The evening world. Newspaper, July 2, 1912, Page 14

BSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Pwblished Daily Except by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 68 to 4 ean Row. New York i 4 d ¢ irk Row. PUL STERN, President, ¢8 Par Poy! IAW, Treasurer, yornen PULATUI dna mecretary, 08 Park Row, t.Office @ bo Gecond.Clana Matter. ine | Yor Bineland end the Continent amd All Countries 5 Lect Pos' ames 09.78 VOLUME 58. ccccc es eceeeceee ee ceeeseeeee cesses Ne 18,577 DECLARE WAR! HE Boy Scouts are going to form themselves into an army to save the trees and shrubs of America from insects and disease. Gifford Pinchot, former United States Forester, is helping the boys to prepare a manual describing tree diseases and how to ij them. | “Among the most destructive insects,” eays one of the leaders! of the movement, “must be enumerated the barklice or scale insects, | Plantlice, woodbores, codling moths, San Jose scale, tent caterpillars, cankerworms, tussuck moths, leafmining beetles, gall-forming insects, ehinch bugs,” and a few others, Among the most destructive insects in this town will have to be| enumerated the smallboy marpest, the picnicparty lawnblighter and the innumerable species of parktrampler. Why don’t the Boy Scouts of America muster a battalion to carry on an all summer campaign right here in the Valley of the City of New York not only to save trees and shrubs, but alao to keep lawns and paths and flowerbeds in the parks from being used as dumps for papers and luncheon scraps? Complaints about tite disfigured and dishevelled condition of. Central Park are more and more frequent as the season advances. The sparrow cops ate no more. The regular police either cannot or will not help matters. Why not form a local army of Boy Scouts and volunteers to fight a great fight this year for the rescue of our downtrodden parks? fan enanacneeen tome SONGS WITHOUT SINGING, TOO? IANOLESS piano playing is the latest hope for a suffering world. A talented young Frenchwoman, a pianist, has just made the startling discovery that the piano may be played The Evening World most soulfully without any piano at all! How? Well, you put your hands together in a certain way. Then, ae if striking a piano note, you make the forefinger of one hand exert acertain pressure on the other hand. That is ©. With a middle finger you press E flat. And 60 on. After you have practised scales and exercises in this way for a while you enjoy the sensation images of these finger notes in your brain without desiring any outside sounds whatever. Presently you find-you can play yourself sonatas or rhapsodies or ragtime literally with folded hands. ‘ The possible benefits of this finger music are overpowering. In the first place, what joy for the neighbors! After dinner “the young lady with the wonderful musical gift” can be urged “to play some- thing”—not on the piano but on the fingers, which is 60 much more marvellous! How delicious to hear your flancee interpret Beethoven just by holding hands! And instead of piano tuners—manicurists! ctl termite teisietonsio ; BANANA PEELS, HE Civic Righteousness Movement, which hopes to form a T numbér of Civic Righteousness Clubs throughout the city, be- gine bravely with principles and. definitions. One of the founders defines the difference between being good and being right- eous: “A good man merely makes a point of not throwing banana peels upon the sidewalk. A righteous man, on the other hand, goes to the extent af always picking up the banana pecls and reproving those who throw ¢hem there. Mere goodness has ndver prevented bad government, ‘Righteousness, which’ is goodness plus efficiency, is what this city needs.” If only municipal banana peels weren't bolted to the pavement and fenced in with cast iron and padlocks! And there's so seldom anybody in sight to tgprove! ob Nature Notes DAVIS'S new gas} bloom, beautifying the embanimente houseboat, the Alogy, is a fre-|and making the walls and ledges gay quent visitor tn our harbor.| with Mossome, In time perhaps city Hartley says the word means} folke will ride over the road in June an Unreasonable Proposition,|to aee the flower show, It la worth which is true of mort motor boats, looking at now. they will go sometimes and Leeda el _- not, though nobody can tell why. Ld one is 90 big the draw tian to be opened | Prien ae Pie i! fn the bridge to let it come in after other day, we noted a citizen Gheoline. It fe & Proud slgt to | sicking up one of the fithy back yards Martley on the peop deck giving orders ty viking up tin cana which’ bad While Mr. Mellen elev: the"obstrue lien thrown from the windews. At tien. 1 Brat We shoumne it might be the editor x — of The Item making good, AVING mixed up the Post rand | toop-shouldered, ana eed barieee for some twenty month quite bald with his hat off and