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meme pk H Al OHH AE i pL 7 2 | EDITORIAL PAGE| |Saturday, September 14, 1918) 4 ma . ! : | . Applies to Both! wets By Maurice Ketten ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, . " Paster: hae til age Published Dally Except bear ys 4 by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 te - 63 Park Row, New York. | . RALPH PULATZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS HAW, ‘Treasure Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row \ " Stories of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune Coy sright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World). (0. 58.—DRAGA MASCHIN, the Spy Who Became a Queen, ER father was a cattle dealer who made enough cash to give his dangerously beautiful daughter @ start in life, Tae start carried her to a throne and at last to assassination. She was Draga Maschin, a Serbian peasant. But in Serbia peasants have had a way of forging ahead faster and further than in other countries. For example, it was a swineherd, named Kara* 5 george (“Black George”), who tore Serbia free from -“) * Purkey and made himself the little country’s ruler, Another peasant, Obren by name, killed him and seized the throne, A descendant of Karageorge (Karageorgeovitch) kicked an Obrenovitch off the throne, and took it himself. : i MEMBER OF THR AgeOCIITED Prmse . Associated Pros is exctnsiely entitled to. the erotik ace a ert edited 18" eer nd VOLUME 5¢ STRAIGHT TALK. HE President let the Bridgeport strikers have it the shoulder, Members of the International Union of Machinists who, | contrary to agreement, refused to abi War’ Labor Board were left without a shadow of doubt a8 to where je by the award of the National | Py . they stood: | Murder brought the Obrenovitches back to the rulership, and m' ‘ “ | later did the same for the Karageorgeovitches. And 80 on. 1 ch pet be ant bed aa? vee aa noe ctl fll aha Milan Obrenovitch ruled Serbia when Draga Maschin flourished. Drage’ il Sean is el tua TI fo te Calas he Oikc, posteead tov a father could give her a start; but he could do little more for her, de had mq” | dustry in the community in which the strike occurred for a period of one year, { “During that time the United States Employment Service will decline to obtain employment for you in any war industry | elsewhere in the United States, as well as under the War di and Navy Departments, the Shipping Boards, the Railroad Administration and all other Government agencies, and the L draft boards will be instructed to reject any claim of ex- emption based on your alleged usefulness in war production.” Words more direct and incisive could hardly be put into a warn-| ing. The President’s plain talk to the Bridgeport strikers should; register throughout the country wherever organized labor is tempted to use the exigencies of war for the purpose of putting additional and need to do more. She could do the rest herself. And she did. Serbia was a “buffer” state, (A buffer state between two great Dures pean powers used to serve much the same purpose as does a fence of chickess” ares aren = Wire between two fighting cocks.) Spies in Clover Such states were always swarming with the | } at the Court. spies of one or another of the big powers that bore soem — dered them. The Serbian court was alive with Ruse sian and Austrian and German spies. Many of these were nate Serbians, who were glad to pick up the extra” money such employment offered. | And the cleverest and most unscrupulous spy of the lot was Drage’ Maschin, Milan, the King, did not at all object 40 Draga’s serving as a spy. Bag” he wanted to profit by her spyini fd 1 i i P Y | He did so, She worked not only for the foreign power that . Emphasizing the justice and impartiality of the President's stand! ' § MUNITION [Gee 4 aR, Bh TE eae MIT 4. | but for the King—wio also paid her. a ae is the fact that the Government at the same moment takes over the! w 4 STRIKER . y x ie | Milan made no secret of the fact that he was in love with her. ‘Thig plant of the Smith & Wesson Company at Springfield, the officers of} 4 : raves of royal favorite made her spy work much easier and its pay muct i toad a e . ie \ higher. ei etal eo ort At last the Serbians sickened of Milan's misrule and drove him from thé : : | country. His degenerate young son, Alexander, was made King in his place, Draga fifteen years older than the boy-King. But she wasted ne time in making him her slave. And at last, to the horror of ‘all Burgpe, stig 4 cajoled him into marrying her and making her Queen of Serbia. | ‘There were insistent rumors that the new Queen did not drop her © | reer of spy on mounting the throne, but thriftily continued to serve the.ine | terests of one of Serbia's strongest neighbor