The evening world. Newspaper, October 16, 1918, Page 18

ESTABLISHED BY A Pwolished Daily Except Sunday by the RALPTL J. ANGUS SHAW, 7 — JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr. ark Row, New York. PULITZDR, President, 63 Park Row. reasurer, JOSEPH PULITZER. Press Publiehing Company, Nos, 63 to 3 Park Row _ Secretary, 68 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, 4 Associated Prose entitled to the ne for republication of Neratee, ee Oe ee ate TTY SS let nd Stes woe seve published herein VOLUME NO, 20,875 LET THEM THINK IT OUT. HE President has let it be before a reply to the Austri ington. Meanwhile Germans and Au think about, The thinking they do is going to be the most momen-| tous they ever did in their lives or that ever was done in the history of their respective nations. If Berlin or Vienna feels the need of anything else to read while! they are digesting the President's ernment, we recommend that they peruse accounts of what hap-| pened in Constantinople previous to the overthrow of the pro-German ‘Turkish Government and the retirement of Enver Pasha and Talat] Pasha-—events which the Paris Figaro reports in brief as follows: The political situation (in force was threatened unless the secured on any terms. the dissolution of the Chamber entire Cabinet and the formation of a liberal Government, gen- eral demobilization and the signing of peace on any terms. ‘The authors of the manifesto demanded immediate satiafac- ton, in default of which the army and the people would employ force. A Germanized Turkish army, it appears, cannot “stand the Sufficient doses of defeat and disaster cause it to forget its Teutonic iraining and declare along with a suffering people that it gaff.” has had enough. Naturally, more may be expected of a military machine in Germany.” It will’take more smashing to put it out of business, | for which nced Marshal Foch has—it will be admitted even in Berlin| —with great intelligence and thoroughness prepared himself. Be it noted that the two erstwhile allies of the Central Powers! have supplied Germany and Austri one military, the other political: Bulgaria made a complete surrender in the fle forced the war-makers out of its Government. Let Germans and Austrians think hard. a We are not surprised to hear that {t was von Hindenburg who begged the German Government accept President Wilson's peace terms—not if Hindy had “line” of his, ee ROM a friend of The Evening To the Editor of The Evening World: Julius Caesar, on his return to his army !n Gaul, found enother furious war lighted up and the Tencteri (the peoples of the Mark, Westphalia, Munster and Clev two great German Rhine to make conquests. | The account of the affair with them we condense from Phutarch’s Life of Julius Caesar, “Caesar himself doth describe it ‘These barbarians sent deputies to him to propose an armistice, which was granted them. Nevertheless they attacked him as he was maki: of their men at arms they overthrew 6,000 of his horse- men, who were not prepared ward they sent other deputies to apologize for what had‘ happened, but without any other intention than that of ‘These agents of theirs he detained and marched immediately against them, thinking deceiving him again. absurd to stand upon honor who Sad not ecrupled to violate the truce. barians who had passed the killed. Always the same—now as then. Yet we would sit with them around @ green table! Green table? For Germany behind a Bar of Justice. One hundred and fifty members of the Military Club submitted to the Sultan a programme calling for kncwn that it may be some days an peace appeal is sent from Wash strians have enough to read and reply to the present German Gov- Constantinople) was such that Cabinet resigned and peace was of Deputies, resignation of the “made ‘ia with two excellent models, the| Turkey has been banking on that dinky . C. World the following: in the country, the Usipetes nations, having crossed the ae the great biographer says in his Commentaries”: ng an excursion. With 800 for 60 engagement. After- it with such perfidious men, Of the bar Rhine there were 400,000 iI MV ba Blocking Copyright, 1 AM moving my household gods (and goods) to the clatter of many tongues, all deep in the definition of peace terms which I am willing to leave to the person Ger- many asked to formulate them, For I really @o not; W. R. O'DONOVAN, New York, the green table has disappeared | ——_-4 ->—____—_ Back to the Loan! Letters From Getting Back to Values. ‘To the Editor of The Evening Worl ‘The letter signed “Reader” on the subject of “Getting Back to Values” undoubtedly expresses the sentiment of thousands of housewives, Why should we tolerate any longer the highway robbery prices that we are forced to pay to delicatessen and grocery stores? Why not start a campaign