The evening world. Newspaper, July 16, 1912, Page 14

{ ij ’ ing World Daily Magaz ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, ishing Company, Nos, 69 to Paice! Dany eoept Bunter by the Freee Publishing Company, RALPH SP UIZAEM, Precieen J, ANGUS BHAW, JOREPH PULITZER, at the Post-Omlce at New York as @econd-Class Matte: to The ng |For England ) and the Contt the United States Canada. it, 63 Park Row, , 68 Park Row, Jn, Secretary, 8 Park Row. | | ni All Countries in the International _, Postal Union. 80] One © Tear. ‘S0|One Month...... woseess 83. rer) THE INEVITABLE. HE Interstate Commerce Commission and its work have never some 80 close to the ken of the average citizen as in the pro: posed reduction of express rates. An average 15 per cent ent in charges for carrying express parcels means something to every beat In the case of smaller packages many of the reductions arc Greater than 15 per cent. That the cost of sending » ten- pound percel from this city to Boston will drop from the present forty five cents to twenty-eight cents is of interest to thousands. The new soste particularly favors the sender of small packages. The Interstate Commerce Commission has worked hard over theese express charges. It hns had to examine the 600,000,000 rates in the complicated all-the-traffic-will-bear schedules maintained by the companies to date. The Commission has plotted the entire coun try into a system of blocks with uniform rates to hold between cities tm one block and all cities in any other given block. The sender can Beadily sce for himself exactly what he has to pay. The Commission expects the new rates to put the farmer in More direct communication with the city household, cut out the middleman and 80 reduce the cost of living. Let us not lose sight, however, of the real cause of this solicitude about express rates. The shadow of an impending Parcels Post, the beginnings of which Congress has already provided, has startled both the Commission and the express companies into nervous action. A great and complete Parcels Post system in the United States is now bound to come and to come quickly. The express companies know it. And because they know it their arrogance is giving way, their protests next fall about the new rates are likely to be only formal, and the country is pretty sure to get the full, practical benefit of th: Commission’s work. G house keeper has charged a police lieutenant with “standing in” on the running of the place for 20 per cent. of the profits. The District-Attorney is going to investigate thoroughly the attitude of the Police Department toward gambling houses. Other cases of police protection are eure to be forthcoming. Gamblers are human. Those who have been tection and getting it are “stand patter Those who have paid for protection and not got it are in a grouchy and, 80 to speak, | “progressive” mood. ‘hey are liable to say things, They may bel useful to the investigators, : ; Gambling 1s a vice Far worse than any amount of gambling, however, is a state o things where privilege and protection are hought from public Pieri whom the people pay and trust to carry out the laws, TraMc iv privilege is the most dangerous and insidious of civic vices, Gambling and betting degrade and ruin many a citizen. The buying and selling of privilege through public ofiicers a. grade and discredit and dishonor the city itsclf. -+——___—_—. WORSE THAN GAMBLING. AMBLING graft is ripe for summer scandal. A gambling paying for pro , ———— ee ITY the poor little European dancer who fled from home to this country without being able to suppress the dreadful story that @ king kissed her, which, of course, will keep ’most every body ’round here from going to see her dance! Also the widow from the West who, since advertising for a husband and turning down fif- teen hundred applicants, is suffering from shyness! ers who, on breaking out of jail, left a reassuring note to the ——4-—____. F'’:: thoughtfulness and public spirit in those Maryland prisen- effect that they were convinced honesty is the best policy and ‘were teaving solely in order to lead better lives! j ° HE editor of the Greenwich run News has been sounding public opinion at Horseneck, which constets of Jim, Judge Burnes .. and Johnny Maher, and finds At unanimous in favor of the plan to build @ brick highway from Byram River to Hartford, and with a branch to New London, Jim promises to jHaven, and 0 on tater to Boston, we jCould get along without so much amoke, | [tapeclally as Mr. M.'s bows engineer said there wouldn't be any, as the latest de- vices for’ consuming nm would be employed, We have wondered before why {t was *c hard for @ raflroad to keep a pi se, Duay at Hartford when the new Legis- Jature