The evening world. Newspaper, March 25, 1913, Page 18

a - . % - The Evening World SEE carorid. SSTABIAEHOD BY JOSUPH PULITZER. ‘4 PaBliened Daily Except Sunday by te Re Publishing Company, Nog, $3 to CRRA Fewest PET hn ; ETT hee, MEN WAR ‘ Dafly Magazine, T Can You Beat It? @ uesday, M a os rch 25, 1913 Gi Vil Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), @ By Maurice Ketten mont ems: WANT TO MAKE A COMPLAINT HE STRUCK ME WITH A POKER CHIP AGAINST OFFICER JULIUS FoR CONDUCT WHILE LOOKING PoKER RS.GEN. PICKETT: Post-Office a Keg ork oi s Second Claas Matter. og UNBECOHING To A GENTLENAN GAME in A Ganeune dor den iA Le os tome Co, (The New York Evening World), the ‘tes to for the United Gtetes International offen is Sea eth cf OD Tear. . 0... cae rcccascocsccce One Month ...cncsseseccecee VOLUME 53. 2...smsressmessoressscrsscsoescessoN THE BOMB THROWER AND THE TERROR. ITH three bomb explosions in a single district in one day and with a record of fifty-one explosions since New Year's Day, this-city offers opportunities for sensational realists to-get plots that would make those.of any other city seem like inci- dente-in Peaceful Valley. ' Here is one evil that has not as yet been attributed: to low wages newaixed up with a sex.problem. Yet in its way it is mystery of no saean interest. It existe decause-a:considerable number of well-to-do people are sfraid of it,.and they ere,afraid of it not because of what it. is Imt because of:a-dread tradition that has been handed down towthem from-enother age and another country. | Whoever shall rid the masses of Italian immigrants of this terror | will render a.great service to them and to the city. It is an issue for edewators ar well as for detectives. In fact, the educator is more | needed than the other; for the greater part of the evil is mental, the terror is worse than the bomb. If the Italian districts can be rid of the one, they themselves will get rid of the other. CRIMINAL LAW REFORM. "FFORTS-are making to procure the passage of bills at this sos sion of the Legislature providing euch alterations in the criminal laws as will remedy some at least of the notorious defects that have grown up through the years. It has long been! conceded that law réform is one of the needs of the time. Judges, | lawyers, grand juries, bar gssociations, have in turn advocated it. Over and over again gross miscarriages of justice have been attributed solely to the technicalities and absurdities that control our system I Witt HAVE A Most ‘of criminal court procedure. Yet, despite the frequency of such oo- currences and the continuous demand for reform, some force of | ‘opposition or perhaps of sheer inertia has prevented the attainment] of it. In reviewing the handicap put upon the prosecution of men | ed with conspiracy in the commission of arson, Judgo Swann ently said to the jury: “This is just one case, and as we go along | I could suggest many reforms; but how absolutely helpless we are. | We are here in a thickly settled community, whereas our ancestors | of the British Isles lived in rural communities, and their rules of | evidence which we have adopted do not suit present conditions, and | ‘we ought to amend them.” | That was doubtless well said; but we are not under British! control and haven been for a long time; eo if we ought to amend ; their rules we should do it. We are not helpless in the maiter, EE a MRS. BELMONT’S HAPPY THOUGHT. Ts @oggestion of Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont that the proposed bridge to connect New York with New Jersey should havo its terminal not at Fifty-seventh but at Fifty-ninth street is excellent. Unless there are very strong engineering reasone for placing it elsewhere, the Fifty-ninth street terminal should surely ba | chosen. The argument {fe that a bridge at Fifty-ninth street would he part of s continuous straight thoroughfare from New Jersey across Manhattan to Long Ieland. It would provide a crosstown Broadway and offer an opportunity for creating an avenue of such length and grandeur as the world cannot match. An opportunity of such magnitude should not be neglected for slight or transient reasons. In the past work of municipal planning our predecessors made many blunders by considering potty issues rather than thé larger one of future growth and development. As a consequence many of the advantages of our