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| MMA Che orid, ESTABLISHED ‘BY “JOSEPH PULITZER, iblighed Dally Ex: Sund: by the Press Publehing Company, Nos. 63 to 5 cet Bund park How, New Tork. JOSEP PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE eee ie P weld Se TT SU eS a oe nen Selle bern a mtrenneclceonee VOLUME 59.. seeees NO, 20,847 THEIR VICTORY, THEIR PEACE. a T': past twenty-four hours have proved how completely the ie country is behind the President’s uncompromising rejection of the Austro-Hungarian peace proposal. Old Guard Republicanism registered an emphatic indorsement) fn the Senate yesterday in the declaration of Senator Lodge of Massa- chusetts, the Republican floor leader: “The President's reply to this stup!d note will meet, I am sure, with universal approval. His prompt and curt refusal of the Austro-Hungarian offer was not only right but wise, for it will, I believe, put an end to loose and feeble talk about these Austro-Hungarian offers—a kind of talk which is not only debilitating and confusing but distinctly helpful to Ger- It is a kind of talk specially irritating to ears tingling with the great news of American progress toward Germany's frontiers, ears that fancy they almost hear the American shells which are already bursting on German soi] and battering the great fortresses that guard the German stronghold of Metz. Suppose the Government of the United States or any consider- able part of the people and press of the United States were to take these Austro-German peace overtures seriously. Suppose there were a general disposition to fall in with the eraftily-timed suggestion of the Central Powers and discuss peace. Can there be the slightest doubt what would happen? Directly a peace conference was talked of as an immediate cer- tainty, from that moment would come progressive relaxation. The all-goes-well-let’s-take-it-easier contingent would expand its influence a thousand fold. Insensibly a large part of the country would be affected by the comforting belief that the worst was over and victory automatically assured. Can any sane person fail to see that the consequent slowing down of American war effort is the thing of all things the German Gov- ernment would choose to bring about? As the balance now hangs, the one hope of the Prussian War Lords is to case themselves of the terrific new pressure by which the Allies have been reinforced. The one chance to save Germany from defeat and disaster, the one hope of reviving German morale, is to contrive that Allied speed shall slacken sufficiently to give the German High Command time to re-form its shattered divisions and persuade a doubting and dis- heartened German people that German battle lines can still hold. The likeliest way to accomplish this, as the present rulers of Germany view the situation, is to take advantage of the disinterested attitade and purpose repeatedly revealed by this Nation and, by working the humanitarian appeal, to beguile the United States inte « peace parley which, even though the fighting might continue, could not fail to cause a certain relaxation of American effort, besides raising questions which might lead to disagreement and even imper- fect co-operation between the United States and the European Allies. To achieve this the German Government would count no diplo- matic manoeuvres too laborious, no programme of propaganda too costly. To talk peace terms on the basis of present conditions, rather] © than wait for conditions certain to be far worse for Germany, is the chief and, indeed, the desperate aim of German statecraft at this ‘moment, ‘That aim must not and shall not be realized. ‘The only peace worth having is a peace based on vietory which shall definitely and irrevocably overturn the present rulers of Ger- many, extinguishing forever their power, their policies and their wwotenses. ‘ In the eyes of this Nation that can be the only peace worthy of phe bright American lives being given so gallantly, so bravely to secure it. Let there be an end of “loose and feeble” talk that would make Jess the fruit of their sacri’ walk has a little swing. ward bound her eyes have the fixity/an hour has réached an office where of all commuters and her body and | she is looked upon as so indispensable mind are alike concentrated on the| (hat her employer's worst nightmare central fact of the universe—the 6.15|!8 that some day she will marry and train, And both her