gtates—for a heavy cash cone sideration. This did not add to her popularity with the Serbs. In fact, she had ne popularity to add to. Year by year the Serbs hated her more and more, They grew to hate their stupid, degenerate King, too. He was misgovs erning the little nation more disgustingly than ever had his dissolute father, He and Draga, too, fought like cat and dog. Once they quarreled in pube lic and Alexander so far lost his self-control as to strike his beautiful wife. — —~? In revenge she took poison—or pretended to. During Spy Queen Rul another quarrel she boxed the King’s ears. At last Boy King. the patience of the people was worn out. A band ene of nobles and soldiers broke into the Royal Palare at dead of night on June 11, 1903, and (according to one version) come manded Alexander to banish bis worthless wife. Alexander refused. Draga flung her arms around her husband. And ag they stood thus the conspirators riddled both their bodies with bullets, The luckless lovers fell dead at the first volley—still clasped in each other's embrace. So ended the meteor career of Draga Maschin—perhaps the only pro=« fessional spy who ever became a Queen. compelling pressure behind its special demands. | | “It is of the highest importance to secure compliance with reasonable rules and procedure for the settlement of indus- trial disputes. Having exercised a drastic remedy with recal- citrant employers, it is my duty to use means equally well adapted to that end with lawless and faithless employees. Labor unions must get over the idea that they can grant immu- nity from the strict application of the “work or fight” principle. Their! i P mp arguments for the strike ag a present means of gaining new privileges | , and concessions are confuted by their own past pledges. | ‘ Last November the American Federation of Labor in convention| «eat Buffalo won the applause of the country by calling off strikes in b — a all war industries and indorsing the President’s programme for al * united Nation that should rely upon arbitration to preserve it from| r any break or cessation in its war effort threatened by strikes during| the war period. | A few local divisions of organized labor in the United States have| j for some time past needed a sharp reminder of how much their| +... national labor leaders have promised in the name of labor's loyalty. | The President's letter to the Bridgeport machinists js a peremp-| tory notice to cantankerous unions and workers that there are not! Kildy So, too, ended the Obrenovitch dynasty. For the couple were childless, only duties but penalties as well. | - 4 a And their death brought to the throne Prince Peter Karageorgeovitch, @ | | cs descendant of the swineherd who had freed Serbia from Turkey. - \ " Von Hindenburg says: “The German hedgehog is curling Pi + Nl A } : m. up. Beware, ye who strike him.” | . bf k | ¥, Kk | h F | > More likely he's playing ‘possum. | New or Gir I ypes ou now | I e arr aml y By Roy L. McCardell | ° . “No'm, this is the ninth,’ your | Copyright, 1918, by Tue Pree Publishing Co. | “What's for bait? inquired Mr.| drinking in solitude?” v : THE BAY STATE AFTER | 5 B y Nixola Greele vs Sm it h | cheerful charioteer replies. | (The New York Evening World,) | Sase in tues: rene entured Mr, ar RENT PROFITEERS. Qovrrigtt, 2018, ty The Prem Publiching Oo, (The How Test Hrening World) | ‘ever mind, let me out here! I'll | ¢¢ GVAY, please, what you doing in| ‘Them minyums.” replied Gus.| “No, it ain't that you miss, whate b ONSERVATIVE old Massachuse , : | No. XXI.—THE ELEVATOR GIRL walk the rest of the way,” you ex- | S here?” asked Gus as Mr. Jarr | “Them’s the little fish what you put |ever it was you say,’ said Gus. “When ’ NS 4 old Massachusetts steps t» the front in the 18 other day, after an absence of | the desperate adventures are not at|claim hastily, slouched in the cafe'on the|on the hook to catch tho bigger flsh! you keep a liquor store and drink move to curb profiteering in rents, T: veral months from New York, | the front. ‘And the charioteer, nothing loath to | corner. with, ain't it? Only when yout go for| alone nobody is paying for it and ow Q A public proclamation issued by Acting Governor Cool- praien ch Ql ereeawer Sires ied Lb egghead spepping nerves | have hee burden lightened, jerks and | The greeting’ was more than a Hagen fie hina Hac ae Sse ent muah Ohya Oat - ye Dublic & panne Nie waiting for as and carfare in the pufsuit of an| jolts you back to within a foot or 80 | mere inquiry; there was a tinge of . By gol-| Having finished these ; idge empowers the Public Safety Committee, under the provisions of car, And I waited—/| apartment theso days—and what Me a fansite, and you alight, vowing | nt har if Mr, Jarr ea) the| Hes! if it wasn't at night I'd £0] marks and also having edt fee ps the State Defense Act, to seize the property of landlords in the Bay, and waited—and| woman is not?