superb site have been sacrificed for small economies. We should profit by the lesson. A grand interstate highway through the heart of New York on a stately avenue from river to river, from bridge to bridge, would have monu- mental possibilities that must not be ignored. WOMAN’S SPRINGTIME FANCIES. O* women echool-teachers wish to marry and teach school, have children and teach other children; Wellesley women have organized an association pledging its members to marry no man that has less than $5,000 a year; women of official rank in Washington wish a tax on every man, rich or poor, that doesn’t marry before he is twenty-five; women in Ohio wish a law compelling men +o wear beards and discard starched shirts and collars; women in Ilinois wish corsets furnished to all women in prisone; women in Missouri are proposing marriage to a etudent at the State university who has been pronounced physically perfect; women in this city wish a list of “Don’ts for Girls” posted in railway and steamboat stations warning girls not to speak to strangers, whether men or women, and a woman in New Jerscy wishes to have cats muzzled. * This is Easter week; the season of birds and of flowers, when the clouds return not after the rain; the springtime, when a fuller iris comes upon the crested dove and a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. But just consider from the current news what young women are thinking of and estimate the chances the young man has of finding a girl to listen to him. Letters From the People ar, INANE INVEST! INVESTIGATION MADE . COME Bacr IN Two SECONDS WE INVESTIGATE COMPLAINTS WITH GREAT RAPIDITY SIR | HAVE THE HONOR 10 R WE COMPLAINT AGAINST MYSELF_ MERE 1S MY REPORT RIGID ae You Bye THANK, Goon YOUR COMPLAINT AGAINST GATED MYSELF OFFICER JULIUS |S DISMISSED THE INVESTIGATION MADE BY OFFICER, JULIUS HIMSELF SHOWSTHAT HE IS INNOCENT. OFFICER JuLius, A VERY SERIOUS Saige ee BEEN pe AGAINST OU « NOUGQH INVESTIGATE IT VERY THOROUGHLY AND WITH A SHRUG OF THE SHOULDERS REPORT RIGHT AWAY | ms VME R. JARR, going to buy ao fring hat for his wife and aleo com- missioned to buy a for the hat for on the corner, faltered not. | jad put it ali| to him at last moment. Cawards! ‘While they watted, safe and in con- @enial surroundings in a cafe in the Chopping district, Mr. Jarr entered the Great department store to buy hats for hie wife and thelre—the surprire hats. What followed was, as he afterward) used to say, “a horrid dream.” A polite personage in a frock coat |and deautifully oreased trousers, seeing ‘Mr. Jarr wag bewildered though brave, j@ave him a eweet smile as he headed him off just inside the store's main entrance. ‘This polite permonage, as Mr. Sarr | used to tell In later days, when descr!b- | ing his quest of the three spring hats, had a strango seeming of being en- tirely parted in the middle, (ie hair was parted in the middle, ‘Sam Loyd’s Puzzles. the the appear: middie. His natty cravat was divided | and preacheth “ethics” unto a kitten! into two ends, His coat was double breasted. His waletcoat was the same, and to its lower pockets, right and left, ity Iittie eidewhiskers gave his face ce of being divided in the POROSOERSEOEAEDOL OERSOEERELE SORES COSEEEOEESEOOEEES Mr. Jarr Tempts Fate by Trying To Buy His Wife a Spring Hat BESTSTSSTITISIOSS FFSTSSTIII9SII9IT SISSIOIIIIIIFITOD ‘@ thin gold watch chain, divided in the by @ fraternal society charm, itch, perchance, and in @ gold matchbox, maybe, on the other, Goorin. 1918, by the OW long, my Daug ment How long silt thou seek to convince them with FRANKNESS? Verily, verily, thou art as one that chattereth of “reason” unto a babe, For, not one among them shall believe thee? I charge thee, think not to gladden the heart of a youth by openly sing- ing Ms praises, neither by honestly declaring that thou LIKEST him. For he shall crawl within hia shell Hke unto a frightened turtle, crying: “Go to! Doth she seek to make GAME of me, or only to flatter me, that ashe may WORK me?” Yet, shouldst thou frankly tell him that he ts an abomination in thy sight, he shall expand with vanity, saying: “Aha! Bhe is piqued, She seeketh to ‘lure me on’ with ‘indifference!’" For, unto a man, LANGUAGE in the mouth of a woman ts but the in | atrument with whch she concealeth her thoughts; the veil which covereth her “real meaning.” Lo, should thine husband question