The evening world. Newspaper, August 26, 1918, Page 10

a eee OF ee OT ew lay tne ali Naaman ee! eee a a ee rt er i itl ESTABLISHED ‘BY Daily Except Sunday. by Published Daily Except sunt LAT Z1) RALPH Pui J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. «a JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. MPMBER OF THE Prom (exclusively, entitied ewvallad STE te te eras “edlc’1S credited VOLUME 39... THE T IS SAID that for many years a favorite toast among German army officers was “The Day the time to come when the h were a part should sally forth on the most tremendous excursion of robbery and murder in the world’s history. Now, after four years of colos world to the car of military autocracy, with what different feelings must they watch the coming of “t when they must reap the harvest of their own sowing; a “day” whose certain and rapid approach not e deny, the thoughts of which fill rolled back across France before forces. But the coming of this “day brigands and their accomplices. ing of the breaking of the dawn w of the divine right of kings shall the heel of outraged humanity. ——— Careful mans will certainly be defeated are beaten, the Germans will hb, M fetched. Property is not lost by ite cash equivalent are both in ex ment is concerned, its position is with the money may have gone up —_——-+ BOND S R. MW’ There is one phase of the bond selling that may merit criticism, and that is the undoubted policy of many rich tax-dodgers who are acquiring at a premium the first non-taxable issue. headed off, somet'ing of value would be accomplished. Bonds of smal! denomination a who pay no income tax. have been done. +—-¢2——___—_ Only one week more to Oysters. a WAGE IN RGA heavy wage advances. cost of living, which gets bi Amusements or luxuries get the re’ enough, saving. That men fail to their own future. Money in circulation benefits the shrewd and pru- dent and keeps whcels turning. Where the peri! comes is to the unorganized or salaried classes. They cannot enforce increases, but the workingman, In many instunces—baak clerks, for example—the pay is away below mechanical wages. people? How are they to be helped to a living level? Must everybody “organize” against everybody else? Often, of yore, toward Grand Central bent, I rode in subway cars with deep content; But now, but now! I never more Come out of the same th Row. in this paper and alm the inal A whole world is watching the glow- reading of the views of the various Experts” produces this convincing thought: Assuming that @ Great War is in progress—if the Allies are victorious, the Ger- DOO'S protest that owners of Liberty Bonds should hold on (o them as a patriotic duty is meeting with wide commenty To most people his views appear rather far- If they part with holdings to men who do contribute largely, so as to cut down their payments, real barm will NIZED labor, under Government auspices, is securing Part of the increase is taken away in G Si JOSEPH PULITZER. Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 te . Now York. President, 63 Park Row. ASSOCIATED PRESS. to, the. use tor renublication of al nowy dewratchee manele — veeeseNO, 20,824 DAY! ” an expression of their longing for uge military machine of which they sal effort and failure to shackle the he day,” not of their own chovsing, ven Prussian arrogance can longer them with craven fear as they are the crushing blows of the Allied is not the secret of a few royal hen militarism and the superstition: finally be ground to pieces under “Military + if, on the contrary, the Allies ave had the best of it ELLING. being disposed of. ‘he bond and istence and, so far as the Govern- undisturbed. The powder bough! in smoke. If they could be re held in large numbers by people JUSTICE. ack to the farmer and storekeeper. st. There is some, but not nearly save does no real harm, except to have to bear the load equally with What is to be done for these] hole where in I went! Hits From “Is Friendship Worth Having?” Well, if it's Sunday mornin’ and the next door beckons yuh out to the fence and hands over two bottles right cold off the ice, It means somethin.’—Baltimore Sun . Cartoons of the German nationa! dog bring to mind Bill Nye's dachs- bund. It was one dog high and two and a bait dogs lon. Toledo Blade. “See Germany first” isn’t 4 bad slo- gan for our boys, with their faces set to the Rhine and the Paris lights be- hind = them.—Memphis Commercial Appeal. ee When you are reading it “two miles forward over a 10-mile front” it does not seem very far, but it is dif- ferent when you are fighting it Mempbis Commercial Appeul, es Eventually our doughboys expect to have some canned Kaiser for the Germans to try.