The evening world. Newspaper, January 9, 1914, Page 22

‘a ye ERE py ESTABIAS' BY JOSEPH PULITZER. © PeiManet Daity Except Sunday by the Prose Publts! 0 RA! PULITZ! VOLUME 54.0... cece cece cece ence eeeeeeeeeees NO, 19,184 | HE successful resulis of the campaign for cheaper telephone | NOW LET THE STATE DO ITS PART. rates which The Evening World pushed to such apeedy issue | I are now showing their full momentum, Albany is thoroughly in accord with the movement. With Gov. | Glyan, the Comptroller, the Attorney-General and the Public Service | Commission all co-operating to ‘the same end, no special legislation | will be needed to secure the physical valuation of telephone property | required as a basis for the final revision of rates. Following prece- | dent in the case of the insurance investigations, the New York | Telephone Company will pay the bills. | Gov. Glynn, congratulating The Evening World, declares: “You | have made a wonderful fight for the public and rendered an admirable service.” . Iis now up to the State, acting through the Public Service Com- mission, to secure to the people of New York the full fruits of the Victory by insisting upon a five-cent maximum rate throughout the | city, and providing specially deserved relief for the thousands of apartment house dwellers who, though not listed in the telephone Book, form perhaps the largest single class of telephone users, The five-cent rate must come. Just what we've always wanted—a Greek Ambassador named Agamemnon! WHY NOT ITS POPULAR SIDE? HILE the town is gloating over six-cylinder self-starters and Morocco lined drawing-rooms/ on wheels, The Evening World desires to point out where, with all its boasted com- rehensiveness, our Automobile Show neglects the auto in a most im- portant and democratic aspect. ., Comparatively few people can own motor cars. But thousands who live in the city can occasionally use one for convenience. In fact for the majority gf people acquaintance with the comfort of the auto ‘begins and ends with the taxicab, “v's * The Evening World has long been interested in taxicabs. It Paver relaxed its efforts until it secured for this city cheap taxicabs ) nd well-regulated taxicabs. ; _ Now it would like to see the people of New York riding in up-to- ite taxicabs, trim taxicabs, attractive taxicabs, smooth running taxi- taxicabs with every appliance and convenience that taxicab users other great cities of the world enjoy. , When he goes to an automobile show the average citizen is ex- _ Feted to admire a ten thousand dollar “private model” that he will % “sage Satay in in his life. | ‘9 ‘ouldn’t it interest him just as much {to see a model taxicab _ that he might ride in any day and that might be turned out by hun- to ddd to the smoothness and comfort of his everyday existence? Why not boom the taxi? $3 He “el After all, “ho knows how they danced the minuet when + there were:no stitf-necks around? f ————— =. “ TALKING AWAY TIME. Ae asd of HE man who pulled another man out of a telephone booth be- cause be thought twenty minutes of monopoly enough, no doubt deserved the $10 fine which the magistrate imposed. - Nevertheless: The habit of needlessly prolonging telephone con- tion is one that wastes the time of thousands of people every » @y and every hour. — = In nine cases out of ten telephone conversation, particularly ‘een persons of opposite sex, drags out to inane lengths because @ enilly notion that it is not polite to be the first to fay goodby and up the receiver. The man who knows not only what he wants to say but when has said it, is a relief under all circumstances and a joy over the hone, ‘The same applies with a thousand times greater force ‘women. We use too many words, anyway. For everyday purposes a small lary, serviceable and concise, is better than Shakespeare's, It ‘W.amazing how at home one can be in a foreign country with only a “‘bouple of hundred words of the langnage. Why overtalk? Don't be afraid to ring off. —_<o4e—____. The dematerialized Mr. Stover seems to have left no legacy of peace to the Park Department. at | Naw laughing at tiem, Their evening, The Return of| they had pald good hard-earned mones and gone,| to enjoy, 1 have seon the same sort bow it ls 194. Are you going to/ of thing at other shows. I