The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1915, Page 12

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MeTARUISIMD BY JO8EPN PULITERR Peeiianed Dally Bavnys Gorter by tee Hroee Povianing Company, Mas 00 90 — i) SET ten tee Rewtnaen one | wity’s books re The Evenin AN Countries tp the International ee Upon te One Tow " 26) One Bowie THE INJUSTICE OF IT. - UBT honest New Yorker: of moderate means perennially make +i unpaid tases waich wert city officials fei to Oh beast leenly two poumte weelths corporations and millionaires} Mayor Mitchel admits that the tax rete for west yeas will jump | Taxpayers are asked to accept every euch raise as @ necessity | Vet, as The Evening World has repeatedly shown, easmination of the! ‘als millions in uncollected taxes which could be in the, municipal coffers if somebody had backbone enough to get The President of the Society for the Prevention of Municipal Waste thie week reviewed the figures: Unpaid personal taxes are turned over to the Corporation Counsel for eat books of the Comptroller unpald $60,081,196.71 of personal taseq There were also unpald $10,990,801 69 of spectal franchise tazes and Over $20,000,000 taxes on real estate corporations Why not collect these eighty millions and more from those who Why transfer the burden to the incomes of citizens who earn their money, pay their taxes and respect the law? In three years cowardice and compromise have lost the city $20,- 000,000 in out-of-court tax settlements with utility corporations like fter them. Vet on June 30, 1916, there remained on the te the B. It. T., the New York Central Railroad and the Brooklyn Union n . a, 2 x "et « ay ry * ° v yh. i o oo e hae is os ~ oe a i oe ae ey eG ’ ie hp anes * i r a bs ° ei. . » ; ? ® & : e 4 G * eg. By ps #’s i * Gas Company. ~- tnan Admiralty ~~ ox) ®& man flies close by, ©) Sometimes one gets the notion that bathing suits were made for , are having their pic- | #0n's way through life a tures taken.—Toledo Blade, M Our idea of a man in good luck ds| ple do | lace,—, one who can eat three times a day,| Journal, \” ‘Wrong place—Albany has a place to sleep and can afford suit of clothes that will stand anoth pressing.—Macon News. Letters From the People Another Answer to M. KR. ‘To the Halitor of The Evening World: Prompted by your generosity to| you" when the depart: spare 4 portion of your valuabie| calls B, a ‘ ee for the Susetioner M. R of the| work sone which 1 raic problems, ive him the| ewer emphasi: wing early solutions: F etiquette and com uner, the (1) Less days mean more efficiency] the use of the above Md more days less efficiency, So re- ee at we 3 and 9 and you will get 9 effi-| norance. * aay oe and 3 efficiency for] over” of the work reflect Pe gp} efficiency for 10/ In the first place A hires B by 6, then you} in services’ an wet the answer, 15, which A needs readers, is B indebted to A working alone, (2) Beven hundred men for 3 6 equal 7,700, amount of provisions; 700] would best answer ye equal 2.100 of pro-| in the latter case A minus 2,100 equal 6,600,| medium of handing thi Divide this by 101 avoid iscrepancles whic _ Men for 4 da‘ Visions; 7,700 Provisions left, | ¢@e¥s, then you wiil get 660 men who! remilned. Take this from 700.* Then iy the number of men who are TOWGOO, These tax dodgers can hire big lawyers to do their dodging. The Tax Department finds it easier to forget euch debtors and come down on humbler citizens for the money. Delinquent tax- payers have an easy time in New York if they are powerful. When will somebody come forward to defend the average citizen who never evades his taxes? He pays his own. city financing force him to pay somebody else’s? —— +42 WHERE IT BELONGS. HE whole issue of Germany’s submarine warfare as it concerns the safety and rights of citizens of this nation is at last whero it ought to be—in the hands of the German Ambassador and the Berlin Foreign Office. When Count von Bernstorff “transmitted” the assurance that pro- vision for the safety of passengers and crews on unresisting liners would be, as demanded by this nation, scrupulously included in all in- structions to submarine commanders, the United States Government 4 naturally thought it was listening to the official pledge of the Imperial German Government. That the German Foreign Office might be at odds with the Ger- or that Count von Bernstorff might be out of sym- pathy with his superiors at Berlin were possibilities which we could - be Tot be bound to consider. Nor have we any concern with any mutual planations and readjustments that may now be necessary between the German Ambassador and his Government, We can allow only a reasonable time for such whisperings. Mean- 2 while we have not a syllable to say until it is settled who makes Ger- Why should slipshod ’s pledges and who keeps them. Ho A MORTGAGE ON CANADA? ‘T TAKES Wall Street to bring the Anglo-French loan proposition down to brass tacks: “Let England put up Canada as collateral,” a financier of remarked (he probably lit a cigar as he said it). “Then we'll