The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1916, Page 10

et — A — Or ARMY AVIA” The SERV Iie iy World. Pe re ae » Press Publishtn Now. 66 + Dally Except wen ay Ro Tone Suvi Compa: ‘on. ° Presieemt., tha Pot Row. RATING ANGUS SHAW, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., ‘Secretary, oe Park Row. VOLUME 56...... + NO. 19, cada THE STARVING RAILROADS. | HERE the impoverished railroads of the country are to find) “the billion dollars a year which Mr. Elliott of the Now| Haven says they’vo got lo lave is a problem that greatly | perturbs the esteemed Sun. Attention is called to the difficulty the railroads now have in placing new loans or renewing old ones. Capital, it appears, “now| seeks other investments because railroad stocks and bonds are no} longer considered safo and tho investor is afraid.” Unless the ob- noxious system of commission rule is speedily relaxed the Sun sees! no hope ahead save Government credit for the railroads, with the) awful calamity of Government ownership but a fow short stops | beyond. | (What a pity it doesn’t occur to the railroads to go after come of the hundreds of millions of dollars that financiers and manipulative | experts have squeezed out of them. If capital hus come to be thy of | railroad investments, whose fault is it? Who has been responsible for the gigantic exploitations which turned honest railway systems into gambling propositions? Who started the wrecking operations that shocked the public and filled it with mistrust? Why don’t some of the railroads try to locate portions at least’ vf the colossal loot? Take the case of the New Haven, to go no further: Tha; $12,000,000 that “vanished into thin air” when the New York, West-; chester and Boston subsidiary road accompanied the Tennessee Coal | and Iron Company into the safe fold of Morgan interests; the! $13,500,000 evaporated in the buying of Rhode Island trolleys—a deal | in which the Rockefellers and the late Senator Aldrich were deeply | interested; and the rest of the $204,000,000 of New Haven stoc ke | holders’ money which disappeared in projects that finally wrecked the road. Couldn’t Mr. Elliott use it to advantage now? | ————— COLOMBIA'S PLAINT. MERICAN diplomacy gets plenty of exercise these days. With momentous controversies with European Governments still pending, it is called upon to sustain the honor and good | faith of the United States in the eyes of its neighbors far and near on} this continent. With Colombia deeply offended at the action of the Senate For- eign Committee in cutting the Panama indemnity from $25,000,000, to $15,000,000, and also at the implication that she can have any regrets to offer, thie country has on its hands the delicate task of not only dealing fairly with Colombia but of convincing the suspicious Latin Republics that there is no real wish either in Congress or among | the people of the United States to bully or slight any of the smaller | American nations. The Senkte has not made this task any easier. But if Colombian complication can be used to broaden the views of Congress and limber op such diplomatic faculties as Yt possesses, this country will have a} mach better chance of presently becoming the trusted chief conserven of Pan-Americanism. Lee WRETCHED HOUSEKEEPING. OLLOWING The Evening World’s exposure of the waste of floor space in the Municipal Building, the Board of Estimate yesterday ordered the Sinking Fund Commission to make thorough inquiry into the manner in which city departments have divided, occupied or altered the interior arrangements of the building. Why this was not done before the departments moved in is one of the mysteries of city housekeeping. Apparently each bureau got) pretty much the space it asked for, with the result that vast offices containing only one desk and great areas of floor space used for gothing at all are conspicuous features. With a little foresight the city could have saved $100,000 a year | by providing quarters for the Public Service Commission in the Mu- nicipal Building. As usual, the chance for economy was discovered only when carelessness and extravagance had forestalled it. Long before it was completed the Municipal Building began to Pile up burdens of needless waste and expense. It is high time to bring 4 little business sense to bear on it with a view to getting some return on the millions that have gone into it. Hits From Sharp Wits. | husbands, but it is doubtless due to | the fact that the husbands are not | home long enough. . 