The evening world. Newspaper, February 5, 1913, Page 18

a — ‘ " test Saamae BY JOSPPH PULITZER, blished Dal t Sunday by the Press Publish’ Noa, 63 t ly Bacept Supday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 63 to RALPH puLTzi t,,¢3, Parte Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, . JOSHPM PULITZER, Ite hecrelary, Park Row, | Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Se 4" Budacription Rater to The ivening) For Bngiand and a World for the United States All Countries in the International Postal Union, One Year. + $3.50] One Year.. One Month. + .80/0One Month. VOLUME 53 and Canada, NO, 18,796 __ SUPERINTENDENT MAXWELL’S REPORT. ‘ HE REPORT of City Superintendent Maxwell so far as it con- J cerns certain proposed reforms in the echool system is full of wisdom born of experience and ripened in reflection. It turns an X-ray light upon a good many suggested innovations which in themselves appear excellent, but which reveal defects under the searching illumination. To the demand for three elective courses in {he seventh and eighth grades he objects that pupils complete the sixth grade gen- erally when abgpt twelve years old, an age when they are unfitted to elect studies for themselves, and, as the Superintendent adds, “Parents are seldom able to advise them wisely.” In our efforts at “simplifi- cation” and in our short school year he points out there is danger of eatting down the curriculum “to such an extent there would not be enough left to furnish the mind with that knowledge every one should possess.” To the advocates of a larger degree of freedom to the evhool principals, he says their arguments would have greater weight if “they could show that principals have as a rule used with wisdom and due diligence the freedom they already possess.” Finally, there fs the recommendation that it would be better for both pupils and teachers if the long summer vacation were shortened to one month, as in Europe. These are plain words, but they touch the issue to the quick. Changes are not always improvements. It is sometimes well to listen te the counsel of the actor as well as to that of the critic. ens payne THE LESSON OF THE NEW AMENDMENT. FTER a thirty-year campaign of education on the need of an income tax as a part of. our national fiscal system, The | World has the gratification of finding the victory won and the imposition of taxation on wealth, instead of on poverty, virtually assured. The process of education has been so thoroughly worked out during the long campaign that the new tax will be approved in principle at least by almost universal consent. ‘That much is made Yevident by the vote on the amendment to the Constitution, After all manner of delays and halts and hesitations and evasions, the politi- cians have had at last to obey the will of the people. The success of the advocates of the income tax over the hostility of plutocracy, the sullen opposition of political bosses, and a deci- sion of the Supreme Court, shows that to carry out any resolute will of the people there is no need for recall of judges, nor for referen- dums, nor for any other erratic or revolutionary departure from our catablished form of constitutional government. A slowly won success schieved by reason is better than a swift one attained through appeals to passion and to prejudice. It is to be noted, moreover, that whit this is the first amendment to the Constitution in forty-three years, tit will not be long before others follow. But none of them will he revolutionary, They will amend—not destroy. 4 __—_ CABBAGE, RICE AND CORN BEER. HE announcement thet the United States Government has brought before the courts a test case for the purpose of get- ting a decision as to what is meant by “beer” will interest few people outside the breweries. We have long since learned that neither the Pure Food Board in drawing a bill, nor Congress in de- beting it, nor the President in considering it, nor the Secretary of ture in enforcing it, ever knows what’ pure food or drink is, Bat the public will not be indifferent to the disclosures that much of the stuff that is put up in bottles labelled “an exclusive malt and hop brew” is made of cabbages, rice, sugar and various “corn products.” Fortunately the burning thirst for beer is still far from us in 6 springtime distant by six weeks, according to the sage who invented ‘thp ground hog lore. Therefore there is time to consider before making resolutions. But no man likes the fear that in quaffing a stein of nut-brown brew he may be putting a cabbage head on himself. Netther does the American like corn converted into beer when it is fittener for whiskey. © And how will the Prohibitionist like the thought that what he has eo often denounced as “demon drink” may after all be but rice soup made