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ove cn ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Daily Except Bungay ty , New York. Teanuret, Park. Now reasurer, "ari fit 3 ir. Secret Park Row. MEMBER OF THY ASSOCIATED PRESS, Bip Aspreteted, Przen ta, excturtvely emtitie to the, me for remmbiira paper and also the soda ANGUS, THE BRITISH THRUST. SHE inspiring!y climactic character of continuing Allied progress) on the western front is further strengthened by the grea’ British push across the Drocourt-Queant line. The British :hrust on this sector is aimed at the very heart o German position in Northern France—the triangle between the! Cambrai and Valenciennes. the present advance the Allies are getting a grip on the French coal area so long occupied and worked by the Ger- The failure of the German High Command to find resstance enough to check Allied momentum, even when positions 80| nt to the whole German hold on France are threatened, raises| hopes than ever that German armies can be kept moving east- ird—“shortening the line” as it is described in Berlin—until the ortant strateyic centres of Doua’ of France is {free of the invader. The moment is one of intense interest. ttleline that cannot yet be told. These bright September days are brighter yet with progress d victory. Four years ago this week began the first great Ger- Four years ago it was Franze that d the day aguinst a German military power that had struck only Now it is French, British and the oncoming millions | the United States against a Germany that has struck its hardest py * {is retreat from the Marne. initial blow. must sullenly give ground. a COMBING FOR DRAFT DODGERS. HE round-up of draft slackers in Greater New York got under way yesterday with expedition and thoroughness. The Do- . partment of Justice displayed strategic capacity of a high der in starting the combing process unexpectedly and in a way to catch the greatest possible number of draft evaders before warning bled them to seek cover. : Among the thousands coralled were many who were forced to miffer the inconvenience of detention because of their own careless- in forgetting to carry their tegistration cards. Their predica- it should prove an effective reminder to themselves and to all included both in the earlier and in the coming draft that the requirements which the Selective Service system makes upon individual are no joke. Every man to whom the draft applies has no more important business to bear in mind than his obligation “to regard himself as Uncle Sam’s man and to go nowhere at any time v credentials to show that he has done his duty by Uncle Sam te, Men within the ages of the first draft who deliberately dodged sistration are entitled to nothing but the strict application of the with the penalties therein provided. These slackers, had full ng of what was expected of them. To permit belated registra- would be utterly unjust to millions who have loyally and hon- registered on time. The present enforcement of the draft law is being carrisd out ~ with a vigor and cn a scale that should insure a much-needed clean-up “of service dodgers under the first draft before the Federal machinery to work on a still bigger mobilization of the Nation’s man By on —\—_-+-_____. PROTECT THE CONSUMER. ‘T IS u'timately the consumer who has to come across with con- sumption taxes and every other increased cost due to war. Noting this fact, The American Exchange National Bank this city enters a sound and sensible plea that this serious burden made as light as possible so that the public may contribute , the financing of the war without being exposed to profitecring d on the revenue collected by the ederal Government.” Retailers should do their bit by refraining from adding a profit for themselves to that part of the cost of merchandise which is made up of war taxes and expenses. They should collect the Gcvernment’s share without trying to make money out of It. When the manufacturer pays a war tax on the goods he produces he adds his profit to the war tax as well as to the factory cost. The wholesaler, the jobber and the retailer do Mkewise, and the ultimate consumer at the end of the line not only pays the war tax but profits on that tax which often amount to as much as the Government receives, in which event the Government collects only half of what the public pays on @eccount of the tax, As far as possible consumption taxes should be collected from the ultimate consumer when the sale is made. The rev- enue bill prepared by the House Ways and Means Committee provides for collection of part of the revenue in this way. In ‘war time it 1s reasonable to ask retailers to collect such taxes Without charge, and they should be prevented from adding a percentage to the tax as part of the cost on which they are en- titled to a profit’ The Government should collect its revenues with as little waste as possible, and the w: inflicted on the public is enormous when a series of profits is added to the war taxes. Americans are willing to pay war taxes, but object to paying to tradespeople double the amount that filters into the Vederal Treasury. The very esserce of the kind of profiteering from which Ameri- have sufferc] most is passing on to the consumer every cent of d cost—plus two, three or more cents extra for each inter- dealer’s private profit. War taxes on consumption should be definitely out of reach of schemes of price boosters, i Letters From Confirms Green Interview. ‘Réitor of Tae Brening World: wonder Correspondent Martip Opened his