The evening world. Newspaper, May 13, 1913, Page 3

WOMEN STILL PAY _ | POLICE BIG GRAFT, “SAYS MARY GOODE Declares Protection, Money) Continues to Be Received {_ in Uptown District. COMES BEFORE MAYOR. Curran Committee's Star Wit- ness Urges Establishment of Board of Public Welfare. "Mitre, Gary Goode, who teatified be- fore the Curran Committee, appeared, accompanied by Miss Maud Minor, at ‘ the hearing before the Mayor to-day on the proposed Board of Public Welfare BU. Mire, Goode, who wae dressed in a Might-gray oloth jacket sult, carried « portmanteau GAlled with papers, includ- ing & written speech whioh she had Drepared, but si mot address the | Mayer in support of the measure she sald she could not push her way througti the throng of men assembled and she felt, too, that she might be rebuffed. “I am in favor of the measure and re- ward it asa step in the right direction,” sala Mrs. Goode. ‘The inatitution pro- posed by thie bill would stop graft and be @ means of saving girls who have not alresdy become thoroughly depraved. + ‘If the Mayor signs the measure and It Becomes a law, it will have @ great effect on an organisation which Mrs. Belmont and other women contemplate instituting, Mra, Belmont has consulted Yue about the organization of @ Secret Reclamation movement and I and other women whe hi lived to learn all sides ef the social evil, accord fully with her views. «In fact, I have volunteered my ser- ‘NWlces In secret reclamation, and I may now be regarded as a woman who is devoting herself to the helping of fallen ‘women, instead of keeping houses for thetr further downfall. I wish to be frank. ‘The Public Welfare bill Is created out of my ideas expressed on the stand be- fore the Curran Committee. 1 then stated that a welfare commission should be created to take from the Police De- partment all supervision over the social evil. POLICE STILL TAKING QRAFT, SHE SAYS, “1 am = practical woman is guch af- faire an@ I know how to handle eu i ger nara When I say police graft wii: ‘be eliminated by the creation of a Pub- , Me Welfare Board, I mean it, for when Ure police are not permitted to raid or have any hand in the control of the social evil, there can be no graft. at PeygyEnt: ips ri! he Public Welfare Board in action, these girle would be taken out of these houses and our Secret Ke- elamation order would eave them. If the police raid them now, they will be gent to the island and lost forever, 1 trust tl Mayor will approve the meseure. Professional men, business men, p> Uf agitators, legislators and settlement werkers crowded before the aeres op Fully the hearing on the Welfare twenty ‘speeches for and measure were delivered and many ik tere opposing or favoring written dy men of prominence Former Mayor Seth Low, writing from hie farm, urged the Mayor to ap- ‘preve the bill, Among other things he 3 “Wo-one would claim, I think, that the control by the Police Department of the eubjects proposed to be commit- fed to @ new Department of Public Welfare is successful now, or that it } ever hes been. To the Polloe Depart- ment these subjects ‘@ been merely an incident, and I cannot remember that any constructive suggestion has aver come from the department for ‘the permanent improvement ef cond!- tions, * “The first argument in favor of the proposed Department of Public Wel- fare seems to me to be that it will Provide an official body whose one ob- Ject will be to atudy these problems comstructively, My own official ‘perience énal me to apprec! e inmense diMculty of the whole sub- Jest, and I am not prepared to say in ; what direction Improvement is pos- ceitie, On the other hand, I am not willing to assume that no improvement cam be brought about by a change of methods. WILL UNDERMINE “THE 6ve- TEM,” LOW THINKS. “That the proposal tnvolves an ex- periment gees without saying; but the | experiment seems to me to be justified \ not only by the possible outcome of euch | #ecialised study as the proposed Board of Publio Welfare may give to this problem, but also because it will reduce, white the experiment jasts, the corrupt- infivences which have ¢reated what ‘Mnown as ‘the syatem' in the Police \ examined the objections to this fy the Bureau of Municipal end I am obliged to say | Mink them decisive, It ts es- 16 any hope of success, in my THE EVENING WORLD, ‘TUS _ WHY IS YOUR MARRIAGE A SUCCESS? WHY IS IT A FAILURE? ‘‘When Marriage Isn’t Ideal It’s Hades,’’ Is the Opinion of a New York Physician MY FIRST WEE AS AMBITIOUS Ae WwauTED n& APPRGVAL