thin? ———— THE LESSON OF THE HOUSTON HIPPODROME. JROM reports made on the causes of the panic in the Houston Hippodrome it appears the exits were not only legal, but were quite adequate for purposes of safety under normal conditions, ‘The cause of the crush and disaster was that a crowd of people were waiting at the doorway to enter as soon as the audience was dismissed. When the panic crowd was rushing out, the expectant outsiders began :to force their way in. ‘Then came the usual street mob gathering at ery sort of excitement, and confusion was made worse, It would appear from these facts that in all continuous perform: ance theatres or like places of amusement, where one audience waits to enter as soon as another is dismissed, the entrance and the exit should be by separate doorways. The innovation would probably not entail any very heavy cost in comparison with the cost of the building. There are some eight hundred places of entertainment of this kind {n the city. Many of them are said to be in unsuitable structures, but | all of them may be presumed to have met the requirements of existing ordinances. Yet so long as one crowd tries to enter through the same (door that another is leaving there is always danger even if there be no fire to start a panic. Man’s Preference. 188 LILLIAN HILL, lecturing on engenioe tn Cleveland, said: “It te a good thing for the human race that beauty counts for more than tntellect when {t comes ¢o love, Intellect too often means N& oss called Mr, dart into his private off | stipendary ¢ INSIDE SE AND Wey BODY % SEATED — TAKE UNDERGROUND ELEVATORS, Copyright, evi by The ress Put ‘ork Evening Wt “L haye-ahem that ttle rranged for matter of i pensatic the boss. “Of course 1 reslize sv matter is now inconsequential ) Dut we must recognize ability and fdel ity, sir, We must show appreciation when we are cognizant of the valuable uu render to this concern,’ hos not believed that # raise, had t current rumors that Mr. into money In some mys- terlous but gratifying manner, he would simply have said: “We've raised your wages, and can consider yourself lucky, sir." Or it is rather more likely he would have sont Mr, Jarra letter stating that, owing to the increased cost of raw ™ terial and operating expense the fi could not, In Justice to itself, Increa the sularies of mployees, though their serv! were of value to! the firm—which would have been } tle hint that Mr. Jarr's services weren't valuable to it at all However, { need # ral M you the boss hastened to give him one; without even consulting that august and unseen body, the Board of Directors | Why? hued to aleep from Amboy on ote On il cael ‘Hes, M4 fo © good thing for the tran race think?” he wont om, | thet, os on ld maid trem Vesser put i rather train thet pulled ta from Wooded with coft coal! yt (ofoemed ee." Man preteg 6 witltermed oi to «wih “Then why try te drown the “ee tiainags Diet, belleve In the volce with a ng that Mr. Jurr didn’t) ty ISN'T IT, Lovey ! ___" The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday. February 5, Bopy WHEN GO IN or ayes ——_+§ for you, ie ashier, as Mr, me out of the private sanctum of t head of the firm and passed the cash- fer's cage, The old man put up a holler, but T said to him: “We've got to old man Conquests of Constance } By Alma Woodward { —: sporight, 1942, by ‘The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), The Wine Agent “SS do you ever dream?” Connie asked with reminiscent terror -huh, Do | dreams I've been havin’ this past |"e4dy stocked jewel cases an’ complete | this establishment!” (Mr, Jenkins ind!- week ‘d give the |Parls trousseaux, wuz dream stuff,|eated he was one of the former and Statue uy Liberty Ree say, came near cashin’ 4n|Mr. Jarr was one of the latter.) “But St. Vilus's dance! {When T with him—uv starva-|I reminded the boss you were a man If 1 could only ree |on, too! An’ there wuzn't a night uv} with a family,” member ‘em I'd |™Y life T didn’t decorate a real filagreed' The shipping clerk also gook an occa- have that feller Edgar Allan Poo lashed [et factory neither, Sounds woozy,{sion to stop by Mr, Jarr's desk and to the mast fer real chill producers, |don't it? hint that the betterment of that gen- But [ can't remember ‘em, All I know “It wuz this way, ‘This guy wus|tleman’s fortunes were due to the soll- I wake up with the bedclothes, Workin’ fer a swell firm, Nothin’ under |darity of the shipping department strangiin’ me in a Masonle grip, an’ find Ve dollar stuff, An’ he hypnotized me | ‘speaking up for a pal,” and also in its [myself with the ruffle uy my boudoir ! the beginnin’ by sayin’ that the/ friendly offices in hiding the shipping cay under the left hind b caster uy the an’ my little tootsies pointin’ to the der uy yeller roses what runs around molding in my room, A