The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1918, Page 18

© f3 ¥ =s + 7 ok: 2 ft She eEFAhity stond, ESTARLISHED BY JOSMPH PULITZER. Published Dally Mxcept su the Press Publiching Company, Noa 53 te “! "Perk tow. New York MEMAER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. nel SEL ASIC SET co paler ee OLUME 59...cee eens seseeesesNO, 20,842 THE AMERICAN OFFENSIVE. T WAS a happy coincidence, if coincidence it was, that started the ] American drive against the St. Mihiel salient on the morning of Sept. 12, 1918. | On the same day the Nation enrolled a new section of its man- power, 13,000,000 strong, the American First Army in France, com- prising the largest number of American troops and artillery yet sent into any single action, began, between the Meuse and the Moselle, an advance every etep of which will be followed with boundless enthu- siasm by 100,000,000 pe>ple who since yesterday are more than ever in the war. | Although French troops are aiding in the attack, the American forces are for the first time fighting as an army under the immediate command of Gen. Pershing. An American Army in France is already a reality, with its own special work assigned to it, its own objectives to achieve, its own! havoc to make of German positions and German plans. The speed with which it has been found possible to organize an all-American fighting force of army size, fit for front line action, | speaks volumes for the quickness with which the American boys have responded to training and the account which many fresh from camp have given of themselves in the trenches and in the big drives of the past months during which they have been tried out. One of the stupendous facts of the war will some day be recog- nized in the shortness of time with which this unprepared, unmilitary Nation has put great bodies of trained, aggressive, unconquerable, troops into the field. Germany begins already to shudder at the magnitude and menace of the achievement. ! Whether the present American offensive is aimed at the great enemy stronghold of Metz, whether it is meant as a feeler in the direction of a systematic invasion of the Rhine Valley, or whether it is designed to gain a lesser but highly important area, it is admirably timed to strike dismay into German hearts already heavy with the defeats of German armies further to the north and anxious as to the ability of the German High Command to spread reinforcements along 4 front attacked at so many points. Events of yesterday on either side of the Atlantic were of a sort) to exert disastrous influence on enemy morale. ‘ j ——————— “UNLAWFUL AND ILL-JUDGED.” HE statement of Attorney General Gregory regarding the! | methods employed by Department of Justice officials in the, recent round-up of draft slackers in this city admits, in words) which could hardly be more explicit, that those methods were lawless) and inexcusable: Contrary to my express instructions, instructions which I have repeated over and over again, and contrary to law, certain members of the investigating force of this Department, without consaltation with me or with any law officer of the Department, used soldiers and sailors and certain members of the American Protective League, I am satisfied, in making arrests, I am convinced by the inquiries which I have made that they were led inte this breach of authority by excess of zeal for the public good, While this extenuates it does not | excuse their action. The Attorney General’s view accords with that expressed last week in this column—that the worst features of the round-up were! dae not to its purpose but to the ill-edvised policy of putting police| power into the unaccustomed hands of persons whose enthusiasm and lack of experience led them to turn a serious business into a field day.| “Besides being unlawful,” Mr. Gregory doclares, “the employment of members of military forces ang private organ fzations in making. arrests was {I-judged, as such men are not generally ‘fitted by training or experience to exercise th: discretion required tn the circumstances.” ‘The Attorney General’s letter to the President thus frankly con- codes that as regards the conduct of the slacker raids in New York,' Tne last words of the once mighty the end did not justify the means. peace.”News despatch. Letters From Wants Women To & xiitor of The Br It's a disgrace to see so many able- bodied fourth class men exempted for the support of their wives when they have no children, There are four young married men where I live, hav- ing no children, and their wives are the picture of health. 