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= ms Monal Park Bank, No, 214 Broadwa; b ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. - Publimmed Dafly Except Sund the Press Publishing Company, Nos. vw Dt Bune bark Row. Now York. PULITZDR, President, Py Park Row. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, sone PULITZER,’ Jr., Beoretary, 63 Park Row. y fo Bg MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRWSS, OE Re Re SF ‘qredited im this paper and also the local WOLUME 59...... cee ceseeeeeeees THE CONFIDENCE THAT CONQUERS. HE statemen‘ of Andre Tardieu, High Commissioner of France- American War Co-operation, sums up the war situation in 4 way that condenses the events of the past five months to a balk easily carried in the public mind: Paris caved, important rail communication with Calais and Nancy re-established, the initiative definitely wrested from the Germans end the enemy’s reserve strength reduced to twenty-four fresh divisions. Supplement this with the concrete facts of 112,000 German, prisoners and 1,200 pieces of German heavy artillery taken since July 1, add the continued momentum of Allied movement and the tremendous rise of Allied morale, and you have matter to keep ever lose at hand where it can cheer the hearts of those at home who! pray for the early triumph of the Allied armies. German prisoners declare that America has turned the tide.| American confidence cannot afford to be the kind that counts victory | already won. It oaght to be the kind that draws new power from gocess, that is the more able, as the Latin poet puts it, gees itself to be able.” It ought to be a confidence that with each new achievement) strengthens its resolve to strike with full force so speedily that the! sacrifice of the Nation’s manhood shall not be prolonged one need- lees hour. That kind of confidence is the kind for which each advance of American fighters at the front is the signal for new drives in War Saving, War Industry, War Backing in every corner of the U. 8 ny Food which could be bought for $1 tn July, 1913, the De- partment of Labor tells us, now costs $1.85 in Washington, $1.84 in Baltimore, $1.77 in Philadelphia, $1.68 in New York, $1.69 in Chicago and $1.58 in San Francisco, Persons whose earning power has increased with the war may be able to contemplate these figures with philosophic calm. For toilers with fixed incomes they recall grim reali ties of sacrifice, self-denial and lowered standards of living. ay Oa AFT ER THE RENT PROFITEERS. “because it ment is understood to be preparing drastic action against profiteering in rentals and hotel tariffs. | It is reported that already the Committee has refused to sanction loans to corporations seeking to build hotels and apartment houses m half @ dozen cities, including Washington, because these corpora tions declined to submit schedules of the rents they intended to charge. The Evening World was the first newspaper to demand officia! action to establish at what point the raising of apartment house rents in the City of New York ceases to be reasonable and becomes profit- eering. Much discussion followed The Evening World’s call for 4 curb on the rent profiteers, but as yet there is little to restrain| profiteering landlords in New York eave publicity and the disclosed | fact that there are plenty of vacant apartments for tenants who find | themselves oppressed by excessive rent increases in their present quarters. It always takes considerable time to convince the public, not that it is being imposed upon, but that anything can or will be done! about it. If the Treasury Department has found a way to check deliberate speculative schemes to gouge tenants in new realty ventures maybe it has also discovered means of holding down rents to an equit- able rate of advance in existing apartment houses and hotels. If eo! this city can at lea:t follow where it should have led. WwW _ EDITORIAL PAGE Friday, August 30, oe | Musings of a Matrimonial Slacker By William V. Pollard. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oe, (The New York Prening World.) VII.