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re ke ee ete ae ee ee me ee ere ee ER uu os) why vias oe iy Setorid, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ed Dally Except bunaey 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZDR, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Dark Row, JOSEPH PULITZDR,’ Jr. Park Row. r, Becretary, MEMPER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. an ted Prem ie exclusively entitie! to the nae for republication al eee eee Te iiteethas Stell AN" Us hair tnd™aies te"local ‘now Beblihd WOLUME BD. ccccscccsvssevoes NO. 20,821 PEACE PATTER. EACE patter begins to flow anew from Prussian and Austrian Like the celebrated eleventh juror, the speakers are} unable to understand the obstinacy of the others. What is) lips. all the fighting for, they complain piteously. Here we stand plead ing for a just and reasonable peace and no one will listen. Well, the world has seen some fine samples of “reasonable peace in the cases of Russia and Roumania. Russia was not beaten in the field by outside force. She was surrendered by the cowardly! 3s and mercenary adventurers who had seized the reins of} What the people of that coumtry think of the unjust visiona! Government. German peace is rapidly becoming apparent. Deaf ears will welcome these wailings. The Allies will have no dealings in advance of complete victory. “Unconditional surrender” embraces the only terms fit for the situation. SS ey New York has renewed the large place {t used to occupy as a wheat raising State before the cheap product of the plains cut into dts output. The permanent rise of agricultural indus- try in the East will be one of the worthy outcomes of the war. ——_- +> THE BARGE CANAL. HAT there is a certain instinctive incompatibility in having the operations of the Barge Canal controlled by a railroad born administration appears to be percolating through the minds of the Washington gentlemen who have assumed universal power over transportation. This ought to have been clear in the beginning. Canal and railroad have been at odds ever since rails and ties were first laid. The roads, by superior speed, winter differentials and control of termi- uals, have successfully throttled the water routes. Those that have not grown up with eel grass are impotent competitors for the above reasons. The State has spent roundly not less than $110,000,000 on the big Barge Canal. It should have been in operation three years ago. It is not in real operation now. What was everybody’s business was, as usual, nobody’s business The people have nothing but the investment for their pains. It is a cruel reflection on popular intelligence and public spirit. ————_- 4 + —____ Paris heard the thunder of cannon yesterday, but the muzzles of the weapons were pointing toward Berlin! ——_- 4 ——___ KEEP TO THE SHORE. HE appalling accident off Rockaway Point illustrates again the folly of crowding frail boats with women and girls unused to water and unable to swim. Panic is easily engendered and soor works divaster in a throng. Henry Ward Beecher used to say people would trample each other to death in a ten-acre lot. The instinct to leap to the feet in a boat is uncontrollable in the average female. People should keep off the water when they cannot swim. Wind and wave are enemies. They delight in destruction. That all is emooth and fair is no guarantee of safety. As Virgil said long ago of the lost pilot of the Trojan Argosy: . “O Palinurus, ‘Trusting too much in a serene sky and calm sea, Naked thou sha!t lie on unknown sands.” —————_-+. Please, Mr. Daniels, hurry up and catch a submarine. Letters From the People Washington OMecial Approves )of whose letters seem to have been School Luncheon Plan, the object of very diligent search, will fre the Editor of The Brening World: say that 1am much interested in see- by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 te sa EDITORIAL PAGE Friday, August 23, 1918 101%. Piles Evening | | if New York Girl Types By Nixola Greeley-Smith | Copyright, 118, by The I’reas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) NO, XIV.