meets next winter and put it! ory Ba threugh. Having shown the Butinskys| PODO® BRUSI'S corn te all tosseled how little they amount to, the Real SAE OES PAO nora on 1k wilh’ whisk . Poucher had some toreat | Mower will now exert itsel, Hooray! | fom nis ganion a week ago and kindly etmen to whom no- any attention when igns forbidding the dumping of rubbish under penaity that they will do something to the dumper, © Crawford, mention then @ave the nelghdors a mess, | ITE cnly spot of town-owned land left, a uittle Island down the ri I has been let to George Holes for twenty-one years, so there ts no place now where the boys can go to roast clams, fry . ball lobstera or do any of the things they use’ to do in happy days of y m-Jay government Su of the $00,000 Boy Scouts Decause they are oo seldom heard of that perhaps a litte publicity will en- eourage them slightly to wake up. HE funniest bug in our midst now T {8 what the boys call a tree-hop- per. It te shaped like a duck, but Mowhere near so large, and If a man ould jump as far in proportion to his size it would be easy to hop from here |toxether when he breaks himaelf falling | fover to Oyster Bay and surprise the jout of a cherry tree, rescuing other boys Colonel, when they get in over their heads where it fs wet and building @ fire so tt will boll water In a tin pat! with a hatchet And a plece of slabwood quicker than We MELLEN is erecting another amokestack at the power house, making three where there used to |the cook can do tt on a gas range, start- be only one to shed soft coal wmoke jing both cold, Once a Cos Cob boy ald! @'er the lande And spoll all tho [it tn seven and one-half minutes, which White paint in the vicinity, While it t»|is the auickest thing that ever bappened ® proud thing to feel that Cos Cob wil! here May 21, 18an, Réitor of Brening World: was Mondny. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: On what day of the week did Sop 4, 1908, fallg opened to De STEansHIP Such Is Life! & ¢ You KN t s Races ba 3 CER LANE . AYE ME A WEEK VACATION a eG bs A. Se WHY Don'T You Go To EEL RIVER. (TS THE FMEST PLACE ON THE MAP by The Press Publishing Co, New dork Worl 4 Mra, Rangle, “] we are not aisturbing Mr. looking: over toward the window where} Mr, Jarr was busy over some busines he's occupied that way, Mrs. Jar. meal One might as well de all alone as \0 have Mr. Jarr around. fm stuck In a hook or @ paper or whi One nearly suffocates In the closed ca ringes, and they move so slow! this big ratlroad as far as New| he's fixing up accounts or anything Ike | as New! that-hmma, don't poke your finger in| By the Sad Sea Waves. 1AM WAITING FoR ABOAT Td Go TFISH LAKE SSathe) ¥4 By Maurice Ketten (The New York W: ine 1AM WAITING FoR) ( DON'T Go THERE, V 4, Baw To Its faut oF ne MERER LAKE) | Golo CATFISH - LANE . IT'S FINE NO TRAIN ON SATURDAY, Sunday, HONDAY ok WEDNESDAY For Sucker LAKE ROTTEN Ptace. FULL OF SNAKES Gro To SARDINE LAKE IT'S WONDERFUL STEAMSHIP Ticnrets oo Far'MY BOVERI TWENTY MINUTES. Linow THe GREATEST LACE Td FISH, ONLY, IRTY MINUTES FROM BROAWAY C2 R.R Ticwers STEAMSHIP. ond black {come in full black with a heavy T suppore they wouldn't forgive you. ‘No, they w “So T think and regrets emarked Mrs, al is dreadfully hot to wear.” Jarr, “The Daggers and if you didn't 1 ouldn’t.”” it's bei and sa: aafd Mra, Rang'e. to send flowers afterward when you meet any of the Daggerys that you were Just so bear to Intrude upon thelr grie! “They fought Ike cat and dog, Prostrated you Mrs. Jarr, after a slight pause, neces- aitated by grabbing little M! in time to prevent her from secratch-| eack other, “I'm so glad you called in | ks Copsright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), AND hurry! Mra, Dress: sh! Mr. G, (tu repeating tht ing parrot! #0 hot for Mrs, G.—? Mr, G.—Oh, Indiana has usual stunt den and was out eatt @inners last 1 got ove! ourly)—Oh, per! doen It? diana produ thermometer’ Jbumisity to darned family, tomer, and Fletcher was going to do the | arr just Domestic Dialogues, by Alma 1T WORKED! t The apartment of the Grays, 545 YM. little Mary's eye!" ie: . (Me, Gray hurried, it the tment and ‘This last remark waa occasioned dy | git Gry, huviedly enters the apartment gn |Mttle Miss Jarr doing the very thing tw.) fn question, RS. G. (amazed)—Why, Henry, After little Miss Rangle'’s howls had what brings you home #o early? | mubsided (the while Mrs, Rangle al: Mr. G, (throwing his clothes to Mnded to her as “a cry baby, making a F winiay I gotta Ko out! fuss over every ttle thing,” and looking . G (rising Inflection,—Ou-ut? daggers at the tte Jarr girl while sie » bie richent odeseine ort, Mr, Grey bat sald It) Mra, Jarr remarked that It was sit the tie "sme ‘Sonnet, is Pane i oustal pe °, area nae there’ won't be many Mr. @. (picking up the debris—That's people at Mr. D: ery’s funeral,” sald What I sald! Now, don't you go an’ get} Bree Rangie In rely. “People ‘almply ,¢xcited. I'l} tell you all about tt white Will not go to funerals tn hot weather, |I'm dressing, Mra, G, (startled)—Dres—sing? Mr. G.