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/ in order ‘o swell the profits of a telephone company which for the! BEATABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, daeept Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nom 53 to t3 Park Row, New York, JR, President, 63 Park Row. T urer, 63 Park Row, ar: ry, 63 Park How. MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRUR, Amocinted Prem iy excturively entitled te the nse for ramubtication of afl os ae io Tce not olbermes crelited i Wis pape and also tho local sews published <<< j VOLUME 59....ccccccesecccceves «NO. 20,868 a QUESTIONS THAT DECLARE. Imperial German Chancellor are so framed that the Imperial purpose without abandoning once and for all ite pretensions te sur-| HE questions the President of the United States pute to the Gernan Government cannot answer them to the alightest| A False ivive as a military dynasty. | Interrogation becomes in the President’s reply @ foree which) leaves the present rulers af Germany mo cheice but to fight on to, utter defeat or to admit that they are beaten and that their ambitiona| \ge into the discard. | | Whe German Government ean offer the United States me eatis-| taetory explanation of what Chancellor Maximilian’s peace proposals! ‘meant without projecting iteelf a long way further downward toward, ‘the point of preparation for the only kind ef peace Germany is going fo get. Questioning thesgh it be, tha Presidevt’s questioning {s full of lala, uscowpavmaieing declaration: | Ne armistice unless the Central Powers consent immediately to! valthdraw thaix farces everywhere from invaded territory. j No pecce with # German Government that does not accept with- out ciremnlecution the peace terms laid down by the President of! the United States in his address to.the Congress 6n the @th of Jan-| uary last and in subsequent addresses, No peace unless the proposal comes from a government that can prove its right to speak for the German people in the widest sense! and “not merely for the constituted authorities ef the Empire who) have so far conducted the war.” What the President asks does not for an instant obscure the, downright plainness of what in the name of the peoplo of the United. ‘States the President demands, | | Moreover the President's words are only one part of this tNation’s reply to the latest German peace proposal. { The other part is being delivered with full energy and offective- ‘ness by American troops in France who are helping to hammer the} last powers of resistance out of retreating German lines, ‘The President's questions addressed to the representatives of sprescut German statecraft and the fighting din raised by Americans ‘pushing back German armies on land and defending the seas from German ruthlessness carry the éame meanings yet more ominously to German ears: | | Retreat and surrender—or ruin. a WILL THE POSTMASTER GENERAL EXPLAIN? PON what grounds does Postmaster General Burleson justify U his extraordinary order which authorizes the New York ‘Telephone Company to impose upon its subscribers charges of from $% to $15 for installing and moving phones and even for making changes in subscribers’ names as listed in the telephone book? Did the Federal Government assume control of telephone service last three years has paid 8 per cent, dividends amounting to $10,000,-| 000 @ year on $125,000,000 capital stock, and which has during the! same period put away upward of $17,000,000 in surpluses? The Mvening World calls attention to the fact that it is not officials of this prosperous telephone corporation but the Postmaster *General of the United States who comes forward with the ruling that ithe | shall pay and pay well for what the telephone company | has heretofcre regarded as a part of its service for which it had no right to charge. The money exacted from telephone subscribers for installing and jmoving phones under the Postmaster General’s order does not go to the Government. It is not a war tax for national need. What it mounts to is a Federal levy for private profit. Mf the Postmaster General aims to save labor by discouraging the demand for telephone installations, removals, ete., why doesn’t jhe go about it in direct fashion? * Why not order that in no case shall telephones be installed,| moved or extended save under carefully prescribed conditions of {proved nesd? | If saving contemplated is for national benefit there is nu} reason on ¢ why it 11d put extra dollars into the already | | well-filled offers of the New York Telephone Company. | } Letters