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| EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, August 29, 1918 ' i} i} | | | l +e aveilig | W omen in War Tie New York Erenng World.) 4 ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. | ¢ 2 - " " ” | By Al be rt Payso n Terhu ne ie Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 tv) 4 cP) Par Ror New ke 7 RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park P | Coprright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) | ; No. 26—ROSA BONHEUR, the Painter-Patriot of France. HE Germans had begun to draw their belt of steel around Paris late in 1870. Nearer and nearer to the gallantly resisting but doomed city they were moving, ever tightening the vise. The Parisians and such military survivors of th> terrible 1870 campaign as could be mustered for the purpose were making great efforts to snap the steel belt or else to prevent it from crushing their loved elty into helplessnet It was the last stand of a great people against a barbarian horde that had overrun their land. J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Ror JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. = MEMPER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, ast ted, Pree {exclusively entitled to the tie tor rerublication of al! news Aempateheg eee SS SAT SM al ad Gis ee cal ‘tee Deiat here MOON Hrvisivrsistereivescivivervririveces NO: IS IT DISCERNIBLE? : N THE forward push of the Allied Armies there is no let-up. | During the fighting of the last two days the French scored another of the big advances of the war, gaining a maximum of teven miles on a twenty-five mile front and taking thirty towns. Noyon may be already in the possession of the Allie rman move- The famous Forest of Fontainebleau, on the city’s outskirts, offered a # ments back of the Chaulnes-Roye ling are described as 8 evidence of precipitate retreat. Alread fine halting place in the steady encroachment. And the French massed @ force there to repel the Prussian assaults. Through field glasses the German staff watched the preparations for defending Fontainebleau, and, watching, they beheld something which vastly puzzled their sense of military fitness, since July 1 is measured by 112,000 prisc In Germany, even then, the army was everything, and the civilian could ca a ee eg es ME 0,8" owing every success of the Allies) ors and 1,300 captured guns. Ne! We , ae take what was left. The man in uniform regarded the plain citizen as the And the pressure increases rather than dim!nishes. ‘The enemy #y, y 4 wan P dir, beneath his feet. So it amazed the watching staff to note the deference ais left no time to “Jig in.” His famous Hindenburg line is even now broken and passed in places. There is strong hope that before the snow flies there may be no more Germans fighting on French soil | with which the French officers and private soldiers alike treated a shabby» little man, in day laborer clothes, who was toiling with them in the effort to build breastworks and gun emplacements. ‘ The little man wore baggy trousers and wooden shors and a dirty blouse. f The great Allied offensive appears to be gaining from its own His short tron-gray hair was partly covered by a woollen Tam o’ Shanter : : ‘ hat, such as Breton peasants wear. His face was strong and heavy and Cy st which no German resistance prevail. waccesees a potency against which no German Istance can pre was seamed by many a line and wrinkle. Morale increases momentum. Momentum further raises morale. | This peasant was conferring with French staff officers, who listened in ‘ That neither momentum nor morale need fail, there is the 2 Pata deep respect to his words and who examined with fr, ' . ——e—" } fmarantee of 100,000,000 Americans who have only begun to mabe , E F o > H ble P. nt the same deferential admiration the sketches he hat tae shaw } scrawled to Indicate the shape and location of vari- their strength tell in the struggle, who with their first fighting thou sands rejoiced and filled with fresh courage veteran French and British and who are now preparing to mobilize more of their man i power on a scale that shall keep it moving millions strong to the front. ‘ What can German intelligence discern in Germany strong enour!) to stand any ultimate chance against the force that gathe Enjoys Honors. Stare «lous defenses, Leaving these officers, he would go among the hard-hustling soldlery and would work side by side with them, doing the roughest manual labor with pick and spade, The staring Germans were unable to solve the mystery of this shabby litfle peasant’s claim to such respect as officers and privates