The evening world. Newspaper, October 21, 1918, Page 10

A E ight Months Bearing the Brunt of Try to Shift the Blame Upon the Desertion of | MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1918 at the Front ~ With the American Army A ONE-SIDED PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED. | Kaiser’s Claim on His Gott Apparently Has Beer : Relinquished Now That Wilhelm Seems to Be Defeat Alone, but He May His Once Condescendingly Designated ‘‘Ally.” By Martin Green (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World), God has been dissolved by band to show that he sald: “Full of talking about his Him at all. From knowledge of the PARTNERSHIP formed in August, 1914, between the Kaiser and the Kaiser, as is right and proper, for he declared himself into the partnership, and it is his preroga- tive to declare himself out There is no evidence at, God ever agreed to the Kali 's terms. On the first anniversary of the outbreak of the war, the Kaiser issued a proclamation to his people, in which | }, gratitade, we can say to-day that God was with us.” Frequently on subsequent occasions he referred to the partnership he had formed. while Germany was winning. ‘When Germany began to lose the Kaiser stopped | This was partner, and now he never mentions this we have a right to assume, from workings of the Kaiser's mind, that Real, Live Santa Claus, Who Lives in Brooklyn, Kiddies’ Own Toymaker MY he {s about to blame the loss of the war on his partner. | ‘We may look for the Kaiser to say: | “I did my part. My armies and navy did their part. My people did thelr part—but God ‘fell down on us.” | SL pee en a Banta ¢udus® CRANDALL WL A remarkable reversal in the attitude of the Kaiser {s revealed by 9 study of his utterances and writings during the w: » When setbacks Broke the morale of the German Army and it becamo evident that the tide @f battle had turned toward the Allies, the Kaiser developed a yellow | gtreak es broad as the Rhine. For instance, he sald early in August,| 1917, in an address to troops: “With the old German confidence in God we shall show what we can @o. The greater and mightier the grapple with it and solve it.” And «@ little later, In a message to ‘the Bremen Chamber of Commerce, the Kaiser said: “The malicious plans of our enemies Brave failed, owing to God's help and Germany's strength and endurance. German loyalty will frustrate all at- Lempts to part the people and their ‘Wmperor.” ‘The records of the winter of 1917 ‘betray no intimate references on the Kaiser's part to the alliance with American troops were then ar- in France and American divisions had taken thelr places In the trenches opposed to German forces, It was then that the Kalscr, who had persistently maintaind from the beginning of the war that Germany was not the aggressor, be~ gan to epread the world-wide net baited for pacifists in the Allied na- tions, This was the first trace of the yellow streak. ‘The Kaiser was not uninformed @bout the resources of the United States. He was guided by the coun- sels of his Generals as to our poten- ty) military strength, as 1s shown by Proclamations issued to his armics which paraphrased estimates of the ability of American military forces to make an impression on the prog- ress of the war, but he had in his councils also such men as Herr Bal- lin, the shipping genius of Germauy, and other commercial experts, who paid more attention to the financial #nd industrial resources of the new enemy than to the immature mili- tary establishment, Looking back over the situation, It 4s quite apparent that the Kaiser, be- cause of the wide ramifications of his information, was about the first of the German military autocracy to realize thet Germany was beaten, As an au- tocrat, controlling not only the miWi- tary but the diplomatic machinery of his country, he was confronted with the task of trying to get his enemies ~ to quit while he was in a position to trade with them. ' _ The widespread retreat in Helgium The Flags of the Allied Nations By T. L. Sanborn No. 17-—-PANAMA Panama HE little Republic of boasts one of the most striking | ei flags in the world, It vided into ters, the next t By) staff being white, quarter the lower @ag is red and the quarter below it white. The white quarter next the staff bears a blue star, the white Quarter at the fly nd a red 5 The Panama Constitution provides Gr a contest for the adoption of a Permanent flag, so the present banne Must be looked upon as merely tem porary. United States on April 7, 1917, he declaration of war on Germany com fing the very next day after ours. He Mesistance to us in the isthmus con Becting the two American " with our troops in pro- is di- quarter Panama threw in her lot with the continents be very valuable, as she is ready problem the more gladly we shall Ce EEE ‘and France is not one of absolute mil- itary necessity, In many sections the Germans are running away without | firing a shot. In some sectors whicn are being attacked by Americans the Germans are resisting vigorously and viciously, because if the Americans break through to the south the fleeing armies to