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a TS TN) oe Che Coeniig World. a 1 Na ee pe * ad aves! ur “ ), 10,008 HE OWES IT TO THE CITY. an halls from thie oft York gure him opp wity and office, up istrict Attorney, lanwehed him on bis broader polities! career, If there In any section of the Plate te which es cousideration, fairness, good will it te the area and interests comprised in the City of Sew Fork The city asks only fatr play, It is wealthy, It eam and does pay far © than its where of the Mate’s tills, Time end again it has made op deficiie and furnished extra revenues for the Mate budget, Mr. Whitman kuew this before while he was District Attorney, He has not erased ty koow It te becoming Governor, Ab this moment mee representing Sew York's highest in- terete, public and private, are striving to throw off the wi precedenied den o reckless Legisiatare has loaded wu) the city. Manicipal heads, civic organizations, taxpayers’ alll. ences unite tn protest against the $14,000,000 of direct tax brasenly demanded of this city to meet the cost of up-State extravagance. The Legislature has done tte worst and departed. All protests now converge upon the Governor, Upon his table Ue appropriation bills calling for an outlay Of 064,000,000-0 tangled mass of legitimate expenses and wasteful projects. Upon hie table Lies the $19,000,000 Direct Tax Bill with ite huge levy upon Greater New York. By hie veto the Governor can cut down these extrava- gances. Iiy his veto he can stop this outrageous raid upon his home efty. Polities or no polities, ff the Governer ts the man he seemed to he when he was District Attorney and a New Yorker, he will promptly use his veto, call back the Leistature and demand a square deal for New York. Ry every standard of justice and loyalty he owes it to the city. te WHAT ARE THEY COMING FOR? THE Legislative Committee which is to be appointed to inveati- gate New York City’s finances wishes to emphasize the open- mindedness with which it means to tackle the job, it will choone | @ more convincing spokesman than Senator Brown, its prospective | Chairman. | Senator Brown is the Repablican majority lender who urged a} roand levy upon State taxpayers of $27,000,000—$24,000,000 needed | and $3,000,000 more for good luck. | “Too much crying by New York City that it is imposed mpon,”! fe the Senator's idea of what the committee must consider and, if possible, silence. As for the direct tax of $19,000,000, $14,000,000 @f which falls upon the city, which fact “the Mayor of New York e@pparently desires to keep public attention concentrated upon,” tho Senator has but one word: The Direct Tax of 1915 is a closed incident. Is the Investigating Committee coming on a mission of inquiry | @ on one of justification in behalf of the Legielature that sent it? | Does it mean to look for facta or only for opportunity to show that | nothing but beneficence can emanate from Albany? Will it agree with its prospective Chairman that the $19,000,000 | @rect tax is “a closed incident” | Tf 00, its proposed “inquiry” is Hkoly to turn ont na footless a piece of impudence and special pleading as any that the annals of ham and hollow legislative investigation have yet furnished. + ae THE INCOME TAX. THIS year’s income tax returna are expected to exceed the original cetimate of $80,000,000 by several millions, With the war and the new tariff cutting Unele Sam's Gevermes, Treasury officials have reason to be pleased with the assur- @mee that the income tax will yield all it promised and more, Estimates of returns from corporations fall short of expectations, But returns from individual incomes more than offset the loss from sources. When all the figures are in it will no doubt be noted again that Wgincomes in this country are far fewer than we thought. ‘The bulk ef the returns will come from possessors of moderate means whose fiest instinct is to obey the law and fill their tax blanks as conscien- fteusly as they know how. Corporations and wielders of huge capital are always divappoint- fag when the tax estimates come in. Tho average citizen who earns Memoney by working hard for it is the surest source of public revenue, a The Governor has signed the Wicks bill compelling all vehtoles travelling at night on the