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ee area ame GE NEN A A a, -f t T Sae per bi Le iB “| ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. _ Published Dally Bxcept Sunday Evenin Z vark Row, New York. Pith President, 6: Park Ros } idag ine 63 Park Row, RALPH P a J. ANGUS JOSEPH PU! » Becretary, 63 Park How. _——__* MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS . SSE? SU Pa rite, ta ‘the local news published VOLUME 59.......... NO, 20,871 BRING PEACE ANOTHER BOND NEARER. ing heavily upon Allied spirits and a great German offensive menacing more of the soil of France, Premier Clemencead reminded the Allies and America: “Tn all wars he {s the conqueror who can belicve that he is not beaten « quarter of an hour longer than his adver: is The situation now is vastly different. The Allies are striving not to hold out till victory but to shorten| tke road to victory in sight. A corollary of the Clemenceau proposition should be uppermost in minds of a tain defeat: He conquers soonest who soonest convinces his adversary that there is no hope no matter how many quarters of an hour the struggle be prolonged. Let Americans look at the present Liberty Loan in that light. The rout of German armies can be left to the Allied and Amer- ican troops. The complete rout of German eonfidence is the job of American! citizens here at home whose business it is to crush what is left of, German morale under the weight of a $6,000,000,000 Liberty Loan subscribed and oversubscribed. Do you want to bring Germany to terms and end the war in| * the quickes: possible time? Then buy more bonds to bury German hopes, nd Old-fashioned hot lemonade having given relief in some cases of Spanish influenza, Mrs. Oliver Harriman has salvaged 45,000,000 lemons to help fight the disease. Hand it ten times a8 many more tf they will hurt fts feelings enough to rid us of it a IN GERMANY. UMORS of political disturbance and readjustment in Germany will be received in this country with interest but also with caution. If the Kaiser has summoned the eovercigns of all the German federal states to Berlin for a conference it may be safely taken as a sign that the Imperial war party feels imperative need of finding out] how it stands with the Empire as @ whole. clusion must await more facts. As for stories of the Kaiser’s abdication, Secretary of Stato Lansing expresses the level-headed American view: “Unless we know in whose favor the Kaiser !s abdicating ‘the story has no significance whatever. If it is simply setting up one of his sons in his place the situation would not be changed in the least, but if he should abdicate in favor of a democratic Germany !t would mean something.” American experience of Imperial German duplicity has not been of a sort to beguile this Nation into naive acceptance of a pseudo-| demecratization of Germany personally staged by the Kaiser and Prince Maximilian of Baden. So far there has been no indication that plans for liberalizing the Goverrment of Germany are to be carried out by any ruling ele- ment save that comprising what the President of the United States Beyond that need, con- iealled “the constituted authorities of the Empire who have so far) conducted the war.” That these authorities are anxious to bring themselves closer to| the peace table by creating the illusion of a German democ racy is apparent enough. But the President having made it clear that the United States and the nations with which it is associated are to be taken in by no such illusion, “the constituted authorities of the German Empire ‘who have so far conducted the war” are forced to devise new schemes “by which to realize their aim of sitting down to the final peace con- “ference as recognized representatives of the German people. Understanding this, Americans will be little moved by rumors of Hohenzoliern regeneration or by elaborate professions of liberalism) ® poured forth by the present Imperial German Chancellor in the} Reichstag. Two changes are needed in Germany to be convincing: The war dynasty must give up, the German people must take Until the first there can be no armistice. there can be no place for Germany in the peace council, Letters From the Peo Pp le five million, quick, dependable trans- Wants to See Italian Flag Columbus, Clean, take care of the boys, I can’t | POTtaton Is the prime essential to en, possibly go out to work too. I muat| keep the wheels of industry moving Mo the Editor of The kreaing World The attention of several Itallan pa- trots has been called to the fact that} only a few of the residents of the city most of the and thirty-one that by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to ARLY in the present year, with the collapse of Russia _ peoples now hammering German military power to cer-| Without the second #ay my husband in not a slacker, and|and to save the strength of the indi- men between twenty-one you see in the subway rush hours are real American fathers and are not trying to avoid EDITORIAL PAGE Saturday, October 12, 1918 grat oft Rae teligce, By a Be Cassel erp. | Copyrigh'. 