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KEE Te World. ESTABLISHDD BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Dally Except Sunday by the Preas Publishing Company, Nes. 53 to 63 tA New York. BpANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 Par JOSEPH PU ientered at the -Office at New York as Becond-Ciass Matter, to nies ning! For England and the Continent aa@ ‘World for the United States and Canada, Gubecription Rates All Countries in the International Postal Union, $8.80] One Year. -8010ne Month. THE PRESIDENT ON THE PRESIDENCY. BROUGH the Prosident’s strikingly intimate and personal talk to the National Press Club ran a thought that expresses the T the table legs sticking out the back end of the wagon, ce A grouch, when he talks about the “good old days,” has in mind the| time when his Iver was in perfect running order and he saw sunshine in who is trying to interpret the spirit of his country.” ° ° ° ton" © © © “I am put here to interpret, to register, to suggest and, We know Americans who have no use for such « notion of the got down and stood with it and tried to grasp its will, or a President | Would it rather have a President who, when he sent an ultimatum ultimatum from an eminence and handed copies to the country he might be measuring up to the nation or a President forever exhort- Fair questions and not untimel ee AND A HALF DOLLARS a ton will be the price of increase in miners’ wages the usual thing has happened. The It is calculated that under the new echedules domestic consumers coal bills of at least $900,000. What this means to wage earners who threatened with the loss of a penny. sion was watchfully waiting to come to the rescue of the public in gation,” or just condolences? HE Kelly-Cromwell bill passed by the late Legislature to put has the support of the Safety First Society and the Police Department, Attorney General Woodbury, consulted by the Governor, has pro- live in other parts of the State. New York City is permitted to operate or drive it unless he | it anywhere in the State without such lecense solely because owner of a motor vehicle whose residence is outside of New required of him, ‘Thus people who are residents of New York | this city constantly balks and tangles legislation. Surely it should| shape that won’t stand close inspection, it properly he shan’t drive it at all. If legislators, local authorities! wealth is indeed at a low ebb. “My goodness, those people cer- such a cellar?” The foregoing is from Chivalry i ; everything.—Toledo Blade, Wilson ides of representative government: “You can imagine the strain upon the feeling of any maa “Just because 1 did not feel that 1 was the whole thing and was aware that my duty was the duty of interpreta- “I am not put here to do what I please. If I were it would have been very much more interesting than it has been.” more than that, and much greater than that, to be suggested to.” Presidency. But how would the country as a whole declare itself? Would it rather have a President who, in @ great national crisis, | who climbed to the topmost point of the White House and proclaimed what he meant to do to give the nation a soul? to a foreign Government, went and read it standing among the people’s representatives in Congress assembled, or a President who issued his afterward? Would it rather have a President whore constant hope was that ing the nation to measure up to him? IS THE CASE CLOSED? domestic coal in this city by next July. Following the recent coal operators have shifted the burden to the retgilers and the retail- ers have promptly handed it along to the consumer. of coal in New York will have to reckon on a yearly increase in their buy coal in small quantities is plain enough. They have had to shoul- der additional loads of this sort every time the coal barons have been This time, however, we were assured the Federal Trade Commis- case the coal companies adopted their usual tactics. The companies have acted. Now what is the public to hope for-—relief, an “investi- A BUNGLED BILL. I a check on reckless motorists finds no favor with the Gover- nor, who will veto it as unconstitutional. The measure, which requires every automobile operator who is a resident of the city to take out a license from the Secretary of State. nounced the bill unsound because it makes a distinction between owners of motor vehicles who reside in New Yyrk City and those who “Under the provisions of the bill," says the Attorney Genera}, “no owner of a motor vehicle whose residence is in | takes out a license, There being no restriction as to the place | of operation, it would follow that he could not operate or drive of his place of residence, ‘On the other haud, under the language of tho any York City may operate and drive it anywhere tn the State. even in New York City, without a Hccense because no Heense is City are discriminated against.” | Here is another instance of the way the up-Stute attitude toward! be possible for the State of New York to formulate a uniform license law for motorists in the interest of safety without tinkering it into a The only effective way to put a stop to lawless motoring is to muke it possible to say that if the owner of an automobile fails to drive and State officials can’t get together on that ground, irrespective of | party or local interests, then legislative efficiency in this Common-| Hits From Sharp Wits tainly left this house in a dreadfully dirty condition! Did you ever see the conversation of every woman who has moved.