The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1915, Page 14

“The Evenin (Gay word. MATABLISHDD BY JOSHPH PULITZER Now York ag Second-Clase Sing} ¥or Dngians and : in the International , "Portal ‘Union. - NO. 19,515 JEW CAMPAIGN AGAINST CRIME. MAKE 2 quick, final clean-up of the gang system is the best ~ desk any newly appointed District Attorney in this city has set himeclf for & lehg time. Working upon confessions obtained now in eustody, District Attorney Perkins has ordered jo to gather together al] possible information concerning gangs methods. 00 far cecured indicates that gangs live mainly upon a for “strong arme” and thugs to beat up strike bresk- of labor too often retaliate by hiring roughnecks to the etrikers themselves. It is freely admitted that cutting from euch eourcts would ferce the gangs out of existence. leaders and crime contractors clready in jail have cleared hitherto and have furnished the District yo list of five handred gang aemalte. It will be strange if Jury dees not find a helpful list of indictments. York hes waited in vain for the police to make « concerted upon organised crime. Lot's sco what a new and determined Attorney can do. 5 +42 MAKE SHORT WORK OF IT. Si. FIER coventoen months the State of New York has again in ite @ustedy the jnsane murderer whese money hes enabled bin @ to ram races with the lew. How easily the public forgets but the excitement of the moment and the man is and Boston crowds who cheered Thaw as an inter- iting victim of persecution. _ New York wants no such nonsense. Here is « dangerous crimi- all but escaped, staked hie money against justice and lost. : court in the land intervened and started him back to he belongs. It is now up to thie Btate to take care that no idles delay, no new beclouding of the law, obscures plain fects or ———4 SAVING. AT BOTH ENDS. NEW aid to the thrifty housewife ts the State Department of Foods and Markets, eotablished by low passed last March, which hao just epened oftions in this city. ee) “8 aa fiz per coat. on their investment, will cerry ovt the details the plan under the supervision of the State. + Wemmar or consignes will gut Ms money trem the eperating The Day TJOun, You HAVE NOTHING To Do, SEE_IF You CAN FIx THis CLOCK IT WON'T RUN G OF MY Ui CAME oF ‘a BRotHeR Jann The Jarr Family By Roy L. of Ascalon—whicb, by the way, was @ prehistoric tavera. Gertrede, the Jarr’s light running (who bad been sent to lure ae ¢ PEA f ¢ Wor a Daily Ma asine. of Rest xx.waetn., SAL IN THE GAS Store EAM 00 ton Ws CHAIR , IT ' COMING To PIECES THe Coot WANTS ‘You “To Move THE PIANO WHILE Nou Are Resting, By Maurice Ketten See it you can FASTEN (T on You Should Remember By Albert Payson Terhune Coprright, 1916, by The Pres Publissing Co, (The New York Brening World), No. 20.—JUNE 14, 1777; The Birth of Old Glorg. JOUR men came into, a little upholstery shop at No. 239 Arch Street, Philadelphia, one simmer morning in 1776. They were an informal, but very important committee, appointed -by Com- Bress, and they had come to call on the pretty little twentyfoug year-old Quaker widow who ran the shop. | The widow was Elizabeth Griscom Ross, one of the cleverest need | women and pattern designers of her time. The four committeemén word destined to become immortal. Three of them were afterward the first, second and third Presidents of the United Stat They were George | Washington, John Adamo, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. (if the rickety little Arch Street house had happened to collapse, just ~ then, what a hideous change the accident would have wrought fh’ the world’s history!) the The committee had come to ask Mrs. Ross to sew a flag whose design the new-born‘ nation. For more than a year our country had been aceking to break the galling bonds that shackled it to Great Britain, and had Nee A “¥reaconable if decided t8 be a free and independent people. We had Commission. & Capital, a Congress, an army—but we had no flag. Or, rather we had too many flags. There were plenty ‘Tree flag, the Rattlesnake flag, &c., but ni gle banner for the entire nation. Congress, at last, had taken up the ition and had appointed @ com- mittee to set to work on the preparing of a national flag. Washiagton drew from Kis own coat-of-arms, . ‘The committee agreed that there should be one stripe and one star for . each of the thirteen colonies. The colors (as in the Washington ceat-ot- that color echeme, ten years or eo later, for their own new flag. In those days the fate of the Revolution was worse than doubtful. And ehould England conquer the