The evening world. Newspaper, May 12, 1916, Page 16

SEER OEE ERECT ER RRS SAE SRSA SSSR | net eee ht ee echt te ee - spect the character and motives of other governments and peoples, | Che Hy World. ESTABLIGHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Fxcept Sunday by the Pri Pudi 0h Park Row. New Tork, ne omeeny Now 08 to TATZER, Presid Park Rew, easurer, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS BHAW, Tri JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Cl Subscription Rates to The Evening |For England rs World for the United States Count: Matter. 4 the Continent an@ in the International and Canada, Postal Uniom One Year.. somes $3.50/One Year, ncsesmrsoessesmmoccees O85 One Month . seeses BO/ON® MOMEH...ussesssemsmwreneees THE QUESTION OF PEACE. IS natural for societies and individuals in neutral nations con- stantly to voice desires for mediation in the interest of peace in Europe. It is natural for Americans to hope the President of the United States may eventually be chief mediator. But it docs not follow, because Germany has let fall hints of a) readiness to compromise on something short of conquest, that tho) time has come for the President to put himself forward as the self. | constituted prescriber of peace to all the belligerent nations. | The situation is a delicate one, in which this nation must conduct | itself with reserve and dignity. A Ford peace expedition is one thing. | A government, which is assumed to understand the history and re-| cannot afford to act on impulse. / Nobody is sure the allies are thinking of peace. Russia is full of | confidence inspired by her successes in the Near East. Only two days ago the British Home Secretary declared impressively that until Ger- many is beaten there can be no thought of peace: “It is for us in this generation,” he said, “to settle this fesue and not leave to later years or to generations of chil- dren who come after us the heritage of finishing and com- pleting the strugsle ° ° ° “We must win complete and decisive victory.” France is saying nothing. Her silence is the more significa ‘Those who come to us from France report that the French mind now holds one fixed idea: To drive with gun or bayonet every German from French soil. From peoples engrossed in terrific struggle, heroically prepared for all costs and all sacrifices, officious peacemakers are likely to meet only with rebuffs. The peace societies may lift their voices as often and as londly as the spirit prompts. The President can. only move toward mediation slowly and with utmost tact. ———— DONE AGAIN! HE EVENING WORLD called attention to certain facts brought out at a hearing of the ‘Thompson Committee bearing on the “temporary” extension which bids fair to project for-} +4 ever in all its hideousness from the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge across Park Row. Hight yeare ago the city spent $90,000 to build this dismal etruc- ture with the understanding that it should remain only during the time of the proposed reconstruction and extension of the Manhattan ierminal of the bridge, and ehould “be removed immediately by the Commissioner of Bridges upon the completion of the reconstruction and extension.” Nobody has yet seen work started on a new Brooklyn Bridge terminal or any money from the Board of Estimate for that purpose. What is more, the B. R. T. clings to the present unsightly barn sus- pended over Park Row and refuses to pay rent for the $750,000 tunnel built by the city from the bridge to the Chambers Street ter- minal of the Centre Street Loop in order to relieve congestion at “he Manhattan end of the bridge. The whole situation is a fair sample of the way the city gets ‘and white elephants wished on it. The only bargains any- body ever makes for the City of New York leave it with all the costs to meet, all the mistakes to rectify and all rejected property on its hands. C—O HOW MANY LIKE HIM? FEW months ago a motorist who lives in this city was arrested for epeeding and fined $25. Last Tuesday he was arrested a second time for breaking the speed regulations. This time the fine was $50. He paid it, left the court house, jumped into tate car and was on his way downtown when a policeman stopped him, told him he was driving at a rate of twenty-three miles an hour, and served him with a summons. The Magistrate made the fine $100, What is likely to convince this automobilist that driving a motor car recklessly through city thoroughfares, pa: ing fines now and then when caught, is not a sporting proposition? Anything short of a night or two in jail or the loss of his right to drive at all? And how many other well-to-do motorists are in his class? ing and The poete: if he uses it herewlt, Sweetheart, 1 Hits From Sharp Wits don’t want or things which you might want at some other time, but can't use now.