The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1911, Page 14

= Tidaenee an pars eee eens e sue wae - oe = > ? nase - er At ahem mI = ESTARLISHED hy J Padlished Dally Except Sunday by the Prees Pubtishing Company, Nos, b2 to 63 Park Row, New York RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Tr J or, 64 Park Row, JOSEPH Pr tary, 68 Park Row, ork aw @econd-Clann Matter and tie Continent and International Entered at the Postomen Gubscription Rates to The bven + ' World for the United States and Canada. Tear M 9.0] one NO, 18,389 | UNFINISHED BUSINESS. T is easier to raise a new deme wrong. ‘There are “styles 1 in politics than to right an old Just how people are interested, or are, in the initiative, referendum and recall. Is it impertinent to remind them that there is unfinished business before them? Why not get something done, even if it is not novel, experimental or defiantly radical, even if it would be merely doing what other countries have done already? One item of unfinished business is the creation of a parcels post. | Ite necessity was shown—for the hundredth time—to everybody who) received or sent a Christmas present of any bulk by express or through the mails, whether it was a turkey, for carrying which the| express company charged more than half the cost of the bird, or the | ishing pond” which a World reader hought for ten cents and which the post-office charged him thirty cents for carrying. n issues as there are in dress, think they A second item of unfinished business is a national cold storage law. ‘The need of this isa for butter and eggs. It is retary of Agriculture. Employer's liability, “workmen's compensation,” is a national and State need affirmed in every mine explosion, railroad accident and factory fire. It is urged in the P message, ‘The American people must see to it that the burden of industry's un- avoidable killings and maimings shall be borne by the employer and passed on to society in increased charges for his product rather than borne to their undoing by worker and famil It is better to get a little done than a great deal merely talked about—and these things are not little. ain driven home by the top prices scored t forth in the recent report of the 8 sident’s ote - THE SINS OF SOCIETY. HERE is much in the claim that people ought not always to be held responsible for what pass for their misdeeds. It is society’s fault. The MeNamaras, for example, were car ried away by the enthusiasm of a “class war,” as one of them put it, They were victims of “existing conditions” according to a labor committee. Why punish the individual because society has warped him in person, or by proxy of his ancestors? Take the street beggar—take the man who called the Mayor “Little Whiskers” and asked alms of him the other day. Society may never have compelled this vagrant’s parents to send him to school and so he’ never learned habitsiof industry. Or in some pre- vious incarnations he may have done Mr, Gaynor a good turn which it was the latter’s duty to requite. Or he may be the descend- ant of a robber baron with an inherited claim to take toll on the highway. The same set of palliations may be urged for the men of the Black Hand. Society bred thet, for it ordained that in the sweat of his brow man should eat bread, and they are too strong to work. If they could live honestly without effort, doubtless they would, Let people who ride on “L” trains Sunday nights and suffer in- dignities at the hands of what they call “hoodlums” ponder heredity und environment and their judgments will be gentler. The lads who race shouting through the cars, tramping on people’s toes, buffeting men with baseball gloves and embracing women are the product of marriages before eugenics became a pink tea science and may never have had governesses. To cite the desk motto of a trust magnate, “There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us” that we ought not to judge each other. Blame it on society—which is always the guilty party if for no other reason than that a generation oF so ago it neglected to wring various necks which needed it, and that it tolerates 60 much mush-headed sentimentality now. ae al A WORD FOR THE PHILISTINE. T is not a pretty thing to be a Philistine, if you believe the high- brows. The Standard Dictionary defines him as “a blind ad- herent to conventional ideas; an ignorant and narrow-minded pereon, especially one given to money making; one devoid of culture.” Matthew Arnold, who waged lifelong war against him, uses this lan- guage: “On the side of beauty and taste, vulgarity; on the side of morals and feeling, coarseness; on the side of mind and spirit, unin- telligence—this is Philistinism.” Yet the type has its virtues, and Arnold is just enough to recog- nize them: “Doors that open, windows that shnt, locks that turn, razors that shave, coats that wear, watches that go, and a thousand more such good things are inventions of the Philistine.” Not his the burnt-leather work, or the shell work, or the Caucasian Indian to- bacco-boxes, or the carved cocoanut heads, or the scalloped tishplates or the liquor-store calendar, or the mansand roof, or the Queen Anne cottage, or the plush-upholsterod “parlor car,” or the gentle art of “impressionism.” Not hie the doorplate