with a mile gale givin’ a imitation uv atin’ plant through the win- dow that ain't the coslest little pose to bo caught int’ ‘onsense! How do you ever get UN- the caster?” I derided, h me! Gosh, it may be jucky 1 DO get anchored to somethin’, Sup. pose T got fussy an’ did a little tango step out uy the casement one uy them nights! We dwell on the fourth floor. And right beneath my window is a cholce heap uy chopped milk bottles, Ught"" “Stop eating before you go Then you won't dream, W &@ whole lot of trash rig ing, what do you expec! “Bat nothin’! gust. “I ain't et at night fer a year, tt secms to me, Gee! The season's dull. Why, To aln't run up agatnst nothin’ more noisy'n a boitie uy’ domestic gin- to hed. she re} ger ale s'noe last Octobe: "No, thy sleep's sufferin’ fram. ar- rested de Since 1 been this Job I ned different, b late at night has always been neces. sary to me, an’ I got ‘em reg'lar until I ran tnto the wine agent. That crab- femile'e’ arema with cleveet” apple wuz certainly the original Wee- hawken' Straight, Hie glowin' promise mus worth two ralsen An’ after the] interest in a pretsel vine!” PERDAEERAEDE REDE S AESOOREREEAODESOR SEOSEL EDIE OSES OED Mr. Jarr Gets That Raise at Last Jarr | petitor has made In her violet eyes, | polishin’ up the Thanks to Everyone He Knows. bdvsossvssssssess soovsssssssveseesseseseosEesCeCsD Mr. J at that “Don't do anything rash!" meet the proposition our strongest com ir, Jarr, We can't n who carries the casually, “I may quit anyw: afford to lose a mo counselled accounts he does!’ And the boss had to|the cashier, “I'll see what I can do agree with me.” to increase the raise, Leave it to me!” “That's nice of you Johnson,” sald} And he xed a wink that implicd mere words could not describe the Potency of his cashierial influence with the firm, “Well, you might say ‘Thank yo sald Jenkins, the bookkeeper, as Mr. Jarr took his seat at his desk beside that gentleman, “I wens to the front for you with the old man, I sald to him: “Take my tp, Mr. Smith, we've elther got to recognize substantially the value of Ed Jarr to this firm or he's ing to duck and leave us flat!” When was this?’ asked Mr. Jarr, had never known of Jenkins going see the boss—unless it was to com- mistakes, ‘Just the other day,” sald Jenkins, airtl, “The ficts are, the boss asked my opinion. He wasn't very strong for the raise thing, for I suspect he knows who works and who soldiers around draw, gee, I'd 'a’ swapped him cheer- fer a healthy spring onion! “Once upon a time when a girl sald she had a wine agent fer a friend, everyone what knew her'd get busy undyin’ love for her, an’ remember the time they lent her money, But after Ud had a three weeks tryout with one uv the troupe T knew Ml this gas "bout them carry! around In te Plain of somebody else’ most disagreeable thing I'd have to do,; blunders and other errors of Mr. Jarr while knowin’ him, would be to help) and the rest of the establishment. him absorb, In some way, "bout four| “We guys out in the shipping depart- quarts a night, Well, ay course that|ment do the work and correct the mi listened like harps an’ angels to me, | takes,” added the shipping clerk, “and thinkin’ uv all the frescoed food that'd| you guys in here get the credit and the match them lHquld panels! big money.” he first night he opened three Httle| ‘Then he borrowed two dollars of Mr. non-retillables an’ smoked two packs|Jarr and went his way, uy cigarettes, Not so much as a oyster} Gus had received word of Mr. Jarr's cracker on the table! The second night| getting a raise in salary. In fact, Bep- wus just lke the first, An’ the third |ier, the butcher, had heard it from Mrs, time, this shine asks me do T want a Clara Mudridge-Smith's maid, Mrs. dem! tasse before I take my wine, A/Mudridge-Smith regarding the e her dom! ta Me, with nothin’ dense in| husband had given Mr, Jarr as a per- h since a slice uy lHver ational act of philanthropy on her part. I dee-vlined. An’ the fourth | Bgier had told Gu: t he didn’t mention even a tootH- ‘Well, I hear you got @ raise,” sald Gus, coming out of his place as Mr, got on my nerves|Jarr was passing. “I guess you will be wus the way the dames at the other) riding around in your own taxicab next, tables'd look at me like I wug the pet} what? canary uv a gold mine! As one bottle; Mr, Jarr intimated he would still after another'd come to us they'd kick| travel by strap In the subway. thelr meal tickets under the table to| “Well, I don't know but what you are look an' see the animals bathin’ in| right," said Gus, ‘Soon as some people bottled money an’ all the time I'd ‘a'{get a dollar and a half a day when been willlng to commit murder fer | they used to get only a dollar ten they thing that ‘iden buck, or even a gob uy horse-|puy a lemonsine, Then something gits radish on a lump uy sugar! wrong with the cabareter in it and 1 got s) that every thre I'd smell! that costs a lot of money, Then they the cookin’ In a restauyant, black | pust a lot of inward tubes, and they Is jevercome, and in 1764 the twenty-year-old Abigail was duly married to John | Adams, nine yoars her sentor. [solving of some of Its knotty problems. Build Americal Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), No. 5.