The evening world. Newspaper, October 15, 1918, Page 16

ass = Mig Bord, ESTABLISHED BY JC H PULITZI Fudlished Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 t 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row. Josie PULITZON, Jr Becretany, 6) Bark Tiow. 13 8 ee MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRPRS. Pa ited is 4 weet SES eis See Sie tee mnt, Saltese bere asd indeed ould ellen Tne heeled teed TO VOLUME 59 «NO, 20,874 ' JAMMED TO THE EDGE. HE war lords in Berlin must blink in bewilderment and die- may at what they have brought upon themselves. With re- lentless logic the President has forced them to the fatal edge. He has used their own manoeuvrings to accomplish their undoing. Holding them to their “unqualified acceptance of the terms laid down by the President of the United States of America in his address to the Congress of the United States on the 8th of January, 1918, and in his subsequent addresses,” the President places squarely be- fore the constituted authorities of the German Empire the pregnant passage from his Mount Vernon speech on the Fourth of July last which establishes as an indispensable condition of peace: “The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that can separately, secretly and of its single choice disturb the peace of the world, or, if it cannot be presently destroyed, at least its reduction to virtual impotency.” “The power which has hitherto controlled the German nation,” the President declares, “is of the sort here described.” And he con tinues—with penetrative purport: It is within the choice of the German nation to alter it. The President's words just quoted naturally constitute a condition precedent to peace, if peace is to come by the action of the German people themselves. ‘The President feels bound to say that the whole process of peace will, in his judgment, depend upon the definiteness and the satisfactory character of the guarantees which can ‘be given in this fundamental matter, It 1s indispensable that the governments associated against Germany should know beyond a peradventure with whom they are dealing. The constituted authorities of the German Empire who ‘have been and are still conducting the war have no alternative: They must stand forth and plead, without concealment or dis guise, before all peoples. And the German people must make their decision and their choice. So consistently has the President carried to its final and fatefu issue the principle that the German nation must work its own re, eration. So inexorable has he made the conclusion that the German people can have no standing among civilized peoples until they have rid themselves of a sword-worshipping dynasty which civilization has convicted of intolerable crimes and sentenced to destruction. All the present rulers of Germany have gained by their latest peace manoeuvres is exposure to a merciless se: rehlight from whien they have no escape. There they stand—plain marks for justice and retribution, “Their request for an armistice is met by the President with the 4 grim and significant declaration that the terms of any armistice “must he left to the judgment and advice of the military advisers of the Government of the United States and the Allied Governments” and “that no arrangement can be accepted by the Governm@t of the United States which does not provide completely satisfactory safe- guards and guarantees of the maintenance of the present military supremacy of the United States and the Allies in the field.” No American will profess a fighting spirit so intense that it can- not trust Foch and Haig and Pershing to exact the full fruits of military victory and yield no part of that which they have given the best that is in them to win. Nor does the President fail again to indict the present German Jovernmert for its crimes against humanity, its barbarous fighting methods on sea and Jand, “So long as the armed forces of Germany continue the illegal and inhumsne practices which they persist in,” neither the Govern- ments of the United States nor the Governments with which it is associated us a belligerent will even consider an armistice. On every point the German Government is caught and jammed back to a position from which it cannot extricate itself, Fither it must give up completely or the whole German nation must be forced down to deeper defeat and ruin irreparable, | a | Letters From the Would Make Candidates Take St dren allowed." People Just think of it-one on “No-Children” Order, baby seven months old! 1 have heard | To the Kiitor cf The Bvaning World th ame answer many times Jd T can readily sympathize with the|#0d have become hardened to it Bat the big question is, When ig It going to ce Now it is a