The evening world. Newspaper, October 12, 1912, Page 8

Pwtished Daily Except Sender, by the Press Fobjienng Company, Nos, 68 to oats we Clee Bvtacript @ World All Cou: ter, a the. Continent and in the International tal U: ay States ate VOLUME 88. .....00csceswewscenceasssscccesses NO» 18,678 PERFORATING MR. PERKINS. RY as it may, the Harvester Trust cannot tread its virtuous path in peace. No sooner have Mr, Perkins and his benevo- lent company carefully explained how they shudder at the idea of being a trust, how their dividends for years have averaged only, 7 per cent., how they have increased wages 27 per cent. and spent millions trying to make patriotic American string out of American flax, how their one prayer is that politics may become pure —when along comes Mr. Hilles, Chairman of the Republican Nation- ai Committee, and with a few pokes of his pen the fat is in the fire “an inspiring correspondent. In any case the Republican Chairman not only sticks stoutly to his expressed belief that millions of Har- yester Trust money was spent in Mr. Roosevelt’s pre-convention cam- Mr. Hilles is a nifty letter-writer. Perhaps he finds Mr. Perkins peign, but he also takes the opportunity to heave eolid chunks of Plain truth about Harvester motives and methods over the Perkins fence. “When you formed the Harvester Trust,” writes Mr, Hilles, “you created a monopoly controlling from 85 to 90 per cent, of the Business in harvesting implements which constitute by for the most important clase of agricultural implements. In ten years the propertics of the company have increased in value from $120,000,000 to $220,000,000. In the same period there have been paid to the stockholders by way of cash and stock dividends (including present surplus) @ further eum of $80,000,000. If we estimate 6 per cent. per annum as a ree sonable return upon the original capitalization, the investors would have received in ten years $72,000,000, It, therefore, appears that the stockholders have profited in addition to a Uberal return upon the original capital to the extent of the enormous increase in the valuation of the propertics.” After pointing out that huge sums of money were spent to get Mr. Roosevelt “spontaneously” nominated as the sought and chosen of the people, and that Mr. Perkins was one of the biggest eubscribers te this “spontaneity” fund, Mr. Hilles returns to the charge: “The ezplanation that ie made in your behalf is that you Rave entered upon the purawit of philanthropy and that Mr. Roosevelt is the only man who can save the country and make 4t @ fit place for you to rear your children in, But at the same time you Rave been in effective control of one of the most oppressive trusts this country has ever known, and you still oling to your connection with this monopoly. Men may well doubt, therefore, whether the sole motive for your political activities ie the emancipation of suffering mankind from social injustice.” This is plain talk and leaves the spectator with a pained sense of Mr. George W. Perkins shivering immodestly in the open, without the garments of righteousness and philanthropy in which he is wont eo carefally and gracefully to drape himself. Mr. Perkins has not progressed as far along the route of philo- sophical self-effacement as his friend, Mr. Morgan. Mr. Morgan told the Clapp Committee that when he wanted something that he knew was bed for him he hoped he wouldn’t get it—or words to that effect. Not eo Mr. Perkins and the Harvester Trust and the Colonel. They want what they want when they want it, And what th is—one another. mostly waut —_-4 A quarantine of Christmas trees is the nice surprise the dug sharps have thought up for the holidays, What's the use of knowing 80 much, anyway? —————-4-—_—___ TILTING AT EXPRESS RATES. HE Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington is stil) I listening to arguments for and against the reduction of Why Not? ¥% rx Copyrigtt, 1012, by The Pree Publishing Oo, (Tho New York World), ITH Mr. Jarr talking politics at express rates. Counsel for the express companies and the W Berry, the undertaker’s, and railroads pile up gloomy estimates of deficit and loss if the proposed Decmien . iy ie glia tceauneey tates are made effective. Profits for the express companies thus far ip 1912 are claimed to be less than 4 per cent. On the other side it is pointed out that the express business is now so prosperous that the companies are paying the railroads 25 per cent. more revenue than previous to 1900, The sitting of the Commission has had its bright spots. A St Louis lawyer, announcing that he appeared for “one hundred million