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SEE ES ET = re ee ESTABLISHDD BY JOSEPH PULITZER. a 1 iy Es t Bund by th es blishing Company, Nos. wo Published Daily Except Sunday by ry] Pou RALPH PULITZOR, President, 64 Perk Row. J. 18 8) ‘Treasur Park Row, JOSEPH PULIT: Secretary, 6 Park Row, New, York an Becond-Class Matter. Entered at the Post -Offic oF, S¢cendClene Matter ae and Bubscription Rates to The Hv World for the United States end Canada. ir All Countries In the International Postal Union. One Year One Mont! One Year.... One Month.. VOLUME 53....sececcsecvecesees + $0.76 86 »NO. 18,893 ANOTHER REPORT ON THE POLICE. HE full report of the investigators from the Bureau of Munici- * pal Research who have been investigating the Police Depart- ment for the benefit of the’ Curran Committee will eurprise Rebody. Most of it has already been rade public in piecemeal. | Administrative officials have failed to test or control the work “ . of their subordinates. Patrolmen, osptains and inspectors have re- | Z | peatedly disregarded the rules. Complaints from citizens have been | “treated with indifference emounting to contempt.” Vice squade | have paid no attention to vice, etc., et. “Hed the complaints egainet Becker and the police officers now under indictment been hunted with intelligence, those guilty would have been removed from the force before the Rosenthal murder made . drastic ection from the outside necessary.” Exactly. If police officials had done merdly their plein duty we shouldn’t now be sénding them to jafl. The average citizen will not be much impressed by the “recommendations” of the invostigators. Supervise, centralize, investigate. But why not face the fundamental fact: The police machinery will begin to work properly when honest men work it. Nobody can devise # police system eo perfect that ) grafters and rogues will have to rum it on the equare in epite of them- selves. The Mayor has thundered iet-there-be-virtue-and-there-will- be-virtme until nobody minds any more sbout ttm. What we need is ‘ to get byl men out of the Police Department amd good men into it. District-Attorney Whitman ie herd et work on his part of the job. | Who.else is buey? lost art, ness, oad Suggestior. for the Civic Parade oext Saturday:' Aldermen, } 1 SHOULD License Bureau Officials and Police Captains in Yellow Taxicabs. THAT? a wits worry | Banner: “What Care We How the Clock Ticks On?” ——————— BALCONIES AND WINDOW GARDENS. EW YORK is going back to brick as « building material. Moro an increase of ninety-three million over the year before, ac- ‘cording ‘to statistics compiled by the United States Geological Survey. Mls wotioonble that thle increased we of brick leads to lighter and more cheerful styles of house front in the newer portions of the veity. The brownstone that filled the older cress streets with monot- ‘ony and gloom is obsolete. Newer spartment-house types can easily “¥p kept from becoming rigid or depressing. ‘In Brooklyn and in the Bronx the city has a fine chance to beautify apartment-houee sections by « better treatment ef house fronts. 3 ‘Two neglected features would edd much to New York apart ae " cae sing house districts of Berlin every flat has two or even more balconies, Mr. Jarr Hears of a Wondrous Idea, Tenants expect beloonies as a matter of course. Window gardens.end boxes of fowem on balcony railings are equally the custom. The But Has No Idea What the Idea Is result is delightful variety and color in street vistas. Gereniums GISHCCTSHSSHTSHTS PPTSSOSIFITSITFHVID SVSSSSOTIGSSOVIGD and trailing vines brighten the house walle for miles, and on het days they spend ther money’ ‘ cause he is a moving ploture actor.” ' ‘Oh, yes," replied Mr. Jarr. “The ex- the balconies afford