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THAT “ACTUAL STANDARD.” ILE procedure of evacuation and the conditions of an armistice, iy the latest German note sets forth, “should be left to the judgment of the military advisers,” while “the actual standard of power on both sides in the field has to form the basis of arrange- ents saf ' llow would Germans apply the “actual-standard-of-power-on- both-sides-in-the-field” formula to the conditions of an armistice,| eupposing it to be German military power that had fought its way to Supremacy? | ‘The answer is the armistice convention of Jan. 28, 1871, pre-| liminary to the Treaty of Frankfort which ended the Franco-German| War. The convention signed at Versailies Jan. 28, 1871, was nothing more nor less than an armistice by the conditions of which victorious Germaus dictated their own terms to defeated French. | ‘Ten of the fifteen articles of this armistice.convention dealt with the capitulation of Paris. Beyond provisions as to French and Ger-| man naval forces, captures, and the maintenance of French public) funds and securities intact, the armistice conditions are thus sum- marized by Coleman Phillipson in his “Termination of War and| Treaties of Peace” published two years ago: - The remaining articles provided for the delivery of the | fortresses of Paris with their guns; the surrender of the armed | garrisons except a certain number of men for internal service in Paris, who were to be délivered-up if peace was not con- cluded at the expiration of the armistice; the payment by Paris of a “war contribution of two hundred million francs”—which was more like a ransom; the employment of the National Guard | and gendarmerle; the disbanding of the franctireurs;,the | movement of persons subject to permits; the immediate ex- | change of prisoners—not mutual restoration, which takes | place after the conclusion of peace—Iincluding civil prisoners, €. g, captains of the German merchant marine and French | civilians interned in Germany. | “The entire arrangement,” notes Phillipson, “thus possesses a| one-sided vharacter, and is far from being an armistice proper, which| is essentially a bilateral transaction, giving mutual concessions and| imposing mutual restrictions.” ; | “Apperently, the possession of superior physical force sancti| fies irregu!arities.” Does Germany admit this precedent established by its own use of the “actual standard of power on both sides in the field” as a “basis for arrangements safeguarding and guaranteeing this standard”? | And what about another German precedent taken from the game pericd: | When, in January, 1871, it became a question of concluding a general armistice looking to the restoration of peace between France| ad Germany, did Bismarck accept the de facto Government of! sce at that period—the Government of National Defence—as| fully empowered to treat for the French nation? He did not. On the contrary: He first demanded (in @ note of Jan, 14) that this Govern- ment should be formally recognized by a National Assembly of representatives of the French people, in order that its engage- ments might not afterward be repudiated as the acts of an incompetent body. Accordingly, a etipulation was inserted iv the preliminary Treaty of Versailles (Art. X.), Feb. 26, 1871, that It should be immediately submitted to the ratification of the French National Assembly sitting at Bordeaux; and Art. | XVIII. of the definitive Treaty of Frankfort, May 10, 1871, re- } quired a similar ratification within ten days, President Wilson has made complete elimination of the auto- cratic principle from the Government of Germany—“the destruction} of every arbitrary power that can separately, secretly and of its own! single choice disturb the peace of the world’—a paramount condition| of peace with the German nation. Would it then be unreasonable to demand a general election in Germany as one of the surest ethots of furnishing those guarantees of a German Government speaking for the German people upon which the President has declared he will insist? Bismarck took a similar precaution—with far less at stake. Will Germans say Bismarck blundered ? ——_——=+. Oranges are selling at $1.80 fer dozen in New York mar kets, Golden apples? + It does not look much as if the Peace Conference would meet in the balls of Altruria ———<— guarding and guaranteeing this standard.” Hl | considered, “Don't Know Me, Do You?” Why You Catch Spanish Influenza By Bernarr Macfadden Author Macfadden’s Encyclopedia