The evening world. Newspaper, December 22, 1913, Page 18

a Se, The The Mager World. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Cokes Pally Except sun 6 RALPH y New York jecond-Clana Matter, Vor England and the Continent an@ All Countries in the International Postal Unio: . $3.50/One Year. ‘ .30/ One Monti O@eeription hates Worla for the and Canada. ANY who went the United Stares Government to take over tel-| M egraph and telephone point to government ownership in Eu- . rope asa revson why we should have it in the United States, How many Americans have had actual experience of government ownership as it exisis in other couctries? How manyg\mericans un- derstand how foreign are most of its results to our habits of personal | freedom and to our standards of efliciency ? In England the increasing burden of the government telegraphs upen taxpayers has been notorious. telegraph system a handy instrument of esplonage. @@epudlic, doos much the same. Government in both these countries fe esventially bureaucratic. Wherever even @ degree of militariem prevails, government ownership is bound to lend itself to spying and repression. Moreover, any American who has ever done any telephoning in Faance docs not need to bo told of the exasperating inefficiency and slowness of the French system. ‘The eame applies to Italy. Switzerland hasn’t found out yet whether it likes government @wnerehip or not. ‘Ihe system was adopted on a theory of unification fat may work in a country the sixc of Switzerland. Government @wnerahip for loss than four million people is « different thing from @rernment ownership for ono hundred million. Japan took over its railroads, telephones and telegraphs to pro- Wile war assote. The result has been in every way bad. The Jap- Germany makes its government | France, although | gnese Government, forced by military burdens to economize, has found Meelf unable to make extensions. Not fifty mileayof new road have been built since government ownership became a fact. It takes six months to get @ telephone installed, and the less sald about the ser- vies the better. ‘Americana who are ured to enterprise, initiative, rapid improve- ment and wide extension in their public utilities, to eay nothing of personal liberty and freedom from surveillance in thelr conduct and business, will find government ownership as it works in other countries & poor argument for folsting it upon Uncle Sam. ei A fury has found guilty one bunch of Tammany grafters who swindled the taxpayers of this State with Tammany meth- ods of roadmaking. How many more miles of Tammanytutlt highways are varnished or veneered? . —_—_———— “TIDINGS OF COMFORT AND JOY.” sEVHE beginning of Christmas week, 1913, finds “dig business” eo T enchanted with the now promise of harmony and good will between itself and the Government that even despondent Wall street is capering to the mustio of the glad tidings. Angels of peace, themselves, could not have timed better either the announcement of the telephone and telegraph company’s resolve te eonform to the law, or President Wileop’s prompt and cordial reply in the name of the Government, that: “Bo long as we are dealt with im this epirit, we can help to build up the business of the country upon eound and permanent lines.” None of the old growlings, mutterings, gloomy forebodings and hints of battle! Businces and government no longer eyeing each other askance, but at Inst stepping freely up to each other with « “What ehall we do?’ from one side, and e “How can we help?” from the ether! Just ae the season of holiday cheer ts fairly begun, the nation gets tho gift of all gifts tt could most desire! ‘Which suggests that it fs 8 mighty good thing in some cases to register New Year's resotu- tions before Christmas. oh ‘The att: ndauce at every “white slave” moving picture ex- Bibition 11 this elty ehould be premptiy tmorensed—dy the mumber of police seeded to shut & ap. St PUBLIC PESTS—NO. 6. HE Man Who Knows the Only Things Worth Knowing. T ‘There is a type of more or less—usually lese—travelled person, who thinks nobody else hes either eyes or intelligence. Whether you have just returned from Washington or the West Indies or Hindustan, thie man is always ready with his: Well, did you see so and cof No? Why, you missed the whole thing! I could have told