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| ! ' t 4 i ‘ paths, eat eed ‘ ’ } ‘ { ‘ ‘ : | re /Pubuaes Daily Except Sunday by se Pre 2 Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to J Ue SHAW voanuren €9 Park Ro 4 5 . rer, wr. ‘ Josbtt PULITERI Jr Secretary, 63 Park Tow, _ to put immediate checks upon some of the unlimited and unprece-| wate ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, dent, 63 Park Row, Pa -—— MEMBER OF THN ASSOCIATED PRER: Se SE x coi kNdeeead VOLUME 59.. eNO, 20,911 | BUREAUS AND THE SPENDING HABIT. A tsrostion of sixteen from the Committee on Public Information sailed for Europe last Tuesday with the some- what vaguely professed purpose of “keeping up a world-w propaganda to disseminate American accomplisiiments and ideals.” Previous to the departure of these propagandists the country had heard nothing as to the nature, necessity or makeup of this particular expedition, nor has there been anything to indicate how many euch! the Commitice on Public Information may think it worth while to, sead abroad at the public expense, | Economy and efficiency are both more than ever needful in the! “reconstruction period now beginning. : { In the interest of economy and efficiency it would seem desirable! ide dented money-spending power exercised by Government bureaus cre-| ated to mect needs which no longer exist in the same form or measure.! Bureaucracy does not of its own accord relinquish its privileges. | Whe habit of spending public moncy unquestioned is one that grows. | Moreover, the country has not been so deeply impressed by the work of the Committee on Public Information during the war as to feel.an overwhelming wish to perpetuate it and its functions. Committee on Public Information put forth at the cost of enormous) quantitics of white paper, ink and expensive labor previous to the} cessation of hostilities was such as to inspire the Nation with any-| « “accomplishments and ideals” over the “world-wide” circuit. —— NO FEAR OF THE P. S. C. E by three inches the specified outer rail elevation on the Mal- bone Street curve, without securing the formal approval or consent of the Public Service Commission, points to rhore than the It indicates again the light esteem in which the authority of the Public Service Commission is held by those for whom the Commis- sion’s powers should be compelling. ‘mission is not feared by those who ought to fear it? Part of the answer is found in the fact that, despite the section of the 1913 contract between the city and the B. R. T. which requires 80, of stee] and fireproof materials,” the B. R. T. is now running more than 200 wooden cars-daily.through the Centre Street loop and over the Williamsburg Bridge, to'Canarsie and Jamaica, because the Public R. T. to meet the requirements of the law in abolishing wooden cars on subway routes. The Evening World maintains there should be no more wooden On the contrary, the general character of the materia] which the thing but a desire to give the committee carte blanche to press-agent VIDENCE showing that the B. R. T. construction heads reduced culpability of the corporation, Whose fault is it that the vigilance of the Public Service Com- that “passenger cars shall be constructed, as far as practitable to do | Service Commission has not exerted force enough to compel the BR, ears in Brooklyn subways. - EDITORIAL PAGE | Thursday, November 21, 1918 ‘Albert of Belgium perverse’ Spake eas SANE REGIA ON Copyrigt 1Ms by The Freae P iba i Tie New York Bren How Great Wars Were Ende By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by Tho Press Publishing Go, (The New York Evening World.) beige | No. 6.—THE END OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS. OR a@ score of years Napoleon Bonaparte had turned Burope into an armed camp, had drenched its fielde in blood and had kept the whole world in @ ferment of uneasiness, Almost as fast as he gained the victory im one war he began another. He thrashed Austrie and Prussia and Spain and Italy and Russia and a throng of lesser nations. Ho aimed at world power, as’ did the recently dethroned Kaiser, The chief difference between Napoleon and the Kaiser was that the former Was the greatest military genius the world bas ever scen, while the latter cannot claim true genius of any kind—except for causing more trouble than he end his whole tion aro worth, For years Napoleon continued to bully