The evening world. Newspaper, October 16, 1915, Page 8

The Eveni Mew Tory af Revwnt ene Marine ng | Por Patent ant the Continent All Countries te the International Partel NU. 19, SWITCH TO THE OTHER END. T'S 2 dull day now when somebody dowen't ruggest a new tax City officials, ptate offic: committees, financiers, fad- Aiste—everybody is ready with © plan for extracting dollars from the public to poy bills run wp in the poblic’s Personal prop tty taxes, habitation tases, ine texee—each and all urged in ferme new and old to moet obligations which must be met, but whieh these who have to pay had little or nothing to way about when they Were contracted. Every new tax scheme, be it noted, tacitly reste ite beet he tpon the law-abiding citizen with modest posse tome. Why not? There are thousands upon thousands of him. His instinct is to obey the law, He hires no expensive | fight off his taxes, He can't lie with the confidence of millionairs tax +, His business and his interests « There is little danger that he will move out of the city or State. There he ie—the surest, handicst, safest, most nearly inexhaustible! source of cash the community offers The extraordinary thing about him is that he takos it for granted this public service he has to pay for is the best he can get! Why don’t public finance reformers and tax alleviators begin at the other end? Why don’t they pry further into how public money | is spent instead of devoting their days and nights to devices for rais-| fing more? | If the intellectual horse-power now being expended on taxation problems in city and State were switched to the work of installing) machinery that would efficiently apply public revenues to public) heeds, it would mean cessation of the tax grind, smooth running, finance and » new era for New York. A Dillion and a qoarter budget for the nation would sound startling if it were not for some other noises. 1 MORE BUS ROUTES. HE granting of a franchise covering six new bus routes in Man- hattan is recommended by the Franchise Committee of the Board of Estimate. The offer of the successful bus company includes a five-cent fare fer short distances. The Fifth Avenue Coach Company, which now) ‘enjoys a practical monopoly of bus traffic in this borough, proposed | te charge ten cents for all distances—a rate that would never be tolerated in London, Paris, Berlin or any other large city where People use buses for convenience and not as luxuries. There is every indication that the bus habit will develop rapidly + in’ New York. On the other hand, every new bus route in Manhattan Means increased congestion, more traffic problems, added menaces to safety. The problems can be solved, the perils minimized. Never- theless, in admitting buses to new streets the city is granting exceed- ingly valuable privileges which will also materially add to public ex- penditure for traffic regulation, paving, etc. ~The more reason for holding any company to which a franchise is given not only to the highest standards of service but to rates which can be progressively reduced in the interest of the public as fast as business warrants such reduction. By extending bus lines the city greatly complicates its cares. It shou!d get full value for what it gives. tr Another “Washington's headquarters” burned down. Yet the supply ie mysteriously increasing. C—O IS IT NECESSARY? HIS is a proud nation, But we fail to see how its dignity is i upheld or its interests safeguarded by detaining a harmless, perfectly solvent Englishwoman at Ellis Island merely be- cause she arrives on these shores with a touch of rheumatism and - walks with « cane. If there are any new absurdities which our immigration rules and our immigration inspectors can bring into evidence at the dock we shall doubtless beliold them in due time. So far we have heard of one more preposterous than what occurred on the arrival of the St. Louis, when a woman slightly crippled with gout, although met by friends and amply provided with funds, was sent to Ellis Island for pernleh. me F Is it impossible to draft or administer immigration laws wiich shall protect the country without making their enforcement in so many cases unjust and odious? ne me ye and small in- yers to 4 Hits From Sharp Wits. two people to make a quar- often make more can settle.