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Difference—-To Him? Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 4 10 Gd Entered at the Post-Cflice at Now York us Second-Clasy ee VOLUME 45.. —$—<—$—___ oko OPA NE Seg & THE FLY AND THE SPIDER, Mr. R. Fulton Cutting has a grim sense of humor among his other waluable gifts. In sending to Tammany Hall the Citizens’ Union blanset suggestion to all political parties and civ to New York a non-partisan and businesslike government, Mr. Cutting reverses the nursery fable. It is now— Will you walk into my parlor, Says the fly to the spider. The “Cits” are not very “fly” if they think the Tammany spider ever goes visiting except for the sake of his own appetite all the time! Of course Mr. Cutting meant simply to show genuine impartiality. To make goo-goo eyes at Platt and Odell while looking scornfully at Murphy and McCarren might offend Democrats who really desire good city government regardless of politics. All this skirmishing, however, will not change the situation nor eceive anybody. The Citizens’ Union has declared that it “cannot dis- over anything in logic, politics or morals to indicate that our local officers Bhould necessarily be members of either the Democratic or Republican party.” It has pledged itself to “nominate no candidates for any office fwho can be suspected of willingness to sacrifice the interests of the city to public-service corporations or to political partisanship.” Tammany Hall is fundamentally and diametrically opposed to both hese principles. The only hope of getting the kind of government the Wnion favors lies in beating the Tammany ticket. The wise fly never q monkeys with the spider, + The busted Trust Company is but another case of high finance and Bow morality, helped out by faithless supervision, TO CORB THE JUGGERNAUTS. 4 ! Vartous ways are suggested of allaying the speed madness of reck- a {ess automobilists. Fines having proved wholly ineffective, Justice Deuel | Gatimated that when a second offense is flagrant and clearly proved the d Court will sentence the offender to prison. Another good suggestion Is 4 fhat for a second offense the license be suspended, for a third revoked. is The records show that since January sixty-two persons have been Killed by automobiles in and about this city, and an equal number crip- pled for life. And yet in NO CASE has there been any other penalty than a fine—which the rich men arraigned simply laugh at. Is it credible % that all the persons convicted were “first ofienders?”” i One thing is perfectly plain: Not one man In a hundred whose machine can make thirty to fifty miles an hour wili be satisfied to run at eight or ten miles only, Mr. Jerome confessed that the temptation to lizations to unite in giving | : f “Net her out” would very likely be too great for him. $ ‘ To turn hundreds of these road locomotives loose in the streets, In & charge of anybody who has paid a two-dollar registration fee, is to invite | manslaughter on the highways. To let off speed lunatics with a fine is 2 to license manslaughter. z If the law cannot stop this, the law fs criminally weak. 3 $ The “cancer cure” remains to be discovered, > & SPOOKS AND GHOSTS. $ x There are others besides Sir Gilbert Parker who say they have seen members in the House of Commons, Additional witnesses of b credibility add their testimony, B / There is something about a ghost story which makes It easy to bi fecure respectable corroboration, To many people it ls much more easy fe) to imagine than to refrain from imagination, and suggestion so adds to 4 Ybe activity of the imagination that it is not long before the details of . @ ghost story are worked out satisfactorily to the possessors of ghostly h temperaments, i Whether there are really ghosts depends a good deai on what the @efinition of a ghost is, There is no doubt that there ts communi- cation between persons in other ways than through the ordinary senses, Premonitlons, hallucinations and vivid mental impressions of absent rela- tives and friends are not adequately accounted for by any explanation which denies to men and women sources of sensation other than those twhich the school-book physiologies describe. 3 The line between optical delusion$, mental hallucination and mis- | 4 taken impressions on one side, and the real presence of an astral body | ; for some kind of spook visitor on the other, is not yet determined. 4 UN After the Hundred to One Shots, Back to the paddock’/roam, What ma:ters It'to the bettor, WHO carries his money home. Coney Island Is Open—By F. G. Long. peseces sary) SSc0aK IM on DE _f TOP-KNO Evidently the Japs have not been asleep for the last two months, - TRAFFIC RULES AT THE PLAZA, In the Central Park Plaza vicinity objections to Police Commissioner | ‘ he McAdoo’s traffic regulations arise from citizens who are rich enough to} % afford a better public spirit. 