Europe. Then bis disastrous winter campaign in Russia crippled bis bitherto invinclble army, It seems to have crippled bis amazing brain as well, for never again was he the same unconquerable genius, There were not enough recruits in France to replace the veterans he had lost in Russia. His power began to wane. And at once his clinging allies deserted him. The lion was down. It was the time for the hounds to attack. s Several other nations formed a coalition against him. And they overs throw him, Hoe was packed off to exile at Biba, while Burope prepared for 4 much-needed interval of peac But in less than a year Napoleon escaped from Eiba, He returned to France and raised another army, The horrors of the past twenty years seemed about to begin all over again. At once the Allies made ready to attack him. Tho chief members of this coalition were Great Britain, Prussia, Austria and Russia, On the battlefield of Waterloo the rival forces met, And Napoleon was overwhelmingly beaten, He had struck his last blow. Again he was sent into exile—this time to St, Helena, whence there could be no chance of es- cape. The Napoleonic wars were at last ended. And Europe faced the task of undoing what Napoleon had wrought. He had changed the map of the world, wiping out ancient boundarics and forming new kingdoms and annexing vast territory to France. ‘All this had to be readjusted. And France had to be put on a new basis, under the rule of the Bourbon King, Louls XVIII. ‘The Allied and the French peace commissioners met in Paris, tate in 1815, to settle the myriad questions Involved in the wiping out of Napoleoa- ism and the certain establishment of a peace. A delicate task confronted the Allies, They bad declared that thelr quarrel was with Napoleon and not with the French people, Yet it was hard not to penalize the one without the other. In fact, it was impossible not to make the French pay, in part, at least, for the mischief Napoleon had led thein into. > After much negotiating the following condi- { tions were imposed on the conquered: ‘ ‘The Allies insisted that they were entitlea to compensation for saving France from Napoleon. ism, and that they were also entitled to security against any recurrence of Ngpoleonism, So they forced France to give up all the territory she bad ann ie the past quarter century, a8 well as certain other lands of hers. re eg sisted on an indemnity of $140,000,000, and arranged that 160,000 Atlied troops should occupy French soil till the sum was paid, There were other minor clauses to the treaty, but the foregoing wers aye principal points, and they were a cheap price for ridding France of the disease of Napoleonism, iphus ended Napoleon's dream of world power, Because ho was a enius, he had not awakened from that dream unlit twenty years had Genius, Mine ‘Kalser—not being a genlus—was rudely awakened from the: eee Into Exile at Elba for a Year. WAOODAAADDLLOLOOODAY, ; Warred off Ruler, Not the People. The Great Need a oe By Sophie Irene Loeb j heart and cultivate our sense of tol- erance and justice. ‘Does the Public Service Commission dissent? | Who will respect the Commission’s orders so long as ii seems Copsright, 1918, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Siself to hesitate to issue them because it doubts their force? FEW days ago I was at the|thize, and the other sent a substan- are A home of a great and good] tial sum His hair is white, but] “Now, the man who sent the small GERMAN CASUALTIES his spirit is alive] pittance,” eald my friend, “did not with youth. He is}auite understand his obligation and HE estimated total of German casualties reported by the Berlin vel Bente PN es ree ty ah birds bere , i; Bes , ropis offer a fair example. If a few eramb: hs Vorwaerts as 6,330,000, as against well under half that num This m does} are thrown out to a large number of ha ber for Great Britain, may be largely explained, of course, by ne merely “sien Is some get the crumbs while the { . t d iecks, but gives|others do no seat the the greater aggregate lengih of the fighting fronts, reckoning all rei arate ¥ Cheated 4 pace : Guerre eped | | parts of the war theatre, over which German troops were distributed, ta that which he is| they can seck elxewher | ct Figures showing 1,580,000 Germans killed as compared with ye doing for the bene- | ut 1¢ T have a bird in a cage In | 658,665 British dead, and 4,000,000 Gorman wounded as against half i a mieanliin , | my Bousn and. do not let It out, rt * ‘ sera , © does not re-|give it any chance to secure crumbs, that number of wounded Britons, likewise offer no safe basis for) tieve his conscience by mere money |1 am therefore responsible, _ * conclusions without the French casualty lists which have not yet|S!