uncrowned kings and queens of America,” smote the express com- panies hip and thigh, and furthermore declared: “I have ceased practising in half the courts because I found them to be merely the Tefuge of thieves and murderers!” The grateful “hundred million” pricked up their ears and got ready to cheer. But, like the guinea pig at the trial in Alice in Wonderland, the champion was “sup- » The truth of the matter is that the express companies and the reflroads are merely trying to make all as tight as they can to weather the blow they know is coming. They foresee only too clearly that sooner or later the growth and familiarity of a parcels post is bound to force them to terms, Therein lies the hope of the public —————_-++---____ OCTOBER 12, 1492. Columbus first landed on American soil. When shall the world forget Thy glory and our debt, Indomitadle soul, Immortal Genoese? —Willlam Watson. were exchanged for the regulation Feo the Baitor of The Evening World ments, THOMAS D'ARCY, to @ reader's query about a Scot: | regiment wearing their national ress during the civil there Was | To the Editor of The Evening World; auch @ regiment (the “Seventy-ninth,”| { wish some one who commanded by Col. Cameron) sent from| this matter would enlighten us, this city. I saw them in their kilts on! says the term “suffragette” the 234 of May, fifty years ago, on the “long brid; in Virginia, a1 saw them several times afterward. They Wore their kilts, @&c., unti] the kilts Were worn out and then these garments Were replaced by the regular unifarm. Teaw many different kinds of uniforms Suffragette va. 8 amint, mA" equal suffrage; while, suffrage, difference. What wise reader can de fine the two words better? understands means @ woman who believes in the cause of in contrast to thir, “suffragist” means @ male person who belleves in the cause of woman " says this is not the Admiring Mrs, Stryver's new dresses from Parts, which that extremety stout and extremely vain lady was donning, with the ald of her maid, and parading past Mrs, Jarr in, there none to Ine terfere with Master Jarr's suggeation that Gertrude's sailor cousin, Luke, come right into the parlor with hin two Moessmates from the good ship Utah. Luke, the gallant man-o'-war's man, waa, It would seem, even what his mess- mate, “Yellow Frank," called him— comical bloke." At tho aight of the Jarrs' oasy-pay- ment-plan musical instrument the merry man-o'-war's man exclaimed, ‘What 1s this I perceive? A piano in thé forest! What shall we do with it, men? And in perfect unison “Yellow Frank” and the other jolly sailor boy (intro duced as ‘Mr, Ix y,” but latterly alluded to as “Slim'') raised the deep sea chanty, “Pound it to pulp!”* Where They Come From, “| hear there Is a whole village of cripples som In Europe.” @f that time. But os time went on, they, ETHEL G. men come from.” HABEAS Corpus STATUS QUO .CoRPU: DERELICTU POST Facto. PosT ADTU DICATUM “From the reports the college coaches are sending out that must be the place all this year’s football | person he'd meet (those 1912, Prddtehing Co, (The New York World.) HEAVE To. ABOUT EIGHT BELLS 4 COMBER IN A BREECHES BUOY >> AME OVER THE TAFFRAIL ABAFT TRE LEE SCUPPERS iS <a are Whereupon Gertrude’s cousin Lake, from Red Oak, Ia, and the battleship Utah, struck @ resounding chord and plunged into “The Ragtime Soldier M while Master Jarr and little Miss Emma Jarr sat on the sofa, swinging their feet, open-mouthed and open-eyed with delight, while Gertrude made the telephone hum with commands to the grocer to send certain sundries around at once, and she dida't care if the boy was out and no one was in the atore. —No. 1— MA’S ESTIMATE Copsright, 1012, by The ELL, of course, not that I'm 4y authority, but everyone's bound to have an opinion, what with all the facts the newspapers are printing. There are some people who go so far @s to say they are not exactly facts But then there are always @ certain number of doubting Thomases in every community, aren't there? You know, I'm giad to be able to voice my opinion on the coming election, because I never get a chance at home. You have no idea how my husband alts on me the minute I open my mouth: | about polities, Why, merey me! I can't call my soul my own, And I know better than to cross him, because I remember years ago, when I was first’ married, my mother warned me about that. Sho sald that a man with the dimpoal- tion of a seraph and the vocabulary of @ college professor would become a jfend incarnate with a longshoreman's Vociferousness of speech in @ political argument. And, indeed, many's the time I've seen her words