The evening world. Newspaper, August 17, 1918, Page 8

komt ge ANAL pe. aioe PSTABLISHED BY JOS PubMed Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, 3 63 Park Row, New York RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Trea: r, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, J: 6 Nil A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 4 ext it] t t ublication of at) nes Se eal Oe cee arts elicer SS TN Satlate Renee (RL elhseentlellemeedbell 3 VOLUME 59 P PROTECT INDUSTRY. JHE prosperity of the country, yes, more, ite ability to carry its lords, will be vitally affected by the course of the House Ways and Means Committee in framing the new war tax| "measure. If Mr. McAdoo’s suggestions are followed, industry can breathe freely and know how to adjust itself. If the views of the committee prevail the result will be great hardship, if, indeed, down- right disaster does not follow. Inflated prices do not in all instances mean inflated profits.! ‘The early advantages growing out of the low values of raw materials, im the early years of the war have vanished. Manufacturers are now compelled to operate on a high basis of risk both in supplies and ‘ wages. A sudden slackening of demand may wipe out all the golden! gleanings. One of the great speculative successes has been in cotton goods. It is but three years since our people were being besought to “buy a bale.” at ten cents a pound to save the planters from utter ruin, q Now, commanding about three times that figure, cotton is a factor in uneasy speculation. Mills are down to 65 per cent. of their output. Government orders absorb much of this. The public demand is * negligible. No storekeeper will load his shelves with goods at double and treble old prices and risk the drop. When the armies are once supplied, when their advance needs are well anticipated, there will come an abrupt change in both price and iabor conditions. It is time to set signals. The keenest observing should be done by the Committee on Ways and Means. Eeeeatenmn irene eh dete ‘The Dove of Peace is having a hard time to find a place to light. The earth is a hot place for birdies just now, ———————-+-—___. PROGRESS OF THE WAR. LL goes well on the“battle front. If the progress seems slow, it is sure and solid. There has come a pause in brilliant dashes, but no stopping of the steady, grinding replacement of lines on ground that was once German. Lach step taken has about it the certainty of permanence. The enemy is given no time to rally. No strategic mistakes are being made. On the outer edges of the war the situation grows more favorable to the Allies. The British occupation of Baku and its great oil fields takes another asset away from Germany as part of its Russian “peace.” Firm hands are fastening upon Siberia. Order reigns in Archangel as it once did in Warsaw. ‘The rallying is concrete on all sides. * Germany is now fast assuming a beleaguered state, such as she escaped from on the Russian collapse. Her borders are beset with perils and her main line is slowly giving way, That 6,000,000 men have been spent by her in the struggle is easy to believe. ‘That two-thirds of them are back in the ranks is also possiblé, but they are not the, same sort of men who were % there in the beginning, nor is it the same kind of civil population that stood behind them when the nation went eo blithely to war four years ago. | | ke F How to Keep Well i a Ege in everything ts n Summer summer, and those who have not the the keynote of health and/ temerity to wear them out of doors ‘ abn Athi GO het do s0 In the house and find the inno- ; ation decidedly cool. weather. Eat slowly and moderately.| Keop the sun from shining into work in moderation and rest in mod-| your rooms and about 5 o'clock in the iaely afternoon open all the windows and ; erat | draw up the awnings so the cool eve- regia the day with a cooling bath. |}, ng air can permeate the rooms. This es not mean a cold water | Take all outdoor exercise in. the 4 Dath. Tepid water will be found best | carly 0 orning. Do your marketing i eecause 1¥ cools the surface without | before 11 o'clock, From noon to 4 M. indoors is best on a hot day ‘ stimulating the circulation. A few | Rest as much as possible during th I? handfuls of sea salt in the water will day, A sponge th at night will ine be found beneficial. duce sleep, Guitadle clothing goes far toward making the summer in town bearable. cop the house sereened and al- s have a fly swatter or a folded Overdreswing in hot weather will paper handy to kill any stray cause heat exhaustion and is quite as| fly that may appear to endanger th great an evil as overeating. A one-| health of your family. ae tak Piece open-mesh garment is the prac- | garba in the house, The