The evening world. Newspaper, August 31, 1918, Page 8

a ee ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 te sit 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZDR, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, rer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULI R, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES. where puaitad <2 Tce not cers ‘crotch this ‘bate abd shoo" "local ‘new EVOLUME. 59....ccccccceescecenssccesseeeseeees NO, 20,829 NOT EVEN A TEMPERED DOSE. HE bombing of Mannheim by British aviators on the night of Aug. 25, us described by an officer of the Royal Independent Air Force in a United Press despatch, makes it clearer than ever why the cities of the Rhine district have begun to clamor for Gperéased protection against serial attack and to demand legislation © that shall give them compensation for damages suffered in air raids. The British airman tells a thrilling story of how the British © Planes manoeuvred over the city above the German barrage fire until © they got their bearings, and then plunged down until they were a ‘Pant 200 feet above the town, “skimming over the housetops, steeply banking now and then to avoid the taller buildings.” “Quickly swinging our noses arotind we flew toward the appointed military objectives—no hospitals, no nursing homes, no indiscriminate bombing for the British—and released our x bombs. We were so low that we dropped our bombs with the ‘@ deadliest precision. Every missile found a billet.” It doesn’t tale indiscriminate bombing of the sort he himself Murdefously directs against school children, wounded men and Red Cross nurses to produce loud squeals from the German that air attavks y: his cities aro inhuman. Well-placed bombs on railway stations _ and military depots in Mannheim, Karlsruhe and Cologne have proved quite sufficient to dismay the German civil population. Even a tem- © Peted dose of his own medicine is more than the German can stand 4 It may be that Allied air forces will not have to resort to Germati methods in the raiding of civil centres—just as would be full reprisals fot the raids on London and Paris, and for the barbarous and shame- | fal attacks which German aircraft have repeatedly made upon Red Gross hospitals in Allied territories. The present terror aroused in German cities by the aerial menace fa good sign. 11 can hardly fail to react on the war party in Ger- \ many. It is, furthermore, an indication of what may be expected .a 6 happen to German courage when Allied armies get within striking | distance of the German frontier. ‘The standardization of shoes—style, quality and price—by the War Industries Board, with the prospect of the standard- _ ___ 4aation of clothes-and other articles of dress, is reported from q Washington. ‘Why not at the same time standardize incomes to fit? “4 ———- 4 Fe BE READY. ; HE main provisions of the new Draft Bill are so familiar to the country that the President’s signing of the measure should mean an instant start not only of the machinery of _ the draft but als: of the co-operation of the millions to whom it # 7 ~ . Whatever the date set for registration, all men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five inclusive should make up their minds that the immediate future contains no more imperative business for them than the careful, conscientious placing of themselves and full infor- mation regarding themselves at the disposal of the Government ac- s eording to the manner officially prescribed. The man who has any doubt about his age or the date of his | Birth should at once do his best to have the doubt cleared up. Tie Director of the draft in New York gives notice that “registrants in _ the new draft who are between the ages of eighteen and twenty-ons ‘and those between thirty-two ang forty-six will be required to produce “birth certificates or other written evidence of the correct date of their 4 Few men, we imagine, have birth certificates they can produce, nd in many cases the difficulty of obtaining them from cities o1 _ towns where the records have not been rigorously kept is pretty sure be considerable. The Draft Director should make clearer what Kind of written evidence regarding birth dates will be accepted in order that registrants may save confusion by preparing themselves in advance. 3 The Nation enters upon a further great and impressive task jn recording and measuring the major part of its man power for the epeedy, uninterrupted reinforcement of its military strength, It is not enough that no man within the age limits of the new _ @raft should fail to register. Each and every one should be ready, to answer all that is asked of him with an accuracy intelligence and precision that shall make it an easy matter to determine his proper. place in that vast potential power which the United States is prepared to draw upon to any extent that will bring victory. The Prince of Monaco has offered Monte Carlo as a leave centre for the American Expeditionary Forces, If the offer is accepted, Uncle Sam's fighters will have for their play- grounds two of the most beautiful and famous resorts in Burope, with all the best charm of both in full evidence and, ” we gather, considerable of their wickedness extracted. Letters From Other Side of the Slacker Question. Fe the Biitor of The Evening Work: *I was very much disappointed in Whe attitude taken by Mr, Martin Green upon his return to New York. “wonder if Mr. Green has stopped to the People tinued) and was rejected for bei walking the streets to-day in an clothing has been before 4 board and classified in some ether than 1A, or has been to camp and rejected by the doctors? My own barber, a strapping fellow, seemingly fit, rdered to Yaphank. Upon