The evening world. Newspaper, January 18, 1919, Page 14

a te Be ee ee ee en ie Sie L PAGE urday, January 18, 1919 ay Sn The Vreee 1 Co ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. the Prese Publishing Company, Nos. 63 te, Published Daily Except Sunday b; PF Sus Park Row, New York. | RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, surer, 63 Park Row. | JOSEPH PULITZER,’ Jr, 8 63 Park How. MEMDER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Amociated Prem ie exclusively entitied to the use for reyibiication of all Aeretehag woTrce not otberwtee creed AB Us paper ned’ tie thecal ‘ewe jralleed here VOLUME 59.. Per PRET as ', ‘THEY NEVER COME SINGLY. T WAS on the cards that the Consolidated Gas Company should be the next public service corporation to come forward with extended hat Who ever knew a gas company in Greater Now York to be behindhand when there looked to be the faintest chance of revising rates or putting over a deal at the expense of the public? A bill of complaint filed in the United States Court by the Consolidated Gas Company asks that the 80-cent gas law of 1906 be Sinn re eee nmeeng na adjudged invalid, unconstitutional and confiseatory of the company’s Ay operty. HS By analogy we may expect to hear that unless it is allowed to iq i; charge consumers at least $1.00 for gas the Consolidated Gas Com pany must either go broke or be adopted by the public with full responsibility transferred to the latter to pay dividends and generally make good. That is the customary prospect advanced these days. While New York is knitting its brows over Mr. Shont warnings that it may have to pay 15-cent carfares, by all means let it get itself braced for a threat of $2.00 gas. | ’s genial ns It would appear that M. Clemenceau, quite without sus- | pecting what he was doing, parted the curtains and showed the | French censor still on the job. —— y A DOUBLE BLOW FOR THE GERMAN REDS. | Y THE violence they helped to evoke, two turbulent personal forces in a disordered Gerimany Karl Liebnecht’ and Rosa Luxemburg are dead because the ind of revolution into which they threw themselves was a revolution of bullets and bloodshed. Somewhere or other the swirl of reaction was sure to catch and overwhelm them, ‘ Of Licbknecht better things might have been expected. Mad he been content to let his brain and influence work without the dan- gerous aid of rifles and machine guns he might have become a rally- ing point of strength for a genuine reconstructive movement in Ger many. Rosa Luxemburg, on the other hand, was one of t women of revolution,” impelling Rebellion toward ‘Terror. The loss of these*two leaders cannot but have a discouraging effect upon the witra-Reds in Germany despite impulses of revenge | it may at first arouse. The Government, such as it 18, has a better hance to strengthen its grip on the situation and gradually bring something approaching order-and stability out of choas. ; | ve be n destroyed. Dr. he true ers US cena ae It is the best of good news to opera-goers in’ this city k that Mr. Gatti-Casazza will continue to be General Manager gy of the Metropolitan Opera Company for at least another four years, In the past nine he has proved not only that he appre- By J. H.Cassel| How Great Warsy Were Ended & By Albert Payson Terhune Copsright, 1919. by The Press Publishing Co, (The New Yor Evening World.) No. 26—THE SER#bO-BULGARIAN WAR ~~) HIS was one of the innumerable Balkan wars; an indirectly, it had far-reaching results. Hitherto th Balkan states, for the most part, had been content join one another in strife against their common tyrang the Turk, But in 1885 two of the restless little coume tries sprang at each other's throat. ‘ Serbia had always been a thorn in Turkey's sid@y In 1830 the Sultan was forced to grant home rule to the Serbs, and in 1878 to g.ve them their full independ-” ence, For the next six years Serbia staggered along un- | der a weight of taxes and of financial deticits and of efforts by foreign powers to establish an “influence” there. In 1885 cam@ the climax of the troublous period. In that year Bulgaria and Easter ‘ Roumejia were united as a single nation. King Milan of Serbia protested hotly against this union, ceclaring it threatened the Balkan “balance of power” and that Serbia ought to get a slice of land from the new nation ia | order to establish this imaginary “balance.’ { No other country could be found to a | Bulgaria, So $ ee with this view—loast of all bia decided to collect on the battlefield what she could not get by diplomacy. War was declared on Bulgaria and a large Serb army 4 concentrated on the Bulgar frontier, This army consisted mainly of militia units, who had had wretchedly insufficient # training and equipment Bulgaria had not the silghest tdea beforehand @ that Serbia was going to make war. ‘Thus, in @ sense, the Bulgars were | unprepared. But their army was in fine condition und was officered and | drilled by Russians, ‘The bulk of this army, however, was on the Turkish: | frontier. my As a result the Serbs were able to fight their way past the puny local “Ml forces which confronted them and to bear down upon Slivnitza, where th defenders were hard at work fortifying the city. The Bulgar army, by hurried marches, als and in the race thither several remark: example, one t de of infantry, 4,500 stron rough country in thirty-two hours.) Winter had set in and the going was hard, ‘The artillery was dragged over icy mountain passes, One Roumelian battalion had two men riding oa every horse. by Yet enough Od )$ Serbia Declares w. | oreo ] | } Ivanced toward Slivnitea, records were made, (For ig covered fifty-nine miles of @ the Bulgar army reaghed the endangered p points to save e bi ivnitza. Around the newly fortified city for several days le raged, with varying rest Meantime the Serbs were Benne thst fi Ise vo capture Sofia and Serbs Meet With } other Bulga Crushing Defeat. But around pene and there, at defeat. As more r regiments came pour: into Slivnitza hottest, crushing ved Bale the til-equipped rbs began to fall back. The defeat became a rout. The beaten oralized army fled in panic. The Bulgars gave chase. There sve vatcome conflict but a complete wrecking of Ser Then it was that Austria intervened tc e war and to rob Bite ja of the fruits of her victory. In March of the next year (1886) norable peace” was concluded between the two { Austrian had gained nothing by a fierce ing up between the for V 0 do ip 1 keeping the Balkan 1oand s' 1 ria perhaps nothing: turbulent fac having been blended and welded a Bétter clates good opera of all nationalities, not excluding American, but also that he appreciates the high appreciation the New York public is now capable of bringing thereto. + PILING IT ON THEATRE TICKETS. HEATRE MANAGERS in this city are appealing Copyraht, 1919, by The Press Publirbing Co, (The Now York Evening World.) | By Sophie Irene Loeb | It Is the Poor, the Struggling, Who Appreciate a to the} end theatre-going public to back them in their protest against | A Line to the Lonely) The Ja rr Fa mily Ana’ Coprright. 16 Mrs. Jarr Dressmaking and Friends . Nea] \ Eat mad y Sales mani/, atn! Bigser Pa By Roy L. McCardell fF PY By IRey 2128 oN zs y M19, by The Tress Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Discusses International The Evening World’s Authority on Successful Salesmanshin ; 4 FEW days ago I wrote an work among the blind for a consid- 66 SEE by the papers that there/ “Clara Mudridge-Smith blames me Worl ers are the proposed tax of 20 per cent. on theatre receipts, which | te thtee tues ace pees Hane Laoag aee eer | going to be a lot of trouble| about the Cackleberry girls of Phil- problems stittrean hi by . would double the present 10 per cent. tax added to the price of aj Vriendship." | my friendsh but as Lam a f at the Pe Conference,” | adelphia and Ensign Jack Silver. Me FRPHER WHE Ue) BM BHERSE and coMnesRC bl vail. ll ie mes theatre ticket. | Many letters camo in answer. It| believer in the Law of Compensa- said Mrs, Jarr. nouR! rus P Ha want# to get out of the Naval Ke- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS, ¢ 7" ee rey ae ag : _ | Was the example of two men, Dr. 8.