618 The meek may inherit the earth, but the other kind of fellows are la- ble to come along and take it away from them,.—-Florida ‘Times-Union, aoe You can never tell how much money a man has trom the way he talks Tt requires a whole lot of nerve to tell a woman some of the things that he ought to know.—Memphis Com- mercial Appeal. . It is common observation that the man who “can stop drinking when- ever he pleases” is the man who is always drinking, If a man is the architect of his own fortune, some of us seem to have |about it. ‘been badly in need of a “square.” se @ Baltimore Sun. . Those who are most curious are . ee Some women never fuss at thelr Letters From the People. Praise tor “S’Mati ” The Third Track Aw: To the Editor of The Hrening Wortd To the Editor of ‘The Kraning World : May I be permitted to add a word| Keep up the good work which you to all that has already been said} have started concerning express commendatory of C, M, Payne and hig “S'matter, Pop?” Despite the usually least communteative,-Albany Journal. Pe ee trains on “L” KR. R. Since the third) avenine World Daily Magazine. — By Marti AT do you think of the Elihu Root boom?" asked the head polisher, much,” replied the laundry thu Root is a man of ability “Ww “Not man, “ ‘and braing, but he couldn't he elected ‘President of the United State: He wouldn't stand any more show than Lemuel Ely Quigg; for the reason that he has been tied up with vorpor- ations ever since his ability as a lawyer began to be recognized. This is not just the time to nominate a corporation lawyer for the office of President. “Mr, Root is seventy-one years old. In the event of his nomination and election he would be a month older than seventy-two on March 4, 1917, The demands upon the strength and vitality of a President of tho United States are too great to be handled by @ man seventy-two years old, “AL this talk about Root is smoke, to cover some movements in the rear. Just what those movements are will not be disclosed until the smoke clears away. Col. Roosevelt may dis- | sipate the smoke when he gets back from the West Indies or he may bo puzzled by it, but you can bet that Col, Roosevelt is going to cut a large and imprevsive figure In the political developments of the next three months, “The Republican State Convention jin Carnegie Hall paid no more at- tention to Col. Roosevelt than if ae never was, The Colonel, crulsing about in tropic climes and cultivating another coat of tan, played 50-50 with the Republicans of his native State. He didn't pay any more attention to the convention than the convention paid to him, “With William Barnes in control, it was wisdom on the part of the Colonel to ignore the party that once elected him to the Presidency. He can afford to do some ignoring. But the other fellows cannot afford to ignore very copiously as the time approaches for the Republican N.- tional Convention in Chicago and Col, Roosevelt's National Convention, also in Chicago, and playing the same Ume. “Perhaps it will not be until those two conventions clash with each ther that the influences behind the Elihu Root boom will be revealed,” } NS Schmidt,” remarked the head polisher, “was turned off without the supervisory ; | “H Law—Logic. track is in use the service seems to me to be simply rotten, For More School Evenings, ‘To tho Kalitor of ‘The vening World surances of “reformers” that there ts no humor in the flight of the brick or the kick of the mule, the fact re- mains that human nature does, and perhaps always will, consider these matters as worthy of a chuckle or two. But ail honor to Payne, who ean create jaugh-producing matter in|to cut off one of our most important which the brickbat and its accom- Piece are among the wissing! I look |*chOo! nights, ‘This, we find, retards find that the Board of Education has Pushed its economy plan so far as the laundry man. “Although super- | vising electrocutions is part of his | Job ho manuges to Ket sick just be: tore each trocution, But he had As a pupil of an evening schoo! I) 4 sympathetic