1 also know of one who was put out of a store and told to get a Government position within ten days, Thirty days have elapsed and he is neither fighting nor has a Government position or any other position, but ts at home watching his wife work. My husband answered the call in October, 1917, and is now in active service over there, There was no exemption for him, neither was there a fourth class. It certainly is not fair to our boys risking their lives over there, Neither fg it fair to the folks at home, secing men loafing around over here. I read in your paper about the _ reunding up of slackers on the streets Why not go to the home and investi- | ‘gate dependency cases, They would Such was very strongly the opinion of New Yorkers, who will be! glad to accept Mr. Gregory's statement as assurance that, short of the | preserve Russia from ruin.” establishment of martial law, this city will see no more snch high-; How that pathetic prayer was an- handed-treatment of freeborn Americans. | ——— + —____- } “Crernin says the Katser honestly desires a lasting ‘Two million Americans are in France and as many more on the way to make sure ho gets it. | life, trouble was nis portion. That was the People | the women have the vote, why not Put mothers and wives of soldiers on the boards? Then there would be fair play. A SOLDIER'S WIFE. What Makes a Slacker? To the Biitor of The Brening World ; I have been much interested in the| slacker controversy, and would like | to ask # you think this kind of a man ls @ slacker, He has a wife in good health, yet she employs a woman to do all ber work. They have no chil- dren—in fact, don't believe that a family should interfere with a coup! freedom, They own an automobile and have money in the bank, and also collect rentals amounting to about $360 per month. He receives a salary Of Not jess than $30 per week, Don't you think euch men should be placed in class 1 instead of class 2? The man I have reference to is twenty-eight years old. READER, le Men's War, Death of Ex-Czar’s Children Ends Royal Line | | |Last of the Romanoffs by This Branch Have Fallen Under | sunici : Terrorism of the Bolsheviki. By Willis Brooks 8 Nicholas Romanoff, de- throned Limperor of All the Russias, stood before the fir- Ing squad at Kkaterinburg he made his simple prayer to the Bolelevik Government, which had approved the death sentence pamed by the Presi- dent of the Ural Regional Council. Czar were: “Spare my wife and my innocent, unhappy obildren. May my blood awered is gathered from a report, be- Heved to be authentic, that this wife and th dren have been slain. From that gala day in May, 1896, when Nicholas II, was crowned amid hundreds of thousands of his cheer- ing people, to the final moment of his the logical corollary of 200 years of misrule, He found the affairs of his country tn the hands of unscrupulous bureaucrats whom he was never able to unseat, What though he re- moved hundreds of Ministers, those whom he appointed to their places carried on the “system,” whieh per- sisted to the very end of the empire. Intrigue within Intrigue wove sin- ister threads about him, until, what- ever his personal desires may have ‘been, he was tangled, body and soul, in their consclenceless meshes, It may be that history will say no other family has ever presented so broadly marked dramatic contrasts as have these seven persons—Nicholas Romanoff, Alexandra, his wife; their four daughters, Olga, Tatiana, Marie |and Anastasia, and their one sickly son, Alexis, Less than two years ago | their combined wealth was estimated | at $9,000,000,000, their income from the state alone being not less than $20,000,000 a year, which was said to be considerably leas than their re- 1 4 Green sees things in the true state when he gets down to facts concerning the war. There are find a much larger number of slack- ere. I know the Government wants play, but it is the different undoubtedly many married men with no children who should be doin something, Is this a single man’ wart - MG turns from landed property held in \thetr individual names. ‘They and ‘their related Grand Dukes and Duoh- esses, Princes and Princesses, were st of these unhappy cbil-| public. Kalter When Every W | “Woke Up | : By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World), |And