| tion, I keep right on. dent's wife has SO much charm and| serve now, but can't get released be- AN you give me any The above is only sus It is The appeal will not be in vain. New Yorkers are sensible enough | : and Mr. G, whol “The p At reer to make is this; |/# in Paris one can get the) cause he has to one dependent on him, a tions on locating prospective | given to show you can, by to recognize something more than their own interests and the inter- for years had puiit| It that poor lonely rich man you) Cry latest s a 4 so the Cackleberry girls want to marry | customers for a med a simple proce Imination, got ja «sts of the theatre managers in the matter. It needs no extraordinary | Up a most delight: | spoke of would call on my friend| | "Ot course. mre ree ake ae jhim, They are willing to be depan- | priced automobile by a salesman wit ee worielt sad of reasoning power to sce that if add Ai aeen ei ca itll ful friendship th. nee a week, read to him and per-| has style, Other Presidents’ wives| dent on bim, as he has lots of/a very small personal acquainta people. whose names availableg ane D hat Wf additional revenue is what the Govern- | stood them in good| haps help him in his studies or take| ##¥@ been dowdy, I won't mention) money, | mon. B fl me kind of reasoning, youl ment is after, it will get far less instead of more than the annual| » stead; since they| him out for a walk, he will find not) @P¥ ames, but they have been, BUt) what has Clara Mudridge-Smith prospects for any spe-{can pick out some er class of meng $50,000,000 it can count on now from the theatres if it foolishly | are both very suc-| only an evening's enjoyment, but a (re Women OR AMENSR nae Rs in her motor car and hysterics got t9 | cigity is mostly @ matter of eliminas | Mi ines ; ante them up by.imposing taxes thats 4 7 cessful as a result| big brother act as well." AP ORS Wer WAN OVER G59: 80.2 i. | do th this complication of the|tion, Not everybody wants to buy Will you kindly su a way oF F P & taxes that a considerable part of the thea- of this mutual en-| Ah, surely there is a fine field for, ¥* among the Al- |i carte” asked Mr. Jarr, Jan automo! f course, Ther gaining an interview resting # tre-going public cannot afford to pay. couragement of| friendship. It Ned by i t in a house-to-house is the very poor, the Moreover, the theatres can cl jus it} | & pach other's ef-| struggling, that appreciat come } » th atreés can claim with justice that it is not only | each other's iw. that appreciate @ com: 2 poor return the Gove t L TY | Seomia aun wene erty, | radeship the me a sovernment proposes to make them for their past| ne idea of the writing was to en-| I wondér how many people real substan 1 aid in floating Liberty Loans, raising Red Cross funds, | cour. the preservation of friend-| this great providing benefits, etc., but is also extremely bad business for a Gov- | #i)s many people are of the | the war, 2 are so busy with|H ds 0 «rnment that expects to need more help of the same sort Jopinion that we are so busy with | undre Is t This f th jeveryday affairs that we are losing | leseing, blind or is part of the proposed tax law was framed on the pro-|the capacity for cultivating friend need of friendship sin soldiers are erwise unfit The lonely people are legio! Jenjoy the opportunities of the hale ize conva- vey ter ew er ow lif him. in, vincial theory that people in the city will stand any amount of levying |*™ps that endure and make for things |*%nd_ hearty és r i y! , How many of them jong for some upon their expenditures for amusements rather than give them up. wis Fen oo ee m for Rc hen i = # i: ‘aii | 1 also told of a very rich man who me 80 am fOr Bn. Nous) it is on a par with other tax legislation that plugs up the fountain by! was the lonellest._man in New York }OF ( tell them about things tt clumsy tinkering to increase the flow. ” Tyecaune he had failed to make friends, | M4ve seen. In a word, what grea lhaving been so busy getting gold, | bit of work is there, what finer op. See eee se amass One ietter that comes is of POFSU ALY, AHR AO: SONYEY tO: BE New York will love to think of Mayor Hylan and Mr gnificance, A woman, a jfriend the belief that the milk Hearst