—-Mil- When most men get out of dobt they feel like fish out of water and are not satisfied until they flop back in again. © Go ‘There used to be slaves, once upon @ time, but now they are known as the members of the weekly ng World D pot easily transplanted! acti ceeas., ’ aily Magazine, Saturday. O a “Now that I’ve got this jop cinched, I'll take It eas By J. H. Cassel [The Week's Wash —By Martin Green —— Copyright, 1015, by the Ives Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) 667% it Possible,” asked the head, which ought to have been put in and polisher, “that there are mem-|were not put in can and will be put bers of Congress who will op-/in by the people from time to time." ve the plan to enlarge the army and| “If go," inquired the laundry man, the navy in the interest of national/“why can't we put them in the old efenset” % oa “It is not only possible," said the | Constitution? jaundry man, “but its @ cinch. As sure is Congress meets statesmen will be found out there on the floor of the House und the Senate solemnly | assuring their colleagues and the world at large that the United States |doesn’t need a larger army and that | our navy is strong enough, | jut most of those opposing the plan to place this country on an ade~ quate defense footing will be found |rellying to the pork barrel banner | when the appropriations are under | | discussion, | “When you read in the newspapers three or four months from now how Congressman Hoozus of Byheck, Ne- braska, or thereabouts, arose in the House and passionately announced that the true defense of our great nation is in her gallant sons and her | fair daughters, and that mo: wy sees on an army or a navy is wi , you a ei: can make a pretty safe guess that he |NOW after four years in busine is aiming to have a postottice built in| 4lng well, my husband saved money | his home town, or is seeking Govern-| and bought a sixteen-room house | nt ald for a project ‘9 make 14 which ate up his savings, Of course, river out of a creek, And when yout), sau ihe . si read of some momber of Congreas | }'™ not as good looking as 1 was be from the tall grass asking in tones of | fore working day and night for at withering scorn why the common) least ten years, I became a complete pee-pul of this country should pay for | wreck, My hubby, having lots of fhe wears the tag of William Jennings | !ovks being gone, neglects me: In the afternoons he goes to shows or any- Brren, where else he feels like going; 1 am { still in my sixteen-room house, doing AAA AAA AAAS © you suppose the proposition my own work.” * ‘And the tragedy of it all 1s summed oe | to wish @ State income tax | on us will go through’? “of course I'm not as good look- ne as 1 before working ¢ maght fo a Bt yot her reason, as old as live, is, * asked the head polisher. T loved him.” ot after the loud cries of the voters have begun to reverberate | hither and yon,” replied the laundry | man, “The proposed Mills plan is to ® FTER twenty-six years of married life a woman tells about her “home-loving husband” as follows: “My husband having lost his business through his own care- lessness 1 had to work outside to help \keep up the home, But & loved him. Finally after ten years I helped him to start in business again for himself. > Sic 'Em, Voters! ment club.—Macon News. ee oe something a ght the idea that while th alt howling at the door the stork right on in.--Nashville Banner. oe If you think that louder than words sho to- ward somebody who is talking about Churity —Philadelphia Telegraph. Once upon @ time men are supposed to have made marriage proposals on their knees. But that style went out xan Ught trousers came in.—Toled ade, actions ve the hat is @ modest man who in public another as the greatest liv- R bis State —Albeny Journal. Street Noises. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World, Most “street noises” are nothing compared to the early morning driv- ers, who make It thelr business to roll their wheels right over every manh cover, There is a i, | The number| manhole cover right in front of my c io diminished 60 per cent.| house and I intend to devise a cover &@ stone wall is to be con- around a rectangular piece and 3,000 feet by 1,075 feet. T working eight hours a day build nine b gid a pate pat peceriens maneel Pernsbe take to com- me can what C.T. 'to make it of, ANTI-NOISB. 