The evening world. Newspaper, January 9, 1912, Page 16

” The Che FE adorns. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Qrbtaded Day Except su: ay by the Prose Pubtishing Company, Now, 68 to ark Row, Néw Yoru President, 68 Park Row. easurer, 63 Park Row, Park Row. at New York as @econd-Clans Mattor. agp For England and the Continent and ‘All Countries in the International Postal Union, lone Month: VOLUME 58. .... ccc ccesccecceescssveceeeeseses NO, 18,408 THE MAN WITH THE HOE. DWIN MARKHAM has much to anewer for in the poem which is the title of this article. His responsibility ie set forth in the fact that there is a potato famine in the world, and potatoes are a staple food for the poor. Everywhere there is a short crop. Our own crop of 292,737,000 bushela is nearly 100,000,- 000 bushels short of 1909's, partly because of an unfavoring season, chiefly because the man with the hoe did not use it enough. The poem has been pernicions because it assumes that the man who uees the hoe is “stolid and stunned, a brother to tho ox,” and that he carries on misused shoulders “the burden of the world.” Those lines were written in a time of declining prices, when corn, wheat and potatoes brought from a third to a half what they do no They were a good tract for that time, just as Bryan’s “cross of gold” speech was a good tract then. But they do not apply now. ‘They are a mockery in this time of high prices. The world has a grievance against Markham which it does not have against Bryan, because nobody reada Bryan's apeech now, while people do read Markham’s poem, and are beguiled by its melodious untruthe, Somebody should write a companion poem entitled “The Man With the Baked Potato,” «etting forth with equal eloquence the grievance of the present day consumer of farm products, His case is so serious that an international commission will look into it. But it is well with the hoe-man. As farm hand he draws wages that are employer's despair. As independent farmer he haa Secre tary Wilson’s word for it that hia crops have about doubled in aver- age price aa compared to the period when the Markham poem was written, where other products have increased only about 20 per cent. He has Census Director Durand’s word for it that in this State his land has increased in value 32 per cent. in the decade. ,Somebody must uso the hoe. Honing in necessary, honorable and well remunerated. Too many persons have got the Markham notion that agricultural labor in a species of elavery. ‘hey are in revolt against the doctrine that in the sweat of his brow man shall eat bread. In this State between 1900 and 1910 there was a de- crease of 775,000 acres in improved acreage under cultivation and | mont of the other States, including the banner farming States of Mlinois and Iowa, tell the same etory. That is ono big reason why prices are high. Demand ié overtaking supply and supply is going \mckward. Whether French or Danish peasant, Irish peasant proprietor or American farmer, the man with the hoe is s figure of dignity and gonsequence. Mr. Markham to the contrary notwithetanding, may his tribe increase! —_——++ THREE CONFESSIONS, T is well that men cometimes confoss their orimes. ‘An honcst confession is good for the soul—and for society. ‘Nhe American people have been sobered and odified by three notable confes- sions of the lest two months—Beattie admitting that he killed his wife, the McNamares admitting that they used dynamite with mur- derous effect in warfare against the “open shop,” Richeson admit- There are persons who deplore a prisoner's confession because they think he should “die game” and unrepentant, or because they fear it will enadle him to escape the extreme sentence for his crime. whichever motive they deplore it, these persons are wrong. ends better when it sends » self-confessed criminal into life- imprisonment than when it sends him unrepentant, protesting ina » to the scaffold. For one thing it stops the mouths half. persons who nec only “persecution” in the efforts of toclety to give expreesion to the moral law, and have no condemna- (don for crimes of violence or cunning unless thoy are the victims thereof. Confession leaves no “martyrs.” ‘The great service that it does to society is the solemn testimony renders that life fs not a mere gamo, to be played as one will, that behind ite shows and seemings the mills of God are grind- ing exceeding small. There is that in the naked realitics of crime confessed which silences cynicism and stultifies smartness and to the light-minded brings certain tremendous meanings home, ——— +40 -— THE MAYOR'S JOB. AYOR GAYNOR