The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1916, Page 16

eos or Th oe es anv eee oe ee PREPAREDNESS FOR THIS PORT. : position in the fur trade that may soon outrank the famous markets London, Petrograd and Geneva before the war. oent, of the foreign trade of the entire country. than ‘the same balance for 1914, Here are figures and facts for the port of New York to ponder. The Merchants’ Aesociation of this city has laid before President ‘Wileon « plan for « commission on soonomic and trade relations to work out “the best mesures for placing the Untted States in @ post- * #lon to meet the problems and opportunities presented by the world ‘trade situation after the war.” Ien’t it aleo the moment for the City of New York to take the Biggest strides in tts history to make and keep iteelf in all respects the greatest port in the world? Huge volumes of commerce are beginning to pour through it. * ‘Bigger still are coming. Are we to meet all this with half-developed primitive Hghtering methods, inadequate and con- terminal facilities, Micting means of handling freight? new systems to expedite the moving of freight at this port. it with embargoes and blockades. ———_-+-—__—_ WAS IT WORTH WHILE? te proved an utter failure. | editional $80,000 voted for its needs in both Senate and, Assembly. —— i Whoever this plece of gang work must find himeelf hard © (pat to it to dhow his backers wherein they have profited. The Thomp- j eon Committee goes straight on to probe the methods of public service ‘worpewxtions as revealed in their relations with « Public Service WO paleston which they hed come to regard with reason as the natural pro- own secrets. ee ooo “WE BOYS” GRADUATES. organizations may note to their profit. support of their incorporated efforts to eave the country. qont where soliciting offers steady returns. Money-raising societies need to be wary. Hits From Sharp Wits. a Properly fortified any person can be » An optimist. —Pittaburgh Bun. Letters From the People. ‘The Missing Dime, To the Editor of The Brening World: F..8. H gives readers the following problem: Ten men go Into @ saloon. Four sit at one table, six at the other, At the first table sixteen ks will be consumed, each man q low atx Now ten more men come in. eit at each table. Therefore man bas five drinks, The ton men have fifty drinks at 6 cents a @tak, which pomes to $2.60. The dit- ¢ Evening W VOLUME 86... ... eve sneinensetenrewe sermamenemes NO, 19888 BW YORK makes its firet appearance this week as the far centre of the world. The public auction eale of $1,950,000 worth of American and Oanedian skins opens to the city « Figures given out by the Chamber of Commerce two days ago show that the city’s foreign commerce totalled more than two billion dollars for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1915. This is 46,59 per American exports increased 70 per cent. in 1915, reaching the record total of $3,555,000,000. Imports were the smallest since 1912, leaving « trade balance of $1,772,000,000, which is five times greater Revent embargoes should prove a warning. It fs of vital impor ; tance to railronds, shipping interests, manufacturers, exporters end above all to the city itself to get together and plan with intelligence If the greatest era of prosperity in the history of the country fn on the way it will be poor policy for the Port of New York to mest (HE attempt to blackjack the Thompson Investigating Commit- The committee is back on the job, as fit as ever—with an So fer as putitic opinion is concerned, the effect of thie unsuc- '} eessful plot to head off Senator Thompeon and his investigators has » deen to concentrate attention upon interests known to be hostile to the committee and to arouse a stronger demand than ever that the character end motives of those interests shall be thoroughly explored. Not only did the gang fail to “get” those i had marked, but it mmde more probable than ever the epecdy disclosure of some of its HE experience of the American Defense Society with its cham- pion money-getter contains a lesson which other money-raising ‘The “We Boys” echool of cish magnetizers has graduated many " experts. Some of the prominent petsone whose names figure among the officers of the American Defense Society must be not only hooked but piqued in their business pride to learn that such specialized talents ea those of the well-known Mr. Baxter have been the chief financial a We Boys” schod. lioser weave Pig Ne Midi cominually em the moncy that ie Clothes do not make the man, but often they show