The evening world. Newspaper, March 11, 1913, Page 18

Cre Be aaiorid. FSTABLISNHD BY JOSHPH PULITZER. RMN Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to 63 Park Now, New York, RALPH PULITZON, President, 63 Park Tow. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 61 P J k Row, JOSEPH PULITZNIG dre Mecretare, 6F Parie Row, | tered at the Post-Office at New, York ax Seconda ‘lass Matter. | fon Rat to ‘he ening| For Knelan! and the Continent and forid for the United Bta a * All Countries in the International .| Portal Wnlon, | + $9.60) One Yoar.. + 30) One Monthseee 5 | a | RIGHT USE OF ROOF SPACES. N the roof-of a Y¢M. ©, A. building to be constructed in the Bronx the architect has arranged to make good use of the roof space by adapting # for athletic recreations. Tracks fosqunnors will surround courts for tennis and hand ball and places for broad jumping and pole vaulting. In the winter the courts casi| bewconveried into skating rinks. The point of most jnterest in the project is that it ehonld be | noted as a novelty. Such uses of roofs should have been made in| crowded Manhattan a generation ago. Theatrical managers long! ince saw the profit in unused roofs on sweltering summer nights, and opened roof gardens with distinguished success, Some hotel builders | followed with like gain to themselves and pleasure to their patrons. | Now. af length schools and various associations are coming into line. | ‘All large buildings in Manhattan should have roof gardens. In the-case of hotels, apartment houses and tenement buildings, such nse of the roof spaces should be compulsory, Children need play- | gtounds, youth needs athletic fields, age needs rest in the open air. Only on the roofs can there be ample provision for such needs, On the-roofs, therefore, should provision be made. . | ne Cl | THE COURT OR THE BUREAU. | Hy ire arranged to begin to-day at Albany on the bill pro-| viding for the establishment of a Children’s Bureau to sup-| plant the Children’s Court promise to be interesting. The bill hae the backing of a number of strong powers and influences, and | imaupported by able arguments. On the other hand, the opposition | is equally respectable in numbers and zeal. At a meeting of tho voters of the Highth Assembly District on Sunday to greet the Assemblyman of the district, the audience is reported to have voted | unanimously for opposition to the bill and retention of the court. This is another illustmwtion of the extent to which municipal | gevernment has become paternal. ‘Time was when the management of bad boys and wayward girls was left to parents and school teachera, with occasional assistance from a pastor. Now it seems we must | ‘have either a court or @ bureau to deal with boys and girls who have hardly passed the age when spanking is possible and should be per- missible. Shall it be a court or a bureau? Perhaps as a compromise we-shali-have both for a while and a third institution later on. ns STATE MEDDLING AND MUDDLING. HAT is known as “I'he Preliminary Legislative Report of the Curran Aldermanic Committee” has been made public. It has a long name and is a long document. It says many things, | but sufficient unto the needs is this: “The administration of tie Police Department ‘has heen hampered by mandatory State legisla- tion controlling administrative routine. ‘his has been inimical to efficiency and subversive of discipline.” By way of showing to what extent the State interfercs, the Teport goes on to point out that ite laws deal with the organization of the Police Department, its different ranks, grades and salaries; | qualifications for appointment and promotion; manner of the dis-| tribution of the force, platoons and tours; structure and quota of the Detective Bureau and Traffic Squad; the suspension, trial and punishment of definquent policemen. | Surely that is too muoh. Even if the interference were wisely | directed, it would he too much. Local government should be locally | irected as well as administered. But the outside interference is) notwise. It is a case of meddling and muddling. Oe, COMPLAINTS AGAINST PARCEL POST. OMETHING of a splutter in certain quarters has been caused | by an alloged discovery that a package of cigars shipped by | express from