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te eFhity world. ESTABLIGHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Published Daily Except Sepeey. by ho Frese ebitshing Company, Nos, 03 to lent, 63 Park Row. TZ) Pri Ratered at the Office a| Second-Class Matter, Subscription Rates venta For bine and and the Continent and ‘World for the United States Canada. and One Yoar~....... One Month... +801 One Month ct Rant VOLUME Bier uevenvsssiivssisf ssesssanse AB Countries in the International Postal Union, One ‘Year.. NO CODDLING FOR THE P. S. C. HE Senate did not pass the mandatory eighty-cent gas bill for the relief of gas consumers im South Brooklyn without acath ing criticism of the Public Service Commission for dodging its dnty and foisting its functions upon the Legislature. Nor was it felt that Senator Bhompson of Niagara exaggerated the situation when he declared: “This case is absolutely a scandal in ite lack of enforcement of the Publi: Service Commissions law. Com missioners make orders in perfect terror of threats by corporation law yers that cases will be taken to thé courts.” The record of the Public Sefvice Commission of this district of fers little to controvert the charge. Its handling of the Brooklyn gas petitions was only one instance of its habitual timidity and dawd ling in the face of clever corpomtion tactics. Created to defend the public, it could not even hold its own ground. Invested with extraor dinary powers, it left them limp and unused. | And now, though reinforaed and reconstituted, its first thought has been not to assert the authprity the law already gives it, but to sit back and lament because it hafn’t more! | It will do the Public Serfice Commission no harm to hear plain, talk about itself. If it is to @urvive it will have to stiffen its back- | bone and exert its powers insfaad of mistrusting them. ——— 4 In the Preparednes# Harade next month we are told there will be no uniforms, no horses, no carriages and no advertise ments. How are we going to know it's a parade? ——_—_- 4 -—____ SAFETY FIRST. OUBLING the night inspection forces in new subway excavations is highly necessary for the protection of the public. With more than 12,000 subway workers, including the timber men, out on strike, the possibility of cave-ins becomes a serious danger | against which every precaution must be taken. Public Service Commission engineers report that they are on the | lookout for weaknesses in shoring and strect coverings, and that they have ordered the removal of all dynamite from the tunnels and cut- tings. They have the still vivid recollection of what happened in Seventh Avenue and in Broadway last September as a reminder and} a warning. Much travelled city thoroughfares are just now little more than roofed-over chasms. The knowledge that expert workers who have had charge of keeping the complicated system of supports and braces in proper order are no longer on the job is far from reassuring. It} is a time for the Public Service Commission to fee) its Milities | and prove its vigilance. | The demand for Justice Hughes's opinions on current is increasing. So is the Colonel's supply of similar — + - —_ —__ LETTER CARRIERS’ PENSIONS. NOTHER effort to provide pensions for Uncle Sam's letter carriersin their old age focussed itself yesterday on the Post Office Committee of the House of Representatiyes. This city is glad to note that a number of its organizations and business men urged the committee to report favorably on a bill intro- duced by Representative Griffin of Brooklyn, which provides that employees of the Post Office Department who have become too old for active service shall be retired and pensioned. Nobody has to be told what faithful service we get from the letter carriers, who make their rounds day after day through heat and cold, sunshine and storm, nor is any argument needed to prove that the job is too hard for old men. Yet in this city there are said to be ninety postmen over sixty years of age still carrying their packs, and nine of them have served nearly fifty years. It is difficult to understand why a nation that has lavished hun- reds of millions of dollars on pensions should have ignored the claims of the postmen. The President, it is understood, stands ready to sign a Post-Office Pension bill. It therefore rests with Congress to right a long-standing wrong. Hits From Sharp Wits | i Personality is something a young) Experience is a better teacher than! man always gets from his mother’s|the fellow who knows it all,—Toledo| Gide of the fumily.