3 At the Plaza, as in other localities where they are in force, the new | ‘ mules greatly promote the greater safety and convenience of the greater number, The intolerable congestion of Fifty-ninth street has been relieved Entrance to and exit from the park is easier and safer. The men detailed to enforce the rules have proved themselves capable and courteous. It is a matter for general congratulation that the Tr Squad now rules wisely and well at nearly all the danger spots in the city’s system of busy streets, There should be no privilege more cheerfully accepted than that of welcoming and aiding the McAdoo foot and horse in their work against | ‘ street perils and blockades. For the Plaza instance, in particular, the fact y that a diverted stream of traffic has robbed West Fifty-seventh street of hii some measure of its former exclusiveness in wheels is scarcely to be ac-| cepted as an argument against regulation, Manhattan Island being what | its, traffic must be divided, and each street take its share, The Peo ple’s Corner.| Letters from Evening World Readers The Teeth-Grinding Habit. We Wp HAltor of The Evening Wort Z have a habit of « when I sleep and | the habit, What should ve done Meve me of t) 8 i his habit is duc Hive disorder and a Veaupe is remoy or bulla up the enith, # bed 1 and 4 Perils of Seventh Avenue, | - - at Sn : Ee - ie PGi Sa Wage tion cere eeing wo SN Das Beaatas ts me wofesthe « Best w Jokes # of #» the » Da 7 246444 POH9OHDGOOOLOHIGT DOD y. Je Seventy avenue ete to pea Wh read Ke i tnt nha readers hs question: m the solo? bo you Chik my new song will | The foreign duke who seeks these State She—There': t gree the reckless automobtist? | Which Instrument Is considered to give ny family f ww PENA EATEN AN OL beRD ROA SN BUT ae Se Resa rAMS OLR AGRA, re aro many automobiles | forth tie sweetest m ry t yesterday ‘that the lo! KXinks—I'm afrald not, T heard Atme. | won! * slic ii t Pamg.en this ayenuo at a rete of the mindolint Wey ee eae ster was becoming exsinst.”—Houstos | verosener murdering 1t jase mignt—Chk TSS at PAPE LUE Nee eel coe ARAB eae aoe aout Ben nucEIS } saxo Journal, —Philadelonia Press, Ltrolt Hroe Press, ane Od . ro 06 os 3) His Father Only Heir. | tvs distin hbetivins 4 » | A Vitascopie-Stenographic Interview with John D, p > Rockefeller, Jr. i : penne eclt ! > By Roy L. McCardell. ‘ >| Hes What is your name? A, John Davidson Rocke= ® fellor, ir. t Q, Have you any brothers? A, All men are my brothe era, but Tam an only son. J Q. You are your father's only heir? A, ‘That {s too : bald a statemene | Q. What nave you Inherited from your father? AL Dyspepsia and “tainted” money, Q. How did you enjoy your recent orean voyage? a Baptist and on the ocean I felt In my clement, Q. Do you think your father’s monoy fs tainted becange it was made in j oll? A. No, Ol js refined, Resides, from the ofl well we learn to gush and 5 from the oll itself we are taught to be a smooth article, Pipe that? Q, How is your nealth? A, My syatem {s all run down, , Q. By Thomas Lawson? A, No, It is my Uncle William's “System! that Lawson {js running down, Q, You teach in Sunday-school, do you not? head of my class, Your Bible class gives a banquet every year. Isn't this unseemly? Ay No, Our motto for the banquet 1s, “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink!" Q. Your Bible class holds other affairs? and drink tea, ond hurrah at my sureestion A, Immensely, Tam A. Yes, und Tam at the A, Yos, We meet Informally i “And Tea Cheers, but Does Not Inebriate,’ Q. Why at your suggestion? A, Becanse 1am a sober-minded young ! man and tea “Cheers, but dors not Inehrinte.” Q, What would your fathor say if you told him Standard Oil money was tainted? A. ‘’Talnt!" Q. If you belleved it tainteé would you try to get rid of the taint? Yes, Q. By getting rid of the money? A. Well, er—no, but I would give it some good advice, sound a note of protest, as it were, Q. You couldn't hold a conversation with mone talks, doesn't it? Q. You ralsed a beard In Europe? A. Yes, but that's all off now. Q. There 1s no personnge you met In Europe who holds a position such as your father hus in thia country, an Oil Emperor? A, Well. there is the Kins of Greece over there. Q, How was your trip abroad? A. All to the bad. A. How's that? A. I wont to Carlsbad, Marlenbad and Baden-Baden, And it was certainly that. Such gambling! A could you? A. Money Q, What fs the most remarkable thing you have ever done? A. Nothing, 4 q Q. What {s the most remarkable thing you have ever said? A, “A true > Christian should give up a bad business.” 