consider it us “The Return?” BW. R. @ rotten violation of theatre; gp The Return of Tarzan” will be print-| rights, What do others say? 1 [ft in The Evening World in a few things must be done, way not “p! * confederate in the audience to serve butt for the Jok MISS IRATE, Monday. the Editor of The Kvening World m what day did Feb, 3, 187, fall? ing World a) times noticed at the tre What seems to me an outrage get theatregoers’ rigits, A man Woman—rather ellerty and re | asap mine ot The peas ey table looking—eat in the second 2 Aisha 1 anawer to “Simple Probl Sd at a wbow I attended a few nighta | bi ~ | Would solve the mame e quiet, comfortable the wort apparently ir money and who go to ww once In awhile to have a good WA, time as they can for the price. A Pgirl was singing on the Bae jei out the man and wang at him. eb she tossed A wigarette Into his p. Then she began to guy him, Then L ® follows: Let * equal amount of money im B's pos. Therefore 3x equals amount As is seasion, of money in A's possession, ted, A gains $400 and B Therefore A = 3x + 40, 150. 160). Solving equi tion, ax + 400 — tx + 300, Bolving The Evening | 1 suppose was spalled—the evening |» ee Wot 1d -Daily Ma The Millennium Will Get You! | .:2%2:- LET ME 9 Sem THE BARREL ,100. ‘You DEAR! azine, Friday, Ja nas it ‘You OLD "PLEASE DON’T — You MIGHT CATCH COLD. THING By Maurice Ketten CUTE 66 LXASE, alr, there's at the door with a summor for you, ya," whisper. Gertrude, the light running domestic of the Jarra, ‘Teil him we don't replied Mr. Jarr afta policeman punch,” Meanwhile (at Mrs, Jarre tango party to the Minsea Cackelberry of Philadelphia) the dance went gayly on. “Where've ~ you: been, Gertrude?” asked Mra. Jarr, as she came over, after being’ bumped off the dancing space by the plain’ clothes tive and Clara Mudridge-Smith. “Please, ma'am, I've been to whimpered Gert aa of the punch; and right away he wanted me to become a blueshirt, he said, and dragged me off to the engine house and"—— “I got a summonses for one John and Richard Doe and Jane Doe Mary Doe fer disorderly conduct "Hii then Sharp Wit much unless to conceal your ‘tleans Picayune. ee A Princeton piay doesn't have to ve much of a show at that to dri a full house in Washington during this Ad- miniatration, Doe and and . on A Frenchman, according to a Paris lived for a year without a brain, nothing—we've known of got along without one a’! .-Boston Transcript, eee thelr Hv There is always hope for the young man who will admit that he doesn't know about everything that la worth knowing. eee ‘The sun in be ow, but thi wed. It watts for ita victim, ee Any feminine name tn pretty if the giri who happens to have it is aweet. cree The way to handle a rumor is to walt ning to rine eariler larm clock —hasn’ up all night and ie hewan indirevtly 16 guy his wife | equation, 3x x 200 — Solv- IW seemed to me imsuitingly. The | ing equation, x — —100, B's capital at yor beet red with em- 0 A's capital at Alret, ad. M. x oe ee very one juntil it ‘becomes a confirmed lie and then aall |t.-Toledo Blade, poor man if he'll have a glass of sdisturbing the peace," said the uni- formed policema’ “Hey, what’ stepping fn. tter with you? I'm Dufty— Polson Needle !" said the plain clothes guest, coming forward. “I thought he said his name was ‘v” whispered old man Smit! Geoghan, I understood Jt,” young Herbert Tynnefoyle, eald “Well, all I know is that complaints has been coming in since 11 o'clock (and {t's now 3 in the morning) about disor- derly conduct in this fi grumbled the policeman, “The ni watchman at the new Rafferty ing down the etreet says he can't sleep, and the Captain eends me here with these summonees for John Doe and Richard Doe and Jane Doe and others— the same being fictitious"— 5-Minute Fights With “Fate’’ By Alma The Bugaboo of Old Age. M twenty-four hours older than [ wan yesterday. I have twenty-four hours less of my allotted time in which to make good. I planned a lot for those twenty-four hours, Yesterday morning, lying in bed, I worked out the foundation of a busin campaign that led to big things and an Al rating. T had it all down to a fine point. Everything dovetalled—there wasn't = breach anywhere, 1 arone, feeling won- derfully energetic and ambitious, Be- fore I had finished