The evening world. Newspaper, March 1, 1913, Page 10

aaa eR Se 8 SE __The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday, Ma ESTABLISEDD BY JOSPPH PULITZER Lxcept Sunday the Prese Publishing Co 62 Park Row, New Yorl ., Prenidi Subscription Kates to The rid for the United States ‘ontinent ternatio nion. «$9.50 One Year 40 One Mon REVIVAL OF HORSE RACING THIS SUMMER. ITH the proposed revival of horse racing this summer there will Le general gratification provided assuranee be given that along with it there shall not be revived the old abuse that roused j» Phe sport is one that needs sny vision from wi Jation from without. lends itself almost any kind of a tr are watchful of its fairness aud its honor, it is alu blacklegs and welchers That ¢ Jt is so kept in Great Britain and in York for many ye constabulary. Only a joe a horse from the track summarily can defeat the forever watching to profit by the chances of the track, The courts having declared a way for resuming the sport, it is up to the Jockey Club and association managers to play the game right. made fraudulent hy men that manage it certain to draw s honey draws flies onest is ‘tt pt clean by police or by yond dispute. New sport can be kept clean and rane was so in But it was never ke 7 key club having power to exelude a ian or liemes of rascals a STILL HOLDING OUR OWN. MONG the protests sent to Albany against the proposed inex in the tax on stock transfers is one from a merchant of Brooklyn saying that when he began the wholesale dry goods business there were twenty-three distributi.g houses of that trade | in the city while now there are but two, the trade having gone to Chicago, St. Paul, St. Louis and other Western cities. He urges that if the tax be imposed on stock tram’ % one exchange business will go West likewise. The fact cited is interesting, but tie westward drift of dry goods distribution was not caused by taxation in New York. Nor does it appear to have injured New York. The city is larger than Chicago, St. Louis and St. Paul put together, and there is no visible sign, evidence ot omen of an approaching loss of pre-cininence. The Stock Exchange nor any otler industry will leave so long as economic law gives it a place here. When that law calle it else- where it will move as it is now moving from London to us. But it will take a much bigger law than the one proposed at Albany to get it started. Ase ——_<¢-2 THE FELLOWS THAT DIDN’T. ISCLOSURES in the graft investigations show that about ten thousand saloons in the city have been paying cach $10 a month for “protection,” making s neat annual total of about $1,200,000. But the whole number of saloons in the city approximates thirteen thousand. So there are eomething like three thousand that either went without protection, or else got it in some ovher way. It appears thet all that paid were members of an association formed to look after their interests, to protect them from oppression, to have excise laws drawn without undue restrictions and to guard them from aseenlts within the trade or out of it. The epecial dues ef $10 s month under consideration, however, were not a part of the esecciation dues. They constituted an honorsrium extraordinary and yware seemingly at least for occult uses. ‘AB of thet is intelligible enough. But ‘how faree it with the flizeo thousand that didn’t pay either the association fees or the a rest? Or do they stand safe in their rights by obedience to law, toghining evidence thet virtue needs no policoman? ————-4¢- : THE’ PRESIDENT IN THE CAPITOL. Washington wae not more disturbed by the refusal of Qe. President-elect te become a member of the Chevy Chase Gib than have been the Congressmen by a report that he in- ‘tanfle to make use of the Preaident’s room at the Capitol as an office end to keop busy with legislation. The two things taken together ewe digns of brisk weather shead, A President who would rather do polities than play golf, rather confer in the Capitol than sulk at the White House, is going to have something doimg during his term. The innovation will be one of form more than of fact. From the Presidents have been party leaders. ‘The country has Jooked to them for legislative initiative almost as much as for execu- tive enforcement. It has been the custom, however, for Congressmen te call on the President rather than for him to go to them. That has given them a sense of liberty and the President an air of impartial aloofness. The new plan will frankly display the President as a di- rector of Congress, Much good may result, but many a day at the Capitol Mr. Wilson will have occasion