The evening world. Newspaper, January 22, 1916, Page 10

- BETABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Sumuetre Daily Bxcept Sunday vy ihe Preee Pulehing Company, Nos. 68 to nalen PULAT! |. ANG! JOSEPH PU! ¥ New York as Second-Class at the se, at Ter "Boras = to the United States al and Canada. t Matter, Continent and International c «NO. 19,877 THE GOVERNOR’S CHANCE. HE removal of John B. Riley from the office of State Superin-| tendent of Prisons was to be expected. ‘The immediate rei sons therefor have been fully weighed and discussed. | ‘The real significance of Riley’s dismissal is of greater importance than the specific acts for which he was removed. Riley stood for the older regime of prison administration under which reform was not per-| mitted to stray beyond the reach of politics. With Warden Osborne at Sing Sing, reform began to take full charge. This did not suit} Riley. He tried conclusions with the new order. He succeeded, for the time being at least, in ousting Osborne. But he schemed to hi own downfall. Let Riley scoff as he will at the “maudlin sentimentalists” and the “coterie of millionaires and other well-intentioned persons” who have become “victims of an erratic visionary.” The fact remains that the sentiment of the State has been with prison reform as W den Osborne, despite occasional mistakes of overzeal, applied it to Sing Sing. The public to-day would rather see too much enthusiasm than too much politics in prison management. In appointing. new Superintendent of Prisons Gov. Whitm oan serve not only the State but his own best interests as well. His administration needs the prestige a clean-cut moral achievement would bring to it. If the Governor is wise he will put the foundation of a new State prison policy to his credit. ep LAW AND ORDER. COMPANY of Georgia citizens, travelling in automobiles, broke into the Worth County jail at Sylvester last Thursday night, overpowered the jailer, dragged out six negro prison- ers and hanged five of them to the limb of atree. ‘The bodies were found in the morning riddled with bullets. The slayers escaped unharmed, having, after all, nothing to fear but Georgia law. No doubt most of them got home in time to break- fast heartily and scowl over the morning newspapers at the atrocities which their pusillanimous President puts up with in Mexico under an impotent Carranza Uoverament, tp MR. CRAM’S ANATHEMA. O PAR as I am concerned, The Evening World can go plumb to hell,” declares Public Service Commissioner J. Sergeant Cram, admitting, nevertheless, that in the B. R. T. franchise +, > Case he did, as this newspaper asserted, refuse to permit a postpone- ».-ment which would have allowed the city time to take title to the Flat- bush streets in which the B. R. T. is seeking a perpetual franchise. The Evening World, despite Mr. Cram’s malediction, finds itself unable to tremble. On the contrary, when it contemplates the changes which its efforte have effected in the Public Service Commission, from which Mr. Oram is shortly to retire, it feels more confident than ever ‘thet its usefulness on earth will be continued, and that its views as to| the right of public service corporations will prevail over those of Mr. Oram and the B. R. T, “I am going out of office, praise God,” rejoices Mr. Cram. So fap trom echoing this paean, The Evening World heartily regrets that ‘Mz, Gram could not have remained in office until more light had ‘dawned on him, —_——+-—____ THE BOMB INDUSTRY REVIVES. SVENGH and blackmail appear to be the familiar motives in the latest Italian bomb plot which the police profess to have ‘uncovered in this city, The Italian found prowling about the Municipal Building night before lest with a dress cuit case that contained a bomb powerful * snough to kill scores of pasvorsby is, according to the detectives, an ‘eld pickpocket and confidence man who has been several times in dail and is now leagued with « band of Black Handers eager to be Tevenged for prison ieriis, Reports of « conspiracy to blow up big city buildings might be alarming were it not that such plots usually prove to have been hastily deduced from sporadic and individual bomb attacks, _ Nevertheless it ie well the police should be reminded that the ‘Womb industry is still carried on in the city. There have been few old style bomb outrages of late. We have become accustomed to ex- plosives in munition plants and plots traceable to war influences. But ‘wo have heard little for some time of the bomb-thrower who works for revenge or i Apparently he is etill with us and finds it as easy as ‘ever together the implements of his trade. to get eed A LR Hits From Sharp Wits cei tenet lr, toes i e “y n he loves 1a going to say of bim.—Toledo | 7 6 the part of wisdom It Isn't alway to judge the ca) . What becomes of all the money pacity of the head by y Parents put In the savings ac-|the size of —~P! Ltt ante. 3 Che saving Peta. the hat.