—The Girl Who Was in a Hurry to Wed. HEN pretty Nancy was so un-|nothing I could do now but hope and ceremoniously whisked oif to|pray for sublime deliverance. California by her dad, 1 was| Not a word had been sald about left minus a love. Theodora, my|our wedding, but Virginia went right chum's sweetheart, revelled in four-|on collecting her bridal regalia, somes. So to complete our quartet} Finally one evening the worst came she included Virginia, a tall, dark,|When Virginia said: “We had better majestic beauty, altogether wonderful | set the date now, Bill, so that I can to behold, but alas, not the type that] order the wedding invitations.” interested me at the moment. For} Hoping to postpone the dreadful _—_—_——-7—-—____. With oysters only a day removed, we are grieved to note that the Fishing Gazette predicts this season's oyster output will be only 60 per cent. of what it should be, with a serious oyster famine to look forward to in 1919, Somehow we hoped the oyster would stand by us as one succulent friend whom we could go on eating ad lib, without helping our enemies or robbing our allies. We even thought the oyster, in his less fattened, better flavored varieties, might be overlooked by profiteers and price boosters, It was not to be. The Fishing Gazette specially reminds oyster dealers of their duty to keep up oyster prices, Pre- pare, therefore, to see the oyster slip speedily and heartlessly over the luxury line, From erty Bonds Letters the People | and Storage Company, Produce Bx- change; Bafe Deposit Company of| New York, No, 149 Broadway; Stand- ard Safo Deposit Company, No. 25 Broad Street; Thirty-Fourth Street Safe Deposit Company, No, 41 West 34th Street; posit Company, No. 32 LJ berty Street; Yorkville Bank, No, 1511 3d Avenue, J. LYNCH PENDERGAST, —Free. To the Eititor of The Brocing World I note in your editorial of Aug. that not a few complaints are lard from sma}! holders of Liberty Bonds that it is dificult to find safe places St home in which to keep the certifi- cates. As President of the New York! President New York State Blate Gafe Deposit Association, | beg| Deposit Association, to inform you that a resolution was| Wants Th *¢ Treasurers BR passed by this association about the time of the first Liberty Loan where- Dy @ number of its members agreed to accept for deposit, free of charge, either a $60 or $100 bond from those by Women, To the Edilor of The Bvening World Apropos the criticism of Martin Green relative to the numerous slack- ers that he observed on returning to holders who do not have a safe place| New York, has not one branch of for keeping such certificates, This| non-essential labor been grossly as done in order to facilitate the| neglected? Iet him take a stroll gale of bonds of small denominations.| through the theatre district, from The following companies will ac- eept these bonds; Hudson Safe De- posit Company, No. 1411 Broadway; Lineoln Safe Deposit Company, No. $0 East 42d Street; Madison Safe Deposit Company, No. 204 5th Ave fue; Manhattan Storage and Ware- house Company, 424 Street and Lex- ington Avenue, 62d Street and 7th | Asenue; Mercantile Safe Deposit @ompuny, No. 115 Broadway; Na- the many tributary zones, and look at the sleek, well-groomed young doling out change, occasionally con- location of seate—as a special favor, of course. Could they not be as- signed to a more helpful industry? Women have replaced car conductors, tickets takers, and are in many other kinds of labor hitherto performed only Deposit by men, and still the ticket selle: Molden Tane Rafe ns United States Safe De- | ginia." public opinion by carrying an I wanted to make Virginia feel Searels, ly uopae Hanway,|§ good, but not as good as I succeeded mie ke = aye 488 Liga ago. |in doing. For with my last remark 1] 7%° U™brella had been used for cen- \ , turies on the continent and in Eng- jsealed my doom, Virginia looked at|' Bremer cee ees and as early a cig een me beamingly and then entwined her | “4 ¥ 5a the’ reign Of Gupen 38th to 59th Street, not to speak of | men in box offices selling tickets and | descending to show the diagram and | she was quite unlike my ethereal/event I said: “Oh, we can’t marry Nancy, yet. We'll have to wait a year or So while I dreamed of Nancy I al-| two.” lowed myself to be taken on frequent| “What, wait!" exclaimed Virginia, | parties with Virginia, to whom I was supremely indifferent. We were the merest friends without a thought be- yond, One Sunday afternoon Virginia in- Vited me to tea, saying she wished particularly to show me some new photographs of herself. ‘They were very lovely and incidentally flattered Virginia tremendously, But she did hot think so, Over and over again Virginia asked me what I thought of this full-face or of that profile, Woe sat on the divan and I admired |them, using all the glowing adjec- tives I could muster. After a while I felt myself becoming bored. Hop- ing to satisfy Virginia's thirst for compliments and that the pictures | would be put out of sight, I said with a chuckle, “Never was there a fairer lady than you in all the world, Vir- “T couldn't wait after having gone to the expense and trouble of getting my trousseau. I had planned to marry