Detroit to Milwaukee at a cost of 40 cents was | found on arrival to have been mailed by parcel post for 22 cents. The charge is that the case proves the express companies are making use of the parcel post to handle their shipments where the post rate is cheaper than their own, and are thereby making a handsome | profit--thai in the case cited being 18 cents on an outlay of 22. | It is odd that any one should get excited over such traffic, sup- posing it to be true. Express companies have as much right to use the post as has any other corporation or citizen. The postage rate in the same to all. The inan that takes his shipments to the express | instead of to the post-office is a belated standpatter. He gains noth- ing by kicking, but might gain much by making a epurt until he} catches up with the times, A better founded complaint is that of a merchant against the | practice of the post in carrying parcels in by stead of in boxes or crates. easily crushed. Express companies carry parcels in trunks, post should learn the reason why. ge, like other mails, in-| Parcels are not letters and some are | More Abou To the Baitor of The Eveving World Tread the letter to-day about the suming of horse racing in New State. 1 ary disgusted at the pr When yacitt was thr Years ago its devotees of horses Was a w that people went to the they loved to sce fie horses run. the minute race track betting war for i} Racing. 4s to a career, 1910-1918, Ine To the Paltor of The Evening World What is the length of Willlam J Gaynor's term of Mayor? L. B, hh 17, 18M7, Kvening W On what date did Jim 1 the breeding ful pursult and because Didden People lost thelr delight In the] y h “eport of kings" and grass. by 1 ery as to how grow on every New York State line i American flag she ‘This proved conclusively thi ng was When draped on a wall: ‘The right way mmporied, bd t a nbUAK |) to hang the American flag when draped He and Jan sorry that such # thing | single on the wall is with the atare to foto be legalized once more. the left when facin, MI SBLIM 8. bd i Sanday. v 5 Telonve To the Balitor of Phe Kvening World Bo the Kalitur of Lie On w he month did the 2 an nome experienced | ay Bia inal 210th seh ‘briefly ron OTe . amtery of & telegraph gyerator’ 1 aM |» the KAitor of The Erening World lewcaphy, but| What is the capital of Oklahoma? Is ‘some of your it Oklahoma City.er Guthrte? . of taking up “Weel Itke to hear trom) ¥% bi ¥ The | Id be arranged | | e anne COLDEST WEATHER IN DEAL SE TS a ; The Political Pole jx} By Maurice Ketten ASHINGTON D.C SINCE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE — THE WAITING Room Copyright (The 3 the first of the month I'm to turn over a new said Mr, Jarr gloomily. have done it on the first * replied Mrs, Jarr, “In that case the reform would now be sone months in effect.” “I'm not talking about reform, either, Mr. Jarr retorted. "That is, not MY reform, If a lot of people who think they are so very good only as good as the old man they'd be all right,” Meantnge whom?’ asked Mra, Jnr, “Never you mind whom," was the re- ply, ‘Mut T Just want to tell you that I'm not xolng to etand for a lot of things that’s going on around he “What's going on around here? asked Mrs, Jarre quickly, Instinetively she eensed Mr. Jarr was y ing. In ouch a fs » start sone ly Into the fray? “Well, never mind what." sald Mr , for he realized when die eta the wor! [Mrs 3 d his wife he'd al ways be home before dark?” “Yes; Jim the Land of the Midnight @un.” what good wife but will Jump glad- fenalona occur in the home the man | id then he took her to live “We FROZEN Roan “To THe WHITE HOUSE | Aa | i] | EXPLORATION) (aga | | | PROPER COSTUME For OFFICE queer remarks inde mean? Out with It Thus goaded, Mr. Jarr took a stand to fight his altans and his fires, to pro test against picked-up codfish for father and broiled lamb chops for visiting suf- What do you he said gulleniy, “I want you to get that old battle axe out of this house,"* SEEKERS | | Patt tule ta tk tal eka t eh ekntek of akalek alata akil oko kak ak alhiekiatideal Mrs. Jarr Says She Has Been Called a ‘Bashibazoukess.’ But She Hasn’t Rr rr rrr Rr re POR POR Rn] ‘What old battle axe? I don't under- stand you!” retorted Mrs. Jarr. “Mrs, Grateh, the suffragette; Mn. Gratch, the hikerette; Mrs. Grateh, the hoboette,” said Mr, Jarr, “She gets lamb chops tn this house when I get alt codfish. Shoe is permitt hot mu tard footbaths in the front room; she takes !t easy on the davenport, the only comfortaile thing to lay off on in the house. She smashes my calabash pine, But even if she didn't I wouldn't de Permitted to smoke it, so I want hor thrown out." “You forget—no, you don't forget—you Say such things because you KNOW Mrs. Gratoh is my friend!” sniffed Mrs, Jarr, “The way you act 1s enough to make me become a militant. haps Mre, Gratch ts right: If women | N | Beware of long engagements; ev lwill chafe in time, Anda man, how man." hearty. distraction from serious things, Never try to win back lost lov from it, @ husband 80 much more If only women were wiser—or let him know it, any other woman. + - Copyright, 1918, by The Pram Puldishing Co, (The New York Evening World), 'HING makes a woman feel so old as to be able to remember way back to the days when there was such a thing as @ “marrying After a wife has spent a whole evening in mortal fear that her husband | |may have been teaylaid by robbers or mangled under a taxicad, it te an| “To call ‘em @ bashWazoukess! lawful blow to her to have him walk in at midnight perfectly well and | oy Somehow a man always acts as though Ms mother-in-law owed him an apology for having let him get himself tangled up with her daughter. Of course every woman should marry, now and then tcoman will find a husband not only a valuable objet d'art but a pleasant | Woman {s weak and tender in her sym- f you can “win @ man back” to duty, honor or respectavility, perhaps—but never to love once he has recovered Reems sort of foolish for a bride to waste so much time and money on an imported trousseau when a little cheap, home-made flattery will hold effectively. every woman is wise enough to sce through @ man and fool enough to Yer, Dearte, Eve had just as much choice in the matter of a husband as She merely took what heaven sent her and then pre- \tended to have gotten what she wanted, When your husband apends an occasional evening out be thankful. | ‘ror gome reason, she's tereibly There ARE husbands who spend ony} an occasional evening gt home, had the vote, she ways, they could say and do as they please and no man would dare criticize them!" ‘There in no need for women to bring that about," sald Mr. Jarr, “That's t way {t ts right now. Women do and say what they please and nobody dare criticise them." "I know what you are after," sald with false calmness, “All you are trying (o do ts to pick a quar- rel with me #0 you can rush out of the house and tell your sympathizing friends ;that your wife nags you; that she has become a dashibazoukess! Oh should live to ve called a dash ens! And right in front of my childrent —Where are the children? Oh, they've gone to bed! Well, right tn front of my children, had they been present—to be called a bashibazoukes: "I didn't oall you anything of the sort!” erled Mr. Jarr in astonishment. “AM T sald was that Gratch, who ts taking it easy in the front room, on my davenport, my evening papers, under the light of my new reading lamp, after eating my lam> chops and having my hot mus- {tard foot bath" —— “Oh! oh! oh!” interrupated Mi na silk thread which binds the wrist ver lightly bound, will do likewtee, Jars. "I deny it! My dear, you realty ixtaken," pleaded Mr. Jarr, "I aid ° Jeatl Mra, Gratoh a dattle-axe, I never jheard the other word." “It's what they call the militants tn the Cause tn England—a dreadful name! —fust because they throw vitriol and bombs and burn houses and smash win- dows and otherwise show that, though Even a literary pathies, ele demands equal civic rights.” “Now, we have nothing to do with sald Mr. Jarr, ‘But, honest, am I wrong in kicking about that woman coming here and making herself at home and atirring up troub'e? Why doesn’t © go to her own home?" “Ah, there you nee!” exclaimed Mrs Jarr. “She has no home, She married— her last marriage—Mr, Michael Angelo Pinkston, and he used her dreadfully; ran away from her, was extravagant with the housekeeping money, was never aatisfled, no matter how hard she worked; fussed with her and nagged her if she waa out