The evening world. Newspaper, October 20, 1913, Page 14

opening of ¢ = RTARTA Ae w R, President, 63 Park Row, rer, 63 Park Row. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Clase Mat: Rati Evening |For England and the Continent an@ All Countries A] i tonal WHY SHOULD THEY ? HE EVENING WORLD does not believe that the small business men in this city wants to see Tammany in power again. How can he? T Does the storekeeper want a return to the old system of sidewalk | assessments and immunity fees? Does he want the street in front of his shop blocked with con- tractor’s material; does he want his rubbish left on the sidewalk, his repairs delayed and bungled unless he comes down regularly with something for the organization? Does the small newsdealer want to be forever under the neces- sity of squaring it with somebody in order to carry on his business unmolested ? Does the pushcart peddler want to live in continual dread of the collector, who must find lining for the pockets of the District Leader? Does the small manufacturér, who is already a substantial tax- payer, want to suffer an endless drain of petty graft merely to have his refuse removed, his water and light service uninterrupted, to keep his name and his premises in good repute? Do any of these men who run their own businesses want to find themselves caught in the old toils of give, give, give to the organ- ization? Do they want to pay in petty ways a dozen times over for rights and privileges that their taxes entitle them to? Why should they? po —___—. When the tecltre agents quote high rates for a badly damaged ex-Governor of the Empire State, do they flatter the former or the latter? tp ——_—_—_—_ OUR PROJECTILE MAIL TRUCKS. HE EVENING WORLD recently predicted that if auto mail I wagons continue to hurl themselves through the streets in the present fashion dire consequences will result. It also raised the question: By whose direction do the drivers of these huge motor vans dash to and fro regardless of traffic and crossings? The following letter is pertinent: To the Editor of The Evening World: In reference to your editorial “By Whose Orders?” the reason why the mail buses race through the city Is this: We chauffeurs who drive them have to clean up the mail every Gay before we can. go home. The longer we take the longer we have to work. As ft is, we never work iess than twelve hours, and 1 have worked fifteen and one-haif hours. | thought ¢het all em- ployees on a Government contract were only allowed ¢o work eight hours. 1 believe there was a law to that effect. ‘We got together and there was some talk of a strike, but cooler heads prevailed, as It would only be a question of a few days when our places would be filled and we had no chance against the United ‘States mail. What we do need, and what we would appreciate, Is to have some one take up our cause to the powers that be, and find out why we are compelled to work more ¢han eight hours as per law. ‘Then there would be no need of “By Whose Orders?” A MAIL CHAUFFEUR. P. S.—After an accident such as you predict occurs, perhaps there will be an investigation. Why not before? The United States Mail is a great and important service. But, is there any reason why it should organize ite transfer system or | treat its employees in New York in such wise as to become a terror and menace to people in the streets? ———_ +. So trailers and repeaters startle Murphy into speech. Must be the horror of the unfamiliar. ———_<+ ADAPT IT TO THEIR INTELLIGENCE. [ WE COULD only believe that the case of Mrs. Pankhurst would result in driving some sense into the thick skulls of the men who administer our immigration law view the whole proceeding with such unalloyed disgust. The “moral turpitude” clause under which thia and similar abaurd | we might not) cases occur was designed to exclude foreigners seeking permanent | residence in this country who seemed likely to prove public dangers or public charges. Mrs. Pankhurst may be a puzzle-headed woman with unsound and extravagant convictions. But nobody believes that while in this country Mrs. Pankhurst will find her way into aa asylum, jail or poorhous As it stands, the “moral turpitude” provision in our exclusion laws causes nothing but a succession of silly instances of over-zeal and conflict of authority, The Federal courte