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ESTABLISHED ‘BY JOSEPH PULITZER e ‘Pubtished Daily Except Sun, the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 03 Ma'Park how. New fore i PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, LITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. At STS AREY SU Ue te Gallia hero VOLUME 59..... verse NO. 20,896 THE GOVERNORSHIP. LTHOUGH the Jate returns this morning indicated a small but increasing plurality for Mr. Smith, New York State must be prepared to see the result of its vote for Governor in doubt for possibly days to come. | Se close do the figures run that, wilh the added possibilities of the soldier and sailor vote, neither Democrats nor Republicans are likely to admit defeat until the full returns are tabulated and, scrutinized. Whatever the final outcome, the melting away of the 1916 Whitman plurality “of 163,000 clearly indicates what a drag the Whitman gubernatorial record has been upon even the best efforts of the Republican machine. + It has been made plain that thousands of voters in this State Republicans as well as Democrats, have seen in Mr. Whitman a/ Governor too absorbed in furthering his political fortunes to do his} fall duty by the people of the State in practical mattera affec ting| * U Wit, | | “And Without Me!” «x EDITORIAL PAGE Wednesday, November 6, 1918 LEMS ee A ale pare ict aw Ney 8 AUSTRIAN SURRENDER —. pt rt ree andr Fecken~ their welfare. | Even should he prove to have been elected, Mr. Whitman cannot] but feel the force of the judgment pronounced upon his theory of Governorship. Not that Mr, Smith would owe the victory—if it turns out to| be hie—to the weakness of his opponent. n-| didate made a strong campaign on practical issues that appeal to the common sense of electors and all the strength of the Re-| The Democratic i publican organization up-State failed to keep down the size of the total vote cast for him. capital of any sort out of last week’s terrible disaster on the B. R. I’, there can be little doubt that, coming after the accident, his promise to deal summarily with lax Public Service Commissions won him Mr. Smith’s record of public service in the Legislature marked hiim as a man capable of sticking to the plain task of running the Siate’s business with efficiency and economy. war or post-war, for some time to-come, and with need in the im- mediate future of carrying out this State’s part in the readjustments, industrial and economic, certain to be required with the return of York are in a position to appreciate. a FIRST WITH FOCH. 4 i registered at the instance of the Allies in connection with P President Wilson’s fourteen peace .principles as put before the German Government, should not be confused with the armistice Marshal Foch. Special interpretation of the President's declaration regarding the freedom of the seas, as well as demand for compensation for _ are matters that will be given their full and proper weight in the _ Peave Settlement, It is juet that Germany be left with no misapprehensions on But before there is any Peace Settlement at all the German military command must deal directly with the Commander in Chief _ of the Allied forces. The German command must accept the mili- Those conditions have been formulated by the military and other representatives of the Allies and the United States. They are _ understood to be precise, fixed and unchangeable. require to be developed and applied—as a perfectly definite and} _ immediate programme of specific treatment to which Germany must | _ submit before she can even enter the pathway to peace. FROM VERSAILLES! AT would the Grand Monarch, Louis XIV.—arch-defender of Absolutism, author of the famous “I am the State”— . Gay to provide retired and worthy surroundings for ihe deliberations of @ council committed to the task of nullifying the military power of autocrats and preparing the way for the most far-reaching exten The five hundred million francs the palaces, gardens and works art of Versailles are estimated to have cost came from the pockets “of a people taxed to the limits of endurance. Louis XIV. destroyed 8 should first appal and then exasperate the French nation, But what a working out of justice! Amid these super-royal parks and terraces, within these painted ; autocrat that ever squeezed