late on business—wh: that dreadful Dinkston made her life horror!" “He M4, aid he?’ crted My. Jarr, ‘well, I think T know where to locate him. If you can have her in the front room T'll have him tn the dining room “Don’t do anything rash,” #aid Mra, Jerr, ‘You'll only drive her awa; a little more of a fool! But nearly ef nim. He always outtalae ber “Mr. Lincoln, through Sherman, assured me that T was Ggvernor of North Carolina, and st was this assurance that really shaped the terms on whieh Johnston surrendered to Sherman.” “Oh,” eald my Soldier, "had Mr, Lincoln lived the blood disgraced record of | reconstruction would never have been stamped upon our history “Did you ever meet Mr. Lincoln?” [ asked of Gov, Vance “Oh, yes. I met him when T was tn Congress, vou know, du | administration, and I shall never forg | meaning of ‘Buncombe. | when Iam caught tn a tight place, Once up Well, per- | T wanted Ofrs, | reading | of the CivilWa By Mrs. Gen. Pickett Cofrria'y, 1013, by The Prem Fobitshing Cn NO. 27.—GOV. Z. B. VANCE. HEN we first met Mr. Vance my Goléier ‘was in command of the Department of North Carolina and Virginia, He wee then Governor of North Carolina, and he @m- 0 tendad to us the hospitality of his charming 4, as he sald, all of iis tar heel territory not gobbled up by the Yankees, As the “gobbled up" territory was what my Sdldier was after, he did not have time to accept the hospitality of the rest of the State. Gen, Vance entered the Army of the Confederacy at the very beginning of the war and was made Brigad eneral. A year later he was ciected Governor of his State. | 0,” he sald, “I was not en rapport with Jefferson Davis and never coum de We disagreed upon too many vital points. So I conchided to take the helm here, where a good pilot was needed and I could work without interference. T thank Mr, Davis, though, for not taking my insubordination seriously enough > oall me before a court martial.” It was not until court martial had passed out of the hands of Mr. Davis and all bitterness and disagreements with him tad been forgotten In sympathy | as the bore the punishment for the sins of the whole nation that T again met Gov. Vance. He said Mr. Li nor his goodby to me. ‘Remember,’ he # Whig party, whose creed is loyalty to the Union.’ * “You were born and reared in Buncombe County, were you not, Governor I asked. ‘T have heard a story accredited to you that when you were once making & speech in Congress and were condoled with b se the members, one after another, went out, you replied: ‘Oh, that’s all right. I wasn't talking for Con- gress or the galleries, either one. Twas talking for Buncombe.’ ‘That has become @ classic, and many a student has looked in the dictionary to find the exaot “They saddle a lot of other people's stories o me, and I tell them on myself orth Twas mating one of my most florid efforts and holding my audience with bated th when my ein found me out and a Yankee soldier called, ‘Ain't you the same fellow that eald at the beginning of the war that the South could whip the North with corn- stalks” ‘Yes, my friend,’ I replied, ‘I. am that same fellow. But, you eee, the rascals wouldn't fight us that way “The neighbors, as they point out Malvern THll, are still telling that (nthe battle there a frightened fackrabbit sprang up and flew across the field, and you halloed out, ‘Go it, old Molly Cottontail, go £ T hadn't a reputation to keep up, T'd he with you." “And I would have been, too, for T have always had a fellow feeling for the roldier whom Lee stopped and asked why he was cunning, and who replled, ‘Because, Marse Robert, I can't fly, sir.’ I sald to him, “Ono of the polite ways the boys have of insulting one another 1s by repeating your retort to an {mportunate donkey whose braying drowned your voice. As no one in the audience came to your relief by removing the donkey, the next time he brayed you stopped and bowing in his direction, -eald, ‘One at a time, gentlemen.’ The donkey was removed. Some one spoke of Gov, Vance's talent for diplomacy, and he replied? “It 19 well to be all things to ail men. When I was electioneering through my State T always had to take into account the religion prevailing tn the various towns tn which T was to speak, It was essential to have tho same religion as the leaders among the inhabitants or go to the wall, One day I came to a town in which I could not discover any indication of the par- |ticular church affiliations, I went into a corner grocery, Where mat a number of representative citizens. It was neces- |Sary to identify me with their own church before admitting mo to their |eirele, s0 one of the group asked me | what my rellston was. | Well,’ I replied, ‘my grandfather | was a good old Methodist.’ “A cold silence followed, and I con- tinned: fy grandmother was‘an Eptsco- paitan.’ ‘Sti no hint of sympathy, and I made another effort: “'My father was a Baptist.’ ‘Dead ailence and a manifest lack of interest. “‘My mother was a Presbyterian.’ “The wave of approval which rippled over thetr faces showed me that T | struck the proper note and I went on with emotion “*And, gentlemen, the religion of my dear old mother ts mine.” “1 carried that town unanimously." Gov, Vance was denied a seat in the Senate becau had not been removed. In Horace € {n 1872 on polltical disadiiities he made use of the experience of tration of the wrongs done to Southern leaders, and declared that what had been lost by the triumph of Grant would be regained ugder Seymour, i BRIGHT SAYINGS '§ Of Evening World Children DC ee amen) ‘The Bvening World will give $10 weekly in cash prizes for 3 tage by Children. viet ame ‘There will be o first prize of $5 and five $1 prices awar euch sayings as seem to the Editor the cleverest of those euumitmnan” 7 ‘Write on ‘ly one side of the page, keep to 100 word: erably less), and address BRIGHT GAYINGS Corron, poe 4 ‘WORLD, BOX 1,354, NEW YORE CITY. Th: and@ must be accompanied by name ana ‘The list of winners in the frst week’, political disabilities '# competition will be announced on Saturday, Copyright, 1918, by The Pres Publiviing Co, (The New York Te One day my little boy, two and a halt tile riding past th. years, became very unruly, romping| Rank one day a little girt | know eald {through the parlor, drumming on the| to her m after reading the name, “Mother, di why 4 | plano, pulling portleres, &c, ‘That night while he was saying his prayers I told] (177 all Mive your corn eh j him he should ank God to make nm mooie then fan un gegathe only ea better boy, After thinking @ while about liars CURTIS, Ne ame ‘kt, ne aatd: “Please, Godg don't make ma) hon y 1, No. 1395 Bristow wtpeet, | any worse than Iam Mra. J. W. BLAKE | avenue, Woodlawn, don't vow ge im there and have your corn exchanged for in & lunch-room one day @ve- yens-old Beatrice onlered, omeley aad | Five-year-old Dorothy's pet eat had] jicr eating the pay Itprised to eee presented her little mistress with @ #°t /1ike parsiey?" No" Guateced bog ee of kittens, In apite of tears and plead-| «out 1 hate to ace t red B ings Dorothy was Informed that she could keep only one kitten and that/| | the reat would have to be drowned, A | few weeks Jater the little girl was taken) into her mother's room to 6ee the new | No, 4337 Martha} ww) ew York City. | ye hews~Kdwand, aged d Carleton, five | twins, She looked at them wonderingly rted to school, and that for a while, then turning to her grand-| he informed his mother that he gest mother she said: “Which one are you go-' ave " ne book. She sald: ing to drown.” = MELATA MILTON, | "All right ny have Bavnuiee 246 Weat Fifty-first street, New York, | He satd: Oh, no, thet won't do, Edward iss hag learned everuthing out of thas ene” | My child of four years asked Mrs. MARKT, 1) sj | “Mother, will all men and women No, 437 Stirling place, Jaton" "Xes, my dear” “Well, then,| PIAS. BrOGMIyE | tho wilh bury the last man and wo- | mane” THOMAS A. KAN! | 149 Raymond street, Brooklyn, | Neaving she tola T am @ teacher and just after the|well, When she January examinations I remarked to a) Putting on en-year-old boy, “Your marks aro aske: I know a little gint Jones whose mather wi | bath was called trom name@ Gene he room, pen ne to wah eswels “ockings. Her mother “Md von wash your | not #0 high as they were, What is the‘ she veplied, “I aia Bos » pa trouble?" He answered: “Everything is | all. hardly ever use it andy oe be marked down after the holidays.” & was clean. Mies F, B, , (Davison otrect, Amsterdem, N.Y.