The evening world. Newspaper, July 8, 1916, Page 10

phy wit M ress NO, 90,008 ay ’ 7 ‘ CLEAN UP THE TOWN. wri T° PVESISG WORLDS CAMEMA * the story of New 4 *) " ’ fully filthy rve to breed the } ‘ { ufentue peralyee lp densely crowded sections of tow ‘ quarters where dipease be moet t, the published photographs chow piles of ‘i bag file ig under the « eun ead rapidly breeding pa y germe Evon € eof hLoweee plocarde 1 with warn potloes there stand cans of refuse on which scavenger cote feed if infantile pera) ing conditions prop it broadcast How can the burece mp ppations: ady stricken serve to stamp out an epidemic if little o Pething is dove to clear out the underlying causes? i not produced primarily by filth, yet thes gate the disease and help spr most eornest efforts of doctors anc ove a What the tows pords ts 0 cleaning op) wot one of your 4 nice, little, seoated soap o04 talcaom powder baths, but 0 rip- p plag, derhing, srooring, eptarsing house cleaniag end street cleaning; o scourge of fire ond water, M4 The Department of Health has more arbitrary authority than § hay other branch of government. If it can regulate the overcrowding | Wel street cars, it can compel the clearing out of tepement sardine ~ Wones in the congested quarters , If the Street Cleaning Department i inefficient and dilatory the Health Department can commandeer and compel. If the Mayor finds the weather too bot for diligent attention t ~* duty, the Health Department can proceed without his authority, 2 ide any barrier THE VITAL NEED OF THE HOU City official 1s TO CLEAN UP THIS TOWN, nr ge ns RR bh trips to the seaside and GET ON THE JOB QUICK. Al; the neatly typewritten reports in big words and the fine epun © theories of causes and effects and possibilities and probabilities be- _ come so many “scraps of paper” in view of The Evening World’s SP graptic photographs of the rotting, filthy, disease-breeding conditions » that prevaibin the very sections where the epidemic is worst, The Chief Executive of this town is John Purroy Mitchel, Mayor. it The responsibility in both the first and the last analysis is up to him. Are you going to get busy cleaning up the town, Mr. Mayor, or ™ are you going to let things drift along in the routine way under the influence of soothing syrup reports? Are you going to be content with midsummer short hours, Satur- day half-holidays and week-end trips to the country in this time of vital necessity? “ No, not this time, Mr. Mayor. This is your busy day. 4 Must every crisis, every emergency, find New York always in « ~ shameful state of inefficiency and unreadiness? Must we be as un- «> prepared for a war on disease as we were for a war on the Mexican _ border? Must we wait until the eleventh hour, fifty-ninth minute and fifty-ninth second before we wake up to take proper precautions? Never mind the howls of landlords. Never mind the wailing eompiaints of tenants. Never mind the equeals of people whose toes will be stepped on or whose personal liberty will be restricted. Wee eet a Clean up this town, Mr. Mayor, with vigorous, arbitrary methods © ef thoroughness before it is too late to eave thousands of its infant 6 ‘What chance hed Hetty Green to beat the taxgatherers tm her will when Jay Gould's estate comes before the courts a for adjudication after twenty-three years of undisturbed con- ve trol by Bis executors? bd Se © TERROR ON THE BEACHES. . OBT childhood fables of the cea about the beauteous mer- w % maids, wondrous serpents, galloping horses and old Father Neptune himself have long since boon taken away from our “Wimaginations by the cold fects of science, but one monster still re- : © maine—the man-eating shark—more dreadful in reality than in a, 9 Gatien. Bf Numerous learned professors in recent years have spent much 2 time and effort in proving that sharks, particularly those in these | Borthern waters, will not bite human beings. ‘The news of the day from so near by a place as Spring Lake, Now Jersey, disproves all that these piscatoria! scientists have been trying to demonstrate. A ewim- | ge Mer near shore killed, both his legs bitten off, is » fact that upsets Soy, theory, To the thousands of summer residents along the Jersey shore © the appearance of this deadly monster is more alarming than a Ger- man submarine, A new terror has euddenly arisen from the ocean, paralyzing the bath house business and depriving ewarms of ewelter- ing humanity of the delights of a dip in the ocean, From Coney Island to Atlantic City a summer chill has fallen © on the beaches as this seourge of the deep patrols the const * scared is the seashore. © resorts when this ravenous hark is dragged up dead on the sands, sonduanaune Columbia University will have 7,000 summer students this year, and most of