The evening world. Newspaper, December 31, 1913, Page 8

| a oe ae AA World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, December 31, Pubitshed Daily Except Supeey by the Press Publishing Company, Now 66 te 3 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER President, 63 Park Row, | J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. | . 5 | ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. | te} JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. Bntored at the Post-OMoe at New York as Second-Class Mattes, ny Dubscription, Rates to The Kvening|For England and the Continent an@ World for the United States All Countries in the International + Canada, Postal Union MW se seeseeees O8.60/One Tear. .ccccessecsrssescssees 8 -30/One Month... +. «NO. 19,125 | ALWAYS “A NEW BUREAU”! H ENEVER a society for the prevention of something ot Wee gets busy in New York the first thing it doos is to | urge a new department of the city government. At its inaugural meeting the Committee for the Prevention of Reckless Driving and Street Accidents etarted off with a proposal for t epecial municipal bureau to handle automobile traffic. But why? Does anybody believe that the police, with traffic tegulations, a license system and the co-operation of magistrates and | tourts to back them, are not capable of dealing with the speed problem? | Why create new officials to do somebody else’s work? Directly anything goes wrong hereabouts somebody wants to open new city offices with a salaried manager and a etaff of eec- tetaries. The habit of assisting departments of the city government to} fo work that properly belongs to them, if carried too far, easily begets | confusion, laxity andeyeakened responsibility. | Instead of apending money to multiply chiefs and staffs the) elty had much better figure how to get the highest degree of efficiency VOLUME 54. ~ from those it already has. Reckless motor driving is a serious menace end must be curbed. But the best results will be obtained, not by creating new bu-| teaus but by seeing to it that the city yets from police and magistrates the vigilance and co-operation that belong to departments which al-| ready exist. t+. | Do your resolving early. | een peeve AS IT ADDS UP. EN BILLION DOLLARS’ worth of farm products is the record T for 1913—in spite of drought and discouragemente the moat successful farming year in the history of the United States. The high cost of living is still with us, to be eure, but the more we study it the more hopeful we are of finding ways to get the better of it. We have at last tackled with courage and eucocess the Tariff and the Currency—two spectres that have ecared us since we were born. Government and business have never been more friendly and tommunicative toward each other. We have been and shall continue to be wisely withheld from war. ‘The country is all here. Why worry? ——__4-__. How long since you've heard yourself sing? Try your Voice to-night. a “KNOW THYSELF.” ¥ YOU wish to have your physical machinery overhauled by ex- | perts who will tell you where it needs oil or repairs, the Life Extension Institute, juet incorporated at Albany, will eoon be ready to do the job for a einall fee. If you hold a life insurance policy the cost will be nothing at all. If there is something wrong with your gear the Institute will furnish a diagram of readjustment and your family physician can do the rest. With ex-President Taft, the aor to Great Britain and Dr. Wiley on the Board of Directors there seems no reason to doubt the good faith of this corporation when it announces that it is in ‘business for health and humanity. _Two-thirds of any profits it may earn beyond five per cent. of the capital invested are to be spent in extending the public usefulness of the Institute. With each succeeding year there is lees and less excuse for any man to remain ignorant of his bodily condition or of the things he ean do to make hia life a long, useful and happy one. Twenty-five hundred years ago Solon eummed up his wisdom in the counsel, “Know thyself”—advice which the Greeks put in gold letters over the portico of their most eacred temple. To-day the best efforts ot the best minds are spent in helping ns to follow it. +. And many of them! Letters From the People Tam thirteen years of age and attend Public Behool 165. I have noticed that about one man out of ten has a clgar, pipe or cigarette tn his mouth. People passing through the street do y alr mixed foul fumes of tobacco. nm T note & query asking to run a truck with than it te to run an bile truck? Ie st caeaper to run @ stage coach or @ railway train, n rowDoat or an 81-foot ocean liner? Is it cheaper to burn « candle or an are ight? The answer to each of these 1% obvious, But we do} not confomn the railway train, ateamship or the elec! team of horses)! called the Anti-Clgarette League of America, Its object 1s to keep chil- |dren (and grown-ups) from amoking. It does & great deal of good and hopes reas , . Now on, To burn @ wingio candle 18) have @ rolleall of 100,000 boys in| {rom what paper do you suppose we got moch cheaper than to burn an aro|\ 7, ° Hght, but In order to get the light trom| NeW Tork, HUGO GREENFIELD, | that? Fach render has one guess— candies several hundred of them would Member of AntiCigarette League of I’Miadelphia Inquirer. have to be burned in order to equat| America. that given by an aro Wght, in which ease the cost would be many times Greater than the cost of burning an aro Nght It is cheaper to operate a row- boat than a steamship, but in order to transport a cargo of merchandise (that fe taken across the ocean In @ steam veane}) in rowboats, so many of them would have to be employed that the The Pet Nog. | To the BAltne of The Rrening Warts Apropos of the article entitled “Doxa! Hite 6,000 Citisens @ Year in New York City," and to that section of the article showing the record of deaths due to the rabid pet dog, the question arii “Why the pet dog’ anyway In a large city? Anlde from possible inexplicable pleasure in keeping @ pet of that kind under such unnatural and unsatisfactory conditions, there woul! seem to be no use whatever for the keeping of such animals ta city ike New York. It not only a menace as well as @ nuisance to owners and their neighbors and fellow-citisena, but te inhumane to the animale ¢hem- selves to keep them under such condi- tions, 3B, 8, BOWDISH, ve, None Untversally Sheorves, mrmenain & 5 Dvening World: ‘To the Editor of The Xvening Ht that a man was arrested for the United @tat ne smoke in @ policeman's face, days during the year? normousiy greater than to the spade vs, the steam shovel, and to the horse and wagon vs, the motor tyuck. If the querist will ask: “Is it eBeaper to hat] goods with the horse than with the motor ¢ruck under aver- @ge conditions?” he will r siderably differen’ Antl-Cign v ‘Happy New Year! at \aain3'94 2 28'26|27|28,9 30138 would never epeak to Mr. again if he didn't play it. “E slt enraptured! a sari Isr Pinkfinger As in a trance! From the first note of the ‘Ghoul's Sar- Canetaht The Wome 1 , The New vere Brenna Wont.) § QS - 191%, wn ne wa B until, cried “How sweet! Doesn't it thrill you?" dan encore. “Let the alily bore tire himself out at! | finger to piny this classic of Cubist! tne plano,” Mrs, Jerr whispered to the eacaphony he had compored one evening Cackleberry girls, “there's nobody here y Maurice Ketten a ee SEEK EK CEE EEE EE with a —— whe 1913 13 A 1s 161718 ry 20)\28 j2ala3; 34 38) ‘26 a7 2728 '29)30\31| PECECEEESEEESESES OEDEEEEESSOSESEEE SERERESESS ESE SESE | Mr. Jarr Is at Last in Society! Yes, He’d Much Rather Be in Jail (‘mat "ni'*mom ster GESSSSSISSE SS SIOSS FIVOSSIE9S9SESHSSS 39SSSSSTTIITSETOD Plano and gabbled at the top of their voices to one another, crashing chord, the piece ended, everybody splendid! with @ treme: hands, demand ae men are about punch,” men couldn't get “Ts it true that ¢ fe going to do an B ‘Hasheesh Hour!?’ long without punch, Both the ladies she addressed knew then | how the men were about it. How and jous patiering of gloved They made their husbands drink it at home eooials, also. But the other women shook thelr heads and sald they didn't know why ara Mudridge-Smith t Indian dance, the asked Mrs. Stryver {Litite Causes : Of Big Wars By Albert Payson Terh (Capri, 1913, by ‘The Press Publahing Co, (The New York Evening World.) |No. 32—A Strip of “Debatable Ground” That Cased Cur Mexican War. N Southern Texas {s a strip of land, lying between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. And over its possession was waged a great war—a war that cost more in moncy and lives than fifty (inva the value of the land itself. Pioneers from the United States had drifted southwesiward across tue | Mexican border and had settled in the region that is now known as Texas. They had a hearty contempt for the Mexican masters of Texas, a contempt | they took no great pains to hide. The Mexicans resented the invasion and , the Americans’ attitude toward them. | There was one clash after another. A cordial hatred sprang up between the two races and war followed—a murderous frontier war, starred with massacres and with