The evening world. Newspaper, January 23, 1919, Page 18

*ment lets them loose their tongues in Gaeli “to their hearts’ content. ESTARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 63 te rs Becopt Bunsey srk how, Now York. | ALPH PULITZDR, President, 63 Park Row. TALI Us SHAW Treasurer 6 Park Row, | JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. r Pree ie exclusively entitied to the wee for repubit: cent hersis ted Papeete Sallis) SP alba tnd ciee wn one VOLUME - = TOO LATE? ITH the Legislature of the State of New York to-day in} the. grip of fanatical forces urging it to approve the! degradation of the Federal Constitution by the National | Prohibition Amendment, let the people of the State note: (1) Tn the Canadian Province of British Columbia, which has, had its bone-dry lesson, a People’s Moderation Party has just been formed to secure a modification of the liquor law. Legislation will be asked to permit the sale of wine and beer and the sale of distilled liquors under Government regulation. The plan is to address a great | popular petition to the Provincial Government. (2) A Norwegian who arrived in New York yesterday from Christiania made the following succinct statement of the status of Gat prohibition in Norway: ‘orway went dry in 1915, Two years later, after almost a revolution caused by the scarcity of liquor, the people threw out the Storthing (Congress) and elected a new set of represen- tatives pledged to reinstate the liquor traffic.” Ts it too late to save the State of New York from recording ils ative endorsement of a Nation-wide invasion of personal liberty legis which has no justification either in the ideals and institutions of the United States or in the experience of any other free people? SR a ee Postmaster General Burleson is finding that as yet the course of bureaucracy in the United States runs little better than the course of true love, tase A WISER BRITAIN. HE world do move. Here is a Brit with serene brow and folde 1 Government sitting 3 set hands while Sinn Feine up an Irish Republic and hold a Parliament in Dublin to| select delegates to represent Ireland as a separate nation at the Peace Conference, In the march of time and circumstance a great wi m has come dpon Englishmen who have tried for centuries to think they were | managing Ireland. Instead of challenging and inflaming the Irish! spirit of these Dublin republic makers by shaking British law in their | feces dnd surrounding them with British police, the British ¢ and cast off the yvern- | ipire This leaves the Sinn Fein without of “British tyranny and oppression!” s accustomed rallying cries The other Trish factions will | y scowl ag the Sinn Fein vont on such occasions to scow) ood deal harder than they are England. Presently we shall rave Irishmen discussing more vigorously than ever their rights to | 's to what extent they are fit for self-determination as a separate national entity. determine one another, thereby demonstrating by degr British poli Bands off, and put it up to the Irish. SS By Roy L. Receiver Garrison wants $16,000,000 to put the B. ft. T. in Capsright, 1919, by The Prem Publishing shape. Some measure of the neglect that has made it a dis Brace anda Pyrwore died the Biggest city in the country R. JARR had got home first. a “Where've you been, What's NO DOUBLED TAX ON MHBATRES) - \Vaassnsea sient Une ohare oring to subdue a tone of peev- ae : ; lishness in his v as he met Mrs HE decision of the House and Senate conferees not to increase | gar, at the door the present 10 per cent. tax on theatre tickets will be wel-| "Now, for goodness » comed as a sign that framers of revenue legislation can stil] |4t ‘Be minute 1 get home!” cried Mrs. Jarr, “Lt isn't often you do get be reached by reason and common sense. here before me, I can tell you, But Protests against the proposed doubling of the theatre tax were | ¥ou are becoming so fussy that really il get on your nerves, I know it prompt and of overwhelming volume, It was not merely a question Ih w Ua a a has BOL o , of justice toward a profession that has given the Government aid| Mr, Jarr took in his horns, for he of special and substantial value during war time. It was even more *@¥ he could have a battle if he : anted it, He didn't