—must have met at|never to pe lured away from the | only voluntary prisoner at the bar, |40W® off fishing! At least fish ain't treshments, Gus stooped down und State who impose exorbitant rentals upon workers engaged in produc- I waited. Finally | jeast three elevator girls whom she| ground again. Yau don't keep the | Business in the “liquor store,” as oan to be the Naver trade iD | the bar and brought up an oceam x tion required for the prosecution of the war | turned to two other | would like to introduce to the Kalser,| yow, of course, For these are des-|Gus called it, was bad—so bad, in mes ne Reel Sipe in cold! going fishing line on an eight-inch e : | women who wWere/in the pleasant hope that he might] perate days, and there is only one | fact, that Gus didn't care if he made| V@ter 4nd out of hot water reel, also a little brass bell of the f ‘While the majority of landlords are recognizing the needs | ; about in the #ame| de induced to take a ride with them. | thing more frantically hopeless than | i worse. Anyway, he couldn't get| |! 8¢-” sald Mr. Jarr, soothingly. | stein variety on a piece of wire | ae of their country and dealing fairly with their tenants,” the i » futile suspense, | ‘The snares and peril of apartment- | the pursuit of an apartment at a mod- | any more beer in a few months ana|_ ‘5°. 80 many people owe me money | “What's that for?” asked Mr. Jarry, + proclamation sets forth, “certain unpatriotic persons in these : ; ‘How long 588! nunting have grown more numerous|crate price and that is the pursuit | would nave to close up the shop alto- |that when they do have some cast | pointing to the little bell bi | localities are unduly increasing rents, unjustly evicting or / vw we, peer coas with every year, But at least nolof a general houseworker at any| gether next July. Despite Gus's air ey or Gilt Bag tp ee, to) Mr. Jarr had never done any deep % seeking to evict such workmen and their families unless their LLMs ously, immediate threat to life and limb was | price. Jef gloom Mr. Jerr threw himaelt] C7 tas “before Jong, 20 whnce| "svn ne , I demands for the payment of exorbitant and unreasonably high | “Months,” answered both together. |!nvolved in the quest of the golden} still it occurs to you more than| upon the mercy of the bar. tne tah @ cee Linke so - A 'y." sald Gus, “when you #6 % i rentals are complied with, and thereby handicapping and em- | ‘It's the war, And women conductors, |fat until 1918. Formerly when you |once to wonder why the elevator) wee whiz, Gus!” he cried, “can't! sa truce to melancholy, Gus!” oried | hag we Ott the boata on the banks for + barrassing the Federal authorities in steps designed to secure | And elevator girls! And women pok- | were told that the apartment adver- | girls in the department stores ond a man get a few kind words or @l/yr Jarr, resolved to pump a little pes le ich is them long green fishes & successful prosecution of the war, and consequently preju- | ing their faces into everything! What See rae O8 stone et ata is the office rained ne Bad pele warm welcome even in a saloon any] cheerfulness into the proceedings. | out Alen (oe Hie Teen tee bite are we coming to?” ceased rigt here, Now youlare so wel more? Why, a man might as wells: cy note . stick the * pitti, So yetabaia Spe Peles eaiasy ean WANEAES ot: (oe | tt occurred to me then that I ought | heave “a sity ot eee and say an jand why 80 Ep rcpoies stay in his own house, What are you neat eee ne: (8 tale Ps Oe fiat wirea sare tbe bells a ; aie" i gp Pata me see it, then,” all aversiongto dark | houses are me public ; , > ne around this ae By all means protect first those engaged in actual war industrie: bedi satente Loe ineag eetentp ley | rooma overcome by the loenairea dan-| What does one have to do to be an ering te. latins & bomeitia 8 8eest | She gape a eipaeeapeaa.l ring, then when the ling pulls om the But what about millions of others engaged in contributory occu-| it, 1 simply could not, Not because | Ser to yourself and the family. elevator girl suyhens shal mn | minion for?” fishing Te aoiee | said Gus, bright- Lager roy uel a Toe n =! pations upon which the continued prosperity and staying power of of any fwull of theirs, Hut the mem: Renee ied He en anrieeerey cee precludes that dis-| “Them’s for bait, What's that got|ening up a bit. “I am glad you come| 4 jing!” =a , the country depend, whose earnings and savings must help pay war pid en Pines Genivenes puts! maiden away from @ switchboard|quicting theory. But 1 am almost/to do with being married and. com-jin, anyhow. I ain't had nobody to|. “What?” asked» Gus. tense ig necessary, Why| ing into my liquor store