you, etc., ete.” Ten to one it is only some back-alley cafe he discovered or come peltry hill he climbed, but his one idea is to convince you thet what- ever you saw and did was nothing to what he saw and did. And the latter is all he wants to talk about. This individual is a trial to his friende and an insufferable nui- sance in general conversation. He belongs in the eame class with the man who always greets another man’s etory with: “Yea, that’s old. Let me tell vou a good one.” It’s a peatiferous species! te - - Two hundred and ninety-three years ago to-day the Ma: flower Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock and supplied New England with aristocracy and furniture, Letters From the People Another Seat-Keeper, cause I don't think she deserves tt, Sh Fo the Halter of The Evening Worl! shops late in the day and th Regarding “I-ai-nut-a-critie” article subway, adding to ae her any n about giving up a seat In the subway, | Wit! e want to say | think he ie a right. SUBWAYITE, I myself, draw the ine in #6 eases. | mate le. I will give my seat verdily old sayree with the statement that woman or man or to a moti with 4! Americans hear music for p! A baby in her arms; but 1 positively will |terrtdie condition of affatra! I have to met give my seat to any young lady, 1 guilty to hearing quite a few «1 emce gave up my seat to & dressy |c t# and operas and having really “dhleken," and the way she accepted it) enjoyed myself, with the exception of as !f mhe were doing me a favor. | the few times the artint evidently took not give my te the woman] pains to give the audience something Dundes Wher arma, der G0 eiudy ov a ‘ WS Cmmtrce Nt Vuk rtclng Wott se 66 ELA, Gue, how's business?’ asked Mr. Jarr, dropping into the popular cafe on the corner. Que looked eat Mr. Jerr very intently & moment before he spoke. “If I eay it's good you ain't goin’ to touch me for two dollars, ts you?” he anewered finally, “By gollles, credick 1 don't mind te give no one what I think t good for it, but for bf ain't got it for an orphan moth: “You are perfectly safe with me as rewards both cash and credit,” said Mr. Jerr. “I opine that business !s soul with you, then?’ “Oh, 90, " replied Gus. “I don't know w er it's because my regulur trade expects me to alip ‘em each a dottle of case goods at New Year—but the Retailers’ ‘Association ts stopped that—or whether it te that, Just before Christmas, wimmen ie eo cross the men hee to go out of the house, and the Hits From Sharp Wits. A person with ever ready eympathy misplaces @ lot of it. eee Some men would be perfectly content to lead « dog's life tf they could pick the dog.--Albany Journal. oe 8 Somebody has invented @ polson bottle capped with # bell that will ring when the bottle Is touched, But there are some blunderers who would refuse to believe a set of cathedral chimes. . . Gov. Glynn's good work for Airest pri- maries In New York auggeste that Mur- phy of Tammany has not got anything in particular on Gov. Giynn.—Chicago News. ee A two-year-old girl In Wayoroas went to sleep behind the atove watching up the chimney for Santa, Meanwhile they dragged the canal and beat the woods for her for houra, Asleop, she dreamed of good old St. Nicholas. eee ‘They are predicting civil war if home rule is imposed on Ulster, On which sido will the English suffragettes fight? Augusta Chronicle, eo. . An Indianapolis girl is accused of having been engaged to fifty men at the same time, and yet Indianapolis isn't much of @ college town at that—Bos fon Tremocrte wimmfn da glad to have ‘em out. Any- ttle kummet, Landemai Way, so far as my retail! liquor store sald Glavinsky. {a concerned, my trade is doing its) the Cristmas shopping olly.” | the season wer changed. To prove this statement « @uccesston| “Cheer up, Rafferty!" sald Mr. Jarr, Impatient sounding of the|as he odserved @ frown on the face of the builder, Cheer up! The worst Is of short, burger proved at least one pinochle game was going on in the back room, and| yet to come! y, the builder, followed by| ‘You said it, all right," said the bulld- the glazier, aldled in|er gruffly. “It's goodby to money at five-and-a-half per cent. We'll be pay- x for It, and glad to get it at Irteh, Dutch,” . ae There won't be much bullding Copyright, 1913, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Brentng