The evening world. Newspaper, November 25, 1911, Page 10

es . oro t [ ' i ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, BAG GOR HAW. miren’és Fer Rowe N Jour PULITERN, Jrs Secretary, 63 Park Row. Pe ata Ln Bl Bosc Batterie ents at-Office at New Y. Matter. eR Le Werld for the United States All Countries in the International i end Canada, Postal Union, Bec Year. oo eaves 09.78 Que Month. eee aoe o VOLUME 58.....ccceccsscsesscecescsecesseessNO, 18,358 A BLOW AT THE SCHOOLS. HE Board of Aldermen put its foot into it again this week. It used its power of disapproving budget items to cut by $226,000 the appropriation for education, and thereby halted the inquiry ordered last June into the question, “What is the matter with the schools?” On its answer Prof. Paul H. Hanus of Harvard | and a corps of experts have been at work. It is to the interest of every parent and child that the inquiry shall go on to the end. Our school system is complex, has grown rapidly with an expanding population, and taken form in the presence, rather than through the directing efforts of the Board of Education. The board itself and the public need the information sought. Are superintendents really exercising educational leadership? | azine. Saturd ay. Such Is Life. By Maurice Ketten. i WPedtisned Dally Except Bu: day by che Frese rubnehing Company, Nom 63 te tt! HORSE Do principals show initiative? Are teachers competent? Are courses of study adequate in scope, or overloaded, or over-rigid? Is truancy | properly handied? Is part-time an evil, and if so, how to be rem- | edied? Why do 80,000 pupils regularly fail of promotion? Where | can money be saved? Those questions Prof. Hanus and his experts” are asking and they should have answer. ‘The Mayor will do well to overrule the chuckle-headed “economy’ of the Aldermen. ' MEN AND NURSES. HE romance of the employer and the mill-girl has been ex- ey ploited in fiction. The romance of the tired business man | and the stenographer is exploited in musical shows. The romance of the governess and the young man ‘of the household is exploited in “Passers-By.” Why has not the romance of the invalid and the trained nurse had exploitation in poetry, drama and fiction? Other things being equal, sick men fall in love with the young | women who nurse them back to health. Sagacious youths have been | known to draw up a document in advance stipulating that no sick- bed proposal is ¢o be valid without later ratification. $0 —______ THE DEMOCRATIC INQUISITION. N investigation by a committee of Congress brought two men out of the Minnesota woods and drew from them a twenty- year-old story of dealings with John D. Rockefeller. There ! | | TERI SA ce | | | STEAM-HEATED FLATS Tatts FRESH AIR FIEND ‘You KNOW ARE You Going HOUSEKEEPING WHEN You LEAVE are two sides to it, and yet it is a thing the people have a right to know and the “muck-rakers” had failed to dig it up. The public has been well served by legislative inquiries. No honest man was injured by the Lexow investigation, and the partner- ship between police and crime was uncovered. Inadequate as was the Mazet investigation, it wrung from Croker the admission: “I am working for my own pocket all the time.” The Hughes investigations into the lighting and life insurance companics gave us 80-cent gas and insurance reform. The numerous investigations begun by the present Democratic Congress have the common justification that only thus under a system which does not provide ministerial responsibility can adequate knowledge of. administration be obtained and depart- ments kept on their mettle. “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free,” | might be written across every legislative inquiry. Publicity is its, sufficient sanction. These inquests do more than provide basig for | legislation. They turn the searchlight on things the public had over- | looked or forgotten. They admonish men that vicious “trade cus- toms” condoned in inner circles may be re-examined before a wider public and in the dry light of justice. They are both corrective and preventive. Just as the newspaper press is a fourth estate, an added force in government, so the legislative inquiry is an