—Baltimore Ameri- can. ae ee | Wishing, when it's for something within reach, is superfluous; when it's for something beyond reach, use jess; then why wish at all!—Albany Journal. oe ¢ Sharp Wits ago were ath "on the balconies of their quie! an homes playin the ukulele Iimore Sun.» oe To-day's worry is the result of yesterday's neglect.—Chicago News. ce. 2 A little war stamp now and then ts purchased by the best of inen.—Mem- phis Commercial Appeal, ce 8 False economy is that which wastes upon the saving of 4 nickel enough time to earn @ dollar.—Albany Jour- nal, is ey The sport of fishin’ claims its own around the whole aquatic a for It iy such a ple plate the Sun. fate to con balt.—Baltimore a is If there were wn elevator to the! proverbial top there would be less room there.—Albany Journal. kk The reul test of our girls’ patriot- ism ix going to come when the class between forty and forty-five years of age, inclusive, gets into uniform and | begins to stand sheepishly around on one foot waiting to be Kissed.—Ohio And to think lots of those brave State Journal, Letters From the People Urges Rat: Pay, for Recreation) grounds, especially in these war rect umes, C To the Eaitor af The Evening World Permit me to say a few words in behalf of the instructors in the Bu- reau of Recreation of the Depart- ment of Parks, Manhattan, Being interested in child welfare, it has been called to my attention that the present staff of instructors is very much underpaid, In the Mayor's timely proclamation calling for the preservation of childhood, through public playgrounds, &c., he ‘Mdvocates the Peceesity of play- Why not some consideration for the underpaid instructors, who go on from year to year with no in- creases, although the cost of living has increased 65 per cent.? Besid. the demands made upon them tor | Liberty Bonds, War Savings Stamps, | Red Cross drives and numerous | other wartime obligations muke it} almost impossible to exist, ASAE IE EN MATS + —— j aloe EDITORIAL PAGE | Monday, August 26, 1918 ply Fa New and 1918, ENS By Ji A. Cassel Bayin per in Thine Yea, without delay, make “Remember planations’ when For lo, after she cab, how joyfully thou walkest in anion stretcher! “Fail not to keep tabs upon thy Hesitate not to criticise her clothes, little ways, and to read her letters, to be adored? devoted, but spend ALL thy time fn generosity and broad-mindednes: count the pennies which thou dolest requireth a ‘guardian’ and delighteth that thou shouldst finish reading the mentally inferior as thine own Rib. yield not! For, peradventure, a little theatre tickets for thy Wif why ‘start something” at her wedding ring and be haappy! ‘admire thee whether she will or not. committing a single SIN! Selah. gs of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Prese Publishing Co. My Son, When Thou Weddest the Damsel of Thy Heart's Desire, 1 Charge Thee, Beware of the Ten Temptations of His Majesty Satan, Wherewith He Seeketh to Be- guile Every Bridegroom to His Doom—Lo, When the Honeymoon Waneth and the Hour Is Ripe, He Shall Send Unto Thee “The Little Black Man,” Who Shall Whis- i oN": 1s thine appotnted hour! but one throne and one sceptre and one set of opinions im THINE- house, and that these are thine! woman worshippeth a master and yearneth to be bossed. Therefore, show her that she is, after all, only a Rib, and that thou art IT! ‘ thine INDEPENDENCE, sacred. Let not thy Wife question thee concerning thy goings and thy comin, visioning thee mangled beneath the wheels of a taxi- nothing else so increaseth her respect for her husband! “When thy Wife speaketh NEVER listen! probably not say anything worth hearing; and it is FAR more important than that thou shouldst seek to establish companionability with one so “When thou art tempted to compliment thy Wife be STRONG, and her dizzy with her own vanity and self-conceit. a woman he payeth her the highest compliment—and usually the last! “Be not tempted to waste thy substance upon candy and flowers and For she doth not EXPECT them; therefore, If she wisheth fol-de-rols and trinkets let her look “Keep thy manners for the public and thy courtesy for other women! For lo, a sweetheart MAY admire thee for these things, but a Wife MUST “Whatsoever thou doest, forget not that Marriage is a Monarchy, NOT a Democracy—and that a man’s Spouse is his vassal!” Verily, verily, my Son, ANY Husband that followeth these ten rules— ‘or even half of them—can make a Complete Failure of Marriage without For they are the Sign Posts on the Rocky Road to Reno! Ne (The New York kvening World.) Ear, Saying: I charge thee, ASSERT thyself! it plain unto thy Wife that there Té \ For every to keep it neither humor her with ‘ex- thou art two hours late for