alike lavished { upon him, Not until many months later was the mystery solved. Then the tn- vaters learned that the square-built and heavy-faced peasant was not @ man at all, but a woman—and one of the most famous women in all Europe, ¢ if a WHERE IS CREDIT MOST NEEDED? { ‘ HE Acting Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank urges upon | bankers the desirability of curtailing credit to merchants and manufacturers. He says nothing, however, that would lead us to understand that speculators and specialists in higher finance| As she was the idol of the French, her presence in the trenches waga chould not be grautéd such accommodation as they may see RRS, ? . a manner Sareanie. evading olbveriitgy male eee The theory that, business may be choked to death in a thousand ’ oot Ff ela , ov - Woman's Valor i tremendous use, too, in the staff councils. localities without injury to the country seems to be readily accepted by | Pe Ineplres. All: 3 deaslteny ee au te Geavaet en ated pry those who advocate refusal of credit to men who direct and broaden productive industry. Requests from that element which thrives by| example was a glorious tonic to the downhearted soldiery. Even when every one at last realized that resistance was useless | juggling values instead of producing them are not included among! those to which the banks are advised to turn a deaf ear. H Mile. Bonheur would not forsake her post; and when the Franco-Prussian Is the Nation to recognize credit as more necessary in great} She was Rosa Bonheur, the painter. She had a beautiful country home near Fontainebleau. When the siege | | | | | | of Paris began she refused to move to safer quarters ond insisted on don- | ning the clothes of a man and helping the city’s defenders in their perilous | work. War ended she was eagerly busy in helping that war's sufferers and in planning for the triumphant upbuilding of her stricken country. ; Mile. Bonheur's patriotism was scarce less noteworthy than was her art. OF the latter, the most celebrated specimen—“The Horse Fair"—hangs in ‘ 7 ; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. i speculative centres like Wall Street than in communities where busi-| " She won success as & painter of animals aware she was almost the, / ness and industry are constantly creating the values that constitute | | frst artist to depict them as they really looked and without idealizing them | . 1 a he tong els of a eI be the solid assets of the country? Ob manne them appear like the conventional models of a painter's imag \ | ‘ vee : 3 , | France, first, and then all the world acclaimed her genius; and, later, — | e her stanch patriotism won her a new and even higher place in her country NOT QUITE FAIR. - men’s hears T IS all very wei the Fuel Airing a ee a any ing ‘New Y ork Gi rl Types You Know IT h e | a Yr Yr F a m 1 | y B y Ro y L M cCa rdell i that gasoline may be saved for war needs. me" . . . |Secretary the years open no such Copyright, 1918, by The Preas Pblinbing Co, Inn piazza to take his employer and ‘ow please don't insult and swear e The public is loyally complying with many such requests, But| By Nixola Greeley-Smith [widening vista. For the Sallc taw| | | (Tm Sew Yoru Benise World) leneir guests home. at this manf'asid Mrs, Strvver asitd isn’t there an clement of injustice in this Sunday ban on gasoline? | Copyrigit, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) | still prevails in business and finance, “the Joyride with the Gtryvers rave aly a mile to the trolley, ie bea Hasoend as she party sotiag " y ; . and though from time to time she} , sir,” said the waiter, he dirty automobile, “He looks What about the modest possessor of a modest car who has to} NO. XVIL—THE SUPER-SECRETARY | may get more money she knows that had resulted in a wreck. ‘ “The trolley!” snorted Mr. Stryver.| capable of running us into the ditch _(¢ work hard through the week and for whom Sunday is the one and VERY child born into the human| Even after she had most reluctantly |she can never inherit the throne but| | "Here's # fim’ sclipe you 1 eet ue | “Do you think I'm going home on the | for spite.” | only day when he can enjoy a little fresh-air trip in the automobile E race knows, at one time or an-|convoyed us into the Presence, whom | will remain foreyer @ Secretary. into” Oa alate tea tenere che trolley? Telephone to the nearest Well,” said the driver, “come | ich, i : at he r y Mb 41 of| But after all, despite this manifest |tomobile jamm: 3 garage for a machine. | ac. " which, in his case, may represent the chief vac : other, that he is destined to|we found puffy and dull but full | eeahal