—“‘ TEACHER.” E hear, now and then, that| crossed the threshold of Normal Col- W large families have gone out | loge, and who adopted the most ex- of fashion in New York. But if] acting of all professions as coldblood- the famous travel-|edly as other thrifty souls who get ler from New Zea-| married with deliberate intent to col- land ever should|lect alimony, (Ask any Supreme find himself in the |Court justice about the latter point, vicinity of of|if you doubt me). our public schools} But why write about failures in a a little after half-| profession thronged with successes— past eight of al fine, lovable women, who give twen- September morning |ty-four hours of every day to the he would have dif- one Mace ficulty in believing |children—the spiritual mothers of this, For the moment a siender,|New York, whose maternity 1s un- solitary young woman carrying | bounded by limitations of family, but takes in every child of every race within our gates. books and mysterious parce ed on the horizon first one little fig- appear- mental and physical care of the elty’s| 1 You Know | | “the | hortations to women to seek cleverness that conceals clevernes: and for whom syrupy fiction is writ- ten about feminine doodlewits whose ‘husbands exclaim in every other | paragraph, “Thank God, darling, you are not clever!” Outside of fiction there {s no such husband, but occa- sionally unmarried men who have | mever tried living with a fool rail at |feminine highbrows and class the ‘schoolmarm” among them. I fully agree with any man who denounces the pretentious female prig, but the prig rarely has either | real wit or learning. And the “school- |marm” is only infrequently a prig. Nine times out of ten the man who can persuade “teacher” to be his wife |®ains as much as her spiritual chil- dren lose, | | | The Woman ‘Wild Wives I’ve Met By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1018, by The Pross Publishing Co, (The New York Krening World.) -With-a-Soul |The Husband of The Woman-With-a-Soul Spends Most of His Time Flirting Witha Woman Without a Brain— | | and You Can’t Blame Him. ~ A Poor boy! I pity you! heat and electric uuffocates” her! and all that, ‘With only ONE dollar hat. Besides, if you are her husband, Somebody is alwa; or shattering an “ideal, knocking it horrified reproach fixed upon you! siasm out of you, And expects you to listen while sary evil before company. She 1s SO superior! And she is always “suffering” feel “sorry for her,” She simply HAS to have clothes and “become luminous,” that smokes, the delicatessen shop! though you were an abnormality or Oh, yes, of course, BEFORE marriage, But, AFTER marriage— Well, it often happens that the Ab, me! The Jarr Family Copyright, 1918, by The Press Put.ishing Co, (The New York Evening World,) 66PTUE war has taken the genera. interest of the public from politics," remarked Mr. Jarr. “I do not believe anybody, save the aspirants and office holders—present or’ prospective—is interested in the coming primaries and elections.” “Yes, it is just like whether you ax for light beer or dark,” said Slavinsky, tho glazier, “both kinds has no kick these day: “What I care?” rejoined Gus, is nix,” Having placed the matter on a purely commercial basis, with the political discussion on the side, Gus More end more are we coming to ling the measure favorably acted upon, | Ue then another would dart toward | I ue tele opaatedi tala ee A Series of Plain understand that education is for life, |}; am not writing in such manner be-| Hef Until on arriving at the school | res ae 7 ' fl " cas Ranees and that physical health is essential | cause 1 eight possibly be exempt do-| 40S she would look like the Old)" gt an ae ie Ha ee hada to) 4 Recs mental and moral ceveler: |caues of old agecr some other of the| Woman Who Lived In» Shoe. Ex- alt, a politician friend of the family SOWA Children Be Allowed ment. To a very large extent, this! nany reasons whic # _ | cept, of course, that she knows exact- | ‘S's prety scien must depend on right habite of eat-!t "tay haw to pi : hae ee Tas ly what to do with children, for 1s |°Mered to iy big tle trnpatesred To Quarrel? Ing, Children must eat in the right) tne midst of it, This measure, when| Sh not “Teacher,” the darling of | (0 & Beiool Oh ile abl ott I— yOU may think quarreling 1s| way at right times and must hate enacted, will seriously hinder my|#!! their little hearts, the model of Pe tay fen yield ‘head oe) ah v. necessary among children, You food in proper quantities and of (he) progress toward getting a law stu-|%! thelr eager, loving Hitle lives? Joo ih an OO I am doing} may even, if you are quite right sort. Gent's certificate, “Teacher.” fountain of learning in |°*? PN Pasa Lat Sh ae) detached and much ‘There is little doubt that the school! Aside from the fact that military] her least lovely aspect, bearer of peegen «4 re hee ay Ber apa in need of enter- funcheon idea, now well rooted I" | training for the youth of onr coun-|cookies, bringer of bright blossoms, |'P° a nag peal deeh as a anee tainment, enjoy