The evening world. Newspaper, April 5, 1913, Page 10

: , SSTABLASHED BY JOSPPH PULITZER. @AAhed Dally Except Sunder, by the Press Publishing Company, Nog, 63 to President, 68 Feige te Ee he, ty Beers aan tae erlagt eo for the United States and e \ Ww, BR, 4, THE POLICE AND THE TURKEY. ONSIDERING the eize of the city and the number and mag- nitude of its problema, it is strange so much attention should be paid to the petty issue whether one should or ehould not @ance the tango and the turkey. Why, of all things, should the police have its attention distracted from burglaries, motor-car rob- beries, Black Hand bombs and murder, to the halls where certain folks of gay hearte and light fantastic toes delight to gather and to trot? A century ago the waltz was as much condemned as is the new dance to-day. Youth of that age wearied of the minuet. Youth of our time wearies of the glide, The new steps are danced in , Paris and Berlin. Through them there has been a revival of Yondnees for dancing. They have put a live joy in a society that was near dead or stupid. ‘They have given ragtime an excuse for being. . Many things are to be done in this town of greater importance than compelling dancers to take reactionary steps. And, besides, the Police has too much trouble of its own kind to be fretting about that of Mrs. Grundy. a MAKING A POST-OFFICE TYRANNY. FTER a review of the difficulties attending the task of con- A victing ewindlers that carry on “get-rich-quick” schemes at the expense of the unwary, United States District-Attorney Wise said in his address at Hoboken: “If I live through next winter, I am going to try to have Congress pass laws which will allow post- Office inspectors to examine the books of any company that arouscs their suspicions. That would enable us to nip the evil in the bud | and not simply put a man in jail after the damage had been done.” ] If Congress next winter retains a fair respect for law and ‘Mherty and the rights of men, the cfforts will be in vain. Postal inspection has been already carried close to a financial > py system. Sometimes the use of the mails is denied altogether. | Sometimes persons are denied the right of receiving letters at general " @aliyery. Almost any sort of post-office official, from Postmaster- | General to a local postmaster, exercises these powers at discretion. >. They are well-nigh arbitrary. If now postal inspectors have power . ion to examine books of citizens or corporations, we . thall have a post-office as full of spics as that of Russia. * And what temptations and chances for graft there would be in _ tipscheme! , a on A PLEASURE FOR ALL TO-MORROW. EADERS of The World’s Sunday Magazine and Story Section will find the issue of to-morrow full of interest from the first page to the last. Included in the variety will be some Temances that signalized the costume ball given by Merritt Trimble | Wyatt in William N. Burritt’s studio; an elaborately illustrated jf article on the furnishings of the model flat provided by Mrs, W. K. 4) Vanderbilt at a total cost of $250 for the five rooms; how a little * gist that began singing at the Buffalo fair became a prima donna at twenty. Readers of scientific tastes will find exceptional interest in an pount of the frog that Prof. Loeb developed in his biological tory. Students of social subjects will find occasion for more casual reading in a discussion on marriage and divorce by Julia mn Sears and Justice Morschauser, and in an argument on why wife should hold the pay envelope by Charles Elliot Warren of Lincoln National Bank. {- Human interest stories and illustrations will be found in how “Australian Mac,” a champion, cracksman, was rounded up in New York; views on the drama by Viola Dana, leading lady at fifteen; a two-page illustration of “When the Cireus Comes to Town;” two of the thrilling story, “The Day of Days,” and a page of song ga music, “When the Honey Moon Stops Shining.” 1 Don’t stfiss the pleasure it will bring to your day of rest. Ke be Letters From the People the term vgraph" being applied which implies very little of the idea signalling without wires) that - diograph, would be a better tern CHAMPAGNE BATHS. Samuel Wolcott, who died in Nor- nn, the other day, ts sald to have at regular intervals taken baths in champagne—outwardly, owe Kaitor of The breniug Wortd When wes the Brooklyn Bridge ing of hin Doe Editor of The Evening World “Gen, Ver information of Clifford P, Mor- ‘Qhe Bvening Copyright, 1913, by The Prem Iblishing Co, (The New York Evening World), 37.