The evening world. Newspaper, March 24, 1914, Page 16

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER RALPH PULITZ! Prostdent, ¢3 Park Row. sone PURER Meret 8 Be hon ; ‘World for the United States and Canaia All Countries fn the International Postal Union ‘ THE GOVERNOR ON GOOD ROADS. sie OV. GLYNN comes forward with « plan to solve the highways % problem. The plan is practical, economical, commonsense. eam} He would have the State build roads of vitrified brick | © “imetead of mecadam, draw on its own ehale deposits for material, end 3 “employ its prison labor to turn out the bricke. ' : : In his message to the Legislature the Governor potnte out that , The State is now engaged in buibding 19,000 miles of road which are *Miksly to cost $80,000,000 in addition te the $100,000,000 already voted, and which, experience goes to show, will wear out forty years e 4 a of a mile of macedam road, including building twenty years, is $36,000, the Governor's ox- cost of @ mile of brick rosd i F E F In no way have taxpayers of thie State been eo shamefully de- frauded of the value of their money as through the scandalous de- basement of public highways by graft and ignorance. i The roads of a community are e measure of its civilisation. The State should have the best roads in the country. On the ether hand it should have scientific roads, durable roads, economical reeds, roads that it oan afford to msintain. If it has in its own hillsides an inexhaustible supply of first-class paving material, as the State Geologist says it hes, then it should get the immediate benefit * thereof. That prison labor must not be used on roads is one of the most > senseless, etupid policies ever- saddled on an enlightened State. It Eres York to have done with it. + SeTanes The rnor asks the Legislature to appoint a committee to fmvestigate the entire question and to eppropriate at once enough £% money to try out at Elmira the echeme of making brick for State / teads from nearby deposits of shale with the use of prison lebor. In the interest of good roads and economy taxpayers throughout fe ‘the State will hasten to support the Governor in his demand. —— 4 ; ‘The Standard Ofl Company last year extracted 50 per cent. more profits from the public then it did before it was eplt into chunks. Lucky we dida't pulverize it ® LET NO ONE BE MISLED. NCLE SAM figures that wages for farm labor in the United U States have gone up 11 per cent. in the last four years. In the past twelve years the increase has been about 86 per cent. In 1913 they rose 2.5 per cent. over the average of the year before, * - At predent the average pay for a farm hand is $21.38 per month ewhen board is included and $30.81 when no food or lodging is sup- plied. ‘By the day, when the harvest is on, the farm laborer gets Gm average of $1.57 with board, $1.94 without. At other seasons $1.16 and $1.50 are the corresponding rates. “* Let there be no misunderstanding—$21.88 per month with board imeiudes only three equare meals a day, a place to sleep, plenty of fresh air and an abundance of healthy work. It offers no chance for * parades, platform ecrimmages, raids on churches and bakeshops, or- _ Gemized idleness or prominent mention in the public prints. aD ‘Hamtdrum roltine of doing it, farm wages will have to go much higher Ye be worth noticing. rs ‘The alien ante that came to this country as the guests of Mrs. O, W. Moree must be deported at the expense of the steam: ehip company that brought them. The Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture declares that wherever they came from and whatever their forbears, they are nevertheless “insects.” And the law says foreign Insecta ehall not enter the United States, no matter in what select com- pany they travel. Not if we know it, that is. ‘The public is gratified to see immigration standards thus maintained. We heve ants enough of our own to make a fuss over. The recent fire at Wellesley College destroyed 4,000 photographic slides and vast quantities of statistics regarding Ga the brains of American ante—to say nothing of thousands of ie “ @ugenic American beetles which were expected to help solve 7 the problem of happy marriage. ‘This data must be replaced, and the honor of replacing it should go to our national insects. May It never be sald that ‘we neglect native crawlers and let in the bugs of all the world! +4-—_____—— ‘That “jolting over rough roads jars the big peaches in market baskets to the bottom and brings the little ones to the sop, thus causing extra expense to the peach growers in re- @rranging the peaches in the baskets after reaching town,” is the latest Long Island argument for good roada Whose graft has the right of way, anyhow? Letters From the People Ph ‘That Extra Cent. thirty apples at the rate of thi ‘Be the Editor of T > Evening World: one cent, receiving ten cents; the fod Replying to the problem of D, R. as| maining thirty he sells at the rate of to “Where did the extra cent com Pai for one | jim when « peddier purchased sixty ap-| Tot! 2 Sree Fetes ae ly selling