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Soe eh % he ; proving it along profitable lines.” _ Of calculating how much of benefit will come to all classes of people. The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tues DSTABLIGHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ton 89 Publiedin joa. Published Dafly Except Oupsey. Wy 2s, he Pubiie i Company, we TREE eS: 63 Park Row. TO" bath" how, Countries in the Internation: Postal U: ++ 68.00' One Tear... 180 One Month, VOLUME 88.....ccsccsseesccececesscesseseees+ NO, 18,795 A LONG STRUGGLE WELL ENDED. Price dee HITCHCOCK has the satisfaction of issuing at the close of his term of office a report of more progress than any predecessor since the introduction of two- cent postage for letters, He has lifted the fiscal features of the ser- vice from a deficit to a handsome income. He has established postal savings banks and begun the parcel post. He leaves the department in such excellent condition that he can safely recommend a grant of pensions for postal employees, an increase in the limit of weight parcel post packages and a reduction of letter postage to one cent ‘SF This record is worth more than brilliance. It is one of large Public benefit and widespread good. There are no possible means Rach individual gain may not average much, but the aggregate must he enormous. It is worth noting furthermore that the Postmaster- General is able to say: “The transformation of a deficit into a sur- plus has been accomplished not by curtailing the service but by de- It was back in the Presidency of Benjamin Harrison, when John Wanamaker was Postmaster-General, that the effort to establish a parcel post was begun. The fight against private greed and stupidity has been long and hard. The compliments of the country to Mr. Hitehcock. —_ +42 FOUR WEAKNESSES OF THE SCHOOLS. HE CONTRIBUTION of Dr. Frank P. Bachman, of Cleve- | land, to the school inquiry investigation is as interesting aa were those that preceded it. The chief weaknesses, he says, are “the administrative system, the course of study, the lack of in- spiring leadership, and unruly children.” Borrowing the unimprov- ‘able language of Dogberry, we may say of these that the last two} “come by nature” but the first two “are gifts of God.” We cannot compel nature to furnish bs with a continuous succession of inspiring “THAT MAIO'S Coorin 1S GETTING Betrer, EVERY MEAL, WIFEY HAT MAID OF OURS 'S A WONDER! HE IS THE MOST CONOMICAL AND PERFECT we EVER HAD teachers and obedient children, but we may at least pray heaven for 8 new administration and a new course of study. Before entering upon the prayer, however, we had better in- quire a little concerning what form of change we are likely to get. It is much easier to alter administrative systems and courses of study than it is to improve them. Ideal plans never fit real conditions. It is plain enough that a course of study requiring all pupils in a clase to take the same lessons is bad; that it would be much better to fit each lesson to the child. It might be better still to have a rate teacher for each child. But if even such drastic reforme carried out defects would develop under that regime. more complex public instruction becomes, the more confused it must be. If we demand simplicity and good order we must go back to reading, writing and arithmetic. ‘ pay sake CRs A LESSON FROM COLLEGE STUDENTS. Ss’ INTERESTING sidelights on work and wages of unskilled persons are revealed in the reports of Columbia students upon their earnings during the past summer vacation. Those that worked in banks in the city earned an average of $30 a month The same average was earned by students working as freight clerks | or-as platform men in the subw One student earned $25 a mont) as @ day laborer, showing that at the start the banker has no ad vantage over the man with the shovel. A sailor brought back from hie voyage $18.60 clear, which is probably more than either clerk or digger saved in an equal time. When we pass from the earnings of those that sought wages to the profits of those that worked for themselves we ge! considerable differences. One student who sold cooking utensils netted $200. Another earned #161 by filling pulpits of absent pastors or acting as proctor at examinations. A third by various occupations, including | that of “tree doctor,” cleared $210. The only wage earner that} approached these figures was.one that drove an auto, up $100. The moral ia one “you can feel with your foot,” as Rabelais says. Wet him that would have money go to work for himself if it be no more than to push a handeart. Profits are bigger than wages. He cleaned Letters From the People the wine {# $17 per gallon. How many) gallons of wine are included in the rent, readers? DAVID WALSH, | March 17, 1890, | ‘To the Ealitor of The Evening World: ‘Tell me in what year was the Wind- eor Hotel burned, Ww. R. pi A Vineyard Problem, ‘To the BAitor of The Evening World: ‘The owner of a vineyard lets it for $12 per year and @ certain quantity of wine, When the wine ts §2% per gallon the rent is 121-2 per cent. less than when The}. laf he w Can You Beat It? © Yes, CADDY SHE tS IMPROVING. (AM TEACHING HER How To Coon 1 Am SO GiAD Vou LiKe HER _ CALL. SONNY Coprright, 1913, ty The Prose Peblishing Oo, (The Now Yort Brening World). SHE Is A PEARLI Ses one oe eer (FUL 1EVER SAW oNMY OLD Socks, SHE Is A Treasure! | panne’ = HA tie New York haveing