The evening world. Newspaper, June 21, 1915, Page 14

2. mane? RATABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Vr ‘ soar PU an. atodgaret, abe rhe how, ‘ Entered at the Post-Of! Now York as Second-Clans Matter. Bubsoription Rates to The gas ming| For Engiand end ¢! Sontinent ‘World for the Dasted States All Countri Canada. Ome Year.. ‘One Month YOLUME 5: _ Postal Union, 40! One Month. NEGRO PROGRESS. versary. 1900 and 1910, with added figures compiled in the last five years. 969,636,420 to $273,501,865. Negro farm property x 98 per vert. tey.. The number is now 45,000. There are to- from 10,000 to 25,000. foundations the colored man has laid for himself. with the brut travelled since then and the certainty that he will go further. been among the first to get it through his h : pach SERENE .__ ANOTHER TRY. avd the Protection of Property Rights in New York City. a ater ite bigaeet task of all: ‘We intend to create a proper public sentiment tn favor of ‘|, «the preservation of property rights. We intend to show the 3 savings bank Geposttor that he is @ partner of the property owner, and the tenant that olty extravagance falls ultimately upon him. Published Dally Except Boney, by the Presa 2 Company, Noa. 53 to and fn the International $3,.80| One Tear. » #9. Fi aan ne 5 HIS summer the Negro Business League of America will gather at Boston, Mass, for the celebration of its fifteenth pat Wihat it has to celebrate is data found in the Federal Census of Since the league was organized land and buildings owned by ne- | Fi groes:in this country have increased in value 293 per cent. from | 4 has increased in, value 177 per cent.; live stock, 107 per cent.; tools and machinery, | In 1900 there were 20,000 negro business concerns in the coun- ay 51 negro banks) where fifteen years ago there were but two. Wholesale businesses owned by negroes have increased from 149 to 240, and retail stores The above only proves, in figures a progress of which siaeyboay| is awere in fact. We believe that a nation-wide knowledge of such | fact is the best reason why no attempt to stir up race feeling, no ex- | ploitation of dark periods of his past, can at this day disturb the | | It is a mistake to think that book, play or moving picture, dealing | ies of the Reconstruction period, can do him harm. | Sach resurrections of the past only emphasize the distance he has | 4 Last year circumstance forced upon Southerners an economic | 3 truth: The South can’t eat cotton. The wisest thing it can do is to { devote more of its land and energies to growing vegetables, grain and y fodder. ‘This is one of the most important lessons any eection of the AN UMBRELLA ', country ever had to learn. From what we hel, the negro farmer has - O ENJOIN all new and extravagant enterprises until the city’s Re J finances are in good shape ie the ambitious aim of a newly or incorporated Society: for; teei:Brevention of Municipal Waste Among its immediste investigations the society promises to look into the new Court House and Civic Centre plans which it is feared will ultimately cost the city from forty to sixty million dollar. Also the society means to find out the trath about the city’s debt limit, and, if that limit appears to have been reached, to enjoin the issue of oy bonds and corporate stocks. Aleo the tax rate is to be kept down. A large programme. Not content therewith, the society sets What no movement for municipal economy ever quite does is to! e at the average citisen and voter who earns a ealary out of which pays rent. Because he owns no real estate it is hard for this man| 66] WAS talking to Mrs. Rangie to- time and it worried you, and Willie came home with his nose bleeding— and—but your mind whe Evening World Daily Magazine, The Day of Rest JOHN 1 AH GOING To You Te & PICNIC You STAY INDOORS Too MUCH _ to realize that city extravagance puts part of its burden on him—that fe OHM cag io all dl looking up from @ newspaper ‘ a if the city exacte higher taxes the property owner promptly shifts the |eccorat of the arrest of take “me- load in the form of higher rents and fewer improvementa, @tum,” “and she believes firmly in . | ‘The average citisen makes no greater mistake