The evening world. Newspaper, August 24, 1916, Page 12

Ng dlorid. J08EPH PULITE RR vhhening Compony, Nee +) te Pete & Preneres Paty pcan eepany ty phy 4 wi hee, Kew Tore een 2% “ (how lee eg ver VOLUME NO —————— READY FOR WOR HE American membership of the International Joint Commis sion which is to try to adjust the differences bet yoon8 — — en the United States Government and the de facto Government of Mesico is vow comp! With Franklin K. Lane, Seeretary of th Interior, will serve Judge George Gray of Delaware, member of the Internationa! Permanent Court of Arbitration, and Dr, Jovn Mh. Mott, Secretary of the International Y. MU. A A Cabinet offic, « Judge and « sociologist—all three with distinguished records—ought to combine successfully with the Mexi can Minister of Finance and his two engineer associates, each of whe has had the best of opportunities for learning to know this country and ite people at first hand. The commission should get to work at once in order to clear away all formal questions and leave the way open for « broader dis cussion of that reconstructive policy in Mexico upon the carrying out of which the future attitude of this nation toward Carranea and his Government must mainly depend, Be it noted that recent activity on the part of the First Chief and his lieutenants has not been without significance, Pursuit of bandits is being conducted with something approaching real energy, apd any official display of resentment toward the American troops has become conspicuous by its absenc Carranza’s actions show that what has been pointedly said to him of late by this Government has not gone unheeded. : Good auspices—under which the commission can the better begin ite task. oo With the armies of ten nations battling on the Mace- .donian front and the diplomats on both sides exhausting their blandishm: take a jump back to the Balkans, ‘ Russian and Italian armies aiding French, British, Ser- bians and Montenegrins against the onslaught of Austrians, Germans, Bulgarians and Turks produces a spectacular clash of nations which for the moment fairly takes attention from the slower, grinding movements on the western front and in Galicia. As a “Battle of the Nations” the Balkan mix-up consider- ably outranks the Leipsic affair of 1813, in witch Prussians, Russians, Austrians and Swedes defeated the French under Napoleon. A Uncle Sam {for years now expect him to protect them from ; the claims of the belligerent foreign Governments under which they have eiccted to live are getting scant satisfaction from the State Department Passports are said to have been refused to some two hundred of these confirmed expatsiates—many of them wealthy—who have lived in England from ten to thirty-five years and have only recently recol- lected the advantages offered by their native land. Why should this Government hasten to claim them as its own merely to save them from the embarrassing possibility of military service ? ; After all, American citizenship carries duties as well as privileges. To such as have for years deliberately dodged the former and scorned the latter, why should the title or any of its rights adhere? ——-4¢ >——___—_ os WHY? ‘We should have thought the temperatures in Washington, D.C., these last few days might have rendered even a railroad president more ductilé, A CRIME. VERY now ond then some little stery of poignant human E interest turns up in the grim columns of the war news, A German military court, we read, dealt lately with the case of Paula Mueller, a Strassburg seamstress, While visiting the wounded at one of ihe hospitals with a friend, this girl became acquainted with a French prisoner of war, and after subsequetit visits fell in love with him, Later, when the Frenchman was transferred to another city, the scamstress went on writing to him. One letter, which expressed the hope that they might someday be reunited on French soil, fell into the hands of the military authorities, “Despite the fact that the defendant was a young person,” according to the Neue Generation, a German reform magazine, which reports the story, “the military court, in view of the shameless con- duct, pronounced 1 sentence of three months’ imprisonment.” Patience, Alsace! ——— THE FROOF TO DATE, A 20-cent taxicab, which carries two passengers one-third of a mile for that sum, metering 40 cents for the first mile and 80 cents for each additional mile, has reached New York, The cars are lighted by electricity and equipped with rugs and heating apparatus for winter. There will be 200 of them on the streets by Oct, 1, The taxicab service is a public service, And the profits of @ public service have always been found to be in extending and cheapening it. If the taxicab in this city is to prosper at all it must prosper upon an increased use of taxicabs by the public. People generally will not ride in taxicabs until