¥ing. but goes into matters hi “In such cases the answer must Been published. “land therefore reaches the very be ‘Lam my brother's keeper.’ Just | Beret ct dis G ah of the trouble in nearly every case | how far cach man may answer that in view o the Gerinan theory of men a8 mere massed units in alin this way he heads several organ-| question is up to the man, but cer-| foighty military machine, and the practice of the German high com-| !azions and has at his finger tips the | tainly there is no time like the pres-} mand to sacrifice troops in close formation wherever there appeared pike P ne ue Cs oiatal laches ot SHO WapIaneened, tole ot A : ; i ctosely in touch with the human ele-|anee and love it is now | the slightest hope of making gains by sheer overwhelming push of| ment the game of life, he ha Again, my friend pointed to a) | Bumbers, ii would not have been surprising to find the total German| found considerable philosophy upon | beautitul rose “Isn't it ’ Josses even creater. which he bases many of his activi-} rose, Dut yet it has its thorn: ; Milithrism had thi ; ties, For instance, os we wore walk-] Without the thorns and t % Militarism had everything to lose and lost. Its desperately| ing along we saw wk of diy r would no longe played stakes mounted to 10 per cent. of the total population of Ger-| eagerly grasping for the crumbs that mo WO. Moow,= <Ferhape it =~ many drawn from the strongest part. It played its own terriblo( *®4 been thrown to them sk PHBE peepee bee | ame in its own terrible way, yet found itself at the end outplayed on paid bie nays bie stopped in their growth ie . ; YeC.! ample of our obligations tc bd aed millions = Germans who live on are ready to call the game|low men,” he exclaimed wo: ite with if pple ae can’t forever accursed, Rarlier in the day he rea ee NRE AEE FOr) A SAUa } \ ta j heir faults with them— _ -_— letter written from a prison, in which | fauits which a oe feat fee ee t the inmates begged for a recon-| . me 8B ne Many, many great souls Letters From the Peop Le |stton terios an omortniy to]yare thom nid would sot beak bt: What to De With Germany, | in the Constitution of cach of the now tld us abort hacky pepe ie ee von rie ica ; : To the Kécor of The Brecing World: Governments and in the hearts of| couple of millionaires in the Interest Paap weg oe fcpede cpa Civilisation prays that war ehall| thelr peoples a commandmont againat| of Thieme Oba cailllenneelitine: eon eee ee Rever again darken the face of tho| the iniquity of wars for conquest. cent ‘a amall pittance, with al Oe cai tata Bae sun, “Now is the accepted time.”| The peace conversutions ol GU TkAE REA en ae ane SOOKE te BUORE BY ek, ome saeieien tine" # should] statement that he did not sympa-|y i banish hatred from. the! leave the final guarantee for the per petuation of the new forms not toa Partlament of peace alone, but to an international government—bound to come—whioh shall for all (ime enact, execute and adjudicate law confined it will be possible to seal the doom of war forever, There is one way in Fvich this great boon may be at- fe‘ned, and we in the United States have “blazed the trail.” We have pa vive it until the reign never waged a war for conquest, and, {o problems and interests applicable Wesel and comprehensive ays Charlemagne, Under tho latte it would be impossible for us to wage | to international relations only. By the tom of punctuation was the Hon, Warnesfried and Alouin for- grar at all except for tho most altru-{ events of the past fow days we may fmous Venetian printer, Aldus| mulated a punctuation systems bac Antic motives, We have engrafted) be sure that these middie Huropean| Manutius, who Was assieted by his) there were no rul verning the use these bigh ideals as a fundamental) countries neod this assistance to| 80% Paulus, the w being carried] of their signs, and they were practic @octrine upon our territories, the| bring them by way of a wholesome| 0? DY the latter's son, Aldus Jv, Aldus|aliy worthless, Aldus Manatlae and wards of our Nation. Following the| contrition to the necessary heights