flat dwellers © better place to eit tian the fire i Aelitette Wreae lacs te ete eet ty pression ts proverbial. m to 0 | “I don't know what thet means,” said lained Mr. . “A very subtle wht pes rtd “1 got it from my Gus. “But why should Qus. ‘There was a feller so inde-jhow he spends his mon pendent he didn't care nothing for any- | pays what he owes on ‘With @ little forethought New York ardiiftevts could easily mute teem for these & Bedouin gypsy. She wore it while ; --o— body, not even for his brewer's mort- mayer wet more than @ few dollars left.” | she and her husband writing “The |. De fingers die- yy Ze _ Me nna Zour Unole Ludwig.” asia) Lightning Conductor!” Now that ring fork for de waft! are willing to aduit thet William enn was I exclaimed Gus, |“ got ai “He conducted a liquor store too’ neky. “He wouldn't care what! ig worn regularly as a mascot and| John T. Trowbridge, author 8 gay-dog tn-bis youth Wf only everydody will promise to forget-<t. . and Blavinsky makes @ talk about what| “In Hoboken,” replied Gus. “A he hit you in th with, no not furnishes the basis of its owner's only| generations, hae just return - « Led an he don't understand and you don't un-|right opopsite the docks. You heard|!f it wa somethin, that cost him @ lot} superstition. Italy on the Canopic. At thi papime On derstand and I don't understand. I want | about how them saflors don’t eare how | of mon: Grace Mae Gowan Cooke has discov-| seventy he ‘weote in ls ie fe of , Mag 13, 1607—The fret permanent Gaglish. settlement ~ tn Corres, 1. Te time Wath "That's how gvod-hearted he was!"'| ered the peach grown by Hop! Indians|raphy: “At the middie ress moe America ot Jamestown, Ve. ‘ bin to see the movink exclaimed Gus. ‘One time I seen him|in their sandy bits of orchard land.|tween three-score and Pc ene be: ‘ " 1 nt - pdispeohiny Jungle Tales for Children Bes Heth German aor’ Gremen with | She declares it 1s Jucler than ite Cali-| score, whea ‘my way of life’ should . coker coat him twe dol-| fornia contemporary—finer, in fact, than! tong oon neat” ie Sea, San ome! —By Farmer Smith— lars. Then he went out and bought|any peach that bude. since {Zetwed by the average be- one to hit a Hamburg-American on the corner. empar Coprright, 1918, by ‘Tae Prew Publishing Co. (The New York Evening i feman with, wecause he sald he ‘Well, I ace Crow Was Iest’™ sald) we WLEPHANT AND MR. FLY. “What's that?" asked M! Mr. Slavinsky, ‘Bo you ain't got nothing After ten years his atatement is stilt ay father was trying | sitting the sofe, ‘That must |¢! wo big companies that docked | niece of Leatherstocking’a author, and] true, and ' p ve , of heret” ‘A sterling character,” remarked Mr.| tention with her short stories, Is Misi ¢ ould look a “ h Ie polite al wan onto bussing around his nose and be just] ‘Tt le all in the way you look at|Jarr. “I use the word ‘sterling’ not in| Wooleon's nlece © helee ans eee Oe cae i ." couldn't go to sleep. things,” replied Mr. Fly from the top| any conneotion with eolid sllver—bu Wiwhat idee aia rey caer Dr. | ‘I wish you would quit buzsing around Rof the windew. ‘ call it conventence. | rather 14." Jeckyl and Mr, Hyde’? usked Mr. Jarr|™e and go and mind your bist" ex-| For @ can store enough food to last me of Gus, and turning to Mfr, Glavineky he | Claimed Mister Monkey. “If you don't | several days. Iam very wonderful and B, WEISBERG. |i aked the latter what he thought of)! will get up and SWAT TOU.” yet youvoall me dangerous, Conyrisit, 1913, by The Pree Puttish ing Oo, (fhe Mew Zork Rresing World, “ LD FLAME”—A man toho telle you how much he “once loves gor” O after you are both eafely married to somebody elec. SUITOR—A man who calls on you whenever it happone to evit Rim. WIFE—The woman from whom a man failed to eecope and to whem he complacently refers as “the Uttle woman | MARRIED.” FLIRTATION—The red tape through which @ man hoe to go before kissing a girl. LOVE—An obdsolete term no longer tolerated im the beat circles. 