The evening world. Newspaper, April 17, 1915, Page 10

The Eve SETARLICHED HY JO8ERFH PULITTER Published Delis Fee. fw by the Teese Duetianing ov pany, Man 08 te ) Fare how New nalen Tae yess 1) Pew tow Ol ana reawurer 0 how, soem PUL TR. It, Beoreterr ork Rew ot the Ottwe Ui] Tork as forond ene Preniog] Fer Pngtant ent the All Cowntrtes tn the Tr ‘World tor the Trited Mates end Consta Peete! Union SS bee: VOLUME 65... tte One Teer f0' One Ment. . : PEDESTRIANS’ RIGHTS AND RISKS. HEN will traffic in this city be eo regulated that any auto driver who handles his car carelessly, speeds over cross walks or takes « chance on the wrong vide of the street i @ertein to be arrested before he hes killed somebody inetead of af It ie time to plan out « comprehensive safety meheme that » Make clear to pedestrians their rights and their rivke @rose «0 crowded thoroughfare diagonally or betw dows 0 dangerous thing, But when he keeps to t @aght to be os cafe as rigorous rules and police supers make him. When he steps off the curb he should be sure that vehicles can When « man bear down upon him from one direction only. When he reaches the middie of the street he should have to consider only the reverse di fection. At that point, in al! busy thoroughfares, an isle of rafety should afford him a chance to get his breath and save him from the consequences of hurry and confusion The only street in the city where pedestrians now enjoy even @ degree of such protection i« Fifth Avenue. In other avenues and even on Broadway traffic police are oftener missing than present, autos dart in any direction they see open, persons on foot look out for themeelves as beat they may, When somebody is killed the driver of the car that does the killing is held responsible only for what he could see, not for what he was doing. All authorities are agreed that the two isles of safety built as an experiment in Fifth Avenue are in every way a success, Why not | more of them, then, and in other thoroughfares ? | We have had enough half-baked schemes and feeble efforts to} make the streets safer at this point and that. A thoroughgoing traf-| fie plan for the whole city is urgently needed, Until there is such | a plan there can be no comprehensive rules for auto drivers. Until | there are hard and fast rules there can be no adequate penalties for | rivers who take chances. Until punishment is sure a driver will take the easict turn rather than the safer, and the man on foot will continue to go down be- tore him. AT HOME TOO. HAT the United States flag is often used in Europe to advertise shops and cafes in ways supposed to attract tourists every traveller knows. In recently published foreign correspondence of the United States, the Times finds reports of enterprising Greeks who have gone tack from this country to hoist the American flag over cigar stands and wine shops in their native land. A saloon in a Sicilian city made it « rale to run up the Stare and Stripes on all festal occasions. In both cases protests were made to the State Department and the prac- tidh stopped. Commendable solicitude for the dignity of the flag. Why not} match over it with the same care at home? | Tf Old Glory is too august to wave over a wine shop at the Piraeus fwhy let it be flaunted night after night behind footlights in its own #ountry to start applause for some piece of theatrical claptrap that thesn’t enough interest in itself fo keep an audience awake? Uphold the honor of the flag throughout the world—beginning ith the U.S. A. a ———— ANOTHER SCHOOL STRIKE. HE spectacle of fourteen hundred Yonkers school children! T throwing down their books and organizing a strike parade | with banners and tom-toms, all because the Board of Educa- tien removed a principal whom they liked, seems to have struck their, @lders as entirely proper and progressive. It is said mothers were | atn¢ | it aeom natural that, just as Nature sets the universe in order once « year, World Daily Ma Why Not? 4 «cee. BY By Maurice Ketten What Every Woman Thinks .x.?@titins,, By Helen Rowland As to the Spring Cleaning in the Heart. OW ta the magic time of year when the wary bachelor smiles fatuously N at his own image in the mirror and thanks heaven that he has not committed matrimony, and the married man shudders on his way home from the office as he wondera whether he has been booked to sleep on the parlor divan or the dining table while the bedsteada are being re- bargain sale of your worn-out and old-fashioned prejudices, your petty dislikes and your worthless idiosyncrasies, You might begin by opening, the windows of your heart, and letting in the sunlight of optimism and Kindiliness, and brotherly love and charity. ‘This is really a good old world, ff one can only get the right angle on it, Life ts like the new spring hats. It all depends on the way you look at it— the angle of your vision—the right way, whether it appears inane and flat a jand foolish, or bright and charming and attractive. It's all a matter of painted and the matresses made over; when the weary housewife cries tipping your mental vision; and once a year, at the very least, It doce seem “Where shall I begin? WHERE shall I begin?” and the bachelor girl takes wise to get a brand new angie on life and people and things. a day off from the office in order to “run a straw” through her one-room- | You know how It is after you have been {ll in the hospital for a long and-kitchenette! itime and forgotten what the world looks like? How wonderful and i . 