ts “satisfied to be Mayor, Instead of Gov- ernor, Senator, President or anything e! He {e right. His position, measured by salary, is twice as important as a| ‘Senator's, 50 per cent. moro important than the Governor's, He says it !s more difficult than the President's, and probably it {s, To be Mayor of New York City is one of the biggest jobs in the world, Tho Mayor of a French city is a functionary of limited Aiscretion. The Mayor of a British city {s merely Chairman of the Roard of Aldermen, Nowhere elee has a Mayor such immense pow- ora as here. He administers a budget one-fourth that of the nation, five times that of the State, The Governor of the State {8 a figurehond beside him—"not the Frecutive, but a single piece of the Executive,” as Woodrow Wilson pute it, Olty government fe contralizod, State government docen- tralized, ii 4 £3 a 3 When You Are Married The ‘‘Hello”’ Craze. HEN the telephone bill came W in this month I was really ri I maid this. @t all with Ted. “You know that dt ten't the nickel I mind—it'e the principle of the thing, ‘De spoke impatiently, “When I've been at home women have called you up and talked to you for twenty minutes or @ half hour—aW that time spent in ex- ohanging the most inane remarks, You've been called away from the table and had your food get cold and un- palatable on your plate, while you Ilst ened to some bosom friend about the new rice powder she !1 covered!” “Well, it ten't MY fawlt when people But acting doesn't go @ bit stunned, It averaged four calle a da; nd it didn’t seem possible that I had used the phone four times a day for a month. ‘Ted ien't a dit stingy—in tect J think he's the moat generous man on earth, and he never creams of complaining adout dilte. But this month he wrinkled hie brow a bit when he scanned the telephone bil, “Who on earth have you talked to, one hundred and twenty-two times this month?" he asked Jokinety. T told him I was eure I didn't know and that I never realized I talked Qe many times as that, | “Of course you don't realize tt,” was! his anewer, “why, telephoning ts bde-| coming @ sort of manta with women! to-day! Go into any hotel or shop where they have public booths and you'd find most of them ocoupled by women—women who ought to rent them by the hour Instead of by the call!" “I never phone from restaurants or shops!” I retorted indignantly. "t WHERE you telephone from, doar, It's the fact that you DO tele- phone when there's no need to~when there isn't a blessed thing of any im- portan to may.” “Oh, very well, my argument didn't have @ lek to stand on, so 1 took to) sie mornings In the week we put up be- Rarer NU try te Ba atten lt tween 200 and $00 lunches, These lunches 2 felt very amug and properly humble! oan contain four sandwe and a plece of frult cake on ple, Very few of the girle ask for so much, As @ rule their drders call for two sandwiches, |double frult or etmply the sandwich and some sweet, We have special print ed alipa for ordering luncheon, on which ach «irl writes out her order the night \before, Of course where girl takes cher luneh tt saves her 0 cents a week jin carfare, ‘That means $1 tn @ year 1A careful girl can get a durable, stylish street sult, with hat, gloves and shoes, ‘tor that amount, Many of our guei walk back and forth to thelr busine | We are only about a mile from the On Eight GIRL can live Somfortably and dress neatly on $8 a week. So declares Mra. Alec Teele, superintendent of Boston's fa- mous Franklin Square House, where working girls board on @ som what unique plan, “Of course, the «irl must be careful and she should also be willing to do her own laundry work,” says Mra. Teele in the Boston Herald, “Girls who are carning less than #10 a week can get room and board here for #4. That In- cludes three hot meals if she ts able to come home for lunch, If her work does she can take her luncheon with her. Forewarned Is Forearmed. Letters from the People “15 Conte fee 11 Miaetes.” of ane cont a minute, That te ads lutety eaay tm divide, Let a elxeminute tale cost alm cents and an ‘eneminute talk cost 11 centa, What do you say, reasere? C.J, LOUBLE JR, oe Dare of Gra a World reform and @ very needed ene, At prea, ant, local telephone rates are five cents ter five avtmutes, That te all right, No BUT, if we talk ow he old and tim Rered custom of allowing ‘three da: of @race’ at the expiration of a notes form ja no jonger permitted in New Yoru? 2 have heard oo, but I can ‘ hardly believe It, OLD TIMER, fam't just. | The law allowing three days of gra: 4 the mete has been repented in New York, minutes costs 18 come, They change