for?” asked | speak a cross word to all day.” “Why, don't you see,” explained M! “One misses convivial inspiration| Jarr with patient a taxes and buy Liberty Bonds? Are they not also entitled to pro- tees worn sometimes with oxford ties | which It takes all her energies to un- | certain no Il p , ‘ K " ( “ vee ‘ waa bs iad fete) on resignation, tection against profiteering landlords jand French heels, the general air of derstand, sho finally confides to you | not? little bell rings ‘Ting!’ and peng the # A World reader suggests that t dejection and disintegratfon which | that the only vacancy is on the en you've ei Z yes Mi € ss . -_ . : ; rants in New York try paying any woman must take on in those; cleventh floor, you spend weveatl mo- | | the Waitress By Bide Dudley |“? on excessive rent increases this fall in War Savings Stamps. War Say-] freakish habiliments froze my| ments in anxious communion with ucl e ness!" snorted Gum | “Sometimes the ling gets away an@ Gus. * ings Stamps are not legal tender. But the suggestion should set somo| Shoushte and paralyzed my right | hea naire UNE yee ae Copyright, 1018, by The Press iblishing CO.) war play, Lemme tell you about| “That got my goat quite fluently. | then maybe it's a blackfish or a ' é hane on that desperate voyage, “4 a : oni ‘Listen !* ya, ‘You be Ay ne ; landlords thinking as to what sort of public argument they could put|’ tne women conductors may be all| peace with my Maker? Have I made| (The New York Krening World.) | him, Listen!’ I gays, ‘You better forget| But what elso it might be will never. a} AVE you noticed lately the! “This morning he comes in here to | war plays and stick to the old shine | be known, for a cheerful voice was up for a refusi oe Var Savings 8 " 7 p for a refusal to accept War Saving ipertiuosity of war plays?” | et his substance, and as he sits there |'em up'stand. What you going to do| heard to say: amps for such portion of|right—so far as I have come in con- | my will? Is my insurance paid na EY ; sania ae mieht oa: » ahe me . ta th them, they certainly are.’ Does the family really understand | : wpa a? ge A rent advance as might readily be shown to be excessive, fue nee eet nace ta pay Pehue Tr daaioe th aa eatin’ mat scape Asked Lucile the Waitress|sousing his toast into his Java I|with your drama? ‘Ab, I'm just in time to join you!" . Me eae ciatiieacit it. WAAte tee or the aiettiane recat rth the Friendly Patron cracked a|notice he's got some gort of a depres- |’ ‘I'm going ¢o show it to David} And Mr. Michael Angelo Dinkst ee a‘ them some new clothes jfew of the questions that occur to}as the 2 little curi- | Belascus!’ stood beside M ey alte New chapters in the life of Gen. John J. Pershing are open me to take thelr pictures. |you on that instant of apprehension, | biscuit with the handie of his knife|sion on hie brain. T get a litt Htaet abe) dean ‘He’ side Mr Jars, ae | aa te” he replied. ‘Seems ous to heat him weave his web, so I Didn't do it’ I implore, ‘He's| But Gus had everything in @ p ingvday by day. To know what went before, read the Life of | The slevator girl is another matter, | And if you ean answer them Siliants | -"xeh t RAY OF ei start the locomotive ataxi and soon | sray-headed already,’ of safety ere Mr, Dinkston’ the American Commander in Chief, which begins in The Eve- | Aw one views her in the department | isfactorily you get in, wishing only |to me there are too many. arrive ah Hla Bork “That gets Tony's dandruff up and| could close on any of hiv goods, iy ning World next Monday | stores she ix frequently pleasant t©/that you might be going to die for| “you got the right dope, Jonathan,’ “‘What's on your mind, if you got|he hands mg a scowl. ‘Listen, you!’| “I know you, feller, what you - wicks aca theta hl | 00k upon as well ax 100 per cent.| your country instead of for that ele-|tuctia went on, "You, can't hardly | one pony? 1 asked, He's an Italian, |he says, ‘There's wealth In war plays. | cried Gus, “Before you get been’ oA ; Jemficient on her Job _| vator girl. turn around nowadays without bUMP-|50' syeaks excellent English gram. |The public just eats ‘em u here we shall have a ee ts Le tters Fro m the P €0.p le | She seems to run the elevator more] One last look at the gay street out-| ing into one. And all of them havel “I¢ anybody eats yours he'll die of | rangement to nee wh: on een : yo jquietly than the young men she has] side, one good wish wafted to the| yor gpies in them. The spy alWay8| si. sist wrote @ play,’ he says.