millions out of an oppressed ‘People, the great generals who command the armies of modern dem- oeratic nations, with statesmen and emissaries of those nations, have be made by the surviving powers of autocracy. | The end of all governments founded on the Louis XIV, at hand—and the signal sounds trom Versailles! Although he promptly and wisely refused to make campaign many votes, And that—with the prospect of formidably heavy (axes, whether peace—is pre-eminently the kind of Governor the people of New HE two reservations—one of which is really an amplification—| terms which the President notifies Germa y she must get from 4 “damage Germany has done to Allied civilian population and property, _ these points. tary conditions dictated by the Council of Versailles. ‘They stand therefore—unlike peace principles which will later —————+ > —__. | W' ; have said had he known that his superb Versailles was one! of freedom and democracy the world has ever known? the accounts and bills for his vast expenditures at Versailles lest the mirrored walls built in thé seventeenth century by the most gathered to dictate terms of a complete and final surrender to bees * VSL tee 2 ieeeatin ps tomate wor Ne A Series of Plain By Ray C. Beery, A. B., M. A., President Parents’ Association ¥ course, the talkative child has r child nay scem irrepressible saving everything but day- 2 light--and we had to save that all Orem points in his favor, You bg duestions, or ho may carry) FOr ee Me ee te ee wail Me want your child to be self-con- }on a speech in which he includes in wiht ; aay - fident, You want lasinary questions and enawera, play,| carr looking into the room whe hin to: have: in-line the oart o¢anothér person The Mr, Jarr was in the arms of Orpheus, itiative, It would € are healthy signs of . a8 Mrs. Stryver would have said—end not be prudent |ing knowledge of one's fellows; the ‘t Was true enough, musically speak- x to check either of |boy is mastering the ideas of those | '"# . these craits, vbout him, | Mr. Jarre heard his good lady Hut you don't} However, he needs direction. He| Tough the mists of sleep, he roused Want your child}must gradually acquire habits of | drowsily and asked “What's the latest to be over-talkative, There isa happy [courtesy and refrain from apnoying | W4%—T mean peace new! medium between a child that It not) or wear others, He wants to de-| “I Sald get up!” clamored Mrs. Jarr, talkative enough and one that is too|velop himself and at the same time| “There'll be no peace news for you it talkative, he must not ignore the comfort of| YoU don't! Gertrude's complaining to Let us consider a simple case, Althose about him, You can easily|™@ that you keep her back in her| father writes to me teach him to do this. work, How can I keep a girl thepe UT, havk. A dollssveacold Hoy The most effective method of deat-| (aY# #f the table has to walt for ha who seems to have no limit to his | ing with him is to go very close to till you get up in the SATE. had talking, I like the boy, but it is [him when he begins to talk too loua| Walt for you till you come home al @ terrible strain to keep up with him? Do you think it is natural? I find him talking to himself a great deal, and then if some one comes in he is likely to turn on them with a torrent of twaddle, What would you do in such a case?” There is nothing very unusual about the chatterbox life which your child is leading. Some children will have as many as fifteen or twenty charac- ‘ eals Dust Deadly as Dynamite RAIN is not usually regarded as" . ; “1 asked you what I could say to the a high explosive, recent | 4 Man that is often helpful with this} onjdren, seeing as they never see you disasters in cereal mills and | ‘YPe of child 4s to ask him many ques-| + the table?” repeated Mrs, Jarr, elevators have caused the Govern-| tions involving reason and common|"'«can you not tell them that I am ment to issue warnings of its dangér| sense. When he makes a statement] saving food by squandering sleep?” to life and property ‘The air in such | Just to hear himself talk, check hin| “yed'Mr, Jarre ‘establishmen: sarmetime yecomes | UP a bit by asking simple questions | ~ establishments netimes becomes |UP a bit by ask plo questions} 4, garr caustioally inquired what filled with grain dust, and a careloss | that will show him the