dreasing, the new- that instead of the office and the day over the morning paper excuse to put off itable grins Before | reached y downtown # tion { found @ hundred flawa in the planned. Th rows ¥§ dit of falth In my ow: | reached the office the same drab | Grudge that I had left it the evening | before. And that's what 1 do every day. the morning, refreshed by a night's | reat with the warm, soft protection of the bedclothes to soothe my imaginings, I build careers; and, at first touch of the outside air, first contact with immediately seeking work Idawdled wlad of any Ta y when my people apeak of me ax a “young husband.” I'm not old—but it takes a0 few twenty- discard, I'll be brushed, unnoticed to the wall while the hungry quest for “young blood goes on. If I can't reach even the halfway goal when I'm young, what chance will I have at the starting post when I'm old? Tve made an much as the aver man, Maybe I've made a little more, Woodward. Copyright, 1914 vy The Prews Cubblishing Co, (The New York Evening Workl), But every time a little extra came in I felt I owed myself some luxury, All the extras have been spent in luxuries, always with the fond faith that there was more where that came from. I have worried and fretted over an unprovided-for old age and the next minute, my wallet bulging with alittle “blown bunch to celebrate the juck of ¢! moment. I'm inconsistent. ‘Tha! @ backbone of the trouyle, Under the intoxication of my own mental eloquence, T pump nce into mye@elf. The next moment, the false stimulus removed, I'm fiat and crumpled ag a deflated balloon. I soar to the heights of im- Probability and promptly sink to the depths of hopelessness. My feet never touch the level of practicability. I moan over an almshouse future, and, at the same time, Ignore the prevent- ives that are right within my grasp. T've noticed—and that's what most people do. And when } j when the door 4a T must get I must prod my- self into the race if I won't go willingly. Every time I feel like letting down, Iie letting the ‘future take I must shout into my your time! You've got strength, You've got ideas. Every 0 down-and-outer, every decrepit, old spon; every outcast of whom is said ‘Poor fellow, they just didn’t run for him, tha’ walted until It was too ing to you, too. There'll time when your wetul friends will spend their audible pity upon you 4 then have @ sudden engage: when they think @ torch {» coming. Where’ ur pride? Get yourself to- gether and TO-DAY place a nucleus no matter how email, in the dest place of safekeeping, guard against tho old age bugaboo,’ Why, the very thought pute @ sort of calm and ceatfulness in my heart. ‘The energy I've wasted in glum proph- ecles I'll une seeking feathers to line @ nest of my old age. That's what do Is to Have a Night Court Sequel “Vil take ‘em. You go right back to the station house and tell the Captain t all right,” said the detectivg. ‘Tell him that Brannigan of the Chop Suey Squad in here like a duck. Tell him I'm on ¢ d tell him thet TN see. ord rved-and-all-din- Perse-quietly or me name's not Donegan, Detective Donegan, of the White Slave Tramc Squad” — “He's got a new name for every glass of punch that he's drunk,” murmured Mr. Jarr in awe, “I tell you what, I don't know what John W. Rangle put in it, but it certainly Is effective as an ice breaker, a floor polish, @ joy potion and a ‘liquid dinguine. All that detec- tive knows or remembere ie the roll call." “In it 8 o'clock? My, how time fies!” cried Mrs, Stryver, as the uniformed Policeman retired, and the detective quest was asking old man Smith how much money he intended leaving his wife when he died. “But where is Irene Cackleberry, san Dr. Gitbert Gumm?" asked Mra, ai gasped Gladys hy, didn't T tel you they had run a@wey with the racing automobile?’ asked Mr. Jarr, “Maybe they're married!” cried Mrs. Jarr. “How romantic! Suppose {t had been us!" gushed Miss Gladys Cackleberry to Jack Silver, “We should have sped off through space in the throbbing: car, Dulsing like @ great heart”. Jack Silver wiped his brow. “I’m going to give up moto: fraught with too much dange: gasped. “Yes, you!" cried Mra, Stryver. “That is the way I would go through the Void over the Abyss, with a Dreamer who would dare, Death and Love—we cast It's he Convention and Prudence to the Winde! Sam, get my rubbers and put ‘em on for me," she added, turning to her hus- band, ma’am,.” said Gertrude, the doorway, entleman on the phone who ‘a he is a professional bondeman and wants to know !f Dr. Gilbert Gumm ts & responsible party before he balls him out for reckless driving and sending his car down the subway Square. And shall h the young lady with him and send her home in a taxi?” “Leave it to me," wald the detective guest. “I know who it 1 's Joo Grabbenstein, A» soon as ihe learne it's friends of Detective larry Lafferty of the Fake Auction Squad he'll get busy. We'd better beat it to Night Court if it ain't too lat “Well, good night, Mre. Jarr. We had the GRANDBST time!" cried the Darting guests, "There, you see,” sald Mre. Jarr, ‘it jan't necessary for people to drink Hquor to enjoy themselves.” ‘Mr. Jarr carried out the punchbow! to es and grinned, ¢ 1A | Whipping out his sword, he drove its point into Wat's throat. ' oo “19140 Little Causes Of Big Wars. By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1014, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New Yeu Bvening Wet. No. 87.—A Dispute Over a Girl’s Age That Led to the Tyler Rebellion. “j N English tilemaker, Wat by name, had ome daughter, A Giapate as to her age led to a short, violent civil war in which many hundred people were slain. Wat was a big, rough-volced fellow; violent of temper end’ 6 born leader of men, In those days people usually took their Suet names from their trade. (A relic of this custom is still found in eael modern names as Carter, Wheelwright, Siith, Bridgman, Baker, Brewer, &c.) Thus Wat, the tiler, was known as Wat Tiler, or Tyler. { To raise money for keeping up England's foreign ware an cated the poll tax was levied. By this tax every person ever - years old was forced to pay three groats (twenty-four cents) @ yume | the Government. Children under fourteen and beggars were tax was very unpopular and when it was levied a. arose. i 9 | ‘collector, Grumbiingiy! Wat consented to pay the poll tax self. But he repueed to ony % tor Me Geughten, eaeed @he was under fourteen. In the quarrel that | Sam] the collector spoke drutally ¢o the iXtle girl, and Wat @ruck him dead. The wasting of the collector was a signal fer Covell. All Dartford and then all the county of Kent rose in arms, Tyler was eheam leader of the rebellion. The insurgents marched on London. At every mile their ranks were swelled by discontented men whom they picked up on. dhe way. News of the uprising apread, From ali sides the slain people flocked to Wat Tyler's standard. ~ : Fighting when it Lenion, There the drawbridge was raised to prevent them from ‘Thames. They made their way into the city, however, and, o' resistance, made themselves masters of London. ‘They thrashed such soldiers as opposed them; they tore open the gates the prisons; they burned the houses and palaces of statesmen concerned enforcing the poll tax, For a das) or two there was wholesale idiling, fighting and general destruction in London's streets. Yet Tyler made his men understand that they were patriots, net The one theft of the whole revolt was when @ camp follower stel¢ a-ilver se from Savoy Palace. Wat had the oup tied around the thief's neck and. 4 aasl him in’ the Thames, Richard U., King of England, was at thie time a boy of sixteen. Te Wat presented a petition urging better treatment for the people, The Eing, unable to make headway against the rebels, smoothly promised to grant all their requests and achemed to get Tyter into his power. i Wat sought a personal interview with the boy King.’ During their tall 6 laid his hand on the bridle of Richard's horse, Walworth, Mayer of Lenéet, who rode at the King’s side, pretended to think gesture was threatening, necessary, the rebels, sixty thousand strong, crossing rg wm: ‘Tyler fell dead. His followers, dazed by their leader's fal, had me Gite to ft, for Richard, riding wp to thelr foremost ranks, declared he himself would henceforth be their leader and champion and would redress their wrengs.