The evening world. Newspaper, September 21, 1918, Page 10

ae ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Dally Except Sun the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to ta Park, Row, New York. 5/ red RALPH PULITZOR, President, 6) J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, MEMPER OF THE ASROCIATED PRM andosively entitied to the nee for republication of al! Arenatonee "credited in this paper and ais the local ‘news published here «NO, 20,850 Amociated Pres eee Se ST ——— LET THE CHURCHES HELP OUT THE SCHOOLS. 'W YORK was bound loyally to accept the ruling of the War Industries Board that this city can have no new school houses until the end of the war, Because labor, building materials, fuel and transportation must be concentrated on war industries New York must forego its contem- plated expenditure of $9,000,000 to relieve the seriously crowded con- dition of its public schools. : | That such relief cannot be qbtained by one means, however, is No reason why it should not be diligently sought by every other device and expedient. | The city schools reopened last week with a total attendance of approximately 1,000,000 pupils. | Although 1,500 new sittings had been provided, the number of part-time pupils was estimated to be no less than that at the begin? ning of the previous school year, when 41,963 children had to be put, “in the part-time group. | The worst crowding is in the Bronx, where about one-half the | pupils are on part time. The Brooklyn schools are also badly over- crowded, Eight new Brooklyn elementary schools had been planned to’ relieve part-time congestion in that Borough, This is an indication | how badly extra school buildings were needed and how imperative is the necessity of finding some way to make up for the postponement, ef the time when the city can have them. | In this direction the Mayor and the Board of Education have a plain duty which is in nowise lessened by any demand of war. In seeking the required additional housing and seating for school children during school hours why not look to the churches, of the city? | The Evening World makes the suggestion with entire confidence! that the churches themselves would in such an emergency regard it a patriotic service to help out, so far as they might, the city’s schools, There are some 1,800 churches in Greater New York. The assessed valuation of church property in the city is close to $200,-| 000,000—which is exempt from taxation. A few yeurs ago it was) estimated that the churches of the Borough of Manhattan alone got) from the city more than $4,000,000 a year through tax exemption. Besides this freedom from taxation, there accrues to the churches the increased value of their realty—in many cases enormous—due to surrounding developments and to improvements for which the city pays. Many of these churches have large Sunday-school rooms, special meeting rooms, social rooms and the like, with seating capacities! fotalling many thousands, quite apart from the church auditoriums| proper. A small fraction of this extra seating space controlled by the churches would go far toward relieving crowded public schools. | The hours when auch space was used for ordinary school work| need in nowise interfere with church activities, For heating, extra janitor service, special furnishing, etc., the city could make itself responsible at relatively small cost. Of late years the churches have shown themselves increasingly desirous of using some portion ai least of their properties for social} and recreation centres, civic forums and general educational purposes, | Here is an opportunity for them, without in the least departing! from their new policy, to be of immense practical help to the city which has dealt so generously by them. Let the Board of Education take up the idea and invite a conf ence with a committce representing the churches, ‘4 Granted the exigencies of war forbid the building of more} public schools: Why should thousands of public school children be crowded out of regular school sessions when hundreds of thousands of feet of seating space lie idle and empty each week day on church | Premises ——<—— Letters From the People es ‘he Gasoline Card P allen is allowed to remain { » rel in bi {fo the Editor of The Bening World and take our money, while oe I read a letter sigued A. F. M. W. | are doing the fighting. Taman Amen. which set forth numerous reasons why the Government should issue|"°t Sem fai VETERAD gasoline cards. To this I heartily) Sey Lan ner i. . There is one item in this let- Tenants Wii fees an and a@ true patriot, and this does | la living was blotted froin my mind,|novelty of her pet wore off, lessly jilted me I was showing mitted, a client some property near Fifth} 7 noticed that when we walked to- Avenue, That job compieted, Instead | gether May coved over pet dogs led by of boarding an ofice-bound car Tj ineip fond stresses, I planned to turned into the avenue and started) buy her a pup for her birthday, and | walking. {ransacked the kennels until I found a | ronized by the idle rich By William V. Pollard Copyrigh, 1918, by The Presa Publishing Oo, (The New York Erening World). XI.