The evening world. Newspaper, February 6, 1919, Page 18

is 5 ie ie ee Saat een Beccnnse =} BSTATLISHED B) H PUL . Published Daily Nxcept sund: 4 by the Press Publishing Company, Noo. 63 tt york , New York. TZDR, President, 63 Park Row, V, Treasnirer, 63 Dark Row, | Park How, pss, ru s MEMAER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRE stn ss eacdusicely entitled to the use f Miverwise crated Ab Wile paper aad aie THE BARS ARE DOWN. no joke. It’s happening. Here's the No-' nstitution of the United States. Plans are under way for the former head of the Anti-Saloou sbacco League reaching for the League in Indiana to establish in this city national headquarters for 4 campaign to prolibit the growing and use of tobacco in any part of the country. Hl Behold another brand of fanaticism, elated to find how easily | liberty can be suppressed and personal habits regulated in this 80-| called Land of the I’ree, preparing another Constitutional Amendinent | to undermine American character and surrender American ideals! | Behold the “father of the anti-nicotine crusade,” a college pto-| fessor who ought to know better, rubbing his hands over the prospect; “The tobaceo investors In New York are taking our move- ment seriously aud shortly after the announcement, tobacco stocks began to drop. The plan of the anti-tobac was officially announced on the tobacco exchange and the in- vestors have realized that our intent is © The anti-nico- tine crusade is not to be considered with levity. it will be Proseculed rigvrously, for the evils of tobacco are greater than thos. of liquor.” » movement seus, The bars are down. The ratification of the Prohibition Amendment caused the hear | of every bigot, fanatic, zealot and crank to leap for joy. Men and women with a passion for making rules for others find Time, —any amount of these things that passion intensified a hundredfold by a little success. money, organization, political pressure: will be fortheoming wherever there is a fair chance of imposing fur- ther regulations on the conduct of other people. Tf property is destroyed, so much the better, The madness grows the more it hue | its way. Once Nation-wide Proiubition was jammed into the Constitu-| tion, what more uatural than a erusader’s match on tobacco—rela- | tively harmless comfort to millions Jor generations—but which inj ares | or offends a few? | peril of a too patient attitude toward these einuy-souled Const tution | raiders? | Or is » admit e country ready te that what it thought was strength is really weakness, that putty is firmer than rock, that char. acter prodded into shape under glass is stronger than character self- | determined by freedom in the open? Is it ready to see the sturdy ideals of its fathers the flabby notions of moral faddists and regulators? Tf not, it has got to call a sharp halt on the preposterous propa- ganda for which @ National Prohibition Amendment has been the signal. | “Tho anti-nicotine crusade is not to be considered with levity,” | declares the “father” of the movement. | It is not. It is on the contrary to be considered with profound seriousness as a warning of the tragic extremes of anaemia and} paley with which the robust institutions of the country are menaced | since it became possible to write sumptuary laws into the Consti- | tution. | The bare are down Unless the virile character and common sense of the American people combine to put them up again there will be a new, strange | and humiliating problem for the Nation to deal with: It will no longer be only: What shall we do to restrict immi- gratio It will be: BROADWAY’S RELAPSE. How shall we restrain emigration ? HE EVENING WORLD drew attention yesterday to the new upheavals in “restored” Broadway, where there are now fifty- two excavations between the Battery and 40th Street, Broadway is one of the great municipal thoroughfares of the | world. with ample opportunity for every public service corporation to renew or repair pipes, wires, conduits, ete., before the pavement was relaid. | Tn any city of Europe these corporations would have been compelled | A like aspara sus, aud serves them all with the same} «on. wrote the fumous ‘Poems of|ticed you permit yu household sentimental diessing and the stock conversational }ine perfervid Proletariat.” One /cates to disturb your savoir fi sauce, Jeang these at one’s work when one|Inspired with ‘The Koffoffsky's’ uae? fried fish, or when sweeping, bed-;‘Poems of the Proletartat your Dear, dear! What WILL the moving picture! making, scrubbing and washing, It|@omestic duties would be pleasures | vampires do now, with nothing but sarsaparilla or malted milk with which|was a book to uplift the working!and not tasks. For one who has him to destruction! Don't you remember the {Young children as well as cooking and A man's idea of a sweet feminine woman is one who will spend ten | minutes studying the problem of world reconstruction and two hours in working out a new way to do her hair and What a man wants in a wife is not diversion and entertainment but not a simulant but & panacea; not scintillating | aud not too much of that! comfort