- It was the cheap, epectacular trick of @ demagogue, But it won the Geis favor of the insurgents, Wildly they cheered ard, and they quite forget the gallant patriot Just tald down his Mfe for their rights. To be spoken to im terms of affectionate by a real King was too and ‘They ceased at once to be an insurgent became @astically followed ¢heir royal leader. He led them to drawn up. As soon as he had the revolutionists where huntred im chains, Bo ended the Wat Tyler rebellion—a war chat began im @ quarrel over o ehOBa age, lasted but a few brief, bloody daye and ended with e grucseme opera cilmax. THE ROAD TO THE TOP Those Who Are at the Sammit Point Out the Route Others Who Are Beginning to Climb. ~~“ Gopsright, 1914, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Werld), CHANCES IN LAW. By Judge Warren W. Foster. Umtnary education you have the But schooling and education are Synonymous. Many self ed have been most successful. is @ process of absorbing and much knowledge as your profeaston quires and enough more to place ‘on an equai footing with men of apd achievement. And you mus: natural aptitude for the thin your chosen profession exacts. High resolve is espential, strikes at the big things in worm end in life and brooks no petty interfer with achievement. It keeps you jm roadway and it keeps your feet ever turned toward the top. Virlle manhood makes for the gér- formance of herculean works, ger thé combination of a sound mind and a Sound body ip bone and sinew for the task of moving mountains. And the men who move nidthtains are the mea who are writing the history of the HERE js a “Road to the Top” in the Law, and many bs men have climbed {t. As young m ff struggling along to make both ends » with king of small, ‘first cases,” to all outward appearances they were very itke the countless other young men grubbing along in thelr company. Little by little they learned that the Law, like any other profession, is over- crowded only at the bottom of the road. As they rose they found greater spaces around them, and their vision swept broader fields of practice and ach! ment. These young men who climbed dora the knapsack of equipment and the jolve. ‘They were shod league-boots of virilo were clad in the gar- cter and sincerity which Protected them from etorm and cold. And they were muscled with ambition and minded with common sense. There- fore they galned the summit and found attention to character and to attain results. The most important gift a young man can have ts the @aving grace of “common sense.” ‘Whatever . your hand findeth to do, ¢hat do ye with ail your might.” Hard work applied te tie ordinary problems as they aries will dest ft one for it good. IGENT IN BUSINDSS. This These things you must have work, work and more hard work. you would climb to ¢ : {fervent in epirit, with a fair an@ just Your equipment must include mind toward all the probi of the mind," so trained to | work, and labor and serve wi that by a sort of as nature it reaches conclusions by following logical and legal princtples, And the more pre- Professional, ical and = re! ideals, With these gucceas will follew ht the way. 3 The Day’s Good Stories. Young, but Discreet. |,,'2" CERTAIN man who lives in s suburban town in North Jemey te no beauty, He fa pot only long and engular, but hes a face and complexion that aye neither pale blue, ty yellow nor any other color that drese effect, will attune 10, says the Indienepolis News, One day the aforesaid party called to one an acquaintance and while watting for him to appear im the parlor was entertained by the Mttle eight. yeer.old son, “Well, what do you think of met” asbed the caller, after conversing several minutes, Instead of replying, the boy tuned aside and ionghtfully hung his head, | "You haven't anewered me," amilingly persisted | the caller, “‘Arem't you going to tell me what |you think of met” “No, ir," retummed the youngster, “Do you ‘exppose that 1 want to get @ dicking pte ens alm Another Check Story. “ 'OU'VE heard @ lot of stories stout the 1 Neat miaates women mate’ when they | am Dreechin’, come ao bank,” oe hele cl’ar froo de bottom de meet all out!’ fiom was petrified with astonishment oment, and thee eid: ” “Why didn't de bri Tun outen de belief? hs yo" ace, fal Maney, do my a ~The pe Wipe He nd “L've seen ‘em all—the woman who grte mad a her atteation to an overdrfs and to write © check to make it up; the woman whose indomements are weird —all of them,