The evening world. Newspaper, December 3, 1914, Page 18

a too plains ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Daily Except Rat PH PUL NOUS SHAW soaisen) PULITZER, Entered at oe Boes.OF o The ‘World tor the, United Staten and Canada. ‘Year. @ Month. VOLUME 45..... WHY NOT POSTAGE STAMPS? HE di annoyance. aN Countries| fn ti eqgurer 6x Fark Row wy fecond-Cl 4 and the mnt International Postal Union. by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 63 to Terk Row, New York. ITZMR, President, 6% Park Now. | LOVE You To You REALLY OVE ME SweeTHEarT 2 { (THAN + 99.78 » seee NO, 19,462 | jculty of getting the new war tax stamps began ns on It has developed into a gra That the Internal Revenue Bureau adinits it h embarrassment. bungled, phe its collectors complicated directions how to be lenient and the Government does not intend to prosecute any one subject to War Revenue law “who shows a willingness to buy the new tax! ” only adds to the confusion. When people try to obey the law it is exasperating indeed that the ment fails to do its part in providing the means. But until enough of the new stamps can be printed why not author- the use of common postage stamps in their place? This was done the time of the Spanish War and the simple expedient of affixing ordinary postage stamp and marking it J. R. saved untold time and Now the Government has got us into the difficulty, why doesn’t offer this common-sense way out? “NEW YORK’S RED RECORD.” HE astounding list of murders and bomb outrages which The Evening World compiled out of the city’s police records for the past three months, and which Police Commissioner Woods extended, has amazed New York. Ni teen bombs exploded in less than three months and only four in two cases! The record for the first week of October was b a day and no arrests, Seventy-three murders and fifty-three flagrant shooting or stab- assaults since Sept. 1! Between Oct. 18 and Oct. 25 in Manhat- and Brooklyn there were eight murders in seven days. Oct. 23 men were killed. Gunmen, gangsters, thugs, professional assassins and bomb-throw- have produced a state of lawlessness in this city which is drawing shocked attention of the whole country. Contract killings, bla :k- bombs, knifin, and gang fights are not daily occurrences in » Chicago or St, Louis. What has New York done that the y lite? and the bomb should become sinister symbols of its every- In declaring war on the gunmen yesterday Police Commissioner eaid: “The ity of New York must be rid of these pests and the be way to do it is to send them to jail for a long term.” What about catching them first? The police boast an exhaust've of gangs and gang methods. Yet, in professional crime cir- murder follows murder—a second or a third while the police are M hunting the perpetrators of the first. Contempt for the police is principle with New York’s crime contractors, Fear of the police is the only thing that will stop the organized that now terrorizes the city. What do Commiasioncr and his men expect to accomplish so long as they wage a languid that counts more defeats than victories? po RC SOMETHING STARTED. HILE the up-State Public Service Commission maunders along multiplying its half-hearted promises to secure the revision of metropolitan telephone ‘tolls for which The World made its long fight, the special Telephone | Committeo |” Legislature goes straight for results. The public utility expert which Senator Foley’s committee han to examine the books of the New York Telephone Company is Mi fitted for the job. It was this same Prof. Bemis who dug into problems in Chicago to such good effect that Chicago now & maximum five-cent charge for calle—further reduced for use—while there is no such thing as an extra toll charge be- im different sections of the city. The District of Columbia has rc- fined Prof. Bemis to value all the public utilities in Washington. He member of the Advisory Board of the Interstate Commerce Con: : And he is now fighting the Bell Telephone Company, which Pittsburgh and Philadelphia for the benefit of ite outside busi- exactly as the New York Telephone Company milks New A property valuation which the telephone company planned to out over two or three years, Prof. Bemis expects to conciude ie all needful purposes in six weeks, The Legislative Commit‘ce to use his valuation as a basis upon which to fix rates. Or it ling to turn over the information to the Public Service Commis- aad let the latter do the rate-making. » Instead of listening to the telephone company’s inexhaustible argu- te for delay, instead of wasting time which coste New York telc- users $17,000 per day in excessive telephone charges, why hasn't @ Public Service Commission had enterprise enough to put such a to wor! Unless this Board ceases to be an easy mark for telephone attor- the New York public would rather dispense altogether with its ly and ineffective “service,” so called. The Legi tes that what overcharged telephone users in this city are look- 4 g for is prompt relief. Hits From Sharp Wits. that what r friends ‘yd "are Gead will be sure 're right, but don't stop 1 ‘saubh sien. before going By will never etart.