The evening world. Newspaper, October 28, 1913, Page 18

——— . cost, X2 divided by 100 plus X equala| 10 + X = rate per cent, The Evening RekE> a 10 The yr Ctorld. FSTARLtsr BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Pudlianed Daily Except sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Now 68 9 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH J. ANC & JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row, Entered at the Post-Office at Swbecription Rates to Tie Eb World for the United States | i} TLITZER, President, 63 Park Row, Yow York as fecond-Claan Matter, | Vor Engiand and the Continent en@ All Countries in the International Pontal Union One Year... perreneverertrry L i One Month. + .30,On® MONERssseererereerenseesees 4 VOLUME 54, wocsseccsovceseNO. 19,061 | a _ MURPHY TO EUROPE. ARE CLAD to hear the city ¢ passing of Charles Francis Murphy over seas. verfully discuss the probable W ‘This is as it should be, and sound Tammany tradition, withal. Most of T'weed’s friends went t Croker is a living example. | Tt is a good idea for 1 y to fix in its mind this week and} get used to: Murphy for Europe, Only this time there must be no/ question of successor. Let that be New York’s tribute to Murphy, Tat him be the last of his line. Cut off the enccestion, Shut up the shop and forget it. Take down the Tammahy eign and give Four-| tteqnth street a chance to live down the memory. Whether The Chief has millions or tens of millions, everybody will forgive him if he prefera to bny his meal ticket where cooks and ‘table manners are up to his level. We hear Europe is full of Del- monicos. It has heen moved and seconded to clear the way for Murphy’s Stagt across the briny. One week from to-day New York will over- wwhelmingly carry the motion and do its best to make the vote Baanimous, , eae 7 at way, po a Maybe Hennessy will fend Suime-e handful of thunder—just one fittle peal. ey LAWLESSNESS BY INJUNCTION. HERE law is lax pirates flourish. Under the present tazicab| W aystem af lawlessness by injunction taxicab pirates have grown so impudent that the police must organise to fight Bhem. They break all rules, they inealt and rob the public. For five months the city has had the carefully thought out taxicab @rdinance for which The Evening World fought ite long and, in the nd, victorious fight. That ordinance provides « safe, popular service tat fair rates—rates at which the taxicab business is sure to increase Dy leaps and bounds. The Supreme Court has praired and upheld fhe ordinance and done its best to give the eity the benefit thereof. , A few grasping taxicab companies, blind te their own: interests, have piled every posstble legal obstruction in the way of the new law. ‘The situation is intolerable. The public leoks with impatience to the Appellate Division to make « quick end of delays and postpone- ments. The city-is entitled tothe benefit-of the ordinance and eheuld Dave it. » Why ehould a handfal of elow-witted taxiesb officials, too etwpid und narrow mimied even to see whet is best for their own business, tte allowed to cheat the public ef the protection of its own laws and Jeave it at the mercy ef robbers and highweymen? ee 4... There ts “the eresture'y” script, fa ‘MoCath Sitned, -eetfed f)'" end.dettvered, a ny THE REVOLT AGAINST NEEDLESS NOISE. ‘quiet night” ordinance proposed by Alderman Nicoll aims I to save weary New Yorkers from the clash of iron girders, derricks and bricks in the early morning hours. “** With the penalty of jail for the second offense, we fanoy most Pantractors would see their way to arrange their work so thet peoplo Aaethe residential districts could get a fair night’s rest. This, and a rising tide of similar complaint, proves that The ening World is right in believing New York ready to revolt against the tortures of needless noise. The nervous strain of resisting, even @ubconsciously, « thousand end one unnecessary noises is ‘becoming ‘ ' Hundreds-of day noises are as needless and as bad for the nerves eaight noises. mw ae Attention hae been repeatedly called in this column to the AMMeous metallic grindings and eoreechings on elevated, cubway and yrface railway lines, caused