re- notice he sold his shop and, four ks later, when he was by the army doctors on a cent, faster. at it, again or work for some bilities to lick the Kaiser, + AeA, ORB ean 4A on account of a wife and three childven, applied for yooman in the navy (the pay not making any differ- ence to me as I am a city employee and my salary would have been con- ing underweight, From personal ob. Geesider that every man between’ servation I could write shorthand 3 ty-one and thirty-oge whom he) faster than 90 per cent. of those working there and typewrite 500 per I asked at my draft board to be put in Class 1A right after Hylan was elected, but the om- cial in charge urged me very strongly against it and put the matter in an- other light from which I was looking He explained that I was more valuable to the community as a father raising a family than I would be in the army, and said that there were bad eyes, came home to! plenty of men without my responsi- nao pp = rae eee he ree Pr. RH Tn ARADO EDITORIAL PAGE Saturday; Aug eee t 81, 1918 bmp GPa fee es pelt gh Ke Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing ways that funny sinking feeling at the pit of your stomach at the thought of hav- ing to get ac- quainted with your co - workers all over again. The strange faces some of them friendly, some distinctly un- friendly and some merely indiffer- ent! The feeling of uncortainty as to whether your “boss” will be a chronic grouch or a real human be- ing. ‘All the interests you bad in com- mon with the girls in your last place assume such proportions in your eyes when compared with the strange at- mosphere you find yourseif in that you are apt to exaggerate thelr value and wish yourself back, Even that snippy black-haired girl that sat at the end desk seems like a friend in }. wis ed Nerves and brain cells to accomplish. in the most uncongenial atmosphere and work fi. a cause the mere thought of trying for Two-Minute Talks With Girls By Charlotte Wharton Ayers Co, (The New York Evening World.) HUNTING A JOB "S a trying ordeal looking for a,0r it may be something so entirely new position, isn't it? There's al-| different that it requires a new set of | of individuality to everything you do, In any case, it is no gambol through the daisy fic’ . on a sunny day, ts it? I know a number of girls who stay small sa’. be- a new “job,” as they call it, with a possibly increased —_ responsibility, scares them t, ‘ath, “on't be afraid of responsibility, It's astonishingly easy to do things that seem almost impc-cible at first sight, once the dreaded initiation is a thing of the past, If you will on!, make self confidence @ part of your equipment it will not only impress your employer, but it will give YOU courage to do and dare, It is @ ver) easy thing to have too low an opinion of one's qualifications and lack of ability to DO things. Almost as easy as it is to have an eau. erated ic — vf one's capacity. You want to try and realize that every one in any position of trust or the strange cat-in-a-garret feeling you are suffering from just then, ‘And then the getting used to your new work. It may be in your old line, responsibility had, at one time, to ntl... dutios f , ‘up. It you have had any experience in| ll, just remember that} business at “doughnut girls” get sudden times, much the same as the doughboys, says Miss Irene Mclntyre of the Salvation Army, Our most sudden one came a few days ago~ot rather it was night. We hustled to get our affairs \o- gethe?, throwing them Into our trunks. ‘Then Gladys grabbed her dog and } caught my pet fox which was out in the bushes and we were off, We rode almost all night, and about daylight came to the Salvation Army head- quarters, w here we rested for a while, Next morning, bright and early, our party arrived in the new home, @ lit tle town of Lorraine, very near the ine, and more than half in ruins as the result of the boches* work when they invaded this area in 1914 and 1915, Our place was a store room and the sign over it read “Modern Bar, So we made our canteen out of the bar room. We were in a new party of eight who were opening huts in this new hilly sector of Lorraine. We had not With the “Doughnut Girl” at the Front Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The” New York Evening World.) R. and Mrs. Jarr were attending their first spy comedy-drama of the season. As the curtain went down on the second act of the play Mrs. Jarr held her programme out in the aisle, where some light would fall on it- “It says ‘Six months elapse between the second and third acts,” she read. “Well, why shouldn't it?” replied another line of work or greater re- sponsibility will simply strain your equipment a bit until familiarity with conditions will ease the pressure. See if you can't give just a touch even to looking for the position in the first place. Anything to indicate that you use your head to THINK with, Just buck up and go after the work! If you make mistakes, ac- ARB GSN ly A ail ae RN Re SRR a MAR The Jarr Family Stories of Spies’ By Albert Payson Terhune. Copyrislit, 1918, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Wrening World.) No. 54—“VAN DER BLANK,” the Spy Who Betrayed Edith Cavell to Death. IS name {is known to the German authorities, who prot- ited so vilely by his filthy services. It is knows to his heartbroken father, whe openly disowned his ren+ egade son. It is known to few Belgians, who speak it in whispers of shamed contempt; but it is not known to the world at large. The name was “Van der” something. The last part of it has been suppressed by the spy’s luckle: countrymen, and he is usually epoken of as Blank.” By that name let us refer to him in this brief story of his dirty career. Van der Blank