118, by The Vrms Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) HE other day as I was about to take the shuffle—I mean the shuttle--in the subway, I saw ju little old lady being pressed close against tho vides of the train by, the crowd, She did not ery out, but kept sa ing, “Vlease, please, don't push me 6o| hard.” It was not until the guard dis-| uv red her and le a way that as really out of danger. When [entered | the car IT was cluse| Beoninmernveaw (0 her, and sho could hardly get her breath after the | struggle. “If only people would be kind and| have a little patienc sho mur- mured, And her words have clung to me ever since when 1 see the “madding throng” in their efforts to aboard cars, | | | Show me the man who Isn't dis-| | susted with the subway service and \1 will show you another Rip Vaa Winkle, Not for years has the pub- le suffered such discomfort and hardship as is experienced every @vy in the subway This underground passageway was specifically designed to facilitate the passage of the populace, In a city where the population reaches almost The Shuffle in the Shuttle | rather give protection to the weak. | prineiple in our everyday dealings we | Stories of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1938, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), | NO. 66.—MAURICE DE SAXE; the General Who Was a Sp UGUSTUS THE STRONG, King of Poland, was besieging the Pomeranian city of Stralsund. The time was 1712, ‘The city held out with a stubbornness and vigor which threatened to render the siege a failure. At every turn the besiegers were blocked by their > ignorance of the size and exact defenses of the garrison, Also by the clever “surprise” tactics of the besieged. Then, one evening, a country lad slipped past the ring of sentries and gained entrance to the beleaguered city. He wi great clumsy lout of a fellow, this country youth. He wag a giant in size and seemed to be half-witted. He stared owlishly at the soldiers and shrank away, blinking and e He looked at the defenses whimpering, whenever a cannon was fired. with round eyes of awe. Shyly and with meek reverence he accosted one or two lounging infantrymen. Amused by his air of wonder, the men answered his foolish questions. The lad, apparently, had come to Stralsund, from somewhere up |country, in the hope of becoming a soldier, But the drill Sergeants groaned at the idea of shaping that uncouth body and feeble mind inta anything useful for the army. Still, the lout was pathetically eager to be of use, And he was incredibly, muscular. By way of a stunt, he picked up a heavy horseshoe from @ fam rier’s f4rge, seized it firmly in his hamlke hands and twisted it into a shapeless snarl of bent iron. He was allowed to wander around the fortificattong at will His myriad questions were so silly and he lisw tened with guch wistful admiration to the answers that the soldiers babbled freely to him. Apparently, he thought better of his idea of becoming a soldier. Half-Wit Boy Enters Camp. cond For, \after he had hung around the barracks long enough to become a nuisance, ‘he disappeared, riext day the country lout turned up at the camp of King Augustus the Strong, outside the walls of Stralsund. But here he was no longer a country lout. Instead, he was young Maurice, Comte de Saxe, favorite son of the king himself, and one of the most brilliant military geniuses the world had ever known. Tor almost the first time in history a king’s son had turned spy. And the information he brought back concerning the defenses and battle plans of the Stralsund garrison made the city’s conquest absurdly easy. } Saxe was one of the one hundred and sixty-three pannnnnnnnnnnnnt Son of the King Turns Spy. Re children of Augustus the Strong. (If old Augustus did not merit the title of “Father of Hia Country” ha could at least claim to be the father of a goodly portion of tt.) From childhood Saxe was an inspired soldier. In time he drifted to France, where he was the greatest General in all the French King’s armies and where, by winning the Battle of res |Fentenoy, he resettled the King on a throne which had begun to be shaky, |and thus, according to Watson, he postponed the French Revolution by « | half century. Yet even after he became a Marshal and a national hero, Saxe more