talk billion with her.” This ought to tickle us even as it takes our breath away. Why not? The world, it is true, never yet saw a dominion of over three million and a half square miles and seven million Population deposited as security for a “little accommodation,” ‘aay it could be done. We were not prepared to But if Wall Street looks into the matter and ‘thitks it feasible, what better assurance do we want? posed pledge is gilt edged. We are familiar with it. It , where we can watch it, Suppose the idea is unheard ‘of. So are others to which civilization has had of late to adjust itself. _ By all means ask England to give our bankers a Canada. If worst came to worst it would be the easiest ever to ©, forecl : Hits From Sharp Wits. Our notion of incongruity 1s for a The best years man to boast of his ancestors while | those in which he does his eating corn off the cob. a mortgage on of a man’s life are 4 dest, A philosopher is usually a man who hes money.—Norfolk Ledger Dispaten, girls to} The same people who mane & per- heap flowers upon rt) coma, isis ris lost kicking is in vain because peo- eee ho never oon Phe oRe, Tho, tar8 these columns in your Aug. 24 1 a to the propriety of saying “Thank clerk, and hands him some would like to an- rules of etiquette and common sense expre, certainly be one great di) pla Neither does the Then A's| credit on its use on such occasions. and pays mi vive equivalent, Then, in any A mm total of] him a salary for which B shape or form? Certainly not! cheerful acceptation on the part of B the purpose, And probably used the posstble discrepancies which might arise from mutual misunder- standing, F.G, He Buys “From” Me, By Roy L. The Jarr Famil World Daily Magazine McCardell Copyright, 1015, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), 66 HERE is my Palm Beach sult?” asked Mr, Jarr. “Where is my Palm Beach suit?” ,“I've sent it to the Cleaner'’s,” replied Mra, Jarr, “But it's too late in the season to wear Palm Beach aults.” “What do I care for seasons?” asked Mr, Jarr. “f'his ts the hottest weather I've ever seen, and I am going to wear my Palm Beach sult,; I don’t care what time of year it is, if the heat keeps up.” But just then the telephone bell rang and Mrs, Jarr hastened away. “You don't say #0," Mr, Jarr heard her aay into the instrument, “that's dreadful! I suppose you'll have to bring them back, Are you sure nothing can be done?” Evidently nothing could be done, for Mra, Jarr quit the telephone and gazed in a sad yet accusing manner at Mr, Jarr, “S'matter?” asked Mr, Jarr. “What have I done now? Was that the Police Department sending out an alarm for me? What am I guilty ott” Mra, Jarr walked over to Mr, Jarr and examined the breast pocket of coat and waistebat of the suit he was wearing. “Ot cours she said, “you never carry it when you're wearing a ‘matter? I asked you,” repeated Mr. Jai dnt you hear the cleaner call- me on the telephone to inform me that your Palm Beach suit is ruined by your leaky fountain pen?” asked Mrs, Jarr, “How is it you never carry a fountain pen unless you are wearing a light suit, and how is it a fountain pen always leaks when it is carried in the pocket of @ light suit?” she asked, ‘hat's easy,” answered Mr, Jarr cheerfully. “Capillary attraction.” “You take it very calmly,” said Mrs, Jarr, “but if I ruined my clothes car- in them, you would you have Mr, Jarr. “Women don't spoil their clothes with leaky fountain pens because they have no pockets to carry fountain pens in; anyway, what would women want with fountain pens? They never carry contracts around with them on which their victims may %ign their ‘To the FAitor of The Evening W “4 Please tell me which 1s correct, “He buys off me" or “He buys of me,” and ADOLPH JACOBS, lives away on the dotted line,” “You should worry,” replied Mr. Jarr, “You weren't going to let me wear it, anyway!" “It would have been very nice for you for next summer,” sald Mrs, Jarr, ‘and now it's ruined," Palm Beach sults so?” mused Mr, T have until I bought the Palm Beach outfit for the princely sum of $9. From the beginning my fountain pen hated the Palm Beach suit. Probably because the Palm Beach sult had been reduced from $12 and the foun- tain pen considered it beneath its dignity—anyway, tt made the foun- tain pen sputter, and now you tell me the fountain pen has hopelessly blackened the character of the Palm Beach suit!" Mrs. Jarr regarded her husband with some amazement. “I do de- clare,” she exclaimed, “I never heard The way you talk one would think ry —== By Sophie HIS is the first week of school; 750,000 busy little brains are pouring over readin’, writin’ and 'rith- metic. It seems go much to each one — these first days at school, It will mean more later on, In the meantime there is something to be done to help this good work along. There are measures to be taken by the mother, father or guardian of these children to help the school teacher do that which you want her to do bring the best out of John and Mary, Over in England they discovered that hundreds of recruits