was weal men arnan hae ahut It shiny about the elbows and knees of his Teo cwes again, thereny |PARt®, Which marks ofitore in the coun sending our cttisens and others miles‘! they often having to take clothes for advertising and not getting much. ims of tho way if they wish (0 £0 101 0. second thought, though, we | . I» guess it yooh liad they often do, it being *) W445 junkman, ae he was putting th BD cis the Progressiva. murs ("04 1 © derre) row rulers, which includes the trolley baud company, have torn up all the streets REBN PEAS are tn ck 00 It watste to! ( yg among our citizens, Soine had | them as early as June 18, which 'e pretty soon for peas, It used to be brag to have green peas and new potatoes from the garden on July 4, when our city relations came out for dinner and the little b burnt them- selves with firecrackers and fell into the pond, scaring thelr mothers und getting epanked amid tears. Now gar- dene are more specdy than of E, 8, Poucher picked two by sh his patch the other day, We mention our early green peas to let Farmer Fu\e lerton over at Medford know that he len't the only Granger on the job, vomue now ome has said that groat.inventions co) @iong when needed, and this perhaps explains the flying machine, which is now tho only meane left for getting bbout, Even this would need careful Mavigating not to hit tho Congrega- tonaliat Chureh steeple, has two watering carts going to and fro over the part of the post road being rebuilt to keep it from 0 he will know where yore, that te not diow! 0 @ Gay for the eprinkiers, me more’than the whole road VIDENTLY fe worth, iE catching ME! Fred Lyon ts tho mosquitoes not s the — him w, We Board of Trade told Copyright, 1912, by The Prem Publishing Ca, (The'New York World), ee Who's here!" ried Mr. Jarr, who happened to be gas- ing out of the window and down the street (in the direction of Gua's place, according to Mrs, Jarr). ‘The children rushed to the window in the hope it might be @ circus parade, ® push cart man with {ice cream, or something of real interest. “It'e Uncle Henry!" Mr, Jarr went on, D Homesick! aily Magazine, od ping Ope TF ( Copynint, 1912, BUY? by The Prent Padilading Oo. Fs ERR (The New York World) Pe conte, nana ped Mai “how much has!” The ilttle yell and ki Fro 7—THE Boy. His tone was surprised but not Joy- ous. “Run down and meet him, children!” exclaimed Mrs. Jarr, who was crossini the room to ee, “I feel sure he's come to town to take ws all for a good long Wait to his farm!" ‘The prospective excursion to Arcadi delights made no great appeal to the Jarr offapring. Little Mies Jarr tuck out ber tongue in derision at the idea nd Master Jarr frowned sulkily. “I'd rather stay in town and seo the movies,” declared Master Jarr, By this time Uncle Henry had arrived in the doorway. He removed a large handkerchief from around his neck (dia closing the fact that he was collarles: mopped his face with the kercnlef and declared he was “plumb tuckered out?" “Howdy, Ed! Howdy Clara!" he con- tinued, “Glad to see you! young varmints?" This last was a playful avuncular al- luston to the Jarr children, and, to em- Reformer’s Fate. | | “When he denounced the tru How'e the! “WV the aly fact, the rural visitor ter Jarr by the ears and * Uncle Henry explained, pluck the little skeezicks ekeezicks emitted a horrible joked his venerable relative RAN Rann nse nnn > The Conquests rs 4\ BALTIMORE AHAAAAAKASHFAMAAASABALAAAABANS AA SAAS Mr. Jarr’s Suburban Uncle Returns to Darkest Harlem KRO PRR REP PPP EP rrr eee ee eee oe | vigcrously in the shins. | When I was a youngster I was raised “Qh, uncle, you mutin't do that!" | to respect my elders, As for them Child cried Mra. Jarr. “Che Child's Welfare Welfuro Societies, let ‘em mind thelr Soclety has issued a pamphlet pointing own business, Hain't they trying to out the danger of l!fting children by the pi Sa law to prevent parents living off cars. It ruptures the ligaments and the honest earnings of thelr own chil- of hearing!” jdren tn the coal mines and cotton fac- 1" retorted Uncle Henry, | tories? “He's taken the bark off my shin “What's to be did vith young ones? — Raisin’ them tn fdleness and fillin’ thetr wwe heads with foolish book larnin'! Thay ought to be out in the fields at sunup, bugwing the ‘tater vines. Look at me! T hain't got the gift of gab, but I could fo Into the hall of Congress and tatk to them hirelings of Wall Of Constance} 22%. (SWITCHBOARD OP. By Alma Woodward are you goin, vacation?" Phone Maid, “Oh, as soon as the other girl gets over the on your asked the She's a scream: looks ike a pin- cushion red wrong!" “Where are you goin tal “Mountains? Not on your tint I was stung by the mountains three years hand running an’ usually I ain't stung more'n once in the same nelghborhood, poon anyth’ postals af | the thing the city to sunaner m jin