the kind of man he te ference is 10 cents. or two drinks. How account for the extra dime? Let us compare the two parties. The: six and four men party is A. The other is B. Now four men from Party A drink four drinks and four men from party B drink five drinks, Therefore Party B drinks four more instance fn the | to wait for the will that may be bat cermin. Rem eN ee serene 8 NRE BS BEAN Men By Sophie Copyright, 1916, by The Pres Publish WO young men are tn Jail who, according to their own confession, wanted to kill I their father and mother, They declare “money was the sole motive.” At thé same time, fm « comfortable home, the sorrow- stricken parents brood over this ca- lamity that has come in tho evening of their lives. The ohief dofense of these boys is that they were tired waiting for dead men’s shoes, They wanted their share of their father’s fortune, and they knew maney would be coming to them at his death. ‘They wanted & sooner than that and chose to kill off those that stood in the way. ‘This case forms two distinct fea- tures for parents to consider, The first is thet & is most dangerous for children to be #o reared as to bank “coming to them.” This has been the ‘begin to flourish these experts become enthusiasts in almost eny move-| cause of more trials and trouble than can be estimated. It hampers {nitia- (ve, throtties ambition and kills self- matter how much money there ts in the family, he must ‘make good" on bis own account, n . 0 ‘The sons of wealthy fathers who nanding, always on thelr & gh | ae the Sehsvend tore Oa ther have not had this principle instilled Jeft to stand pretty much 5 ve, while others ‘pend coors | in them are usually those who know arden, , 4 en Oey tere how only to waste, because they have Ls may e nese—somn* a9 co o * ber peer eve that hie wite te = News. | ening to keep the young mind build fan Post. tng etrong--are the only healthy elo eit Lv Ye eR Barbe, 1 Sete ie me prety aa veal mand Bren most staid respect- | good turn deserves another @n ax| with rich and poor alike, Th: e YS payne ey ip a ay tans wd tes quuccy Guloren peamvered ant lect Columbia State. “| ‘Those who do their best are too|*e follow an idle bent because they oe - 09. © ‘busy to find fault. are imbued with the theory that "they ya) Se the time 0 man goin, troush Ati will never have to worry.” Many 4 Se ealice ceatises, ‘co ban a acted i I po Py =H “ ink | parents forget that money te but « ” . @ tatrly g00d education. task—Albany Ji % transitory god and that though here to-day tt may be gone to-morrow, Lot each man's eon know how to shift for himself end the fortune that ts (ater thrust on him will enhance his value to himself and his fellows. ‘The other consideration 1s the fatal folly of giving your gifts after you are dead. The man who has money to bestow might as well learn that ithe greatest good he can accomplish is to gtve when it 1s needed most, How much more advantageous it 1s to give the young man the staré in buei- ness or seoure the proper oredit for him tn hte youth—at the time when |i will give him the opportunity of | helping himeelf—rather than lead him tered and broken, #0 that at last th RAL DAY, POTDORA SAAT Lasle for orld Daily Magazine, Who Fail ‘Il won't try to save till | get a bigger Money That LeadstoCrime Irene Loeb. ing On, (The Now York Evening Works), which it was not intended, I know of @ very wealthy miser who denied his loved ones the little help that he could have given them, These people struggled along to make ends meet for eo long that when the money did come they were broken in heaith and spirit and it did them no good. Many a daughter has become @ sorrowful, disgruntied old maid be- cause her father withheld the little pin money #he needed in her girl- hood. There are hundreds of starve themselves for th sympathy and happiness that might be theirs In order to keep trom pre- senting imoney that is later fought over, ‘Tis the wise individual who creates the cheer, tha tnoentive for, endeavor while he lives. He oan see at Whe) to advantage etd thus withhold neediess giving to the un- worthy, Take care that your money ts not ple who love and By Nixola G No. 5. BAR ADAM—Your little friend Nannie Peck bas Just called to wish me happiness. She did tt ike @ bred, I did not know that she could be such a good loser, She wes eo fine that I really wish you had a twin brother so Nannie could marry him, Not that your twin | brother could ever be anything like you, But perhaps he would do Nan | nie Just as well, Just as I was feeling |so sorry for her that