than | once dropped into his old role of spy, risking liberty and life by going in | Person inside the enemy’s lines and there gleaning information which helped hi army to victory, At the battle of Fontenoy, by the way, Saxe was euffering from a dane Gerous illness and was so weak that he could not mount his horse. He ordered a big wicker basket etrung between two horses. Into this basket he was lifted, And thus he was carried at a gallop |from one part of the battlefleld to another. By Sophie Irene Loeb themselves; and because they have paid their nickel and secured a seat in the train feel that their obligations end regardless of conditions. While they are not responsible for conditions, each and every person 1s responsible for their individual ac- even thotigh you are far away from them, merely adds another strain. Be careful of the woman with the baby in her arms, Her way 1s hard enough in the burdens she bears without adding to them. Hundreds of young girls have been their feet all day and have to hang|though you may rail and rant at the to a strap, If you are not tired give | subway operators, there are others to them your place, | consider, There is so much that can be done | when you consider the personal equation that would alleviate the dis- | tress to an appreciable degree. nor suffrage nor anything else can | fer unnecessarily.” Let each so act that when you go home at night you may say to your- elf; “I have not unduly added to the War | scramble so as to make any one suf- working in the department stores on|tions under any conditions, Even) Copyright, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Rrening World.) “cc BY!" said Mr, Jarr in alarm, H Why the frock coat and] dark gray striped trousers’ laid out for me? It's magnificent, but it isn't wart” Mr, Jarr had gone home from the | office early this day, because his boss had told him to in the fcllowing words: “Ahem!—Mr. Jarr—my wife—haw ahem—I believe at YOUR wife's so- licitation—has requested me to per- mit you—ahaw—to go nome early to- day, In connection—-hum—with some the strong must aid the weak| wherever they find them, if you] would do your mite to make the world better, if you would add to human sympathy and consideration rather than take away from it. This is the one reason for which | We are waging war—that the strong by the very nature of their strength | may not claim superior rights, but efface the great human fact that| — How to Choos By Andr Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishis ‘g OST dining rooms are nowa- M days finished with @ plate rail or stein shelf, as many people M1 call it, Sometimes this makes a very effective decoration, but often it is only a sort of family trash basket, | used for every Incongruous ornament | and bit of cracked crockery for which no other place can be found, In the centre of one wall will perhaps re- pose @ broken-spouted teapot, and not far away one of those plates that Unless we can practise this great are not doing our part in the scheme of things in taking the world safe— not only for democracy but dece which is included in it, There are those who think only of ey, T cme « or ‘Desk Lamp Made of Coffee Can. CAN and a few pieces of lumber are all that Is need- ed to make a very serviceable Duying at summer resorts, scenery or grotesque portraits of fa- mous people. vidual. thousands and thousands daily life is one mad There are of workers wi are displaying the Italian flag. There| their duty, MOTHER. | rush, and any halt in travel to and geems to be an abundance of the flags luman Fly Is Doing Good Work. | from work only adds to the wear and of other nations flying with the Stars| 7 be EAtKor of The Keewing Word ual I should like to answer “H letter in reference tries and the Human Fly I think “H. X. G." shows very poor judgment in condemning a man for not having a gun on who is doing everythi to bring home to the need of keeping our Loan trom lagging. 1 havo a husband at the front and think that every man Mioukl ¢ everything that be done to he us to victory and Stripes, and I can see no reason why the tricolor of Italy does not) wave amon; them, Has she not done her share to save democracy? . Therefore may it not be hoped that om Columbus Day the people of this will show atill greater apprecta- of the splendid work that Italy is is in this world struggle for lib- Remember the Piave! A. T. ‘ Defends the M Home, pa Editor of The Evening Work’ g in his 7 ple the a Please publish an answer to thi signed himself “Square and who wrote about seeing #0 y slackers in the subway. My ay is thirty years old and rides subway. He js not a slacker, Padine behind a petticoat, We two children, and if he doesn’ for them every day who will? There once in a while and keep the tion of all we must do to h in their minds. If "H. X, G, stop and think why the ie taking bis life in hi way he does, I fee! cert " woul bands in he Ron-essential, A Macd, X. G.'s" to essential indus- his shoulder | at| While Fourth Liberty are many mil!