—GEN. J. L. KEMPER, Governor of Virginia. soldier and could not accept an office. r bered her dead at Gettysburg by honoring « his fe there, and is fitted y old Brigadier-General, James L, Kemper, sufficient honor for me." After Gen, Kemper became Governor we were often bis guests at the} conversation at “You we friend Gen, Pi General's other two Brigadiers, both of whom were killed. home in England we are deeply interested in that battle. if your Gen, Lee approved of the Northern invasion and the consequent chang-|etory.” ‘ertain! Why did he fail? We think him a er leo was @ great general, the greatest defens: 1am CRazy. Putt BUILDING Ria \ CAN'T THANE A TWo YEARS LEASE Chats With Great Men of the Civil War By Mrs. Gen. Pickett The Fennsylvania campaign, the Gettysburg battles were the first ones in Which he was both strategically and tactically aggressive. The great trouble was in Lee's not taking possession of the whole fleld on the first day, Lee x ion of Gen. Komper was received/ was never defeated when he waged defensive battle until at the very last, M prisoner, exchanged and) when our army was almost exhausted by death and starvation, when Grant been placed in charge of the Conscript Bureau !n| broke dily lines at Petersburg and forced his retreat.” Richmond, His attitude toward his new work was shown Will you permit me to ask what Southerners think w: in his remark to me: “Think, Madam, of the position which I hold and of} ‘That is rather a diMoult question for any of us to answer; so many of conscripting a to make him fight for his! Lee's battles were great. But to me it seems that his strategy at Chancel- country, The patriotism of old Virginia ought to send into] loraville, in sending Jackson to turn the right wing of the Union army and the fleld every man who can walk and carry a gun.’ ng a force more than double his numbers, was as great as any. “Well, you won't be shot and carried off to pi ‘ou know, sentiment rules the world. The song with the words, ‘John while you stay here,” I replied in what was intended to! Brown's body Mes @ mouldering in the clay and his eoul is marching on; be @ consoling manner. sung all over the country from the White House to the hovel, from parlor to When the carpet-bag rule was over and Virginia had|kitohen, created sympathy for Brown come into her own, some of my Sokdier's loyal, loving| 4nd kept nis so-called martyrdom before friends waited upon him to ask permission to nominate| the people. him for Governor of the State. He replied: “Tam sure, yes. And may I ptease be “1 thank you with all my heart, but I am only a|PeTmitted to ask if Wilkes Booth, whom But I would love to see that Virginial! knew, did not esmist in the capture of e who came near losing|thi# Capt. Brown?" Ki capable in every way of filling the Govenor's| “I believe he volunteered bis services." Proposing his name will be| “I knew his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. aud Mrs, Clarke, in London, Cres- ton Clarke, & magnificent boy, was playing with #ome American boys when one of them asked bim if he was related to the man that murdered Lancoln, The plucky Ittle fallow knocked the Ameri- can boy down and mashed his mouth for daring to ask such @ preposterous ques- Hut I was more fortunate! tion, ‘Then he went in and described the fight to his mother who took him tn her T ask|arms and with tears told him the tragic Lee's greatest battl when Mr, and Mra, George Augustus Sala were ue invited to assixt in their entertainment, In the le Mr. Sala turned to our host with the remark wounded, falling near the enemy's lines at Gettysburg, your ett tells me.'? said Gen, Kemper, “and taken prisoner, de of warfare?” Gen. Kemper was not a soldier either . Lee approved, or it would by ‘mheritaneo or carly training, but when called to the fleld he led his men with conspicuous gallantry which General tn history, | won for him and for them @ high place on the war record, ever have been maie.”* t general.” who asks for a better name for @ubject entitled “Wireless Telex- ° n @ glance at Gec, 6 of the from #8. 