the north will be wiped out. ‘The Kaiser is now a diplomat, work- ing on the feelings of his own people as well as on the sympathies of enemy peoples, and he ts leaving the strictly military aspects of the situation to his military aide, It ts significant that the Kaiser's voluntary severance of his partner- ship with God dates from the timo when, owing to the pressure of strength from the United States, ne was compelled to turn to the pen and leave the wielding of the sword to subomiinates. “A claim of a working agreement with the Almighty does not get very far in the cold ceremonies of diplomatic correspondence. Speaking of the change from the sword to the pen on the part of tho Emperor of Germany brings up a speech he made to officers of the army at the unvetling of a statue to Freder- ick the Great near Berlin in June, 1903, ‘That was cleven years before Germany declared war on Russia and immediately moved against France, ‘The Kaiser said on that occasion: “Where the pen alone no longer suffices it must be supplemented by the keen edged sword.” How times have changed! Some fifteen years after that declaration the Kaiser ts compelled to drop his keen edged sword and take his pen in hand and what he writes is signed by others. As far back as ten years ago the Kalser, in an address at cavalry manoeuvres near Berlin, and in the presen of several foreign military attaches, sald, with reference to al- leged activities on the part of Great Uritain and France: “Well, it looks as if they desired to encircle us and challenge us, We shall be able to bear that. The Ger- man has never fought better than | when be was obliged to defend him- self on all sidey at once, We are ready.” The time has come when the Ger- | man Is In full retreat toward his home | territory, where he is faced by the prospect of defending himself on all des at once, But he doesn't want to fight At the opening of the Reichstag on Feb, 7, 1912, the Protestant Depuues attended services in the Palace ,| Chapel, which were conducted by the Rey, Jobannes Kritzinger, the court (the o! with sult hath lost its savor, iall it be salted? It is there. fore J for nothing but to be cast out and to be tedden under the foot of men," » German salt of the earth has st its savor | . A TIME SAVER, “ are not making any °| eches just now.” | No," replied Senator 1 have one in mind, but I y whether I'll take the ume where- * By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copynght, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Rvening World), ANTA CLAUS celebrated his birthday yesterday. For there {s a real live Santa Claus right here in New York | His name is Jesse Armour Crandall, He was eighty-five years old yesterday and all his life he has been inventing and mak- ing toys to give happiness to children. He lives at No. 403 Madison Street, Brogklyn, and he still works every day mending broken toys and desicning new ones. He made the first rocking horse with springs, the first tricycle, the first improved velocipede. He made the magic target, a toy which has evoked the laughter of thoneanda of children, and grownups as well. When rid the shot lands squarely in the bull's eye of this target, ees {ts face changes into another which wears a wide grin. Mr. Crandall constructed the first doll’s swing, and the band power car for children which Xe made years ago and called the “American speeder” was the grandfather of all toy automobiles. A fascl- nating toy devised by this really-truly @——————_——_ Santa Claus is the nursery beach, with bits of bath houses and sand which can be modelled into all sorts of shapes. "The magic egg 's another of Mr. Cran- 5 of the design for a new toy and Jump- ing out of bed draw it quickly on a| slip of paper, Then I made the model myself. I can work in either wood or Trish Tenor Tells Plans He’s Made for Educating Ten Orphans He Adopted He Celebrated His Eighty-fth Birthday Yesterday, and Told| He Cabled Five Nieces and Five Nephews Made Parentless How All His Life He’s Been Inventing and Making Toys to Give Happiness to Children, and Has Learned What Playthings the Kiddies Like Best. by U Boat, “I’ll Be Your Father—I Can’t Give You the Love of Your Own Father, but All I Have Is Yours,” and He’s Already Planning to Make Good His Promise. Wis Wire, rr) aac JOM MG CORNET ane Given: single day, but that is what happened to John McCormack, the singer. He has adopted ten U boat orphans, From « lurking place on the coast of Belgium a German sea-terror crept out in the mists of the evening and struck a terrible blow at the kin of the Irish tenor. Five little boys and five girls of tender age—the youngest a babe scarco out of arms, and the oldest not yet elxteen—have been left fatherless and motherless; and, except for the generosity of the singer, they would have been thrown on the mercy of the world. They are the nephews and ries ——————— [ isn't often'a man has his family increased with ten children in a | Being a private doesn’t mean that you are. | ROD dall’s inventions, from which, when you press a concealed spring, a chick- en pops, Another toy he put on the market is the