agency back of law, back of courts, back of police, and ally of all three, —————1 42 H’ HONOR THE MAYOR protests too much. He is highly esteemed. His associates treat him with great respect. Even | the newspapers which he describes as “The curse of the community” treat him tenderly. We doubt if there has been a Mayor in all the city’s histary whose good deeds have met with such prompt Sppreciation and such loud applause, and whose obvious failings have Deen so gently borne. The old Thersites ought to take a tumble to himeelf. Letters from the People for the first man to catch up to the eecond, and in 3 hours’ eS in The World an bah onto travelling at the rate of 22 miles an Dleanest Age” from t! don | hour, the train will be 66 miles away. ‘Times, It is true, people are cleaner MAX HELLINGER. now than of old. But I am sorry . hatr off 1 not used without perfumes ‘The ofl keeps the hair from growing correspondent who seek: oR mally replied Master Jarr, Mrs. Rangle and Mrs, Mudridge-) After the visitors had departed and Smith, Mr. Jarr came home, Mrs. Jarr re- “Yes, mamma,’ and he bowed to the ladies and with- quite a big boy now! » drat them! How they do grow cried Mrs, Mudridge-Smith ir: “There is that shooting up like @ weed. little fellow, telling young men of his own tion, too, that Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, ind show them (The' New York World), HE little Jarr boy paused at the} ¥8s christened. By the way, where is parlor door and wiped his feet Before Mrs. Jarr could reply entertaining Mrs,|ittle Jarr girl came to the door and and Mre. Mudridge-Smith, it the first day Smith's hyphen had been brought out.” “You see, I couldn't sink tty of our family (for the Mudridges came over in the Mayflower) im the commonplace ni young married lady was explaining. Mrs, Rangle ran her finger over the hyphen on Mrs, Mudridge-8mith's en- Yes, the hyphen could not only be seen, but It could be felt! debut was a success, ‘Please, mamma, may I go with Tsay | Slavinsky to the moving-picture show asked Master waiting till there was a pause in the conversation of his elders and taking hat before he spok: y went downtown to picture films for the man, ‘cause some ‘ournt up. And so the man is going to Jet him in for nothing, and all Izsy's ‘orothers and sisters, too, and eo Emma | ‘Please mamma, tan I tome in?’ ‘Not until you have combed your hair and washed your hands," “I did tomb my hair, and I did wash my hands,” eald the little girl. entered the room. e of Smith," ped and kissed her, and then kissed @raved card. 7 H Ophelia’s Slate B ; Comer Wl you and Emma get in?” gray #0 so0n, I have heard. I and one| opportunities in the South, I would of my sisters used hair ol! and we are mot gray yet and we are over sixty. y Horace Greeley would have | her hair is white. We used the best | of opportunities to Young Amenica. Tho the use of oli is not altogether wrong. | Towers in the land of flowers are pray- MARY © RP. ng for an influx of industrious, seflous In Amerton, mindsd young white men to help gather Fe the Editor of The Evening Workd the wealth of the South, “Strong, Where were potatoes tirat Krown? In| healthy and eighteen” your corres- America or in In ? NF. |pondent styles himself, He should Apply to Supreme Court yhardly have to look very far for his To the FAltor of The Evening World Marcy Re ent Cen tor Shanes |° unity, once in the Southland. If, Paton: ote FW. | however, agriculture ix not to his Hiktns, $8 S Forern'e name! a rain: |the various emall towne scattered Th answer to the perplexing and in- | mercial opportunities tn almost any line, Genlous train problem of M. O'Brien, Here, too, will he learn that tho bowed and is really a) I offer the following solution, leaving Southern method of ivi Out details in computation: 196-9 yards | revelation in {ts wholosomeness; that firet man travels in 10 seconds, 8% yards here there ts real ends, or % miles per hour train travels; | dollars, A prerequisite for success in %.8 yards train travels in 9 seconds, | the South, as elsewhere, Is that a man $ yards length of train; 8.8 yarda sec- assimilate hinself to his new surround- ond man travels in 9 seconds or 2 miles | ings