O Soccer ane Hs mennboas’ y + +f + Copyright, 191%, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). “Marriage Is an Institution to Keep People Together After They Have Learned to Hate Each Other, that Madame Grundy May Save Her Face, ”” Writes “Biologist.” “If Fewer Wives and Husbands Would Preach Pre- cepts, and More Would Do Practical Work, They Would Make Nearer Ideal Partnerships and Be of Greater Help to Each Other,” Says “J. J.” By Nixola Greeley-Smith. “As a physician I have seen a When marriage is ideal it is not to t! is indeed ideal, but ide great di he credit of the institution at all, but rather in spite of it, that two people who complement each other have been fortunate enough to find each other. Marriage bape harm or in- fluence them in any way.” A letter which presents the ex- treme radical view of marriage is contributed to-day by a New York physician. It will shock many per- sons and many more will disagree with its conclusions. Among the lat- ter Iam one. Perhaps there are few persons in the twentieth century! who look upon marriage as we know it as an altogether perfect institu- tion, but on the other hand, there are a few who do not realize that with all its injustices and imperfections it {s the most plausible solution so far| “THEY Wet bt piles ste BAND HAD Risen cowl Te ewonwans WEALTW OA PRINCELY ce etre a { ont eo other, and if I wanted love to last T should never marry the object of it. T am not certain that she was alto- gether wrong, and there is some truth in the remark that @ wedding !s the correct institution for people who fear to Itve or die without the knowledge and approval of thelr butcher and ‘Daker. However, I believe 1 am happily married, but it took two trisls to Teach thie point. My first wife was ambitious and wanted the approval of society and the fortunatel, and eo I trust they are both happy. My present wife and I understand each other, and there fa never a thought of “mine or thin | in our home life, and we are what many married people are not—the very warmest and beat of friends, Her books, her plays and every hour of her life In of interest to me, and I delteve mine are to h 1 have simply rectified an earlier mistake and am content. A BIOLOGIST. discovered to the social problem it! NEW YORKERS GAUGED FROM A involves. It {is all very well for Mietszche to have written of the moral emancipation of supermen and e2uperwomen—for Pater to write beautifully of experience as the end and purpose of life—not the end of experience, but experience itself is the end; but the moment we concede a privileged class in morals we create a regi-! ment of generals with no privates; we start a up child clamors to be “it.” gether. me in which every grown-| school is set by its stupidest pupils, so society has to govern itself for and so be governed by its weakest citizen. Marriage exists and in some form will always have to exist, not because men and women are good but ‘because so many of them are bad. race, that of the life long associa- tom of ome man and one woman. Marriages that realise this ideal are indeed rare, but if there were omly one im the world, that one by iteels would create a standard. It ia trite to point out that marriage continues mainly for the protection of women and children. Perhaps our bio- logiet will urge t! the economic in- Gependence of women will do away with progection. There is nothing to be said Sgainst the duty of the un- married or the childless married wom- an to make & urn to the world for the living she takes from it, WOMEN SHOULD NOT HAVE TO SUPPORT CHILDREN. But it is unfair to ask women to assume any part of the burden of the support of children. There must be children and #0 long as there are there must be marriage for their protection. we give up altogether the idea Property, when communal com fact instead of a theory, it may be possible through the general support of mothers to eliminate ity for an individual bread- protector, But are we o surrender inequalities for equalities which are visionary and artificial? And why should wet? Your house may be old and patched and the wind may whistle through the broken window panes, but #o long as it is the only @helter you have you do not feel very much obliged to any one who criticises its architecture un- less he is willing to supply @ con- etructive plan for making it ov votes all his eloquence to establish- ing that marriage is a failure. The Anarchists have @ theory that pressure would keep everybody moral Civil and Criminal Codes