for wishing he were at Chevy Chase, Letters From the People The Of-iow To the KAitor of The Evening World week, equals 21 weeks and 4 day; Therefore 16 weeks and 1 day, 21 weeks In reply to A. ©. R., Who denounces] and ¢ days; 2 weeks, Total of 179 weeks tee lowering of the U. 8. flag between] and 5 days. W. HK. @saneet and sunrise, 1 aay as a matter Bile Biaki. of cominon expediency, if for NOTIN] g. we Kuitor of The Evening Word lee, the U. 8. flag should have @ few] 4 clatine that if a orelgner who hi ours off daily for recuperation, reel.) never secured his citizenship has a an occasious! patching, and other nec-| yon who was born in Amertoa that son camry repairs. And what more suitable) cannot vote until he has taken out ctt- time than at night, when bunting patri-}izenship papers, B claims that the son ot are wrapped in slumber? ‘oan vote without taking out the pa P, O'NBILL, | pers bec ve 18 already @ citizen by The Time Probl birth, vw lite father was not To the Editor of The Eviaing Word: Here iw my solution of the proiem | reading, “How many weeks in 3 yearn 6 months and 2 weels Cane WM, | opy tie Ka 63 weeks; 1912, 12 weeks and 1 day; 191%) On w 63 weeks; total of 1 weeks and one day, | 23, 18507 Five mont! vary, 4 weeks nd 2) ppee, Roosevelt and I days; February, 4 weeks; March, 4) qo the baitor of The Evening World: a citizen, r of The Evening World: t day of the week w Weeks and 3 days; April, 4 weeks and 2) Who were the candidates opposing aye; May, 4 weoks und 3 days, Total] Abram 8, Hewitt for Mayor of New of 20 weeks und 11 days, 7 days to @ York City in 188? RG INSURANCE co INCORPORATED Copyright, 1918, 9 The Pres Pablisiiag O». ‘Tae New Yora Kreaiag Word), ae WE HAVE BOYS IN UNIFORM TRAVELLING UP AND DOWN IN THE SUBWAY AT RusH Hours To RESERVE SEATS FoR OUR PATRONS CODA LETTER came to me from an old Confederate soley A dier’s widow who, not realising the impotence of one who had been thrown helplessly ashore when the storm passed, wrote to me to ald her in securing a post- tion as postmistress, Though I had not as yet grown accustomed to calling at & public office, the letter was eo pathetic and honest that I smothered my reluctance and decided to go at once to see President Hayes. When I was ushered in he was aitting at hie desk holding my card tn his hand. “I came to see the President,” I wa! this wae Mr. Hayes, en, What can I do for you, madam?” * ‘ou can do a great charity and give bread to a widow and orphans you helped make by granting the request con- tained in this letter,” handing the missive to him, After reading it he asked: “Do you know this lady personally and can you vouch not feeling su: for what she says?” ‘Yes, I know her intimately, and"-—— “I gee she saya she is going to have some other fellow do the work. “What of that? Does not everybody do that? Don't you?” “I guess I do my share, But why didn't she write to her Congressman? This tm a political office.” “{ know that, but she is a Democrat and you do not recognize her Represen- tative in Congres “How do you or I know that she will fill the place?” “UC know, And you must swap sight unseen, as the boys #: “I never gamble. I always know where the knife is before I choove hands, Are you living in Washington now?" “Yen, #ir; Tam in office." “In oMece? Why don't you ask for this place for yourself? Wouldn't it pay more? Her oldest son is named for Gen. Pickett, “Three times as much, And 1 might possibly keep the place a month, at the end of that me I should be put in the penitentiary. couldn't do my sums to bless me.” “Then L suppose it would be better for you to stay where you ar laughed, But Lean't count. 1 he After asking me some questions about the war le sure: “You know T have a little war record of my own, the Thirty-third Ohio and was made Brigadier-Ge: of Sheridan; served all through the war, and Mked the army no well I refused to Iwave it for a seat In Congress, Though T have been Governor of Ohio three Umes, the last after a most desperate campaign, | am nothing of @ politician.” should think you were the greatest of politicians to oceupy the Presi- dent's chair when another man was elected to it” I replied {mpertinently “That was the other fellow's politics, and for a while it looked as if I'd have a second war chance, Hut the Democrats decided it was better to stomach me! than another revolutio: I started in asx a Major In ral on the recommendation Some Attention, Barbers. of the ,iné at his penholder for a considerable tim, lve handed the frank rei as you pe what Bil asked the astonished terber, da hile bis cea hat aah end as you ku ‘Welt, Whe this,” anamerad Mr, Barry-|} weil, 1 didn't like to put ‘em down,"—Tit-| Have» wateht | Bits, | ’ eee A mn anewered = Mr Barrymore.) 