and do naught to antagonize his hour; 12,908 2-3 yards train travels | ni 2% minutes, 2362-3 yards fret man travels in 2 minutes; 10,560 yards dis- | problems. tance both men aie aperi, Heuve it GBCAK WINKLER, Bayonne, N, J. various spectal going to say we are Iszy's “Young man, go South!" brother and sister, too, I give him all ‘My youngest sister never used oll. Now| The Southland to-day ts the real land| my cigarette pictures, Gussie Beppler and Little Tony Pas- olive olf and no perfumery. I thought 1| cotton planters of Mississipp!, the peach quale and Mickey Rafferty, Would tell readers this to let them ‘see|STowers of Georgia and the orange going in as Izzy's broth Q n be Iaay's brothers and rs to-day at the moving for cigarette pictures or a cent “Your grandmother over from Brooklyn to take you back with her to hear @ temperance lecture in her church," ‘The lttle boy turned pale and then i but courtesy and good breed- Fo the Kslitor of The Evening World: throughout the South offer good com- ing came to the surface in the face disappointment, “Dld the football sult come for me, ¥ & Joy in living, mamma?" he then asked, quietly, Jength of train; 1075-9 yards in 10 wec- apart from the prosale accumulation of know, you sald you'd order one for me from downtown and I could have it to play football tn, after ac hool this week, them just how Ja costa a lot of fmoney. Don't you see mamma has com- & football sult AREN'T YOU Sorry iT‘ YouR LAST HORSE SHOw WHY DON'T You GO ON THE VAUDEVILLE STAGE 2 You Wout) MAKE eceeceoooooososos: eeeseceoooosooess A Perilous Wave of Goodness ‘ovember 2 | 5,19 Copyright, bi \ (barat #uld the head polisher, “it looks as though the Chi- cago packing house mag- nates are to be brought to trial at ss “A “Aud even yet the foxy lawyers may find some way to Stave off the trial until after all the men under indict- ment are dead. If fj» (&-man has money enough to employ in make the law And it has been done so that there {s little wonder the people are taking tp the initiative, referendim and recall. They would | take up almost anything that carried eet of lawyers are [interpreted by another set of lawyers, | There is @ growing public suspicion that many laws, passed by Legislatures, na- | tonal or State, under pressure of pub- je opinion are purporely left open to j attack. At any rate there have been few laws passed that a lawyer cannot find a hole in, “In Mterat history and the drama we have been striving for years toward direct and simple statements. In law we have been treading paths that are knee deep in tradition and supersti-| | ton, “It would seem that in drawing: an Indictment for murder it would be sut- ficient to charge, plainly and directly that on a certain date at a certain time or place John Jones killed John Doe with a revolver of knife or a stuffed club, as the case might be, But no court would entertain such an indict- ment. It must be submerged in words and phrases, All court proceedings are strangled with language. “Take the Schefte!s case now on trial in the United States Court. Witnesses are here from all over the country, waiting to be heard. The beneficent Government allows them $1.50 a day for their expenses. Each of them has the same story to tell. Certainly the testi- mony of a few would seem to be sum- cient. But the Government officers choose to clutter the record with the tiresome reiterations of come-ons. In some one of these stories the defense will doubtless be able to find a dis- crepancy upon which to base an appeal "Mayor Gaynor and a couple of other lawyers who can write clear, clean, in- cisive English should be employed at a salary of about a million dollars apiece a year to rewrite and condense the criminal code, outting out al! the mold and dust and accumulated verbiage of ages. They could give us a sot of laws that could be interpreted only one Matters have reached such a Engulfs the Jarr Children. stage where even lawyers do not know PORE cOOAREREOE SOE COE ObS OSES OOS SSCA S SSCS S CC +OOES “My! How fine we look in our clean) marked. apron and nice fresh hair ribbon!" “I don't know what's getting into the! cried M Rangle admiringly. “Did, children. Gertrude dress you