The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1907, Page 14

The New Moral Censors. “Entered at the Post-Omce at New York as Second-Cla TERT hi aa 7S eer ENG, \ z= | “RECLAIM THE FRANCHISES. | ‘A simple way for New York to come into her own again is offere | “by the franchise -tax situation. Almost all the publ given away by the city. What p: Honest-and not a fair consideration. corrupt politicians instead of the city treasury. Morally and eth city has every. right to the ownership of these fra == But whether honestly purchased’ or secured-by: bribe: are-property,-and.this. property canaat be taken’ from its Itwent={e--boodla—Al en eal 45 becar ne reasons {hit} thie land rattan Island he: came more valuable. 2 land was. dona basis increasing annually ils value Increased =“Thetran: were=nottaxet at—all.—Al h- property y were) intin | cible and the ‘antiquated tax lav ‘did not provide for assessing them. © This, eXemption of — franchi from taxation was ‘remedied by \ franchise tax law introduced by Senator Ford, advocated hy ‘The World and ‘signed by Governor Roosevelt seven years ago. Under this law-a franchise’ was declared to be real estate and taxable like land. For seven years the franchises have been so sand there-are city of. New York from local public lax: as chises: ._ now over $30,000,000 due to the city ‘service corporations. sy eich These taxes were lawfully assessed: and levied. __ their constitutionality was carried through the courts of this State to the —-United-States- Supreme Court; whose decision-in-favor-of-the-tax_finally.- settled that-question,_Nothing.then remained except to collect the tax. -_-The public service corporations were in the plight of any other de- ‘Yinquent tax-payen. They could escape. payment only by the dereliction of-public_officials._-The_exposure—of the extent-of that_dereliction has resulted in imperative public clamor for the collection of these taxes. The way to collect is to sell the franchises at auction. Either the public service corporations must pay $30,000,000 in cash or the city can y-back-fts-own-franchises just-as-it-buys-in_the property of the sinalt, householder who falls behind on his taxes. sae - cas “A general word of warning should also be given to any one who thinks of buying any of the stocks or bonds of these Corporations either | —for a specutation-or-an-investment.,The-high-showing- of net-earnings. made by the Metropolitan: particularly has come in part through failure 40 pay the taxes. The B. R. T. and the elevated roads have done the ‘same thing. ea = i Some day or other these taxes must be paid, To assume ot 45 to impute constant credulity-to the public and “perpetual failure duty-to public officials, = The tonger these-unpaid-texes are ‘will be the final reckoning. — hery to-do aie SUE: -a@llowed-to accumulate the greater {t is reported that Mr. Shonts has been made President of the trac- tion-merger-as preliminary.to a boom in its stocks with the object_of unloading on the general public. The public had better be warned in ——4ime._‘There-are still a-few_faro-ganies-arki-roulelie wheels n-New-York Gity, Even the most crooked of them is less daigerous Tati to play at ©“ stock’ gambling with Mr. Thomas F.-Ryan sitting-at the other side of the «table, If-a man will not save his money by putting it in a savings bank ~~ or buying his own home or protecting his family’s future, but must insist ===—on- gambling, le-him gamble with-The-Allen.or-Ulman or Farrell instead} 7 WI the Bervi o-ot-t # nesli to bi and often break down Gurink ¥ w We some Umes have to walt (rom fifteen to thirty stores to Ket tll Why cannot. women coppers to-storeketpers when rohnses makin They hi c ays. On cold days thesy cars Mike reir, Now dtuch for Pamtlyt on, wa To the Filltor of The Ey Is there any clause tn the c tion forbiddink n President from | retaining office more than eight veare (two terms). tn auccesston tf elected to a third term? TOWNSLEY. Montelatr's Lights, To the Editor of The Evening Word: new reporta of robberies tn Montolatr ts a Deautiful city of not 9.00 