—Al: . ° ° pa egahle Je tet in real life the the mortgage on the Peccanters "7 the old | «; uentor, | te an) scandalous the peo- ly Want to hear about it, * also in the de. Beas & bands on cigars must hi to accomplish something absolutely > | useless. itive Committee depends largely upon is in need of support eon Telegraph. It te somsotisnes better to not get so much than to reach ao far as to lose the balance a itteburgh Bun, thought of putting ave yearned ee enables some Business 18 BAD, TIMES ARE HARD,’ MONeY . i SCARCE, 45 Ss PRESENTS ae Year! bisractl ON. ! Love You BETTER | ME WHOLE |} WorRLD! I THINK ONLY OF YOu BILL ! The Jarr Family By Roy L. Copyright, 1914, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). HO can one trust these with a solemn shake of head as Mr, Jarr to read the sporting the butcher, was saying rather ificantly,” re- plied Mr. Jarr, “@ay, how much ts his bi? It’s @ little awkward to get those conversational shoots, you know.” “If you would not meet your trades- men socially you would be em- barrassed by their remarks,” retorted Mre. Jarr. “I had to pay the gas bill and some other accounts this week, ao I did not the butcher, But 1 wasn't talking of the men you meet in that Gus's place, I was speaking of Clara Mudridge-Smith. She's up to something I will have to explain and apologize for.” “Bire's been so very nice to me lately, taking me around in her motor car and not letting me pay for teas and things, 80 I'm very suspicious. Oh, dear! I'm tired of explaining and excusing for others, 1 wish I knew), some new nice people, You can al- ways brag about your new friends. You don't know anything but what ts nice about new peopl “You don't think eh her husband or anything like that, do you?” asked Mr, Jarr, “There's so much of this militancy creeping into married life that you can’t tell what next impatient wives will pull on long suffering husband “What foolishness you tal enapped Mrs, Jarr. “And yet I know Clara Mudridge-Smith is up to some. telephoned me she'd be eo IT suppose I'll "Maybe she's going to leave her husband?" suggested Mr. Jarr, “He ie very fond of her; leta her have her own way in everything, is able to give “Ww HAT the New York police force jo deal with in moat cases is the YOUNG BOY between the ages of twelve and twenty-five. now be given the full weight of the law and taught to keep away from the city, but the young lads as criminals are increasing in TOO LARGE pro- portion.” This isa ement by Police Com- missioner Woods, At the same time boy signing himself John writes to The Where Is Your Wandering Boy To-Night? w (» 2% The trained crook can| lo: McCardell She kissed Mra, Jarr effusively, shed a tear, gasped a salutation to her every luxury and gladly does so.|Mr. Jarr and then renewed com- And as she was very poor and had to| Plexion frum her jewelled vanity case. support herself as a ealeslady, with| ‘I have crossed the Rubicon! Che long hours and little pay, before she|die is cast!" she remarked byaterl- married @ld Man Smith, I wouldn't be | cally. surprised if she could stand it no| “You'd better stick by the old man,” longer and was resolved to live her|remarked Mr. Jarr. “He's a pretty own life in her own way. good scout. If Jack Silver ited to At this point Gertrude, the Jarrs'| marry you why didn't be do it when light running domestic, announce} you were single?” Mrs. Mudridge-Smith, and that or-| “Why, how dare you say such nate young matron came fluttering in| dreadful things?” cried the visitor. in a high state of carefully consid-|“Mr. Silver is a friend of my hus- ered excitement, ban Wit, Wisdom and Philosophy ANTHRACITE. (I1.) ‘‘Reveries of a Bachelor,”’ by Tk Marcel, It is @ strange force of the mind and of the fancy that can set the objects which are closest to the heart far down the lapse of time. Even now, as the fire fades slightly and sinks slowly towards the bar which is the dial of my hours, I seem to see that image of love which has played about the fire glow of my grate—yeara hence, It still covers the same warm, trusting heart, Trials have tried it, afflictions have weighed upon it, danger bas scared it and death is coming near to subdue it. ‘The fingers are thinner, the face has lines of care and sorrow crossing each other in @ web work that makes the golden tissue of humanity. But the heart of the true woman is fond and steady; it ie the same dear heart, the same self-sacrificing heart, warming lil fire all around it. Affliction tempered joy and joy adorned afflictio Life and all ite troubles have distilled into a holy incense rad r from your friend: I Dave seen such even in the disguise of women—who will reckon “these feelings puling sentiment. God pity them!—they have need of pity. ° ° ee ° ind a last plunge of the cinders within my grate startled me and dra, back my fancy from my flower chase beyond the Phiegithon to the white ashes that were now thick over all the darkened coals, And this, mused I, is only a bachelor’s dream about a pure and loving heart, ‘Will dreams satisfy? Reach as high as they can are we not after all poor grovelling mortals? Ip there no demon that comes to your harsh night dreams like a taunting flend, whis: "Be satisfied, keep your heart from running over, bridle these affection: othing worth loving.” . ee ee I threw myself on my bed and my thoughts ran over the definite sharp business of the morrow, my Reverie and its glowing images that made my heart bound, ewept away down Southward by a cool rising wind from the North, 1 wonder, thought I, as I dropped asleep, if a married man with his sentiment made acute, is after all as happy as we poor fellows in our dream. 