Then—the War Camet And Love and Chivalry and Romance Came Back Into Fashion Again—and Cynics Went Out Forever! NCE upon a time I was a “cynic”! And it's AWFULLY easy! If you are a man, all you have to do in order to be a cynic is to wear eyeglasses attached to a long ribbon, And SNEER at everything! (“When you see one of these aim low and shoot te kill!” as Irvin Cobb once remarked). And if you are a woman, all you have to do Im order to be a cynic is to carry a lorgnette and purse up your lips, And look bored and mysterious whenever anybody eays anything interesting or new or pleasant or clever. Because a cynic (as I read somewhere recently) ts “one wao rushes to turn in a fire alarm whenever he scents the flame of enthusiasm.” And perhaps before the war started there was some excuse for that sort | of thing. | For ft durely tooked as though all the beautiful things we once cher- ished and dreamed about and lived for Had gone out of fashion or into decay or oblivion—or something. Young love was a lost art, and marriage an antique institution, and | caivalry a relic of the dark ages, and domestic happiness a joke, and | “home” just a place to go to to change your clothes between tea and dinner—— And the world was a very dull, emug, blase, old place! And then—the WAR came! | | And the world woke out of its long lethargy. And suddenly the flame of PATRIOTISM leaped up in our hearts and burned out all the deadwood of pessimism and selfishness and egotiem and unbelief and sophistication, And swept the cobwehs from our eyes! And we saw things once again in their true colors and their true values, And love ceased to be a cold “deal” and became an “ideal,” And bachelors stopped scoffing and boasting, And young men all over the country began falling in love and mar. rying! | And plays and stories, like “Seventeen” and “Maytime"—sweet plays and stories of young love— Replaced the tawdry “problem plays” and silly sex novels, | And women stopped trying to be “vampires,” and gave up going about to tango-teas and cabarets. | And went in for hard work and loving service and loyal devotiont | And “Home” and “Mother” and “Wife” and “Sweetheart” became sacred words once more and the most cherished things in all the worldt | | And men went out to fight for them—and CHIVALRY and romanee and faith “came tack!” And beneath its thin veneer of cynicism and bitterness and mockery The great big, true, beautiful heart of this old world began to beat | again! | "and perhaps I'm a silly young thing, or a foolish olf sentimentattst— | But I think it's Just. GRAND! | Don't you? j Why Katherine Tinney Is Called New York's ‘Little Lady Bountiful.’ AVE you ever stopped to wonder how many fascinating thiors are going on in the great, stern pal Building? There ia one lit-| tle lady there who, in a scant 6 feet} of dainty femininity, packs away a| heart as big as all outdoors and the }calm, judicial head of a Supreme| Court Judge. She needs both, for Miss Catherine Tinne: the one who caNy extravagant, Within @ short spocts all the pu me one - a month from that time they were|city. ‘The free wards of hospitai, ali | practically penniless, Their lands had nizations for the care of been confiscated, their revenues ren, and every one of the thou- stopped und they were prisoners in| “*Pd8 of places where the city da ses its money for charitable pur- skoe Selo. | poses must be visited and inspected their own magnificent ‘Ts: Nor was the power of this family | by this girlish little woman—it would jeig marked than its wealth, The| [almost easter to say “womanly ite gir Czar was potent in all things, His word was the religion of at least a! New York, this important position 1s hundred million human beings. Yet, | ¢id by a woman. bler visits revea, in ttle more than the twinkling of an | ‘N40¥ Unexpected things, ‘The nun " ot children being turned over to char- | eye he was less than an ordinary | j+'es in private cases is diminishing citizen, Yes, he was laughed at when| At a time when so many are taking he begged the privilege of tho ballot | UP New dutics ic shows that the heaiz + of the public ts opening wider. Much in the temporarily established re-| of the spending of the city's money is based on these reports; and many who do not know Miss Tinney “by name speak of her as “Little Lady Yor the first time in the history of The end began two hundred years} ago, when the bureaucrats orgunized The Jarr Copyright, 1918. by