—“Love Me, Love My Dog” NE afternoon not long after the all the nice things for F widow nor had so heart-|imagination and y which my pocketbook — per- O Melancholy enveloped ine, and Twas! pedigreed Pomeranian, brown thinking it would be many a day be-| shiny like Pay’s hair and eyes, fore I would jgt another woman make . when I was and It was really gratifying to see how a laughing stock of much she appreciated the gift. But roused from my reverie by @ Sweet, |atier her acquisition of “Monseur Le girlish volce exclaiming: “How do you Brun," as she dubbed the little brute, do, Mr, Dreamer? I hope you arg 0-| 1 no longer occupied first place in her ing to be polite and reme:ber me. tion, ‘The dog received her un- I looked down at an adorable, rosy} divided attention. cheeked bunch of femininity whose His food was daintily prepared, eyes and hair and costume were all) goour measured and carefully the same shade of soft brown. |feq to him by Fay herself, She Vaguely I recalled having met her| would not ge out unless her ‘-‘petsic when with Eleanor. We had not pro-| wootsie” could be taken along. Our ceeded many steps before the adorable} sole diversion now was Monsieur Le et that the! Brun, world tormeniors a8 theo! conversation and our chief inter- widows, ; in life, I believed that Fay | Also the fact that I was working for| would cease her nonsense when the But all and soon Fay and I were smiling at|the time she became more and more each other across @ table in @ rose-| wrapped up in the little devil, How brown vision made me fi who became an endless tople held such lest Musings of a Matrimonial Slack I wished [ had never had the inspt- ration to buy him! One evening Fay lavished even more affection on the dog than usual calling him ‘darling’ and ‘her lovey- |dove.’ Finally I could endure it no longer and impatiently ‘said ‘Oh, Fa please cut it out. Save that much for your babies, when you h them.” “Babies! I don't want any babies,” announced Fay, “Children are a ter- rible bore and I would not be boih- ered with them, Monsieur Le Brun is my baby.” “Fay,” said I, “I've stood that beast as long as I nd to. You can choose between him and me “How can you be so cruel as to expect me to cast my little angel on the cold, cold wor! make your decision,” tum as I left. Hearing nothing fre , I tele- phoned to her. Her « over the phone was: “Love me, love my dog, Billy.” And, so, as I could not love her dog I could not have her. Anyway, Fay had her heart's de- sire, Recently I saw her and the man she married, each leading two er Oh, Billy, never!” know when you was my ultima- You can let me fuzzy brown dogs on leashes, | R couple of dollars?” only got a 1 your pocket," The Jarr 1918, by The Prose Publisht (The New York Byening World.) JARK lingered then spoke n you let he Copyneht by the door hesitatingly have 4 me sked. “Yop've nearly a dotiar in silver in said Mrs, Jarr, “and that ought to do you, I'm sure.” “How do you know I have nearly a dollar?" asked Mr. Jarr. “Well—er-—because, you should have much more than that. Look here, do you accuse me of having taken it?’ still got it, your knowledge of you examination No, not of having taken it, I've But it would seem, by it, that at least have made a@ recent nocturnal of my financial re- sources.”” ow you know I did no such thing! d Mrs, Jary indignantly, “The Way you throw around your clothes, it's no wonder everything falls out of your pockets on the floor, you'd blame me if I left your money I suppose lying all over the floor.” |said Mr, compromise ever mind Jarr, arguing that point,” who was willing to the matter, “I need a couple of dollars—owe the paper man quite a growing family! and want to get something to smoke, y'know,” and Mr, Jarr held out his hand, tea After that for several weeks I did lighted, rose-scented room pat-| —— | | ter with which I take issue, The writer claimed that the man who has Re day to motor other than Sunday must suffer hardship. I would ask him to think, if he can, of the thou- sands of citizens who have never known the luxury of a machine, a To the Valin of