eyes in amazement to this American city, an army of slackers hang- the People tough, “wet away with it.” % draft age who is not in uniform. are rounding up all certainly must be som in the draft system or a bolt is loose in the police system, ‘kers. Thei A VETERAN, the proprieties that are made for] nants are offered, blue, white and red’ be the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 te ty rsd LE Ahh aA aOR ROE LAIN The despatches carry ints of significant happenings in the southern sectors of the great Ponthe ago and is now home on fur- He wonders how those fellows His post is in the South and he says it is a very rare thing to meet a man down there read in the papers that the police | jence how capable you were in looking lacking done | after your own interests and living HANDS FIVE TIMES t f RAISE Bovn LEGS” TWENTY FIVE TIMES ERE 1s one express'on I ha T become a slogan, And that want my pendence!” is “I inde. lowed to throw off ail parental —and do as you please. ary either, I mean The solid, substantial qualities that life with the minimum of disaster, tly—then it would bo quite all righ| ferred to do se, nine out of ten times when a girl de cause she wants more liberty of ac: and let them stay until ali hours o: the night, her emotions, She wants .o defy con vention in any and every all her life, It is a great pity, because this im. wise well balanced character, way in order to emphasize the fac' that you were a free and independen| so bad, hard to combat at home, to letting you try your wings a bit i they could be made to see by experi jwith a decent regard for certain o: Before Retiring — heard you self-supporting girls use so often as to have almost You feel that Just as soon as you have become self - supporting you should be al- restraint—even to living by yourself There is no rea) reason why you shouldn't be allowed to bave all the liberty you have earned, And by the word EARNED | don't mean in sal- in principles, stan@ards and general characteristics, will carry you over the quicksands of If you think you would take care of your reputation, for inetance, as well when you are living alone as you would in the bosom of your fam~ for you to live in that way if you pre- But the fact of the matter is that cides to “go on her own" it is be- tion, She wants to havo men callers] She wants to play with| way she can, simply as & reaction against the restraint she has been subjected to pulse so needlessly distorts an other- It you only didn’t seem to think it was necessary to go #0 far out of the agent and could do whatever fool thing you want to do, it wouldn't be ‘And I think it 1s the AGGRESSIVE quality of your independence which | creates the atmosphere you find it 60 Perhaps your parents would not be so averse EDITOR TAL PAGE | Wednesday, September 14,1918 Pe RS, Ge 1018, jew York Evening By Maurice Ketten RAISE YOURSELF ON YouR RAISE_ EACH LEG TEN TIMES WALIS ONCE AROUND “THE ROON on YouR HANDS AND KNEES SWING INDIAN aged For THEN Co Two-Minute Talks With Girls|Makin By Charlotte Wharton Ayers Copyright, 1918, ty Tho Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) THE INDEPENDENT GIRL nothing on earth but the protection of young maidenhood. I wonder what you would do and .| say if your mother calmly told you, as soon as you had reached the age of discretion, that she had done all she could to train you in the way you should go, that she had tried to incul- cate those principles and standards that are regarde@ as necessary to the equipment of young girls, That, in fact, she had done everything she could and that her means would allow to fit you for the adventure of life, and that now she wanted you to get out and make a place for yourself in the world? Knowing human nature as I do, I'd say you would probably. regard it as a great punishment instead of the beautiful freedom you imagined it to be. Pity it is that parents haven't the wisdom to do some such thing. Great would be the revolution of the phrase, “I want my Iindepen- dence,” if they did. Instead, it would be: “I think I bave earned my freedom at HOME," “Up and HIS familiar and stirring cry of eb the American troops as they | hurl themselves over the trenches toward the enemy, deter- mined to win or die in the attempt, |has become the call to arms in the great shipyards all over the country. The “punch” in the cry, repiniscent of the baseball and football fields in tho peaceful times before the outbreak of the war, !s essentially American and has resulted in a vigorous com- petition among the workers in the great yards where ships are being turned out with almost incalculable speed. The new spirit is resulting in a great speeding up of this import- ant work and is being encouraged by the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation in every possible manner, The badge of honor dangled before the eyes of the shipworkers is the blue pennant awarded each month to the yard making the best showing. The competition caught on imme- diately in the Western yards, but the |Hastern concerns were not slow to follow and companies and men every- where are struggling with might and main to see the insignia of victory waving over their plants, Three pen- Jt t ft) t t it MINUTES, aN wo Seer | DREAM A Series of Plain TWENTY TIMES STAND on Your HEAD FIVE MinuTeES g the Most of Our Children Talks to Parents By Ray C. Beery, A. B., M. A., Président of the Parents’ Association Do Your Children Show Respect? 