picked out in flowers on the front lawn. He may export hams incased in the American flag, but they will be good hams. All the tawdry, rickety, usclesa things which afflict the time are the product of minds unable to achieve the hy travel the decent grooves of Philistinism. ing to| Letters from the People At Ami ma, having e Fo the EAitor of The Rvening World m4 Where was John Paul Jones when he wae brought from France the United Btates? V. Hb. A body declared to be thet of Maul t Jonag wae brought to this country's from France in 1008 and wae interred to walk quarter for uh at long oltm « the bor and energy me to Weak, (he ndles t ot ® fear Waate Can noth alleviate this o on the splendid tunnel system? A at Bancroft Hall, Annapolis, Md. quick escalator, a dummy train, or Question as to the body's identity has something! Tunnel managers, HELP! oceasionally been raised, GPORGE Q. HERTHCLIFF, came from behind the bar and sat down approaches to the citadel, janintesthi nr ingens Sion i. (The SS S DON'T BE 4 GROUCH! THEY ARE ENJOYING THEIR XMAY PRESENTS. GO AND ENJOY Yours ws) iW THIS OF Fussinig House 2 aly you fellers say, ‘Oh, I don’t care for St, but I got to take the kids!” “I don't seo where that comes in," remarked Mr, Jarr, “It comes in this way,” sald Gu “You fellers all knock Christmas be- The ‘‘Music Coy, 1911, by The Pree Publishing Ov. HIME Che! New York Wort), T wae tho day after Chrivunas and everybudy looked and doubtless fel seedy, Business was slack tn Gus’ Copyright, 1911 and he By Sophie Irene Loeb. at the table with Mr. Jarr and Mr} ow agt delist Ci ydagrersa cope Rangle in the back room, but placed ] himself in such a pusition that his} German eagle eye could command all} tlon to sing at the first of the concerts to be given to the peo- ple of New York by the ew York World “Now that Christmas ws over and all the sorenoas and disappointments have i eed eile rtainly 1 will| bigger accordingly, loot their hurte, more or leas, suppose wing,” said Schu-} Since tt ‘s the natural thing from we start a little sovlety to abol ey mann-Heink, the very earliest history of people to year suggested Mr, Jarr h other, And she will ik the eolace of soothing estraina, the hor with ourselves and east , sing out the Old) twentieth century individual through the Jan’t Christmas a failure aa and sing in the| countless musical inventions of the “Not for the kids" said My, Ran Now r, and| Present day has endeavored to get that “Ut gives them someting new to fisht about your, I've been driven out of hy toway by my obildren soreaming and fighting over their toys Thank goodness, theyll have them brokem and discarded before the week's thus first concerts made pos- sible by World's gite $10,000, “Aon, you follers make me tired!” eald Gus, “Kids ts atl right, I know it, although 1 aint got any. Kids ts on the 1 about Christmas, But you fellere 5 all—vat iss it when peaple ts twor faved Hypoorites?? ventured Mr, Jarr That's It," eald Gus, “It's ike about the ciroue, When the circus comes all may be heard by lowly, BENEFIT thereof. ure to the RVACH Musle, the human the are sips compelled to of the crowds that MONY in the HPART of the olvilized human, There te a hunger OUTSIDE | pale of food that gooa many times up- Who knows ny but that few worth wht ra of real may not enter into the make-up of thi janagers, H “Tunnel To the Kditor of The Evening Hore'e @ New Year's present many thousand eammutere would relish above ail elses A wey LA, J from the Hud- station without orld How t# the word “Derby" (in con+ Reotion with the famous English race day) provounced by the Englien? "ROBT, & som wbe to the every-day mortal shoulder his Mise tude or help him enjoy his Hallelujal ¢@ the full? ite posstbilitiesWannot be estimate: and cause him ti “What are you goling to cut out ft New Vear'e?™ “Resolutiona” en - Every One”’ Movement by The Press Publishing Co, (The Ne’ Greater usher im the of sixty-one The of Sixty-one concerts in which the BEST the lowllest of the For he who runs may reap the It will pe @ pleas- people-WITHIN THEIR from the cradle to the grave, tw a dominant chord in the make-up of But to stare a fact inthe majority of us OF NECES- be the OUT. throng opolitan Opera House and Car- nex oncerta, {the kind of music that marks Carnegie There's many &@ LONGING for the Hall and the Metropolitan, To mak wood thing opushed for the lack of tis other kind available to all ts funds to indulge these cravings. For GREAT WORK, Great good must come muslo hath charms not only te soothe from concerta upon euch a foundation the savage breast but to put HAR- ae this, It te opening @ door that is the dean of Barnard College, also adds: many ing to bear the burden of maintaining there te thing satistiod by the workaday populace, Thus such a ement of goat must for the people must necda be PA REAVCHING Wht there are worthy philanth societies to. pro vide CREATURE comforta, much litt spirte another nature that tends to atir the BYST in the tn | dividual, almost ua self but sure and oy. @ with more fort!