The evening world. Newspaper, October 26, 1918, Page 10

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Dally Except Sunday by the Prees Pot 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 62 Park Row. Jo ANGUS REAL, Treasurer,’ 63 Park Row, IOs) ULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. > MEMPRR OF THE ‘a’ ten 1s exhusivals pel wo Tce oitewhod a ASSOCIATED PnP entitled to the ues foe rewit $0 this paper ond als the lucal ation news NO, 20, soldiers before five years.” n the Argonne and the Meuse. It is going to be a job for German statisticia’ of what disbelief about Americans has cost Germany. than passing indignation at the sinking of the Lusitania. ms except to sell them. ¢ warfare become an actual cause of war. Germans didn’t believe American soldiers landed in France stand a chance against the trained fighting units of the Kaiser, > -And here, Jnonths 2 at? hold his ground at all costs” telling his Aincrican captors: ia “When we first ascertained that the First Division was opposite we knew we would @ the hardest fight we had deen in during the war. “Your barrage was so dense it was impossible to move ont of the dugouts. When I saw your infantry coming I knew it was all over.” a ae et ry vaystems in the world concentrated month after month on the Ui snot believe and could not learn concerning Americans! nee If during the last three years the New York Telephone Company has taken in ¢xcess profits more than $14,000,000 over and adove a return of 8 per cent. on the Public Service Commission's valuation of its operating plant, how much additional does General Burleson think this cor- poration will need out of the pockets of the New York public te keep on bettering its average despite the war? ——-+-__—___. THE I. C. C. NOT OBSOLETE. ce it clear that it does not consider its authority in the mi General of Raitroads McAdoo. and reasonable. The same force and effect must be give part cf the Yaw as to its other provisions.” _ © Mr. McCord will find plenty of opinion in agreement with hi a ——-+-—____ he Halians are putting on the peace pressure along Lie front. So is the famine in Vienna. of ONE HOUR BACK TO-NIGHT. ETHER New York sets its clocks and watches one experts reqommending the forward turn—the resul Whole plan by extending and overdoing it. a». Well-meaning enthusiasts who wanted to go on saving day dawn by any more hours than necessity requires, pee “Lt dook a lot of campaigning to ge } gieward the daylight saving plan for the sprin bl nths, Now nine hundred and ninety-nine Americans out , mornings. an Everybody gets a es seven months, who will not giad!y give the hour back Jassured, next spring? again, for ——<4<. As the British Tommy sees it: The beggars In Berlin can’t get it into thelr bloomin’ 'eads they've got to leave the ‘arm in armistice. ’ ECIDING for the complainants in the case of the Willamette Vailey Lumbermen’s Association against the Southern Pacific Railroad, the Interstate Commerce Commission takes occasion, i altering freight rates te have passed from it into the hands of, “It is inconceivable,” declares Commissioner McCord, “that the ‘4 a vain thing im conferri.g on this commission power to je whether or not rates {nitiated by the Director General are 885 could Germany—with a formidable part of one of the biggest spy nited } #iates before and since this Nation entered the war—now nine points ‘hearer final defeat and disaster because of what it did not know, would, jatter| n to! m. ¥f the Interstate Commerce Commision has fulfilled its functions oi ‘well and wisely enough to be recognized as one of the most important | Tegulative bodies in the country in times of peace, it is surely any- | thing but. wisdom to divest it of authority merely because a railroad | dictatorship has heen created to meet certain special requirements er | had taken advantage of her in these | hour It r to be the same; and this city along with the rest of the country Congratulate itself upon having put in a thoroughly successful their bereave profitable season of daylight saving without having spoiled the miserable and weary, hing Company. Nos. 53 ud —| ieee | LE; DIDN’T believe the Americans could develop such Thus a captured German field officer after a' fous German encounter with the American First Division to reckon up the! Germans didn’t believe the people of the United States would feel Germans didn’t believe the United States would over make war Germans didn’t believe the United States would let German sub- Germans didn’t believe Americans could get troops in any. Rumbers across an Atlantic infested with prowling German U boats. with American troops in force hardly more than six. at the actual front of the conflict, is a German officer “ordered | light | of a value “Letters From