- fons left behind that need something | lke a Human Fly to e | ea uman Fly to wake th Mine | other until the p tiesy| Even it you ‘Human Iy the} ; ‘ould | every one isn't rich. I do'think twice before saying his work js WN ground like the youthful, cook, ee) tear of the indiv | Therefore the | deplorable to sa | where, somehow ewent condition is and some- somebody has faile | to properly provide against conditions that obtain in the sub the leas ay every effort should be made to correct this abuse by the authori. \ties and citizens alike, yet the con- M\dition is here; and while we must bear with it when travelling, a few humanitarian principles might be well maintained as one person to the situation is changed suffer, have a little 1| more suffrance, Remember tho aged, mako way for them, They have not |the power to push and stand their Byery little shove that you give, desk or typewriter! may stand a platter from the pink and lamp. The can s/s slit along one seam | nicked It and a quarter cut| table, Cheek by jowl with this used| made either Way) to stand an imitation German stein | from the slit, at| bought, for nineteen cents in a de- each end of the|partment store, Since the war can, so that the| rides can be bent} out, one serving as|in the corner where it is practically a svade and the|lidden by the lace curtain, And other as a means] it goes in most homes. for attaching the] trash that reflector to a stand- | | ard, upright, and braced in @ base, with a triangular head, set by 10 inche The light bulb is set| wise well furnished room, in a socket soldered in one end of the reflector,—Popular Mechantes, good deal like this then you syrely|or more other objects, In order to SURINnEDAs., cataree | belons: to a family of self dental, for! have your plate rail an artistic orna- SALT FROM THE SEA, | 1 have had it borne in upon me by| ment and not an eyesore it is neces- Sea water will be pumped by elec- jong experience that it requires the| sary to choose all the plates or other tricity and evaporated by the sun at] stron @ new plant that is expected to sup- ply New Zealand with almost its en- Ure requirement of salt, | Ornaments of Beauty people are sometimes cajoled into I mean | | st | the thing that {s embellished with| ‘© brighten the room a bit you might Next this choice curto| n dinner set that was so badly could not be used on the for r some one will think us pro-Ger- man we have pushed this way back 80 All sorts of | wo do not quite like .o throw away is put on the plate ratl ‘The latter consists of a slender |and the family grows so used to see-| \ing it there that they do ng® realize measuring 5%| how It spoils the effect of an other- If your plate ratl does not look @ frain from making this unfortunate »t sort of will power to re-| articles that go on it with due regard sbelf a kind of home for tanate| othe appearance when grouped, e Dining Room e Dupont ing Co, (The New York Evening World), china But of course if you want your dining room attractive this sort of thing 1s all wrong, The ornaments on the plate rail must be chosen with due regard to the prevailing color scheme and not be a mixture of brill- |tant primary colors shrieking at each | other because there is no harmony in their grouping. If, for instance, your dining room colors are blue and white, and you} ‘have some really pretty china in these two colors to set on the plate rall, use this and nothing else, or if ycu want |° | mix with it a very little of that soft | pale yellow Japanese china—say a | couple of bowls or a yellow vase. But do not have vases too tall, as the plate |rail is set 90 high that tall never look really well. Brass can be very effectively used on the plate rail | of a brown toned or dark red dining | room, but In this case keep the brass | shining, as nothing is uglier than dull, dirty brass. Such ornaments can | be brought into harmony with the| rest of the room if a brass fern dish| ig used on the table, or in a country house brass andirons in the fireplace, Sometimes every object on the plate rail 1s good in Itself, but the effect is spoiled by the grouping, The mere fact of a plate or cup or vase being beautiful or valuable in itself does not necessarily mean that It will look well when set in a row with half a dozen pieces | th to their color schemes and also The Jarr Family |present and