The Evening Work to have children in thei; ? have a boy and heel tee at find it almost impossible apartments in a nic have two children. to get house because I Couldn't there be Why do so many landlords refuse! Birl of school age and | tists who devoted their lives to study Science of the Air . \pqv HK American Army We three full-fledged nerals in its Had Slow Growth history—Grant, Sherman and VIATION, our Weather Bureau, Pershing. It has also had eleven A and other triumphs of mocern| Lieutenant Generals, the next highest 18 rank owe much to acien- rogr n George Washington, Commander-in- Chief of the Continental Army during . That the pressure of the parla oi 7 4 Revolutionary War, was the first atmosphere varied with the height| tbe I who, by the ald of “shank’s mare,"| something done to r abot ' el was discovered by | of these. ° Te’ ao’ ceensional ‘Bhouts’ aelignt:” |tien? e to remedy this witua-| above sea leve eo ered by Winficld Scott took command in are able to enjoy a Sunday in the B. K. A. | Pascal in 1648, making it possible to| — Winti ; 4 map city and its adjacent suburbs, in Ar tural | determine the height of a mountain| 1841, For many years he cae « Please consider, A. F. M. W., the Drawing, |by means of the barometer, ‘This in-| tilery captain, and later put in com fact that there are thousands of|7 the Militar of The Evening Work; | strument was invented by Torriceili,| mand of a camp of construction at mothers who are giving up their| I beg to inform your readers that a! in 1643, eighty years aftor Galileo had | Buffalo, At the outbreak of the Mext- feeys (my mother having given one),) free course In architectural drawing tw i tae eee nat an War Scott was in command and And you balk at giving up an oc-|has been started at the Brooklyn ‘Und that the atmosphere did exert) can War tool wee le tol easional day of luxury and pleasure! | Mvening Trade School, Seventh Ave. @ Pressure on the earth's surface, it was his shrewd military tacgics M.8.N, JR. [nue, between Fourth and Fifth| ‘The density and olectricity of the|that whipped the Mexicans and A Vetern View of the Kvuemy Sirerte ond At the muy veeent Eve-' air were later determined by Boyle; | brought the to a speedy conelu- Allen. % 4 anes oe treet, jtg composition by Priestly, Scheele, | sion. . bear First Avenu . : bi ¥) Boneels, Bo the Willer of Th: Kreuing World Registration Ja now in prop aes Lavoisier and Cavendish, and its re-| Noxt in line was Ulysses 8. Grant I Wou.u like to kuow why an enemy Hits From It’s cacy enough to admit we are im the wrong after the other fellow us down--i'hiladelphia Record, . EMIL GINSBURG, Inspector, Sharp Wits Hard to keep a sweet tooth suc- cessfully mercial Appeal. ee . If you must worry, don't do it out IVs contagious.—Albany Jour- \ Albany Journal interned.—Memphis Com. be a self-existe Experience shows us the value of knowledge of the air, and the condi- the advice that we woulda’t take,— tions prevailing hig \ jlation tw light and sound by Hooke, He was graduated from West Point | Newton and Derham. Before modern in 1843, and served under Taylor's ecience cast light on the subject, lit-/army in Texas and Mexico. At the tle was known of (the atmosphers, | beginning of the Civil War be had re- Many of the ancients declared air wo signed from the army, but later of- nt deity, and t fered his services in any capacity. cause of all croated things. Since the His ability soon won him promotion, jnvention of the air plane human trom the grade of Colonel to Briga, jdier-General, After the Civil War he was raised to the rank of General, + h above the earth, \as been vastly increased, United States Army. William Tecumseh Sherman was in command of three armies in the Civil War, and also served in the Mexican War, He was a br and daring general and author of the phrase, “War is hell.” Sherman was named after the famous Indian chief, Te- cumseh. When Grant became Presi- dent, Sherman was promoted to Lieu- tenant-General and held the supreme command for fourteen y rs. Phillip H, Sheridan was a dashing e alry officer, and his brilliant and effective work broumht the army to a high standard in drill and discipline He served in the Civil War with Grant and Sherman Joun M, Schofield became comman- der-in-chief of the army on the death of Sheridan, During his command a corps of Indians was enlisted in the cavalry as scouts, with distinctive uniforms: He rotired in 1895 Nelson A. Miles has been a Lieu- tenant-Gene 1900, He has distinguished himself as an Indian fighter, and was one of the youngest al since of the Civil War officers, He kept up the training that brought the