The evening world. Newspaper, March 4, 1916, Page 10

She Veit lorld. ESTABLISHED AY JOSEP PULITZER Puvlished Daily Except Suni e ig Conioans, uae 6 ” Yor RAL IZER, P 4, Ga Part: Row, 1AW, tre ‘ * ' ~ Y ae Matter, | to T } For “ t Continent and j United Statee All Countr ) tos International and Canada al Un i One Yeor. ‘ iY One Month. | VOLUME 56.. NO, 19,919 | | TOWARD A UNITED NATION. i Vik vi -68 to 14-—by the Senate tabled Senator Gore's | resolution warning Aiwericans off armed ships of belligerent ' nations es the President substanti issurance, despite absequeni mut that his foreign policy will not be muddled by Senatorial meddling When Senator Gore exploded his trasiy bomb of rumor he littie thought to shock the Senate into rer sense of its dignity and duty. There can be no doubt, however. that hi sip about the President's alleged d for war helped to produce a reaction that resulted in yesterday's vote As amazement subsided the Senate The truer expressed by Senator Reed “It 1s of the highest importance that all the world understand that on any question of the rights of the American Government or the Amertean citizen our great people stand aa a unit, and ft should be understood that they will uphold, sustain and defend those rights, If necessury, to the last breath.” tion Was wel Honestly differing opi But assert them is not when a foreign power is pointing to every sign of dissension as proof that this Nation has neither will nor purpose and | may therefore be tricked and insulted without risk The Senate has put itself on record as determined to refrain, irom interfering with the Executive branch of the Government in! ite handling of the arined merchautman controversy. It is for the House to do likewise. Moreover, nothing is to be gained and much of the moral effect of a united nation must be lost if minorities of doubters and grumblers ar either end of the Capitol are to go on giving Geri the belief that Congress is still full of strife and discord. — it appears to have been the habit of the luterborougu to tite few vouchers fot all the bonuses and rewards tt 80 gener- ously distributed—and charged to the vity. Always careful not to let the left hand know what the right hand was doing esscaenenemmneeneted pd enanemeemene “THE DEVIL’S STRIP.” HE thickness of a man is twelve inches, according to accepted! army standards. Measurements taken by the direction of the Public Ser-| vice Commission show that when centre door surface care puss cach) other in certain sections of Broadway the distance between them is only eight and one-half inches. From Bowling Groen to Thirty- fourth Street, Broadway cars of the stepless type pass cach other with ‘ clearance nowhere greater than ten and one-half inches, | Ts it to be wondered that persons are caught and mangled be-| tween the steel sides of Broadway trolley cars? There have been | thirty-seven eerious accidents of this kind since Jan. 1, 1914. Three of the victims died. | To permit conveyances of any sort to run through a crowded) thoroughfare on fixed tracks 80 closo together that persons of average “sine are in constant danger of being rolled and crushed to death is uothing short of barbarous. The tracks in Broadway must be moved farther apart. Now, when several miles of the street's surface have to be re-laid over the new subways, is the time to do it. The Public Service Commission urges tho change. Borough President Marks and the Board of Fetimate should serve prompt) notice on the railway company and the subway contractor in order that the restoration of Broadway may see the final 1 of this meonece. | the time to 1 also has ite rights. und for ny gr ral a AMERICA AND JAPAN. “harees the Pacific lies @ proud, warlike people of soviai @réer end civilization eo dissimilar to ours that little sympathy oan exist Detween them and us. We have in self-protection vir- tually eweluded them, and they resent it. Our continuance upon our past course, from which we canuot now depart, involves a menace of the first order.” “On the close of the Kuropean war gur expanded commerce, cer vast wealth will invite envy and attack. Let us not be de haded by the wellaneaning idealiem of those who hope wars will a4 with the present struggle.” Jobo Purroy Mitchel, Mayor of New York. “Amertoan-Japanese triendslly is, I confidently belleve, not euly based om historical associations but aleo reste on ratione! considerations. 