— Pittsburgh Sup, is woman's pretty cheap when the . You never hear anybody saying of @ man who has sand that his name ts mud Often the man who claims to sleep like a log doesn't take the trouble to explain that he means as quietly as a} log that's having a circular saw run through it.—Macon News. oe es ee “There is a woman's head on our nny,” says the Be Transeript, ‘3 why money ta Humbta Never judge the new nelghbors by Letters Sta ‘rom the People Méewaie Kanes Hons, blocking every one tn the rear who may wish to hurry past them, To the Baitor of The Ereuing World Jand even foreing those they meet to Much has been printed about over- | take to the curb to get by them. This crowding the street cars, subway andy{s not only rude, but unfair “L.” but I think a little something|pedestrians. And the women are not needs be said about overcrowding the| the only ones who have this disa- eidewalks. There are “sidewalk hogs" |greeable habit. There are plenty of who are just as objectionable as any | men just us rude, either thoughtless) “ear-seat hogs.” I refer to the people jor with full knowledge, but selfish dis- and |regard of what they are doing, Gour abreast, carrying T. MoR, to other | > “This Is Confidential” — By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1016, by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), “ OW this ts confidential,” sald a friend to another a few days ago, and to-day they are friends no longer—perhaps en- emies for life—all because the words “This is confidential,” being #o com- mon, were forgotten, The story was an interesting bit of gossip, The friend told ANOTHER friend, and he in turn told ANOTHER, until the person about whoin it was told heard it. He remembered to whom he bad given this “confidence” at first hand and reproached him, with the result mentioned, It ty the most ordinary thing in the world for some one to say to you, “Now this {s confidential,” and then ko on and tell some commonplaco inatter that means nothing, That is why the important tssues often are treated curelvosly. ‘There 1s scarcely a day that some one doesn’t say tt to you, In fact, it {g an expression sé common that with most people “it goes in one ear and out the other.” * How much harm ts dono by these confidences cannot be estimated, in |the case mentioned above a friend- ship has been spoiled, a happy couple separated and several people made | miserable. I know a grandaunt who, every Attle while, makes a trip to the aitic, opens an old chest and takes out “a bit of lavender and old lace." She hugs it close to her heart and the | tears trickle down her face, The last time she wore it was the | happiest day of her life—the day that | “Hi” had asked her to be his bride, | the day he had told her he loved her, Soon after a friend came along in| the spirit of fun and said: “Now this |1s confidential.” Then she heard a tale about another | love be had hud, She was young and impetuous, and broke it ali off, After be married another she learned that the tale had been dis- torted and had Kittle of the signin. @ Joke and she told another, The busybodies got busy, and the girl's lite was made unbearable, Finally, thinking to escape the evil tongues, she married the man, They did not love each other and have both been unhappy ever since, When, oh. when, will people quit ATING things that might cause misery? It is always done so thought lessly—mostly to “make talk.” The safe rule is to keep confidential conversations to YOURSELF, If you MUST confide in some one about your own affairs, choose only your closest friend. And, above all, remomber that the every-day words “This is confidential” as a general — By Roy L. “Who Does He Mean?” xrzeitha, By J. H. Cassel The Jarr Family So rnetate McCardell —— Copyright, 1916, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), 66]_JOW often have I asked you not to run up any bills?” said Mr. Jarr testily. “I'm not running up any bills," re- Plled Mrs. Jarr. : “Here's Smank & Co. left a bill for me ut the office for $51," asserted Mr. Jarr. “That's my own personal bill and they