tit, Mrs, ‘than @ matter of leaving amusements within reach of people who need a SUR dey Jare’s eyes were agleam with militant them most. It was a matter of plain business policy fora Government interest. It is not likely that the seeking additional! revenue. Universal Peace will ever supplant tha 101 ublished Balance of Power in To close theatres by cutting down the number of people who |tne home could afford to go to them would have been a foolish way to try to| There was something on Mrs. get more taxes out of them, mind t so pleasingly obsessed her that Mr. Jarr Saw she could run a thoughilessly | couple of wars on the side and not be proposed tax for which there was no stronger argument than that it at all worried—in fact, they might “could be easily collecte only add gest to life for her 7 “It was too damp and depressing to! ‘ be downtown shopping, dearie, said Ito F pee iMr, Jars weakly, “and espeoially otters rom t © Pe eo Pp le when I feel sure you haven't had} ince this morning. » don’t start v's There could have been no other verdict on this Probibitionist That Objects to the tenants for information Dry Law, ciroumstances—how it h To the Editor of The Viveaiog World whether he was in I quite agree with one Al Phillips | ot the anything to ¢ and |U'll have Gertrude get you a cup of “rm in} no ir 1 had luncheon as to pened dor rwise—-but have to the pre : . received no word, and we thoug , ; of Englewood, N. J., who wrote for) may be possible in time to find some | With Clara Mudridge- Sm It was your column, “Letters From the Peo-|one whoemay know, Thanking you a good ene, too, But why shouldn't ple’ on Jan, 10th, | too am a Pro- Very Much for the desired informa tion, if possible, | am, rei it be tid Mrs. Jarre, as thoug hibitionist, with no inclination what ye : Am. “Fenpectfully | tomate, ttm. aure that ait tn. be ever personally to become otherwise, No. 991 Glenmore Avenue, Brooklyn olden to me all her days, She'd have und I agree it is a downright shame that people should permit themsely to be dictated to in so personal a Would Correct Werding of tnacrip- never gotten that rich old husband, | lon on Maine Mo an Smith, but for me! And did ument, old r matter. Te the Maite © bvening We ou notice how Mrs. Rangle tried to! Without a doubt drinking would)! read recently in The Evening | xpoil rything for Clara? She wanted become more prevalent if the law | World the very udable idea of his g that the inscrip Monument be re. | half an « dition Vermit me to state, howeve umble belief that th ound, when anybody with Went through, as in the West, where Newspaper in w “blind pigs” (where the stuff can be tion on the Ma obtained) flourish. The pub. | store Ne is easygoing regarding gener things, but | am afraid out of « old man Smith ra to ge to say the word! weather deviltry, stubbornness, &,, ther kind in erasing the | M8 exe, and #0 could Clar of people who have | nwcript aS £08 ona And so could Mrs. Rangle, accord tion in that direction w indoubtedly gives rise to to what you say," ventured Mr assert their independence.” tures on the part of many who japy “L, A. T.." Brooklyn, N elf have read the article and,” h "i Rea, ace ia pack 1 the irony of the inseripti Yes, » made her so mad,” re- To the Editer of The Vvening Wo _weamen ard the plied Mrs, Jarr, “was th Mrs. In @ recent issue of your publica went ¢ th unafr Rangle has an old maid half-sister} tion, under the heading “Letters From eee were solng in Williman Conn, she was going the People,” the writer speaks of the (* "g the statement of Senut wonderful work done by the sath | Prank Baguse of Milwaukee in A Infantry in France during July, sign. 1917, had some trath in it On to send for—only she didn't think o! tin tim dng just the {nitials “R. I." is there | Other hand perished “What J would that have done any way in which I can communicate | Warned in deplor 2 oid man Binlih’ wan ta’ love. wiih with him? Have you his full name any ¢ have chee and address? If so, would you favor sugh in the recent past in the then Miss Mudridge?" asked Mr us with the same, under the cir- | mur factories, then they were Jarr. cumstances? Our son was a mem. | Dot s, but simply vietims of a iN ocasnaei 4 wanappad Alba ®er of the 38th Infantry and was |catastrophe, and