From the People I Wednesda Gott EDITORIAL PAGE » October 9, 1918 right, 1918. Te Rtg 00 erie Rev York Ereutug' Wor The Art of Hospitality Copyright, 1918, br The Pree Publiabing Co, (Tue New York Rvening World.) WENT to a country home for the week end. A number of other guests were there. I did not know them all. In fact I knew very few. But when I had been there only a few hours 1 felt very much at home with each and every one of them I tried to analyze it. I considered that here was a home well appointed in every way, with plenty of help to keep it moving smoothly. I reflected that we couldn't have any thought of giving trouble. Perhaps that was the cause of our ease, And yet I have been tn homes, most palatial ones, where you could not do anything for yourself under any cir- cumstances, It was all done for you. As @ general thing, I felt glad to get away. The place was usually s9 stiff and stilted, I could hardly breathe! for fear 1 would move something out of its geometrical placa, Reowin tne uw Many homes of wealth are precise | and cold, On the other hand, I have| been in very, very poor homes where the one extra bedroom could be litte spared for the comfort of tho family, yet the visit was filled with pleasure, Every minute spent there seemed so happy. So I pondered over the week-end as to what made everybody feel so much at homo where I was staying, as |though they all belonged there and had met before, I found it It was our host, He it was who created the chime of cheer and the glow of gladness, He has the great sense of real hospitality, He made you a part of the enter- tainment, There were no wallfiowers or favorite ones. Every one was made to join in every activity—young and old, And yet you had not tho feeling that you were being entertained, be- cause you were entertaining yourself As some wise soul has said, you had a good time “because you brought your good time with you,” and our host knew how to bring it out of you. You felt at home. You felt you; were very much wanted and belonged. He seemed to be everywhere. And the heartiest laugh in the place was his. He laughed at your jokes, no matter how often he had heard them before, One of the greatest elements of friendship is to be able to laugh at ch other's jokes One who always throws cold water on things usually enfolds himself with a wet blanket of disapproval, Another fact I noticed was that no guest was “touchy.” If you poked fun at any one he took it good-nd turedly. led the pace of pleasure, ‘There was no formality. home. while you were there you were mai ter of all you surveyed, This aft all is the spirit of sincere hospitality. As against this I have been to places where the host or hostess continually wore the Sxed smile, They tried ro hard to be pleasant, But you felt it Childrent |to me you cannot stop some of them until we have a law Ike they have in ¥ i h smebody in-| France for overcharging. Close up | ak Pa mer iia ta for @ month the retail stores such as a pid ld eee gock ol EY eh and grocery store: P r shops, that charge 47 cents them. Owner houses do not want| for three pork chops, 80 cents for jehildren, 1 have been refuse jfoven and a) cent: ‘for two lamb } tenar t least six times w ti pol dy a In one delicate store ee Los QO, ON Maw marne Dias saa haa 1a Sund ‘J } like t law ¢ 8 6 e Gove gy OR Ra : went after Childs’ restau- or revenge late Why doesn't it go after these | tel e n they have nan delicatessen stores and make jand w they ve them f Some | then get back to Values? fof t) whers would be glad to A READER } have cn in their houses if the| Thinks Loan ments Too High, % rble to rule us, bur ay | 1 the Kdiior of The kvening World: ae aha A 1] Was not a inistake made 'n to raise a family (TMMK the present Liberty Loan " Ane y ait Weokly payments §2 insted will never be able to get sin former loans? a until he is dragged out, nere are doubtless hundreds ” P. t ards of the working class whose ‘A ‘ , owing to the increased cost of Getting Rack to Values. Will not Warrant contributing editor of The Lvening World weekly, whereas, by a Iittle econ- 1. 