The evening world. Newspaper, February 12, 1915, Page 16

_ “Even Abie BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Ain Set ef et Se eee i, Bina ‘or al U York as AYOR MITOHEL/S edministration hastens to welcome State investigation of the city’s finances and believes that each inquiry wit! only show how mandatory legislation from Albany odds to the municipal burdens and how desirable is home rule || fer this town. Well and good. But what about money affairs which the city ‘Mamages for itself? For example, what about the collection of taxes “glueedy exscssed under the lew? \ 4 The World has shown that since the consolidation of SY Weester New York in 1898 only 58 per cent. of the amount of personal | Upweperty tax levied hes been collected. Forty-seven million dollars of wnsalicoted taxes ere carried on the books of the Comptroller. {What is worne, the city hes merrily spent the money exactly as if M6 Yay im the treasnry. Borrowing fills up the hole and the uncol- “fected millions are crossed off and forgotten as “bed debts.” When ) © tee pinch comes the administration that happens to be in control finds _ “ft Gar easier to think up new taxes than to remember older ones that ‘pens of moderate means than to pry overdue personal assessments 3 Maybe a State investigation would also reveal what a mess the " eltg wakes of come of its home scoounte. a —— pe Neutrality knows its place in a war sone. ‘Also tts rights. pe | WAS IT UNCLE SAM’S OFFENSE? ~ et XB Danbury hattere are lobbying at Washington in the hope of getting Uncle Sam to pay the $290,000 damages, costs and interest which the United States Supreme Court imposed pon them for violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Ciroum- T atance has revealed’ to’ them that Congress never meant the Sherman to apply to members of labor unions. ‘A fine. precedent if the Government took to paying fines levied _ “Sy courts of justice on private individuals who have broken the law! It hae been calculated that an assessment of fifteen cents on each amember of the American Federation of Labor would reimburve the | Danbury boycotters. The Federation has « chance to come forward pend take ite medicine man fashion. Instead of which it ie acting like _= the woman in the play, who, efter she had frittered away her money | in Well Street, thought that maybe if they know it wae a lady they | would give it back. . 4 —_—_————————— Ghortage in Potatoes Started Rivts tn Bertin.—Headline. Dewtechland wants to be weber nothing without Kartoffel- ” i T sg ea ¢ ——_<4- MORE INSPECTION NEEDED. HE man who caid he chloroformed eight old people in the Ger- man Odd Fellows’ Home at Yonkers has been pronounced by » _ 0 Bellevue alienist “mentally unwell.” This would cold-blooded jmmader that More claims to have done should prove to have become mentally unsound either before, during or after the horrors for which «he wee responsible. ‘way corners of the com- ‘Ppt ce-calied “domes” that house in ont of the » anty the aged and the helpless. can celebrate his birthday re api aed en deaggrsardted anew—while Eu- battlo—to humanity, forbearance, infinite and honest work, ideale which Lincoln loved—and lived. Hits From Sharp Wits. + & man who is as honest as the a who ia as honer pee brv4 Bi {s the woman whose hus- , “ae jong often needs in alway, ‘night.—Columbia Stat looking for ‘where se tant ies * 8 a Many a misguided outh imagii that a gir) ix Interested in hla welfare re in reality she is interested only 19 ‘Omaha World-Her- e 2 6 Some men can look an automobile im the face without feeling embar- ; d in the pocketbook.-Macon raph, . , ee "The fact that there are all sorts of ople in the world would indicate there were all sorts of ancestors the world at one time.—Toledo his farewe! 4. ee A man's judgment tlonally good to maki to use It exclusively Cet) to be excep- safe for him . eee "Lots of men are very much higher in their professions than in their lon, sereg, Ni You can never know th & husband's devotion trom the puce lic display that he may Albany Journal USNS ESE They will find the same old stoc! there. The drummer boys of te Were the oMcers of 1812. Then the history of the war of 146 At the Ume the war broke out our army and navy were not adequate; but when President Lincoln called for volun- teers they were not found wantin, Take the State of Connecticut, for ample. In the war of 1861, I ha read that she had 80,000 voters, and that $0,000 of them were in the feld Every other State had volunteers in ‘were all ready to| high proportion to her voting list be- q SY to the sides