than in thinking | Corie eee nets annt monden ‘| Cabinet workers do the most wonder- | _— that public extravagance never touches his private pocket, Make him | fui things.” ceases to need explaining. ——__-42—___- —- A SUCCESS. been found to teach the public to respect the parks. i s ance of the parks has notably improved. “For. fifteen years,” declares Director Hornaday of the New York Zoological Park in the Bronx, “we have been trying to educate the persons who come to this park on Sundays into the knowledge that the park wes not built for e big rubbiah can, Now on Mondey the park employees can put all the peanut ehells into a silk bat and the waste paper into a re- , ceptacte just as small. The result is very satisfactory.” the greater enjoyment of those who know how to use them, ——— of The plans of the Philadelphia Peace Conference do not tn- clude the adjustment of the present war, reserving its influ- ence for the next war, We recall that Mr. Artemus Ward had once been in favor of the “next” war for fifteen years. — good wantsa chance; A man never fee! to talk once in —Philadelphia Telesraph. When easy payments are offered, like thie: wt; 6. i man with the discolored oj v witness that the han ne To say of ove “me means well” Every summer for years past New York has seen ite parks en public equares defaced by the inveterate heediessness of rubbish | eure 1 do not object, but you'll admit Receptacles and printed warnings accomplished nothing, | that the ‘spirits’ and ‘controls’ might remonetrances aroused no lasting zeal on the part of the| 0% "etter employed than winging Hits From Sharp Wits more genero e. than when he hasn't anything to give. figure up the {ote Albany Journal.| The will of some men ‘ts @polied Many a ity ase hae indul, in e speech regrets afterward that he} ‘To the man who can talk well there "t shackle hi ed . too much.—Toledo Blade for than” abe eye.--Philadelphia| very — high ampliment “Knoxville aig Journal and Tobune sce that 00 for as waste of the city funds and rising taree'tre con-| “I've sen cabinet makers move cbaire and tables, too,” sald Mr. Jarr; his interests ere also the interests of property and you have|:there was nothing wonderful about begun the real fight for municipal economy. Obvious as it is, it never | it.” “There you gol Alweys making tua of everything I say!” orled Mre. Jere. ‘I do declare it's no wonder that our children are saucy to me! ‘They see their father has no respect AOH succeeding Sundsy makes it more plain that the way has|for me; s0 why should they?’ “There, now,” said Mr. Jarr aooth- ingly, “I was only joking. If Mra. Rangle believes in Spiritualism I'm belle and shaking tambourines in a black cloth cabinet!" t The Evening World steadily maintained that if Park Commis-| “And you will admit that there is and Magistrates acted together they could put a stop wuch @ thing ae spirit influences’ asked Mrs. Jarr. thie abuse of the parks. Facts prove it. The firet Sunday of last| “on, yes,” admitted Mr. Jarr, “there menth, when the real campaign began, 1,915 persons were admon-|'s semething in telepathy, just as ished for rubbish throwing, 312 were served with summonses, 169 ar- there is something in hypnotiam (end perhaps Spiritualism), but none of rested and a significant proportion of fines imposed, Sinoe then the| these things go as far as their enthu- namber of arrests has decreased with every Sunday and the appear- | siastic devotess claim. I haven't the psyobio mind,” added Mr. Jerr, “but I thoughte—to a cer- 1918 By Maurice Ketten NO, WANT You To REST (LL Do THE Work (AN GONG To TAKE PLENTY To EAT. THE FRESH AIR WILL MAKE You HUNGRY THE CUCKOO MOTHER. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. ISS SARAH COMSTOCK, who has made a world-wide tigation of the care of babies, says: “One-half. of the dren in orphan asylums die, and the reason is that they, |mother love, or just plain mothering. ‘Therefore, | think that) woman who voluntarily shirks the care of her child is cheating him! that which no amount of science unalloyed can ever give him.” ‘There is ihe answer to the cuckoo mother, the woman who he@ ‘attracted much attention lately by airily proposing to ship her: ‘to a farm or a feminist nursery while she performs some really’i She is a human cuckoo, who would delivers evade all personal care of the little life she brings into the world." She has much to say of “expert attendance for the chitd.”AMll trained nurse may be betwr for a baby than an onirained mother, bint a trained moth BETTER Too MUCH THAN MAY | HELP You 2 NoT ENOUGH tant work elsewhere. r can show the nurse the door. fo DRINK .