2 tiful and facinating everything seems—even the fruit venders’ carts, and All the world is spring house-cleaning! Nature herself has blown all! the janitor's children playing in the street—the first time you walk out in the dust microbes off the trees and is washing down the earth, and ever: the sunlight. Even the rumble of the elevated train and the squeak of the body ts “taking stock" and clearing out old rubbish, from the shopkeeper! @urface cars sound good to you, Well, that's the way it feels, ufter the on Fifth Avenue to the sparrows in Central Park. ‘soul has been rested, und the heart cleaned out, and the mind put in order, But there are more Kinds of spring-cleaning than that which is done, and one walkg back into the old ways of life with brand new visions, and with a broom and @ dustpan. There are mental and spiritual jiouse-| @ fresh outlook, T imagine. cleanings which are quite as necessary and far more profitable. Doesn't 4a 4 3 STOP HATING. THAT'S THE RECIPE t should eet one’s life to rights and straighten out one’s spirit and clean! Were, 1 the old debris out of one’s mind and one's heart? ND the best way of all to start {s to stop hating things; to try to love om hand to cheer the strikers and keep them at the full pitch of rebellion. Without going into the question whether the principal did or did not deserve dismissal, are we to believe that parents no longer pretend to act for the best interests of their children without admit- ting them to full confidence and equality? Are we to believe that fathers and mothers now debate questions of education and discipline ‘with their twelve-year-old sons and daughters? Is it true that the “Bapposed resppnsibilitice of age aud experience are among the cast-off telics of old fogyism? If children are already encouraged to go on strike when school fen’t run to suit them, how long before they will seek the aid of the courts to secure fuller rights and immunities at hom Hits From Sharp Wits ° the things you have, and not to long for the things you can't have; to think of walking, for instance, as a delightful recreation (it I8 nt c o xo a : “Sunk aw foliies | 3000 for the figure, dnyway!), and of limousines as an awful bore; to begin LT, instead, most of us go about collecting new “Junk” and new follies { 700d Tor | he denre, ur yey De and oF iimauaineninn sn avril bare: ane and new frivolous emotions and fiirtations, and generally littering | gent. and all the women who are prettier than you are, even your husband's up our lives with all sorts of tr: if somebody would eturt a society for the promotion of the Spring House- | drivers; to love to eat the things that agree with you, and to try to disitke Cleaning Day in the Heart—a special day to be set apart for throwing out English muffins and crab-flake cocktails and rarebits, and all the things all one’s old cyniciama and prejudices and sweeping away all one’s follies, that don't agree with you; and to BELIEVE all the people who say nice and putting one's winter love-affairs away in moth-balls and one's winter | things to you, and not even HEAR those who criticise you. flirtations in cold storage and one's winter worries in the ash-can! Of course, it sounds as though you would be so sweet after that that you “But where to begin! WHERE to begin!" ores the Professional Cynic,’ would melt in the rain, and you may feel that you would lose all your spice “and what would be left of most of us when we got through?” and ginger. But you will also lose all your vinegar and paprika and Well, you MIGHT begin, Sir Peesimist, by clearing out all those uttie! cyniciam. In short, you will have cleaned all the junk out of your mind, and bad habits you have gotten into during the past eight months. You might all the dust off your optimism, and all the bitterness out of your heart. | begin by polishing up your manners, and brightening up your smile, and! ‘And when you have succeeded in clearing out all your old sins and | brushing up your illusions, and your ideals, You might begin by taking follies and firtations, juat THINK what a lot of room you will have for | stock of yourself and your mental and epiritual goods, and by making a a collection of brand new ones! \The Week’s Wash ihe hope that th» the more anxious they are to bu’. “eé HATS the sect of all the; themselves with activity in Wall Street?” ‘Public’ would some day begin to buy | ‘Tho lessons learned from 1903 to 1907 ie cnanagamammannaananansanamanoemaananaamaaaanaaatt {Doomina WINTER'S WORRIES TO THE ASH CAN Oe By Martin Green we we we of snatching checks. Three rousing cheers for the dear old ‘Public.’ ” 2! than he could bear, for he next began hopping on his sound leg, his weapons What a fine idea it would be. stenographer; to think kindly of milliners and dressmakers and taxicab | ‘There are still some bad mannered) While a man knows that he pays stocks, It waa a hope long deferre).|have been forgotten or else the new P RRR Waich and you will often| nigh for experionce he keepa on buy asked the head polisher. | Wo know why, in the light of currant |crop never heard of them. Pay: Don't Think Hi » “Rats, | heard that story when| ing it.—Norfolk Ledger Dispatch. “The ‘Public'—which is Wall Street's | events. Stocks were too low. “Well. we should worry, Many an aa ‘Milwaukee Sen- eee monicker for that large element in automobile and many a hatful of zee # small on “Dividend paying standard stocks ‘hi cite ee ee Saturday, April 17, 1915 The Story of Lincoln’s Death A Nations! Trogedy “Whose Somi-Comenery bs Obvoreed This Wesb By Winfield M. Thompson —e 06 & Pete © Teme | | | | oul ‘orm opr darkmane of 6 « wiht, at o farmotead * about jes south of 1 Koyal on the Rappahannock perhaps 1 miles south of Waah | Nn ington in ah OT LAM, Was enacted | the clowlnd #eene le the pur | Wilke ham I | federate when he « | the OOTH waa Wrapped in thy Garrett B 2A M, April % De Ce rand Gaker laid to the buliding, posted their f twenty sa gen of the Sis New York Cavalry about It, nd sent young John W, Garrett tate arn to demand Hooth's arma teenth had 9 ¢ before lear volee Shim: “Young man, you had Ket out of hi it maid. | r life in in danger. young man returned to the door by the words me out “You have be- let me out, quick!" pleaded young Garrett. “He ta going to shoot me!” | The door wan opened by Baker, whose form was lighted up by the candle he held in his hand and Gar- rett slipped out A brief silence followed. Then the | volee of Booth was heard: “Ww ure you?” he said. “Whatdo you want?) Whom do you want?" Baker replied: "W want you and we know who you are. Give up | your arma and come out.” Booth replied: “Let us have a iitth time to consider.” ] j HE silence was broken by Baker, who sald: } “We have fifty men around this barn, armed with carbines. If | you come out, all will be well. If not, we will burn the barn in twe minutes." “This ts hard,” said Booth. “An innocent man owns this barn.” After a brief pause he went “Give a lame man a chance. Captain, |I know you to be a brave man, and I believe you to be honorable; I eam a cripple; I have but one leg. If you will withdraw your men in line 100 yards from the door I will come and fight you,” “We did not come here to fight,” Baker replied. “We came here to mate you a prisoner.” Aaa feint to lead Rooth to believe the barn wae about to be fired the detectives set young Garrett to work piling straw and brugh against ft et a point where a board was off. The young man soon desisted. “I will not risk my life further,” be told them. “He threatens to shoot me.” “There's a man in here wants to come out.” Licut. Baker “Very well, let him hand out his arms and come out.” Herold then came to the door and cried: “Let me out!” Baker demanded that he hand out his arma, “IT have none,” he sal: : Rooth interposed saying: “The arms are mine. I've got them.” | Baker declared the man carried a carbine. Booth answered: “Upon the word and honor of a gentleman, he has no arms; the arms are mine and 1 have them.” The door was opened, and drew him out. He was taken to a tree and tled to it, babbling protests of his Innocenes until silenced, C long, set fire to it, and stuck {it back. As the first flash of fire caught the hay, Booth was heard to say in loud,’ theatrical tones “One more stain on the old banner!” ' As the fire climbed higher Lieut. Baker opened the door and peeped into the ruddy interior of the barn, He saw Booth leaning acainst a haymow,, his cruteh under his arm, his carbine held trailing at his hip. Near hin war a large table, bottom up, He seized it, as if to try and smother the fire with it, but after lifting it he dropped it and for an instant made a survey of the barn, The flames were now rolling toward the roof on one side, The mo- ment had come when the assassin muat | ove the barn. Dropping hia. crutch he drew a pistol from his belt, and with thie weapon im one hand and his carbine in the other, but neither of ‘hem fn position for use, he started toward the door. It was the first time since the night of the assassination, twelve days before, that he had sought to step upon his broken ler. He made several