are unfit for service in the army because of lack of proper nourishment during their school-going period—the nour- numbers increased, It wes alarming, So they set to work to correct it by educating parents as to the proper preparation of food for hool children —~aleo by lunches in schools, ete, The same necessity is here, and now with this army of young citt- zens a similar education is needed. Many @ child goes to school to as- sume the burden of brain building “Don't be funny," replied Mra. Jarr. “You've ruined that new Palin ‘Beach sult, and yet you laugh,” with his body suffering from want of proper material. Hundreds of these children come from familles who can well afford needs go into | food A Fountain Pen’s Dislike for Palm Beach Suits “Leaks Out” at Last that you were glad when you ruin your clothes.” Just then the door bell rang and Gertrude, the light running domestic, | came back from the door with the Palm Beach sult that had caused all! the discussion. There was a great Suddenly Mrs. Jarr gave a little scream and rushed forward, just in time to prevent Mr. Jarr sticking his fountain pen into the upper outer breast pocket of the Palm Beach suit. But, though the season be nearly over, that Palm Beach suit shall not ink stain on the upper pocket of the! escape from the deadly sartorial sub- coat. Mr. Jarr regarded it keenly. He could not remember having car- “I wonder why fountain pens hate| ried a deadly fountain pen when last he wore the coat in question. The Jarr. “That fountain pen of mine got; coat itself looked unfamiliar to him) along nicely with every suit ofclothes!and he ran his hand in the pocket» and brought out a slip that bore the name and address of his friend and neighbor, John W. Rangle. “Why, it'a not my suit, There's been some mistake,” cried Mr. Jarr. Inquiry developed the fact that the local cleaner had made a mistake and that Mr. Jarr’s Palm Beach suit and Mr. Rangle's had been mixed up and in about half an hour Mr. Jarr’s suit, delivered nicely cleaned and pressed by mistake at the Rangle home, was brought around where it rightly be- longed. Mr. Jarr immediately donned it, whistling gayly ae he changed his a man speak as foolishly as you do.! watch, keys and other belongings from the suit he had been wearing. The First Week at School Irene Loeb ——— +H sufficient food, but who through |, norance do not see that they get w! is mopt needful, Education, like charity, begins at home, Most of the ohild’s time is spent there. The teacher cannot be expected to mould the man with clay that crumples and is weak, Every parent wants his boy or girl to get all that Uncle Sam can teach bim in these early years, They are the years that “stick to the ribs, Responsibility of the home is often shifted to the schoolroom, Tt is the wise little mother that takes the time to study just the kind of things that will make Johnny sirong #0 that the educational mea) will be easily digested. He can smile at his sums when he has good oatmeal for his breakfast, and his multiplication table looks less compli- cated if he has partaken of some nutritious soup for his lunch. Iast year the Board of Health found over 37,000 children sufferi; from malnutrition, which is lack ‘of improper food. Every educa- tor will teil you that a cniid must be 4 healthy animal first—the learning Come afterward, Also he must needs wear the cloth. ing that will protect his body. The frequent bath {is another aid to the work of the brain. In a word, if you make John and Mary physically fit they have the fighting chance to con- quer any tasks that come before them. “Very often too little attention Js ‘pald to the growing little one after he is “big enough to go to school.” Every Parent must be a real partner to the pedagogue if theabest results are to be obt » ling by echedul marine, the fountain pen. No lght eummer suit ever docs! Dollars and Sense. By H. J. Barrett. Coprright, 1915, by The Press Publishing Os, (The New York Evening World). How a Grocer Saved Money bg a Systematic Delivery Plan. “For a long time I had felt that my deliveries were costing too much,” sald @ prosperous grocer, “but I could not seem to cut expenses in this de- partment. Finally I began to feel the competition of the ‘oash and carry your parcel’ dealera go keenly that I concluded I must make @ radical change. “It may cost me some patronage,” I reflected, “but at whatever cost I must inaugurate a method of deliver- “A week before launching my ex- periment I notified all customers that henceforth they would be served by but two deliveries @ day, In my announce- ment I explained that the savings tn- volved would be shared by them tn the shape of decreased prices for goods, Also I inclosed a schedule card showing the hours by which or- dere must be placed in order to ob- tain delivery, I divided my territory into four sections—1, 2, 8 and 4, On Route 1 orders had to be in by 9 A. M. or 8 P.M, On Route 2, by 9,30 A. M. or 3.80 P. M. On Route 8, by 10 A.M. or 4 P.M. And on Réute 4, by 10,30 A. M or 4.80 P, M, ‘ach cus- tomer was informed