2 | MARRIAGE—The Mtermission detween the wedding and the iverbe. ; eH, FIRESIDE COMPANION—A man who uses your Grewing-room a « rest cure and your dining-room as a free lunch, FRIENDS—The people who avoid you when gou ere down, dberrow from you when you are up, talk about you when you you when you are good. KIS8—An end that, in a man's opinion, justéfce any means. ad PROPOSAL—An end that, in @ woman's opinion, juetifics any meen- WIDOW—A woman who always knows where her husband te—et night. BACHELORS—MietaNés which sometimes happen in the bdest-regu- lated families. The primary cause of the Feminist Movement. t MARTYR—A man Uatening to a woman tell a funny atory while he waite for her to play a hand at corde. Or 4 woman holding her breath whtle her husband hunts for the hooke a he b 6 Dana cwaek-aesk ‘a Wises ally ‘ost yous, ' and eyes on the dack of her dreas. WEDDING—The potnt at which a man stope toasting a women end ‘ degige roasting her. « DIVORCE—The parachute which lets us down safely after love's bab Toon has burst. ALIMONY—The high coat of loving. SUCCEBS-—The ability to afford lobster and champegne, or beefetead ) and beer, according to your viewpoint. LIFE—Lemonade slightly sweetened, The Folks That Write Our Books ‘Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ACTOR MARGUERITE, Negro butler passed the biecutts hemem! V “Frontiers of the Heart,’ pe ‘ble romance of the Fran sian war, fe @ son of Gen. Marguerite, who led @ dashing French, charge at While in Bethithem some years ago Mra, Williamson of t¢ mancing Williamsons, bought a ring of stance Fenimore Woolson, whose “Anne” t going to play no favorites mit| is atill a grateful memory, was a gran'- “Reform,” saya Theodore Dreiser, tell- Ing why he fe not a propagandiat, “has a tendency to put all but the biggest # or temperaments in a cocksure intellectual | Hoes ROTeNE Serelte touch emuee hisself and not @ iot of loafers, My| attitude—and that attitude puts one ter- vate theatricals, through Educational Number. (With Modern improvements on Webeter.) Gre bad and: deudt ' } tf ’ Dooned one with his fork. The ler disappeared into the nibensa tye appear with a plate of steaming waffles, Mr. more excited over his angu- ever, snatched a waffle with This was too muc! man experience) have fallen into ‘sere, the yellow leaf,’ I am in thi Joyment of a tolermbly green old to mount stairs two steps ate time er =| to cut 3's and 8's on the ice.” (Mre. Baille-Reynolés, the popular feheoot Children's Strikes. Quo Veale" “You nave left out the fact that you] “Well, you are dangerous, if you climb | Uncle Ludwig wouldn't take money| rity out of harmony with the gre: Reh one Corea Biehy seh ¢o¥aier ‘Quo Vadia' Y, tions of human nature. To the Béitor of Tee Ewning World: “] didn’t like the feller. He let King | Will have to catch me first,” said Mis-| all over everywhere and then walk o |¢rom his friends. And fellers he dkin't | derlying life forces. The god: ! Dangerous laaity and lack of control] 7419 put it all over him," said Mr. Sle- sticking out his tongue. what I eat,” replied dite y. | 1ike he wouldn't serve.” revenge on the cockeure.” k Ferdinand Moore, whore ! . y things stick out their] ‘ net “You differ trom him greatly," re-| Charles Travis Saunders has ridden h we Persea “The Devil's veal oy healt belie ace? on pert of our b The Emperor Nero, you up 5 Jerr. “But what's thelover much of California, Arizona and just been published, ran y-ennaggenes by thes here are other wid oe fan ue fly crawling straight and how