412, printed and di fares by the Government, will reveal @oliowing: “Be it enacted by the and House of Representatives United Gtates of America in Gesembied, that the expression Communication,’ as used in this act, medas any system of electrical eemmunication by telegraphy or teleph- { emy without the aid of any wire con- nesting the points from and at which i the radiograms, signals or other com- Ly © sent or received.’ I this will * eet aside the term " tegtesraph.”” KE. J. Q. 4 Mere Treeble for RK Kdkter of Tie Evening Wortd: @re some eimple but perhaps potmts I'd like to have read- Their various replies may teresting. Here the question: you wear 4 cane or curry it? you drink soup or eat it?” “When fare in a theatre do you enjoy the or do you enjoy yourself?” Let from some of our wise feliow SOL H,, Corona, N. Y, G \e- us jaune at Copyright, 1913, Uy The Trew Cublisiing Co, (The New York Evening World), 18 is the most dangerous moment of the year, Spring colds, apring I Poets, cubists, firtations, enzagements and matrimony threaten one et every turn. One finds oneself continually getting into scrapes and run- ning round madly, doing serious things foolishly and foolish things seriously. But the danger of dangers which menaces most of us is the danger of GETTING ENGAGED. Spring’ goes to the head Ike champagne. At this magico season two une married people are so apt to mistake the moonlight in each others eyes for the lovelight, and to drift into an engagement as unconsciously and drresponsi- bly as two toy boats drift together on a pond, Ah, well! There's nothing half eo swect in life as “getting engaged.” Per Sonally I believe in getting engaged as often and as seriously as possible—at least once a year—up to the wedding day. 1t keeps up the glow of life, The heart needs exercise, as well as the muscles, to prevent it from becoming Atrophied. Hesides, getting engaged ta excellent experience, a sort of con- tinuous rehearsal for matrimony. Best of all, it gives one a perspective on the opposite sex and keeps one from taking that sex too seriously, But an engagement should not be @ life-and-death affair, Not that one nity'’s sake, or merely in order to fim’ ome particular girl, Such “affairs” not real engagements; they are stupid and sordid and uninteresting. One should always go INTO an engagement with serious intentions—and then tum round and go right OUT again, if he @nds himself mistaken, An engagement 18 not @ grappling-hook. Choosing @ life-mate ts like choosing # spring hat. You can't be expected to TAKE the first hat you fa A hat bought at first sight, like love at frat sight, 1s almost sure to turn out a failure. No matter how pretty and alluring @ hat may look in the milliner'’s window, or how charming and alluring a man or Woman May appear across the ballroom or the tennis court, it {8 no eign that they wero intended for YOU, or that they won't make you utterly mis- orable from the day you get them until the day you get rid of them, It fs all & matter of matching vour eyes and hair and complexion in a hat and of matoh> ing your tastes and ideals and habits in @ life-partner, But you can't choose either one by judging them en masse. It 1s too cone fusing. You must simply select one here and there and give {ta trial. And an engagement, after all, should be nothing but a TRIAL. (Why should ALL the trials come after marriage, anyway?) By the time you have tried half a dozen hats (or flances) you are #0 much better able to Judgs what you teally want and how to select one! If your style of beauty, or of character, is suited to plain tallor«made effects, what a silly travesty you would make of yourself to purchase a frilly bebe hat—or to tie up to a butterfly or a silly baby woman. And if, on the other hand, your face, or your life, ix stern and hard and cold and needs some- thing to soften and grace it, why disfigure yourself with a derby or tle yourself down to the Rock of Gibraltar? Pshaw! It takes an actress years to discover what sort of roles sho was cut out to play; and it takes a woman years to @scover What role she was intended to play on the stage of life. And, according to that role, she muat her understudy, as the case may be, Her engage: ments are merely lier little rehearsals for the great drama of Matrimony, It 49 making a life-and-death matter of it that has made modern men end women #0 fearful of becoming entangled in an engagement, It is the LONG ENGAGEMENT which ts the acid test of love, the tragedy of so many lives; the engagement in which two, caught by the dalliance of spring, feel morally bound to go on, and on, and