The evening world. Newspaper, June 22, 1915, Page 3

EUGEN NARRIGE _ADUAL FALURE “SWYS DR. WEBER No Children, Says’ Wife, Un- less Her Father Will Support Them. SLAPPED HER FACE. Now Mrs. Weber Sues for Separation and the Facts Are Disclosed. ‘The filing of a separation sult tn the Supreme Court before Justice Shearn | to-day by Mrs. Anna E. Weber) against Dr. Charles E. Weber, a/ young physician and surgeon of No. 6. Stuyvesant Avenue, Brooklyn, dis. @osed that at least one re: wenic | ‘lage has failed. A “platonic te,” as Dr. Weber called his spouse, ty be all right In theory, but In tice, he declared, she is a dismal allure. | Mra. Weber, so her husband told! the Court, refused to bear him chi'd- ren. Upon that eugenic principle the couple split. .It was not because Mrs, Weber did not want children, but rather because she adhered to the engenic rule that it was not right to bring children into the world until the parents were prepared properly to support them. As Dr. Weber is a young physician just establishing himself in practice his wife believed, be explained to the Court, that it would be better for them to live as Platonic friends until he rose higher in his profession. The differences between the couple over these eugenic problems became 89 critical that Mrs. Weber, accord- | ing to her husband, expressed a willingness to have children if her wealthy father would support them. When she made that proposition to her father, who had no faith in eu- 4 genics, Dr. Weber told the court, he gave her an old-fashioned slap on the face. She wanted her father to give her a written guarantee that he would support her children, because, she explained, she had no faith in| the word of a man, . When the couple separated as a re- sult of their divergent views. Dr. Weber believed that, later on, his wife would discard eugenics and return to him. To that end, he told the Court, he signed separation papers, agreeing to support her, and a clause was inserted binding them both to live with each other when Mrs, Webe had outgrown her eugenic ideas. This agreement was not a success, Finally ‘Dr. Weber wrote this letter to his wife: My Dear Woman: I have long realized my share of guilt in the matter even before I went with you to the license bureau. I hold the man guilty fn any relation between man and ‘woman that turns out badly. I had no right to love you as I did. From the standpoint of conscience I did you an immense damage Which only time and a clean life will repair, Let us reason a bit. Had you come to me with one gole joy—the desire of being mine —I would have made you my wife. ‘This is the only way. This is the gort of love a woman must have for a man whose wife she wants to be. You could not do that. You never had—you neve: will have—that true confidence @ woman should have. Under these circumstances had I deceived your ownself and burdened you with me for the rest of your life would Ibe doing justice to you? I would absolutely have no respect, no con- Sideration—you would be a sort of human leech in my mind, On the other hand you would look upon me constantly with mistrust- ing eyes alwa: in fear. That would be a veritable hell. Now, then, granted that for to be husband and wife is an 1 possibility under the present c! cumstances, any act of goodnes: I do for you will only do you that much more damage as it would not free your mind. Your best years of your life are ent in endless, stupid expecta- jon and pain of body and soul. Why? You are a young woman in every way suitable to meet any good man whose wife you may wish to be. Supposing I did make you per- fectly comfortable and you meet @ man whose wife you might want to be, would he continue his at- tentions if he learned the truth? ‘What rervect would he have for you later in life? Now, would I be doing right tn making you com- fortable. Can't you see that the longer I may be helping you, the longer I am a menace to you. Of course you have a way of answering this—the easiest way for a woman who knows little of right or wrong. Wishing you the best and hoping that the grim future may be of better help to a than J with all my thinking, 01 fan, ‘(OUR ONE WHO DOES NOT KNOW, ——___ ACTOR WELFORD FINED. Caused a Disturbance at James K, Hackett's Home, ‘\ Dallas Welford, the English actor, who disturbed the peace of Actor James K. Hackett last night while the latter was giving a party at his home, No. 56-58 West Seventy-first Street, by shouting for him to come out with $50,000 he owed him or be beaten up, was fined $10 this morning by Magis trate Devel in the West Side Police DD." They will like it Trade Expert From the A public school training for self-s1 A shorter working day. employees, tence and not on Neither