colonies there was certain to be plenty of whole- ringleaders in the revolt. So it was no light matter to consent to make the nation’s fag. And not only because of her skill, but because of ber glowing patriotism as. well, the committee chose Mrs. Roes for the task. people might think. For instance, she had been turned out of the meeting three years earlier for the awful sin of marrying an Episcopalian. And though most of her friends were Tories, eince the beginning of the Revo- wards served as a nurse in the war hospitals, She gianced over the design that Washington showed her, and at once she began to suggest changes. The committee knew more about statesman- hange suggested. For one thing, she sald the fiag should be "uae Woman ! oblong instead of equare, as they had planned it; for Suggestion. five, and grouped the stars in a regular pattern tn- stead of leaving them scattered haphasard over the blue field. called, learned of her acceptance of the flag-making job for the “rebels,” and, henceforth they shunned her as though she had besn an outcast. It is net Though Betsy Ross sewed the first flag in 1776, yet Old Glory did ‘net have its official birth until the next year. The design was formally deem, in a death-struggle with England's armies, We had of such emblems representing various sections or colonies; the rough design for it. He copied its chief features—the atars and stripes— arma) were to be red, white and blue. The French, by the way, borrowed sale capital punishment for the so-called traitors who had been rinj Bhe had a way of doing what she thought right, no matter what other lution she had written and sung in public a Freedom Hymn, and she after- ship than about needlework. So they eagerly accepted every ci she another, she changed the six points on the stars te The Engiand-loving friends of Mrs. Rose—“Betsy” Ross, as she was, os record that their snubs caused her any worry, by Congress on June 14, 1777—an anniversary now celebrated as “Flag Day.” What Your Fingers Mean had just been completed, and tc accept the Job of official flagmaker for: McCardell the militant reformer. “May I inquire as that actuate this u eault?” asked the astounded poet. “You'll eee oon enough,” snapped| But wh! “Gertrude, Mr. Jarr Witnesses the Arrival Of an Unwelcome Relief Expedition ur membere and be the in front of Frits's ground floor flat encouraging reformers @f;and the trembling Dinkston was hissed} Miss Grimm gave the unhappy Dinketon a glance es though to say the reasone| the chair would be too light a pun- arranted aa-|'shment, for she added: “No, we will marry him!” Gertrude was gone for ut and| the taxicab, Misg Grimm determined 1 will charge the ex- | ‘© rearrange the post's shackles. She @ragged within. At eight of him Fatima sprang from the folding bed and, with « glad cry, threw her arms about him. With a frenzied shriek in response, the poet snapped the handouff chain, wprang through the open doorway and me ne, wp after him Bd Malac! ny je avi 3 Grimm, the moral Nemesis; Frits, the chipping clerk; Mr. Jarr—and, rooted to thi Mra. Jarr noted was arranging a hasty otherwise square band: People with euch fingers have the power of intuition and the faculty of doing well evetything that they start. Such a man bas grit and determination, common sense and straightness of mind and purpose, But he is also a visionary, dreamy, imaginative person when he has the time and opportunity to allow him- self to become acquainted with his own nature. He thus combines the castle-building nature, alive with vivid imaginings and unsatisfied longings for things not earthly, with that ora thoughtful, solid, method- feal and otherwise worldly nature. In other words, his is the joining to- gether of two widely opposite natures, with distinctly different traits. This hand ts found upon persons whom we call “bard to understand.” They are folk with idealism chained to prac- The May M Ws long fingers taper on an tioal oe to ordimary earthly ex- 0: 8 os li persogs juccessful liter often have this hand ‘and’ Sagers. It then happens that one with imaginative romantic power of insight is at the same time able to bring his mental creations before the world in such a [org (3 forcible and practical manner that it leads him to success. These people, with their dreamy * fingers and common sense palms, exert thelr power for the greatest good of all, for they are creatora, either in music, art or literature. They bring their “mental children” before all the world in such a way that they may be Not loving th work Because it but simply the outward expression