limping, halting Jumps toward the door, but the pain must have been more |PJTHERE was further ailence. Then Booth was heard again. He saiés repeat: Herold put out his hands. Baked erized them YNGER now proceeded to fire the barn. Going around a corner he pulled some hay out of a crack, twisted up a little rope about six inches at his side. He had taken three auch rteps, or hops, when a shot was heard from the rear of the barn and he fell at the instant when Baker, at the door, was prepared to seize his tottering body and disarm him. S Booth fel, Baker, not knowing the man was wounded, jumped upon A him to pinion his arma. He wrenched from his clenched hand the re« volver; the carbine had fallen between hia legs. The second person to enter the barn was young Garrett, intent om putting out the fire. The third was Conger, who rushed to Baker's side, The shot that had cheated Booth’s pursuers of their chance to take him alive was fired from the back of the barn, where Sergt. Thomas P. (“Boston”) Corhett—having disobeyed orders, which were that no soldier should gome | nearer the barn than 80 feet, and that no shot should be fired without ordered —had posted himself, his pistol throuch a crack, and steadied on his arm, rbett’s reasons for shooting Booth were thus given under oath supposed he was going to fight his way out. He was taking alm with the carbine, but at whom I could not say. ' “My mind was upon him attentively to see that he did no harm; and@d, when I became impressed that it was time, I shot him” “Spring Nerves” By Sophie Irene Loeb. Govnant, 1018 by ‘The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Erening World) “ IFTY per cent. of the| spending very little time in sleep or eople in New York are|®Xercise. There are scores like her. penn sae |" Is tt any wonder the spring mune | suffering from ne shine Is almost too much for th thenia, largely due to overwork, worry and lack of sufficient recreation,” said Prof. John D. They have for so long @ period kept indoors either in TOO MUCH work or TOO MUCH pleasure—with no ‘i 4 ’ . ble to get hep to 4 neurasthenia Despite the hard ti t 1 i ‘ te born| Went bereing at bargain prices. diamonds were taken out of hock] 66J'D like to be a uackenbos, the noted ne ee Hee ee es Te Duet ates (ur DORMIA ton, NA OF whan oF | Public’ wouldn't bite. Hick money) this week. Tradesmen in certain all this stuff about the financea| Quejalist, “People are generally What the ay man who i@ lo0k= | pies. —Columbia State. every minute--has come pack,” Fe) remained buried in the ground and! parts of town are digging up old of the State and the necessity | sited in the spring, so the only ex- ing for @ Job really wants is a posi- he Hitate. |plied the laundry man, “Nobody but| hidden in old socks and stovepipos.| account books and making out bills] ¢. 9 §20,000,000 oxtra tax levy,” de-| planation for the Increase is that the tien, eee The most fortunate men in the|th® most optimistic brokers and Then came the great export boot] with both hands. Broad Street and od peg ip 7 beyond thelr ner- and the recent Lulge in atocks, and! Exchange Place abound in shining, as soon as the prices began to go up smiling, happy faces. Dov... in Fred's the sucker cush descended upon Wall| they are six deep in front of the world are those who can get paid for doing what they like to do. eee traders ever tho..ut the aforesaid ‘Public’ would ever enter the market a apes, amet aif F vipa ever equipped with non-s! re ‘Transcript. Boston clared the head polisher. “1 wouldn't,” said the laundry man. 2 “Tt must bo an awful thing to under- o\; sa ; again, but there is evidently a new | Street like a tropical rainstorm. bar, the talk 1s of millions and men : When a man has no business he ie| the henctit ot meceiea Ae eae PAYS | crop and their coln is pouring In from] "The dear old ‘Public! is in’ thoral who hadn't bought a drink since the stand the state's finances, One Mr. apt to imagine that he is in politica, | bany Journal, . ous “Jul parts of the country, Acain, snowballing the layout, as {t} Fourth of July up to a couple of| Harris, holding a $5, tate job, un- eee nee SS 2 “The ‘Public’ has been shy of Wall Street for about eight years. The |1907 panic sent the sucker money to lcover and it was buried deep. The Letters From the People | were, and the higher the atocks yo! weeks ago are engaged in the game Little Facts Worth Knowing derstands the State's finances, That is admitted by everybody, is going to happen to him? And what Nothing : r ‘s rush from the payroll, Stock Exchange languished and) scientists have figured that about! o! Ow! ct Wut the buses Fis languished and» the Curb shetvelied| 3¢:990,000 ables are born each yout aes reece taste hand tohand Aetting| “Certainly there must be something up and all but blew away. Then/ata rate of about seventy a ats ry 4 | fearful and wonderful about the . 