and the Department of Labor are constantly called upon to reverse the action of immigra- tion officials, If the latter were blessed with ordinary intelligence and commou sense the “moral turpitude” clause might be left as it is. Since they are not, the clause needs to be made thoroughly specific if the country is to escape fresh ridicule, eT New and welcome discourse fram the Executlve Chamber, “Rampant ‘To the Kaitor of The ing World : A few hours ayo 1 read your timely editorial about the dangerously ram- peat mail trucks, Te the Kilitor of The Kvening W What relation ts my uncle to my child? Bimh @. @ne of the sew trucks complained of| Which is correct, demolished ao taxicab at corner ef| briefness of this no Beventh avenue and Thirty-fret street, | cuse the brevity of t West Thivty-first street, since the Ne, Pennsylvania station | To the Kditor of The Bveni: "Kindly ex: note’ RM, f Letters From the People i ome 2, WE Whi ITTLE Iasy Slavinsky came along, L pulling his small express wagon after him. Mr, Jarr stood on the corner, hoping & etreet car might stop just for spite. ‘The fish that had been given him by his friende to stuff and mount as & trophy etill had Mr, Jarr in oustody. A policeman idling along on the other alde of the street kept eyeing Mr. Jarr furtively, He was @ new policeman to Mr. Jarr, evidently one of Waldo's Model cops. For it could be se his watchful manner that he was ing up bis mind there wae something suspicious about Mr. Jarr and the fish that Elmer, Gun's bartender, had wrapped up eo carefully. “Would you ike to make a plece of Hits From Sharp Wits. Not even practice makes @ Mexican Perfect as # fighting man. eee Thaw also gives evidence of being thrown into the discard. oe e Hae olf Dr. Cook lost his cunning? We had counted on him to come across with an interview in defense of Guiser, at least, eee Tom Osborne, New York's voluntary convict, discovered at any rate that one week in prison was all that he wanted to know about conditions “on the in- side.” eee Aan accelerator of love's young dream the one-horee buggy is atill superior to the motorar.—Columbia State, cee The French President ts touring France “after the American fashion.” It requires forty automobiles to carry his party, Even Teddy the terrible never did anything like thie,Boston Advertiser, ee A Georgia man under sentence to be hanged next month has been re-elected president of his lodge, Perhaps the real contest was for the veomprendenens ee ach removed, He ought ¢@ be able to t @ job as @ theatrical manager in Post-office, is fact becoming race| Need a person hi @ourese for these terrors, to the danger| public office to run for President of the of all other he and pedestrians, United States? Wa 8 | Cavnanion Money, 8% “Ah held @ former New York now,.—Salt Lake Herald, eee | Hew to prevent fire lase—exercise |gaution and common eense,—Knozville The Day of Rest # 4 Colorado man has had his stem- | Winaky's brightest little boy, tting nervous at the actions new policeman did not de- sire to be walked to the station house and probably be held on suspicion be- cause of being found in the company a quickly at the words “a piece of change" that his small wagon, under {te own impetus, ran up the boy's back and turned o ting from ite In- jerlor two tattered old automolile inner (“Broadway Ballads—(l.) i Upon the chiffonier; Though “FORTY” be You'll be the same to When FATHER TIME by The Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World), |For, when junk hunting, Master Sla- a Puplisned py Cosmeric, Rouge bo When your false teeth Ii Copyrient, 1913, =, By Maurice Ketten: I IZ bs 4 y “UT For PirFie’ Sake | ANOTHER ONE | | We! Weu! THEY MuST BE Tam REPEATERS. ©, Punts | This, PLACE tS OVER ORAOEESEREEEOEE OE SEDLEEOEEEAELEEEE OEDOEDES*DEREDEEY Mr. Jarr Again Acts as a Magnet | For All the Trouble in Sight G9SSSSSS9SSSESSSS O99STO999F9SSIOSSS9SSSSIISSSO999OD tubes and several cast-off horseshoes. | Third avenue, really not so very far away, I'll give you a quarter {f you'll come along and haul the fish in your vinsky played no favorites. “gure, I wantta earn a piece of change, How much will you gimme?” asked the boy. Observe, he never inquired what was to be done. He wanted only to know the termi , I lose no money by it, but if you give me 6 cents I wi,” said the boy. “And, besides, your