14 As set forth by this woman this is an example of extreme selfishness. I imagine this husband goes about boasting that he “welf-made tax all incomes of over $2,600 a year| man" and gives pe the Impre: 2 per cent. Let's see how that works out in the case of a man Who earns $100 a week, or $5,000 a year. His tax would amount to $104, or $4 in sion that he is a “good provider, pointing to bis sixteen-room house with pride. At the same time the partner of it all who made this man’s success possible and who lost her | excess of whet he earns in any week | good looks trying to help, becomes| “Supposing this man has boen care. | (8 Pasaée wife, left to wit by the fre alone. If there is a law of compensa. tion it certainly is not found in this case, The name “coward” is mild: for such husbands, To smite the ful and has bought a little home and saved up $3,000 in the savings bank ov which he draws interest at the | rate of 3% per or and assume that $5 FOR YOUR does the income tax plan leave him? He gets $105 interest on his sav- ings and pays $104 to the Stato as a tax on his income, and this leaves) ; him with a dolar return on his $3,000 ip bank. And, besides, h: to pay | his income tax to the United States Government. No joyous acclaim will greet this proposition.” If so, you can sell it, The conditions are simple. Well, Why Not? It must be true in every detall, é > SEE," said the head polisher, “that Judge Alton B, Parker, in urging support for the ‘proposed Constitution, says things The “Looks” Versus “Love” By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1915, by the Prom Publishing Co, (The New York Eveuing World), Do you know any good love stories? Not dmaginary love stories, but ti Your own love story or some friend's? ‘The Evening World will print True Love Stories sent in by readers and will pay $5 for every one published. They are: ‘The etory must be told tn 250 words or less, It must be written or typed on only one side of the paper. Tell the story simply. Don't aim at so. " Full name and address must accompany each manuscript. Address “True Love Story Editor, Evening World, New York City. ening World will not return unused stories, — By Roy L. Covyright, 1915, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) R. JARR showed the letter from the industrious pris- oner in the far Western penitentiary and told. the glazier the sad story. “He has been working fifteen years Ld hand and heart that moulded him from common clay of fatiure to that of success is nothing short of treason Which should be dealt with accord- ingly, The pity of it is that in any other kind of contract, waen one lends you money, you are obliged to return it, but in the marriage con- tract there 4s little or no redress, and the woman is usually the sufferer. Such oxamples as *these make de- pendents of women. For they say to themselves: “Why should I work and lose my ood looks, when ta the end he chief beneficiary, and I am rele to the rear?” If society would give the cold shoulder to such a man he would soon realize that he couldn't “get away with it,” and the wife would be given the credit, comfort and recognition due her, Further, a wise law would be that of returning to the wife her Just share of money lent, so that her husband could not buy “sixteen- room houses" for her to take: care of while he seeks amusement. Without such a law any man with any sem- biance of backbone should at least be fair. If you have lost your love for the wife’ who has grown gray wrinkled, at least be considerate, be Kind—-be'a man; and do not live off of her endeavors without right re- turn, It i¥ 80 easy, Have less house- room and consequently less work. Make a regular thing of taking her out to places of amusement. And then when you wish to go alone, there can be no rebuke for neglect Oh, the sorrow and sadness that some men would save if they would just create a little happiness for the wife who is always 80 ready to suf- fer to help them. ‘Too much home-loving at her ex. pense and not enough wife-loving is the one thing that marks man a parasite instead of woman, LOVE STORY! ones? ed “fine writt The Jarr Family and | McCardell in his lonely cell, making this saddle and brid Mr, Jarr explained to the giass-put-in man. ‘This is what he says: ‘The bridle {s made of thousands of strands of various colored horsehairs. The reins are six feet long. The bridle straps are ornamented with four band-woven rosettes, ten tassels and over fifty intricate and exquisitely knots’ "—~ “Koosh!" interrupted Mr, Slavin- sky petulantly, “For what should I do with things for a horse? I don’t know anybody what has a horse ex- cept Mosche Abrahams, who drives a from @ diamond necklace to an old oll stove what you could offer Mosche that he would give you over eight cents for, Mosche has got rich from | never giving over eight cents for anything in his lifo! Mr. Jarr returned to the front of the house with the prisoner's letter and reported no progress. “Just think of this poor prisoner,” remarked Mr. Jarr, “Just think of this poor fellow working fifteen years to make & saddle and bridie, with so much pain and care—a beautiful, a useful and artistic bit of work, and yet he can’t sell it.” an