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Se ee eee — Oe ee ee eer ae visor oe LAr = She CVening World, ESTABLISIIED BY JOs H PULITZER Published Daily Except Sunday by the Prees Publiehing Company, Nos, 33 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Vree dent, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treas r, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 64 Park Row. nie itera MEMNER OF THE ARSOCTATED PRESS —__ Associated Pres ty exciusitely entitled to the mre for reeniblication of to Teor not othermiet crediter in Us paper sod. alm the local news tm VOLUME 59.. FARTHER THAN THE WILHELMSTRASSE. HE more the country studies the President's briot communl-! T cation to the Imperial German Chancellor the more it t the President's nan Government against the wall, perceives tl res force with whieh ,nue stions jam the Imperial Ger Ameriwans who would have had ve only answer to Princo Maxi-| tailian of the swift-and-from-tie-shoulder order begin to sec how) much more telling in its effect must be the position into which, with one quick move, the President has brought those who profess to speak for Gormany With ¢}o actual communication fram the President of the United States on record, the present rulers of Germany will have to give up’ hope of persuading the Gerinan people that German peace offers are eummarily and savagely re destruction. The President ted by Germany's enemies bent on her in three lines contrives to thrust aside the Imperial German Government and convey what amounts to an invi- taiion to the German people to declare who represents them and their attitude toward peace, | Pressure from within the German nation has produced recent| The new Imperial Chancellor, Prince Maximilian of Baden, has harped dutifully on the new string twanged by the Kaiser when he declared amid the ominous rumblings ehanges in the Imperial Government. ot defeat that “the German people shall erate more effectively than hitherto in deciding the fate of the fatherland.” But dives this hasty strumming of liberal tunes by perturbed Wunkerdorm measure the full change in the attitude of a majority of the German people toward the policies of the war party / lf the war lord’s trustiest argument—that the Allies are deter- muiied to tear Germany to pieces—is discovered to be only a manu- factured racnace, what will be the effect of the discovery on many} of those who are now promised more influence than hitherto “in! deciding tne fate of the fatherland”? | The President’s questions addressed to the Imperial German| @hancellor carry farther than the Wilhelmstrasse. They go on to penetrate the skulls of millions of ( rmans who} heve got to make up their minds whether the fate of the fatherland is to be settled upon their shoulders only that they may carry to the end the remnants of a dynasty that civilization has sworn to destroy. | If a majority of the German people still declare for Hohenzol- Jernism, m litarism and “the constituted authorities of the Empire swho have so far conducted the war,” then the course of the United Statea and the nations with which it is associated in the war against Germany is clear: Germany, a8 a nation, must be hammered until its last resist-| ance is broken, until ite soil is trampled and its cities taken, until its armies are annihilated or surrendered. | If militarism in Germany is not to be ground to pieces between| ‘Allied pressure from without and the force of a growing spirit of| enlightened German democracy fighting within, then militarigm in Germany will have to be crushed by Allied pressure alone—and as! much of Germany crushed with it as may prove necessary for a thor-| ough and final job. \ The President’s questions are like so many archlights flashed a the German frontier to clear up the last obscurity as to exactly who it is that makes German peace proposals, in whose name the are made and with what faith they may be taken, Backed up against the wall, the Imperial German Government) van find no shadow in which to conceal its hand. And in the same light of truth the German people musi face the! future and make their choice, | ——__4-___ . It was ap observation of Bismarck's that one