representative on the|/ar fairly running away with th |Job In the person of his secretary, noer Miller r. Miller {3 against capital pun- ishment, He shed tears over the fate of @ degenerate who killed a trusting forward to the nightly utteran ¢|us in training and in education to a ope youngsters in “S'matter, great extent, I am puzzled to know anticipation, as for a treat, and/how the Board of 1 to iiss them by any chance|economize on this form of education I'ghould feel that I was missing very|to such an extreme when education friends, More power to Payn@|and good training are the only eal. djs pen! DAVID BLUM, \asion w warkipgmen bag Wet i - ; = ‘ Education can! girl, cut up ber body and scattered | counsels in the world; since the mis- the pleces over the surface of the/ taken presumption is that the ‘nat- | Hudson River, Mr, Miller, just be-|ural impulse” is always the right fore the exeention of Sehinidt, spoke of ‘the stupidity of continuing a law which hag failed to accomplish that for which it was enacted.’ “What Mr, Subway Jam The Week’s Wash Copyright, 1916, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World). {aid of Warden Kirchwey of Sing|dom; freedom of speech, freedom of sing” love; freedom of dress; freedom of “Phe Warden is consistent,” said| thought, freedom of action, Every- n Green — inasmuch as capital punishment has failed to stop murder, there should be more capital ptnishment Therefore, all Jaws which prescribe punishments for crimes should be repealed, because they have not elimt- nated the particular crimes against which they were directed, And, going to the limit along this line of reason- ing, we shouldn't have any laws at all. Strange doctrines are put forth, these days, by men Intrusted with enforcement of the laws on the statute books. We may expect, eventually, through the progress of sympathetic penology, to see a warden of Sing Sing refuse to carry} out an electrocution because it is distasteful to him.” ; Now It’s Unanimous, $ Ts echoes ay | “ 1) said the head polisher,| ‘that Theodore P. Shonts, who drew down $290,000 in a year, doesn't think the Interborough pays! him enough. “It is a stre ange coincidence,” sald the laundry man, “that ticket agents, | ticket choppers, guards, motor engi- neers, conductors, station men and othor grades of employees don't think the Interborough pays them enough! either.” JURING the week comments have been made all over the country ubout the high school girl who, it al- leged, committed suicide in the presence of her boy sweetheart The case has been trom all angles, There are those » demand struction of youth concerning sex and propaganda about love, &e. Yet | all these criticisms and instructions seem to be mapped out for the mother and te daughter. What about the boy? We hear so much about “the woman in the case.” | What about the man in tho case the man who is the product of too much freedom, and too little sense of responsibility? Soclety is fairly seething with free- is discussed w thing Is free. 1t is in the very air, and the aver- age mother is helpless to combat it Propagandists and intense reformer: | freest kind of freedom all summed up, the of freedom might put in four} words, “Follow your natural im- pulse”—one of the most dangerous If it were} present teaching ne In all the proposed remedies of the of which this girl was the vic there is little effort to teach evil um meant ig that the greatest of all elementy in clyi. herself The Girl in the Case By Sophie Irene Loeb. — By Roy L CS Saturday, By J. H. Cassel The Jarr Family dd } i} | | McCardell Copyright, 1916, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World). ERTRUDE, the oatmeal for Jarr cast an eye the eye of a domestic Not a thing escaped “It was an accident,” mumbled Mr, Jarr, for the eye was upon him, and at the same time it took in a fresh and steaming coffee stain upon the spot- Jarr’s light-run- . Was serving tho breakfast and Mrs. uround the table— drillmaster, | less tablecloth, “Is it an accident to coffee before you've hi. eal?” asked Mrs. Jarr jarr mumbled again, this time to the effect that he wanted his coffee first. You wouldn't want your coffee first if you didn't feel the craving for its stimulation,” said Mrs, Jarr. “If you WILL indulge in more insidious