automobile?” asked Mrs. Jarr. “I'm sure I feel for the poor fellow, but I do think he should have written to some of the moving picture cow- boys—they use those handsome sad- dies and bridles.” “I never thought of that,” eried Mr. | “Mr. Slavinsky’s eldest son, is a cowboy In the moving pictures, I'll remind Mr. Slavinsky of that.” And he hastened back to the kitchen to accost Mr. Slavinsky, just as the latter was gathering up his kit after having completed the; glazing job. “Yow! My boy Shidney?” cried Mr, Slavinsky, “Would I get any- thing for him, loafer what he Is? Didn't I tell you now Shidney went to selling war ammunitions to tho Russian army and got thirty dollars from me to shmear the Grand Duke Mike, of Ru: ‘ad ‘es, I remember now,” said Mr. Jarr. “Did the bribe have any Jarr. Sidney, effect? It was to sell a million roller es, and I put up the money!"! snarled Mr. Slavinsky, “and then | | Shidney comes home and says that) he is captured by spies and foses the thirty dollars in a crap game, | }and the contract for the ten million {voller skates is got by P. J. Morgen and the Schwabs, because while my etober 16, 1915 woven |and ‘subtle’ and begin being ‘motherly’ and ‘eympathetic;’ when I cease junk wagon, and there ain't anything | “Why didn't he knit something for’ 4 ———— Reasons Why You Should Vote for Woman Suffrage WE booming World ws printing « corte of twenty ctttere ert be the mest prominent women exfropiete pining twenty mont preting reasons for women suffrage 46 editor! wit appear & rah taewe op te Blertion Day, cack céstortal emphormag one pertiouter or oemeat Reason 5.—BECAUSE IN WORK IT CON- VERTS ITS OPPONENTS. By Loulse Connoi latest reason for being « Buffragict is thet I have recently tiited Washington, Oregon, Caiiforny t { = | teh, Colorado end and women once Buffragiste, men and women omer antic; people to say that Suffrage had done more than they had feared, jose than they had hoped, about as they had expected, But none was willing to do y With it. Bwery one regarded me with weary im- patience when I tried to discuss it, a8 we would regard one who should insist on debating, “Is a republic « better type of government tha |an absolute monarchy?” We leave such discussions to children’s ge™ ‘hating svcietios The Anti Suffragiet in the West occupies the same position as the |anti-vaccinationit, the vegetarian, the advocate of free love, the gen- |tleman who regrets the freeing of the negroes, the lady who asserts, \“1 don't believe in the law of gravitation.” He is considered « harm- leas eccentric, H The only real interest evoked by my questions was from Judge \tindsey, who authorized me to give the lie direct to an Eastern ora- jtorical employee of the Anti-Suffrage interests who misquotes the | Judge as disappointed in Suffrage. And ove lady taunted me with, |"The reason why you have no vote ie that your Eastern men are | cowards!” The antis tell us that if we get the vote we will keep it. The West proves their prophecy, with its unwitting implications that Woman Suffrage satisfies ite friends and placates its enemies, correct, Vote for the Woman Suffrage Amendment Nov. The Woman of It By Helen Rowland ae - 4 — ful, Copyright, 1918, by the Prow Publishing Co, (The ) o walng World) She Chats on the Charms of “‘ Sweet and Forty.” 66 HAT fools we mortals be—after forty!” sighed the Widow, glancing with amusement across her ten cup at the stout couple plirovetting breathlessly past to tho strains of the Intest fox trot. “There's no auch thing as ‘forty!’ declared the Bachelor, promptly. “No- body gets past thirty-nine in these days of beauty culture, tango teas and | new thought.” | agreed the Widow, helping herself to a muffin. body doea— more’s the pity! It's positively pathetic to see the way they fight it to the last inch of ground when they might be enjoying it.” “ENJOYING it!" exclaimed the Bachelor, dropping the sugar tongs in astonishment. ‘The Widow nodded cheerfully. “As for me," ehe announced, “I shall welcome the dreaded mile-stone graciously—and gracefully. I shall GLORY in being ‘sweet and forty!’ It in #0 much better, Mr. Weatherby, to face things frankly than to run away from them. If your appendix, or your last tooth, or your last flirtation, or your last iitusion must go, have it OUT and bé done with it! The pain will soon pase and you won't even miss it.” 4 ® } Vanity Extracted Without Gas. ; Fe ee ee errant ‘“ EAR, hear!" cried the Bachelor ironically, “Our Painless Pre- | scription for Passée People! Vanity extracted without gas! Go | on!” he added with a cynical laugh. “Your optimism is wonder- onsidering that you are only twenty-seven—to judge by your teeth!" "My teeth,” rejoined the Widow, showing two perfect rows in a flashing ‘mile, “shall always be my especial treasure, Mr. Weatherby. Because AFTER forty a sweet smile is a woman's chief stock in trade, I hall al- ways want to be pretty and charming and popular and—and all that. And it will be #0 much easier when I have gotten all the sentiment and vanity | out of my system and am contented just to be ‘nice and likable,’ instead | of yearning to be a siren; when I prefer being admired to being adored and | making friends to making conquests; when I stop trying to be ‘mysterious’ being frivolous"-——— “Good Lord!” groaned the Bachelor. “Why talk of the impossible!” “You misunderstand me, Mr, Weatherby,” said the Widow coldly. “Tam not pretending that I shall go into black bombazine and a nunnery at forty, I am merely showing you how much more fascinating a woman can be | when she stops trying. I shall ALWAYS like men and want them to like me, But it’s SO much easter to like them when you don't ‘love’ them any longer. And men do #o LIKE to be liked! It doesn’t frighten them |ltke being ‘loved.’ They are such ehy, timid things! They have to have a guarantee of safety before they will allow themselves to become interested in a woman, but once interested they are aa docile and tractable as pet lambs and as brave as lions.” “Yes," grinned the Bachelor, “A humoriet has said that ‘a man will | sneak into a side door to get a drink, but once he has had it he dosent care WHO knows it!'” “Exactly!” agreed the Widow. “They are auch obvious, tran —all working according to the same simple scheme!” murmured the Bachelor, “You really ought to be sweet and kind and tender to them!" | “That's just what I intend to be—when I am forty!" exclaimed the Widow triumphantly, “But that doesn't mean being simpering and esenti- mental, or ‘cute,’ or coquettish, or kittenish, ANY woman can afford to ‘be sweet, and no woman, from sixteen to sixty, can afford to be otherwise, It ig sad—and so funny—to nee young girls affecting cyniclam and @ blasé air when they might accomplish so much more with a sweet smile and @ baby stare, But {t's positively tragic to & womam of over forty trying to be ‘spicy!’ Why does a woman always fancy she must be scintillating, or brilliant, or vivacious, or alluring, or SOMETHING startling anyway? Taking the Curse Off With “Sweetne: ‘AUSE, I suppose,” drawled the Bachelor, "she looks upon every man as a sort of ‘sleeping beauty,’ who must be roused to atten- tion by an alarm clock.” nd how men DO hate the alarm clock that wakes them up from thelr dreams!” sighed the Widow. “But they adore the woman who hulls them to sleep—the woman who 1s Just sweet and kind, who uses the swectest sachet and smiles the sweetest ami! id says the swectest things she knows how to say. A ‘sweet child,’ a ‘sweet girl,’ a ‘sweet woman,’ a ‘sweot old lady’ that is the highest term of praise that ANY man can bestow upon a woman, You may even cali her ‘a sweet little devil,’ or a ‘sweet little fool’ without disturbing his interest in her!” “Yes,” agreed the Bachelor, “The ‘sweet’ does take the curse off!" “It takes the curse off anything!” exclaimed the Widow heartily. “tt takes the curse off of medicine to sugar-coai it, and the curse off of advie and off of homeliness, and, above all, off of the ‘forties.’ That's Why I say that I shan't mind being ‘sweet and forty.’” “Bravo!” cried the Bachelor, clapping his hands. to begin?” “How DARE you, Mr. Weatherby!” cried the Widow rising indignantty, “Not until I have fought it to the last inch of ground-—-nor until I have lost my last tooth, and my last flumon, and my last hope, and my waistline not until Iam at LEAST forty-seven"—— “In short,” broke in the Bachelor with a mocking laugh, cease being @ woman! That's the woman of |t!" ——————_ moi Shidney t# made to play craps| “And sometimes I think it wi por ehihor at sunrise by the aples,| my” boy Shidney good it ee P. J. Morgan and the Schwabs| boarding in some good respecteble, shmear t and Duke Mike with| reliable jail, For so long as he stays forty doll home his mommer spoils him. But “Well, Jarr. When are you going : A “Not until you too bad,” remarked Mr. “and so we can't do anything when a boy what in getting to be @ regular loa reliable jail v is in @ good respectable, he is kept out of is bad id can't run out at BlgRt. od tr, 7 for this poor prisoner in the Western eniteniary who has the saddle and ridie?” it him sell it to the Grand Dul eaid Mr. Slavinsky sourl; and ls Working at a go making saddles—even if he ca them.” ke iy. Mike,’