see- this country, will spread rapidly, ©8-| try will be immensely beneficial, the| tireless answerer of questions that] /1% | [my BEt Ovelye Nak A ten ing a good chil- pecially in cities, The reasons why It) jaq of eighteen, when in a position to| Mothers are too busy or too tired to] Yael of aoa shells to my school dren's quarrel, just should are easily understood. In Our! ¢4 to High school, has generally fin. | Understand, Ri MNGH DION Cc revit a env auene | Male a as some persons en- large cities and smaller industrial) isned with the secondary school on| clothes are sources of endless talk i. ph Hehe meatier negt tl joy a cock fight, or towns many children come to schoollor about his eighteenth birthday. | and admiration among the little girls, |on'® a he a a bull fight. But If having had no breakfast or a little at|-pnis, then, pute him in @ position| whose slightest praise is the acco- li, henge a I a ie ee you are a wise parent you will know a very early hour, some early 48 5/ either to look for employment or go|lade of krighthood to unruly boys | Ohne Bhan han & gave her some| that quarreling only tends to make or 6 o'clock, and so become hunsry| to collage, and I believe that it is injno man can manage. “Teact | Japanese “magic Clowera"—dite of | Children selfish and unreasonable and and faint before the noon hour} the interest of the country to have|whose sharpest word never becomes | °“! Rit “i being put in water| Should therefore be discouraged at There children should have @ light,| some discipline imbued int> his sys-|a blow; who has the gift of gifts, | PUP" WAC) Upon DADE pul om MOE) every opportunity. wholesome luncheon in the {niddle of] tem pefore he tackles elther, playing wonderful patriotic songs on |‘ star peng eRe AE foi ot| “What can I do to stop my ten- the forenoon. For there is nothing! 1] believe afely say that the|the piano as casu asa bird sing’, | yn and humming Qirda—-she was|Year-old daughter and my twelve to eat at home if they return there at] average y: hteen Is anxious-|who is interested in drawings and | ooctat year-old son from quarreling? They the noon hour. jlya © opportunity of getting | has not the tiresome habit of askin My children have never had anye | re at It continually.” These conditions should not, must ck at Kaiser Bill, and that if the Is ht a pi * as gome mothers do, thing like this before,” she said. Sometime, just after you have Rot, continue, The remedy seems to} outcome of the proposed law de-| even when anybody with half anlwppey will talk about it for weeks." | Planned a little trip with your daugh- Me in the well managed school) pended upon the youth of our country | eye can tell it is a rhinoceros Of all authors, Bret Harte, incom-|ter, or When she is in good apirits, luncheon, whieh ¢ n be made whole- puree would oe no culling about It is one of Teacher's marvellous] parably our best short-story writer, |speak very confidentially to her and as: in ass ana in ie tual of| Wants Trading With Knemy Act, | *complishme nts to be able always) notwithstanding the O, Henry furore, |ask ® favor oF AE ~ Linares children P,P. CLAXTON, | To te Falun of T ening World to recognize a rhinoceros at sight and | shows the greatest appreciation of | “I want you to h Lae : — Commissioner of Education, De-| Please inform me where T can ob-jeven when suggesting an alternation | tho school teacher, In his pages|He has been devotoping at np partment of the Interior, Washing-;taln a copy of the Trading With the | in his an y, to do it so tactfully acher” is a figure of charm and|lately and I want te he pHi ta. ens sat Enemy Act, Also if an American|that : y wes H scenes on] romance with whom every man falls ire Binneal | Panne aha ve ac’ board sprouts instantly in the fertile soil of | in love. self say’ 0 c ake Collese Yan Thinks Youths Shoata | °!! * as is aot aN AN ae ee if be sey ‘and then some person without |him angry and I am going to try to Fo the Heilior of aoe | With the Enemy Act | I am writing now about the !deal| imagination speaks jeeringly of|watch myself more closely. And IT the “I 3 From the| is elghtcen pages in length and may her, of whom there are thousands | “schoolmarms.” That individual is | want you to help me too. Let us both mn I find that the ex-| be obtained by writing to Louis B,|in New York. We know all about the | invariably one who permits a consti-|be careful not to say anything to es from 18 to| Van Norman, care War Industries] other sort, for whom teaching is} tutional prejudice against education] him that wilt make bim lose his and espec the lowering