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SE t ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, ‘Peters Dany Recept Sunday by the Prees Publishing Company, Nos 63 to 63 Park Kow, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Presid: 3 Park Row, BLANGUS SHAW. "Treasurers €9 Park Rowe PULITZER, Jr. MEMEER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, ay Sead STS ee TST SU PM rE P Ry Bl i Se ee a JOBS FOR FIGHTERS. ROM Pennsylvania comes the announcement that the State y Department of Labor has received from 900 different firms ae offers to provide work for 50,000 disabled soldiers and sailors when they are discharged. Men who have lost arms or legs or who are deaf or partially blind will be given an immediate chance to earn a livelihood at jobs for which they are fitted—whether in offices or on farms, s » Here is a movement in which the State of New York and the City of New York ought to be in the front line. } This Commonwealth should make it a matter of pride and honor gee that no soldier or sailor from New York who has been perma- ‘bis discharge for any work he is capable of doing. My There ought to be jobs for disabled soldiers near their own ” Homes. They should not have to scek occupation in other cities or ~ “‘Btates. The jobs should seek them and be waiting for them. The great work—so admirably handled in France—of training tippled fighters for occupations in which they can earn the pay of | ‘skilled workers, is well established in this country. It should be able uf ‘40 count on the willing co-operation of thousands of industrial planta, | __ 49ftices and employers of labor generally in all sections of the country. Though the aumber of disabled United States soldiers and _ sailors were a hundred times what it is likely Yo be, not one of them _ «should here difficulty in finding employment. * Not from charity or kindness but from gratitude and honor for vuthe greatest service men can render country and fellow countrymen sahould employers everywhere be on the lookout for places for dis- “Yoled soldiers. ‘2 And the same applics in only lesser degree to the thousands and vdens of thousands of fighters discharged with sound bodies and hard gauscles who will have to look for the jobs they left or find new ones, > Draft boards and representatives of the Lllinois Manufacturers’ Association and Association of Commerce got together this week and 2 that 175,000 soldiers and sailors from Chicago shall get their ald jobs back or be Promoted to better ones when they are mustered / “Guat of service. : The Evening World believes New York should be starting, on ‘a scale worthy of it, a movement to take care of returning fighterse— particularly disabled ones—men who will need work at which they tan as speedily as possible become once more members ‘of busy American communities that owe their safety to these defenders of the Nation. ; The Evening World will be glad to receive letters both from “employers who are ready to plan jobs for discharged fighters and from men mustered out who have trouble in finding work. . What is New York going to do to make sure the boys who did the fighting shall find plenty of room and welcome when they come back to the jobs of peace? : —— 7 ‘The Evening World gladly grants priority to the Courrier des Wtats-Unie in the suggestion that Marshal Foch be invited. to visit the United States and recelve the weloome New York | wil have ready for him. The Courrier des Etats-Unis mado | the suggestion in its issue of last Sunday, when all eyes, par+ ticularly editorial eyes, were turning in one direction to catch the first signal of the signing of the armistice. ‘The invitation itself is the thing. There are no petty on rivalries for precedence in New York's whole-souled wish to 3 have the great French Commander in Chief jts honored guest. The Rrening World wi!) do its utmost to insure among readers of newspapers printed in English the full spirit of enthusiasm ea ‘5 a New York reception to Foch deserves, It {s in all ways fit- ant ting that to the Courrier des Etats-Unis as the leading French Se newspaper in the country be accorded the ‘honor of having ~ first proposed the invitation. rok Holland, though not in the fight, has been under some- thing of a strain. It looks as if the arrival of the Unwelcome Guest had proved a last straw to the patience of the Dutch radicals, —_—__-+ -____. Once more into the hat for the United War Work campaign. It’s not charity. It’s a debt. What do we ©" owe the fighters who have won the victory if not the long-distance helpfulness that must be paid for at this z end? Put plenty of coin in the slot. s + os A. V. Hains of Mamaroneck, N. Y., thinks The Evenjng 4+. World