them are grown up men and women. We are realising at last that we are never too old to learn. ——<¢-2____.. In the woollen trade it is announced that the price of & pivotal standard grade is to be advanced to $167% @ yard next spring, an increase of 35 cents, Things are going up in price fast enough without adding to our troubles by telling us now of next year's boosts, x Letters From the People Be Me Maivor of Tr rang World my family ta th Relative to suggestions to give tol now appreciates a Cuare Cows ther io the army boys in Texas, 1 suggest A SISTER, thermos bottles in the shape of can. | 1 the Faitor of The Brening World aT’ Bens, BE. B, NEWBERRY. Aa u gift to our soldt 7 y ee seSsiy bare: SE bated > xy If Staten Islanders fight against establishment of a garbage © ineinerating plant, the necessity of preserving public health can over- from highest down the line, must take off their pretty white clothes, jump out of their luxurious automobiles, forego Rad and * As with man-eating tigers of India, rewards » Will be offered for his capture and great will be the rejoicing of the why not a ER me rN 6 cae Fetching e ' t Passing of the Richest Woman { By Sophie Irene Loeb nnn URING the week the richest woman passed away. Her de- clining years were very lonely, ler only #on aid of her: “Mother lived @ vigorous, energetic life, and ehe said before the and that there was nothing for her to regret. She wae a splendid type ‘of the trus, Christian woman, “Mother was misunderstood by the people who knew her only through the columns of newspapers, Bhe had Many charities, and gave in amounts ranging from $100 to $1,000 and sometines a great deal more, she the Doctor! _ a eins INFANTILE PARALYSIS EPIDEMIC ee ° ’ . Stories of Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces By Albert Payson Terhune Gupyright, 1916, by ‘The Prem Vubiishing Oo, (The New York Bvening Work), KING BILLY OF BALLARAT. By Morley Roberts. E was very big, very black, very worthless. He had been king H of an Australian tribe before the discovery of gold had made| Ballarat a white man's community, With the coming of British colonists, King Billy's ¢ribe dwindled, Its bloodthirsty membere were killed off. Its rumthirety mem- ‘bere drank themselves to death. But King Billy hung on. He even strove to mingle with the white men and to adopt their form of dress. With this idea he used to parade tho etreets of Ballarat clad in an ancient silk hat, a ragged frock coat, and in nothing else, And he wheedled drinks and sixpences out of the miners, Only one person in all the settlement bad a good word for the drunken old vagabond. And that was little Annie Colborn, only daughter of the local magistrate. Annie thought the King was wonderful. She used to e¢asine, Saturday eee : Jely The Woman of It. By Helen Rowland, | me. wie e i meg (ie Mee ot Seema Seat She Tella te Difference Betworn the “Price® and the “Cot” of a Thing whine’ the Bachelor softly os te Witew ned oboe & hee of Meperied lace end penta, tourhing ( corving Ore dee ree our “That sot the @ord, dimpling he shaded promenade, we “ erent foaere He minnie “LAKE UT reposted the Harheion dramationtiy Pw overcome, Hatbergesied 6s coed brewtty “Then ite worth the price,” lnterrupied tue hotel tows with @ eum “Ne éoutt,” agreed the lachele sooty “Ten dotiare for the ma- terial and $60 for the wtyie’ And yet people wonder why bachelors Womble at the though! of matrimony, Great Beott! Ie pot the intial east of we We Widow yourself ~- of ‘price’ and YOU begin Vast Cifferance between them, Mr, Weatherby, ot . heats, of love, or Binees, or Wives Many « thing le worm ne jen't worth the cost—and view versa.” ea,” groaned the Hachelor reminiscently, “For inatence, herve ge < ‘Sutemobilo—and the cvst of the emasb-up And the prige the cost of the breach-of promise suit.” “and the price of & wedding—end the cost of the @tverce 4 price love—and the cost of the disillusionment,” appended the ly, “And there's many & hat,” whe added with @ omile of triumph, “that would be @heap at & thousand dollars!” Beneseei* argued the Machelor vbetinately, “there ten't a hat ia the world that could represent # thousand dollars’ worth of labor or material or otyle or art or even beauty!” several thousand dolla rth of usefulnes “SB ooo ' jusband, Would pall t heals hat fe an investment; ite her trade-mark, her shop-window, ena whether it’s job or « husband or « soctal place that she te looking fog, it paye—to advertise! And it’s the same with @ wife or an automobile — “Life’e two uncertainties,” murmured the Bachelor sotto voos “Many @ man,” pursued the Widow serenely, “haa gotten cred at @ crucial moment on the strength of his wife's prosperous appearance, Many @ man has gotten on the ‘inside,’ as you call It, with influential