body and hor)!eave him. Members of the firm all mind drop, But there is another reason for her | proud carriage on her way to work, and the sagging of her spirits as she turns toward home—tho reason lies im the strange mediaeval attitude of “commuter* communities toward the girl who commutes, ‘Letters From the Wares Against Overco! People jenee. Property Custodian and the manufac- Dotnted by him, all of whom ere Americans: President ¥, 8, Lynch; Vice President, G. H, Carnahan; Sec- retary and Treasurer, KE. 1. MoClin- tock, Board of Directors: N. F, Brady, G. H. Carnahan, Martin H, Glynn, George C, Haigh, F. B, Lynch, E. J. Lynett, C. B, Macdonald, J, R. Speer, As s00n as Its books have been @udited and the property raise the cupital stock of the company witi be sold by the Alien Property Cus- todian to American citizens. The Proceeds of the sale of the property of the company will be held by the Alien Property Custodian until tne end of the war, when Congress will decide as to the disposition of the money, All profits as well as all the money realized from thegsale of the company will be used for the pur- chase of Liberty bonds to help in the prosecution of the war until the com- Plete defeat of Germany, Therefore, nuine Bayer tablets and capsules of aspirin can be purchased with ful! confidence, women and children already are re- Joleing as if the war were ended. The optimism of the people is far too high. The spirit of overconfidence can be felt in the air, We should have profited from the lesson the German people received when, with their armies before Paris and a decisive victory pending, the people and the soldiers found a vic- tory converted into a disaster, Our soldiers must be told that they are fighting an enemy that still has power, and not a demoralized army made up of sixteen-year-old lads, We should all be cheerful and de- termined, but overconfidence is the foretaste of defeat and Giahater, a Under Control of Alien Property Cuntodian, ‘Te Ge Bitter f The Brening World: In view of the publicity jecentt; gtven The Bayer Company, Inc., the folowing statement is made: The y is 1 One Sh By Nixola G leg ‘ EDITORIAL PAGE |. Wednesday, September 18,1 reeley-Smith— + Copyright, 1918, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), XXI1.—THE GIRL sae encounter the girl who com- | WHO COMMUTES and then nine times out of ten they mutes every morning as she! Choose the girl the man would rather burries tb her work from ferrjes and terminals, a big torch of dahlias and chrysanthemums in one hand or else, more heavily laden, on her way home from ono of the New York marke If she is going to her office or place of business het head is held high and her For there are places within a few miles of New York where idleness in women is still held in more where the Ie eem than energy girl’ who works is. se eligible than tf she ly did nothing “Yo the Editor of The Eveuing World: at all, In such places 't is the girl Now that the sun of democracy 1| ‘U'e 2"4 sale of its products are en-| with a job Who has to be explained, beginning to rise, now that the Allies Urely under the supervision of the|not the girl without one, ‘There Is t following officers and directo: ser be . Aes ® are winning battle after battle, men, rs ap-|always, to suty, some pet family which has met with reverses and of which the employed daughters go about to local festivities quite as if they had kept their idleness immacu- late, And women physicians, law writers and others with professions are beginning to be accepted in such communities as almost equal in value to wealthy idlers, But the typical girl who commutes, the girl earning from $12 to $26. is still an object of compassion and patronage to the commuters’ wives, who watch her on her way to the 7.49 every morning Many of these wivgs do more work than she does--I have never seen the office job I wonld not prefer to that of the servantless housewife—hut they all feel sorry for her, And when they are having an eligible man out over Bunday it is not the girl who com- mutes they ask to meet him, but the! girl who till the war came had noth-| ing to do except help mother spend more money than father could make— But if home.) meet, “There goes Millie Thomas! Poor sirl, she works awfully hard, It’s a shame some nice man doesn’t come along and give her a home,” is the verdict of the commuter's wife, un- listurbed by the fact that Millie Thomas supports a