1 am not #0 unsophisticated as to say that the eommomic activities of the two nations are in perfect harmony ‘Their interests may sometimes come tuto ovilision, That cannot ‘ve helped eo long as each ie an independent community.” “As @ general thing, however, America and Japan will al waye be friends. The Pacific ts o vast that Japan's gain by bi economic developments thereon does not always mean America’ oes, or vice versa. Those who attempt to weaken the taterne- ‘fomal bond between the two countries are either blind to true conditions or have ulterior designs of profiting by the disaster,” “hk Japanese adage says, ‘If one dog barks @ falsehood tou thousand others spread {t as @ truth,’ and @ single miechiet. maker may cause very serious trouble between nations, To re nove international prejudices and suppress foolish talk of war 4, therefore, the bounden duty of every thoughtful man,” —Soichiro Asano, President of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Hits From Sharp Wits Very few people think it necessary We always nk we could bave five their advice @ try-out before| made a better world than this till we anding it to thelr friends.-Phila-| happen to glance sometimes at the telphia Telegraph. hwork efforts we have made with 7 »* own livee-—-Baltimore Sun, A man who never goer outa . . wet never gets on the Ineide of t oe et an argument with | . ~Deneret News, wife y by the way he calls S 4.6 “de | You must have observed that it te . always the poorest performer who ie, A woman can generally keep the most willing to play.--Philadel-|necret {f she gets about thirty other 3 women to help hi Macon News, etters From th L e People Mies Mlorence Martin Noe a Chriatiaw mt mo to wate | olther the Mina Seiencint, i © Martin” mentioned therein Zt. ye nambers of The fy The t x n Horton ror are World of ring the any way whatever eecapade of 2 wir] who left ler home| With the Christian Holenoe movement, ia Boston without her porenta’ cons gent in the hope of becoming a mov ing picture actress in New York, por- ROBERT B, ROBB, Christian Hetence Committee on Pub- | =| The Evening World Daily Ma The Rebound! 1 it ¥ if & —- By Marti The Week’s Wash n Green — Copyright, 1016, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World) seems to me,” remarked the head polisher, “that it ought to be a simple matter for the city to keep tab on the Interborough.” “It ought to be a simple matter, greed the laundry man, “and It would be a simple mattor if the Inter- borough kept simple books. But the Interborough and other public utill- ties corporations of thiv town, in or- der to avoid their taxation and other obligations to the city, have built up a syatem of bookkeeping that 1s de- signed to hide rathor than w reveal the facts, “Bookkeeping 18 supposed to be a sure fire method of keeping track of all the detalls of a business, The public utilities corporations, includ- ing not only urban organizations ca- tering to the needs of a city's popu- lation, but railroad companies en- gaged in interstate commerce, have built up a system of accounting that se iw not understood by even the ac- countants who keep the accounts, i} “The old ‘profit and loss’ accounts! which carried extraordinary payments under the primeval system of book- | keeping do not figure any more, They have given way to cryptic, hide-out wooounts designed solely for purposes of concealment, For instance, a straight system of bookkeeping would have charged the Interborough bo- nuses up to profit and lows, They were taken right out of the funds of | the corporation as gifts and could not properly be charged to salaries or expenses. The Interborough di- | rectors, instead of going down into! their own pockets and dixging | wards for Mr, Shonts and oth put over the subway down into the treasury ‘obody but the stockholders would have had a right to kick against this had the Interborough — followed raight accounting lines and charged | the bonuses up to the corporation Instead, by devious bookkeeping. they charged the bonuses up to the city It is quite Ilkely that If the Inter- | borough directors had not known the | gifted accomplishments of the ac- counting department and had not had jul confidence that the bookkeepers ke the citv Hable for sald bonures would not have | been awarded.” j “W Who Told? HERE do you Gov suppos ment got that the against " asked the tte Congress was five ithe President's foreign poltoy n one to |th head polisher. ‘The German Government has never Jacked sources of information in Vashington,” replied the laundry an, “and generally they have been about us reliable as that which pu orted tc form Her of the feelin ongress, Of course, it i imposl- ble to say juet who told Ambassador Wernatorf that Congress was over- whelmingly German, but th re is a precedent that may furnish a clue. sent his first ‘strict accountability’ note relating to American citizens kilied in submarine attacks, William Jennings Bryan, then Secretary of State, who had signed the note, pussy- oted around to Dr. Dumba, the Aus- trian Ambassador, and informed him, in effect, that the noto was a bluff. Mr. Bryan was wrong, but Ambassa- dor Dumba didn't: know Taking the information of the Secretary of State in good faith, he passed it along | to his Government, and a consider- able part of the complications which iave arisen since may be traced to that bjt of misinformation. Mr. Bryan