of Physical Culture—This Is the See} ond in a Series of Articles. SC ceonen influenza is probably re- sponsible for more deaths at the present time than the war in France an, Flanders. A large pro- portion of t' -so deaths are prevent- able, and a corresponding proportion of the morbidity caused by the dis- ease is equally unnecessary. | In my previous article I promised | to present details of treatment, I be- lieve it ts far better to give you some further information as to why and how you acquire this complaint before presenting t?. article referred to, which will follow, ‘Whether the germ theory of the dis- order is correct or not need not be At the present stage of the epidemic it is of little practical Importance. If the disease is caused by a germ the infective organism has now escaped all bounds. It ts circu- lating by millions wherever people congregate, Therefore, your best pro- tection is to make yourself Immune. The measures necessary to gain this end would protect you against any disease, whether caused by a germ or not. Granting the germ disease, Spanish influenza comes to you because you are fertile sa! When you plant corn or potatoes ta a | grows, multiplies, and so creates the disease with gvhich its name ts as- sociated, In the absence of these cle- ments it dies, Just as the corn aad potatoes wiil die when any of tho ele- theory of the| part, cannot be fertile soil for any disease germ. This is recognized by medical men, and was confirmed by some experiments made to test the communicability of typhold, pneu- monia, diphtheria and tuberculosis, reported a couple of years ago by “The Lancet,” the leading medical journal gf Canada, Virulent typhoid germs were in- jected into various food products, which were then eaten by forty-five volunteers. In no one of these sub- jects was there a development of typhoid, or the least apparent avil consequences, Nineteen similar +x- periments were made with pneumonia \germs, \:ith similar results, Forty- elght experiments were made with diphtheria germs, the bacilll being nor only swallowed in various food pro- ducts, but the nose and throat of the forty volunteers being swabbed with them, Not one of the subjects de- veloped diphthe sia. It is not likely that the germ of /EDITORIAL;-PAGE | Wednesdey, October 23, Spanish influenza can bear up any | A Series of Plain | garden they v i not grow unless cer-| By Ray C, Beery, A.B.» tain elements are present in the soll. It ie the sane way with germs. Tney| How to Teach Self-Control. require certain elements to make Ciem OU can't teach a child self-con- grow. When a germ finds a soil cva- vy trol by talking or exhorting taining these elements, it takes rvot, Were it possible’ to do this, the average child would be perfect- ly self-controlied, because the ma- jority of children i Letters From the Peo ple mente essential to their life are lack- are talked to 4 A Little Telephone Talk, “cut off,” “cross . ie | Une : a-plenty. othe Hu\lor of The Evening World: other “goat eters ‘anette pid pe. strong body, Bs Ad Srery An ilustration This certainly is a very opportune Mime for the New York Telephone Company to “apologize” for its “poor éervics.” I have been @ user of the telephone, both in my home and at hours are wasted. This has been going on long before the influenza e,idemic, but naturally the company must have some excuse and puts the blame on this. The company also sends around cards, | Busines, for a number of years and] 4#kinE the public not to use the phone wovssary. I am @annot remeber when the telephone | as the rest ‘and’ an) trying to comply @ompany bad “good service.” with the request as much as possibile, It is nevessury for me to use the Hak ween the comnehy finds that you reg more than your contract gone in connection with my business | cals for, they very bicely “ahd ase | More than the average person and I more time in connection with ice than anything else, T ixty to eighty ealls @ day, walting about o fore the operator gets on the wire, | extra charges for the same. Now| that the company is making a request to cut our calls as much as possible, is it ready to make a refund to ita becribers for the number of calls mot used under their contracts? If not, why no! appreciate readers’ views La ba aa \ PROFITABLE PENMANSHIP, POPULAR author was talking A to an old countryman about his books. “Do you know," he said, "I often got paid at the rate of 10 cents a word for my writings?” “Oh, that's nothing,” said the old man, somewhat