|!ndyspepsia,’ I says, “Oh, 1 say," fete Baye for tt ; ’ jatoonaner ete “Avent Bey mita that I never wecusod him of kill-! succeeded. She has Just ax much in-| careless pedestrians who do not real- | tries to get the papers or the childs! wit drocks me a bumper, ‘Gwan!I| “Tony don't say another word. Ho what dees the cock ReMi To the Raitor of The Evening World | for their death, ax I have never aig formation to dispense about the store} ize that you, who are about to die, | yt of course the hero grabs the! 4.5 «yoy couldn't right a wrong, |Just grabs his check and quite the! 1 don't care what he burna” a 1 tave fant recclved scopy of your| Ordone any auch thing. 't Hans waked but not nearly so much about the) salute them and you are face to face |iignted bomb and spatters spy alll". "a set done it: he tell me, "It's a|4UMP, ore ae & bolted owl. Imagine| Gus shortiy; "he doe een ee grticie about prims donnas’ ear. | Out [iy firat oltisenship papers in thia baseball games and the state of the) with Fale, Jover the place, On the level Onl war play, ‘The story is about a spy |a guy writing a war play about corn! he is a friend of yours. I know tote fiages, and T would be very much| C2UBtTY and am a good loyal Ameri= weather, She stops the elevator tevel| The dusky maiden gives a careless | ‘ight think the drama was based! that tries to get ail the bootblacks to | salve!” Well, a the ee obliged if you will be so kind as to MARGARETE MATZEN with the floor at which you wish to] yank to @ rusty'lever and you begin | 9, spyology: And the worst of It! become lean enemies and work for} “It does seem foolish,” said the} says"—— began Mr. Dini’ Omar, rectify a few errors, It was not the| Thinks Sunday Auto Order u get out, she opens the gate noiseless. | your fitful, feverish ascent. The eleva- | 14, att the young bores in the world) the Kaiser.’ Friendly Patron “And never mind what 1a Oak war which separated my husband and xhip. ly; in fact, sho performs every part of | tor groans, le Tape ane suddenly | vie writing war plays. I get one or| «sgounds flausible, I says, ‘But| “It sure does. or any other Mick says!” Soterrapieal % ne | To lice of The Brenias World i ay ity omes to a dead stop between two i | > ’ t myself, but I filed a suit for divorce | Te the Bai The F World her daily task with dexterity and fence two in here every day, and whilé/ pow could they do it Lucile went to the kitchen, On re-|Gus, shortly. “I know that feller on different grounds, which I won in a fe. iga b i faen of Bag: ease. And there are girls running ele-| the firat instance, but lost on the ap-| Strtoge end th faece of ant men tt’ vators in office buildings and hotels peal, which reversed the first decre victory, Willing to save and economize Who are equally efficient | they're blowing in their fifteen cents) « «phe spy's got a.corn-salve and he | turning she approached the Friendly] you're Bi Fh etl gars Rey Pace + ney tell me all about their wonderful | gets all the bootblacks to enlist in the| patron and said: talking about what makes tents and puts up awni play and. how it's sure to just grab! American Army to shine the soldiers'| ‘Plots for war plays are darn| bum, too.” en so that I am atill legaly married to/ or do anything in my power, ” Hut L ‘There the brightness begins to fade [OE By. hae, Canaan ee Rab when | oid Daine Fortune and mop up the] shoes and be chiproddists. Now you|carce, but, confidentually, I got a| “And brewing is to cease De + an Italian, Mr, Edouard Ferrari-Fon-| Wine It Wt Aas a great deal of & Ana while 1 wish I, could turn the L od ; ; . town with her. Did you ever meet] Ketch the drift? dandy, It's about girl waitress Who| cember?” murmured. Mr. Dia tana, and therefore an Italian citizen | who works six days a week in the dark cloud inside out and show the] REAL ERRIOIENDY Tony the bootblack next door-| ‘Not me,' I says. ‘Please undensity (eet ic Germany 208 fons thar peony | ‘the beginning of. the big drag o! e lel dio jas Hunday to " e ead $ ant” it for me,’ * : uy pereess “filing the ed oity, ene enly as muna WS ran His silver lining to the reader, it would be] 4 prench scientist has developed @| socially, I mean? m why, when they're chiproding|—Paris green putting the Germans} Men means the end of draft beer,” { y Germas servants” on false informa. | stand idle. I know there are a good °° Use to try to fool him. For he has/ method for chemically treating solled| ‘I know who you refer to, they use this corn salve and it’s got |on the bum when they are aching to) | “So everybody tells me," said Qu | ~ , ton, which he afterward regretted| many others who feel the Same as experienced tho other kind of ele-| absorbent cotton so that it can be! “Well, I'll everlastingly sit on @] poison in it. It's deadlier than your |capture Paris? Say, wait till you see/*and everybody seems ‘so pl \ j me. He also ad-! myself, |. L. A. vator girl himself, and knows that al red-hot stove if Tony ain't writing’ bash in here,’ my play! Wow! - about it I'm getting glad myselt.” s ae my! a s A hat all used again. }