at Palm Beach. It always fecls so happy and secure Ree Ccihd he ge Acosta’ ni (len ale | i nan Kindaens ai flows, and that . the world is full of friends when it knows they are together somewhere, yearning over spirit for unfortunates, She | The sone rare ak at oe its welfare. “L have a young man friend who tl tainty found the surest end bies wiutisct Mirrored EE aie : meee, | BURG Bnd), YOr¥ JONKOOUIC, BAB Ol mente cP cteine a Planets L VF friends and is discouraged. For the} On (he other hand, many e tte rs rom the People ust two years £ have done what 'neve come to me from. str Claims Honors for asin Intantey. hus Na allaved Sdn Hesia orc ee ee ee people, who too, are bitte To the Editor af The Ereniag Wor! WMintentie al cic aoe ees we would like to know b With reference to the mention in}i, jy.) 2 bs Sho regi ! ter myself tt As ome Gen, Perehing'y report of the brilitant |Colone! aiso descrihed Li Suey bile way ts obvi It Is not ¢ Aghting of the American armies ond |its main p 1 re betes ade pisttalanient ¢ oan (eet te fine some nw hOm aay } give him what ¢ InMent Licandoen show p slleht ac such in dewcribing the famous Second Tat- | attention to a statement in the Army jam he is fond of the theatr yl eeatnee tanta a ; n to on} reading to him or talking to le of the Murne and the fighting of |* y Journal of 1% what my son can spare from his| Perhaps the greatest fiendshiy Dag 0, and une "Gor : . pa lig SAGEM p July 15, 1918, the General states that | tarcis Weekly tates ion. | earnings, the world may result. Lt is wo “L have been trying to do some! trial ‘a single regiment of the 2d (Divi- |official and which clear up sion) wrote one of the most brilliant |@oubt the identity of the unit h pages in our military annals,” and | fore disvus which statement caused fr of the 20th Infantry to claim the honors in an article that appeared in The Eve- How Much Does It Cost You to Live? And How Do You Do It? T feel Lam justified in ¢ attention Lo the erved with the ng your above matter, having » Infantry e ning World about Dec. 5, 1918, and |several months after its formation OW does the ¢ van to one in the New York Times Sunday, |and fought with {hem in the se bes by deat are es} Rec, $8, 1018, while Col, Crawford, | Battie of the Marne, when | was |f Now Your ee dite ae er who commanded the 6th Infantry Bri- | wounded in the right forearm by an A ea ea gade during that battle, and which |expiosive rifle bullet and therefor fecane hart warean. choy Seu brigade was composed of the 30th and | put out of further action neat to you 1 48th Infantry Regiments and the 9th| Please give this attention in , Itt} Machine Gun Battalion, issued a|vaper out of justi statement which appeared in the New Yos& Times about Dec. 9, 1918, to th which deserves ; Land who "Oh, well, shi latest styles wh much wi women of Amer for the poked the pa heroic part the: a First Lady of the} Why, 1 was going to tell you that. deceit of both Irene and ¢ Kleberry! Both cats—and wicked | process of cats, as most of the fresh and know- | of men you want to see too-much young girls of these days! who can afford an auto. are. Those Cackleberry gitia are just | rich won't want to buy the Kind ¢ rible!" cre tx left, then, | Practically c Jit would be a waste of your t all on everybody. Now les « bool on the war? have all the very en she comes back. be done for the ca, to reward them) have played nation, ‘The haps you can name some book to me in this 1, & B. E that would be of value line of w Your pre e mostly women 3a very woman in Americaaa in the war and the sacrifices the [auto you sell : have made—not having any sty Cackleberrys are bad eggs, | the medium class with fairly good ins |) la ‘ brother or a friendiaams from. Paris for four years, one m suggested Mr, Jarr, comes, Who are they? Professional answe the country's calla say.” cu mustn't talk that way about men, business men, exec! point of act, \ “*Do you think it's a Dyess Con-;them!” retorted Mrs, Jart, "They | so on, Since the whole me ! that you keep yours ference, my good woman?" asked Mr, Come of @ very refined family. Irene | iy too big for you to tackle, let's