teal article of underwear, What is| garbage p ‘at out of doors, and worn over this should be of fabrics|even then it should be covered at_all that are porous and light in weight. | times, sential that ‘The ideal mmer garment has no! the gar be kept clean. Festrictions about the neck and has|It should be ded every day. the sleeves chortened. | Bat and drink slowly and sparingly. Bensible women who are aware that non-heat producing foods and excessive perspiration weakens the! avoid liquids containing tee, | feaisting powers of the systern againet| Your h will suffer if yon over- q se defy fashion and dress for|exert yourself in any way during the a comfort rather than style, and who! hot weather. Avoid all strenuous la fe ‘will say a woman with a moderat Do not y and do not fuss, lew-cut waist and three-qua the we Tr AS a subject of) i Jength sleeves is not neatly attired? onversation, f not let you } Women have adopted socks this thoughts dwell upon the heat. | > Letters From the People mp-| Opposed to Dratting lege Stu-| ents, To the Biter of The Evening World ‘To te Faitor of The Evening World There have been too many leiters| The writer in your paper who signs Beeenns. in your columns sentiment-| himself “War Worker’ shows a ¢ # Ne rather scant knowledge of Govern- ; i ie eavthing our Go re-|Mment plans toward drafting youths in ee De nee eee en re ee te ee See quires of us, And wh Rot? We shall be the ones to benetit | Government plan, as dy the victory; we shall be the ones | yeon already rarulatae wi en to partake in the great boom after the mre PFOVIEGG LOK war, 80 why shouldn't we be proud | °F the colleges into a vast @nxious—to take the place the Gov-|reserve army. Bach colle will be | ernment wishes us to fill? | raining post for its students And as to those who claim that we] Wo u with “War Worker" that students should be exempted, and|we are ail born equ surely up- b: that our futures will be ruined, I, with jon this principle our nt has the consent and support of fellow-jbeen established, but thing that students, say tot! ‘counts is what we do after we are Our futures just now are merged | born. No doubt every one is familar into the one future worth while—that| with the free educational institutt ‘of the United States of America. Our |of this country, which provide educa gacrifice would be no more than that | \ion for the peuple regardless of cas ¥ of our fellows who are not students, creed or nationality. In spite of this ‘ ‘who give up their start in life to go) we see thousands and thousands of bu ‘where life is ueath. young men shun the opportunity to " American ingenuity needs no o enter higher educational institdtions, 7 Nee course to make {t “fool-proo! The facts must be faced coldly. It though to listen to these calamity is the boy in colle | howlers one would think it megnt the | Will be in control who in the futu It will be through | Geath of the nation for us to leave to | his brains that the problems of r P = it! We'll show the Germans | construction will ¥e ce iaered. Who an eighteen-year-old Yank is as8/ wii! he in control at Washington, at a@ Yank as a twenty-one-year- @IGH 6OHOOL STUDENT. our Btate capitals, in the cities, if we are goumw to take away our young men trom the colleges? ¢, 8. | EDITORIAL PAGE. Saturday, August 17, 1918 Copyrieht. 1908, tr Tha Urea Pitti ig Co, (Tae New York Brening World, By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 191) py The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World) FBW days ago I talked with a|fers them to some minor man who is at the head of @ prom-| Ile is always in a “conference.” suffering kind, Inent organization of In a word, power has made this| And what is the result? They die merchants man a slave to his selfishness, | with hundreds hating them, In other iy a suc And yet this man should be the very | ways and in other lines there are business one who would be the easiest to ap-| those who were once meek and lowly That is proach, the kindest of heart, the most | and sweet, but “power” has taken he has a In his dealings, He|all the beautiful stle of life away concern; “he is| should be the most sympathetic of all, | from them, worth a lot of|for he began at the very bottom In a word, they are in a sea ot] money and he is| Many a stitch he put on hundreds of} S¢ifishness and fail to see the skies one of the “big| cloaks. Many a night he sat at the; nd the water and the people about guns” tn his ch, bent over with weariness in | them. line, the wee small hours of the morning.