within a month or so," I tried to look sad as I reiterated, “We'll have to wait, Virginia.” ‘Thereupon Virginia said. “Well, Billy, I hope you will forgive me if I marry Fred, He was on the verge of pro- posing when you asked me to marry you.” In less than a month Virginia led Fred to the slaughter, and as far as I know they have lived happily ever since, 1 am certain Virginia thought Fred did the proposing and I hope Fred thought he did too. Umbrella Once | Mark of Derision first man in England to brave HE Anne, but its use was confined to the fair sex. After returning from a business mission to Persia Hanway's health became poor, and when venturing | into the streets in rainy weather he protected himself by an umbrella, He | was subjected to jeers and taunts, but he persisted, and soon a few other brave spirits joined him in carry umbrellas, ‘Tho greatest opposition came from the hackney coachmen and they usually led the mobs which arms about my neck and \cheek against mine. Kissed her, She over by saying, care so much, Bill, I, thought did. But how can a girl ever be sure? { must tell mamma right away Before I had a chance to save my- self Virginia flow into the next room and fetched mamma, who also fell on my neck, except that she shed ap- put her Naturally I nearly bowled “Oh, I'm happy you you | best clothes, have her come over to Making the Most of Our Children A Series of Plain Talks to Parents By Ray C. Beery, A. B., M. A., President of the Parents’ Association Are You Helping Your Chil-| There are two reasons why 1 would w"\rather not see nails bitten off, One dren to Conquer Bad Habits? is because it mars the beauty of the T is not enough to worry about|nails and the other is that the lower of people—I mean ignorant, constructive to overcome | uneducated people—so often have the them. habit of biting their nails, We should Many parents| not want good people ever to see your actually make the | nails in that condition.” bad habits of| Show the daughter exactly how to theirchildren|use the file. When she first applies worse simply be-|it to her nails, say something like cause they do not] this: “Why, you know how already. know how to go|You go at it just as if you had al- about correcting s used it, In a week or 80, we'll they apply wrong] begin comparing our nails every day and see which of us can keep them looking the bette bad habits, thing class them or because methods, But American parents’ are giving More and more attention to child| ‘The natural thing for most parents training, and the time is not far dis-| +t) do when they want to cure a habit tant when they will re that 't 18] is to talk to the child about that far easter, as well as far wiser, to nip! habit. In the case just cited, for ex- bad habits in the bud than to cure/ampie, we can easily imagine a them once they are established, Very often the correct method of breaking @ habit would have prevented it, had it been used soon enough, mother saying, ‘Helen, I declare, you keep biting those nails like a little baby! Why don't you keep your nails pretty like other girls?” But this ap- Here is a physical habit. peal is wrong. The mother might as writes to on : +H well say nothing. In fact, the habit My daughter, nine years old, keeps! may even be made worse by wrong biting off her finger nails almost con-| {0&1 tinually, No one else in the family|" 0° does it, Please advise how to break| 75° method advised ts the proper SeapgemasH tic) Jone, substituting as it does a new " ‘0 h t c Use this plan: Sometime, just atter | abit for the old, In breaking any she has hod a Dath and put on her| BAD! indeed, it Is better to create a a |new habit of thought by a positive process than to find fault with the old habit and provide nothing to take its | place, A mother the chair in which you are seated and talk to her in this fashion: “Which one of your fingers is the most nearly | perfect? I like the one next to your| (Copyright, 1918, by the Parentw’ Amociation, Ine.) | | Bachelor Girl Reflection By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World) VERY cheap summer flirtation takes some of the glamour off of life; every little bit chipped off of your heart leaves just a little bit less. > There are no self-made coquettes; they are all made in heaven, and kissed first by the angels and then by Satan on their way to earth. Success consists not in “catching on” but in “holding ;” and the same principle holds whether it’s a bulldog ‘holding on to @ bone, # man holding on to @ job, @ genius holding on to an ideal, a woman holding on to @ man—or America holding on to @ fixed and unswerving purpose to carry this war to a