The evening world. Newspaper, June 15, 1916, Page 16

ESTARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Dally Except @unday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to 4 Park Row. New York. RALPH PULITZPR, J. ANGUS SHAW, JOSHPH PULITZER, Jr. Entered scription Rat eeeaieieianteamiaanteeteadaanadeainietecatameiaiaaeas — ad — The Evening World Daity Magazine, Thursday, June 15, 1916 ¥ By J. H. Cassel Cm Rae mg on eens ener (Sayings of Mrs. Solomon | By Helen Rowland. Covrright. 1916, by The Prom Publishing Oo. (The New York Evening World), ¥ Daughter, consider « woman's RHASONS for marrying; for, bee hold, they are stranger than Truth and lighter than magazine Fiction! i: Lo, I questioned one of these, saying: One ¥. 62.80] One Year ‘ ; “Why, oh why, dost thou want @ Husband, Foolish One? For it hath One Month » Naolone Month. h | come to pass that the world is filled with many other interesting things CARRANZA. A situation is better deferred until after the St. Louis Conven- tion, when no ery of politics can be raised. NY official move on the part of this nation in the Mexican But ebviously the time las come for plein talk to Osrransa. { Conditions in Mexico have not improved, as the Firet Chief would) have this country believe. Lawlessness still prevails along the border and in a dozen other places. Anti-American demonstrations are ine| creasingly frequent. Clashes between the United States troops and Carranza soldiers are already reported from Chihuahua. is intensified. Rumors of uprising and rebellion in various parte of Mexico are current. There is even grave doubt whether Carranze can count on obedience from his own lieutenants, Yet this stiff-necked top-piece of a staggering Government reiter- ates his demand for the withdrawal of American troops, insolently| insinuates that President Wilson is playing politica at hie expense and | repeats the old balderdash about having the disorderly elements in Mexico “satisfactorily in hand.” Out of scrupulous regard for Mexican rights and independence, the Administration has been most patient in trying to put faith in the Government under which the Mexicans seemed moat likely to rally. For the sake of Mexican public opinion, which Carranza has constantly used as an excuse for his surly talk and actions, the United States has borne with his cantankerousness. But now, for his own sake, he should be warned to stop, look and listen, His attitude and his words are offensive. His policy is danger- And as for the control he claims to exert in Mexico, Americans are one and all from Missouri. ——-+-—__ ous. Political problems are producing symptoms of distress in the Park Row vicinage. The Tribune's weather vane won't stay put and the Evening Post seems to have decided to sup \ port both candidates and see what happens. | —— THE NEW TRAFFIC COURT. OR the greater safety of the city etreets much can be accom- F plished by the new Traffic Court opened gesterday by Chief Oity Magistrate McAdoo, with Magistrate House as the first incumbent of the bench. Sitting five days each week this court will deal with all cases involving violations of the motor vehicle laws, including the conduct ind responsibility of persons who drive automobiles. “A clinic for the cure of speeditis,” as Magistrate McAdoo called it. Tt has become more and more apparent that motorists convicted of reckless driving have not been treated by the Magistrates with! a uniform measure of justice. Too often, as Secretary of State Hugo Il fooling CARO eA 0 ar ae Steere eet eS i» deside husbands.” But she made answer sorrowfully, saying: “Verily, verily, I want somebody to hook my evening gowns and ta Dowder the back of ny neck! “I want somebody to get up in the middie of the night and see whet the noise is! “I want somebody to call me ‘a little fool’ and mean It as @ come pliiment. “I want somebody to keep @ reliable watch about the house and ® Tazor wherewith to sharpen pencils. “I want somebody's coat lapel to ory on and somebods's top hair to run my fingers through; somebody's buttons to sew on and somebody's coffees to pour! “I want somebody to WORRY about to other women! | @nd stocks and cra attention to the machine! “Somebody to fill the curtains therefrom. | the waiters, | me to be ‘mothered’ in the next. when {t leaketh. | 1 am!” Selah. “I want somebody to sit up for nights and to get up for mornin: about when I am alone and to brag “I want somebody from whom to borrow handkerchiefs and cuff links “Somebody to run a’ motor car with BOTH hands and give all of hie ’ with smoke and scatter stumps ang ashes about the floor so that the place shall seem ‘homelike’ “Somebody to bring in the evening papers and tead me the jokeg “Somebody to take down the partieres and put up the fiv ecreens. “Somebody to argue with the janitor, bully the bellboys and browbeat “Somebody to treat me like @ ‘baby’ at one moment and to come ta “Somebody to reach the tallest electric lights and fix the radiator “Bomebody to open bottles, wrap bundles and check my trunks “Somebody to take me ‘for better or for worse’ and to be legally com pelled to put up with me when I am ‘WORSE’! | “For, verily, verily, 1 was born a RIB and I want to know WHOSE rid It (@ an uncontroverted truth that no man ever made an tl Houre tho understood hts o1on talents, nor a good ons who mistook them.