the ci way the your neck | stuck to a | flies moon, an rooms an’ “Did you quests at “Oh, yes, \ like he ca bit all the ambition out All you remember 1s the mush and the Me wuz twenty an’ » * teket nore any different?” “Sure, At the seashore you get such a variety. Maybe they only stay a week, but a Week's loads of time to har- ing that looks promising; an’ | then you just suffocate ‘em with pleture v they leave to sort at keep mering till you get back to fight it to a finish, “An’ say, when you're talking over|Then T went vries, on cold winter nights » You forget all about tne Sunburn on the back of made It feel ike it wa stove Id an’ how the ma a’ yout 1€ you put the right favor of soft music in your voice it’s suro good fer a round trip ticket bath an’ @ go-cart!"* ever meet any of the :0n- the seashore’ a couple. O1 to five the Boy. always looked amps. | Y'ought to wee her, | what's! 2 Moun-| ERATOR AT THE HOTEL RICH.) “What sood Is education?” continued | Uncle Henry, excitedly. “The young- sters of to-day learn thelr A B abs and then they are apiled for honest work. w the good of 'rithmetic? It only ws your hired man that you are an’ he could beat everything in aight} |at tennis, Ie loved to show off when cheating him, as he #ays, out of half T wuz around and when he'd ‘icke] his wages, And he quits you right in the other feller look at me Just) harvest!" j 48 quick ae anything to see if ¥ WU4) go> saying, Uncle Henry removed his glad.” a linen duster and his hat and pushed his ‘And were you? battered old telescope valise under the “Yes, ¥ was. He was so lovely and! sora with a kick and declared if dinner Bentle! An’ say, he Just worshipped, was ready ITE -vas. the ground under my tootsles! He used} sjrow'y everything at the farm? jte Kiss the tips o my fingers an’ put! prow's Aunt Hetty?’ asked Mrs. Jarr the inside of my hand against his face wien the visitor had ccased his come an’ sit that way fer hours, just sayin’ | patnings swee| things. Never rough houve, . ’ fhe / | “She ain't nothin but sick, elck, stek, |y'know! An’ he didn’t smoke nor @rink, | ang complainin’ all the time, until T Just so his Ups were soft an’ clean had to come away for my health!" plied Uncle Henry. “I'll tell you what,” he added, “it's all ba 19 ', an’ his teeth just like pearla” | Why did you give him up? Yh, first, because I knew | all the | sir! When you go to the mountains Haat she hatals wus tpallin’ we a} due to wimmen Lied in the face of | you pay about a million doilars fare Ale robrer! An’, anyway, he couldn't | Ratu” theso da ey pamper them: Ket theres then the place you a got hitched fer four or five years, |Seve# so, and want hired gals to do {8 always ten or fifteen miles from te ee eee ee eer ante: tikee that caunty| work while they sit around not liftin’ jsetting-off place, and when you finally | na, in yooks, but not when you're|* hand, that they live too long. It | Put your talcum and cold cream on the | 00° cone peda! uster be that wimmen washed and | washstand you find out that there's only |TINVI0\ ser Deally away fer six a week. | waked and ecrubbed and cooked, afd Ithree delicate and doughless daredevila | Just waitin’ fer a permanent meal] 2 Ooo it eo and worked in lto go ‘round ‘mong twenty trisky,|tcket! But !t broke me all up to give a Bas th tan bank Goan tines acace |iniddy-bloused candidates fer the ‘love, {Mm the shake—honest! ‘ “1 cried a whole night an’ 1 looked |!!! sundown, i like Sam Hill In the morning, too, Gee,| “IM Consequence, at forty they was ft wuz awful sad! T wont up to him|M wimmen and died, naturally; and an’ T said; ‘Honey boy, start your tod-|% Man got another wife, another good, dlere movin'—I got yer gait an’ it}#tout, willin’ woman, and started tn "t lay in my direction! Goodpy,|®Kaln taking up more land and payin’ off another mortgage. But nowaday * ittin’ at thel in rockin “An' y'know he went as white as any-| What with s! t thing an’ crumpled up alt in a heap| cheers and buyin’ store clothes and ‘ike on the sand, Oh, it wus flerce!/ Canned goods, wimmen have it too easy to bed an’ cried Ike a| nd lves beyond thetr natural span of wink! ite!" ages ia fe do “T guess you teved him a little bit," Your firm, conservative jefe I sald, soft) you great credit,” said Mr. Jare. y and there| “Well, 1 haint braggin’ none about was a gentleness in the tons that had|them,” sald Uncle Henry in a grumbling never been there before, tone. “I don't complain none when I ———+ --— Inatnt feelizg peart. But what I do say AN OBJECTION, fs that sence Congress makes a law ‘agin patent medicines and they has to , you object tow Mi J omen. fn ‘9 in ‘em, they don't affect replied the statesman, “T put my faith tn the plain people. And no woman will consent to be classified as plain."