does 4t affect | New Mexico on horse, motor, burro and t Gfteen, and eine thea s agai tank. pt tion, Not a the wall,” continued Mister F%; mule. But for his “Under th ‘hae adventured in many places. But uch te ol ton's suburbs 7 je very important—to my ‘Why is that?” my} 4 ‘My uncle shows a very disegraceful lack of din-| « take all my food throu 2 ™ cipline in the public @ohools, Care ’ § and T can only eat liquid food, You re- “no about him at the moving pictures of ‘To the Kditor of The Evening World: ‘A reader propounds thle problem @ cents are to be divided amon, should be observed to prevent such “ nd! member the dootor put Jimmy on liquid and C, A to get twice as muoh and | strikes from occurring in any of our| there was Hone eating peon H ok, |. when 1/ the ceiling and then B tw get twice as much as C, how | other large cities, GIL told my boy 6hidney about nd something op my tongue that Tuan't/ And with thet he | oid 1t wan eany to feed actors to Ii it I just shake It off, Mister Monkey guess! HE ple plant, sometines cal'ed rhubarb, is now in full refulgence and some | has gone to seed. The blossome have a pretty tint of palest green, and 1 wh Tow is filled out the effect is pleasing to the optic. Ple can be THAT ISNT A I ter themselves under made of th the broad leaves when it is indigestion if mixed DIDIEVER SHowyou , — SHE WAS A GENERAL -T yy 4 MY OP'S SWORD? ‘ — (ForGor- THEM - SEE THIS GUTTON ON -SHOP ’ vf ‘Tee ee nitaaa fame os the early n pase Saturday night, including our } | HE WAS A lly ‘ i 1 | TALK AOC home ESE THE END? =WELL THATS WHERE ‘ hg - Aare eae can Ser, ane, uemenlegneani ine binds ase b fom] | UAE Repeteriee ; B\— | He Cour. wit THE CENTRE DUTTON AND Ne KEPT it’ cM AND HE GAVE MY TO MiGs a i MY = HE HAD MILLIONS - ' stiamalt Toages aver the State: including whether we shall have C OF SOLDIERS WoIKiNG OF APIN WITH HIS EYES SHUT]] (ON - THAT SCARED EVERY FENCER YES THE CHILD'S TICKLE ‘ome more at Horseneck when he is not wanted, is sneried up because at the FOR Him- AND fj . SO MUCH THAT ALL WEARED ce TO DEATH WITHIT shéginning each one ts said to have promised the other that he should have what eee SWEATERS AFTER ‘he wanted regardless of duty and the public welfare, Now @ few of tuam are THAT Deing asked what about the wishes of the community, and say back we don't : are to come here eny more and raight as well get ours, ; New radishes are edible and epring onions are atrong, as they say in the market reports, The separagus is sprouting, only to be cut off in its prime. »/): Bome busybody at Hartford has figured out that Jim's court at Bridgeport tried but nine cases last year, at a cost to the State of $2,600 per case, The body wanted the court abolished, He doesn't seem good at figures, It much cheaper for the State to'have Jim try only nine sinners instead of |* @e hundred, in which case the bill might have been $250,000! , Neloon B, Mead has decided that he ts a Walsh Democrat instead of a real Tre locusts are the last of the trees to out, ‘The locust te not « pretty wee being rather soregsly, but the leaves are pretty and the flowers ies b 4 Gro honeybees, ANAS CS @ Clay at a Calhoun dinner. Mr. Clay| which the young men of thie country ée Joecame engrossed in talk and when the’ not,eppreciate,”” ‘e = «CBy P. L. Crosby # \ x Beany and the Gang james. Be 5 ; HED NEVER HOIT NOBODY IN Tavthremee| wa A Duet OUT HED SCARE TESS. MY HUSBAND GOUGH saye he: “The American eavairy I con-- couldn't ewim. And I got to thinking people when he just went . |alder my alme mater, for I Jearned mo! ah ion, audhor of saw more and enjoyed Mfe more ase | has inherited from her|trooper than at any other time. deen. | ewe of Calhoun, a story| elder ét ae @ great echool, the value of | ( f