—SWIFT, — By Roy L. other evening Mrs. Jarr said: “I'm going to have a@ little Party to-night. You know the Rangles gave us a little affair last week, and the Jenkinses are always [nice to keep in with. They live out |!n East Malaria, and these automo- | bile people will take prospective cus- ;tomers out on long runs to demon- ate their machines, #0 we could | pretend we were going to buy a new The Jarr Family | Coprright, 1916, by The Pree Publishing Go (The New York Brening World) Wier Mr. Jarr came home the, McCardell — Mr. Jarr rolled the lemons, sitced the fruit, cracked the ice and made ithe punch, Then Mrs. Jarr, near the window announced with great pride that Mra Stryver was being Ianded from her automobile in front of the house. ‘Go down and give her your arm up the stairs! she ordered Mr. Jarn “Mrs, Stryver fa getting eo stout, the etatrs affect her.’ Rut they did not affect her half as | pay aa Sone Butomobiie and have the man drive naaiieeestes ae atcha ad he recently pointed out, the courts pay too much attention to minor! ! Pi ‘a | D iT . pplisteyalad the Jemkingse to Spend Bake TS cerve the punch and the violations of the epeed lawa and fail to administer effective punish- ' The Family Without Children i ollars any the automobile demonstrator |%@7dwiches!” cried Mrs. Jarr. “Don't ment in the case of serious offenses, and Philosophy | By Sophie Irene Loeb ! a nd Sense got @ peek of this flat it would be all yale « I'm busy attending to the The new Traffic Court should be able to deal with offenders of | Sudnnweennnerrriarrntev?&| uM 2, off with your scheme, He'd knew this class promptly and from the standpoint of specialists in thie branch of regulative and protective law. Magistrates in other city | courts will be relieved of an increasingly exacting part of their work. | Reckless drivers of motor vehicles will soon learn that they must face *a court with only one set of standards, Until we have an impartial State law which gives a man a license to drive an automobile only when and so long as he proves himself fit to be trusted with euch a privilege, the new Traffic Court can at least put a sharp check upon mumerous motor car driving in this city. | —_— _-+-—___—_. The Russian advance ts about the first important instance in the struggle when an irresistible force hasn't found it«lf up 6gainst an immovable obstacle. Ca THE LAST OF “DEATH CURVE.” of the baker's wife and tle good lady “OUR BEST SOCIETY,” By George William Curtis. F gilt were only gold or sugar candy common sense, whag @'"%D thing our soclety woul It to! lavish money upon objew de virtu, | to wear the most costly dresses and always to have try > cut in the helght vf fashion, to by... ouses thirty feet | broad, as if thay were palaces, to fur- } nish them with all the luxurious de- vices of Partsian genius, to give su- berb banquets at which your guests | Jaugh and which make you miserable, to drive @ tine carriage and apo Euro- bean liveries and crests and coats of arms, to resent the friendly advances of your butcher, to talk of old faml- Nes, and of your aristocratic foreign | {bation will likely be Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Work!) ‘WO five-year-old children, whose names and from whence they came are not known, have been entertained for several weeks In one of the richest homes of the country, it is that of Mra, Finley J, Shepard, | formerly Miss Helen Gould, Already she is the foster mother of Finley jr.,! who was adopted by her from a child- | caring tnetitution, ‘ H It ts expected that the two little children who are now there on pro-! adopted also. | What an incentive to other famili sinilarly situated, Why not? There are thousands of beautiful litde children with good dlond run- ining in their veing who are kept in Justitutions, | some place, they the children leave their immediate care, they know that somewhere, ‘e loving them and caring about them, “It is the one tie that binds, I am wick to death of paid servants who only serve because they are paid. A little loving attention, no matter how humble, !s worth all the paid service in the world.” There are so many couples like this, But the Finley Shepards are not going to bave an old age like this. They mean to have children srandohildren, even if they are not of their own blood. It 1s certainly a fine