4 your article, "Get Back to }omy, they could spare $1, I, for one, I asree with you and ap- latter plan, but am deprived of doing jelate what you have been trying | my bit because I cannot spare the 0 ever since this wap started 10 amount required weekly, and it the profiteurs sive the grieves me to say ‘'No,” ‘ c | LTHOUGH airplanes were un- known in 1870, balloons played | an important part in the sie sian lines drawn about the etty that communication with the outside | world was cut off. The military au- thorities called upon the aeronaut Durout to make a balloon flight trom Paris, Carrying 20 pounds of let- ters, he made the attempt, and after Ja flight of three hours landed at Evreaux, far beyond the zone of Prussian control A regular mail leervico was then estublished, and |though many flights ended in di |aster {t continued until the surrender Jot the city, It was in this way that would be glad to subscribe on the Gambetta, the statesman, made his escape from Paris to Tours, where he recruited a new army, which offered a desperate but vain re- he Ree Rn ated e| 23, 1870, to Jan, jot Paris, So closely were the Pius-| ‘Balloons and Pigeons Gncs Cartied Mail The balloon service was maintained throughout the investment, from Sept, 8, 1871, Letters to be sent “par bablon- monte” were written on very thin |paper, and among the most interest- ng cs Of the siege are the letter jdvurnals, invented by L The news of the b ed city Was printed in very small type on one side of @ thin letter sheet, and the other side of the sheet was left blank for personal communications. About a score of Paris papers issued these novel sheets, and practically all letters Were written on the Getting letters into the beleaguered city presented a more difficult prob- m, but this was partially solved by sending carrier pigeons out with the balloons, Letters and desperates were protographed and so reduced that a single pigeon homing its way to Pai often carried thousands of despatches in a quill attached to its tail. g pigeon carried to Paris despatehe: Anas nettle SACS Lo asa La at Nobody laughed at you, but! You were made to feel that! Petit Journai. | By Sophie Irene Loeb Was forced and they were trying to “entertain” you, | The spirit of cungentality was not | there. Here it was so different. Time | sped so speedily. You felt so free and unrestrained. You were given much leisure--to do as you pleased, You knew you were welcome. And th host was having as gvod a time s you, It was mutual interest all the ume I have found this same thing tn the humblest of homes, Somebody has said that hospitality 1s an art, But like all other arts, it comes from the heart, After all, “art ts the beautiful | Way of doing things,” and you can’: do a thing beautifully unless you put yourself into tt. Therefore, hospitality may be found in the hovel of the pauper as in the palace of the peer. The kind you only lend ts readily recognized. It is what you give vf yourself that counts in the long run, If you want to be hospitable put your heart into tt, Qooyright 1918 by The Prem Pry) (The New York ISS HICKE still had her ap- bointment to meet her flance, Mr, Jack Silver, yeoman tn the Navy, at the Jarr apartment. That Mr. Silver was not at Gus's ce on the corner with Mr, Jarr, where his uniform would have barred him, anyway, had been confirmed when Master Willie Jarr, aptly ar- rayed in his Boy Scout suit, had been sent out to the corner, ostensibly to the fruit stand for lemons, and had been advised as he went by Gus's afe to look in under the swinging half-doors and see if papa had stopped in there on his way home. Master Willie, returning with the lemons, re- ported that he had not seen papa's legs nor Mr, Silver's, “How did you know you didn’t see Mr. Silver's—ahem—limbs, ed Miss Hickett. ‘Aw! ‘cause Mr. Silver's feet’a so big he tramps on them!” replied the dear child, dearie?" The Jarr Family Wh y Women Are Happier By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (Ihe New York Evening World), “One Day the Women Arose En Masse and After That All the Women in the World Were Happy, for the Greatest Enemy | of Womankind—Mrs, Grundy—Was Dead, Forever!” O | | | NCE upon a time All the women all over the world conspired together And made @ graven image ‘’ the meanest woman on carth— and fell down and wweiipped it. And the goddess was not only a jealous goddess— she was cruel and vicious and implacable—AND stupid{, She made the lives of all the women utterly miser able—and still they feared and reverenced and wor shipped and obeyed her. She pried into their most sacred secrets, she laid bare their tenderest wounds, she mocked at their high« est aspirations, and robbed them of their dearest wishos, Did one of them lose a sweetheart? She found it out and humiltated her before all the other woue:, Did one of them suffer from @ husband's neglect or temper? Sho whispered it about among the rest and magnified the man’s faults ussil b& became @ “vicious monster.” Did one of them darken an eyebrow, or heighten