the Mow to Set the Clock. | point of time it may be done w RAisor of The Krening Wor jindury; therefore striking the date approaches for the | Should be set forward eleven ing of the time on Oct, 27 it will @f interest and value to have au- | itive information to the best | ably be sto; to adjust one's watch and clock. darge majority of timepieces | fely be get back one hour by | the hands with the stem or| ment ts striking, ‘omplicat also usually be | both watches and safely | rioyped for de tour. ain - DUAPANY & ArH . People ithout clocks hours, | striking at each interval, unless it convenient to stop the clock for one | Found, in the hope of getting a com- hour, Pendulum clocks should prefer- | pliment, the golfer said: calendar movements tn locks should be GO. man | caused pped, Watches may safely be turned back | ong hour, even though repeaters, 20k | gx months and am quite out of prac copting that the hands should not be| tice, That's why I'm in euch bad aet forward or back while the moye-|form to-day.” | | | | | | | IL Springing the Trap! The High Cost of Dying By Sophie Trane Loeb Copyright, 1918, by The Pres Publishing Co, ‘The New York Evening World) WOMAN was weeping, She needed relief. She was with- out funds, having just buried e one of bh dear ones who had been stricken by the dreaded influenza, A thing that added to her dis {ross was h funeral bill whiet stared her in the s face, An unsernu- | va) a | fornia mansions pulous undertal sorrowful moments and presented a) | Dill that staggered her. | Next to the greedy landlord who backward or eleven hours forward to-night—the timepicce’ refuses heat to sick families, the ja Worst profiteer is the undertaker, Hundreds of poor people have chance with him, At the ti no, e of ment they are weak and | nd the matter | of dollars and cents is lost sight of. ‘That is the time when the profiteer- ing undertaker does his worst work. the present schedule all the year round were fortunately overruled’ He preys on his victims during these ¢ommon sense which recognizes that in this latitude there is neither) b@frowing hours. And nine times out Qmfort nor health in making getting-up time in winter precede the! of ten he “gets away with it.” I have often wished that it were Possible to form an organization t the country to feel kindly| against the high cost of dying. Much summer and fall of the worst misery in the world ts by the burden left to some " loving soul who was taken advantage Whousand regard it as the most simple and sensible adjustment in the! of by an undertaker. | tld, It would have been a shame to challenge disapproval by ging them to fee! the uncomfortable end of it in the chill of dark) As President of the Board of Child Welfare of this city I have seen mors actual hardship resulting from the funeral bill of the deceased husband n extra hour of sleep to-night for nothing. But, 84 father of the famtly than could fing back over tlie advantages of daylight saving during the past be estimated. In many, many homes of the five thousand widows we are caring for, with their fifteen thor | sand children, the one overwhelming millstone forever funeral bill. Several times in these columns I have attempted to impress upon those | who have euffered a lors to look at it Present is that | DOUBTFUL COMPLIMENT, HE caddie was an unusually Ah quiet, stolid lad with @ freckled, expressionless face, cracked & smile. and never At the end of the | “D've been travelling for the last The caddie finally consented smile and replied: “Oh, then have ye, inl Review, to more sancly and s9nsibly When means are limited do not allow your-| self In your time of treable ta be in- velgled into a big funeral bill, Many | people go oF theory that “it is the t thing I can do,” and that the dead one would be pleased if he or| she could know it. As a matter of fact, they would be the last ones in the world to wish that you carry a load of debt for their burial. Instead, they would wish that this final ser- | litte burden vice be as I -know as possible. | women who have taken years to pay a funeral debt, They| have been the “easy marks” for the! funeral collector, 1 know young boys, searcely out of school, who have had to sell papers and do other similar Jobs and with their hard-earned pennies help the family pay for that | « fine fune There is no greater folly than this, | especially where there are little chil- | dren. The big thought should be cen- tred in the interest of the living, | rather than the dead, The truest! mourning in the world is not the visi- ble kind, but that which comes from the heart, Another fac into this busin al, that often enters! sis, “What will the | EDITORIAL PAGE Saturday, October 26, 1918 18, » adlinhing Co, (The New York Krening Wor'!,) By J. H. Cassel | | Stories of o pres By Albert Payson Ter hune | No. 70—MRS. MASHAM, the ‘Palace Spy” Who | Changed the Destinies of Lurope. HE was a dowdy and meek and 4 cringing hanger-on that ad #0 many boarding verandas of cheap summer hoiel creature elation” the kind of middiv-aged pest partors and t in did more to change the policies and destinies of Kurope than could ten army corps. Her name was sham ® Abigali Masham, England was ruled by Queen Anne, and Queen Annt was ruled by the Duke and the Duchess of Maribor. ough, The Duchess of Marlborough had been a girl obscure family (Sarah Jennings by name) when she married Jack Churchill, a dashing young gentleman-adventurer. Churchill was a genius and a blackguard, He was true to no one, and he managed to rise from obscurity to greatness by betraying one ruler after | another who befriended him. At the same time he had a natural genius as general and statesman. His sharp-tongued wife guided and counselled him jin his every move toward power. H At last, when Queen Anne mounted the throne, the Churchills were tn clover, Anne was a simple, kindly, stupid women who would have been mors |at home in a kitchen than on @ throne, Sarah Churchill was her dear | friend, And Sarah used her boundless Influence over the Queen to boost her | husband’e career and her own. | So successful was she that Churchill was made Duke of Marthorough anil received royal gifts that made him one of the richest men in England, He and his wife were the “po Marlborough Rises behind the throne.” They dictated Anne's polioles, to Power. which, fust then, were the ruling policies for ali ° Surope. Says one chronicler: | “If the Duchess of Martborourh had been as tactf! | as she was clever, this might have gone on for a lifetime. She and her hus- band could have continued shaping the fortunes of England and tampering with those of the whole world.” | Marlborough's political enemies were bitter against him. But, ¢henks to | Sarah, they could not reach the Queen's ear. So they sought an agent whe | would serve their interesta They found her in the person of Mra, Abigni Masham. Mrs. Masham was the daughter of a London shopkeeper, and she wrs Sarah Jennings’s first cousin. Sarah had taken pity on the poor relation and had given her an obscure job in the Queen's own household. She though’, | Mrs. Masham was a harmless and grateful creature and devoted to the Mar!- | borough interests, As a matter of fact, Mrs, Masham was about as harmless as @ cobra. 2 | Sarah's temper was peppery. In her heart she despised the stupid ols Queen and at last grew to hate her, She made no secret of this to Mrz, Masham, and Mrs, Masham proceeded to play the role of “palace spy” tr | reporting to the Queen and to Marlborough’s enemies the things that west on in the Mariborough household and Sarah's hatred for Anne. | At first Queen Anne would not believe that her dear friend Sarah 4ta | not love her, But Mrs, Masham's spy-work hae (errno bezun to take effect, and finally, when the hour was Woman Is Matched$ ripe, the spy set a trap for the Duchess—to whem Against Woman. she owed everything. She persauded Queen Anr« |B ned to hide in an anteroom of the Marlborough apart~ ments in the palace one day when Sarah, in tha |next room, was dressing for a rida Mrs, Masham handed her her gloves As Sarah drew them on tthe spy exclaimed: “Oh, Ihave brought you a pair of the Queen's gloves by mistake!” Sarah, whose temper had already been stirred up by her cousin's crafty | wiles, ripped off the gloves, snarling: “Ia it possible I have put on my hands anything that odious creatury has worn?" | Queen Anne, in the next room, heard her. “Her eyes,” says a historian, “were opened to the Marlboroughs' con + | tempt for herself, their benefactroas.” By Mrs. Masham’s trickery the Marlboroughs enemies had triumphed Marlborough himself was dismissed from favor and from office. He and t wife were obliged to leave England; and, through Mr: ham, their p- |\tical opponents came into power, changing Marlberough's policies an incidentally, obunging the trend of history. | Mrs, Masham was rewarded by the post of intimate friend from whtcit | ghe had ousted Sarah, and her husband, soon afterward, was made a baron, Her job as epy had evtablished her comfortably in the peerage. a “poor r Orne ve a way, she (a The Jarr nelghbors say?” Many a person| vvyri M18, by The Prem Publlahing Oo, foolishly proceeds on the theory that ‘The New York Evening World). his or her standing in the community OT meeting with his nieces, will be reckoned by the manner in whieh they pay the last tribute their dear departed, After all, how does tt matter what people say in this connection? How many of these seifsame people will N whom he had never seen, the Misses Bascomes of Lima, O., Mr. Jarr