The evening world. Newspaper, June 14, 1915, Page 14

xi ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. | Published Daily Except Sunday by Fh Fabhioning Company, Noa, 63 to Dab PUEAR yeaa Tite ban in the International fecon4—Clase Ma'ter. Pig sy FR Rg Shes ‘and the Continent and All Countries 4 and Canada. "ey Sex : Month . | “VOLUME 65... NOT PUSHING FOR THE PLACE. | VEN # it be true that neutral nations of Europe are planning a peace conference, we do not see why this country should feel hurt or assume that it is slighted. | In the first place we have yet to see what euch a conference can sccomplish. At best it can but sound belligerent nations as to their readiness to discuss peace. That is not yet peace itself. As to reports that President Wilson refused to aid the conti- nental peace movement, few Americans will believe he has changed his attitude of last fall when he placed this Government on record | with the fighting nations as making earnest offer of its services for| peace whenever they might be helpful. Just now our discussion of methods of naval warfare with Ger- many and land places us in a position where we might easily be mediatot, first as to those methods, and finally as to the finding some basis of peace. Whil are thus treating with these two | Rations there can be little point or propriety in our joining a peace | league of European neutrals. To be chief agent in restoring the pence of the world would be @ proud position for any nation. We would welcome it and, so far as - be consistent with national dignity, strive for it. But to pur- gue it with pettily insistent, officious, ill-timed proposals is surely net our policy. » We are ready for the office of peacemaker. _ _—s eerambling for it. a PLENTY OF RESPONSE. as R. BRYAN’S antics since he left the Cabinet have not been without ta, Springfield, Mass., has quietly dropped him from its Fourth of July programme. Americans of German descent call his appeal to them an insult because it “considers them not as Americans, * but as Germans—those hyphenated Americans about whom both he > and Mr. Wilson talked so slightingly.” Even the Women’s Peace Party declines to listen to him at Cooper Union to-morrow. “We stick to President Wilson,” the women say. In the course of six rapid fire messages Mr, Bryan has managed te’'tie grotesque knots in his reasoning, mystify most of Europe, ‘amaze and anger his fellow countrymen and cause even his friends te dhrut their eyes lost his gyrations make them dizzy. He has been at At only four days, How much more must the Bi: country stand? But we are not ——+4 =o —__—_ HONOR AT ANNAPOLIS. HE inquiry into examination scandals at Annapolis does not make much headway. Nice distinctions as to relative de- . grees of guilt in handling stolen questions take time and Cheating is cheating, however. It cannot explain itself inte else. ’ . Those who criticised Secretary Daniels for wanting to give en- listed men a chance at Annapolis may well ask themselves whether the Naval Academy is after all so much better for its appointive and emalusive Character. An honest naval apprentice with ambition might be good enough tm mene with task dodgers and cribbers. wre SABA al SPREE RR Sy ‘THE INDISPENSABLE MR. COMSTOCK. oa RB. ANTHONY COMSTOCK promises to show up in due time ie the “skulking ambuscade” which now besets him, but which, he assures us, shall never pry him from his Post-Office ~ ‘On the whole, we should be sorry to see Mr, Comstock cease to be powerful example he has been these thirty years, He reckons his over vice by thousands and his spoils of war in hundreds of us of unseemly print given to the flames, He says he has never dollar by hie efforts and that he has a mortgage on his house, hie pus him in a large and worthy class. But by his value as an on we mean something different. * No living man has ever managed to do disagrevable jobs for the community in a more disagreeable way. Other vice hunters have beheld Mr. Comstock at work—and remodelled their own methods. If he is deposed, who will show the anti-vice crusaders how not to ognduct themselves? 4 Hits From Sharp Wits fe the tim® when as the labor om the suburban jon ita ‘Degins to disappear.—Baltimore cee fond parent wants to know: is the best present for a big! graduate?” A job.