7 nty a minute, they climb trees like monkeys and “Children, Half Bri afternoon performances.” One lttle|came the war in Europe, and Wall wets Bey CRD creas |finances of our beloved common: ‘To the Editor of The Evering World: fellow fe baby) is just three. Do gyett iefppererny a We ane. The Argentine National Health De- —_— wealth, | When Ye authorities dis- 0 n rience two} You think that's fair, readers? The utilitarial partment has posted signs along the automobile wi agree there remains nothing for us I'd like to tell of an expe: cotta Ger ne eatin ioe ee, iat Stock Exchange took rank with that DP ong As a result of an automobile sho friends and I had with the ticket principal streets of Buenos Aires, tell. | held in Oporto, Portugal, in which Jone and it was either a case of pay-|of # handball court in a blind asylum, to do but pay the taxes,” . . ing what animals and insects should] several American cars were exhibited, eee e@eliers at a place of amusement. Non®) ing or going home, and one look at|, However, the Wall Street crowd) be avoided to lessen the dangers of| it Ys thought that there will be a great $ Try Once More i of us can afford to lose any money the disappointment in the faces of | RUDE on They couldn's fo anything | lofections diseases |demand for American made cars, | LER or PON nd we had seri: along for weeks) the Children settied me. T paid. Hag|else. ‘Those who would hav an : “ | wanes an ys save amare s ener to give) it.ever occurred to you that the people; doned the memorles of the good old! From Atohison, Kan, comes the! Mlorida and Georgia together con-| 66] SEE," said the head polisher, the fidaien @ little pleasure, None! Pf ew York allow themselves to he | days RAD ORs te: wom Coulda E 8NG | atory ofa wingtoltl on top af a chick-| tributed ninety-eight per cent. of the | “that Billy Sunday admits he ne bamboozled right and left? MRS. K. {30 re times en coop, which during a high wind! quantity and value of the fuller’s | Ave nicl of Bo tthe children we hid with ux were| rag nad laf Ko | When Melgium had nothing on the! caught fire from the heat of the trie: | earth marketed in 1913, ipadwariantiy. stole one of Baby | Wall Street district when it came to suffering and woe. In Bavaria, Germany a number of “Doomed to wait and watob, the A ft okers and Waders sought to console’ When the Algerian infantrymen, pik ys decided to introduce un: tion caused by the swift revolution of the arms, The coop was destroyed, compelled to pay full price for each | To the hiiior of Tue Erccing World despite the announcement:| How many thousands make a mil ten, half price to lion? Ingersoll’s civic addresses,” “It's too bad he didn't Inadvertent); ople are living Pous powers, which leads to the ex- haustion of the brain colli Evidently “spring fev 2 supplanted by “spring nerves’ with reason. It is not the idle people | who get it, but the workers and thoso |who worry. You have only to note the hundreds of tired faces in the subways and street cars to realize the truth of the sclentist’s words, The great trouble with most of us is that we delude ourselves in the belief that we “just haven't time” for recreation. The only answer to grandmother, “But you will have to take time to dis.” I know of a young woman who works in a department store, and who is to-day but a bundle of nerves tied together with a collar and a walst band. All winter long she went ‘through the same routine— ing to work in the morning, out at noon to a hasty lunch, and at home avery night embroidering shirt waists for \her summer vacation of two weeks. \1 am acquainted with another who, iy or otherwise steal more of them,” | after hard work at business all day, man. » eaid the laundry out q@wery night until midnight, 5 —= this is that of) time given to recreation. Then there is the tired mother who has been housed in with the wee ones all winter. She must be of the 50 per cont. variety of nerve sufferers, If you but knew it, little woman, it would be much better for you and the babies were you to let some of that housework go and come out with them every day, There is surely some place to go. The parks are taking on the spring dress; and there is aciniae so restful for nerves as green grass and budding trees and sunshine and air, Oh, so much alr—breathe it— breathe all you can! It will make you more fit to cope with the Ilttle troub) you are worrying about, As old as the advice may seem, big peeree crouent anybody any- hing but wrinkles [nema and nerves—more nd you, Mr. Workingman of your kind belong to that’ 60" nee cent. crowd. It is bad business. bo you think you are the victim of cir. cumstances and can't possibly take the very necessary time off for exers cise or rest? Well, you are not figs uring your time properly. vhere there Is a will there ts a wa: Cul- yale the will, TIME INTERFERES W) pay RECREATION REGULATE