The evening world. Newspaper, October 11, 1916, Page 18

JOS ¥ by the Pv Park How, Now York. PH PULITZER. 9 Pubitehing Con Pushed Dally Ercert hat ie + RALPH Por J ANGCS & ith aa § For ginnd and the Continent aad Fr Buber t * ‘Wetla for the United States All Countries in the International Postal U and Canada, ue Foor, wos 02.60] One Teateves es One M a decade 0} One Month. «+ eee eR COLLECT THE STATE'S DUE. N HIS speech at Albany Monday night Judge Seubury put hie | finger unerringly on one of the worst defects in the State tax eystem—the ease with which holders of valuable special franchises evade payment of the Franchise Tex. While the Ford Franchise Tax law removed special franchises from the exempt class, classifying them as land, it hus not succeeded | in preventing them from wriggling out of reuch. “In the absence of statutory definition of the method by which special frunchises should be valued,” Judge Sealury points out, “a system hus grown up which permits and encourages wholesale evasion. The veual method adopted te the bo-called net earnings rule. Under this method operating expenses are deducted, Operating expenses is an elastic term which covers @ multl tude of sins, “commitments and obligations.” Under this rule, the more wasteful, extravagant an¢ cor | rupt the management of a public service corporation Is, the less tax it is required to pay. With the aid of skilful bookkeeping and highly paid legal talent) vorporations in this State evade their taxes to an extent that has be- come notorious, No city suffers more from such evasion than the City of New York. The Evening World last year presented facts and figures which showed. that while real esiate carries 82 1-2 per cent. of the city’s tax burden, corporations, public utility and others, have managed to shave down their share to 17 1-2 per cent. Judge Seabury would either amend the law #0 as to define the method by which special franchise taxes «lall be levied or adopt some other method of taxation that will so define it. Here is a candidate for Governor who sees in the administration of the finances of the State of New York responsibilities which he is ready to share. He probes into problems. He proposes practical solutions, The State needs first of all a Governor who will help collect its fol income and keep down extravagance, To taxpayers generally, and to the overburdened taxpayers of this city in particular, it hecomes increasingly plain that Judge Seabury is the sort. Se any ‘The cry ts still raised in some quarters that Germany has Do right to sak ships in @ part of tle Atlantic so close to American shores, ‘This notion te absurd. Three miles from the American coast the Atlantic is a legitimate field for the naval operations of any nation so long as American rights are respected. ‘The only question that concerns th's country is the question whether Germany means to wage the restricted submarine warfare to which she has pledged herself or whether the Ger- man Government is nerving Itself to declare all pledges off. Whether merchant ships are sunk fifty miles from Nan- tucket Light or fifty miles from Barcelona has nothing to do with the only easentia! point, which is HOW they are sunk— under what conditions and with what provision for the safety of those they carry. Let's get the {enue straight, What we demand of Germany {s the scrupulous fulfiiment of pledge. We are pot asking belligerents to get off the high seas, <+--——_—_—. " AN INCENTIVE TO CRIME. “T HIS is not @ place calculated to breed good morals” Meaning New York! Tho impeachment was made from the bench by a Federal Judge who belongs in Florida but who is sitting here by epocial assignment in the Criminal Branch of the United States District Court. The unhappily transplanted Judge unburdened himself of the remark while sentencing two men found guilty of conspiring to smuggle jewelry. Then he amplified it: “The way @ man fe held up in Now York City for taxicab fares and hotel charges, I can herd'y bleme him for trying to put one over once in a while. If 1 were in New York for ten years I think I might almost be tempted to beat Uncle Sam ‘tmyoelt.” Consider the town has winced. Nevertheless New Yorkers put in a timid plea for credit on the score that despite the awful surround- ings so manyof them keep straight, What would the worthy Judge have said of New York taxi fares three years ago? TP it-comes to hotel prices, some of the highest on record are found in