—Pittebucgn mr. oer people keep up appearances Py Maes it coste them more than it Ie worth. —Ajbany Journal, ‘While hildren are smal) they ecem Me ely gotiofied with fati ps. 4 But later they are sure to discover his Uttle dedclencies.—Toledo Blade. . Some one has invented clock that goes off when comes in the window. Somebody | should invent one that goes off on the time it is set.-Nashvi There seem to be some shi music and a whole jot of flats, delphia Telegraph, | . . The fellow who marries for money | cannot expect to be very prominent | “Strange and Grotesque.” Rativor of The Evening World: im a recent issue of two bits of news which and grotesque. “whether they tion: “Are more firemen or more po- leemen killed or hurt each year while at their work?” H,O, Optical Iitusions im Movies. To the Raltor of The Evening World 1 ask your readers whether they have noticed in looking at movin; jectures these pecuiiarities which ve observed. Am 1 alone in my ob. | servations or do my eyes deceive me? | Last evening in @ picture appeared | @ roadside in a wild country through which water was running, and my eyes could see the water running up- hill, as the street was on a pitch, Another thing: In watching automo- biles on the screen I have seen som times two strange things—one the | of $1,000 a up BA Universally Observed. Bo public You HAVE BeAuTiFuL GROUNDS, ab Le SEE Mt 'Y NEW LAWN MOWER M8 JOHN ITS A REMARKABLE MACHINE . SEE How Liqnt IT IS 1SN'T SHE KIND TO LET You PLAY wiTh WER LAWN MOWER SOHN 2 5 PLAY wiry (TIF You Mra Bout MIND IF You CUT ALL THIS GRASS . IT LL GROW Aga —— TANT Sno sn ONE THING; SEE How ISN'TITA DEUGHTFUL SENSATION 7 IT'S NoT EVERYBODY i) tet PLAY WwiTd HE CERTAINLY ILL APPRECIATE E COMPLIMENT ‘By Roy L. peace with all the world. She was riding downtown in in a Broadway car, She had laid all household cares aside and was going to revel in four hours of reviewing the new styles in the de- partment stores, A tranquillity lulled Mrs, Jarr, and then @ nervous twitching in her left eye began to distract her. With her gloved hand she smoothed her temple and endeavored to forget it, when an overdressed, middle-aged man next to her smirked into her face and sald, “Lovely day, tan't it?” Mre. Jarr edged away and pre- tended not to notice. “Looks like rain, a little, though,” the over-dressed man went sweetly on, taking out his watch to show that it had @ big diamond set in the back. Mrs. Jarr gave no heed, and then the twitching obsessed her. “You look good to me, all right,” continued the objectionable person, adjusting bis scarf that Mrs, Jarr might note the star sapphire pin he wore, confirming, with his watch, the fact that the party who ad- dressed her was a bot sport—there with a roll. Mrs. Jarr endeavored to freeze him with nce, but the twitching came on again and defeated her purpose. “Oh, I'm wise! I'm wise!” whte- pered the overdressed man from the corner of his mouth, “I've got to be cautious, too; you never can tell who's piping you off.” Mrs. Jarr turned her head and stared in the other direction. “Fine!” whispered the masher, “T can pour it right Into your ear, Birdie. | 1’ drop off at the block below where you do, Right?’ “Are you addressing me, sir?” said Mrs, Jarr, turning white and fairly blazing with anger, bursting out at las “Why sure!" said the man, coolly, “You wanted me to, didn’t you? “You @ loafer!” snapped Mra. if you annoy me any ‘ have ybu arrested!" got you sore now, birdie?” man in a bantering tone. itated between her in- which might possibly result in unpleasant notoriety. At firet thought would get off the car a! spokes of the hind wheel revolving | backward, and then again the ‘wheel eet reraiving "es cll citueen the front wheel would be taking a | eouren, EN y ers next stop, but, fearing the man follow her, she eat atill, "Bee somebody?” mas, cautiously, “Ob, I'm gy sow!” The Jarr Family Copyright, 1915, by ‘The Prees Publishing Co, (The Now York Bening World), ‘T WAB a genial early sum- mer day, Mra. Jarr was at } McCardell “Conductor,” said Mra. Jarr, pulling that offictal by the sleeve as he passed her, “has @ lady on this car no pro- tection from vulgar mashers?” “Why, sure, lady!" replied the con- ductor, is it?" “This man sitting beside me has been annoying me for blocks!” replied Mrs. Jarr, keeping her tears back with difficulty, as she noticed the whole car