of | Board, Washington, D.C. According| mercly a means of livelihood, instead | to warp his views of women who|temper, Will you help me as much 10 18. Is receiving thuch atten-| to local officials of the War Industries |of a dedication, and a long gray| have committed no crime save the|as you can? All right, I know we which it rightfully deserves, ‘Hoard 4 United States citizen board-| weariness between yacations, and who| unpardonable one of not being 1g-|ean help him overcome his temper if and “H. M.C.,"nelther enemy allen is obeying thi ir things up between jailing any section of the act if the the jay be eh payin wiewi They are of type whe “eolb,” quite as if she had never | nod approvingly upon reading ex- jour problem will be largely solved Of course, re do this for a while. al ‘Making the Most of Our Children! Talks to Parents By Ray C. Beery, A. B., M. A., President of the Parents’ Association have this arranged, but we will carry out the plan,” After you get your daughter to agree to co-operate with you in this w If you find it necessary, you can deal with the boy in a similar'way, After you have shown him some special con- e with you in treating his sister kindly. Whenever yd: that a quarrel sideration, get him to co-ope see might any inclination start, quickly ‘nip it in the bud” if you can, That is, say something—no matter what just so it ig something to divert their minds. For example, you might ask one of the children a question or’call their attention to something awhich will take their thoughts away from quarreling. Children quarrel only when they have time for it, Therefore, keep your children busy with whatever is of in- terest to them, Furnish the boy with hammer and nails to make some flower boxes for you and then approve the workmanship. Likewise, furnish the girl with materials for whatever work you know will be interesting to her, ‘Too often, when children start to quarrel, hear the parents say something like this: "Children, ehil- dren, when will you ever learn to play together? I.never saw such ¢ for quarreling in my life Robert, hand that over to Esther at once and don't bother me again,” Such remarks, if they have any effect at all, actually make the habit worse, through suggestion, we Jolther of us will tell bim that wo !(Comlght, 1918, ty the Party auocation, ne.) | f on} got both kinds and the profit on them| By wiped off the bar and waited for arguments or orders. “It all depends on who gets the most wotes to show who is the people's choice," said Muller, the grocer, “but how can any of them fellers get the most wotes when half |the woters is soldiers and can't wote?” “It appears to me that the primary |system is cumbersome and discon- \certing,” said Mr. Jarr, “You ain't half as disgusted as I am,” said Gus, “I used to hear about how much money was spent at elec- tions, but what I want to know is: Where was it spent? None of it come into my place and said to me ‘Good |day, Gus, how you was? Can I wisit in your cash register a little while? * “Woman's franchise, the equal fran- chise in many States, complicates the matter,” said Mr. Angelo Dinkston, coming over from the lunch counter, where he had been catching files in the outfield of cheese and pickled herring. “And women are so Iinter- ested in war work that we no longer hear of their civic clubs offering forty cents a quart for flies—musca domes- tica—defunct, This matter is worthy of the attention of one who used to turn from contemplative philosophy to destroying musca domestica for a livelihood in the lean summer season, after verse libre became the literary mode. | But now, with no pecuniary incentive to swat the fly, Othello's upation’s gone!" L never could understand that fel- ler!" growled Gus, “1 never liked that feller! What good is he to me, kill- ing flies at my lunch counter? He eats more of it than the flies do, When it was free lunch the fi welcome os Was to it just as much as my customers.” “AN!” said Mr. ston is treated by casionally, ¢ Jarr. “But Dink- the convtvial oc- is; and when he IS treated he is a source of income to you. But who, be he ever so con- vival or generous, ever pays for what the flies drink in your place?” “By gollies, I never thought of that!" said Gu: “Flies are a lot of loafers, I've been in business twenty years, and if a fly was to set ‘em up to a bunch of other files 1 wouldn't believe it.” “I don't like to hear Dinkston talk- ing about the women woting,” said Mr, Slavinsky, “What I always said was that women’s place was in the home." Mr. Muller shook his head approv- ingly at this, It is a