should be ready with a” The Kaiser's Epitaph: ot GONE—BUT NOT FOR “GOTT”! “Letters From the People SPhinks Puct Administrator Should Be a“ Changed. “Wo Be Biter of The Brening Work): Joint Foreign Committee of the An- glo-Jewish Association of London, a ‘acshatle of the following letter, re- ceived by him from M. Take Jonescu, Roumania's foremost vesman;: Ne wr, “Oct, 11, 1918, m Mr. Wolf—In answer to yo: letter of 18th of September of this year, I can tell you that you have well understood my proposal. I mean that all Jews born in Roumania, and not having claimed foreign protection themselves, will be considered as Rou- manians with equal rights like all oer Toumanians, even if their athers were under f - fash ‘oreign protec. “This is the principle which, in m: 5 y opinion, will wipe forever the question from the annal oe mania. I hi th lAmertean Union ope this statem: a will on of Be | an Will aatlety you ‘New York, has received from Wolf, Chairman of the of coal this winter? The ted that when the min- 60c per day the Fuel ut up the price of coal it is the way he has the year, until coal exorbitant price, His to be that the owners may have enormous t 18 cl oN Joneseu ANT, Corresponding Secretary Americ: Union of Toumanian Jewa, sine nently disabled in the fighting has to look for one ‘hour after he gets) Satur ay, No Se a You Have | OW that the fighting is over, the ery of the hour is reconstruc- tion—reconstruction everywhere. What does it} mean? While it means rebuilding devas- tated restoring — build- ings and edifices over there; while {t means indem- nities and ex- change of prison- ers and the bring- ERT while it means back to the toll and the soll of peaceful pre-war times on the plnccieite) while it means mak- ing ne |and generally effacing the ravages of | the reckless horde; while reconstruc- ‘tion in the one sense means all these things and more, just what does it | mean to you and me over here, where no drastic changes in our routine | have been made, where there is very |litue physical rebuilding 4 a re- | sult of enemy shots? It is a reconstruction period—the biggest the world has ever known, | We are about to practice what we have been preaching, in the very largest sense that we have ever felt. While we are preparing the new free people over there to make each their little world safe for democracy, while we are gathering funds to piece together the broken parts of each of their precincts, yet there is some- thing bigger'and beyond all this to be done here. ‘teoonstruction, like charity, begins at home, although it does not end there, We have won as a nation, but what about the individual? What does this war mean to you and me, even though each may have given much? Are we to cry “Enough!” and crawl into our shells, thinking we shall “live happy ever after’? What 1s patriotism? What is a patriot? Old Webster says he is “one who loves his country and sealously supports and upholds its interests.” What are your country’s big “in- terests” to-dayr-reconstruction, “to make the world safe for democracy”? What are you and | going to do to | sealously uphold these interests? For it is now @ question for you and me, The big battles have been settled. It ts your little every-day dealings {tat are now to be reckoned with in territories,! which you may recognize what is re- ing of the shattered family together; 4 Loaned—Gi aD lahl Yo H. Cassel “ KGXO) ce, ™ A v | QZ) How GreatWars Were Ended By Albert Payson Terhune | Copyright, 1918, ty The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bvening World.) OR nearly three th them to serve in the high seas. went on with varying No. 5—OUR WAR OF 1812. years our youthful country had been, for a second time, at death-grips with Great Britain. We had gone to war with the mother country early in summer of 1812, for several reasons. Notably we were trying to make Great Britain cease her custom of seizing American sailors and toreing the British Navy (a custom known as “tmpressing”), and to make the British abandon their practice of halting and searching American ships on From the summer of 1812 to late in 1814 the war successes, ‘While our newborn navy did wonderful service in detached engagements, and while we won a land, victory or two, the general tide of advantage inclined toward the British. Our school children used to be victory was gained. Uncle Sam has the finest army and navy on earth, offered of the war of 1812, That and U. 8. Holds Own ne so on for nearly three years the tide flict is a tinued, Ghent to discuss peace terms, was slow to get from place to place, feared ‘and respected all over the single war. taught that we gained a triumphant victory over England in the War of 