—Albany Journal, . . Your uh fad Vfouu U fear I The only way to beat the other fel- low’s game is to let it alone, ee 8 Most men who are always ‘(elling what they would do in another's place wouldn't do it if they were there.— Albany Journal. . Some towns are so small tbat they have no newspapers; but they have sewing circles,—Columbia State, ern Courtships.” ask members of the fal their wives. Miss Doolittle then read the follow- ing rhyme: the poetess with a heart and soul, lectured before the Live and Let Live Section of the Delh! Women’s Betterment League Wednes- day afternoon on the subject of “Mod- ‘The poetess's talk was instructive, in the main, and it is belleved the advice she offered the unmarried will be eagerly accepted by the young people of the town, many of whom were in her audience. An important feature of her discourse was her rhymed methods of proposing marriage and accepting or rejecting the proposal. Mrs, Blix E LLABELLE MAE DOOLITTLE, Pertle, introduced Miss in’ proposing arhyme, IT have written a poem of proposal and offer to those males who would ir sex to be Here it {i have pouced —(|¥Signs of Life Ellabelle Mae Doolittle — By Bide Dudley — Copyright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), The Jarr Family — By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1016, by Tee Prem Publishing Co, (The New Yoth Erening World) By J. H. Cassel The Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday, May 12. 1916 Our National Conventions The Story of Their Beginning and Development y Te te ng CO, (The New York Evening World), No. 1—The First Conventions. IATIONAL political conventions to nominate Presidential candidates were a gradual development, not an original creation, In fact, the whole machinery of choosing a President has undergone so many changes since Washington's time that nothing is left of the original devices save the Presidential electors, For the first forty years of the republic Presidential candidates were nominated principally by Congressional caucus and sometimes by State legislatures, The idea of a national convention of delegates was advanced not by one of the leading ‘ties, but by a euphemeral political eruption known as the Anti-Mo rty, growing out of the supposed abduction and killing of William Morgan in Western New York for alleged revealing of Masonic secrets. After organizing their party in September, 1830, the Anti-Ma: vention to meet in Baltimore Sept resented, and William Wirt of Mar Copyright, 1910 at a preliminary gathering in Philadelphia ng called the first formal nominating con+ , 1831, where thirteen States were rep= ¢ and was nominated for President an Amos I ker of Pennsylvania for Vice President, ‘The {dea was catching. The demoralized National Republican Part which was then in process of transformation into the new Whig Party, quickly seized upon it and called a national convention, which also met in Baltimore on Dec, 12, 1881,» Seventeen States sent delegates, who unanimously nominated Henry Clay for President and John Sergeant of Pennsylvania for Vice President. President Andrew Jackson was then in the height of his power. He was scheduled to be re-elected in 1882, but he saw in tbe convention idea a new snethod of “getting clo: people.” So Jackson procee o annex the national convention plan elop it into a political systen At his instigation of New Hampshire adopted resolutions proposing a convention as the real democratic method of letting the people choose their Presidential candidates instead of an arbitrar utoeratio ucus doing it, The ty press lauded the tion and the first Democratic National Convention*met in Baltimore on March 22, 1832, Jackson and Van Buren were nominated unanimously for President and Vice President respective! ‘At this convention Jackson had adopted the two-thirds rule that has prevailed ever since in Democratic conventions, despite sporadic attempts to overthrow {t, Just what was his motive is not clear, Some writers assert | that he wanted to show his power, Others believe it was t¢ come anticl- pated opposition to Van Buren in the campaign by being able to point out that he was put through not by a mere majortty, but by two-thirds, Later on the rule has been sustained to prevent delegates from States dominated by the ded by a small minority from Demo- cratic States, from ther and forcing on the convention a candi« uate to whom the great mass of the party was opposed. Whatever reasons produced the two-thirds rule, it has remained a fixture and has served to prevent nominations of candidates who have had @ majority of the votes—notably Champ Clark the 1912 convention, i) The: thre earliest conventions wer ot 1 to nominate candi- dates in a quiet, undemonstrative manne was