The evening world. Newspaper, July 13, 1916, Page 14

BPTAM ASKED BT JorRrH PULAT ER Puhienias Comseny, Meo 6 ow ne Pegs Ottice ' ’ vont ae Molin hth: ha ie va ot eating ge e the even wtted | Al Compiries te ie fon | teres One Your ae ue tel one Month NO. 20,000 PREE BEACHES FOR THE PUBLIC. ONEKY ISLAND'S BEACH at last i* to be open to the publ free from control by private interests that fenced in tl fevorite bathing ground of the Metropolis 4 Five years ago The Evening World beg Bp of Coney Island to the people, It obtained for them first « fre | Beeside Park, Now the Court of Appeals has devided that the shor high ond low tides aleo belongs to the people and the obstru Mons must go. Squatter sovereignty of the beaches i overth ite fight for the openir but it aleo will have important bearing upon many other wat titles, many of them of great value. tion of ite rightful property and privileg ‘There are plenty of othe Fighte o long time being achieved pest, and together they will win many more in the future CORPORATION SKELETONS. railroad telegraphers before the Federal Arbitration Board Instead of class agitation, threats of strike and old-time at hang corporate skeletons and financial ghosts of bygone days The telegraplers’ uhion is rattling the New York ( Tecord of stock watering and raking over scandals of high fi ‘tions were not hampered by Public Service Commissions, and his son, f William H. Yanderbilt, could let “the public be damned,” With statistics and deductions compiled by experts, the union leaders put forward claims that interest on huge bond issues and divi- dends on bloated stock issues absorb money that should have been epplied to increasing wages of employves. promoters. ‘There are plenty of ghoste of financial Banquos in Wall to resurrect them at inopportune moments, While steam railroad companies are having troubles with om- ployees, street railroad and lighting companies of New York are stir- ting up trouble for themselves with the public. more ridiculous than transit lines, particularly the B. R. T., quibbling and evading an order of the Public Service Commission designed to end that overworked game of “All out, car ahead.” Or as another sample, the Kings County Lighting Company pressing for authoriza- tion of « bond issue while fighting a legislative mandate for eighty- cent gas. Some overlord of @arporations should set up a spanking machine for little foolish directors and managers who are only inviting more rigid regulation, more drastic legislation, or lock them up in the skele- ton closets. By their own practices they are doing more than all the Socialists, all the Anarchists, all the agitators, to bring about their own destruction and to encourage Government ownership of their own properties. : Repeated defiance of orders, continued disregard of public rights, maintaining nagging nuisances, provoking constant irritations and practicing extortions in rates—these are the blind methods of many corporations that exist only by the favor of public franchises, who live only through public patronage and who thrive only by publicly sanctioned monopoly, You progressive, far-seeing captains of industry should take the bad boys of the reactionary public service corporations into the back woodeped, like father used to do, and have a nice little disciplinary session. If you don’t the public will, and what happens is likely to fall on the heads of the just and the unjust without much discrimi- nation, T +: KEEP COOL. HERE are two very good reasons for keeping cool just at this particular time, and there are two ways of doing it. ‘Trying to keep cool physically in these days of torrid heat is not 80 paraly Hysterical fear is causing more panic than actual di Fright fe magnifying trifling ailments into imaginary cases of the epidemic, The scare ix worse than the reality. A 50 per cent, falling off in deaths from infantile paralysis yes- Serday is a ccassuring report of improved conditions, ore h epidemic of measles last year, scarcely noticed, was far more serious, “ This decision not only means much for summer recreation of the or The Evening World congratulates the public on securing dl battles to fight, plenty of other abuses to correct, plenty of other ‘wrongs to be righted. Sometimes