1812. We did nothing of the sort. Nor is it the duty of patriotism to distort facts and te brag of victory where no had enough genuine triumphs without our laying claim to those that are not merited. Our country was young and poor and sparsely settled. We were fighting And we kept our powerful foes from conquering us, That is the best and most truthful summing up that can be made itself orld im that The best we can claim for the pon- draw. the fact that our tiny rok Perry at Lake Drie smashed a@ British war fleet. The British in turn captured and plun~ dered the City of Washington, our capital, And of combat alternated. Late in 1814 both nations had begun to tire of the war. And pence talk set In, But for some time all this talk came to nothing, and the war con- At last commissioners from the United States and Great Britain met at It was long before the day of cables and of fast ocean travel. And news (For example, the Battle of Waterloo was fought in mid-June of 1815, and the first tidings of it did not reach America until the following August), Thus none of the struggling armies here knew the progress of the Ghent conference, and the fighting went steadily on. ‘The ending of the Napoleonic wars released a mass of British veterans for service in the United States. One such army, under Gen. Packenham, invaded Louisiana, between the two nations! The Treaty of Ghent —_— Andy Jackson Wins Big Victory. haps the But you may read the Treaty of Both sides agreed to pay for the cost it was agreed that former territorial been. That was practically all. since dared to exercise that so-called Turner: “The new naval power whose frii the question of impressment.” peace conferences. We had gone to war to prevent the {mpressment of our citizens into the British Navy and to prevent Great Britain from holding up our ships at sea and searching them, ‘Andrew Jackson rallied a band of hunters and farmers and militiamen to oppose the invasion, and in January, 1815, he defeated and almost de- atroyed the host that had helped to conquer Napoleon. It was our country’s most brillant victory in the whole war, ‘And the battle was fought several weeks after peace had been declared ‘ ‘ had been signed in December of 1814, And news of its signing did not reach America in ume to aecorrr® prevent this and other battles, The terms of the Treaty of Ghent were per- most unsatisfactory in the history of For they settled nothing, Ghent a dozen times without finding mention of either of those abuses or any promise on the part of Great Britain to abstain from them. The subjects were not touched upon at all. Neither was there any question of indemnity or of transfer of territory. of maintaining prisoners of war, And boundaries should remain as they had Yet, though nothing was said or promised in regard to “the right of tmpressment and search,” neither Great Britain nor any other country has right against the United States. Says gates had shown their ability to fight Pnglish frigates on equal terms was not likely to be troubled in future with this matter of reconstruction. Per- haps you don’t know how to go about it—perhaps you don't know exactly the part you are called upon to play in order that you indeed may be a patriot. Well, then, here are a few ways in construction. Reconstruction is taking individual interest in the war cripple and stand- ing by him until he can stand alone. Reconstruction 4s giving the old man a job here who has lost his stal- wart son over there. Reconstruction is granting @ little more than a living wage to the moth- er or sister of the boy who but a little while ago was the mainstay of the | ads and planting new trees , family. Reconstruction {s for the Jonely | couple to take some little child out | of an institution and give it a home. | ; Reconstruction is for the small} jprofiteer to quit cheating his peer patrons, | { Reconstruction ts for the man of influence to reach down to the under- man and give him @ chance to make good, | Reconstruction is refusing to em- ploy little children in order that healthy citizens may be possible. Reconstruction {8 giving woman equal pay for equal work as well as) equal opportunity to secure it, Reconstruction is refusing to spend | your heirs’ money oy giving your | A “CUTTING” REPARTEE, COMEDIAN delights in telling | this tale of a friend of his, surgeon, who is very young and shy. ® It seems, ys the Buffalo Times, | the young man was invited to a din- ner party, The hostess, who was ut least forty-five, was one of thoxe clinging temperamental pieces of femininity who tried to pass hersclf off as thirty, and apparently imag- ined that being rude and tomboyish assisted her to sustain the youthful illusion, At dinner