emerged from the depot. On the street, outside, evidently walting for a taxi, he noticed two young women with luggage who. to| come to your rescue or pul them-|might be the young ladles he was selves out in any way to help you| seeking, pay off the bill which you have in-/ “{ beg your pardon,” he sald. “Were curred in order to stand well in their| you expecting somebody to meet you? eyes? The high cost of living Is bad enough, It has not only made in- ds in the purses of the poor, but also in those of the well to do. It Is high time we saw to the safety and welfare of those that are alive, expe- ially in these days of stress, rather than give way to the purioining un- dertaker, I wish he could be reached by the limits of the law, and yet the Are you from 0.2 name" Lima, Is your The name “Bascome” froze unut- tered on his lips, For there, regard- ing him with basilisk glance, was the stony-faced watcher for the Moral League, “Yes,” replied the elder of the two young ladies, “we” “Have nothing to do with this man!" cried the stone-faced woman. remedy lies with the affiicted tn- | j7e"— dividual, But at this moment a cruising taxi- Weep if you must and hug your|cab driver livited his machine at the grief close, if you insist, but at the| curb, same time give a care to the future] “Get in! commanded Mr. Jarr. and to those whose needs are more} It's all right!" Important to fill than the one who| The young women needs no more, lacrity, but the obeyed with Feeding U. S. Soldiers One of War's Biggest Tasks HPHPING the soldier from the he leaves home until he embarks for Burope is a task | by itself, Feeding him on shipboard and overseas, both in camp and on| the firing line, is another. A soldier's food tor ene day con- sists of twenty-seven different arti- cles, which must be ready daily—and |they are ready, Gen, Pershing re- | ports that no man in France has had |to walt for a meal when that meal | was due, and the same {s true on this side, ‘The materials in the soldier's ration will stand the acid test. Nothing | second-grade 1s bought. Only the |best of meat ts procured and it ts handled in a central place in each camp by butchers; the cuts are thus | used to the best advantage and waste of bones and surplus fat avoided, Packers are required to can the time and the Department has gone into those States where the finest grade of tomatoes, beans are grown and has taken such portions of the crop as were needed tor army use, Last August 27,527,500 pounds of potatoes and onions were furnished camps and cantonments in best variety of fruits and vegetables | corn, onions, peas amd) prior to June 5, 1918, about 75,000,000) 1, 1918, more than 500,000,000 pounds cans of tomatoes were used—enough | of flour has been furnished for army to reach from the battlefront on the! use Marne to Linda, Cal, if they were| Our soldiers in France have bread— ined up end to end. | plenty of it--made from 100 per cent. Dried and evaporated fruits form| wheat. Soldiers like coffee and want an important part of the army ration,|{t strong. Sixteen schools are in Approximately 80,000,000 pounds of| operation here and in France teach- prunes, dried apples and peaches,|ing them how to roast it, and it is mostly from California, will be pur-|served fresh each day. ‘By this chased from this year’s crop, and| method there is @ saving to Uncle California will also supply about 70,-|Sam of two cents on each pound. 000,000 cans of apricots, During the first seven months of the cherries and pears, The cherry seeds | war 1,612,383 cans of condensed milk will be saved for use in the manu-| were used, and to Aug, 10, 1918, 226, facture of gas masks, Prunes have | 000,000 pounds of sugar have been an honorable place on the soldier's | supplied. bill of fare, It costs the Government about 45 Lemon drops are the soldiers ta-|cents a day to feed a soldier, The vorite candy and are made of pure | officers pay about $1 a day for their granulated sugar flavored with an| meals, The difference between the emulsion from lemon rind, Atont| table of the soldier and the officer lies 0,000 pounds had been furnished | mostly in linen, china and service, the army up to last August, This} Here is @ day's ration, taken at constitutes 15 per cent of the army|fandom from Camp Grant, Iilinote candy supply. Breakfast—Cornflakes with milk, cof- 1,250,000 pounds of butter and 700,000) fyimmer—Coffee with milk and sugar, pounds of oleomargarine, As the sea-|bect tongue, baked potatoes, peas, son advances and butter becomes bread and butter, raisin sauce and scarce the amount of oleomargarine| Pineapple cobbler. Supper—Iced, tea, wlll be inereased until the quantities peaches, | | fried potatoes, radishes, onions and Linis country, During the eight moatas i Ki x and butter, cold