generally runs true to form.” Front 8 i errr? SHE,” said the head polisher, “that the New York Democrats have climbed the Wilson bandwagon.” “Well,” said lauadry “when there is only one bandwagon in the parade and it is essential that you should ride it 1s good policy to get up close to the driver,” “ on the man, CA Daughter’ | —-By Sophie tae Copyrigit, 1016, by The Press Publisbit courts. Every detatl of evi- dence on both sides ‘will be brought vo the front, The secrets of & bo and a girl And yet, if the young woman had but opened her heart to ONE person—her mother—who knows Lut the tragedy might never have occurred and that HE Lambert case is before the are to be laid bare before the world. the girl would have been alive to-day to look forward to many golden years? 1 know @ young womun who tn- forms me that she would rather tell things to ANYONE ELSE in the wide, wide world than She confides in her scliool friends and even in her brothers, but she shrinks from telling even trifling. girlish se- the | crets to her mother It Is because this mother has never ENCOURAGED or Invited such conti- dences, In hor attitude toward this {girl sho has treated the big things of life as @ mystery. She claims sho wants to keep her daughter “inn cent’ as long as possible, Therefor when any experience comes along the girl meets It ALONE; for, no matter how harmless the occurrence, if ft has |the least grown-up tendency the | mother squelches it and puts the ban on it, |°"rhey cannot expect young women lto go about with unseeing eyes. Curiosity, dlusions, romance are part of their natural instincts, It bee hooves the mother to realize 8 youthful teudeney and prepa tor it, There should be secrets withheld from mother, | No woman should punish a childish misdemeanor so severely that the next tine when a simtlar thing occurs: Leation for the Btate hid del York, | “We recall that when the Presidgnt | the Knowledge Will be kept from her her mother, | ? gazine, Saturday, Mate —— By Roy L. RS! JARR'S visitor, the dashing matron, Mrs. Clara Mudridge- Smith, loitered on, enjoying herseif to the utmost as she wept @ refined and genteel tear or two and recounted her troubles in being mar- ried to one who had everything in the world to gi as she con- stantly rep ical uni- gon, Mrs, Jarr had no great amount of sympathy to dispense. “T think, Clara can do without psychology and uni- yon so long as you have clothes and furs and everything else you married old man Smith for, Did you marry him for psychological unison? No, and I'l tell you why, You hadn't heard the expression uttered by some female parlor Socialist at that tim “You were so busy trying to cateh tho old fellow and all his money that when I told you you mightn't be as happy with him us you might be with excep psyoho! ut she suid, “you s Confidence Irene Loeb —— ing Ov. (The New York Eveuing World dn order to avoid punishinent It Marian Lambert had but gone to her mother, instead of to her echool chum, who knows but that all the sorrow and isery might have been averted? ) her ould be the first to forgive and fu She should be the first to encourage toward better | {nelnations after wrongdoing Who knows but that if this girl hi thrown her arms about he: mother’ neck and sobbed out her sorrow, the comfort and consolation that would have come might have compensated for even the lo#s of a great love. An- other joy might have been brought | into the etri’s lite in the form of new | ambition, a new hope, that might have softened pain and saved her from her. seit. Lut she fought {t all alone young shoulders were not broad enough to bear the burden—the bur- den of secret regret as well as unre. | And the quited love, Only a mother could have said: Never mind™my darling! There ts a great big world and much js in store for you. Never mind if proven falthiess, ‘Ther fine, true men that you have never met. You have lived so little and there are so many years before you And, as for ain, let him who ts with. out it cast the first stone, “Besides, my dearest, | here T am, | your mother, right at your side TO | STAND BY YOU, whether you are right. or wrong, ‘until death do us | part.”* Only mot Vo, row 1 love, can heal any linmediate wound, and The Jarr Family “i h McCardell —— Copyright, 1010, by The Presa Publisatog Oo, (The New York Brendng Word). some one with neither his years por means, I remember distinctly your reply was that you would rather be an old man's darling than a young man’s slave, espectally if the old man Was well to do and the young man Wan not.” “But,” whimpered the younger m tron, “but what are the merely ma- terial things when the epirit yearns "I don't know," replied Mrs. Jarr. "Yet, if 1 remember correctly, your spirit used to yearn for the material things. So does my spirit at times.” “You are happier than I ami!" sniffled Mrs. Mudridge-Amith, “after all, what te my life? Slavery, gilded slavery!" “How would you like tt slavery wasn't gilded?’ Jarr. “How would you like the slavery of making over old gowns and old hats and the slavery of living in a flat and the slavery of worrying about how to dress your children, and the slavery of getting older and your income getting smaller and your ex- penses getting larger, and yourself getting stouter and your husband getting bal “My husband {s bald, very bald,” whimpered the visitor. “I am not getting stouter—that 1, net much, and, besides, I don’t think you should speak in such sordid terms! Isn't there some ethical plane where the spirit may soar and contemplate the 1%" suppose there is,” sadd Mra. Jarr, “put it's bard to find the ethical plane when you're trying to find the ethical moans to pay your ethical bills.” And here Mrs. Jarr’e eyes rested hungrily on her opulent visitor's costly gold mesh bag. With an inward sigh Myre. Jarr real- ized that one of the hardest crosses to bear in life wae to have prosperous friends, They never do anything for one and It is costly keeping pace with them. The poor but proud do not care to borrow from their better-off friends, and they are too honest to rob them—opportunity seldom occur- ring—and with this thought Mrs, Jarr slut her eyes and thus lost sight of the tempting gold mesh bag. ‘There was a brief silence, and then the visitor, who had oome to be com- forted and not reproached, murmured that no one had any sympathy for her and prepared to go. Mrs. Jarre veard the gold mesh bag jingle. 1 sorry, Clara," she said, “that T can't sorry with you. T can't it your ethe time does the rest. The big thing Is for every daughter of us to under. stand that mother ts the very best friend and always hay been since the days of Eve. worry about @ higher plane to rest my tired apirit on, when it has been Ger- trude’s day out and I have been a0} yto is hollow, hollow, hollow! busy all day that my oaly though! asked Mra. | A 1018 The Woman of It. By Helen Rowland. 1018, ty The Pvee Pybiiealug Ov, (ihe New York Mreuing Wo: The Siren in the House” Can’t Hold a Husband, * remarked the Rachelor, regarding the Widow com a | she Say | “] SE by the papers heltotrope silk ankles m tively, “that the divorce question Samm | at last been solved! | “Whieh ‘divorce question?" inquired the Widow, nonchalantly, "Wain is my Wandering boy to-night? “The firet!" interrupted the or ‘How shail T pay my lawyer? or'——« helor, promptly. “Or rather the questiem of bow to KERP your ‘wandering boy’ from wandering. An Indiana ‘ees | tress’ says that It can be done by wearlng—er, that is, with sili stockings” ' “Really!” cried the Widow, clapping lor Jewelled hands delighte@y. | “How interesting! But hoy you use the silk stocking? Do you @er {him to the morris chair witi it? Or do you simply blindfold him wit @ do jand Gini in the way he shouki go? Or do you strangle him witt Ut, or'— “You dazzle lum with it!” broke tn the Bachelor desporately At leqmt the levturems as f ‘nore silk stockings were worn there would Be tower divorcee,’ “But,” prot every day—and t an tries ted the Widow, “more silk stockings ARE being worn how can she make such a rush statement? And not only are more {atockings being worn, but more of them are being SHOWS than ever Deforete “Yes,” chuciied the Bachelor, “The silk stocking appeal is becoming: aa and louder every minute!" eee ; ! ener! 66 ND the masculine response is becoming feeblor and feebler!” sighed A the Widow, “Never since Kve first discovered ‘clothes’ have there been such sartorial wonders, #1 mad rage for lingerie, aa@ |indifferent! Never have womea been #0 gorgeously and effectively gotten | UP a# they are to-day—and never have they seemed tofhave jess hold eu ‘the masculine heart and @ontiment, Why, the man who ten years age | would have gone three blocks out of his way to follow a pretty anklo peep» half way to the knee as they pass by on Fifth Avenue to-day! Poutl jand the Widow flung upfher hands in tragic disgust. “HOLD lyou can't even CATCH them with a silk stocking in these days |" “Well, don't blume us!" ed the Huchelor defensively. forever? All eilk stockings look alike to me!” he hummed noncha! | “What that ‘lectures’ meant, I suppose,” went on the Widow reflectively, “ie that if husbands eaw more Jace and silk stockings around the house they would find them less of a fascinating novelt Pitth Avenue. Bw “Nothing but--what?” demanded the Bachelor, “Tommyrot!” answered Widow succinctly, "Die & House’ never held @ husband! The moment a married womur work ‘the lure of the #tren’ she loses out. Haven't you ev | while the wife to whom a man sticks ‘till death do them part’ ¢# invarial ‘plain, brown, simple little thing who fairly shrieke of cotton and all- ‘There is only one way to hold any man for life, and that ty to ¢ la NECESSITY to him. No man ever clung to anyt | sofa pillow, whether she ts his spur or © ching poet, or only his sedative, It