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a EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, September 19, 1918 Published Dally Except Wangey 4 the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to 63 Pari TS TANOUS KILAW 63 Park Row, MEMBER OF THE ABROCIATED PRESS, | yesterday that the present plan is to call 2,700,000 of Inasmuch as the total of men already under arms is about allowance for casualties and rejections, Empires, capable of withstanding nearly 5,000,000 Americans bent Austro-Hungarian Governments discern in the combined Central can sit down before the spoils they now hold are wrested from them. dictation is clearly recognized. a I The country loses a great and true American whose influence health aud human kindliness in this community. Dishop. Many New Yorkers can testify, even from experiences of Beclesiastical duties, to watch over to its successful conclusion the great inter- pathy and counsel have brought solace at moments when their need man might be glad to be found worthy. of the United States, to succeed Walter Hines Page as Ambassa- This is a period when an Ambassador of advancing years—with Row, New York. President, 63 Park Row, JOSBPH PULITZER, Jr, Bocret siilailbas ented ST nee eas RCN er AS asad Nd MN al hoo Pees bole | 4,800,000 BY NEXT JULY. rs - MARCH told the House Appropriations Committee the new draft registrants to the colors between now and Jy, 1919, 3,200,009, it is obvious that the figure 4,800,000 estimated as the total fighting strength of the American Army by next July leaves a liberal What remnants of man power do German eyes discover in the German Empire, or in the whole extent of the two central ‘Teutonic, on eating up the miles to Berlin? How diminishing is the residue of strength the German and Powers may be gauged by the persistence with which these Govern-| ments continue to manoeuvre toward a peace table at which they No peace until the present rulers of Germany are overthrown. No peace until the right of peoples to reject imperial domination or Will Germans wait for 5,000,000 Americans to join the European Allies and drive those conditions home? CARDINAL FARLEY. N THE DEATH of John Cardinal Farley the Roman Catholic was unfailingly exerted in support of the Nation’s highest aims and! ideals. New York loses a distinguished and zealous citizen who, Though he became a Prince of the Church, John Murphy Farley never lost the simplicity and the spirit of gentle helpfulness toward Yesser and casual contact, to the charm and unassumin, ig grace of the Kindly Cardinal, monumental Catholic Encyclopedia which was one of the este of his life. was dire will hold him evermore in their hearts, His was a long life of unceasing human helpfulness, bringing ————_+-______ A CHOICE INFLUENCED BY CONDITIONS. dor to Great Britain, the President is doubtless influenced to’ no smal] degree by the special exactions and requirements put upon distinctions, scholarly or otherwise, which might highly recommend him for the Court of St. James’s in times of peace—is hardly a wise ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Church of America loses an eminent prelate and a faithful priest. during a long career, labored untiringly for righteousness, moral all men which characterized him as Priest, Vicar, Bishop and Arch- An eager student, he found time, even with all his multiplying The poor will bless his memory. Thousands to whom his sym- rewards of reverence and love. It was a life and an end of which any [ SELECTING John W. Davis, the Present Solicitor General diplomatic service at the present time. or suitable choice. Ability to stand hard work and an intimate, pr tical peaiat a of the various phases of present international rela tions and in tional war partnerships is much more important. Mr. Dav! only forty-five years old, and as Solicitor General ince 1913 he has been in close touch with the State Department and the special and intricate problems with which it has had to deal ever since the beginning of the war in Europe. A West Virginia man, graduate of Washington and Lee Uni- versity and the University of Virginia, lawyer and Member of Con- gress immediately preceding his appointment as Solicitor General, Mr. Davis should have the makings of a capable and efficient war- time envoy, with youth—comparatively speaking—to protect him from ill-consequences resulting from the hard work he will have to do. Mr. Davis