The evening world. Newspaper, April 9, 1907, Page 14

sre ShPaaorin Pubitehes by the Proms Publishing Company, No. 63 to @ Park Now New Tork at the Post-Office at‘New Tork as Second-Ciase Mail Matter, NO. 16,667. ———$—$ VOLUME 47 co ccccceseee cece cesses conees conees OO ———— TAX THIEVERY. VERY rent payer should get a copy of the annual record lof assessed valuation in the city of New York. This fs published in the City Record and is for sale at a moder- ate price. It is also open to inspection, and its purchase fs not necessary for a perusal of its contents. Every) who pays rent pays taxes. The cost of the ( Government of New York, $130,000,000, excl xly nts. rauses-of high rents. i and demand, the taxes =~ supply, a landlord who can secure ar Yess than its value is that much in pocket. i This is what makes the disclosutes of tax frauds of such univ importance. That the big owners of personal property should almost an elem assessment his hi on properi) | tirely evade any taxation increases. the taxes upon real estate by exactly| a | the amount of their evasions. Corporation Counsel El tion of the personal tax-bureau of his office unearthed o corporation which paid only $6 taxes. The American | off with $75 taxes. Evidentiy, instead of paving taxes to corporations are in the habit of paying a pe office connections. ‘This evasion of personal taxes is bad enough, but it has become so, lniversal as to constitute what might be called an equality of perjury. The evasion of real estate taxes by the great estates and landlord with a political pull means that on top of the additional burden by personal tax perjury the small landlords have to pay the tax of , landlords: And since rentals are fixed by open competition and the sma!!| fandiords charge at a rate which will covér their taxes, the tenants of | all landlords, big and little alike, pay excessive rents. What the big land Jords save in evading taxes they make twice over, once by the difference in their payments to the city, and again by the higher rents they are en- abled to charge through the increased taxes of the smaller landlords. Every rent payer should get a copy of Section Two of the annual} assessed valuation record and note how much lower are the assessments of the tenement property owned by the Trinity Corporation than the tene- ments owned by small individual landlords. In Section One are found the office building assessments. Examine the Goelet, Astor, Schermer- thorn and other big estates and ask any real estate man whether the prop- erty could be bought for double the assessment. Compare the assess- ments of the realty companies with their capitalization and mortgage issues. Go over to Brooklyn and look up the vacant land owned by syndicates in which Timothy L. Woodruff and Patrick H. McCarren interested. “Adjacent land is selling for as much a lot as an acre of pollt- " fcal property is assessed for. } eb et If these assessments were just, true and honest, there would be r excuse for any argument that the city has not sufficient excess borro to build an interborough subway. i] would Become more profitable, and additional tenements, two-famil houses and suburban cottages would increase the reduction in rents which a lower tax rate would initiate. New York is an extravagant city.. Its government is wasteful. 1) should spend a great deal less money and get a great deal more for i But worse than extravagance is the combination of secret corruption wit! political influence which stultifies the assessment rolls. ~~ Letters from the People. ‘The Feminine Mille “It te 1." “Who did you consult? Wo the Baltor of The Brening World for “Whom 414 you consult? “Those Concerning ihe letter from “A New|kind of things.” for "That kind of York Girl,” there is one tittle clause in |things.” “He don't.” for “He doesn’t it with which I am afraid we cannot |“Impossibiy.” for “Not possibly.” ‘Un il agree—i. ¢, that girls of to-day get |requiar”” for “Irregular,” &c. A slight @long better without men than they @ver did. When the time comes that I ear the majority of girs paying cue @ncther compliments rathdr than back: knowledge of the bewildering Gem Geviensions or Frenot conjumat | Would convines us of the beautiful sim piicity of the Engtish language