should be polite to a man even if you were going to hang him. The President was certainly polite, Letters From the People Bask Took rest Coupons From liver it. My appeals to the Fuel Com- bead: |™missioner brought me naught. Lach Wo the Editor of The Bvening World ume I made my complaint to the Te it fair for the banks io make aj /nmissioner he told me to see! aa uanalll Te fonds {the Coal company again, 1 did eharge for handling Linecty Bonds} ony he seauit was they insisted ‘when bought on instalment plan? 1| they would not, and they did not, de scpibed to second and third Joans|!iver the coal, “1 finally stopped ‘trys | through my employers, who in turn] (PS in April, at which time J secured @ealt with their bank, I received the| miscicnes DSNGEBS OF the Comms bond for the second ioan and find| For the present winter I was ase that the first and second interest oou- | S'Khed in J to another coal com~ Pg i Dany in the Borough Park section of pone have been detached, My under-| Brooklyn and they told me they could @tanding was that the banks of the/no: care for me until about January, @mantry were handling those bonds| Upon asking the Fuel Commissioner MM free of charge to see if be could do anything to | wagon, being driven by myself when EDITORI Answer Yes or No! ge ¥ Thursday, October 106, 1918 AL PAGE me Aad Roe weit Co, Exeuing Wort.) By J. H. Cassel The Blind By Sophie Merchant Irene Loeb Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bening Work!) OME time ago I wrote an article|lated, To my knowledge he was S in these columns about a very|never taken advantage of. He re- ful blind man, Many letters have come to me setting forth sim Nar cases, Also I wave heard many fine stories membered charge accounts and dic luted them to the bookkeeper: | “He was blind from birth, but de- mined when very young to be a| country merchant, and succeeded. Six | ierks worked under him at one time. from the workers| ‘He paid ‘or his he.> and left that | who are now pre-| ome free of incumbrance to paring to take} ‘ow aft his dea Fy care of the blind] ‘The letter speaks for itself. Whore | es. soldiers when the| Were “4 a will there is a way, but a| boys come home,|wiind wan can't su oJ alone, He} Sorwin mart ose , not from a charitable | wants oppor- | A most interest- ing citation of how efficieat the blind] » but he may become with public co-operation | ‘UMity. ' He does .0t is set forth in a letter ‘rom a woman fo teal that hls Bont \ on Long Island, She says: burden, but ner wants to know fot b> fills a pl. -a necessary “When twelve years of age I was clerk for a blind man who kept a grocery store in a small country vil- lage. He waited on customers when he had the time, but his amazing niche tm the scheme of things. bad enough not to see the stars in the work was that of ‘going on the | sky, the beautiful flowers and the| road.’ He went through at least jear helples pl two vilageefivet on fost, later by | 20M. co but to be helpless aa well | in the matter of making a living would be too terrible—especially after having given their sight while you) and I etayed home and saw little of| the suffering While the blind will educated to be self-sustaining you and I need| to be educated to roc them as a} useful citizen, as one of the workers. 1 worked for bim and by vtoers when 1 did not, “He went from the wagon to the gato opening into his customer's yard Jand on to the house about as well ‘it be had had his sight. When he went afoot for orders he memorived be each person's order (gomotimos two] Wetul © ae One oF pees hundred) and upon his return d a wine A TAARO FE OME ¥ , to go out of our way or even to sac- | them accurately to a clerk le rifice something in order to make the | “Hoe would never allow others t eee gig gp sn acadllg maimed one feel his toss tess, and |} ch his boxes for wagon deliv: Boxart ; . Y|make him xo proudly marching and no one could pack as well as he. | {hitugh civil ‘life as be did when a 1@ took i the cash paymonts for soldier. We will never have fulfilled our bit billa and gave proper change. He remembered the places in his pocket- | book containing the different denom- inations of bills and never miscalou. in