the first , , Noa, 68 te Published Daily Except Sunday. by ite, Frese Fudlisning Company, BecondClass Matter. wand ‘and the Continent asd ++ 0078 For those who prefer the excitement of demanding work to the MY Mow DoYOu LIKE fy NEW SPRING HAT SOHN NOUSE To FIX (T, HE SinPLY DOESN'T Straight From The Shoulder Success Talks to Young Men. CS Hin Fo brates Woks Progressiveness. F a young man will only dis- cover that when he is ap- parently standing still he is really slipping backward, he will have learned the secret of ad- vancement. For when he ceases to advance, the world rushes on past him and he is soon distanced. To progress he must not only keep abreast of that world- tide; he must lead it—must keep a same pay—does the same work, it is high time for him to question him- self seriously, Particularly if other young men who are around him are creeping ahead into better jobs, He should ask himself why his has not received recognitio: Has it been showing marked im- rovement? Has hi netrated increasing work copa ity? Has he been a developer of new ideas that could be applied to his work with profit? If he cannot er these simple Questions with a “yes” there is not only room for doubt as to hit getting ahead; there is gra’ that some other fellow, wh 101 progressive will take his place—and bad will be moved back to a lesser job. No work {8 #o seemingly unim- portant that It does not require study. No job is such a Veinch” that a new wrinkle can't be found to make its omplishent more — effective. A ight man eliminated “lost motion” from bricklaying. Have you elimi ated lost motion from your job? Ha you found ways to increase your 6 you demonstrated that | your Job is in the hands of a young man whose ideas are “progressive?” ‘The best way to deal with secrets ta not to have any,—Albany Journal. ee A “single track mind’—A narrow- gauge road.—Philadelphia Inquirer, . 8 e ‘When you meet a man who will not believe the truth don't waste time in talking to him.—Albany Journal. oe Knowing a good thing isn't enough; you've got to know a bad thing when you see it.—Commercial Appeal, eo ee In the school of experience the ti- literate man finds that the attend- " is already compulsory.—Co- ita If you go to get advice that ta worth having you must expect to pay for it. eee * rate of three for o. Jones two cents, and by selling for one cont ie thre - ata. @ gains ree cen Ge, therefore, gains ene cent on the whole transaction. A. i " hi @t the rate of five for two cents beady ae i for which he paid 34 cents end sold | the s aieara on is A half-told truth can do more harm than a lie, rein An unreasonable person is one who Feet accept your reasons.—Albany an m|ITTLE old New York—as such of the 71 inhab- {tants of the metropolitan district who can epeak En- glish, or can speak at all, delight to call it—begins this week the celebra- tion of ite 800th birthday. - Friday will be the tercentenary of the granting of the first general charter by the States General of the United Netherlands for trading to New Netherland. In 1614 the future city of New York consisted of four rude huts occupying ite at what is now No. 41 Broad- way. These were the only habita- tions white men on Manhattan Inland, The first ships trading to Manhattan were the Fortune and the Tiger, Amsterdam vessels brought over by Hendrick Christiansen and Adrtaen Block. ‘The Tiger was accidentally burned at Manhattan in 1618, Block then constructed the first vessel built on the island, the Onrust, of eight tons, which was launched near the Battery in the spring of 1616. In this tiny ship he passed Hell Gate and coasted along as far as Nahant Bay. In 1614 Christiansen went up the Hudson to Castle Inland, bel Al bany, and built Fort N. ing house 36 by 26 feet, 58 feet equare, with a m width. E practice I of delaying to answer letters ts a de- plorable one and to be avoided by all persons with pretensions to good breeding, In these days of the telephone no one's social cor- respondence is likely to prove over-burdensome. That is all the more reason why the courtesy of a reply should be speedily vouchsafed to such letters as are received. If a friend stopped you in the street to ask you @ question or to tell you some pleasant news you would not ‘an't bother to reply to you ause I'm tired and busy or be- ause I have something more attrac- tive to do." You make just thie re- sponse to your friend when you put off answering his letter beyond a rea- sonable period of d ‘Try nat to be guilty of this offense inst good and good feeling. "G. K." writes: “s have been en- ‘gaged to @ young lady since the om eae rpearanee ream aa OI TEETER |) This Is New York’s Birthday Week; The City Is Just 300 Years Young Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers « In October, 1614, the Dutch States- |General gave the name of New Neth. erlands to the country around Man- hattan Island and granted its trade by epecial charter to Amsterdam Christiansen was killed by Indians in 1616. In 1638 thirty families of French Protestant refu- range, Three Peter Minuit