| Afainst this is the great heritage Yet I mar-|Many a time he cried aloud at the| Ff Never forgetting. There are fine, veled, as I dis- \anreasonableness of his employer, | "0b! men who have climbed to the | cussed with this man the partic-|Many a timp he had hardly enough | '°P: whe Mere Rol formation aad who ular problems of his industry. He|to eat and cursed his lowly lot, Many | 22V@ net failed to reach down and employ mall t : help lift up a fellow worker who Is} employs @ small army of workers,|a:time he hated the world, on account | going through the same trials through | “in @ conference’ when some poor fellow they had known in olden days seeks to see them for a bit of ald. manager.} They are too busy to think of their garment He sstul man. to say going magnanimous he bewalling the conditions|of his dire necessity and his hard | Wisich they went, that confronted him, He waxed|work, And in his better moments he| Reflect, gentle reader, if you have warm against the idea of employees | would dream a great dream. He would | PO* er. Stories of Spies | By Albert Payson Terhune | Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) ' No. 50—ALEXANDER CREE, Spain’s Spy in 1898. HEN Uncle Sam declared war on Spain in April, 1898, our Secret Service tried its best to rid this continent of any Spaniards who might watch our military moves and report them to Madrid. The Spanist Embassy's members were trailed by Chief Wilkie's men until they had embarked for Europe. But one member of the Embassy went to Toronto tn stead. He was the Naval Attache, Ramon Carranza, a man who had taken the trouble to learn much about our Navy's activities, Carranza took @ suite of rooms in a Toronto hotel. One of Wilkie’s agents took a room opposite this suite. We had no proof that Carranza was plotting against the United States, | so there was no exouse for asking the British Government to deport him | to Spain. | Yet Wilkie's man kept a close watch on all Carranza’s visitors, notably on a dark and slender youth who was registered at another Toronto hotel } under the name of “Alexander Cree” and who used to spend hours at @ time in Carranza’s suite, One day the detective heard a scrap of talk that !ed him to think Cree had once served in our Navy and was familiar with the Brooklyn Navy Yard's secrets. ‘The next day he heard Cree say goodby to Carranza, and heard him add the word: “I'l write, then, to the Montreal address.” The detective followed Cree to the train, saw him start for Washe ington and telegraphed to Wilkie to have him shadowed as soon as he should reach the capital Cree (which was not his real name, tt is said), went to Washington and took a room in a hous on E Street. Secret Service men watched him day j and night as he wandered with seeming aimle: ness around the city and as he dropped im at various department buildings in the guise of a casual visitor. | For some time the detectives could find no reason to suspect Cree of being @ Spanish spy. | ‘Then one night he went to his room, wrote a letter, came out agein | and posted it in the nearest mailbox. | Wilkie had the box opened, by permission of the postal authorities, and | read the letter. It was addressed to “F, W. Dicken, No, 1248 Dorchester Street, Montreal.” “A cipher message has been sent from the Navy De« partment,” the letter began, “directing the cruiser San Francisco to pros cced to Manila with machinery and 500 men for Dewey. A long cipher has |been received from Dewey at the Department at 3.30 o'clock.\ They are tranviating it now. | Cree went on, in the same epistle, to impart much interesting naval | information, He signed himesif “G. D.” A few en hours later Cree was arrested and his room American Citizen? was searched. His desk contained enough evidence H by Adoption, j to warrant our State Department in asking Eng- 3 @ land to deport Carranza—a request which was prompt!y granted. Iv also proved “Cree” to be a naturalized American citizen and a fora mer yeoman on the Brooklyn. When a group of Secret Service men went to Cree's cell to interrogate him they found they were too late. The spy was dead. He had hanged himself, “We have had bad fortune," wrote Carranza in an intercepted letter to a fellow-conspirator. “They have caught our two best spies—one at Wash« |Ington and one at Tampa.” It was partly on the strength of this note that the British Government By J. H. Cassel. land strained, in an automobile, get- |ting no play of the muse How have you used it and what making as it done to you? time, w demands upon him as to] visualize hin His prof- | He'd elf when he had power, ‘employer's finds the other person isn't in earshot it is.extremely disconcerting, and Mr. Jarr now saw that Mrs, Jarr was at some distance in the rear, walking slowly and as though oblivious to the surroundings, the day and Mr. Jarr.