1914, Trenine ®: ritgee,) children's courts, the pass away the time after being in a hot office all day you are hounded by a cop, who says: ‘Go where you e “ The crooks and dope fiends that cops should arrest are often let alone, yet a quiet crowd of boys is always being chased.” In these two arraignments the prob- lem t@ well presented. With no Dlace to go but the street corner, which ts the crooks! particular precinct, your wand very little chance of ate rin were it hry Fe Toventie °s great part to per- form, seer ar newspaper hi which of i) ounce of f prevention, proj supervi Places all over rene city and ing every public school a recreation centre, the veree and pen of each parent used in these necessary “aly for ny toon ore, seececoooooooooet eereccecoconoooeeooooooooooooeeese Mr. Jarr Is the Helpless Recipient Of Some Very Dramatic Confidences 999998808880 0090S 888SSSSS9SS9S9SST99SSISSSIIIIIIOSD Mrs. glaring Jarr also gave Mr. Jarr a look, “Don't mind him, advised. “All men have thoughts about women. is it you ARE going to do, am going to take up my career,’ replied Mra. Mudridge-Smith, giving Mr. Jarr a look of profound pity that he should not comprehend her im- peccable moral status. “I gave up my career to marry, and while I will not give up my husband for my career, still my duty is. to my career, and at last he sees it. I am going on the stage!” "On the stage?” repeated Mr. Jarr. ‘ell, you'd better hurry. There 't much left since the m 8 put the big crimp in the dram: “Tell us all about it, Cla Mrs. Jarr eagerly. secret too long. “Mr. and M said “You have kept it Beagle suggested it just recently, and Mr. Harold Dog- story—and yi know HE ts experi- enced in dramatic matters—thorough- ly and enthusiastically coincides with the Beagles. He says I will be a knockdown,” “A ‘knockout,’ ed Mr. Jarr. ‘It is a dramatic technical term for @ stupendous success,” said the vis- itor, “The Beagles know an author who has a great dramatic piece that would just fit me, written around a cage of lions. It is called “The Maiden Martyr. bh, then you leave your old m “Certainly not! Mudridge-Smith, “But, oh, dear! It took Mr. and Mre, Beagle and the Countess Bazoo and Mr. Dogstory and Mr, Grindem (the author) and you mean,” sug- not going to aid Mr. Jarr. myself hours and hours to get my|h husband to consent to finance the sition. “lon't it dreadful that one's art and one's career should be dependent on mere money, most grudgingly given?” ws By Sophie Irene Loeb | img, boy to-night?" ‘ntil such a time as PROPER PRO- ‘VISION is made for play and pleasure of the youth of the community, you, dear parent, must expect such reports ae the foregoing from the Police Com- Rid vane which this fois ich would create a LARGE PART Prove to be one of the offenders. bad boy 19 “only the result of adirected e: y—ener! that will it, as nature "Ras 1 INDED it should. If it is rightly directed it has the chance of gootiaulag | ht. If given no attention it mi ane whether it be for 8 je good or ill, the wise will Reflections of — a a Bachelor Girt By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1014, by The Prew Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). ° FTER death there is rest; but after love is deac uc womaa seems to be le to LET it rest. A woman might torgive & man for all his eins; it’s that “stained glass j attitude” with which he decides to them that aggravates her so. “give them up” when he is bene 7 a Life is a tale that is “told”: the monk tells his beads, the seer ats fortunes, the lover tells lies—and @ woman tells everything! The expert in Greek may be intellectual. the expert In French may be polished, the expert in slang may be amusing; but not one of jhas a chance in the world with apy girl against the expert in baby-talkt® In her serious moments the advanced woman realizes that there are lots of interesting things in the world besides men—but there are lighter moments, when it comes to her with sad conviction that there is nothing else to flirt with. No matter how deeply a married pair may have loved and the moment they separate it’s marvellous how they begin to sprués ‘ and get over that dull, uninteresting “married look.” : A hueband and wife may lose their love and still be held closely gother by a sense of comradeship, but when they lose their sense of cam- radeship no love on earth will hold them together. Sentiment is like champagne, which goes to your head and makes you dizzy; sentimentality is like a nut-sundae—pleasant for the momeat but always a bit nauseating afterward. 