end |render us more circumepect in regard to Ungrammatioal utter ins elub flourish and when girls devote Bun fy’ If all property was assessed for its | full value, as the law requires, the tax rate would lower a third, building | a i PPPDRSF & EVSE SELF-EDVCATIONAL SERIES, No, 10. ~ ® ® ; When Shonts Introduces the European System. By Mauvcice Ketten., THEEUROPEAN oo fivene ° NUMBER a SU ‘ SYSTEM (nest erin) EF vol u t ion * if cHu ncn / « What It Means oF o—__$____—_— By Gerald R. Leighton, M. D., Fellow of the Royal Sovitty of Etlindurgh word evolution etymologicaily means an act of unfolding of wa Ing. In the acience of biology the word came into use In the earty GET your part of the eighteenth century to slenify the theory whieh asserted 1 the parte and organs were preformed in the germ, and thag aeeE Ered«liy unfolded themselves, so to speak; in fact, it wal thought that @ suffictently powerful microscope would enable the ob- server to see all the structures of the animal preformed in the es. We now know toat the ofiginal theory of evolution or unfolding of preformed reans and tissues Was nonsense Three views at least of evolution require mention. The Bathmic Theory eup- poses organic evolution to ecur under the direction of a Deity who works by Very few educated persons now hold it. THe NUMBER SYSTEM IN ACTION ever-recurring miracles. The Theory of Lamarck. The eminent French soologist Lamarck ih Whe year 180! gave utterance to the theory that the origin of spectes results from the acquired characters of the parents being capable of transmission to the offspring. His theory also Involves the view that the environment of an animal can directly being about squired haracters, which are transmtasible. It asserts that living creatures are, to @ reat extent, modified by the kind of life they lead, that these modifications are anded on to their offspring by heredity, and that the modifwations accumulate q wuccesding generations, Natura, (» supposed to mould *: “We nee@ not believe that ac- the ety—that a dog which has lost ies, or that & man who has attained great children endowed at birth with all that he But we are committed to the doctrine that the gain will be inherited to some extent, however slight, Ve generations of dogs and men make similar acquire \timately become tailless, and that of men highly ¢ Lamarckian supposes that the effects of every- he effects of all use and offspring. and that evolution or de Dr. Are quirements to have with patn and the man many succes the race of dogs wi ndowed mentally, In brief hing that benefits or tnjures t \isume, ate, to some extent THe EUROPEAN WAY OF STEPPING LIVELY mente 4 to | NENER ayes ger eration results from the acc mn of these transmitted effects during gem IT BACK teabanretasy Darwin's Doctrine of Natural Selection. It was not yptll Q-artes Darwin and Alfred Russel sItaneously tm |\S38 propounded thelr views, however, t Lamarch’s theory attracted general | At first Darwin's opinions were received with strong and even bitter op- espectally after the te “The Origin of gathered support from — ow either Darwiniam me view of organic evelus 7 t upon Darwin's works is 4 every one who has | taken the trouble to make himself familiar with the f ey | he Darwin accepted the theory Lamarck to « certain extent, he perceived that It was tota ate to éxplain all the facts. | ‘Phe question which’ sugested 1 Jsurvive, and why are they the onea to be el | itself upon him was that the survivors must be | thelr surroundings Darwin's doctrine of The Struggle for Existence. In the fir place it obvious thet there is only a I'mited amount of space on our eart ‘eh is habitable for any given species. There must, be some limit to the number of either plants or animals which can UUme. with the minimum rapidity. family me sixty years on an average. An in- dividual elephant lives for about 100 years. If every elephant which {s born eur vived and had the average number of offspring the resuit would be that we should find @ total of about nineteen million elephants descended from a single ir after the lapse of from 7# to 78 years. Such @ result, of course, does not oecur. The field vole on the other hand produces several broods during the same summer, and some of these y