they can count on two things: (1) Greater confidence; (2) lower fares, Free and open competition among taxicab proprietors who are willing and rnxious to serve the public at reasonable rates under, strict city regulation and surveillance will secure ua servicd of which we may be proud. The taxicab will make money as fast as it makes friends, The Evening World, April 28, 1913, | ts on Roumania, the war centre seems ready to | MERICAN-BOKN persons who after turning their backs on| > }Can You INQ i] At Small Cost ROAR AARP ORAOLDDADDO RADIOL. , Delightful Dollar Trips. ROLLAR will take you further and give you more fun in the vicinity of New York than al- most anywhere else in the country, If you enjoy beng on the water— and it is surely the pleasantest place to be these sultry August days—you can spend next Sunday on the com- modious deck of a big, fast steamer travelling up the Hudson to Pough- keepsic and enjoy some of the most famous and beautiful scenery in America fvom the time you leave One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street at 9.30 in the morning until you dock at the indentical place at twilight the same night. Stops are also made at Newburgh and Beacon, which used to be called Fishkill, ‘The same boat leaves the downtown dock at Franklin Street half an hour earlier on Sun- Brooklyn or Staten Island. Delight- ful music plays nearly all day and there is an excellent restaurant and also @ lunch room where you can get her @ meal or enough to supple- ment the box of sandwiches you take along. If you have never seen Long Island Sound by daylight by all means take the boat to Bridgeport some pleasant Sunday, This leaves the Hudson River pler at the foot of Houston Street at 10 o'clock, and the Fulton Street landing at 10.30, The trip to Bridgeport takes about four hours, Arriving at Bridgeport about halt-past 2 and starting for the return trip at 4 in the afternoon, and getting back to “Little old New York" at 8 o'clock at night, On this trip alsy you will have no dittculty in getting refresh- ments, for there is a lunch counter besides the regular dining-room. Af you Will get up early enough you Bo A good distance out to sea on any fine day and enjoy the best fishing by taking the stanch and comtortabie steamer that iaves: Mier 1 North River at 8 o'clock in the morning. You don't al = KO to the same plice on this steamer either, for she makes @ slightly different cruise nearly ey day, and the captain knows the haunts where fish are thickest, You can take a remarkably long trip for $1 if you have the time to . You ean go ail the way to ny for that sum on a steamer that leaves Pier 89 at the foot of West Houston Street at half-past 5 ry afternoon, Staterooms are 75 nts and $1 extra, In normal Umes you could take a very interesting trip to West Point ond return for one dollar and spend the day viewing the United States Military Academy, watching the ¢ dets drill ete, returning on the after- noon boat, but since the epidemic of infantile paralysis the Government reservation is Closed to all visitors and boats are not allowed to land at | the dock. Every Sunday a boat leaves the foot of East Thirty-fourth Street at tem o'clock and the foot of Kast One ry, —_—"—"———_——38nnnnnn"_ Summer Outings days for the benefit of tourists from, @ 800d student. Beat It? Wirety. | CauawT A FISH] el) ‘\ em et, AN OTHER ONE! —— WAKE _UPITJOHN, YourR FEET ARE IN THE GOLD FISH ] By Maurice Ketten The Evening World Daily Magazine. Thursday, August 24, 1916 i By Helen ho danger What t eo Srarieome wel to luneb wit ved, and seeketh thee What i out « shudder © th THIS!” is no recees What tn # who will Nc surdeth thy toothach Cheer up! exasperating as the continually? decided to “reform” For lo, in ble almost patronizing! ] Sayings of N th and be is filled With tender gallentries; for * the Virtue of the him and spender) the b hee by extolling bis wife's attractions? ly to torture t 6 criticlem tha to offer th he te a cheap mirror, which only the bh. eon Irs. Solomon Rowland ~ te Pow Pewee € hee Vd teeming Coens 1 Lenebter, consider the Beven Deadly Viriure of Me M Por jo, bis eine may be ee TIMER seven, pot, peredventare hots + 60 deadl Verily i), What be eo Wepreseing os the Viriue civie teeke ‘ whe be entiogd Into @ Mirtetion bot ete ater end talketh in generatitios’ Yet, Whew (he watrons ond the grene widow och ble ove Oright tn Cheese, be pereetvet verried men, eho lavitet® run thereot in eaeing etter « lettuce senda ond « glass of bottermi/k in peace Hiness than @ brotled squab end truffies with one of these What le eo enervetiog the Virtue of # lover, Sho ineteteth apo eoutlng the eare of bir platonte friends with lis ravings concerning Ble we with the dlage eo Lerribie ws the Virtue of the honest friend, who persisteth elling (hee the bitter uth rather tha ond thinketh pinpiiment? rdened way approseb