6¢ 7 WON'TL” | How many a parent's hour of pleasure has been spoiled by those defiant words—or others of like sort! It is bad enough for a child to show disrespect in any case, but before company it is & dire calamity. It your child shows disrespect, it is @ reflection upon you and you maturally desire to be regarded as a successful father or mother and the possessor of ad- mirable children. One mother writes to me: “I have a great deal of trouble with my three-year-old son when he is with other children and I join them. He makes fun of me and talks back in a way that is very humiliating to say the least. Please help me.” Your trowble is caused by your son's not understanding you, He has at Em!” for first, ‘second and third places, re- spectively. Reports to the Emergency Fleet Corporation indicate a general Preference for blue and it ts the cen- tre of the struggle, An editorial in the Emergency Fleet News, commenting on the com- petition, says in part: “It has been said often that no group of men in the country ts en- gaged in a more important work at present than building ships. It has been sald by those engaged in the work, because they were enthusiastic, believed in it and saw from a unique angle the relation of the shipbuild- ing progress to the country’s general conduct of the war. * * * ‘The yards which lead in the effort to provi these ships on time, then, are pe: forming one of the most important tasks of the war, They deserve to be recognized, and the championship pennant flying from the flagstaff of a shipyard gives that recognition. It means that @ unit of workmen, in- spectors, company officers and rep- resentatives of the Government has been able to do just a little bit more for democracy, just a little bit more for the boys who have gone over, and for those whom they left at ho than any other organization of sh’ builders in the err poner to justly proud of.” conceived the idea that you like to oppose him and favor others, which is @ wrong notion. To change this notion and secure the desired results you should enter more into your little son’s play and interests when ther@is no one else around. Give him good reason to be- lieve that you are a real friend of his and that you are always interest- ed in his having a good time. Allow him to have all the privileges that you possibly can, consistently, and when you do have to prohibit his do- ing anything simply express your wish in a kind but firm manner, Drill yourself in the practice of speaking to him always in a delib- erate but firm manner when any cor- rection is necessary, Laugh with him a great deal when his behavior meets with your approval and be generous with encouraging remarks about his efforts at play. The next time you have oppor- tunity to play with him together with other children, make them all have an unusually good time from the mo- ment you enter, If you show any preference at all, you might favor your gon, slightly, so that he will be obliged to change his notion that your presence, when with others, works against his interests, Do not favor him too much, of course, but simply impress him with the fact that you are giving him @ square deal, It is very natural for mothers sometimes to say something like this: “Chester, aren't you ashamed of yourself for striking Harold in the face like that?” But, far from mak- ing ashamed, the mother by this brief remark has given Chester an effective lesson in child-spoiling. The better way, when your child has done something that is not to be repeated, is not to put emphasis upon the thing already done, but in the quietest way possible let him under- stand what will be expected of him in the future, Have the child come directly in front of you and speak to him in a low, subdued voice, If you use this method with your child, and if you at all times and in every way possible lead him to feel and know that you are his true com- panion and best friend, he will soon learn to respect you and to respond to your wishes, And then you will have no fear of what his attitude toward. you will be when others— either children or adults—are pres- ent. SQeprtiahh, 1918, The Parents’ Amociation, Ina) Magazine Behold the tion. ELEM ROWAN e ~ Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bening Worl) ; The Vampire of the “Movies” Hath Acquired a Thousand Wiles by Long and Varied Experience, But the Vampire of Real Life Was Born That Way! Y daughter, consider the Vampire of the “niovies,” how strangely and fearfully she differeth from the Vampire of Real Life! For lo, I have watched them both at their work, and the vamp- ing of the first was as amateur theatrical beside the. vamping of the second. vampire of the movies hath raven locks, which she flaunteth and teareth in wild emo- But the vampire of real life hath the golden hair of an angel, which is never disarranged, save when she letteth it down, to DISPLAY it, upon the beach, The vampire of the movies hath soulful black eyes, which glitter and glare; but the vampire of real life hath eyes of heavenly azure, and a “baby stare.” ‘The vampire of the movies hath a sinuous figure and a serpentine glide, and arrayeth herself insinuatingly in clinging garments. But the vampire of real life hath the figure of a ten-year-old, and arrayeth herself as a squab, in short skirts, and a “flapper” hat. She is SO childish! The vampire of the movies entwineth herself about her victim's neck, “advice.” simple ways. seeketh vainly to camouflage. Verily, verily, in before her! ‘WOMEN are wise to her! Selah. The By Roy L. Copyright, 1915, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening Work) N the warm autumn