—Philadelphia News, se ae e102 Whether you are a pacifcist ~ Our notion of an inconsistent man |militarist, you are not Tikely to bave ho maintains a drooping mus-|muoh peace if you are inclined to cultivates a taste for/argue about }t.—Indianapolls News. e 8 ee Perhaps the saddest time | Considering how much boasting is|man'e lite is when his one comfort’ | able pair of shoes sprin, _ Toledo Blad la it cs Letters From the People As to Tips, obvious answer is: “Shave yourself.” ‘Te the kiditor of The Evening World: | But some of us are too awkward and many of us are too busy to do that At @ restaurant a ten per cent. tip Is gupposed to be adequate, yet at a one ia auppoeed to give a ten for a fifteen cent shave, @ sixty-six and two-thirds Now, far be it from me always. Even at a flashy restaurant & waiter would fall dead if a victim offered him a sixty-six and two-thirds per cent, Up on @ dollar meal, Why pay it to a barber? And, for that matter why tip a barber and not tip & bootblack? Why tip @ barber and | | |for the expansion of subways, The Evening World Daily Ma gazine, Saturday, January —— By Marti rT} HAT was the idea, the head polisher, “of call- ing a couple of leading bankers as witnesses before the Brown Committee which is down here in New York stopping at one of our leading hotels and pro-rating the rs,” explained the laundry man, “play @ very important part In the government of this large and loose community, They don't hold the offices, but they have a strong hold on the officeholders. Inter- est of the bankers in the city gov- ernment is diversified, because it is their business to lend the city money and also to see that the city keeps running into debt, eo it will keep on ing money, “At the outbreak of the war in Europe the city needed $00,000,000, Of course the city didn't have the money and the city officials had to go to the bankers. As one of the bankers told the Brown Committee, the bankers responded with patriot- isi They also responded with a demand for 6 per cent. interest, a premium, and the adoption by the elty of What is uow callcd the ‘pay. as-you-g0’ system of meeting expen- ditures. “The pay-as-you-go system has wonderful theoretical advantages, but the fact that the bankers insisted that the city should adopt It shows that it 1s better for the bankers than it i» for the city. You may now ask why the bankers wanted the city to adopt the pay-as-you-go system, “The reason he debt Iimit. Un- der the law the city can fncur in- debtedness up to what amounts to a porceeene of the total assessetl value of the community. “Naturally, if the cit® pays @ per- centage of its bills right off the nail {t avoids piling up long-term bonded indebtedness, The debt limit Is pre- served. The city can borrow money for} dock improvements and for other! public works, The bankers lend the city the money and in addition they own or control the contracts for the public improvements which they finance. The banker doesn't make much noise in the game of city gov- ernment, but he never overlooks any ens! 66 CAPEAKING of legislators living S at our leading hotels," said seem the head polisher, “it does @ lot of people that a com- mittee’s hotel bill of more than §5,u for a month ressing the limit,’ “Not at all," declared the laundry man. “Our up-State legislators who come down here to conduct investiga- tions are not expected to sleep in the Salvation Army wodatng. house and dine in dairy lunches. They are en- titled to the best the town affords, not because they are used to it but because they are in the employ of the State of New York and New York can afford to be liberal, “Another thing is that If many of Tsetse-Flies 00 | of 40,000 of the best women } The Week’s Wash n Green Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World). asked | § week rooms and hash houses serving a boiled New England dinner for 15 cents, By lodging them in a good hotel the State gets the benefit of their services at all times when they are not signing checks or at- tending the theatre.” > ; The Break-Up. $ eer: 66] SHE," said the head polisher, | hat the English workingmen have accepted conscription.” “When the English workingman surrendered his right to surround a will in the morning before going to work he gave notice to the Govern. ment that he would accept anythin, sald the laundry man, No, IV, EAR ADAM—Whatever else we may share after we are married, we are always go- ing to have separate anec- dotes! Have you noticed that a man who gives his wife the best chop as a matter of course doesn't hesitate to snatch her choicest story right out of her mouth? And wives are even worse story-snatchors than husbands, I went to dinner with the Greens last night and George Green started four separate tales and each time Anna wriggled uncomfort- ably and broke In with "Oh, George, that's not the way it happened took it away from him, The poor man smiled aud subsided, He did it awfully well, I suppose that is part of the discipline and purpose of matrimony, to teach men to smile and subside, You need it dreadfully, Men