justice seome slow in arriving and Publicity by @ fearless newspaper Rd persistency by an aroused public have won many triumphe in the NION LABOR is playing # new game in the wage demands of tempte at coercion, a flank attack is made on company closets where dating back to the times when Commodore Vanderbilt's manipula- A very clever move is this, and « decidedly advanced step in the presentation of labor's demands, Many a corporation striving now to be “good” and to make wp in real assets inflated balance sheets of the | past has undesirable skeletons inherited from reckless founders and | Street that will not atay down. Somebody always is unkind enough | Nothing appears important as keeping cool mentally about the epidemic of infantile | There have! ¥4 been but 287 deaths all told among perhaps a million children, An/ acy.’ Cooling . ‘ " / ‘ ‘ , ~ | | | | ee ry Lucile the Waitress By Bide Dudley Tamme Re Wal ete ah 66] HAD a practicable Joke holsted aaid Lucile, the waitress, as sho deftly removed a fly from the news- paper man's soup. “That a0? asked the patron. “Yea, A lot of chauffours porpetu- ated it. That bunch of jitney jerkors who hang around this corner are just | full of native humor, But wait, I'll wet even.” “What happened?" “Why, Nosey McGuire «omen in here and after eating his ¢.Ks, fishes @ ticket out of his pocket with No, 11 on it, He alips mo the ticket and | saya ‘It'e in a raffle, Lucile, I don't | know what It's for, but you can have it, Maybe you'll win.’ With that be beats it, leaving me holding the teket, “Well, they ain't anyone present who can elucidate the ticket to me, so 1 stuff it in my pocket and go about my business, alf an hour later Nowey and four other chauffeurs come in and ono of them is carrying @ little, scrawney, hungry-looking yellow dog. They put the dog on the won the raffie, Lucile,’ says ‘Here's tho prise.’ | ©With that they laugh and all of Ho aticks ‘om beat it but Nosey ound to kid me You're a lucky ‘Hore you get an! for nothing, Don't at all, and 1, like @ fool, owned {th him one look, ‘Listen, No- ‘you gol @ Idea you're ain't, You take that Off! || Sayings of Mrs. Solomon | By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1016, by The Vea Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), Be" my Daughter, tho Fool hath said in her heart: “I shall find me an Ideal Husband!" But the Wise Woman shaketh her head and admonisheth her, onto me in here yesterday, kid,” | saying: “Go to, go to, thou Simple One! There 18 no ‘Ideal Husband!’ Verily, verily, I shall find me an HUSBAND—and Idealize him! “For lo, husbands come not ready made, like unto canned soups; and in the matrimonial market there is NO delicatessen shop. / “I shall go forth in search of mine husband, as one that goeth ‘shopping.’ “I shall seek him with wisdom, and select him for his quality aud durability, rather than for hia style and his beauty. “For, behold, 1 can shape him to my will and put on the fancy trimming afterward. “And when I have brought him home I shall tron out the wrinkles from his temper and patch up his digestion, “Yoa, I shall guard them with my life, “1 shall take a tuck in his vanity, if It be too large. “1 shall let a seam out of his purse, tf it be too tight. “1 shall whitewash his sins before men, and gild his weaknesses and follies with smiles of approval; but tn private I shall disinfect his morals, “1 shall supply him with BACKBONE, while I pose modestly as his RIB. “I shall polish up his manners and trim them with marabout and gold brald and cover his breaks with words of velvet. “I shall dose him with religion in sugar coated pellets; I shall feed him the Tonite of Flattery and the bitter aloes of Reproof in equal quantities, “] shall tle him ty mo with the leash of Perfect Faith, Yea, I shall bind him to me with kisses and darning thread and home made pies and baby ribbon and sachets and lullabies and sympathy and petting and the Smile-that-will-not-come-off! » “His ears shall be so stuffed with cotton batting that he shall never hear the Call of the Wild Bachelor tn his heart again! “And when I have thus adjusted him to mine Ideal, I shal! accept him joyfully for what he 1S, rather than for what he OUGHT to be, and shall be satisfied, “And whoso calleth me a PARASITE when I have done this Great Thing, shall hear the scorn of my ha-has! “For lo, she that makoth money, and she that maketh books, and she that maketh pictures is a performer of works “But she that maketh an HUSBAND out of a MAN Is @ Worker of Miracles!” Selah, i ‘ ‘, | Yone: be , ——— Keep cool mentally, even if you do perspire, Don't get excited |.) 