ung anes in turn breed before the winter, Tt has been o ulated that if ‘¢@ Were no chécks to the increase of the field vole @ single pair of these animals, supposing their first brood to be born on April 1s ia any given year, would produce by Oct. 8 following no less than 198. ‘ e the r as which individuals do not ated? The answer which fer-ed ose which are better fitted to ® these and eliminates the less fit. This ip selection vous monsicue | atural Car) Bare 2 is perfect! herefore. Tt has @ Nixila Greeley-Smith deduce the widow's formula, nilar privilege by letting him Why Widows Win. sued for breach tc most fer rs of observation it seems to me one m: reeif, and give a man a a eo nia college is being a widow of thirty- woes of womankind arouse me| but I confess a widow who lets/ a Pennayl lying to her, and he is grateful for that aman get a from her leaves me cold nerally no uncomfortable 1 ns that he has to live up to. She leta| Where natural checks may not be operat ait Is the enormous mule” She is at best a bad craftswoman who brings discredit in, ordinary . with a man's virtues and a man’s failings, and | tiplication of the introduced species, The rabbit in New Zealand and Australia: by her stu: on the whole tribe of widows. Particu-. at least ecems to like him the better for it. Perhaps she ts not consciou [is a ease in point. The eparrow is another. In the constant fight for life, how= larly ts this true when the eecaping person is a mere boy, of at all, Nevertheless, having tamed one n e is endowed wit } ich goes on iall-over this p! . the battle Is to the strong. The weak An age and type so susceptible that many of them have ng power that will make the determined ba or | go to the w In a word, tHe keynote of nat s the survival of the fittest by been known to cir hearts and lye to mere girie of eat out of her hand’ and off [natural selection tn the struggle for existence 1 scant years and no worldly wis at all For a widow who either from indiffer etm her | : . +s We know that tn the winning of man a girl in love has prey escape weshould have respect r itr n| AG Simple Meaning of Darwinism. no chance aga: a widew in earnest. While Kipling in man to «et-@way. from her we sho might give to an| In the case of the antelope, for example. we iduals which possessed one-ot-tts-mortwidety quoted poe ormutated the jeal- "incompetent, bungting workman Rhtiy-more-endurance, speed, scent and so forth, would be betier ableto eury ousy of the seventeen-year-old debutante for the siren of POS ce ¢ than their less-favored brethren, they would therefore be selected. would forty-nin m take ft for granted w and on advantageous variations to their offspring by means of heredity, and | widow, he d14 not attempt to an's An Odd Punishment. [in time there would be evolved the creature with r. Thie sow ever sulow or toot battere ° we t in the aiemplest way es_not ‘saoeni sani ¢ feel Lempted to say to her N British ing glasnes or ever re does evolution, that man is descended from It eo Ks it ts excellent to have a glant’s streng to-see r Balfour. in die} ounte for the origin of apecies by natura tion But It is tyrannous to it ike a & new! . or he haa! 1 : aR * : e ha A very clear way of stating the theory is that of Prof. Ainsworth r | Tam never made aware of the case foolish man straying w at seen loo i.dn:the| cnlsn te es tallowa Pav of ree Nadas . + aa ene sinh oy 1 Aid not know my| — prowed Facte—Limited surface of globe and rapid increase in numbers: sneha BAS eRe say . nyaeadl ile Papers sin my) wr ¢ for existence and riation t 1 lection an t as th was to me wrapped In mystery. But after, life. I had RE nee ® a natura mand here ry Conseq nce, natural selection, or um | {val of the Mtttest; origin of new species. B ¢. W K hi | The: followers of ‘Darwin suppose that all structures began originally as s i . Vi CW aaliles, |: e ioermere et aria ipanreen cet as sttorceree Soena cerieiasiiecas olved by the gradual! and continued addition of small var he, ——————————— } 1 HELLO, YOUNG MAN MADE A HUNDRED THOUSAND $7 | the Aatiers of the Deer. SAY, 1M MAKING MONEY’ LAST WEEK ON CRYSTALIZED According 10 ths via fe antlers of deer " originate thus. Amoog MAND OVER FIST- 17'S HoT AIR AND A QUARTER OF he hornless ancestors