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jity satovto, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published waily Except Sunday, by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to ark Row, New York. LITZDR, President, 63 Park Row. SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. ITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row, MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRHAS. RALPH J. ANGUS JOSEPH PU eet Se SIE SUN en Se ee ———— ee - -—n—n“"’—e— vl MM secweesNO, 20,873 THE GERMAN REPLY. VOLUME 59. HE reply of the present German Government—which foregoes calling itself Imperial for the sake of anything it may gain thercky—to the questions of the President of the United States is a specious show of calculated acquiescence. Not a word is worth the ink in which it was written without con- crete proofs and guarantees of the sort to be required from govern-| ment that has broken faith as many times as have the constituted authorities of the German Empire. EDITORIAL PAGE Monday, October 14, 1918 Give Him a Surprise! Copyright. 1918 by The Bree inh sing Oo, (Tue New York kvening World.) It is unthinkable that a diplomatic trick sprung by leaders of the German war party posing asa newly popularized German Govern- ment should succeed in snatching from Allied armies and peoples the! full fruits f military victory now within their grasp. It is unthinkable that the war lords should be permitted to save by statecraft any part of that militaristic power and policy which they now see docmed to utter defeat in the field. It is unthinkable that the United States should have brought its fighting strength gloriously to bear on the winning of speedy and decisive victorly only to find itself halted that the enemy may have time to breathe. That the best hope of saving some remnants from the wreck of flying armies and menaced war material lies in obtaining an armistice 1s in the primer of war. To gain an armistice the present German Government is no @oubt prepured to make any pledge it can see a way to break or evade| later should the terrible pressure on its fighting forces be withdrawn} and its own position improved. It is inconceivable, therefore, that the President of the United States should convey to the nations with which the United States is associated a froposal that would admit—even in the event of an agreement ic evacuate invaded territory—anything short of a German} surrender complete enough to gain for the peoples at war against! Germany al) they would gain by continuing the present rout of Ger-| man armies to the German frontier and as much beyond as might be necessary to extinguish the last spark of German resistance. Only provided the German Government's professed desire for the restoration of peace has reached an intensity at which it recognizes! the necessity of out and out surrender and reparation of the sort that Allied military forces are showing themselves abundantly competent to exact can any good come of “opening negotiations” of the kind for which the German Government hopes. ; No discussion around a table without full guarantee of all the Allies stand to win by their certain victory in the field. By : H. Cassel What Every Woman Wishes By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), “If We Can’t Fight or Nurse or Drive an Ambulance We've Got to Buy Liberty Bonds, and BuyYhem Quick and Buy Them Now and Buy Until It Hurts!”’ A, my! O Won't you be GLAD c When you can strike a match again that won't fizzle, or explode or enap off at the end and fly back at you like a han® | grenade? And when you can eat bacon and hot waffies witi® LOTS of butter for breakfast, And bura wood in the open fireplace, and turn om the gas logs, and call down for more steam heat, And light ALL the lamps without a guilty cone ecience? And joyride around in your motorcar all day long on Gunday without a thought or « qnalm or a care im ali the world except for your camplexion? And find your favorite brand of perfume, or toot paste, or cigarette “on sale at all leading stores,” And get @ cook or a maid or a laundress who will treat you ALMOS™: as an equal, instead of Hike a “charity patient” or an alien enemy? And kiss your sweetheart without putting on an influenza mask? Plant flowers instead of potatoes on your lawn? And look at your curly poodle without the guilty feeling that you ought