no cheering, no band playing, no midnight caucuses, no trading, ‘They did not even adopt a platform or resolutions proclaiming party principles. This latter idea was developed by Martin Van Buren in the Democratic convention of 1840. t ri (To Be += Meusure your mind's height by the shade it casts —BROWN- Fables of Everyday Folks By Sophie Irene Loeb Covy 1916, by The Press Publis! The New York Evening World), Promptress of the Section, presided at the meet- attired in a blue sateon gown made ty Butts, the Dallas mo- diste, ascendid the steps leading to the rostrum in a most graceful man- ner and bowed to the right and the left in response to the applause which greeted her appearance, “It is my idea," she said, “that the young man can better tmpress the young woman your cooking, | v can Bey Deen looking Miss Doolittle's finishing poem was R. AND MRS. JARR were one of rajection. Jt went like this: taking a little stroll in the afterglow, marking in the store windows the things they would buy—if they had the money—until It occurred to Mr. Jarr to say: “But if we had the money to get the ma- hogany dining room set and the real Turkish rugs and the $400 hall clock with the Westminster chimes and the ie ncrat ‘She kicked the c Bot “getting back to Forge Yo take ne hit with tae wth out glass punch set and all the other Lad wedlipcchgedbruliade aie things we have been admiring, we'd At the conclusion of this rhyme Miss Doolittle said slre would sing her latest song. All prepared to gi ear and the poctess went to tl and let them have one called, Was the Lasy have cnough money to live sume- where else than where we do.” “J'm sure there are worse places than here,” said Mrs, Jarr, "The Stryvers have plenty of money and they live in this neighborhood.” “But a nice place in the country,” suggested Mr. Jarr. + There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in the glass.—_SHAKESPEARE. —— Doolittle. gusto. ‘All were well pleased. et Making a Hit. By Alma Woodward. Copyright, 1916, by Tue Hem Hubbishing Co, (The New York B ind World), Mrs, B, (plaintively)—You won't muss things up, will you, Freddie— after I've worked so hard and every- thing is so spick and span? Step on the littie pieces of paper I've,laid on the floor, because, you st the rugs up and polished the floors d I don’t want you to make marks on_ them, marriage thereforo ly, Mra! Brown R. B. (one eye half open)— What timezit? Mra, 3, (energetically) —Six= thirty, dear, ye vtin disguaty—Aw, what're| Mr, B. Gumping lightly as does the Hapaaer bn so early for? ‘There| mountain goat)—My dear, I'm ne iun't a fire or anything. he guy | beaver . (briskly --To-day'a the day rs. B. (suddenly)—Oh, Freddie, Eee 4 don’t sit in that chair, dear! 1 just Della and Lare going to get the apart- ment ready for the summer, We left had a new slip-cover made for It— and you'll stretch it at the seains tf one | OR meee & ets nied Sh pocm.|4¢ too lute last year, L told you wel you it on It before it gets the shape . | g “4 . a $8 ea r ; od e chair, you're golng to Court that if a man lends his wife/# jim, te ty ne ¥ | Station agent, was the first to ask for| die, Come on, get up. x ee ee ee tdua Dalia’ ava. tOAt money she is not obliged to pay it] makes him o ar ThOFe OF eee. a copy of the rhyme. He has been] Mr. B. (comatosely)—I don't hla te that cover is awfully hard to launder hack. ‘However, the women Kew] tt civics to be fole| KeePne company with Ann Ehaa|T slept well last night, Pm awfth) "od its so clean right now. t long ago.—Macon News. | icaan Parente aah a aitee ene fol | Cha: Silas Pettibone, Delhi's | tired. )-—Yos, L know. |. Mr. B. (calling ‘his goat)—Didn’t .. 8 | i \ of extreme | ober expert tonsorial artiste, also re-| Mra, B. (indulgently)—Yos, Wl you say this joint was going to be | reluctance.—Albany Journal. But you can so to bed early to-nigh There ist in the average quested tiiat he be given a copy, Ru- fixed for comfort to-night? the imparting of information to| ah, mor has it Miss Doolittle may hear| Just think how nice it Js wolng to be Mrs. B. (almost in tears)-—Well, it Flee Wows it all--Hoston| Ofttimes the trouble with the “man | her own rhyme from this source very| to come hone and find the place al'lis, Freddie, Only just these few Prenecript jof the hour” is that he arrives an | soon. fixe You're always complainyg |jitue things I'm asking you to do. 4. 6 | hour late Philadelphia Inquirer, ‘The poetess next read a rhyme of| Because I a Want y05. to ed How can you begin to get cranky We never noticed that it made al ike yi acceptance, All the time ghe waa de- | When you're witting in certaih SAS when I've almost broken my health aneear light-hearted to tell him! One-half the world does not know] livering it she looked at Mr. Petti- | snd on gocount of Mminoe te ane | doing itt not to worry,—Toledo Blade how the other half lives, at least and this was considered sig- | (ine ¢ horns tt ccuian Mr. B. (peevishly)—Oh, stop mak- oe lit suspects it does.