against them? Let every one caught overcharging have his name put in the papers so that the people may boycott him. If the peo- ple were not compelled to pay such enormous prices for the necessities of life the Liberty Loan would have been oversubscribed long ago, Thou- gands who would like to own bonds cannot because every cent must go for bare necessities, If the Kaiser did not get over here, there are thousands of his country- men who did and are in business, robbing the American people and laughing up their sleeves. How much longer are we going to stand these ‘ conditions? ONE HUNDRED PER CENT. Boost tt over! the People ‘The landlady claims they make too much noise, and I do my best to keep them quiet. Must I tle them to chairs and stuff their mouths so they can't laugh and talk as healthy children do? After living here one week she no- tifled me to move and she is renting the apartment over my head. I must live in the city to be near my husband's business, Is it @ crime to have two sturdy boys, and having them, must one live in the streets? Is there no law to punish such land- lords and have I no redreas? DISTRACTED MOTHER, —_ ON THE SAFE SIDE, HE conversation at a social affair al turned to the importance of be. ing on the safe side, when the following anecdote was contyibuted by Congressman Joseph W, Fordney, | of Michigan: Recently little Willie's grandmother came from an adjacent town for a few days’ visit, and while the good woman was sitting on the veranda one afternoon Willie approached “AMERICAN. Paying the Penalty for Her Two ‘Wo the Diver of The Brering World: ‘We are a young couple about to be put out of en apartment because we have two little boys, aged three and jone-half years and fifteen months. ‘The landlady lives above and an old ‘oman downstairs and both are ye with @ questioning expression, “Grandma,” said be, “can you erack nuts by biting them?’ “Not any more, Willie,” answered grandmother. lost all my teeth several years ago,” “Fine!” rejoined Witte, with a look of relief, as he handed her a handful believe I can help the President a bit in the greatest of all his tasks, there- by differing from nearly every one else I know, I say not @ single word, therefore, while the German colonies are being dis- membered and the submarines sunk and the Rhine fortresses seized by long distance j!ngoes, But as I pack one book after an- other in the haphazard fellowship of & belated moving day—the only day when Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray may be found cheek by jowl with Bos- sut's Sermons and Pilgrim's Progress —I am reminded of another moving day across the ocean—a day of mov- ing accelerated by American bay- onets, and I wonder if that typically German person, Frau Augusta Vic- toria Hohenzollern, ts thinking about moving out of the palace at Potadam —and what are her reflections if she ts. Mine 1s not one of those dull, im- personal movings in which so many times in a life every New Yorker participates. When you go from a landlord you have never seen te an- other you will never see there can be little sentiment and no regret in the hegira. Dut T am leaving a house in which several persons I know were born and courted and married before 1 came to tt. And when I give it up some of them will move back to it jagain, Bo I am anxious to have it just as pleasant and comfortable as porsible when I bid it good-bye. Suppose, I am thinking, that in- stead of living here for eight years with their consent, I had forced my way into the house, with torch and bayonet, and machine gun, and that at last they were compelling me to EDITOR Wednesday, October 16, 1918 IAL PAGE the Way _ by The F (The New York & By J. H. Cassel! ||Marria ge-- How to Weather It By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), 11.—The Squaw-Wife sits by the door Squaw-wife is a chassees down .to weve Somane had for nothing. Don't misunderstand me, cept that the Afr: basis. The woman with a profe: tired. It is SO old-fashioned! another story. And that is what is the matter a superhuman man can weather it! | dentally of his self-respect. equally divided. | molluse-wife, the spoiled butterfly, fli and indiscretions, success of marriage. | the really successful marriage, as well as your playmate and your Greenwich Village to Reno! chop down the fruit trees in the gar den, pull the roses and peonies up by the roots, ..ad then say as I ex- tended a bloody hand: “Come, let's pe friends now and forget all about it?" And would they pay much attention to me if I did? “But you are not German," I an- swered myself, “You do not under- stand the German manner of moving. You know very well that every time you have crossed the German frontier you have felt as if the figures in a sort of comic geometry had come to Ufe, and that after God created the