The evening world. Newspaper, September 18, 1915, Page 8

a ei deat iit ead Ove Siorid. Se ho eee President OF eel LMS Is. '|Men Who i ' THE BUSINESS OF CITY COMPTROLLER R. PRENDERGAST, «+ Comptrolier of the City of York, presents » plan whereby the city may seve #4,000,000 md by changing ite educetional eyrtem ie proposes primarily fe make longer echool terms | For @ greet commopoliten city like New York Dyan hee mer.t he future bread-winner of the family should got bi edvestion as © uledly a0 possible and thes rave the city and bimerif time and money. ‘ Bat this coving of 64,000,000 annually, though good in ite way, | Sealy 6 drop in the bucket os compared with $94,191,146.20 of un- @allocted taxes in the Comptroller's own department. Mr. Prendergast claims he is not the assessor of taxes; that there “fare he cannot collect uncoliectable taxes, and thus passes the buck t» * gome other official. If it ie properly the business of the city’s Comptroller to be the watch-dog of the treasury and to urge eoonomies in the educational de- _ partment, why was it not just a» proper for him to vote against the annual borrowing of money on taxes that he knows could not be col- lected and which are therefore falee assets / From 1910 and to the end of 1914, during which time Mr. Pren Gergast has been Comptroller, his office hos reported uncollected taxes 08 follows: Real estate, $33,108,360.10; special franchise, $9,515,677.11, feal estate of corporations, $869,008.52; personal property, $8,372, 487.65; 0 grand total of $51,865,389.38, to which will be added this » year’s uncollected taxes as well. To meet such deficiency, the Comptroller has annually agreed to borrow, all the while knowing such assets to be valucless. It would certainly seem that cutting $4,000,000 from the educational depart-| mant, at the same time carrying along a bogus tax list now amounting 4 to over $100,000,000, is “penny wise and pound foolish,” If the sum of uncollectable taxes were eliminated and money ’ . borrowed on real coin that the city could realize, the taxpayer would _ be called upon to pay only his just share of taxation and not taxes “somebody elee didn’t pay. Nor would real estate owners be burdened with an over-weighted and overwhelming tax rate. ———__-1-___—__-- DO WE GET ALL WE COULD USE? ” HE country’s crops this year will be worth $10,000,000,000-.. | “more,” says James J. Hill, “than the production of all the ; gold mines of the world foritwenty years.” The problem is to secure to the farmer markets at home and *@broad. Mr. Hill believes that a loan to the allies will be of the most use in selling the grain and putting the price in the farmer's pocket. Maybe. But do we succeed yet in getting food products of Ameri- can farms to all American consumers who need and are eager for See Kor Fail « them? It sometimes seems that food finds its way far more easily ' *to Burope than to American family tables. What doesn’t go to Eu- _§Rope goes often to waste. | ; This fall, for instance, California is feeding hundreds of tons of » wine grapes to the hogs. ‘Thousands of bushels of peaches are rotting in the orchards of the East. Does anybody doubt that this country could consume these perishable crops and others less’ perishable if the path from home producer to home consumer were not so devious, so ‘infested with speculators and profit-takers ? ‘ 1+ -—____ * : WORD FROM STEFANSSON. 6“ isher, “when they get through cutting all the exorbitant al- anes paid to city employes maybe the ‘ tax rate will come down.” “By cutting down the exorbitant salaries and cutting out the useless mie? HE first news of Stefansson, after a year and a half of doubt whether he could still be alive, indicates, not that searchers found the plucky Arctic explorer, but rather that he himself ~ looked up some one in the frozen wilderness to put a message on the {wire to Ottawa. He assumes the Dominion Navy Department that sent him on his ‘ is mainly interested in the new ehip he has chartered and | the additional engineers and helpers he hes engaged. From his brief, ~ business-like telegram we gather little more of his movements than ‘J ~ «that he sees another two years’ work ahead in the same field, ‘ When his supporting party turned back to Alaska April 17, 1914, * Btefansson gave strict orders that no rescuers should be sent after him in case he were not heard from. All he asked was that supplies be ffeent to Banks Land. In due time to Banks Land he made his way. When he found a chance to send a word to the Canadian Government he eent it without any fuss over himself or his achievements. ‘ With ‘his newly chartered power schooner Polar Bear he means to push north toward the Polar continent which many are sure exists bus nobody has found. The Stefansson idea of Arctic exploration _ appears, to be that the good explorer need only bother the world to ‘ ‘leave his food and other supplies as directed, His part is not worth talking about till done. ' —____ Hits From Sharp Wits. who get in un the ground not always on the level. ar “¢ <ase @ fine family tree aw wood,"—Deseret eee It's hard to break a will—yet “where there's a will there's a way."