of deer there id be some aried from their felr JUST ROLLING IN, MADE A MILLION IN CONDENSED sve in having thicker and stronger frontat (1. ©, forehead) bones, thonatiel 4 — GAS | 4 butting with the head when the struggle for mates took place, | PTY TROUSANG = 2 BOVSNT TNO HUNDRED | would be the more successful. They would be the individuals ted to carry bones would be atill id heredity there would SHARES OF AMALCAMATED BALLOONS —_— \ In WALL STREET YESTERDAY n the ra In their offspring the thick and strong fro: and through the survival of the fittest a nore marke: } be gradually evolved deer with amall bony prominences on the forehead. By th jetill further accumulation of slight and fa variations in this direction n ade their appea nd continued to enlarge long as the enlarge: nent was of a useful character, but no further | the Neck of the Giraffe. The theory of Lamarck would account for ° ‘Ginarily \ y e na. ong neck of of tr and that this stretching lengthened the neck of the tn- | idual then handed on this acquired extra length of heck to | pring. and thus there arose long-necked @iraffen rding to Darwinism, however the long-necked giraffe 1s due entirely te |& natural selection of individuale who were born with longer necks thaw their | fellows, and had thus the beet chance of survival in their particular envirene ment. In times of great scarcity ¢ i the shorter-n day evenings to the entertainment of ¥. DEEKMAN thelr Own sex, and when they craee | Ves Ralking for the rest of the week abvut 2. me maiior of Ta Evening World he foolish confidences reposed in them Dy men who call Sunday evenings, then @nd not until then, will I believe tha “Witte of to-day get along better without men than they ever did” As thene are ‘@e opinions of « mere man, he wit! ai- Were there any Germar at mperEn thin emaeron the Metropolitan House? Ope A Not Pretty.” © Pvening World Says Be open for correction by any New| | don't think New Jersey has « Fork girl ehoulé ehe wieh to honor him | OF? Pretty girle than any other place Geounting thie further in the letter | Tere are pretty jepartment. Bsc |For 1 don't ¢ |xery many, It Legs! Ald Bectety, 239 Brosdway. ia tha Wadiear af The Brentns Wena, 4 but that only makes them look 1 gave & package to an express com. | *##ctlys, pot pretty El , #2 de delivered out of the aity A Transit Forecmst, Wee never delivered 1 POUr | Be tte | Editor of Te Prening World fen and cannot hires lawyer. Where| The poeunatic tube in an improved fan I have the onse investigated? | form the trans eve the receipt W.G. | protiem, not only in New York bu: a) Gur “Rasy? Lengecsn. | over be earth, Weill see the siart of Wo Me Kéhor of The Bveaing Works 04 our grandéebildres will see the fu ‘The Bogtio® langusee ts grammation:. Slmen! will make transit almost By the eestem of the principal livug This propheay te not « Qeneues. Yet many peovie (eome sp | cenk’s dream, but based on knowr uy well informed) use the follow- a %, locomotion, & eepremsions) “What will 1 “What well I dor “it fat to be” indiesd “lt ousta ce fee 4 ¢ * “Between hin ena I feed tubes with prea thing *, A and Ume w Aveta By. these? may live ™ 4 pines cked individuals would od, and the propagation of the race was duals, This proc continued through would gradually result in the production of the médern girage | be at a disadvantage in the matter of f therefore left to the long-necked tndiy any generat THis Is MY HOUSE) You | 50. Se ee MUST STOPIN AND SEE MT, 3UsT Boucur iT FOR 8250,000 and HAD IT FURNISHED. FORSS 12 5 000 - Come -_———-+ $e. Polnted Paragraphs. A PAWNED opportunity te seldom redeemed. Time fies, but money can beat it for any distance. up lke @ Loy balloon A little learning swells « em All men make their marks in the world—end the majority are bleak. fn the matrimonial library the most important book ts the checkbook, ‘The number of heirs to an estate usually includes one or more lewvers. As long aa tortune emiles on you It ien't GiMoult to smile at misfortume: Many © span lseves the Inich string out after barring the door froth ‘the outside. Ruring courtship two eoulé may have but a single thougit and two hearts may beat af one, but efter marriage it's impossible to teed tw) mouths that way.-Chicago News Sea eell