the inscription on killed in action in August, We have the Maine Monument shoud bv A man cor wevetai wiioupin iwi, cha: made | Eiaatagpdeaeatind. Soathemmnmng £ wl know ile vw eb accords halt the time, & Man's reasy 4 New YORKER. to marry, any emart girl that's RAE Why the High Prices? «vit: Bolshevik Belles in a Bachelor’s ‘‘Boudoir” winter too?” e could see that it was the) 1 could tell it by| EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, January 23, 1919 | How TT. War y toward Ireland hes learned the great fowon:| DDD G Jarr arr Famil y Bachelor Girl Reflections _By Helen Rowland McCardell Co, (The New York Bening World.) Covyris' the Press Publishing teous to a soldier; round cen get him." Mr. Jarr whistled | beyond him, the way of a maid with} a man. “shopping?” he asked to change | the sub “Shopping this weather?" replied | Mrs. Jarr, “No, we weren't, I went} over with Clara to some new apart- | ments to see if she'd like them well enough to live in them, Her apart- ments in the Highcosta Arms only have five bathrooms and th new apartments have eight "Why, good gracious! There are | only two people in that family; they | can only bathe in one bathroom at this, It wa: years ago. (And wt dearie, the only differ him such a thrill as when be opens the fr ame. Why ave why caett’ dazzling him; at twenty by “luring” him, and at thirty | 6g qaughter of ‘em thoumht hit me seuere lh tha Gace “Well, that's Clara Mudridge- by fluttering him; when if she had just staried “Oh, I can understand that.” T called her , Smith's afta She doesn’t need any | “mothering” him she could have dispensed with all the rest, | Well, now to the pith of my nar- “What's the sy tore, Se advising, She's a very smart girl,” — votive! One day a little, thin woman ‘ gid sald Mrs, “But isn't it rather hasty, taking the responsibility of having to bathe in\eight bathrooms instead of five, in arr CindereNa a washing machine, and they her slender earnings. “You've GOT to be hasty,” was the . Z comelcould work she might ha any reply. “A man who's been a bache- | positions than heaven ever created, out, phe had seen me in parlance | 100" Work me ve THANK lor as long as old man Smith was gets —— with the film magnets and that give) (Vy | ine pois: in the habit of procrastinating, ‘The Why should a Ney Yorker go away for a change of air when he has |her an idea reer nea water in one bath tub may get cold! ye yarieties to choose from right at home-subway air, steam heat air,| “She has just drained the cup when oy 8 lat she unc overed from her 7 eK * * ‘6 9 “¢ her schen , i e ie old brown cape a hand that was beforeshe gets in it, 1 suppose that's i ruenertays I get her scheme, I'm in her vicin a warette air, gasoline air and 7 tude at the time and she shows she |Kind o' drawed up in knots, Dox “But Clara is so worried. Jack Sil- bs | wants to make converse with me, So sone me, if I didn’t want to whimper ver is to get out of the navy, and Most men who rush into marriage are blinded not so much by love as | tuley-wally up to her Ww she went on away and I felt Clara wants to save him," by the fasvinating street car advertisements depicting perfectly marvelted | en, lady! she begins, “I got) Pretty punk vest of the day.” ave him?” echoed Mr, Jarr, ladies In pink Wegligec doing their own cooking a awful sweet little daughte “Too bad:" said the Friendly Pa H Yes, Jack confessed to her he was — aanenes Yos” Is , just sort of passay- on, It wou have been nice if addicted to strong drink, but 1 don't B. \ 1 Y u have induced some film bellove it, {t's only after they aro Boy Scout hacenan egan ears Ago Widaadi Yb uue Vailas woke Be teed pee o 1 2 ry She only x and he Bay replied Lucile th married (bat men seem to want to RLET at the Young Men’s/the Boy Scout movement was 5 , ucile, with just a tvs io dean TA ‘ ; , everybody remarks about|touch of disgust in her tone, “you Rag ote : } Christian Association in Bir- inaugurated eleven years ago, aed don ioee Gk Bhat A ie deeb biggie pisina kenhead, England, commemo- 24, 1908, Since then the moy i ; 7 A hens 2 _ girl's often had good cause, but he was] 4 that in that edifice|moent has spre twenty-seven verve ie es WOR All thle woek ond: sho'a get pris Jrates the fact that E mene anes ee