of the beauti- ful as seen by them in their own in- dividualities, it is always their na- ture to care for only the niceties of existence. The graceful and beautle ful alone appeal to them. et anton Fashions this one fille that Fatim: UCH a@ blouse as totlette to follow them! S to hie doom by Miss Vera | pense to the ekirmighing fund of the|Teleased one side of the handcufts many needs. It 4 anapped it onto her own wrist. can be made with | Hits From Sharp Wits branenrom" errr a man never lacks « eres S ewes SRS eee 4 5 tl - « ae ter, as be hee So Genaiy bs ows sep * ° ee . dehy tet tas A man will always agree with“fou tell him that he - id Worked and needs a rest, Cincinnati ° ra A etl a ei the] How hard to forget that which (3 A rere a. ; . ae @ Nothing thickens tbe plot like - ‘eoually reserves tte! cip.—Deseret News. er be- ere a Mig te ° fae From the People i a 3 fl iat gs # A os =! e 3, . comforts 4 1 ve | plain. who | clerk, self-made eo-ampounced.— thom to the peet, “le more than I Rau!” “Fil bide behind the Mins Ve was returning with the unsuspecting poet, their pre; Mins feat not diMoult to accomplish it te considered that the plano was laced crosewise Parlor corner, right inside the portéeres, and that Miss Grimm was very ali eaid akinny. “Ha, Mra. Jarr, salve!” Dinkston, bowing gracefully \- tered, present myself in forma pauperis"—for sometimes Mr. Dinks- tom championed the Latin language. Gertrude afterward reported te Claude, the freman, and Elmer, Gus's assiat- Dinkston, his foist woide ‘salve,’ then i iet im get what was ing to him!" As Mr. Dinkston looked inquiringly around, Mrs, Jare “Mr. Jarr hi eon called over 0 the home of Fritz, the ebipping she remarked with @ forced smile, “Fri Mr. Dinkston shuddered--"haa @ hys- terioal fit of melancholia, Ob, Mr, Dinkaton, why have you broken the heart of the poor creature?” Mr. Dinkston, who had been mo- tloned into a low eany ohair, with ite back to the piano, behind which Jurked Nemesis in the person af Miss : waved his hands tm & grace- ter Fatima’—here | cial report in péliipblet form w this Instance of the society. It will cause 1 prepare @ ape-| “There!” she aald. to escape, he must activity of to his t ul @ thrill of Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Copsmgt, 1916, Rose-cheeked ani Ob, stay him not, “If he attempts s me with him In due time the taxicab drew up ‘The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), Now doth the Eastern man ery "Westward, ho!” And gaily San Francisco-ward prepare to go—- To see the California “peaches” grow, id bright as sunlight on the snow! . fair maid, nor say him nay, ‘ll come back! And, hand on heart, will say: re is no ‘peach’ from here to Frisco Bay Like those ‘Burbanked’ on little old Broadway!” A woman in never conacious of her age until she finds herself moving her mirror back a trifle from the window eo as to give a softening effect to the cold, hard facts. The only difference between New Year's resolutions and wedding ttle easter to break, .| vows te that the former are a little easier to make and the latter just @ After a few years of marriage about the only thing in which woman hasn't tried to “reform” her husband is the size of his handkerchiefs; and Alas, bow can th regerd al) a man's vices as a matter of conree. ‘ The unwritten law of marriage: “Thou shalt honor thy wife in the presence of OTHER women! Thou shalt not make thy husband ridiculous before COMPANY" ' Take care to @ stoned to *-/ ihe only thing in which he hasn't tried to “remodel” tla wife ia perhaps \the brand of her tooth powder. ever be any equality of the sexes as long as men continue to take all a woman's virtues fer granted and womer contigue te | ported Warologues By Alma W eedwerd Coors 8105 Work ivecine Wont), © A Gourmet’s Viewpoint. 4 20 P.M. ee SR oe R. A. (examining them)—These aren't Lynnhavens. Do you know that you can get them at very few places? Every place bas) them on the menu, but they all come out of bai} same yard. Rrekr4 Zviate very small, Cape oa le larger, Lyanhavess, next and Saddle Rocks M You don't ex- taste of the ight as well 4 do the same Mi the way I Selo ir. )-—Do you know, T can’t @ out what the Russians Ct oti are y doing? ry A Mr. B. (reading ing Works Into the Interior of many.” Weill, I should think that—— belle Fran ody, the trate his filet of beet)—~ fam't she’ table), , the brie, the fae 7 One. akerily, erumplin . B. (angeily . Bekok good in th Mr. A... (ralldly)— ren't we got AN’ tal IMPORTANT—Write your adéress size wanted. 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