World D firmly believed that Mr. Jarr had come into money uptown—a legacy or a lucky real estate speculation or something of thut sort. | ¢, His office associates knew he'd gotten no unearned increment where he worked, : Jenkins, the bookkeeper, cited the case of an uucle of his wife, ‘This gentleman, it seemed, we king of Mr. Jen-| Kins's wife's could have bought Mr, Jarr's business the land Chicago now stands on for an! old watch and a pair of boots, He did! not carry out the transection, however, and the land Cl ago now stands on ts cestral acres of Mr. jations, nking felt sure Mr, Jarr had taken a little flyer in Bronx refl entate, Paid an option on @ vacant lot which! a day or two after had been bought for & million or #0 to build @ palatial mov- ing picture house upon Even Johnson, the cashier, who was in clates it made it in Wall atree! “He's a wise guy, Ed. Jarr is," had been the expressed opinton of Mr. Rangle, “It wi around 4, Jarr, sald remarked Gus, the the cafe on the cor "t do you any good to wily belleved Mr. Jarr had if he has made Rafferty, the bu! I tipped him off to a chance to take a second mortgage on & row of apartments I'm building and proprietor of | E« . “I notice this; {t ain't no use to foller rich fellers. ‘They won't give you nothing.” “Well, it's better than hanging around poor fellows. ‘They can’ thing,” replied Rangle, it's gotg to clear up." “Yes, I think seneccccseooooere ceccseseoooroseeseooses+oeoesee sees The Cash Mr. Jarr Doesn’t Possess Is Carrying Him to Dizzy Heights FVFITSSSGIETHTESS VHSIHOSSSSSS IIS SS BETSTISSIOSSITGID ‘This sudden switch to the toplo of the weather was due to the appear- ance of the subject of their previous remarks.’ All greeted Mr. Jarr, who for some unaccountable reason, rumor ad invested with sudden affluence. “Ud like to ask your advice about something?” said Mr, Rangle when Mr Jarr had gotten all set on the third rail, “My wife tells me that she thinks if I hadn't wasted my time joining the Harlem Grays and being military-mad for three ye "4 have gotten along better {n business, Do you think © man's hobbies are a detriment to him, mind my calling you when I firat got @ Job in the stock room at our firm,” said Mr. Ran- gle, “a lot of the fellows with the concern had the military bug, 80 T [Joined the Harlem Grays, ‘Think I did The Hedgeville Editor. By Fohn L, Hobbie. Copyright, 1913, by The Prese Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), RS. PARKER, who ts taking care ot RS, and working in her has received a louns- six childret husband's store, ing robe for her birthday, LD FORK says he ts never sure KURK says no matter how much money her husband makes he will always feel that he ts destitute unless be can get some more, AWYER RASP says !f a woman can a position to say that if Mr. Jarr had that he is right unless his wife understand her owa arguments it rising fortunes they didn't come) disagrees with him, proves that she has better reasoning through his wicket, believed Mr, Jarre power than @ man, 0, tute cashier, “he! RS, FORN says it 1s not ladylike wouldn't abbily as he does to treat men with a Uttle re- ‘spect as they deserve, sday, February 4, © By Maurice Ketten ‘aa@e OO) Yes Sue 1S A very NICE MAIO . 12.— GEN. J. B. B. STUART. EN. [ART came into Richmond on G ens with the War Department and dined at home of Col. Shields when I was a guest. @. He had just received © letter from an old comrade in the United States Army, now fighting against the South. He read it with deep interest and then handed it to Cel. Shields, who read and gave it back without ® ‘word of comment. “Ah, Colonel,” said Gen. Stuart, “you never alept under the same blanket, fought the same Indiana, drank from the same canteen and seasoned your fresh meat with the same old bacon rind that you carried pocket or you would be ee glad to hear from the old comrades on the other side as I am, wouldn't he, Cooper? appealing to Gen. Cooper, whe was visiting at the Shields's home and who seemed no more responsive to old comradeship fm new foes than did Col. Shields, Gen. Stuart was called the “Red Fox of the Confederacy because of the Diond glory of his coloring and the swiftness of his movements, as well as his wiliness in evading pursuit. He was sald to be one of the handsomest men in the South, And perhaps it was true. But I wae at that time too much absorbed in contemplation of the, to me, handsomest man in the whole world to have discriminating eyes for the beauty of any one else. Among those of our officers also noted for personel attractions, and one who was thought to resemble Gen. Stuart tm appearance, was Gen. Longstreet. The “Red Fox" told me that one of his most ardent admirers, meeting Gen. Long- street on one occasion, said to him: “Gen. Stuart, you know, somebody told me of mistaking you for Gen. Long- street, the Hkeness was no great. But T don't see how he could, for Longatrest {a not half as handsome as you are.” Longstreet gravely replied: “Yea, ati eas it may seem, T am sometimes taken for Longstreet.” “Now,” said Stuart, “wasn't that just ike old Peter, with his quiet humor? Gen. Stuart was a great tease, and affecting not to know of my engagement to my Soldier, he expreseed an eager desire to introduce me to one of his brilliant young cavalry officers, saying: “You know you should marry into the cavairy; an infantryman te not worthy you.” “But I prefer the infantry, an@ you know I am engaged to