NED | those hind of mother-brage before |ting ft or it xt wash “Sea think the avy | pe 4 and pan't par larly pocked with | they'r “f to « a better io shis BD She NAY Bel oe oy ngs?” asked the surprised | bodies of outs” may now a part. What's th t couldn't { anything but grape} Silver vund over Kurope, Australia + ‘- matter with you-= Juice,” faltered Mr, Jarr Mr. Jarre vey be HER things!” ree (South Africa and North and South | ; : rt | “Nonsense! Doesn't everybody ine| "Wont ney ee usband in| America, as well as in Japan, and sist on o ers having a d D, on | plied rs, Jar er ¢ ve be = 3 “Tay e m officers having a drink when {plied Mrs, Jar. “H0r old Musk My have all rendered ‘nvadable scr Baboon Wears Wound Stripes But, 1 teli you, that Jack |tires “i vice during the war eh has just ACKIE is as br old hés share, whieh he ; t a cunning fellow!” jthe difference Mr.|come to a c Gen, Sir ed a monkey mother's heart, |! : oe Sane A | “pon't seem right.” persisted Mr ‘ rejoiced a key moth n Manner, Kor a yeu lea s you think so?” ashed ; t tel! | Robert Baden-Powell was the father This 4-year-old baboon saw tar rer but |Jarr, “Won't Jack Silver's valet ‘¢ ony) . i f It he was eventually \you called and frished the apart e Roy Scout orguniaation, out year ve. aery ni 1 , 1 fragment at “He covers his tracks #0 well!" re : prominent men in many nations have France of u ae ‘i rien é ; ey i Vik right leg, plied Mrs, Jart, "We dropped in We sent the valet out for headache |#ine¢ / their aid and Intiuen io Afvivar ned Ne Bullen | his rooms and we Couldn't tind at suid Mrs, Jarr, “and when | the ading « wvemen n If imita inc iS even and perhane see on him. No letters, aph pach we sald they weren't; Canada the 1 Connaug flattery must have had! proudest figure in the wh i ; kind and sont him again a ‘ ole of tha of any other girl, excep! largely instrumental in enlisting inbound n fo Dalat ite ; A » Cl th ould have seen his black ingsters of the Dominion. tn mrad tor linitated \ paraded pictures, Clara won Wall) his days are numbered gsters of the , comra Londo . waar to hold on him, if her “It would seem old Smith's were,” United States, Presid Wilson is everything ey did, With un-/the ful uth African dies and she marries Jack Silver,|muttered Mr. Jart : 1onorary President of the Boy Scouts, daunted Age 1 them | s: Ie chevron a h “Eh? What did you say?" asked | white farmer Prosident Taft ia hon- lever the top. When rations eame rons and [Mrs Jarr, Mi J by eaid he was only, ra kiss, Evelyn, be expects you to sy “Wh Funny, everything transit to morals; bu to get home from the oitice evenings Before marriage 4 man’s heart a-tingling, but At sixteen a girl tries to win a a) Revised Fairy Tales: And so Prince Charn Cooks, dressmakers and steam laundries have ruined more sweet d Col, Roosevelt, Were Ended By Albert Payson Terhune. | Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) NO, 28—THE BOXER WAR, OREIGNERS called them “Boxers.” Their nat name was “I-ho-chuai ‘hey were members of a strong Chinese seoret 7 ciety whose object was to drive Americans a Europeans.out of China. By 1900, the Boxer movement had spread so peril ously fast, that Europe demanded its suppressior The Spanish Ambassador was Hurope’s spokesm in making the demand. The Peking Government smoothly promised to disband the society, But, as the all-powerful Empress Dowager wae more than suspected of being one of the prin movers in the organization, nothing could be expected in the way of @& cisive action | Unchecked by the Imperial troops, the Boxer army marched apo Peking in May, 1900, chanting the slogan of “Drive out the Foreigners Allied fleets of foreign powers, including the United States, opened fire on the Boxer forts at Taku The Boxer army meantime besieged Peking, threatening death to every foreigner within the city “international relief column’ ydvanced towar e¢ members of the various foreigtl ve But the Boxe ntsin and drove it! | dann An | fg. 10 rave i Boxer Army Pek legations and other white peop Besieges Peking bd 4 NOON met this column in battle near | back with @ loss of 300 men a | The Ailies next concentrated cir altack on Tientsin, which they cap-| t tured in mid-July at heavy to In this battle the 9th United States Regi- |ment