and solid rest |repartee but soothing propinquity Be an optimist! MAN is like an ostrich—so long as he can manage to deceive him- | self he dwells in the happy conviction that no woman on earth MEN ROwLano “ | EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, February 6, 1919 mmo’ Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1919, by The Pros Publishing Co, (Tho Now York Byening World.) can see through him. to deaden tho hero’s senses and lur HONEST! In li If difficulty is the spice of love, the trouble a man on the telephone should add @ lot of zest to courtship and be a rea! | has in getting a girl incentive to marriage. What every woman sighs for is novelty! alas, mentally —= to co-operate in completing all underground work so that the pave- ‘as possible—and most of those strokes of luck. The Feasts of Old Rome. ment could go down to stay. Nearly a year ago when the Board of Estimate granted the Borough of Manhattan $2,000,000 for new paving The Eveni ‘all it a da, But 4a tan just bunches women together, | these days » Put your money in the bank, your jewels in the For five years it has been torn up for subway construction, **fety vault aud your foolish impulses under padlock--and go cheerfully . ’\ through life, secure in the reflection that human nature is potentially , a8 in golf, most men aim to get through with as few strokes By Roy L. 667M soing to tuke you to our | Social Soviet to meet my dear- est friend, Zara Koffoffsky,” gushed Mrs, Clara Mudridge-Smith, | “You must have heard of her, sie) | Was the Countess Koffoffsky but guve up her ttle and estates in Russia to) Apostle of the Newer Freedom i} Mrs, Jarr was on the verge of a} faux pas, She nearly said the ex- Countess Koffoffsky looked like the late Lady Influenza, But, fortunately, ted a moment. | jshe wa book was published only in subserip- tion editions de luxe and sold for $100 a copy? “So many people were interested in { the work because they fult that such a volume would bring cheer, liter- ture and dignity in the homes of the! or, AS then, as she would say: ‘Done with a song, no work is druds ery!" “And eo all the ballads of work were set to msic in solo, duet and even trio, quartet, quintet and sextet arrangement. Zara Koffoftsky hopes to interest some Bolshevik capitalis, who will pay for grand opera singers to demonstrate from ber works how song lightens labor. It would be won- jderful to hear singers, whe id be | mvid $2,000 each, render “Phe 30+ | bing Sextet.’ | The Jarr Family | McCardell Cappright, 1919, by The Pras Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World Mrs. Jarr Rebels Against the New Rebellion. never speaks on behalf of sufferiug humanity for less than $500, Then, too, he was a Cansclentious Objector. He objects to everything, work, wages, war and compulsory vaceina- tion and public baths.” “And there are a lot of people who devote themselves to causes like these who do a lot of good in the world! suid Mrs. Stryver, “That's why we ure taking you with us, Mrs, Jarr," gushed Mrs. Mud- nidge-Smith. “I can speak openly to you, 1 am sure, We have often no- housework to do, The Koffoffsky ud- vises an accompaniment of muted strings and woodwind Brasses or percussion instruments might wake the babies.” “Oh, piffle!” cried Mrs. Jarr with some exasperation. “You have got a lot of money and no children! Mrs, Stryver has a lot of money and no children! And this woman, The) City Fathers will most likely “retire” something to think about and tal Koifoffsky or Pilkington, or whatever | ber, abeut, I have never missed @ shamed her namo te~she makes a lot of| «ang what are you guing to dom”| 0” Sundays, but there are oo temp money talking and printing such|) asked, Sundays," she sighed. \ stuff to a lot of well-to-do geese.” phe little money that wilt como| A# T reflected on this woman ff’ “Ul bet she he 1 chick or child} 5 me as a city pension annually wiil|%7Uld not but think that getting a either! I'll wager » ows nothing | keep the wolf from the door, and } ecbance now to geo the beautiful side about’ housework, bu’ lives in a! wit pave time—blessed time, to go| % life will keep ber sou) alive, For studio and cats out at restaurants, thirty years she bas known little be or at hame from truck from the deli- catessen stores! How in the name of goodness could I afford to have . World | _N the calendar of ancient Rome| woven with every circumstance of] “Of course you remomber it,” said| String quartet follow me around urged special emphasis on one point: | the 15th of February was th | Usiness and pleasure, of public or of | Mrs, stryver, who was algo of the|ffom bedroom and kitchen, playing It cught to be possible before those aew pavements arc j- Feast of Purification, when th Jvrivaty life; and seemed impos: | purty, “I bave one of the books and | muted symphonies while I swept and la'1* compel every public service >*-ailou to put its pipes, worshippare of the pagan gods i-)mble to escape the observance of} showed it to you, andl invited you to|scrubbed and cooked and made ‘es or tracks i> such repair that t) eed be no question CU Reeth Hee eye