—Washington Star, a nt @o me good. Wal, bere I am in town, anyway, to buy canned goods, as we fare going to give fresh country board \to you por tired city dwellers again me out of & bath tub, He HE IS RECKLESS. 11 suppose you kin give me authin’ to R, MEULEN erally the|met soveral the other nlght. They were! pobbery they put him out of busl-| wore whito flannol shirts that) wus iiftaken Wer | and & shake down fer a week or two path of the commuters with|gentieman mosquitoes, which do not|negs,” open at the neck-he had such @ ewset ‘all right, give me| And Mr. Jarr said he supposed th Foose, From Mount Vernon on'bite. The female of the species is the| “When | dengunued she umpire's neck, too! He used to do all the sums! gr 'appen, in the man who bas the could, and anyway he was pleased to the right of way was planted with pink one that pesters, as the poet sald, much | go) they put me out of the) mer stunts grand, He could swim jower notices my size and weight he'll|see his visit arrive in town once Gambleva, end wow these have come inte to fre annoyance Of the suffragettes. | grounds.” |farteer an’ row longer than any one, pe giad to exchange.—Boston Transcript, | without wearing @ eolled collar, es iA 5 ’ ‘ ls and my bitters don't seem to| tuesday, july 2, | tT 1912 Coprright, 1912, by Tho Prem Publishing Co, (The New Yorh World), | ian vigilance és the price of bachelorhood. Some men are born pessimists, marry literary women, jome acquire pessimism, and some In the love-game every man is a Mahomet, and every woman may take pattern by the wise old mountain tf she wishes to bring him trotting to her feet, A lovers’ spat vefore marriage no more resembics a husband's grough before breakfast than @ bubbling tea-kettle resembles a storm at sea. i You may write homilics on “the correct age at which to marry” unt your pen breaks; but girls will go right on marrying when they fall in love and can manage it, and men when they fall into a trap and can’t escape it, A business girl makes the most comfortable sort of a wife because she is afflicted with vo illusions about the mascujine sex for her husband to Jive up to, It 18 strange how delicate a man feels about marrying a woman with @ doubtful past, considering that there is never any doubt at ett about his own past, An observant girl can learn more about the genus man in one weck ata boarding-house breakfast table than in ten wears of dratcing-room intercouree, Nothing frightens a man like a tcoman's stony silence. Somehow, tn spite of his lack of instinct, he has a premonition that her love is dead when she is too weary and disinterested to “answer back.” How to Provide For Old Age. By Mies M. Dawson. ‘Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). No. 8—General Schemes of Old Age Pensions. HE idea of providing for the old age of all wage-earners by means of compulsory contributions upon them exclusively or supplemented by contributions of the State or employers or both ts not new. All gen- eral oldeage pension schemes originally took this form, the notion being that such should be provided by accumulations of savings and that the thing !s to cause workingmen to save by requiring it and at the same ring special inducements, ‘The basis of all such plans was that for each workman who survived to off age there should be accumulated a sum sufficient to supply a specified annuity for the rest of his life. ‘This was first brought forward in Great Britain more than a century ago by the famous Dr. Price, author of the Northampton mortality table, who urged ft, In season and out of season. His work was supplemented by Raron Maseres, who prepared very elaborate tables, showing how, in his opinion, it could be worked out. Nothing came of it, however, No attempt really w: or in any of her dependencies to provide for the old ot workingmen by a general compulsory system. While some employers have required their employees to make such provision as @ condition to employment, no Government hae sought to enforce such contributions by workingmen generally, When the time came to do something, this plan was ao Mttl the British voters that it was discarded for stratght-cut old who, upon reaching the age of seventy, were found to property sufficient to afford a bare support. No such plan was adopted in any other country until 1910, when the French Parliament enacted a law requiring both workmen and employers to contribute to accumulate funds to supply the survivors of contributing work- men, a provision for old age. Long before this, viz., 18M, Germany introduced « compulsory old-age pension system for w 2 generahy, This system, however, 1s what 1s known erage premium,” which will be more fully described Iater in this series of article not a mere accumwation method, to purchase for each survivor his individual annuity. Something of a simtiar nature, however, to the plan adopted in France, wav introduced in Austria in 1909. It