The evening world. Newspaper, September 28, 1918, Page 10

ER a EEE A an ee te rf 2 fy oe ee ey 1 was brought up in the ‘ eeeeeres_ “48 0IY) S ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, th Py PubdSshed Dally Except bear A fed Furiening Company, Nos. 63 t LATZEAR, President, 63 Park Row. ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row, RALPH PU: MEMBER OF THE ARROCIATED prras weet SESE SRT SU TN Te Aha WILL DR. GARFIELD EXPLAIN? HE EVENING WORLD'S investigation in the Pennsylvania coal district discloses facts which imperatively call for explan-| ation from the Fuel Administration. | No more serious menace has threatened the internal welfare of ir, Secret the country than the danger of increasing coal shortage. To avert this pesil the Federal Government assumed unprece- dented power of control over the production, distribution and con-| sumption of coal. It vested extraordinary authority in a Fuel Administration to the end that, while war needs were duly met, industry should not) starve nor families shiver so long as there remained coal to be mined} and railroads to haul it. | The whole purpose of Federal control requires that Fuel Admin istrators shal] deem it their first duty to discover all sources of coal, supply, and to insist upon the utilization of those sources without Tegard to the selfish interests of coal monopolies that have heretofore, uged their powers to exploit consumers. | Any Fuel Administration that pretends to act in the name and for the interests of the people of the United States is bound to make} certain that coal is brought from wherever it can be found and sold! to the public at fair and equitable prices. | It is also bound to study how every variety, quality, grade, size and by-product of coal can be turned to account for the benefit of both manufacturers and domestic consumers. Its responeibility in these directions being clear, how does the} Fuel Administration explain its neglect of the huge culm banks de-| scribed and photographed by The Evening World correspondent— vast accumulations of culm which contain millions of tons of a kind) of coal that, though it once went to waste, can now be used in an| increasing number of ways? That the coal from these culm piles can be extensively burned! for industrial and even domestic purposes there is no question, since) the coal companies are known to wash it out at small cost and market it at a tremendous profit. How does the Fuel Administration explain the fact that the big coal interests are permitted to hold back these immense accumulations of fue) already taken from the earth in order that it may be “valor- ized”—like diamonds and coffee—the quantities put upon the market being carefully limited to keep up the price? Why does the Fuel Administration not consider it worth while to make the utmost use of small coal from the culm piles wherever such use is possible, in order that other grades of coal may be more largely available for the purposes they alone will serve? These are questions for Dr. Garfield to answer. If his Fuel Administration had shown more initiative, had revealed capacity for large and telling action in handling the coal situation, it might be easier to credit it with satisfactory r on for ignoring what is plainly a vast and ready source of fuel supply. The country, however, has been taught to seek relief from coal famine rather in its own saving and self-denial than in the foresight and initiafive of the Fuel Administration. its Fuel Admin falling in with the policies of the coal companies and expending most of their energies on warnings to consumers, to be devising ways of digging into the culm piles and making billions of cheap briquettes to help keep Americans warm this winter. Otherwise it might expect rators, instead of Letters From the People +[eountry, just ay all children should To the Fiitor of The Evening World The titer of “United States Ser- yioe” in regard to enemy aliens en- Joying the fruits of our libetry with no idea of service or duty to any re cae i Bey e sent from pillar to post imploring Country (9 right to barca sg “ay atten | Peoble, tO Fent me w home, I finally Take, for instance, the enemy jbought a house, having saved $500. chauffeur, He can tour from State to) We are happy in the joy of posses- State and along our sea coast from/sion, and have paid off the second oo sh | Mortgage of $800 in four years, Maine down. Why is he allowed such) “a