—ABIGAIL ADAMS; a “Power Behind the Throne. HE good folk of Weymoutt, Mass., were pained to hear that their minister's daughter, Abigail Smith, had fallen in love with @ young and not especially promising lawyer named John Adams. Lawyers were in none too high repute just then in the prim New England community, and Adams was the son of a poor farmer he was considered no sort of a match for the daughter of so exalted a personage as the local minister, Abigail's father was as violently opposed to the match, at first, as were the rest. One Sunday, in the pulpit, he glared first at Abigail and then at Adams, and then gave out the following Scripture text for his morning’ sermon. ‘My daughter is grievously tormented with a devil.” When his elder daughter, Mary, married to his liking the clergyman furtber emphasized the difference between the two girls by preaching from the text: “Mary hath chosen the better part.” But his opposition was at las' The couple had four children, of whom the eldest, John Quincy, was one day to be President of the United States, like his father. It was the only instance in history of a father and son both being elected to our country's Presidency, Abigail was for years forced to toll unceasingly, as became the wife of a Poor country lawyer with a houseful of children, But in her spare moments she found time not only to advance herself but to 1 her husband wise advice as to the shapt ing revolution, ‘To her wisdom Adams owed much of fh own success and advancement at Uils the, and the un dorn nation was indebted to that same wisdom for t} Abizafi had undoubted genius, for her early life had in no way fitted her for the great role she was beginning to enact, She wrote of her girlhood: “[ never was sent to any school T was always sick the best families went no further than writing and arithm instances, muste and daneini She urged the destruction of the taxed tea in Boston Harbor, referring to the tea Liself as “that baneful weed.” And her letters to her absent husband were full of brilliant counsel. *Adams rent on a mission to France. His wite Joined him there, And in 1785 she went with him to England, where he was the first United States Minister to the British Court. In England there was a strong feeling against Americans, especially In court efreles, We had just torn off the British yoke and had ga our full freedom, » memory of their defeat and the loss of their jonies rankled tn nglish hearts, Hence the life of the new Republic’ © to Great Britain wad not wholly pleasant. And that of his wife was still less so. For displomacy compelled a semblance of courtesy toward Adams himself, But the women of the court circles, from the Queen down, found a thousand sof insulting his wife aking her stay in England a torment. r before had the genius «f Abigail Adams shone forth in this seem- ingly bpossible situation, As a New England minister's daughter she had no experience with the n world nor with courts, Yet by her native wit, her dignity, her tact, she not only turned fors into friends, but gave all Englangl a higher, nobler ideal of American womanhood. It was a triumph that excited the admiration of our country bitterest enemies, ‘Adams returned home to become Vice-President and A uel then President of the ®nited States. And again his wife's of Wits. calm wisdom enabled him to stecr clear of many a reef and to promote his country's welfare, Even the gentu: of Abigail could not make the cranky, flery old man popular, and after ome term as President he went back t» private life, After a carcer as “first lady of the land” sh and French courts Abigail settled down life existence, passing her last days in pea Braintree, and dying there in 18 The High Cost of Living * And How to Reduce It. By Madison C. Peters. 4 brilliant years in the Enz- ly t husetts country Copsright, 1012, by The Press Vublishiag Co, (The New York Lvening World), XI.