was a Belgian. His father and the rest of his family were stanch patriots. He himself posed as a ‘patriot and enjoyed the trust of those about him. id Probably he was honest enough, to begin with. He had had no chance to be anything else. He was a low-salaried clerk in a Governmental office at Brussels, His father, an ex-army officer, had hoped the youth would follow the profession of a soldier, But Van der Blank lacked any wish to risk his lite on the fleld of battle or to endure the routine hardships of a soldier, It was easier and pleasanter to live safe at Brussels, where drink and other forms of dissipation, dear to his heart, could so easily be procured. But dissipation is not on the free list, And Van der Blank’s wages were small, He fell into debt, and as he could not get much credit he was ta, danger of having to reform and cut down all ex oa MP penses for sheer lack of ready cash. i bbe aelah a Ho was just the sort of man whom Germany . loves to employ as a spy, for he was at the point where he would do anything for money. German agents in Brussels had long made a note of his name and his habits and. characteristics, Presently they found work for him to do, While his fellow-countrymen were winning the wondering admiration of the whole world for their splendid self-sacrifice and patriotism young Van der Blank was getting good pay for light labor. Briefly the situation is sized up by Ambassador Brand Whitlock’s sec« retary, as follows: “The Germans had become aware of a ‘leak,’ across the frontier, through which filtered numerous young men capable of bearing arms against them and anxious to do so. Van der Blank, affecting profound patriotism and professing deep hatred for the violators of his country, requested to be helped into Holland. “It was during the summer of 1915. The German net was tight-drawn around Brussels, Yet, through some clever agency, Belgian youths were constantly smuggled through the meshes of that net, whence presently they Joined the Belgian or the French Army. “Thus, instead of remaining belpless prisoners in the captured city, they took their places eagerly in the ranks of Germany's foes. “To stop this sort of thing the Germans sent Van der Blank secretly among his fellow-countrymen to learn what he could about the leak, and he was not long in discovering what he wanted to know. “He found that Miss Caveli and a man named Baucq and one or two @ others had a system for smuggling Belgian patriots Orn Belgian Betrays $ a patriot he got all the evidence needed to cause Mise Cavell. the execution of Miss Cavell and of Baticq and the temporary breaking up of the system they had in- augurated. Van der Blank’s detestable work was about the betrayal with the secrecy that a cleverer man would have em- ployed; and he had somehow excited suspicion, ding he was suspected, he dared not stir abroad by night or un- guarded. But, one night, he was lured from his wonted caution. He was found his dead body, with two bullet holes through it, sprawled in the mud of the highway.” The story of Van der Blank’s killing will be told in a later article of this serles—the “inside” tale of his death and of the avenging of Edith Cavell's out of the German lines, By pretending to be such done and he prepared to revel in its large cash profits. But he had not gona induced to enter a dark street, and a few hours later the rman patrol execution. By Roy L. McCardell “The tall, thin man ts the howe manager, The bald man represents the theatrical firm that dug up the backer to put the play on. The fellow | with the big nose is the star's per- sonal representative and looks after her Pekinese dog. ‘The others are business managers and personal rep- resentatives for the author and pros ducer. “The man with the heavy eye. With Mr. Jarr removed as a human partition she could see and hear bet- ter, When Mr. Jarr reached the lobby be found it half full of other pris- cners sentenced to serve through the whole evening of this "Snappy Com- edy-Drama of Novel Complications.” They were all male persons with grim, resolute expressions, They scowled at each other, And a kind knowledge them with a smile, and go to it again, Pluck and grit will get you there every time. If you haven't got those qualities handy, hunt around until you find where they are located and then hustle them on to the job. We can't have mental slackers any more than we can have the other kind just now, And above all things, back up your courage with a SMILE—honey dear, and you'll find your troubles will all vanish like the mist before the sun! Mr. Jarr. “Six months in the semi- darkness elapsed between the first act and the second, maybe longer. I'm golng out for provisions.” Mrs. Jarr, strangely enough, did not object. She waated to hear what the two ladies near her were saying, and she wanted to see if they were as lipshod and awry about their attire as a first glimpse, when they had passed her to their seats, had indi- cated. By Helen A We went out to pick out @ house among those in ruins for a new home. Most all of the houses were battered and many had holes in them, We finally chose one which had not been used Since the war started, except for a stable, It had a big loft and the roof leaked, 1t was terribly dirty. But we saw fine possibilities in it for a doughnut kitehen, a canteen for the read, town nd a place for them to ut in a bid for it with the and he soon informed sed it from the original ninety-nine major us he had le owner for years for a pocket full of francs, He refused to luke our money to pay the lease, say- |ing the boys had heard of our com- ing and had taken up a collection to pay for it. We suspect he had a lot to do with it. Next day we came back, and the officers assigned