—~Pitts- burgh Press, ‘Those floor are oe e ‘The ave fellow who can reel off the botanical differences between ‘ ms ane Sen Asto An Hy confines himself to ham and over.— * Nashville Bann: . Smart people? says miladi, Oh, they are the people who agree with us,— Memphis Commercial Appeal. ee _ One of the unwritten laws is that which has established community of anybody's tobacco, of The fellow who doesn't ; ‘or umbretie—Alhany Jour. a care what people say about him tain no danger lof being talked about.Macon News. ‘ moval of the President from office, or of his death, resignation or inability to discharge the powers and duties ‘Witt you inform me if the Secretary t id office, the me shall di ‘of State shall become President of the jobs—such as five deputy police com- missionerships — the administration might put a little crimp in the tax rate,” said the laundry man, “but those who look hopefully toward the City Hall in anticipation of relief from burdensome taxation these daye are doomed te disappointment. “The policy of the administration became apparent when it started a campaign against the scrubwomen employed in public buildings, No mark was too lowly for the adminis- tration to shoot at. The administra- tion proved its consistency when it et after a lot of poor old men who @ worked in the Dock Department all their lives and were no longer able to carry a couple of tons the length of a pier. They were given the bum's rush on the recommenda- tion of an efficency expert who said they weren't earning their money, “Now the elfliciency experts are go- ing after the clerks and other olty employees who get the lowest ealarica, ‘The efficiency ox get af- ter the poorly paid. + They can't seo ry @ man who has earned $100 to $150 @ month for years is entitled to the money. They argue that if he was any good he would be making more, On the other hand, they can't seo why a man getting $7,500 @ year for @onducting a city bureau that runs itself shouldn't get more money ia these days of 20-cent gasoline, The party with pull enough to land a $7,600 Job commands the deepest respect of the efficiency sharps. “These efficiency persons should range around a@ bit and look over the city instituuions, They should take a eek at the luxurious pigpen down at Tie Btaten Island poorhouse, which has bathing facilities for the swine better than those provided in the av~ erage tenement house. figures on the cost of building and maintain- ing the municipal pigsty would be interesting to taxpayers. However, it is possible that @ lot of present city employees will end their days in the Staten Island poorhouse and grab off an vvcasivual pork chop or slice of ham or bacon—if the rk from the municipal pigpen is fed to paupers.” GANA NARA AAAARAAD $ No More “8till Hynting.” & cc » é 76 funny,” said the head pol- I isher, “that the police can't get Mrs, Nichols.” the three hoboes who killed Tom Byrnes would never have done that. The difference between the old Byrnes methods and prasent-day methods {s this: Byrnes generally got his man before he called in the reporters, Headquarters nowadays calls in the reporters and asks them man,” to get its Crs $ That Fight. H z s SEE,” said the head polisher, “that some people didn’t like the McFarland-Gibbons bout.” “Representative of that class,” sald the laundry man, “is the expert who reported the fight for one of the Brooklyn papers; ‘What spoiled the fight the most,’ wrote this boxing au- thority, ‘was Mclarland’s blocking. He bi id until it was almost dis- gustin) The Sensitive By Sophie trea, wt “What's the Use of Working Before the Boss Arrives!” The Week's Wash — By Martin Green — Copyright, 1015, by the Press Poblishing Co, (Tho New York Evening World). LL,” remarked the head pol- | mado @ full confession. The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday, September 18, 1915 Sayings of | Mrs. Solomon By J. H. Cassel - we Ww MY DADOH TON Three Devghters might Know it! mira!” And when the Second Daughter sought bim to grant ber But be chided ber ip like m “Nay, Little One! position, and thy COOKING “Therefore, heed my words and and all tht shall be added wu el But when the third Deughter apy pleadings, he gazed upon her though’ "Go To It! And the Damse! went upon her fright lest she mock their ignorance Yea, sie was SO superior! And her sisters cried thing, “Nay, my children, i Gotham ¢ ave Key to the Temples of Lee might join the lect and patronise the Lowbrows “Vertly, verily, ‘Father was right!’ For behold what it hath DONE But her Father smiled and consoled them, saying She is what Hearted . . ay , t brows Het he admonished ber gently, e Nay, verily, my Beloved! Mor, b 4 thow beet GODT wad bar of an attractive color and there are ao flaws upon thy he Theretore, be wise end waste not thy Best Years in the pursuit of knowledge end » higher od a, but in the pureull of an busband end & bigher income Por youth is short and men ere Beeting. and (he Prine te to the Barly hed waned cightoen she, Mkewlee, be- For thou hast a SWENT smile and « pleasant @e- ts above reproach make thyself necessary to some MAN, nto thee “For a Wedding Hing affordeth a woman more glory than « Ph. D” proached him with her petition and her tfully and observed that she possessed neither Domesticity, nor Beauty, nor Doetlity, nor a comedy Smile, por « For a little knowledge cannot HURT theo!” way rejoicing. But when, after many years, sbe returned covered with glory, end athletic medals, and egotism, and deg were amitten with astonishment, and young men fied before her in af- her mother wept and her friends and show forth their stupidity. A ilttle College ts @ dangerous Lord and not the College hath made her, ‘Therefore, let her pase | “For a Poet, a Wife, a Beauty and a Blue Stocking are BORN end not MADE! ts “And a University Education hath never yet spoiled a Siren, cured a | Flirt, nor marred a Marrying Girl!" Selah. Preparing House Plants for Winter By Charlotte R. Bangs. OW 4a the time to slip the ger-/ months, OF courae, a window having southern exposure is an ideal spot N aniums, the rose geraniums, the Hie et ie A nad ed 9 | m wax plant, creeping on plants that may be success Charlie, Wandering Jew, and to choy fully tended even tn sunless window: those ferns and palms that are to do] These are mostly of the palm order, | winter duty indoors, according tol eo vie wit way, wash palm and fern |one's window space and inclination. | of warm tem) orature: Tt te also nearly time to prepare the/ for green proves benefielc! or ouse Ino require to be hao yard oF front Lad Dbiokig baad bathed occasionally—that is, to re- its winter sleeping period and tho) nove any dust accumulated on leaves. early blooms of the spring season.| Do this by sprinkling the flower or Bulbs should be placed in beds that palm, placed in a sink or tub, As a plan! are in course of preparation soon as|Preathes throurh its leaves, it will be understood how necessary it is to keep | . frost touches the last of the summer these pores hot clogged up with room blooms. just or dirt, The Jarr Famil y |"MMer snecting toe. proper ahoota| in sipping the ordleary sersium, \ and slips for the indoor window gar-|cut the young shoot on a slanting — By Roy L. McCardell _— | den, be careful to leave tho remainder] ee, the young slip moist and away lot theg@irent plant in its bed until] from the sun's warmth and heat, at Copyright, 1015, by the Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), frost threatens. If it be a geranium, |least for a week, Other slips are much 66 a'M going home!” said] “There's nothing the matter with| lift it carefully trom the ound, with the same. Vines can be preialy grown as much dirt attach possible. | merely 'y having an ol jar and Mra, Jars, She ead st said Mra Jarr, acidly, “but 1£/ 57, n¢ the root-wrapped plant in adry,|hanging it in a sunny spot in the Ag} J so faintly and yet @0|you have no more respect for your fairly warmish place in the cellar,| window, keeping it filled with fresh coldly that Mr, Jarr|own wife than to recognize such peo- | where no light strikes ihe Diank, Be water, ene vines will grown down- gazed at her in sur-|ple when you are with your own wife | Sure the roots have dirt on fore|ward and be attractive all winter. afte: = 0 {Wrapping them up in paper, Then! English ivy can be rooted in a bot- prise, It was a cool evening after a|-—why, then a wife's place ts home!” | Nang ine plant, head down. It is aafe| tle of water, for several months, then very hot day, and Mr. and Mrs, Jarr| “Say,” asked Mr. Jarr, “is this an| until the following April, when it may | planted in a small pot and kept green had gone downtown for the first/ Anti-Suffragist speech you are mak- | be brought Lr ge Cagrare aes bs 7 winter, ready for the summer gar- man: the theatri- » wha the light will reach it and a tle \den space. Sele manny hte Neds ighte ing, oF what? I want to know what Dut on the roots. In a fow! Seeds from the garden should be cal district to seo the brigh you are talking about,” and, seeing| Gays more water, more light and some|now gathered, labelled and put away and to take in a show, Mrs. Jarr was turning to walk away,|warm day plant the and leafless | for next spring's planting. he mari- “whi the matter?” asked Mr.