army to | Pershing Third Full General in U. S. History thas had) the first man to hold that rank in th its highest efficiency, service in the Spanish-Am rican War, Famil and also saw | Stories of Spi .By Albert Payson Terhune Cop |, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New Yort Brening World). NO. 60—KARL BOY-ED; the Naval Attache Who Spied on Uncle Sam. IS mother was a popular novelist. His father was @ Turk. He himself worked !n the German Naval Intek ligence Office. He had entered the German navy im 1891, when he was only nineteen. For eleven years he served at sea. Then certain traits seemed to show he would be more useful in the Intelligence Department. The line of training given there fitted Karl Boy “ Ed finely for the spy work which was to become his real life career. Germany was making ready for the present war. everywhere. es Her spies were She was not above setting her Ambassadors and other diplomats to the dirty job of spying upon the friendly nations to which they were accredited. Such a job was alloted to Boy-Ed. He was sent to Washington as Naval Attache to the German Embassy here, This was but seventeen months before the war. For secret service work done tn Washington—work whose nature was never made public by his Government—he was soon promoted to a Captaincy, Koy-Ed posed as a lay man of fashion, with a mild professional interest in all naval matters, In this capacity he won the confidence of many Washingtonians, who o » ‘did not hesitate to discuss important naval mat~ } Boy-Ed Keep: ad | ters with him. In this capacity, too, he was e1 in the Capital, abled to visit various big naval bases and to | eommmnnmnnnnnnnae® “study his profession” in or around the Navy . Department. In brief, he learned @ most enormous lot of facts about our navy, Said one commentator afterward: “Boy-Ed grew to be better informed about the United States Navy than were many of its own officers and more familiar with American coast dé- fenses. He could pilot warships—or submarines—to all the places where they could do the most damage, “Before coming to America he had been von Tirpits's right-hand man, It was he who, in 1910, worked up through the press the sentiment which | made the Reichstag appropriate $100,000,000 for the German Navy.” | Yes, during his supposedly lazy stay in Washington, Capt. Karl Boy-Ed | was eternally busy. Unsuspected, he was learning countless things which would have been of use to his equntry in case of a German invasion of the nied States—things which may or may not have been of vital use to the | boats which have sought to harry our coast. He was earning his spy salary—and earning it well. After the war began in 1914 he shifted to New York and there estab- lished headquarters in a hotel. Thence he swayed the carefully arranged campaign of publietty! ehanban Wud which was intended to rouse our country to @ @ pro-German and flercely anti-Ally sentiment. \ For @ vag time our Goverment bore patienuy | the outrageous conduct of Boy-Ed and of his accomplice, von Papen, the German Military Attache in Washington. At last his recall was demanded, Fen } Spy of the Kaiser { . Loudly Boy-Ed denied that he was a spy or that he had done anything egal or underhand, That was all the good it did him. He was packed out of the United States, And the German Government had no power to resent his dismissal. For at every turn he was caught with the goods, £0 back home he went—having done all the mischief he well could—end carrying to his superiors in the German Navy a mighty mass of facts cone’ | cerning our defenses and shipping. 4 2 | There was no penalty exacted for what he had done. | tree. At that time we were not yet at war with Germany. not the only German to take advantage of that Uncle He got away scot- And Boy-Bd was fact to do all the damage Sam that the wiliest human brain could devi. i hes y By Roy L. McCardell there you go!” cried Mrs. “How can I pay the bills thit k if you take all my money from AW, in change. You're not to be trusted vith @ banknote. Besides, some of hose coins may be very valuable, and’ Um foolish to let you have them I was reading in the newspaper the other day that a dollar of 1804 was worth three thousand dollars, That iuarter may be even older than that, for the date and design are all worn off. You could say it was older—for all we know, it may be.” “True enough," said Mr. Jarr, ge. turning this rare old coin with tts other qucer mates, “but if you don't mind, I'll only keep the pearl button hat got among the junk by mistake. “earl buttons are very valuable since he war.” “Well, if you won't take the money I give