| going to have a nice w That gentleman waited for her to) “Aren't we walking?” come up, which took some time, | reply. “The walk won't do us any good if| “Yes, we are walking,” conceded we lag like this," he remarked, \Mr. Jarr, “But we don't seem to be Mrs. Jarr said no word in reply, but enjoying ourselves.” siided by. Mr. Jarr was a little sur-| “I'm sorry if I am spoiling your hill, Isn't it a beautiful view?" But Mrs. Jarr strode on, and never turned to see. “What's the matter with you?® asked Mr. Jarr. “I thought we were consented to the deporting of Carranza and of all his confederates who ; The Jarr Fami y By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1018, by The Prem Pubiikhing Co, T being a pleasant summer day, not too warm, Mr, and Mrs, Jarr and then a walk through the woods, “Ah, there's nothing like a nice they strode briskly down a leafy lane, “It takes one out in the open air. chanced to be in Canada at the time. (The New York Evening World.) I took a trolley ride to the suburbs day for a walk!" said Mr, Jarr, as How much better than sitting, tense of legs Dan reenact ani aa WAIL EE vrised at her behavior, but seeing his|day," said Mrs, Jarr coldly. "L did one. If I'm dfatted at least I'll know] "0° lace was untied, and moving at|not wish to impose my presence on oe a ae he snail's pace at which his good| you, but you insisted. Howeve Mr, Jarr’s volce had dropped down, ‘*4¥ was proceeding, he stooped |here she turned abruptly around, “‘T down to tie the shoestring. “I wonder what's the matter with her, anyway?” he mused. “Got a can go back.” And back she started. “Gee whiz!" eried Mr, Jarr following and he faltered the inquiring inter- Jection at the close of his remarks in a sort of half-hearted manner, When one 1s talking to one's self the} "Touch, I suppose, Well, I'll Jolly her| her. “What's the matter with you Rae ati put of that!" anyway? I must say, this is one only y to make conversation ex- | °Ut of ; an en ny way ee But when he had finished with the | Joyable stroll! citing 1s to begin quietly, get inter- ested in what you are saying to your- elf and work up to a natural em- phasis. But when one imagines one is talking to another person and shoe lace and had started on his way wgain he noticed with some aston- ishment that Mrs. Jarr was far in the distance and was striding on ahead at a five-mile-an-hour clip. lad you like it,” repligg Mra. erhaps you will enjoy it all the more after I go back.” Here she began to take short, slow ste} es and so forth, put himself in the —— SEE — —, 3 again, and before he knew it ite were not nearly as high as they | place and say to himself “I will make | . . Hey, there! Wait a minute!” he| she was some distance to the rear. used to be, and formerly they were | things beautiful.” “I wil! not let any | Yr r t shouted, He waited for her to come up ta gind enough to work overtime on a|iuman being go through what 1| ac elo i (S; ec 10Ns But Mra, Jarr never turned her| him and then sighed and walked slows karment, when it had to go out, and| have.” And he plowed on, struggling | ] d head. My. dar playtully theew Some | ly before her for some time, did not insist upow extra pay for|to got ahead and wishing always that | B y Helen Rowlan pebbles at her, and called again, Just then a volplaning grasshopper every minute, he said. They were|he could sit in oflice chair, Copyriaht, 1918, by The Presa Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) A thick-set man, who had alighted | lit in her hair, With a wild scream glad enough to work on holidays and ne Zi HY do they call it “Home” in a baseball game, when all the men| from a gayly painted flivver and was | she threw herself in his arms, eryin ow he is there but he has forgot | y re a e to sta t very small wages, but|ten his dreams of doing good, He scem in such a hurry to get there? engaged ad tacking up yellow tin algns ave me now they insisted upon this, that|has forgotten those growing pains, He | lauding-"“Beau Brummel Plug, a Gen-| Mr. Jarr slew the grasshopper in and other things, has forgotten how it feels to work It ten’t the price that the green-grocer charges you, | tleman's Chew,” turned to Mrs, Jarr : Thus he went on, accusing here and | overtime and go home to the miser- these days that hurts so much; it's the “Well-what-are Ma ae ae pa anda Fete eal her eae ahs Tare aries bar Sei denouncing there, on would last ' lh ; é # ; aay, a 8 fo , | had subsided, “How that scared me Ld ere, until you would! able little tenement, on a hot summer | you-gonna-do-about-it?” grin with which he does it Til crown him on the bean with this | But now that wd ure out here inthe avo thought hp wa the most abused | night, He has forgotten everything : lonely solitud h es righ! e has forge ything = nanan lonely solitudes (they were passing @ man Jn the world, He looks upon him- | but himself, He only remembers how | No