dinner. hath sat in torture and uncertainty, THEN, shall she welcome thee when alive and cheerful, instead of on @ How, then, shall she cherish thee and adore thee! Wife, and to seek to REFORM her! and to reproach her for her foolish and to pick out her friends for bh For doth not a woman wed in order to be ‘reformed’ rather than in order Therefore, be thou her little Uplifter! “When thou takest thy Wife forth in public be not weak to play the gazing at OTHER women to admire them. Thus will thy Beloved learn to appreciate thy taste and glory in thy “Remember the household accounts, to go over them weekly, and to out to thy Wife. For every woman to feel like an object of charity. And Remember that she wit baseball column or the ‘funny sheet’ flattery may go to her head and make Lo, when a man weddeth HE vote, as we have all heard, is important to women. We know, too, that without educa- tion the middle and latter years of woman's life are bare indeed. Pa- triotism, as every- body will agree, has vivified and ennobled the whole feminine world, Having admitted all this, let us con- cede also that con- sidering, by and large, the life and ambitions of the average woman to- day, as they were before the flood and as they will fellers, that are pushin’ the Germans | S¢4don, the most important thing of back to the Rhine, only a few months | all for her is to be sufficiently good- looking or clever or charming to in- be after Arma- terest the man—or men—that shv would like to interest. Please, nobody send down the mal edictions of outraged feminism upon my head. For, being a feminist my- self, I should feel badly about it. 1 mean merely that as women will al- ways be wise enough to realize that the main business of life is life itself, and can never have their central en- ergies sidetracked to politics, art or books, as men do so often, their major preoceupation will continue to be marriage, or whatever new form the sex-life of the future may take, Sometimes, in a street car or the- atre or restaurant-—or sometimes in the closer contacts of everyday ac- face of a Woman who, on every count “What a tragedy! of Aspasia lurk behind that mask. it out? comic of hame and children, there that they will ever be realized?" In these days, with war industries offering inducing salaries, can the city expect its efficient workers to! compensation? : F, ©. for an answer, What shall 1 do?” iach sitar Seat cieah oitete quaintance—I have looked into the ‘The fires of Sappho may burn within that meagre breast, the constancy of Penelope or the wit But what man will ever find In that misshapen skull are tender dreams of love, sweet thoughts What hope ts And so on in a most melancholy} small, but puls her fortunes to the strain, And then the lips of tragedy|touch @nd appears in @ sketchy would open, and into my sombre | Swimming suit, mood shrill, swan-like tones have] You search your brain for some penetrated, bringing my answer; "My| sort of neutral compliment that dear, 1 don't know whut's got into the| will outra; man. He's mad—simply mad about] lity and give it up, Then the smug, I've tried every way to get rid remain at their posts without due |°f dim, but he simply won't take ‘No’ (The wv York Evening World) And I understand that I am not in | had feared, but of a Fatal Enchant- of hearts. | Does it matter that the hearts are the realm of the unreal by @ sub- conscious need of them? The best looking Fatal Enchant- teas I have ever known bad a lack | of chin that suggested a washout) and a complexion that might bave served to half-sole a pair of army} | sdon’'t see what there is tbat makes men so crazy about me,” she used to remark pensively. “I swear 1 do absolutely nothing to encourage them, I have met Mr, Blank three | mornings in succession this week in the Grand Central Station, and I am sure be was following me!” | If you have not known the Fatal Enchantress long, you may suggest that, as Mr, Blank commutes trom Noroton, Conn. the Grand Central Station {s not the most unlikely place for bim to be found in the | morning: You get a basilisk glare from the Enchantress for your pains, and next time you will know better |than to question that eighty-s she is an | 1 forget who it was who sald that} if Cleopatra's nose*had been an inch longer the whole history of the world might have been changed. The Fatal Enchantress does not believe this. Noses have nothing to do with charm, she Uhinks, and in that, at least, her Judgment does not go tar astray, As of beauty, energy, sweetness or at-|a@ rule, fatal enchantresses do not tractiveness, seemed to me a dead] marry. Their friends say it is be- loss, And I have said to myself: | cause they have had too many offers, | and this fact from the enchantresses themselves, there is no earthly ex- cuse for doubting it, But some sum- mer day, as the strong morning sun- light beats down upon the compla- cent countenance of the Fatal En- | chantress, she neither fears her fate too much nor deems her desert too serene voice of the Enchantress says, the presence of a hopeless gorgon, 48 | entered imaginary, summoned perbaps from | dentially, en-power charmer of men, |!ke® to read | cation crushed since they must have gleaned | New York Girl Types You Know By Nixola Greeley-Smith Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, No. XV.