The Prewe Publishing Co, __— ‘i PIE i. Family By Rey L. McCardell spend tt on something we'll get somo suuntiful,” thelr “system.” Or-did it begin when | fountiful Mikhail Feodorovich Romanoff as- oended the throne in 1613 and assumed the prerogatives of ono divinely ap- polnted? At any rate, the end came sharply upon the heels of Nicholas Il.'s ukases of March 12, 1917, sus- pending sittings of the Duma and| Council of the Empire after two days | of bread riots, Three days later the | Cear abdicated for himself and bia | son, the Grand Duke Alexis, twelve years old, It was then that Nicholas was arrested and confined with his family at Tsarskoe Selo, whence they were later removed to Tobolsk. When the time came to remove the former Czar to Ekaterinburg, his wife | ( pleaded that he be not taken from| her and their sick son, so she, together with her daughter Marie and the gon, | was sent with her husband. The| three other daughters remained at|ten years later. Tobolsk, ‘There ts no information as to whether they were murdered there or had gone to Ekaterinburg to join their mother, Alexis, the sickly boy, was shot by | of a Bolshevik brute because he wept when told that his father bad boon |! from A Series of Plain The Child Who Runs Away. AE first aim of most parents in T child training is control. | The instinct for away 18 a hopeful one; it shows real initiative, a desire to discover and explore, bot it must be kept with- in bounds, If you cannot control your five- year-old runaway now, you will probably not be able to control him It 1s no wonder, |then, that the runaway child causes so much concern. | A father writes to me “Our little boy is about three What can we do to p running into the street? age. killed. |He hag plenty of ground on our prop- — a erty to play in, but the minute we NATURAL CURIOSITY, turn our back he runs away, If you “Have those submarine demonstra-|run after him he runs so much tions hurt business?” faster.” “I should say not,” replied the land- known at every fasblonable resort in Burope as the most lavish spenders, 4 at their manifold palatial resi- \donces they lived on @ acale harbari- lord of the seaside-hotel, ‘People| With a child of this age it le really come piling in from all parts of better to have a fence for the bound- Soe a the an uted eraunee £2 48 ary line, because it Is almost too Gl abo nat a sch iw Rone be ington By Ray C, Beevy, A. B., M. A., President of the Parents’ Association, running | Siete cercsreraer st acetate viconcmcreerntrernn fay” Nt tte a right in here to-day. Don't go out- side the ropes without asking father. remember not to cross an invisible) yo.11 have a good time, won't you?” line, Watch the child very closely at first You might, however, have a plac€/ and the moment he oversteps the |in your backyard, perhaps twenty-|jine walk very slowly out in the |five feet square, for him to play 1m | yarq—don’t run after him—have him |most of the time. In this plot have a sand box, little tools for him to work |jooking him atraight in the eye, say: with and other playthings, Make this | ;obert, trom now on you are to play spot really attractive to the child! inside of these lines. You must not and have it marked off clearly, 80/ go outside without asking, father. that he can easily see the boundary | [t's gogand see what we can make ines, | with the sand and blocks." Do not try to get the child to The mos natural thing for parents Promise that he will not run away.|to do is to yell at the child and tell Children @o young promise things | him to come back in a fault-finding very often when they scarcely know come directly in front of you and, way, or whip him or tie him, But what they are saying, and the prac- | these methods are sure to have a bad tlee.of making them promise tends to| result, ‘The correct way is to speak jeause untruthfulness, ‘This method} confidentially and friendly, though jalso has a tendency to weaken obedi- | firmly Jence After teaching the child to respect Simply tell the child where he !s to] the boundary lines of ‘the small plot, |play. Go out to the yard with him, which you use as a testing ground, you.may gradually increase the size, so long as he proves worthy of trust, until the outside boundary line is the sidewalk or edge of the street, If he becomes lax, narrow his border lines until he can again be trusted, If all children were given proper id much needed early lessons in f-control, the