by wornout brakes and unoiled ewitches. Five years ago the Board of Health, the Public Service Com- “wfaston and the Police Department were outdoing each other in tphedgee-end promises to rid the long-suffering public of needless noise amaizances, Is it too-soon to expect results? © equals 05; X equats % mizmus 60, then X equates Therefore the teh cost $%. As X divided by 100 Is the gain per cent, the gain is 95-100, or %. That is -& read recently a very fust article fommenting on the observation of Col- { wmbuse Day. It should be observed as) 8 per cont. (812%). JAS. C. QUANN, the Kreatest national holiday in Ame No. faa, with Independence Day a clone gece | Te the Fatitor of The Evening World; end. For if Columbus had not discov-| 2* black a color? WwW. D. @red America there would have been no Independence Day. Every place of fusiness should close yearly on that Gay just as for the Fourth of July, ao a8 to show no partiality, If some people think we are having too many holida: Jet the Legislature omtt some of them thet are not so important. Tt Is, of | courre, too late for this protest to avail) the present year. But it should be + buh in mind én future. 7. P,, Albany, N, ¥, Solved by Algeb: othe FAitor of The Evening Worl! The following problem was offered by 8 computed from the P. J. Skea: “I sold a watch for $4.25 ‘The yenult te and gained as many per cent. profit as! by dividing the am “the watch cost dollars, What did it) >¥ the amopnt Inve eget?” It can be solved by algebra, an follows, and a quadratic equation ts in- welved: Let X represent the cont in| Te the Féitor of the Evening World; @ollars and X divided by 100 the per| 1” reply to the request for « solution cent. gained. Then the cost by the per|°! the wateh problem: Let X = cest iseent., X (N divided by 100) or X8 will] Price of watch, X wil also be rate % "me the gain in dollars. The gain plus} Profit. (47.25 —X) = gain, and (47.3 — X) jain, which will 14, the selling price ($17.25). Reducing] be equal to X. (47.2 —X) 100+ X = X, tt to ® common denominator, X2 pius| 47% — 100 X = X', 47% = X* + 100 Xx. ~oMO™. equals 475. Adding 20 to each| 11% + BO — X* + X + 200; (equaring) fe of the equation to complete the] 72% = X* + 100 X + 200, B= X + w; The What in the props the name of “Thames?” way to pronounce the English = river) FJ. P. Nie Gata. | the Editor of ‘The Evening World In answer to Robert Kalendar's quer, “If a merchant buys an article at $12 per dozen and eells aame for $18 per dozen, does he make 331-8 per cent. or 60 per cent?” The merchant makes 50 per cent, profit. When he buys fer for $18 he makes $@ on of $12, or 60 per cent. ed. CHARLES J, WILBY,~ ‘The Watch Problem, AW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. | _World Daily Magazine} Tuesdsy? October 28: 1913 Painting the (Tiger) Lily ‘UB, with fine impartiality, bad the (Gy Pack of his bar covered with por- trait posters of all the candidates of all the parties. “Who you gonna wote fort he asked, es Mr, Jarr came into his pli oe cause his wife was stil! recetvin nine visitors making oblation to cause sho Was suppo! to be the Preal- dentess of Costa Ri: dearest friend). On account of this invasion of gabby gushera there was no place but “out” for Mr. Jarr to go to. Ne place but out means, Gus's. "I axed you who are you going to ‘wote for?” asked Gus, “Are you gonna wote under the acales or under the Hits From Sharp Wits. Probably the Chicage Judge who had tife tango danced tn his court wanted a chance to reverse himeelf—Pitteburgh Post. It is estimated that John D, Rocke- feller's income rolls in at ¢he rate of $10.9 & minute, and the beauty of it, from Rockefeller'a standpoint, aa com- pared with that of the average stage star, is that he gets it. e. ture to say that if a bunch of women paraded across thi we of theatre in town gowned as many gowned on Chestnut etreet, the show would be “pulled” the second night. eee .