Florida— unless Palm Beach and Miami have greatly changed. And as for morals generally, we have all kinds, Visitors have their choice, Now and then persons charge New York with driving them to drink or crime. Buta patient and forgiving spirit is one of the city’s virtues, + The welcome Ambassador Gerard got from his fellow eftt. zens was ‘only a@ fitting recognition of two years’ hard work well done through a time of the highest diplomatic tension the world has ever known eepeees Tee BSS USE eae ce | Ore ts due distinction of being the originator ¢ ullle pens in . ! ' ri ot ir ni Letters From the Pe ople FTE aaa Rey aaron ige iphoto A Hint to Shoppers, | exacted of thewe een, It t¥ none too, Haxland, quickly following him with) Thy @ Shi Te the Pita of ‘The Kening Wo to recommend @ pension. for) ctl, pen vf the Barrel shape, suid I take the liberty of asking your! long and faithful serv “"rhen in 1819 James Perry of Red readers to be patriotic and considerate) 1 venture enough to make all purchases at times | ning World other than Columbus Day, Thursday, | for thoso willing Oct. 12, as every sale made on w holl- weurers of Unelo sa day bas @ strong tendency to prevent toll without evmp the stores from closing on future morn tt! that The Eve. ones. Pee ine cise Holidays should be for all, and our} o9 gy ’ ver 4 atore employees would soon be per. | © Joyment of a fow mitted to enjoy them if we Were more Old Ky thoughtful in this regard { faithful F Tt is a shame so Many stores ® « dit iw the faultle 4... | of the pubUc every tim CONSIDERATE SHOPPER When did the trade ahi Cine tor jarciers, «| Hundred and ‘Tairty-oish The Erewiag Word and J ue OPEN TaN reyinty at Your editorial of recent date urging pensions for post office employees @laddened many weary hearts. ngs The highest degree of honor te aaj yi. yoni. absolute exsential in the make-up of the postal employee, and, when couples with the very arduous work b Kventug High Se ‘0 the Kai Mke to kne there ay study for the regen and get the counts to enter co! Oo any, Now. 53 to n 63 3 cond-Clies Matter, "The Evolution || of the Pen i HE first known implements for recording thought or fuct were the calumus or reed pen, and the stylus made of bronse, bone or other material. By the ancient Egyp- tians, Gresks or Romans the calumus wus used for making records op papy- | | rus or parchment. Writing upon tab- lets of wood or stone covered with | Wax, they used the atylue—umany ex- amples of which have been preserved, | those found tn 1850 at Herculaneuin | and now In the National Museum at! ff Naples, and to this day reed pens are | used in Persia and some other Bast- ern countries, From the stylus, which tn the East | was in general use up to the agyenth ‘century, we travel to the quill, the Seville, the seventh century echolar, historian and inveterate Controver- wialist, |tempsred bronze was undoubtedly in occasional use among the patricians or Home, ita rival and companion, the quill, obiained from the wings of the goose, remained in universal wu jamong Western peoples right up to » beginning of the nineteenth cen- | tury ‘rhe earliest English metallic pens of which the is any record were made in 1780 by Joseph Harrison of Birmingham for the private use of a distinguished physician, Dr. Priest- ley. Various Kinds of gold and steel pens Would appear to have been pro- | duced spasmodically at intervais dur- | ing the next twenty years, the method of manufacture and cost of produc- tion puting t h of tho pc Yo Peregrit ir price beyond the er clasts, Williamson of Baltt- | in 18 on Square, London, marked ty ivance of the hand mad ieral use, his suceessive sin 1830 and again in ng the price down to the r the me means of @ edited to od of making d press, Ken- ott And Mason iy belongs to to become en a mat- 1s beyond world owes to this steel pon as se at an tne Doesn't Touch Secon: firat distinct reference go which is|her time going throt found in the writings of Bt. Isidore of | to earn @ living without working for it? While a metal pen made of finely) her giance depends entirely on whether or not they are married, lam much water as the ship weighed Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1916, by The Evess Publisiiug Co, (The Now Sete Krentag World), The Charge Account. OVE smiles on you to-day and cries, “Come! Ask me whatever you willl” To-morrow he greets you with mocking eyes, And calmly hands yo the bill! You murmur, “Oh, anything else