—Get my dinner coat out and a| platted white shirt, Gee! Im tn a (breathless)—Dinner coat! rously)—Don't stand there nee after me like a bloom- Mrs. G, (mezzo forte)—But Henry, t's) Mr, G.—Don't I know it's hot? But | gotta go, anyway, a , some buyer from @ town that's behind @ tree out in Southern con.e on with his whole He's Fietcher's cus- for the yapa-dinner, roof supper afterward; but he e 0’ dozen sh night a: the booze he drowned ‘em in didn't work right, 90 he's got ptomaine poisoning to-da; take that bunch of Hoos! the cireutt! @. (clasping he hands raptur- Henry, isn't that grand? Dinner AND a roof garden AND sup- And tt doesn’t cost you @ cent, Mr, G.—They ought to pay me for It. Think o' being tied to @ group of In- 's for six hours when the at ninety-three and the @ miliion-apdiwol Say, guj PAu actor Mrs. Jarr Has a Cheering Chat, in Which Mr. Jarr Refuses to Join. ing the face of the v for the two little girls were having ® suppresned but none the less deadly struggle behind thelr respective mother's chairs, “Yer, they elther fought each other— regular hand to hand battles—or else they didn't speak to each other for months at a time,” Mrs, Rangle went on. “Of course, Mrs. Daggery. will create a acene at the grave—want to throw herself in. They always do that to show that though they may heve fought at times at heart they adored But sometimes { think It's “T wouldn't wonder," Mrs, Jarr @sreed, “My mother, who has sat by more death beds and gone to more tue nerals than any woman in Brooklyn, al- Ways used to look at her watch when the widow created @ scene, She s she never saw a case but what longer the widow carried on the sooner one married again.” ‘And {t's Just the same with the fren: ventured Mrs, Rangle. Sooner, generally,” ‘Do you think your mother goes to more funerals than Mra, Gabb does?” “You know Mra. ig and hides them in her pannters, She didn’t go to funer- als at all when tight skirts were in, but now that panniers ha’ come in again ehe is at it harder than ever. You can aiways tell somebody has re- cently passed away when you go to her house and find flowers on the tabi Woodward 1 fix my shirt will you? splits, {0 faden Into the distance to quent of Mrs, I can't find your| “Oh, mamma goes to twice dress links, Mr, G. (wildly)—Why can't you?| Jarr, ve known her to advise a Whero are they? Mrs, G, (calmly)—If 1 knew where they were I could find them, couldn't 1? | Mr, G, (violently)—Oh, for the love! of Mike, don't be Bo technical! Well, they gotta be found, that's all! Mrs, G. (giving the {mitation of @ ray of Joy)--Oh, I found ‘em there’ only one stud here, Do you know where you put the other one, Henry? Mr, G.—If there's one there the other | one must be too. I was perfectiy sober last time I wore ‘em, Mrs. G. (suddenly —Oh, I got™t! It) had slipped down in @ crack of the morning funeral for one friend and an afternoon funeral for another when It was an unhealthy season and two took place in one day. Then she'd slip un- ostentatiously from the cemetery and hurry back on @ trolley car in time to take a carriage to the afternoon funera Emme, why are you irying to bite your little friend's hand?” “It's my Mary'’a fault," sald Mra, Rangle, with an expression that belied her words, ‘She's such a tease! Mary, {t you don't behave when mamma take: you out to ha ppy visit with you Uttle friends I'll take you right hom: drawer, Naughty, naughty stud: “She's soratching me!” whimpered Mr, G, (wrestling with h.s drees trous-| the little visitor. ers)—Can It! CAN IT! It’ take less! ‘ghe's making faces at me!” cried than a line of talk Ike that to turn|ittie Mise Jarr. my brain the way I feel right now. jow you two children go qut in the Say, where do you have these collars/dining-room and play nicely tog done up? At @ lumber mill? advised Mra, Jarr, ‘I think 4 (He glances at bis better half who ts stemaing | weather that makes them fretful,"”” she beg ig holding his coat.) why ho von aa added, so cool! How can you Be eo cool when | “What T was going to say about Mr, ry eaid) Mrs. Rangis when Mre. Jarr had driven the com- 1 am DYING with the heat? Haven't you got any sympathy? Aren't you—t/® Mra, G (wently>-You'll be late | enry, aistence, , Jarr's build and appearance. Mr, G, (grabbing hie atick)—O* course Vl be late: Lon't you e'pose I know itt /Just a Dealthy as Mr. Jarr does this minu he threw up his hands , (following him