had no business to bring it to you. So you need not worry!" eaid Mrs. Jarr, with some asperity, “Your personal bill!’ retorted Mr. Jarr sneeringly. ‘The women have thing act “like water rolling off 4 /evem the laws made to suit them, If duck’s back," you bad all the money in the world -+--——-——- The tron chain and the silken cord, buth equally are bonds,— SCHILLER. (Our National was J Th unau a year when the odds were against. ants were Lewis'Cass, James Bue mer Vice President. the convention that met as usual in One after another the four them could secure the necessa K, Polk. He was den jcance given to it when told to tis woman, ‘To-day she is the “old maid of the \gumily," having lived « loveless life, | IL know a wife who told her woman chum something about her own hus- Dand's t in the same “cont The [dential sy The Story of Their Beginning and Development. AAA AAR AARP RRR AL OAD ADDO R OPT OLOL OD fateful two-thirds rule which had been inau for his benefit now deprived him of the nomin aside, but failed, and his chance to win was windidates attained the lead, but none of two-thirds, ounced by his confreres for having deserted , for whom he was instructed. that he had voted three times for Van Buren, and then saw, as everybody Conventions Copyright. 1016, by The Prom Publishing Co, (Tho New York Evening World, No. 3—The First Dark Hor: N the see-saw political days of the forties, when Whigs and Dem- ocrats were winning alternately and new third parties were springing up every campaign, there was entered the first dark horse in a Presidential race and, with the luck that usually attends such strategy, he won both nomination and election, mes K. Polk, a Democratic member of Congress from Tennessee, who had been mentioned merely as a possible candidate for Vice President » was fine promise for Democratic succe Whig party was full of dissension over President John Tyler and the polit- teal pendulum gave every indication of swinging back, Wins, His name s3 in 1844 because the Henry Clay was the nous choice of the Whigs, and he was fated to get the nomination in On the Democratic side Martin Van Buren, who had been elected Presi- dent in 1836 and defeated in 1840, sought another nomination, His contest- anan and Richard M, Johnson, hie for- Van Buren really had a majority of the delegates in Baltimore in December, 1848, but the urated twelve years before an, He tried to have it set st, A lone delegate cast his vote The delegate replied vigorously else did, that the favorite could not win, Next the sylvantan had voted for Buchanan, who also Was proving hopeless, So he decided to swing to Polk, “the bosom friend of Andrew Jackson a pure, Whole-hogged Dem- ocr This was the first convention of | cheers isses cand e) en fights noise and . Exciting debates, hall over both candi- Knowledge was Vused to the advantage of auuther and | date ex. In the midst of this jampshire announced alinvst ruined the husband, its vote for Polk and a stampede was 8 he dark horse, On the 1 acquainted with & girl whol ninth ballot be received more than the required two-thirds and was declared |lives in a small town, “One day inal the nominee, ae ot ta a nearby town fe £| When It came to nominating a Vice President convention thought drive, A storm overtook them and they were compelled to remain” all night. wirl returned home the next Her home people understood tt; sho told a girl ttle jaunt, enjoin. day. but unfortunately friend about th ing “confidence, |to ple Wright of that State. ute the Van Buren men from New York by naming Senator Silas ‘The first telegraph wire had just been set up by Prof, Her friend Was an honorable} &, F. 8, Morse to connect the convention hall with the Capitol at Washing and everything was quite proper, | ton, where groups of Senators and politicians we getting the news, | A brief written bulletin was posted in the rotunda announeing the nom- ination of Wright. The Senator was tndignant at what he regarded a be- trayal of Van Buren and immediately despatched a telegram to the conven- tion declining the nominatton. George M. Dallas of Pennsylvania then waa you wouldn't have to pay the bills, but I would be responsible for yours!” “I haven't all the money in the world. I wish I had,” said Mrs, Jarr, “and it 1s a good thing if women do have the advantage in law. ‘They get the worst of it everywhere else. “Oh, they do, do they?” replied Mr. Jarr. “They have the best of it all the way around. But there's no use discussing the matter, What I want { to say to you Is to stop running up bills. “You stop spending ull the money you make and then [ won't have to run up bill; said Mrs, Jarr, “Any- way, there is a mistake in that bill. 1 only owe Smank & Co. $15." “Oh, that's all, is it?” replied Mr. Jarr, “And here I've gone aud paid $51 when you