world he left the designing of Ger- mans to Euclid, And you have known all along that when it was finished and Germany had proved to herselt| that the sum of the squares of aj hundred thousand murdered women nd children equalled the square of a million torpedoed ships and devas- tated homes, which was to be demon- strated, the professor would wipe the sum off the blackboard with a heavy sponge and it would be all over + the next lesson,” And then my thoughts travel back to Frau Hohenzollern, and I wonder —just supposing she has to move— whether the Potsdam Palace will be looted and wrecked before the family gets out. And I hope the wreckers may extend their ministra- tions to all the terrible Berlin statu. ary that has not gone into cannon. Frau Hohenzolern will do exactly what she Is told to do, of course She will act in accordance with the maxim of that excellent German | poet, the late Herr von Milton, who! with von Shakespeare was falsely | imed by the egre | “He for Gott only, She for Gott in him," Frau Hohenzollern knows that| woman's ovly business is beef, And that after she has contributed as many beefy boys to the army as pos- sible, she can at least get beefier and beefier herself. So she will not van- ture to make any remarks on any subject, but will begin to pack when she 4s instructed to do #0. After ali she is lucky to be alive. For the most efficient eMciency would have destroyed several years ago all Ger- | not actually getting anything to say. The Crown Prince proves that, For no son of a func- ioning mother could have grown up 49 ruthless, selentless, remoiseless 1s that simpering satyr. I remember reading somewhere that the Crown Prince has for years made « collection of Napoleon's shoes, and I have speculated as to which pair he intended to wear on that fa- mous Christmas Day, 1914—when his juled entrance into Paris never happened. Napoleon's shoes proved too big for any Hohengzollern, Re- membering this, will Frau Auguste pack them up and take them along with her prayer books, her recipes for red cabbage, soup and coffee cake, and the rest of the equipment of the Kaiser's “perfect woman?” I am not saying that Frau Hohen- zollern ought to move, is going to move, or will have to move, For I am not taking part in the Peace Con- erence going on about me as I pack ny books. Ihave been an understudy of Aquarius, the water-bearer, for a long time now, and I am willing to leave to the President anyway, the question of whether or not @ notice of eviction shall be pasted on the front door at Potsdam, Moving Day for Mrs. Hohenzollern |The Jarr A Few Reflections on What the “ All-Highest’s” Frau Might Feel if Compelled to Vacate Her Suite at the Potsdam Apartments, By Nixola Greeley-Smith 18. by The Press Publishing Go, (The Now York Evening Work!), Copyright, 1918 nv ‘The Press Publishing Co (The New York Evening World.) 66]'VE invited Prof, Pomfret and if his wife home to dinner with hatred woman, who looked like a ca- nary, and, as it transpired, had about the same mental equipment as that feathered twitterer, us,” said Mrs, Jarr, “Do Mot! «1 am go glad it has stopped rain- try to teil your old funny stories tO) ing at last, although I suppose tt the Professo: and his wife, They are intellectual people and will not be at all interested in the ish soldiers said in the tre side-splitting |* « whimsicalities as to what funny things negro soldiers, Irish soldiers and Jew- ches—the was good for the crops,” said Mrs, rsation, ‘Since deforestation has practically Jarr, starting the . denuded the seaboard States,” sald Prof. Pomfret, who could talk tn- terestingly on any subject, even kind of stories you re‘n'! to YOUT| crops and the weather, “the precipi- friend Gus, the saloon! and Mr./ tation of moisture in this section has Slavinsky, the glass *, and/ been erratic and intermittent.” your other associates!’ “Me? I'm the highbrow husband,” “No word shall escape me to affront the most erudite or shock the supersensitive and fastidi- said Mr, Jarr. ous.” And he allowed himself to be led into the front room to again meet Mr, Jarr wasn't to be out talked on anything you might mention, “The modera science of irrigation,” ho ventured, “especially in what were formerly arid lands in the West, has had, I understand, a wonderful effect in influencing a rainfall where there was none before, In other words, Prof. Ponsonby Pomfret and his wife.