7, | make the. lair eninge tim | ©C@use For Consternation. | Magaziue, MB tnexperienoat diatrict echool teacher thad --sseee apetianda for the tain Aiscipline, Going ort ato. the Too Warm for Writing. | .4 lnvke off a wicrl sized smite that “ oO got an accident to report, have yout’ | w there ay administered primitive id the bead clerk to the formas of the} punishment Jimmy Kelley, “Yer, sir,” sald the foreman, aud, after geaw.’ ait tase By Mrs. Gen. Pickett Copyrigte, 1913, by The Prove Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), 23.—P RESIDENT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. eck the repor rea OHN BARRYMORE was once watet ine “Date: Nov. * hia set J tarber shop when the barter, who was! Ledly enihed How cepa: Acckiental bioa noted for his selling propensity, said | from fellow-workman's aletge baummer, — Ie. 1 ae that your hair ie getting pretty thi, | marks.’ I Cast 1 ome of ww hair toy v se ery go id the clerk, But hae "Oh, me," auawered Ar. Hermon, “it Il you omitted teers oe Nt MY wanted my lair lo grow, TF would use @ steel, “Well, sir,’ saul the foramen how e 7! A steel How can steel make hair grow! 4! fa by Ne | “For my part I am glad they did. You have done more for the South than 1 believe Tilden could or would have done; if in nothing else, !n ridding us of car- Pet-bag rule.” “Don't you think, perhaps, the check of the Louisiana Lottery Company de- erves a little credit for that? It fe said to have helped in the prevention of a quorum in the Louisiana Legislature.” A waiter coming in just then with a tray, the President, wit the hospital- ity of old Virginia, turned to me and asked: “Come; won't you have a cup of tea?” scorting me through a door which separated the President's office from the family rooms, he introduced me to Mrs. Hayes, To my mind she was @ beautiful woman of great dignity and kindness of heart and one who received and welcomed the humblest of her frienda with the same cordiality and gra clousness with which she greeted the wealthy and mighty. When I returned to the President's office he had called up the Postmi General and some of the members of Congress from my State and assured me of the appointment for my friend. “I want to thank you, Mr. President,” said I, “for this great kindness to the widow of one of my beloved Confederates, and for the yet higher act of hu- manity in restoring that brave soldier, that heartbroken old hero, Gen. Warren, to hie rights, Of course, on the other hand, I can never quite forgive you for thrusting Gen. B, F. Butler upon the Democratic party. Standing, the President briefly told me of how Butler had tried to influence the committee in favor of his candidate for office, a one legged Union soldier, by making him take off his false leg and limp in on crutches. Indignant over the failure of his dramatic scene, But- ler left his party and joined the Demo- crate. My friends were al: I told them of the generosity and quick response of Mr, Hayes, saying that was moat unlike the President, who was a reat refuser and @ slow performer, hesitating over and refusing the re- Quests of even the most prominent of his party. Either for that or some othor cause, it is certain that Mr, Hayes had the hostility of nearly all the great lead- ers of his party, only three Senators of either side supporting his administra- tlon, But, fortunately for him, he had the ableat Cabinet since that of Jefferson, and was himself a wise, earnest, cau- tlous administrator, When he was through with his office he handed it down not only to a Republican but a member also of the majority the Flectoral Commission, and he was the only President who ever promised never to be a candidate again and kep* his word. ost incredulous as ood Stories of the a school was dismissed at noon they gathered in] "Weil, gan the tuud reuklesaly, A talked in ers, impel tw Calling Henry Thowas w her she demanded the! there isn't any ‘might this noow rig cots’ about apd what do s herself and bougint that hat!" F paid cause of the a “Why—why--why, teacher," he ateothat awiteh you eked Jiminy with mas the tree we all set out last Arbor Ds Marper's: Magasine (ee Tae Cook Could Afford It. stammered, tha) —- —— The Cost of 9 PIM KEENE was an 0 sadly of the dead finat 0 usewites obiwed to practice strict grumbling @bout the vice and cruelty and economy will wmpatlive with the sad | Lypocrisy of moll (ines declaring the world Washington womaa, to be worse today fan It wae 7,000 years