is already in Switzerland as head of the American} delegation to the Berne conference between American and German Missions on the treatment and exchange of prisoners, If necessary he could, therefore, the more promptly and with the less risk proceed to his duties in London. Ct ‘fhe most virtuous moments in a boy's life, crowded ml of high resolves, promises and explanations, are those terribly short ees just previous to the maximum application of the strap. The same phenomenon is taking place at Present in the case of the Central Powers, Letters From the People Mother Upholds Gaslens Snuday. | Thinks Sunday Gas Order To the Editor of The Brening World: ad Please publish these few lines, and I hope J. L. A. will read them in snswer to his complaint against gas. yess Sundays. He is one, and there are @ good many more like him, who expect everybody else to sacrifice to help win the war, but when he ts asked to stop joyriding for one day he objects. We mothers have to give ‘up our boys, which is not an easy matter, and the boys are sacrificing their lives to protect people who do not care for them. J. L. A. ought to be put in the trenches, That would be @ good way for him to spend his instead Cheerfally Obeyea, ‘To the Editor of The Evening Worid: In reading your “Letters From the People” I saw one by “J. L. A.” com- plaining about the Sunday auto order, Does he think of the soldiers in the trenches, who work seven days @ week for six or elght weeks and longer at @ time? Do they ha chance to go automobile ridin No, they do their work cheerfully and gladly, Why should a man over here, whom they are fighting for, complain of giving up a little pleas. ure for the duration of the war? Either that man is selfish and thinks of no one but himself, or élse he has aa ante v= tart nnn Liebe, tmnk @ poor and the wrong feeling, H, Their Master’s Voice Copyright, 1918, by The Prose Publishing Co, (The New York Brening Word), CO QVAY,” came from Popple, the S Shipping Clerk, as he tossed his newspaper aside, “this matter of food is darned ‘serious. Meat is not only scarce, but of a poor grade usually. Last night I dropped into a restaurant and ordered a steak. It cost me seventy-five cents and, on the level, it was so tough I could hardly eat it.” “A beofsteak is like a railroad en- gine,” said Bobbie, the Office Boy, t erly. “Like a locomotive?” came from Miss Primm, Private Secretary to the Boss, “In what way?" “It's no good without it's tender.” Miss Tillie,-the Blond Stenographer, laughed. “That's a pippin, kid,” she sald. “Guess I'll write it down before it gets cold.” “You'll we-te your time,” chuckled Bobbie. “Why? “Because the tender will be coaled anyway.” “My conscience!" came from Miss Primm, “Will that half-wit boy never stop digging up old jokes to bore us with? His cheap humor makes me sick, Honestly, if 1 ware a man I'd go to war.” “They ain't taking ‘em owe, 36 just now,” said Bobbie, “Oh, jiminy!"” came from the Ste- nographer, “Did you get that?” “Kindly attend to your own affairs, Miss Tillie: snapped the Private Secretary. “Bobbie is an insulting The Office Force men Rome.—capital depended the power. fiery was Otho. his rapid march. He turned aside—and risked his and pray at a neglected tomb. him off for another man. Yet Otho had never been able to and wreaths, of the incident. Poppaea hi wicked Rome.” Otho was no saint. beautiful wife above all the world. Nero's bride. consenting to this transfer. Poppaea was willing enough. Nero there Otho Sent Away Into Exile. { tania o> she revelled in her new title. to have his mother killed. was clear for the imperial lover: ‘And so, for several years, Nero of proving her power. Poppaea to death, By this time realized what he had done. taught all decent people to hate him, ‘Otho, far away, heard the news he hastened the plans he had been oncoming army, whose ranks were Soon his own troops deserted him. Nero committed suicide. Nero met Poppaea and straightway fell in love with her. to divorce his gentle and long suffering wife and marry this new beauty. Also, he bade Otho divorce Poppaea and thus leave her free to become He hinted that Otho would gain great wealth and rank by But Otho was not. to give up his adored wife —even to the Emperor of the world. Nero's mother objected to the match, Nero's wiser counsellors, against his marrying such a woman, were also done away with, The coast Neither of them seems to have wasted much thought upon Otho or on his vow of vengeance. in War Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). 