paying attention. “Me?” asked the Individual desig- nated. “Me? Why, she began with me!” The conductor scratched his head in a pussied manner. “Why, she winked at me when I Reflections A Bachelor Girl Mrs. Jarr’s Left Eyelid Won’t Behave; Which Makes the Rest of Her Angry firat got on the car, winked to me to come sit beside her,” continued the over-dressed man in a grieved tone. “Oh, some of these blackmalilers look like real ladies,” remarked a fat man across the aisle to his wife. “That is not so," began Mre. Jarr. “I—I—let me get off this car at once!” ‘The conductor rang the bell, the car stopped, and Mra, Jarr with scarlet face walked as proudly as she could to the platform and alighted. “I hope no lady or get tried to flirt with ber,” dressed man remarked. “Aw,” said the conductor, as he yanked the bellrope twice. “Aw, she winked at me too, as she went out!” Indignation ts @ quick cure for eye twitch, but Mrs. Jarr’s day was spoiled. No, she hasn't told Mr. Jarr. That thinks I the over- of whispered the By Helen Rowland Coprright, 1918, by The Pree Publishing Oo, (The New York Bening Werld), Oo": grass widow doesn’t make a summer resort—but ehe can always make it interesting. * Why is it that when @ husband goes out with his wife he always has that guilty, self-conscious look, as though he knew everybody. suspected how bored he ts? Many a man has won a reputation for a strong character, when the Teal cause of his self-denial was a weak stomach. A woman's mind moves in fits and starts and sig-sags; a man's moves |in @ perfect circle. That's why, after he has been good for just so long, you suddenly discover that he has gotten right around to the same old sing again. A man may honestly admire a superior woman; but, when it comes to marrying, he usually looks about for something far enough beneath him to enjoy being ordered about and patted on the head. A black He always shows up against the dazsiing background of truth; it's all the little white ones a man keeps telling you that can't be spotted or distinguished from the rest of his conversation. The only time when a sense of humor profits a woman anything ts when she can laugh at herself for having tried to charm a man by das- sling bim with it. Most men fall in love with a sudden jolt, and wake up to find that they are married to an “impulse.” It's a lame love that has to be through the honeymoon in @ ¢ Unree-thousand-dollar touring car, man has the most terrible temper, and he might go out and shoot up every street car in sight. Mollie of the Movies By Alma Woodward Copyright, 1915, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) ‘OU know whenever @ movie v6 audience sees a kid on the screen, ‘specially a baby, they all gurgle: “Oh look! Ain't he cute? The poor little thing having to work for a liv- ing! Don't it seem a shame!” etc. I wonder if they ever stop to realize what happens in taking those films? I wonder if they know that it's easier to loop-the-loop in a Zeppelin than take one scene with a rambunctious kid? Well, if they don’t, I'll tell 'em— ‘cause I know—I just finished one. And my nerves are so souffled that I jump a foot every time aclock ticks, Why, from now on I'd rather play parchesi with a rhinoceros than cud- die a kid for a couple of reels, As far as I'm concerned, race sulcide stock has gone up fifty points, Thie ploture wae supposed to be pathetic. Now, the minute any one tells you that there's a baby in it and it’s pathetic, you immediately wee a shabby, black dress and a ebawl, You don't even have to put in the face to know that the poor girl's been abandoned. It was called “The Little Interces- wor" I told the director that was @ swell label to put on picture in thinking that it had so) with Bryan, But he said: “Oh, you gotta educate the public. If they don't know what it meaus, Jet ‘em go an’ look it up in the dic- tionary, You o'n buy dictionaries now in every drugstore along with your soda checks, anyway.” In reel two, scene one, |, the Aban- doned, am discovered registering do- epair in a fret with @ gas range, Personally I've never seen a garret with # gas range. But if you'll look closely you'll see one in every film that has @ walting-at-the-church heroine. I go over to a clothes basket, look long and lovingly into its depths and finally extract an infant, mostly blan- kets. On