jnhabditants, Plegant rev He, Evening World Team a young man working for a walary of $10 a liow much do Wexperienced readers think 1 ought to q rd the support of the house? brother wiyo Is Jdle at present, week. ® HOS, J, C,_ |{dences, the finest highwaya to be found ple's-Chorus;-Cooper-Union,_|'7.the United Btates; $800,000 spent for aedibertea nee ee ; | ea, halt a fmilflon for a water system, a paki fire department cecont | tor t NO atreet Wehts. | ing buge’? a hun- Dehind the times. Just light vated, free, of ratesT eno make darkness What} otter temptation for burglars’and rob-{ vera? GEORGE W ’ compli. @gonts not Uking to take @ ticket agent People ithe Interborougsh Rapid hy pends ite ticket ngents 4 @mount of pennies to be given in ch to passengers for the mero at them. Such ja. To | win r t claim that a & red Work en think nothing of stopping ot bei Th Meet A era trom buying thelr tieketsby | Mo feyirm Po In front of a ticket window | and tia RyeA ness cot person of t raged. A imposed worl @ fishing for the tenth: peany in the recomses of thelr pocketbooks, | © amon and down nataraily Courtesy Between Wedded Lovers *< ‘x can compass, yet who fling 4 clously that mu: carelessly an This same dangerous knowledge.often renders rough Jesting an unsafe game to argument By “Maurice Ketten. eee an [Siceaial) ee G HOCKING! of IT MUST BE TOUGH | accurate school. condnes vtar “The fundamer mistakos +| plenty | feantons Jovercrow rae He TT OME one has defined relatives as “persons who consider, play among those who are nearest and dearest to one another; It ls po easy Ss themsolyes privileged to be os rude aa they plaase with thoughtlessly to touch a oro spot and Joaye a wound which will rankle long after: impunity," Few persons will be altogether ready to tho giver of the hurt has forgotten all about it. In a short list of maxima for | Indorse this cynical definition; yet ther 5 young married opuples published yeara ago, In the days of the gilt-odged manuals | that muany._psople, mo! fally husbands and wives, of conduct, Is this, ‘Never say smart things at each other's expense,” and the} nk “that family afte advice well may be laid to heart by all who are near and dear to each other. { 1 without regard tg that of any other; that want of) Little courtesies, delicate attentions, small servicen of love, ofton are by far} copomony covers lack of common politeness; and that at| more grateful to the tired, perhaps discouraged wife, than to the bright young homo and among thelr own people they may t: heir easo | without a thought for the sweetheart to whom they were rendered as her due. that the Tome propia git The elder Disraell onco declare always am muaplcious of married people qehomy dear and-‘my “darling” ene another profusely In: public. T-am—apt to suspect that they are exoriing special efforts to deceive the wudienco aa to what they call one another in private.” This dore not alwaya hold mod. yet one often neo exaggerated attemptx upon the part of couples, who behave In private like tho proverbial cat and dog, to disguise the fact by playing at being cooing, doves In_pudlie, congder st all right. | In conduct, us in dross, there are company manners and manners for the home; but as cleanliness ts next to godll- ness jn apparel, so courtesy, an Fs to i foo t to lov: as a faodr in human” happiness. tenet! says Too -much-tamiitarity almost-Invariably. breedsfcontempt, and there ts-no deny— that the manhers of a man to his wife are tho final testofeonduct.” jing that-a_propar degree of courtesy bolween man and wife would Increass ¢ ‘Thore are men who give their wives and children every Indulgence which they | happiness of many marriages where 4 At-them, so to spoak; who make the gift so ungra- “Evil ls wrought from want of thought 1 of {ta valup cs lost. So, nlso, brothers ld ‘And not from want of heart.” x to-ahoulder In real troub! foatie each other! 