—Memphis Com- The poem follows: ady for just plain COmfOr iy) —|ins a nolse like a galley glave! The f ees pes eo a Mr, BL Onin vs y place looks like a graveyard, with a It is easy » get things that youmercial Appeal. Wel that's worth something. My lot of monuments ready to’ be un- <3 =e meee gosh! I wouldn't know how to act if| veled; and you act like a mourner. L F he Banu Fcouid fo as mueate AY orn | im oing to bed, 2 ep m8 house! e all ¢ 1 ae etters rom the cop e Do wot fear say father one mite please, the Ane sime tm woing to have. a Mr? Brows ents A yd aes r . pas no tmaaon to soak soni Inthe nose, \After Mr, Brown's departure for downtown! Mr, B, (in a few minutes)—Bay, ; bees if tne), ti ree ny bed ie the Hon, Peter P, Doolittle ey yi so Nouse’ returns “Yea, ont “arag |What's the idea? | ‘The sheets on my i son took ' ti Groawan'e last night fletsnd. complatutog, meets him'at te door) | bed look like they're ready to be sent A farmer died, leaving his mules to ° d (nix) and the y Me Siam’ «'ealens cit frtght Mrs, B. (whining)—Oh, I'm go|to the trenches for bandages! be divided as follows among his three By BUN (two), But. I tired, Freddie! 1 can hardly drag}. Mrs. B, (sobbing! had to use all One-half his mules to the} The neighbor took back his own mule.) |) You. one foot after the other, I ‘always|the good ones to cover up the pedes- , one-third to the next son, one-| Every one was satisfied. Where in| | yyy snmt say, from year to year, that I'm|tale and statues, Freddie. I'll get ninth to the youngest. There were! the fallacy, readers NGL): Rank never going to do It again—and still |eome new ones to-morrow, nteen mules. As the three sons Adopted, Not Signed Iy | paved, youne women immediately|{ do, You don't mind if I don't] Mr, B. (sternly)—Lissen! To-mor- were quarrelling over the impossible | To the Baitor of The Kreuing Wors ened tor Sopee O the em. One! dress for dinner, do you, dear? row we DE-summerize this flat, Let task of dividing the mules without! Was the Declaration of 1 Ee 4 a) BOW yf Skeeter’ Mr. B, (patting her)--Why, no, of]us acquire flies, fleas, moths, silk- cutting them up, neighbor can Jence wigned on July 4, 1776, or merely | naa, OTAR LAY der ple lk by | course not, Now you just sit down | worms, hookworms, lepidoptera, ani- along riding 4 mule, He generously ted then und signed later? It. § \eanied iv! Ps a8. , said she) gnd rest, poor tired girlic! After all,| malculae--any exponent of Insect- RUGS nis nisie th tue other seventeen. | The Deciaration was adopled ddiy | Weincored eheut thet ele ia Lroene | MUIDUIAFIEIn. Whe Bak canes OBly ones | Olosy G+ aik-navertiiolem We Gee ‘Rete Dow vase yc TRY Bera o\ 8 - a year, now for some eolid summerize, Understand? eighioen, . 4 Wee vot signed unui daser. ling to ditch O'Brien, e , Mea. B, (meckly)—Yes, dass, =} tlon in comparison, He continued his very successful. The by snakes and attacked fierce s. And you know how our Willie is always running into danger, Not k and became nmediate mem- "vi heart a little than a dead one much, 3 better to mention how scared I'd be of tramps in some lonely place. Please, |don't talk about country to me!” At this juncture they encountered | Mr. Jarr's bachelor friend, dashing Jack Silver. Mr. Jarr never could figure out just how and where Mr. Silver dashed, but the ladies always | agreed that he was “so dashing,” evi- dently because he always darted away at hundred-yard speed when he saw any indications of any young women with matrimonial intentions crossing his trail “Oh, those wicked bachelor apart- ments,” said Mrs. Jarr, shaking an admonitory finger at the free and un- trammelled man. “I know what goes on in them. Poker parties till all; hours, and drinking and coming home In taxicabs at 3A, M. What you need is @ good little wife to take care of you!” Mr. Silver had heard the remark a few times before, but he took it as though tt was a very novel sug- gestion indeed, “Ah, Mrs. Jarr,” be said, shaking his head, as though futile search had discouraged him, “all the nice little vives are already married, The girls A rain spout that allows th Matteawan genius's skull hurdlers. Fish have no eyelids. “or Jarr for said Mrs, Jarr, enthusiastically, course, you could never get Mr to go to the country. He's all who would just suit you!" said Mrs, Jarr, eagerly, Not seeing any in sight, Mr. Silver began to bluff, “By Jove! I'd like to meet them!" he cried. “If I only knew some nico} “I really can't do it to-night girl who'd « for an old bachelor | wanted to talk a Jlike me, I'd give up this town mighty | Mr. Jarr. Huy | their