The evening world. Newspaper, August 26, 1916, Page 8

4 POTAMLASHED BT J08RPH PULITERR cumadamdeordy |S 1 munieemgenatimaalid Dresden’ feo vetery Roe oo Gerona Hines ier fend ond the Continent on@ poem oni Cen eed All Cowntrios tn the Teter Postel Union telone Month NO. wm —— VOLUME 67 “IF ADDED CORRECTLY—O. K.” HME dignity of the State of New York requires that the public T treasury shall defray the reasonable expenses of officals and employe 4B @ public capacity Does it require more? The decision of Supreme Court Justice Hasbrouck that the State Comptrotier must pass upon the “propriety and rew " of the bills pres Whitman and bis party, representing the cost of their junket to the Sau Francisco Exposition, opens up a ques tron from which Carne too long excluded, This is by no means the first official excursion party that has squandered public mo In rolling up their charges Gov, Whitman and his San Francisco junketers probably did not go beyond the bounds of “oustol s But what is this so-called custom? What ground is there for according it perpetual priv-leges in this State t i Hitherto, we understand, State Comptrollers have considered their duty done when they have verified the “mathematical accuracy” with which the items submitted in such expenditures have been added | up! The nature of the items themselves was considerately ignored. | Would any sound business management, however liberal its policy, encourage its employees or even its officials to draw upon it for expenses to any amount, provided the totals were added up cor-! reetly ? Why should taxpayers’ money be treated as if it all came from: fools or Croesuses? | ——_-+ On Various occasions when they represent the State hy Gov aud ordinary business standards have been The French army has been ordered to lop off 120 tons of handicapping whiskers. A hint to Hughes! DON’T BLAME THE POLICE. Wi despite the efforts of the police, does reckless automobile driving in thie city go on increasing? The report of the Commissioner of Police isaned this week shows that during the first six months of 1916, 2,292 persons were run down by pussenger autos in the streete-of New York, as com- pared with 2,085 in the corresponding period of 1915—a 10 per cent. 7 inercase. Much worse is the record for motor trucks and delivery wagons. Six hundred and eighty-three persons were hit by motor vehicles of this class during the first half of the present year—25 per cent. more than last year—and of these 52 were killed, as against 49 in the same months of 1915. 6 Why, when accidents caused by horse drawn vehicles and trolley | care show a marked decrease, do we find motor vehicles, particularly | heavy trucks and business wagons, more deadly than ever? =. There are two reasons: (1) It is far to> easy for incompetent and irresponsible men and boys to hold jobs aa drivers of motor wagons and vans, even after they have proved themselves reckless or otherwise uniitted, 66 (2) Many Magistrates and Judges continue much too lenient} jbaffed by the \ epidemic.” toward motor car drivers Of all classes, As long as getting a driver's license is a joke, and even the most criminally careless are let off hy the courts with fines or suspended sentences, what can the police accomplish against the increasing slaughter? . — oo The railway strike conference in Washington seems to have forgotten that what summoned it was an emergency call, “AN ABJECT CASE. NE seldom heats of senility in more repellent guise than that. O of Chicago's vighty-year-old ex-millionaire who is declared! to have handed over property valued at $5,000,000 to various unscrupulous persons and underworld characters of both sexes who have undertaken to Seep him from becoming weary of life during the last twenty years, This old man, who is thought to have squandered almost all the| large fortune he possessed in an aimless and unworthy search for! entertainment, is now a subject of investigation in the United States District Court. The City of Chicago takes an interest in him because, under the terms of his father’s will, it can claim his entire estate if he dies childless, | Nearly at the end of wealth which