nights the O Jarr family keep the front win- | dows open for fresh alr effects. In consequence, in the dead hour before dawn, about the time of the milkman, a high wind, coursing through the Jarr flat, blew down some papers and books from a table near the front window and awoke Mrs. Jarr with a start. She sat bolt upright in bed and nudged Mr. Jarr in the fifth rib. Awaking herself, she imagined abe bad been aroused by Mr. Jarr. “What is it?” cried Mra, Jarr, “German aeroplanes throwing bombs on us at last? Oh, wake the children and let us run to the cellar!" “Nonsense!” snapped Mr, “Something fell down.” “Burglars have broken in!" whia- pered Mrs. Jarr, “I know it! Half the police are in the army; I know it's burglars!" “Any burglar that breaks in th's flat only gets into debt!” muttered Mr. Jarr, But Mrs. Jarr would not be dented. “I won't sleep another wink to-night if you don't get up and see!” she whispered tensely. “They take po- licemen in the army, why don’t they take burglars, too?” Mr. Jarr, dimly realizing that if he allowed himself to awaken complete- ly from the sweet languors of alesp he wouldn't close an eye again, arose holding on to the fragments of his dream and took a half-somnambu- listic promenade around the flat in the dark, Nothing in the front room, noth!ng in the hall, nothing in the childrsa’s room, nothing in the kitchen or din- ing room that Mr, Jarr could note in the darkness, That is, nothiag save the familiar household objects, for which the rule was a place for everything and nothing in its right place. Mr. Jarr did not step on a tack, bump Into @ bureatwor encounter the blade edge of a chair rocker. He re- turned to his couch unscathed and still half asleep, holding on to the evasive and slowly dissipating tag end of the sweetest dream he had known for years. He had been dreaming he was capturing the Kaiser and was to be voted the Pres- idency, war medals and ten million dollars in Liberty bonds. “Couldn't find any burglar," he muttered drowally, But Mrs. Jarr eae fast asleep Jarr. and seeketh to tempt him with soul-ki But the vampire of real life clingeth shyly to his coat lapel, and plieth him with feeble minded questions and sweet appeals for his The vampire of the movies hisseth in her lover's ear, with passion- ate phrases, She calleth him “My Prince!” and “My Adored!” But the vampire of real life patteth his coat-sleeve, and fixeth his cravat, and calleth him “Nice Boy!” and “Silly old dear!” The vampire of the movies weareth long ear-rings, and smoketh the naughty cigarette; but the vampire of real life taketh her MAMMA with her, wheresoever she goeth, and ts a “Perfect Lady,” in all her sweet and The vampire of the movies hath acquired a thousand wiles, and in~ numerable arts, by a long and varied experience. But the vampire of real life was BORN THAT WAY! knoweth as much at sixteen as at sixty! And she The vampire of the movies hath a dark and lurid “Past,” which she But the vampire of real life hath no such handicap, but ONLY a Brilliant Future! real life, the vampire of the movies would be as harmless as a dove and as futile as a popgun. For her looks are ali AGAINST her, and her ways all TOO obvious! his horn too loudly and too often, she affrighteth the oan and men flee As a hunter that bloweth But the vampire of real life goeth subtly and softly, and setteth her traps in unseen places—and lo, all men flee AFTER her! And only the Jarr Family McCardell Mr. Jarr was now dimly consectous of the fact that his burglar hunting expedition would have been extremely futile, if not embarrassing, had heen- countered @ housebreaker. He should have got his pistol first. But where was his pistol? Yes, now he remem- bered. Mrs. Jarr had made him lock it up securely at the top of the closet iu the dining room “to keep it from the children,” Willie Jarr, in particu- lar, having boyish aspirations in the direction of commandeering said fire- arm at first opportunity, and leading the boy regiment of the neighborhuod in wiping out imaginary German ma- spine gun nests on Snyder's vacant ot, Mr. Jarr was dinking to sleep and his military glory dream again when the breeze of false dawn once more arose and shook the window-shade violently, Again Mrs. Jarr roused him to look for burglars, He got to sleep again, shortly be. fore it was time to arise for the labors of the day, and again be dreamed, This time he dreamed he had lost his job, and @ partteulariy ruManly City Marshal was putting his family and furniture out upon the sidewalk in a chill and pouring rain, For in this dream the war-ecarcity of intelligent male help of deferred draft age was ignored, Furthermore, every soquaintance of the Jarr family was passing oy’ and pitying the poor people, dispos- sesved and on the aidewalk, but mot stretching their sympathy to the point of financial ald. At the breakfast table Mra Jarr, reading the morning paper, asked him if he thought the Kaiser would surrender or walt to be captured by the victorious Allies, ‘dt you hadn't awakened me to look for burglars I'd be able to tell you!” grumbled Mr. Jarr, And on his way downtown he fel asleep and rode to the end of the Mne and got to the office late te be scowled at by the boas, Later in the day he discovered the bose had come to the office early be- cause he was suffering from insomnia, ee LO, THE POOR INDIAN, Osage Indians of our great Southwest are said to be the richest people per individual tn the world, Ownership and royalty rights in immensely productive Okie. homa oll lands are the source of the