this war until every employer and every one who comes in touch with the crippled one will give him re spectful ald when he needs it most. hasten delivery I was shamefu:'y we wit Gaye Feel Comm w't|abused by his clerks, ct im Coal Shortage. It may be of interest to you to know Bi To the Kaitor of The Hvening Wor that a certain cellar jealer in the 1g oa evator Nour recent exposure of the coa)|Melshborhood of Fort Hamuton Avec| —. ; eorporations in their greed for hgh ang. On Atseet “As coal burl EM © MER. Eudamaghrn penetra erg er seli it, that another retail. | city a 8,000 ton anthracite coal ele lees prompts me to quvte the fol- deaivr in the same neiga vrhood will] vator, composed of a series of jowing facts: Bell @ ton Of coal to anyoody for 14 During last January, due to a caso! Aly @f sickness, | was sent by the ealled Fuel Commissioner of Brooklyn | pushed to a certain coal company for one ton) box ef coal, and they immed ately told rue | cus point blank that they would not de s in mers INDIGNANT TAXPAYER, Hits From Shar We don’t run across many ads like | thls: “Wanted—A job; object, work.” much if she had refused Blade, J eago No p Wits bim.—Cn!. hi e ° rs Sime, we ere fading. ° is BI aa beara hire .petwoan | Blessed ts the a perience with the Fuel Com. missioner has been that U have been back on the coal company's preference to thelr own Every womaa has an idea that her husband would not have amounted to nda \ span cylindrical steel bina approximately 100 fect in height, has been erected, The joading equipment, consisting of @ bucket conveyor which hotsts coal from care to a travelling belt that ex- an hour, including the time spent in switching the rolling stock {nto posi- @ertes of staggered |: Marko ‘o= tends lengthwise across the tops of the bins, has a capacity of forty tons | tion, By means of a series of gates the ooal is discharged into whatever Din te desired, and ite fall broken by Holds 3.000 Tons ; By Roy L. The Jarr Family McCardell Coprright, 1918, by The Pres Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) oe OOK here,” said Gua “What L is it you say when a feller ain't got no—what is it you call It that is what you want and can't get because you wish you had it, but it means a lot of nard work?" “I don't quite comprehend your com- munique,” remarked the puszied Mr, Jarr, “Well, Elmer ain't got it,” Gus went on, “I know what it is that be ain't got, but I can't remember, but it means you wish to be a feller what could rob a bank and wouldn't get caught at it'—~ “Ab, perhaps you mean ambition?" replied Mr. Jarr. “That's the very woids!” said Gus, “I knew I'd remember what it was Gg s00D as you told me, Besides not works hard in the army or navy when he ain't got no ambition?” “Vl bet I'm one of the smartest men in the world,” added Gus, com- placently, “Look, even if my Hquor store has to go out of business, I got a long lease, and it is on a oorner, lain't it? And Muller, the grocer, | wants to move to a corner store,” “You were wise to get a long lease, cus” remarked Mr, Jarr. “Very wis Sure, the things U think what I n't speak out would astonish peo- Gus continued. “And some days san go for hours at a time and never | think at all—not think anything. ‘That rests my brain, But Elmer, he wouldn't even study to be @ sea oap- tain.” “Too bad.” murmured Mr. Jarr; “too bad.” “By gollies! It makes you mad to) think the chance that fellow had to be a sea captain,” Gus went on, “and {t would only cost him a dollar a week to write lessons to the Naviga- tion-by-Mail College tn Denver, whieh is a fine town way down West, “Elmer certainly should have kept up his mail order navigation and {nautioal course,” Mr. Jarr agreed. |"Suppose when he's taken in the draft he should be assigned to the navy?" | Your best Falarian, landlor oceasioned by Mr. Michael Angelo Dinkston, who entered at this mo- ment. “Salutoria, Dinkston gaily. "You'll take a straight drink or none at all. You ain't got long to Jutorium!” cried Ar. have a choice, anyway,” replied Gus. | “And I want to see your money first.” “Service is more mete than money,” replied Mr, Dinkston. I gotter idear!” said Gus suddenty. “Here's a feller, this Dinkston, what knows everything, but won't work. And here's Elmer what will work and knows nothing. Dinkston he writes them sums about putting the compers in a box and taking the attitude of the san with | How many hundreds of these sight-| having any ambition, Blner ain't got} sexton that gives Elmer a head- ess soula will be coming from over! No sense, and he ain't got no money.