thee, saying: “Darling, how camest thou to marry me?” and shouldst thou unswer him truly, seying: “Because thou were't mine ONLY: chance!" would he believe thee? Nay, verily! He would but laugh, and kiss thee tenderly, And his home would be filled with visions of his vanquished rivals, . Yet, alas, if thou shouldst seek to flatter him, saying: “Beloved, many men have I known, and been loved by them, yet out of the BUNOH I chose thee," he would chuckle derisively, wondering at thy guilelessness in thinking to dazzle him with such “fairy tales.” When thy Beloved saith unto thee, “Am I the FIRST by whom thou hast Ladies from Harlem had al awed at this personage’s double magni cence, In their hearts they believed hi owned the store, and they generally ad: dressed him by the first name of the firm, But Mr. Jarr knew he was onty the! main-entrance floorwalker, and he en-| swered him shortly that he sought the| Indies’ spring hat department. | ‘Main floor, third aisle to the left!” anid the parted-in-the-middle function: | ary, and Mr. Jarr headed west. But a ewirl of bargain-hunterg bore him up against the bank of elevators at the side. “Going up!’ sald the elevator man, ae shoving Mr. Jarr in ahead | - ed in and jammed him up in the back of the @asped Mr. Jarr, as a fat tady fell over him ae the elevator came to a sudden stop. “Hats, matin floor, fourth aisle to the right!” replied the elevator mai ond floor: Children's W. @urnishings on main floor,” he added for Mr. Jarr’s benefit, wh! tho women tn the car gazed at the latter scornfully, It was at this point thet Mr. Jarr be-| gan to wonder what he had evgr seen in men Mke Rangte and Gus. | “This,” he said to himself, ‘is what, @oing in bad company does for a decent man!” “Third floor!” epake the elevator man again. “Curtains! Carpets! Groceries! Wines! Liquors! Cigars!" “I want to get to the ladles’ hat de- partment,” whimpered Mr. Jarr. “Ghapes, fourth floor!" said the el vator man. ‘Get out here! Ci Suits! Wraps, Drugs, Sporting Goode!" (Mr. Jarr emerged with a tall lady who ‘was jerking @ skinny little girl by the arm. |. “Are the hate on this floor, madame?" | he asked as the elevator bounded on up- ward with {ts more or ‘ess precious freight. ‘8 been | 33.—GEN P. G. T. BEAUREGARD, Who Ordered Fired the War’s First Shot. 66 1E claim that the first gun fired upon Fort I Sumter was the tocsin of war as well as the death-knell of the Confederacy is @ wit ‘Munchausontike. ‘The first hostile act did not come from the South. The United States officer, the repre sentative of the Federal Government, who on Dee. 28, 1860, atealthily transferred the garrison of Fort Moulttle to Fort Sumter, spiked the suns of the fort, and destroyed the ammunition, struck the tocsin of war and fired the first shot.” Gen, Prauregard spoke with the reminiscent alr 68 ” one who lived again @ life crisis long past. . “Sometimes I wonder how a man feels as he aims the first gun that opens a long and terrible war,” I sald. “I would rather have lived a thousand years in ptf. gatory than have given the order for the firing of that first shot. I prayed with my whole heart,” touching the rosary that he always wore, “with my every breath that this cup might pass from me. And while we made every preparation to fire upon Sumter I prayed that if a shot had to come it would be from the fort, Grown impatient for the arrival of the fleet.” “The commander of Fort Sumter was a Kentuckian and might have fete double reason for being as reluctant as you to fire upon his neighbors across the line.” “Yes; Major Anderson was a hot-blooded Kentuckian and his wife was & charming Southern girl, the daughter, of Gov. Church of Georgia, And 1 knew that his heart should be with the cause represented by the flag which | waved within range of his very guns, I had faith that he would yleld to my urgent appeals, sent through my staff officers, to eurrender.” “But you did not do much execution upon his men, T think.” I have one consolation in the fact that our shots did not kill even one man. They only burned up things. The only men killed were shot by Andere son himself when he fired the salute to his fing, which I permitted him to raise again and to salute on coming out of the fort, and to take with fim.” jen he did not ralute it at first?” T asked. yo 4 fo; It wae first lowered without » ‘When Capt. Wigfall, one of my