comp and Labor, the Union Women,” will shortly be pub SHE'S RAISE IN AUSTRALIA. I found Miss Henry at the Training School of the Young Women's Chris tlan Association, No, 135 East Fifty- second Street, where sho has been stopping during the recent conven- tion of the National Women’s Trade Union_League, She is a woman with snow-white hair and youthfully bril- lant blue eyes; also a crisp voice that is all Englishtto the American vr, though Miss Henry is very proud of the fact that she grew up and voted in Australia. “I think the most unfair feature of | the situation in which the American working woman finds herself is her lack of opportunity for self-develop- ment,” said Miss Henry. “That op- portunity, I believe, can only come through organization. The girl who) is very young, who Is u ed, who perhaps does not even speak the same language as those around her, will not get very far by herself. It 1s only by combining with others that she will learn to make the best of herself and to speak up for her own rights.” “You believe, of course, that woman is in industry to stay?” I questioned— although I really haven't any doubts on the subject myself. “Woman has always been in indus- try,” smiled Miss Henry, “and she always will be in it. In the past in- dustry was in the home; now it has gone out of theshome, and woman bas simply followed it. “As our homes are now organ- Jzed, what can the modern girl find to do, if she does not take up some out je activity? We know that the daughters of the rich must choose between idleness and some sort of social work. Sup- pose that a laboring man could afford to keep his four arswn me. What useful ea ‘ind with which to occupy their time? OLD - TIME OCCUPATION OF WOMAN IS GONE. “Once there was plenty for them to do, when in each household fruits and vegetables were canned and meats preserved; when wool was spun, woven and made into garments; when even the family medicines were pre- pared by mother and the girls, But we have changed all that.” “I think that there are not many LITERARY NOTE. 4C, 0, D=10-20," ©. 0. D. By Natalie Sufuner Lincoln, Illustrated ‘by Charles L, Wrenn, ‘This is not only the best story Mrv, Lincoln has written thus far, it 9 also as engrossing « detective story as one ia likely to find nowadays, ‘The narrative 1 most ingeniously constructed, it presents new complications, new pussies, tn each succeeding chapter, and {t gives a novel twist to the denouement, ‘The real culprit is In the plot from the first, which ls acoording to rule A of the genre, but nono will suspect him until the last moment, ‘There are three murders in it and An attempt at a fourth, and two plote which con verge in leading to the elimax, Another merit of the book is that it 4s up to the minute, It is 4 tale of Washington, of the Diplomatic Core and the State Department, of the secret service it @ forelan country, of @ great international lawyer, of the men of unknown antecedents and ‘ecupation who float about the national capital, nd of concessions in a distant Uthat can posibly be said io adrice to all who! lke this sort Women Shouldn’ Square Deal for Workingwomen, Urging Train- ing Schools, Shorter Hours, Minimum Wage and the Right of Organization. 4 women's Trade Union League. Antipodes Outlines the By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. jupport, A minimum wage, to be determined by a conference of employers and Wages and advancement to be based on compe- sez. The right to self-development through organization. ulsion to wage-earning nor prohibi- tion against wage-earning after marriage. There you have outlined the square deal for the working women as Miss Alice Henry understands It. | For four years Miss Henry h: ‘been the editor of Life oficial publication of the National Her book, “The Trade ished. There could probably be se- lected no more authoritative spokeswoman for the millions of her sex in- dustrially employed in the United States. pierre iicncenstiiaselnae al ONE OF THE KIND THEY persons who are now opposed to the entrance of girls into industry, except on the ground that they lower the wages of men,” I observed. “How do you meet that objection?” “Women should not undercut men,” declared Miss Henry, very decidedly. “But there are several reasons why they have brought down the wage scale for which they can hardly be blamed. “In the first place, it is much more dificult for girl .o secure training in many trades than for men, and where many women are untrained even the trained woman is likely to command a smaller salary than she should. Then the shifting from one occupa- tion to another, caused by lack of training, and the extreme youth of many working girls have delayed or- ganization among them, and