those that volunteered that were ait r few not old enough to vote. If President itl implement Wilson ever should be forced to senda pet wi the call cali for volunteers they wor se the Riitor of The Broning World In answer to the, teare shout our navy no! ing adequate ‘war were declared: If people would story the: yyy pee 'y they owt of what materia! the A ns. are made. Let them read he tiietory of the Revolutionary War, Engiand'eent over her army of to take this country The ‘leans had no army but they were not found ing pening Company, Noa. 68 to Second. and and the Continent asd youndm unpaid. Also easier to levy afresh on real estate and on citi- | World WHICH WAY ‘To TH € PuBuic SERVICE OMMISSION'S OFFICES 2 — _ The Jarr Family By Roy L. Copgright, 1918, ty The Pome Puttishiag Co, (The New York Brening World), “ HITHER away?” asked Mr. John W. Rangle, “Whither away, 0 biithely?” “Who's going to wither away?” re- pied Mr. Jarr indignantly. “Whadés ya mean, wither away?” ‘It has a emile upon ite precious face, it leape ike the chamote—l'll bet you can't epell the word chamote— from jag to jag, 20 to speak, and its heart ecoms light and gay.” “Anything I had to taugh about would make you @ore. You're a real friend!" retorted Mr. Jarr. “If you ‘want to epoll the day for a real friend, tell him any good news ebout your- eelf. There te nothing in this world that will make those you are fond of #0 usbappy as to tell them you have some good fortune. Therefore it gives me great pleasure to tell you that the boss te going to send me to the Panama-American Exposition to look after our exhibition there tn the Hall of Textiles.” “What do you know about them?” asked Mr. Rangle gruffly. “Them what?” inquired Mr. Jarr. “Them textiles,” replied = Mr. Rangle. “When were you ever an animal trainer! Why, if you looked cross at a textile it would jump at you with a snarl and chase you clean out of its cage!" Mr. Jarr gave his friend a sneering look. “Clarence, how you talk!” he said mockingly. “Why, I've been training man-eating textiles since I wasa boy. We bad the fiercest cross- bred textiles on our ranch in Rhode Island that you ever saw. Mind you, these textiles were crossed with the fierce, or man-eating, fabrics. I guess that will show you how much I care for the most flerce and untamed textile that ever terrified @ floor walker!" “Put it there, pard!” said Mr, humbly, as be extended his hand. knew you were a brave little guy, but I never knew it was in you to tame textiles!" Gus, the genial proprietor of the cafe on the corner, stood by in amazement listening to this weird conversation, Perhaps Rh was in- tended for his benefit: but both Mr. Jarr and Mr, Rangle bad spoken moat seriously. “Well, I knew something was up when I lamped you vamping past with plenty of shoes and * smiling like a semi-circular slice in a Georgia watermelon, but little did I think you'd tell me the grand news that oyt to the Exposition to enter fearlessly the Hall of Tex- BES Rates sig Daily “Magasine, Fri aN PUBLIC SERVICE conm 'SSION day, DON'T KNow! We ARE STRANGERS McCardell of the whole world, because Iam & Cherman. But I tell you, I seen pio- wouldn't catch me doing it. And how| tures of things that come from Texas about you, Gus?” —horned toads and tarantum spiders, “Met” replied Gus, solemnity shak-| centralpedes, whet has a thousand ing hia head. “I guess I ein't afeard| logs mit « stinger in every von, and How to Earn Pin Money * === By Eleanor Schorer Copreight, 1915, by The Feem Publishing Ov, (The New York Evening World), « ) bara or amooth pebbles for further adorn- ment. It quite surprised me to find what a demand there is for such Evening World readers are anx- lous to hear how YOU make YOUR PIN MONEY, Write and tell them. buy them for birthday and other an- niversaries. I gave a few pieces of Jewelry to @ church . That is where folks saw them and admired them, and that is how I first came to see them. The work is the most pleasant I can possibly think of, I attend business during the, da: A Dear Mies Schorer: Through the day I go to busi- ness, but often I have leisure evenings when I stay at home read a book. Several times I volunteered to stay at my cousin's home of an evening to see that the ERE are one or two more of the many letters from readers on “How to Earn Pin Money.” I wish I had space to print all the in- teresting and instructive replies I have received. ‘Dear Mise Bchorer: A fad of mine brought me quite a rofitable little private business. When every one was making art craft jewelry I took a taste made rings, pins, buckles, hat pins and bracelets, decorated with crude Indian designs and sometimes ha ing @ setting of sem!