home of her own. But according to_ordinary commuter standagds a woman can't have a home unless it really belongs to and is maintained by some one else. Millie Thomas, “the poor girl that |some nice man ought to marry,” boards a train for New York, and in want to give her letters at once, Not because she is young or pretty— | though she may be both—but because she is matchless at taking dictation. And the “boss” says frequently that he will have to appeal to the Priorl- \ tes Board for a preferred list of those jentitled to Miss ‘Thomas's services to | stop the scramble. Once he even said jthat his own dictation reminded him— it was so different--of the unskilled | player on the trombone who ex- claimed: “I blow in 0 sour and it Nes out so sweet," he explained gallantly In the course of the morning’s work |'wWo or three persons call up to ask the girl who commutes to lunch with |them. And on the way out of the | building at noon, the head of a rival joflice offers her more money to come and work for him, By the time dusk falls, and she takes her way through the city, which has put on all its jewels, to a crowded ferry boat, sho has a pleasant sense of accom- |plishment, of importance, even, And as sho watches the lights re- cofle and the big friendly giants that called wky scrapers grow less she thinks exultantly—"In that won- \derful city I am one of the workers who count. I work well and the peo- ‘ple 1 work for acknowledge it and |honor me for it. Life is good." | And in this in00d she gets aboard | the 5.15 and sits down beside a flutter- jing matron who has been in town all \day trying to exchange a pair of car- riage boots she had kept for a month, |The matron has had many acrimoni- ous interviews with store officials jwho called ber attention be ow seven- as | What Every By Helen Rowland’ ‘ ifs Partly the Emotions That Bloom in the Spring, but Chiefly the Problems That Loom in the Fall That Drive Us Into Matrimony—the Problem of How to Live—Alone! Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New Yort Brening World), HY 1s It, W ‘That whenever I write anything sentimental about love and marriage and all that— All my friends look solicitous and want to know, if I'm “i"? Oh, well, I suppose it will be different—in heavent And, of course, in this golden age of feminine portunity and masculine comfort, When women make munitions and drive ambw sai and men know how to cook and to knit, ‘h ere is no really “practical” reason why people SHOULD marry— More than once, anyhow. And yet they do! And I'll tell you WHY! It’s partly the emotions that bloom in the spring— but {t's chiefly the problems that loom in the fall—that drive them inte matrimony. The simple, eternal, burning, perennial problem of how to live~ ALONE! Anybody can exist—but everybody wants to LIVE! And there is no such thing as really “living”—alone! Try it! It’s nothing but a choice of being entombed in the gilded sarcophagus of a big hotel, or of burying yourself alive in a gloomy boarding house, Where they stuff the gas Jets, as though they KNEW you would feel ike suiciding every evening, after dinner, Or of PRETENDING to “keep house” and doing the “Lucullus” three times a day, With nobody to argue with at breakfast (if you are a woman), nor to wait for at dinner time, nor to bring in the newspapers and litter up the bathroom, And nobody to blame things on (if you are a man), nor to have to hurry home to, nor to spill violet water on the dressing table, and ask inconvenient questions, and litter up the library with knitting bags, and photographs, and flowers, and teacups, and hairpins—— And do all those irrepressible, reprehensible little things ~ Which turn a house {nto a “home,” and mere existence into real life! Why do you suppose a charming, independent, modern girl is per- fectly willing to exchange the flatteries of @ lot of men for the criticism of just one— 7 And a popular bachelor is (sometimes) willing to trade the devotion of all women for tho espionage of just one-— Well, there may be many “nobler” reasons— | But, down at the bottom of it all is just the inborn, aching desire to | have something HUMAN around the house, to coddle or abuse, to pet or to | scold, to idolize or patronize! We may differ in a thousand other ways—ut we're all alike In that! We've got to be TIED to somebody or else be battered and tossed about like (bits of driftwod at sea. “Nothing but being “roped and tied” would