iRithis ional i. HiTAAY FODEAROAY Re) Chiet vacation: posatvility fox) Peutneal: Tut wl kosd. advicn eaGue (herlote: she have (injustion ahecie MADDY, | Like sh) CHBUEOrareAly ACN) A es |” phe telephone's been cut out, sin”| “Come across what?” asked Mr, himself and his family? | sie : » Ny ‘rberus, she is the gate | Place twenty miles from town!” | natural doubt soon| ered protectingly on the threshhold| Peter, like ¢ said the waiter, “but I'll go down to | Stryver, , ; “Why do you blame mw for it?” ve eye . Ay Isn’t it rather hard that he should have to see men blessed with } arises as to which|of the room, and made many trips|to greatness of one sort or another. Fe eee sea GoANitAyOUr the main road and flag the first auto- | “Wit de twenty spot,"/said the | a lei ; heir'c . | form of greatness | with letters and inquiries to the great |4 man's wife may doubt him oc oried rs. Btryver: Mea. Btryver |mobile: maybe some one will give you | driver. e terms is cash in adq money and leisure using their cars every day, from Monday to Satur- it will be most|man‘s desk, always with a fine rust-|sionally, but his Secretary never, And |man, the car is your car (Mrs. & pid a lift if they're not too full.” vance in case of fire. Besidge, this \ day inclusive, for pleasure—and with no man’s condemnation—while ” worth his while to|ling of under silks. For those were he Secretary sees him in his most = Epa Ra een toe “I don't care how full they are./oiq boat is liable to break ak om i : e yen at | was in run fe "Ne i mirvar. : X , he cannot drive on the one day he is free to do so without being| f . adopt. My own|the rustling days. If Cleopatra and| teresting aspect pldsreiie BN a temperance hotel.” By cnanee ely pul pep ee minute, and I don’t know how much ; frowned upon and hooted for his lack of patriotism? | poten +» juvenile imagina-| (he Queen of Sheba had called to- aut nee prirapierter eer They are| “That's what drove the man tol yio gin fe ane oe te Cantata i her either ; age pil y tion hovered un-|gether the super-Secretary could not yay ink.” exclaimed Mr, Stryver, “He b * . | pay you when we get to } By all means, save gasoline. But let the Government frame its setaaly, 44 With ance aan aes clareed Guan ani Tete foe Co cee ee something dull | drink, a + here |30U Father ride with a driver who is) town,” said Mr. Stryver N i | s lang ordinary when their desks are|tried to get something to eat here)‘ that ain't full? asked the| wy ; request so that the sacrifice may be more equitably shared. | were YOr ying predilec- | was over two young girls whadid not |") io Which is one reason why |and in desperation he took to b00z¢."| Waiter ay he took the oll lantern: of | as oh. the bull con, bol”. aatdvthg, i —_——————— = tions, over the #elf-| realize until years afterward what |*"Ut down, re F/R aca a i fiuele: to. 4reki + as lantern off highwayman alrily, “Besides 1 got to i mu | smerned Grapeisen, the laurels BY {hae worried bar a it takes them a week or 80 to recover | e y “He heard you |th® Porch of the La Paloma Inn| stip old Kidney Feet, the waiter here, \| } af ned Nap ad worried her ¢o. | y are so |Sheered Mrs, Stryver, “He heard you Arg : from a vacation and why they are so | sn 4 atahted forthe main road down . 3; | ; the siege | ; and sta 0) five bucks for his bit its rom a f Are raisin, leg "4 \° rp its ron, Joan @ ve r aod ey Since then yellow hair and over-| cross on Monday morning. | talking like ruffian and that ene | i oe way it will give you a chec aid Mr. Man is not the only being who ap- |Call our soldiers what : |of Orleans and Sonia Kovalevska, 4) dressing have gono out of Wall| Neve Y to see a great man | couraged him.” (8 eee thes check.” #8, : preciates pretty ankles. Mosquitoes Netiine in take famous Russian woman professor © Ld ane ure | Never, never:go to:e00'8 mi Hold me, Jarn!" cried the ex Stryver, “Don't you know who I are very fond of them.— ee! ec. © y d and Mrs, Jarr said nothing. Plorida | ‘Yankees, “Huskies,” Street. And because of the influx of | on Monday morning. About Thursday | Mr. 4 ‘ ; perated Stryver. “I'l kill that/am Mate. Valen: Ratan Bullie pinahighacei bd Bee ee ey | Ronee in the downtown districts,|is the best time, for even the super- | They stood viewing the wreck cg ine | waiter, and we'll all get back to clv-| “Never met you before.” aald the Ce, Tae, Get there just the same POLS DIOOIAAOY 12 favorite $Udy-| suspicion has disappeared with them.|Secretary may be willing then to re-|Stryver automobile and the driver.) 