he has wasted, an object of consideration only to those who have been getting his money or to those who are trying to conserve what is left iP cder to lay hold upon it when he is dead—vould old age bring itself to a more wretched pass? | Pending its arrival the Bremen continues to be captured dally. —_—— Letters From the People ‘Whe Is the W Whem Did You! having ed in New York? ‘Weitet Does a regular United States soldier ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Reg a vote at any time? Inform me as to the correct usage A CONSTANT READER, of the words “who” and “whom,” F STENOGRAPHER. Legal 1) 5, BINNS To the Editor of The What day of the year did June 1, 4,524,004. 1900, fall on? A READER, To the Kditor of The Kvening World: |_ New York, S.252,485 tm 1015, Is a note bearing more than 6 per, To the dior of The Evening Word 1 in New York? What in. What was the largest city ig the on of New York City and. world befure the present war’ i L. a, ANXIOUS, ——| im oe By Tey Give " COUNTRY BOARDING MOUSE IS WONDERFUL . IF | E®T ONE MORE MEA\, I'LL BuRgT { | AM GETTING SO FAT | WON'T | BE ABLE To CRAWL INTo MY FLAT WHEN WE Go BACK % TOWN WAKE OP » JOHN WE DON’ & ONT GET A BITE To EAT_ ano EVEN THEN WE WoN'T Ger MucH The Week’s } Wash By Martin Green. Coverite Nes York Woealag Word) tO WAS reading a headline,” said URING the week a Magistrate in the Flushing police court ruled o H that “a married woman may the head polisher, “which wised’' choose her own friends if they are me up that the doctors are respectable regardless of her hus- infantile paraly: i) band's objections.” ; The husband had complained nothing strange about; against hia wife's friendship for @ that,” said the laundry man. “The! woman neighbor. You cannot ex- doctors live in a state &f bafflement,! pect a wife to remain in the : ID “There' jaw it were. Evervthing baffies them. | ai! day," sald the court as be put the The trouble with the doctors is that’ husband on probation to provide for moat of them don't know anything: the wife, about the profession that yields them| when, oh when, will married people @ livin, realize that they are two instead of “It's a strange business—the doc-| one in the marriage contract; that tor business, A well qualified phy-|thore are two individuals having siclan Or surgeon soon xathers UP 4! likes and dislikes; and that all the practice that enables him to pick bis| “holy bonds of matrimony” and ull own patients, A doctor can do only the vows in the world cannot change 4 certain amount of work in a twen- tv-four-hour day. The better he is,| prook, goes on forever? the jailer, menerally, his lat of pa- When, oh when, will a husband Uents, for it costs a lot of money to) understand that a woman must hav get into touch with @ physician whose! ner women friends, and unless there taining, experience and understand. | ing qualify him to treat people wao, ure sick. “Probably the percentage of incom: petent doctors is no higher than the sercentaze of incompetent lawyers. These two professions are picked for comparison because it is apparently so easy to enter them and they come so close to the lives and pocketbooks of the public. New York swarms with doctors and lawyers, Of tho two classes the doctors are the more dangerous, because they thrive vid this because human nature, like the is’ some extenuating reason, that b¢ waves himself and wife much trouble , by adapting himself to the situation? w ob whi will women real- ize that a whimsical displeasure with | her husband's pals ie very often the: one thing that leads to the divorce: courts? Many a one is driven to lying and clandestine companionships to eave constant controversies, | I know a couple who seemed to be “made for each other” so delightfully did they get on together, They were married ten years and were deqmed to be an “ideal couple. One duy an old school friend of the wife came to visit, The husband took | a dislike to her whioh was seemingly unwarranted, The friend, realising | the situation and being 4 sensible services when dealing with people | person, left, on the theory that no one they don’t know, But, on the other | should interfere