therefore kept wages down. Finally, woman's lack of a vote has contributed direct- ly and indirectly to her economic bandicaps. | “When the woman stenographer who holds a civil service Boe ition can speak as a voter to the poli- tician, and say, ‘| want much money as the man who sits beside me,’ she will get the money. And the stenographer holding # pri- vate position will be inspired to low her examp! “But doesn't the question of compe- tence have something to do with the Present situation?" I suggested. “Al- most any business man will tell you of his difficulty in finding a woman stenographer who can spell.” ‘But what inducements to efficiency are offered the woman stenographer?” counterqueried Miss Henry. “It's not merely a matter of money. The man stenographer who makes good knows that he is likely to be promoted to more important positions, and {t is for these that he is really working. The woman stenographer in most cases knows that she can get no further, no matter how competent she may be, WANTS EQUAL COMPETITION AND AN EQUAL WAGE, “It's not merely wages that { want to see equalized between men and women workers. 1 want to see the able woman in absolutely equal coin- petition with the able man for posi- tions of business responsibility,” “It is argued,” I ventured, “that on the one hand women are asking for special privileges in industry—nota- bly a shorter day—and on the other they want equality of reward,” “Ah, but we only ask equal pay with men when we do equal work,” protested Miss Henry. “We don't ask to be paid as much as men when we work a shorter number of hours. “| am in favor of horter working day for women, and one jon why-| favor it will eventually mean working day for men, a Ww not to forget that they tired too; that they hi physical disabilities. It me illogical that the in of re. “Do you believe in the minimum wage for women?" I asked, “Yes, because I have seen it tried successfully in Australia,” sho re- piled. “In 1895 it was Introduced into four trades—baking, furniture-mok- ing, shoemaking and the clothing trade. Now In Victoria alone there are 181 trade councils, by which the minimum wage is fixed, “I do not believe that the state should arbitrarily set up a certain sum which must be patd to all wom- en workers, I think that in each in- dustry a council composed equally of representatives of the employers and of the employees should meet and fix Court, Mr. Hackett says he doesn't! "This story begins in the Lh ewe the actor any money at all. | 0d Story ection of Nest Sunday's World,—Adrt, upon the minimum wage for women and for men, too, in that particular eT poly PN MA DRIVEN TO INDUSTKIAL WORK BY UNDERPAID, HUSBANDS. “The reasdn why so many mar- ried. women are in industry their husbands economic unquestionably hi is ‘On the other hand, | do not think that either law or preju- compulsion bad, dice should bar the married ‘woman from part-time work in a r. Miss Henry In tioned one other feature of woman's conclusion men- industrial life which should be adjusted, “There ought to be better facilities for training girls,” she said, “and tt seems to me that the proper agency is the public school. The city ought to be willing to equip its daughters to earn their own living.” ‘DE WET GOES TO PRISON ~ SIX YEARS FOR TREASON Fine of $10,000 Also Imposed on Former Boer Leader Who Led Revolt. BLOEMFONTEIN, Union of South Africa (via London), June 22.—A sen- tence of six years’ imprisonment and a fine of £2,000 ($10,000) was imposed to-day on Gen. Christian De Wet, one of the leaders of the South African rebellion against the British Govern- ment, who was found guilty yesterday of treason on eight counts. she thinks Gen. De Wet was Commander-in- Chief of the Free State forces dur- ing the Boer War. In 1914 he headed a rebellion in the Orange Free State and Western Transvaal against Great Britain, He was promptly captured, however, and the trial which resulted in the sentence of to-day was begun Juge 10, FAVORS MRS, GIBBS IN SUIT FOR SEPARATION Referee Burlingame Also Recom- mends the Fixing of Alimony at $175 a Month. If the suggestion of Referee Alva W. Burlingame 4s carried out, Justice Crane of the Supreme Court will grant a decree of separation to Mrs. Edith M, Gibbs of No. 48 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, from Henry C. Gibbs, Ho {s a silent member of the grain comission firm of Robinson & Sweet, the referee reports. They were married at Buffalo on Oct, 28, 1888, and from (he beginning, Mrs, Gibbs says, she has had trouble in getting money from her husband for household expenses, although his | income is $15,000 a year, She and her | daughters have suffered frequent vio- | lence at his hands, she says, Once he knocked Isabel down, stuck his thumb |in her mouth and pulled out three | teeth, for which she had him ar- rested,’ The referee recommends a decree of separation and the fixing of alimony at $175 a month, THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1915. t Undercut Wages of Men; _ |BILLFT ENDS LIFE | ATHLETIC PREACHER EUARD Often Excusable When They Do, Says Expert! Of MIGHTY GUNDA, WHEAD SH@ Caw SPEAR AS & VOTER, TO “THE POLITICIAN SHB WILL GET MNCREASE wAGES WARNEFORD BURIED WITH HIGH HONORS Body of Needham, American Writer Who Died With Him, to Be Sent Home. LONDON, June 22.