-precious stone: spent in buying good it in bu; Cs # ard authors gf this way I endeavor to further my education. KH. JUNGLE TALES FOR CHILDREN—sy FARMER-SMITH i Jimmy | Jimmy,’ if you are not satisfied with Baby 4 ing simply ‘yes.’ Do you think eaid the Baby said ‘no’ to that, “Mam?” answered the little fellow. ‘Say, look here!” said Jimmy, ‘don't you ‘mam’ me! “Does it hurt you?” a “No, it doesn't hurt me, but I'm not ," replied Jim: ‘Bome- mam’ to you, Baboon, warm! “You should because"-—— “But you told me to aay ‘Yes, Jimmy." ‘Not t to eay ‘no’ one uu gay ‘no’ the better off you are. u want @ piece of candy?” "ato ” gaid the Baby Mr. Jarr Has Accepted a New | maa Se ae es He Is Going to Tame Wild Textiles. Loute—Every good citizen ought to cows mit horns #0 wide to bbok the cow fellers”—and Gus illustrated with outstretched arms—"so it’s no vunder them Texas cow fellers in the movies wear them leather pants, mit wool- eide outside, and carry them big re- wolwers! By gollies, to have to ride even on @ horse's back where. them kind of animals is! Not for anything would I do ét!” “You never hunted textiles then? The big, flerce ones?” asked Mr. Rangle. “No,” replied Gus; “and I ain't go- |: ing to, either, But I tell you what,” he added, “I don’t think it’s right of no boss to send a feller what hes a famity out to Texas to fight them textiles.” “There!” eaid Mr. Rangie. what I was saying, Gus! big boob, Ed Jarr, about it!” But Mr. Jarr affected an air of “Just Ang this was laughing aS Betty Vincent's Advice. 'O girl ving at home should have young men friends whom she doesn’t introduce to her parents. If @ young man Js the right sort he will want to come to her home and be presented to her father and mother. A girl may be sure that if a young man demurs his proceeding he has some bad readéon. He is probably afraid that the discerning eye of ma- turity will see the weakness or shifti- ness or dissipation in his face. It may “M. H." writes: “I am twenty and in love with a girl of eighteen. Tt will be some time before I am able think of marriage, es I am till studying and must later ents for what they are girl understands aes itzi See ERE 3 4 a to meet any other men. right to object to my ere?” If yon reelty F 3 2 5 care for ‘will act f February 12; 1915. You Should Remember By Albert Payson Terhune Onperight, 1018, by The Pres Pubtishing Os, (The New York Evening World), No. 28.—MARCH 8, 1861.—Russta’s Serfe Set Free. clan HE nobles stl) their peasants and domestic servants ithe cattle,” says a Russian official report, and Ingram declared: “Landed proprietors could transport their unraly serfs to Siberia without trial, or send them to the mines for life, and those who presented comptaints against their masters were punished with the knout.” All thjs was not in the mediseval days, but at the middle of the nineteenth century. People shudder at the suffering of the French peasants under the old monarchy; yet the French peasants at their worst were pot slaves, to be bought and sold like horses, or to be sent to life-torture, he Russia's land to a great extent was divided into huge estates. Awd the men and women and children who worked these estates for the pro- "prietors, as well as those who tolled on State lands, were known as seffs. Their condition ranged from lowest slavery up to a form of servitude that easter, jess. er As ecvene Tar eetesting fiercely against the serf custom. Turgeniet and other Russian writers were urging in their 4 °, books and pamphlets that it be abolished. And Ruesie’s when Alexander II. came to the throne as Czar, in Abraham Lincoln. } 1956, he vowed to right the ancient wrong and set his people free. Alexander was the Abraham Lincoln of Russia, He hated the tyranny which gripped his country. From the beginning of hie reign up to the very day hie leving and grat bjects murdered him he was forever working for their betterment. In: lly, he wae the only power- foreign ruler who offered help to the United States tn the Civil War. Chief among Alexander's countless reforms was this freeing of the serfs. @oon as his purpose was known his advisers gravely told him that if cerfs were liberated the nobles would start a revolution. Hi Paget pe at the social world than at the bottom, as had the French olution. Then a committee wrote him a warning thgt the infuriated nobles, robbed of their serfs, would kill him. The Czar replied that, in such a case, he would die doing his duty. Meanwhile, he sought for