boy Wille is to give me his roller skates!" A bargain wae struck between Mr. Jarr and the boy, but on a compromise basis of 76 cents, Mr. Jarr not caring to mix up in the roller skate transac- tion, : They crossed over to Third avenue and walked for miles and miles, scoffed at by sundry other persons they met on the way, especially by one very @llow woman, who ehrieked she would report Mr. Jarr to the Board of Health, the Clvie Club and the Soolety for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals and Chil- dren—BOTH societies. Finasly, with a sigh of reilef, Mr, dingy sign readin, And in the dirty window of sald Mr. Jarr, “I've got @ fish here IT want to give to a man to stuff, The cars won't stop for me. They wouldn't let me in the subway with it, either, And as the place ts on very a rty shop, where @ very gory: | mouthed stuffed fox is off an unnaturally yellow goal where alligator, very in an| held @ card tray, Mr. lacard readin, IN LIFOLIKE POSITION FOR # EACH, aaid Mr, Jarr, working ft picked up the wrapped wagon and deposited it at Mr. Jarr through tron-rimmed spec- most completely crossed Mr, Jarr had ever seen, “How did you “now,” retorted Mr. Jarr. ‘When it wrapped up?” But the taxidermists refused to re- veal the secrete of his calling, “It will ht dofiars. IN ADVANCE!" he “LI pay you half In advance’—- he began. “Nothing doing!” sald the taxider- mist. ‘People who bring ling to be etuffed never come back, Talk turkey! In ten minutes I'll charge you ten dotlare!” “Tsay, you can have the fine big fish. my boy!" cried Mr, Jarr. ‘And, rushing from the shop, he Jumped o Third avenue car going at we ide your hair, your coreete, dear, she replied, nothing but a mperstitions idea that wisdom teeth oe mpeed and le Mr. Slavinsky*e ithe ‘boy alone with @ leckadalsiral es fax trom big Hasiem dome « The New York Evening World), That Led toa Copyright 1914, by Th ‘rosa Publishing Co, 1.—A Quarrel Over the Size of a Window, Nine-Year War. WO men, in 1688, stood looking at the still unfinished Palace of Versailles. One of the two was short, pompous and gorgeously dressed. Absurdly high heels adorned his red shoes and his hooked nose jutted out from under an enormous periwig. He was Louis XIV., King of France, At that moment he was at the zenith of his power. Within the next few minutes a trivial cause was to lead to the downfall of much of his greatness. The man who accompanied the King on his inspection of the new palace was the Marquis de Louvols, Minister of War and of Public Buildings. He had manoeuvred his way into both positions, since the King’s two chief hobbies were war and building. And on the Minister's success in each Mine of work depended the royal favor. The King suddenly paused in his talk and pointed at two windows in the palace wall, declaring that they were not of an equal size, although the plans had called for two windows of precisely the same dimensions, Louvols, knowing how severe the King could be when a flaw in architecture Was detected, hurriedly aseured His Majesty that the windows were precisely of a size, The dispute waxed as warm as @ quarrel between a bully and a toady can hope to, Finally the King ordered the windows measured. One of them was decidedly larger than the other. Louvots was in despair, King Louts could forgive \ Politician'’s anything eooner than a bungle in the construction of one Costly Ruse. of his beloved palaces. The error might readily cause Louvois to fall from favor; to be stripped of his offices and honors; to end his days perhaps in prison, whither better men had been sent for lesser faults, There waa but one thing to do. His blunder as Min- ister of Public Butldiags must be blotted out by his prowess as Minister of War. Toa friend he said: ‘I must find a war to give him a new idea and to make me necessary to him.” He had not far to look. The Elector of Cologne had just died, Two can- Gidates were named to fill his place. France's candidate was beaten. Louvois persuaded the King of France to declare war; to avenge the so-called affront. The war insted nine years. It grew until it involved nearly all Europe. Before peace was at last declared there was fighting net only in Germahy, but in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Ireland as well. (In Ireland—a ramifica- tion of the original