example for childless people. After all, it is wise Providence that made children very much alike—loving and lovable, As a proof of this, how easy it is to become attached to a little one who is of no kin whatever, The Finley | Shepards are not only making chil- and | | By H. J. Barrett | Competing With a Chain Store, 66(7VAN the suburban grocer suc- | cessfully compete with the | chain store? That all d | pends,” replied a local grocet. “There | ‘s one located within a block of me, for example, It is thriving and so am I. As a matter of fact, we could | naraiy be called competitors. it un- | dereells me and I overeerve it. This | town can easily support both of us. | The less prosperous or more econ- omical reaidents who do not object to | waiting for attention and who would | ;Just as goon carry their parcels, jPatronize it. My customers, how- | ever, do not consider the savings in- | volved worth the time consumed, The |B. & O. store does an immense volume people who live in a place like tnia loan't even afford “Flivvers,” replied | Mr. Jerr. “Oh, you never mind about that'” Mra, Jarr retorted. “We could have | the automobile come for us at Clara Mudridge-Smith'’s apartment house jand give the boy at the telephone | ewitchboard a quarter to call us down |when the demonstrator oalied with | the automobile. “But what has an euto graf: ride jte do with your party?" asked Mr, | Jarre, “Oh, I was just telling you why I had invited the Jenkinses,” said Mrs. Jarr, “We have to entertain them if wo expect them to entertain us, I've ‘invited Cora Hickett and her mother jand Clara Mudridge-Smith and her busband—just @ few friends, you; Mr. Jarr got one round served when he wag called over to inove the piano across the room #0 Clark Mudridces Smith would get a better light on her music. Mr. Rangle offered to give a hand, but Mrs. Rangle said “Remem« ber your strained arm!" And Mm Rangle remembered tt. The plano bew ing moved, Clara Mudridge-Smith found an echo in the corner and Mn Jarr had to lug !t across the roons again. “Go down and tell Mra. Stryvera. chauffeur that she may be here just a few moments and she may be here an hour, she says,” whispered Mra Jarr. “Doesn't the chauffeur know that™® asked Mr. Jarr. Mrs. Jarr gave him one of those dreadful looks that only a wife can “ oJ TIN y. ce _ trier e " > ‘They do not know whay tt means dren happy, relieving the community } give a busband at jolly little affaire “LIFE SAVING WALK” has at last been laid along the Long | mood tovietyertt all these’ were acs to have a goodnight kiss or loving burden, Due getting happiness one |{M proportion td its overhead, This is apr 1 right, t's @ good idea!“ eaig|!/ke this. When he came back some Ish: ‘ailros Tacks near Laure! fill, L. I., th | What a prodigic 1" o re arms about them—the individual at- | of it. | becuuse customers await their turn id =i H exted the flat would be and Railroad trac aurel Hill, L, I, om & stretch | what a prodigtously gin aro we Wyld ‘tention that every child needs and) Why not others? France ts at IMr, Jarr, But in his heart he knew /0n® sues where in the past many persons have been killed or maimed. ving a card of invitation to craves, What a happy household the | present considering putting a pre- jane the two or three clerks are mak- ‘cooler if the skylight on the upper ing sales almost every minute of the | Petter: | A and thao aee ° . v0.0, . ; A bi Shepards must have to-day! mium on motherhood by granting; fi . ioweath . 1, [landing were opened and the doom Three or four thousand factory employees pass there daily on their Ray eeclatyil a dealt which |, On the other hund, T can tako you! gifts of money to the families where |JaY. I Keep a bigger force of clerks | 1 Sight Kuom tnesiyeu meulees | Maatiaaee we kaetcaiee Rcdaee way to the manufacturing plants on the northern bank of Newtown| the virtues are ‘the most shining, /t9 the Nomw of a childiews couple, children are born. | Much of this |In proportion to my profit per sale, Pe Pleased! ) bring | ¥45 put Immediately at it, Yes, be which is the most charitable, torgiv. | PeY are old and gray and tred and propaganda was advanced before the | Furthermore, 1 do a big telephone NoW 60 down to the cellar ani bring Creek. ing, long sufforing, modest and in. (Wat. They live In luxury, but with-, war, because of the selfish spirit | uisines, which in a source of traae\Up the plece of ice on the dumb. {had to stand on @ ladder, And the Month The Evening World called h 1) |nocent, Tle “best society” ta by tee {Out love-the love of little children. | mantfested by thore who avoided the | >"! waiter, The dumbwaiter rope is| Skylight was nailed onths ago The Evening World called attention to the perils of |yerynty nig, “best Boe M thete ie if Phey are the most lonesome couple in| responstbility of bearing little