29.—POPPAEA—Who Was One of the Causes of a World-War MIGHTY army was advancing by forced marches upon of the world. On the army's speed success of its desperate enterprise, Nero—Emperor of Rome and ruler of the world— had made himself hated by every decent man. two Roman generals had decided to attack him in his own city, in an effort to overthrow his malignant And Of these two generals, the younger and more Joining forces with an aged general named Galba, he pressed on toward Rome, hoping to arrive there before Nero should have a chance to raise a strong enough force to resist him. For the sake of haste, Otho left baggage and wounded men along the road Then, as he neared the capital, he halted Sis army and turned aside from sooner than to wait for them. chances of victory—in order to kneel ‘The tomb was that of Otho's beautiful wife, Poppaca'—a worthless woman who had ruined and disgraced her husband, and had then cast forget her. It was to avenge her loss that he had raised this revolt against his master, Nero. For Nero was the man who had taken Poppaea from him. He knelt now beside Poppaca’s grave’ weeping heartbrokenly, Then he buried the tomb in flowers “Ne tum quidem veterum immemor amorum” ("Not even then forgetful * of his oldtime love"), grimly comments the historian, Tacitus, in telling been called “the loveliest and wickedest woman in all She married Otho, who was a big-hearted spendthrift, a dissclute young patrician and the closest friend of the Emperor Nero. But he was a man of honor, And he loved hts He fiercely refused upon sent Otho into banishment, by appointing him Governor of the province of Lust- far away from the capital had no chance to return to Rome. Away went the miserable husband, swearing vengeance. proceeded to marry Poppaea and to proclaim her the Empress of Rome. Gladly she consented to divorce the absent Otho and to wed Nero, And and by seeing he And Nero And Poppaea persuaded Nero who also protested ruled Rome and Poppnea ruled Nero, She dictated many of his vilest deeds and stirred up wars for the pleasure ‘Then came retribution. One day, in a fit of drunken rage, Nero kicked. | he was sq far gone in drink and insanity that he scares It was but one of a thousand acts which had of Poppaea’s death. And straightway making for a revolt. As soon as hia jes could assure him that his venture had the slightest chance of cimieas, he allied himself to Galba and in 68 A. D., marched on Rome. erhe Emperor was able to raise only the very feeblest resistance to the swelled by thousands of his enemies, By Bide Dudley Uttle fool and some day he'll get fired| by springing old jokes all the time. for one of his so-called jokes. I'd] Now I want you to quit trying to be like to say 1 am not yet thirty. funny and do your work. This iy no “You bet you'd like to say it,” said Place for comedians. The next per- Bobbie, in a low tone. icy PRA be oem cs Paced pi i. aris | Will be given a week's vacation with- ‘What was that?” demanded Miss) 9) ioe and, in addition, will be Primm, | dubbed an idiot and a nuisance, Do “I was just about to say,” replied) you near?” Bobbie “that a feller with dyspepsia “Yes, sir,” replied Bobbie, Then: lives a long time because he can’t) «Oh, py the way, Mr. Snooks, “a man die jest now, How's that one” named Fuller was here to see you a “Aw, cut that stuff out! said while ago, You weren't in.” Popple. “You must ‘a’ been reading “Yes, I know,” replied the Boss. some old almanac, Your jokes have “He called me up." all got whiskers.” “He was full when he was here,” “True,” said Bobbie with a grin,| said Popple. “but Mother says I'm a little shav “I have no doubt of it,” said the “L'a suggest,” came from Spooner, | Boss, “but I'll bet that when he called the mild little Bookkeeper, “(hat we|me up he was Fuller.” discuss some subject which will nots And with @ broad grin Mr. Snooks serve to get us in a bad humor, My] retired to his private office and closed brother Charles 1s writing a vaude- | the door, ville sketch, He. calls it ‘The Mint,’ I believe tt has something to do with counterfeiting.” ' “"The Mint’ ought to be 4 money maker," said Bobbie, “He's off again,” said Miss Tillle,! smiling. H “He always was off—in the head,” snapped Miss Primm, “I think Mr, Snooks should know of his conduct, V'll tell him.” The Private