between husband and hand, there ts a growing practice | wite, among New York doctors of nursin ‘ hiong the casca of people they think | The wife deplored her husband's are Snancially ible, attitude, yet as whe loved him, she "DP have heard in my acquaintance | tried to forget the whole matter, Not of cages reported as infantile paral. | 00 after this, he began to find fault ysis that were, in fact, complaints common to children, Doctors who | made the reports in such cases elther | played on the feara and bankrolla of | parents or were guided by ignorance, In elther nt it is hard to nail them, If the patient gets well he doesn't care much about what the \doctors did to him, If the patient diew the doctor is through with the \case unless ho has been guilty of iy uvavoldable natural condition. Evet body has to pass, at some time or another, through the experience of dealing with a physician, Dealing with a lawyer is, to @ great extent, a mutter of personal Inclination, “It is true that doctors give away a great deal of their time and such knowledge as they possess, Their percentage of uncollected bills ts ex- tremely high. Generally they take a chance on getting paid for their How much trouble he avoids who bor says or dovs or thinks, but only to just-and pure—MARCUS AURELIUS, —_——————————__——— professors who are chiefly concerned | & out the number of students they grind through the mill.” ! | To the Rditor of The Evening Work ‘To the Faitor of The Kreping World What was the nationality Has there been any such thing as Roger Casoment? hired convict lador in America and if Se, Welshm #0 how pre the products of their labor | to ihe Editar of ° In Freddie We of Sir M. FE Thomas, ‘or in, the prizefighter, Point san Ne. of Jewish nationality? If not, of ‘To the Editor of The Kve what nationality is he? ALU, Wil the New York guardsmen in a Texas get a vote if they ar. in Texas Te the Rditor of The Evening World ft election time iu November, after 1s Bellevue Hospital free? H. A. N, « ime form of malpractice specifically ; ; bidden by law, } A Verbal Prodigy. § a parca) colleges turn out too * many doctors and all colleges turn out too many professional men. In 6“ HAT do you (ink of the the days whon men and women had Hughos campaign oa tar to work or pay for professional train- 3 it has progressed?” ing there was more than an even| asked the head polisher, chance that the graduate was qual- “From reporta that have reached ited, Under educational bread line| me from the Hughes special train,” conditions such as prevail now with| replied the laundry man, “I should reference to many of the profession say that Mr. Hughes has proved-him. particularly medicine and the la seit to be the Benny Kauff of pol- the people are not adequately pro- | itics.’ tected against college presidents and > an By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1016, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York bvening World) Your Wife’s Friends | with another friend for whom she showed*a preference. Then she realized here was a trait in his make-up which he had not dis- during his whole married life, She saw that it was pure selfish- Ness on his part; that during the ten years of marriage she had showed no distinct preference or desire for women friends, her husband being almost her sole companion, She figured tt all out and found there was no real reason for his op- position to her women friends, both women being very much unlike. She also came to the conclusion that, if she would hold him, she must needs give up such friends. The injustice of it was too much for the woman and a divorce followed, It developed that the man could not content himself, for fundamentat- ly he loved his wife, although it was a selfish love. He begsed her to re- marry him but she refused unless he could assume & fair attitude to- ward her companions. It was not until the hushand suf- fered considerably for the loss of "the one woman” that he understood that there must be some sacrifice in the married life. Thur people only see their short- comings after they have suffered, The marriage partnership is very much like any other