ones, denied the B, & O. because it does am | Phe party over, Mr. Jarr was das these roadless, pathless stretches significantly known as “Death | least hypocrisy and insincerity ein (the World. ‘They are now trying to’ Famtles wera paid for taking care (not deliver. My business, too, is | broken, hunt up some poor relatives’ whom TN slip ptm | spatched to move back the piano an@ kinde, Which recolis from and blasts | Neat Can: AHiOF BO the Sed RE So er Curve” and “Slaughter House Cut.” In one week three girls were | killed on the tracks. Four workmen going home one night with their | pay in their pockets were blackjacked and robbed in thie same ill: | lighted section. Yet all the while the City of New York had in its treasury $20,000 which the town of Newtown, befoge consolidation, | had appropriated for a road at this point. The Laurel Hill Improvement Association joined The Evening World in a campaign to lessen the dangers of “Death Curve.” As a} result the manufacturing companies have given a right of way and| built, between the railroad tracks and the ereck, a substantial walk which when completed will extend to Magy | As a return for the keep this $20,000 the city ought to he able at least to ction properly lighted and so relegate “Death Curve” and tten perils, “Slaughter House Cut” to the limbo of forg Hits From Sharp Wits ome people's goodness bas tts only | has been a long time dead.—Albany manifestation in expressions of horror | Journal. at the wickedness of others. Albany e e Joarnal rele a declaration se | is a declaration of Nurse a grievance and watch tt} grow.—Columbia State | 8 = hi i » pnts Pani Boas tlways fools some personal preyeret New way for a litle whi! | Aare A reputation for never having told] y } by the worst of men,—Boston & lio ty bestowed upon a man after he | Transeriy Letters From the People Affect. or To > Whiter of The Drentng World ou accept, might Will you kindly decide which one of ar plan the following sentences is correct Tn our office it ts t to one that “We fear tbat uf you accept, might, the former ts correct, Wak ’ b artiticiality, Which 19 anxious to be all that it Is possible to be and which sternly reprobates all shallow. pre- Yenss, all coxcombery and foppery, and | insists upon sympathy @@ the infal- liblo characteristic of true wit. Had we recently arrived from the moon, we might on receiving this in- vitation and on being told that we were to meet the best sock fancied that we were about to enjoy | 4n_opportuntty not to be overvalued. But who do we really meet when wo go to a ball? We meet three! classes of persons -first those who are | rich and who have ali that money can nd those who belong to what | |are technically called the “Kood old | families," and thirdly, a swarm of | youths who can dance dextrously and Who are invited for that purpo: - > — | “Free and Equal.” | HE author of the phrase “All | men are born free and equal,” | was John Lowell, a Massachu- lsetts Juriet and statesman, who was born in Newburyport, Mans, 178 ny atudyting haw, set He was elected to the convention which framed the Constitution of Massachusetts | in 1780, and was a member of the cam. mittee which formu that decu- He insisted pon the taser. r bill of rights of the phrase orn free and equal," as he avowed at tie ing slavery in Magan. It wae largely through hie efforts that Massachusetts put ens negro slavery in 176d, time chusetts. they have ne ed all thes» years, “I Just want to do something for them before I die," sald the woman’ to me, “I do not understand Ittle eMidren, but [am bitterly lonely, and wish Thad had some to cure for in my earlier years. It 1s all wrong,” sie wailed, “for people to grow ola vind have nothing to cling to except, their folly of creature comforts. j “{ would give anything in the world! to now have grandchildren, even me in my waning years, | “T envy the women I eee with little jones in their arms, hecause I know that when they grow old, although of Nittle public charges in their fam- ; t, whit ‘ | \Mly_environment. jlarmely credit, while the chain store | Responsibility as a rule brings with Mt Its recompense, Young couples do not realize this in the hey-day of hon- eymoon, or in the early years of mar- ried life: but later many a separated patr would have romatned together {f the little ehild had led them away from elfishness. Besides, there are thousands of tired mothers—your neighbors perhaps— whore trials you could relieve by your \adopted ones, who would have cheered interest and love of their babies. Why not? A little community spirit about the children at large is worth while considering for the good of the ind vidual as well as the community. te If it 19 a little harder to busld up character than reputation, tt ts only 40 in the beginning firat—BEECHER | ITE posstbilit thet the United | little