1 ts not necessarily formal, neither need It be cold, excepting when It paths of giving a th 3, when for alia meant to freeze. ‘The Tove which puts {tell In the place or the beloved” one, thinks for and with hit or her, { the trucst generator of genulne, true | can add to-the-sum- ot ome happingas-teuanenaawnry, tose ot oar—own-housahott,respect-torthetr rete rely no sinall items tn tiv which fs, after all, only tender : mes stand stanchiy..0haul in the qui a ginong n Ti; for the enemy folds z ri ad Cand OIA knows every: JolAt In the armor, and hia shafts penetrate as none others con. little things, and consideration for thelr feelings are &D oa0 nn ‘Oh, truthful, By Quincy. Scott miss ident bet | Wonder Why! G2 &2 G2 £2 G2 Tloweve: reachod eae: Jolity. Next “stu | And | SCRAPE. LIKE THIS He panty ane 1M Sisois On THE t wis TEAM! ‘(French mero port He eae He FANE ae WASP peer 0 pennies In change and they{tompetition ai eve Fea alt kinds of arguments, exe yaink? [te-orercome Surveying Left to-Gpecialists: of. —hreve-man; clvil_engineers in some Important executlye position. Pw. The course {nia tochnical achool for a student at elvil ‘The-other-schools-of conned | Brooklyn-sehool of ! ~-|forthosa-antoring-these Nools and At the Saciety of Mechanics _and.Tradesmen. The correspondence achools.teach etvil engineering in {ts various branches: | \g By Helen Oldfielaf"* “"™" *" : : Ten Famous Women in Make-Believe History Ax-amatter of fact Ti WASN't Anything antiquated About bls hacienda. the advantagesus figure se cutin the costume of the da'ry; and being moreover — of n roma fas _we have sean_her, same relative of Sam 7. Jack. ‘wife won't lot me." There's some sort of 2 morn ‘boware of Beeming Simplicity MAKING A START IN LIF ton xk * ‘| A Series of Authentic Guides to Thoso Who Wish to Select a Career, Giving Information Concerning Qualifications, Cpportunities, Earnings, &c,,-in the Different Trades and Professions. By T. O. McGill. THE CIVIL ENGINEER. Cc —— Remureration.—A ‘bemnner ‘at cares-for Tattways,aqueducts, Une career “$1,060 a month, ‘Equipment.To become a successful olvil ~persen must be familiar with thes principles “matica and be expert in geomet: not necessary to'be what scten Besides — this qualification, Loti Quick decision and the determination of character necessary @ judgment, obstacten. Aad to “this a thorough technical “training in Age.—Few «persons crin ‘be xuccessful civil entineers before they are thirty peara of Age owing to’the fact that the pchooling required brings them up to! tvonty-two sor twenty-three yoara of age before they can begin work. profestion ehona that many auccosstul men jn civil enginedring — n carriers” ‘afte! a high-school education who etarted whett cy were! ninuteen or twenty yeara old. ‘ehat These instances are rare. 8 to the enrcer of a icivil engineer Mr, George F. Swain, of the Massachu- tin Ingtitute of Technology, bh paid: {ramen for Bincering. buildings, and all The surveying part of the work is hknselr to the t civil enginewr.must combing the quailties of a scientific man ntal principles ~ mechanics. Are ieunily costly and his oconomtes can be very great. make: an Fe “The elvll enginecr of the past has been a constructor mainly, The civil en-- |Kineer of the future will be an administrator as well, and there are few pro- no_that {t cannot b2 termed, trial Institutlons all have that offer greater opportunities tom ded. The great ral and the great Ind: Where It In engineering {s usually four years, This ts after he has Taught. { “THDURT he @fades HeceasaTyto-fit-him to start_on” the technical atu y. The Cooper —sehrole—ere-traght—at the New “Toi xo, No. 7—The Milkmaid, By Margaret Rohe, — “W x tached Nps of a soolety darlin, time in the rural distrots. word. Just about ns classy ca they come, eh? from beneath dark 1 ornate of creations, a petticoat whose lowe was Indeed.a vision falr to gaze upon, thing? Answer—She was,———— = give us a weet one,” pleaded the young gallant, Weil if you must know," wa'd the Pretty Maid, “I'm going acmitking.” on could not by any chance be constderal_ boing m practical farmer, employed no milke of patent milk extractors that-answered the purpore- «goat He WAN Sh Up-lO-daté chap, this dather and thers But Me daughter, betng ttre te: exple . The Pretty Staid's father, He hod, aa ter than t man hands. turn of mind, was pleased to array hers! always remembered an’ Important the milking sheds, xhe belng desperately rT, she ayo bgoowith: youn my -prottysmahiT*" Again Tete oir gay Tatiero RRA “Yes, If you can nvflk,"" sald tho pretty mald—but that was only her buoollo Care_for.that “hucallc?