evant [il Lael oe rae eeatme time ro} go with me to the first roading from | beds id Cl Mudridge-Smith of ripping up the new surface a fow months after paving te plat The pagan observs al { nounslag the commerce of mankind | jer works The Koftoftaky gives—we sal are Mudridge-Smith pala te y B is though brief in duration, was nye Md all the offices of amusement and | cali ber "The Koffoftsky’ no ou} with a superior smile, “that bears \ |some of 1 pects similar in pur | sec know, since she coased being a Count-| The Koffoffsky out in what she says, Planning, authority, co-ordination—everybody talks about them, | pose to the dern ristian Len-| To avoid participation in these | esg to become a Comrade She'll convince you. And she ad- but where are they? *Tten season, As Lent ts preceded by | Various festivities, without thereb: Yhink how much good these move-| Vises simple Russian blouse cos- Whe must Naw York's siveo ; : F Z {the grivolid of Mardi G » did | incurring popular or official disple ments do the poor! The Koffoffsky|tumes of pure white linen with a ny must New York's streets stamp it as a frontier town? the 1 Romans prepare for ther] ure and its accompanying punish- | pow invites contributions to ha classic coiffure to do housework in, SORE | by a final fing of Nitar- | ments, was one of the chief concerns | competent singers GO around the tene-| This tends to wttune one's mind to Answers to Readers’ Questions. ity jot the early Christians of Rome.} ment districts and sing ‘Tue Bed|bisher planes The first thing she'll WAL—B is right [eG Venue bone sucua | ‘The Roman Wet Was the inost| ‘Phere camo a th however, when| Making Motif and “The Scrubbing] advise you to do is to cease fretting e e . lbp suet ahaue $8 Pao ave | rem rob pa ot ies fea s sad [ee ae ee iP ery $00h 4 extet!’ You bare been asked to at- mia paler Lae work is Service and MRS. 9. Gi—¥ou cannot masquor- f & ® lone day Malian for frequent r \gevore penalties to tha cbservance cfl( Con vant remember now,’ enig| "sometimes I, wonder if Tm crazy ade ia your brother's uniform unless} P. H. M Vis bourht by any ations, saints’ days and fe | the old fe The festival of puri- 1 soa Jarn, “But I had no girl at the|or you are” sighed Mrs, Jarr, “But you remove the stars and tho braid |dealor of x Prices vury 1s may be a heritage fr 7 Jeation became the Christian Lenten | time and couldn't go to the affairs."| I'm goint to spend my time and from the collar, | 2) 8 ant ancestors w on, the ng celobré “since then The Koffoffsky bas| money on French and Belsiin “aerotgee | _¥. He-Charies Clive Bailey 18 tho | tuo innumerable deities of the vans became the Easter of the} married Percival Pilkington, who is| und not on ‘boudoir Bolshovis B.C, M.—It will not be necessary to British Consul at New York. His (peistic faith. These rites and feacis | Christians, and the December Satur- | noted a8 u ‘boudoir Bolsheviki,’ And she signalied for the car to change the name of your club, address is No, 44 Whitehall Street. t \ ‘ \ hed suys Gibbon, “closely Wtw-! nulla way superseded by Chriutmas, i splaiued Mrs, Mudsl -pinith, “hbo f stony aud left them Gas! ) \ Caen eT te ee eee eee cee How Great Wars Were Ended By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1919, by The Pras Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) 4 NO, 34.—OUR PHILIPPINE WAR. OMPARED with the work of our men in Europe the deeds of American soldiers in the Philippine War seem al niost as insignificant as does that guerilla conilict com- pared with the great war itself. Yet our soldiers did? mighty deeds of valor in the Philippines and proved amply their prowess as fighters. For this and for olher reasons the Philippine struggle merits a place iv our series. The trouble began a. fur back +8 1896—long be- fore tho most ardent expansionist dreamed that wt should ever set foot, as a nation, in the islands. The Filipinos rebelled against their Spanish mas- ters, A leader in that insurection was a dapper little feellow, twenty-five years old, with the face of a Jap. He was a half-; breed Chinaman, named Emilio Aguinaldo. After Dewey captured Manila the Admiral thought Aguinaldo might ¢ De made once more @ thorn in tle side of our Spanish foes. So he savey the half-breed a chance to stir up enother Filipino revolt against Spuin. If instead Dewey had hanged the little rebel to a yardarm ho would! have saved Uncle Sam many lives and many dollars. Aguinaldo promptly organized @ “Filipino Republic® and deciuret] Aguinaldo Leads Revolution. Ppeeeenneeeeennreny himself its dictator, Next ho formed a conepirs4 o acy to massacre every American in Manila, Spain ceded the Philippine Islands to the United States for $20,000,000. Aguinaldo's reply é to this was an organized attack on our lines m4 the Manila suburbs on the night of Feb. 4, 1899. Mor nearly a year (hores, after the war ruged. At first the rainy season impeded the movements off our men, and the successes of Aguinaldo’s army brought hit hordes of new4 recruits, At laut the United States troops got Into thetr stride und inflicted say many defeats on the insurgents that Aguinaldo