|he clutched her arm, straggling plant out in t o vard. It wold, | four, o'clock, Pansy, petunia, Jarr in alarm, “Are you sick?” "If you intend to create a scene on| Wil! quickly show Mis, | w Fest Rthore Wit Gnwah he Geontull tele om: ML sum | oth all should carefull “Much you care!” remarked Mra./ the street, please let me go hi will be @ continuous bloomer all a1 others sho be ly looked J huskily. “I'm going home!" ‘Please, tell me what's wrong?” ered Mrs. Jarr. But Mrs, Jarr only remarked again that she was going home. then you can join your friends,” said Mre, Jarr, gulping back a aob, “What friends?” asked Mr. Jarr. ‘I'm gure I don't know who they always best to have no more Drought indoors than can be properly cared for. Plants slipped and then allowed to suffer, through lack of sunshine, tilation, exposed plan: after now. ‘I'he time spent will repay. Chrysanthemums semi-budded form, bloom this fall, but will bein time for taking root season, The roots should be pro- are," whimpered Mre. Jarr. “They | to killing furnace heat or gas odors—| tected through 4hbe winter cold by g " 4 be considered in plan-| placing sod over them, after bloom- hexed Mr. we the matter with you?" | aro not the kind of people I’ go with.” ae eat epcndoor garden for winter Mngds finiabed thie fail. Wife and the Selfish Husband “Are you pulling this because I spoke to Bob Dacket, the movie ac- tor, that passed just now?” asked Mr. Jarr. “I wasn't thinking of the man,” Jungle. Tales E Parrot had promised the Baby Baboon to drop an acorn on Jimmy Monkey‘s head when the for Children cloud daring to drop down and ®Oump ME on the head!" “Is that the way you look at &#?” Baboon. eaid Mrs. Jerr, “But do you mean 4 7 bea hid gerd a ~ yo ‘ ho: . O1 ernoon Jimm; “Indeed it i#!” exoleimed Jimmy, Irene Loeb. to tell me you didn’t eee how that| Raby said so. ne a! a ni | WOMAN signing “Mrs, R. J. P." writes as follows in answer to the article on the “Driven Husband” (the case of the good, home-loving husband who ts driven too far by the exacting wife): ‘Won't you say something about the sensitive wife with a husband who is determined and obstinate? I have such @ one, He is away all day in a business where he sees and talks to many people, yet he never has any- thing to relate at night unless I ask questions, which has become terribly monotonous. “He does not tell me any of his business, or very Jittle; I don’t know how much money he earns or where he spends bis time when he is not at home. : “I am alone so much I am becom- dng very melancholy. 1 keep hie home as clean as a pin, am a good cook, do all my own sewing and hats, and I never agk for anything that 1 don't feel he can afford to buy, “He does not respect my wishes, nor does he seem to know the mean- “Hunting game with a bra band brings no reward to the hunters,” replied the laundry man. “Huntin; criminals with publicity brings emall nm on the Vice President, and Congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation, or inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be remoyed or a President whall be elected."), | \ United States without an act of Con- or the Cabinet, upon the re- death, Recor gi or inability Presigent Vice President United States? ante THOMAS F. BLADON. 6, of the Con- case of the re- * the Police Depart- Nichols case was to advertise that Talas, the house- man who let ” thieves in, bad ing of the word consideration; yet he saya he loves me, “L think ho js @ very selfish man and he will probably wake up when I have flown, which will certainly be the end of the matter, What do you think?" ‘Yes, indeed, my dear woman, euch @ man will certainly “wake up” some day when it \s too late. They usually do, But have hope, He may see his error. There are many husbands who think because they provide three meals a day in @ good home, and « Copmright, 1015, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), few dresses, that that te all that can be expected of them, They think they have fulfilled all the law of the land and bank on/ their records as “good providers,” The fact is that they forget that women hunger for something besides food and clothes and a roof—eape- vides for her and thus feels his duty fully performed. I know a man Just like this husband of Mrs. R. J. P. who confided in every- body but his wife; everybody but his wife; who discussed all his plans with everybody but his wife, and only realized what a pleas- ant companion she was—what a fine who considered | woman on the other side of the street looked at you?” “I can't help people looking at me,” Mr, Jarr declared, “and if you wish to make