public highways to carry Nights visible from both front and rear. This should lead to the discarding of ultra-powerful auto- | mobile headlights which have made night travel on country Toads hideous and dangerous, Motorists have declared them- selves only too willing to give up searchlight lamps provided all slow moving vehicles show lights that can be seen from | either direction. | The blinding glare from strong electric or acetylene head | lamps confuses even auto drivers, Many serious accidentshave been due to this cause. Let the brilliancy of motor car lamps Bow be regulated to a safer maximum. Hits From @ woman arrives at not afraid to teil her ahe is willing Sharp Wits What makes it Possible for a viewim of & praction joke to laugh with age } those who laugh at him t# that he ae to admit for the benefit of a crowded | Ways hos in mind @ acheme for got car that her feet hurt because her| ting even, shoes a: too small. o 8 8 . . . The prevaitine human tendency its to credit success to good Judgement and charge fatlure to bad luck.—Al- Dany Journal, . 8 4 The man who “would rether work than eat" i# the fellow who in the jong run has the “eaus."—Columbla | that pertod | Bt would serve many persons right to have their wishes fulfilled; then they would see their folly. . ee When you think you are crowded In street car behold the moving van. table legs always have to atick outside. State, 28 ee | Cackleberry hardly Mone walls and reinforced concrete} If it wasn't for spring @e strong and formidable, yet the hardest thme to go up against is the tmevitable—Toledo Blade, phte Commercial Appeal, t i the nature mechaniam of § wereemNs | only machine Was roaring down the would run down like a olook.—Memar | #'reets (Can Yo \ \ CAM You ) Jecariry( EVERY Boby 'S WEARING EM THIS SUMMER. NAM [Are COMING BAC u Beat It? «en WIDE Rit CAN You BEAT rl | CAN You. (BEAT iT | ( By Roy L. HE hoarae, raucous scream of An electric auto horn, re- peated now for the tenth time in the street below, made Mr, Jarr stir uneasily aa he sat by tho window reading the sporting extra of the evening paper. “Great goodness!" he crivd testily. “Ian't that girl through powdering her noao yet? It had three coata of kal- somine on tt a half hour ago, If she's going out for an auto ride with Juck | Silver in his new #ix-cylinder, ninety horse power roadster, why doesn't she get away from the looking glass in her room and go? Jack Silver will get arrested blowing that horn down! in the street. If 1t waa I, 1 wouldn't wait another minute for Miss Gladys Cackleberry, Ho's been waiting for her for half an hour, And she know ho was to be hore for her and what time!" | “Let him watt," said Mra Jarr, “It doesn't do for a man to think a girl ts dying to be with him,” “But I notice she was anxious enough to extort an invitation to get a ride in Jack Silver's new car as as she found out he had bought grumbled Mr, Jarr. “Well, if a girl has almost to beg | for an invitation, there ta no neces sity for her to sit around al) day, | dressed and ready, when she gete it,’ “Well, be that as it may," replied friend husband, “that girl better ben it down to the auto, or it's my opinio | Jack Sliver will escape.” It was evidently Mrs. Jarr’s opinion, too, for she went into the room whore Mise Gladys Cackioberry had been putting the last finishing touches on & durable complexion for auto riding | for the last hour, The slmpering Miss paused to listen to Mra. Jarr’s last whispered instruc- ens a to a plan of campaign, but hurried to join the dmpatioat Mr, Sil- ver, waiting In his new roadster in the streat below, She was half way down the stairs whan Mrs. Jagr | shrieked after her, "Oh, Gladys, you | forgot your feather boa!" | ‘The foather boa, which, by the way, was Mrs, Jarr’s, must have been of supreme iinportance, for Mrs. Jarr ran half way down the stairs and | delivered to the young lady Philadelphia from Then Mrs. front roou) and looked out of the win- dow to note with sativfaoction that Mins Cackloberry had seated herself in the roadster beside the somewhat e@ullen Mr. Silver, and that the big | ' The Jarr Family Copyright, 1919, by ‘The Vrem Publishing Oo, (The McCardell Yoru Brening World) pincently, “I hope the people that live on this street are mutisfied. Ono