World), NEW flirtation is the “chaser” which takes y the bitter taste and deadens the heartache left by an old love affair. A Oh yes, there are till miracl en to-day you will find, here ané there, afman who actually wants to marry; @ woman who really believes all her husband tells her; and « married couple who are not thinking of getting a divorce, Before marriage a man listens ‘with his ear to the ground to find out what @ girl’ would like for Christmas; after marriage it requires a megaphone for her to reach his inner consciousness when she begins hinting for the things with which she wants bim to “surpriee” her. Widowers make the most fascinating lovers—probably because their tender sentiments have been kept in cold storage for eo long that they seem perfectly ¢resh and new. 5 A man doesn't mind letting his wife have the last word—nor even the first, for the matter of that; it's all those that come in between that harrow his soul and drive him to distraction. Somehow, those heart-to-heart talks between platonic friends always lead, sooner or later, to liptolip allences, that Plato would have been perfectly shocked to think of, A man who goes into marriage with a lot of theorles about managing a woman Is like a tipply tea table in the middle of the room; every time his wife turns around ehe shatters one of his pet hypotheses. The first elgn that a woman really loves a man is her ‘rresiatible im- pulse to make him step smoking and doing all the things he likes and to make him begin wearing rubbers and doing all the things he doesn't Mike, It is better to dwell alone in a hall bed-room at the house-top than {a 9 quite ot Palm Beach arith @ @irtations husband. or we have an earthquake.” marked Mr. Slavinsky softly, “I heard a feller say that he seen an earthquake and !t didn't leave a whole pane of glase for ten miles around,” “And this is the time of tinued the gloomy Rafferty, “that the women take thelr husbands’ money and buy things for them they don’t want.” "Hush!" cried Gus. please, I just been hav! in an argument with my wife, about that very thing, IAsten!" all d silent, and even through the heavy ornate ceiling of the cafe could be heard footsteps in the living rooms above, “When the wimmen walk on thelr heels across the room Hke that it's ‘Good Night!’ said Gus aolemniy. “Is YOUR wife ill, too? asked Raf- ferty, Gua notded “They all get lll But nothing wil! keep ‘em from going out to the stores and fighting the great Battle of Bar- gains. To the cry of ‘Give us our Christ- mas shopping money early!’ the women meet at their yearly Armageddon," sald Mr, Sarr, “That's a new store on me,” said Gi "But look at this loafer coming in her Here's @ low life what can't afford a wife and home, and eo he ain't got a worry in the world, Now, Just for his| rr, being 80 happy looking, don't nobody buy him a drink,” But Mr. Michael Angelo Dinketon, who had been observed passing the win- dow, came in right merrily and wished everybody a joound Yuletide, and, slip- ping plenty of money on the bar, asked tor wassall round. “You got a nerve buying booze when you need a hatrout and @ shave and a clean shirt and a shine and ry> thing!" sald Gus, testily, looking Mr. Dinkston over, “Me? Tam the Spirit of Christmast’ erled Mr, Dinkaton alrily. “I make everybody .happy to look at me. To strangers I am @ constant reminder that the poor are always with us, It's @ great comfort to @ lot of people to be reminded that, ae the gold old reci- tation says, "To-day ts Merry Christ- maa; there'll be plumduff all around! By the way, what s plumduft? TI only know of it as flotional prop of the con- ventional Christmas." “You should be ashamed, young fel- ler, to try to kid us and have moni your mitt and not get a haircut ev: said Gus eolemnly. “I am the Spirit of Christmas; I shan make everybody happy,” repeated Mr, Dinkston, ‘Tony, the barver, forgets his rancor at the Christmas gift shower of safety razors when he sees my un- clipped hair, Gtitchhelmer, the tatlor, sees everybody hasn't a new sult, and— But look! There is Berry, the undertaker, standing at his door, dis- consolate. Wait, I want to go past him and cough bin a'meny Casistmast” ot | Saas | ‘he managed, as @ loyal supporter of the Spanish King, jt eresh the insurgents. | and the title of ‘Serene Highness.” | j A "regency" wae established, with Iturtide as its President on « salary of Of Big Wars bert Payson Terhune BODODHODHDDNHODHODSHOOHDDOOO® | Coprriatit, 1018, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Krening World), No. 28.