* = idicthe young. man. “Tou day the young man wroto her a nico long letter full of, ‘and the next diy ho wrote her another, and the day After that some more. Then he went back to town and forgot all about her untl! her lawyers went him » munication in writing, ng! sald the young man bitterly, as he read the tidings, T can't let thin thing got he-had to settle, a ltt Divorces, Trial or Automatic? By Walter A. Sinclair. ated for ‘automatic atvoreen."* uggests "trial divorces."—Itema,) : ATAT? ‘Trial divorce you want, my lad? W Why, that's the kind we've always, had! 2 For whrn we move to qult the firm ‘Tis: “Trial in Brooklyn, Special Term." “Tis then your lawyer weeps for you At triad by twelve good men and true. Now comen the automatic kind To rend apart the tles that bind, Whon married Ife becomes a pest— The button pressed, tt does the rest. The automatic wheels revolye And leave no bonds you would dissolve We'll “can? divorce attorneys then. Machinista_ will be! tayored men, If aulomats keep. tr ‘There'll be no happy homes to bust, And Cupid with @ monyey wrench Will thon relieve the hard-worked. ANE AVAL IPRS VIA Chamber * * Physician * * Motorman} Stenographer * * % Chauffeur « * * Artist * * * Music Teacher Mconotalie tanita ie treed enact been na ioc nese IVIL- ENGINEER —One who. designs, constructs and 2 works, such as ronda, bridges, canals, harbors, drainage works, -&c. engincer receives from-HJ a month to $100 a month . The pay (or erpert men on ealary ranges from $100 a month to 4 y and. trigonometry. Iti term & fine mathema. perpon—must MAN, Must become @ specialist in one of the branches of what engineering: -becnure—the-term—coversgo-etrergmnt «Net Modern conditions niake it necessary to take up the Mnes of work that are along the [RDectat netds of conprrUrtion Wa Wee The CINSTHUCTION OF FATWaY's, atrest and Ox interurban; improvement of rivers and harbors, construction of canals and Ichthouses, bridges, aqueducta and the steal the work _of hydraulie ena. Onlirely to spectalints, and the olvil engincer, na accepted. eal part of construction such as he makes a spe- Tle NAL WAS a HOTOUEN KI Wiedg eat he ewe OF Nature end Tt Is the civil engineer who takes the dts coveries of the laboratory or of the student and puts them to practical use. He should have a large store of practical commonsense and adaptability, His non teaghes men cfril engineering tree. quence Bre the Stevens Institute, of Hoboken: the hncicgy, and Columba College, ‘The preliminary studtes. | ic pUvTIS hight Bligh TIERE are you golng, my protty matdt* The question fol winsomely from the muse 2 5 eojourning for-s. Getihat “sojourningT*~ Lovely Thy village DeAUTy ‘stole a timid glance at her questioner © siky as silk and as lot length. ‘Truly_a winsome jans—waathis.—Ciad-tn-« set 5 whose sweet simplicity ost more to produce than the moe about -e-foot-mbore the dear Rirt'a- Anke; STK BOCK e the purest white merene and high-heeled French shoes, she Also her golden hair wae hanging down her back./ By this ume she had stolen” another-timid. gianee et: heradmirer, Waan't an x “Whate-ttto- you where Pm-gotng™ she breathed Wait sity gaya airs are treshar than {he wliel off she-Hactery}= have indeed m tively wit. anf the mald, haying-made inquiries about the visitor, whose preaence {n tho villago had-caused comment. Kelng satiafed with his rating In Lun'a, ahe repeated, ‘That goes with me. S “Sho must be Into court. ey xed up with this historical happening. Maybe Columbia professor E. Plamber Teacher of a etvil f ‘engined of mates hare a technical But the may be left almost and a bust- territory by_ = 3 great deter non the part of a beginner unless the meane for Hberal-education folds dnded * 1 gonilys= Witt My