the rose of her entek, or “touch up” @ gray patch over the ears, or wear the eame dress for twe seasons, or trim over her Own nats, or quarrel with her cook, or make a faux pas—SHE discovered it, and told it broadcast, and shamed tho victim before the whole world, or branded her “declassee” forever! And yet, the women continued to cringe before her and to offer undelievable sacrifices to her. On HER altar they laid their hearts, thelr health, their self-resprat, their comfort, their happiness, their honor—and sometimes their lives! No matter how @ woman suffered from tyranny or cruelty she clung desperately to her tormentor and her wedding ring, and Iled and “looked pleasant” about it No matter how much a girl longed for independence and freedom, she | HAD to marry somebody—anybody!—for she DARED not remain a spit | ster and face humiliation. No matter HOW a woman's shoes or her stays hurt her, she simply smiled and pulled them tighter and vowed she was “perfectly comfortable. | Husbands were driven to work like machines to juggle with borrowed | money, to gamble, to steal, and finally to prison, !n order to “keep up appearances,” to appease the goddess. Women sold their daughters to titled rakes and rich roues tn order to please her. Fathers and mothers cast off forever the child who offended her! ‘The heart of the whole world was eaten by a horrible secret fear of her® And TITDN, one day—the Katser would call it “THE Day’— The women rose, en masse, and I!terally KICKED her from her ped estal! One women kicked her with the toe of a slender riding boot, and another with a farmerette’s hobbled shoe, and another with a satin dancing slipper, and another with a conductorette’s common-sense shoe, under {ts leather puttes One woman struck her with a Red Cross kit, and another battered her over the head with a Iaw-book. A little munitions worker threw a hand grenade at her, a Suffragette hit her with a@ ballot-box, and a lady ambulance driver ran over her prostrate form! And, after that, All the women in the world were happy and busy, and honest with themselves and with each other— For the greatest enemy of womanktni— MRS, GRUNDY— Was dead, forever? up By Roy L. McCardell Miss Hickett, who had unostenta- Jarr, tf he came in Gus's place, td | tlously taken a dime out of het|go look for Mr. Jack Silver. | purse, even more unostentatiously| In due time the sent for janitor | replaced it, returned with the Information that “Can't we send the Janitor or some|Gus presented his compliments and grown person to find him, to tell dear|said Mr. Jarr wasn’t in his place, | Jack I am dying or something like|and he didn’t expect to see him, ag that?” suggested Miss Hickett, “Oh,|Mr. Jarr owed him two dollars, just watt till I marry you, Jack Sil- “Oh, dear! I know some terrible ver! Just you wait!” tragedy will be the result of thie YOU'D better wait, too,” suggested | awful evening!” moaned Miss Hick« Mrs, Jarr. ett. “My poor darling! Maybe he Miss Hickett gasped and resolved |!% sent to sea on board a submarine to. Then, by dint of calling down the erat being detained against hig dumbwaiter shaft, the ladies got in} W'': communication with the janitor’s baru Foee aoe arereas® Devens your husband go on an er- Of opiates nor of having been detained rand for us?” asked Mrs, Jarr. by force, In fact, Mr. Jack Silver “He's at Gus's, on the corner,” sald| ¥45 his usual calm, quiet, debonnaire the janitors wife. | anaes every inch @ yeoman in the ere was @ poser, And, finally,) V@v¥- tr Hickett ran down a quarter on/| ye Weare just discussing the ap~ the dumbwalter to the janitor’s wife, | Proaching wedding, Mr. Silver,” said for which she was asked to go to| MTS. Jarr, turning to the engaged "3 to tell her husband to tell Mr,| Yeoman. “Tt will be @ military, or LA de sae ‘|rather @ naval wedding, won't it? Making | Do Your Children In a word, you felt at} elly Practice Forbidden Things? 