make two normal people | put up with one another's foibles and idiosyncracies for more than @ | year— 1? And MARRIAGE (so far as we can see) fs the only tie that will hold two human beings and a home together. It’s not always a stimulant and seldom a sedat!ve—— But it's Old Doctor Nature’s ONLY cure | For “that lonely feeling ‘round the heart!” day exchange clause, and she still has the boots. But, of course, she thinks she has put in a more satisfactory day than the girl who commutes. “You poor thing! You must be tired!" she exclaims compassionate- ly. “I don't see how you stand it. It’s terrible to have t> go in every day. I think you are awfully brave And from feeling proud and exult- ant, the girl who commutes grows, for the first time, weary and de- jected. ‘The matron chats on-of parties and the country club, of local seandals and feuds, and suddenly New York and the work in which she counts seem a long way off to the girl who commutes, and she has the sensation of being “out of every- thing.” : It is only a momentary depression, however, for in her heart she knows and even the chattering matron knows that she is the woman who counta--the woman who works while her men are winning the war—the woman who Is helping them to win. New York Girl Types You Know ke Jarr Family Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Exening World.) RS. JARR had company, when Mr, Jarr came into tho room’ the company, Mrs. Stryver and Mrs, Mudridge-Smith, turned their backs on him. Mr. Jarr pivoted on his heel—hav- ing walked right in, he turned right around and he walked right out again. Furthermore, be slammed the door behind him, “You poor dear!” cried Mrs. Stry- ver and Mra. Mudridge-Smith in uni- son, "Don't mind him, He'll be sorry “tie doesn't mean it, sniffied Mrs, Jarr, “but he wouldn't buy ME a transformation.” A trans- formation is a stylish wig that ma- ture ladies with thin hair wear to look young. Mrs. Jarr didn’t need the transformation of a ‘transforma- tion,’ but Mrs, Stryver had two—one off to be dressed and one on—and they cost $80 each, “Don't cry, that's @ dear,” Mrs, Mudridge-Smith. but maybe,” erted “Here, let me By Roy L. McCardell give you a sniff of smelling salts. Yes, you MUST take it! I insist! Remember that you have friends, and | we will show him that those friends) are standing by you!” | “And last winter I wanted a now| set of furs, mink—like yours—and he wouldn't give them to me!” mur- mured Mrs. Jarr. “And now, on ac- count of war prices, I don't suppcse I can get them later on!” “There, there, dear! You shall have a mink set; I'll give you mine, Cheer up, that's a dea) said Mrs. Stryver. Fi “Do you think he has been wasting money some way he can't explain? There! It's out! And 1 didn’t in- tend to say it!" said Mrs. Mudridge- Smith, Mrs. Jarr only shook her head in a non-committal manner. “What do you intend t¢é do?” asked Mrs. Mudridge-Smith, “Suppose he goes and enlists, My chauffeur has enlisted because my husband spoke harshly to him and discharged him and wouldn't give him a@ reference," she added, “And, as I told Mrs, Stryver, I am not speaking to my husband for discharging the map without consulting me!” ® “Oh, husbands are all the same! have never forgiven Mr. Stryver for admitting taking his stenographer out to luncheon, When I found out it was @ man stenographer, it made no dif- ference!" interjected the other vis« itor, “Don't you ever speak to Mr, Jarr till he begs forgiveness, You try; it's @ splendid way to get a pearl neck- lace," said Mrs. Mudridge-Smith, “Mr, Jarr wouldn't give ME a pearl necklace, no matter what happened!” sniffied Mrs, Jarr, She might have added there was a financtal reason for this, “Well, of course, I couldn't give you mine, It would hurt Mr. Stryver's feeling: said Mrs, Stryver, “But Till tell you what I will do. PU get you a handsome imitation pearl neck- lace, My dear, they look just as nice Making the Most. of Our Children A Series of Plain Talks to Parents By Ray C. Beery, A. B., M. A., President oi the Parents’ Association What Shall We Do With the Spoiled Child? JUST can't bear having that child around, He simply sets * said one mother to another as a neighbor's child approached. And you couldn't really blame her very much for feeling that way, for spoiled chil- dren everywhere succeed in making themselves obnoxious, The pitiful part of it all 1s that the disagreeable child ig not to blame. His parents. have applied wrong methods of discipline, and given him what will probably prove a handi- cap for life. If you want your children to get along in the world, you must teach them to show consideration for others, “What would you do with a five- year-old hoy like this? inquired one mother, “Last night just as we were starting out to the automobile he began yelling from across the street, ‘Aunt Mollio—Aunt MOLLIE! Isaid Aunt MOLLIE!’ After getting the desired attention of all: ‘Where are you going? Can I go ‘long?’ He |bome now." Immediately after saying |tagonism or ill-feeling. went along, but we hadn't gone far| these words he began oataaily to] Wovoright, 1018, the Parents’ Aswciation Inc.) | Wife, before we wished he hadn't. He'd open the door and stick his head out, and seemed to delight in interrupting adult conversation with his own re-/ marks." ‘This little fellow has probably never been made to realize that his acts are anti-social. To change his habit, it will"be necessary to reverse the re- sults for him, Beginning now, each | undesirable act on his part should be made to work against his own self- interest. You will be interested in the follow- ing illustration of the right method: A boy was climbing up one of the columns on @ veranda while three ether boys and a man were talking. The man wisely treated the boy in this way: He said calmly, “Orville, you may come down now." Any Well-bred boy would have responded to this friendly request, but this boy had been trained to try others’ patience. He looked around, grinned in a eheepish way, and after going a few inches higher started slowly down, Nothing was said to him from tbe time the first command was given until he came down, Then the man said in a friendly way, ‘Come here." When he came, the man gaid after a brief pause, “You can act more quickly the next time. You may go as the real ones, and then you needn't worry about them being stolen,” “Oh, there's no one to steal them here, unless Gertrude, my maid, would be tempted,” said Mra. Jarr. “You can discharge her, she'll leave you, anyhow, to go be an elevator’ sirl or something—they af do,” re. marked Mrs, Mudridge-Gmith, “Gertrudb is so good to the ehfle play ball and have a big time with the boys who remained. . If you happen to be the parent of such a child, you should of course do more than merely see that he gains nothing by wrong behavior; you should tell him frankly just what will be expected of him. In using firm-|4ren, and it's so hard te get a sere |ness it is not necessary to lessen] ant in War times, you know,” ree \your friendliness. Show an interest] Plied Mrs, Jarr, who had the peat” in the child's’ happiness and treat]°f @ ,maid but no imitation pearl necklace as yet, “That's true enough! Keep your maid by all, means,” said Mra, Stry= ver. “A goog husband, although none of them can be called that, is easy enough to get, But when one has a servant these days, one should do everything to try to keep her.”* “Mr, Jarr might think somebody cise gave me the pearl necklace,” moaned Mrs, Jarr, reverting to Mra, Stryver's offer, and hoping that lady would not simply let It pass as @ promise, him with full sympathy when actions are approved, ful about showing wrong times. Did you ever hear a child set up a howl to go, somewhere or do some- fhing after the parent said “No?” And then did you hear the parent, either to avert a scene or to show “friendly consideration” or both, say, “Well, will you be a good boy if I let you go? All right, then, don't stay very long.” This sort of thing is what makes the spoiled child. After observing a spoiled child's ac- tions for @ half day, it is natural to think that a good “thrashing” ts the only fitting thing, True, it would have @ tendency to satisfy acult feel- ings, but satisfying the demands of 's temper is not always the best his But be care- “friendliness” at “He might, and be dreadfully jeabe ous!” said Mrs, Mudridge-Smith, “and I'll get you something nice ag | @ consolation present myself! Come, get dressed and we'll go right down town!" oni And Mrs, Jarr called in Gertrude thing from the standpoint of child/¢y hook her up the back. we development. Me eee ack, in, ‘The method prescribed is proper} ne her way. Maybe whem she had a lot of new things and looked nice, Mr. Jarr would apprects ate the treasure of @ smart-looking because the child will soon change his habit in a natural way without an- Woman Suspects {