victorious finish. Every woman possesses three personalities—the persen | she thinks she is, the person ehe pretends to be, and the person she really is. | “Men's hearts are made of stouter stuff than women's"—India robber, to judge from the wear and tear they will stand, and bound right back into | shape again. Poor President Wilson! Between the militants trying to pull him around by the nose, and the antis trying to pull him dack by the coatails, he can sympathize deeply with the averi unhappy man, who happens to be the unfortunate buffer between two “wild women.” i Of course Eve listened to the Serpent, when he flattered her! Hadn't | she been married long enough for a thing like that to go to her head and make her dizzy? Pity the poor Kaiserin! She must be spending all her time these days just saying “Yes, dear!” as soothingly and consolingly as she possibly can. knits and rolls bandages, even though she wears a black band and a gold star on her arm, and the type that complains pathetically that she can't get enough sugar to make a decent cake just because there is & “horrid war” going on away over in Burope! | There are two types of American women. The type that smiles and | Husband: A miniature volcano, always smoking, usually grumbling, and liable to violent and unexpected eruptions. | | Funny how apologetic a man always acts when he has to admit to » | pretty girl that he ts happ!ly married. Oh, yes, we MAY get the Federal Amendment, but there will never be | any real equality of the sexes as long as a woman feels that she must take two hours to prink before going to the polls, while a man thinks he has | only to smooth his top hair and put on his hat in order to be sufficiently dressy to cast his vote, The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Drening World.) LL,” remarked Mr, Jarr) “Mrs, Stryver says you have te €@ wearily, for it was an aw-| in evening dress and you are not , fully warm night to dress) permitted to have a front table un- for the theatre, “I don't see why We |‘less you spend a lot of money, er have to make such a fuss about going | they think you'll spend a lot of to another darned old spy-and-war | money, drama.” “What care we?" asked Mr. Jarr. “Who's making a fuss?" asked Mrs. | "we can cut loose once in @ while.” Jarr sharply. “I'm only asking you] “Yes, but we will have to make up not to wear a soiled Palm Beach suit | for every cent we waste by saving to and a negligee shirt and a soft col-|buy Thrift Stamps,” sald Mrs. Jarr. lar with a wash tie that needs wash-|"T have gotten so that I cannot en- ing to the theatre, We may go to | joy wasting anything—even if things cabaret after the theatre. Clara] are spoiled in the tcebox, things to Mudridge-Smith says the cabarets/eat; I never throw them out but will be closed next by Mr. Hoover|what I say to myself, ‘Well, I'll have or whoever it is who has banished|Mr, Jarr buy me Thrift Stamps to the sugar bowl. One good thing 1] make up for this: notice is that they will close all the} 4, srienaia way te win the war,” saloons, and T am glad peli remarked Mr. Jarr. “But just why will stop drinking. it is so I can’t figure out.” to go to @ cabaret show at least once more before I am too old to go| “It's very simple,” said Mra. Jarr. anywhere, What with our Willie|“Clara Mudridge-Smith makes her worrying me to death asking me |Tich old husvand take her everywhere when he will be old enough to enlist|4"d spend money on her. Before the in the Naval Reserve, like that Ben-| Wr she never thought of saving, but nie Bepler who has got the neigh-|"0W she makes her husband buy her borhood all upset ever since he|Tbrift Stamps everywhere she goes. joined, and you carrying on this way, In the theatre, when prominent peo- I'm @ nervous wreck.” ple come around selling them, she “Oh, come, my dear,” said Mr, Jarr|8kes her husband buy them, Thea, soothingly. “I am not objecting to whea they go to the cabarets after- your going to the theatre or even|™4"d, she makes him buy more if to a cabaret, but it is such a warm|2y of the dancers or !f anybody is night that I wanted to dress com-|*¢lling them at those places, She fortably, That's all.” generally loses the stamps or they phat isn't all!” sniffed Mrs. Jarr,|Stck together, But she says this “Suppose you were in the service hed art aos a We Sereitie and were wearing a uniform with a) ) Bee a pi pati ve ie high collar? Then you'd have some- fisaa ana tates ust bogl polly oa thing to complain about and it pecially aia “er Aes os. wouldn't do you any good to com-|/" 000) Wiel ek re ve to plain if you did. I know you are . ie ba Ba a ough that pleases retting to be an old