tal ht—at first, Yop ane: Cackleberry and Gladys Cackleberry | just one part of it-say, profess'on an clal stout “Don't you ‘My g are two-fa part is too big ket made, just the size of wicked little d troud! Even this one wretches in every way.!so we'll take just a certain kind of »od woman’ m makers and are, men, yspectus, and carry it by a replied Mrs, Jarr, h some asper- ty. “But you men might as well) But you mustn't say a word against onal omen, sa dentists * shoulder under know the truth--among the worst|them in my hearing, for I have enter kind of prote: ou This is not dec partie. itrocities of German Kultur wete/tained them, and when you speak numerous for you, so. Ulurly, t un pecu- omen's styles from Berlin.” | slishtingly of them to me you ave 4 of dentists. Supe! liar, A t, nobody on earth wants hat's just what Beple the) retlecting on me! So please criticise those who have! to bu uithoush many thou- butcher, and Muller, the grocer, wore! your own friends it of college for three years, | sands a {every y Mo it te uying to me in Gus's—I mean in tho! “Name one!" replied Mr. Jarr tirm- hen are just beginning t Just as w jet you pect drug store at the corner, where }/!y. He had no moncy and he felt he yjcely on their feet tnaneially, e that you can cll books, Not in to get a jazav due id no friends. sught i 1 prosps unt tohave hy ! 1 things, those jaazbe a I don't d Ss such peor said) Now w special cl dow, Ou. mt your tals somes Mr. are Mr “Your triends, [| rican, are we gving to locgte t Wal ho thin; “Mad ve you @ 4 And botaer what those trades sto lure J ver to Philue teach dentistry and get the 1915 Jon dictates) in the army or navy a" say ai” replied Mrs, Jar, “1 | delphia!" ot graduate In calling sa Uiese mea EN art versat ou. know that butt w butter, ia W| “phey’d have to chloroform him to! we would ask each one if he knew of | ' ya few about nis a pound, so TL have been using | get him to Philadelphia," ventured a frietd why might be interested, His | Wale Uw evelybedy wants to nut butter, which is only 42 $2/\e Jarr, “He could only be lured fricnd wid De apt to be around hig POPEOC Me ne fl w owe all want pound, and you've never noticed the |tnere by chloroform or being beaned own age and about in his own posi-| (Pi)! Sully till ts A round of the J nee, And Clara Mudridges with a battle-axe and dragged thers Won in life ft Then you can bring out your’y coming in her motor ear and) while insensible, But how did the pectu di by t ae ria and blaming me Lurettes attempt. it without using It was a daytime burglar and hook. ib believe if y a Cun Blaming you?" echoed Mr. Jurt. | ghrecklichkeit?” ira Was Massaging her face with vasa carefully alot BE | “Por what? Friction at the Peage Conference, the re sea tectin, itter, wow know y doen things at confused, or what? ointment, and the bur the colored m. bene they wrote to Jack Silver thought sue Was d him an Admiral told them and’ , Jack Silver, owed his com. |. Did duck Bi , mission as ensign to the wiles of a He did, and now, because Clara aa young married woman with a wealthy | wrote to the Cackleberry gitls a let Who could they mean about it that the girls ser tal authorit that wretch Jack n book of gen exclusively wi as Lan aware cipeulation deals house to house delay of the turn and t with the new! that k Sliver show the letter uence of the frietion, as u nut, the several good smanship, ade old husband. hat I mean, or you but Clara Mudridge-Smith? Their LOY iva Glata Mudridge: with a Bu {ness administration, u will not talk @f @ Jetter described how married yjoiated a confidence, and won't columns, Don't make tee 1 time and get me vampire wore a complexion mask speak to her.” trying to study a * “Heaven help the young and rich ral t idy all three, but will wait ti t alat night and had scared a burglar on Hg erachiny mee ue ‘ship ov adverti ‘ t ‘ said Mr, Jarr., ‘They have nothing ing first & word in edgeways | with a weak heart to d when the byt their troubles to interest them later, or els Mrs Jarre answered. | burglar saw her in it, That wasn't in life!” i 1 busine administration study business a tration exclusively, ales