staff, saw the barracks in flames he took a boat with a coxswain and two negroes and at the risk of his life rowed over to Fort Sumter. He tie@ his handkerchief to his sword and landed while the fire was raging and thet Shells exploding from the mortars on Sullivan's Island, and appealed to Major Anderson, as man never appealed before, to aurrender; pointing out to him the hopelessness of holding out any longer. “Tam Capt. Wigfall of Beauregard's staff, he said. ‘T pray you to strike | your colors, Beauregard is a gentleman and will grant you all the hqnotes of war. Hoist the white flag, Major Anderson, I entreat you. And if you won't, sir, then by all that ta righteous and holy, sir, T will.’ The white flag wae hoisted. The surrender was unconditional; all the honors of war were granted jdm. No paroles even were required of him.” “Well, General, you not only won the first but the second great Oon- | federate victory.” “No victory is great at the cost of fe, nnd we lost too many good men at Manassas and gained too little to strut and crow over our triumph. Whe can take the place of Bartow and Bee? Through Bee Gen. Jackson recetved his name of Stonewall. When my lnes were broken at Manassas, Jacksore brigade reinforced me, forcing their way to the front and snatching vietory for us from the jaws of defeat. “Bee's men were scattered and he rallied them, saying, ‘See, boys, eee! There is Jackson standing lika a stone wall. Rally on the Virginians, beys. Rally!’ Bee was a magnificent soldier, a eweet fellow, a poet and a singer as well as a maker of songs. He wrote a histury of the Mexican war in five stanzas and sang it to an old Spanish air. Just before the battle he sang the ve And the most lasting picture I have of him is as he sang the last | verse in hia tender, sympathetic voice describing the leaving of Mexico after the last battle was fought: “ ‘We are leaving those behind us whose manly hearts an@ brave, That to our starry banner their true devotion gave, Long eince have atilled their beating in the etlence of the grave; Then a tear, boys, a tear, For those manly hearts and bi ‘My last memory of bim fs as Gashed into the fight waving his hand of the first verse, ono time in the fight, didn’t it?” I oe “Yes; it was a lucky thing for ts that old ‘Fuss and Feathers’ chose the better part in letting Johnston's army come to my rellet when the forces were retreating. Uniting them and dividing the Union soldiers under Patterson and McDowell was @ bit of siratesy most helpful to our side.” “Well,” I sald, “the Federals were so sure of success that they had thelr baggage marked for Richmond. But is Mt true that they brought handcuff: + "Tt tt ts," sald my Soldier, “we don’ ‘want to know it or remember it. Sher- man said that Manassas was one of the test planned and worst fought battles But wh more battles to plan or fight.” BRIGHT in all military history, and that neither our foresight becomes as good as our hindsight there wit be.se Of Evening World Children le had anything ,to crow ewer. SAYINGS ‘The Bvening World gives 610 weekly im each prizes fer Bright Saginge Bilzabeth, aged three, was much fn- terested in a Finland penny which her nurse had eiven her and wanted to buy some cookies with it. Her mother told her that Finland money was only used in Fintand and that in America people {used American money. After a minute Bltzabeth asked, “Mother, what kind of ‘money do people weo in Brooklyn!” ELIZABETH WELIS, No, 2612 Broadway, ‘New York, N. ¥, My three-year-old nephew was told he must not ask for penntes. He came to me a ghort time ago and sald, “Aunt Nellie, got a penny?’ I said, “Now, Arthur, you know you were told you must not ask for pennies.” He looked puzzled for a moment, then eald, “No? got a nickel” MISS EMILID CAESAR, No, 2168 Cinton avenue, Copyright, 1918, by ‘Tue Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), cold. She looked aghast at the “goose flesh” that appeared and then called as loud as she could, “Hurry up, mother! I'm turning into a chicken.” MRS. N. L. MAC INTOSH, ‘No, 278 Seventy-fourth street, Brooklyn, NY ‘The clase haf all been asked to wette compositions. On inspecting Frank's the teacher exclaimed, “Why, Frank, can't you write @ better composition than this? It 1s tho worst in the class and I ghall show it to your father. “I don’t care,” exclaimed Frank, triumphantly. “Page