roast beef, uo oven. From Jam, 2 to Aus, lourn, grim watcher for! Family By Roy L. McCardell |the Moral League was not to be de- (he began to erin when he thought of nied the discomfiture of the stone-facei There {s no policeman in sight!" \tady when he arrived home with tho shesnapped. “Bat I'll go along. It’s expected guests, levidence I'm after! What with the! ‘The guests giggled still more, a4 |draft and the influenza—possibly the|it was hard to tell whether they en- draft caused the infillenza—we mus*|joyed the ride or the row the most. do our own police duty! Well, we| In due time the taxicab stopped in jare capable!” front of the Jarr residence, and tie | And she capatly thrust herself into youth of the neighborhood gathered! the taxicab between the two young/at the somewhat unusual sight women. And Mr, Jarr, in suilen ex-|Mr, Jarr coming home in @ taxica asperation, crowded inside on one of|/with a large, straage woman holding the folding seats. him by the arm and two gigging “Now, young weman,” sald the’ma-|young women carrying suitcases, tron emissary of the Moral League,| “Well, hera we are!” said Mr. Jarr, |drawing out her notebook, “this man|as the door of his apartment was |gives a name that {s paipabdly an|opened and Mrs, Jarr stood gazing ot alias, Your names, please?” the strange group on the third fleor “Don't tell her a blamed thing!” | landing, snorted Mr. Jarr, “Everything ts all} “Yes, here you are!” repeated Mr. lright. Do I look like a deluder and) Jarr, nd who are these peopi entrapper of inocence, Anyway, girls! The poor girls, your niecea I sent yo. jean take care of themselves thesc|for, Blanche and Bertha Bascom: |days, they've proved that every-|from Lima, missed you at the depo! | where wince the war. But this dame /and went away up town in the wrens is an old busybody, Let her ettek| direction, They have just got here in along if ehe tikes, She'll soon find|a highly nervous condition!” out!” “Look at MY nervous condition!” The young women giggled and kept| cried Mr. Jarr. ‘Here 1 go down | | sient, @ depot to meet people I don’t knu: | “And coming on a train I don't know wh.ci, and J am practically under arres; i 4 kidnapper!” “Oh, It 1s useless for you and you female confederate to try to hood wink me!” cried the Moral Leagu agent, giving Mrs. Jarr an extra hari! look to indicate that SHED waa th 1 take it that this taxicab ls your confederate,” said the! stone-faced person, “Well, we'll bag you all, ‘The capture of Vincent Gaft- was nothing to this! This will| be a great day for the Moral League, ‘This will make @ sensation in the| |newspapers that even the war or| Germany's plea for peace won't keep female confederate, “I have been Jout! And it wil be the means of| watching this man’s actions at th | showing the usefulness of our society | depot for hours |and will bring in subscriptions to its| “Who are these persons?” |tunds from the reform element, Our| Mrs, Jarr again, | funds have not been subscribed to| “Meaning us?” asked the elder of as liberally as they ahould be lately—|the two young women, "We're Peaches people only think of the Red Cross| and Cream—Ima Peach and Sweets: and the Y, M. C. A. the Salvation| Cream—'the Cabaret Coquettes,’ W» |Army, the Knights of Columbus, the | just closed @ date in Philadelphia on Jewish Soldiers’ Welfare, snd such, | account of the influenza epidemte put - instead of moral work!" ting everything on the blink, and ws “Your morai work be blowed!” re-| was expecting a manager to meet us torted Mr, Jerr. “I'm @ respectable/at the station. He his booked us at jeltizen, and if your doggone old so-| the swellest airtight eating cabin on ciety is imeorporated and has any | Broadway! | drive aske: | We thought this party assets I'll have a fine damage suit for| was our agent taking us o the book len ing office, Who this old turkey is who | r has smiled in on us we don't know, | The young women gigsied agwin) “old turkey!” ped the Moral jand seemed to enjoy the row, The! League agent ust for that"-—. etone-faced woman clutched Mr. Jerr nein biter wou a. yon just for . hat will never be own, for with by the arm and said: how! Mr. Jarr broke away, tun Uirchs “You can't bluff out of it, my fine| stairs to the 1oof, down through « fellow! I heard the address you gave Peer ae. scurtle and never paused the driver. You and your crew are| YM)! he Was safe in Gua's piace, run to earth at last! People have| explained to Gus. “I don't look tite forgotten such creatures as you exist | man who would go into a sloon!" } “Yes,” said Gus, “But since the war excitement, but we of OF, ae ut Where you »|®onna hide when they clo: e1 the Moral League are still on guard!"’| apie places like mine—in fon apeet Mr, Jarr felt Gis anger subside end | parlors?” 2 ofeam