nere js no question that many privileges? I was under the impres-| persons can get splendid homes on sion they were to keep in a certain| Staten Island, I personally know of tome, Why not New York and other | houses that can be bought by paying States fellow the example of New| $100 or $200 cash and $20 to $30 monthly, ‘Thi, othe: y $ Jereey and not issue any more licenses monthly, This is another way of aay te them this coming year? 5 M. ing. € 100 PER CENT. AMHRICAN, When you think it over, surely this is the ‘children’s privilege to be brought up in the country, Lam liv- ing on Staten Island and have four children, 1 found it humiliating to Saye Many Young Men Are Shirkers To the Editar of The Ereaing World I read the letter in your paper about | the able-bodied young men who can dance and go around all night and To the Bilitor of The Evening Word I have been reading with interest the letters of mothers with children who have diffiguity in renting apart- {then be put in Class 2B and Class | \menta If they themselves were land- Pag when they should be in Class 1A fords “hey would reserve the right to|! surely think, like the person who} choose their tenants, The other day signs his letter “Fair Pla: that the T overheard a conversation between a | Ards need shaking up, There is too Jandiord and a would-be tenant, He; much favoritism shown, There paid, “How many children?” She an-|peys gone und others boys gone and others swered, “Jour.” My are four, none at all.| son gave up a machinist's job *You couldn't rent this apartment,” | that was bringing him $22 per week | | to answer eall And n for other volunteers, boys said. ihe replied: “I don't see why not. ‘@ child once yourself,” ; Hits From Sharp Wits The school we must all attend is| There is only une kind of advertise- the @+hool of experience. And no|ment offering jobs to women where matter how many flowers and red|a lack of previous experience is posi- apples you fetch to teacher dear, she! tively preferred. You'll find it sent Won't show you any favoritism.—|out by matrimonial agencies.—Colum- Jacksonville Times-Union, | bia (8. C.) State, Saturday, Sept EDITORIAL PAGE 918 Buy Bonds!” «:%sttiths., ByJ-H.Cassel Cop Stories of Spies. By Albert Payson Terhune ' Copyright, 1918, by The Pree Publisting Co, (The New York Brening World), Leal No. 62—FRANZ VON PAPEN, Who Called Us ‘Idiotic Yankees? — N earlier article in this series has told of the spy work done here by Karl Boy-Ed. This is the story, in part, ot Boy-F4's accomplice, Capt. Franz von,Papen, Germans Military Attache to the United States, 2 Von Papen was a cog in the wheel of that vast ma." chine known as the German spy system. One usually thinks of a spy with no official position and countenanced only in pri- vate by those wao employ him, It remained for Germany to improve on this out- of-date idea, Germany evolved @ new and decidedly efficient spy system in addition to the older methods, . No less an authority than Gen. Baden-Powell of the British Army throws the following ligat upon the up-to-date breed of German spy as represented by von Papen: “All these duties of espionage,” writes Baden-Powell, “are sub-divided among agents of every grade—from Ambassadors and their attaches down= ward” — In other words, diplomats who were sent to foreign and friendly coun tries as Germany’s accredited representatives were supposed to spy upon such countries, using their own official positions as a mask to hide their spying and to secure more information than ean ordinary citizen could be expected to glean. ‘This was Franz von Papen’s job while he was posing at Washington as @ merely ornamental military attache in the Taran ch Rana Kalser’s embassy. } lia ct He and Boy-E4 learned much of secret import 3 “ung in the United States which they duly reported to Germany. Von Papen did more. He ts credited, on strong testimony, with trying to cripple American munition plants, It waa* proved that he emuggled private messages to Germany's War Department, using {n one case @ courier who had managed to shield himself with an American passport. a The arrest of a man named Archibald revealed, past doubt, the fact thet von Papen was*sending such reports, Among the papers found when Archi« bald was captured was a letter from von Papen to the latter's wife. The letter, in part, sald: “Our good friend has been robbed of a thick portfolio of documents. | Untuckily, some very important