contemptuously, “1 am not much of a writer myself, but when I do write I get paid 25 cents from Practical Child ‘Training will be helpful to per- sons who wish to teach self-control to their children, But a child is influenced more by what you do than by what you say. Let us take an example. A mother writes: fy four-year-old daughter has fallen into the habit of letting her self go all to pleces and screaming when any little @ work." thing goes wrong. “You do?” said the author laugh-|When everything goes smoothly, ingly. she is sweet as can be, Pleavo ad- “Yeu,” wag the reply. “When I go to the post-office on Friday ail I have vise me what to say or do when to do 1s to write ‘Thomas Hart’ on my pension form,”—Washingwon Timea, she loses control of herself.” When your ohild is in the midat of ott eet i “i 8, | or her good morals or good digestion, but for his or her “charming ways’ | fortable life-mate than a grouchy deacon. j “pig” the . — Marriage--How to Weather It By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wortd), —Have You a Little “Kultur” in Your Home? ERHAPS the one thing which has caused more women to take the train for Reno, and more men io take the downward path, tham anything else on earth is the tendency of husbands and wives to substitute “Germen Kultur” for French politeness in the, home. The “That-ain't-no-lady-that’s-my-wife” attitude on the one hand, and the “Anything-will-do-for-Joha” attitude on the other, are the brutal waves that wash all the pretty camouflage off of courtship and romanoe, and leave life utterly bare and commonplace. Just why it is so dificult to treat a husband like « “friend” or a wife like a “lady” is a mystery, Just why we are SO much more considerate of the feelings of @ casual acquaintance than we are of the feelings of the person we love most in the world; just why we are SO much more anxtous to make “a good impression” on a passing stranger than on the one person whose opinion matters most to. us, {s a‘deep dark puzzle. If husbands and wives would only be as “kind and polite” to each other as they are to the janitor, or the cook, or the hall boy, or the gas bill collector, say—or even to the stray tramp who comes begging a meal at the door! One wouldn't say to the tramp, for Instance, “Good gracious, are you going to sit down to the table in THOSE clothes? Why don’t you get a shaye?” But one will say it to one’s cherished and beloved husband. One wouldn’t go right on reading the war news without answering or looking up if che COOK happened to ask him how he liked the muffins. Byt ona” will do that to one’s adored yife, We shouldn't THINK of exclaiming “Oh, John!” and flinging him a black look if the casual guest spilled the cur. rant jelly on the best tablecloth; or of muttering “Great Scott! What HAVE yo" done?” if the chance caller knocked our favorite meerschaum off the desk. But we'll humiliate each other in that way right before them without a qualm. We are so considerate of other people's feelings; but once wo have taken a person for better or for worse he is not supposed to have any “feelings,” and his opinion of our breeding {s not of the slight. est importance. And then we wonder why all the star dust 1s so soon’ rubbed off our romance after marriage! Unfortunately, one doesn’t fall in love with a man or a woman for his and fascinating manners. And a nice, polite, considerate burglar, or pleasant Anantas, who never tells you the brutal truth, makes a more com- And a sweet-voiced, well-bi adventuress may be more satisfying as a wife than @ temperamental tactless saint. If you are afraid that your manners will wear out from too mucl usage, Why not “save them” for the one person in the world who holds your bappiness in the hollow of his hand, instead of for the chance ae quaintance whose opinion matters not a fig to you in reality. Politeness, after all, is just a concentrated form of kindness and consideration. If you think you haven't enough of it to go ‘round then reserve it all for the person you love best. ‘Two chums can live together for years without getting on each other's nerves or insulting each other, or hurting each other's vanity, or squab- bing over little things. Why? Because their friendship !s based on mutual consideration and preserved in the benzoate-of-soda called courtesy. THEY do not presume on each other's love to be “frank and natural,” to make jol.es at each other's expense, to grab the most comfortable chair, to morning newspaper, to criticise each other's clothes