first statement | MPS SBE Gide Oey three wae ‘or accidents yark may cause this | was incorre Or trip him a little on | BPE ee eave w aooidental apark may cause thi F ut ig he had got the commission he had to explode with great violence. statements involving experience, For 1 for. “If you had been an offi Threshing machines have been do-| example, a little talkative boy intro. | “8ked for: 4 4 cer, would it have been nice to keep stroyed in the fields by a spark from| duced himself by saying: “Do you 2 “a preakfalt waiting till yor the friction of the machinery setting | know what I can Tcan jump over| ‘e 8*my # brea ae ven | ‘ got up and came to the table?" sne Jof the grain dust, ‘These accidents] that house over there, Yes, sir, t 1. “B eis at hand, hi lare more severe within confined|can." The man whom he addressed | eMrked. “But pie gal mane DOW spaces. One of the worst took place} stood up and said, “All right; 1 am| 9° YOu expect to hold your poniicn? in @ rolled outs mill at Petorsburg,| ready to watch you do it,"" ‘The poy| HOW 90 you expect to provide for Ontario, where thirty-three persons | hesitated, and the man smiled and} YOUr family and get along in thiv were killed, sixty-seven injured and! said, very slowly, “We always haye| ¥2"d It you lie abed till all hours and jthe factory wrecked. Foreign mat- ter between the grinding plates caused the sparks which set off this blast Grain enough to feed 200,000 per- eons for & year was lost in the fire prin- |following an explosion of wheat dust! yim hy example and by your mild cor- which destroyed a jarge clevator in Making the Most of Our Children | Talks to Parents. | By Roy iy Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishinj night? I only have one servant to : do the work for, but at that I can't y MOON) on the house unless we have some or too fast, and speak yourself in a very subdued tone; let eve ot scle, be Ow a vor ee be ly Hf BAG your! system! ‘The poor children eat thelr jenire aieitude one of calmness; he! breakfast and get off to school and do {will imitate you almost immediately. | not see you. They have their supper | at night and go to bed without seeing you. They might as well be nhalf- orphans on their father's side, What Repeat this frequently, and when ever he fails to respond properly to this, ask questions, very slowly, 60 that he at ally ate yo naturally will imitate your) oan 7 tell them—that thelr father 1s manner while talking to you, 4 ‘ t Never give only half attention to|#mewhere in France waiting to be thigtaoe © Mimi ten hi >| demobilized, or that he is in bed keep- , ther give him all your) 11. nis household demoralized?” attention or none. That is, appear to| '"& Me pls nage La Nas a Mr. Jarr knew there was no more oe CXPESL) sleep for him and he sighed and him to talk properly, or tell him po arid pat lituly that you will talk to him a little | 7#Wned and sat up. “Eh, what?" he asked, later, get to your business late? You know to be careful what we say, don't we? By showing @ real interest in your boy’s projects and by proving, even when he {s talkative, that you are always on the most friendly terms with him, you can easily influence you would start the week right by getting up early and having 8 o'clock breakfast with the children!" “I'm surrendering Mke one of the Central ex-powers. I'm getting up! rections When necessary, I'm getting up! I'll be dressed in a idiew York City, (Onanel, Au, by (ue Pareuie’ Avegoizsion, Lua) nits: aster iunenreseeetonced you promised me only yesterday that | ’ By Helen E lies there, eyes, And the tea-w: And the flight ING night and da; heaven knows wh: slaughter of the innocents——— and Moscow, and Trieste and Trent, Of the tragedy on the B. R. T. The Man of It Rowland Copsrialt, 1918, by The Press Publishing Go, (The New York Wrening World.) He Lies There Propped Up With Pillows, Reading of the Top- pling of Thrones and the Falling of Kings and Empires— Wonders if Anybody Ever “Suffered” as He Does! Comfortably propped up amidst all the pillows in the house, His dressing-gown wrapped about his shoulders, The reading lamp carefully shaded to protect his ‘agon neatly set out with bottles and tumblers and pill boxes, and cigarettes, And all the morning papers across his knees He lies there—READING Of the abdication of King Boris, of King