were sud- denly to be abolished, But since with |wocial and legal pressure, ostracixm, jJail, &c., we hurdly manage to preserve t moral average, sounda very much as though one should undertake to make girders. The esting, howe: now finde him: itself @ refutation of that common hich may be de- a thelsm of the r, and the fact that he | THESE DAYs. | Dear Madam: As a phyetcian, I have @een a good deal of modern marriage. An ideal marriage is in- deed ideal, but ideal marriages are exceedingly rare, and when a mar- riage |e not {deal it ta Hell. When it in {deal, it is not to the credit of the marriage Institution at all, but father !n spite of it, that two people who complement each other have been fortunate eno oth they are married or not Is of trivial importance—you could not separate them with the pull of an ox team. Marriage doesn't harm or influence them in any way. Marriage, in fact, is not an Institution to keep people who love each other together, but is to keep people together after they have learned to hate each other, that Mme. Grundy may save her It Is entirely an artificial and man- ‘made institution based on property, said to me recently: “I would never marry again.” When you are married you feel that you In other words, we abolish morality alto-| As a chain is no stronger than its weakest link, as the pace of a laws are unnecessary and that social! or what they consider moral if the| thetr argument | bullding stand | are very Inter-| if happily married ia in} IDEAL MARRIAGES ARE RARE IN) MONEY STANDPOINT, Dear Madam: A woman who eati- her husband's value by his earning capacity cannot do much to relieve your overwrought mind, ease your burden and cause you to go on your way rejoicing, She will tel! you so many facts (2), that is in a gen- eral way, She will cite instances about everybody from Andrew negie down to Mra, Jones's husband who had risen from lowly cir and then ask you the eternal question, “Why can't you do the same?" She will tell you that great oppor- tunities are always waiting only to be grasped, but neglects to even show you une of them, nor és she capable of finding one of those op- portunities for herself, Here in New York City the man's and woman's worth seems to be measured In moyey, el much they are worth or elve how much money they ri each week, I say we the general public does not ¢ whether you really earn a large salary or not, They are only con- cerned with the fact that you get it. If fewer wives and husbands would preach preceptn and more would do more practical work they would make | ‘nearer ideal partueranipe and he greater helps to each other in their struggle toward sucess, ad | ROBBERS TORTURE \ WOMAN. ‘Two men burst in upon Mra, Maria ‘Tola in her apartment at avenue, Brooklyn, at 1 lock to-day ‘and leaped upon her before she had a ohance to acream, They beat and stabbed her until she told them where she had $1,600 sewed (Up in the mattress of her bed. ‘Tien ‘they stabbed her *ome more—thirtean times in all—and left her unconactous. | Neighbors found her on the floor and |called Dr. Gels from Cumberland Street Hospital. He found that her right eye had been permanently injured by a blow. Shi «Throng Dallas, DALLAS, Tex., May 13.~Thousands of Shriners and their guests from many |@ections of the country, a throng of &,- 000, had reached Dallas to-day for the second day of the order's annual cone vention, Business sessions of the Iin- |perlal Council began to-day and cities |in the race for the next convention be- own & preperty, interest in each ‘G98 Co exert thelr Cul) etrength, Seventeenth Article of a Series. aleteteleinteb INSTANCES HOW Mat, JONES Lied at taay? PSDAY, MAY Fm PRUSSIAN GENERAL THE ARE KILLED WHEN LIGHTNING ~— STRIKES CHURCH Belfry, Atl i Abade, | Down on Men Who Fight to Save Edifice From Fire. STRATFORD, Ont., May 1%.—The tall epire of the Knog Presbyterian Church, 10 feet adove the ourd, was struck by @ thunderbolt carly to-day, and during @ fire that followed the chief of police, the fire chief and a policeman were killed and a fireman wae mortally tn- Jured, The three men who lost their lives wert belfry, which toppled@and fell. The fire- man was lal out with a blow on the head from a flying timber. The dead are: J, A. MoCarthy, of police; Hugh Durkin, fire oh! thew Hamilten, policeman, T man ie Bidney Vanstone. He ig from numerous cute on the head and shoulders and possibly a fractured ekull. The tall steeple, vistwie over @ great radtus, lit up the heavens like a torch and burned