only owe $15!” “That will be all right,” suid Mra Jarr, “i have ¢ % & lot of things for the summer there, and if you have paid--let's see, fifteen from fifty-one will leave how wmuch? Thir- ty-six dollars, you say? Well, don't you see, I can take it out in things I need, and then you won't have to pay for it, and I'll have the money that 1 had put aside to pay this bill to get something extra with.” “You had the money put aside to pay the bill?” asked Mr, Jarr. “I was going to ask you for the $16 to pay the bill, and then put it aside,” ald Mrs. Jarr. “And now I suppose you won't give me the money simply because you have paid the bill.” “Is that the way you do business?” asked Mr, Jarr in amazement, “I'll bet if they had sent you a bill for fifteen when you really owed fifty- one, they’d be in @ hurry to let you know a mistake had been made,” “You mustn't say that,” said Mrs. Jarr. “Smank & Co, are lovely peo- ple to deal with, and, as I was say- ing, I need a lot of things from thers and now I can get them, after this mistake has been corrected, and we won't have to pay for them," “Why won't you have to pay for them?” asked Mr. Jarr, “Because you've already rt paid too much, don't you How stupid men are!” said Mrs. Jarr ‘These men aren't so stupid,” re- plied Mr, Jarre, "They have got $36 over and you are going down there to spend this money--that 1s, tf you can convince them a mistake has been made in thelr account.” “Yes, but don’t you see, even thon I'l be out $15?" watd Mra, Jarr, “How will you be out $107” Mr. Jarr, “Because I was going to get $15 to veo? ed To the friend it was somewhat of named Vice President and the Demooratic ticket triumphed at the election, pay that bil, aud now you've gone [ + By Helen Copyright, 1916, by The Prem Publiaiug Co, (The New York kvening World), O, what is this in my Beloved's | morning sun or a silver polish j What ts this in my Beloved’s eye that maketh {t to | vanity and covetousness when he gazeth upon the glories jdasher’s window and sceth himself a vision arrayed therein? What is this in my Beloved’s oye that causeth it to ligh approach of every damsel in # picture hat and to follow after and “chickens,” the blonde and the brunetté alike? } What is this in my Beloved’s eye that causeth it to glance surrep- | tittously at his own reflection in the What 1s this in my Beloved's eye What is this in my Beloved's eye | What is this ‘n my Beloved’s eye | sporting page? jin meditation? What is this in my Beloved’s eye mistake it? For upon five days of the week eth GOOD to him!” Selah! g00d women practice.—HOLMES, HERE'S lots of money (and| | quick money at that) In rats- ing ostriches. You can't very well raise one in your flat, of course, nor so far north as New York. But, | Biven the right location, It's sald to | be a bonanaa. Here's the idea, ac- cording to Popular Mechanics: There are a number of States where | the climate is Ideal for the propaga- jtion of these birds, At the present | time there are ostrich farms in Ari- zona, Arkansas, ‘Texas, California and Florida, with an estimated total of 8,000 birds as against less than fifty twenty rs ago, most of which were in circuses, Fifty or « hundred acres planted In «italfa and stocked with ostriches should net the owner a princely income. not leave her exes ied by the rays of the sun. They are simply covered with sand to protect them from the heat. Hoth male and female take turns in sitting on the eggs, the male bird being in steady attendance during the night and the female during the day. At the end of forty days the little chick Sayings of Mrs. Solomon |rangeth his cravat and tippeth his hat more Jauntily upon the side? street corner where he may behold the feminine parade go by, and to or up every damsel therein as though she had been “sent up on approval? Ostrich a “Get-Rich- Rowland eye that maketh it to glow as the advertisement? ine with of the haber it up at the “squade” darkened shop-window while be ar that maketh him to linger upon the that maketh it to hesitate yeurningly before the green baize door of the tavern as he passeth? that causeth it to glitter joyously at sight of score boards, and baseball signs, and gaze fondly upon the yellow What is this in my Beloved’s eye that causeth it to linger upon the flaw |ist’s window with delight, and to pause before the confectioner's windog What is this {n my Beloved's eye that maketh him to scrutinize hice self within the mirror so intently when the barber and th | the manicure have done their utmost to make him beautiful? bootblack ant that maketh {t to glow with Joy amé | anticipation even as the eye of a babe upon a Christmas tree? | Verily, verily, it is the “Saturday-Afternoon-LOOK!" And who shal a man gazeth soberly out upon tt world and seeth naught therein to delight him; but