—With full mili- tary honors, the body of Lieut. Reginald Warneford was buried in Brompton Cemetery this afternoon. Services were conducted by a naval chaplain and eight fellow officers of the Royal Naval Air Service were the pallbearers. A great, silent crowd w: t the Victoria Station when Warneford's body arrived from Paris. PARIS, June 22, 6.30 A. M.—Investi- gation made by experts is said to have revealed that the aeroplane ac- cident which resulted in the deaths of Lieut. R. A. J. Warneford, a Canadian, who a few days before had destroyed a Zeppelin, and Henry Beach Needham, the American writer, | on June 17, was due to the fact that | the men were not strapped to their seats. Mr, Needham was thrown out first. He was struck and killed by the pro- peller before he reached the ground. Lieut. Warneford fell clear, but the injuries he suffered when he struck the earth caused his death a few min- utes later. The body of Mr. Needham probably will be sent to the United States aboard the French line steamer Chi- cago, sailing from Bordeaux. ———iienes KILLED IN GUNMEN’S CAR. Auto That Cai Rosenthal ere in Fatal Acct THOMASTON, Conn., June’ 22.—Lo- renzo Colapestro of Bristol was, killed and four others injured when an auto- mobile owned and driven by Frank Burger and running at @ good rate of speed. struck a large rock on the high- way near this place early to-day. The car, ntly purchased In New rkeby Burger and used In passenger rrving service by him, was the one ed by the gunmen in the murder of Herman Rosenthal at New York. TERROR OF THEZO0 Bronx Elephant Ordered Exe- cuted Because of Many Ram- pages in Park. Gunda, the “bad elephant” of the Bronx Zoo, who for two years has swayed back and forth in his stall, tugging at his chains with murder tn his heart, was led out to execution this morning, Onee the most tract- able of beasts, the restraints of cap- tivity developed in him a manta for killing those he conceived to be re+ sponsible for his bondage. For the first time in his life he ceased eating. Man became the chosen object of his hatred, and therefore man decided to put the poor brute out of his misery. One merciful bullet didNthe work. When Director William T. Hornaday decided that Gunda must die he called in Carl B, Akeley, the elephant beater and taxidermist of the American Mu- seum of Natural History. Mr. Akeley brought his elephant gun up to the Zoo this morning, On his arrival Di- rector Hornaday and Keeper Walter Thuman turned over tho execution to him and went away where they could not hear the shot. Gunda was a bad elephant, had been a murderous maniac for two years or more, but they remembered the time when the children used to ride on his back; when a little old lady from the Peabody Home, near by, used to whisper into his ear while his trunk was draped caressingly over her shoulder, and when he used to accept coins from visitors to the elephant ouse and playfully “ring them up” as he deposited them in a little cash box over his head. That was the Qunda they had been fond of, and they didn’t want to seo that bullet enter his brain. With one skilfully directed shot Akeley killed Gunda. The huge beast sank quivering to the floor, ining at his chains, but the brain and nerve centres had been paralyzed almost in- stantaneously and he died with scarcely a struggle. Chloroform could not have been more painless, and it was a far more humane execution than had poison been given, The evolution of Gunda ia one of the most interesting bite of the Bronx Zoo's history, He was an In- dian elephant, born in Assam, and was known there as a “Koo Meriah" or high caste specimen, Col. Oliver H. Payne presented him to the Zou about 1904, at which time he stood 6 feet 7 inches tall and weighed 3,740 pounds. Since then he has increased nearly three times in weight and was regarded as perhaps the finest speci- men in captivity, His Hindoo keeper, Koodah Bak, was discharged after he had been here @ short time, and the keepers at th» Bronx Zoo took the big fellow in hand. He was extremely tame at that time, and could be led around without harness or chain, Children loved to ride in his