you, you can do with. out!" said Mrs. Jarr. “I offered you all the change I had. I need the rest of the money you gave me, For 1 simply must get. some clothes, Poai- tively T have nothing to wear.” “Then you are right in style, plied Mr. Jarr. “The ladies are net wearing anything this year, except those who are putting on uniforms, So, let me have two dollars, pleage, ta we ne Why, I have a little bill or two to vay myself,” faltered Mr. Jarr. “You know I let you have my whole roll.” “Better for me to have it than other people,” said Mrs, Jarr, “Now please run away and don’t get me upset this morning. Anyway, why don't you bring me home a dollar and @ half's worth of Thrift Stamps? T need just that much to get another big stamp.” Mr, Jarr rubbed his chin reflective- ly. He didn’t want to kick up a row about such a paltry thing as money But still he had some financial obliga- tion at the office, being indebted to Jenkins for the personal advance of two dollars, under solemn promise to settle the account this very day. | “If you aren't more liberal with me I'l have to take out my money first, before I hand over the week's pay,” grumbled Mr, Jarr. “You take out your money first, all right,” said Mrs. Jarr, “You've spent five dollars as it is, and now you ask for more.” ‘I spent over four dollars taking i kid.” 1 ° Mr, you ent last evening,” exclaimed aa ghaleauetan ean s = . money, “That isn't five dollars,” Mrs. Jarr retorted, “and if it was I shouldn't think you'd be throwing {t up at me. Before we were married you'd take me out and spend twenty dollars and never complain, Now you won't even give me 4 dollar and a halfs worth of Thrift Stamp: “Come, come,” said Mr. Jarr; “this Thus it was Mr. Jarr repaid bie loan to Jenkins, rightly stating bi had “kidded” his wife out of it, Si RO idle A LUXURIOUS GAME, INCENT ASTOR described at the Newport Casino an attempt that he had made to introduce Samuel B, M. Young succeeded | argument is not getting me any-| cricket on one of his estates, when Miles retired in 1903. He held Where. It's not getting you anywhere| “Of course, cricket,” he said, “ea office only a short time. He had and it's not getting me any money, I] more leisurely game than \heseball—a seen service in the Spanish-American War. Adna R. Chaffee was appointed Chief of Staff in 1903, in Gen. Young's He served in the Civil n campaigns, the Spanish and Chinese expedition. itorlous work he was raised rank of Lieutenant General In 1906 John C, Ww. We to tne P, For his mer- | ( Bates was given really do need another dollar or go,| More leisurely and formal jururt- kid ous game, We played itf fhe right i e word “kid” had {ts effect, Mrs,|oglish manner, and my? fp seemed Jarr sighed, yet smiled, and searched | Very well pleased, { around in her little pocketbook in the| “One of my men—hl jname ts wrist bag that hung on a peg in| Jethro — seemed partie pry well 1e closetqnder & kimono, a silk rain. | Pleased, Jethro did full Jhstice bee coat and a few other barriers to bur-|fore the game began to the lunch | sare. served in the striped marquee on the The search resuited in Mrs, Jarr|!awn. He enjoyed up to the limit the the rank of Lieutenant General and finding a Canadian dime, a Brazilian | eat tea that pleasantly interrupted Chief of Staff. He was @ Lieutenant |coin of unknown value, but supposed | the afternoon's play, At each call of in the Civil War and reached tho|'o be worth about a cent and a hat| time he was on hand when the cigars rank of Colonel at the outbreak of in American money, several coppes|4nd iced drinks and sandwiches were the Spanish War. and a quarter with design lony| passed about, Next and last man to hold the rank |rubbed off face and bach “At the open-air dinner that wound of Lieutenant General was Henry C,| As Mrs, Jarr dropped the last bit! Up the first day's play I turned to Corbin, He was a Civil War veteran, of this dubious collection of currency | Jethro during the chicken course ang cited twice for gallant services dur- in Mr. Jarr's extended palm she said; | Said tae that contliat In 1900 he was Ad- here, now! I hope you'll he sat. “wel id man, haw ao sau Provost Marshal General Crowder !sfied! loket? for his service in the Selective Draft! “1 should be,” said Mr. Jarr, “But Mr. Vincent,’ said Jethro, and he Was offered the rank of Lieutenant i'm in the wholesale woollen trade,|'Witled the stem of his champagne not only him but hundreds of others) "Don't try to be funny,” said Mre, | Nore holdin’ und rane for all this that helped make the draft possible, ;Jarr. ‘That's all the money I have| tween meal. about De» ' ‘Sporting Gagette,