conflict—the French troops fought to reinstate James II. on the English throne, And at the Battle of the Boyne they and James's other adherents were beaten by King William [I1, of England—almost the only gen- uine victory won by King William in all his many yeare of warfare.) At Louvois's instigation, King Louis marched @ big army into Germany. The French seized the Cologne lands, devastated th» whole Palatinate, burned and sacked Heldelberg and Philipsburg-on-the-Rhine, and many another fair city. Rich territory was ravaged; towne and villages were wiped off the map; more than 100,000 peaceful, de: people in one region elone were driven forth, homeless and penn! Into Ho! murder and the torch followed in It: era of mercilers sla France suff no less than did the countries its troops invaded. The French kingdom was crippled by: debt, and its inhabitants stag- gered under unbelievable taxes, Ten per cent. of the population became beggars. “France is one vast hospital,” wrote Fenelon. At the end of nine years King Louis was eager enough for peace And & shameful peace he was forced to accept, through the Treaty of Ryswick, peace that stripped France of nearly all the possessions it had gained during Louis's eariier and more prosperous reign. lLouvols, the instigator ef it all, had died six years before the war was ended, fo he did not live to see full payment mede for the privilege of distracting a king's mind from the fact that two palace windows did not happen to be of equal size. Teeth and Wisiom.: noe start off om your vecation om 8 SHALL be dreadfully stupid mow," aid the wife, who had just retumed from the “ee “What « superstitious dentin's, ‘Superstition be hanged! “Why 20, my dear!” asked her husband. | wouldn't etart off on Friday becaue Saturday's "T have had all my wisdom teeth pulled out," | pay day.’ ” —_.——__ “Of course, my love,"" aald her husband, with the best intention in the world, “you know it ts His Little Slip. WELL-KNOWN business man wee Hie ia ‘he aubvurhe and usvelly gore tate by the 5.20 train, met a friend the other day, and town for the evs. Ho was at 1 inee himet with Bis & t the telagraph office, ‘A mmoothing matters Philadelphia | thing to do with wisdom, tooth in your heed 1 any more stupid, yiocerded after @ whil if you were it couldn't wnoment how , but finally, hy wired: “Mined the $90 train, Do not ‘dinne: Hence Its Origin, | vine “Wit hewn ines "te won a od VERY superstition, oF nearly every supersti:| deal later when Se reacted home, ant bk wite tion, can be traced back to something sea met bim at the door, sible and rational, Take the Friday yne, | id yOu Mot my mename, dearet?” he ated for example, au ng to forestall the trouble, The apeaker was Mayor Reutter of Lansing, the ‘eplied in ebilly accenie, “ent 1 saya the Chicago Heconl-Herald, would jike you w explain why you seut a wre ‘pake the Friday superstition,” he resumed, | at 4.28 telling me you ind mined the 3,80 train, “One Lansing clerk said to another: ‘ "a Weekly, Si PLE DE ETAT T BS RED IETIEE A PCDATA IR) The May Manton Fashions { HE one-plece night ‘2 gown made tn ki mono style 18 a delight= ful one to wear and an easy one to make. Thi one is drawn up at the neck edge, and it can be made high or cut to form + rounu neck, just as Uked, and made with longer or shorter sleeves. Some girl will lke the opening at the front, other will like to sllp the gown over the head, and It can ‘be finished in either wuy, Ali sorts of are used ; cotton muslins Ae natnsook, batiste and 8 well’ the Uke, Cross-barred muslins are liked by some girls, too, When the gown ts mace with- out the opening ani with the round neck, it is pretty to finish the edges with ecallo; perhaps with embroidered design on the front, For the 4 year alze the gown will require 2% yards of material 37, 3 yards 36 or @ tm wide, with 24% yar insertion, 1% yarda of edging to trim ae illu: trated, Pattern 6048 ts cut in elses for ohildren of 9 4 and @ years, Call at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION Building, 100 ‘Thirty-second street (oppo- corner Bixth av: and Thirty-second street, New York, or sent by mall on receipt ef ten cents in eoln er etampe for each pattern ordered, IMPORTANT—Write your address plainly and alwayn specify tise wanted, Add twe cents for letter postage if in a hurry. | y f