account of the blankets I asked for @ property baby. But the director spouted a lot of stuff about realism, 80 we got a real kid, Of course it had to be awful little, it not being long after its debut, And, by gosh, the one we got was the littlest thing—why, its head was not much bigger’n a ripe tomato, I was supposed to handle it natural —ftry with one hand and hold it witt e other-——juggier stuff, know, And all the time its mother was paving @ perfectly good cat fit out the ten-foot line! I'd look at _o my nearv'd Work overs time. And when I got thro drink bad! hy THE SELF-SUPPORTING CHARITY. By Sophie Irene Loeb. I THESE days when it costs charity $1.50 to give s poor person @ ~ dollar’s worth of help, « self-supporting charity is a weloomed innovation. It at least brings » hope of economic alme-giving. Too long has the milk of human kindness been skimmed before it reaches those in distress. The United Hebrew Charity Organization, one of the largest |societies in tho city, has just established an “Industrial Department.” They are going int the business of selling waste to alleviate want. Everybody is asked to save old shoes, rags, rubber, metal, shirts, col- jon | wringers, &c. Strong bags are distributed to hold this cast-off stuff. These bags are called for by the department in response to « post-card. Money derived from the sale of thie junk is then-used for the poor. Nothing could be more simple. That it is s profitable | Proposition is evidenced by the well-known paying industry of waste | paper collected by the Salvation Army. | Money is to be made, and who knows but it may promote the business of charity to a business basis? As to the contributor, it surely should appeal to him, since he is helping the unfortunate by merely giving away what he no longer wants himself. This is direct, and all co-operation should be given to it in the - interest of the city’s poor. It is a sound policy that should be encouraged. It may lift the burden of community care. OOO Stories Of Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces NO. 13—OUR LAST WALK. By Hugh Conway. ALTER AND HELENA LINTON were gloriously happy in thetr wedded life. They lived at Draycot Hall, a quaint old English country place. There their two children were born, and there, except that they would have been glad for a Jittle more money, they dwelt for years in tranquil enjoyment. Then, when need of money pressed a little harder, Walter hit on a get- rich-quick scheme. He learned there was a coal-bed under one of the fields on his estate. Instead of selling, he resolved to work it himself. He mortgaged his place for $50,000 to raise money for operating his coal mine. And for the next few months the beautiful face of Nature was ripped and smeared by shafts and coal heaps. Then came the shock. The coa) was of such poor quality that it would not sell for one-half the operating expenses. Walter Linton was ruined. A Bristol money lender, Leach by name, held the $60,000 mortgage. He refused to renew it. On one Wednesday he notified Walter that unless the money were paid over to him in gold or notes by the following Saturday g 9 hegrould forcione, x 950000 ‘Then tt was that Helena came to her adored bus- band's aid. She begged him to borrow the necessary Debt. $50,000 from Mainwaring, his Jawyer, and to rent the piace ” to some good tenant until the eum could be repaid. In the meantime Walter and Helena and the children could live modestly where on the Continent. Linton took her advice. He went to London and laid the matter before Mainwaring, who willingly let him have the money. On Saturday morning, with banknotes for $50,000 in his pockets, Walter set out for Bristol to pay Leach and to save the home he loved. He walked through the woods toward the railroad station, a mile or two away. Before he left, he told Helena he would be back by nightfall. But he did not come back. And he sent hér no word, Not hearing from ‘Walter she went next day to Bristol to make inquiries She caiied on Leach, who informed her he had geen nothing of Linton, He even hinted that Walter had probably decamped with the money, And every one else had the same idea. It was known that Linton bed been hard up. And his friends jumped to the conclusion that he had takes and she went into mourning for him. One night she lay praying to