matters from my report are among thone papers—such as the purchase of liquid chlorine, the correspondence with the Bridgeport Projectile Company, as well as documents relating to the purchase of ‘henol.” “1 send you also the reply of Albert in order that you may see how we protect ourse I always say to these idiotic Yankees that they'd better hold their tongues!” Von Papen was shrewd enough to send his spy reports in cipher, not tn jopen script. ‘The first line of one of these ciphers (captured en route by the British authorities) ran as follows (I do not know its trana« Bee ation): | ation): Wig Seog Roser “98022 B443 4714 90303 90035 4624 7005 5250 2744," | oes oe PY When at last the guilt of von Papen and his accomplice was proven, past doubt, our Governs ment's only redress was to demand that the German State Department call |them back home. | We were not yet at war with Germany, so this was the extremest action \tnken. Secretary Lansing on Dec. 3, 1915, issued the ensuing official states | ment: . “On account of what this Government considers improper activities In military and naval matters, this Government has requested the immediate reca!l of Capt. Boy-Ed and Capt. von Papen, as they are no longer acceptable to this Government.” By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1918 by ‘The Pross Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), S other evening while I was| worth while in her contention. After dining with a friend at a well) all, it depends upon the woman. I known restaurant two women| have friends who have entered war| entered, dressed in| service who are doing splendid work uniforms, Theysat|/and who are wearing uniforms with down at @ table| most delightful womanly grace | nearby. Certainly there is nothing more de- My friend, who|plorable than the so-called masculine goes to this res-| tendency in a woman, The woman taurant frequently| Who would imitate man gains noth- and had seen these|!ng whatever but the bit of self- women before, said| satisfaction she gets out of it. She to me: “I wish you|!s unattractive to men and as a rulo| would write some-| her women friends dislike hér. While | that wearing a uniform exempts them thing about women in uniform. Here are two women whom 1 knew before they donned uniforms, and since wearing them they have somehow assumed @ mas- culine air that is Intolerable, Just watch them for a few minutes and you will be convinced.” Sure enough, when they poke to the waiter their voices were quick, sharp and almost gruff like a man's voice, Their booted feet were out in the aisle and their hats were cocked on their heads in a careless way. livien to any one around them ategc gave the feeling that they felt th of them, My friend made a careful study of women uniforms, be In many cases, she sald, it had made women hard, and that they assur an air of overindependence, with my friend ‘Thelr free manner and seeming ob- | significance of thelr uniforms very | keenly and magnified the importance told me how she had|not make the man” in s herself interested in war work of considerable proportions. | fested in the woman herself and not we may prate of the equality of the sexes, yet there must always be al fine line of demarcation, Equal rights for women do not mean ac- quiring mannish manners. The eternal fitness of things must be preserved if the woman in the unt- form would succeed in it, Also there | is another important feature about it. |No woman wearing a mannish uni- form should so conduct herself as to| throw discredit on hundreds of others | |who are womanly despite the mannish garb; who are proud to be women and who strive to give service and eo |behave as to keep the respect due to ] womankind, | The work! does not want manly! women any more than it adinires womanly men, Just as “clothes, do neither do they make the woman The beauty of femininity 1s mani- »\in what she wears, It does not take long to discover a pose, The woman in @ uniform who poses as a man| rather doubted the wisdom of it, and| little realizes that she is least at-| wondered whore dt was leading them, | tractive of all women. While 1 do not altogether agree} Also there is something to be said there 1s something |about the way these seemingly of-| NE of O the records of days long pas! first advertisement ever published o} a preparation for cleansing and pre: serving the teeth. no lessons from modern publicity ex perts in claiming virtues for see | 8 8 ‘While war is all the General said {t| Were we in the position of the At does seem to have some of Crown Quince we would begin to map That element knocked out of it when out a course of light summer reading men are winning.