The evening world. Newspaper, October 14, 1918, Page 14

' sim mre aan rrr aT i a ae ites =, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1918 ‘Eight Months at the Front » With the American Army POLICE AND DETECTIVE WORK IN WAR How Scotland Yard, Given Complete Control of Secret Service Work England and in France, Has Built Up Its Or- ganization to Colossal Machine. By Mart (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World) Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishi F years, and the Uni systain in France emergency. This 6 army and will civilian circles wil detectives, some of ing the situation a Gcotland Yard at the outbreak of the war was concerned solely with police duties in Great Britain, par- tieularly London. The war came like a thunder clap and England found her- self infested with spies and sus- pected spies. The secret service staff of the army was unable to cope with the situation and Scotland Yard was called in. To Scotland Yard was intrusted complete control of the espionage sys- tem of Great Britain outside of the system applied to the procuring and distribution of purely military tn- formation, in itself a great and very eMicient maghine. The additional work thrown on Sootland Yard ne- essitated reorganization and en- largement, a task which was intrusted to Mr, Basil Thompson, who ts prob- ably as capable an executive detec- tive as the world ever saw. Scotland Yard officials were aot long in learning that they had tackled @ job of widespread impor- tance which necessitated work in ther countries than Great Britain ‘The country was ransacked for capa- le secret service men, and then the army was combed for smart, re- wourceful soldiers, preferably lin- eguists, who might be material for “Scotiand Yard. Under Mr. Thomp-| g0n's direction the service was rap-| idly expanded until Scotland Yard came into control of branches of the Government which in war time in other countries are exclusively con- jarblied by the military authorities, For instance, Scotland Yard is in| absolute control of all traffic pecween England and France except troop movements on transports. The} Channel ports in England are under | control of Scotland Yard, and every (person crossing on a Channel boat) between England and France passes under Scotland Yan scrutiny. ‘The activities of Scotland Yard do not stop in England, The civilian) or military traveller from England to France finds, on his arrival at a| French port, that he must p Gas Masks for Barbers Big but Belated Boon R hats are off to you, Mayor Hague! Frank Hague is Mayor of Jersey City, and has ordered all t Borial artists, manicure perfor and other staff habitues to wear masks, Of course this ruling Is the direct result of the spread of influ enza, but “it's an Ul wind that blow Mobody good,” and the shaving public of Jersey’ City thanks you, Mr. May Picture, dear Mr. Man, the mute like bliss will vade Man- hattan Isle haircut dens if a similar jorder 's put into effect here! Won't it be nd gloric park your erating recep’ tle hints a thin. w I'm favored customer Imagine the anatomy int “Hair's getting a littl using this on a few and feeling of sec ou lie back in the crib, fa smeared with beard wofte 1 Know full well that the bird wielding Bhe trench knife is muzzled, literally bpeaking! Think of the pleasure of pitting alone with your thou: Muthout listening to poli 1 eu aments based on a perusal of the sporting news! No more will it be hegensary to sit through 1,000 words “Pihow the head b wife pre- werves prunes EW persons outside of Government and army circles know the tre- mendously important part Scotland Yard, London's great piece of Police detective machinery, has played in the war, pending, Scotland Yard will be faced with problems even more important than it has worked out in the past four the close of the war will create conditions of recon- struction and readjustment unprecedented in history, is taking steps to have in readiness a police and det work the secret service work involved in combating crime in Organization ever devised for espion- urity sa | by the British Army, in in Green ing Co, (The New York Prening World) With peace im- ted States Government, realizing that etive which will be able to cope with the ervice will be within and outside the under military supervision; but 1 be in charge of experienced police | whom are already in France study- nd its possibilities, through the hands of a board of ex- aminers of about fourteen members. The language of the board is French, one of the mambers acting as an in- terpreter, But even casual obser- vation shows