—Philadelphia In- | Blade, 1 quirer. 28 6 ad The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday, April 8, 1916 The Week’s Wash were rising against the ‘When it ingoe: re persons who wonder why shown that the Gov- " Socialist vote grows 80 ste see The old-fashioned man who pro-| One of the easiest things that imag-| Posed on his knees now has a son ination does nowadays |s to create the| WhO proposes when she is on his conviction'that one can afford to own | Knees.—Columbia State. an avtomobile.—Albany Journal. a's ee Sometimes there is such a thing as giving @ man an office which forever afterward bars him from earning a living.—Nashville Banner, oe Much time that ts wasted on wishes might better be utilized by thinking thankful thoughts. Men are supposed to wear suits this summer to match their hair, but) we really can't imagine what the baldheaded men are going to do ee 8 When a man finally wakes up on the morning after a banquet he be gins to think up an excuse aud finally puts the blame on that last olive. Macon News, Letters From the People Overcrowded Movie Houses, rled @ Dalmatian. To the Kéitor of The Evening Work! enna and For the assurance of theatre goers| U (at moving picture theatres especially) the managers sbould make a practice of selling only enough tickets to give people comfortable standing room and not overflow the theatre or make nw, after buying tickets, stand in the lobby to wait until others come out. A movie theatre I went to r 1 was born in Vi- now am a citizen of the ited States. RS. No. ‘To the Kc.tor of The Evening World Do “vice versa” and “dito the same thing? BA Ditto means “the same.” “Vice ver sa means “the revers Wants Trolley Routes, To the Kaitor of The Evening World that the| 7° cently oA gg Sogo A wholly | For the sake of myself and others aisiee Li pA M would | WBO enjoy outings, will some experi- clear. a O, ere would) enced reader please describe the heat way to Stamford, Conn., and Philad ‘What Nationality? phia, Pa,, by trolley? Pillage Yo the Rditor of The Brening World: What reader Is enough of a genealo-, gist to inform me as to my nation-, To the Kay ality?) My grandfather was a Bohe- Is the molan. He married a H rian. tather was born in Hungagy and mai IRVING D. first My always observed as Labor Monday in Sepgember baj R can 5 marghed dow: to the footlights to] And when it got very, very high he | , . — By Martin Green — | By Roy L. ee ~ | Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Prening World), | Copyright, 1916. by The Press Publish! al Se difference between the|the music of ‘The Star creneied| RS. JARR sat in the parlor with > “4 it - boys are| Prising the voting population of the Mrs, Rang Both wciea BOG) Meare Our Hoyas United States, would rise up and give looked at the clock as it struck chasing Villa, and the news} three rousing vheers, They got away|eleven, Mrs, Rangle burst out laugh- from El Paso and other points north} with it too until Henry Ford ap-l\ny wphey are at their old tricks verti stifying to me,” de- | Peare soto tf * Lealeyeald br ies Ar aa “Undoubtedly Henry Ford received | again!" she said clared the head polisher a heavy nan vote in Michigan,{ “You may laugh it off that way, “It must be mystifying to the pub-|but the bulk of his vote—all Repub-| pry Rangle,” said Mrs. Jarr sharply, lic at large,” agreed the laundry man,|lican, remember—appears to have; ™"* © : “although the difference is explain-| been cast by people who sar | "but fm sory togny thet lay seens bis Henry's peace principles; and he is! of humor isn't so strongly developed able. The news from the front 18 4U-! for peace at any price. Certainly the| «Op, well,” replied Mrs. Rangle thentic. The conflicting news from| Colonel can't get that vote. Michigan! iningiy, “what's the use of getting ce either based |i# a re ntative Middle Western | 89° y - . pay ede ean vdetite at sly faked by | State. Further West the women vote,|mad about it? If the men always on gossip or is deliberately Y and they are all for pe Can the | pehaved they'd be so good there would persons in the employ of interests | Colonel