matter direc'j7 | up to ¢@he voters. Both men ani women have the vote now, #0 I ask every mother of a child to write to their candidates, J. 0, D, Better Than Stunts, of The Evening Work After reading the answer to H. X. Sewentain® tHe ta by thnk ease als ike to say that I side with H. XG, 1 think that if| the parade on Fifth Avenue did not inspire the people, then 1 do not know | what will, There are many public| speakers who can wake t people up) with words better than any “Human | ly" If A. McD, would matter deep enough that more bonds wer ers who gave facts than when a “Human Fly" held them spellbound, He only excites the people, but he does not inspire t n. If that san tuman Fly" took a gun, os H says, and saw a few months’ service at the front, and then came hom or,|be worth more than various people who have written you recently about being barred from flats nd houses on account of having ch varen. I often wonder how muc Jonger these landlords can continue thiekind of business, An election is near now. Why not everybody that has had an experience of this kind write to the various candidates for the Assembly and State Senate und see what they intend to do about tae matter? It is in the interests of the common people, the people that are iving them their votes, and why n> jemand something in return for you yote, or else the whole thing is a e? These gentlemen who are seck- ‘our yotes now’ ought to be pinned down to see what they say on the matter. Children are of more account to this country than landlords. They Fill have to do the fighting in the future, while the landlords are at home boosting rents and chasing chil- dren off their sidewalks, I have two little girls and have had & difficult time trying to get located somewhere, When our first baby was only seven months old we tried to look into the she would find | sold by speak- | To Avoid the ‘EDITOR Tuesday, October 15, 1918 IAL PAGE Coprright. 1918. | mother. | tory Stories of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening Worl), NO. 67.-MADAME STEINHEIL: “Society” Spy and Ad- venturess. HE was a beautiful and magnetic woman, of a sort found oftener in the Old World than here—a woman who was received by decent society, even though her real char acter and profession were more than guessed at by every one. As to her character, it was not “doubtful.” There could, unfortunately, be no doubt at all about her char acter. She does not even take the trouble to glosss it over in her own “memoirs.” Her profession—so more than one French newspaper openly declar was that of a spy. In other words, she used her charm and .her wit to captivate foreign or anti-administration statesmen and to wheedle secrets or concessions from them. It paid her handsomely. “Her influence upon the visiting King of Cambodia,” writes one chront- cier, “caused that copper-colored potentate to sign a treaty highly advan tageous to her country.” Henri Rochefort, in La Patrie, flercely accused her of spy-complicity against Dreyfus, She wns the wife of Arthur Steinheil, an artist of German family, Hving in Paris, President Faure of France made no secret of his infatuation for her. She was, moreover, of great use to him by her secret service work in the manifold political intrigues with which France was just then honeycombed, It was hinted by friends of Faure’s that she picked up a few stray bits of money by acting as spy for the Uresident’s opponents. On Feb, 16, i899, the following despatch was telegraphed all over the world: “Francois Felix Faure, President of France, to-night at 10.15 from an apoplectic stroke.” ‘The statement roused little suspicion outside of France, Faure was no longer young. He was in ill health. The Dreyfus trial, which had shaken oll France, had shaken his nerves and system, It seemed but natural thet he should have been stricken with apoplexy. But gradually—more and more insistently—the story gained ground that Faure had not died a natural death nor died at the palace. Some people thought he had been assassinated begause of his attitude regarding Dreyfus. Others hit on a more plausible and probably truer theory, Also, it was clared he had been stricken while he was calling on Mme. Steinheil. The rumors ebbed. Nine years later they blazed forth with renewed virutence. For in May of 1908 Mme, Steinheil found tied and gagged. n bed one morning. In other rooms of the Steinheil house the murdered bodies of her husband and her stepmother were found. Mme. Steinheil told a wild story of being bound and strapped to her bed the night before by masked men who wore false and biack gowns. Then she changed the story so as to implicate a young peasant who lived near her country home. She told how the murderers had stolen