to the door | vith @ ehriek and fell over into convul- & Good Hine Goar-enbOY | sions that lasted for hours and died without recognising @ soul, and"— Further particulars as to Mr, Dag- gery’s untimely deceare were cut eh by the screams of the two little gtris, who had fallen to pulling each other’ hair, In the hallway, Mrs, Rangle sald t% was no use ‘ try to visit under the circumstances and hauled her offepring Ys I think you might have been more sociable to Mra, Rangle.” sald Mra Jarr to her husband. ‘I suppose it makes you mad Avhen somebody calls dw cheer me ual” — nts from the room with gentle in- “was that he wae just Mr. Looked (Mr, Gray glares at her murderoudy,) Mrs, G. (closing door)—Poor Henry! He's so miscrable and hot and every- = @, (soliloquy in the elevator)— Gosh! At last I've struck 4! No more pleadings, no more cheap trumped-up excuses 's going to be som: thing horizon, Just a Ing-—plain, unadulterated ACTING! Gee ‘t was hot work, but it got across in Great shape! And maybe I'm some ih, woatt Copyright 1912, by The Pree Pubitahing Co, (The New York World), HE fret time a man les to his wife he is surprised to discover how easy it is to do it, After that, he is surprised to find out how herd it is not to do it, Bome husbands prove as disappointing as “best sellers. how and why you ever got them, You wonder A man recovers from his remorse for a deflection #0 much sooner than @ woman recovers from her indignation that by the time she ts healed he @ tired of Being good and ts ready to sin again, A man ts sometimes on the verge of matrimony and doesn't know 8 sinply decause the girl who has made up her mind to annex him hae neglected to inform him of the fact. A man always speaks of having “given” his heart to a woman 68 though he had done something generous and noble; whereas, nine time out of ten, she probably had to wrench it from him. A girl always knows exactly what kind of man she wants to marry: But @ widow knows all the kinds she doesn't want to marry, and usually ‘makes a eafe selection by the wise process of elimination. At first a woman regards her husband as a Ddiessing straight from Heaven; later she comes to accept him merely as a dispensation of Providence, At this time of the year any nornml woman would rather be curly headed than President! How to Provide For Old Age. By Miles M. Dawson. Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The Neg York World). NO. 10—“STRAIGHT-OUT” OLD AGE PENSIONS. ILE first act granting old age pensions as a right and not merely a@ charity was passed in Denmark in April, 1891, Since that time, similar lawe have been adopted jn Australia, New Zealand, France gnd Great Britain, the British act tn July, 1908, : In Denmark, the aggregate amount annually disbursed in penstone ‘a something over $2,000,000 and the number of pensioners about 60,00. The pen sions ave about #1 a year per person. Under the law, every citizen over the age of sixty, whose !ncome does not exceed a certain small eum, is entitled, The money is contributed, half by the commune and half by the State. The Danish plan is not complicated by a provision for invalidity. Two ek ternative contributory plans for invalidity tnsurance have been under eons elderation for several years, but nothing has so far been about it, In New Zealand and In Australia, the pension age has been placed at sixty five, and the benefits are 10s, 1. @ about $2.60 per week, Otherwise the plam differs in no important respect from that of Denmark, In France under the law of 1905 provision is mi for all citizens over the age of seventy, as well as for all who become totally and permanently disabled before attaining thot age, In case the income !s less than @ given amount, With- lin fifteen months after the plan went into operation the number of people re- celving pensions rose to 44,000, Of these 59.4 per cent were seventy years of age or over, The total cost in 1907 was about $9,900,000. The pensions, whick Average about $33 per annum, are pald out of funds supplied in part by the State, In part by the department and in part by the commune, the respective contributions in 1907 being $5,529,000 by the State, $1,600,000 by the departments and $2,667,000 by. the communes. y rants pensions to all citizens, seventy years of aze or over, @., about $1.25 per week. The pensioners number about 000,000; the irsements are about $40,000,000 per annum. all these plans, originally, if there was a record of conviction for crime or recelpt of public ald within a certain period prior to reaching the pension age, this forfeited the pension. These requirements have since been greatly modified, It !s reported—entirely abolished in Great Britain, Most strenuous objection was made to such a