in its main ts- aves. You cannot stifie individuality. Contrary to the dreamers and the love devotees, one person cannot fill your fe, It fs only posible during the honeymoon stage. After that a woman must have her woman frien just as a man enjoys a pal or two It is the same old story nd take. or woman who expects to regul: every minute of the other's life usually finds he or she has a big fob on his or her hands—a job that enannot lant. While It ts fovous for hoth to like ench other's friends tt is the im- prudent husband or wife who for-! tver frets aeainst friendships that each has made In order to keen away the demon: of disturbance, the wise hushand or Site will, at lenat. resnect the friends of the other and thus keep treachery from the henrt of eneh Tn the words of T’Fstrange sour kings and disitkes are founded rather Upon faney than upon reason.” does not look to see what his neigh- what he does himself, that it may be e ARR Rennes if Fish “Hunters” } panennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn § bow and arrows, saya the Popular Scieace Monthly. The arrow used ia designed especially for this purpose ut five feet in length, with The head, which ita barbed, made from sheet tron and ts provided with a socket which is lipped over the end of the shaft by ight, strong line about ten feet dong. NSTEAD of using neta or the con- ventional hook and line, the na- SOOO TI ll tives of Guiana shoot the fish with | PON na | FRESH Sale PRET! ZING aNd ‘THEY Give Suu Bia PoRTIONS “VT AND | WILL HAVE T START ROLLING EXERCISES Ny, O, PiFFce | IT WAS ONLY A DREAM 1 Lucile the Ww aitress ———eeeeee By Bide Dudley Copyright, 19! by The Press Publishing Co, he New York bveniag World) th OW ct think, kid?” sald Lucile, the waitress, to the newspaperman at = the lunch counter. “A fellow in here to- day wanted me to be a hula-boola dancer like the Hiawathlans are, He says all 1 got to do is to go bare- footed, wear a rope skirt and hop around. You ought to have seen me subjucate that guy. “He comes in here and elevates his physiology to a stool and, when I fade into the picture, ho murmurs: ‘You'd be a wonder at It.’ “*Phanks!' I saya, ‘Would you mind informing me what I'd be such a wonder at? “"The hula-boola,’ he says. ‘How's your contour? . ain't on the polson card to- I tell him, ‘but the roast bee! “You wee, kid, have got to lie now and then, I couldn't afford to teil him the beet was #0 puncture-proof that two men had banded me verbose arguments about it already, so I just says It's fine. Get me? “Well, anyway, ‘I mean your he shakes his head. says. ot iny nanny & fraction, 1 gtve bim one look, ‘Mind vour own bus ’ 1 says, ‘Don't get fresh, W "tu 0 fresh things in here. If you don't belle it, order a brace of eggs.’ “He frowns a little, ‘Listen, lad he says, ‘I'm a impresariole for the dancing trade. You got the looks be a good hula-boola dancer, That's why I'm asking you about your Plenty of girls are getting rich dancing the hula-boola, and here you are wasting your young life ews ie a beanery doing the hop and vs . ‘Very good Faddie,’ I says, ‘but I'm to the apron born. My mother was the best arm waitress in Four- teenth Stree: “"All right,” he Bays. ‘Fetch me roast beef and we'll forget it.’ “Say, kid, ain't the powder of sug- gestion a peach of a subterfuge? 1 start for the kitchen and lo and beholt, if I ain't doing a sort of a hula-boola wiggle step. Lizzie, the tow-head at the ple counter, sees ma, ‘Cold? she asks. ‘No,’ I tell her, ‘Well, what you shivering for then?’ asks Liszie, “Now, you know and I know, kid, that T can’t stand it to be the butt of = riddlecules. T turn to Lizste. ‘Listen, my lovely would-be blonde,’ ‘If you'd get a wiggle on you lot le flies hanging around them custa: and mincea, Tt got her, kid. Sh. ut up It asked tho newapaper man. “Who? Me Not on your life replied Luctle, A moment later added: “Those rope skirte ain't co ly, kid. I got one to-day for $4. and it's a scrawny wook that I do xrab three times that much In tips J this palace of epicure sports.” us serving ladles uu going to be a dancer?" | The Woman of It. By Helen Rowland, oer et ty The Pree Perms Ce (fae Bee Het bree Werte She Criticises the Eternal Critic, KING me an ter, and @ coal deem, end @ tan!” sighed the Wi te the big cushioned plaeee ober, would take @ lifetime!” “You ANN se plete end seuthing, eed Comforting, Bebty!" eooad the wped her | And you have (be best taste in the me ANYHODY'S taste body been eriticwing youre?’ demanded the Macheles (Be The Widow nodded Tet to @ shred,” ehe anewered ruefully, “Just from the ordeal a dear, dear friend and Uying (eod heavy | eve oy oush to inform me that my hale ie too Muffy, and my hate too ¢ cuous, and my b ond my ways (oo frivolous! the house to @ frank euurt way goes deep and HURTS. | wonder why ‘Triendship tacit into the mere privilege of being Mutually dinagreeabi | "1 don't know,” said the “Hut to mix figures the Critic-on-the-hearth is certainly a ¢ side.” ae j Logking Through Glasses Darkly. ) often resolves ~~_~_—~_—_~_~==_-_~_»-_»-_»_»-____[{"_'_"___"__"_"_-_ eee 66 ND the world seems to be getting fuller and fuller of them!" @e. | clared the Widow bitterly, “Mt you ever noticed what « large } Percentage of people there seems to be in these day who go about looking at everybody everything (hroulh the blue glasses of eyniciem Instead of through rose-colored spectacles? 1 don't know whether they @@ it in order t appear ‘clever’ and ‘original,’ or merely to adver their ows ut whatever their motive its very wearisome! As far as erned, whatever IS, ts wrong—-whether it's your clock, oF your Disband, or your hats, or your opinions; and they can always tell you Jume what to do and how to do it!" “Perhaps,” suggested the Bachelor, “they fancy that by throwing everpe | boay and everything else Into the ahadow of disapproval they stand out ia @ strong white light of contrasting perfection. It's Just a pow ( “Or a passion, or an ota n, Or a habit,” added the Widow, “Ané then They they wonder why they are lonely and unpopular and unappreciated, simply can't understand why you don't enjoy receiving little stabs in your vanity and pinpricks in your self-esteem, nor why you don't love and ade mire them for their frankness and persplcacity, Good heavens! Tm sore all over from being ‘reformed’ and ‘informed’ and form: Give me a nice, pleasant Ananias who will tell me that 1 am ‘Perfection’ and let It @o at that!” “There, there!" said the Rachelor, patting her hand soothingly, “You | ARE perfection in that rose-colored frock, and don't let the non-prof eritic disturb your serenity, Remember that ‘manners’ are out of and that ‘breeding’ consists entirely in your ability to be 4 people nowadays. One can find flaws in diamonds, weeds in rose and bad in everything if he chooses to look for them." V—_—_—O~oO€_CorrrerereaeaeaeaeooeroeeeP>?eeerrreereoros~—s*"" } A Club for Non.Clubbers. } 2 errr: 66 ES, and it requires a real genius to find something to admire ia i everybody—especially in his own friends!" rejoined the Wigew, “T think I'll be REALLY original and found a ‘Flatterer’s Unten, | We could call it the "Y, A. R. Club," “The 'Y, A.—what club?" “The ‘You're All Right! Club," explained the Widow. Pessimists, egotists and critica debarred, | Pees “Here, here!" cried the Bachelor. “But why didn't you suggest all thie | to your Critical Friend—the one who objects to your hats and your frocks and your ways?" = The Widow made a rueful moue, “He's furious already,” she declared with a rippling laugh. “¥, T told him that it was ‘bad taste’ to criticise MY taste. The one peru earth who won't stand wholesome criticism ts a constitutional critic! Why," ‘he won't even speak to me, Mr, Weatherby!" ‘eg | enn, The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1916, by The Brews Publishing Co. (The New York Evening Work.) R. JARR gazed out from under where," said Mrs. Jarr, peevishly, the awning over one of the “Hut, one thing for sure, I don't want front windows. He leaned out) to go where there are crowds of | so that he might overlook the awn- | people.” (ings on the windows below. “They! “Thero are lots of places in the ) |look pretty good, those awnings,” he | mountains or on the seashore where it ‘remarked, “and to my knowledge ty quiet,” replied Mr. Jarr, they are three seasons old, But what) “Oh, you'd be pleased to take me to good do they do on the north sid® some lonesome, forsaken place where i of the street except to K ep out the J wouldn't see a soul!" cried Mra. breeze?” Jarr, Anyway, you haven't done a “They give the apartment house an gingle thing about our going away.” | air of class, anyway,” said Mrs. Jarr.