don't By Roy L. McCardell war or Liberty Loan affair my wife and your wife seem to ve deeply in- terested in, I was also requested— ahaw—to be present, but—ahum—I| “You know what IT maa) well find it impossible—haw—as greatly) enough,” replied Mrs. Jarr. “You as I regret it-ahem—for it {s such| get dressed and don't talk 6o much! enlightening and uplifting—haw—hum | It's your friend who ts going to speak, affairs that have their—ahem—re-| and you #aid yourself he was the fining and patriotic influences’ | most democratic and interesting prow But Mr, Jarr didn't care—an after. | fessor you ever met.” noon off js an afternoon off, “Oh, well!” said Mr, Jarr under tity “Are you going to register to vote, | breath. ' and am I to chaperon you?” asked| At least he told Mrs. Jarr those were Mr, Jarr, trying to start something so he would not have to wear his frock coat. Mr. Jarr, how he was home. his very words, although she doubted “Nonsel we registered last! it. And he preceeded to don the bas week!" repl ed Mrs, Jarr, “We biliments proper to social affaires bee registered in Mr. Berry's undertaking, fore sundown. establishment. When women control! “You've never been in the Hotel 84, politics we will register in more ch@er- | Croesus?” asked Mrs, Jarr, ag they ful surroundings, candy or depart-| arrived at the portals of that gilied ment stores, But as you always have| and onyx hostelry. the excuse that you can't get away| “Only as far as the bar,” sal@ Me, from the office in the afternoon, I got|J4rr, speaking without thinking, ara Mudridge-Smith to tell her hus-| “Well, you'll not get as far as the band you were expecting to have|bar to-day,” remarked Mrs, Jarz, Spanish influenza and wanted to| firmly, “And there'll be no bars bee come home anyway. So hurry and| fore long, thank goodness! We are get into your things!” going to assemble in the Cerise Room, “But, I say, dearie, this isn’t a| The decorations of the Cerise Rooms fair deal!" cried Mr. Jarr in a melan-| cost forty thousand dollars alone!* choly tone, “Why should I wear a| “How interesting!" was the reply frock coat to have Spanish influenza | “Lead me to it in? If it is a funeral I can attend} But he was held up by a young it with great pleasure, if it's a wed-| woman at the portals of the Ceriso ding I can stand for it providing I| Room, haven't been stung for an expensive "Gimme your hat and coat!” com have to kiss the| manded this individual, time, really, one Mr. Jarr looked at the speaker, @ frock coats or kiss| husky, squat young woman with a e turned sideways like an averted calamity, bride—but in houldn't wear brides, you know! “Oh, you'd kis war the bride, all right!” snapped Mry, Jarr, “You may send a| “Where is the young man—the rev cheap present, or none at all, but you| fined young man who used to take always kiss the bride, especially if| hats here?” asked Mr. Jarr she's young and pretty, [ notice!; “Aw, he's gone to the war!” wag “You get into your’ things and,the unamlable reply, “Come across | don't talk so much!" said the tyrant] with the Kelly and the Benny!” woman firmly. “We are going to a| “That's the girl who threw the Liberty Loan drive musicale, Your) brush she was cleaning hats with into friend Prof. Ponsonby Pomfret is to| the face of the man who only tipped speak after the singing. You thought| her a dime," whispered Mrs. Jarr, “it Prof. Pomfret so grand and got him appears that while the man oment of to that Gus's, last winter, where he| the St, Croesus is willing to give us stayed til all hours with you, while|the Cerlwe Room for our war work his poor, dear little wife nearly cried | without charge. the syndicate naving her eyes out! And she wouldn't put| the cloak room priviteges demand that on one of my kimonos and make her-| men attend our meeting, so the sya~ self comfortable, although she was) dicate can get the hat and coat tips, laced so tight she was suffering tor-| That's why we had to HAVE men tures, because she thought the pro-| come, * Ladies, you know, especially feasor would be back any moment. | fashionable ones, keep on thelr hats But I could have told her better.” and wraps. Now you know why you “Was she suffering tortures because | had to put on your frock coat and she was expecting her husband back | come!" any moment? Was she laced too “Yes," said Mr, Jarr, “it is wart® tight because we had gone to Gus's?| And he carefully tipped the husky hag Or could you have told her better | girl a quarter in advance, for he didm’® because she was laced too tight?| like the way she toyed with the hag Whet ARH you trying to say?” eaked| brush, _ siliasbaigtliakad PEt IOS EMRE TAD PIL Re FESS Oo at ep nae mee . OES epee, a ~ { L