arrived and completed that famous deal by which Manhat- tan Island, “rocky and full of trees,” was ceded by the Indians to the Dutch for $36 worth of trinkets. Manhattan Island got its name, according to one chronicler, from the fact that the Dutch gave Indians their first taste of liquor on what is now Battery Park. A wild debauch followed. The swollen headed Ii toxication.” A land booming Dutchman in the early days aroused the derision of in| the whole town by this crasy boast: | “E belleve the time will come when | this eity will be thick settled for wel | ®@ mile north of the Bowling Greon and that folk will make t journey to Philadelphia in a single day.” Vos, baby Manhattan ts 200 years old this week, and growing bigger nd stronger and livelier every day, bless its cunning little soul! phrases that seem to be gene: known. They are “Please,” you" and “I also that these in the growing mind and used ac- cordingly, would do more to mould the future citizen than any grammar leason over dev of the year, The other night I pla} fully asked her if I could take ai other young la she sald, ‘I don’t care.’ Would she hi i said this if ahe iy cared for me?" It is quite possible. Eit trusts you completely or she un- willing that you should suspect her of Jealousy. She Does Not Care. iy and it was understood that she was to marry me as soon as I was in a position to take care of he ing the last six months I have been the children their manne: i= to get into the ‘rush how marry me, as the way that What I do?” You are to be pitied, but I think you can only accept her decision, It is better that she discovered her mis- take before marriage than after. a T love her, * writ have been pay- ‘ttention to a girl for a year and a half and we datend to get married “Please,” “ThankYou,” ort oP bots VO pendence. dren are everlastingly on the street, After school hours they swarm every- where and they have no respect for the passer-by. unknown chools are wonderful and they seem to be de higher education, similar to the col- legea. But the fundamental principles of everyday human relationship are Practically unknown, the pupils are so busy rushing math matica to fit them for the busin iT acheme that the very elements which would tend to make them commer- clally more efficient are [Held of the schools, and in the teacher or ia left for the home, and it seems to me that in the average American home every member of the family (especially where there are bread-winners) is @o busy doing his part that he haa little or no ti to Pay attention to any other member. make us less polite tha fail to cultiva’ and “I Beg Pardon” By Sophie Irene Loeb / N Englishman who ts over here studying the educational sys- tems eaid to me that the most elgnificant fault of our education was lack of prop- er everyday re- spect for people. He aaid: “While it is a fine thing to live in a free country with indepen- dence and all that, there ts such a thing as having too “much inde- For example, your chil- “The most common courtesies are to them. Your public inatitutions loping into It aeems to me sight of. “I would begin in the very lowest Dest work. stances: and “Justice” at seventy-o had promised me my telephone ran; strange voice called, ike it up. For it is Spring in Paris, now—and I I see the boulevardse—the Bois, a riot of “les femmes"— Each “femme” a glowing vision, from the hat-brim to the hem! A madd‘ning stream of motor-cars, Hke sunlight on the sea, Rolls past in flashing splendor as all Paris goes to tea. Again, the Champs Blyeées gleam with lights that seem to say, Ocprvight, 1914, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The Now York Brening World). S pring—in Paris. SIT beside my window in the dying light of day, And dream of Spring—and Paris—across a world of gray; In memory-mellowed visions I behold the Tulleries, A golden, sunlit paradise of tender, budding trees. Once more I wander happily through laughing crowds and gay; by HELEN am far away! “Ob, it {s Spring in Paris, now!""—but I am far away! The merry maitre d’hotel takes down his shutters—clever man! And runs bis prices skyward for “that dear American”; And now, along the biessed little Rue de Rivoli, hanging out their wares, Sweetheart—the bait for you and mel While Madame-of-the-Pension smiles For Springtime is the “STING-time” there—and some on hungrily to-day; jot to PAY! ‘The garcon shrugs his shoulders, with a knowing little wink, And fancies, in his pockets, he can hear our “pourboires” clink; The shopman takes out all the junk, And labels it “OCCASION” to catch ‘The postcard man sings happily a biithesome roundelay; from yester-year laid by, the tourist's eye For it ig Spring in Paris, now—and we are easy prey! Ab well, to-night, I'll hie me to a little French café, (Far.