| “What is there to attend to?” asked | "Many people who pass and ace tho Mr, Jarr. “It you'll decide where you awnings over the windows Imagine | want to go and WHEN you want to it's an elevator apartment with @ go, I'll arrange for the place and the ma ioeye’ ie eas thas tenia 001s tickets."" “Then it's only for the looks of the: “But how about wash j thing?” asked Mr. Jarr, “The people; asked Mra. Jarr in Ais eet te across the way have no awnings and’ pitied she had him on an fmportant | he: ste seems to glare in vn them) point, “You know how it Ia at eume {all da: mer resorts. Either o! Why should THEY have awnings?"! the -nost outrageous pa 2 es sked Mrs. Jarr, “As you say, thé sun! hotel laundry, or “else you have te glares there all day and awnings) patronize the local washerwomen, would only have all the color taken and they are always incompetent an@ out of them, Why, they do not last! don't do your clothes right any time, and an economical landlord} streak the white things and fade the won't put them up. That 19 Why colored clothes. They starch wi people always pick the shady side of | they shouldn't and don't arch wend, | the street.” they should, and only give you tm: ‘This attitude toward the scheme of| pudenve and don't bring ack half things entire was too much for Mr. your things, and then they alwage \ Jarr. S80 he looked out over the un- have your wash when you are ia @ sunned awnings below him to the! hurry to come back to town, and they wonted shady-side-of-the-street life of | blackmail you for vorking at aight the residence section of upper New! and bring the things to you damp te York. pack in your trunk at the last aim. ‘An Italian with @ “ten cent” cake; ute when the wagon is waiting, f of ice clutched in tongs held over ‘his | ana"—- shoulder, @ delivery boy sitting in a! “11; be coming into town twiee small handcart and kicking himself ‘week to look after some things and it along the asphalt, @ siipshod the boss this summer and I'll vervant going for beer~the sordid in and take out the wash in a sights and scenes: which the Dent eT aida yon de thet tonal aches for when parted from them. — | when we were at Pleasant Polnt last “Well,” said Mrs. Jarr, “you look as: y asked Mrs, Jarr, : though you enjoyed the scene! But I, ecause you said you had found \ for one, am ured of it! Oh, dear! If a Chinaman that did good work and Was reasonable,” replied Mr, Jarr, L only could go somewhere for a good, | Well,” sald Mrs. Jarr, “he wan the te pe only Chinaman that was either a good | “Say the word and we will go any~ aunerymes or reasonable in hig . ady,” re. prices, and I'm not going to Pleasan| jwhere as soon as you're ready," re- Point "again this summer just Deeanos ‘plied Mr. Jarr. you liked a Chinese person therel™ “Yes, YOU'D be satisfled to go any-; yd that settled it, “All_cynies, Positively none but Pleasant To succeed one must sometimes be very bold, and sometimes very dent.-NAPOLEON, Pre HE Lake of Xochimilco, near the City of Mexico, is nearly cov- ered with floating gardons | called chinampas, on which are vulti- vated vegetables and flowers for tho | otty Inarkots, saya tho Popular Sc! Jenco Monthly. They are formed of | rod masses of wator planta vov. HIE largest coal ship in the world —the Milazzo—recently docked in New York, says the Popular Sclence Monthly, © was dosigned by an Itallan, Capt, Emilio M who has oarned a reputation for tm. self as an inventor of ¢ machinery, The Milasse hes | ered with soll and secured by poplar takes, The latter take root and] 14,000 long tons of coal and tens rround the twlands with living|of oll, She la a veritable at hedges, which are useful as well as! of intricate machinery, Coa! care run ornamental, fon tracks in hor vast interion, ‘= |