—THE FATAL ENCHANTRESS ments of Annette Kellerman? But [ wish these men wouldn't stare at me so. It's positively embarrassing “But good figures are so rare! answer. you ‘No wonder they like to look at you.” For by this time you have into the great conspiracy with the Fatal Enchantress, to pre- ress, or, as the French say, an Eater | tend that she is eternally besieged “I prefer my freedom to any m the Enchantress informs you conti- of being tied down all my life person,” And you tell her that she is per- fectly right—that it is hard, of couise, on the men who are in love with her, but that after all, men are rather ruthless with other women, so if sb achieves a vic-rious vengeance, »y her obduracy, so much the better. Yes, that is true,” the Fatal En- chantress acquicsces. “For they arc mad, simply mad about me.” ty one “I can't bear the thought; The Jarr Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, + (Toe New York Evening World.) GREEABLE to his promise, Mr. Jarre accompanied the Bepler family on their first vist to see their eldest son at the Naval Reserve training camp, Master Jarr invited simsclf along, and the flivver automo- vile, used for meat deliveries on week days, was a little more than comfort- ably filled by Mr. and Mrs, Bepler, Master Gussie Bepler, aged fourteen; the Misses Bertha and Frieda Bepler, aged twelve and ten; Rudolph and Adolph, the Bepler twins, aged eight; little Fritz Bepler, aged six; little Herman Lepler, aged four; little Irma Bepler, aged two, and the baby Bep- ler, age, name und sex not explained to Mr. Jarr. These, together with Mr, Jarr and Master Jarr, and sundry packages of nourishing meats and cakes being taken to the eldest son, now a "Gob," A Series of Plain Do Your Children Like to Read? ‘01 Y real contentment for your child when you lead him to know is easily amused, the youth who reads or woman who loves good books friends. And books feed make memory, keep the U are laying the foundations of and love gvod books. learns, the man is never without the imagination, The old edu- the of dream faculty awake. the child's imagina- houses tion; the new education fosters it, knowing it is the child's most price- less heritage. Unfortunately many children learn to enjoy trash, while many children never learn to take an interest in books of any sort, Those children are indeed te be pitied who grow up with a pronounced dislike for reading good books. | Here isanexample, A mother writes to me: “My nine-year-old daughter enjoys being read to a great deal and I en- neither truth nor credu- | joy reading to her, but my four-and- a-half-year~ and rebel ev ld twins do not enjoy it ry time @ book is brought as she gazes at her bony knees: “Do you kaow 1 have the exact moasyre- | situation?” forth, How would you deal with the ‘The child who | treasure | Making the Most of Our Children, Talks to Parents By Ray C. Beery, A. B., M. A., President of the Parents’ Association | Use suggestion in this manner: With a new, attractive little book in your hand, suddenly appear to be very {much amused, Laugh aloud so that |the boys’ attention will be attracted to ‘you. When they look up to you, as much as to say, “Well, what is it all |about?” say, "Oh, this is the funniest story! Little Jack here started to ride a big dog and when the dog started to run——Come over and sit by mother a | minute and we'll hear the rest of the | story."| The boys naturally will do | tnis. Now, in a very enthusiastic way, read several short passages which in- volve a great deal of action, and |when the boys are keenly attentive cut the story short at a most exciting point, saying that you wish you could | finish it now, but you have to attend to something in the kitchen. They of course, will want to know what ts to happen next in the story. And they will avk you for the rest of it. It is natural for mothers who have trouble interesting children to say, “Don't you want to listen to me read a while? Come on, sit over here, 1 won't read long.” But this, obviously, is wrong. Children should never be coaxed | The method preseribed is correct because it tends