up because we were: Emm here.” G Dis is my school dwess I put on They are so good! et the table for me, dc n't had a spat for a week.” yesterday,” replied the angel child,/ “And look how I'm eating my soup said the ‘and did is de hair wibbon mamma dot! and how clean my -tace long time ago.” Uttle girl. And look how nice her hands! * “Well, she was a very untidy little) how long is it till Christmas?” girl until recently,” said Mrs, Jarr. —_—_—_—__ “Ink on her pinafore, her hair un- Kempt, her shoelaces untied, her dress Give Thanks. torn and stained—and she'd run oft to| By Cora M. W. Greenleaf. school looking like a gypsy child that HAT! Can't you see why to be way, despite everything I could do! grateful? “Now run out and play in the dining You don’t think you've reason room,” sald Mrs. Mudridge-6mith. | to be? “Little pitchers have large ears!" | And the thought of it all Is distasteful? “Dood-by, pretty lady, 14 the} Here—listen a moment to child demurely, and she kissed them all) Thankful? Of course you are thankful Mrs, Rangle| For just the bare thought that you and withdrew “like,” observed, “a little dear!’ live— Pleasure and woe— Can love, hi relent and forgive, your clutch without it much, Be glad time can soften our sorrows, Glad the sun shines after storm, rows, Let gladness take tangible form. Bo giad of obstructions surmounted, For mistakes that have helped you to rise, Thankful for blessings uncounted, And for errors that opened your eyes. For the golden or will bless The persistence that urges you on, places (Or are not compelled to, we'll say) With one of the hundreds of faces You meet on the street ‘every day. Your {dentity’s yours past the losing “To ha chosing Of what you are willing to give, ito the weak, ineMolent and needy, The useless, the vile, the forlorn, diminish their need— Let your thanks +k Give thanks for whatev: trod, Jess and poor, ‘That they may give thanke to God, day out, and she and Willie nd I've been promoted at school,” said Mra, Rangle. “Why, she! remarked Master Jarr. “I got a nun- looks like a little doll!” | @red for deportment, too. Say, Paw, ‘That you feel and can know all Life's Reason for thanks, who can doubt it? If there's aught that you hold in That would leave life more wretched You're bound to give thanks for 30 Bo glad for fresh starts, and to-mor- Thankful for strength, grit and courage That bids you strive when hope's gone; iccess, that has blesséd You are thankful you cannot change and to hold” while you live, Prove your gratitude now by the Let your kindness make speed to hi From treading the paths these have And give from your store to the hope- The Week’s Wash By Martin Green. | AAA AAA AAA RADA RAR APR RAR AAAI DS |, by The Press Publishing Co, (The er many! years,* said the! laundry man) javenue to Its east side, tn connection Fables of Everyday Folks By Sophie Irene Loeb New York World) what the laws mean and even ee ¢d Judges of the highest courts are to agree on very few important decie-' fons. emarked the head polishe: reminds me that he ts handing out some hot discipline to those divers in the Street Cleaning Department who are trying (o get back.” { “What most of the people want to know,” sald the laundry man, “le wh they don’t take away the garbage angi. ashes, if the strike ts broken, U around my part of town there ‘wai more garbage and ashes in evidence Friday than when the strike wae et height. “In One Hundred and Foi “6 PEAKING of Mayor Gaynor.” street, near Amsterdam avenue, there @ mountain of garbage and refu dumped into the open street, This right alongside the grounds of Colu University. The sidewalks in that tion are half filled with ove d barrels of ashes and deo ‘Another ching that fs peeving People of the Morningslde district te ak glaring example of boneheadedness tn! city government now on view alon Amsterdam avenue. Only a few months ago the stone pavement was torn up and an asphalt block pavement was laid, The street was open for weeks! and there was a shining opportunity to prepare for the futy>- by laying neces-"7] sary conduits for electric wires and y are tearing up the new pavement at crossings to put elects light wires from the + ost side of the with a new system of electric lighting, The pavements are being replaced in the usual slovenly way and Amsteniam avenue !s beginning to resemble @ cor- duroy road.” i ‘that Mrs. Rice, the noise eradi- | cator, wants soundproof areas ©] established around schoo!houses,”. “Greetings to Mrs. Rice,” replied the launcry man, “If she will also find es | SP said the head polisher, some way to est» lish soundproof around children on thelr way to @n from school on roller skates.’