suffered the brunt of the assault, losing its Colonel and several other Officers, besides many enlisted men. | With Tientsin as a base the Allies prepared once more to march to the 2 relief of Pekin, A body of 16,009 soldiers, composed of Aincricans, Rw 4 Sians, Japaneso, English and Germans, set out for Peking on Aug. 4. q | Next day they were confronted by an army of 30,000 Chinese. A fiere 4 battle ensued, The Allied Joss in killed and wounded was about 1,000, ‘Th i if | Chinese lost four times that number fi i hs | But on the day following, at Yangt a second hotly-contested battl 4 ay 'was fought. H the Chinese lost 2.000 to led column moved forward, hew- Joxers, fighting for every inch of aft the round they advanced, | So, day the pluc Ving its way 1 anger In Allie ad : e ed seventy r ey miles and had lest more than 1 ent. of their eee ei x men Peril The foe on « | aaemmrrrn attacked them fr t and clung to their flanks. | 1 was demanded tov ever rd step Yet never once did the thin umn halt nor turn back, Straight onward it clove The Chinese casualties were esti mated at times those of the Alt Peking was captured by the later the “Forbidden City” At this “sacrilege” no | mitted suicide, or never Aug. 11. A few weeks Mies marched into it © officials com olies” been expedition 18,000 J s than 200 fore had this impe |Profaned by the desecrating foot of the “foreign devil i The fall of the “Forbidden © narked the virtual end of the Boxer uprising and of war | an troops for the first time had fourht shoulder to shoulder with their English brothers-at-arms, a forecast of tar closer war brotherhood which was to fe later The Germa the surrender jhe were given a ehunc wea few yea s too in thelr v ment ¢ f what th the helpless enemy after ve clear prom yan soldier would do if promis he has more than fulfilled since then, ‘Lucile the Waitress By Bide Dudley 19, Pres Publishing Co New York Reming World) ab In Which "She Puts One Over With the Film ‘ Magneis”’ “ce SIMS to me,” said Lucille the| with some film people whee S Waitress as the Friendly |come in bere,’ the woman continues, Pa n shot himself in the eye Iw lev if you'd do mea favor? s am from grapefru What” T ask. “that every woman T know who has d [ want to get tte baby tate! (The New York B: ng Work), but that doesn't mean that w . certainly ai irl w her into t movies. She'd be such a little queem | movies.” om screen that J] believe ghe | “Is that so?” he asked in a dsin-| Would make the picture man whey Won't you speak to trom | terested manner hired her ric t it takes @ husband just as long| “Yes.” Lucile went on Why, | them about her it did twenty | blamed if they don't even ask me to} “‘With that she gives me | get the kids started, You see, there's | baby ime and address, 1 give more rapid nowad n airplanes replace the subw : ee |u cotterie of film magnets who dine | one look ence will be in the “allbi.") lin here every now and then, just so Listen, lady!’ T says, ‘You're th they can appreciate the higher priced tenth person who has asked me to a whiff of your suchet may set @/ cafes more when they go to ‘em. get ‘em into the movies this month. er marriage nothing gives | Nuchurally 1 got a friendly acquaint- | I or p those men their rich food, the fragrance of @ broiling steak |ance with them, and 1 don't owr movie studius.’ ‘ont door. around some way, I s'pose people sé ““But you might pus,’ she said. me scussing this and that with the! ‘Nothing doing!’ I tell her ets, and of course they get the) She got off the stool and walked n I'm a close friend or an adopt- not ¥ heart by owly away. Just about that time should you want to have your daugh- comes in here and orders tea and A hd B abdicated and bought | Oke A t the trough, 1/7" Me around film studius? r >pil oreve ¢ DO hae . alee bs ‘On the level, there wa. _ lived happily f P MsOr URON Te ntte. eeihahicundeusl (hat: @ there was a tear In nes LP aarait ued p. | Let eve when she answered, ‘There’ a +h nts, ees " ust the two of y she Lo yort her phy nomitry wh eating, 4 i fu Me ald. 1'm crippled heumatism, If Baby but she did it, Later the reason come lodging tne ing with outstretched bagds to s.ccive ing and martial salute ary Vice President, as wys the jate| round “Jackie” would be found wait-