ug 18 cents for eleven minutes’ talk business part of Boston watke to her work saves another §8 a year, | “After paying for her room and boant and allowing her $150 a year for clothes, if ahe walks to her work she will have letween #0 and $70 to do with she thrifty: girl u pleanes tat least some in @ mavings dank Some of t are #0 ton keeping [up thetr tank account that they formet ve |to pay thelr board When they come and tell me that \they are going to a party or to the theatre 1 awk when they will be back If they eay 1 o'clock T ask them to “1 wonder you've never thought of! make aun 1s not half-past TI re marrying.” * mind them that Iam ‘mother! ‘Then have, That'e why | etayed 1 tell ths night watchman to keep a " Jookout and report to me just when jeln aa OOS Such Is Life! 3% (-#e82. How to Live and Dress not permit her to be away eo long then | The girl who! ) & York World DISGUSTING | REVOLTING! (The New York Work.) call ME UP, I hope!" ‘ombut don't you see that you're gradually getting into the same habit? Here e had one hundred and twenty-two calls this month and I'H be willing to wager that not twenty of them have been necessary!’ “I'm not nearly as bad wome of my friends!” I expostulated. “Mrs, Burton just sits and thinks whom to call p all day long. And Mrs, Jones" — | Ted interrupted eterniy: “It's not ike you, Joan, to drag in other people to excuse yourself, ize that you haven't yet developed tele. Yollars a Week jthey met in, It doesn't happen once a }month that a girl staye out five min- |utes later than ale promises me. When |it does aw a rule they come the next day to explain, They don't know that the night watchman has already told, me. So far aa the older women are | concerned I feel they can look out for \themselves, If they are not the right | |sort they soon leave or they change. | “Mut to go back to the living ware | \for girls, I should de inclined to put |it w* $10 a weel, Then a girl could live in the Iranklin Square Hotel com- fortably, dress neatly, have cnougs for reasonable pleasure and a dollar {or so a week for the savings bani. | |For girls getting $10 and under we open the laundry three times a week. Besides thia th y share with all our guests the use of a pressing room every woek day from 7 in the morn- ing until 10 at night. Besides we have & sowing machine which is kept in} good order and which any guest can get the use of by asking for the key, All of these help the thrifty girl. “When people talk about the {mpossi- MMiity of giving working girls @ good | home at $4.% a week for three meals and comfortable, well furnished rooms, I know they are mistaken, We have @| great many rooma which rent for more, 1s $3 a weok for all perma- Some of our rooma have! baths, Of course such rooms | ng 96 and over for room without) voant, The #425 rooms are reserved the girl who {= earning less than % | | "Phe ttle extras, euch as buying | books, subscriving to the magazines, painting the corridors and red ating | the rooms, are done by extra fund earned in the house, T give little| charging more than 15 cents candy and given to me by frien |to wet monoy, for It gives the girls | what they would buy elsewhere, No- body has to buy or attend the enter- talnments, Tt is just as suits the! fancy, They can bring friends, come alone or stay awa: It enables me to keep the houre fresh and clean as any hotel in t rning @ low wage ho nga’ | 5 good way | rvening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, Jan By phon-itis in Its most virutent form—bu, you've understand me, T'm no! REAL your di the tel the bill, degenerate into @ telephone-flend who makes bie," ‘Som jte talk to some one,” I ventured. “But Treal- sation while you're supporting yourself first on one foot then on the other, and your ai alyzed, lonesome. someth' Bo out.’ John Quincy Adame Palghat? “ese fleld and McKinley, was the eon of Joha musante 16) Be” eke Washington, the firat President, was Benjamin thetlc. Inaugurated Apri , 178. The ceremony Harrison the grand- “Now don't sigh f wan delayed soveral days while Congress son of William Hen- as though you the Chief Magis <> ry Harnson, were a ahining ex- His einta has furnished the birthpiaces ample of a perfect- ly good martyr, you bal &@ matter of fa you're spoiled, and you're going to be| dential eleotore on the firat Tucaiay|and Verngont one each, right alongs tf you'll + mo one Retain + —o thing.” “What? ig ny Fz By Maurice Ketten Alma Woodward! le A FINANCIERETTE, MRS. JARR IS NOW | | 66 TQOSITIVELY, my dears." sald Business Women's Association , at success, TI have dozens and of requests by letter and tele- from women who are Just crazy embers,"* This declaration was made by Stryver in her own nished drawing room, To make {t look business-like, Stryver had, as the centre of attraction, | is & roll-top desk, ‘This was open and tea |'® furniture trom. was being served from ét.