ago Wren her husband returmed lome one evening ‘Keene and I once bunchet together at a amart and careful! Fifth avenue reet Progress. broker ‘ler, He wasn’ i eaperiene of & de found her dinwived int Mt, and though our lunch questic grid, | wan @ simple one, the Mil came to $11, Keone “Dan,” said she, “every day his week TI have| showed the bill to me with a smile, aud 1 aid Mopped to lok at a perfect love of a hat in “Moe high cost. of living. It certainly Mme, Louise's window, Such a hat, Dan, such | @ lot more ¢o live now tugn it did when you and & beautiful hat! But the price -well, J wanted it | 1 were boys,’ in the wot say, but just couldn't afford to| “'Well,’ eald Weene, ‘i's woh more,’ Washir giow Bear, [14 some job, It is away beyond the “biigar boy. “' The Garden of the Heart.”” 1813 {er has been said tn | the word “Bermudi j# other. 1am not sure about that; but, somehow, the word “France! | reminds me of potatoes and green peas. There are really only two things tn th | they are—Love and Gardens. The call of the garden always comes upon m¢ about this time of the r, along with the call of the spring hat, the call of ‘aris and the call of the heart. One goes to sleep dreaming of tulip bulbs [and sweet p and lettuce and awakens with the strange fancy that the bugzing in the steam radiator {s a summer locust | Real gardens are like matrimony; they cost a lot of me turn out heart breaking fatlures. Rut 11 you didn't marry;" because yo far it has been } | tion, And there i« no garden in the world ike the garden of the Imaginattom® | Did you ever eat any of those delicious little pommes de terre and petite | pots, which are grown In (ie gardens of France and nowhere elxe on earth? 2% #0, you “understand” why Paris and potatoes and peas are inextricably inter | mingled in my memory, The other day I a little French womaa why by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), the difference between an idealist and a realist Is that always suggests lilies to the one and onions to thé always world to be thought of just now, ant ey and sometimes rfect as “the girl ated entirely in the imaginar as | We never see any such peas and potatoes in this country, and her answer made | me sit up and rub my eyes. | “Ah, madame!" she exclaimed, “You lave the so beeg potato, the so grand !gros peas, Why? I tell you! Because you have the so many machineries You make lots, lots, lot grow, and make it ail Krow bees. But in France @ |man work wis hees HANDS! He puts hees whole HEART into hees garden! Voila Ah, yes! Voila! | ness of modern life. with his hands, The whoie t of the flatness, We have the “so many machineries,” or puts his whole heart into anything. tastelessness and dul- And no man works The so many ma | chineries, and the so many machine made brains, and machine made souls, and | machine made educations, and marriages, and divorces, and lives! | Wonderful age—of fireplaces with no fires in them; of buckwheat caket | with no buckwheat in them; of children with no childishness in them; of filrta tions with no sentiment in them: of houses with no homes in them; of hearts with no contentment in them, Wonderful age—when everything, from potas toes to novels, is Judged by bulk; and all things, from dollars and diamonds te husbands, are collected and displayed by tie wholesale! And yet in the garden of the world it is the little things grown with heart and hands and brain that c nt—count more than all the vast products ot machinery, The little French peas and potatoes still bring the highest prices in the market, and we cannot get half enough Nobody is going to elt Defore a gas-lox blaze if hy can afford a bl fire. The Lithographer has not crowded the real artist out of life; the phono: graph has not put Caruso out of business; the talking pleture machine has not forced John Drew off the stage; and, thank heaven, nobody has yet discovered a way to write poetry or to make love by nrachinery! } Quality stil triumphs over quantity; and the short, rich, fruitful lives of | Stevenson and Poe and Shelley still stand out « 1 the long, lumbering, in- effectual lives of the millions that have Hved to three-score-and-ten, Oh wonderful thought! Life, after all, is not a machine made thing, but a garden: apd those who work in it with hands and brain and put their whete hearts into“lt are the only really “successful” people in the world, Success, after all, consists not in doing many things but in doing one thing worth while, and in doing it thoroughly and beautifully. Tor the Jmportant thing with life, as with @ poem or a story, is not that it should be long, but