|ache when he started studying nav- there no one can estimate. It will be| And what good will it do bim that he|ersation?” “Boxing the compass and taking the altitude of the sun with a sex- tant," corrected Mr. Dinkston. “That's it!" said Gus, excitedly, “But why should Elmer be a captain so easy? Ain't I the boss? Let Elmer be @ sea sergeant or roundsman or something like that, and I'll be the captain! Hey, you, Dinkston, you write the bookkeeping things and I'll wear the uniform.” “The laborer is worthy of his hire, the scholar of his compensation,” sug- gested Mr. Dinkston, “A stoup of Gus was not versed in the classics, but a significant gesture, indicative of the assuaging of thirst, accompanied Mr, Dinkston’s words, And Gus served the poet and philosopher with | @ glass of beer, remarking as he did so that he was glad of brewing be- ing stopped shortly, as then he! wouldn't have any to serve bums, “I want to be a captain, and you've ocean on, to boas people, And once is enough for me, I had a motion boat once—I'll be « land captain!" | “You'll have to start with the base | | | “Well, it's his business,” @aid Gas, “There's two things to do. Do @ lot of hard work and don't get paid for it, and be @ boob, or don't do any work at all and get along better ee \* ‘This lest remark may hove been Suppose then, | By Albert Payson Tyune Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New Mrening World), No. 32—MARGARET DRAFFEN, Cidlar Heroine. RAGG'S Kentucky campaign @t its height The time was October, 1862. T&vil War had been raging, with alternate succedfor nearly eighteen months, ‘The Union General, Sill Lawrenceburg, Ky. Inciden' means of knowing it), ho wi federate trap. Kentucky was a border It was also a keystone Sta' have meant everything to the South. Hence every move by either of the hostile pal Col. Richard T. Jacob was in command of t! Cavalry, wuich was iwoving in advance of SUl's r§ody. On the morn ing of Oct. 8 his regiment was so far ahead of t@Antry on the march to Lawrenceburg that he halted it until the resti come up. While the regitnent was at a standstill) a yous? galloped down the road from Lawrenceville @ecked her horse at 4 the Colonel's side. Girl Brings ret She was Miss Margareffon, whose father of Foe's Army. Major John Draffen of And County, Kentucky— + was an old friend of Jaco! “Col. Jacobs," exclaime girl in great exette: ment, “I have very important and vital news for) 1 gained It from a Confederate officer who called on me, last evenifid who believes my sympathies are all with the South. I started frome at dawn, knowing ! I should have a fifteen-mile ride before | could to meet you. I am sorry to find you so near to Lawrenceburg.” “Why are you sorry?” asked the puzzled Colo! “Because,” she made answer, “the Confedera is waiting for you ahead with 30,000 men and six He has arranged his forces so as to take you wh Miss Draffen was hurried to Gen. Sill, to who advancing toward though he had se ‘ancing into a Con- of divided loyalty. possession would+ as of vital import. Kentucky (Union) e eral, Kirby Smith, pieces of artitfery. | come up.” ] peated her t'. ngs he Union Army accom sheered out uf the | pars danger line and was savedthe clever snare, } General Shifts Col. Jacobs, in commen the campaign tn } His Forces. later years, declared: 1} Dan “But for Miss Draffomply information we should have gone on and @y would have been | defeated. With Sill's army destroyed, Kirby Smit@ have joined Bragg at Perryville and probably have overcome Gen. By “Kentucky might have been lost to the Ung the whole Union ‘j / cause, indirectly, might have been {mpertiled. Ali g noble and patriotic friend, Miss Draffen, thwarted.” ret Draffen, by the way, at the war's eirried a Confederate med Harney. In Kentucky there bas «been an unprovable ~ umor t Harney