| putting water on the land brings ‘The Professor was a tiny, smug-look- ing man, with an aquiline nose and a His wife was a little blue-eyed, yellow- heavy mop of hair, worn long. A Series of Plain How Can I Cure My Boy ORE mothers perhaps turn gray Mere this out-at-night problem than any other, And there is some reason for their anxiety. One mother writes to me: “My nine-year- old boy is begin- ning to want to stay out at night. He knows that 1 want him to, but lately has deen promising ‘to be in house at eight o'clock, and in till ten or after, I always sit up till he comes, Please tell me how to manage him,” One thing absolutely essential for you to do is to make unmistakably clear to this boy that you simply will |not tolerate his being out till ten o'clock. The next time he is out late go to bed whenever you get ready. If it ts your custom, say "(Good night” to him when he comes to bed. It will be natural for you to use a tone that ‘suggests you are worried or “put but this likely would have an do not he the get out, would I—could I-break ap of walnuts, “Hold these, please, 1 go and get some move’ mae bia Telegraph. ~~ coe neamagtontinmaneneenannee neo the pictures, stain the walls and asi). nek oe man women beyond the child-bearing ane. [pre ond corpets, burn up furniture, | Frau Hohenzollern never has irable effect upon the boy. Say Mood meght! ing natural, friendly which euggevts that you are Talks to Parents By Ray C. Beery, A. B., M.A., Pres.of the Parents’ Association of Staying Out at Night? calm and have absolute control yourself, Most parents in a similar case make the mistake of “lining up” the child immediately house, They after he reaches the child argues with the parent or, the parent shows a great deal of tem- per and 1s not inclined to allow the| child to argue, the child is &ntago- nized and in most cases he will dis- obey again, partly to convince the parent that he used the wrong meth- od, with wrong methods, But DO something the next morn- ing. To let the incident pass alto- gether simply would be foolish, next morning, soon after breakfast, when you and he both are in a good mood, ask him in a friendly manner to come into the other room with you, Point out a chair for him to occupy and you take one, pulling it up within Con- sclously keep yourself relaxed and maintain as natural an expression on Now in start- ing to talk to him make every word TAKE YOUR TIME Pro~ nounce gach word slowly, Gappoma- about three feet of him, your face possible, ‘oount. of invariably scold the child and show that they are dis-| gusted. On account of this fact, the it Children are easily disgusted The water on the land.” “The so-called arid lands, when irri- gated, are wondrously fertile,” re- plied Prof, Pomfret. “In the New Making the Most of Our Children thing like this: “This morning I have something to tell you. I want you to remember it all of your life. We do all we can to please you. We do the best we know how. We want to do even more in the future for you, I am not going to scold you for any- thing you have done in the past or for what you did last evening, but tt must never, NEVER be repeated. 30 long as you remain in this house and we treat you like a respectable son, it will be necessary for you to do what we ask of you. We shall not ask what is unreasonable, but after this you are to be at home by half past 8. We shall expect you in by that time every evening. You are to remember this, We are going to treat you right and you are going to treat us the same way. This will be a much better way to get along.” Rise from your chair and prepare to go to your work, Make it a point for a few days to show favors to the son + | frequently and make him like you better than ever before, If a second talk is necessary, do not lose your temper, but be more firm in letting him understand you will not tolerate further repetitions, Your husband should strongly co-op- erate with you in using this method, especially if you are obliged to de- prive him of certain privileges which he would like better than his evenings out, ight, 2918, The Parents’ Aso- ciation, (Copy fifty” marriage, the marriage that is based on “economic equality.” RE you « Squaw-wife? A You don’t understand? Well, the Indian lady does the planting, sowing, harvesting and wood gathering. to the little tepee, and does the grinding, cooking, weaving and nursing, while her ornamental husband Then she pirouettes back and does the grunting. The modern ‘glad, free, independent woman,” who @ business office every morning, doea the marketing on her way home, washes the dishes if necessary, gets up the laundry and pays her “share” of the rent, &c. She is SO independent! selt SO advanced and ultra-modern—and yet one cam scarcely perceive any difference between her posi- tion and that of the savage wife of Central Africa, ex- She fancies her- ican buys his wife, while she may be The economic equality of wives has become @ necessary feature of many marriages to-day. improvements” on matrimony. Financial independence {s a grand and glorious thing—and once you have tasted its sweets you are seldom willing to go back to the “What-did-you-do-witl-that-quarter-I-gave-you-last-week?” ion or a gift