and habits, or to read each other's letters. All of which fs merely sudstituting “Ger- man Kultur” for French politeness in the home. ‘Way is it so hard to treat a husband like a “friend” or a wife like a “lady?” TRY 1T on your (matrimonial) piano some day and perhaps you'll be able to play “Love's Old Sweet Song” again—with variations. better under adverse conditions than can those of the deadly diseases just mentioned. Therefore, !f your body is healthy you may rest assured that you are safe from its attacks. If your body is not healthy, you should begin at once to make it so. Whatever you Know of right physica! living you should, in these dayo of danger, carefully and earnestly put into practice. First of all, elimisate fear; for fear ts a devitalizing agent and if entertained may counteract s!! efforts to increase your . resistance. Eliminate the fear of drafts, for In- fluenza is a foul-air disease. [t 1s usually asgociated with lack of ven- tilation, closed windows in bedrooms, &eo. ‘The epidemic now upon us did not develop until cool weather appesred. ‘The disease could not make headway while the mild temperature encour- aged open windows. Superior vitality requires the full supply of oxygen ut all times. The alr you breathe should approximate as nearly as possible the purity of the outside atmosphere. It The Jarr Copsright, 1918, by ‘Tbe Press Publishing Co (Thy New York Evening World.) 6e OW we got the Germans N licked it's like old times again yet, what? Ain't it? Sure. it is? NO? Then why not? 1 guess yes!” rattled John W. Rangle radiantly, as he dragged a chair out from the table in the rear room of Gus's place, lit a cigar and leaned back to enjoy the first peace-drive pinochle game, “Let joy and glad- ness once more reign.” “Ven it is raining there is nothing like pinochle,” sald MraSlavinsky, the glazier, “Only I don't see any choy and gladness in rain, Anyway, ralu hurts my business.” : “Business is nothing,” said Mr. | Muller, the grocer. “My clerk and my wife can tend to business. Now| the war is getting over#I want some, pinochle again.” | “And I don't care if it is busy for) me mit the rain,” said Gus. “Elmer, | my bartender, he can tend to busi- ness, Me, I shall have some enchoy~ ment, too, Anyway, I won't have any | you have failed to acquire the knowl- edge necessary for preservation of your health, now is the time to begiv. Making the Most of Our Children {smoothly until | meal, when, let us say, a dish falls | M.A,, Pres.of the Parents’ Association |\n a crash. Suppose the dish falls Talks to Parents an outburst of temper,"!t is not the proper time to say or do anything except to remain calm, Of course, you must see that your daughter | gains nothing by her unbecoming ac- tions, When sbe is screaming and you realize that by doing a certain thing for her she will stop, it is @ most natural thing to do just that. But bear in mind that it is this very practice on the part of some one ,in the home that ts at least partially responsible for the daughter’s pres- ent habit, You need not go so far as to try to make her suffer for having started to scream, It is the better policy simply to-arrange that she does not profit in any way as the result of doing it. ‘There is a great tendency on the part of adults to be influenced by the child's mood, If the child shows temper, we unconsciously tend to show temper also, But the proper way !s consciously to assume the at- titude which we would desire the child to imitate im a positive, practi- cal way. It follows A parent may be perfectly calm all dey long; everything may go jong business at all, pretty soon.” | “Bepler, he ain't coming,” said| Muller, “To-night his wife won't let after the evening at just seven o'clock, The mother |s calm just before seven and also five minutes after seven, but mark this: she has an opportunity in those five minutes (between seven and five minutes after seven) to give her child |a lesson in either self-control or un- bridied passion which will influence the child far more than her quietness during all the rest of the day, This point i# very important. Many a mother gives her child impressive lessons in anger because she does not realize the importance of continued control, She considers that her greater number of quiet moments will more than offset the very few in which she shows her temper, But this is a mistake, You need not wait long for an op- portunity to give a lesson in self- control by example. Little annoying situations will frequently