would think they never saw a real automobile before!” Meanwhile Miss Giadye Cackle- berry drove on beside Mr. Jack Sil- ver in the big, throbbing roadster, Darkness came on apace in the mel- low spring evening as the great car droned past the outskirts of the city onto the broad highway that led to the open country The again wealthy bachelor switched on the lights and listened with more or less interest to his companton’s artless prattle. “Oh, there gocs my boa!" exclaimed Miss Cackleberry with a little scream. as the big roadster purred on through Mr. Jarr’s Best. Friend Falls To a Very Ancient Man-Trap Device the gathering dark Occupied with the running of the car, Mr. Silver had not noticed the deft action of the young lady in loosening the boa at her throat #0 that the wind biew it down behind her back and against the cushions of the back of the seat. Mr. Silver reached for the boa with his free hand just as the roadster negotiated a bump in the road, His fair passenger gave a little scream and braced her feet against the dash- board, thus pinioning Mr. Silver's good right arm. “How dare you! How dare you put your arm around me on this lonely road and in the dark?" The frightened bachelor endeavored to reinove his arm, but evidently Miss Cackleberry was ina dreadful state of maidenly excitement, for the more he tried to pull away his arm the Reflections By Helen A Bachelor Girl Ooporight, 1918, ty The Prem Publishing Oe, (The New York Evening World), of Rowland Y Husband praised me, when I wrote Something that he thought worth quoting; Fame, you cheat, who only note Miracles, here’s one worth noting— Say ‘twas ailly, say ‘twas bad, Say hie flattery amazed me; Say ‘twas perfect rot; but add My HUSBAND praised me! The man who 4s a bright and shining light at @ stag dinner is apt to be # dark, dark cloud around the house next morning. Smoking may not be a nice habit, but ff Eve had been kept busy cleaning up Adam's cigar stumps and ashes she would never have found Ume to run about chatting with serpents and stirring up trouble. Nobody can do as much with a sweet voice as an unprepossessing Woman; somehow, the constant astonishment at the contrast between her | face and the sound that proceeds from it keeps a man eternally fascinated. A man {8 a8 young 4s he thinks he is; a woman !s as young as she can make other people think she is, Apparently women haven't enough troubles in this world to keep them busy, so they have taken to lacing their shoes up the back just in order to Jarr mturned to the| make life harder and a little more complicated for the next few months. No two women could say as much in an hour's conversation as is ax- Pressed in that silent look of soulcommunion which passes between two mien just about to take a drink, Tho Prince of Decetvers {1 man who can convince himself of his own “Well,” remarked Mra, Jars oom-{sucerity when be knows he's lying, » By Maurice Ketten Victim tighte: she braced herself and held it, and th Mollie of the Movies By Alma Woodward Copyright. 1015, by The Prem Publishing Oe, (The New York Brening Worth HEN you're born on Second | Avenue, get yanked out of | school when you're twelve to be errand girl to a Division Street mil- liner and then rise sudden on account of inborn genuis that can’t be chloro- formed, it's pretty soft. People not acquainted with the fact that your family crest ts a hod crossed on a washboard, with @ growler above and a clay pipe below, take you for the real stuff. And peo- ple who used to hear the love pate |administered to your Ma by your every Saturday night, are dropped from your visiting list. So, if you put a Maxim silencer on this “self-made” and “rose-from-the- gutter" piffile, you can get away with it, most times, until they send you white roses and palm leaves tied with purple ribbons, If anything does trip you up, it's al- ways something so small that you didn’t think it worth learning. That's what happened to me. Oh, I wouldn't ‘a’ cared #0 much, ‘only lately the movie profesh has been invaded ‘by a lot of blue ribbons (whose families have “met with re- verses.” They've got the Vere de Vere foundation, and there tan't an oshkitosh amusement or sport that they’re not up on. But when it came to picking out the lead for “Doris