with woth What ls so heart-rending as the Virtue of a man, who seeketh elwaye improve thy mind;” who leadeth thee unto the instructive lecture an@ eth aloud to thee, *ithout provecation, Who saith, "Now, listen For, behold, life with such an one is but @ classroom from which there Virtue of the professional optimist, leave his optimism at home, even upon a Hot Day, who re as an “opportunity” for If-development; who salts, And WHAT, my Daughter, ts so harrowing as the Virtue of an husband on the morning after, when he bath had a cold bath and 4 bromide and bas xuitation at the thought of his own virtue, be becometh Verily, verily, @ Woman's charity may, peradventure, be sufficient te cover al] man's sins. “But his VIRTUES, who can bear them? | Selah, — — { o, Pirre Th > J; ° I ‘ il , ) 1 WAS e art amlly DREAMING | By Roy L. MeCardell ‘ = Copyrigh!, 1918, by The Proms Publishing Co, (fhe New York Evening World, ’ HE Jarrs were at t dinner if LT can go out on the street and Tr and when dessert was] play with the boys of our gan { reached Master Willie Jarr Master Jarr, aske M kin I go out and pl with Gussie Bepler and Izzy Slavine | rit make you no promise ; Sky? It's light yet!” his mother, “You eat your rice pud- “Sit right at the table! Take your) ding and then we'll see.” elbow off! Haven't you any man- Little Emma Jarr was suddenly ners?” replied Mrs. Jarr. And she| pounced upon by her mother at this j struck Master Jarr on the forearm | juncture, | with the tablespoon with which she] “Emma!” sho cried, “stop feeding | Was about to begin serving the des- sert—rice pudding, “Now, mother, rei | good manners, eithe: Jarr, mildiy. “That's right! Make a show of me ally, that tsn't observed Mr. ables of Ev By Sophie eryday Folks Irene Loeb ¢ Copyright, 1916, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) ‘CE upon a time there was a O woman who had a motion pic- ture mind. A motion picture mind is one that has a mental pic- ture of each detail, Every little thing is registered there. The woman could not see anything without taking ft all apart in her mind and getting its various parts fixed there, When she was a little girl she was very prim and sedate, Her hair rib- bon had to be tied “Just so," and she eried if there was a button off her shoe, When she was given a doll it had to be dressed just like a little #ifl and, let a leg or arm come off, 16 hated the doll and had no more use for tt. When she went to school she was Mathematica was her forte, She liked to figure every- thing out exactly and get the answer, Thus as she grew up she became very practical, and everybody said sho certainly would “make some man a good wife,” As is usually the case with such a woman, there came a man who was successful in business and who was looking for just such @ helpmate. There was little romance about the courtship, although the man had aon- siderable sentiment in his make-up, but no sooner did he manifest it than it was discouraged by the cool, cal- culating demeanor of the woman, There would be no failure where she was concerned, because she hat all the advantages worked out, lo belled and decided, so that when she talked about the futur@ home and the various things of the! life to be— how she would save on this und that, | how his income and the future pros pects were going to be developed, the man said to himself, “This is doubtless her way of showing love.” o the couple were married, But € {t was not long until the man found Her Motion Picture Mind., himself matter, His wife did not seem to approve ‘of him, She was what they call an “excellent housekeeper.” Everything was spick and span, So much so that should the man leave a cigar butt on the porch or his coat on the parlor table, there was the devil to pay. Everything had a place and every- thing had to be in its place, and she never neglected an opportunity to preach this good old Sunday school doctrine. His meals were prepared with forethought as to economy and hygiene, He never could indulge in anything he liked very much because it was not according to his wife's detailed views, Further, the man had little or no pleasure outside his home as the woman was so bent on each detail about her household that she had no time for anything else. Everything about her was an everlasting study of details, with herself as the prime mover of each detail. In a word, she was a motion pic- ture machine, She had no vision be- yond her immediate circle, She lacked imagination, She could not see the world at large, because of her narrow microscople environ, She was the kind of woma that grows old steadily with continued motion, but no emotion, The husband realized this, for he had tried many times to show her something outside of mere detail, He wanted her to see the whole of a vision and let imagination have some play for the rest, Rut the woman refused to cultivate