apartments. “Come on in, Mr. Silver,” said Mrs Jarr, “I want to show you the photo- graph of an awful nice girl! whom I want you to meet soon.” Just with yowll matter over Facts Not Worth Kno By Arthur Baer. B YING a thing for a song is very costly if A Connecticut man has invented a foldi . da folding piano that refuse open when the family next door tries to play it a ach By the use of a Maxim silencer and a sounding board. “I'm just out for a little stroll,” ex- | Republican postmaster in Louisiana, plained Mr. Silver, “I'm living in bachelor apartments up this way, you 3 7 can my It begins to appear as if the United States will have Jarr, playfully But when Suppose that Me learned this moral: love ali wirg. ( to The Amalgamated Map Makers of the World have asked that the war be adjourned for a week to enable them to catch up on the maps, 1 left Dick or Harry who came along? Bu 8 the The Dead Sweetheart. s of his Gamily m ied or died, and upon a time there was lef ‘actically arog erred eave a *al| essed of excellent aap eid 1 Menai « made many friends. Often \ a etic and @ le would visit the homes of his boy= | tious, and his prospects were | hood acquaintances, where he found i vary. favorablen a many hy tend with a charming wife man had a@ fane: The fancy was} | He w vuld leav tfully and wisi for tain young lady. She was|he were like these men. Their lives Neocyaate Hii dusiory The young peered so full while his was so lone= all, telephoning me you had missed the) For six months they saw much of) share it me W. cons last train home, as that man Jenkins |each other. Friendship ripened into) Hrmed the vision of the does, His wife told me herself and|love. They became engaged. lr D> | Pera, beeeteg ak seine said if she could only sell their place | arations were made for the wedding, | tind lik : eompane in East Malaria she'd move back to{and the time was arranged on the| lor s remaining years, town mighty quick,” said Mrs, Jarr.|very anniversary of th hey had| | He bean to look about him Me “Oh, I'd be home, all right. Y'd like| met, It was all romantic and beauti-| Women, Hut we ior has Ligsiie vianne $6 have Sowers and I'4 like te vaiee| fun but fate decreed otherwise, ThO| that the young money ak eres chickens and vegetables, and it | Young woman fell ill und died frivolous, and the old ones rene 2 | At first the young man’s grief was he 7 seemed set, would be healthful for the children in} .5 yreat he could think of nothing | thins tov seinen ti kely, to demang’, ee 80 “a e could " ol oth Nines to hich he cot ” ‘ the country,” replied Mr, Jarr. eine, He then threw himself into his! himscit ‘becaues Cf. eae get maanee “I don't believe children are a bit} work with renewed vigor, hoping tof ite : ot his long lonely healthter in the country," said Mrs, [overcome his sorrow in this way. As} In a word, he } , id Mrs. i a Word, he had lost the eapacity Jarr. “They ain v mene [time went on, he met other young} for sharing his existence ae Late always getting scar-|womon, but he hud so idealized his|on being lonely until dhe ent on eee jet fever and whooping cough in the |first love that no others measured ing more and more tre sete country and no doctor within a mile !up to his remembrance of her. ‘They “companionship, and enue ; \ 1 er. The) antonshtp, u and then the danger of getting stung | all seemed to fall short of her attrac- ukes for teal haps iving sweet. you pay Caruso rates ‘hicago hotel jorchestra has managed to eliminate competition during the consomme cow 4 ree, Nest to eagles m the subway, the scarcest thing in the wortd is a support the Panama Canal for life unless some kind enemy takes it off our hands. ain to go only one way is the product of a Mexican jumping bean soup is the latest training table diet for conege ————— don't you go with Mr, Silver?” she asked of Mr. Jarr, who hesitated, “T never saw such @ man for always that are going these days would have|the city. And, as T often say to him,| Wanting to stick in the house!” no use for a confirmed old bach-|if only for the children's sake, we ure you won't mind?” asked Mr, elor"— should move to the country! Jar : “Why, I know several nice girls} By this time the Jarrs had reached "Now run along, boys!” said Mra, Mr, Jarr came in aiter a very short time she wag sitting in the gloaming, nursing her hurt feel- ings. street and ran off with any fom, you in the ohed way you al Jquick and take a place in the couns | wanting Min to come in with ye jWays treat me! And that h And that sel jtry, where T could have flowers and) "Why, no,” replied Mra, Jarr, swer Hack but what else “ : Nickens and vegetables,” iy. "We are through dinner, ue |My tected of a man who te we “Toat's the only way to live"! can take a litle walk wiih you. Why suugy to marry? |” td vet be to