Dare, the Petted Child of Fortune," the director lit on me, Doria was supposed to live one of those ‘full days” known to SOCIETY, From the time they raised her bou- doir shade the poor girl did nothing but change her clothes and deeh out of the hduse, only to dash back again and change ‘em once more, The mornings were given up to sporte—tennis, horseback, swimming and GOLF! Well, say, I'd seen pletures of golf bags and things in advertisements, I'd even seen the real thing in de- partment store windows—but there it stopped. But do you think I'd let on to that bunch of ancestor-boasters? | Not little Mollie! Gee, 1 had a swell rig for that game! White corduroy sport skirt, white silk sweater coat with bright green bands and a green velvet tam, Why, I looked like I’a been born with 4 mashie in ny hand and been bap- tized with a Scotch highball! The scenario cilled for this hous party gang to stand around and look | wise while I was teeing. They were | pretty far off first, but the director made ‘em come closer, Game to the end, 1 took the Imple- | ment the caddy handed me and swat- ted blindly--I didn't want them to! think I was @o amateurish I had to aim first, I heard a wild cry. I thought ra been a fool for Juck and that I'd made a crack drive, Then I looked around! Stretched out at my feet were pros- trate bodies, I'd put the whole blamed house out of business! In that one fell swoop I didn't miss one of those twigs of the family tree, | seized Port Arthur, which Japin had won from China , The Evening World Daily Magazine. Wednesday: April 28. 1915 Maar eee eeee What Humor Really . Pr Cee eee eeerrererr S| ‘ ” dinner hue » my ot F © ey © " bert { . © and of © rie oe poy a sivyee ite |'*\, Humor, mites aod ming) t+ ® of pieapure and of } the . r and bef ‘ ite rr} # ati the iis ox acts the ese ' ; the things th ‘ ' « Ku ee the v 7 sif a@ woud as Ry 7 ' ‘ r Humor te the enjoy ine t' « gts of Amer cantem, verfect. If teachers and pr . Utes, (wo were bumorew, Would only recognise this, they would] *“#hington was great, but he never find @ quicker cure for anar y and) aur Frankiin laughed at very- Nocialiam, for domestic troubies, eo- |" 1everything and was hum 4) evils and governmental woos than|lineckn lw 1 at nobody, but Be wer the present route of sermons and | @Usied at everything with everybody {tracts Humor trony and | 40d he was lovable Tf would like to » worked id for hu-|0@ great, but if | had to be great nanity than ever|®ithout a rense of humor | would noulded and ai ever|rather be human and lovable. | dowt welt If the son of ever woman | Know r Irvin Cobb ts great oF and the daughter of « nan we Hut lt do know that niy endowed with a p or @ man and lova a humor, human joys would be ar mericaniom is elghteen human sorrows would be fewer, bu-| carat fine, No one can doubt (hae nan problems would be ea apd! Who reads his books. the only crime punishadie by capital| in the suadow of belehing Vesuvius Punishment would be the crime of oe. | he pletured the local editor as the ing @ bore, Until human hearte are}iast man, just before the voleane made of cabbage, until hun pas-| burst @ thousand years ago, to sneak sions become mathematical, unti) hu-| into the Last Chance saloon at the man blood becomes as cold as iceland of the street and then trumph+ water, humorist will be more popular antiy emerge wiping the back of hie than scolders; and when blood be-| hand on his mustache after “taking comes ice water, when passions be-!a small ad. out in tra Only a come mathematical, when hearts areal true American would have nerve made of cabbage there will ba need enough fo write this. Ten Peace Treaties That Ended Great Wars By Albert Payson Terhune. Copyright, 1016, by The Prow Pollisiing Co. (Phe New York Prening Worl 2.