big houdah, and he was quite the pet of the menagerie. In 1908 captivity began to tell on him and he showed signs of restiess- ness, which resulted in his being re- strained with heavy rubber bracelets. In 1909 he took a violent dislike to Dick Richards, a keeper who came to the Zoo from a menagerie at Coney Island, and one day Richards escaped Gunda's murderous wrath only by crawling behind a water hydrant in the corner where Gunda could not get at him, On July 18, 1912, Gunda was put in chains, He had made a vicious at- tack on Dick Richards again and on Mathias Walter, another keeper. In z Franklin Simon s Co, Fifth Avenue Will Close Out Wednesday 235 Women’s Coats ALL THIS SEASON’S DESIRABLE MODELS Consisting of Dress, Street and Travel Coats, also Summer Outing and Sport Coats, in all the desirable woolen, silk and corduroy fabrics. 10.00 Heretofore $18.50 to $39.50 \ No C. 0. D.’ No Exchanges FIFTH AVE., 37th and 38th Sts. SAS MOTHERIMLAW PUNCHED HM NE Sing Sing Chaplain Makes a Fight to Secure His Oldest Son, Mexican Commander Says 1,500 of Villa's Troops =~ Will Protect Them. Rev. Dr. Burton H. Lee, chaplain of Sing Sing prison and rector of St. - Mary's Episcopal Church in Ossin-| ABOARD U. 8, 8. COLORADO, of ing, once was one of the best ail-|GUAYMAS, Sonora, Mexico, June SI around athletes in Yale. In spite of| (by radio to San Diego, Cal, Jume thia, he said he was no match for his | 99) Fifteen hundred Villa troops tims mother-in-law, Mrs, Mary Hallig, who, he deciaged to-day on the wit- |" Gen. Sosa wore promised as pre ness stand before Sv@reme Court| tection for foreigners in the Yaqui Justice Shearn, once gave him a se-| Valley at a conference aboard the vere beating. warship Colorado to-day between Ad+ The clergyman was brought into|™iral Howard, commanding the Pa~ court on a writ of habeas corpus sued | cific fleet, and his staff, and Gen, out by his wife, Katherine, from | l¢yva, military commander at Guay- whom he has been separated some | As. Gen. Loyva said that the land~ time, to regain the custody of their} !®# of American marines might be eldest son, Templeton, Last week | interpreted by the Mexicah peo- Dr, Lee went to his mother-in-law's home and took Templeton away. Dr. Lee blamed his mother-in-law for all of his domestic troubles, When the couple separated, Burton, the youngest son, went with his father and Templeton with his mother. 7 “It Is a case of too much mother~ | grates, in-law,” said Dr, Lee on the witness! rneormation thus far recetved indl- stand, “and I decided to take Tem-| cates that about seventy-five men pleton because every time I went/ remain of the normal American set- there they fought with me. tlement of 300 around Esperanza, “Last week,” he continued, “I went | ninety miles southeast of Guaymas, to call, and the usual argument ¢n- | grout 5,000 acres are still under eul~ sued. My mother-in-law punched mé | tivation as against a normal cultivat- in the face, knocking off and break-| 4 | sae of 30,000. American hold- ing my eyeglasses. Stra, Lee was in tears on the witness |ings in the Yaqui Valley amount to stand, She described her husband's | 550,000 acres, mostly in the name angen the Richardson Construction Com- a fight right away,” said Mra. pany, a Mexican corporation whose “He caught hold of Burton and Tem-| bonds are held by Americans, Harry pleton and was starting for the door! payne Whitney and John Hays when I inter! He knocked me over a chair, and when my sister tried | Hammond, both of New York, are to interfere he struck her in the chest | sald to be the principal bond holders, on ee MS i in has been} Mexicans in the valley now are, ira, Lee declares working from 9 to 6 each day. Dr,|concentrated In a few towns and Lee objected to her having Templeton |are afraid to operate against the because her work deprived Templeton | Yaquis. of his mothe: “You can’ can you, when you give her only asked Justice Shearn. ‘an afford,” the minister ple. Serious complications, Gen. Leyva said, might follow the landing of an American force, because such an act might not be understood by the peo-+ ple at large in its true light. He. charged that the Yaquis were buying ir ammunition in the United 1918 he developed a deadly antipathy for Walter Thuman, who had been his favorite keeper up to that time, and Thuman also had a narrow es- with his life, Since then Gui da has been in double chaine with only enough slack to permit him to weave back and forth, back and forth, from morning until night. The Society for the Prevention of in Gunda’s plight, —— a number of schemes for making the JUCED SUMME) poor brute's life more bearable, but RED! s nothing came of them. 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