was the Confederate officer thom she learned ef the trap set for SIll's army. j for more than half a century thereafter Mriey lived on in the | } ate she had helped so gallantly to save for the « | During a G. A. R. encampment at Louisvillely before her death, | the story of hor exploit was retold; and, in recopet her prowess, she was tnanimously elected an honorary member oafgest local G, A. PR Bachelor Girl Rections By Helen Rowd \ Coprriaht, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The NeYening Wor), r D” any sweet young thing remember th@hen the most tas cinating “hero” her imagination could@ was the dashing “cowboy” of the movie-dramas? No normal woman year@ke the downward path; but there are times wh gets awfully tired ot climbing the golden stair # to reach @ man’s “tdeal.” A man could accomplis@uch more in the , course of the day if he didn to spend 90 much time trying to APPEAR to Ming. No, dearle, a married wét't a O1t more at tractive than a spinster; sheBEMS more attrac tive to a man—because she ta somebody else. } vit Vv Just now the country {s full of dazed and ‘Pachelors, between thirty-one and forty-five, who can scarcely re¢@m their astonish- .-* ment at the discovery that, for once, they a®exempt” from ali responsibility. A man makes a virtue of a necessity when @ himself on deing | pertectly devoted to a wife who 1s 90 watchful t@ever gets a chance \to be anything else. | | A reformed rake may make a “good husbai, he seldom makes a comfortable one to live with. His moral standiitoo awfully hig, It this war had done nothing else for us, taught us how te more useful words than we ever ¢@xisted. How en | arth DID we ever get slong without “camoufill’ “schrecklichkett” jond “barrage,” for instance? ; 4 | Marrying a man merely means being clad bis safety-rasor n. instead of with his afr coffee and hi! ————————— pronounce Jand his breakfast-ba favorite liqueur Woman's love--~« wirroy in which @ man dimselt { magnified and deified Sortties | i ns mi U. S. Army Hat StyChange With Every * wore bralaMt®. ‘The dragoons wore vag pag ’ In the our hats were of-~' the same of Napoleon’ soldiers, W@re of the bigh crowned called “shakes.” Gold brai@t trimmings with a plume ifffe the decorations A braidedit went under the chin held @D. Another hat N our past wares there were no such I things as flying shrapnel, or acro~ nes that dropped darts of steel nidiers below, 89 American sol- rdins t has made ar helmets of steel. utionary War our sol | diers of many designs. One of the most common was the “cocked” plat | n the odern w fare hat, made of black or brown felt and turned up on the sides to form three corners, The Virginia riflemen wore brown felt hats with one side turned up and the Maryland riflemen brown fur-trimmed hats. erty,” “Death,” &c. Soldiers in the cav- alry or “Light Horse" of Philadelphia used by t# was the Chapeau bras. It #e-cornered, and could be Married under the arm, During lan wars soldiers’ hats belotBe civilian order, hat wtill e got to learn me how,” explained Gus. | _ | decause 18 backwoods men “Yve been thinking that it ain't no| The hat generally worn by the New| (hat repeg@iana, of th ” r oO ack the use for me to be a sea captain. So | York rangers or riflemen me t neck Rinne fae of black br Ih be @ land captain, If I am a/felt, one ane SHEN Re ri turned wy oan trimmed 4 water captain I'd have to buy an-| With a plume. Sometimes words were | with oatr! ey were aleo other motion boat to push out it the| marked on tho front, such as “Lib- | ornament ase devices and = &* J wore rportamen's caps, ornamented] worn foallePeaus for full with bucke’ tails, drons, a in the fleld. any ao drum,” said Mr. Dinkston, “Have you! Hats worn by the Mirst Governo: an ear for music!” Foot Guards of Connecticut were "1 oan play 1 drum now, I done it|clossly modolied after those of sho already,” said Gus, ‘But what kind of land captain plays a drum? "A Balvation Army Captain,” said British Grenadiers, They were of Diack fur, cap shaped, with a plece of yellow felt in front, On the side they ‘Mr, Diniwton, a ‘wore decorated with a red plume, bri- And ho tinned ont without paying. wates ia the Punnayivania sompantos