te becaues sho happens to be Just the one he needs that he sticks to her! The moment @ married woman stops com lcentrating on that fact and begins to concentrate on bunting and beauty ‘competition with the ‘Juxurios.” And the world is full of younger and move ‘fascinating luxuries! Geen Sirens Wiit on Warm Hearthstones. ‘a H, I don't know!” pvotested the Bachelor chivairousi: “But not to her own husband!” rejotned t w To be a successfui ‘siren’ one must huve the distance that lend: enchants jive this untversal struggle to be ‘The Siren in the House’ that {s turndeag | matrimony from a sune, solid, lifelong compantonsiup into a temporary, distraction. It'a awfu' | “Great Scott!” exclaimed the Bachelor desperately, “Do you mean te Rete ! Mother Hubbards, and"— 1” int | sett as attractive as @he likes—for her own amusement, Hut as far 49 hole ling her husband ts concerned it doesn't make any difference whether ahe ltaxes his last look at hie wife on her wedding da; After that he only STENS to her!" bs Jed women all eo mad about the new beauty; cults and so crazy about clothes “Because,” sighed the Widow, “as the racing man saya, luxuries’ instead of cause it seems More romantic and fascinating and exciting—Just as if there could be anything romantlc or fascinating or exciting about marriage! echoed the Bachelor cheerfully, "But can't a woman be both @ luxury amd & necessity to the saine man?” © number of divorces is increasing proportionately! Se " } The Death of the Ankle-Lure. $ [Regiigees, and fine feathers! And never have mep been more b ane (ing from an uplifted skirt, won't even glance up to see Mfty anklew disp! | pect us to got excited over what ts our dally portion to-day ‘that te nothing but the vague hallucination of a fallacious philosopher. ite always the beautiful, all-silk women who figure ia the divorce cow ‘didn't actually NEED! Whether @ wife fs a man’ cures and—and eilk stockings, she ceases to be a necessity and enters into ent. It can't be done m the vantage point of the hearthstone! Agé that after mueriage a woman should put on woollen sockings en@ “Not necessarily! rupted the Widow calmly. “Let her make heme | wears woo! or all-siik or cotton, Because, from that standpoint, @ mam n why are the mar nd things?” demanded the Bachelor, wrong dope!’ They are pining to be “And just as if a man ever married from any but ‘necessity!’ ree,” answered the Widow sadl “but not at the same time!” eda The Newest Form of Water Wagon. Siow the, abanner Ma weil bY HE missing link between land ; ch mast is teashed | I and water travel has been | @! the top of one of these Dermeaneus { : Uprights and held place at bridged by the sailboat au bottom by fork which in fastened Not only the boat itself, but ite suile and masts are carried on this new- est form of “water wagon.” To permit the maste of @ small gailing boat to be folded back out of the way, an Illinois sportsman, who frequently transports bis craft on a motorcycle trailer, has secured f@ short substantial post att of the cockpit and at the bow. to one end of the boom. It is a matter of but a momenta time to raise them for sailing, saye Popular Mechanics, and when they are lowered, cros# country runs may be made easily and without danger of the masts striking the lower linbe of trees or other overhead obatrug- | tions which might b them off, ‘The arrangement also permits the craft to be used for paddling with: out serious inconvenience Thrift we By Samuel Smile ee ee } By Pormimion of Harper & Wrnhers ts No. 28—Save From Your Wages, | in “nrosperous times” they epand 3 vor | thelr Bains recklessly: and when ade “ ° HE number of well-paid yore verse times come are at ones men in this country has be-| plunged in misery Money is 30% come very large who wigbt| used, but abused; and when wane eastly gave and economize, to the| earning people should be providing improvement of their moral weil-be- against old age, or for the wants of & growing Uy, they are, in ing, of their respectability and Inde-| many cases, feeding fo dlecipation pendence, and of their status in so-}and vice, Let no one say’ that thie Ig Clety as men and citizens, They are] an exngwerated picture, It is enrugl to look round in ¢ and see how much ts » Uttle ts saved; what a {mprovident and thriftiess to an ox- tept which proves not less hurtful to their person=i happiness and do- ight rho mestic comfort than it 1s injurious] tion of earnings gocr to the + to the soclety of which they form @o| shop, and how little (o the suvings fmportant @ part bunk or the benetit socte . eng jnow is tor kind, Mr ee T Youble with you tj jor low, to rest my t ¢ bey S asina 5 ’ | Te visiac ° jremark, and the |“ will go now," she said plainuively, |Jingling her gold m “for even one whom I thought my best |'ly, "At least,” My friend has no sysmpathy fo! me. to her husband hollow, hollow, hollow! snapped pity!” "Ob, nousense, Clana!”