\ T ST THE WATER IN TRE ‘countay IT'S VIABLE TO BE FULL OF GERMS aa, SIT ON THE GRouND MAY HP child is born. And what excuse has any modern mother for being untrained? if inflexible, laws of baby hygiene are to be found if ‘al- ry newspaper or magazine, and are furnished free by 1 State itis city authorities, ‘These authorities, by the way, are everywhere transferring® the waifs in their charge from perfectly appointed institutions to more.er less imperfect homes, simply because science has proved that between {expert and mother baby prefers mother. mp The time to refuse the responsibility of a child is before Afterward it is too Jate—tnless a woman wishes: tie the human prototype of the meanest ornithological specimen.‘ “"* oual, The Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces’ (IT MAY RAN We BETTER IT Won't Sine TAKE OUR RAINCOATS AND But You NEVER CAN, TELL SUENG wt te Soom, Sonu” 1918, my ‘The Wress Hublishing Co, (The New York avealas World), MR. DEUCEACE, by W. M. Thackeray. oo And with these . Blewitt received $1,500 a year from his father, ‘spent several thousand, and made up the deficit by horse race swit He and Deuceace had bachelor apartments, But they saw little of each other. For Deuceace looked a noisy and lowborn boor. 3 Dawkins was a simple young chap, who had come up to Londo He had rooms in the same house as Deuceace and Blewitt. Neb- ther of those two gentlemen of leisure paid the alight ead EU they chanced to.find out that he had a fortune of abowe and by cheating at cards. |the same house. |down on Blewitt Mr. Jarr Has a New Parlor Trick! He Is Harlem’s Only Mind Reader) 0 downtown shopping. D. packages of tinware you saw in|went out to change when I had to the hall are some things Mrs. Rangle left the money with me to pay for. She had to go uptown to her sister's to-day, and, Knowing the things were coming, and not being able to trust the janitoh with the money at her house, and having a fuss with every- body else, she left a note on the bell for the delivery man to bring them! The Jarr Family “By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1918, Ww Tes Prem Publising Co, (The New York Evening World) The ten dollars d after ‘her by the janitor because ¢ the door of that G Place talking to the bartender so long (of which you were told) was| but you shan't, by ——, you shan’t!”” “Blewitt,” was Deuceace’s cool reply, “Il know you to be one of the moayt | infernal thieves and scoundrels unhung. If you attempt to hector witt® If you want more I'll shoot you. If you meddle between’ Now listen to this; If you're quiet you shall, have “You're after young Dawki for Mrs. Kittingly. Other than these | you're a wonderful mind is wandering. Unless you concentra: you were doing to-day I can tell you | Hy Dawkins I'll do both. | half this fellow’s money.” ‘Then Deuceace (who really needed a confederate in the scheme) ou a plan of campaign to Blewitt, who sulkily agreed to help him on a fifty. “Maybe YOU'RE a mind reade Jarr, somewha’ “What have I been doing?” “You've been drinking!” said Mrs, He hadn't, but he was afraid “Concentrated lye!" eald Mra. Jarr, “for that's about as much as you I might have missed one thing,” said Mr. Jarr, “but”—— “But you miseed them all,” inter- “You smell finnan hadd@le and caulifiower cooking for But it's next door. The red staing you saw on Willi paint stains, The gas bill on th mantel was pald the day before yes- Reflections of A Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by ‘The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) ‘0, DEARIE, there is nothing in this world that CAN be as pure, as harmless, as perfect and as wonderful as a:popular face cream, or | man's “love”—according to the label. # A little dinner party was arranged