The evening world. Newspaper, October 19, 1916, Page 14

) : 7 ‘ a oe - he Nh i ay ily sf F. FSTABLISH®D RY JOSMPH PYLITZER, Pedlished Dally Except Sunday by the Prese Puvlishing Company, Noa, 62 to a % 63 Patk Row, New York, a RALPH PULITZOR, President, 62 Park Row. J. ANGUS JOSHPH PULL Entored at the Post-Office at > jon Rates to The Hveulng| World for the United States and Canada. + $2.50 One Year. .30/One Mont vark Row SHAW "Trea aR, Ji Park Row, . 68 THE ar Recond-Cla For England and All Countries In the Inte! Pogtal Union, a Matter THE KIND NEW YORK NEEDS. USTICE SEABURY continues to drive straight to the heart of matters which deeply interest taxpayers in this State, Extrav- agance at Albany is a drain upon the pockets of all who live in this Commonwealth. What the State Government wastes, taxpayers must make good. Moreover, as Judge Seabury says, “simply because a man may have no property of his own does not mean that he is too poor to be taxed. In reality he is charged indirectly, through rents and prices, more than the rich man.” Some of the most valuable holdings in this State are public tran- ehises. But if the corporations which hold these franchises are able, thanks to the net earnings rule, to figure away a large part of their franchise taxes, it follows that real estate and personalty have to con- tribute far more than their fair share of the money the State spends. A Governor who will study the inequalities of State taxation and leave Ro stone unturned to get some of them removed, is badly nended, particularly as it is well-nigh impossible to find a Legislature that is not recklessly indifferent as regards appropriations. State problems are primarily economic problems. It is Judge Seabury’s realization of this which makes him specially fitted to be New York’s next Chief Executive.’ Discussing the disgraceful waste and lack of system in the State Highway Department, he puts his finger on the fundamental troubl “The State Highway Department expends millions of dol- lars every year on roads, but thf department has been treated as if it were @ political trough in which politicians should be allowed to wallow.’ p | “Instead of building connecting highways, small discon- nected sections are constructed here and there and main roads | often neglected. This policy has been pufsued to help the po- litical fortunes of the Governor and to satisfy the demands of members of the Assembly and local Boards of Supervisors.” Few State candidates have ever voiced as frankly as Judge Sea- bury the belief that the administration of State business can be di- vorced from “favoritism and partisan politica.” There are reasons why at the present moment the idea should appeal with special force te voters al) over New York. } Mr. Whitman went to Albany supported by the hopes of many outside his own party who had watched his work in the District At- torney’s office. He had every chance to give the State an efficient administration which would itself have been the best possible boost | the ian and Ringing « Pa @ RS VORK 3 ; most to his career. Instead he has chosen to reach ahead for what he wanted, to busy himself laying wires and propitiating political leaders while his administration turned into one of the most extravagant and | alipshod the State has ever had. | The Whitman hope is dead. Now let's elect a Governor who can| view the office, from one angle at least, as a great business responsi- bility. Let’s elect a Governor determined to give a good account of the State as a corporation to its taxpayers as shareholders. Let’s elect a Governor prepared to make a faithful, conscientious adminis- tration the one best testimonial to his capacity, and his strongest claim to the consideration of his State or country. Prices of Flour and Sugar Further Advanced.—Headline. | With eggs perennially high, the poor can no longer even take Marie Antoinctte's advice and eat cak>. Sane WHAT IS PATRIOTISM? | F ONE may judge by what is“going on in Athens, Greek popular | sentiment, which was earlier thought to be overwhelmingly and militantly on the side of the alliés, divides rather differantly | whén a crisis comes. The procession of several thousand Atkenians reported to nave marched tu the American Legation to protest against the landing of | French marines seems to have been in a sense more patriotic than! - | patron unfolded bis napkin. | summons from some Lucile the Waitress By Bide Dudley Coprrigh. 