Secretary arose and swished into the Boss’ office, A mo- ment later she emerged followed by iBachel W By Helen girls” deter you with a smile, Mr. Snooks, He looked at the boy over his glasses, “Bobble,” he began, “Miss Primm. tells me you disturb this entire force Schoolboys of Past UDGING by the things Dean Colet J found it necessary to forbid, the schoolboy of four centuries ago was quite as restless and full of “pep.” as bis present day successor, Mod- ern pupil and teacher alike would be dismayed if called upon to follow his schedule, which fixed the study day at from 7 in the morning until 6 in the afternoon, The Dean, who was the first head of St. Paul's School, a famous British institution, died in 1519, leaving behind him a@ list of rules for the guidance of pupils which were adopted in many schools of that period. “The children,” he ordered, “shall come into the school at 9 of the clock, both win'er and summer, and tarry there until 11; and return jainst one of the clock, and depart at 5, Also, I will they bring no meat nor drink, nor bottle, nor use in the #ohoot nO breakiasts, nor ananings, tm tho time of learning, in nowisa, 1 “Had Strenuous Tasks will they use no cockfightings, nor riding about of victory, nor disputing at St. Bartholomew, which is but foolish babbling, and loss of time.” ) The youngsters were instructed in “the true Latin speech, and,” said the neuen Romano option on it The Jarr Family br The Pres Publishing Co. York Evening Worst) ISS SPELVIN, Mrs, Jarr's old maid friend, had dropped !n to get Mr. Jarr to endorse her application for Y. W. C, A. work over- seas—anything that would bring stir and romance into her hitherto tepid life. But Mr. Jarr was late, He had stopped in at Gus's place on the cor- ner to discuss Gus's war-time prohi- bition troubles, “You should be ashamed of your- self!” said Mrs. Jarr sharply, when Mr. Jarr arrived at last. ‘Fortu- nately Miss Spelvin is an old friend, and fortunately it is @ good lesson for her. You see what you have to put up with from them, Ella,” she! added, turning to the bachelor maid. Miss Spelvin did not appear to be The woman who marries a man always bi struggle trying to live up to his radiant imaginary ideal of the woman he didn’t get. at all ruffied. The marital troubles or Girl Reflections Rowland Copyright, 118, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), AR is the alarm clock which has startled the masculine heart from its lethargy and waked up all those sweet old emotions that, ware dying of atrophy for lack of exercise, Don't let the fear of those “fascinating French from sending your sweetheart away If he doesn’t want to come back to you he isn’t the man for YOU—and if he doesn’t want to go over he isn’t @ man at all. life- ‘The surest way to inspire a man to ask for a life interest in your heart is to let him know that some other man has an “TNT,” says Benedict, “is Ike a woman—highly explosive and ab Dean, “ all barbary, all corruption, all Latin Adultrate, which ignapant blind fools brought into this world, and with the same hath distained and poisoned the old Latin swceoh—I say that filthiness and all such abusion, which the later blind world brought in, which more rather may be called Blotberature than Literature, 1 utterly banish and exclude out of this school.” ———— solutely uncertain, One day you may shove it around any old way and nothing will happen. The next day you merely say ‘Boo!’ to it and the air is full of fireworks and the house a wreck!" If Achiiles's only vulnerable spot was in his heel, then his vanity must have gone to his feet instead of to bis head. As a girl's conviction that she was born a queen of hearts decreases her chance of winning @ husband in the love game materially increases, LARGEST JIB CRANE, A loco: ive jib crane capable of handling S6-ton loads at a radius of 87 feet, which has been built for use at the Panama Canal, is believed to, be the largest macinus vi the mina in the world, ‘[bearte are far eailert Every man must have been born with the soul of a juggler, to judge by his burning passion for trying to keep two love affairs perfectly bal anced, at the same time, and his habit of setting a glass of water on the extreme edge of a table where it will just hang by its teeth. By of others affect old matds but slight- ‘y, nor did the idea that she might some day have them of her own, sven if she married a gallant officer wverseas, appear to stir her com- placency. “What's this thing you are bringing home with you now?" cried Mrs, Jarr, and she ran her band in his pockets and regarded a parcel in a newspaper he bore, “Crackers and cheese! cried in disgust, “I knew it,” said Mr, Jarr, shaking his head sadly. "Crackers and cheese on an empty stomach, It always makes me feel funny But I didn’t forget yuh, dearie. I brought you home—what was it I brought you j home!” and he opened the parcel to see, “A cigar cutter!”