upon the SIXTH day | he fareth forth in search of adventure, and whatsoever hie beholdoth “look Yea, he is as a house dog that hath escaped the leach, a schoolboy that | playeth hookey—and his Middle Name is “IRRESPONSIBLE!” Belf-abnegation is that rare virtue that good men preach and Quick” Bird Incared in the egg begins to pick at {ts shell. Each female bird lay of fifty-five esus per year, from the age of four until she reoches middl fe at thirty-five. Thereafter unt! the end of her life chapter, at the age of about sixty, she produces no exes. Ostrich eggs are valued at about $5 each n y black feathers, which t valued, come from the male ostrich. while the female yields the drab-colored plumes which go through the vartous processes of dya- ing and bleaching before they become st of women's fashtona! «lua of ostriches {n compart. son with cattle shows @ large pree ponderancs in favor of the former, A head of cattle, for instance, wilt eat sixty pounds of alfalfa a day against ten pounds for an ostrich, At five years of age this head of cate tle is worth perhaps $49, while ag ostrich at the same age ia worth $309 or more. There is nothing to the cattle but meat, while at ten month the ostrich will produce $10 worth of feathers, and thereafter from $50 to $150 worth annually Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers TT season of chance-inet ac- quaintances is about to begin. In the parks, on the beaches, at the summer resorts hundreds of) (girls and young men will be tempted to indulge in the practice of “picking lup" friends of the opposite sex— practica which convention condemns, nd with more reason than exists Cor ome of her other taboos. It is unwise, and in many instances \actually dangerous, for a girl to be- jcome friendly with a young man who |bas not been formally presented to jher by some one whom she already knows. And though there ts less risk, perhaps, for the young man who “picks up” @ girl, such a procedure is most indiscreet on his part, When you go out for recreation {t ts not |necessary to fraternize with casual jstrangers in order to insure a good time, and I hope that my readers will avoid this practice. “K, B." writes: "Tum seventeen and By Arth A yak isa wild or, Any one with a lighted candle. for three months have been accepting | the r the attentions of a young man who me loves and who: love, My riously object to his ate Do you think it wrong for hin secretly?” think that as long as you an. under age and living at home you muust obey your parents, “W. K." writes Tam enga; young man who ts very fon mother and sister. I think that te admirable, But he always says be is Just as fond of his sister as me, and that his pother must ale Ways come first. Do you ia ‘ shania come first?" SUT think that a man should lov irl he wishes to marry better mien anybody in the world. But if he doesn't I don't know what can be done about it—except giving him up, “B. Y." writes 1m @ youn, deeply in love with @ man nine ron my senior. Do you think the differs ence in age matters?” N necessarily, although such @ PAnCY a8 You mention ad k of matrimony, a ie tos of hig disc Facts Not Worth Knowing ur Baer Copyright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Preaing World), HE supply of Yucatan stsal far exceeds the American demand. would be wild tf he was called a yak, The surest way to discover @ leak in a gasoline tank 18 to look for it Always be courteous over the telephone. Sturt tn by apologizing to central for spoiling her nap. For cool wear during the summer months a Georgia man has invented @ vestless button. A Milwaukee dentist guarantees to fill false teeth without any pain, chimneys when families go away for June. ————_————_—- and paid it, when, as T told you, It was my own personal bill and 1 would have attended to it.” “Didn't I tell you that you can't responsible for every bit of credit you get?” asked Mr. Jarr, who was now really mad about it. “And why shouldn't you be? You're my husband, aren't you?” asked Mrs, Jarr. that corrected and bring me buck the difference,” have any personal bills and that I'm janythin “[ suppose T am,” sald Mr, Jarr,! “And can't you let me have the “and now I want you to go right|$16 I was going to ask down there with your bills and have | this bill? A Matteawan sctentist 1s busily engaged on a scheme to utitize vacant the summer. About any solution at alt will prevent auto radiators from freezing in a “You won't miss tt now th have paid it,” sald Mrs, Jarr, Pose I hadn't told you that had been 4 mistake ade, would you have said “I suppose 1 wouldn't!” gy wat AUD Brumblea “Well, please, let me have tt! Mrs, Jarr, “Oh, all right, you can have i," piled Mr, Jarr, said ree you for to id asked Mrs, Jarr, ur 0, I won't!” said Mr, Jarr, And % with he did uot, Aren't some men