The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1912, Page 16

sees eNO, 18,749 ONE THOUSAND WORDS. T": practical failure of the prosecution of the anthracits-coal Monopoly is no excuse for despair, revolution or any other form of violence. For every wrong there is a remedy, and it Bevolves upon those who woutd excel in public service to determine why justice has miscarried and indicate methods of redress. When the Supreme Court asserts that'no proof of a general com- | Bination was presented, does it mean that there was inefficiency on | the part of the prosecution, or that the law is inadequate, or that its own interpretation of the law is contrary to the intent of Congress? | One or all of these considerations must have operated, for we have No combination more notorious than the Coal Trust and there can be fo doubt that it is the purpose of the people to break it up. Under the administration of Woodrow Wilson we are promieed @n era of personal responsibilty. If there is a question as to the effi- ciency of existing statutes it ought not to be a difficult matter to enact a new law, not over one thousand words in length, by means of which men guilty of the practices peculiar to the Coal Barone could be - given penitentiary sentences. The movement against commercial piracy must end in one of two ways. It is prison for extortioners or it is slavery for their victima. There is no system of government under which it is easier for the people to enforce their will than that which is republican in form. a ote - MAKING ROOM FOR THE MORGAN COLLECTION. T IS announced that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is going to make room for the art treasures brought here by J. P. Morgan, without waiting for the building of a new wing. It was about time for this common-sense decision. It has been something more than an absurdity to keep the Morgan exhibits boxed up in the basement of the museum while space enough to show them fs occupied by junk of doubtful valne or interest. Such treatment is not an encouragement to other public-spirited citizens to make gifts to the museum. Thirty years ago it was well enough to make a show with material that now cumbers the Metropolitgn. In the future it will be more urgent than it is now to make a cloper distinction between exhibits im- portant enough for formal display and articles filed away for students ‘There is plenty of Toom in the Metropolitan Museum for the Morgan coftection if the room isjutilized with discriminating intel ——— R. ELIOT said that baseball was leavening Chinese civilization, | but the opening of a department store after the American , model in Hongkong shows that there are other contributing influences, ’ S latin ited ABOLISH THE COMMISSION. FHATEVER may be the result of the claim of the State against the Monuments Commission for the alleged short- age in the funds, the career of the commission itself should | be wound up and closed. It has never satisfactorily performed the duties intrested to it, and in the minds of the judicious its offenses | against art have been worse than the shortcomings in finance. It was an impulse of veneration for the veterans of the war for the Union thet prompted the selection of the members of the com- mission. As soldiers and as officers they deserved the honor in which they were held. But ae they knew nothing of architecture or sculp- ture or any other monumental art, their assignment to the task of eapervieing such work has proved disadvantageous both to themselvos end to the public. Militery affairs should be left to the management of military ‘iam; artistic tasks should be left to artiste, Let us get rid of the Commission as promptly es is compatible with a proper settlement of ite ecbounts and then replace ft with a body of men fitted by talent and education to devise monumental structures and capable of rightly administering the funds intrusted to it. ———-+-___ | | tsa WOMEN are undergoing the experience of being im- panelled to cerve as jurors without regard to their wilingnoxs and whether or not jury service interferes with their social duties or housework. Have they no Sheriff’s juries in Kansas, with provision for feminine membership? —42 GIVING YOUNG MEN A CHANCE. HE plea made before the Public-Good Society for the protection of young men against “eocial bleeders” should not be per- mitted to “overcome us like a summer's cloud without our spe- cial wonder.” It is a rate thing to hear any one in these days of feminine domination say a Kindly word for any male creature, young or old, Therefore, when a woman rises So say in public that young men should not be expected to provide theatre tickets and suppers and gloves and flowers and candy and books for women, it is time for even the most indifferent to sit up and take notice. Here is no question of the privilege of a young man to offer | these gifts, That has been his happy lot for many a generation, and | there is no intent to place restrictions upon it. ‘The hobble is to be on the girl, She is not to accept such gifts except from a kinsman or from some one who has previously presented her with an engage- ment ring. This puts the young man in a position where he can be sure of his title before he invests his money. Also, it enables the girl to know that the young man is in earnest before she wastes