New Hampshir f For mere reputation, Uke a poorly built house, will cost as much for patching and repairs as would have made it thorough at When Uncle Sam Ended a War city of Ports. is a strictly cash proposition “One of my clerks, however, who used to run a small cash grocery in a suburb tnhabited chiefiy by wage- earners was put out of business by a chain store, Appealing to the same trade, the latter’a more efficient sys- tem and better buying facilities en- abled it to crush him. As neither rendered service in the sense my cus- tomere demand it, it figured right down to @ question of price and the independant man lost out. “As for chain stores handling other commodities—6 and 10 cent stores, for instance—I doubt tf the sinall dealer has a chance in the world. Here again it ticures right down to price and there the big organization wins. which my own brother was concerned, A couple of years ago he became ine terested in ‘a 6 and 10 cent store lo- States may play the part of {mouth w nnn the eathering | cated in a neighboring suburb, It niediator i bringing the Fur | oC oiitd tiers cin the Mth af Ancuct | was offered at a bargain; less than Pean confict to an end recalls the! and megan a diplomatic warfare in{inventory value, ‘The owner claimed most noteworthy event of this kind, It} which for a time neither side seomed|that his health demanded that he was cleven voars ago that Russa and /{0 main ane advant The matter| seok a lesa confining occupation, iy a onuK o was eventially token out of their "After a thorough investigation my {Japan, after a long and comtly WeFlninds, and the parley became bes| brother planked down his inoney and in which the } had heen almost |tween Tokio and St. Petersburg, with | entered into possession, ery thing untformiy victortons, formally an- | Washington acting as &o-between, | looked rosy. He made m y trom cepted the proposal of President |The struggle between the envoys|the start. A month later, however, ! ended a) ce he K Roosevelt for a pence parley. Te waa| ded sudienty on Aug. 9%, when he sold at the price he paid. He on June ®, 1905, that the President af the United States offered his friendly offices to the warring powers, and two daye later they pledged them- pelves to accept the offer At the invitation of Prestdent Roosevelt | Japan made unexpected concessions| learned the real reason for the pre- | in the matter of indemnity and the | comtro of the Island of Baghalten, ‘The indemnity claim was waived and the Saghalien controversy satiatac- torily compromised, and the treaty of peace was eigned on Sopt. §. Russie, we | vious owner’a low pr |store organization was necking « |local site. The store changed handa ‘tour times before the ne ‘tually opened up. The final A chain pur- nealchaser was stung and lasted hut six rym the peace conference was result was a diplomatic triumph for|rmonths tn the face of the big fellow'e defeated nation. an ‘bold im the United Mtates, and the eompatition.” ! | “Which reminds me of a case in eaid| help Gertrude, the matd, clear up “Wasn't Clara Mudridge-Smith'’s fa dime when he brings it up,” | Me, Jarr, “Lf you have any dimes to sip, alip| husband talking about !lamas-—beaste “And that are milked, sheared, made pack | animals | |them to me," replied Mrs. Jarr. you go down and get that i Mr. Jarr went down and got the ice, arriving with It a6 the guests be- | she believed so gan to come, “You didn’t tell bim 1 was one, did | "Go out and make the punch, dear,”| you?” asked Mr. Jarr, said Mrs, Jarr eweetly, “I have to look| But Mra. Jarr asked him what he | after the company." meant by talking noneense. Not Worth Knowing By Arthur Beer Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co. (The York Evening World), LTHOUGH not particularly entertaining fiction, by buying Wurple'e Lssay on Fungus and Ferns you wilt have a book that you will nog have to take out any burglar insurance on, f; also the natives subsiss on them he asked, Mrs. Jarr said Facts A A recent tornado blew a Kansas corn orchard and a Minnesota bean ranch together into Missouri, which now boasts of the only sucvotash resere vation in the world, | The fving waligrun of Fandanvia sheds its antlera during tha bridge | whist season and can be easily run down and captured by the lone trumps ii Wrumpets when darting from table to table, | am | Mons. Kounglin, the famous Fladbush bungatow architect, has devised @ one-room bungalow that saves $100,000 a year in elevators, starters and elsvator boys. | You can prevent your natla from breaking on cocoanuts and hard-boiled e998 by openin' ‘em with o gimiet. comer ace | | If annoved by froga croaking at night, purchase a frog epantel and give corte Blanche, whatever that is. The froge arhaust thomeelwes chasing the frog spaniel around and are soon eliminated from the tournament. d ‘ |