bat that!” And your heart turns faint with dismay. But Love stands calmly and holds out hie hat— And you pay, and pay, and PAY! Alas, many a bachelor’s whole life is darkened by @ cloud about the size of @ wedding ring! Now that the old maid, like the dinosaurus, has become extinct; ourl papers bi juccumbed to the “permanent wave,” and the rage bus- band keeps his pockets so carefully censored that no wife would waste When a girl looks longingly at @ man's top-hatr the significance of many @ woman will walk into a ballroom while the man behind her ride: 8 of yore. Funny, but tong after a woman has forgotten the brutal things a man said to her when they parted, she will remember the nice things he eaid to her wher they first met. For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh the average man’s flirtations have History blushing with envy, Nowadays most men marry at lefsure and repept—in a week or two, 4 POOP llNMB_L een } Answers to Common Queries } 3 work involuntarily and the body be- sing to produce heat, Blue. T 1s @ peculiar fact that the veins on the hand or other surfuce If the volume of water so displiced) Portions of the body look hive to was lighter than the ship, the latter’ the eye, whoreas the blood ia red, would sink, It 1s a principle of n4- qnhig ta beeaune we soe the light re- ture that Hmhter things pass above fycted back to our eyes from this those of greater welght, |plooa through the walls of the veins, which give it @ blutsh tinge, Why a Cold Cup *Sive:ts.” UT foe cream into 4 cup and ono warm, but {t 19 true that the| the cup and the alr around tt Floats. © ship could stay on top of the unless that part of tt Whi Veins Loo th the surface dteplaced I water beni N Why Shivering Makes Us Warm, OME might doubt that shivering, S on a cold day would make anv! 1 1834 ateel nown the out. 1 28,000 gross tion in Eng jore than doubled. tt being estimated that there are 110,000 different de- egos of pons on the market 1$K6 160,000 gross, or | extreme’ lo tn 1906 tho pro- |text on the part of the flesh, duo to alone had again | acute discomfort that has reachod the spasmodte quivering of the muscles, | instantly become cold, Air con~ ; causes a flow of blood | sists In part of vapor, and when the and thereby generates warmth, No|air ts cooled thie vapor turns into or shivers until his body ts As the centre of coldness ts cold. It is @ nervous pro ), & good deal of the alr tn the inmediate vicinity gathers on Its out- side in the shape of water, But, the air containg much more heat ¢} the cup contains cold, the Ice cream graduslly melita, Nana wator, ‘brain and been reacted. But the mo- ment shivering beging the muscles ieee Evening World Daily Ma jazine a ||| | Wednesday Cctober 11, 1914) a By J. H. Cassel | Stories of Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces. By Albert Payson Terhune Covrriaht, 1016, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Mrening World). THE MAAING OF A NEW YORKER; by O. fienry. AGGLES was a tramp. But he was also something more than tramp. He was 4 philosopher and a poet. Not that he wrote poetry. Instead, he lived it. He wandered aimiessly | place to place, studying each city and seeking to strike ite | note and to get its own particular local color. k For example, Pittsburgh made him think of “Othello,” played in sian by @ minstrel troupe. | Boston made him fee! as if he was drinking cold tea, with @ wet whit cloth tied about his head. Chico seemed to him @ mixture of breeze, glittering promises ! potato salad. | And 80, at last, in his wandering he came to Manhattan Island, 1 was his first visit to America’s greatest city. He had saved the best for; ‘the last. He wanted especially to grasp the secret of New York's ' dividuality. | | But for the first hour or two this seemed a hopeless task. The Bul ness, the bustle, the heartlessness of the city smote him. And that was 4 Hoe stood at last on @ corner of Broadway trying hopelessly to solve Puzzle; to guess the keynote of the bewildering placo, He etared at passersby. a Along came a pink-faced, steel-cyed, white-haired, taflor-modelled » @entioman. Then a tall, goddess-liké woman, tcy and exquisite, Ni gullenly stalwart, broad-jowled youth, with @ cigar stub in his irom moq. corner, Raggles noted these three types among the crow > iN ener tee One Thon he started to cross the street. And a whisst | He New York} automobile hit him, sending his body flying else, | bod feet through