in Deuceace’s rooms. After’ was made very drunk the three sat down to a so-called “friendly” cai At first Dawkins won, Success and Nquor roused him to a gambling freaiy. ‘Then the partners settled down to real work. For thirty-six hours the three gambled. As had been arranged He gave Deuceace his I. O. U. for $2,000, it it had also been arranged that he need not pay this debt.) Dawkins a the thirty-six-hour session lost no less than $23, he gave his I. O. U. for the sum. Next morning, still half drunk and wholly and drew out the huge eum—practically his whale : to the winner, as the laws of “honor” demand Home to his rooms came Deuceace with the money, to find Blewitt - ing for his promised share. ? “T don’t intend to keep my promise,” laughed Deuceace, “You -4i | anno fool, do you suppose I was laboring for vou? Or—stop—I'll_ give you $2,000—your 1.0. U—it you will consent to forget all that has “I'm right, but you won't admit it,” inalated Mr. Jarr. “You are not right—not in one ein- * declared Mre. Jarr. low did I know all these things, then?” asked Mr. Jarr. “You don't know them. only guessing,” she replied. rupted Mrs. Jarr. Se Pop’s Mutual Motor | i Alma Woodward by ‘The Pree Py 0, vw York Seung Wort) © The Deadly Detour. OW that I'm all " said Pop, settling his | » “I kind of hate to leave you ‘behind, vd “Although I'll be lonesome, Milton,” retorted Ma, “I think you're doing a wise thing to take this trip alone. d a complete rest. | “ But I want you| he do? to promise me that you won't go more | crook. than.two hundred and fifty miles out, | thieves,” because driving 1s more or less of a| well-earned vacation, taking along t! strain, anyway, and you can get far | y, the bank with Deuce: ‘ fortune—and paid it ov Among Thieves.” ————: And, writhing with helple: Of Stories i HE Honorable Algernon Percy Deuceace was the fifth son of the: penniless Earl of Crabs. of a country squire. cheesemonger. : Mr, Deuceace had no income from his noble father. In fact, his omy | gifts from the Earl were a handsome face, a magnetic charm of mannergad a total lack of conscience. as a society gambler. Mr. Richard Blewitt was the flastiy Mr. T. Smith Dawkins was tne son ts he made a good Ii to attention to the ‘It was Blewitt who first made the discovery, and at once he began to But Blewitt was not a genius. He managed to | $1, 000 from the unsuspecting Dawkins in bets and xames of chance. Yat could think of no way to seize the whole fortune. Then it was that Deuceags, hearing about Dawkins's money, stepped into the contest. He had el} a | finesse and shrewdness that the poor, blundering Blewitt lacked. é Deuceace made an excuse to scrape acquaintance with Dawkins and @ dazsled the lad by his intimate taik of nobtémen | royal personages whom he claimed as friends. | Ble seeing how affairs were going and furious that anoth should try to rob him of his prey, called at. Dei he roared, “and you think to plot isa: 500—all of it to Deuceace, amd oi erable, the victim went@e rage, Blewitt consented. “What else He could not make public the story without branding himself And, having proved the idiocy of the old maxim about “honor asa the Hon, Algernon Percy Deuceacé ran over to Paris to enjoy = fortune of the man he had wrecked, f f hie wbii shank nith the tmindier and there turn overt ‘oo the go more than that.| Th In the School of Love @ man is forever just taking up @ brand new! jyays, NAM? fY@ hundred there and “study,” and discovering that all the old loves were nothing but “prepara | tory practice.” “And when you get to Lava, N. Y., | stay a few days and rest. jand eat, and when you come bac A man can keep a woman peeling onions for him ali the days of his} ‘you'll be your own robust self agai life if he will only wipe her eyes with his silk handkerchief and tell her | “You're fortunate,” sald Mrs, Jarr ecolfly, ‘I wish I could do aa much and read YOUR thoughts—but per- And Pop rolled away from the curb, never forget What the man | bape ignorance is bliss in this case. been doing I might be quite unhappy.” It reste especially with the Magistrates to make it clear that| ‘Not at all, not at all," ald Mr. henceforth the city will use militant methods to