--A Soldier's Trial That Led to Mexico's War for Independence. YOUNG Mexican officer was made Governor of two local proviness. Charges of graft and violence were brought against him, Tats ‘was in 1816. He was triod and—through influence or otherwise— | the charges were dropped. But the Spanish Government—Mexico | belonged to Spain in those daye—took away his budding political and mfli- tary power and sent him for four years into official seclusion. And thereby Spain involved herself in @ revolution, that freed Mexico. | The disgraced soldier was Augustin de Iturbide. In his youth he hed ‘fought gallantly in Spain's armies and had risen fast, taking brilliant part in crushing various rebellions, for revolts against the Government in Mexico are almust as old as is Mexico iteelf. They have always occurred with @ | cheerful frequency. Any patriot who chanced to miss one of them coum always be fuirly certain of catching the next, without great loss of time | By 1820 Iturbide’s plans were ripe. He had formerly persecuted af | revolutioniete and he boasted that he had once “honored Good Friday by shoot {ing three hundred excommunicated wretches.” Now he espoused the cause of “Mberty” and secretly worked for the overthrew of Spain's power in Mextoa, He was far too shrewd to raise the standard of revolt or to risk for himagit | the fate that had befallen rasher patriots. He simply | | Mexioo. And when @ new revolution at once broke to secsre command of the Government forces sent IturOide made a sccret alliance with the revolutiontst leader, Guerrero, @ few fake battles took place between their forces, The carefully edited ae count of these sham fights lea the Govrnment to believe that Iturbide was working wonders in stamping out the rebellion. The tidings of his victory aio made Mexican merchants think the danger was over and that they could safely send money from place to place. Iturbide took advantage of this mie- placed faith to waylay one convoy of currency and to seize $625,000, thus oom- pletely financing his venture, if not himeelf. ‘The Spanish viceroy at last woke to the role Iturbide was playing ané selsel an army to block the latter's advance, But it was too late. Thanks to Iturbide's craft and genius, the revolution was too strong by this time to be stopped. Iturbide marched on the capital, and everywHere the people hailed him as deltverer. : On Sept. 27, 1871, he entered Mexico City in triumph. The few Spanish gar risons left in Mexico were soon forced to surrender. Mexico wus free forever from the Spantsh yoke. $120,000 @ year, @ grat of 60,000 square miles of Texas land, a bonus of $1,000 Patriotiam was paying high dividends just then. The trial of five years earlier had led indirectly to Mexico's freedom and to the enrichment of the ‘Wherator.” Iturbide, however, was not yet quite satisfied with hie own rewards and, in 18%, he sidetracked the new republic and caused himself to be proclaimed | “Augustin L, Emperor of Mexico.” But he had seized far more than he could hold. He grew arrogant and @s- sumed greater authority than his once loving subjects were willing to grant ifm. The army forsook him, A revolution, with Bante Ana at its head, prociatmed @ republic. And after ten months of gilded rulerenip Iturbide was forced to give wp his throne and his title. The Mexicari Congress oxiled him to Italy and granted him a yearly penston of $25,900 in recognition of his share |tm freeing the country from Spain. A year later !turbide came back in disguise | to Mexico. | a | By Alma Woodward Weeeeeesoresessanasesooosooocooeseesosesonoooosooes | Mr. Jarr Sees Harlem’s Invasion By the Jocund Yuletide Spirit PPFSTIESITSETISISS FOIISIISSISIETS 8S 99FIISIVTIIFFITIT "next season unless things pick up—| sual compliments of) “Them earthquakes ain't so bad," re-| ” hi ear,” con-| ,| that rekord he wood get me a fod ,|don't know what pa ment, but I have a In bis absence he “ad been procinimed “a trattor, bn outlaw and a pufiic enemy of the State." So he was arrested almost as soon as he eet foot tn Mexico again, was tried and condemned to die, On