mea en the atrongth of his wife's dinner parties, Many @ man has managed to rich widow on the strength of his motor car and his eveatag clothes" — “Yes, and many @ man has committed suicide,” broke in the Bacheler, “trying: to pay hie wife's dressmaker and Mee Ar nf hy 4 ager Sao teh the human orchide roll by in their Him byt icd Adal ry Sooty of the vast army of men downtown elav- 1 ehudder at the mental! picture ing and toiling themselves irfto their graves to pay for—the matrimotal wp keop.” “Oh, well,” enawered the Wi ‘cost,’ not 0 ‘price’—and it all ft nets you in the final reckoning, There's A Hot le the “Lid” of Opportunity. idow promptly, “hae “ rejoined the W represented UT mapy @ hat,” rejotne Ninny a 950 has bes dow airily, twirling her parasol, “that te the depends on what a thing PAYS; on what whether or not it ts worth the COBT, Fiven @ bad bargain, or an unhappy Lael eg may net you enough expert. 4 philosophy to make it worth while.” one But beter clothes, clothos!” exclaimed the Bachelor mi patiently, ‘what do @ woman's clothes net her? What do your clothes met your Ellabelle Mae Doolittle By Bide Dudley Corte Nee Yok evesiog Werth LLABELLD MAB DOOLITTLE, the Leesville poetess with a heart and @ soul, has joined the War Helpere Section of the Delhi ‘Women's Betterment League and has been put in charge of the War Gong Department. Under Mise Doolittle’s supervision Meedames Skeeter O'Brien, Pele Brown and Cutey Bogge will furnish original songs for the aol- dlers to sing while fighting in Mexico or along the Texas border, The idea - lta to give the boys stirring ditties that will make them fight more desper- ately and cause them to brave death ever forgot her old friends or em- {bully and tease and protect and feed him. And be adored the child with| witingly and fearlessly. ployees whose relatives had becn in|» dog-Iike devotion. the employ of her family.” in Chicago, she gave employment to workingmen by having them build bulldings for her, All of the above te true, We must not speak ill of the ead. Yet this woman left $160,000,000, She bad but two children, I could not help wishing that aome of this money had been used to t down old tenement houses on the east aide, whore hundreds of little children are living with tuberculosis germe eating their lives away and with no escape. I wish that some of thie money bad been used to secure real play- grounds for little children who never bad seen the daisies grow and who are alwaye confronted with the sign “Keep off the grass.” 1 wish that some of this money had been used to secure for tired mother the little vacation now and thi when they might have rest and time to see what a very large sky there is and regain hope to go on. 1 wish that some of this money had been used to finance people dur- ing thelr trying time in getting “back to the farm,” away from the congested areas, 1 wish that some of this money might have been used to find. ways and means to reduce the high coat of living, #0 that the pretty but poor working girl Would not have to turn over her entire pay envelope to “keep the family,” 1 wish tha of this money might have » used to give men employment Who answered the want One day he came to her for consolation. A miner on a spree had put grief at the wreoking of this symbol of royal dignity, nnn huereyps Annte ran indoors and came back with her father's vmery one and only high hat, This she cheerfully gave to Cleared Up. the King, who received it with crazy delight, eo aaaaaaaaatl Magistrate Colborn, seeing King Billy in the new hat, was for sending hith to jail for theft. Hilly did not dare tell the magis- trate how the hat had come into his possession, lest Annie be flayed alive, or sent to prison for life for giving It to him, But Annte hereelf solved the problem by telling of the gift. Her father, who spoiled her atroctously, laughed and eald it wae all right. ‘The magistrs leniency towand his daughter gave King Billy a new |\dea, His frock coat was in rags. He went up to the woods and caught a baby possum. This he brought | to Annie for @ pet. Then he casually mentioned to the grateful child that | & newcoat would be acceptable, Again she darted into the house, and reappeared, carrying the first coat of her father’s that she had chanced to lay hands on, It was the magistrate’s dreen coat, Billy took his treasure away to the woods, and there, discarding his ‘wretched old frook coat, put on the new garment, As he eurveyed his reflection in a pool.he could not help feeling that Dia elegant costume lacked something. For one ching, there was no way ye of buttoning {t acrome the olest, For another, all its ” ht talle seemed to be grouped at the back, instead of A Meneren’s evenly distributed ke those of his ancient frock coat, Silk Hat. But King Billy wea not the kind of man to despise —!