some of her Jewelry, and gave a clear description of this jewelry, I that these jewels had been taken to a goldsmith by Mme, Steinhetl herself to be reset and had been left there. These and other flaws in her story leg to Mone, Steinhell's arrest on a charge of murdering her husband and step- ‘The trial was one of the most sensational and spectacular in his- ‘And the tale of Faure's mysterious death was revampe The woman's beauty and the cleverness of her lawyers at last won her acqui‘tal, It was charged by Paris papers that the trial was postponed for six months after the prisoner's arrest so that the ten-year statute of limi. tations might prevent a format inquiry on the manner of Faure's death and of her possible share in it. } French Leader Loved Her. i died at the Dlysee Palace oer ® red beards Tells Wild Story of Attack. Saree ter, it was learned If You Had Copyright r 1918, by ‘Tie Press Publishing Co, (Tue New York Breaing World.) you had money—lots of it, would you do with it? This was the question asked me what his enterprises. Lately !t had begun to dawn on him that he had this aceumulation, that he had no children to whom he might leave it, and that he ought to} do something with it, | He cealized that he could not spend | it all and that he ought to make pro- visions for its use-as he saw the signs of age coming. | He had not kept in touch with world very much, as he had been buried in business and therefore did rot know the best way to use the money. Therefore he asked his lawyer friend for advice as to what agencies were doing the most good. It may seem strange but there are many people like this man, Thee are those who have been so absorbed in the effort of making money that when {t comes to disposing of it to good advantage they are really lack-| ing in knowledge. Belng men trained tn economy, as| a rule, they want to leave their) means where it will accomplish the best ends, And so my lawyer friend informed me that he selected a few| good charitable institutions and revs | ommended that the money be left to] them I could not but While there are some very worthy | charitable institutions that shoula | be aided and encouraged by contin ued contributions, there are others whose methods been questioned and whose books of accounting have| often reached the offices of the Dis-| trict Attorney, For example, there are charitable institutions where it has cost a dollar and a half to dis- burse a dollar of charity, As against| reflect on this, | | this, there is the Board of Child Wei-| FLOW OF HOT AND COLD WATER REGULATED BY PEDAL. Pressing one end of a pedal with | the foot admits cold water to a new washatand, pressing the other end| allows hot water to flow and pressing » what he could tell would the entire pedal mixes the two #0) 2 | that moderately warm water is ob- , grandmother joorsns ive bes cauurene oauarem Ot he Cee ee woe vies Omi uduwin wiommes Sten cSt it costs but three cents to give out 1 dollar for actual relief, the lowes distribution cost of any city or State in the Union So that it is a wise by a lawyer friend) man indeed who knows how to dis- who has just drawn | cyiminate wp the will of 4) The lawyer's question, “What very rich man, would you do if you had money his man had] yrought me back to my dreams of > umulated his} many years, money by close ap-| if 1 had money I would find the plication to his in-| poy of exceptional ability, with poor terests and with] parents, who need him to help make little thought for) a living, and give this boy the chanc anything else but] for.proper schooling. As I go along in the country I often see a dilapidated porch in front of an old house with a roof that leaks, An old lady is sitting there rocking to and fro, I'd like to go the village carpenter and give him the money to fix it all up and just t her @ friend passed by and saw her needs, For the girl who craves a musical career and hasn't any money | would sive her the chance to get it. Many an artist soul is stifled for the want of a few dollars, 1 would provide the money for a toiling little family to go to the country for a few weeks without the feeling that they are charitable 1 would like to be a helper to the mother of many children during the period of her greatest struggle. I would lend a@ little money to the |energetic young man when he needs it most to start his business, A small amount can do so much at the time it 18 most needed, I would take the helpless old lady who all her life has been dreading | the poorhouse and pay her board among people she loves so that her indigent days may give her the in- depeydence she craves, 1 would make it possible for the two who love to marry, but who can- not because of family burdens, I would