| lianiaees aie Vern: oss aah ine UAT Se doubt, but tt's too bad she isn't here, | A waste-paper basket with @ Low of/ sag Airs. Stryver. “She has so many ink ribbon tied’ to it alae added bust- edt planes he sXoukin't be too busy to come to business meeting,” said Mrs. Ransie. “She sold me a pyrographic or burned wood and leather outfit this mornin aid she'd be around without fall. “Maybe she's failed,” remarked Mra. Mra, Rangie, “She promised tt to me."” “It any one Is to get It I'm the one,” said Mrs. Jarr. “The flat is next to mine. My mad, Gertrude, has been showing It to those who called In re- Igponse to the advertisements, And then, Mra. too, Miss Flint has been taking ler meals tion, | With me #inee she hired the fat to sell Mrs. | handsomely fur- @ great idea for anothe: |practical use of the Association, | |Stryver went on, after nodding an “Peont ‘ smiling to Mrs. Jafr, to signify she pi oo ee ee agreed with the latter that the Harlem, |Businesa Women's Association should be kept exclusive. “My husband suggets that we could all order coal togethen nd thus get the wholesale discount.” This proposition fell on dull ears. All the others present lived in apartment |houses and only pald for coal when they paid for rent, “Couldn't we get gas for cooking at wholesale rates?" askel Mrs. Rangle. “T haven't a coal range and our flat The tyNewriter she sold me is a pel fect dear, and she sold me a costume yPewrlte in, It has the lovetiest Jace apron with It, and the cutest cap with a black silk bow!" gushed M Iridge-Smith, there's an old lady outside with a shawl. ys her name's Cranberry,” announced the servant in a loud whis+ per, “Says she has something to teil all the ladies,” “It must be Mrs, Dusgenderry,” said js steam heated, or rather It ts supposed ges, Jaye, ito be steam heated.” And s0 it proved. At the recollection of how cold theif) «1 thougut I'd jest run around to tell partments had heen during the recent | you all that the wonan who has Id snap all present, save Mrs.“ selling you things is going to Chi Atryver, shivered. But even as they satd old Mrs, Dusen T saw the shivered they cried “Yes! Yes!" to moving vans taking out the furniture, Mrs. Rangle's suggction, and IT went up the street to sce what But Mrs. Stryver, who was chalr-lady was going and she told me she had of the convention, used a coal range In sold the furniture at a jood price to a her kitchen, and her hous was Mehted newly married couple moving to the country, oal at wholeeale rates! “And she sent her regards, as | but you know how the gas company ts," | w s giving up b |he said. and was going to Califor | AML present knew how the gas com- 1 xe!] privileges at ihe P: pany was. And business discusste position, And she sold y jlulled a bit while the tea and asked me \ vat about sions were passed around. Then the telephone had promis«d to say to you that rang and Mrs. Stryver returned from {t so to announce that Mies Flint was too busy to come to the meeting, as she had 1 she had forgotten abo dvised you all to‘forget It, t it what will we do with all the Just disposed of the furnishing of the | Business Won costumes she's sold flat she had fitted out for that purpos us?” asked Mrs, Jarr “She IS a business woman!" orted Mre Ti ¢ what!" cried Mrs. Mude |Mudritge-Smith. ‘I'm to get 10 per cent. ridge-Smith. “Let us hold a Business of what she makes because I told every- | Woman's costume party at Mrs. Strye body I know of the beautiful furnishings of flat.” Splend erled the rest. “No, I'm to get the 19 per cent.” said! And tt Little Chapiers on the Presideiis. I.— Rlection and Inauguration, 'N American politics 1912 {s known as a Presidential year, becauso on Nov. 5 electors will be cho- fi sen who will namo the Chief after the first Monday in November—an on time which New York was the fate to Nx—the electors do not cast their vatlots for President and Vice Magistrate of the United States! President til the second Monday of the for the term beginning March 4, 118, | following Janun-y, , Upto date, in thir-| With Washington's second term Marek @® tY-ono terms, twen-/4 becanie Inauguration Day and hae @® Gj) ty-as afferent men remained, excopt that, the date falling have held the office on Sunday in 1821, 189 and 1877, Monroe of President, Inthe for his second term, and Taylor wer same period