> anything merely because he did not understand It, Bo he put on the dress coat and the high hat and set forth to the magistrate’s home to give thanks in due form, Colvorn was entertaining @ party of visiting Finglish tourisis at dinner, when the veranda doors flew open and King Billy strode into the dining room, The magiatrate had jist apologized to hie gueste for appearing in white flannels, saying his evening coat had unacoountably been mislaid, ‘The sight of King Billy cleared up the mystery, Incidentally it cleared out the dining room, What passed between the magistrate and the king none of the gue ror knew, But neat day the despised old frock coat was onoe more draping the royal body. And King Billy walked with a painful mp, ee We are never made 20 ridiculous by the quabtica we have as by those we affect to have—la Roehefoucauld, ee ade only to be turned away because! might have been used to give the] to some of the 800 poor relations who of their gray hairs. truly bright boy and girl the bigber| it te said will now contest the will T wish that some of thia money | education needed, but who bave to}and who have been waiting for the ©) might have b used to instruct put aside school books in order to | dead woman's shoos, | mothers how to take care of the little | become the head of the family, And, in the last analysis, If some children by the best and in im-|] wish that some of this money] of these things had been done, per- proved methods for building i | might have been used to secure casy| haps the richest woman might not 1 wivh that some of this money . ‘ fountain pen of the sa type? Is| might have been used to keop old | ot ce thd nea of countr Yor the tired. we ete ft 0,000,000 hind ee oe the Editor of The Evening World it not through our pens that we keep| couples together who are separated | (ey gots fem or country ¢or sited ome ta w For the men in the fleld | suggest alin touch with the world, no matter. in their last. years. only bees | wien. that. some humanity she would have left behind, thermos bottle. It mint’ be the! how many” autos ewes Diet mee Fernie OF alent have teen Used 10 give the help | end What am etasnple for taullgnelres a Dov ol nave bee nd to 4 Dearest thing to ice, A momber of ENMA BENDHAN, 1 wish that eome of this money | reited, at the psychological moment, to follow! ee ee | Boggs, | t League. in Naturally, Miss Doolittle will draught each song and then ask the Me also told how, during @ pantc|e fist through King Billy's beloved hat. To assuage the old fellow's tearful | advice of her associates as to ite quail- ities, A meeting of the War song Department—or Ditty Committee, as the ladies preferred to be called—wag held at Hugus Hall the other after- noon, The entire membership of the War Helpers Section was invited as audience, Miss Doolittle was in the chair, The other members of the Ditty Committee were gathered about hor on the stage. “Ladies,” sald the poetess, address- « Mesdames O’Brien, Brown and after M Skid Wilson had kicked Brannigan‘s old dog out of the hall because of fleas, “we have an im- portant duty to perform. We are to write songs that will make the sol- flere more fiercely when they ear “That will be excellent,” said Mra. Elisha Q. Pertle, Promptress of the tn phi em." “Now,” continued Mias Doolittle, “Z have draughted one and shall read it rder that we A ry) on ite merits, It is entitled ‘Fight, Fight tn Bravery and Delight’ I presume you'd like to hear it." “Shoot!” said Mra. Skeeter O'Brien, “Rather an appropriate way of putting {t," replied Miss Doolittle, ‘Then sho read the song’e words as follows: nl Jingle. 1 lear wees tare ee heey trong Bihar oweatbeart ease id eays wee raltt Ras My Tibia SRA toy, The applause that followed the reading of the gong was deafening, When it had subsided Mra, Skeeter O'Brien arose and eald: “On behalf of the Ditty Committos I move that we accept that song and shoot it out to the soldiers at once along with the box of prunes Grocer Hopper contributed to the Food Col- lection Committee.” “But how about the muste? asked Mra. Pertle. Mise Doolittle beld up one hand, “Pp, Silae Pettibone ts over in the te rw ¢ 3 The Paychelogio Effect of Clothes. t ELL,” and the Widow gureled softly, “about all that the average What do a man’s wife's clothes net HIM?” to be the chance to laugh at them. But, as for ME, Mr, Weather- by, my clothes are the source of everything worth having. They etimulate fay vanity, which is a woman's chief asset, and 8O hard to retain tm these impersonal days. They give me ‘personality,’ and eclat, and self-confidence, ‘and comfort, and joy, and an interest in life, They bring me friends, and Ginner invitations, and dance partners, and