arise. As soon the first one comes, say to yourself: “Here is a situation—here is an opportunity to give my child the best lesson that It ts possible to givo in self-control.” Then show your ebild how to act. Your child gradually will improve Family 8» Rey L. McCardell oratory and excitement in the Liberty Loan drive.” All were agreed on this point and then Gus remarked: “I hear Rafferty, the builder, gits hurted again working on some war camp buildings.” “There's a fellow who only pays half as much carfare as anybody else, because he only has to ride to Mis work in the morning, The ambu- lance brings him back at night,” re marked Mr. Jarr, him leave the butcher shop on 10 account.” hat Bepler he is pecked mit & a said Gus., “Me, I don't mind what my wife, Lena, says, even if she hits me in the head with something. But mit pinochle I wouldn't care except if it was against the Consti- tutional of the United States to play it. But I vouldn’t let any lady or wite interfere.” Mr. Jarr shuffled the cards and’ re- marked philosophically that when peace reigned all tyrants must abdi- cate. } This aroused but little interest among the others, their private opin- fons on the matter being that he who would talk world politics when he might play auction pinochle should not be considered as one mentally sound, ‘Testimony to this effect was finally ventured by Gus, who sald: “[ seen the victory coming folst. But, anyhow, I'm wondering when good pinochle decks will again sell for 25 cents; now they cost twice that much—good ones.” “But ain't pinochle worth twice as much ag it was," asked Muller, “now that the world is.made safe for Dl- nochle and everything?” “Sure,” Gus went on; “except if I have to start a soda water business at this stand I wonder if you fellers will come around to play pinochle and eat ice cream cones?” “Ice cream cones don't get people excited to talk politics and break vinders,” said Mr. Slavinsky. “Sup- pose a yinder or two !s broken now and then? Vinder glass and putting in don’t cost much, even mit war prices." “| gee that the politicians are not going to speak much on account of the influenza," ventured Mr. Jarr, “The influenza has done that much good, anyway. Still we had plenty of “Sure. He can't go even in a waca- tion without getting hurted,” said Muller, “He goes to an island out tn California last summer to have & good time and gets so sunburned lay- ing on the beach while swimming that he has to come home in @ taxi.” “A ship,” said Mr, Jarr. “You can't go to or come from an island except in a ship.” “I seen him coming home in a taxt all bandaged up, and he said he haa been on an island,” grumbled Mutjer. Just then Muller's clerk came in and informed the grocer that the store / wag full of customers and his wife threatened to close it up if he didn't hurry over and help. ‘The cards were dealt, and Mr. Slavinsky had bid three hundred when his son came in to announce that mommer wanted him home or she would come and fetch him, “T guess we'd better stop the game,” said Gus with a sigh, “I think I hear my wife Lena coming down the stairs,” “Game called on account of marttal law and demand for unconditional surrender,” said Mr, Jarr, and de- parted to surprise his wife by getting home early, oa his first evening out after the pinochle season was open. The world and women will never be the samo after thi Newest Thin For the use of bowlegged men & light, flexible frame has been invented to be strapped to a leg by @ gaster to make trousers hang straight. whe ‘A French electrotechnical committee has decided upon a number of stan1- ards for use in electrical machinery and other clectrical apparatus. Nae aan A ball that rolls around inside aj) new spark plug for automobiles is ii- tended by the inventor of the device to prevent accumulation of carbon, gees A plant is to be established in Ha- as a result of your example. \Capamiabh 1018, ibe Veolia” gs in Science and other rubber goods from old rub- ber, sald to be plentiful in Cuoa + © 2 For sending soiled clothing to laun« dries in hospitals or hotels a chute has been invented that is built of steel with a fused-in lining of glass, + 8 French chemists have discovered @ | way to make a cement from the soum |from beet sugar refining, heretofore wasted, as it contains much cape bonate of lime. eee Because a diaphragm separates the air chamber from the moving parts of @ new tire pump for automobiles, oll is prevented from entering tubes inp | Vans lo manutecture automobile tires with the alr,