like to find the man or woman who is down and ne who has made mistakes, the chance to retri and give e. who has them I would aid the woman |had much and lost it, who has done good while she had it and whom everybody has forgotten whea po erty came. For there is no pain kreater than that caused by the cold shoulder, I would take the with tubercular children away from congested area and give her the portunity she craves in the open, I would like to lift the load of the who old ag mother the the op- in her is rly out, | By Sophie Irene Loeb | fare of the City of New York, where I would find the girls who love pretty geegaws and give them the bit of money with which to buy such things rather than have them secure these trifles from questionable sources, I would make it possible for a so- called falien sister to become useful nd purposeful and to be able to walk | side by side with women of greater strength. In the last analysis I believe the greatest good which comes from money is when the personal touch nters into the handling of it. In a word, to give the individual the avia- tion push when he or she needs it most, Copyright, 1918 by Toe Er (The New York Ev ing World) "asked Mrs. e opened the fam- Good! 1 just need a little extra money to finish ing for my Lib- erty Bonds,” “That's MY check,” said Mr. Jarr from the head of the ple so pleas? let me have it, | have Liberty Bonds to pay for—down at the office “The check is for eight dollars, and you have no more need for eight dol- lars than I have,” replied Mrs. Jarr. “Yes, and not only for eight but for eight times eight dollars!” “You are a perfect specimen of HAT does the Government W want with peach stones? ‘This has recently been asked very often, They are used as raw material for making the best grade of absorbent charcoal ever produced, and the charcoal is used in gas mask respirators for absorbing deadly gases sent over by the enemy. Charcoal is produced by roasting wood, dried blood or other organic material, and this roasting decom- poses the material into two parts, one of them gaseous, which passes off from the retorts, and one of them solid, which remaing behind as char- coal, Every minutest cell of the wood and every part of a cell gave up some of the gas during the operation and thus left.minute pores all through the material, Thus the wood charcoal |that we know is very bulky for its | weight and contains innumerable fine pores, Now, this highly porous char- coal has a remarkable property of absorbing certain kinds of substances, Enormous quantities are used in {clarifying the decoloring beet and cane juices in sugar manufacture; most drugs have to be bone-blacked !pefore a white product can be ob- {tained, and we have all taken char- voal tablets for the purpose of re- moving distressing gases arising from digestive disorders, ‘The application of charcoal to the gas mask then js obvious, The con- taminated air passes through a layer of highly active carbon before It reaches the mouth, and the poisonous material is absorbed, It is apparent that the more active the charcoal the more the absorbing power can be * packed into the small box on the front Why Peach Stones Are Needed | In Making Gas Masks was used successfully in masks a very active form had to be produced, And | it was found that the hard, dense, compact substance of nut shells ond fruit stones formed the most con- densed and actively absorbing char- coal, The pores of the charred ma- terial are infinitely fine and numer- ous, and hence a given volume of the carbon will do far more work than the same volume of other kinds of charcoal, Perhaps some other very dense plant materials, such as ebony and lignum-vitae, would also make good carbon; Lut for obvious reasons waste products like nut shells and fruit stones are preferred, Can Uncle Sam collect enough of such materials for | what he needs, remembering that the char in the masks becomes inactive and has to be renewed? It is be- lieved that he can if people are ful enough in saving this new object | of salvage. Suppose it takes two dozen stones to make enough carbon for a mask; there are very few peo- ple in this country who do not eat that many peaches, or their equiva- lent in plums and nuts, in a year, If these stones and shells are turned in at the collecting depots they will contribute to the making of an enor- mous number of masks, It must not be understood that the| arcoal Is to be used universally in gas masks to the exclusion of chemi-| cals, Charcoal will not absorb all! gases effectively; hence masks will still depend largely upon chemical | protection, But the carbon is more easily handled than chemicals, It can be taken out and revivified by roast- ing, and it will probably