“frenchier” than Maxim's or the Café de la Paix!) And there, a step from Broadway, in a cozy window-nook, I'll sit and dream of PARIS—while I clutch my pocketbodk! For though I'm sad—a little—yet I thankfully can say That Spring has SPRUNG in Paris—and I am SAFE—away! Men Often Do Best Work After 50. vhen he was sixty ye: one does not often see the: t the financial or educa- ‘8 er Here are o1 Darwin, author o! written at the ai Immanuel Kant of Pure Reason,” at the age of fifty- seven. Herbert 6pencer made # rough outline ‘agner accomplished mor of fifty than before. The Rh after he had reached sixty-five years. Probably his gr work was “Faust,” the second which was written hty years old. Among others who did brilliant werk between the ages of forty and seventy were Humboldt, Lord Kelvin, Faragay and John Fiske. ‘As an example of wonderful physical ability there Is none who is better fitted to be ranked among the greatest of Americans than the aged pedestrian, jon Weaton, who has ecored wonderful walking recerée fifty. a Wo Chapters From By Dale Drummond man’s Life Copyright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Erening World). CHAPTER VIII. UST as I was about to go over and see Gertie Cum- mings for a few minutes to tell her of my nice eve- ning and get a pattern she J “Good morning, Mrs. Coolidge, “this is en’t forgotten me You * I answered eagerly. “Well, I do not intend you shall. Will you waive ceremony and you and Jack dine with us night?” to-morrow 1 mumbled some excu: anawered, ‘this strictly en famill 1 ha to attend a club meeting or I wou have called on you this afterno “I shall be delighted to come, replied, as the next day was Su nd I knew Jack would have no e " she purred through tl ell Jack he's a lucky fel- ‘ou don’t mind my calling bim lack, do you ‘Not in the least,” I gurgled; "I Then she said goodby and I hui Now I should have somethipg where possible, and teach the| worth while to tell Gertie. . every-minute usage of three ‘han! jon.” 1 believe & pard three, if firmly fixed edd, in fact, it should be a part of the ery-minute curriculum of the As it is now it is just within discretion of the individual again I do not wonder that lacking in ‘minding All you have to do subway train durin lom that! ; does our hurry habit ishbore across the sea, and do we these common, man- jes? That they are word: beg pardon” in crowded place certainly maxe jostle leas roughly, and the v jue of be estimated. As to you M rithmetic or peciall with tl And the ques- |} I admitted, wear riedly putting on my hat, soon seated opposite her in her co: sitting room. After telling her about the play and of going to Hanley’s for supper, I told her of the meeting with Mr, ‘Old friends of J the gay young a The have as some rich yagtive di of the ordinary. “Yes, and they are charming, es- Mrs, Somers. dint morrow won't that be lovely? ard they had a beau- id perfect oodles of ser- upon, they’ will wend ae em to- ? Ol anything about it," ‘but do tell me what to You should see her jewels, single thing except my engagement @re not going out to- t, so 1 won't need it.” you, dear!” I was de- ‘ lere had besa “But suppose I gasped. “You won't lose it. The chain hae & very strong clasp and also a safety device.” ~ “Well, if you will trust me with it I will be very careful and will return it early Monday morning,” 1 I spent the remain: ot day working over the dress I in wo Wear. The one I had paid for Jn part with the money mother sent me Wack thought it paid for it all), and the rest with a part of the two hundred dollars. About four o'clock Noll Grant nd when I told her of our invitation to dine with the Somers to my ‘astonishment she didn’t enthuse a bit, “You will probably have a ful dinner and a@ nice time, Sue,” she id, “but how in the world are you g to return it? You know accept Rospitality without making some retum®.” i “They are very old friends of Jack's, I guess we can manage It go! hid woe anne A never ©. ou have en marries year,” mused, 5 ar oe “It was Jack's fault. He let them (tno, where we a returned, then fearing she might think Jack had been ashamed to in 2 his country wife to his rich I sdded, “be felt just as you we couldn't ‘keep up the pace’ expresses it.” Ladess “Well you can't, Sue, and I you are foolish to try, 1 think i & mistake for you to ac could easily have made ring since that horrid burglar took pendant and bracelets. And my itaire stone is so amall.” “I wilt lend you my lavalliere if would Uke to wear it,” dhe of Bt i th ae a your i ; : ic aie y yor an excuse, Don't think I be a killjoy, Sue, but it only i a]one miserable to try to keep up with such people.” “We shan't try to ‘kee! *, Nell, Indeed, I know only too well there would be no use trying. All T think it was perfectly dear to ask us.” 1 intended them tell it yj her that Gertie had offered i, lend fee hee laveliises, but conel ‘0. Some way I felt a little ant her. Fornape she was jealous, = for were would account rather disagreeable little proschment Boon Lapen of Mrs. Somers'’s din her conversation on thi lephone in quieting his fears that we were accepting obligations we could amet return, I did not mention borro’ Mere, knowing Ris uch things. felther tell hi Nell's remarks anemt eur going. \ 5 tie'n I of dot “L hope you will have as it is you anticipate, 0 Ne should lose it? = ‘