she asked our friend to carve a fowl and, never having carved a fowl before, he made a mess of it, Instead of trying to cover nis A poor relations crave, Reconstruction is for landlords to build houses that the poorest may be safe and sanitary. Reconstruction is for woman to take her erring sister by the hiarfd until she has crossed the pathway of perseverance. ° Reconstruction for the capitalist means less greed and.a more equita- ble division of the profits. Reconstruction for the rich man means not retirement but rejuvena tion, by the use of money that will leave the world a little better than when he came. In a word, reconstruction means a voluntary sharing of opportunity to make life worth while. It is the very essence of democracy. The only way to know what re- construction means is to listen to the “still, small voice,” not in the last signing of a will but in the will of every day. the chance they Copyrignt, 1 by The Press Publishing Co. (The » York Evening World.) 66] DO hope it isn't the influenza, | but I do feel terrible. Yet 1 could lie here all day and no- body would think enough of me to bring me a cup of tea and some toast,” said Mrs, Jarr, petulantly, trom the pillows, “Why is it,” said Mr. Jarr, who was shaving—“why is it, when a lady has been out to peace parties and dances herself into a morning-after head- ache, she always howls for tea and toast in the morning?” “[ beg your pardon, Mr. Jarr; I haven't howled,” said his good lady, with asperity. “As for my headache, it didn't come from dancing with you; you never want to dance with me.” “Never mind, kid,” replied Mr. Jarr; “remember, if you have read the armistice terms you'll see that what America and the Allies haven't taken they'll make the Fritzies give up. What Do You Mean by Reconstruction? |The Jarr Family By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Nothing {s left to Germany but the germ, and, anyway, you look cute in your boudoir cap!" “phanks for the compliment,” re- plied Mrs. Jarr, sitting up In bed and making a dab at her eyes with the end of the coverlet, “I try to take a little pride in my appearance; I wear this cap to keep my hair in order. Yet if I were to go twice a week to the hairdresser’s and get my hair waved you would raise an awful row about my being extravagant!” “I wouldn't do anything of snorted Mr. Jarr. “Oh, yes, you would!” said his wife, with a long-suffering air, “I suppose you would ke me to use curling tongs on my hair and burn it and ruin it, like Mrs, Rangle did to hers.” “Good gracious! What do I care about Mrs, Rangle's hair? Talk of our own troubles! Suppose you had to shave every day! But no; that's impossible,” said Mr. Jarr. the Whysand Wherefores of Love By Fay Stevenson Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) No 4.—Why GINIAS in LL the world nods approvingly | when two young people, who have played together from the cradle up, marry, Women in sun- bonnets nod over back fences, e¢x- changing little romances of how HE sent HER her first valentine and) took HER to her first dance, And} old men collect over soap boxes to puff out over corn-cob pipes about “How that little feller was’ always jest crazy about HER when HE was knee high to a grasshopper.” ‘Truly this old world of ours is a romantic place to dwell in. And no ‘one is ever too busy to hear the real love story of some one else, Interrupt @ busy man with "Can I interest you in a new kind of ——" and he will shut you off with @ flat “N But just whisper that Sadie, the new stenographer, has eloped with Bill, the head clerk, and you will be forced to go into full details, And if, by chance, you should mention that the said Sadie came from the same home tow and used td go to confusion, bis hostess called atten- tion to it pointedly by looking down the table and saying, audibly: “Well, Dr, X, you may be @ vory clever surgeon, but if I wanted a leg cut off I should not come to you to do it.” “No Madam,” he replied, still con tinuing the tarv! ey then, you eee, you are not en,” school with the said Bill, then you will have a thi@lling romance! But after all“ls love as romantic or as thrilling when it begins in baby- hood, goes through the various stages of childhood and still clings on to maturity? Is such love the kind which ects men's hearts to ragtime Gi There Are So Few PAULS and VIR- Real Life beating and brings the delicate blush to maidens’ cheeki? Is there any- thing particularly thrilling for a man about kissing a girl he has played “post office” and “forfeits” with in his teens? Or is there any love in a maiden's heart for a man whom she has watched digging worms for bait? Oh! the Pauls and Virginias of lite are few and far between, “There's