a fuss about it on the etreet |—why, go ahead!" Mrs. Jarr dabbed at her eyes. “I'm sure I have too much respect for my- self to notice your flirting with other | see that clear across the street.” A \ght broke in upon Mr, Jarr. “May be the lady across the street was flirting,” he said, “but not with me. I told you tho party I spoke to—on our side of the street—was Bob Dacket, the moving picture actor.” and his companton were seated under ‘a bamboo tree when the Baby Baboon spied the Parrot in the tree above them, and the Baby winked at the Parrot, who got an acorn and waited. ‘The Baby Baboon began: “Jimmy, suppose that white cloud way up in the sky should drop down and hit you on the head, whet would you do?” “You mean, what would the cloud The Baby Baboon had winked at the Parrot and "BANG!" down came the acorn on Jimmy's head. “O-o-u-v-ohe-0-61" whinned Jimmy. “Hurry up!" shouted the “Hurry up, Baby, or the cloud will squash him!” ‘And then the Parrot eatd to Jammy: “Take yourself by the hand when you ko home—you might get lost.” “All right,” was all Jimmy could polnt of many great command- ors, He was defending Marlborough against the charge of illiteracy, brought by Lord Chesterfield for one, who said he was eminently illiterate, women, and I to notice it,” “al - clally when they do thelr share tn the | gaia “ scorn to notice it,” she/ qo? said Jimmy. “The idea of al say _ preparation of that food and clothes |°: . and “homomaking. Gee!” sald Mr. Jaze. “You dont Bad Spellers. lany @ Woman w work her|think I'm flirting, do you?” finger "onde off to nap the Peat i “] don't know that Ris were flirt. ORD WOLSELEY noted that Woe ceatea tne spelt Js worme," who tries to mak leasant a t enk | Wol y ed that a great many Ror rather than tolerate Nim-who pro. | MK but SHE was flirting, I could L spelling had been the week} of Mariborough's distingulahed con- temporaries, such as Lord Chancellor Somers spelled quite as badly, a that Wellington and Napoleon also were among those who could never learn to do it properly. debonair young chap passed by and raised his hat to her, You weren't at all curious who that young man was who bowed to me, 4 so be ready for next , Be point of view she had, when it was| “Yes | know him, I think he is t Who is your friend, Clarence| Well, if you must know, he's the brought forcibly home’ to him by a|handsomest young man I ever saw,"| wristwatch?” asked Mr, Jarr young man who gave cue private When, oh, when will men do a litte |Temerked Mrs. Jarr, “and he Is so) “you never mind,” replied Mrs | dancing iessons tor the class Clara house-cleaning In their Hoarte and teve| unselfish, and so bonorable and such| Jarr, ‘1 know some nice people.” Mucridge-Smith, Mrs, Stryver and I aie she sobwahe of conceit that make |& perfect gentleman”— Mr. Jarr laughed and said no more | belonged to Inst wint them believe they can hold @ women| “In the pictures! In the pictures!" | and th valked on in silence for] “Why should ¥ care?" \ believe tas « es! and the two wa , Why should ¥ care?" asked Mr, ‘ by any ornare means except love and |interrupted Mr. Jarr. “All the movie|a moment and then, to Mr. Jarr’s|Jarr. ‘There's no harm in the young 4 Love is the one thing that canno.| heroes are noble and brave and hon-| great surprise, Mrs. Jarr commenced | fellow bowing to you.’ be taken for granted. Nor can it|orable and unselfish in the pictures. Lat But you might be a titth + | 10 sniffie, it you might he a little bit Jeal- uve te Bane were gs ose In real life they may be as mean and| “And what's the matter now?"'| ous," suid Mrs, Jarr, “It shows wo that keeps the very Necessary friend. {selfish and cowardly as anybody else, |asked Mr. Jarr, “Has another lady | stil! are in love us long as We are whip alive. a he toed, but what I was going to say is that | flirted with your fascinating husband | jeal ‘ou woul e surprised, Mr. Hus-|the lady across the street who arous- | from three blocks away! The next Jarr the hint 8- | e \ Jarr tool th + and baow Te tmigue cake fe companion eq your tre at me, because she flirted | time I walk abroad with you f wil. early Nim febts betcre only just exert a little effort in win-|at long distance, was most Mkely | put my head in a sack to hide my|they got home, cause, he de- ning HER good opinion as you do|firting with the moving picture actor fatal beauty,” . jclared, three inoffensive men stared that ot CREUN DECDIe. getting BET. 8nd not with mo at al | "It dan't that," whimpered Mra! Dolly at Mrs. Jarr. = Mrs. Jarr was terrified, but went Mrs. Jarr accepted this explanation Jarr, “but you never seem to care If; there was still dig amet TER ACQUAINTED with bis own! with some misgivings and just than a anybody does try to flirt with me. ried lifo, wile, *