—Milwaukee for use on St, Helena next year. Philadelphia Inquirer, product. ‘The ‘od."" was printed ‘the Mercurius 1 tow in 1660, and reads: “Most Excellent and Approved Firat T voth Powder “Ad.” In 1660, those individuals who|Dentifrices to scour and cleanse the| has lelsure enough to dig into has unearthed what is sald to be the It appeared 258 years ago, and, though the language is a bit Involved, the writer needed his | in Politicus of Leith, Set Modern Style Teeth, making them white as Ivory, | t| preserves from Toothache; so that| being constantly used, the parties | f/using it are never troubled with the | -|Toothache; It fastens the aweetens the Breath, and preserves | the Mouth and Gums from Cankers and Imposthumes, Made by Robert -| Turner, Gentleman: and the right are only to be had at Thomas Rooker, Stationer, at the Holy Lamb at the East end of St, Paul's Chureb, near the School, in sealed papers, at 12d the paper, The reader is desired to beware of counterfeits,” The Woman Who Wears the Uniform | The Jarr Family fictal clothes are worn. I have seen) Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, women on street cars and other places | (The New York Evening World.) who looked like a bag tled together] 6¢ HO do you think was in to with a dangling belt buckle strap, seo mo to-day? Mra. Jo- They have a slipshod manner and look | sephine Blessington very much “worn down at the heel.” | Blotch!" said Mrs, Jarr when friend ‘They seem to proceed on the theory| husband came home the other even- ing. “She's arranging to leave town to work for the Liberty Loan, and such @ busy woman as she is “What did she want?” asked Mr, Jarr, not meaning to be rude and in- terrupt, but knowing the visitor must have wanted something, “Well,” said Mrs, Jarr, “she was very sweet about it, but she did men- tion that we were in arrears for our dues to the Society for Ignoring the Obvious.” “That's a new one on me,” sald Mr. Jarr, “I don't remember having joined. Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Kvening World), from being neat, But neatness is a necess&ry factor in the wearing of a uniform, To wear tt so that it seems to be unobtrusive, tn that it does not accentuate mannish tendencies, and at the same time gives to the woman the equal opportunity to serve offi- clally—there is the true mission of the uniform—which is recognized and| respected by both sexes, ‘The big thing is for each to remem- ber her sex and so act as to bring credit to it. Coprri his love on one woman as it would be for him to select a pet mos- quito or @ favorite fve-dollar bill, F would be just about as difficult for a heartbreaker to concentrate all) Her husband's little weaknesses make a woman sorry for him; ais wife's little weaknesses make @ man sorry for himself. As soon as your husband has become accustomed to the brand of your perfume and watched you do up your back hair you cease to be @ fascinating mystery to him and he accepts you merely as a “fact;” but, after all, FACTS are the only things which a man values, respects and sticks to, dearie! ete Now Ane When they come back peraaps the private in the ranks, who has learned how to obey, to cook and to make up his own bed, will be far more satisfactory as a husband than the officer who has learned nothing except how to give orders and to start a fight, A man will trot cheerfully along in the harness of love for years without knowing it; but the moment ae feels the touch of a woman's hand on the bridle he is seized with a sudden desire to bolt. Oh, yes, it’s nearly always the little half-portion man who rules his wife with the despotism of the Kaiser and regards the home as a “Mitte! Europa,” while tae big two-hundred pounder lets a woman lead him around like a trained bear with a ring in his nose; but, then, HE doesn't Teeth, | HAVE to “show is strength,” ‘The man who strays for love of a woman may sometimes be reclaimed; but the man who strays for love of amusement or love of novelty will never | "stay put” for any girl. A woman is like a poem: the less sense they can see in her and the more difficult she is to understand the more mysterious and fascinating men find ber, By Roy L. McCardell But maybe that's a part of Mrs./you have not heard from tn somé Bloteh's plan for ignoring the obvious |t!me you are not to ask ‘How's your —collecting dues from people who|wife?’ He is apt to reply, ‘Haven't never heard of the organization be-|you heard? It is a matter of which I cannot speak.’ And then he takes you aside and tells you all about it “Maybe ao," replied Mrs, Jarr. “But 1 think it's a splendid idea, for two hours. though, and, as Mrs, Blotoh said, she| “You shouldn't know such people, really can’t go away on her Liberty |!n the first place!” said Mrs, Jarr Loan work until] she has made her | Siarply. “And I assume you are collections and straightened her ac- | making an indirect reflection on Mrs. counts for her non-military and non-| Blessington Blotch, She has been patriotic organizations.” very good to her husbands, ‘The last “and that's not ignoring the obvi-|time she married it was to a very. ous, either,” remarked Mr. Jarr, “But, | Young man, and she sent him through so far as I am concerned, I never College on her salary as secretary Joined any such society, and !f you have you pay your own dues and let Mrs. Blotch make her Liberty Loan getuway.” “1 never joined tt, elther,” said Mrs. Jarr, “In fact, it Is a new idea with Mrs, Blotch, She said it had just occurred to her, and of course she put our name down as founders.” “Oh, as founders?" asked Mr, Jarr, | “Yes. Founders pay $100 and their names are inscribed on @ bronze tab- let ‘on the cornerstone of the Temple of Reason, when funds have been |raised to build the Temple of Rea- son, Life members pay $50, Patrons pay Charter members pay $10 and ordinary members pay annual dues of $2. “Mrs. Blotch said it was enough to take the heart.out of one who was |working for any cause; but most |women would NOT pay more than | $2 a year to belong to any club, And sometimes she had to dun them | shamefully to even get the $2." | “But what ts this Society to Ignore the Obvious?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Well, primarily, Mrs, Blotch says, it is to inculcate savoir falre and tact. To instance, when women get on the open street cars and find they are on the four rear seats they should ignore the obvious, which is, if they do not like amoking, they should take seats further up, or else tell the men on the back seats if they are gentle- | they won't smoke.” 25, | “Women do that already,” suggest- jed Mr, Jarr, “Well, then, Mrs, Blotch says, members of the Society to Ignore the Obvious must not make remarks such as Mow stout you are getting!’ or ‘I see you are not touching up your hair any more!’ and things like that, Although in these war times, Mrs, Blotch says, social and sociological questions are not so much to the fore, so to speak.” “I know what she means,” sald Mr, Jarr, “When you meet @ friend whom and treasurer of the Society to En- courage Deop Breathing. “Indeed, you think Mrs, Bloteh has an easy time of it, but she was very depressed to-day, and told me her lite work had gone for naught, and the strain of organizing societies for the general welfare had completely broken her down, and she was taking ‘up Liberty Loan campaigning simply |for the reaction of it, Even her fa- mous lecture on ‘Eugenics Among the Polynesians’ would draw only @ slim attendance these times, and bait of those present would be deadheads who got complimentary tickets be- cause they lent thelr names ag patronesses,"” “You sadden me,” replied Mr, Jarr. “How many years has Mrs. Josephine Blessington Blotch worked for all these causes?” “Well, she has been arent for Suf- fragism, for Higher Thought, for the Modern Mothers, for the Propaganda of Uncooked Food ever since I knew her, and now she was preparing to devote herself to the Society for lg- noring the Obvious, when she had te give it all up for the Liberty Loan,” “Vm for this last with great en- thusiasm,” said Mr, Jarr, “but that will not be ignoring the abvious, And, speaking of that, may I ask if Mrs, Blessington Blotch will sub- to the Loan as well as work * replied Mrs, Jarr, “I don't e how she can ignore the obvious in that case herself, do you?" Mr. Jarr said he'd personally see that the lady in question did not pean eee INTERFERENCE WITH INDUSTRY a y his officer arrested you while you were quietly es, minding your own busie Your Honor.” “You were making no noise or dig. turbance of any kind?" burns le very etrange. What is your “Burglar, eir.”—Milestones,