the evening of July 19, 1824, a file of soldiers shot him. Diary of a Little Boy Commmight, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Erening World), WOOD never be her hare, so I thought I wood be verry & book - keeper|sweet when I watked up to her kown- when I gro up|ter, So I took off my hat as a mark of bee it must |respek and I winked a lttul and got be a awful thing|my dime reddy for a box of perfume to be. I dee-clded|for my muther, and then she eed: to balans up my "Beet tt, kid; don’t think yuh can hang accownts to-nite;rownd here and lift somethin when I from my Xmas|ain't looking." So when I herd that I shopping. ‘There |made the screwd-upest face at her I wna one dolier and seventy-eix cents in|knew how to make and I woodlm't by) my bank when I kleend it owt, and|no perfume of'n her at all, Tam going to put doun a Ist of the preaints I bot #o that IT can kompair cents, and I had nine cents left over, |'em with the ones I will buy next year, It worreed te and go 1 konsultid pa| For pa—Shaving eope with a alee abowt it and pa sed If I kud live up to | amell For ma—Bewtifu! fanay pink coffer, For granpa—Hare regtorir. For granma—Darning kottin for ey stokina, and elghty-foar dountoun a@ soon as I wuz foarteen. 1 hunch he wuy sayin’ somethin’ unkom- Piimentry abowt me, To-nite I foot verry mizrabul. been coming hoam to dtnnur for a week and anying she needed # cup of tea rite she'd tell pa all abowt how awful rewd ali the wimin wuz tn the stoares, and Pa wood say: “Don't bleet to me, deer, you shood a’ done yur shopping erly.” But I know how ma felt now. Bee- cauze to-day I did my shopping and 1 feel verry mizrabul, indeed, ownly I wood like ging!r all insted of tea. I did mine In the 8 and 10, bee-cauze when you gotta give pregints to nine Peepul and you got a doller and aeven- ty-six cents it meens ether a blamed lot of katkulatin, of eis the 6 and 10, so I chose tho lattur. Noboddy seems to pay much tenshun Ma has coms hired girl—-Stoking what took ‘or unku! Jim—Mackroons, cause he iikes ‘em For ant Eis!~Brotary peoce. For cuzin Jimle—Rattul he can dit. Also wite tissu paper, Also red baby ribbun, ler and 78>, Any won can see by the lst thee I mets ar ing propriate for each cae are is no ns in ivin, things thay can't use, ike ma eivaiee the new hall karplt fer Xiras, or seme thing Ike that. Pa ownly walke ovur the hall karnit twice a day. Womee when he goes dountoun and wonece whem he comes honm. And ma keeps walkin Total, one @et- to @ llttul boy when he goes shopping. |ovur it all day. Thatz no sens, % look at yuh like thay hated the| bleeve in giving things yer hare wuz cut, and thay don't |peepul gay: ‘liminy <mas, ain't I glad T got that," sted of: “O, gee; here, give this thing to the hall-boy, not that I wish him enny bad luck."* I will rite a Pome abowt whag x bleeve: Give yer prozints with a full her Even tho’ yer purse is shy, Then you can say: “I've done m: Othurs shirk, but not do 1. win [The Day’s Good Stories Real Excitement. ben show yuh goods at all: thay just snap up the furst thing yuh point at by mis- take and don't give yuh no chans to change yer mind, ‘All the ladeez what wuz selling things in the 5 and 10 didn't malk a hit with me, exscep one and she wuz verry pritty; she had yello hare and red cheeks and she had dimond koams in ind found all the coy in the bam, why he didn Indien, tt 66XVES," said the meck-looking man, “T've no doubt you've had some great hust- tog experiences tm your travels abmad,”* "71 have, indesd, “Buffalo bunt! “And bear hunting"—~ j “Ot course." “Well, you ust come around and let*my wife take you house hunting and bargain hunting with | ¢¢' ts imeonel a : Nat ttle te, ber Ton tain non wat real ex ova Michigan 8 Hal a + Indy firmly, Mrs. Partington. [2008 tht owt OME of the leading ladies of the Glen Ellyn, ney ie tae ne ae to pay his fare thie emer” pay hin fare, ‘That eas, “It you don't may bis ll thelr occupy a seat, 1 will him off,’ “top the trdin and put him off « leading ffiaial of the local Woman's Club, ‘Qse| Me’s not my little boy, yk} (ey tos coring 1 ound to 0 Gay Riek eal wilh Jar} mre an tm ta : Pont a = amt County, were discussing the pure milk qucs- tle, One member remarked: "I believe we should compel all/the dairymen to pasteuriz wilh," wpe can't be dove," answered another, a