are never very attractive ull some Woman—often many women— take them in hand, That's why we like the man with @ past, not because he is immoral, but because he is civilized. Men talk so much—and think more than they talk—about the difference between our intellects and theirs. Do you eyer reflect that the difference in the civilization of men and women is about ten thousand years in our favor? Can you think Now York gathering for a prizefight? Yet how many of our most intellectual and sophisticated men get from any- thing else in life the thrill, the prim. itive acy which the sight of a knockout at @ prize fight gives them? Oven you have admitted that it is not merely the grace and skill of the boxers which delight you but that there is In that climax of ex- citement a barbaric bloodlust in which the thought of pain and death {twelf 1s pleasurable, Well, my dear, the up-State legislators who come down here to investigate were com- dn ‘per| five cents to the clerk ‘whe’ sis va i) to pay foria cant collar, readers ia ? GRAFT MARK. lied to live in New York as they live at home or in Albany they would spend most of thelr time k ing up you may keep your superior intellects ~not that I admit you have them— it that is where your intellects take you. For if I had to choose I'd be clvilized and let who would be intel- <r imine eLearn Leap Year Love Letters From the New Eve to the Old Adam By Nixola Greeley-Smith Covrriaht, 1910, hy ‘The Press Publishing Co, (Tha New York Hventog Woild), ot Rater een —— By Roy L. Copyright, 1 667PCHERE'S a sale of shirts at T 79 cents,” said Mrs. Jarr, looking up from the paper. “The advertisements say ‘best qual- ity’ too, You ought to get some. You'll need some now shirts next summer, There's a sale of dishes too, T might”— “And you think that's the true economy?" asked Mr, Jarr. “Why, of course,” said Mrs, Jarr. | “Ten't it?" "In the firgt place,” sald Mr, Jarr, | “how are the family finances? Have} you any money? No. Have I any money? No. Paying for all the! | lectual. Adam, I awore at a man last Sun- day—not the tiny d—n we all say in New York just to prove we are not prudes, but regular “man-size oaths,” as you say. I was dining at the Bates's, and the man was William Bates, my own cousin. I have dis- owned him, William decided during dinner that his two-year-old baby must eat more mashed potato. The! baby, exercising tho right of sane human young, said no, And when his father forced food in his mouth, | he did what every intelligent, self-| Tespecting baby does under the same circumstances—what Mrs. Panihurst dld—what I should do Inyselt it any big brute tried to feed me forcibly Then William Bates lost his temper and announced that the baby. t be spanked to teach him When he struck the littl wife, a poor little chocoly melted into tears. Ym his boy what mi admit it, but 1 sobbed mys twice, but it was with’ ra then ‘I told William Hates thought of him and all the ot} erable baby-baiters in the world used terrible words and William for got about killing the baby and stared at me in goggle eyed And] Norah acted as if she realized that! she had invited all the Furies tol break bread with her, Even the baby | \seemed shocked. But anyway, ne was not forcibly fed and he was not beaten, I shall never go there again. | Dear Adam, you may not know it, | but you are to blame for that per-| formance. Six months ago I might have reasoned with that stupid and | brutal man, but T should not have | wept and certainly T should not have |eworn at him. You have melted me so, Till T met you T had a mind of ice and if the emotions touched me at all they had the pale glow of winter | sunlight shining through an lceherg. | But the leeberg is broken up, Adam, | melted and scattered, and what is left of me is drifting south—far south—inyo the Gulf Stream—the | warm, safe pathway to the harbor of your love, Keep me there, owe. para by The Preas Publishing Co, Family McCardell —— (The w York Evening World things I had to pay for New Year's, all the end of the month bills and all the other ones ‘to close up the year's 2 The Woman of.It. By Helen Rowland. Ooprright, 1910, by The Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Lveuing World), WHAT IS MARRIAGE? ND #0 they were married,” quoted the Bachelor, as the young bride flung her shower-bouquet into the midst of the group of laughing, chattering bridesmaids, and was driven rapidly off, while they scrambled for it, like a bevy of greedy doves | around a handful of rice in St. Mark’s Square, “and lived happily ever after« Fara.” “That depends,” answered the Widow, gazing after the vanished auto« |mobile with softly shining eyes, “on what marriage really 18—to them.” “What IS marriage, anyway?” asked the Bachelor, fippantly, as he helped the Widow into his car, and ordered the man to drive them up through the Park in the afternoon sunshine. “Don't the philosophers say that it is the spiritual mating of two souls for the realization of their highest ideals?” “Yes,” answered the Widow, smiling up sweetly at him, from under her | violet toque. “The idealists say that; and the materialists say that tt is merely an economic arrangement of Nature and the State, for the establish- ment and maintenance of the home and famlly—which are the bulwarks of 6é Moonbeams and Mishaps. “How on earth does your little head hold all that?” n quite a bright girl, Mr, Weatherby," retorted the “It's almost human—t I talk sometimes, But, to utiful dream; a matter of Widow mockingly. resume, a young girl looks upon marriage as |moonbeams and Kisses, purely and solely for tue attaiument of personal be happiness.’ “Ye-es!" drawied the Bachelor, “And her managing mamma looks upon it as a get-rich-quick scheme, purely and solely for the attainment of ao | ‘establishment,’ a motor car, a social position, and a regular Income." | “The average woman,” pursued the Widow, ignoring the cynicism, | forward to it as the object of existence, the sine qua nm of life*’— \ “While the average man," chimed in the Bachelor, “looks forward to It as the worst accident that can happen to him—the ditmger from which he must escape as long as possible; the devil's bate, and the dispensation of an | avenging Providence.” | “The Cynic calls it ‘The Eternal Joke, the one convincing proof that Nature possesses a sense of humor," continued the Widow, “while the Socialist speaks scornfully of It as a mere ‘conventional tradition’ T | Church regards it as Providence’s holy plan, while the State looks upon 1 ‘simply as an arrangement for perpetuating the race and populating th country, And between Tweedledum and Tweedledee, HOW are we going to know who's right or WHAT marriage really is? “We never can,” sighed the Bachelor significantly, “until we've tried it! | Cduldn't you, just merely as a matter of psychological research; recon. side ooks ‘Mr, Weatherby!” exclaimed the Widow r IN proachfully, “are you going to spoil this beautiful drive by proposing A “No—er, no ma’aim,” said the Bachelor n kly “What do you want to get marr anyhow?" demanded the Widow, “Haven't you everything on earth t beautiful place to live tn and a good cook, and a valet to keep your clothes In order, and a chambermald to do your housework, and the companionship of dozens of perfectly charm- jing women, and Heaven knows how many sweethearts, and—and, oh, dear, what DO men want to marry for, anyhow?” ; It’s Everything Except a Joke. $ i OAR?) | @gPqrHAT’S it,” exclaimed the Bachelor desperately, “I don't _kniw why \ T we want to, ‘but we do-00-00," as the song goes! I want to attain | my highest ideals"—— | “What?” ‘And establish a home, and uphold the Stute” Mr. Weatherby!” | “And live on moonbs “Gracidus!” “And maintain an establishment, and a social position—and fulfil the |holy plan, and conform to traditional convention, and realize a beautiful | dream, and”—— Which proves,” broke in the Widow, waving her muff triumphantly, “that marriage is EVERYTHING—much more than any one human being or set of human beings can imagine or ednceive it to be. It is primitive in- | stinct on the one hand—and spiritual exaltation on the other; a duty to the | State on one hand, and a searching just for personal happiness on the other; la practical arrangement for the good of the community—and a divine 4n- | spiration, And, whatever {t turns out to be in any individud se, depends lentirely on the viewpoint from which it is entered into. EVERYBODY is right about } “Except the Cynic | be ideal and pract |—but it's NO JOKE! ms and kisses, and happines: yrrected the Bachelor, with a soft chuckle, “It may a pleasure and a duty, a privilege and a dispensation an ‘economical kid’ ccounts,’ as they say, left me ‘all |4 in’ financially.” “But I can pay a small deposit and | have these things held for me," sald | Mrs, Jarr, “Or I can order them | home next week C. O. D.”" “What's the ase of getting shirts for next summer or @ set of dishes when you've just bought a set?” asked Mr. Jarr, A Real —-- By Sophie Copyright, 1016, by The Press Publishit coldest day of the winter— 1 saw a small crowd sur- ‘Why, to save money, of course,” | rounding a horse. It had said Mrs, Jarr. “I'm always doing | its head almost touching something like that, and much you; the pavement, its legs were drawn appreciate it!” | a8 close together as possible and al- “But I don't need shirts and the | together its appearance bespoke mis~ house doesn't neod dishes,” eald Mr, cold and hunger. Jarr, A woman came out of a nearby “But they will be needed by sum-. building followed by an ans e ens i rm6 " the driver of the horse. ‘The offic a ARE EO ME eT exammed the wagon’s load at the r “Yes, and we may be all dead by o woman, It contained summer,” said Mr. Jarr, many barrels filled with building ma- “Oh, well, {f you'd prefer to waste! terials, The woman explained fo the vay,” |otficer that she Was passing and saw | thes money, have it your own way." | 6 dumb creature in its pitiful, silent sald Mrs, Jarr, “I know that we will! distress, She