get their votes? Rees ichithent: ‘Shes aneials which want the United States to in- » . [eee cre os an ange maveumlabar tervene in Mexico, $ Pity Poor Royalty! ~ Inaved and ‘are easy to handle for a “There are interests which want \ ARPPOPOPODPDPPPODION) i a ah eiwarat to make troub between Carranza “ anid the head pollater long tim: a . : and this country and provoke a ‘a f * m glad you can look at It that Inspired by these interests, We began | hat some of our leading mil-| yay gaia Mrs. Jarr, “but how would fl y way to hear, soon after our troops had} Monaires are passing the hat to! ii cy ike it if we did such things?” crossed the border, that the expedi- | paige $300,000 for the Queen of Eng- pee . " tion was insulticiently equipped, that MN tho’ Cearina and’ the Presidenc| “Olu E knew when they telephoned the men and horses had no water |!@nd, the Czarina bis that they wouldn't come. But, and starvation stared them an the | of France: eros eAeeed Siva Hanele: face, also that the Mexican people | d still,” said the laundry man |"When men are perfect they get so self-righteous, I'm always suspicious ernment had provided for furnishing pe i MR AL : supplies, we began to hear how the Where we love is home—home that our fect may leave, but not soldiers were suffering from heat in the daytime and cold at night. ‘The our hearts.HOLME | soldiers, we heard, were sometimes | ——— —— = — Junable ‘to their faces before | 5 aataoniaeanaadh’ partaking r scanty and irrexu- | Q lar oo Their cruel officers wouldn't let them put. on thelr pa oney aaqness jamas before retirin, And as for pie, it Was unobtainable. : Ys lz 5 » a “Inthe meantime messages came | By Sophie Irene Loeb from the correspondents at the ‘front | . . stating that outside of the hardships Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) which every aod must expect, our HAT a fool! What a fool I] was called to the Great Beyond. He boys were having quite a pleasant ania si e| had a iew months to reflect on his little excursion with plenty to. eat have been!” now groans the) dea snned, He saw before him one ine and rink, The natives were friendly, confessed poisoner of Bi8/divigual after another whom he had the correspondents said, Our people wife's parents, "I am notldriven very close to the were buying food for man and beast insane, 1 wanted to live} With whom he had m tight bar- and paying real money for it, and iM gains, and yet others whom he had this course of action was making a|luxuriously, 1 wanted money—lots/ orig down to poverty in order to hit, of it, I wanted to have it so mueh| jake them pay him when they could {Buch Information made the fak-|that I took this chance, I'm sorry |lenst afford it ers rabid. Now they are trying to| ¢,), » girl back in Grand] He never knew what it meant to show, from El Paso and Washington, [for that little gir have the sympathy and love of a good that our troops are being surrounded | Rapids. Now I want to atone woman or the good-night kiss of a by stealthy Mexicans bent on anni-| And there you have the tragedy Of\jittle child. He told all this to. the | hilation, The very papers which were | money madness, The old adage “mur- | strangers that were about him at the the loudest in urging the President | ger wilt out,” has not yet failed, but |last, and he wished he had it to do to avenge the Columbus massacre | hay ever been an example that sounds /over again, It was too late—as it is are now doing their best to nullify |. warning against money craving. | “too late” for the poisoner | the expedition ‘This tragedy has certainly evidenced} 1 know a woman who sold herself | : it toan old man that she might have | £ One in the Bye. ; | How many people dig: for riches, | Silks and laces and automobiles, “She | o> § the root of évil, to claw the aip later | Pall dearly for them, | She lost tho © you think Rooseve je {ih regret and remorse! ‘The wild de-|companionship of young people like 6s ink velt will be | She for money has been the undoing |berself, She had to give up joyous d by the Republi: | Sf inousands thousands who do not |#ssociations, She had not a moment | | ft asked the head pol-| go to the extreme of killing their fel-|to call her own. For always beside | isher jiow men, Yet they Kill many other) ber old man wit eh “Well,” replied t laund man, | things, They kill love and gratitude vi 2 ning, res pia ee 1 Blita hieged aay | and appreciation and friendship and], She was wardly 10 leave and | i ‘atter ASOGOFS AF “lihw kissed and even the human instinct In their rush firht tt out for fear of poverty {made up it looked like a cinch £ for gain that would come if he willed his |Pheodore until the primary election! 