wrote it.” i MISS HELEN B. KING, Box 9, Mount Kisco, N. ¥, ‘The following ie a letter I recel from my small cousin, who ie e@bout seven and a half years of age: “Deer cousin Jo: the litle dorg ¢ was ste Difference. he would | om earth was enothe! ever been kissed?” I charge thee answer him, saying: “Don't: you dare speak to me, lonfer!” Bronx, N. ¥. C. svi fe oma Ap 4a ded, hoping to fad Po the Batter Evening World: name je infernal fone. Thi on, Y the lady. “You have followed me —_ ¢, 4 remane, yur cusin, fepute ¢hat & heard hotly [Jamauag, the crushing, the dectiing, Nay, nay! Notwne of mine aoquaintaces do I allow to escape, Behold, 1 cried the lady. veh have collomes ‘A amall chap had been told by his| Broun, JOSEPH Naame er day. And it occurs have kissed themALL!" ‘ mother that he must be good at ell bustling, shoving, pushing and general Foughness are unbearable. make « rather interest- ‘When first And he shall be satisfed, belteving thee not. But Mr, Jarr dodged to the left under @ canves cance that was standing end times, for even though she was not 44 Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, N, ¥. ing Uttle @iscussion for your readers; |] came here trom Pittsburgh I stood on | “Yea, yea! he Firat-and-Ont >| up againet the well, and in another mo-|around to see him, God always kept| Returning home from school, little ‘also an interesting bit of information. |those platforms for half an hour et a But iy Ua shouts ere bre ae . Thanet: § . yone!” | Up ww round himself sefe across the sreat| his eye on him and followed hid|Hesste was caught in 9 severe thums ‘It is not @ “catch”: Will readers briefly | ¢me and stared in unbelief, It did not he would suddenly be fille loubts. floor space to where @ lot of women| wherever he went. One day he was derstorm, The next day one of the tell whet, to thelr minds, is the exact | seem to me possible that human beings | you are a dozen years older you have Go to! Every woman is like unto an actress, that must paint herself | wore pawing over a counter covered with | heard saying to his dog Rover in a very | nelshbs Géflerence in meaning between the words | could be thus treated even in this sem!-|deen my husband six-clevenths of your | With falae colors in order that she may appear “naturat” in the eyes of|untrimmed hat shapes of fearsome) cross voice, “Aw, gs wan home, Ain’t| home as Memarder” and “assassination”? civilised city or that any mass of people | time on earth.” ‘It ecome longer," eaid | man. curves and angles, dt bad enough to know that God te al-| carry her, could meekly endure euch treatment. and the Subway. | Now York ts the greatest of ” ten h ; ‘amported miiiinery department, eixth | towing me?” M, BURNS, the storm, didn't you think of all the! Ooeee Eaner of Tee Bring Weed: ty on earth |for it." Can you teh how many years! any man de to tell Mm the HONEST TRUTH! floor,” replied the salesludy. No, 1077 Boulevara wrong things you ever diay’ big come in some ways. But tn thie it te—well, L the husband; “but I'll take your word they have been married? Anew e readera, what 2B it? a 0 Tree Chopping Problem: For, since this is the last thing which a man telleth a woman, tt ts the| And once more the wretched, deserted, Weehawken, “Oh! Why, no,” replied Bea to New York ané stand on the uptown ‘Wednesday. ‘There were 286 trees, and as George | Jast thing which he expecteth to hear from her, ‘DewMdered man eet out apon his quest. — a-trying hard to think of ju @idwey express platform at Grand Con- | 70 tee miitor of The Dreaing World: lehopped down sixteen there were 210 : ST Wi yy; | ‘This to what comes of being kind, of One night Wttle Thelma had the ex-| good one.” fe tral, Goventy-second or Minety-eizth| On what day did Mey 16, 101, fail? ,\ loft Ae two newatives make an afirme | Behold, Diogenes himacif did not arck to find an HONEST WOMAN going favors,” he murmured hoareely. | perience, for the frst time, of taking her ** ou B pmsseus 9 Sv emtnaniatovmesteonranihe vas Dine 5 Th "nate sittin Keane thd ge too te Can ha beliaved that there was ‘‘uo.such animal!” Selah aeuem again for mel’ +s eee dinath doe 60]$ s00m. and ip.water rather Verily, verily, 1 say unto thee, the one toay in all the world to deceive be 3 “Ladies trimmed hate?’ he gasped. waye tagging around without you fol- day when ‘© 80 frightened in No. 100 Went 77th street, Now Team