* The Man Who Was Born Busy. NCE upon a time there was a O busy man, In fact he was BORN busy. He never sought any pleasures or recreations. He had “no time," When any one asked him to STOP a little and join in with a bit of merry - making it was always the same old vs “I'm too busy. It became a dis- ease. Once, in the course of business, he thought it would be no bad business to take unto himeelf a wife. It !s a way busy men have—some- times. He got busy on that; and, to make a long story short, SUCCEEDED. ,, the woman in the case knew he wi ‘busy man and accepted him ac- cordingly, But ‘there were one or two things she had NOT reckoned with. She was continually’ making ALLOW- ANCBS. She had heard much pro and con about ‘How to keep a husband.” For was he not keeping her? If any fepling of rebellion arose in ther woman's heart she tried to quiet !t with the everlasting, “He is euch a busy man. I ehould heve no COM- PLAINT." Many times she would longingly eee Mrs. Neighbor across the street go off with her husband for a bit of fun, while | SEnE eat by the fireside WAITING for THE BEST OF WIVES. HE receiver of a wire'ess messas I by the use of double antennae or “feelers” can readily determine from which direction the message comes, | ‘Thousands of men In England make a|down an expert botanist with hundrede tall stilts/of tons of seed in order to plant the while they work. They are employied in| sloping sides of the great ditch én wari- good living by walking oi the hop fields of Kent and other dis- tricts, where they have taken the place of high stepladders formerly in ure, ‘The annual output of lead pencils In| 000,000, this country is more than 3% The cedar which {s used in making them |the pain of a burn when accidents, of weighs about 100,000 tons, and nearly three-fourths of a cent's worth of wood is required for each pencil. No other wood 1# so good for the purpose, and the timber is becoming scarce. Oi Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), lerrand bent with her husband, Her Things Worth Knowing | @ ready sale. Old quce, John to come home from the etock- holders’ meeting. And the days were Not #0 much varied by even @ bunch of violets. She grew tired and listless and wan and remained in a certain rut, She be- came a4 little gray woman, At the close of one day, his partner's wife came into the office on a joyous eyes sparkled with ANTICIPATION, He saw a woman BEAUTIFUL She was LIVING! He stopped being busy for a minute. He twgan to think. That evening when he came home he said to his wife: * “Why are you grayt and not ike my, partner's wife? He makes no more, than I do." She merely said: “You are so busy, John. Look in @h mirror, I am but a REFLECTION o YOURSELF.” ‘Then he wondered why he was eo busy. What was it all about? Wana! was it getting him? He had gone on the old theory of eay- ing nothing and sawing wood, And in| the vague recesses of his brain, the Pleasure time was put off until TO- MORROW. Perhaps he stopped to reason IN TIME-I do not know, However, the man who “says nothing and saws wood" may get @ wood pile all right, but sometimes he does not live to see the timbers BURN, Besides, there is the other half in ghe case. MORAL: A LITTLE PLEASURE NOW AND THEN IS RELISHED BY cedar planks and fence rails now find The Panama Canal is to be ornamental as Well as useful, The Government sent ous grasses, The strong turf will serve to hold the banks in place and prevent their tendency to side, but the Govern- ment had an eye to beauty as well, Tt Is worth knowing how to relieve this sort occur In the kitchen, Make an application of common soda moistened » with water, Spread it over. the burned, surface and te pain will disappear ttt te tlh