19 ‘The P Co, iio New York Mreclog Wore = (ee E had another freak in here said Lucile, as the frieadly this mornin, the waitres: “What was wrong with him?” asked the patron, “He was one of those people who can talk down in their stomach,” Lucile replied. “You know—a ventril—oh, I gan't remember it.” *“Ventriloquist?” “Yes, that's it And aay, but he caused me a lot of mental presturba- food tion. But I got even with him. “I'm standing here, waiting ambitio tim, when | hear a little old man ‘Oh, lady!’ with whiskers, You wi devetand, 1 mean he had whiskers, not that he talked with whiskers, Well, «o to him and anchor just even the Venizelista themselyes, The resolution drawn up by this grotp of Athenians asking the sympathy and protection of the United | States sets forth quite frankly that “the Greek citizen has decidsd to| remain neutral because he does not think it to hia interest to partici-| pate in the European war” and appeals to the American people, ‘who| have always fought for liberty against slavery,” to exert their influ-| ence “to avert the subjugation of those who desire only to temain| free.” The moment Paris and London became convinced that King Constantine is “the friend of the enemy” something was bound to happen to Greece, and the proceedings have only just begun, The communications of the Entente armies on the Macedonian front must not be imperilied. But while admiring the Venizelist enthusiasts at, Saloniki and pitying the royalists, who are undoubtedly in a bad way, epare a little eympathy for the Athenian manifestants whose simple slogan is “Greeks first.” , ——- + Mr. Hughes is saic to have begun his final drive carry bim as many feet farther backward as theothers? Will it Hits From Sharp Wits Truth crushed to earth will itso again, but frequently it te incapal- tated.—Philadeiphia Inquirer ‘Ts 8 Old bachelors are as hard to under- stand as widows are easy.—Indian- apoils Star, ‘The monarch of all hoe surv mbition of every mininz),, 7 Surveys is ts La ey hie stocks ainong \ue| the tceman who owns a coal yard.— gix best sellers.—Deseret News, Balumore Amoriean = ore Specialists tn such matters asaort ‘The rising price of shoes Is our #9!0 that : “speeding weakens the mind.* @rievance.—Columbia (8, ©.) State, fance.-Columbia ($ howe who have flown over the wind- ehicld or someranulted into a ‘The path of glory was the original | reached the same conclusion.—Omaha highway.—Montgomery Advertiser. — foo, 8 8 ‘The proportion of men who can! Be sure your wife's right, then go and men who can't closely approxt- | anead.-Noston Transcript mates that between men who will and 8 | lad won't.—Columbia (4. C.)| Soma men never miss the wa’ ee i till thelr throats get dry.—Indi | apolle Btar Gome mon get notoriety and Imag. |” 4 gee have achieved fame,--Albeny Theao days woman scoms to be the coming man, Deseret News diteh || outside hie three-mile lint. He pays no attention to me at all, Finally L Kk him what's up ‘Up where? he “ONTx on the and Jests” stuff!" I tell him, you have? Going to set fem up? he asks, I'm @ bit peeved, ‘Whaddye take this place for—-a bowling alley? 1 ask, “1 don't. get you, says Mr, Whiskers, ‘If you're feeling friendly and wieh to set ‘em up, Pl take a little rye with ginger ale on the side. “Don't kid me,’ I snort, m no! kidding you, says he, “Hey a fool,’ says a man across the room, ‘Come here and I'll tell you his real naine “I turn around and approach the fellow | pick out aw the speaker, “AIL right, [say to him, “Spill your knowledge,’ “He gives me one look. ‘Spill what? he asks looking surprised “He can spill soup better,’ the little bewhiskere| man—or, at least, I thought he sald tt, I give him a cing gla And you,’ I says, ‘have din logued enough, Kindly your time to confiseate th 8. “Tt never sald he re. postulates “It he didn't have that Hughes Fairbanks disguise on he'd be telling | a bare-faced lle. someby says Well I'm beginning to go round and t Just about the time tim] losing m pndum a sick ly looking th points to the real culpert "He nickly one en him in vande m, relieved comes over triloquist \ist, says the foasor Githooley Ne.* A great light 1 go to the ven ou one of those fel kes their stomach talk” Professor ( I, cut out y fs an euting he says. in here. not a place This for pleasure.’ “He orders some prunes nad never says another word, The prunes prob |ably did it “How he friendly patron. “Well week old and our, | gi ach deaf and is they struck his stom- dumb," replied Lucile. | the Bell! HE pubic press prints the faet that “mystery surrounds the | death of Adoiph Silverman, the five- | year-old boy killed in the Bronx.” } The Uttle body | was found in the dusk lying near an elevated pillar of the subway. His head was crushed in, his ribs broken and he had internal injuries, And now a score of detect- ives under Capt. Winess ‘have started an inve: tigation. The lit- |e boy had been playing about the store of hir father and wandered out onto the street, | Darkness was falling, a ewift auto- mobile came along and the Uttle life w crushed out. | . charged. } 7 driver of that machine cer- You can insist that he will stop his tainly knew he had struck the little] machine the minute he creates t boy. slightest harm to a human being or even @ dog. Yet he went madly on so that the uinber of his vehicle might escape detection and he himself be saved |from the responsibility that was his. | 1 know of no cowardice more terrt- ‘ble than this, I wish it were possible |to put the mark of Cain on him who |vanishes after he has laid low his rae either by carelessness or stu. |- 1? ; jn | The Star Spang'ed Banner. bs fgin the guns of sixteen British frigates playing upon Fort McHenry, outside Baltimore, Star Spangled Banner” was