there inaugurated on Monday, March @ an@ have been twonty- Hayes on Saturday, March & seven different men! Was n'a first Inauguration was @@ ta the Vioe-Presi-| New York, his second at Philadephia, Jefferson Was the firat Proaident inauga> rated ot Washington, Just a step to go. Don’t mia- I'm not belng cranky. |i§ t being penurious. If you have things to say you may spend jays and nights, !f you wish, at lephone—and I'll cheerfully pay But I do NOT nt you to the lives of her friends mi: etimes I get lonesome and want surely twenty minutes conver- donoy. Five Vice-Preaidonte—Tyler, Fillmore, q Johnron, Arthur and Roosevelt—have Isn't going to cure you of being! guoceeted to the higher oMoe on the ne, When you're lonely An4| contha of as many Preaidents—Wii ing to do—something to read—or | rtenry Iarrison, Taylor, Lincoln, Gare rm is becoming partially par- In only two cages has the Presideney followed the family, ‘His Highness’ or the tke, 14 was decided that he should bo amply “the Preaident of the United States." While the people vote for the Presi- of aevers Presidenta, Ohio of alx, New York of ‘three, North Carolina of thre Massachusetts of tre; Kentucky, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania dikid! A ¢ you'll be to teles Phonte hysteria from now on, You gee, most women are becoming v! tims and T want you to be different é from most women, dear, because you happen to belong to me! Will youl gg QQMBAKING of lost dogs," ealt the fancter And ao I've phoned only three times} jin two dave twice to Ted! insula eta a I Want You, Little Woman! ] WANT yu; Ilttle woman, when the b! au lo get the And the bullding shadows stretch | 2it,t2 its fiat slabe to ett ee ea them: the City Park, | "rhete stood my dog wtih the pa Evei 1 want der rete me that the © once to the grocer and| | with my family, aod woudd retrieve anit , carry and all that part of thing at the slightest an “2 mourned hie tom for a half day, honteg he would etray beok, and they went dowstown and mit an ad in the paper, The next mornt 8s ng ant pert Chervet] nee ae follows; 4 your flab weight” “I @idn't hare eo hay erates with nat ae vith me, you mut, ue Is growing dark, Hed Bim oun tt lowered the lane y day {8 weary and goes ead on the bosom of the ning in the, West, | I if A Golfing Hardship, OU'VE KiIAt one pe" wy lie Longirive looked up. aa the | | wv of wtvangry women fill aerom t you little, woman, when I wan- down hte 0 To the sea-wall at the Battery—tho| * iaed are of one here, adenry le wed strike fre ‘Umes ehalaa +% “ eve Naan't been . been _ birthplace of the Sowa) Pe mesties, ‘Tree, wero ep Introuced to wi Oa eee Where the white waves and the war- ena I wouiti’t know tech M1 enw them, gng getting it Inte ships tn a dreary monotone tenure 700, T= sinted the angry smeecent four thmce [tn Mumur. “Where | »| Yep ronaeies,"* stormy 4 time he mlaset the uur, “Where te she, thy Lady, why | san, ‘ant to mal b want halt ® el® hainmer om the ewtogh around slipped oud of Pat's Wat Feu Bene Gemrgee out of you, aud IT ace that T Get Hs hand and flew right Spin of the amithy doorway, 1 “P found ove of your and jomed MM rt PAL aa ho watched the disap: 1 want you, Ittle woman, when the city ar one of may binls for | pearing hammor, "1 thought | might have missed lamps are Iit | aaa eteainti araiveced. tis, woman, | te anrd, but I aida\t think T could have missed And I see a happy couple where we} Me Gia of isoken “oart, (hiuking i one den, wero went to sit, ranted ‘er to lay a crinkly ogg!" —Anewore Con eRe Ppa r4 , | —-—_—>——_ And T lock my love within me ard I Fixing (the Date, wander home to sleep Negative Young Woman, | ¢.p 7 Arto, soncar salt mien, “are Where a may ptay at ch Od WN the Iteasy of the Rittenhouse Club @ group ug any thlihe special tommorrow night I t hloot was disciming the plight of jo, old oma," replied Jones, "I'm re (aes an ta 0 es the 4 BF S98, lata him mee ete their rumber who wae in Jove with & not booka! Frank Butler, in Philade'pnta Record. gq Sing young woman who lives 1a, the fas)lo "What about the day after?” aalred pseu eal, ran i "Nothing on," qnowsred donee, [oon thet never marry Samm; 8,4 skipper,” OUR EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE,| ON shal! never mary Sans Aceh ‘j know you're all wah, on Prilay U'm Jafreld tm dining with the Croakers|"* rr sit ye ~ Sn’ ait | 8 ree What makor } "Wileas my soul, tut what a bir! ‘© yee; 1f you aay ao, I reckon I'm ail & ee ron he wile, ne mene Saith dumpolutedy "1 CAM hie Le wrong, al) rigt.""—Chicago Tribune | ‘Prevedest, pou know, She never Fownd on Sriday for a Gaack with me a ‘ i