4 ler art embroidery department is now the busiest section of our shops. Women are crowding the corners set apart for free instruc- tion in embroidery and crocheting, for there are so many new ideas this year, and, of course, the latest must be incorporated into that Christmas gift. Variety seems to be the key- note of this year’s holiday display, and never were the items more at- tractive, The cross atitch continues to be snapped Mrs. | a, much used, and in punch work the Russian and mosaic are popular. The pillows and centrepieces, peace rod tinted in, Wedgwood des! finding faVor, The cameo effects are striking and quite a new departure in fancy work patterns. These can be had stamped on rep and linen. A pillow in the former is 60 cents and In the Heck. sign is carried out in raised [1 crochet ro: d inset effect. Something new are the doily ane centrepiece holders. linen, with the design at the one oy The essential inside roll is part of the outfit, and, when tied with a ribbon, makes a GAINty AEM eactlonl e1Et EAS Twill be: aiSeUnay te, Che Sree ae and practical gift that '$ First Aid to Christmas Shoppers will be appreciated {idea or the girl who i is ccoumatas @ trousseau. The dolly holder In 6 cents. The prop’ one intended to hold a package of per towels bears the inscription: Growls for Towels.” These are $3 cents. At the same price is a similar bag to hold a dozen paper picnte 8, and a 17-inch-long bag for a bape tablecloth and napkins is 50 edicine glass cover is a nov- broidery items and can oe mn for 25 cents. It is 6% inches square with scalloped cays id has a floral design in each cor- ner. The centre of the square fe atamped to represent the face of @ clock. There is a metal hand to designate the hour for taking the medicine awd in color. The set is 25 cents, tied into a box with ribbons mat the embrok they make a gift will be a delight to the average chlid. Chapters from a Wornan's Life ° By Dale Drummond Copyright, 1014, by The Prew Publishing Oo. (The New York Evening Workl), CHAPTER OZIV. ACK came in very quietly. Taking me in his arms, he kissed me again and in, then: “Mr, Flam te waitin dear. I must go,” he said. “Go? Go where?” “Go and give myself up, instead of waiting to be taken.” ck! So soon?” dear, If I did not do it now, grew basse and the arms, still hold- ing m mbled. Oh, ‘the lemptation that came to me then to urge him to fly again! To and let me join him after a fit low could I bear to lose him now that I had found him, had felt his ar around me once more, his kisses on my lips? I could not, I WOULD NOT let him give himself up to imprisonment. This w what I thought, as he ined to his but what I sal dear, if you think it it. Tam going with you, to stay with you until we know the best—or the worst.” But, Sue!"-—— “T'N be bray but I But Jack darlin, ery well, dear; but I'm afraid | Pa you do not realize what it mi mean. A trial, perhaps and not an outsider in whom yo have little, if any, personal interest being tried, but your husband.” Hid. ing bis face on my shoulder he | be brave, Jack,” I repeated I cannot yet ‘think inv ort th in the court when Jack voluntarily the craning of necks onl re whispered the pitying expr as they glanced in my directioi the particulars of that ti Mr. Flam's after day I ‘only two appeared determined to/| s punish Jack to the utmost of their ind one of the two was Ned roves obdurate talked to him, termined to have bis pound of as the Court would let him. eat the last, Judge was kind Cy that he praised Jack for return! was a criminal in the usually accept- “Where are you going?” but actually will require for himself a sense of murety $ at the boy 18 where he ought to be. While at present there may not bi much choice, yet if the parent look in. to the question he will find variou h as gymnasiums, thi te; and Jack was taken I remember that the’ er: of his own voli-| fo: yack ee sald be old not think Jack | bat definition of the word, his himself up being one ee but he was simply a product of the times, of the rush and scramble for that seemed to be overwht young of the metro scramble that was impatient of rush that gave no time for the rush to spend, r fast living, the wish to young men — men with responsible positions as Jack had held, but whose de- sires outstripped their earning ca- pacity; that Jack, in h ecine beak of his own accord, tion in aie ike far desire to make re; was jn his power; that the refusal Il" but two those he had wronged) to prosecute him was in his favor: and that, although he mi 4 uphold the maj posaibi I felt a faintn coming over me, but pulled myself together with an effort in time to hear th ARS! ome, Busan, t they will allow you Jack in a private room. for a id Mr. Flam took my arm and led me away unseeing, un- heedin A door closed, rms were Jack's voice telling me to » that the time wot ula soon that the Jud, ye been more red ho} I, who had intended” to be the com. forte eaded Sor fort. Jack was the he weak, for dack at this tine was niet had grown by repressio: Is Mr. Flam and the lawyer scene a To Tombs, later to be taken 4 cs pa some distance from New York, I would be able to see him ocea- sionaly, although Mr, Flam discour- wed me as to tho feasibility of doing One thlog I recall Jack as I left hii ee ee “A happi happier thi nd our love is strong i t_knowled; ite of ee, Wh te n't weer: the better pit 4 moaned. about me. I shall (To Be Continued) Keep the boy from the stre ana tt je bit o: study and rated interest on the nt to MAINTAIN. the ounce ee var: vention durin, e wa i ,