that it should be beautiful and satistying, Tt ix hard with the buzz of machiner about one—fearfully hard—to keep inside on patiently working with one’s heart and hands at the one thing worth while. It 1s hard to stick to one's own ideals and not go wandering off after “othor people's gods." It ix d to stand by and see one's machine made neighbot turning out “lots, lets, lots” of things and taking in “lots, lots, lots" of dol lars, while one waits for the flower of Genius, or Lovo, or Talent, or Hope to blossom, But if one can—it on that the product of h and the whirr of nervous rush all ‘s own Ittle Mfe-garden and go one can and WILL—one shall surely find in the end arts and hands stands out above all the machine made products in the world and makes them seem cheap, and flat, and unprofitable, Ah, yes, little French girl, with your petits pols, and your pommes de terre, and the sun of Alsace in your eyes, out of the earth you have dug the secret of success und happiness, You have given us the password to the Vale of Contentment, the key to the rden of Life. . The Week’s Wash By Martin Green Copyeigiit, 1013, by ‘The Press Publish ing © Now York Evening World), 66] looks to mer ‘Kked the head | capabilities of many of the most per- polisher, “as though the teats- # of the Police Departmeat tative committee would tie the a willing to bet that some of ex-Cominissioners Who are so pro- up in a bow knot) litle of ideas now didn’t begin to solve if it acts on all|the inner twists of the Police Departe the conflicting dupe | ment machinery while they were In of- Police Department the Various distin-| fle guished citizens! ‘There is one man who could tell the have been feeding | committee what Is the with the it during the past| Police Department—if he would. Hts tew da name is William 8, Dever: ‘There are very few voters," said A Prophecy Gone Wrong. $ the laundry man, | LAAAOARADAPADRDRPORODADS ‘not deaf, dumb | ¢ ¢ 1AT Thaw scandal,” said the -and blind who can- head polisher, “isn't any too not tell you vin | sweet-seonted an aff off the reel just what Is the matter with} «re couldn't have t much worse the Police Department. Quite a few] i¢ they had let him « agreed th women, not voters, are also wise to what is wrong with the Police Pepart- ment, And to hear them tell it all that is necessary to reform 10,00 cops is to | apply their remedies. “George B, McClellan, one of mittee's advisers, was Mayor o York for six years, He had the m problem on his hands every minute} throughout his term, and he left the Police Department just as he found it When he got through doing his stunt the com laundry man. "The attitude of the pub- Hee on the subje as Mayor the people handed him his] mtn with lots of money is hat and asked him not to slam the door} “When Patrick was pardo as he went out the general impressic New York Beth Low, anotier adviser, was] that Thaw would be the next to go free, Mayor for two years. He was clected on a "d hear peor can't Keep reform ticket, His management of the, lim in, because he's got all kinds of coin.” However, have pret- ty thoroughly sealed himself in the | crazy house for criminals for some time | to come on the strength of his latest ! eftort to buy himself out. No offietat ‘would dare tur 1 loose on the ogm- munity now," | } Experiences Usele: Pollce Department Was such that the nae populace of New York, almost by ave | « 10 the ! poilsher, “that clamation, yave the reform government 1 has gone am@ the bum’s rush and installed a Tam- ny again,” ‘many Hall administration ' id the laundry~ | ether Van Wyck, Low nor McClel- } lan tried to institute ical polive reforms and each of thelr administra: tions Was queered by tie police and ex cise questions, Mayor Gaynor Is the only executive since consolidation that | nas tried to do anything radical with co Department, And hia ex. @ experience t A. Van Wyck, Seth Low and “is one of the ol corke B, MoClellan, conclusively proved two expen. | th Mayor of New York {s ‘damned at don't teac man any thang. lie joes and he's damned it le ie Setting Housed." | doe —— >. ‘Policemen have rights, guaranteed THE DEFINITION. them by the Charter and the general | tor was examir ng the class, | scan any litte boy or any ttle girt |lawe, For many years they have been, | through thelr organizations within the! here tell me what a fish net te made | Department, bulwarking thowe rights | of?" he kindly inquired. |and adding, here and there, a privilege.| “A lot of little holes ted together smiled the never-fadidng To handle such an aggregation of talent | with strings,” —Bulalo Commercial, j