* Jarr, as he unwrapped it. have I for a cigar’ cutter?” “That's what Gus said when he pre- sented it to me off his cigar counter, after I took it,” replied Mr, Jarr. “You sce, Gus will soon be going out of business, and it's a fine cigar cut- ter and it weighs three pounds.” “What a surprise for a war fund rummage sale!" said Miss Spelvin, trying to smooth things over, “I'm sure, Mrs, Jarr, it would be a great novelty, and it's the element of nov- elty in things people buy, things mys. teriously hidden in the wrappings, that makes a rummage salo success ful." "Zat's it, thaz it, ‘zactly,” said Mr. Jarr with @ judicial solemnity, find- ing, strangely, that his speech thick- ened, “I sez muhself, ‘We ain't had 4 rum—a—rum' "— “You've had too much rum. That's what's the matter with you!” said Mrs. Jarr, “Rummage sale,” Mr, Jarr went on gravely, “we ain't. had a rum-rum- mage sale for a war benefit or Lib- erty bonz, or thrif’ stamps in mon's and mon’ Here be fell asleep on the parlor sofa, “Thank goodness the war has brought or will bring, prohibition!" cried Mrs. Jarr, “Now you see, Ella Spelvin! You may call yourself an old maid and bewail your lonesome- ness, but Guppose you had to put up with things like this, even if they are soon to end? Wouldn't it break your heart?” “Why, po, I don’t think it would, I wouldn't want a mollycoddie hus- Bab!" she snapped Mrs. “What use Matches are hard to Ignite since the war began—but, thank f M wikog Lneoa woourred vile, las ib? band. And as you say, war time pro- hibition is coming, Besides, “Why no,” gaid Mrs, Jarr, “Zo tolb Roy L. McCardell you the truth, this is the first time Mr. Jarr has come home like this in— 4s he said—‘months and months and months,’ He knows a man who has @ cafe on the corner, not a bad place, although I would not say it to Mr, Jarr, and this man will have to close his place”, “Oh, well, it might be worse,” re- marked the visitor. “And suppose it were worse? Every fumily has a skeleton in its closet.” “Well, there's no skeleton in our family closet, but let me show you what IS in it,” sald Mrs. Jarre, “We'd just leave him there till he wakes wp and I hope he falls off the sofa ana hurts himself!" So saying she led the visiting maid- en lady to a small room, generally used to store trunks and odds and ends, and opened the door. “Whatever possesses Mr. Jarr to bring home such things at such times gets me!” There was a lawn mower, a pair of water wings, a megaphone, a pair of snow shoes, a cross cut saw, a diver's helmet, @ pitchfork, a large Japanese lawn umbrella, @ reel of garden hos, a stuffed fox carrying a defunct and very gory gosling, and a jumble of other articles suitable for the country home or camping out, or nothing~ mostly for the last. “Sometimes,” said Mrs, Jarr, closing the door softly, “sometimes I thinie Mr, Jarr imagines he lives in the wilds in a bungalow, or in No Man's Land or something!” “Did you ever ask him about bring- ing home these objects?" inquired the awed visitor, “No,” sald Mrs. Jarr, “By the time { am through talking to him I'm so angry that I'd scorn to ask him anything, and when I'm through being angry I cannot see any use > bringing up an unpleasant topic." “Why, hello!” cried the cheery voice of Mr. Jarr, as that gentleman de- scended upon them seemingly re- freshed and alert after his brief nap. “I must have fallen asleep, Is dine ner ready?" “Its been ready for nearly two hours," said Mrs. Jarr Jo you rege ollect bringing this home?” And she thrust the top of the large and very heavy cigar cutter at him, “Why, certainly," said Mr, Jarm “Gus gave it to me. He's going out of business, and after October first gt- gars and tobacco will be double in price on account of the new war |and that cigar cutter has a doll [vee vl Gus w wine ue Ww a” nd He wanted td _—_-~ — £2 . ' To avoid falling into the hands of the man he had so foully wronged, ; this | worth of Havana clippings tm jt es pm mesa