time entertaining his attentions, Whether the new doctrine be wise or foolish is a minor point. Societies for the public good are at last beginning to think about 66 rik time ‘will you be home Wa ing?” asked Mra. and father was making his morning get- away to the bread line. “But it really doesn't matter so much this evening. dren downtown to see Santa Claus in ‘the stores, And my mother |i over from Brooklyn to meet us and do ome shopping" —— me’ mustn't talk that way!" sald Mi |."Mother thinks you do not ke VM TiRED oF ) Ler ne STICte he PASTERS 2 , LET ME PPS NT WaTUR AL % RES DAY oF "OF REST Press Publishing Co, Covariait 1912, 2, by The Prom Guliahl pel as that fond husband “Usual time,” murmured Mr. Jarr. “I hope not,” replied his good lady. I've got to take the chil- coming “Tell her NOT to get anything for erled Mr. Jarr, Jou , You ARE THE LIMIT rail ‘ow, wrought of the tender green of i Pvening Wortd Daily Magasine, Monday. DebBember 23, BuT IN e STG REST PLEASE LET ME TIE ™ WS ON THE HOLLY SIT Down O, PIFFLE! posit. Boy! ww | Trisis MY YOu ARE ENTITLED "ANNUAL To A Davor REST DAY oF REST Just BEFORE eee X-MAS ? i The Jarr Children Hear Rumors of a Suffragette Santa Claus AMMAR AR IN RERAAHDN AH REAR HRA HAM AMA MAAR AR A, necktie or wash leather yellow gloves|criticism she may make from time to your mother and me,” 1912 —No. 37— RHODE ISLAND Motto: “Hope.” coprrigNt, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Erening World), pein tnd TE 1s the story of the smallest Stato in the Unton; a bit of ground only | 48 by 37 miles; but a place where his- tory has been made !i wholesale quan- tities; a place that has again and again been & national storm centre and that has been in many ways unlike any of its sister States An exploring Dutchman, Adrian Blook, found a big island in Narragansett Bay d named it, from the color of its clay ban! “Roodt Bylandt” (Red Island). Then, through the winter wilderness in 1636 came Roger Williams and five of his follow- ers, fleeing for their lives from religious persecution. And they settled rich and peaceful tract of ground on the mainiand, which, out of gratitude to God for their safe arrival, they named “Providence Plantations.” Hllams aid his friends had escaped from Massachus fleeing by stealth, because the grim Puritans would not allow them political or religious freedom and threatened to drive them out of America, And later came other religious refugees from Boston and elsewhere. Several settlements sprang up, and Wéll- Jams secured a charter that welded them all into one colony under the high sounding name of “Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.” Here, for the firet time tn nearly two thousand years, was a community where perfect religious ated | political freedom reigned, Though Providence and other towns were later Durned | to the ground by Indians, yet in the early years the colony was at peace with the ages, | In 1668 Wittlams obtained a second charter from King Charles 1. of Bagtand. | And, strangely enough, this royal charter remained Rhode | Island’a supreme law until 184-—more than sixty yeare after the revolution. hole Island thrived from the start both In agrioultars and in commerce. But some of the commerce was of 4 strange sort. For instance, Newport was the headquarters for piracy, privateers ing and smuggling. In a single “reform” effort to clean out the frst named in- dustry thirty pirates were hanged In ohains at Newport Rhode Island stubbornly refused to “come into the fold” by ‘>Ining the ongl- | nal New England federation or to give up one of fis treasur:) rights. It pg tested against New England's government. And ft kept on protesting most vig- orously against a number of other things for the next two centurtes. It was ene of the first colonjes, for instance, to protest against England’s oppression. Amd party of Providence men voiced that protest in 1772 by burning the British ehtp { Gaspee tn Narragansett Bay. It protested against the War of 1812. Tt protested against the Mexican war. It protested against having & State constitution and dii not have one until a het | ttle civil war of tts own had been started and put down tn 1843. H Tt protested against the Constitution of the United Stites and was the last of | all the States to ratity It, refusing to sign tt untt the Constitution had been tn, | effect for three years, and ratified the document then (by a bare majority two votes) only because the Senate frightened the malcontents by passing @ bill that cut off Rhode Island commerctally from all the rest of the country, | In the Revolution Rhode Island was the scene of many a battle, both by fam’ j and by water, I vil war It sent 23,457 men to the Union's aid, Providenéo forged to the v t rank of New England's great commercial cities, But Newport, Providence's old time Industrial rival, gradually declined in commerce, |and at last became of importance only as a fashionable summer resort. More than 89 per cent. of the State's population are foreign born, According to many historians, Roger Williams and Tie fellow fugitives were by no means the little State's first colonists, These chroniclers believe that Rhode Teland was the “Vineland” discovered and settled by Leif the Lucky and his Norse sea-rovers in tic eleventh century. And | the round tower (or mill?) at Newport, the “carven rocks” and the fact that an cua skeleton was dug up on Rhode Island soll are cited to support the odd eory, A Seri of “Kicks.” eee Ee The Day’s Good Stories The Woman of It. 667TPHEN you refuse met” ho asked dramati- cally, ‘That's all right, atr,"* i? replied the stunly som of the soil, “But I wish your rooks would let mg crops alone, 1 be trying to make @ living.’'