matter how surprised a man may be when a busy brickyard), if you don't want to |self as a martyr, when in truth he is he can get the most out of his servi- | t's only my husban: " aaid Mrs, irl accepts him, he always manages to recover suM-| yarr, smiling sweetly at the thick a tyrant. He never gives an inch to | to: i ow be 6 i ong h 8 t errs Mb e His warkerel Uolenh Octane lIERTo a ae (et er ne oan ene Beas Die clently after marriage to convince her that he was|set man, ‘We're just out for a wal He’ paver does saishing voluntarily, |" ner ie what aower dose te aome really surprised that he ever gave her the chanci The tobacco-sign man scratched Besides, he is the most ssible | It makes tt forget t ° his head, He was a single man and man, He is always too busy and re-|hand that helped them, They are The pacifist who learned all he knows of English | didn't understand these things, And in the free public knowledge to ray the same cloth as Toney Soon to Have City of 5,000,000 HE remarkable schools of America, and now uses that puff in order to try to fascinate your pet man. 1s he drove past the Jarrs again on ve cut from | his sign-tacking duties he | them with a puzzled look, “What did that fresh rooster say to re; against America, must the woman who borrows your powder: oT expansion hee the problem began to claim! you?" asked Mr. Jarr, when, some- Japanese eitics during the | | Serious attention, though the ne eer what breathless, he cau Fi aes : f ss, he ht up to his few years has accentuated the of al y Planning In Osaka is No, dearie, your housemaid 1s not necessarily patriotic merely because | spouse. hore cen y n | ” . ¥ rgent necessity of city plannius,|Pitiea “The denelty of ponule she confines all her efforts to “going over the top. “He offered to protect me when you With this end in view a con a tain greater than | _—_—_— tried to hit me with a rock,” said of the mayors of the lea secur tens and improvement 12) A woman's love, lke charity, is warranted to stretch over a multitude|atrs. Jarr, cities has occurred at . ®lgontly needed, It is estimated that | Of sing, but it snaps at the first strain on her vanity. “Why, I didn't try to hit you. 1 the prem were the mayors of | the population of Osaka twenty years POL just rolled a couple of small pebbles sake Yokohame Nago ‘oto | hence i be 2450,000 and hat of 1 Q » ” ee cohen sepa i Fi} Aedes Mypin | NEARS, MA Re ETO On STAY Oe Why worry about your weight? There never was a two-hundred-pound after you to attract your attention, “ a ee 4 making @ total of 6,000,000. | woman who couldn't find @ one-hundred-and-twenty-pound man, somewhere, | ¢xplained Mr, Jarr, “Ie had his was represented by Messra, mate is based on the present “ url." : nerve with him!" Geahimn! and Ow | to call her “Little Girl,’ ashiml and Ogino, | rate of increase, but it is possible thg “We will not discuss the matter!" In Tokio city planning was set on | of inerease may be largeu aid M: Jarr pressing ber li t foot twenty ywars agovabout the same | Herein lea the urgent ature af city When a vexed wife asks her husband “why he ever married her” tt 1s) 880 Mrs Jarr p PAR Ue hoe ime the question of city planning} planning for Osaka, The improve- 5 e e zie ome! some: | Bother, was receiving attention in Europe | ment. of facilities of communication, | @Most pathetic to see the look of puzzled bewilderment that comes into | **! and America,” said Dr, Seki, Mayor] of Osaka, in an interview with al publie works should claim the first Tokio press representative. In| attention of the municipal authori. Osaka, however, it is only a few years ties.” widening of roads and other similar | bis eyes. Ui Mas a eo The average soldier appears to love his Sergeant like a stepmother, yes, let it go at that,” said Mr, Jarr with renewed good humor, “Maye he meant well. Stop here and look back, We are at the top of the arded | Speak to me let us — OUT OF ABUNDANT CAUTION. CLUBMAN tells of a young friend of his, a very methodical youth revently diuated from home.” a Northern university, who, upon setting up his own establishment, undertook to look after his own dow mestic affairs “As an evidence of his orderly nas ture,” says the clubman, ‘1 offer this: Desiring to mark his laundry for purposes of identification, he ine seribed his name on one p marked the others ‘Ditto’."—Har- per's. nee SURE ENOUGH HOODOo, 66 JPPOSE you plac ] caslonally on the p sald the spectator who was willing to lose a few dollars just for the fun of the thing, “Oh, yes," replied the man who way wearing a purple vest, “How about this horse, Isabi - tered in the second race ah ea “I wouldn't bet on that horse it were @ 100-to-1 shot, I'm paying mony to & woman whose first name ig Isabel."—Birmingham Age-Herala, ‘