1 i ine police patrol!” (i i ‘The fellow in the next house says he Memphis Commercial Appeal, |. To-day: however, 1 should have nO) put with simple black gowns and|ceive you as if you were almost | who had been pitched out of ft ae ete a ROS ROP INR TT | Cbdurate hold-up man, I take is for the proposed tax on chinaware ai Nh hesitation, for I should know that] 7 ovo) fl Bays (sell was bringing it up to the La Paloma @ man only meal y I} no paper. Come over with the cush.” as it will make the cost of his dish-| There cannot be temptation where | there is a greater greatness, a more air hae come & Sew > | human, —-———— —— —|take a loaded driver with an empty —_———<$ “ll give him the money,” said Mr. | washing prohibitive.—Pittsburgh Gaz-|there isn't inclination to do wrong. —| conscious power than was exerc seq | POrtance, a deeper grandeur, @ more | © e . car or a sober driver with a loaded| Jarr, feeling in his fob pocket fora | ette-Times. Albany Journal lee rene lest Reiae vosticawniah hee impregnable aloofness, ‘These re- B h | r ef rl Reflections aaa" eumensed as tae Heese verentycdating Bit Thee Geeeeeaa lores to the young woman rereuney | mas Spply only; to the: persons ac elo 1 IN take anything, but first I'lllsented a suit of clothes he was | Letters From the Peo ple |of a successful man, [SAPTREBTiRS CE She STAB i See wee? Ptake his life | Al * howled the raging | qnancing. on in Wall Street ces conced fe as i she #4 Ane They Aloo Serve.” The aventy omce ‘hoy has heen 2 Uh VMOU RUSAE Moen conoed®: & By Helen Rowlan Stryver, And he made @ charge for common femininity, are willing to dis- ‘We can fix the matter up when we get back to town Mr, i. ae | way jam that we used to know in the : ite: a t ever ce 9 > 0, (The Ne Evening World.) the waiter, pea y discussed and laughed at ever since Copsright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York To the Editor of The Brening World days o} e cuss books, pict and pla ave ea af . er fy ytartdlsne DAioa boys wera’pmployed: JThemloot cue: cochn Ristiten Aud. piaym have Hie nla fashioned idea of heaven was a place where you did nothing| After holding up six or seven auto-| On this basis the party re-em- Now that it seems assured men| ! think there js little question that “ sf the man secretary Nas |oren admitted to me now and then a@ J ’ beautiful clothes and listen to| mobile parties, who passed on in ked, with Mr. Stryver leavi: from 18 to 45 will be called, 1 would|New York transportation would be *""* +r ee vllyeers tifying familiarity with things I but sit around day and night in bea eee like to ask what does “essential” |Kreatly improved if th been ' Nn a never hap- tusic-—but, dear me, that’s too much like @ summer resort to be|#corn after the waiter made ‘his is for ie REIL OV arsonie Siaie new line was jhad written, This b erybody who has ever been | a \sage known, the waiter appeared |feur and directions for the care mean? For instance, « place that 1/Put to proper use, But when the I= | iei ae or ere Ate om ae pened with @ super-Bocretary. To anything like heavent finally with a very dirty man driving EET Na ould dant tte . ba have in mind employs three bar-,|terborough seeks to carry capacity ty \ tne {mportance of persons you |e? I am always just one of a hun- i SQA a very dirty and clanking car. This| They reached town in due time, de-- | tenders, one of whom is unmarried pervwrde on a minimum number of! |. ounter increased inversely in pro- dred thousand anonymous worms Sometimes a man’s love-making, like a cat's purring, person announced he would take the| spite the forebodings of thelr presdht *) Bach of the others has a wife, but ne| rains we fall back to the original Ftlon to your distance fram. the that seek to crawl into the sunshine simply signifies that he has just finished a good dinner) arty back to the city for $20. ricas Rha! ha TREYA: ware’ lat Ceenn children, The wife of one goes out|CMdition. We read in the “Subway | POTHo : eee front door. it eo happens that I have |°* the Great Man's presence Mand is perfectly comfortable and that you happen to Jun” In vain Mr. Stryver, who supposed. | their door first to work every day at her own trade,| Su0" hat things are getting betters rr een in any domain of cither| Nevertheless, I try to consider the be smoothing him the right way." iy had plenty of money, raged at| “You'll send Mr. Jarra check in the and perhaps earns as much as the] that they ure not. If the Pull geee | Wall t or the magazines except] super-Secretary in her heroic as |this price. The dirty man with the morning?" asked Mrs, Stryver to her husband. Are these the men of whom |vice Commission had any interest In| py appointment. But I shall never |pect—for she has one, ‘Think of all The “marrying mood” {s that sudden revulsion