I was getting yeady to say 1 would leave you to her in my will, she spotled everything by | tolling my horrid plece of gossip about @ married man and an un- married woman we ull knew, I won't spread it by mentioning their names, even to you. And I eaid, “Well, Nannie, I don't know why you told me that, but I'm glad you did, because IT Mke them both and now I shall know enough to put them next to each other whenever I have a din- ner part I just wanted to show her that no tale anybody could bring to me would have the slightest effect upon my attitude towand my friends, But Nannie was terribly shocked Mother said afterward T had fright- ened her so badly thet she did not believe she would ever come back But I am not worrying about that. How else would she got a chance to pee you? So Nannie ia my friend for life, or until she falls in love with fome one else. I hate gossip so, And yet sometimes T gossip myself and then have a horrible session with my consciences and go about for days wishing that 1 were dumb! I don't believe | shall ever learn to be dis. oreet, Yot I must. And . must be iktexiven tov aime, Theat krape of the the route of evil that leads to crime. and she’s the best child I ever saw.” ——————$———— Leap Year Love Letters From the New Eve to the Old Adam Congright, 1018, ey The Pree Publiding Oo, (The New York Bvening Worl), By J. H. Cassel ape Bree inl New York Krening Works.) — By Roy L. ‘cc HATS the matter with our ‘ttle girl?” asked Mr, Jarr uneasily, as the sound of an occasional sob came through from the next room. “Now you leave the child be!” said Mrs. Jarr. “T can't have any comfort with her the way you spoil her, and I have forbidden her to come out of the room for ten minutes.” “What's she crying for? I never Wave any trouble with her,” remarked Mr. Jarr. “Of course you don't,” replied Mrs, Jerr. “You let her beve her own ‘way tn everything.” “Why, certainly,” aid Mr. Jarr. “Just let ttle Emma do what she wants to do, don’t bother her at all, reeley-Smith things I love you for—your kindness. Some kindness is just stupidity, but not yours, You see everything-—-and condemn nothing. And I am like an spereines, of jewels tralhed to Joe for we and missing the beauty of the gam sometimes, it I intend to give @way my horrid microscope before we are #0 I shall never examine your defects, I have made up my mind to stay married for at loast five years, whether we like it or not. You are warned, therefore. To be happily married is a science and I do not ex- pect to learn it in @ week or a month or a year. At the end of those five| years if we decide we have made a/ mistake then goodby and good luck, don't you think? Yet you know, Adam, I don't believe in divorce half #0 much as I did ten years ago. T used to say then that it was svctal | surgery and that an unhappy mar- nage Was @ cancer and should be operated for at once. But surgery tan't a cure for cancer, Adam--the malignant spot comes back most of the time. And I'm not sure that divorce is a cure for unhappiness in marriage. Tmean Cam not certain that the operation really cures, Do you know I think that except in the cane of a few scoundrels of both sexes, almost any man and woman ean find together a working hy- | pothesis of happiness—or at loast con- tentment. And {s not that all any of us may expect after the storm in the heart passes and the wind in the blood ia still? It seems to me that is the optimists who get divoroas— the people who won't acoent the fact that all romance comes to the same thing in five vears or 50. Maybe you wonder why T proposed to you, Adam, after all thts? | Recause marriage ta the only cure | for @ great love, Adam, And yet per- salary” The Jarr Family Copyright, 1916, By The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Bvening World), or be embarrassed dreadfully, | Bape BY davey for you wil ve. in ante paneer —— meow EE McCardell — “You're too partial to her,” Mrs. Jerr. “She's very naughty to- day because I gave Willie five cents to go see the moving picture show around the corner, and/she wanted to go along.” “Why didn't you let her go?" said said |of names. They used to put pieces of Thursday, January 27, 1916 Bachelor Girl Ballads Philosophic Jingles, With a Punch, By Helen Covyriaht A Pouf! They've got Is your color white Well—"though pigs Do they really “put Are you happy—are Just @ rocket—or @ EVERYBODY'S got No. 2.