to shave him and send his wool to the soldiers? And buy @ new hat every time you eee one that strikes your girlise fancy? And DAR® speak to a waiter or a bus boy just exactly as he derca to speak te you, without having the manager come around and reproacty you, With tears tn his eyes? Won't you be glad when you can put on your dinner clothes and go out to parties, and talk about books or music or love or divorce or your appendicitis operation, Or ANYTHING—except the Wart And when you can eat all the fudge and ice cream and French pastry you want, And give each other nice, frivolous, foolish things for Christinas? And when the, boys come home, And there’s somebody to dance with and to flirt with and to fuss over—and to matry— Oh, WON'T it be Just like Tleaven? And wouldn't you do ANYTHING on earth to make it all “come true?* And don't you know that there's only one way that you CAN make it come true— And that !s by STICKING now, at this vital moment! And we can—oh, we CAN—if you and I will just put our shoulders to the wheel and PUSH this War machine and this Liberty Loan drive Over the top! : And, if we can’t fight, or nurse, or drive an ambulance, we've GOT to buy Liberty Bonds—— And buy them quick, and buy them NOW, and buy until it hurts! And, of course, if you'd rather go on suffering from a toothache tham to “have {t OUT”—No? Well, “There, there!” “Just one BIG tug shed, And the WAR will be over forever! It's up to YOU! as the dentist says, “just one moment, please—» —and the pain and the suffering and the bloods By Bide Dudley a eainieinesieddiemedinttinenteidbmmeniinindiinetieiie tine ie ee ee ee That, ir. essence, is what Americans are confident must be the President’s attitude—and the attitude of the nations with which the United States is aesociated—toward the original German request, to which the President desired to make his own reply “as candid and straightforward as the momentous interests involved require.” is the unreJaxing, unhalting, uncompromising drive by which British, French and American forces are sweeping defeated Germans from invaded France and Belgium. (aos LSS RS PATRIOTISM AND PRICES IN PUBLIC EATING PLACES VOD SAVING in hotels and restaurants is the special feature of the new conservation programme made public to-day by the Federal Food Board. Twelve general orcers applying to public eating places require among other things: No bread or toast as a garniture or under meat, no bread biought to the table until after the first course is served, only one kind of meat served to a patron at one meal, no bacon used as garniture, only one-half ounce of butter and no more than the same|1n here a while ago. quantity of American cheese for each person at any one meal, no| sugar bowl o1 tables or lunch counters, and no cream served contain- ing over 20 per cent. of butter fat. The Federal Food Board expresses the belief that “all of our public eating places will willingly comply with the fundamental prin- ciples of the new conservation programine as outlined in the general, Then I says: ‘Ho orders,” Why shouldn’t they? does not mean substantial saving for the hotel or restaurant pro-| haughty prietor, to whom they give the highest patriotic sanction for serving| pas patrons less food at prices which, instead of being marked down to currespond with diminished quantity, are now being marked higher| and higher by nine restaurant keepers out of ten When the Food Administration orders curtailment of food served| "8! 824 in public exting places, why doesn’t it at the same time order that prices on th. menus be reduced in proportion, or at least that they be| male of the spectals no further advanced ? The mode) for all straightforwardness at this stage of the conflict There is scarcely one of these orders that Lucile the Waitress Copyright, 1918, by The Pross Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World) says, but when the job's completed you and me will share the credit, | Think o ind coffee and telling me her, eating mere doughnuts | that! It| 66 CRAY," said Lucile the Waitress, | seemed somewhat presumable, and 1) lady.’ S fas the Friendly Patron tried|made up my mind to give her 4| “I'm not always that pointed; It's hard to locate some meat on | thrust or two. | only when I think the person on the his pork chi “what's this I hear about Australia breaking away from Hungry?) Anything in it “You mean Austria,” he replicd. “Australia is a part of Great Britain. The other country !s Hungary.” “On the level, is that #0?” came “Listen, lady!’ T says, ‘You show | other end of the conversation is in signs of being educated. I'll bet you're | need of a jolt, Well, sir, \ teacher at some college!" | down the final section of doughnut ““You guess wrong,’ she tells me.| and out she flounces. Now, what do But Lam e d. 1 spent five years | you think of women like her?” in a ladies’ semitary. | ‘The Friendly Patron smiled. “How many letters in the alpha-| wouldn't dare tell you,” he said, from Lucile, “Well, I thought Lily * Task. “why?” the tow-head at the pie counter who] ‘she don't exactly know how to) “Because the woman you speak of cpprehended me of the facts, had} ake jt, but she can’t back down now,|is my wife. I told her to come in |1yn, one of my dearest friend he washes | the cart before the horse-car, What] go she says: ‘Twenty-six.’ does she know about political insin- |) "Right! 1 says, ‘Now tell uations, anyway? She's a ple artist, /now many letters in the postoffice?’| Lucile was quiet a moment, Then| not a historical dialectition, She| “7 heard it years ago at a burlique| she said: “Your wife, eh? must ‘a’ been reading the papers |show but I knew tt would give her a| lemme tell you, she's a fine look! edgeways, Honestly, It seems to me | jo), and it sure did, lady and a sweet one, too, that some women ain't got brains “How absurd!’ she says. ‘Are you) talking for a tip. I know a high-toned enough to crack a peanut.” trying to make a fool of me? | woman when I see one, believe me, “Are they worse than the men?” “| might be helping a little,’ I' Jonathan!” me, | suit her.” |to shadow me. Oh, I ain't! The Jarr Family Copyright, 1918, by Toe Preas Publishing Oe, ‘The New York Evening World | I’ was at the Liberty Loan drive ot | the Hotm St, Croesus, “This is Mrs. Gabbit of Brook- said Mrs. Stryver, graciously. Mr. and Mrs, Jarr murmured that | | they were pleased to meet Mrs, Gab- bit of Brooklyn, and the 1s “Charmed, I am sure." was a tall, thin woman with black, ter said snaky eyes and a smile like a knife. “One of the Baroness von Holstein'’s spies!" whispered Mrs, Stryver aside | to Mrs, Jarr. | here, as I knew your doughnuts would | phe Baroness has placed this woman “But so interesting! I knew it when she wrote me a sugary letter of congrat- Well, ylation on my getting up this war loan drive. ‘The gay, the gay, the feative scene was in the cerise room of the hotel, where, preparatory to the doings, groups of women, none under thirty Making the Most of Ou A Series of Plain Talks to Parents non compus hokus on brains, She | gets ready for the big spread and By Ray C, Beery, A. B,, M. A., President of the Parents’ Association Do Children Provoke You?|, Her mother doubtless surprised her says to me: in that she actually went out to get They's aC . often seem a nuisan ) lady, “rwell, my dear girl, what you got the whip, and of course Betty did in doughnuts? “Can you imagine such a loose- d-| come down when she discovered that her mother actually had the whip | Jointed question? I give her one look. | one in each dougout.’ \ The mother then assumed that she “Say, I wisht you could ‘a’ een her. | She don't know whether to get Some really do cause an ¢ less amount of trouble, or not, Finally she just But who 16 to) nad won @ great victory. But had s over the joke and says: blame? The child} she? 11 take a doughnut—a whole can't help it if the| Let us analyze this case, It ts in- one. mother doesn't! teresting. “ ‘Hole one is right,’ I tell her, With | that 1 do a Kansas City glide to the hobble back with said doughnut, Then I decide to hang around and make a study of the fe She asks for a mug of Java and I slip it to her, As | she dines I decide to cris-cross ex- understand it. The following | case of how a lit tle girl misbe- haved while her mother was entertaining a club group is reported by one mother: Take the mother's first expression, Stay out of that room.” This is a negative suggestion, The proper way to use suggestion would be to tell the daughter where #he might play; perhaps accompanied by definite. positive suggestions as to what she Why i: public eating places must it be the public that s , "Batty, atey out of that room, Do) might play, ea if z | at hI 1e public that upplies amine her a little. you hear me? Come here, Betty,| By using the expression, “Do you a ne real patriotism and saving, while the proprietors get not only) “*You don't often eat in places like |come here, | say, BETTY!" At this hear me?” and the two expressions the credit but profit as we ' T says point the mother went in and led! following, the mother violated the Letters From the Weuld Have Button for Ex ed) Says Iner Prevent I will have to agree with letters have read in your To the Editor of The Evening World 1 Tam a young man of twenty-seven Years, placed by the Medical Ad- Paymenta| You did paper about the restaurant, ain't you?’ In a minute Betty started up the open iow do you know I don't? she| Hetty out of the room, or two "I says, ‘you'd be dead !f | stairway, yey don't survive much fundamental principle of expectancy. ‘The habit of repeating commands is “Betty, don't you 60 UP/one of the most common causes of those steps—you'll fall and hurt your- | disobedience, When a mother tells a self, Betty, did you hear what I said?) child to do one thing and then telis Come right back down off those|nim to do another almost before ne steps right away.” By this time|nas had time to carry out the first, Netty was near the top and the mother naturally fecls that she Becau Jot our food.’ “Well, I do declare! T ‘You're a fine advertisement for this she says. he quite jc 1 rth Lo t : | wisory Board in the physically unft Loan, 1am willing to do my wy gure am, lady,’ T says. ‘Many |satd In a loud voice, “Betty, do you|must not have expected him very class, as I have had heart trouble for} Utmos: to help, and fully intended o , se . sop gence Hee asunilar the tuna t cade th ‘a male victim comes in here just to call] want me to get the whip in the| strongly to obey the first time, and ne the past five ye now my neigh- y" but the larse| on mo, I'm so social, you know.’ kite and whip you? Do you?"|therefore does not think of the fol- bore think I am a slacker. I have been Te-examined several times, with the ible for me to do more than ¥ can't men exempted for ill pealta| are thousands in the same fix, Lun io iio tat f | we vad, bur we are una, - more. POOR u nts demanded have made it im. a result as when first’ examined.| did in the third, and I am sure there °°" “That's nice,’ she says, very cyn-|Betty indicated that she didn’t and| lowing commands as being important, ‘Ll suppose you're @ great at-|so0 she paused long enough to make| Most of the expressions used in the traction to the men, You converse|a study of her mother’s face and in case described suggested fault-find- ¢ the whole sltuation: then she gue heenien thay reinted to ante Well, sir, it rawtbab got my goat, |climbed on upstairs, Lo renee SNARE PEE one ran OS _—— a eEREEIERSn EERE Sia oneinaiemeeiae r Children mere suggestion of fault-finding has @ peculiar effect upon children; when- ever fault-finding is introduced in any situation it complicates it—makes on. The words of a command should be spoken clearly, but in a slow and calm manner, The idea of substitution never oc- curred to this mother. The proper thing for her to have done was io plan for her little daughter's entor- tainment for the afternoon just as she did for the members of her club. Betty should have been given a fair amount of space in some room and provided with interesting occupation of some sort, It might have been well to give her some new plaything. Not only would tt have been wise for this mother to use substitution by arranging for the child to have a | definite place to play and providing | adequate material,but she should have shown Betty that she was interested jin her having a good time, She should have gone occasionally into the room where the child was play- ing, shown her co-operation by ask: ing if she wanted anything or by ! making little suggestions. The analysis of this case would hardly be complete without calling attention to the probability that the mother’s habitual use of wrong meth- ods played a part in causing the methods in the daily routine and ex- pect to have a child's manner in the Presence af enmnany nerfant ready committed by the daughter, A (Copyright, 1018, The Parents’ ‘Amociation? Ine.) | The Baroness, occupying as she does, | chanics, By Roy L. McCardell Mrs, Gabbit | Jand many over fifty, gabbled at each | other about the war, the weather, the action of the wilful Senators on suf- |frage, the new German peace