theatre parties, and compli. menta”— “And proposals,” put “Yes,” agreed the Widow, of her health and an income, those ar needs fe! saat’! Pee a few trifles euch as an object, and @ home, ané— ig! Bachelor laconically. an et ce retorted the Widow sweetly, “comes under the head ef ‘pre ‘oposals.’” é The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell orriaht, 1016, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) ILLIE JARR was going down- Meanwhile, when his envious young town with his mother to meet neighbors had whiningly complained his father and by him to be/at home that Willle Jarr got taken taken to the baseball game! Master to the ball game while they did net, he puts into a woman's clothes seems in the Bachelor, “and when you come to think of tt, outside e about all the things that 4 woman Jarr walked past Izzy Slavinsky, Gus- sie Bepler and the rest of his play- mates with his head in the air, Mra. Jarr also held her glance aloof as she passed these—to her mind—juvenile ent yee) of shouting “Shoot the hat!” (for Master Jarr wore a mother- Dought effect in straw sailors) and crying aloud “Mamma’s baby!" as under eimilar circumstances was their wont, the abject youth of the neighborhood fawned and abased themselves as Master Willie passed, attired in all his Sunday best and band in hand with his mother, For Willie Jarr was going to see @ real baseball game, mind you, be- tween those redoubtable topliners of the national game known to fame in Boyville as the “Chiants and the Phillies.” How did they know? Well, don't you think Master Jarr had hinted the impending glorious crisis in his fair young life low times, more or less, during the past preceding days? He bad. Ever since a not unwilling promise had been won from his male progenitor, Master Jarr had spread the glad tidings with many a glorl- ous embellishment, Issy SBlavinsky, Guasie Bepler, Johnny Rangle and the others had a was about to enter into. It was a Blamour of superior beings at their mighty functions, in an aura of ex- citement and an atmosphere of pea- nuts, sareaparilla and ice cream cones. Hence it was they trucklod ab- Jeotly as the fortunate of earth passed them tm all the superior indiffereace of one in Elysian flelds apart. “I'm glad to see you didn’t notice those dreadful boys,” sald Mrs, Jarr, “It ls one of the drawbacks of this neighborhood, tho dreadful children who make life unbearable up this way.” basy idea of the glory Master Jarr| their parents were heard to speak to the effect that It would be a good thing !f he stayed at the ball game, as his influence was a detriment te the moral awakening of all the obil- dren around. Mrs, Jarr and er Jarr arrived at the downtown establishment where Mr. Jarr toiled to sustain his family. “Here comes Mrs. Jarr and Jarra kid," whispered Johnaon, the cashier, to Jenkins, the bookkeeper. “If I had @ kid whose ears stuck out ilke that I'd pin ‘em back.” “Jarr'a got a nerve asking the bess for the afternoon off to take bis family to the ball game, while we have to sweat along here all day ; doing our work and his, too,” replied Jenkins, “His dame pute on a lot of atyte,” murmured Johnson; “wonder if her @lad rags are paid for? Friendly personal comment of this sort ceased, however, when Mrs, Jarr drow up to the office railing with Master Jarr and sinilod sweetly at the cashier and bookkeeper, both of whom she instinctively disliked be. cause her husband always epoke in such flattering terma of them, “How well you're looking, Jarr,” gushed Johnson, “And the little boy! My! What a bright look. Ing little fellow!" And Jenkins came smirking fern Mre. | ward and made @ fuss over them, ¢ / While the office boy went for Mr, Jare, | "Here's Walle,” wala Mra. dene | when her husband appeared, i “1 don't see why you couidn't have stopped off for him on your way uptown, and hot take up all my time bringing bim down here when I should be And, remember, if there brutality there ts—br | king collar bones and legs and piling twenty men on top ef the one holding down the ball—ypou ng him right home,” aster Jarr was going to % that's football!” But, ‘oung vas Ate was, ho realized tho limitations of the female mind—even his mothers, Anyway, why say anything? Wi he going to the ball game? at arbor shop writing It," ahe sald. *All right!" replied Mrs. Pertle ‘@he song goew with the prunes.” Miss Doolittle then repeated the song's words from memory, using ap- propriate gestures, She was iuiter- rupted between the verse and the chorus, while Mra Skid Wilson eet eh Vet Kicked the old Brannigan again, but it didn’t fuss her ath oa the poetess ended with an impromptu tableau, gathering the other \° bers of the Ditty Committee her as war nymphs. The audi applauded with great guato, All were pleased.