of | Manutius, also known as Tobaldo| his successors of the Aldine Press in- precedent thus established by the] humility, In this way only wil! jt be | Mannuct and Aldo Manuzio, was not{ereased the number of punctuation United States, the Allies, led by our) possible to secure a lasting peace, |oMly the founder of the famous Aldirre | marks and established fixed rules for Government, should install in each of| and this will prove a forward stop {1 | Press and one of the greatest scholars| their use, Later grammarians Intro- the vanquished nations a Governor the direction leading to the brother. | of his time, but he was the father of] duced some improvements, and the ere. Then zener ae be out- sg eee PO es i punctuation in modern times, Aris-| rules for punctuation have been linea o pilea: vern- countries should AAT a? cred. | ame fe be. fern et srupupllonn. geyers- entinka ran ek countries shay abe tophanes, the ancient Alexandria| changed, what and new ones reater government when th of the countries Sy the Allies, #hall cach have snes, be written bouse ia order, Be the people of each Jeg 8hamMmarian, invented set hig, Punctuation, but it was wholly lost| formed the solid foundation for that 7 love the dark a, How “Punctuation” Was Invented MB first man to deve nade to a system of|added, but th , aud De attompt! now in use, oo The Jarr Copyright. 1918, by ‘The Hes (The New York Even! ee you come with me pilabing Co, Yo-day is a day of opinions, Every kind of doctrine is being forwarded in the cause of democracy. We have cosmopolitan population, The democracy may only come by patience and perseverance—pa- tience with those who disagree with us, Thus real peace must come at home as well as with other nations, Peace brings responsibility, obliga- to the stores to-day? I'd | with me and look at that coat before I buy it,” remarked Mrs, Jarr, de- murely, Mr. Jarr tried to look eageriy in- terested, “I'd lke nothing better, my dear,” he said, “but tho fact is"—— “The fact is!” crted Mrs. Jarr, firing up—"“the fact is, you do not tion, In the same manner in which If it we want to protect the small coun-| want to go anywhere with m tries to their fullest and best devel- friend, Mr. Rangle, who wos your opment, so We must protect the weak ae z oA with nim individual and give him opportunity. | wanted sou to hang around As We must now sa 1 the Ht-| playing pool or something like that tle nations and give them the chance] you'd do it quick enough! for betterment, so we must at home| “sup whon Lask you to go shopping bring out the same spirit in the lg i. o treatment of the individual, with mo you've always got some Cx Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The Ngy York Urening World.) HY should the Kaiser be interned in @ pleasant little place like W Holland? Why couldn't we intern him in the New York subway or something’ Marching into Metz without a struggle must have been about as thrilling to our mettlesome doughboys as kissing one’s own wife under yj the mistletoe. Every girl's “ideals” are getting broader and broader these days, ‘The military training makes them that way—especially across the shoulders, Every man looks at a woman through bis moods and his digestion—and it’s pretty hard for the wife who serves his, coffee in the morning to have to comn- pete with the fascinating pink-and-white stenogra- pher who never sees bim until after be has finished his second cup, weien ‘wow ade i Pessimist:; A man just recovering from his first love affair. Optimist: The same man just escaping from his thirty-first. Wouldn't it be cothforting if one could find that happy medium be- tween the kind of hueband who dresses as though he were going to a funeral, in the morning, and the kind who dresses as though he were going to a fire? ARMISTICE, Now, in this hour of hopefully watting, Ian't it joyful—just to stop hating-— Just to forget that the Kaiser is living, And dream, once again, of the sweet old Thanksgiving! nere are a hundred things that the cleverest man in the world never system of the Manutii CAN understand-~and ninety-nine of them are women, The man who takes a kiss “for granted” doésn’t stand a chance be- side the may who takes it BEFORM tits granted! Prensa alt Family lke you to come downtown | ‘| question of dress, but pressing home passed sane dream in less -han four years, By Roy L. McCardell “What's the uso of us squabbling this way?” asked Mr, Jarr, “I!mf sure I don't object to your baving good clothes and plenty of them.’ “Well, what do you throw it up to me for, then?" asked Mrs, Jarr, “All Jarr, frowning. “I notice that you|T said to you was that I would like look pretty prosperous! You're going] you to go shopping with me. I could to get a new coat, Well, I need 4/prove to you that I never waste a new overcoat, just one. WillT get it? cent!” No! Why won't I get it? Because) “you know it drives mo wild to go you ‘scrimp ond sa on me!” around the stores,” said Mr, Jarr, “Now, please, please don't talk that|being shoved around by fat women way to me!” exclaimed Mrs, Jarr-land skinny women and old women “How many cigars do you smoke */and young women, all scrapping and day? Twenty? How much do they | pustling and pushing and shoving to Ten cents apiece. Thatis HOW) cet goods reduced about three cents |much—lot me nec?” And Mrs. Jarr|on the dollar, if they are ever really paused to figure it out, for she WAS} requond,"* not mentally agile in mathematics. “Oh, don’t talk to me about women Mr. Jarr evaded the cigar matter.!pargain-hunters!” romarked Mrs. Cigars that used to be ten cents are] Jarr, “1 notice when there are any now fifteen, anyway. So he went OD |bargain sales of socks or suspenders witb his wrongs. ."How many hats} op colars, that the place is full of have you?" he asked. “A half dozen) men grabbing for them. Why, there at least, and you are getting @ halfjqo, 4 sate of jewelry yesterday dozen more. How many hats have) cneay imitation jewelry, and you {1? Two and pretty seedy they tools! couldn't get near the counters for tho Va. two dollar & Gayemeven| oy suo ose’ they were bOvinE E —no, fourteen! | times ose: of agaaguliae alo aa that imitation jewelry for thelr wives Fourteen dollars a for Christmas gifts!" ha ve cigars!" cried Mrs, dollars a week for “Oh, doggone it use, I-want you to come with me and see how dear everything is, and then, perhaps, you will realize how I have to serimp and save “An, you'ro always talking about rimping aad saving!” said Mr. cost Have it your owo Jarr, interrupting him, as eke Ae : atoused front her mental arith.|W2¥!” sald Mr. Jarr, who was, mot vtie. “How many wecks are there|*e!lns like fighting, wince hostill- tiss had ceased abroad, and besides, he wanted to escape the ordeal of shopping, “Go shopping all you ike, waste all you want to, but don't ask in n year?” “Let me seo!” she went on, ‘Thir- |ty days hath September, April, June land November!’ No, that isn't it! aa But I'll look in the dictionary ana|™¢ *° s° alon figure it up, but IT know it will come Mrs, Jarr muttered that she had to thousands of dollars, mayho|alf a mind not to go anywhere, millions! Millions for cigars! Do | Mowever, the other half of ber mind I smoke cigars” won .out, “Don't worry yourself,” said Mr.| 4% Jarr rode downtown with ber Jarr mildly. “I only smoke a few} “Nd deft her in front of a big atore cigars a week, and most of those are When sho got inside, Mrs, Jarr paused ¥ a moment thoughtfully, given me, That isn't the question, And of it was, am [ not to have a| "What shall I’ get him for a little ‘|ittle comfort that way I I don’t cet | SUrvrist she asked bersclf, “Oh, 1 know, cigars,” And she went to the cigar depart- ment and brought a box with a lovely picture of a Spanish girl on the ld, |it another? If I have a cheap cigar now and then, it’s all do havo, How many dresses have you? A dozen, I'll bet! How many suits of clothes \nave.t? ‘Three, and all three on the| ANd. as she afterwards told Mr, blink!” Jarr, the box didn’t cost @ third of “yon,” a r fanoring the |™bat one did with the picture of an | “yes,” said Mrs, Jarr, ignoring the ele en anit ence NEWEST THINGS IN SCIENCE, New scissors are magnetized to pick up needles and are equipped with a needle-threader and a device that the charges of masculine extray- | agance, “you spend millions of dollars every year Tor cigai*, and I know it! | But how much do you waste in drink- ing that I don't know of?" keeps the blades in good cuttir “You know I don't drink!” said] condition at all times, Mr, Jarr, hotly, "Do 1 ever show 015 95.0 te” Because London motorbuses have Killed many persons an Englishman has invented a device that ts intended to pick up, uninjured, a person who ty leno was “Oh, you are so used to it now that {t doesn't affect you any mo waid: Mre, Jare crushingly, 2 Aneel My een ttre neil ass iii