-| high schools, the business schools, men 1s We all very apiendiad fer the mug) ws. Day of Rest 3 (pS Balto ) Reg By Maurice Ketten RRR thal halal al al ak ial ol al ak iad Mr. Jarr Drinks Deep of the | After-Christmas Depression. | EBA SE IE IE I AE Ot OF 3 IE SE EA OO OF Ot Ot Ot Ot Ot ob ot ot ot ot | fore it comes, while it’s here and after {t's gone, But if tt wasn't for the Christmas trade I don't know what business men would do these hard times, Yet you fellers eay, ‘Oh, we got to have Christmas on account of the for York World), lover who has the TIME, MONEY and inclination to absorb these instincte—he may help ilmself, But the ever busy commercial soul has his ear close to the ground of ACTIVITY, and thus has LITTLE op- portunity to cultivate that ear for that whitch would make him better and within his REACH, But this idea of putting dt within reach PASILY will no doubt be taken Advantage of and add its mite to the education of young and old alike. So that with the advent last summer of the munloal festival in Madison Square Garden, made possible by The Evening World, this continuation dur ing the winter will unquestionably work in ways of unsuspected EF FECTIVE- As Dr. Johw H, MacCracken of the New York University says: “People whose knowledge, if not un- derstanding, h been broadened are tiring of the LESS DESIRABLE kinds of music, They want something bet- ter, something that comes CLOSER to closed to TOO MANY now,” | And as Dr. Virginia C. Giidersieeve, ‘The effort toward this end in the past has shown the popular DHSIRE for such OPPORTUNITY, even f the: - have not brought to fe any one will- - those opportunities, It fe a splendid that this project should has been revived upon so broad a aca’ - So that Schumann-Heink when she naciously to him. sings on New Year's Eve will be the|/I wish you @ merry Christm: first of a series of songbirds of the a first water who «ill take part in this muste popular Innovation that must create in-| cousin down, @ fluences of no small calibre. 0, It should arouse the interest of the hand women in all the walks of Ife, for here all may meet on a COMMON The Wor | EBORAH, the world's first equal rights woman, we be- hold for the first time in a tent to which people came from all parts of the 4 for instruction, the world way back yond | recognizing the fact that womal's quick |Intuition 1s safer than man's slow logic. Deborah in her day held the high office of @ prophetess. She was the world’s first woman agitator. Israel had gone to decay, the land was de- bauched, the liberties of the people had | expired, men were faint-hearted, their | spirits were broken and their hopes | Sone. For twenty years King Jabin robbed their fields, taxed them and forced them to unpaid work, with his huge marauding army. But with the eloquence of Patrick Henry, the orater of the Revolution, | Deborah called upon her people (to | throw off the yoke of tyranny. With |an army of 10,000 men she met Gen. Sisera at Mount Tabor, and herself leading the van against 190,000 Canaan- ites, in the face of a furious hailstorm that drove full against the eyes of the enemy, fought a battle so destructive ea Air-Man an N aeroplane wil run alone Just about as far as a bloycle; in either eighty-five per cent. of the ability to get up and go is human, Flying is temperament jAnd brains driving through the air @ gasoline engine set on a few pieces of stiffened cloth, Under conditions as they have been, ft has been very largely tem- perament, This prinotpal factor in flying, the per- sonal equation, splits up all flyers into threo distinct classes, The first of these (contains the most widely advertised— the sensationallsts, the daredevils who don't know too much about an aero- plane and who haven't yet been smashed into a scrap heap of bones and flesh and ligaments. The first of these advtnturers appeared | just as soon as the aeroplane had taken its firat long hop off the earth and be- gun really to get Into the air. This, so far as any general tlying was concerned, was not until 1909. Before that year the only actual flying had been done tn pri- vate by the secret and saturnine Wrights. It wae in the fall of 1908 that Wilbur Wright had shown France its first real fights, Sarly in the next year the French inventors had hitched close enough adaptations of the devices of his machine to their monoplanes to allow them to get up into the air. In the first part of 1909 the French inventor and flyer, Blertot—best known a# the first man to fly from France to England—had helped to create among other types the Antoinette mono- plane. HSS SS SS SS SS SS machine full of all the crazy ticks of a “bad” Western horse. All aeroplane have a temper of thelr own—just as, for that matter, all locomotives and steamships have. The Wright machine ts a steady, level-going domestic ant- mal; driving it, as some one has said, {9 ke going out for a ride on your own piagsa, But there are plenty of kids!" But wt {t for yourselfs, “You only think of yourself, Gus,” “Everybody thinks for himself. Don't you think for yourself?” asked Gus, “I've got @ right to,” replied Mr. Jarr. “I got no presents except from my} own family. And my own money pays for them, My mall has been full of Christmas cards. Half of them were from people I have dealt with who send me @ red and gold card with bells and mistletoe and holly on them and writ- ten In script, ‘Please remit!’ The others are from people I haven't dealt with who wish me a merry Christmas and tell me I'll have @ prosperous New Year if I do dea) with them.” “When I went to draw my pay last Saturday I thought eure the cashier would whisper that the bos: see me in his pri Mr. Rangle. “I even lingered around @ bit, hoping the cashier would say something of the sort.” “Didn't he say anything “Yes,” replied Mr. Rang! ly told me I'd better beat it, as the boss bad a terrible grouch on and was talk- ing about reducing the office force for the New Year, and if he got sight of me it might remind him of one candt- date for the ‘indiepensable-man-is-not- numerous’ list.’ “And I got @ shock Saturday, too,” aid My. Jare. “The office boy came around distributing equare white enve- dopes, and for one wild momem I thought maybe the head of the firm was distributing Christmas largess, But it wes only @ holiday greeting from a committee in the shipping department asking the office staff to buy tickets inclosed for the employees’ New Year foal.” “I got a cousin who blew tn from the West last year with # heart full of Christmas cheer, He'd been reading up on Dioken’s ‘Christmas Carol’ and Christ- mas dope generally, and would have eworn to an affkiavit that he had known Santa Clause well and intimately all hie life, and commended him high- y," gald Mr, Renate. "What bappened to that feller? Did he drink too much and get ropbed?” eoked Gus “Pretty near as bad," anid Mr. Ran- le “He celebrated a little and con- tributed to all the Christmas chafities 4 handed all the street Santa Cla a dollar for themselves, and as he w going to his hotel about 2 A, M. Christ- |} mas morning he bumped into a man | coming down the atreet, The man wrowled at him and m; cousin hed | merry, whole-souled laugh and said, * And the fellow hauled off and hit him a terrific blow on the nose, knocking my breaking his nose and it iG Diacking doth eyes. BUREAU, Donald Building, “There's a man after my own heart ‘site Gimbel Bros.) cried Mr. Jarr. “I know just how he teit.” And the trio solemnly resoluted to at ft 1s is that you want) tion nd stitched to position. arm as can be finished with or w made in one piece each and attached 0 cuffs. L 4% yarmi_of lace banding to Wide seiiern No. 7260 ia cut in sizes 4‘. HUNTING GROUND for the best that we had sie wanted. abolish Christmas for et leset ten # #& Great Women. By Madison C. Peters. ‘The old Antoinette was a big, victous | The May Manton Fashions Fancy Peasant Blouse—Pattern No. 7250. It 1s cut in one with the sleeves and the w ld’s # # Copyright, 1011, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). I~—DEBORAH—The Original Suffragett that not one was left to tell the story. Deborah was not only a great sold ‘winning one of the world’s greatest vic- tories and the world’s firet woman ruler, @ mighty ruler over Israel fer forty years, but she wrote Israel's “Mareellaise.” There is no finer poetry, ‘fo nobler Irytc, no eublimer song, than that In which she sang her victery=no | more picturesque imagery was ever em- ployed, throbbing with patriotism emd j teaching the world for all time that the decisive element of victory in any etrug- gle and the chief requisite of the sol- ‘dier’s apirit is faith in the ving God. Te it not etriking that this leader in ithe early age should be @ woman? She | ruled wo well after her victory in the field that “the land had rest for forty years.” Deborah, great as prophetess, soldier, writer, agitator and ruler, “was & mother in Israel this well known phrase having its origin with her. The foundation of the Jewish faith wae laid in the sanctity of domestic affection and purity. The Bible Jew never mae the mistake of separating the church the home. d Some of His Strange Feats; machines that are cranky, even They turn too easily and a! in some directions and too slowly ani stiffly in others. The Antoinette was &@ dangerous brute; tt had stacked up flyer after flyer on the ground; In the last part of July, 191, eome three hundred thousand Paristans Bad risen at an unearthly hour in the d ing to see the start of the big it de l'Est. Cross-country flights were fast beginning that year, naw and dangerous events, Gas engines were still most un- reliable and tricky—likely to land the contestants in places where landing | spelled death. Suddenly, just as the celebrated fl were about to get away, high in the alr appeared @ new maohing. It swooped down, landed, and jout stepped @ slight, youngish-looking |man, followed by a young French sportsman whom he was carrying as a | Passenger. The flyer was John B, Mol- jmant, who, because of inexperience, had [been refused the license necessary to flyers entering the meet. This was his third flight, He announced that he going to fly to London, s ‘The professional flyers started in their Cirouit of the East—cautiously, one man toa machine, Up to that time two pas- sengers had never been taken on aay long cross-country cruise. Moisant off for London, carrying his mech: A On the way he took aboard a small.cat | Presented by a feminine admirer, So the man who hed flown twice imhis life, and hig mechanic, who had never flown at all, and a yowling kitten, sailed off over France and the Channel ‘and England, and accomplished the firat air flight from Paris to London without serious mishap. 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