it, She was like the person who looks at a beautiful picture and who ts not satisfied with its wonderful beauty, but insists on knowing the kind of jPaints and canvas that are used in making the picture, Therefore, belux so hampered with trifles, she could only encounter a small part of the Igreat big world that has so much in it, wondering what was the and went his way | | | So he settled a sum of money on her| Nobody ever knew | why, for she scemed to "make him such & good wife.” She had the sym. | pathy of the faithful; while he learned this moral: People who only look for details in life overlook life itself, ——-+-—___——_— day comes when he begins to care Then all govs well, He has changed sin. EMERSON, Hundred and Thirty-eight Street at 10.80 for an eighty-mile sail on the Sound, The round trip for this is seventy-flve cents, The landing is made at Valley Grove, a pleasant re sort, where you can bathe or dane or enjoy the usual seaside amase- ments. You have r hours ashore before leaving at five o'clock for the return trip. You can © @ steamer at the foot of Desbro Street at 9.40 for a forty-fivesmile sail up the Hudson for Bear Mountain and Highland Lake for $1 the round trip. This is the upper end of the wonderful Intor- etate Palisades Park, Here you can ry man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him, Buta that he does not cheat his neighbor, his market cart into a chariot of the oem jfind fascinating mountain trails, a most beautiful restaurant where both | | elabol and simple meals can or obtal There is good bathing in jthe Hudson, and if you jlake you can go out steamer, a famous "D, * bout, ‘leaves Forty-second Street at 10 and One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street twenty minutes later, The round trip to that beautiful spot Lake Hopatcong is only $1 on | Sunday. You leave the foot of West Twenty-third Street at ten minutes of 9 and the foot of Liberty Street ar 9 o'clock to catch the train on the Jersey side, > \to pay ‘poem, She was introduced by Prompt- Uher wide open and make the hellking | Walker are full of welcou in front of the children,” cried Mrs, Jarr, and her eyes filled with tears, “How can I have any control of them if you make fun of me right to my Ellabelle Mac | * face Doolittle “1 was only joking,” said Mr, Jarr, In 2 quickly. rrr Nos York trang Warts ® * ~|1 do my very beat to tench them to AYOR THOMAS C. SPIKE of Walhoola was the guest of honor at a meeting of the Women's Betterment League at Dethi Tuesday evening. He came “LT don’t want any rice pudding, I over from Walhoola to call on Joshua don't want any rice pudding!” ex- Seeley relative to the dehorning of a| claimed the little Jarr girl. cult owned by the Walhoola execu-| “If you don’t eat your rice pud- tive, but pastured on the Seeley | ding because it's good for you, you ranch, Phe SbaF ttn cs pers, Promp~ | shan't have any dinner! d= Mrs. tress of the League, heard he was in! Jarr, Then, remembering the little a led th ee ee ately a tcdothor | girl had had her dinner, she added: to honor the visitor, “I mean you shan't have any dinner The meeting was held in Hugus Hall to-morrow. Having had her dinner for that behave like properly brought up chil- dren and not like little animals, and yet you sneer at me when I do and then tell me you were only joking.” and was attended by practically! th who were not admitted. One of the morrow had but slight effect on these, the Hon. Peter Hooster, hung around outside and threw rocks at) the building until he was arrested b Constable Pele Brown, The office was knocked down four times in doing his duty, but he managed to restore peace at the hall by inducing the vio- lent citizen to throw the rocks at him instead of at the building. Ellabelle Mae Doolittle, Delhi's great poetess, covered herself with glory at the meeting by delivering a weicome little Emma, She stared down at the disdained dessert with crossed eyes over her Mttle wrinkled nose, and Master Jarr burst out into a loud guftaw. “Look at Emma making faces at her rice pudding!" he cried, “I'm going to give the two of you the best whipping you ever had and put you both right to bed!" exclaimed Mrs, Jarr fretfully. Then she darted an indignant glance at the head of the table, “A right Kind of father ress Pertle and, after stating that the rhyme was written hurriedly, read it. The poem follows: the cat at the table again “I wasn't feeding the cat, the little girl, pudding.” “Look, Maw. I et all mine,” cried the boy. “Now can't I go out? “I hate to tell tales out of school,” spoke up Mr, Jarr quietly, “but Mammie, I saw Willie putting the riee pudding in his pocket.” “Mrs. Jarr stared at the boy too aghast to speak. Hub huh, huh!" sobbed the lad, “T was only putting it In my pocket to take out to a poor little boy.” “And he don't eat his crusts, ither,” satd the little girl, “he puts them in his pocket, too.” “It's for a poor little boy that lives in a cellar down the street. I'm tak- ing him the bread crusts, too,” ex- plained Master Jarr giibly. “The poor little boy is going to give me a bieyele and a gun and a dollar if T bring hin something to eat, cause he's starving,” added young Mun- chausen, “How could he be starving, Willie, if he has a dollar and a bicycle?