proved, Well, the way It looks to me is that Mr. Taft is gong to be elected. Oh, yes, I have my reasons, too! And that's @ great deal more than most men have. They get all het up arguing, but they haven't a real reason that'll hold water, I'l tel you why I think Mr, Taft 1s going to be elected, Because he keeping his mouth shut, Yea, sir, There tsn't @ truer word under tho san than that silence 4# golden, Why, I remember once I knew a fellow down in my home town that w: as stupid as a rainy day, But were two things he was bright about. One was that he didn't ret married, no matter how much the other sufferers persuaded him to, and the other was that he could keep quiet. You oouldn’t ‘a got an idea out of him y| with @ vacuum cleaner, because he didn't have any tdeas, But he'd sit up straight and listen with a solemn ex- pression on, just like his brain WAS working. And do you know, every new Their Election Estimates Wullahing Co, HE_CAUGHT A HUMMER, ON THE A ag Fada AND BIFFED THE SPHERE To THE CENTRE OUTPOST - ‘Scwepuce DEAD Codie IN A PIT - SLUGGED ‘EM S VER THE ROPES ICARBONATE OF SODA -ARMAGEDDON ¢ ee eee NAVY. BASEBALL CourRT. Poutics, MENU LAN Guages TAUGHT HERE POCEEEEE EERE EODS SEEEEELELEESE SEES EOSEOEEEESEESEEES Willie Jarr Hears the Sea Call Of Life To-Day on the Ocean Wave OFSSISSSIOSSITTTS SEVSSTSISISSTSIST FSSGISISFTSITITIS Mr. Jarr wasn't allowed to smoke in the parlor, but the gallant Jackies of the fleot have the freedom of the city. They opened the windows, so, ag they ex- pressed it, they could ‘throw the ciga- Tette butts overside,”” and soon the Jarr front room was as hazy as the lower gun deck after the smoking lamp is Mehted. By that mysterious fellowship all sea- faring men, from pirates to pilots, have for ohildren, Master Jarr and his sister were drawn to the knees of the amiablo | “Yellow Frank” and the kindly Mr. De-| lancy, otherwise “Sitm."* | To Gertrude the visit was more than money or an extra evening out, She would have invited in her lady friends, only she feared to lose the attentions of any one of the entrancing trio, A girl doesn't often have three such gallants at one time, and Gertrude’s first im- pulse to feed her vanity by letting some of her female acquaintances e who was here gave way to the intensely femi- nine selfishness of reigning alone until she could decide which of the three lant sailor lade she found most to her liking. | “Did you ever see a mermald?” asked | Httle Miss Jarr of Mr. Delancy in the conversational interlude following the music, as Gertrude did the honors with cake and bottled beer. | “Suro,” oald tho genial “Sim.” “Off | Key West I sees a ladies’ orchester ot] Dia you run off to sea? anked Master | Jarr of Yellow Frank, that jovial! lor seeming more shipm: By Alma Woodward (The New York World), stupid block he was) would go away thinking he had the wisdom of a Sol- omon, because they couldn't prove any; thing to the contrary, Copyright, 1912, by The Press hi a Co, (The New York World), M Daughter, hearken unto the Parable of the Three Damsels. | For the fool learneth by experience, but the wise by the exper ence of OTHERS, And the way of the GUESSER ts hard. Now their dwelt a woman in Babylon who had three daughters, and they | were all Nice Girls, And when they had reached the age of indiscretion she called them une to her, saying: “My JEWELS, I shall now bestow upon cach of thee three thousand shekela wherewith to begin thy ‘careers.’ For youth is short and man ts fleeting, and {t is time ye were preparing for the Struggle. Go then and apend your moneys wisely, that the bread which ye cast upon the waters m return unto ye in the form of wedding cake.” And the damsels were delighted and rejoiced mightily. ow,” said the first, “I shall be able to Cultivate my Talents and to am | quire @ College Education. And, lo, when I return from the Highbrow Im stitution I shall SHINE in the world. For Knowledge is Power.” “And I,” said the second, “shall go into business and invest my shekels wisely, For with plenty of MONEY one can buy all things, from an automo bile unto a husband.” But the third was silent, pondering long and deeply. And in the morning she arose and went forth into the shopping district, returning at eventide with seven kinds of face powder, twelve jars of Bloom | of Beauty, twenty pounds of fine hair, one Miracle Corset and a quart of Bouquet d'Amour, together with numberless hats, gowns, sachete and recipes, : Then her sisters mocked at her and her mother wept, but it availed them nothing, for her three thousand shekels were gone. Now, when the first damsel had returned from college, filled