proteot its parke for|Jarr eagerly. “Io thoughts and tei you what you have been doing, but it doesn’t make me unhappy.” you do it.” waving his tree hand, looks with her little nose red. Perhaps if I could tell you what you have been thinking or what you have four daya later, at duak, (here was a dism, honk outside that) whioh God puts into the| Ma seemed to recognize, She ran to heart of every human being—and which nearly every human being suc- ee window. coeds in eradicating before he te forty. animals when How often I have thought and wondered apply that same advice ‘have learned long ago father when he “Personality” is thet grain of “difference” Yes, there, down in the was the car, with Pop at the He. seemed @ poor, read your Ever since Adam started it, a man's favorite way of getting out of a! scrape has been to accuse a woman of having “inveigled” him into it, and’ then generously to “forgive” her for it. UH bet you drove like | “Why should tt?” asked Mrs. Jerr, Lét me look at the speed- |“1 mever do anything I shouldn't do. You are at ifberty to tell me what | jhave been doing to-day. It me hear to talk to father hen he is eating Me performed & rapid subtraction | ee and found that five hundred miles, |” | mot one more nor one less, Woman will always be kept in subjection to man just as long as be can make her believe that there is such @ thing as « “bargeli and a man that can be “Well,” aid Mr. Jarr, assuming an twill “restore youth," expression of acute mental concentra- tion, “you went out shopping to-day, us| You were in a department store, you | saw a lot of things you would like to \nave, but you couldn't afford to buy these, ao you ordered home eome tin- ware. Then you shopped in this neighborhood and bought a finnan je ever the danger that he will talk|haddie and a cauliflower, The gas man called and you paid the bill and he didn't have any change and you n't trus: him, #o you sent Gertrude | Usually GET It, even us for it, and abe was gone & jong /AlMORY Pop wave her a gelid once-over. | vetinas in indelible ink!” Alas! a map never can understand why a woman wouldn't rather be | spoke: “yespected and admired” than amused and adored. ‘hava? xs D Gaed! Me, | mean, Yonkera: “Lemme out!” snaried Pop. “Lemme! into the house for a stimulant stretch of 600. fe you come upon one of t | arrows pointing genic idea of choosing a husband would be perfectly lovely,! only that @ husband isn't a matter of choice, but of chance, accident or somewhere nize me! was| ng the Virginia reel with a couple cars that were going in th nite direction on the same road, ym so many times that! i'm gol e@ the the Co BebLole tals Dis room Ma poured brandy down his parched throat seemed to revi oppo- | said Pa, briskly One advantage |' uoncy instead of for love, is that you! » awe it Ln the nomoeopathic form of | fan we eee Be peless, strange, the roosters gol to givin may cae, 3 did Bat magn men anh gg ei } SOUR 1 OE ar WENN LE NITE UN Ne) NERO OUNMINSNN VENI Ss WSNNEN. SONU ONTOS NIE ed Talks With My Parents. 3 By a Child. OTHER took me up to thefwith what father is eating. , ¥ shall! tice that I not “after ‘There is another thing T nottee front of the lion's cage satd tol father does not like, and onal is Do not disturb the| have mother talk about the food’ Is being served. The other nf had some kind of fish, and. said something about not did not) just how it should be oo) 1| would you believe itt—tather that to bother! ate but one mouthful of it, and is having bis moals| mother asked what the . but mother has} was be simpl: “1 don't cate fish very much.’ the worst crimes mother can| ‘Phere must be some very close Gale about | nection between a nearing rhat word! paratus and his stomach, rmonize fu anyway. _——$—— only place | remem-|man at a certain railroad ere! And/| aged terribly in between the twin and last times | saluted bim, different mornings I saw the family eating their oatmeal! The origin of thal word the speedometer registered 250 1. @ prevent me from joining Vd hav " isn't @| started before people saw me coming . from. opposite direction they Sida’ reaoee ‘our poor nerves!" pitied Me. hh. don't worry about MY rod Sine left. Tit ain't got