us details to clean up the place, It was a big job to undertake, but the boys went to work and the place soon be M to look r | spectable ome whitewash and cur- and lots of scrubbing added to nee, lad to have the new place open and running now, and we take | lot of pride in having made it our- selves, or rather having directed the been at the “Modern Bar” long when our commanding officer assigne.. us fos village nearer the front, ‘ qhere we had to begin a) -w hut, work that made it. You have a sort of pioneer’s feeling after ® workshon for donehnit sroneeeeane of an old Lorraine ruin, alll A. | out and look cheerful, A bachelor is never quite passe him as “dangerous, her to come home again! Bachelor Girl Reflections Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) MAN'S mind is like a thermos bottle; into it remains there, unchanged, forever. with which she can convince him that she loves him is equalled only by the difficulty she has in convincing him that she has stopped loving him, whatever a woman puts That's why the easo If a man’s wife actually looked like the woman he surreptitiously admires across her shoulder when they are dining out, he would probably order her to go straight home and “wash that stuff off her face,” It takes one woman twenty years to bring up her son, and another woman all the rest of his life to bring him down a little. When Mr. Satan takes a personal interest in a woman he gives her an all-silk taste with a near-silk income. | After thirty-five the one absorbing problem of a woman's life is the | question of whether to pull in her stays and look youthful or to let them until the debutantes stop thinking of and begin speaking of him as “nice and safe.” Pity the poor husband toiling all alone in the torrid city, while his wife is disparting herself at the gay summer resort—for it's almost time for | After marriage, “love's sweet song” becomes merely a series of flats, {with only a change of keys and janitors, Love making may not be real “work,” but surely it can’t be classed hesyey Barth rman et ineoe duvet qummer oventige, od word or a request for a match would have brought on a general brawl. They wore the air of men who had stood all that flesh and blood could bear. But there was ancther group of In- dividuals standing at the box office who had evidently not been in to see the snappy show, for they appeared to be in high good humor, “Yes, the show's a bad boy,” sald one, “but on the road the yaps will eat it up. The human bankroll back- ing it has come across with the dough to keep it running here two weeks more. Having a big run to capacity right on Broadway will have all the simps in Schenectady and boobs in Buffalo trampling each other to death to get in.” Another ventured the remark that the cast should be cut down or cheaper people secured, and it would not be necessary to carry any of the stage settings, as house scenery could be faked for the library and other scenes, “That's the way it's don marked another. “Keep your show running on Broadway as long as the angel's bankroll lasts, and then beat it with a cheaper cast to the road and cop the coin," “And they're getting real fussy on the road, at that,” said another. “They kick at Number 2 companies— oh, well, we'll give them the ‘Original New York production,’ Get.me?” The rest laughed heartily and made a few comments concerning “heels in Hartford” and “hicks in Hicksville," A half-witted youth fessed t for he con- he had seen the show nine es (being enamored of a lady in ast)—asked Mr, Jarr if he knew these theatre notables who had been talking. Mr. Jarr admitted he did not, “The fat man with the ruby studs is Harold Dogstory, the star's per- sonal press agent. He's the guy that made her famous in a night as Amer- ica’s foremost neurasthenic actress by getting her to walk in her sleep on the parapet of a New York ho- tel. All the papers fell for it, and ‘The Shrings of Reno’ turned people away for ax montis, ’ brows is the manager of the show, and the guy wearing the pink evening dress waistcoat 1s the man who will 0 out in advance when the show goes on the road. “This is not counting the repre-’ sentative of the owners of the thea- tre, the representative of the ground- rent people, the representative of the lessees of the theatre and the repre, Sentative of the firms that sub-let it and that firm's manager, ‘Then there's the house's representative— Harold Dogstory only does the star's press work—the door-tender, the treasurer, the assistant treasures’ and “Great Scott" cried Mr, Jarr, in= terrupting the half-witted young man, “does it take eighteen strong men, not counting the ushers, jani- tors, scrub women and stage hands, to superintend a play with only eight People in the cast?” , “Sure! answered his informant “That ain't half of ‘em, They all stand in the lobby in evening dress and silk hats, and every one of ‘em gets $100 a week." “And they don't have to go in and. see the show?" asked Mr. Jarr, “Oh, no," said the young man, “The producing manager has to do that, He gets $200 a week.” “He earns it," said Mr. Jarr, “Ana I trust the new draft law will recog? nize that the work of all of them comes under the head of necessary occupation—not!" ———-___ OUR FIRST GLOBE TROTTERS, HIE first New Yorkers to ‘cross the big pond” and visit Europe were two sons of an Indian chief who were carried away to the Nathe ¢rlands in 1611 by Adriaen Block, the Dutch navigator, who later became cone of New Amsterdam's “first citi. zens, ——.4+____ SATURDAY FATAL pay, ORE accidents occur in| New York City on Saturday than any other day of the week ‘This is attributed by the police to the tact that, there being no schoot om Saturday, so many ehildren play im the etreets, 2 cone