his spirit to come back—for her sake and the children’s—to clear his emirched name. Suddenly she felt a strong hand grasp her own. No one was visible in the room. But #he know the clasp for Walter's. The hand drew her from the room, out of the ‘and along the road. She followed eagerly and without fear. if fA ii i Presently, the hand guided her from the road into a path that ran There, among the rocks below her, lay the hurling him to death. The $50,000 wae found intact in an inner pocket of he ae melne Sema teer wee Old Glory’s 138th Birthday great American republic will celebrate the 188th anniversary of the adoption of the “Star-Spangled Banner” as the official emblem of their Uberties, It was on June 14, 1777, that Congress placed the seal of its ap- proval upon the flag with thirteen stripes alternately red and white, with ‘thirteen stars on a blue field in the canton or upper inside corner. Thus was born into the world the beautiful banner, “The flag for which our heroes fought, for which they died, is the ———— old she takes it to see Pa. I don't know why she waits that long. Maybe because she wants its hair to be long enough to tle ribbons on. ‘Well, this time we had to get a different kid. Some offspring! When his mother had him he looked like an ad. for Sunshine Shavings, the new breakfast food, but the minute they'd give him to me he'd screech like a calliope! His mother thought maybe it was @ pin or colic or something, but the minute she'd take him he'd grin like @ blooming hyena again. The whole company got around and the director began to act like @ darned fool to get him grinning. Then they slipped him to me again. Nothing doing! He'd beller like a bull. It got the director's the light was going fast. his head, then finally sai n't look at him, Mollie, Maybe that's what the matter with him. at, because scratched yeu | Keep your face turned the other way, You know you can't always tell fust what it is that frightens these chil- Every time | dren. Now, if that ain't — vetled insult, I'd ike to know what it is! The ‘worst of it ih, I tried turning my face away and that baby vi smiled fa hilltop—a short cut to the station. At the hill’s crest was a ridge of ‘At the edge of thie cliff the hand released Helena. She eank to her on the very verge of the precipice and looked down. One Mystery ter Linton—his neck broken by the fall. and Another. ken this route to the station on the Satuniay be for Bristol. And his foot had slipped at the olfff coat. People sald Helena had walked in her sleep and had strayed by chance to the fatal spot. But she knew better. N this Flag Day the people of the | symbol of all we are, of all we hope to be,” said Col. Robert G. Ingersoll tm his eloquent panegyric on the Stars and Stripes. “Tt is the emblem of equal has been dedicated to 3 means universal every mind, yoawvege of every child, It means th: ool is the fortress of 1! aty. “It means that rnments dertve their just powers ‘from the consent of the governed'—that each man ie ao- countable to and for the government that responsibility goes hand in band with liberty. It means the perpet right of peaceful revolution. It means that every citizen of the republio— native or naturalized—must pro- tected, at home in every State, abroad in every land, on every sea. “It means that all distinctions based on birth or. blood have perished from our laws—that our government shall stand between labor and capital, be- tween the weak and the strong, be- tween the individual and the corpora- tion, between want and wealth—and wive and guarantee simple justice to each and all. “It means national hospitality—that we must welcome to our shores the exiles of the world, and that we may not drive them back. Some may be deformed by labor, dwarfed by hunger, broken in spirit, victims of tyranny and caste, in whose sad faces may be read the touching record of a weary life, and yet thelr children, born of liberty and love, will be symmetrical and fair, intelligent and free, “That flag is an emblem of the supreme will—of a nation’s power. Beneath its folds the Weakest must be protected and the strongest must That sy ied given to the air in revolution’s darkest days, It repre- sents the sufferings of the the glories yet to be, and, like the bow of heaven, it is the child of storm angen day is sacred to herolo lng