with tame and covered with glory, her moneys were likewise all spent. But deing highly EDUCATED, she straightway obtained a clerkship in a law office at twelve shekels per week and became of USE in the world. And after many years of honest poverty and‘nobdle toil she died, still single but highly RE- SPECTED, And everybody said of her: “Poor thing!” And the second damsel invested her shekels in a Temple of Dressmak- ing, wherein she labored from morn till eve making wondrous creations for other women to wear. And, even as she had said, she wared RICH and bought herself an automobile and a husband, But when the latter had spent all her moneys and mortgaged her motor car he departed for fresher pas- tures. And all the rest of her days were devoted to the paying of his debts, But the third damsel donned her glad raiment and went forth in search of adventure, And all men who looked at her were stricken and exclaimed; “How womanly! Yea, how adorably feminine!" And it was not long era one of them cried: “Behold, THAT is the decoration which I have been seeking for my dinner table!” And thereupon he married her, and all the days of her fe she was cove ered with furs, and jewels, and petting, and flattery. For, lo, EVERY man admircth a practical, sensible wife—for OTHER men; but for himself he preferreth something soft and frilly. Which proveth unto thee, my daughter, that VIRTUE 4s its own rex ward, and that every damsel should work out her own Destiny—wnlese sh findeth a man that is EASIER to work, Selah! The Week’s Wash By Martin Green. Copyright, 1012, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York World). 6s " LAST," sald the head pol-y “Far from making any such an ade A isher, in a tone of relief, “the | mission,” replied the laundry man, Beoker trial 1s on.” dispute the statement. If the actlo “The second|of the 4,00 persons who witnessed the? Becker trial 1s]opening game of the World's Series att on,” safd the Iaun-|the Polo Grounds reflects the sentimen¢; dry man “The|of the baseball fans of New York—end first Becker trial|{: undoubtedly does—then more than 60, was held last Sum-|per cent, of said fans are not loyal t& mer, with the Dis-|the Gtants, trict-Attorney act-| “While the Giants are off in the lead, ing as prosecutor |an@ winning everything in. sight th and judge; and|fans are 100 per cent. loyal, But let thé,’ every sorehead in| Giants slump a little and tho loyaitys the Tenderloin on the witness stand. All the accusod persons were con- victed and sen- MARTIN, tenced, “This second trial ts in a law court before a jury, Becker {8 on trial alone. | Justice Goff will see that only testimony Pertinent to the issue ts admitted. Fur the first time since Herman Rosenthal was murdered New York 49 getting | down to sane sense of proportion in| observing the case, ly the last criminal vanishes. W) fame in the Boston broke up shel enth inning on Tues@ay,) the applause was sincere enough to dise) coura,. any team of home baseball players, bat men who play on the Polo Grounds in New York untforms have \anything about Not that I think Mr. Taft Is stupid. Oh, no! I really don't know whether | he's stupid or not. The only things I DO know about him ts that he's stout (though goodness tmows you can't hold that against a man) and that he's got a nice, healthy looking family and that he didn't do something about tariff that & whole lot of men said he ought to do. I don't know anything about tariff; and, I might say, I don't want to know it, because I have trouble enough as it 1s, But I don't see why just because a man doesn't do one little thing about something that | three-quarters of the people have never | heard of, anyway, I don't see why they should vote against him for that! I suppose my argument isn’t very clear, 1s {tt But I know what I mean, in my own head. It's too bad I can't make it plainer to you, but somehow or other I find that when I get to talk- ing It doesn't really sound like what because in the beginning of their ac-|@ction in New York County that will quaintance he had proved his seaman- &® through two trials—one an advance ship by sinking three gold tecth he had | examination and denunciation, If Beck- on the forward side of his mouth into|*r is guilty and the District-Attorney ; Proves it he will undoubtedly get what Otherwise he will a fiat cake of eating tobacco, “Me? No, I signed in St. Looey," re-|!8 coming to him, pied Yellow Frank, Yellow as to hatr, | yellow as to complexion, yellow as to| hin golden teeth and yellow as to his eating tobacco, | “Did you always want to be a sailor, to splice ropes, to climb the masts and | furl