Charles to Godolla, And of how the Kaiser is down on his knees PRAYs y for peace, or victory, or his life, or at, And of how the Bolshevik? are murdering thousands every day, And have set Nov. 10 as “St. Bartholomew's Day,” for the wlolesaid Of the riots in Berlin, and the starvation and suffering In Petrograd Of the glorious victories of the Allies and the taking of Valenvieunem Of the surrender of Austria, and the freedom of Serbia, an@ the eas tablishment of Hungary as an independent state, And the illness of the German Empress, Of the whole WORLD turning toy And as he finishes—he YAWNS! apathetic fingers to the floor, deleted, And why in thunder the doctor his medicine, and if ANYBODY ever to the office, luncheon———-+ FOR— Beside these vital, burning questi infinitesimal things! salvation of man, are to HIM, About as foolish and frivolous an opera, In the face of the ONE grea He's just getting over the And “how many thousand years” Of a whole WORLD turning topsy-turvy, Of the tottering of the House of Hohenzollern, the toppling of turones and the falling of kings and empires all about him, Of the changing of the map of Hurope, Of battles, and burning towns, and pillaging, and sudden deati- psy-turvy, And being made over BRAND NEW! And the newspapers with their élartling headlines slip from nis And he tries to turn over, and groans bitterly, and mutters something And -vonders disinterestedly what it's’ all about anyway, hasn't come, and if it’s ime to take “suffered,” as HE does, ’ tt will be before he can get back And if bis mail is piling up, and what he'll be allowed to eat for ons, Wars, and empires, and the fate of Europe seem but trifling, futile And the tragedies of earth, and, the victories of democracy and tho d unimportant as the plot of a comia . mighty, soul-absorbing FACT—that FLUE!” The Jarr Family McCardell a Co, (The New York Evening World.) “And please don’t put on the collar Hoover has us}and shirt you wore yesterday in a Jiffy! For looking as though you didn't care to keep up @ neat appear- ance hurts a man in his business, in a jiffy!” said Mrs. Jarr, “And you'll eat your breakfast in a jiffy, and scowl because everything is cold, in a Jiffy, and you'll run out in a jiffy,” she added. “But you won't come back home to-night to supper in a jiffy!” “Now, my dear, for goodness sake, don't get me rattled!” remonstrated Mr. Jarr, finding he was getting into his attire all twisted. “Where's my socks, J say? Where's my socks?” Mrs, Jarr picked his socks out from under the bed just at the same time Mr. Jarr stooped for them, And their heads bumped, “Did I hurt you?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Yes, you did!" she retorted. “And you did it on purpose, too!” |, Mr. Jarr disclaimed any such inten- tion, and tore out a back buttonhole in his haste to fasten his collar. “Wait! I'll get you out some clean things,” said Mrs, Jarr, as she saw his collar rise up at the Lack of his neck. “Ain't got time now, You have me jall upset!” said Mr, Jarr. “Geel woman! I'd have been dressed and out if you had only let me be!” “I'll let you be after this, You may be sure of that!” retorted Mrs, Jarr. “You can le abed all day after this ;4nd lose your position and have your children begging for bread. I'll never say a word to you, But, remember this, Mr, Jarr, it's an old saying, and a true one, that the early bird catches the worm!" “I'm not a bird, Mrs, Jarr!” snapped Mr, Jarr hotly, ‘m not interested in what you are saying,” replied Mrs, Jarr coldly, “You know what the old saw means.” “Yes, and I don't care, Who gets up earliest?—the men who work hard- est and longest for the least pay!” Mr. Jarr went on, “They catch worms, but the wise old bird that lies abed till he gets a good long sleep that rests his brain and refreshes his frame and his faculties, he saunters out between 10 and 12 in the fore- noon and captures him a great big fat anaconda, You can get more for one anaconda than you can get for a million worms, and don't you forget itt" | But Mrs, Jarr simply said she didn't ‘want any condas or any other in- sects of that sort around her house— the Kaiser could have 'em to abdicate bard, Christmas Gifts HE Christmas present for the boy aE overseas Is now perplexing the minds of mothers and swect- hearts, The shops are doing their share toward