— B.ltimore American, saath ame Ye Bright Johnny. RIGHTNESS personified is Itttle Johnny Pule, Certain frien ts of the family consider bim rather precoctous——but that's quite another At any rate he is the pride of bis father's “I do, Join," answered the maiden, ft becumse I have no fortune!” story, | beart, and er, invariably refers ue youn poison ivy, or''—— or’—here Mr. Jarr'a voice hore toe pd iw te your own good.” be oe, i [rege os be it will sera a “rela ch p Magaeedle de. fect “Now, there a a filing my | scared whisper- brass smoking set. “In all else you may do with me and p> they = - ¢ other nigit Joluny looked up from hie sto Christmas! It mother was or is at all [One of thore that stand on one leg lke|my salary as you will,” wald Mr. Sarr, | 0h; Jou” ahe sald Jrouly, rise Bast Bed ae tpg mgt rag Drejudiced against you it Is only for |a stork and look like a brass pie pan on “but there are three things concerning | joox ‘othe tit Won't sou] gat Ld chip from the old block, ain't 1, my good. Why, she has saved her|a stick. If her Christmas present for|which Old Man Adamant was Brie| please forsive me?’ Diapateh, et as tn Iedecd hates duals es trading stamps for weeks to get you &|-ae is something for you, the past is|cheese beside me, The first is to live it a 5 Q . ¢ the pro plush rocking chair for me or @ cut | forgiven.” in Brooklyn, the second is to live in @ What He Wanted. Da, you're the hen of the family, ata" Class fern dish.” "I do wish you would get along better | two-family house, the third ts to live on] R. PouNDs. tired va en ‘el the simple little tad, “Oh, that will be all right!" ex-| with mamma, She sayg there are some|the same side of the water as your dear! Mf 5 NDS, pe gs Bey i | replied Pale, claimed Me, Jarr. “I was afraid ehe'd|lovely two-family houses in Brooklyn|mother. It is only the East River be-| Moana no enpense As doing thingy well | 7%." etneled. Jabony triumphant, pea Spug on me and get me some useful| and we could all live together'so nicely |tween us, physically. But, temperamen-| juage, then, of his delignt when a pair ot rooks | Mt b* ® bockhead!”—~Answers, Present—such as & purple and yellow If we could only get you to see that any |tally, the ocean divides dear -————— began building a nest in his park | But the farmer who owned the next land was MOSTLY FICTION, ‘Now, it's Christmas time and you in spite of that never a Passes but poor mamma gets you som: thing from her scanty means, Of course, I have to get her something nice in return and say it's her present from you.” “Well, you need decetve her no mpre. If whe would really accept a present from me I would give a loving cup filled to tt brim with merry brew of vitriol and broken glass; or a Christe , mas wreath for mother-in-law dear As Bad : as : That Yes. men, In that fact is the ring of progress! a NEES EASILY ANSWERED. MOur Turkish war pictures fei) ui’ | Clerk—Mr, Sapleigh complains tn' his OM, was that?” }lotter that he Is not hearing enything *People claimed they weren't as se comechonaa angled TOO TAME. Sarr. | Fables of Eve By Sophie Irene Loeb. The + oe. Copyright, 1012, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), WHEN PLODDING WINS. NE of Aesop's Fables says: O “The Hare was once boasting of his speed before the other animals, ‘T have never * yet been beaten,’ sald he, ‘when I put forth my full speed. I y one race with “T he Tortoise said quietly; ‘I ace cept your chal- lenge." hat 1s a good Joke,’ anid the 5 Hare, ‘LT could | dance around you all the way.’ “Keep your boasting until you've answered the Tortoise. ‘Shall we race?’ “So a course was fixed and a start | was made, The Hare darted almost out of sight at once, but soon stopped y and, to show his contempt for the Tor- | jtoise, lay down to have a nop, "The Tortolse plodded on and plodded ‘an and when the Hare awoke from his nap he saw the Tortoise just near the Winning post and could not run up in| time to save the race, Then vaid the Tortoise: ‘Plodding wins the race. Once upon a tine there was a man “higher up" and a man “lower down,” The man higher up had gained his po- sition by @ little push and very much pull, His idea of a man “higher up" wi to bose those lower down and have salary advanced as the RESULT of the} work of the man lower down, So ho sat In his office, smoked his olgar, read the morning paper and otherwise acted in the way he thought men higher up should act, He thought that, having “arrived,” he could at any time put his finger on the slop someshing just because he had the |proved to be the one most DESIRED, | He had begn the i {man lower down so long that he could pulse-beat of the business and start or | ryday Folks. Conqueror. tom and was still lower down In the scale of the business, But each step he took on the rung of the ladder had thoroughly mastered and knew the strength and weakness , thereof, One day the man higher up, having sat in his office, smoked his cigar