a good excuse to fesue the Emancipation Proclamation. And the chance came in an odd way. & body of Lithuanian land-owners had had trouble with their serfs. over their serfs. Alexander asked if other landlords to Join in the petition. From all over Russia came assent. ‘was what the Czar had been waiting for. pretended to take thie wide-spread request as a wish on the part of the landowners that the might 61 (sixth anniversary of his com- ing to the throne), he freed them. By one pen-ecratch he released more than forty millon human beings from servitude. nd he did more. Realizing that the new-freed serfs would have a time to make a living, he turned over to them 350,964,187 acres of territory—about half of all the land in Russia. The Government bought this land from its proprietors, paying them full price for it, though it had paid them nothing for the serfs themselves. Then the land wae sold to the serfs-on a series of small payments that were to cover @ period of fifty years. Fully 2: 609 of the forty million serfs liberated had belonged to lané- owners. The rest had been the property of the Government itself. There was probably much gratitude toward Alexander on the part ef those he had freed. But many of the landowners—especially the poorer sort—hated him. His reforms (along the lines of $"Norder of § education and of kinder treatment for the mmases), a Benefactor. were equally disastrous for him. People began to peorren study, to think, to grow discontented. Receiving certain privileges, they clamored for more. And, out of all these elements, Nibilism was born. (The word - lat.” by the way, was coined by Turgenief in his novel, “Fathers and ) ‘The Czar’e fe was in hourly danger. One attempt after another was mage to kill him. In early March, 1881, he signed a proclamation that gave. still more liberties to his people. An hour or two later he was assassingged. ee Warologues. we wt uty Alma Woodwon Copriight, 1948, vy The Pram Pubtidhing Oo, (The New York Evening World). 4 ban RISA, Goon the British embiem is floating on “ Loui me . Mr, A. (entering)—You're patriotic, Fetherston att Hawking & Gon sone Louls, You got your flag out on|treal, must be coming. One of our TAncoin’s Birjhdey. o yi customers, Bennie. (Mr, Fetherstoa hal chute. Tells gu hsr thee aed Soren ts C, sy ys fox, eve hundred doers” worth Mr. A. (admiringly)—You hand it to you, Louis. You certainly got the business instinc’. Louls (getting perky). got a German one, too. For Mi teckel of Schmitt & Bristeckel. waaeee In ‘ond out ine fy uis (wildly). Harry! Harry! You Schmitt & Bristecke! 8t. Louis. got the wrong flag! That's the French Mr. A. (looking wise)—No wonder You'll ruin me! Mr. Bristeckel you stay open, Lout {s the only one what ain't been hery 4 for a German’ A French (Suddenly th Py A Fb = Louis is tearing his hair the door . Lorel, from Quebec, threshold, He tas. forgotten eomething, = Be | PSedae. “ites ke"eutantarels Saas Mr, A. (kindly). Louis, it ain't worth it. If they all should keep forgetting and coming back, can you imagine ‘what would happen to you? You would be like the chameleon who killed ont Hing to make good on a Seotah ttle thing Nke that, Bennie. Mr, A. (slyly)—If you were a enough citizen you would be closed up altogether, Louis. Loutis—Not when I got buyers com- tato the store, out egatn,) taal What the Mr. A. wild »—" t's 4 the Son Math you. Lowa? You take Lous . was Mr. Lorel from Donet's, Quebec. A French firm clear through. ‘You know, Bennie, business ain't you gotta use tact, y’know. MES: tien’ Sate Sas esi The May Manton Fashions HIS 1s a waist that may fair- ly be taken as typical of what will be worn through. out the coming \wea- son, for while fancy blouses will have their place, there is a marked tendency to- ward the simple waist for simple occasions, and this model is an exceptionally good one. Appropriat can be made ot owe de chine or. other almple silk as wellas | from Mnen and thi cotton stuffs. Th back is extended to Bive\a yok in front and fronts themselves are just full enough to be be. vi weakly). I know Benny, but isn’t good. Harry, come here. good boy. You're smart. Here's a dime. Go blow yourself, But put up the Gloria Waist Company flag first, Harry. busing You're coming. The @nd collar a: and they are inter- esting. In the illus- tration one of the new cotton crepes is the material and the color is the sand that as taken such a hold upon popular fanoy, For the medium size will be required yards of material 27 inches wide, 3' 1% yards 4 5 No. 8672 ip cut in sizes for 9 to 44 bust measure. \ ir | i