crowing egg, which makes a noise like @ rooster every time a child blows into it. Mr. Crandall, perhaps because he has worked for the young all his life, {s still a remarkably spry and youth- ful person, Hx stoops the merest trifle, his brown eyes are bright and keen beneath his soft the tch of white hair, his hearing 1s excellent and he does not even walk with a cane, His smnile is as kindly as that of jolly old St. Nick in the legend, although the Brooklyn Santa clips his whiskers more trimly, “All my life T have been making he told me, “I am an Amert- 'd have to go back several cen- turies to tell you how much of an American I am. One of my ancestors, John Brown, landed at Plymouth in 1620 with the Pilgrim Fathers, My father manufactured baby carriages and doll carriages first in Bristol, KR. L, then in New York. “At that time the holes for spokes in the wheel rim of the baby earrlage had all to be punched by hand. I got so tired of doing it, when I was a small boy, that at eleven I invented a machine which would punch them all at once, My father thought it was pretty wonderful. “When I was twenty I invented several devices to give comfort to crippled children, a field of designing which always has been of great in- terest to me, Vor years T had my own toy store he n New York, 1 have taken out over one hundred and fifty patents.” Besides those already here are some of Mr, Crandal tYings: The ico sleigh, the sled, which can be converted mentioned, play folding Into next the taff,| preacher. The te: staff, | preacher, jo text for the sermon,| other a girl's or a boy’s sled, the blue; while the| selected by the Emperor, was from ‘ ; Chinaman party, the dude party, talk- PANAMA upper quarter at| M.tthew v., 13, ne cutsere Poymi, pend tore the the fly-end of the! ‘Ye are the salt of the earth; but If] si sofiy horse, the jisger horse, One| of his most pi is found in ¢ the nest of b Ja Chinese puz most every nurs ucted like cks cons with ¢ ch hollow the outside covered with or the letters of the aly abet, vas ridden by the Prince of Wales VIL." Mr. Crandall told he answered an tion of mine, “Ll have always been tremendously fond of children, 1 had five of my own, four grandchildren proudly, > non. inventions, which | ts} ol block fitting snugly inside another, | pictures “One of my spring rocking horses | & who afterward became King Edward | now," Mr, Crandal! admitted in con- ther ques- and now one little great-granddaugh- fer, Often in the night I would think | lite’ metal without difficulty, Finally, I tried the toy out on my children, If they Mked it and enjoyed playing with ‘it I knew tt would be popular with other boys and girls.” “What sort of toys have you found the American child Ikea best? I asked Mr, Crandall, “They ike toys with oscillation or motion of some sort,” he replied. |The American child ts naturally ac- tive physically and has an inquiring mind, He likes a toy with ‘go’ to it, ji-d mechanism ef any sort fascl- }ntes him, | “It is quite as important to con- | sider girls in the making of toys as thelr brothers, because girls stay in| the house more than boys and need things with which to amuse them- selves, Dolls, as every one knows, are popular with them, but @ girl |w ats something L...ces a doll, She | wants clothes for it and @ carriage jand a doll house with furniture, a! doll’s kitchen with d:s!.es, even dolis' | | playthings—such as the swing which! I was the first to invent, In short,| she wants to duplicate as nearly as possible for her doll her own life and the Ife around her.” | Mr, Crandall believes that the toy- maker of Nuremberg and his busi-| § associates will not find favor in America for a long time to come, “It will be American toys for American children for many years," he assured me, “I don’t see how an American child could want to play with a toy made in Germany, I don't how an American father or mother could bear to purchase @ toy by fiends who butcher! little babies and abuse their mothers, Yhe American toymaker has @ won- derful opportunity at present” I spoke of the tremendous popu- larity of military toys, for I have won- dered if this means that the next generation is going to be interested in war as much as we are sickened by it~wrimiy determined though we be to carry it through to its rightful con- tol n | here will be a reaction from mili- | tary toys,” the old toymaker prophe- ied confidently, “People are go sick| ‘Jot war and all its horrors that when | peace comes they will want to put away from them the things that sug- st it, For I believe the world is rmined to make this the last war, can't stop inventing toys even made ose de! clusion, "I came to this store to put back the growls In toy lions and that sort of th but L tind T am never N}too old to think of something new, 1|1am not working for money; I never have wanted that, But to make things of Mr. and Mrs. McCormack, the chil- | dren of Mr. and Mra, Thomas Foley of Dublin, who lost their lives when | the Dublin mail boat, Leinster, was sunk last week in the Irish Channel by one of Von Tirpits'’s sea sharks when on the way from Dublin to