that only a few mem- bers of the board are Frenchmen. The majority are Englishmen or Irishmen, operatives of Scotland Yar French Channel port cities are an- der French police control, but if one should happen around Police Head- quarters in any of these cities he would find there an Englishman or an Irishman sitting at a desk in an inconspicuous place smoking a pipe, Scotland Yard again. Scotland Yard operatives keep an eye on all railway lraMe back of the British lines in France, In fact, Scot- land Yard, in so far as policing is concerned, supervises the railways running from the Channel ports to Paris, A traveller may be allowed to enter France under suspicion, be- cause there is no proof against him at the point of entry, but from the moment he leaves the steamship pier | until proof is found against him or} observation establishes that he is the inn nt traveller he claims to be he is never outside the view or knowl- edge of a Scotland Yard operative. The system spreads from a dingy old brick building down near the Houses of Parliament in London to every corner of the United Kingdom, across the Channel, down to Paris and clear out to the British front lines. It runs Across the North Sea to the Scandi- navian countries and Holland, It is in touch with Spaif, and of n sity with the United Sta It is the largest and most complicated police age purposes, An American travelling to France via England gets into touch with Scotland Yard before he leaves his ship at his port of landing, British subjects go through the hands of one board of examiners, and if their pass- Ports are all right they are allowed to go ashore. Subjects of other coun- tries go through this examination, too, but they are not sent ashore, Instead, they are taken to an office on board the ship and ushered, onet at a time, into the presence of three very solemn looking men, two of them lly elderly, the other young and surrounded by papers and pencils and books, Gently but ine si one of the elderly men searches the incoming traveller's It is skilfully and painiessly and if the traveller can prove en ently that he is all his passport claims he s he is allowed to go on his way, Burrhe doesn't know whether he is an absolutely free agent or, for a \time, an unconscious ward of Scot. | and Yard. During the war Scotland Yard has been running the machinery of looke ing after travel in and out of the jeountry, That task will be tm. nensely augmented when the war jg over | The war has brought about a de. jerease in crimes of violence and against property in Great 1» and France, Germany has had a mon of offenses of that . gr the past four years Hut © close of the war will Unloose Is who, for one rea- or another, have been kept in re. ‘int by warfare, It is morally cer. tain that France, with her battle. fe r ruined cities and cath irals, her trench lines and barbed. wire ¢ ments, much of which Will be permitted to stand, will, ag *n as open travel after the war is permitted, become the Mecca for th, ghtseers of the world Sightseers attract thieves and blac k mailers and criminals of all kinds For some time after hostilities ex Scotland Yard, having such extensiy, and diversified interests in France will maintain an organization there and will at the same time deviss plans to deal with the new situation, Here is where the police organis tion the United States js building | in France will work side by side with hy N A\ ENN WW < \ \\\\ q \\\ i \ ‘‘Mothers of the War’’ “Nothing Counts Now Except That We Are Mothers—We Must Hearten Each Other and Stand Back of Our Boys,’”’ Says Mrs. Oliver Harriman. Organizer and President of the Newly Formed “ Mothers of the War” Society. ONE LITTLE MOTHER “ NOTHING COUNTS NOW EXCEPT THAT WE ARE ALL MOTHERS” SKETCHED In HER OFFICE, Pe weds CONSERVATION. KITCHEN THE __ HEAD WAR MOTHER” (PRESIDENT NY. “MOTHERS OF THE "WAR ”) By Stella Flores. EEP smiling’ ek | 4 interest. Dressed with elry except the string of lustrous pearls she usually wears, I caught her just as she was about to leave have been ill. is prouder. She asked a number of mothers she knew to meet and talk over the idea of organizing the mothers of the war in New York State, They promptly made her President. counts except that we are al moth: brave we must have a spirit worthy And because we are all mothers, we are joining together to hearten At our meetings we want mothers to bring their sons’ letters and read their brave boyish words. each other. wonderful.” IPPINGS QF JOKES MRS. OLIVER HARRIMAN is our watchword.” leaned forward eagerly, her delicate face flushing with Another son is an officer in the navy, and