stim- ulants than coffee night after night, why’ Here Mrs, Jarr checked “However, children are she added. omma, sit up Willie, look what you're do- for your r fruit or the present, straight! ing’ Mr arr thought he was now escap- But he was not, zation: self-restraint and sacrifice the two things that avert sor suffering and sin Mme. Freida Strink struck the right ehord when she said in king of this boy i a” s hanged other Tt wi it is greater heart little bit osophy, some must eryday te; pst intere Mental y, business professional equality, ye sical equality, never. Teach the girl that side-by- side era with man must include on eXception—the physical one Teach the boy that on him rests the roup nsibility, Lat him know that the most shameful thing he ca do is to steal the heart of a ze sia he most deplorable point in. this ly was the fact that the boy the girl after he had won het and soul, Therein th ater sin, ‘This | of responsi-| i bi ity which the w Freedom] teaches practically admits that when| love ended all should end with That is erroneous, to say the est ¥ Teach your school boy that self control, to save others sorrow suffering, is the greatest ¢ tues. That Hability for ¢ 1ets and the necessary the bigeest elements of r Tt you du this you will not.only avoid these youthful tragedies, but the number of deserted wives, broken 14 oad LUDsTy @oule Will’ be temp “And, as I was going to say,” sumed Mrs, Jarr, the eye being again | upon Mr, Jarr, “if YOU would only cure yourself of the most unpleasant habit you have of keeping your spoon in your coffee cup you would not be upsetting your coffee all the time. That was a clean tablecloth. Now look at it!” | Mr. Jarr said nothing, but Mre. Jarr | had still much to say. “Gertrude complains continually,” | |she went on, “It is very discouraging to a girl to have to stop all her other work to rub stains out of a tablecloth, She isn't expected to do the washing, and she rightly regards having to do over an otherwise clean tablecloth as an imposition.” Master Jarr, thinking his mother's attention was distracted, reached out an investigating finger to poke a fried egg in its big, round, yellow centre. A rap across the knuckles deftly ap- plied with a tablespoon was swift retribution “How dare you put your fingers on the food, you naughty boy!” were the words that accompanied the swift re- prisal, “Eat your oatmeal!” Master Jarr took his aching knuckles out of his mouth and choked back a sob with @ spoonful of the Scotch na- tional dish, “Oatmeal is healthful and oatmeal} is good for you; besides, it is the only thing | know of that hasn't doubled |in price," Mrs, Jarr added re- me sick,” he sald | And he gave a preliminary symp- tonr of illness by making a fearful] s dismal srimace and whe “And it makes M little Miss Jarr lee cream kes me sick,” added, as though | stin u substitute both of you t had!" Jar “Look at your fathe oatmeal!" j Mr Jars his oat- meal, Oatmeal was a dish of him But being designated as an| example, he hurriedly attacked the cereal in question ke “I don't want any oaimea Master Willie Jarr. “1 want rice, I want rice!” little Miss Jarr, | This a there ther hav sick too!” cried never she you ever ating his! Was not eating despised, wailed | eried | was @ safe want to utter, being no rice prepared. Ha been rice little Miss Jarr would demanded oatmeal. mme my egg now, maw?" asked the boy, he having slyly changed his saucer of oatmeal for that of bis father, which last was partially con- sumed Let nearly ail my oat- meal!” | WAAR Onlin iki Oeste WY abide February 19, Maw, J can’t eat oatmeal. Lt makes | ie 1916 ‘hes: 'M thinking ‘his coat 8! button fro: “Wha “On what when must a Never—since A near-at-hand!" sigh: the fllogieal part of taking a wife, | Vineing ones for get “Oh, well,’ lonely and bored ani | rant cooking, and I “That will do- | black tulle ang man's. A tou flirtation, a dimple, usual ‘ground for money or for di couldn't get @ divorce on them, ho was ‘lonely and bored $ en eee N ON "oo “ae are sometimes marry. But, whene studying the two poor young things and trying to discover on what ‘gro they have selected o invariably, the on |Decause he likes the friends, or because she likes the way he parts his hair and wears hig cloth or because they he gethor for