fogy. You don't} er cee and, because he ts so tired want to go anywher, and you don't He that he is glad to get home. So want me to go anywhere, elther! |? S@y she is doing good work when That is if you thought I'd enjoy it.” be mekee that old sole at 8 womens aN Te ee iad erate aneneees, oe marry him for except he should pend his money on her? And every- Jarr, gently but firmly. body should do something fo bee “Yes, but did you mean it?” sh¢| shouldn't they?” asked, “You know how I am. I “sé | shopping and you and I can both use| propriate maternal tears on my coat lapel. ‘Too bad I wasn't wearing a gardenia that needed watering. Without delay Virginia spread the news of our engagement and began getting her trougseau, 1 the carriers of umbrellas. | ared the umbrellas would af- ford sufficient protection in rain and} so deter the public from biring their vehicles, GOOD STOCK, InUT, VICTOR HUGO, | 1 Kept wondering how I could es grandson of the famous author cape. It was the fret real trouble of Les Miserables, accompanied lof my life. When on other occasions I had contemplated marriage I had! charge at Cantigny, Picardy, dong the proposing myeelf, There waa Wrench chasseur, | the negative one. ling this positive idea, omitting a great-| SFOS? | atent | habit. the Amertenn-troane-in thelr. recent | little one—your ring-finger—be: don't you? None of them has a bad shape, but I think this one really has the prettiest shape of any. You see this nail has such a fine curve, It al- mdst forms a perfect circ he best way to keep the outside edge of the nail in perfect shape is to use a nail file. You have noticed, haven't you,| how beautiful Lucile’s hands and fin- | gers are, I think she must use a file use her nails are so perfect, I} bought a new file to-day when I was | it. After using this file for a week | or two, I'll see whether my finger| nails look as well as yours.” The idea is to fill her mind with the positive idea, not even mentioning If you keep talk- the negative, it will soon have its telling in breaking the undesirable If the daughter herself should speak He ina [Of ner tendency Ww bite ihe nalts en it im this manner. - _> NOT A POET'S WORK. DDRESSIN! ing, Wood man G a political ¢ Congressman Wi!) of Indiana should stick er. am WR, sald that to his own A every | job, and as an iilustration he told of a| youth who wanted some sentimental verses to send to a young woman on the occasion of her birthday. Not being much of a versifier him- self, the youth went to a poetic friend and asked him to oblige. “why, certainly," generously re- sponded the poet. “What do you want me to say to her?" “Oh, anything in a poetical way,” answered the youth. “You ought to know what I want. and rather tender; but remember that I don't want to commit myself in any way.” “Look here, old pal,” friend, with a merry smile, “you don’t want a poet to draw up your verses you want a tawyer." sou Telegraph, hiadelphin Something sweet | id the) begrudge to spend a cent on such | things in times like these. Butl did think you might WANT me to go, if it didn’t cost too much” “I don't care what it costs,” inter- rupted the gallant Mr, Jarr. “And that's why I asked Mrs, Stryver about It!" resumed Mr. Jarr. “And that's why I asked Clara Mud- | ridge-Smith and Mrs. Rangle, And all the thanks I get i that you burt | my feelings!” | “Really, I didn’t mean to. | did I say?” asked Mr, Jarr, “It wasn't what you sald, it was the way you said It,” replied Mrs, | Jarr. “So you see 1 wouldn't care to go now, but I wouldn't wish to de- prive you of any pleasure, I never have done that, So YOU go.” Mr. Jarr saw there was no use to |try to placate the lady with the wounded feelings along the line of | explanation and denial, So he asked her what the ladies of her acquaint- ‘ance hed said about the cabaret elo wa. Be! cont What tera aya i Hr tb, a “I suppose so,” replied Mr. Jarr. “And I'm glad that our going te the theatre and the cabarets wil help I didn’t see it that way before.” ‘I suppose not,” Mrs. Jarr retort- ed. “But if we don't go te places where Thrift Stamps are sold we won't buy any, will we? And thea. tres and cabarets are the most pleas- ant places to go to. So if one must do one's bit, one might as well do it in pleasant surroundings, No, you cannot wear your dark tan low-cut shoes with evening dress, and you know it,”” ; <—a/ifa SOME NAME, OSE who have wrestied with Przemysl and other Russtan names the wer has brought us might do well to consider Lwtitlxo'- chitl—an eminent Mexican historian of bis alphabetical burden, de Alva Ixtlilxo'chtti tived to a ¥ ripe old age and his name is an ored ong ig Mexican bistory,