was forced to go ivto hiding, + Ho was reported dead. The briet war seemed to be at an end. But withing a few months he was in the field once more, striking one surprixe blow! after another on our lines and resorting to every wily manovuvre of gucre fla warfare, and all the work had to be done over aguln. So fiercely did the American Army throw itself into the tusk of ing the revolution that before long it was tottering. One armed re after another was rounded up or wus discouraged into voluntary surre Aguinaldo's army wus falling to pieces, Aguinuldo withdrew into wilderness f: soured impo: and locate him, ached bunds Cog mself ne ses whither a D Was & sinall body lus leadershiy the nucleus of a wen to follow of insurgents which, all but impossible task. In a Manila drug store (to which the insurgent leader used to send fom 4) was found a cipher message which revealed Aguinaldo' pouls. und we quite capable of forming eee American Army Smashes Revolution. pepe revolution, Before id be considered dutinitely, at an ond it was necessary to capture Aguinaldo, | Gen, Fred Funston undertook this perilous and the war © paren medical su general where: Acting on this clue, Funston set forth on his search, With bun were @ number of Filipinos on whose loyalty Funston could rely. These natives approached Aguinaldo’s hiding place in the guise o® reeruits to his band. With them, appare nuly as prisoners, t\ wher white men. a tow ettrick served, Aguinaldo believed the spie# story. osed recruits to his presence, ™ Pee ‘opened fire at once on his body guard, while the white men of} rey rushed im on Aguinaldo himself and captured him. patty the seizing of Aguinaldo ended the Philippine War. j y brought along Funston and, He admitted The Worker Who Found ‘ Something Beautiful Sophie Irene Loeb Covent, 1919, vy The Proms Publishing Co, (The Now Yars Breting World When Her Mission Is Finished She Will Have e@, Chance to Live in the Big Outdoors. URING the woek I rodo bome|in which all the flowers were men in the subwaf® with a woman | tioned, and this poem is ia the ‘Cha worker—a rea] worker. let’ house nearby, which is She haus deca] interesting spot in Central Park slenographer ‘I first found this Kttle Siuskes! and typist in the |Spearo Garden last fall and went) Corporation | often. The flowers were so beauliuli Counsel's othce | ~flowers tut you nearly sco-—-and sa for uearly thirty|€ could not resist going aguin yvow terday when the sun was shining.” oO KY + years. Many girls ‘But there are no flowers ther.,’ have come and} Yentured. i ‘Ah, but I knew about where cach, bad grown and I liked to think otout! gone, but vue hus stood the test of a mea” time and bas/them and picture them comiug up} been the mainstay of the many men |! the curly spring, and I am M | who bave needed her efficient ser] See the very Orst sprouts com, It will bo such fun watching thei, for I will have more time, AL I willy have to take care of is my liita! chargé~my niece, who is not well and whom I have taken to care for, | “Wa will have such good Umea! looking about. We will plan 4 ttleg journeys here and there, It will b Vices, She is beloved by all who come in touch with her, elso how could she bave kept her place #0 long? Her hair is as white as snow, but her heart ig full of youth, In a tow months her thirty years’ service will be marked on the calendar and the out into the sunshine and the flow- ers and see the lovely things that are in the city, Besides, I can brush up on my stenography by helping other girls. “It is @ wonderful city, you kuow, and I have had so little time to see it, In fact, 1 had to steal the tine, sides lawyers’ briefs and legal docuseg mo and diplomatic letters. Sho has Leen keyed up to varfec-' tioa in her ‘stenographic notes and her typing. Small wonder that she longs tor a sight of the beautiful in’ life upon which to feed ber finer sen< wivilities, but I have found some lovely . things,” she went op enthusiasti-{ Here's hoping that the City Fatis, eae ers will see to it that sbe gets the “Now, last Sunday I went to| Chance she craves, I am wondering how many pew Shakespeare's Garden,” she said in this great city and elsewhere “ye 1 was ashamed to say that I did! not know anything about Shuke- | *¢tually starved for the want of J+. | speare's Garden, aud she toid me! i?s lovely pictures, sculpture, trees, about it. Somewhere in Contrat|#Wers and water, I am wondering Park, on the top of a large rock,| 2°W ™any miss it in their make-up, because they havo neglected the ops portunities, I am wondering juw many realize the great humante.ig benetits that may be derived fro: even sacrificing something in eee, every flower that is found mentioned | jin Shakespeare bas been planted on this spot, } “And tho good old Irish caretaker | is very familiar with his little friends the flow vhe told me, “and he | SMe of toe beautiful things thet'Thn » will te “4 about the time when be. found right in their midst, Juiia Marlowe came, and how some hink it over you who are weary and wan, you who have #0 much. Proutino and so Uttle rylaxauion, “a ° - i body bad left @ lovely poem about