* asked his father, At this the boy began to whimper, and Mrs, Jarr regarded her husband indignantly, “You shouldn't be harsh with the child when he gets confused whe detected in a good action, Tell me about the poor little boy,” said Mra, Jarr, In saying this she directed the first part of her remarks to Mr, Jarr and the latter part to Master Willle. “I don't know his name, but he’ starving,” whimpered the boy, “L know it's true,” said Mrs, Jarr, “It's the same little boy I gave you 10 cents for, isn't it?” sniffled “she won't eat rice it we honor M + cothes from fair Walhoola We like Dum very muchowiie. Ml ie @ cousin of Unde wouldn't sit there grinning at his children when they misbehave,” she added, Willie! Emma!” rasped Mr, Jarr, Maw, I'll eat all my rice pudding “Our Masor. tay vers Do evervtiing sou wish that is But do not get too ecravor, My aiater'a child, Tred to ua ‘Wein and witty, Ricketts, ‘Teer ua an aimnip, : you tpay fall again ramen lee OF Lase.to, Be careful, And get’ a inferior. —SIDNEY SMITH, When the poem the audience stocd up and her. ‘The poetess merely et," she said, “that | the one to be honored here to-night is Mayor Spike. Ho has travelled over the hot sands in the Pollywe our falr city a visit and to him all honor is due, Show him a good tim W people realize the vastness of the amounts whivh are paid out by the various governments in the form of pensions to veterans of | the military and naval services and “That we will," replied Mayor Cyrus|to the widows and dependents of Perkins Walker of Delhi, who was/those who fought their country's seated on the rostrum, “He has the) patties, For many years Uncle Sam key to the city,” “See that it is not a whiskey,” cautioned the poetess, has been the most liberal of these governmental philanthropists, his an- (Laughter from all parts of the, nual disbursements in | pensions ) Amounting to a8 high as $1/5,000,000 Spike arose and bowed. jer annum, When the Buropean war “ he said, “1 am roped and hog tied with honor to-night. You are treating me swell, and if you all will visit our litte town we'll throw is over every one of the mations in- volved will Have to shoulder this tre- mendous burden of caring for the dis abled riors and the dependents of those siain in battle, and Uncle Sam's pension lst, amazing as it is, will probably become comparatively insig- you all seem full.” | nificant, Miss Doolittle was on her feet in| The pension system of the United an instant. “Mayor Spike means full tes had its beginning Aug. of welcome,” she explained, “Do not misconstrue his words, for a wrong construction might mean much ruc- Miss Doolittle ring. Mayor In fact, soldiers of the Continental forces, In tion.” 1790 the first regular pension system ‘The audience applauded with great’ was established, and since then, up Busto, to the close of the fiscal year of 1915, All were pleased, . the Government disbursements for 1776, when the Continental Congress | average was only undertook to provide for the disabled | year, “Yes'm, an’ he took me to the mov- ing pictures,” sobbed the young phi- lanthropist. “There now!” said Mrs, Jarre, “A kind heart is better than good man. ners,“and papa mustn't scold you!” a a No man can end with being superior who will not begin with being Miss Doolltt10. had. finisher ¢wnnnnannnnnnnananannnnnananannnnnananannnnennnnnnnnnnnnnnn Uncle Sam’s Pension Payroll j ” pensions has amounted to nearly five billion dollars. From 1790 to the outbreak of the r Civil War the total cost of the pen- sion system of the United States w less than $100,000,000, ‘The Civil War and the war with Spain have brought the total to $4,940,304.145,05 at the close of the 1915 fiscal year, Pensions aggreating — $70,000,000 ® paid on account of the Revolu- The pensioners of the War of 1812 received a total of $45,000,000, The Indian wars cost in pensior about $6,500,000, The Mexican War’ Pension list reached a total of about $34,000,000, Uncle Sam Is still paying for the Civil War and the conflict with Spain, and the former has al- ready in pension disbursements nearly four billion dollars, The annual disbursements of the United States pension system in the jast ten years have ranged from $189,000,000 in 1907 to $175,000,000 in 1918, During Grant's first term the about $30,000,000 a From $60,000,000 annually dur. ing the Garfield Administration, the average leaped to $180,000,000 in Hat rixon’s’ Administration, high-water mark of $1 lost year of the Taft