six or cig |Hcense bureau should ask the stating their ‘grounds’ for getting married, not one pair in ten could definite, logical, “Amen! need of a cook?” “Certainly not!” marriage should be | stance, if you can get a divorce for incompatibility you should marry because lof perfect compatib: # husband because and generous. If y marry for loyalty a “And if you can divorce for pu should mari ingly, ‘ell,” agreed would be |moae, You wouldn' hair curled in the back of her neck, or the she couldn't fox trot Provocations, Most for her color and 8! carry burdens without { moral, physical and financial grounds for every mar’ | weldom anything but sentimental and romantic groun: Breer! man’s gro amuses him, feeds b life; a poet's, that #1 help him financially. |ing; but most of them have NO grounds at ¢ the business man’s natural ‘mate,’ the highbrow gets the shop-keepor’s ‘id land the delicatessen man gets the poet's ‘inspiration’ “And then they all exchange in the divorce court!” grinned the Bad elor. “I guess I'll wait!” \ “Walt? For what, Mr. Weatherby?” “Oh, until I find a girl who stimulates me mentally, and soothes spiritually, and feeds me properly, and dances divinely, and braces | morally, and uses my favorite sachet, and amuses me, looking for a “If you al Widow cold! “Oh, cheerfully, lighting « Tam about it, and t ‘you Dollars and Sens TAN de ceouD reader, WON local banker portant in this the ability to get at a maze of tacit fals vations. “A bank's profit from the interest loans. To refuse to dation; to loan ruin in whieh Placed “When from us sources dom of a, his own circumstances; b, t mercantile agencies sources; c, the reco! a bank a we ¢ informat man uiled above ‘another in di policy regarding ax consider 1 ond and actual ass Among other ite we are interested or not a man what rent whet or Thrift No. 17 Na provements h “Tl inducement to provide against th must begin with ourselves. We] svi day. To do this is a moral and must exhibit our gospel in our own | Social as well as a religious duty. life, We must teach by our own ox-| “But if any provide not for his ows € us nd specially for those of his own ample. If we would have others ¢le-| houses he hath denied the faith, and ated must ate ourselves! 1s worse than an infiuel.” took papa’s oatmeal!” cried jitue, sharply, “It doesn't agree with m .Woman of It. By Helen Rowland. Copyright, 1916, by The Tram | She Says a Man Never Has Any “Grounds” for M “I didn't say I was thinking of getting a divorce,” retorted the B but he finds that he must have awfully strong, definite, © returned th |my valot is getting careless and neglecting me shamefully. Besides, Tm Yon which people DO got ‘em,’ agreed the Widow, “the reasons for which people dives imost frivolous and foolish as the reasons for which they agreed the Bachelor sotto voce, adequate grounds to marry on—love at first sight or a grande passion, or th & more solid reason than to marry a man for the shape of 180 returned the Widow of * os or soothes him mentally; thinking of marrying but a few of the attainments) which a banker must possess Such is the pe wishes have Howing him a So far as one quality can be rated to know wheth: If a banker were given to gossi is known as a hard|ing he'd have a lot of material he pay for his |draw upon, But the fact that, as imy his wifo is(the case of a doctor, to gossip’ would Begin at Home. N the iudividus Publishing Co, (The New York Kvening World), of getting married!” announced the Bachelor, i leeve with a self-pitying smile, as he detached a fallii m the cuff and thrust it into his pocket, t! Again?” exclaimed the Widow in mock eu grounds, Mr, Weatherby? fellow give ‘grounds’ for marrying?” m married Eve, because @#he was the-only-wo ed the Widow, enigmatically. “That's the sad, the matrimony, No man ever has any sane ‘grounds’ f ting rid of he: Bachelor cheerfully, “if you must have @ reagom, id tired of bachelor apartments and cabarets and restate want a Miele and—and the spring is coming, and"——- interrupted the Widow with a wave of hee, ur ‘grounds’ are about as sane as the ave morning-after spell of remorse, a moonlight # curl or the delirium of a new dance—those are the arry, When they don't marry for spite or 1 joke or Just—for instance, But you gine anybody getting a divorce because ted a change and the spring was coming!"" 