as to just which route applied to his section. “As I expected, certain customers refused at first to follow this sched- ule, These I coddled with extra de- liveries. But gradually all fell into line, A slight reduction on certain pets and attributed to the cted by the new system acted as a strong stimulus to forethought in the placing of orders. Within a couple of months the scheme was working to perfection and enabled me to cut down my delivery force from five wagons and nine horses to two wagons and four horses, “This experience acted as an eye- opener to me. If a simple idea will result in such savings I'm going to keep on the lookout for similar oppor. tunities to save money,” was my conclusion, I became my own harsh- est critic, “Like most stores, mine was crowd- ed for space, My clarks got in each - Thessday. September 16. 1915 a ee. ———— ae Why & i thet whee © married Barrow peth al) bie beckelor friends thet be will soon sted bis tort Te most womens « “pertert husband” would probably be the happy medium between the kind thet can't be Gragged out of the Bouse is the evening ond the kind that bas to be dragged into it Rapetioncy, not love, is the “the that binds” tn | Mages, which appear to go ob smoothly and happily from ereve. ‘There is no “temptation” except the game, the bottle or the flirtation brilliant “career.” A emall boy's idea of Parsdise ts | without getting © stomach ache--« heartache not to the one who can hold out, but If every husband were Things You What Does Having a Fever Mean? 'T ts indeed fortunate that nature, | while apparently indifferent to us, her children, leaving us the prey to terrible diseases, creates in our own blood antidotes or antitoxins which help us to overcome the germs which attack us It is @ constant wonder why only about one out of every five persons Who are exposed to @ disoase take it, }and the reason is that In order to leontract any dixanse one's vitality and resistance must be considerably Weakened or lowered, The one out of | the five is the one who could least well withstand the attack, Now various things will weaken our resistance. overwork, or being underfed, by ex- | posure to cold or wet, aud by fatigue or worry When the germ of an infectious dis- ease—say any one of the’ familiar fevers—gains entrance into our blood, what really takes place in the body? First of ali things, the invading germs begin to multiply unt! in an dibly short time the: facture a polson—one pecullar to that special germ—and this poison, or toxin as it Is called, produces the symptoms familiar in a fever, And_so in reality a fever is merely the effect produced by the poisons that these invaders are continually pouring into our blood. From the very first the body resents the intru- sion of this enemy. Constantly float- ing through our blood are two kinds of tiny cells called the red and the white corpuscles, and jt is the func- tion of the white ones to fight our every part of a man culti- vated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated; part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadows and forest—not only serving an immediate u: | iiss not have every man nor Reflections of - A Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland ie a hn ee every Grad lowe We worth embalming ip the wine of menerp—aer every Grad Craton worth preserving te the vinegar of eypuktam. To ® normal girl Gull marriage looks @ whole tot brighter than 6 drink all he wants and flirt ali be ikes without Setting & headache or « In @ quarrel the race te not to the ewift, but to the slow—the victory polite, attentive and devoted as his chauffeur there would be fewer elopements of the drawing-room-gar It may be done by} Wit, Wisdom and Philosophy THE VALUE OF IGNORANCE By Henry D. Thoreau. men (rice to walk tn the straight and Mend eround aud gloat at the thought ® lot of “ideal” mar- the sitar to the those that are inside o man's ie merely the “opportunity.” a where he can eat all he wants frown man's, & place where he esp to the one who can bold in. je variety Should Fn ow battles for us. They at once mobilise their forces, as it were, and begin to attack the invading germs, but as the enemy multiply themselves and their poisons at an almost unthinkable rate, the battle ts a hard one. | Many germs are killed by the white cells; at mes it seems as though the white soldiers had nearly won, and. then again more toxin will be pou: | Into the blood, and we say the patien “has a relapse.” ow during all thin time the white cells, bemides destroying millions of the enemy, have, tn addition, been ink an ever increasing produet— an antidote—and If the body ts strong enouxh to endure this confitet, upon this antitoxin depends the victory, By © strange paradox this product does not aim to kill the germs, but it neutralizes (hem and their poison, rendering both harmiess to ourselves, Thus it is that we say, “the fever {has run itv course"’—has reached it crisis. This may be from fourteen to twenty-one to twenty-eight days, and even longer time, All this conflict means