| semblyman. eagle or under the star?” "'m going to vote under the roi Growled Mr. Jarr, ‘It isn't any of your business whom I'm going to vote for.” “It ain't now any more,” replied Gus. “But it used to be that it was my bu: ness to get all the wotes I could, Ra! ferty is on the regular ticket for As- The Dill Pickle Club wotes for him solid, That must make him feel proud! Every member of the Dill Pickle Club woting for him! Even Sla- vinaky, 1 th the glass-put-in for all the flate Rafferty 1s going to build.” (Jean Francois Stil, It may turn out that Temmany has also thrown @ monkey wrench into fta own machine,—Philadelphia Inquirer. ove ° An Atmbaseador enjoye great privi- leges. For instance, Mr, Page had the ineffable pleasure of wearing hie dress eult at the wedding of British royalty, although it took place ‘n daytime, eee ‘What's that? Redondo Beach, Cal, Kore “wet,” 49 to 6M, when women cast half the votes? Why, that's not at all according to the eu prospectus, — Indtanapolla News, eee Skin-tight suite for men have been de- creed. Fashion, not content with having made femininity like a watking etick, aquere, X2 plus 10X plus 2500 equals $35 = X = cost prige and also rate per TBM. Kasracting the square cot, X plus cont, _ ‘ a8 now seems determined to evolve man into an animated frankfurter,—Baltle more American. treme Publ By Randolph Colclough Wilson, N old custom tn France, etill ob- A served to-day, ts that of giving over to the poor the last glean- ings of the harvest. The farmers be- eve that {f this time-honored privilege were withheld, bad fortune would at- tend the harvest. Millet, peasant-born himself, achieved his masterpiece when he painted such @ ecene—tho three peasant women, dent 1h toll, gathering the stray eare left in the hard, coarse etubble. ‘The old woman on the right, barely able to stoop, the matron in the centre, the| be found. young vixgrous girl on the left, all| it for 6500. In 18 Mme. Pommeroy had boldly outlined against Jandacape dehing, sepresent os ge other toto the Louvm NO. 8—THE GLEANERS, By Millet. (At the Louvre, Paris.) Millet, Barbizon 4 By Maurice Ketten PORORAOEEOEES OSES SEsEROR OC SEEOORES CESSES OOS SC#O+OES Mr. Jarr Gleans Weird Side Lights On the True Meaning of Friendship 0999S9S9S9S9SISSS 9995959 999089999998S9T509999999059 jut Slavinsky has always gotten the glass-put-in jobs on Rafferty’s building Mr. Jarr. “I know that,” retorted Gus, “but It’ mighty hard for Bepler, who only gets the family trade of Rafferty for his meat, and {t's hard on Muller, the gro- cer. Where does HE get off on the Rafferty flats? Why should Rafferty build his flats way up in the Bronx where ft 1s too far for Muller and Bepler he trade of the new tenants? y don't Rafferty dulld his Gats here among his neighbors?” “Maybe it's because this neighborhood all Duilt up,” suggested Mr, Jarr. "Well, Muller and Bepler don't like it, anyway,” Gus went on. “They don't see why Glavinsky should get money out of Rafferty’s business when they only get money out of Rafferty's family trade, © tell you they put up @ holler, and that’s why Slavinsky wants « promise from Rafferty that he'll still get the glass-put-in. Ain't Slavinsky been good friends mit Bepler and Mul- ler?” “Then what are they kicking about?” asked Mr. Jarr. "Do you tke to see your friends make something where you don't?’ retorted Gus, “Don't it make you mad and don’t you say: “Where does that guy come in on this when I don’t?” ‘Why, I ehould think they'd be pleased if @ friend could make some money where they can't,” eaid Me. Jarr. “That shows how little you know about friendship,” Gus explained, “Ain't you never heard people eay, ‘I gotter friend in the fur busines, I'm going to get furs for my wife from him for what he pays? Or a friend in the dia- mond business or in the furniture busi- ness? Why should you want your friends not to make @ profit?” “I don't know. It’s en enigme to me," replied Mir, Jarr. “A what to you?” asked Gus, “An enigma,” was the answer Gue glared at him. “That's a nice crack te make at me!” fm my lquor T guess you are Uke all the rest, you are gore at me be- cause, on eccount you know me, I don’t give @ bigger pint te you than anybody else. “Why, I didn’ eay anything except that why frienehip was an excuse for imposition was an enigme to me,” re- marked Sir, Jarr in eurprise, “Enigma —® pussie—I don't understand it!” “and I don't understand it either,” sald Gue, “T guess it’s a word