space and landed him senseless in ti gutter, x | Very slowly the injured Raggtes recovered consctousness, Before | | opened his eyes ho was aware of a wonderful odor, as of crushed violet | Some one was bathing his muddy brow, 4 | Raggles looked up and saw the beautiful woman he had noticed tn | crowd a fow minutes earlier, She was knecling beside him bathing his fo! Her priceless furs were heaped as head with her perfumed handkerchief. | Dillow between Raggles's frowsy head and the dirt ofthe sidewalk. The pink-faceg, steel-eyed old gentleman was haranguing the n ‘gathered crowd on the sin of reckless driving and was pa: | colle-tion tn behalf of the hurt tramp, E | From °” adjoining bar suddenly appeared the broad-Jowled youth. 3 one haod he Sore a brimming ginss of whiskey. Holding the glass) Rageles's ener 6 youth said, invitingly: “ “Drink dia, «poi be “How do you ice) old man?” asked a white-Jacketed ambulance eurge | pushing through the sympathetic crowd. | “Mo?” grinned Raggles. “I feel fine.” And he did, He had found thus early the keynote—and the heart- |New York. | Three days Inter in the convalescent ward of the horpital, Raggies } upon another convalescent tramp and beat him almost to death, The tendants had to pry him away by main force from his howling victim, A [PM wnen order was at last restored, the head nurse undertook to eet | war correspondent and to find the reason for the strange combat, | “What's this all about?” ehe sternly demand 1 > the victor, 1 Se mere i *& Ragglos pointed a scornful thumb at his of Loyalty. opponent and growled: “He was runnin’ down me town.” | civic loyalty, “What town?” “Noo York!" promptly replied Raggles. | Just a Wife—Her Diary Edited by Janet Trevor | Coprrght, 1916, by The re aaa + Non York Dreming World), CHAPTER LXXVII. [ohitdren. Can't you give me OV. 8—I suddenly realized yes-| Work?” 7 ~ terday that for several days [| Utterly @hocked, I followed into her tidy little sitting room. Mi the baby, was there, playing qui in a corner, “The other two are at sched,” Sarah explained. “And I can put hadn't see Jerry, the elevator ‘man, whose wife and sick baby Ned and I befriended. For two or three | weeks 1 went to see Barah, the wife. |"Then 1 discontinued my visite, ne- The Jarr Family trod) ing the hat ¥7q “What town?” asked the head nurse, wondering at such a display of cons { then, how are the professional humorists going | 6004. Now that long trains on evening gowns @re coming into vogue again! Orne By Koy L. McCardell. Ooperiaht, 1016, by The Prees Ihubuushing Oo, (fhe Now York Brening Workt,) RS. RANGLE dropped in for a short call and rem&rked to Mre. Jarr, “How well you're fooking!” “I'm @ure 1 don't feel well,” oatd Mrs, Jarr, with « sigh. “I've been ao nervous sinve we came back from our automoDile tour that | feel sure some. thing te going to happen, and nothing seems to do me any gvod.” “You should take some of that—I can't think of its name, but tt comes in @ bottle with a screw top. It's a powder or something of that ort, Mrs, Pettigrew has deen takingyt and whe saye it fe doing her @ world of ” “There waa a brown medicine some- ‘body recommended to me,” said Mra, Jarr, “and I bought a bottle of tt and {t tasted just Mke dentifrice, I took it twios, but It didn’t do me any good. But [ think I would be ell right if 1 got out In the alr more, but you know how it is with servants these days One might as well do the work one's) self, for if you tuke your eye off them | a minute they never put a hand toa broom or duster.” “Ign't it terrible!” remarked Mrs. | Rangle, “What is this world coming | tor” “And servants want to be running | out all the time!” said Mrs. Jarr, | “Oh, yes; not satisfied with having every evening out, they want to go| out every afternoon, Mine was out| last Thursday, and now she wants to go out this afternoon. I told her she could go If she cleaned this house right through and not before, and she's been up since daybreak work- | tog good for once.” “, think ft's a sham®, my dear,” said Mra, Rangle, sympathetically. “You'll get house nerves the way you Are kept stuck Indoors!” “What cun 1 do? asked Mrs, Jarr, disconsolately. “I have to put up with 't. If you dare way @ word to your naid and don't let ber have her way in everything she'll leave you at a minute's notice,” “[ think you spol) them by gtving in to them that way,” remarked Mra, Rangle, “It wus my «irl's afternoon out, but J fust told her I had to go downtown on business, because I thought, as it was such @ nice day, you might go downtown with me and look at the stores.” “1 would eo like to go,” sighed Mrs. Jarr; “but I went down op my giri's afternoon out last week and the woek before, and I believe if I dared ask Gertrude to stay home to-day she'd think she was a martyr! They have | cnuse she appeared to be getting on Mose In a day nursery, if only I can a“ f get work to do évery day in the week. There {s one woman for whom I do washing, @ I must find more werk, Jerry left the children to starve, but I'll keep them from that,” How did {t happen?” I eshed. “And are you sure Jerry bas ée~ what you say?’ “He left me this,” sald Gareh. .) she showed me @ plece of paper, fairly well, and I am terribly afraid/ of patronizing people who can’t resent it. I assumed that if anything went wrong Jerry would tell me. “He himself may be li,” 1 oonclud- ed, and 1 asked the superintendent. That worthy said: “Jerry yas all rignt the iast I knew. He” hasn't shown up to work for four or five inted in straggling days and he needn't bother to come}"farah: I'so goin’ with Rosie back. We don’t allow vacations with- | sorry to leve you an’ the kids, but out notice.” JERRY, to Sar continued a careful, Tuskeges- nth it “Jerry's a fool,” ahe added, etit calm and tearless, “My dear, I am @o sorry,” I tegam hesitatingly. ly ‘Don't think me hard, Mre, ton,” Interrupted Sarah, “but I'm going to think about’ ‘eo: going to think about my ehiMtren. As long as I have them and can take care of them I don't aak pity from anybody. I can't stop to ‘rene, adout ‘vO “The poor fellow is 4M,” I thought, and ttfs morning I hurried up to his} tenement, of which, luckily, I has kept the address, Barah opened the door. She looked haggard. “Mrs, Houghton!" sho ex- clauned. “I'm so glad you came. Maybe you can tell me what to do, Jerry's gone.” “Do you mean that he 1a dead?” 1 asked in amazement, “No," said Sarah toneleesly, “He's gone off with another woman, That wag almost a week ago. And he won't come back. Or, if he does, 1/ won't take him back. But, Mrs Houghton, I've got to take caro of my “There's some sewing,” I told brave creaty "Tl go ‘hom ae you blouses to mak sive you an advance payn now, I'll find some other work for you, too. _—_ A reason may serve as an excuse, but an excuse m as a reasonJOHN MAROH, ay not always serve no consideration for any one.” “1 tell you you are spotilng your maid, Sho'll only take advantage @f 4," said Mrs, Rangle, “1 know she will, but Iam so good- natured they all Impose on me,” sighed |“! can say you came for me Mrs, Jarr, “They always have a good} And thus Mra, Rangle and excuse, I think she thought | wanted | Jarr escaped to, All the to put my nose out of the door to-day; | downtown they continued commis she knows I'm not well and am killing |"! ach other what they ondured myself doing the work sho's pald to ig of selfish servant girls, do, se she comes to me yesterday es pretending she 18 crying, and said her sisters iitte girl she was very fol nd would like to her you have to go out yours tad “How can I?" asked Mrs, Jarr, “You can say some one ts i ar j You must go," suggested Mra, Ramgl very thing!" said M. ther } Toway’s Anniv orsary, of was tl away to-ds of course I satd, ‘Oh, | ia the centenary of two all very How can people be so} dost forgotten American deceitful and tell an untruth? Ia thore—Richard Burleigh have told her It was her afternoon | ball and Henry Howe, K ball w Hruapshire on Oct, «radiated from Dartmouth Go 1834, and then travelled ex- in Europe, His Iterary which enjoyed a wide popu- fl Mis lifetime, include “The 2¢8 of an Old Man, Threads of Lit t Avroad, “Lotters From out and she was at prefect berty tol born in fo, without her going to that ex-| 116 treane,” eald Mrs. Jarr, loge “Well, you are very allly to be tm-| tensively posed on!” snapped Mra. Rangle. — | works, “What can I do?" asked Mra, Jarr.| larity 1 “Ag I would scorn to say things that | Reminis were not true to others, of course I'm| | not supposed to know when I'm being |™ told what tsn't true.” | poe the “Well, you Just put on your things| licnry Howe wo nu and come downtown with me,” said] his historiont Brien ey sath vod f Mra. Rangle, “If for nothing else,| Considerable value to students of the her trying to deceive you eliminates Cit!y history of the United States, Ho ail sympathy, Just for thet, you tall Was bora in New Haven on Oct, 41, } and