1 know @ man who worshipped Meney elsewhere, out in Michigan pushed Henry Ford | Mammon to such an extent that ne ee einen ores aa ay into the limelight again, with 62,000) was always at his idol's feet. He) ich wetter it is to be sate with a votes providing the motive power, | never married because he hadn't time ¥ “ Ry i vi little than to be sorrowful with much The result of that primary was noth. | He did not cultivate nis close kin be In tho Inst analysis, can enjoy ing less than a punch right on the| cause ho was “too busy” to bother! yyy a certain limit of money. After Colonel's political eye with them. He never had # vacation, | that you spending only for the The Colone! and his followers! because he always looked forward to! shendins. All those who have gone have been of the nion that when| the time when his pile would be high before and paid the penalty will tell he wrapped hiiself up in the Ameri. | enough for him to leave the piling-up | yr that it ie better te tave low then pulled his sword and] process, [pjenty in peace, than to have fortune in fear, The Jarr Family McCardell — ing Co, (The New York Evening World), of saintly husbands.” “How you talk!" said Mrs, Jarr, “In all seriousness, I think you en- courage your husband and he leads my husband off! You may take it easily, but when Mr. Jarr comes home I'll show him!” “What will you do?” “I won't speak to him for a week! That's what drives him wild! No, I mean that I will give him such a talk | that he won't forget it the longest day |he lives! Then I won't speak to him for a week, And I won't be home any more than I can help, and I won't get up and have breakfast with him. Oh, I will do a lot of things that will fix him!" said Mrs, Jarr grimly. “Well, I have only this remark to make,” replied Mrs, Rangle, “I want- {ed to wait till I was a little cooler, |but I think it very unkind of you to |insinuate that it is my husband that |keeps Mr, Jarr away trom his home! The shoe is on the other foot. Mr. Rangle thinks too much of me to dis- Appoint me, and I'm sure he would |have come home if it were not for your husband!" | “I won't quarrel with you, Mrs. Rangle,” said Mra, Jarr, with asperity, ‘but L will say that I wish my hus- band had never met yours! Mr. Jarr thinks because you regard your hus- band’s staying out till all hours with a lenient eye that I should do the sam “MrggRangle never stayed out, Mr. | Rangi® never drank, Mr. Rangle was | | KYwdness itself till be met your hus- |band!" declared Mrs, Rangle. “He 1; others | would never have treated me in this | manner, I am sure, if your husband hadn't been with him!" “Tam sorry to differ with you,” said M Jarr, “but Mr, drinking man, he isn't now, but your | husband—well, | better.” | “I'l bid you good evening,” sald | Mrs. Rangle. “I am glad my husband time Mr. | nico | when Jarr is along, come | promised.” So saying, Mrs. r ery igh - yar od very frigid good Biany and ge seated on his bicycle operates the “Wait till he comes home! Just | &fndatone by foot power. A water- wait!" said Mre, Jarr to heracif, 1# can and a table over the front “This is what comes of making free with common people!" Just then the faltering step of Mr. Jarr was heard, He let himself in | with a key and stood beaming in the doorway “stall right, my dear! S'all right! | Was detained on very important busi- ness, Meeting of Board of Directo: most impostams meeting, Brought Jarr was never a} the least said the) x A London has was kept away by your husband. A I'd have going anywhere and IT am more than pleased that they did not home to take us out as they Rangle gave Mrs, The Woman of It. By Helen Rowland. Coprright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World). She Says Everybody Has “A Little Man From Egypt.” GHI" exclaimed the Widow, stamping her small foot impatiently at her reflection in the mirror, as she viciously jabbed @ Jewelled hatpin into her newest spring “creation,” and twisted the tortured bit of straw and flowers around to a new angles I hate it!” “Oh, don't say that!” protested the Bachelor soothingly poor, pretty little thing done to deserve such brutality?” “Done!"