that's some insult what yeu think you can ehuck tn my face!” “I meant nothing of the kind,” Mr, Jarr explained. ‘And If you are going to fuss and nag and pick eat me, T'll go hom At least it doesn't cost me any thing there te get a bawiing out! “And It won't cost you nothing to get @ bawling out here, elther!” Gus de- clared angrily. ‘Te think you ehould stand In my face and tell me I'm @ col- ored feller when I'm talking to you as a friend what don't ore, or I didn't ca: School, 1814-1875.) picture does peasant toll, the subject that Millet teck for he own, He painted it at Barbizon, @ Mttle vil- lage at the edge of the Forest of Fon- tainebleau, about forty miles south of Paris, With him there, close to nature, foving it, etudying it, painting it, was the greatest group of landecape patnt- ere the world has ever seen—Corot, Dias, Rousseau, Troyon, Daubigny and Dupre, the famous Barbizon scheol. Millet was appreciated by his compan- fons dut not by the work! Tae till the last few yeare of his life. He ex- ‘hibited “The GI in M687 ané it | was some time before @ purchaser could and ten cents you owe me!” “Enigma, enigma—e Jare. somewhat mollified. “And, es I was say: ing, ain’¢ ft fine that the Dill Pickle Ci ia going to vote for Rafferty as a body?’ if you never paid me the four dollars word meaning don't ‘vereteh.’ Get me now?” cried Mr. “Oh, well, that’s different,” said Gus, “Why ehouldn't they? Rafferty is on Copyright, 1018, by The Pree Publishing Oo, (The Now York Dreseg Wet, G2 I ancient times « “hero” wi comic op'ra knight, a ae 7 A Gashing, slashing, duel-fighting eoul: But, to-day, a hero's just a chap who slaves from ainete siz, + And then goes home—and carries in the coal, A man never marries mith any reason; he takes a wife just ashe takes a cocktall—and then inventa the reason afterward. C) ‘Where can one find a perfectly devoted husband in these days, Clarice? Go to the Tango-Tea, thou Simple One! It {s filled with husbands, every jone of them devoting himself to e@omebody, The first proot-of a man’s love és his desire to. begin remodelling.a woman, " Perhaps? after all, Xantippe may not have been born with a bad temper, but acquired it through the sorrow of having to live with a man of “artistic temperament,” who epent all his days making epigrams—enough to bring out all che latent fiendishness in the human soul, By the time the average man reaches thirty he has had eo many flames that the divine fire in his heart has become nothing but an ash-heap. Why te {t that a man never can tell a woman a plain, unvarnished Me? He always feels compelled to dress it up in frills and embrofdery until resembles an Arabian Night's Tale that would make Munchausen blush. Funny how easy {t {s for a woman to love a handsome man “for his faults!” As to the School Board That Bans Motherhood — By Sophie Irene Loeb —— Copyright, 1013, by ‘The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), A ND now ft has come to pass that) been regarded as anything but the HIGHEST AND BEST LAW OF NATURE, And the tendency has al- Ways been to maintain this sta: behalf and ot in the One place where mother. hoody should be most respected it is rejected—in the school room. Since encouragement of the example has | mother. kia been wet in the] These twenty-seven re: ‘ presentatives case of one whol of miliions of people should have profited hog taught eigh+| by the well-developed laws of Europe teen years, sug-|and should know and understand by Restions are mude/ Europe's long experience that when any to put out all) law is made against nature there ts teachers who are! suffering somewhere, ‘ mothers, Strange that in the Jee school room, Twenty ~ Seven! where supposedly (given efficiency), Fathers of Edu-| motherhood would te most welcome, cation decided| the door should be clos . that the school pulviauk pent There are very few positions open to women where the question !s asked, “Are you @ mothe But the School Board attempts to say by its action: ee you are @ mother, no matter how wed you can teach, y ‘gad you must not enter Well might they put over the door way of every school ho: Phrasing Dante's words: enter here, let all motherhood be- hind.” If