all manner of atrocities. The outcome of the conflict was that the American pioneers, under Sam Houston, thrashed the Mext- cans, drove them out of the territory and formed the “Republic of Tex: | Then Houston managed to get Texas annexed to the United States. This ds not the place nor time to discues the rights and wrongs of snatching [Several hundred thousand square miles of territory from Mexico of adding ft to the United States. But at once the action bred trouble, The slavery and azti-slavery: factions here be- fan to snari over the possession of the new State: the standpatters denounced Sis annexation and Mexico pro- tested loud Yet there seemed every chance thgpthe high hand- led seizure might not involve our country in war. Thourh tops were massed |near the frontier, President Polk said in his message to Congress on Dec. % 3815, that the peace between the United States and Mexico remained undisturbed. | Then camo the boundary squabble. | Texas extended only; an far sout the Nueces Rive | Acquired the-land-seizing havit, claimed also the Coal tween the Nueces and the Rio Grande. Says Higginson “The claim to the region wetween the rivers had no standing Mttle in fact.” But President Polk Land Grabbing and War. but the Texans, having district, which lay bee | in law and but { \ | forced it by) sending Gen. Zachary Taylor, with 4,000 men, across the Nueces and as far south ay the Rio Grande itself, thus Invad- {ing with an armed force the domain supposedly belonging to a peaceful nelghborl The local Mexican commandant ordered Taylor to clear out. Taylor ce- |fused, There was a skirmish. Sixteen Americans were killed or wounded. | Taylor promptly crossed the Rio Grande, invaded Mexico and captured the city | of Matamoras, i Congress backed thie move by declaring war on Me |quaintly assured the nation that Mexico had “invaded American blood upon American oll" and that “war ext our efforts to avoid it © * © by; tho act of Me: Many statesmen, | Abraham Lincoln among then, denounced these state as hee. | Zachary Taylor, with his little army, plunged straight into the hear | Mexico, thrashing Mexican hosts that great!y outnumbered his own and | turing Mexican strongholds that were thought ‘ornadls, i He was a wonder, this grim old Ind} whom Polk had sent 44 | Mexico as a catspaw to be the butt of anf unpopularity the war might cavure. (Taylor was a Whig and Polk a Dem¢ And now somade him a national hero, Polk tried to redeen his own error nding Gen, Scott, |@ fellow Democrat, down to take charge of the war and by stripping Taylor of most of his army to swell that of Scott. | In epite of the ha co, Prosident Polk territory and shed notwithstanding all leap Taylor Inter won the battle ‘ of Buena Vista, defeating # Mexican force nearly five times large as his. a socuring hie own | tleetion next Preside: Unitel States.) } Scott too won several ba in a few montha | Mexico was thoroughly beaten, | By the terms of the peace treaty Mexico ceded, among other things, to the United States (for $15,000,000) California and New Mexico, nearly © square ee of territory, Thus, the strip of “debatable ground,” costiy investment |} though it had deen, at last paid tig dividends. i The Mexican war had other effects too. it trained certain :o ing soldiers for | mighty roles they were Inter to play in the national drama, Among the young | soldiera who received their baptism of fire in the clash with Mexico sere Grant, Lee and Jefferson Davi New Year’s Oddities fixed, but retrogrades through the di- ferent seasons of the solar year, last observance having been on Noy. which marked the Leginning of t year 138 (dating from Mohammed's “hegira” to Medina) In Scotland, Y Year's Da day before are ci ‘ ° days, when all persons were onc posed to be privileged to drink a drap* the John’s Day, which, fails on Dec. he Russian New Yenr will be cele- brated on Jan. 21, which marke the be- ginning of the year am A. M. ‘The “Old Lady of ‘Threadneedie Street,” the Bank of England, celebrates ite birthday on New Yeat'a Day, having been opened Jan. 1, The froqu and the wee more than was good for them, Up to a century ago it was the priv- Nlewe of the men in Scotch towns to 1696. Indians atill ciing their ald method of reckoning time, and will celebrate inter in January the be- to when kept awake, “pursued,” as he had| put old married trumps, Aa eoon as|of Mrs, Jarr, “Do you think that a|ginning of the New Year #4 of the Ries ST ety ela enagse on the streets by "the Prewe Eumamoe ON oxplaingd it afterward, “with w vasue-| Jack Silver or Herbert Tynfoyte or| dance of that rort— Iroquois ' Confederacy. on the frst day of the year, but the palate! : ners Vast and blue, probably from] arthur Terwiliger or any of the young) “What sort?" Interrupted Mrs, ‘The Chinese, having adopted the mod- | “'* mm ia now tadooed. +A T Mrs. Jarr'n “affair” in honor of| drinking tea to exceas, and he hadlunmarried fellows come we'll have some| “The sort ¢ ern calendar, will celebrate New Year's| ‘TH® atcient Persians exchanged ergs A the Misses Cackleberrys, visiting | dashed to the piano and composed It." | tango music." would dance!’ flashed Mra. Stryver.|Day on the orthodox date, but they |” their New Year's Day (Sept. %), hut her from Philadelphia, the merri-| Even Mr. Jarr had edmitted he could} xveanwhilo Mr, Jarr had acooped up al “Is it a thing these young girls should | still cling to their primitive notion that | that was long before cxgs became so ment was at tte height. stand it If the rest could, and Mr. | reqietul of fruits and flowers stained | sce » ail debts must be paid on or before | valuable. - Mr, Percy Pinkfnger, at the piano, | Rangle said never mind.kim. 80, noting | dismal pink with claret and had trans-| It occurred to Mrs. Jarr that thia|New Year'e Evo—a custom not likely | One of the most beautiful of ‘Amert- had dusted the keys with his dainty |@ deep hush fall upon the company and | posed the uncooked mess into a punch| Was a question she herse! to find universal favor among American | can observances of the dav is the taur- handkerchief and thrust it back in his} noting all eyes were upon tm, Mr./ giags, Here (and pretending he diked it,|Competent to judge, #o shi debtors, nament of roses whioh ‘a*held annually left meove, and had glanced at his) Pinkfinger plunged into dis mumical in-| the wretch!) he was moietening his lips | sweetly’. In climinating the New Year levee, | in dena, Cal, watch, which was on the wrist of his! terpretation of @ vagueness vast and) ang saying to John W. Rangle, also| “Why, !t le a simple, artiatic President Wilson changes a cul Tt {s estimated that New York con- Kimas RADaL: Aad Mim var wae vepeing | blak arch-nypocrite, “Here's iow!” dance that {s rot at all euggestly that dates from the days of Washing-|umes not less than a quarter of a him to favor the company wih his Fur! And the minute he did #0 everybody! +7 had to have punch for the men," |unpleasant; provided the dancer ls not|ton, who started it. © million dollars’ worth of charopagne turist Nocturna “The Ghoul's Gara-|turned Gecks on the player and the! Mrs, Jarr explained. “You know how | vulgarly fat.” eh MOS BL My Mr Mes nal eves New Yaar re cad eau “Sir. Pinkfinger hesitated. He said As Mra, Strvver was extremely stout, |cHuldeans, Phoentclans, Syrians and! According to an old muperatition, the that—re you know--he thought tt too heavy for a merry gathering such ae this, Something ight, now, such improvisations on “Narolagus, at? No? But the company was inalstent for the “Ghoul's Saraband.” Mra, Clara Mudé- ridge-@ntth vowed that posltively ahe ———== “Hits From Sharp Wits. The hand that rocks the cradle (s sel- siom seen making gestures tn a euffrage meeting.—Columbia Stat eee “Just one more drink” te always re spons ble for one more ‘“drunk,"—Phil- adelphia Inquirer, Headlino reads, “Spaninrds Expelled from Mexico Appeal to Hearet.'* looking for a mother, the halo of one man's approval. King Alfonso, says a Madrid despateh, amokes twenty-four cigarettes an hour. Hie must be saving up coupons for a plano—Boston Transcript, eee One of the late Giscoveries ie that of & London eclentist, who says mconlight raya have @ softening effect on the brain. May be that accounts for so much lovemaking by mooniight.—Toledo Bide Nowadays when a girl merri aie married and did. A German diackamith fp taking @ lead- ing role in grand opera over there. This fe not the ret time there have been Diacksmithe in grand opera —Mfllwaukee the fact to his bachelor friends. The weges of love is enaul (Copyright, 1918, ty The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Srening World.) M*«= men fancy they are looking for a wife when they are really for love alone she has to epend the rest of her life explaining the phenomenon. A men may “dare to do right,” but he wo A widow is a fascinating being, with the flavor of maturith, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practised coquetry and Actions may epeak louder than words, but they are not half so in- criminating in a breach-of-promise suit. A trained nurse never seems to catch anything from her pattents, but she usually ends by catching the