writ- on the back of a letter just after) wh Sept 14, 1814, by Francis Scott Through agift in the mist he saw the fg proudfy floating over th wreckage of ‘the fort, and indited | those us lines beginning “O say | Your Automobile and My Child By Sophie Irene Loeb Coprright, 1916, by The Pree Pyplishing Co, (The New York Brewing World), end, this sorry business. Famous Songs and Their Authors. ¢ ott Ris Ga eta ty I wish it were possible to charge him with murder, Such a man de- liberately leaves no trace and there- fore attempts to hide his guilt ant ehirk his lability. There is no crime more inhuman, and If this were labelled murder or child-slaughter the drivers would not dare seek flight after the act, and thus more care would be taken before the act. But what about the future? What about the owner of a car? What about the cry of every mother, “Yea, it is your automobile, but my ehild—your pleasure by my pain; your success but my sorrow.” What about it, Mr. Owner? Cer- tainly you will say that you don't want to crush little children, as you go joy riding, or carrying your en- terprising wares. We know that you are human and hurt at the suggestion, but what are you doing to stop it, to alleviate the daily distress in the destruction that lows in the flight of the machine you own? Do you know what you can d You can demand that your driv shall use every precaution or be dis- You can assure him that you will stand by hitn when the responsibility | is fixed, ‘A Jail sentence for the owner of every car that maims or takes the life of @ pedestrian would soon reduce, if not |far more profitable { Evening World Daily Magazine: [Feria caster te rer By J. H. Cassel Dollars and Sense By H. J. Barrett. A Satisfactory Pian of Payment. ee HEN 1 first took this job,” said the general manager of @ manufacturing plant, “the men were all on the day work basis. As our output is uniform and Temains about the same year after year, 1 saw immediately that here was @n opportunity to apply th plecework plan of payment. After an analysis of our records I devised a schedule, explained to the force that we were about to offer an opportunity to increase earnings, and thereupon inepgurated the new regime, Within &@ month production had doubled; our payroll had increased about 70 per cent. and our other overhead items remained stationary. Also cer- tain Jabor troubles which were imml- t faded into thin air, I then proceeded to put into opar- ation what |s called the Differential Rate Wage Plan, This means that fn increased rate is paid for every piece produced over a certain stand- ard, and a decreased rate as a pen- alty for production under the fixed standard. | “The idea behind this pian is to! reduce the proportionate , overhead + expense against each pieog’preduced. Because of the overheag ttems, ten efficient men * overiad a day are 4 an employer than twenty inefficieyt men produc- ing an equal amount at $2 a day. This plan of payment tends to weed out the incompetents and finally re- :M What Every Woman Boes |) By Helen Rowland. ‘Qopreight, 1916, by The Prem Publishing HE other day invited HIM to dine with me nd then— - I rushed out to market and haggled over capons, ih And hunted for grapefruit, and asparagus and fresh tomatoes, And a million other things, Awl rusifed home and made the salad dressing, And got out all the embrotdered linen, And filled all the vases with fresh flowers, And made a wood fire in the sitting room, And cleared all the litter off my writing desk, And opened the plano and laid out all the b brow music, And lit all the pink candles, And fixed the coffee-pot ready for Iighting, And got out the Limoges cups and saucers, And rushed upstairs. | And got into the instrumentoforture with the pink strings, And did my hair a new way, And manicured my nails, And put on my old rose gown, that bindeth tighter thin the riage tiel And put on my most delicate “complexion,” And trfed my hair ANOTHER way! And rushed downstairs again, And answered the telephone, And patted up my silk cushions on the divan, And flung a few good books around, And lighted the in®ense, And went out into the kitchen to soothe and cheer the cook, And garnished the fowl, And rushed back upstairs, And put on a little more | And repowdered my nose, | And did my hair ANOTHER way, And bit my lips to make them rosy, And shook some velvet sachet into my laces, And rushed downstairs again, And answered the telephone for the seventh time, And mixed a cocktall for him, And brought out all the ash trays, | And rushed upstairs again, | And repowdered my nose-—— AND, Whén HE arrived, He found me sitting “idly” at the plano, Playing the Moonlight Sonata! Pr And, when I had greeted him with a glad, bright smile, SY And fed him, and watted on him, and played for him, and flattered) _ a ‘ (The New York Brening World), irlish color,” him, and amused him, all evening, he SAID: “How restful! How heavenly and sublimely restful! “You don't know what ‘all this’ means to a chap after a hard WORK!" But he never even suspected that when I laid my head on his shoulde It was because | I was too tired to hold it up another minute! The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1016, by The Press Publishing Oo, (Tee New York Brening World), RS. JARR was wo intent on re-| “Because she gave the childret garding the family cut glass,/ something?” asked Mr. Jarr. which, by the way, was not a| “No, I forgot to tell you ‘t's the very large or impressive oollection, | anniversary of Mrs, Kittingly’s mar. that she hardly noticed Mr. Jarr’s| riage, and cut glass is always eccept-) appearance on the scene, able no matter what the anniversary.” | “Oh, I guess this berry bowl will! “Why, gee whizz! Is the womam) do,” she sald, finally, half to herself.