4 Q. And you are giving up Standard O11 for a bad bi ad business? A, I ws Lenten 8 T warned Q. What 1s the most remarkable thin : | it re g you ever saw? A. A bi going to Lakewood, Father and I were on the train. The eat ue Were openly caressing each other, aud I, intending to tell them they wor ; Annoying my parent by their actions, had started by saying, "My father, \ John D, Rockefeller, Senior’— When the bride answered ane \ {f he did! We're married!” of doniticare ‘That will be all, thank you! Te Quarrels Weaken Love. By Helen Oldfield. A MONG all pernicious popular fallacten thors 4 none worse than that which holds that quarrels sirengthen love. It is true that capricious sweethearts 2 and careless lovers may ? yy be shonply recalled to ai @.| of love by the danger of losing it. Pe CAL ERE OP EF SOLON OF it ® VANS B3 But where the love ja sincere anit well established there is no necessity for such discipline, It may safely be assorted that tia swoelnes After a guarvel In no degree comipensites for the sting, and eda ier oe etaation | whether the ditterence be between lovers or friends, One might ax era $ the advisability of breaking china in order to mend it with some worderful Indeed, there is no truth which pronpective brides , sagaciously take to heart than that, while quarrels betwoon heres ety more a-courting niay be patched up auccessfully, the genuine matrimeniat toute oe 1s rarely followed by kisses, untll thore hae been heart burning which on acrid bitterness of spirit, says Helen Gldeld tn tho Chlengo Tribune tra tempest of tears and tomper in rarely the hartnger of cloar shining atter rainy on the contrary, It Is by far moro likely to atir up seething and endur In, ge He sion and unger, It Is a well-established tact in physiology that a revere worn, however thoroughly it may ve healed, scarcely ever tall to leave the addneecs 4 shield, , 4 » |nerves intensely sensitive for life unless the opposite happens and they auffer total ‘things which are mero falllngs before marriage beco Tittle contrarinesses, which annoy during the eoueahin Ma baled Leta iat ere through constant repetition, What were meroly “ilitle waym” to be Inughed ee, materialize Into grave offenses, and the alr! who condones peculiarities to whee she objects in her lover, hoping to correct him when he ta her dusband, win most cases find herself much mistaken. J a Lovers’ quarrele are pretty generally elther ebullitio to selfishness upon the part of one or the other, or eles sous” fenton somebody has called ‘the leakage > bodly governed tompers.”” Quarele ted makings up, when often repeated, became, to aay the leaat, monotonous if wot wearing. When people cannot avold quarrels ag lovers they will find It the pert of discretion to let matrimony alone: It 19 @ clear ease of incompntblilty, which it $8 well should manifest Itself ut an ante-nuptial mtage. Lovers’ quarrels’ are no means always a preface to bliss In beatifle reunion; they aro much oftence the prolude to the dirge of all affection; therstore the conclusion of the whole matter 1 1s that marriage belween two people who cannot dwell together tn unity of spirit while they are engaged {s more likely to lead to misery than to biise. nal family row ++-—____ | The Bargain Mania. « By Delia Austrian, are two things viuilly Interesting to a woman," sald a wise Tingltyh, woman the other day. "One 19 a bargain and the other Is love. A woman can't get along wivhout hunting for bargains. She couldn't $f she tried. It 19 ng stimulating Lo Ler ye cigarettes and wine are to men, You can hardly blame us, You know It's something Itike playing the races to hunt for @ thing you need or want and want xo yet ay cheap as you can, You American women aro as bad as any of us; worse than some," The French ave even more enthusiistio when it comes to a ban travelling through ‘Turkey £ was In company with a French Sicemece heat thing we had to do when we struck a now place was to hunt for bargains Phe Persian Women ave loss astive shoppirs than are many of the Ortontal women, and still they like to go bargin hunting, says Dolla Avstrlan in the Chic ongo Tribune. The womegy ot India are supposn 1 to hevo vhefe minds eoncente: thoughts spirittal, and still they know the valuy of a SheMet ae | India sin a shop one day huntlig for combs, and a Hrahmin woman came to | ne saying, ware hunting for something reasouablé, You will not find ir here, these poole eater to Amerlenus, Come with me." And sho took me to a place where she real bargin. oy But this we 4 firther, Treniomber that T was in a town | nT >| among the Caurasin, and a bowititul Masyar camo into a shop in a most et way, Feacing the worst, 1 asked the clerk If something drendtul/had happened, He emiled blandly and explained, "Oh, not at all, She's only a bargain hunter. ‘Theso Inckients might be Increased a dozon fol, but they certainly ahow that woman Is woman the world ever, Climate and ogenpations may change her in derests and her ovloring, but her Incitintions are always tho same, Much we hear of the civilized woman, the cultured woman, the product of this age and genera. | tion, For all that we aro one in thut, we aro one in that we are doyoted to dress snd enjoy bargin hunting us much asnost men do betting on the races, j