the sails?” continued Master Jarr, | while his sister was eagerly pursutn, her inquires as to whether mermaids had green hair or golden, with the good-natured Slim, who had seen a whole orchestra of them off Key West. Yellow Frank grinned, “No,” he sald, “I wanted to learn how to swim, so I Joined the navy. But funny thing 1s," he added, “I ain't never got a chance be placed in the position, more or less fortunate for him but extremely un: fortunate for the community, of a martyr, “The disposition of a certain large and assertive element.in New York to deliver a verdict of guilty before become inured to the chilly atmosphe: and are content with t on the team of th where outslde of Chicago a more continually and vi sly knocked’ than on thelr own stamping ground, If. We ever have a losing team of Giants) the fans w4ll probably arise en masse) cHmb out of the stands in the Brusig, stadium and assassinate the whole bunch.” Pusheart War Training, | errr N 66] SBE," sald the head poltah I “that the Greeks are going \ fight the Turks again,’* “Much as I admire the martial apirtg.. of the Gre Said the head polishar | “I fear that when they go against thé I'm thinking at all, Oh, you want to know what I think|be @ sailor?” pressed Master Jar. about the other two candidates, “How can I learn to be a sailor?” | Well, I think Mr, Roosevelt Is just| ‘Ts there a paint shop around hero? like one of those travelling hypnotists | relied Yellow Frank, that used to come to small towns years| Master Jarr nodded his head in the | ago. He goon and talks, and he hyp- | affirmative notizes the people into thinking that | ‘Well, then,” said Yellow Frank, “you Ya the hinge on which the world turns | #0 there and learn how to paint, learn —and, then, when he's gone, they come | how to paint fronwork. I was with) to and realize that that hinge needs a|the painting~erew on the Eads Bridge | bit of olling! |in St. Looey, but I always got dizzy | ‘And Mr, Wilson, Well, I can't say that | so!ng high up, and so @ friend says to I know anything really AGAINST him | me ‘Yeller,’ says he, ‘you're a big boob. | seams that he's a school teacher, and I A man that can cover all the jronwork never did hold to men being teachers— in @ day you kin ought to go into the that's woman's work, But the man MAY be all right, for all I know, Pm not and tobacco rations, there's more the one to judge without real facts to| money in it than there Is spreading | go by, NO one oan say that I'm not | lead and turps on this tron hammock.’ air-minded! Go I joins the navy and I'm In charge | | Have T any other reason for thinking |of the port side paint squad,” that Mr. Taft will be elected except his| Master Jarr edged away in disap- ‘keeping quiet? Why, yes, indeed, I pointment. As soon as Gertrud have! A very good reason. |Coustn Luke quit playing the plano, he z that didn’t know his relatives to tell them what a I JUST FEEL IT IN MY BONES-' intended asking HIM about a iife on that's all! the ocean wave as it really should be. navy. What with the board and clothes \!t for what It 1s and who are not de- yet; we ain't never been anywhere but the|Turks abroad the remembrance of th@; Rca water evidence 1s in has brought about the| times they have been chased with dhe! “Do you Ike being a satlor? Could 1|‘!reulation of a bad reputation for New| purh carts by the Irish cops ta York throughout the United States and the civilized world generally. it 4s commonly asserted that no man's life 1s safe from thugs with blackjacks or revolvers on the streets of this city, “Who gets shot or blackjacked on tho | streets of New York? Seldom the peave- ful, law-abiding citizen, attending to| his own business, For euch the hich- ways and even the byways of this town | are as safe as the tne'de of a church,| \y"K Boston Ehicak, St. Loula ag Candidates for office who go up ana | (ies centers of (reek population, wil down the State proclaiming otherwise |{Mteifere wih t agwressivencen! are not making themselves popular with > iia oF hi unity who kn , the people of this community who knw Bernhardt’s Mascots, NHARDT ARAH BE S more lucky odds and ends than any round dozen other actrosses. Thea® velved by the tom tom rounders and hewgag mantpulators.”’ sho carries with her on hor travele | Baseball and Loyalty. An enormous bravs-bound chest, Tt Ine jeludes photographs of those who have brought luck of consideradl to the great star, Jowole YHOW you must admit that valuc, and bite of ola New York t# loyal to ths|iron, some of which she has picked up Giants,” mid the head pol-|in the streots—for Bernhardt is reputed ever to pass such an object, ‘ i