patient. The most tragic figure in the eternal triangle is not the girl a man OUGHT to have married and didn't, but the girl he-ought NOT to have The eoven poses of man are the platonic, the impetuous, the eluatve, the masterful, the devoted, the indifferent and the “I'll-take-care-of-you- salad dare so acknowledge she took this shot with a qu! made no answer, er, “The boss's bride, the fair Clarice, jis golng to show us how to put the hash in hasheesh,” explained Mr. Jarr. “Dll bet she's got a thousand dollar costume, astonishingly ‘brief for the five cents worth of danc- id Mr, Rangle in a tense |aside. “Any chance for us to get out on the fire escare and smoke a pipe?” Stick around! Something 1s coming off, “whispered Mr. Jarr, “T hope not,” hissed Rangle; fair young matron (ara Mudridge- Smith came out from Mra, Jarrs boudoir, atired in several etrings of beads, and struck the first attitude of the Temple Dance of Benares. Mr, Jarr and Mr, Rangle looked over at od man Smith “Wealth is an awful curse,” mur: mured Mr, Jarr, “Let's give him anoth- er gine of the claret punch and put the old ma out of his misery! ain Where Prices Are Low. ETTPHR carriers in Russia are paid L frem $12.60 to $17.50 a month, Official German statiaticn show the average yearly income of the rall- way mat: ance workers !n Baden |» $520, in Wurtemberg $25), in Bay in Saxony 35, tn Pruaela $210. Widnes, England, sella gas to its con- sumer at from % eonts to % cents fot 1,000 cuble feet. The town now wishes to consumption 1s increasing rapidly. ‘The average Ru: {4 to have only about four certe aj year for spending money, t™ parts of France @ equare mea! ‘s| eerved for five conta, but to be pulled off” whis- falling back from Carthaginians began their year at the autumnal equinox, about Sept. 2. Among the ancient Greeks New Year's Day was first celebrated on Dov, 22, and later on June 2. opening of an umbrella in the house on New Year'a Day means bad luck all year, the overturning of a chair ie & presage of liners, and the dropping for tha’ | spend $5,000,000 enlarging ite plant, as) lan Gay laborer is! ‘Tho Latin Christian nations once had seven different New Yea aye—Jan. 1, March 1, March 2, Doc. 2%, Easter, and two variable dates. In England, from the fourteenth cen- tury until the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 178, the legal and ecclesi- | astical year began on March 2%. The twenty-second of September was the New Year's Day in the French revolutionary calenda) | The Mohammedan New Year |e not The Bait. 6677 FORGE," mid M my ce suxkdenty tn bed, iar in| the place!"* onsense!" replied hee husband drowelly, a-/ conting to Pearwon's Weekly, | "I'm quite right,” he returned | him distinctly crossing the floor of the room b | low, — Now"--caekedly"”—he'e Nght | those cigars T gare sou for yor bi " that) hewrd Dim pick up the box and put it dow | derstand « word {ley again,” | ‘Then Goorge sat up and tiatened, t “Ny Jove, 2 you're right!" he answered’, | ectusily emoking cne of tliose—erm ‘Then once more comfortabty re! | meath the bi iavets, "Go to sleep, Annie," te eatd complacont'y, fe’, find the por wreteh \ue morning!" —--—— Mcan Neighbors. EVEBRING to domeatic scrape, Congrew- man Betas M, Taylor of Ardaces voll i of the mesnert neighdow that ever ited, { or, ot least, that was the opinion of My, Smith, | who lived mest deor, Gmith wee ging dewutewn ene a marie, wen | bee we comm 0 friend, and the The Day’s Good Stories nnn AAA AARP RRAAOARRARN Ann, 5 of a knife, fork or spoon means that you will be hungry all year, The year 1914 will be born in New Zealand, for the people of that colony will be the first to applaud ‘ts arrival; then the change of date sweeps over Australia and Asia, then Africa and, Purope, before crossing the Atlantle to America In Japan the last day of the year ts called “the Devif's Day," because that fa when the bill collectors make thelr Tounds, and everybody has to pay up. erentuelly drifted fo a new fartily that hed fnte the lomse adjoining the former, hey came there, neighbeow, “1 am eo referring to the ni said Sanity, They are say! frien: ay fignt in nome foreign Nana age nid raphy, { Re, DE TIMID « ‘Ymid—And sou aprike of other es. perlences of a I Her Neighbor=t was eaves to several of the ermened heads of Rurope, talked with maay jot the great gencrale ard noted diplomats end | man gre nee wit the Pope, Mr ‘Wawen't you ecared? Ther Netghvor- -Not at all, Mr. De fim\|--Thee, if yon ore met efraié, 1 wish you would tell the head watter Chee (hap convention wait \bos ts empty,—Dirminghem News, 7