Gen, Pickett,” I replied. He pretended patned surprise and said: “My! My! What a pity? You should net throw yourself away on the infantry. I am sorry for Pickett. Upon my word, he ought to be In the cavalry. He deserves it.” I defended my choice and set forth the greater advantages of tho infant:y service and the superior attractions of those who belonged to that bran: “Picket ie lucky,” he responded, “in having such a champion. ‘‘Io tell the truth, Tam tn love with him myself and agree with you perfectly. For Pickett can do anything. When I see him dance, I think he ought to be a dancing master. Looking at him as he rides, I think he ought to be a cavalry leader, When [ hear him whistle, £ think he ought to be ® bird. When he sings, I think he ought to be an opera star, When he leads @ charge, I feel as if the battlefield ts his only place. Yes, Pickett can do everything, and do it Well. As for poor me, I cannot do any- thing but make love.” Inexperlenced as I was, I knew that the “Red Fox" could do all things that Were beautiful and gractous and brave. As for making love, there only one who knew his power tn art, the lovely and charming woman who pos- sessed all his gallant heart and hes worth!!y borne his great name through years of wearing toil and lonely sorrow, or (CAN You, > BeaT iT? - & » Gen. J.E.B STUART riltiant, dashing cavelryman, suany as morning and vivid as the flash rin a dark night. In the battle or on the road @ song or a laugh was on his lips, and the nearts of his men leaped up to meet hie gayety as hie feariessmess, men go through @ great war untouched by any ball except the fatel one. Such was the sift that Mars bestowed upon his brilliant follower. And the deadly shot set its blood red seal upon a youth that was immortal. Wrong? You know 1 was young, and the brass buttons and the uniforms @ strong appeal to a young chap.’ “They make a strong appeal to everybody,” said Mr. Jarr. ‘I'he end | of war is in aight with the adoption of | plain and serviceable khaki uniforms. Who wants to fight, dressed like a sur- veying party? It doesn't rouse the martial spirit.” i “I guess you are right,” sald Mr. “Sure I'm right,” retorted Mr. Jarr, juming the authori- tative air of a n with money. “And | the thing has two sides to it, When we see a guy with fussy little coat- tails trimmed with gold braid, when he | has red stripes down hie trousers and | brass buttons and epaulets and t angles on his sleeves, and is oth wine gotten up like an organ grin monkey, why, we want to shoot hi “Take our forefathers, Would th have been so bitter against the red-| coats if the redcoats hadn't worn red| coats? Of course they wouldn't have deen! “As soon as mei clothes it makes shoot them, But upon to do it unless THEY put on freak clothes, Hence the instinct I al-| ways felt to throw a brick whenever | 1 saw you goose-stepping with the m Grays. A uniform ts simply he saying ia." | ‘It 49 easter for most men to recite the THad in Choctaw than te cay °T right,” said Mr. love you" in English, Rangle, “I wish you'd spoken about it | to me before.” | But Mr, Sarr knew he wouldn't have een listened to. For now it was money talking—and it gets a respect- ful hearing. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening West). MAN “MUST love some one"—so he just naturally ende dy felling in love with the nearest one. . The girl who marries in order to escape working for her Mving te apt to receive the same sort of shock as the motorist who runs inte a trolley eer in order to dodge a telegraph pole, 3 up in freak | A man's kisses are first reverent, then rapturous, then tender, then cae ual, and last—charitable, A feminine cynic is not so often a woman who has missed the wine of life as she 4s one who has drained i¢ and ts euffering from the headache, As long as yirls aro brought up to regard matrimeny as thetr “fortune,” and boys to regard it ae a misfortune, we con hardly hope for that perfect understanding between husbands and wives of woh the poste sing. . The Boarding House Goat errr {MARCUS ash ama eaaone a3 | NEVER EAT ‘Em le YET THEY STICK ‘EM AT MB! (HATE TH’ SIGHT OF ‘em! HO. MARC HOW YOU DISH O' PRUNES! LIKE ‘EM? oor ATE THAT WHOLE A woman ts never sattafied with the power to make a men heppy be jcause she is never quite convinced that he loves her untese she con make,’ | him miserable. The average girl of to-day 1s forced to marry either g bade torn the cradle, an octogenarian spared from the grave, 6 remnant from aemong the left-overs, or a hand-me-down from the divorce cowrts, None of the rest | will marry as long as they have the strength te fight, | —_— | Poverty t# a love-charm that often holds two people together simply de- cause they haven't the carfare to get away. —_—_ ee ee | aan H A Handful of Interesting Facts ; mac.) * There t American | at Columbia College, hi » had tn its openin | Learned Societies, each organized for |class 104 studenta, cleven of whem are the advancement of sctence, women. They will recelve the degree Bachelor of Literature in Journal+ 4 ear, foe [18m on June 4, 1918, es The St. Vincent De Paul Soolety was NE Re ce-Hugentcs- line gripped | founded tm Paris, Fravce, and now hy branches tn nearly every Ch: gh y Christian ott: the pub rest, and cells respondingly ‘arge number of books , eating on the subject. | ‘The School of Journalism, which wae | spe leqeage im meaigmner of wwe past reas | 13h ton Hamlet the principal m 78, hi ne