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A—What jis the nationality of| the dog to the kitehen and the pi Why, when I left the house this morn-!eay, kid, you ought to see bis new Hote y Pancho Villa? eidity of the place is resumed," ing that pup whined like as If he was | collart’ ame ; B—What is his right name? “Twas a moan trick Nosey played| tosing bis beat friend. Last night he He was quiet a moment. Then ‘Be the Editor Evening World C--Did he ever serve in the negro on you,” sald the newspaper man slept on my bed with his skinny little }she added: “But I'l get even with Kindly let me know ip your “Ques- Tenth US. Cavalry? IH E “It sure Was, hid) Mut it's all right.| head right ®ext to my shoulder, And that vag Nosey, You see if I dont.” pA IRIE PRD EOD OTDEELD EEDA AIIIILIEI TEI ELED LED LIIIIILEDED IODIDE | Franaaaananaaaaanaanaaaaaaaamaaaa The Jarr 7 . Family By Roy L. McCardell. Conrratts New Work tivenlng Warkths = 66 HY don't you come home to W dinner with me?” eaid Mr. Jarr sympathetically as Jenkins, the bookkeeper, looked at his watch and exclaimed, “Great Scott! I'm too late for the 6.67!" “I know how it is, old fellow,” con- | tinued Mr, Jarr, “and you might as well be hanged for a sheep as & lamb." “I wish we hadn't got to playing Kelly pool with this bunch!” said Jenkins, ruefully. “You don’t know what it means to get home late to dinner. I can't catch @ train for East Malaria till 7.42, That will get Me homme after half past eight.” “Well, forget it!" replied Mr. Jarr. “Ob, you can take it ensy,” re- marked Jenkins, morosely. “You live in town and can catch @ car any minute, but when you live out of town it's different.” “Just to show you I don't care, I'll stick around with you a while,” sald | Mr. Jarr. “All they can do with you when you are late for dinner is to raise sand, and they do that whether you'll live in town or not” After a while they started for Mr. Jarra domicile, Getting out of the subway train they stopped for a few at Gus's place on the corner, “Or course,” said Mr, Jarr, heal- tatingly, as they entered the Jarr flat, “you mustn't mind if the old lady is @ little out of sorts, but she'll be glad to soe you though she may not show It." . Mr, Jenkinga felt as brave as a lon. Anyway, it wasn't his wifo, Mr. Jarr rang the bell, but there was no answer, Then he remembered that Mrs. Jarr had told him she) would take the children and go to see her mother that day. This cheered him ¢mmensely and ho informed Joen- king of the fact as he let his guest and himself in with the latchkey, “IU be all right,” he explained, “We'll get our own dinner, I know] sho's loft something, although Ger- trude, our light running domestic, seoms to be out, too." A search through the Icebox dis- closed a scrap of roast beef and some pickles, but on the gas range Mr. Jarr discovered an tron pot full of somo mysterious Hquid, “It's all right,” he sald, “there's soup, Wait til I heat it up. My wife makes splendid soup.” After the pot had come to a boll Mr. Jarr ladied out two soup plates oO [neighbor who bad long worshipped | her father, wae equally anxious for ber to make @ brilliant maton bg Stories of Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Maserpicces By vert Payson Terhune ee 8 te Pew Pomme Ce (fee Bee tet Gemag Hemt CRESSY; by Bret Harte, ACK FORD bad come from Ban Franciece to tench the @eute 5 school at the Grontier settioment of indian Springs An@ there be proceeded to (alk @epelenly in love 1h bie eigest puptl, Cremey Meine) Cressey gloriously beautiful, capricious girt.feli just com pletely is love with Ford She was siready cogeged to Beth Devise, « cawky young pioneer; bul, on Ford's sovount, she conned ber ruffianly old faiher inte breaking ber previous engagement for ber by the sluple process of otarting @ Weed feud with Davie Creasy's mother t { ited that the girl should marry Joe Masters, @ from afer, Old man MeKinetry, marrying Fi ‘The schoolmasier himecif lived on tn @ fool's parading ot love for the @irl, aith bis common sense told him the crass folly of sliying Limeelf with such © famtiy, And Cressy, though she gave oo sign of It, knew just what was going on io bis troubled mind ‘Then Heth Davis, to “eet even” tyr bis took « hand ta the game He stole @ packet of love letters, long age written to Ford by cory Franeciaco woman, These be displayed brosdeast throughout (he aeighbere howd | Vrontier morals were erude, but sturdy, And the news that Ford wag courting one girl while receiving jove letters from another slirred up het — eentiment against him. A band of masked vigilantes gathered to run him out of town. Yord taced band and challenged any one meme ber of it to t him in a 4 Out from the group stepped a man who drawl cepted the chale lenge, Unmasking, he revealed the rugged face of MeKinstry. Kjifles were chosen as the weapons for the encounter, Furd knew hie opponent was merely seeking to avenge the fancied insult (he schoolmaster@ — courtship had put upon Creasy, So he did not aim at the old man, but, Ime wtoad, 4 upward into the alr, heless, at the vory fret exchange of shots, forward on hie face, badly wounded, Heth Davis, ur a A Frontier Duel. McKinetry tumbled =” ng behind @ bush,’ "" pistol in hand, had taken advantage of the duel to wipe out @ portion of the | Davia-MeKinatry blood feud, ‘ ; Ford ran to the stricken olf man and kneeling at his side swore to him that he had not inflicted the wound, He also ass.red MoAlnatry that big y motives toward Cressy were honorable and that the love letters from the © | other woman were @ bit of ancient history, Old man McKinstry was a shrewd judge of human * nature, He saw the schoolmaster waa telling the truth, A Bit of The discovery that the wound had been caused by « bul- News. let from a@ pistol and not from @ rifle added conviction =. to his belief in Ford, . McKinatry not only took Ford back Into bis owm food graces, but made the neighbors believe in the schoolmaster’s Innocence and reinstate him tn his school, The course of true love promised henceforth to run amooth. Rut Mra Mexinety had a habit of getting her own way in all things, as she speedily proved. BR Two days later, when Ford entered the schoolroom, a tiny pupil called > out to him: & “Creasy McKinstry's left school, She's married to Joe Masters.” ” “Married!” gasped Ford, In stark bewllderment, ‘i “Why, we knowed it all the time!" chorused his pupils, ——— +4 The best part of our knowledge is that which teachas ue where knowl | edge leaves off and ignorance beyins.—Holmes. S eeeaaganaaanannaaananenaanaanet Tl ' a Fables of Everyday Folks By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1016, by The I'reas Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), The Girl Who Came From the Country. al : NCB upon a time there was a girl who was born and reared in the country, She was tho village belle, Her name was Jane. She was the centre of every group. She was part and parce! of farm life, She came of good old stock, where everybody worked, She knew how to excel in the field or barn or village dance, Jane loved the life, She had known nothing els Each season brought with it its particular charm, ‘Thus she was alive with youth, her strong young frame being the vesult of her rural activities, Among her many beaux there was on, Se moet persistent, the most|at a roadhouse, daring of them all. Though mo It was all exciti than once he had told her of his love,| at first, but “at stein she put him off on the theory that! found herself separated from Flossie she wanted to know more of life ere| and her escort, and instead of a large!” she settled down, dining room there were strange Ii “7 All this longing for “life’ came! booths with curtains around. through her reading the magazines| There were long sofa and newspapers of the big city during} around the table. the long winter nights, herself sitting alone with t The pictures of the white Hghts|) had met that evening. ord and the gorgeously dressed ladies and| cocktails and urged her to be a " the theatres fascinated her, She wanted to see the congested streets, with the many, many kinds of busy people; and from