Holyhead, with @ resultant death list of 480 persons. Mrs. Foley was the sister of Mrs. McCormack, who was Miss Lily Fo- | ley, a beautiful Dublin girl, Miss Lily | was a member of the Irish Village at the St. Louis Exposition when ste married the tenor, And so Cyril and Gwen, the pretty little McCormack children, are to have five brothers and five ag soon as the details can be attended to. ‘The news ef the sad blow to rela- tives of the McCormack family came when they were at dinner Thursday evening in their summer home, Toke- neke Park, Collenders’ Point, bag 4 @ half miles from Noroton, ety ee knew nothing about the tragedy until @ messenger boy brought @ cablesram, which read: “Tom and Charlotte were drowned on the Leinster, Bodies not recovered." This was from another sister in Dublin, Mrs. McCormack was 8° overcome that she has been ill In bed ever since, but the singer's first thoughts were of the children, whon he had last seon happy and pollieking in Dublin just before the outbreak war in 1914, Saclon, THEN AND THERE, TO CARE FOR THE YOUNGSTERS. “We must do something for the kiddies, Lily,” he prs his wife, ba ust be looked @ ter,” et {mmediately sat down and cabled to the eldest in Dublin not to worry; that he would care for them as long as he lived, Then he wrote em a letter, rn be your father,” he said. “I can't give you the love of your owa father, but all I have {s yours.” Whether he will bring the young- sters to America, Mr, McCormack has not decided but he does not think so, as they have two aunts and @ grand- mother in Dublin, But this !s what he intends doing for them, he told a reporter for the Evening World to-day: Pay for the maintenance of the ten. Send the youngest to kindergartens, Educate them at private schools, See that the girls have finishing cours which make the happiness of little echildren—that is my idea of @ happy 9. 4 tone ilnntnnae Make a place in the world assured for all, All of the ginger’s concert engage- ments have been called off by the in- fluenza epidemic, he sald to-day, but} he would have called them off any- way. “I have no song in me just now,” he sald. The singer is staying at his sum- mer home near Noroton, a beautiful estate of eight ecres fronting on Long Island Sound, but withal there is scarcely enough room for ten more tousled youngsters. The house, an old hollow tile Colonial structure, is set in the midst of a wooded knoll flanked by tennis courts and drives winding to the Connecticut road. “Mr. McCormack ts walking across country and Mrs. McCormack is ili in bed,” a butler announced when @ re- porter called, Outside a motor purred at the door and @ snappy Pekinese resented the intrusion. From a three-wheel coach on the porch a doll hung limp and lonesome—the children were away. Across country the reporter started and overtook the singer and his valet striding up a road. But it was a dif- ferent John McCormack from he of the concert stage. Not the immacu- late and debonair minstrel, but a rugged athlete, dressed in tweed knickerbockers, sweater and slouch hat, with hard lines in his face, LATEST GERMAN ATROCITY STIRS THE IRiSH TENOR. “Mr MeCormack—about the Foley children” “Lon't speak of It,” he said, wheel- ing with clenched fist, “It's the most Jamnable thing that has happened since the Lusitania.” The singer was genuinely agitated and strode up and down the road sev- eral times before he became calm, Then he said: . “I hope this outrage will wake up) some of those Sinn Feiners in Dub- lin, I hope it will teach those Irish agitators we are not fighting the Eng- sh, but a monster that they have simply got to help crush, The singer kicked at a stone+vi- ctously and then continued: “This is a terrible thing, and has brought the war right home to my own bedroom, a clear sky. We were eating dinner, contented and happy, when the tele- gram arrived. Just think of those poor souls. They had not been to Tendon since they went on thelr honeymoon, and the second time they tried to go they went—to death, “They had received word that Chris. Barrett, a Sergeant in the British Army, and Mrs, Foley's only brother, who had been wounded in fou ho It came right out of| MONDAY, Love Letters From a Candidate To a Candidatéss BY CANDIDATE ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER (13th Training Battery, Camp Zachary Taylor, iy.) Camp Zach, Oct. 9, 1918. EAR MAE—Aithough only one week has rattled by on the calen- dar since I last wrote to you, I am at least eleven decades older, and you can spell that “decayed” if you want to. They woke us up one fine morning this week and introduced the bunch to a complete set of artillery horses. I sure drew a razzberry. I got a nag with an awful nervous backbone. I climbed up on his suspender but- tons and stayed there about as long as one apple would last in an orphan asylum. a When they brought me to I was on a back, all right, but not the horse's. I didn’t know how that gird threw me, as I used to ride all those zebras down on the Coney wi Island carrousels, and I never got thrown once. Why, I used to get the brass ring more than any one on the {sland So I got up on