prove to be e- The Jarr Family leat candy and be impudent over the shpmtcats, {corsr something, Oh, don’t be afrata:} ca in Sicily ( eka arc eR rR OnE By Roy L. McCardell You are too careful for anything Ike that. If you get any letters I shouldn't see, they go to that old office, I'll be bound! And am I not your wife; haven't I the right to see any letters you get? And I want tell you that I am not blind, I was down at that old office one day you were out and I saw some muil come in ad- dressed to you, and that impudent lov femininity from the purely] physical point of view,” said Mr.! Jarr, with measured calmness. “In your social relations you possess all the tact and charm expected of gra- cious womanhood, the patriotic attl-/ tude you take is to be commended, | but in your domestic functions—well, to put it mildly, you've got @ nerve! | Gimme my check!" | to “Your check—why, what do you office boy wouldn't let me look at it mean?” asked Mrs, Jarr sharply.| “They were business leters, It was “Didn't it come to this house in a) *8ainst the rules + the firm to per- letter?” |mit any person on the outside, an “Do you think it's the proper thing to open my mail, wife or no wife?” replied Mr. Jarr, ‘The letter was addressed to me, The home. may be yours, but my name ts my own.” “Oh, that's what's the matter, is It?” remarked Mrs, Jarr, “You must have | some fine correspondents !f you are} “Of course you will! You are afraid for me to see your letters, You, /@Ushing at me now!” cried Mrs, can,see mine, I'm neither ashamed |/#!: “1am only a joke to you. You nor afraid of those who write to me,,"4Ve no respect for me! Ob, that [ nor of what they write! As for your| %hould live to see the day that I'd be name, I took it when I married you,|‘#unted about it!" And a handker- aiantcre® jehief not being handy, Mrs. Jarr wept “With my name and all my worldly | COP!ously into a table napkin and goods I did thee endow, but not TAY | Coke to totter from the table with a correspondence,” sald Mr. Jarr, “You | Proken heart let me have my letters and I'll let you], old on @ minute!” said Mr, Jarr, have yours, Besides, no human man| ‘!2dly give me back that check. It can read a woman's letters, Women| !® 0M€ I sent last week to buy a Lib- are so prodigal of words and ink, and | erty Bond coupon book from Jack so sparing of their crested and en-|>!l¥er. But I guess he sold all he graved paper that they write the first | 44 to his f:llow ‘Gobs' in the Naval page, skip to the last page and then| lteserve.” start at the bottom of the last page—| "Well, isn’t it for eight dollare? and write around the edges of al!| Can't 1 buy a coupon book with itt’ pages and perhaps across the lines! Mrs. Jarr inquired, forgetting her ime that run east and west with other |J¥red feelings; employee's wife, his mother or bly srandmother, to see them. But, dog gone it! I hope you will open a letter some time that you'll be sorry you | DID see! 1 swear if you ever do I'll laugh at you if you say anything to me about it!” 1 might as well have lines all over the pages, in a direction | !t 48 you,”’ generally north to south, and a few, “But I need it, dearie,” said Mr, p's here and there.” Jarr, “I signed tor some instalment “On, is that so?” asked Mrs, Jarr,|20M48 at the office when Jack silver ‘Well, anyway, women do not pay | ‘@/d me his coupon books were gone," very fresh young girls big salaries to| “APd it never occurred to you that I'd need this check for telephone and occasionally condescend | #Sked Mrs, Jarr. to pound on a typewriter, ‘Yours of |!!! keep it!" recent date to hand and contents} “YoU can’t cash it ight dollars “Well, just for that Us made out to St ae ae Jack Silver,” said Mr. Jarr, “Well, we are away from the main} ‘Don't you mind that,” remarked issue,” said Mr, Jarr, “Kindly un-| Mrs. Jarr, “I'll get the money ail belt that check. It isn't a check :o| right. All I need to do is to taki aba 7 an eit me, if you'll look closely"- |to the bank and tell the bank Jaek “We WILL return to the main) silver doesn't want ra @ main] s ant it and issue,” interrupted Mrs, Jarr, “Why| Liberty Bonds! Vt rea are you so nervous? Why do you get So Mr, Jarr grinned and suggested so angry and rave wildly just be-|she better huve Mr, Silver indor cause your wife opens a letter by first a Did mistake 4 Blest are the bon¢ , “[ wasn't angry or raving, 1 just] are the honds that bind! protested,” replied Mr, Jarr, ‘It isn’t that I wouldn't let you see any iet-| GOLOFISH DYED TO ORDER, ters that I receive, but’-— Artificial coloring of gold fish hy “BUT,” interrupted Mrs, Jarre again, keeping them in water containing vor. “but you are fearful | might diss! tain chomicals is extensively ey AEE NNT MBE *