applies only to staff or office employees, !. @, receiving salartes as distinguished from wages. Both this limited Austrian plan and the general Franch plan provide for total and permanent disability as well as old age. In France, the only country that has so far undertaken this form of com- Pulston on a general scale, this provision was offered as a supplement to the legislation of 186, which gives a straight-out old-age pension to all who reach the age of seventy without a certain income, named in the act, or who, similarly without income, become totally and permanently disabled before reaching that age. This pension ts supplied partly from revenues of churoh properties taken over when the Catholic orders were expelied from France and since admintatered by the State for charitable purposes and partly from general taxes, It will be seen, therefore, that the later French act, providing for compweory contributions to supply annuities to the surviving contributors during old age, does not stand alone. If such a plan were introduced alone, it would leave ell those who are now old without provision, an@ would make very inadequate pro- vision for those who are now approaching old age and whose perlod of contribu- tion would be short, It woud be about two gen 1. @, about seventy years, before general rellef would be afforded, It ts this more than all else which has rendered this plan unacceptable a8 a solution of the problem, itself has not usually been considered until there was much, rec what {s needed 1s something which will at once meet the ° companied by a plan for doing this, no method of making provision for the eld age of those who are now young, can be acceptable. ‘A good filustration of this is furnished by the plans, now under consideration, for retirement pensions for United States civil service employees. The pan most favored by tlre authorities and in Congress (largely upon the basis, perhaps m! taken, that the people of the United States would not consent to straight-out service pensions) is to require each employee to contribute enough so that, after the plan has been in effect for two generations, {t would supply every superan- nuated civil service employee a reasonable pension, purchased by the acoumula- tion of his own contribution. This, however, would not meet the conditions at all; for the reason that attention {8 being given to the problem is the plight of emplo} who are now old and the approaching plight of employees who aro now nearing old age. Therefore, those who advocate this plan on principle hid to combine with it a scheme of supplementary straight-out civil service pensions, paid out of the public treasury, for those who are now old 2nd those who will hereafter reach old age, without having made an accumulation of thelr contri- butions large enough to supply their own pensions. It will be observed that the French conditions, as regards all workingmen, are precisely the same in character; and this was also there resorted to, It ts reported that French workingmen are go resisting the collection of th contributions that the law will prove a failure, The “syndicates” or labor untons, in addition to opposing contributions altogether, are especialy bitter against paying In large amounts to be accumulated, instead of meroly assessments trom time to time of enough to meet the current pension payments, Whether their opposition and criticisms will result in the abandonment or modification of the { plan remains to be seen, ‘A Norwegian commission, composed of leading experts, has recently nade voluminous and thorough report upon old-age pensions, with a recommend: tlon that @ plan of compulsory contributions by employers and employees, plemented by State contributions, be instituted, his accumulation to be applied, as a contributing workman reaches @ specified age, to supply an annulty for the rest of his life. The report Is accompanied by an elaborate set of tables, by means of which carefully prepared estimates of costs and seaulte have been mad ‘The system proposed would furnish relief from old age dependency very gradually, ¢@., only as the contributors themselves reach old age and, in- deed, only as such of them reach old age, who will have by that time contrib. uted an amount that, supplemented by the contributions of employers and the State, will be sufficient to provide for their old age. These facts of course have not failed to be observed; and at this time there seems to be no probability that the recommendations of the committee will be ac- ceptable to the Norwegian Storthing, Instead, the choice appears to lie between @ system of straight-out old age pensions, euch as in Denmark, and @ system of compulsory contribution om the ‘average premium” plan, such as in Germany, made tn Gi Britain to the Iking of @ pensions for all be without income or . ’