that nag’s spine again, and the first thing I knew I was on my own spine. I was madder than a cat with walnut shells on his feet and I grabbed that old nag by the ears and hopped on his collarbone again. I figured that the first two tumbles were accidents, but when that ple-faced bird tossed me again I knew different. The first two may have been accidents, but the third was dif- ferent. I never yet saw an accident that stuttered. At the present writing I am in a quandary. I have to do al! my writing on a mantelpiece, and there aren't many mantelpleces in the army. Therefore, if you want me to keep up our correspondence you had better send me a chiffonier or something. I haven't got my commish yet I am still a private, but not very. Any time the B. C. wants That darned whistle inter- If it weren't for the classes “When they brought me te © was on a buck, all right, bat not me he has a whistle blown and off we go. rupts my sleep about fourteen times a day. I wouldn't get any sleep at all. ‘That is all for to-day, dear, as I hear that whistle tooling, which means that I have a date with a mop. Yours until the moon melt | HOW TO MOUNT A HORSE. With the Regulation O. D. Stepladder. At the chirp, prepare to mount, clatter up the stepladder and vol- plane to the horse's back. This {s not only the best way to get resulis, but also the quickest, as only six days elapse between ine time you leave the stepladder and the time your widow draws your first month's insurance, Without Stepladder. Seize the reins in your left mitt. Grab your salmon-colored card in your right hand. This keeps two of your hands busy Use, the others to assist you in the saddle. Place the left foot in the stirrup and spring lightly up into the mezzanine floor, where the saddle showld be. You will either light in the saddle or in the place where the eaddle was a minute ago. If tho horse isn't where you thought he was, don't be disappointed. Even Houdin! couldn't get out of @ strail- jacket the first time he tried. If you can’t get on a horse without a stepladder, keep on trying. The first eleven years are the worst. If your mount throws you, try to land in the position of attention. Position of Attention When Being Tossed From a Saddie. | Neck well bent and folded up inside your hat. Head on the ground and at an angle of 45 degrees. Teeth loose and hanging naturally*at the sides. Feet alert and sweeping the horizon. Knees shaking in cadence of 180 to minute, Reins somewhere in the near vicinity. Back up and arched like an angry cat. Shoulder blades flat on the ground but not locked. Chest drawn in and breath knocked out. The position may be modified to suit varying conditions and unusual con- formations. Men Injured in War Need Many Mechanical Aids T easily manipulated, for the use of crippled officers and men, Bicycles are becoming tncreagingly IERE is a constantly increasing demand in Europe for tricycies and motor cars and other me- care vt gland. Wheels chanical appliances for men who have | scarce al é lost limbs during the war. It Is e8- able é s to $38 ow timated that In Great Britain alone lig obtain alps | trom 600,000 to 1,000,000 tools suitable |Cripples’ chat Mund treeoies have become dificult ty ob- ltor use by men having an artificial larm te enable them to carry on their previous trades as plumbers, black- |Pmiths, carpenters, &c., could be sold. \One expert claims that there is at present a market for at least 100,000 small motor cars or electric tricycles, wet and simply constructed and Se eS ae ob France, was dying in @ London hos- ‘hey took the frat bont out.) tory way. I \ ned to be the Leinster.| them and see t ave th | t ut I would torpedoed. 4 ‘don't it 5 those two on an errand What about peace w those cowardly curs wa climbing elactric trievel y stood legle need, pital. best ag them ives in terrible, Just think of | J¢ 4 of mercy, and iting outside | Of warfare is gotr em without giving them “Peace! Don't ta to Kill thomd think of those ten little |replicd the singer L}on a hard g jing le thiy kind n| aah ae i bis eyes took chance. ones, made orphans in a night. \gon't know what the Irish over the can be thinking of to stand back | th when outrages like this are going on.| * “They should know that this is not, brought abé an English war,” he repeated, “It's!they will have to nccept oF noly war, a war of humanity|Will givo them, fgainst beasts, against savages. 1) “But.” and the tonor been “fan Y could do something, but all 1/1 think they arc win do ia to look after the children, |!# coming to thom ‘1 don't know when I have had|man with a anything to affect me so. Mrs, Mo- Cormack ls so ill she can't get out of ie only th \Ider, f what There ism little & brain down in Wash- who can ha th rowd, T Mr. Wilson, I é to 4 ington am ag at admirer of oan worship at } 1am satlsfed PLANS FOR THE CHILDREN AND/‘° ‘eave It all (o bim and=that js all FROWNS ON PEACE TALK. \" want to say Phe singe .pulled up his - cat ‘What are you going to do for the and started up the He hy ‘ome children?” finished a flye-mile walk and wow “Everything I cam. I will see that for a round of golf. a