without hindrance as the puny streams of water far below fell y feet short of the blaze, Showers of biasing embers fired the roof of the church, and MoCarthy, Durkin and Hamilton put up @ ladder to the roof. A line of firemen dragging hove acram- bled to the roof. A fresh dlase flared up from another part of the roof and the three mon were in the act of moving the ladder to check this out- break when the belfry toppled and fell. 1% came down, a ponderous, glowing mass of wood \and brick, showering burning embers far and wide. Unable to fiee, the three men wore ‘eaught beneath the mass. McCarthy and Ham- iton died instantly, Durkin lived for @ few minutes and succumbed on his way to the hospital. The diase ate ite way to the heart of the bullding and burned itself out. At noon to-day the ruins were still smouldering. The lose is about $49,000, RACE FOR AMERICA'S CUP ASSURED; LIPTON YIELDS ALL POINTS niet SHOT DOWN IN STREET Wilting to Try Under Old or BY SUPPOSED | LUNATIC} New Rutes—chattenge wit Von Levin es Military Attache Probably Be Taken. LONDON, May 18.~The Royal Uleter : et, Club, after tit with Bi to Bavaria, Slain in Munich— | echt neg ARS! i Policeman Also Kifled. Gen, Von Lewinsk!, ICH, Bavaria, May W.—Major-|\¢ gi, thomas wished the Prussian Mill-| America’s oup under ¢! Lipton, cabled @ reply to the New York Yacht Club last week which eeoms to ascure the arrangement of a series of races for the America's cup. ‘The New York Yacht Club has asked tary Attache to Bavaria, was killea| or under the present rules of the hold- here to-day by a supposed lunatic, who | '"S sergeant of police also was killed, The man, whose name te Straffer, tacked the General on a crowded at then turning hig weapon on Polloe Ser- weant Pollender, officer's assistance, killed Dy @ shot through the heart. Gen, Von Lewinskt was atill alive when | Dicked up. Ht en to the how pital in an aml fe but died shortly afterward ‘The assailant was meanwhile seized by a crowd of people who tried to lynch him, and succeeded tn seriously injuring him before he was rescued and arrested by the police. Gen, Von Lewinsk! was a promising officer of the General Staff and occur pied an important position connectea with the co-operation of tne Pru: and Bavarian armies, Reeeaaiaosaer COST $2,000,000 TO BALE THIS YEAR'S COTTON CROP. And but for Steel Corporation It Wouldn't Be Tied, President Farrell Testifies. James A. Farrell, President of the United Staten Steel Corporation, again on the witness stand to-day when the hearing in the Government suit to annul its charter was resumed before Special Examiner Henry P. Brown ai No. 71 Broadway, Elbert H. Gar Chairman of the Board of et who will be a witness, took great inter- emt In the testimony of Mr. Farrell Mr, Farrell said the capacity of the ateel corporation last year was seven- teen and one-half million tons, He tes- | Ufled that the steel corporation 's mak- Kj ing more cotton ties than it cares to make, although there are petitors in the steel Industry. "To handle the contng cotton crop," he sald, “we are making 1,900,090 tons of these tlen, They well at about one and @ half cents per pound. Our oum- petitore do not care to make them and it devolves upon us to practically op Diy the market. [t tm estimated there will be 16,900,000 bales of cotton this year, with @ value of §760,000,000, costs only $2,000,000 to bale thin crop, and (ft were not the policy of our cor- poration to do a general business the cotton crop would lay on the ground this year” Mr. four com- Farrel said that one subsi the American Steel Wind Wir pany, made 8 kinds oF w. though It waa not conridered » the proquce al alge rr | WO! clu, Sir Thomas has replied through his club that in bis challenge fired three revolver shote at him. Al he intended to convey to the New York Yacht Club that he wished the contest at-|to be governed in all respects by the t, |rules which governed the laat series of firm firing several shots at him and| Paces eailed by the Reliance and Sham- rook ILI in 190, Bir Thomas hee added that if the New who dashed to the| yore Yaokt Club preferred that the next ‘The policeman war | series should be sailed under the present rules of the club he had no objection. Thia means that the present rules of measurement, time allowance and safling will be enforced. SS CARNEGIE OFFERED A DUKEDOM? SURE, IF HE WOULD ANNEX UNCLE SAM, Laird of Skibo Tells How He Turned Down Offer of “Title” From King Edward. 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