plan originally, on the ground that It would diminish the thrift of the people and tend to pauperize them, It Was denounced as mere “‘out-door relief" in disguise; and !t was prophesied that all wage-earners would deliberately ‘mpoverish themselves in order to obtain the pensions. Accordingly, the acts contained safeguards against fraudui. property for the purpose of securing the pension. These precautions have in the main proved unnecessary. The pensions are so small that, !f any person ts to command a larger income, he Is pretty certain to do so, rather than ate tempt to live upon this pittance. In all countries that have adopted atraight-out old age pension plans, thrift has greatly increased and particularly in countries where they have been longest in use, ag Denmark, Australia and New Zealand. It appears now thoroughly established that incentives to thrift, other than to provide for old age, are quite suMctent; and indeed show the bent results when the burden of supporting the indigent old 1s taken from relatives, scarcely less indigent, and borne by the community, | It has been shown that a different principle applies in provision for old age | than in provision for invalidity, accident or death, in that prevention, In the sense of causing fewer to live to old age, 1s not to be thought of. To be sure, prevention in the sense of encouraging more equitable distribution of wealth ‘and greater thrift, 1s most desirable; but this, as has been seen, is not best ac- complished by compulsory insurance against old age but rather by freeing ime 4ividuals and families from this particular burden and dread. All the other means, described in this series of articles, for relieving and supporting the old, are fatally defective, in that they do not reach all who should provided for, Even compulsory insurance plans, as in Germany and France, relieve those only who are wage earners all thelr lives and leave mothers of families, the self-employed and many others unprovided for, so that ® large proportion of the needy old are without provision, The uncertainties of a voluntary system are much greater, When thrift hee been encouraged to the utmost, there must and will be many, who, though thrifty during all or most of their lives, have been compelled by sickness or By the pressure of duties, to disburse the!r savings, or who have made disastrous At bottom it Is in large part a mere gamble which persons will age with a sufficient number of the counters that compel others to support them and who will not, with the odds heavily against the simple sort @f people who work for others, elther out of love and affection and for a bare sup port or for wa Therefore, since the old will in no event be nourished by grain which they grew or clothed with wool which they spun, but must be supported by the active Beneration and elnce, in all cly!lized countries, all will be supported and newe be left to starve, it follows that a true solution of the probi 1st cause @he th eration to support the old, independently of whoth not the od have hoarded a sufiicient number of counters to command the support. Two conclusive arguments are these: (1) Like faithful employes of gover ments, of transporation compantes, banking houses and mercantile firms, tt may be considered that a good portion of all wages ts withheld and deferred, to be paid in the form of support during old age. (2) They who are now old, by turme ning the world and its wealth to the active generation, with the Improvements they have made upon it, deserve, not as charity but as‘a right, such support during old age as will in turn be accorded those of the now active generation who may and require tt No country economizes by granting this support in a grudging manner, ae im | the form of charity, in laws enforcing the responsibility upon relatt or the | Like, It ts significant that the most advanced nations are those which reo. | ognized and heeded the necessity for making this provision most extensive en@ complete, The ,unexampled prosperity for the people of the United States hae already unduly retarded action tn this regard. The separate States also present obstacles, But these should, and indeed must, soon prove ineffectual; since the most avanced nation in all that concerns humantty cannot long lag behind the van of civilization in caring for the old and helpless, AN ODD PATENT, A New York man has obtained al To protect stock against predatory Patent upon an envelope that ts In) animals a Wyoming man has patented reality @ blank, cut, marked and/e clockwork driven machine which we gummed eo that It can be folded over) volves a ecearchlight and discherges @ jeiter and fastened, Dlanh cartridges at regul-c getervala, # isposition of A CLOCK GUN,