took the time and | need those things and Uren we'll heave! trouble on this bitter, freezing day to cor 3 do something to pay doubly for them. find an officer and thu : “yes, wald Mr. Jarr, “But, don't | for the beast that could not speak for ald Mr, Jarr, ar eee you see that there is no economy in| buying things when you haven't the! money, or have to go in debt, practi- cally speaking, or do without more important things? No matter how cheap things are, what's the use of ting them before you need them? t developed that the horse had been out for nearly twel rs without blanket and had bi nding various places for more than two hours at a time, The officer reprimanded the driver for his care- lessness and promised to punsue the case, The woman agreed to appear as jtness. The suffering animal was Vd rather pay double price when 1) f.0en warmth and food and shelter had the money to spare than to stint | at once. myself when I didn’t.” |"L could not help reflecting that the “And yet you are always finding| human e * . | the congesied, busy thorau fault with me, and I'm always stint-| fy) great city—a city. wh NE day during the week—the | Charity Irene Loeb —— ing Co, (The New York ky ISHNE non t ng World D deemed to be a com- it, Here was a woman who, 1, Was very busy indeed, who pped in the midst of her own af- rs to do the humane thing that she saw needed to be done, It is a wise soul who sald: “If you want a thing done get a busy person to do it." How gratified this woman must have felt when shoe arrived home that night, sought the warmth of her | fireside a ‘in the gr | intervention, might now "i and neg a glow of t SATIS CTION, ng these wintry days there are ny miserable dumb creatures wan- j dering on the streets while hundreds lof passers-by are totally oblivious to their sorrowful plight, If only YOU would stop once a while, gentle reader, and se it! It might take but a few of your time to see that atte: given There are various charitable homes that » glad to take such friendless beasts and care fe them. The tele- | phone “information” can give you the number. An appeal to an officer will very often adjust a situation: similar to the one I have just mentioned, After all, there is nothing so satis- fying as the feeling that but for you some speechless living thing might be starving or in pain, Let the milk of human kindness flow in the cold streets where it ig sorely needed In ne om sald Mrs, Jarr peoy-} ts — ishly | don't look at the thing that . said Mr, Jarr. “What wel T h r i ft ro Olglitekwdo is to save a little money By Permimion of if we can, You are like all the of the women; your idea of say- s to buy something with | . No. 5~Prodigality. CONOMY is not @ natural in- | tinct but the growth of experi- : aid ah: 8. : su mn ence, example and forethought. ROOD SRR SAR WS TRESRT Te i al vesult of education and It Is only when men be nd thoughtful that they I. Hence the best me ‘and women provide it s money “Lt is not as you hay any mone ; intelligence. “And why haven't we any | /Blelleone money?" asked Mr, Jarr, “Bes |pecome frug cause you're always buying things jof making 1 you don't need because you eee think they are a few cents cheaper | not a kid and you are not economi- than they will be some day, You are cal." sald Mr. Jarr, like all the rest, you go and spend ten |, , Ree canae dollars getting something you are told and she walked into the next room is worth fifteen, and then you say, |and slammed the door, ‘I’ve saved five dollars, I'm the eco-| Then Mr, Jarr went downtown in a nomical kid!’ When really you have Nase eraNeey ee ee ude MARA Wasted ten dollars!” Ificer he waw there was a specll sil “Wasted ten do " shricked Mrs./ of @ brand he liked at a 60-cent re- Jarr, “When have 1 had ten dollars |duction, He bought two boxes and to waste? And I don't thank you for gave one to his boss, and that put thoge gutter expressions calling me jhim in good humor for the rest of ithe day, Ho thought be'd suved a “That was only a joke, You are dollar, ak to me aguin said Mrs. Jabr,|s By Samuel Smiles a Barper & Browhers,) is to make them wise, Prodigality is much more natural to man than thrift. The savage is the greatest of spendthrifts, for he has |no forethought, no to-morrow. The prehistoric man saved nothing, He jlived in caves or in hollows of the ground covered with branches. He subsisted on shellfish which he pleked up on the seashore, or upon ‘ips and haws which ho gathered’ in the woods. He killed animals with He lay in wait for them, or m down on foot. Then he rned to use stones as tools, making ne arrow-hoads and spear-points, thereby utilizing his labor and Kill. ing birds and animals more quickly, Man would have continued a gav- ze but for the results of the useful labors of those who preceded him, fhe soll was reclaimed by them and de to grow food for human uses, ey invented tools and ‘fabrics and » useful results. They dis- d art and science and we suc. coed to the useful effects of pheir Jaw bora bed