State would not need so many reformatories and jails, (Wonrcet, 1016, The Panenta’ | walk around the boundary line in- side of which you are willing he should play, saying: ‘You can play clear over as far as the rope this way and clear over as far as the rope om the other side. Won't that be a fine playground?” Then say in & low, confidential tone: “Maybe I'll sive you & bigger place to play in ter ma’ fomaily, Lo (The New York E "he same with me!” Mrs, Rangl: | sood out of.” HE d the Rangles “phat's the kind of choice ('m] “Hold on!” eried Mr. Jarr. “I fore TE abroad on pleasure bent va given—the ‘You don't w#ant'}cot; the boss lent me his taxtead “It isn’t Sunday,” choice. harge ticket to rush out on some- Jarr, “shall wo take a taxicab | ‘i'm ashamed of you, Rangie!" said thing for him the other day. AM 1 Mrs, Jarr looked at Mrs, Rangle,| yf, Jarr, basely deserting his friend.|have to do ts to call a ‘Black and at whom Mr. Rangle was a ° That's how the cautlous spendthrift| Blue’ taxi and show the chauffeur ing a look, But Mr. 697° | treats--T'll take beer; what'll you the card. Then he charges up the was one of warning, while Mrs, Jatr’s | nayot! fare to the number of the card and Was ORS .OF induiry | “Wo're making a folly Uttle start,|the boss paya tt at the end of the Translated Into the vernacular, Mr.!.44 every indication points to a| month.” ngle's glance would have read, “Go| ieisant evening—with no hitting in| “Jt Must be nice to hava so much low, old girl; I've only two dollars |i) ciinene murmured Mr. Rangle, | 09°" murmured Mrs, Rangle long- in my Jean BRAN Gh) io CA” ROR ISABE Rs inaty, “Tost call a taxicab and show Mr, Jarr must have sensed this, or i “and he card.” else ho waa in the financial doldrums | ™Aked Mr. Jars, “And, aa T a4) seat r can onet asked Mra Jar, also, for ho was first to speak peste pees ta: Aha esha “Here comes one now!" “Yes,” he sald, “we can take a taxt Fell ge downtown 12 the are Of all the objectious the two ladies und—er—Dutch jt. What?” cars," spoke up Mrs: Jarr. “I'm/ nad to riding in taxicabs when they “Oh, you men needn't worry!” re- | *frald of those taxicabs. ‘The drivers! hag to pay for it none was voleed marked Mra. Jarr. ‘Mrs, Rangle and | f° 8 reckless. how. ‘They climbed in and sank Seok Tare going to pay all the expenses of | “You can't pick up a paper but what |!nto the seats with little alghs of com- this outing, (They had their hus-|¥oU read of accidents,” said Mrs. | fort ° 7 band's ealaries), We will not be|Rangle. “And not only that, I'm] “Now, remember,” snid Mrs, Jarr, stingy with our husbands, WE will|afraid of those taxicab robbers aud/®s the taxicab flew on Its way, “thts not read over the menu and say|taxicab gunmen.” — . ‘You don't want whole broiled guinea “And the cars get you downtown And they Gin thiok wo take ; . oils almost as quickly,” chimed in Mrs,|them tn taxieabs, in style, aid they?” 1en or @ lobster, do you? ventured Mrs, Rangle, as tho “Do wet" asked Mr, Jarr Jerr, adding: ee eer aid lly depts i" “You did once when you took me| “And as we are spending our money Sat over e ladies had hired at out,” said Mrs, Jarr. “That's a terri- and paying war time prices, let Us| neyo mM ateg sare, swe oo et in style, We never say ‘You don't. e ild care for broiled guinea hen, do you? a Ing the ost Oo ur llaren or ‘You don't want @ taxicab, do your” Talks to Parents morrow, % shall expect you to Play |" wang it's not ao very dese whee makes It almost as cheap as traveling in the street cars. And it’ fortable and exclusive,” Rangle. “Where are we going?” asked Me, Jarr, “To the’ “Look where you're going, you big rummie!" cried the hoarse voice of their driver as a well-dressed men wiggled out of another taxicab and attempted to make his way to a hotel entrance, . “Why, it's Mr, Silver!" cried Mrs, Jarr, “Hey, Jack! Mr. Jarr. And their only well-to-do bachelor friend turned around at the calf, “Hello!” he eric more com- said Mra there are four tn the party, and that ‘ Hey, there!” called + when he recog. nized them, “I'm looking tor Soe playmates. T want you all to take dinner with me, I'm in the new 4 and ‘It’s Off to the War, to the Warl Must Go!’ for me!” And y sighed sae | “We can't think of ii sald thi poor but proud Rangle and Jarr, . But their wives nudged them, — “Let him pay for it," they said. “Remember, it's our treat, and if he ( pays for it we'll be that much Besides, Jack Silver has no wd oman 99 |