which| dirty car was a Samaritan who was|husband a little later, “it is written “And they also serve? Fie, BAtAre of ths people It would) corcer my dismay at my first meet-|the interesting and valuable things attacks a bachelor when he discovers that summer |firm for his price. The Jarrs, who] “What! After joy-riding all eve- IeTY YEARS OLD. [or ie there still a Public terelen Cam: [ing with super-greatness in the per-|she knows and never, never tells; of | flirtations, like the hotel soup, are all of exactly the | were poor, made no protest: besidvs,|ning at my expense? TI guess not!” | reat banrine Winae tes, Wernnees|ipsiont it hae bean so long sineel son of the yellow-heired secrelary of /how many “eecralacnok of tinanoe ‘ame stock, with scarcely @ perceptible difference even in| they didn't expect to pay the bill, —_was the capitalist's firm reply, not an official service flag for am-|Prehension. Perhaps it already haa | teen and the young relative who ac- |t ms How mi " she must want to shina N t T hi : ' Ss : munition worker Do the: peopl) ranea tenued. and T had 4 y| companied me was en We want ie shane i nt be ant eae Kalas On the road to marital happiness there are no garages where punc- ewes ng n c1ence | know that such workers are doing | A SUBWAY SUPPRRER ne an trom | keeps through h ndiscrotion sh? | ured iNusions can be patched up, sbattered ‘ideals mended, and ompty| Havaria will undertake tho produc: tated to distribute heat about @ roomy 774 dangerous work ski y Exempt Skilled Workers, ne. The man was forty. | Gradua t igh long repression, | hearts refilled, tion of aluminum from native’clay te | has been patented: . | Meee cousiey.). wverstady » \1 ; mpl " Ue nates oma rhantia tt heesiGotacaiteraae a é jreplace the bauxite it forma i im ‘A pocaully) cataniad eactinine sane fo do Wis bit, and 1 think the service) || Was much interested Jn the news’ aiah and lems slo to the | Wary and govere, till she gets eventu-| Certainly, Clarice! Marry him BEFORE he sails for France! Ab- | Ported from France and Dalmatia, [which also can be used as a couch ts beg for pad At bee Auld show nical h ip, tor ar w ter a ary mind of venteen, 1 recall pains [ally what psychologists hawe termed | sence may make the heart grow fonder, but propinquity makes the head | For mines using electric haulage «| 9 light that when folded it can be car- Pere ee. Seek MO BIG Ah UAE. A | eanecial vs Thad ‘ust heard of a fully the dark suspicion with which | the business facc grow dizzier-and a little Red Cross nurse is a dangerous thing! door opening motor and safety signal, | fed under one arm, | arene LP aly (one Mash i Mtod. il” the golden super-secretary looked her |; 4iNo wan’ Jem Hero-to his valet | soi operated by the drivers of mine loco-| Locust exes, treated with sulphuric | To the Lalive of The Evening World per ¢ wor ow the wo young visitors up and down, the | rung an old suying, “Kvery man is a Don't he awake nights wondering if a man is thinking of proposing motives, has been dnvented, acid and lime, are used as fertilizer | The subway service grows worse) (YC) Urgent need for t w enw disdain with which she sald) pero to his Secretary” would be just) te you. No man ever proposed to any woman until he bad gotten entircly| urope and Africa are the only con- |" Mediterranean countries where tho inétead of better, This new me at side} do tha mont heim where they al wate, ullion is ul to lune \ and ¢ las truc, pr vided the Secretary were | past “thinking,” dearie. tinents that have more women than |/nsects are numerous, | i line has only about one-half the trains] ferred « j : expect him back to-« the /a woman, ‘The man Secretary elinbs : | aia corse cas tha Gamelan. eeneenPy: “ail Axopnt a fam stations | As recurve? the front positive spite with which she heard lio areas halghta, After & Cow. years A ho eve! vied Solomon, Bluebeard, or the Sultan of ree open within recent years, me Wee on. Panay. HONnA -ARee { become packed between trains. and nerd every vnpl: bie, and epemery OD ng be ark oUt A [bE assiduous service he is made an Any man who sever syed. Baines © "t hse a ine ee Te ventor i; ret y den tan Si cela one commen there 18 well eines ee i eely and talked with nim aver, the | executive—eventually, perhaps, Le-| Turkey, can be permanently cured by spending & few wee al A fireplace grate made of tubing, |for automobiles, msde in sections that pomes a rival power, Lo'the woman | 4verage summer resort this season, Fush, It is the same old pubs ELM is through which water cag bo circu- can be quickly laid and joined, __ -- —_ 1 ' ; \ ‘ ; : | ‘ * | ‘ hiatal entero . i * / 4 \ a % atest teeeeeses meena