solving this question by suggestive displays of suitable gifts. There are, however, certain Govern- ment orders that must be considered, In selecting gifts, both welght and space count, If your boy is in the Navy, your Christmas parcel to him may weigh twenty pounds, but if he is among the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, you are restricted to three pounds in weight, and the parcel must be the standard siz, 3 by 4'by 9 inches. Cartons for the purpose can be secured from any Red Cross Chapter if you have a “Christ- mas parcel label” received from abroad, Since each soldier can receive only one parcel on Christmas Day, natur- ally one wants to put tn exactly what will please the recipient most, If he is a smoker, why not get one of those smoke kits which contain cigarette papers and smoking tobacco? These are $1.20. A razor stropper in a small case is $1.25, Khaki tobacco pouches and a pipe are 35 cents; or you could make the pouch and put in @ good | Pipe. One of briar is 50 cents, and be sure to get the stem he prefers, whether straight or curved. There are some long stemmed pipes that do not get hot, and then there are deco- rated corn cob pipes—the kind men Hike. You can get two for a quarter. You can have an initial or crossed guns in silver on the bowl of the pipe, A shaving brush that closes into a case is $1.25. You might in- clude a sanitary folding tooth brush, Trench mirrors in khaki cases are $1, | These mirrors are of rust-proof and tarnish-proof metal and possess the Homemade Device for Pri PRINTING outfit that will pro- \A vide endless education and | amusement for the boy, be- sides being often very useful to his father, is the one illustrated, The materials which must be purchased for its construction are as follows: About 56,000 letters of typewriter- imitation rubber type and 35 line holders, These can be obtained at any office-supply house. The holders are attached to the “cylinder” by thrusting the projections at their ends under strips of tin which are nailed around the edges of the two semicircular pieces of wood at the jend. There are four of these pieces altogether, and they @re cut to a 6-in, radius, @ither in @ lathe, or by |hand with @ saw and file, Each line of type should be set be- fore the holder is placed on the cylinder, and should then be laid in next to the previous line, Spacer bars c For Our Boys highest reflecting power. Every dier should have one, A set of mit tary brushes that will stand wear are $2, Then there are leather folding cases for holding ‘io photos of the dear ones at home. A pretty one is $1.25. A Khaki foldivg frame can be had at 25 cents. At $1.50 there is a bathing set, conv! + ing of a good-sized collapsible rub. ber wash basin, a wash cloth and a substantial soap box contained in y khaki case. The Red Cross furnishes warm knit gloves, but if you prefer to supply these yourself you can secure nico ones at prices ranging rfom $1 up- ward. Then there are gray wool wristlets at 50 cents. If he is in tho Aviation Corps, he might appreciate a pair of leather gloves, at $9. 4 sleeveless leather vest is a nice gift that will cost you $15, A good wool vest can be had for $9. Comfortaiio khaki worsted muffiers are $1.25 ant $2.50, according to size. Helmets ure $1.50, For the aviator there are heavy ones at $2.50. Perhaps he needs a new money belt. These come in waterproof cau- vas, leather or chamois, in prices ranging from 75 cents to $3. A cigar- ette lighter would come in handy, One in eterling silver is $5, but you can get a nice silver plated one for $1.50, Khaki colored handkerchiects make @ practical gift—$1.25 will pur- chase six, The boys at the front must forego home-made goodies this Christmas because the sending of perishable food products is prohibited. If your parcel is to go to a naval man jt must be at the Bush Terminal! Station not later than Nov, 15. If it is to go to France be sure and have it at a Red Cross receiving station by Nov. 20. nting Typewnitten Letters, es - in ke the type holders, In operation, the cylinder is first rolled on an inks ing pad, which can be made by souk. ing blotters or felt in rubber-stamp ink, and then rolled on the paper, which should also be placed op a thin pad of felt or blotters, Tha pressure required is small, as each line in turn receives the entire