/repeated the Widow bitterly, giving the hat a little quirk ovet | her nose, and considering it hopefully from the side. “It's cost me a pretty | penny and made me miserable for a week and kept me awake nights and insulted my nose and misrepresented my face and altogether made life hideons for me! Nothing—not even a man—can make a woman suffer like {an unbecoming hat. Besides, it’s the wrong shade and the wrong style and [ | hated it the moment I bought it!” | “Then what on earth made you buy it?” inquired the Bachelor, with masculine unreasonableness, as he sank back in the morris chair and waited | for the April storm to blow over. | “Oh, my ‘Little Man from Egypt,’ I suppose!” answered the Widow, | dimpling like the sun after a shower, as she snatched the offending hat from her curly head and flung it onto a defenseless chair, “YOUR Little Man’ began the Bachelor in astonishment “Yes,” the Widow nodded emphatically, as she turned to ring for the tea, “Everybody has a ‘Little Man from Egypt,’ Mr. Weatherby,” she announced calmly, “Otherwise, how can we explain all the foolish, Idiotic, inexplicable | things we do—against our own wills, our own natures, our better judgmenta, our common sense, and even our principles—especially the things we do in the spring, tra-la?” rrr ; “He'll Get You—If You Don't Watch Out!” Hy 6“ A ND in the good old summer time!” added the Bachelor, with a remte ‘OH no use! “What has the niscent shudder. “Yes,” gurcled the Widow. “This is the fatal season—when the ‘Little Man from Egypt’ Will GET you if you don’t watch out! He's just full of guile and impish tricks! Otherwise, how can a bachelor explain his |inability to keep from proposing to the first pretty girl he meets when he had fully made up his mind never to marry? How can a nice girl explain | her inabittty to be angry at being kissed by an attractive man, ‘against her | Wil? How can we explain the little white'fibs that perfectly truthful people | are prompted to tell on the spur of the moment, and the catty, sarcastic little remarks we make when we Intended always to be kind and noble and gener= ous? How can a woman explain her inability to keep a secret that she promised herself on oath she would never divulge? How can a man explain | his perfectly irresistible desire to flirt with every pretty woman he aces, when his heart is promised, sealed and signed over to only one “We can't,” broke in the Bachelor vehemently, “We don't even try to explain ‘em. We're only human.” |__ “Oh, yes," mocked the Widow bitterly, “that's the masculine versiodf | Whenever a man protests that he's ‘only hur ." you may safely conclude | that he has just done something UN-human or inhuman! If we were ‘only human’ we'd all be good and noble and able to live up to our ideals. It'e human nature to aspire to the highest and wisest and best and noblest that is in you—but the ‘Little Man from Egypt,’ that is in every one of us, won't let us, He's our aboriginal self, our little ‘personal devil’ that each and every one of us carries around with us. Even St, Anthony had a ‘Little Man from Egypt’.”. And the Widow sighed pathetically, ‘How nice!” exclaimed the Bachelor delightedly. “How nice and irres |sponstble you make me feel. When do YOU feel the ‘Little Man's’ influence most?” he added, with the solicitation of an allenist studying a violent case, nner ss | j And Yet He Is @ Prize Winner, ; | ¢ 6 H, when I'm shopping on a charge account,” answered the Widow, \ O “and see hundreds of pretty things that I don't need and can't afe ford; or when I'm lonely and bored and meet a nice, susceptible boy, who needs a sentimental education, or when I know that T ought to go |to church on Sunday morning or when I'm walking in the moonlight or drifte ing in 4 canoe on a summer afternoon, with—with anybody, or"—— "Great Scott!” broke in the Bachelor desperately. “He must be with you every minute! Now, as for me, I NEVER feel his influence—except when I get up wit, a grouch and want somebody to blame for my headache, or when I have made up my mind to save money and somebody gives me a tip on the market or when one of my domesticated pals invites me out to his