for earning money should not be denied the right to a home, happiness and the pursuit of a husband. | But all this hysterical talk about “woman's work” makes me exceedingly Woman has always been permitted to work —she always will be permitted to work. Man has never refused to share/ his responsibilities with her; it’s his pleasures and privileges. It 18 one of the “modern But that’s It is only the antique women who are still sighing for “the chance to do the same work as a man;” what the modern woman is sighing for is a man who will do the same work as she does. with the Ideal Marriage—the “fifty- Only Every man is potentially a savage, Take away his responsibility and you rob him of his backbone and incl- The average man is a born “playboy,” and it is | nothing but necessity, or responsibility, or conscience, that drives him to work. When you find a man who “loves to work for work's sake’ because his particular work—writing or money-making or law—happens to be his favorite “game,” the most amusing thing on earth to him. You never hear a man crying for the privilege of doing “woman's work,” do you? *=*~« ‘ The trouble is that “woman's work,” like' every other kind, is too un- : it ia On the one hand there is the Squaw-wife trying to hold | two jobs—the office job and the home job. On the other hand there fs tho tting from tea to dinner, and to danca, with no job at all except to keep properly manicured and either bore her husband to death or worry and work him to death with her extravaganco The Squaw-wife can make a mollycoddle out of the best sort of man. The Butttrfly makes a very poor wife, but she usually succeeds in making @ successful husband out of any sort of man. That's why so many brilliant women make a foolish failure, and 90 many fool-women make a brilliant But the Ideal Marriage {s a “fifty-fifty” marriage—a marriage based on true reciprocity—the “I'll-broil-the-chops-wh!le-you-peel-the-potatoes' “T'll-be-a-mother-and-a-cook-if-you'll-be-the-provider” keep-my-job-and-pay-my-share-if-you'll-keep-yours-and-herp-with-the-dtshes” platform. That's the only really happy domestic partnership, the only idea; * basis; the “I'll. Be an economic factor in your marriage if you want to; be a femlidst if you like; but DON’T be a Squaw-wife! fifty” affair and that your husband 1s your help-mate and your yoke-mate, ; See that your marriage is a “fifty- soul-mate. Greenwich Village is the” favorite habitat of the Squaw-wife—and the shortest trip on earth {s from” By Roy L. McCardell England States, on sandy or clay; soil, it is necessary to use etght to/ twelve tons of fertilizer per acre for’ one crop per year, while, without the, aid of fertilizers, they can raise two) crops a year on most irrigated land, | especially in the case of alfalfa.” “Who is she?” asked Mrs, Pomfret, “Eh?” said the Professor, with « start. hat is it, my dear?” 4 The lady canary stamped hee little feet, t “I just want you to stop boasting’ about those silly women who make such a fuss over you, Pensy,” she twittered, “That one woman you are always talking about, especially.” “What woman do you mean?” asked’ the bewildered Professor, “That woman Alfalfa,” cried the Professce’s wife, “Why, alfalfa is a grass"—~ “Yes, I know,” chirruped the canary, in her piping little voice, “A grass widow, And they're the very worst kind!” The Professor sighed and rolled up: his eyes, and then turned to Mr. Jarr! and continued: “On the steppes of Russia the grow- ing of grain differs seasonably thani with us. In the Central and Western States corn may be planted along, about April 1, while in New England States it is not safe to seed before May 10 to the 30th, In irrigation at all times"—— “I just knew he was going to say something mean!" cried the canary- like lady again, flourishing her hand- kerchief, as she spoke. “He nas no regard for my feelings, no matter where we are or who is present! dear!” asked the hapless professor. “You said that I was irritating you all the time," chirruped the profes. ! sor's lady heatedly. “Why, my dear, I was speaking of ‘irrigation’; I did not mention the word ‘irritation’ at all. I was about to say that irrigation at all times*— “It's all the same thing!" inter- rupted the lady canary, and, to prove it, she wept copiously on Mrs, Jarr’ shoulder; and that good lady patted her comfortingly, and said: “There, there dear, I know he didn't mean it!" pmarked the professor to “Do you think the Gov- |ernment will take for service abroad at ONCE, in reconstruction work | Mr, Jarr. man who knows horticultut | ture, forestry, botany, ever; that line, except husbandry?" But Mr. Jarr only shook his head, Reconstruction, he sald, should be ein at bome, , articule hing in 4 _ y \ “Why, what have I said now, my -“™ 1 there, a man over the draft age, @ =~ — \ } ‘ U