—PORTSMOUTH PEACE TREATY, OR fifteen months—from February, 1904, to May, 1905—Russia and Japan had been at each other's throats; and to the surprive of the world, little Japan had thus far gained all the advantage of the conflict. It was the case of a highly trained lightweight against an unwieldy heavyweight whose condition was not the best The fight did not go to a finish; and Russia's vast resourecs were scarcely tapped; yet, in battle after battle and campaign after campaign, Japan was successful For years Russia had been reaching out for more and more in the Far Kast, in spite of Japan's remonstrances territory For example, she had the she became ruling influence in Manchuria; she took the Japanese half of the Isl Saghalien; and she stretched out an eager arm toward Korea tested fiercely but vainly against all these aggressions, and at last 1904, prepared to fight for what she could not gain by diplomacy: of Mukden, where about The war's climax was rea ed at the Battle ninety-seven thousand Russians and nearly fifty thousand J were killed, Japan won the battle, but to do it she had put forth ———<*> her supreme force, While not 10 per cent, of Russia’ Ros Ht } strength had been called upon. intervenes It was at this point that President Roosevelt of the —~" United States intervened “in the interests of humanity.” Im June, 1905, he instructed our representatives at Tokio and at St. Petersburg to urge the Mikado and the Czar to negotiate for peace, Both nations agreed. And the United States was chosen as the scene: of the treaty. Japan was represented by Barons Komura and Takahtre, while Russia's delegates were Count Witte (who died not long ago) aad en. Pen Re arhins opencd Aug. 10, 1905, In the Navy Stores Building ém. the United States Navy Yard, on an islind across the Piscataqua River Portsmouth, N, H. from vile Japan had outfought her foe, her stetesmen rea}ized they coubl’ not hope for much, if any, indemnity money from a country ‘whose terrt< tory had not been effectively invaded or its existence menaced.” Yet, am; ‘a bluff, Japan demanded $750,000,000 indemnity. The demand wae refused, and long and weartsome haggling followed, At last the articles of the treaty, ed down by both aides to these terms: a OEE ANE interest in Korea was to be recognized and Ri was to withdraw from Manchuria, Russia was to cede to her rival lease of the Liaotung Peninsula, with many valuable railroad privileges, Russia was also to cede to Japan the southern half of the Island oe Saghalien and certain fishing rights at Behring and elsewhere, ‘The expenses incurred by Japan in feeding Russian prisoners were tot be paid back, less the amount that had been spent by Russia in caring for Japanese captives. (This meant a net gain to Japan of about $20,000,000.) ‘The foregoing were the chief measures of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty. In Japan there was bitter dissatisfaction that the frults of 60 great a victory should have been so meagre. This feeling was the more ern intense because the Japanese felt they had been deprived A Barren } by the Powers of most of the rewards of their conquest Triumph. $ over China ten years earlier. Both triumphs were more or less barren of gains ia but both added tremendously to Japan's prestige. land or wealth, Editorials by Women THE BUSINESS OF BEING A MOTHER. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. N the “strike against motherhood” Mrs, Amelia EB. Burr, the novel- | ist, sees America’s gravest danger. Herself the mother of fiftean children (only three of whom are now alive), she believes thy unlimited family is woman's highest duty and pleasure Isn’t it possible to stop sentimentalizing about the business of being a mother, and to apply to it a little arithmetic, a little logic? It has been estimated that three-fourths of American industrial workers earn less than $750 a vear, and that a man, his wife and three children cannot attain complete social usefulness on less than $1,200 a year. Must a woman be chided if she feels it wrong to add to the number of existing little ones whose bodies are starved and whose minds are stunted ? Pensions for all mothers, not merely widowed ones, may solve the economic problem of motherhood, ‘There remains the personal peril to the mother of the unlimited family Nature's first law is not “inerease and multiply” but “self-preserva- tion.” To bring into the world life, every woman risks her own, It should be her unquestioned right to decide whether and how oftea she is to run that glorious risk. 1» if A man enlisie in the army of his own free will, Conseript soldiery are foreign to the American ideal. ® ar Should conscript mothers, machine : mothers, be glorified? a an eestines inte en renin ens ahd abea stn o in