—Drinking. FE fellow who coined that little I phrase, “Anything for an ex- couse,” summed up the bistory of drinking. Throughout the ages men have taken drinks at funerals and whristenings, have drunk the healt of friends and the destruction of enemies, have drunk to drown sorrow and celebrate victory; they have drunk standing, sitting and ly- ing down. A Roman cotillion leader In the far off days used to take a drink for every letter in his sweetheart’s name. Girls with long names were awfully popular, At some banquets in Eng- land @ hundred and fifty years ago you'd drink @ toas¥ to your host, to his relatives and friends. Fellows with bad memories carried long lists toast in their drinks instead of cher- vies. That's where we get “Toasts.” In the old heathen religious cere- monies @ man would pour out a li tion to his gods and shortly afte’ ward would pour several more into himself. The Anglo-Saxon chiefs used to be awfully proud of their ability as scrappers and had books written about themselves, There'd be one page full of their prowess in fighting sea serpents and the next about how they oould punish a keg of beer, When a chief died they'd ‘bury with him his weapons and drink- ing cups, the idea being to have handy what he'd want most when Mr. Jarr. “he had been to see it last week. | You took her out for a walk and bought candy for her, and took her to see the moving pictures, and Willle wasn't with you.” “Willie wouldn't come," | Jarr, “Hoe was playing with some} other Hétle boys and he wouldn't! come with me.” “Well, the principle is the same,” said Mra Jarr, “We mustn’t show one child any partiality.” “Willie is getting quite a big boy,” said Mr. Jarr, “and Uttle Emma ts only @ baby; besides, when I took her to eee the pictures Wilite didn’t want sald Mr. | to @o, but to-day litte Emma did went |labor; and tt is only when laborers to go, #0 I think you might have per-| begin to eave that the results of ctvili- |sation acoumulate. We have said mitted her.” “Now, there you go again! Finding | fault and oriticising me!” onied Mra. | Jerr, “Léttle Emma is very smart for her age, and she hears everything you say, and when I threaten to| punish ber when he’s been naughty | she tells me that you won't let her be! punished, Now, you let me attend to the ghildren without interference. And, besides, Willie didn’t know you were going to take Kittle Emma to ee the moving piotures; he thought you were just going round the corner for | a otroli” “That's what I thought,” said Mr. Jarr, “But ttle Emma never let on where ghe wanted to go and never said @ word tt!l we got to the moving pleture place, and, when I didn’t want to take her in, she commenced to cry and Ieiek." “and you gave in to her!" said Mrs. Jarr, ‘I just wish I had been there! Where does sho get her disposition? She's so sly, she never lets on what she is after till right at a time when you HAVH to let ber have a thing She does just the same with me when company comes, for she knows then that I must let her have her way or else whip her, and one doesn’t want to whip a child when there's company, in the house,” Mr, Jarr grinned. what?" be sald. “Your ideas of what 1s cute are very strange,” replied Mrs. Jarr. “And we certainly must take her in hand,” Mr. Jarre stirred nervously, “I'll tell her to be @ good girl," he euld, “Pretty oute, y / | of you one bit.” the moment of his reawakening came. Fighting was both a business and @ pleasure in those days, and if you met ® man you didn’t know you'd take a wallop at him for luck. But if you drank with him, that was sup- posed to make him your friend. ‘The Thrift we No. —Your Savings. T t@ the savings of the world that have made the civilization of the world. Savings are the result of that thritt with civilisation; we might almost have said that thrift produced civilization. Thrift pro- duces capital, and capital is the con- served result of labor. The capitalist je merely 4 man who does not spend all that 4s earned by work. i But thrift is not a natural instinct, It fe an acquired principle of conduct. Tt trvolven self-denial—the denial of T Rut for decades it was remem- bered as “the year without a mmer.’ Frost occurred in every month of 1816, Tee formed half an inch thick in May; snow fell to the depth of three inches in the interior of New York and also in Massachusetts In June; co was formed of the thickness of commoh nvindow glass throughout New York on the Sth of July, Indian corn was so frozen that the greater part was cut down and dried for fodder in August, and farmers supplied themselves from the corn The ‘‘Summerless” Year. HE year 1616 te forgotten to-day. she exclaimed, “Why, she isn’t afraid “T hope not,” said Mr, Jarr, "I don't want her ever to be afraid of me, 1 want her to know always I'll stick by her whether she’s a Ifttle girl, as she 1s now, or @ big girl, aa I hope she grows to be.” “Well, I can't say that you are un kind to Willie, but you just don't seem to ive in to him as you do to little Einma," said Mrs, Jurr. “You can be firm with Wille, and of course 1 Me dame anifiet, “Tath to Rent 0 egy Coen vend © Oils aixtcter diem 1916, by ‘Nie Pree Pullidhing Co, (The New York Evening Work), RH you striving like @ man? People know! Doing just the best you can? People know! Think you're not appreciated? Think you're underestimated? People know! Are you going “on @ biufft™ People know. People know! Think you've kept it under cover? People know! Are you falee—or are you true? People know. People know. Paint the faded cheek « rose, Hide the heart beneath the pore! Do you think it really “goest* People know! Are you “up"—or “down-and-out?” People know, Though you filng your cash about Like the snow, Boast your yacht and motor car— But, de sure that what you ARB~ People know! Are you weak—or are you strong? People know. Going right—or going wrong? People know. Have you got a etreak of umber? Well—reserve your dreams for slumber. People know! (By Pormiaton of Harper & Brothers) Rowland you tagged and rated! or “buff?” may dwell in clover” dt over? you blue? otar, “your number!” doving cup wes along this line, It sometimes hed @ cover which the, fellow on your right took off and held. This kept his sword arm busy, so you could drink in ce with « chance to beat him to th punch If he tried to start anything. 6 lovil cup was made with three handles the host was supposed to hald two of them, so he couldn't stab his guest as the latter was drinking. ‘The old Norsemen made a big cere- mony over drinking healths. Yow and the other fellow would tap @ vein and mix a few drops of blood In your foaming horns of mead, then raise them aloft and drink. This ceremony was the Bruderachaft, and made him your blood brother, and you could then borrow money from him. If he refused to drink, however, you wasted no time in talking about “preparedness,” but started up the old grindstone and put a ragor-edge on your cutlery. You knew he'd bean you the first chance he got. Ovs West some years ago it, wan pretty much the same thing; you aneaked your gun out of your hip pocket be~- fore declining an invitation to have one, That was an unconscious throws back to the old custom, it is these traditions that cause the feet of 80 many of us to slip after we have taken>the solemn “never again" vow. You step into the corner place with Bill to have ‘just one.’* But in comes Bfil's friend Jim, theay Jim's friend Sam, then Sam's friend Pat. You can't insult a man by refus« ing to drink! Finally, after a stormy voyage, a famiMar landmark looms up on your port bow, you put your helm bard down and come into the dock with your lee scuppers under. Tt is three hours past dinner time and a visibly annoyed lady a you, demanding an explanation, it 1s a matter of real difficulty for @ man who can't talk to explain. By Samuel Smiles: present enjoyment for future goode< the subordination of animal to reason, forethought and: It works for to-day, but also for to-morrow. It invests the it BAe ares and makes provision ure, propoi not provide for the future. a not remember the past. "They tied only of the present. They preserve nothing, Th earn, selves; fami! make wages, 1 drink the of what they earn. Sueh people constantly poor and hanging on verge of destitution, yeare earlier, the Revolution, came the wine Was so cold as to freee upper i York Bay for weeke into a loo, So solld was this great ice that the British harnessed of horses to cannon and the ice with them from the to Staten Teland. ong afterward came the famone “Winterless Year,” the eM, women in New York had to parasols in January to protect from sunstroke and when, in winter, the St. Lawrence was ‘waalle free from ice, And yet we talk about the ness of modern weather, cipline, but I've noticed that you never cross little Emma in anything, and if she even starts to ery she cag do anylhing with you she Iees, “There's a reason,” ventured Jarr, *” “L want to know what it ts," eal@ Mrs. Jarr quickly. Mr, Jarr hesitated. “IL think,” said softly, “it's becausé, especial when there is a tear in her Mttle eye, { the looks so much like yeuee h “Oh, you are an old softy!” exe ™ clutined Mrs. Jarr, bOt she smiled ane ay called ‘to the little girl to come in | wee hér papa and to promise woulln’s be aeaguty exy om, a