sentiment that is very popular in galoons, “Equal suffrage, equal pay, equal RE you married to “a-woman-with-d-soul”? A “soul” has such an inconvenient way of interfering with all the real comforts of life, And {s SO expensive! You can’t expect a-woman-with-a-soul to live Im or- dinary surroundings. A cozy apartment of six-rooms-and-bath, with steam chandeliers, and a gas range, simply She cannot “expand, you know,” under the pressure of maid! Her aura gets all crushed and twisted under 9 tem And economizing seems SO sordid, when one might be thinking won- derful thoughts instead of merely counting pennies! , you are always “brulsing” her soul. It's like a table full of bric-a-brac in the middle of the room— over, or smashing a beautiful dream, or treading on a “sensibility’—ah, me! Your “vulgar bachelor friends” grate on her terribly. Your healthy appetite shocks and amazes her. You cannot enjoy @ nice rare beefsteak without feeling her gaze of Either she hangs about your neck until she chokes all of the enthu- she reads poetry to you, and to tell her, In a new and cryptic way, every half-hour how you “ADORE” her, Or she feels that she can only prove the superfine quality of her SOUL, By snubbing you at every opportunity and treating you like a neces from SOMETHING and making you So that you can scarcely keep your mind on your business affairs, “to match her soul”—usually awfully expensive, but sometimes merely queer and eye-straining. And the only “atmosphere,” in which she seems to thrive and expand Is that of a fifteen-thousand-dollar “studio,” with billous walls, and | near-antique candlesticks with purple candles in them—and a fireplace And no food, except what you remember to bring in with you from All her women friends are satellites “with souls,” who look at you ag a plain “brute,” And all her men friends are satellites with long hair and “BIG ideas,” Who borrow money from yeu, or want you to invest in something, A-woman-with-a-soul, sitting beside you on a summer night im a dreamy frock of “captured moonlight,’ | you don’t understand into your willing ear, IS wonderful! and murmuring lovely things that HUSBAND of the woman-witha-soul Spends most of his time at cabaret shows, Flirting with a woman-without-a-brain! Men ARE so “unsympathetic!” Roy L. McCardell opportunities for woman as well as man, at least the World War is bringing that about,” sald Mr, Dink- ston, “Gentlemen,” he added, his voice breaking, “if you could see how hard my wife works in 4 munitions factory it would rcuse you to @ sense of importance of the fair sex as a factor in modern industrialism!” “He's going to cry!" snorted Gus. “If he cries in my liquor store agin I'll chuck him out!" ‘Don't you feel for the wrongs of women?" asked Mr. Dinkston, “If I dare say anything about women being wrong I bet T get it from my wife, Lena!” replied Gus. “I got to stand a lot of things, but what I won't stand for Is for you to cry in here!" “I will curb my sympathtes, sup. Press my emotions,” said Mr. Dink- ston, “But pardon me if I am un- nerved. I had a dreadful expe- rience several years ago in New Jer- sey." “Everybody has had a dreadful ex- perience any year in New Jersey,” sald Mr. Jarr. “I know people who live there,” “It was at an election before the | war," Mr. Dinkston went on, “Ex- citement ran high. Two dollars a vote was being offered. But, owing to the high cost of living, the voters were demanding moro liberal terms. I counselled them to strike for three dollars. They stood firm and the re- volt was successful. Our demands were acceded to. ree doll every voter in rs were handed to plain white envelope, I retired into the voting booth with the three dollars in the envelope and my My conscience was asking me if we could not have got four dollars if we had demanded it. Just as I was ready to mark my bal- lot several flies buzzed in, ‘There is an axiom that every little bit added to what you got makes just a little bit extra, Flies were commodities then—when in quantity and defunct. “I swatted those flies and pocketed them. Then as I stopped from the booth my vote was challenged on the ground that I hadn't been, in New Jersey overnight—as though any one, foot free, would stay that long in New Jersey, In my confusion I voted the envelope with the three dollars in it instead of my ballot.” “But what's that got to do with your wife working?” asked Gus, “Don't you see,” replied Mr, Dink- ston, “now that my wife is indus- trially efficient and works steadily at a good wage, I am politically inde- pendent? I do not need to vote gor @ livingi” conscience,