it were smallpox the Patient could not be treated with more teclation than this, Also, if It were a very common, every day, plain proposition, then, Perhaps, might the Schoo! Board have the right to ponder and create such a law. But from all statistics there $s @ very small percentage of the large corps of teach+ room Was no place for a mother, Twenty-seven persons, elected to carry on the cause of edu- catiogs have decided the destinies of the woman who would work as a teacher and yet DARE to be a mother. In truth, they have put a premium on unnatural conditions. Besides, they vored, by this action, to @ precedent here for a problem that has long been solved by older and wiser countries across the sea. These older countries recognize NATURAL LAW first of all. And man- made law is subservient to It. There- fore, they do not add to the burdens of it, but rather allevtate it. Thus, only js sufficient leave of absence given to the expectant mother, but it ranged that ehe shail not SUFFDR| ers who are required to te: ry 5 from monetary ils, room for @ period in such . soi Motherhood should be encouraged : cause as this, Other motives and more reasons than those already forth should be demanded from the School Board for the future of all women teachers who ld be mothers as we / as for the gi al good of the com- munity, rather than discouraged among teach- ers. For it may be presumed that their Progeny might indeed prove to be above the mental average. Never in the history of ail ag in the dank Experienced. RANK P. MORSE, dramatic pres agent, mot Ralph A. Graves, the dramatic critic, in New York one morning, ‘They weat down barber shop, Gra wines ent looked as gloomy an @ candid on the wrong ticks me whe tes om “He failed to 1 beard that he had ‘wife's name befbre the eycione hit “Bo he did," rejoined Jones, then thie wife eloped with the princi “Pe Geipdia Telegraph, aioe. H i < : i i Fea iy tf i £ Voted herself to the Landwmme young man om her he whispered hurriediy: “' ‘A Little more convemation to the left, anieg? Detroit Free Press, wr a eee Aroused His Curiosity, * HE prisoner at the bar bad ecoumulated toad of intoxicants, taken from the motor cer that was rot tis own, © few Kindred epirita and broken all ‘epeed until he lad landed in» ditch with the ear mediably emaghed, says the Cleveland Dealer, The pursuing bicycle eop had him immediately to court and His preparing to soak him good end hard, “I want this case postponed tT pte to ove my lawyer,” hiccoughed the joy wider, “A lawyer?’ caught with the dod you Dave beewe tm trouble before eome thing, What could your i your Gofeuse?" “That's whet I'm cute te © mighty dover feller,” ij fit * ut i Freok,” who's treating your hair ie as bald as an ees end ¢hrowing he expostulated, “thet man ay @ dollar and ninety centa,”” ked Morwe, dreemils, **Not @ halr on hie head,” replied Graves, “Well,” explained the viotim, @entiy, ‘that's why he tows how not to mene my hair fall out,"=-Populer Magerine, —- < Schedule Got Twisted. HAT fate rfton ondains aifferentiy was demonstrated ty @ story told by Gor, Elias M, Ammons of Colorado while em @ 10 cent trip through the Fast, Bome time since, 0 narrated the Gorernor, Gmith eetumed to his home town tn the West ‘after @ ebort absence, and while walking down the street man across his friend Jones, Glad (greeting and then some conversation, “What ta che world t the matter wita Brown!” ssbed Smith, etirring up the tee ta the eforenié erecting, “I saw him on the opposite tide of the highway a few minutes ago and be HOW I GOT MY FIRST RAISE ‘The Evening World will cotta price of socount wr ETL moor att on ett fo atom @ stoi mui in mmuet give the wrker’s actual ex in ‘obtaining le fret (uetenss of al ior what service of series of servi th awarded? cumstances caused it? Tell the story rugs shapky, naturale wien Finally a M. Binder bought ooratic!"* the farming | to pay him $75,000 fomit, and presented| ‘But he's a friend, eo I'm surprised they don't scratch Him eald- Guts wih the regular ticket, and they are all Dem- ine ur narrative wo! or ler: only one side of the paper. Address “First Raise Editor, Treks tonite on Box 1354, New York City.” % 4