her se- cluded sanctum she longed to test her strength in the seething city beyond her vision, Now, it happened that at the next farm away they took summer board- ers, Often Jane would go over for a dance in the barn, which the city People loved so much. There she met a girl, Flossie Froth, of her own ago, who had never known anything but the east side of New York, She wis amured at the barn dances and enjoyed the novelty of the coun- A few v later she had ma an “engage: r with a party of four for dinner and dan runt. They sat on a balcony where they could look down at the peoplo be- low. Cocktails were ordered and Jane protested, as sho had never drani But, eeorent with “Be gam @ sport,” “Don’t spoll the part: fron Ht and was then urged Xo ane ed at her with the ins verything goes in New She saw much around her . during the dinner that would have branded : girl back home. After the dinner and dance there was a joy ride in the park and a@ little supper fellow.” She only sipped hers as she did not * like the taste of it, Pretty soon his arm slipped around her waist aud ae on her cheek, ou're a peach,” he whispered and pulled her toward him, She was almost prostrate on the seat beside him, and it was only with every effort of her great strength that she freed herself and ran out in the night. Fortunately she had her purse and@ found her way back to the miserable little room she had shared with Flog. sie, She packed her belonzings and made her way to the railroad eta. tion, try; but the Luzzing of the nees was nothing like the hurdy-gurdy to her, The two girls became friends, and Flossie painted glowing pictures of dance halls end cabarets, &c, ‘To make a long fable short, she agreed to get Jane a job tn her fac- tory, where they made paper boxes; and one moonlight night Jane pinned the proverbial good-by note on her pillow and went with Flosste, Soon she found herself in the sor- did box factory, where everybody went around like automatons, carry- ing high packages In the process of making paper boxes, Always boxes, boxes, boxes, Reing a very pretty girl, she had the admiring glances of many malos. She found herself In t hirt, W pretty soon she went to the dance halls with Flossie, and everybody called her by her first name after an hour's acquaintance, This was “life” the: 6 reflected, he midst of the mad| SS catchup and sauce, and he and Jen- kins liberally dosed the Hquid with the condimgnts. “Best soup I ever ate. You couldn't get good home made soup like this} at the Hotel St. Croesus,” sald Jen- kina, he partook, with tears run- ning down his cheeks from the hot seasoning. “You bet!" sald Mr, Jarr, some more?” ‘They had aome more and after the repaat Mr. Jarr saw his guest to Gus's again and from there to catch “Have full. “How is it?” ne asked. “Needs a little seasoning,” sald Jen- kins, Mr. Jarr produced pepper, salt, was Introduced to a few and) H a train home, When Mr. Jarr got back Mra. Jarr and the children bad returned, Sho found tt would be hours. before a train left for home, but she waited patiently, During the long day's ride she was busy with hor thoughts, Sho realised that in the city all was as naked as the truth but hidden under the cloak of convention, It was nightfall whon she returned, Up the long, shady line she carried her valise, She threw off her hat and breathed In the pure, harvest-laden air, When she approached the house she looked tn at the family circle, “Oh, how wholesome it Is," sho breathed o herself. ‘There was a joyous and tearful greeting, They knew ‘, back, Pretty soon we Jank of hoofs. They came riding by y night find out if there was any news of her, She ran out and down the lane and under the starry sky they met—never to be parted. Moral: Home-grown products may take root tn foreign ports, but thrive only in home environment, “I suppose you had your dinner, You knew I'd be out,” said Mrs, Jare, “Oh, Jenkins was here with me and we found the soup on the gas range,” sald Mr. Jarr cheerfully, “Soup? erled Mrs. Jarre. “Why, that was just a pot of greasy water the girl left, Didn't you see the dish rag in it?" grinned. he said. ‘Tl saw it, but Jenkina, poor fellow, is drinking hard. Mra, Jarr gave him a Bir dare stood: the onde kit like a man, @ leason to But Mr.