in his coffee, "how little men are most generally pugnostrious, while big men don't like to fight at all?" “I always thought big men were usually bellicose,” he replied. “Oh, sure they are, as a rule,” said Lucile, “But 1 wasn't talking about their waist-line, I say ain't it funny they don’t like to scrap, while little men most always will fight at the drop of a hat-rack.” “[ presumos little men develop the fighting proclivity because they are ttacked more often than big ones.” isten, comrade, you blew a whole ey bubble when you said that. They was a little man in here to-day who was a living designation of that strata of humanity, He sits down on a stool and puts his kelly onto an- other. Next in comes a big man and sits down on the hat. That infuri- gates the little one, and he just frosts at the mouth. ‘Hey,’ he sings out, ‘you're sitting on my ha “So I am,' says the big man, pull- stances the electric welding process {can be satisfactorily used, ing out the remains, ‘Too bad!’ “*Too bad, nothing!’ says the small , e Waitress one, ‘You done thas because you're bigger than me and got the idea you can lick me,’ words of disprovocation, “My dear friend,’ 1 says, ‘no man sets on another’y hat just to (pass away the time, “This gentleman probably didn’t see your top piece when he sets his phisognomity onto that stool.’ “Of course, I didn't see it,’ says the big man, ‘I hope nobody don't think I'm going around cheap res- taurants setting on people's hats for fun! “That got my nanny a trifle. ‘Lis- ten, Mister,’ I says. ‘This ain't a Cafe a la de Paris, France, nor noth- ing like that, but it ain't a cheap one, Come to think of it, I belive you did set on that hat on purpose. It was big enough for you to see. Where do you get that stuff?’ “That's what I think, pipes the little man, ‘Now, who's going to pay for the hat? “The restaurant, big man, w, I have a notion to lick you for busting that hat,’ shouts the little man, ‘but I guess you're right about the restaurant paying for it,’ “Up comes my dander again, ‘Oh, ta that #0? I says to him. ‘Wel, fr y of cource, says th “I see it's time to interject a few | By Bide Dudley [leave me tell you, Friend Sawed-Off, | you had no right to put that hat onto |that stool, Why didn’t you hang it up on a hook over where we got them for such purposes?’ “"The hooks was all taken,’ he tells me, “Then the big man begins to call the little man a fool and the other says the big one is a boob, They argue till the proprietor of this place, to quiet them, pays three bones for the hat and gets them both out." “Apparently they were both boobs,” sald the Friendly Patron, “No, they wasn't," replied Lucile, That's the ludickerous part of it. The proprictor was the boob.” “Not at all! He did the sensible thing.” “Wrong again, An hour ago I run out to grab me off a ice-cream soda the street half a block, and in front of the corner saloon I see them two, As I pass along one says: “Come on, Bill—less go in and spend the rest of our hat money and then we'll go somewheres and bust another one." “It's a hard old world," concluded Lucile, “and it's got its spittalls and its unjustifications, but lemme sk you—is they any balm in Gilly’s head for a couple of burglars like them? 1 vote nay,” up = By Roy L. McCardell Where’ them But the red chalk was not produced because Master Izzy Slavinsky, dri ing @ pair of spirited steeds, in the persons of Gussie Bepler and Heinti Schmidt, came tearing around the corner, followed by Master Willie Jarr and Johnny Ranglo, as the rest of Engine and Hook and Laddes Company 54. i Forgetting the terrible conflagration on Snyder's vacant lot that calle him to the scene, as battalion ae and driver, Master Slavinsky pulled u: his galloping steeds at the sight o| childish treasures on the stoop. Bes sides the gaudy tattered copy of “Cin. derella,"” there wero a dali and ten jacks, @ hoop and a stick, and a bats tered pasteboard box vontaining but. tons, miniature silk college pennants, cigarette package prizes and other sear of price in childish eye: Mrs. Jarr, who looked down at th: moment from her front” window, called sharply for the throng of boys to go right away and leave the little &irls alone, 4 “Say,” said young Mr. Slavinsky in’an ingratiating tone, "Gussie Beps ler's got the whooping cough. Gimme that book and I'll letcher hear him cour Aw, g’wan, jest lend it to that red chalk to rub en Yow,” said Master Slavinsky, when Master Bepler had gracefully obliged, “Heinie Schmidt has the whooping worser than Gussie Bepler has. If you lend us the jacks and ball he'll cough for you," The price was paid, and Master Schmidt gave them a taste of his quality in both whooping and cough- ing Yow give me the silk cigarette flags, and I'll have ‘em both cough at onct,” said the head of the clinie, “Dear me! A mad dog must be loose in the street! Listen to that bark!" cried Mrs. Jarr, hearing the coughing contest, and she the window. How she rushed to kept from jumping out she says she does not know, but the Slavinsky family contemplate a sult for assault for what Mrs, Jarre did to Master Izzy, who fell into her clutches through being laden with spoils and slow in his getaway, oo HOW TO WASH CURTAINS, When you wash the cretonne or chintz hangings, do not use soap, Wash them in lukewarm water in which some bran has been steepod. Rinse in cold water and dry where there is neither heat nor sunshin preferably indoors, Iron on the wrong side, + lp or , ——