1 is bad for children to do forbidden il things in your presence, But ‘f| }4 anything it 4» worse when they | practico them secreuy. “My six - year old boy lights} matches,” writes: one mother, “Has regular manta for | it, He lights them | when I am not pear because he knows I would not al- low him to, Twice be set curtains on fire and f fear sometime he might cause} the house to burn, | have tried burn- | ing his fingers slightly and punishing | him in other ways, Is hiding the] | matches the only solution?” No, hiding matches js not the only| way to deal with your problem,|! neither is it the best way or even a good way. Burning the child's fin- gars slightly might possi a cure if the habit werafti.at of try- ing to burn some member of the family, and provided also that this punishment were to follow immedi- ately each offense, but im your case, this method is not advisable, Yeur boy should have an abund- tha Most of Our Children A Series of Plain Talks to Parents. with you. And all becauso the host | By Ray C. Beery, A. B., M. A., President of the Parents’ Association | his mind off of mischievous things. But thisealone will not be sufficient. He needs to be dealt with directly on the point of playing with matche Give him a little lesson. Placa a few articles, such as cloth.ng or pa- pers, on the linoleum in the kitenen. Also have at hand a@ small candle. Then call the child into the kitchen, saying, “Harold, come here—I want you to light a candle for ma” When he enters the door, you should ait down on a@ chair in the centre of tha kitchen, Have him come to your knee. Then say, “Got the pretty iit- tle red candle over there on the tanle and bring it to me. That's it! Now I have a match here tn my hand. 1! shall want you to ght this little can- dle in just a minute, Before we light a match, we must have everything out | of the way, so that nothing can catch fire, Pick up this coat lying here and hang it on the chair way over there, Now take those papers clear away, too, You know when we light a match we must have everything out of the way so that nothing can catch fire, Now we are ready. Take this match and light the candle,” It the child does anything wrong about lighting the candle, do not find | And you will want the full service? | “Sure; Jarr’s to de there,” said Mr, Silver, | “Well, married men can act as ushe this—now you try !t.” Blow out the! ers, but he SHALL NOT go to any Veenals two or three times and let the | bachelor’s dinner,” replied Mra, Jarr, child light it again by giving him | “Suppose we let your flance see the |more matches, one at a time, Four| wedding gown your dressmaker sent ‘or five matches would not be too | UP to show us, one another customer many for this first lesson, Before he | of hers has ordered, eh, Cora?” tights the last one, let him know be-| Miss Hickett blushed, and Mrs, Jare forehand that it 1s going to be the iast,| left the room to get the sample wede Say, “All right, we'll light it just | !ng garment, once more now and that will be all| ‘ow, tell me, dearte, what detained for this time. This will be the last.”| you?” asked the Naval Yeoman's | After he has lit the candle and it | flancee, has burned for a minute or so, blow! “I couldn't come ashore from the \it out, rise from your chair and as-|0Mice till now, the starboard typ writer jammed on me," explained the gallant yeoman as Mrs, Jarr returaed, The ladies looked quite alarmed at sume that the play ts over. | Now, if ho should come to you to| ‘ask you if he can light a match be- | fore to-morrow, I advise that you in-| ‘! dulge him this first time even though) “Well, I do you won't get, it is not altogether convenient, be-| hurt, dea hat war mae | Cause the fact that he asks you wul/Chinery,” sald his flancee, “I hear, too, that there Is Spanish Influenza In the aval Reserv amps?" “I'd like to get shipped out to sea i prove that you have gained a point! with him, You should reward him for this, thus encouraging him to ask! you in the future. If you were to| @uty." said Yeoman Silver darkly, turn him down tho first few times| “But before I came ashore to-day |he asks you, he might return to| mean before I left the ofice—the Rehting matches In aneeae: |skipper broke out a hundred more requistitions for me to check up." Hang your match box wherever it ; Lea ° Miss Hickott, his Qancee, purred Is convenient for your own use, Com! oroudiy at this, “And’ yet you woutd mand him occasionally to put al go to camp and get Spanish influensa, mate back in the box for you or t0/ op to eea, and leave me, your briie get one out, Also, call him now and behind,” then to strike @ match for you when you need one With this kind of management, he probably will to that old office and help you?” Yeoman Silver gave her an gne she said. “Can't I come down ~ OP) easy glance. “Sweethearts and wives ance of physical and mental occupa-| fault. Simply say, “Now wait, I will| lighting matches in secret, altogether. are not allowed aboard ship at the Son ct 2 aholesome mature to keeplahow you how te do that~Just , like, Wl Toe Pamaig’ Agmsiation, ofice in war time,” hogald, |...) we { maga stores ermnannnnom a 1 f Se eeESEEEeeeeeenen— es Dente terrreree 2 1