no mother MAKES Mrs, Oliver Harriman exquisite simplicity, with no jew- for Boston, where two of her sons “Since this war started nothing ers,” she said. “Our boys are so of theirs, We must keep smiling, The Italian women are “Swe MOTHE BACK OF DUR BOYS ASA UNIT” “KEEP SMILING 1S ‘THE MOTTO A BRAVE RS MUST NOW STAND =< =] ITALIAN MOTHERS ARE WONDERFUL’ P4 ar STEW=— ( FEATHERS A MY ITALIANO SOLDIER GRANDA f, LRA. ‘That brought to my mind an Italian mother 1 saw at Washington Meret, She was trying to buy a chicken, but the price was too high, At last she grasped a fierce-eyed old rooster whose spurs bore silent witness of many battles. “He all-a right-a for stew,” she said. “F h- ers mak-a grand-a hat for my Italiano soldier.” She had one son in Uncle Sam's army and one in Italy. Mrs, Harriman said she would be glad to have any motier write suggestions to her, to her home in White Plains, “We want every mother who has a son or a daughter in the war to join us. One way I thought of reaching them was to go to their cuurches and meet them personally. When they realize what we can do for our sons, no one will stay out. Now we wish to help each other; but when peace comes, we must be there to see that the interests of our children who have fought so bravely are strongly represented, They are an army fighting for us. We must be a strong and well organized unit to stand back of them.” The society is still in embryo, but a meeting is to be called soon to put it on a working basis. Love Letters From a Candidate to a Candidatess By Candidate ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER, 13th Training Battery (Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky) EAR MAE @ set of doilies. They are mander told me they were D Camp Zach, Sept. 25, 1918. I received the lace curtains that you sent me, also very pretty, but our battery com- not regulation this year. ‘The sox that you knitted me were fine, but when I sent them to the camp laundry they shrank like an owl in the thing I can use ‘em for now Is to sunlight. Only carry my liver pills around in. I can understand how @ set of sox can shrink from No. 11s to No. 28, but I'll be Hohenzollerned if I can dope out how they shrank from green to red. Anyway, they are r with ‘em if there were any trains The laundry sure hands our sc ed sox now. I could flag a train out here to flag. ox and uniforms a terrible beating plined now that I even fold my postage stamps before I paste ‘em on tetters, This is a good army, ‘but they do some funny things. I think the army is the only place in the world where t organize literary societies to buy mops. Some bird made a speech at mess and col- lected dues for @ literary society, 1 kicked in with a thin dime and figured that a good book wouldn't do me any harm if I didn’t read it. I got my book, all right, but {t had a handle on one end and a broom on the other. And I read that broom right through from cover to cover. Don’t let ‘em tell you different. It's the only reading I ever did that raised blisters on my mitts. However, it’s all in @ lifetime, and I’m glad I’m here. If a man MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1918 | The Seven Stepping Stones To Success in the Career Of To-Day’s Business Girl Here They Are, as Given by Beatrice Barmby, Eng- lish Business Woman and Author, Who Has Made Her Home in America for Several Years. 1—Preparedness; 3—Interest in Your Work; 3—Perseverance; 'r consider a college education un. 4—Ambition; 5—Initiative and Acceptance of Responsi- bility; 6—No Two o’ Clock Fun; 7—Suitable Dress. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening Workih, HE day is coming when it will be considered as disgraceful for a ‘a young woman to allow her father to support her as for a young man to live idly on his father’s earnings. Just now I think the idle daughter 1s the flaw in American family life—although, of course, she is not nearly so common as before the war. But where she exists it usually means the father ts a slave, trying so hard to earn money that he has no time to share in the family life or love. He would not have to work so hard if his daughter worked a little, and he, she and the rest of the family would be healthier and happter.” It is the shrewd but friendly criticism of a clever young English bus ness woman, Beatrice Barmby, who has made her home in this country for several years and whose first novel, “Betty Marchand,” has just been pub lished, alae The book might be sub-titled “The Autobiography of a Bus'ness Girl,” and it is dedicated by the author “to the woman who works and strives, in home or factory, in