to create a desire in the child's mind for the thing that you want, Very little, if anything, is gained by having children read or listen to others unless they want to do wo with all their will, WWoppright, 1948, by tbe Parente’ Amgpeiation, Ine.) Family By Master Jarr and Master Gussie Bepler would proudly repeat, some- what crowded the eight candle-power Bepler flivver, Mr. and Mrs. Bepler, now that their eldest son had forsaken their preju- dices against fighting for the country he was born in and against the coun- try THEY were born in, had accepted the one star service flag Mr. Jarr presented them with as they accepted the fact that Master Jarr, Master Gussie Bepler and all the little Bep- \lers, including the baby, were waving small American tlegs and cheering lustily as the flivver sped out to the Naval Reserve training camp. as In,due time the party arrived, pass- ing and being passed by hundreds of family parties bent upon or returning j from the same errand. Some were jafoot, some in trucks, some in high powered and costly cars, and some, {like themselves, in the common or gurden variety of flivver. Between the lines of barbed wire fence naval sentries paced up and | down and warned the visitors to keep their hands off the outer barbed wire, as it was charged with electricity, Which proved to be something that should have been told the Marines, for Master Gussie Bepler and Master Willie Jarr tested several strands with their youthful tongues and could jnot detect the slightest @avor of the | deadly fluid. “And you "t chuck over any chow to the Gobs, or I'll put you un- der arrest!" warned the surly sentries, “So much was chucked over to them, it made ‘em sick." | An accommodating young. ensign |had Second Class Seaman Benjamin Bepler sent for, and he soon appeared at the inner wire, some twenty feet from where his family and Mr, Jarr and Master Jarr awaited him, “Do you get enough to eat, Ben- | nie?” asked his mother, tearfully. “In Germany yet there ain't much to eat.” “Is it a soldiers’ jail for prisoners you are in, like in the old country?" asked his father, “Hey, Bennie, cried Master Gussie Bepler Master Willie Jarr, in one voice, “It's great!" replied the Naval te- | how yah like it?” and leruit, answering the last question first. “[ brought you some cakes and some dill pickles and liverwurst and pie," whimpered his mother, "But |the gentleman with the gun, who | walks up and down, says you can’t have It.” “Aw, I get lots to eat, but you can jeare me a dollar at the gate to buy McCardell cigarettes,” said the envied hero, “When is it you should go on « ship?" asked his father. “Not for about two months,” re- plied young Bepler. “We have te stay {n this isolation camp for ¢nfee weeks, then we go to the training camp for a month, and then maybe we go to sea, if we aren't put on shore duty, They keep us here and give us three shots of serum so we won't get typhold and other dis- eases.” “Have you a feather bed, like at home?" asked his mother anxiously. “Shall I bring it?” “Naw, I sleep in a hammock. If you brought a feather bed the whole camp would kid the life out of me There's the call to fall in for color, Wait and see it. We sing the flag down—'The Star-Spangled Ban: ld —at sunset, We sing other songs first. Our song leader gave up a job that paid him $40,000 a year to teach us G singing for about $40 a month. Then Master Bennie Bep- ler hurried away, a fine and sturdy figure tn his white uniform. Now the band struck up, The va= rious companies of recruits formed and marched and ranked themselves in a hollow square around the flag- pole. There were thousands of them. A man in khaki marched at the head | of the band with the officers, He mounted a platform and led them tn song. irst, the Isolation Camp hanson: Roy L. All hands on deck! There's a prett il Birt in sight. wee All hands on deck! And I tell you she'p~ all right. one I don’t care if the ship becomes a wreck, We haven't seen @ girl in twenty-one days— All hands on deck! Then they sang “Sweet Adelino™ and “Over There” with great enthu« siasm, Then a bugle blew, the band Played and 3,000 young throats sang lustily “The Star-Spangled Banner and all stood with eyes on the d scending flag, rigidly at salute, “By gollies!" cried Bepler, the now proud and thrilled father, “my boy, is a Gob, and he's on the job!" —____ STIFF FIGHTING, HE battle of our Civil War hav- ing the highest mortality rate was Gettysburg—“the high tide of the Kebellion"—where 55 men were Killed out of every 1,000 engaged, Mortality rates in some other ims portant battles were: First Bull Run, 40.7; second Bull Run, 45.4; Antietam,/ 89.7; Chickamauga, 47.6; burg, 18.1; Wilderness, PR Abts: i Sa BPs ‘ A 4