—NEED OF ADEQUATE TERMINAL AND MARKETS. , YORK CITY has but four public markets and no market policy. Jefferson Market, at Greenwich and Sixth avenues, is the only et contiguous to & t population. . of service mainly to the New Jersey com- ty Intended to serve has entirely 3 sales in 1911 amounted to nearly The muter. ‘The population It was orlaln: moved away from the section, and yet Its gr 0, Heo avoort Market is an open sqiiare and, though designed for a retall ket, sells to dealers. About 200 farmers frequent It. rage ees Meet hoa a amall market under the Williamsburg Bridge, serving fish and vegetables, It has no cold storage and 1s only @ pushcart peddlers’ : ings are sold cheap. ; ae eerie needs about 20) 00d, public food distributing markets, Such markets, stratogically located for the economic and satisfactory distribution of food, would cost about $50,000 each, exclusive of the land, With the land ty foul cost perhaps As much more, or a total of $22,000,00, and this investment Would save the people $60,500,000 a year. Surely the possibility of such savings, or even one-third of them, deserves the most serious consideration of ll lovers of their kind, and of the muntelpall and State authorities. ‘Such markets could organize themselves for joint buying and Joint deliver A terminal market system, under municipal control, Is the need of the hour for every city, for the benefit of both the producer and the consumer, Public markets pay everywhere. Living in Baltimore ts cheaper, and better perhaps, than in any other city in the United States, yet the clty makes an Annual profit on its markets of $90,000, New Orleans cleans up $70,000, Washington 71000, Buffalo $44,000, Cleveland $27,007, Nashville $8,200, Rochester $14,721 and Indianapolis $17,220, The Municipal Market Idea. ‘The municipal markets in the great eltles of Europe keep the living down and pay the cities well for conducting them, : ‘The Smithfield Meat Market, in London, covering eight acres and costing $1,940,000, last year brought in In rents $4! and on this “people's market” there was A profit of about $100,000. Billingsgate, London's famous fish market, administered by the elty corpora- tion, bullt at a cost of $1,600,000, returned last year $84,455 In rents, The 194,477 tons of fish were bought at less than one-third of what we pay, and yet the city profited to the extent of $40,000 In this fish trade, ‘On the entire municipal market enterprises London clty made @ profit ef $156,000, Covent Garden, London's great flower, frult and vegetable market, is owned by the Duke of Bedford, having been in his family for hundreds of years. o present fruit, hall was built at a cost of $170,000 and the flower bullding cost 13,000, ‘Birmingham, since 1908, has expended on its markets, for Improvements and oxtensions, $2,155,362, and the profits since then have paid off more than half the Indebtedne: Liverpool makes an average annual profit on its markets of $80,000, Since 1868 the city of Manchester has profited by Its markets $3,250,000, Its flsh market alone ylelds an annual profit of $10,000 In addition to heavy extension payment; in recent yt Dublin makes a profit of $14,000 on Its food market and $12,000 on the cattle market, while Edinburgh clears up $15,000 on tts municipal markets, Berlin, notwithstanding constant improvements and extensions of its superb muntelpal market system, makes a profit of $125,000 a year, Frankfort, in addition to its covered markets, which date back to 187%, has ts paved and fenced square which since 1997 has been used as an open market, where stands are rented for five cents a day, Munich's municipal market brought an income last year of $116,000. The city spent $410,100 on new produce (halls recently, which are the finest in the world, Paris’ Halles Centrales, costing $10,00,000, returns $2,100,000, of which $1,000,000 is the city’s annual profit, ‘Vienna's forty-five markets yleld the city an annual profit of $60,000, while Budapest keeps the price of foodstuffs down to normal levels and profits by its markets over $100,000 a year, For a “Market Commission.” Write to our Governor, pledged to help reduce the high appoint a Market Commission, with power John J. Dillon, W. C. Osborne, ura A, J. Lippmann, and such women as Mra Kimer Black and Mrs Jullan Heath, and save the people of all cost of living, to composed of such men as before they spots'd come before my exes an’ I wutl proke worse than they perfectly sure that !f 1 didn’. stop goln'| got the raise, with him that some night I'd blackjack} “Anyhow, I'm glad you a! 4 lady, with a wine cooler, an’ take her |igh, But don't get the big he: club sandwich away frum her: S80 I! start to boosting, Come in and have & shook him fer a feller what had a part ink, And remember what I say— our ctles and towns at least 25 per cent, of thelr Ilving cost. The problem 1s more pressing than rapid transit, We have neglected ¢hi most important branch of civil enterprise. Organize our markets; let us have a terminal market system worthy of our boundless enterprise, In the interests of the health and happiness of all our people—to say ni of the help it would give our municipal Anances—let us rally for a naan hse ayetem worthy, of our enthusiaem for humanity, le