office or school- room, in city or village, to the woman who supports herseif in a world of n admiration for her in sympathy with her competition: courage and struggles.” Mrs, Barmby comes of a line of business pioneers, for it was her great-grandfather who built and launched “The Iron Duke,” the first of tne greal ers. When at seventeen she entered the business world of London to earn ner cwn liv- ing such a career was considered 4 daring innovation for a young gentle- woman. I suspect the descriptions of indignant aunts, loneliness, hard work and heavy responsibility in “Betty Marchand” are at least partly auto- biographical, although I am sure they many successful can be capped by chance, even while she {s constantly New York women now in the early| ambitious for better things. thirties, “When the chance comes seize tt! For the beginners, howe er, and for the girls who ought to be beginning but are not, I asked Mrs, Barmby to alk about the business girl and what A common weakness among woman who work is lack of initiative, an un- readiness to make decisions and grasp responsibilities, The person who makes for her success or failure, dodges these is a predestined sub- The seven stepping-stones to suUc-/ ordinate.” cess, in the opinion of ‘hia woman| I was reminded of what a clever who has arrived, are thess: 1, Pre-| man once told me was needful for paredness; 2, Interest in your work;| success in newspaper work—*“the 3, Perseverance; 4, Ambition; 5. Inl-| three r's—intelligence, industry, inte ve 1 acceptance of responsi-| tiative.” 6. No two-o'clock 1un; 7, Suit- dress, For the average business woman “One difference I have noticed,” {continued Mrs, Barmby, “between English and American girls is the comparative indifference of the latter to sport. Yet it seems to me that the best recreation in the world for the business girl is some form of outdoor exercise, It clears her brain and keeps her physically fit, while 2- o'clock-in-the-morning theatre parties and dances make wearisome the next |day in the office and undermine her vitality, Even here in New York there are your parks, public tennis courts and public swimming pools, 80 that the girl who uses a little ingen- unity and initiative can get her sport.” “And I gathered, from reading 'Bet- wry and frequently a handicap,” gan, with a charming, pologetic “Not only has the girl a great deal to unlearn business world, but it seems to/| se valuable formative years be- n seventeen and twenty-one should be spent in business itself by the woman who wishes to win suc- necess Mrs. Barmby b smile. cess there “A thoro' English and business} education, however, is essential, Em- continually about) ployers ain he girl who cannot spell, who cannut Py add a column of figures correctly.|ty Marchand,’" I observed, “that you ‘And I do not think that the six|have observed considerable difference months’ course in business training|in the business appearance of Eng- long enough, Before entering an|lish and American girls, What do you office @ young woman should nave/think of the elaborate clothes and icquired speed in taking dictation, | makeup so much worn by our down- ind she should be familiar with of-| town girls, and so much criticised? “I think it is a great pity that your girls in offices spend so much money on what they wear,” Mrs, Barmby replied frankly. “In their frills and makeup some of them look like freak A shirtwaist and a simple skirt sure constitutes the proper dress for an office, Many American busines girls, of course, dress most suitably fice processes and with general busi- ‘Then her first year of work will not be an exhausting, puzzling maze, and she will not so afraid of proving unsatisfactory, “Of course the girl who wants to { must be interested in her ers a business ness methods. ve got aheac The girl who ¢ the work, office with idea of just staying " seer ee at vip ridaruictiep ee sare until she on and I think their ap c , They shrink everything about a dozen sizes and I am glad that I don’t doesn’t take part in this war what is he going to tell his grandchil- | there a few years un Ae yi saad ey lacs nett Marit : by . a have to send my appetite there, We sure put a heavy feed bag on out dren? And if he does take part he won't have any grandchildren | had better aut ae Ga Honea rae aaa ay . ng woman should go he| mind is altogether on her clothes i in this neck o' the woods. Last Sunday we had chicken, oranges, to tell young wom : sith tha cama deluiia |Gannot be on ler work bananas, mashed potatoes and ice cream for mess, 8 you can see Well, bright eyes, 1 am on my way to mess again. I