on, after romance is dead, trying to adjust them- selves, It 1s the girl who grits her teeth and shuts her eyes in order to keap her Promise to marry a man who has turned out nothing that he appeared to be ‘# shop-counter; it is the man who lets a woman go on for years wasting her youth, because he is too weak to back out, until the last moment—who is to be pitied—and scorned. ‘One should be able to discover in six minutes whether @ hat ise ftenéa match, and in six months whether a fiance is one's ideal. And the moment the discovery is made one should bravely drop the hat or give up the men or the woman. To break an engagement of long standing is cowardly and @ruely but the lover who breaks a months’ engagement is usually # blesstng in dis- gulse. In fact, most of our ex-Hance(e)s are blessings in disguise 4f only qe look at them that way, Dearie. Yes, a new spring hat or a new spring engagement tones one up, gives Itfe a fresher zest and affords one invaluable expericnee, even when it turns out « failure, But neither of them should be a matter of life-and-death. Love should be real, and an engagement in earnest, But matrimony 18 not neces sarily always its goal, The Week’s Wash By Martin Green by ‘Phe Press Publishing Co, (The esteul York Evening World, Not one New Yorker fn ten has any turkey trot grew into a feature of the New York circus in a few months, The average resident of ips ed the the show,’ head polisher, * I've been | thousand saving up for a month to the gather a voll enough “D through a in a Turkey and this city hasn't seen the interior of a Trot |turkey trot restaurant at 4 o'clock ve morning, when the highballs and fizz water were working on the dancers jammed in a Uttle space sur- rounded by tables and cigarette smoke, Some years ago they used to bold in east side and Tenderloin dance halls affairs called ‘drags.’ The ‘drag’ was a m of dance and when a cop heard of on his beat he butted into the ace in the form of a raid, The turkey, trot, the one-step, the tango and other new forms of dancing as practised in night restaurants are the ei ‘drag’ in evening dress. “The shade of respectability so @kfl- Rone |; and closed ‘em ali up!" "You've missed comething,” sald the laundry man, “Mayor Gaynor has missed some- |, thing, too, Te has missed, in all pro ability, another ex- his administration the Rosenthal case, t craze was Perlence such went through for the turkey 1 ry Bo atene en fully thes bout th 1 ae ay inte ally dhrown shout the turkey trottme perhabs, some iiumand or father or | Paces, m clr most dangerous fac: P frequenters didn't know ¢hey were taking part in dances stolen bo@ly from tie dives of the big cities and kilded for the purpose of disguising thelr vulgarity. Yes, you mulssed some- thing when you missea @ night in a turkey trot temple,’ lover was waiting for his cue to enter a turkey trot gest! with a wild look in his eyes and a pistol in his hand and croak some devotes of the latest terp- aichorean dissipation, “One Jolin Thomas Brady, a sack- coat philosopher of St. Louis, in an interview in this home town the other day said: ‘New York ts one big cirens, 3A Dearth of Fitsg Pn but the people who live there never see Now +e's ALL RIGHT - WHAT WOULD as WORLD wit MEN hee viva ar reat Idea Jerry @® @ Al unstereetane, [ © @ head polisher, “the country doesn't seem to be exhibiting symptoms of throwing a fit over the Pending tariff revision in Congress.” “Of course not,” replied the laundry man. “The reason is quite plain to all except those who regard t&e protected interests am something saered, “In the last election all three candi- Gates ran on a platform advooatng tariff revision, The Republican piat- form was cautious, the Progressive platform was shy, and the Democratic platform, framed by Willlam Jennings Bryan, was outspoken for # reduetion of duties. ‘The people elected the Democratic candidate and indorsed the Democratic ‘form, The people are for tariff re- lon downward. That {9 the reagon the country regards with compara. tive ennui the forthcoming special ses- sion of Congress despite the loud howts of the beneficiaries of a system that has outlived {ts usefulnes: 66 A S far as T can see,” sat@the i Few Exceptions, rrr “y "said the head polisher, | ’, ‘at more than 2,400,000 passen- gkers rode on subwi trains last Monday when ough gave & per cent, of the gross the flood euftere: . Said the laundry man, bd if a