many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip,” and ‘the boys and girls who grow up side by side SELDOM wed. Do you suppose Tom Jones would think of falling in love with Sally Smith when he remembers that she never could add a column of figures up right and at sixteen was the worst spendthrift in town? What does he care for her sparkling eyes and glossy curls when he thinks of the spicy things she used to say to him just to make others iaugh? On the other hand, how could you expect Sally Smith to fall in love with Tom Jones when she remembers how he used to stutter when he read aloud in school; how he plastered his hair down with water, and how she had to beware of his blacked boots at parties? You can tell Sally Smith that Tom Jones is the best business chap in the village; that he has the figure of an Apollo and a lot more on his side, but you could ever convince and Matrimony HER that he is half as attractive as the travelling salesman who comes to town every spring! But no matter how much Tom Jones loves Sally Smith when he boards the train that takes him to the whirling, bustling city he begins to feel that REAL LOVE has not yet touched him. Only when: some new face, some heavenly eyes which he has never before seen flash before him does he experience love's real thrill. When he tries to think senti- mentally of Sally Smith he finds his heart grows faint. He plans to fit out a little apartment for her, but un- consciously he sees this new city love presiding at his dinner table, Still his honor will not have it thus. Although he takes this new love to theatres and sends her flowers, nothing could induce him to propose. He may be so in love with her that his eyes dare not steadily gaze into hers, but he must cling to little Sally. And then in the summer vacation Tom Jones goes home for two weeks, He has made bis way in the big city, He is ready to “take unto himself a wife.” But there is his honor and there is his heart! When, lo! the firet thing he hears when: he steps from the train is—well, Sally Smith has eloped with the travelling sales- man! Perhaps all this time Sally has been writing to Tom, but not once in her letters did she speak of any sales- man, And perhaps, after all, Sally Smith did the best thing she has ever done in ber lite, breakfast together like peaceable [Dome folks, - ' } ' By Roy L. McCardell “Of course it's impossible, although {t's not impossible for you to insult me," sobbed Mrs, Jarr, “Thank good- ness, I'm not a bearded lady!” “It isn’t that,” said Mr. Jarr, grin- ning. “You couldn't’ keep your chin still long enough to be shaved. Gee- willikens! I've cut myself!” “Why don't you keep your chin still long enough to be shaved?” ked Mrs. Jarr, coolly. “But I'm not talking about shaving; nor am I talking about the fact that I try to take care of my hair, even tf I can’t, afford to go every other day to the hairdresser’s, like Mrs. Kittingly does. I'd be more appreciated if I did! And what have I to do with the germs in Germany? I'm not talking about germs.” 5 “For gracious sake! What were you talking about, then?’ asked Mr. Jarr, ruefully gazing at the gash in his chin, “You said you thought you had influenza.” "Yes, and I tried to say that no one in this house thmks enough of me to bring me a cup of tea and a’! Piece of toast in the morning,” eaid | Mrs, Jarr sadly, | “Did you ask anybody to?’ said Mr. Jarr. “What would be the use?” replied his wife, “I've a terrible headache, but nobody cares. I might le here until I starved to death and no one would bring me « cup of te “You've got a. headache from dancing all night at Clara Mudridge- Smith's Peace Party and War Camp Community dance,” said Mr, Jarr, ig- noring the last semark, Just then little Emma Jarr came into the room with a tray, “Look, mamma! I've brought you some tea and toast,” she said, “Oh, never mind, dear; you've been So long about it, I'll get up and take breakfast with your father,” whim- pered Mrs, Jarr, “Well, for goodness sake, take your tea and toast, now you have it!” said Mr, Jarr, “Well, maybe it ie just as well. murmured Mrs, Jarr, “It isn't very appetizing to sit across from @ man with @ cut on his chin.” Mr. Jarr turned around to say something in reply and accidentally struck the tray in the hands of the child, and it and its contents went down with @ crash, “There! I knew you'd do some- thing like that!" exclaimed Mrs, Jarr, “I can't have my breakfast ~° in bed iike other people. Ob well, never mind; a day will come! “That's what they said in Germany, and the day came,”. said Mr, Jerr, And he put a wound stripe of oourt {) plaster on his chin and they all had © a

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