that when the crisis of a fever is reached and we begin to recover, we do so by virtue of sufficient antitoxins having been made by our blood, and our body has really cured ttself. Tt haw been claimed, and too, that patients can and do recover from attacks of fever without medical aid, but few of us choose to try the, experiment. ‘ While these protective antitoxine are always present in our blood, the entrance of a disease germ is the signal for more and more to be made 4¥ the white corpuscles. There are millions and millions of white corpus- cles in our blood. and spleen ts at Present wsupposed—after years of vague speculation as to its real use— to be the place where they are made. , i head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest we can attain to is not knoy edge but Sympathy with inceulge I do not know that this “Higher howledge" amounts to anything jore definite than a novel and grand rprise, in a sudden revelétion of » bUle the insufficiency of all that we called Preparing a mould against a distant | Knowledge before—a discovery that y of the vegetables which it support ‘We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, It is said that knowledge is power and the like, Methinks there is equal need of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful orande—what we will call Beauti! Knowledge—of knowledge useful in a higher sense, for what is boasted so-called knowl- conceit that we know ething which robs us of the ad- tage of our actual ignorance. What we call knowledge is often our positive ignorance, ignorano libraries papers—a acoumulates a myriad of facts, them up in his memory and the: when in some spring of his life he road into the Great Fields he, as it were, goes to ws all his I would Diffusion of Useful Knowledge sometimes “Go lo grass; you eat ha long enough! A man's ignorance is sometimes not only useful but beautiful, while his knowled, so called, is often- times worse than useless, besides be- ing ugly. Which te the best man to deal with, he who knows nothing about a subject and, what Is ex- tremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it but thinks that he knows all? My desire for knowledge ts inter- mittent but my desire to bathe my iy other's way, During the rush hours all was confusion, “Increased space means increased "TL reflected, "Can't T devi hema of an can eliminate the present evil to rearrange my stock. I found that many staples were oo- cupying valuable apace. I promptly relegated them to the storeroom. My tore proper gradually became merely big sample room, During thetr idle early morning hours my clerks packed aples in the size packages for which ere was the strongest demand, kept on hai pound packages; rice in 25-cent quan. titles, coffee in one and two-pound bags, &c. These were placed on the mtoreroom shelves, ‘Thus, if a call conserving my present space es t 1] j there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our P*“osophy, It is the lighting up of the mist by the sun, My friends, we cannot afford not to ‘live in the present, He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remombering the jpast, Unless our philosophy hears the cock crow in ayary hare ‘ard | within our horizon, It is belateg. That sound commonly reminds wi t we are growing rusty and antique in our employments and habits of thought, His philosophy comes down to a more recent time than ours, There 1s something suggested by it that is a newer testament—the gospel | according to this moment, He has not fallen asleep, he has got up early and kept up early and to be where jhe Is is to be in season in the fore most rank of time. It is an expres- | sion of the health'and soundness of ,/ |Nature, a day for all the world— } healthiness as of a spring burst for @ new fountain of the Muses to cele- brate this last instant of time. Where | he lives no fugitive slave laws are ~° Who has not betrayed Sie master many times since last he heard that note? The merit of this dird's straim te in it freedom from all plaintivenees. The singer can easily move us to tears or to laughter, but where is he who can excite in us @ pure morning Joy. When in doleful dumps, break- ing the awful stillness of our wooden ; sidewalk on @ Sunday, or perchanoe a watcher in the house of mourning, I hear a cockerel crow far or near, and I think to myself, “There is one of us all right at any rate,” and res. turn to my senses, were received during the rush hour for these commodities, there they re all ready for delivery, In case a customer ordered articles to te d livered later, my clerk merely took ti order without assembling it on spot and passed on to the next ous- tomer, These two simple ideas re- sulted in quicker service, more ’ and less crowding during the bu ‘ periods. It also meant more work 4 Penge atehed by fewer clerks, 7 “To-day I am making a goo Profit on the 25 per cent. arte where previously I was about stan ing even on a 85 per cent. mark-up This 10 per cent, difference gees to my customers, and, consequent: business Js increasing by leap, bounds,”