2, iversion or f and wo “Frivolous and Foolish” Divorce. | SS, that is usually the matin and only reason why peopla declared the Bachelor obstinately. ver I am forced to sit through a wedding I can't pne another for the Hfe-Job of matrimony, And, alma ‘grounds’ I can see is that they dance well together, way she dresses and is proud to introduce her to ve enjoyed trotting wround to parties and cabarets t ht weeks—or just ‘because!’ If the clerk of the mi average young couple to make an affidavit sible reason!" “But what DO you consid exclaimed the the direc Widow impatiently, “The ‘grounds f antithesis of the grounds for divoree. For in iMty. If you can divorce for ‘e ity,’ you should select you know that he will be kind and gentle and chivairo for ‘desertion’ or ‘infidelity,’ you should! ty broke in the Bachelor scoft« ou can divorer nd devotion y fora m the Widow, with a shrug of her white shoulders, ‘tha’ t divorce a woman bec you didn’t like the way rund of her sachet, or becaw ‘divinely; but you'll marry her on just such elig men choose a wife as motor © ape and style inst balking or smash-up There should be menta’ —whereas there As to Marital “Preparedness.” “It sounds like Bugentes!” airily, “Bugenics is only the teent. eparedness’ for matrimony! For instance, an in, 5 for marrying a woman should be that she stim a hard-working business man's, that 6h him properly and relieves him of all the little worries he inspires him spiritually or braces him morally or © very type should have different ‘grounds’ for n ! Consequently, the poet un and”"—— HAREM, Mr, Weatherby,” interrupted d better stop thinking of marrying—just yet.” doesn't hurt me,” returned the Bach 4 cigarette, “because the more I think of it the leas he fewer ‘grounds’ I find for it!" By H. J. Barrett nm Se HW. J, Barratt.) T, acme, mind! or whether he lives quietly, what bis tective-those are! 8Tocer thinks of him as a’ risk, ¥o on ad infinitum All this is, of course, secondary to the actual statement he signs which, in addition to a searching analysis of the condition of his business, cov- such points as: Have you any contingent labilitiest Upon rediscounted bills receivable Upon notes exchanged with others’ pon accommodation indorsement? guarantees? bonds? doubtful accounts exclude® r statement of bills recety~ 1 » said a “And as im- as to a Judge is the truth througa} hoods and rescr-| is gained chiefly | on the money it Joan means liqul- | recklessly means | rpetual quandal finds himse iy) from. yo able? vorrow| What proportion of bills receivablegm’ cipal; are past due? ®, principal “"Aimonnt of fire insurance on build ag ie Beret id plant? statement of his Rechte of fire : » | chand ne ere | ag nitmen of, all ee enint, [counts are kep rd of the account: /""Names of all banks in which acl counts have been kept. Regular times of balancing books! Regular times of taking inventor st date of taking trial balance ‘Nd it prove? to thre ion insurance on me. banks in which ac iding upon our ny individual, we first, ability sec- ets last ins of importance not soon mean that he lost all his cus- tomers, compels him to be an ex- ely close-mouthed person as te« irds past or present customers’ elr- amstances, ia the his dis- what position we By Samuel Smiles By Permimion of Harper & Brothers, Kach man can exhibit the results his own person, He can begin witl a) reforms or in- | self-respect it we desire we], The uncertainty of life ts @ stron | Miss Jarr. ‘Do you want your eggs fried on Mrs, Jarr shook her head as though | both sides?” she continued, this ques- | in despair jtion being directed to Mr, Jarr, “If your father encourages y Ti only one egg fried on bo the way you act, what can I do?) sides, she asked, ou know oatmeal is| Hearing this, both Master Jarr good for you, Everybody should eat | his little declared they want eal, And after this until every-| their eggs fried on both sides, M does eat thelr oatmeal they shall) Jarr gave the je girl a shakin have n se nd Master Jarra slap and took th se in question hers E Waa uee waltlng for sou ta 'eat X tier sy sit oy Mr, Jarr said: yours,” said Mr, Jarr blandly |. mhink ce ack pilvas eating ‘ naver eat i,” said Mus, Jar’ lonely bachelor’s breakfast"