can't ait still | busines Ween ns ich animates| “There Ja a temptation: for @ girl that the Kaiser isn't making us suffer any more than necessary. & minute without being annoyed by that mess whistle. Goodby for a | desire to Be {not to work uni oust,” ended would tell you more about this man’s army, only I don’t want while, Yours till they stop knitting sox, ROGER Re do her ood if she| Mrs, Barmby, with anoiu or smile 1 y my, y But w iT y i if she e and to make it too popular as this camp is overcrowded already. If that = + eens | os that desire?” I sted. “Are | Slight accentuation of her lovely bunch of nearsighted birds who call on you could ever see the way The Flags of the Allied N AtIONS Jempioy: ca eannrig Cor tha | nian SNglih solar, “T puppose aoe we live there would be fifty of ‘em crippled in the rush to sign on the sun, Th hrysanthemu: J ve | ‘bright as for the|¢ really love work Jus. for itself, 1 f . The chrysanthemum is Japan's | ‘PS | But the girl who has once tasted dotted line with Uncle Sam By T. L. Sanborn DatloGal Gowac anata har intone epeadinee “GAN Uae ee The weather was colder than a loan shark's heart last week and No. 183— JAPAN le balard ane flag flown only the | a question of fad Una GE HER Cemutnne ae they gave us an extra blanket, T thought that they were doing me a LY. three pation in the world|themum, wie’ sintene telat ens vt haing it" ar | wants to go back to anything else,” favor until I discovered that I had to fold {t in the morning. Every: | use the sun as one of the chiet crimson fel , pelieve that Seared eee 4 . * i 7 ‘ 3 Fearing the extension of Ge 2 nt women who are; A] : : * thing has to be folded in this man’s game, and I'm getting 60 disct- featuies of ual Fetional Dene power inthe as rman ee ailing Mapa att I Newest Things In Science ers, alliance with G SARS” . 1 ii Japanese DB&-!clared war on ( laa a man say to me onc what [| Electrically operated, a combined scotland Yard, and in time our police |some in uniform, some tn plain tional flag 1s| 1914, and at onc |naye made one of Betty's employ. |brush and vacuum machine has been wrganizatfon will probably play a8] clothes, keeping an eye on them, unique in being | $0" roy s. arr oe ast ers say to her: ‘I can get pl ylinvented for cleanir blackboard mportant a part in France Scot- | nevertheless. This body of policemen the only one| shad 1 Ae st pated of girls who make good secretaries, | erasers. ye ind Yard plays to-day. Already our] will, of course, be greatly enlarged which bears|and t who can eurn two, even pounds | vragen is Mawr e<bas oret Service patrols are looking after] when the tourist rush starts from tho nothing but a| attenti oe a week, but it's the ones who are] eaitae neal 4 a P manent the railway lines used by the army] United States to France. It is prob- el aus. ff German shine worth high salaries who are so hard|tvccn and extend. the won pe petween the sea coast and the front. [able that this rush will be postponed aA On a anows| Navi ee a watralian | (find, who can do thing rl seinty, of elece Under military direction we have a] by Government decree until all our! write feld is blagbned a great blood-| In the great eve nning 30] own ini ve, who are clever in ex. es 4.3 police force in Paris, outside reguli.r rs are home, because all the| rea gun, signifying that the far east-|siberla, Japan | ; ip | ecutive positions, who don't, in shors,|_ ‘The metal cap of a new fruit jar ts “M. P." patrolmen, The duty of this rs’ mothers and wives and] ern Island Empire is the “Land of the BONE TOL MS npeneee, eneral Com-| Haye to be told what to do—those are | ® ghily convex, | and by depressing force 18 to look after and safeguard] gweethearts would want to hasten to| Rising Sun Shae a nat anivi cn at - Hon Wik ia) jy omen J am uoking for! ie centre. th are sprung away American soldiers in the capital} France to see them, but it will set! Japan's national emblem, but also| many’s friends, the eviki, out of ‘Naturally, rl must not expect eee American soldiers are generally quile}in some day, and maybe you think| that flown by her merchant ships Bibstia, and Japan. is ready to land | to win such a position in a minute| 7 hes, made of 8 have been able to take care of themselves, but} our dear Allies, the French people, | Phe ensign of the Japanese Navy has|the Allies decide that the situation | OF ® month; she must have persever-| troieum, gasoline and. sce wasca a there are experienced police oMicers,'are not getting ready for it! wixteon red rays radiating from the| demands it, ance to hang on and walt for her place of rubber tubing, q A . Hi 1 “ “