and read his newspaper every day for a long time, imbibed the spirit of ennul and thought he needed a CHANGE, a vacation, a cruise, He firmly beliéved that the business needed him in case anything crucial or IMPORTANT came up; that no one could do 1t WITHOUT him anyhow, and that things would move along !n the same groove UNTIL he returned, So he sailed away, Now !t came to Pass not very long after he had gone that an important deal transpired which required complete knowledge of the | work and workings. It was to win a! commercial race that came up suddenly, unexpectedly, As the man higher up was away the man lower down, who had been plod- ding along, was called upon to give his | ent as the result of EXPERI- To 1 ton, ke a long fable short his opin- born of that self-same ploddiny d was acted upon. almost tell for a surety just what could or could not be done, Another matter came up. He was consulted again, Then the directors put | thelr heads together, which ts a way directors have when their Interests are directly concerned and where they think their business can be Inere ‘The man lower down was given the place of the man higher up with execu- tive power to act according to his long plodding experience, When the other man bigher up returned he was put into net so much in demand, prised, He did not think any one could take his place and strike ahead of him. For he had pelleved them ALL lower down in the race. He was sur- name of being the man higher up. The man lower er was a modest Individuel who ie wimvted at thé byte A THE PROCESS OF PLODDERS MAT an office where executive ability was} “I think you are just dreadful to talk | that way, and at Christmas time, too! | It bears out what my mother says: that! you are hard hearted, unkind, selfish | and without a bit of feeling, But, other than that, she says you may be a good husband, although she warned me I was throwing my life away!" “As I remember {t,” sala Mr. Jarr, “your dear mother was all smiles when I a-courting came. She oleared the decks for action when T dropped around she set us an example by putting all) ven in the hall, | | “Mother was never wasteful,” replied | Mrs. Jarr, “but T will say you were not her ideal as a husband for me, But she | forgave you and she always hoped we could all have our Ittle home together.” | “Well, we never will, and the Incident | Is closed!" sald Mr. Jarr. “How much money will you need to-da: | Only that Mrs, Jarr did not desire a} quarre! at this pleasant season of the | year and also because she was calculat- ing how much money Mr. Jarr had to Can't we go there first?" asked Master | rr, coming In with a face soap-shined m the ministrations of Gertrude, no! [ want ia 40 where there's Santa Claus, a suffragette Santa interposed littley Amma Jarr “Tessie Gratch, whose mamma ts a Suf- fragette, says Santa Claus is a lady,” “Then T don’t d'leeve in him!" declared | | Master Jarr. Don't delleve in Santa Claus?" cried Jarr, ‘Well, just for that you n't go around the stores and sca/ janta Claus and the toys to-day!" | At this punitive message Master Jarr howled with despair and knuekled his jeyes until $t was a wonder he did not | InJure those tender orbs. } “Oh, well, If you say you are sorry, you can go,” sald the relenting mother, And off went the little Jarra with thelr mamma for to seo and to admire! i EXCESS BAGGAGE.’ “When I go on @ trip I ne’ what I ought to take with me,” “Oh, I do; It's quite simple, T take all r know BE SLOW, BUT THEY GENERALLY PAK THE PALM, my dresses and leave behind my hoe band."~Le Vie Parisienne, not 80 So he ing birds, @ his son orders to shoot tl “Seo here, my man," he said fiercely, those lads of yours would let my binds In fact, he disliked rooks, he offend. “To whh Vm Customer—What have you in the way of summer fiction? N of dat lewsdeater—We all the parttes es’ speeches, have the platforme 1 the late candle Life, Pattern No, 7691—Blouse with Robsspierre Collar, 34 to 42 Nat TH EV! bust. by going out and leaving us alone., She 1 the droop- did everything for us but turn down the Jug sioulder line makes in the room where we were. But give her and not how much she needed, caded crepe is trimeped she would NOT have let the incident | with satin and eucld be closed. However, another time—— | IMPLY blousesare rule thi S a new and interesting forture, This one can be made either with shaped or —_straigh' front edges, and the change, while It {9 easy to make, produves euch a different result that the two completed gar-j ments are practically unlike, The model ts an excellent one doth for the odd walat that is a necessity and fot the simple gown, 1% the illustration, Bree materials “Maw! Johnny Rangle says that the mir) worn, Santa Claus at the Blg Bargain Bazaar blouse will be gives every child whose mamma buys five aoa dollars’ worth tn the store a penny toy? terial, for natin, and ‘also ter months. » the fewest seams: const the blouse very ttle labor making, and, vhemisette ts (can be worn er. ’ # oovasion a 1°13 yards of ese the sleeve tite Pattern in sizes fram & hes bust an NING WORLD MAY MANTON F, BUR New York, er s stamps for euch ie mize wanted, BAU, Donald ullding, 100 West Thirty-second site Gimbel Bros.), corner Sixth avenue and ‘ASHLOS etreet (eppe- trent, “Write your address aways hee two cents for etter postage (t's Coe, wee