offen- | sive and many things—some of which they understood, Mrs, Jarr darted into a group who were discussing the outgoing and shortcomings of her young friend married to an old husband, Mrs. Clara Mudridge-Smith, and she was | soon talking sixteen to the dozen an | octave higher than the others, leav- ing Mr. Jarr bewildered and ma- | rooned. | "So sweet of you to come!” purred Mrs. Stryver to Mrs. Gabbit, the Baroness Von Holstein's secret ser- vice scout. "You got your invitation all right, way out in that Sagebrush, | or whatever's the name." “Flatbush,” corrected Mrs, Gabtit, | with a menacing smile, “Oh, yes, | dear, it came to hand, You know those dreadful carriers never delay | anything that isn’t of any value, Oh, dear me! I didn’t mean that, I— anemj—you know what I mean. Mrs. Stryver knew what she meant well enough, and she only smiled ee? a mutte at the Hotel St. Vitus, on'¥ needs her personal maid.” “Is she still at the Hotel St. Vitus’”* asked Mrs. Stryver, “I had heard the St. Vitus had so many mysterious pews ple there that foreigne e afraid they were Secret Service men aud lett." Mrs. Gabbit affected not to hear this. Instead she purred icily: “And, as £ was telling you, my dear, I told hee that really I had no time to come ta your meeting this afternoon, as I #1 looking for a cook and @ housemaid, even if one has to pay munition factory wages, And the Baroness said, ‘Thea you MUST go to one of Mrs. Stryver'# | affairs!’ I don't know what she meant, the Baroness is so very subtle, you know!” “She thought it was my ‘Home Help” afternoon,” replied Mrs. Stryver. “E used to hold them before the war, and had capable teachers of domestic sci+ ence instruct poor women, you know, tenement people and the housewives from the outskirts, how to buy food within their means and prepare it pal- atably. You know, I am told that if you take a shinbone and cook it tea hours in one of :hose new patent covk~ it diMcult to manage from that point | scene, A mother cannot use wrong @ bitter smile in Kind and said: “Well, I'm so glad you received It. Strange, isn’t tt, but I had @ present- iment it might not reach you!” This was not as strange as one might think considering that Mrs, Stryver had never sent an invitation to Mrs, Gabbit at all, She had sent|~ "Anu jt js interesting to the jl-fod one to her arch enemy and rival s9- | and ill-nourished inmates of cheup cial promoter and suspected alien en- boarding houses, too, wid Mrs, Str) + emy, the Baroness Von Holstein, | esi" her most winnin This was to crush the latter by the | on end. thia actual presence of Prof, Ponsonby | between the smiling « s Pomfret, the reformed pacifist. that the latter part might ean ti “And the dear Baroness Von Hol- Mrs. Stryver was newly rich and M Gabbit NOW lived in a boarding houw% stein,” said Mrs. Gabbit, ‘she cannot | But he was confused. ers—every poor family should have one—with full equipment of aluminum vessels they only cost $38"— “Really, you know I never interest myself in how ‘the other halt lives said Mrs, Gabbit, "Of course, | ay te how it must appeal to SUMK the newly rich"— come. She has such an important Fortunately, the proceedings wr @ matter to attend to to-day. She | opened and the local feminine hostiii- |drives her Chow dog through the | “# ceased. eet park, you know." This was alien enemy propaganda to belittle this patriotic meeting of Mrs. Stryver's | Mrs, Stryver felt sure of this, She should have denounced the woman and had her interned, Instead she smiled and said —— Pushpins From Phonograph Needles. MATBPUR photographers and calls for pushpiy others whose work numbers of small | “So kind of YOU to come, though Seccna wan may effect @ gone Yes, I understood you always rode | ans pelea i. out with the Baroness in the park.” | araint Old phan This shot hit home, but save tha’ bil partes hs) 4 the suspected Mrs. Gabbit blanched | fee RON DOlGIOR, Be illustrated, A under her make-up she never flinched. | needie is heid “And I was so busy to-day, too,”| with a pair of Mrs, Gabbit went on with a murder- ® tweezers in a small form, whicy ~ y ous grimace that she thought was &/}e made from wood, while molten wax smile, “I told the dear Baroness alllis poured in around it, When tha about it. The dear thing has ao wor-| Wax has hardened a sharp tap on the rian of that sort—servants, you know,|Pottom, of the form dislodges the