suburban home and turns the rose-colored lights on matrimony, or when I am face-to-face with an irresistible temptation like—like THIS!" and the Bachelor bent swiftly forward and illustrated his meaning before the Widow could open her lips to protest. “Mr, Weatherby!” she exclaimed, when she had caught her breath. “How DARED you “T didn't! protested the Bachelor vehemently. “I didn’t even want to. It was the ‘Little Man from Egypt’ who did it, against my will and my better judgment and my higher nature and"—— “Then I've been kissed,” declared the Widow, blushing furiously, “by « perfect stranger! And,” she added, “I ought to send you away this ver’ |minute and never speak to you again Oh, please, please don’t!” pleaded wouldn't do that the Bachelor. “You couldn't—you “Oh, yes I would,” returned the Widow positively, “only—only my ‘Little Man from Egypt’ won't let me.” The man who fears nothing is not less powerful than the man | who is feared by every one SCHILLER. For the Easter Shopper 66] DO not want to pay more than | | 50 cents for any of my Easter | gifts, Can you suggest some larticles that come within that limit?” in only 60 cents, Then, at the same This is a query easily answered. ‘1 fh bles upon | Price, there are fancy sewing sets, at- |Some of the shops have tables upon) tractive pintrees—a’ pleroed rubber |which are only articles at 60 cents! all with a stem net into a tiny tub, and there may be found a variety of| From the ball protrude colored head. pretty brooches, even those in the ee mien ie share, ere wate tops, i jewel settings that som jnew Bakst effects, shell bracelets att Ml Weald Reptectacs: aa ce eee |1n rhinestones, the large single pearl) saiiy made from scraps and reallly hatpins, silver rings with attractive|attached. A practical gift for the |stones, amonz which are the Cleo-| little one is one of those blue or pink patra ring, silver-plated lavalieres,|chambray rompers, at 60 cents belt buckles and shirtwaist sets. There! For the child who fusses about are barrettes and fancy hair orna-|taking a bath the floating toys are ments, Then there are coin purses, | usually an excellent inducement. For vanity cases, perfume bottles, fancy |60 cents you can get a swimming doll picture frames, key-rings and book-jor a duck followed by ducklings at. markers, Something new in key-|tached by means of a chain to form rings has the initial set into it—these/ a toy about 14 inches long, at the end are 49 cents, At the same price is a of which is floating a fish: new design in book-markers—a sim-| For the baby there are attractive ple bright silver cross, rattles In pyroxylin at 50 cents. Quite A boutonniere in @ neat box can be|appropriate are those in eBe-shape, had at 50 cents, and there is a varied | suspended from a ring. Another egy. assortment to select from, Pretty] shaped rattle has a revolving head fans can be had at the same price, at the top. Then there are the n A pillow of cretonne or linen would| tion picture rattles. By turning the an appropriate gift to the invalid.} handle the rattle revolves and dis trinket box, about two by three plays on the interior pictures from inches in size, bound with satin, hast nursery rhymes, a rabbit's head of white kid perched on the top. Ribbon bows ornament the neck of the bunny and serve as u andie for the drawer, A pretty or- nament for the dressing table, und it \be ja A Combination Bicycle and Knife Gri itinerant knife grinder in 4 tee ingeniously at~ . nder A tached his grinding apparatus to his bicycle by mounting a grind- stone above the handlebars and con- necting it by a chain with a grooved pulley, which is fastened to the side of the back wheel. By means of | bracing legs the wheel is lifted slight- ly above the ground, The grinder wheel, for cutlery not being sharp- {ened, complete the outfit, | — BY PERMISSION OF POBAAR Mac navn 54 |— you home a souvenir’ Here Mr. Jarr disclosed a small tin pail, which he gravely emptied on a ‘dish that stood in the centre of the table. It had once been chop suey. But humorous friends had evidently added such edibles as cigar stumps, toothpicks, pickles, cheese and other free lunch delicacies, Then he sat down on the sofa and fell asleep "Oh, well,” said Mrs, Jarr, been good for a long time,” Then she woke him up gently ana saw that he retired in good orde:, “he's,