| celebrating a wedding anniversary) “Of course, she may remember ft, but| When she {s separated trom the m then I don't think she will, and, any- | 8he married? asked Mr. Jarr in ew way, the strawberry design in cut/ prise. glass {3 always prevalent.” “Why shouldn't she? asked Mr “What's the trouble?” asked Mr,|Jarr, coolly, ‘It isn't the man. &. 4 Jarr. ; cares nothing for the man. an Oh, 1 know you'd grumble if 1) are wretches and not worth ? for, But women have some bh sked you for any money, and, be- sides, we didn’t know her when we, ment. She MIGHT have married « were married, and so I'm really under) man who would have made her no obligations to BUY her a present; | And, !f you'll notice, no ater Ul unfortunate a marriage tarne but, still, I've got to send her some- ra thing, for she's real good-hearted and| personally for a woman, it el " s remembers the children on|stroys the woman's Interest tn mk their birthdays and at Christmas.” | riage itelf. So Mra. Kittingly | . “Who is it? What is {t? @Pilehrating her wedding annivebsary, Mr. Jarr, “Are you going to art | and 1s going to have a good time tm’ with one of your cherished cut glass| spite of the fact that the actual mage dishes?” |riage of itself brought her nothing), | “Well, I have to part with some- | but unhappiness.” } thing and it wouldn't do to make her| “Well, by George! Women ere @ a shabby present, and if cut glass | Weer lot,” said Mr. Jarr, wiping isn't chipped or cracked and is washed |Prow. “It isn't the man, then; 4 dry-polished you can’t tel) it|the ceremony that makes the | @ ! : ani from new, no matter how old it is.” | “Of course,” replied Mrs, Jay “Mrs. Stryver?” asked Mr, Jarr. “gvery woman wants to marry, eve “Mrs, Stryver, indeed!" said Mrs | Woman should marry and every wou } Jarr, “I'm not one of the people that |89 WILL marry if she possibly | tondy after Mra. Stryver because she | 8° there.is no reason why Mrs, Ky has a lot of money. No, the better |tingly shouldn't get a beautiful m way to do, for that sort of people evening gown and receive her frier are so puffed yp because they have a/@nd their presents and telettati sults in a picked squad of expert op- eratives. | In the meantime, Mr. Ownor, tt is up to you. Lest the populace arise in Justice and create proper laws in self- | defense, Your course !s open the long night the three men strained! anxiofs eyes toward the shore. Then | the frigates moved in closer, the fort | opened fire, and @ land attack was deilvered by the British Finally dawn came, What pened ashore? Was the Wag stilt | there? Fog and smoke obs@ired everything. But at last a sunbeam | shone through, revealing the shell- Tako It, Ad hap- torn banner, and Key wrote the stanzas that were to give America perhaps the finest of all national hymns. He made a few alterations “Overhead 1s @ big item in our line| of business, consequently this seems to he the most profitable p Our | men are now earning high wages and their unit of production is very sat- | ‘sfactory. As the present schedule ts| Kuaranteed for three years, subject to| unexpected developments, tn the event of which a fixed minimum wage pro-! tects the men, there Is no tendency to slacken up for fear of earning too much.” | aes | H To-Day’s Anniversary H D pnnnnnnnnnannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnns: ‘1B dubious distinction of being ‘the worst sovereign that ever reigned over England” has been conferred by history on King John, To-day marks the seventh centenary of the death of that ruler. His famous contest with the Barons began in 1201 anc continued through many years, The King was guilty of erueity which shocked the sentiment of even age. In his wars it to, starve pri t was said soners . fond of watching the x of his vietims, In 1213 the Mttle more money than you—the best /even If her marriage, so far as way with them Is to say, ‘Oh, dear, ;™@ Was concerged, wi great 4 what can I buy you? Now, !f you |@Ppointment.” were poor folks | could make you| Mr. Jarr couldn't exactly see t) some little present, but what is the |foree of this purely feminine ‘ort use of trying to buy things for peo- /Dut It was afl very plain to Mrs. Jc { ple who have everything, especially ¢9pecially when she found a box » Given ven Gant attora ith able to hold the cut giass bowl iA. “Who is It for, then?” asked Mr, |#0me Wlille bride ribbon to led, Jarr. | "What wedding annive: is | ‘ - . = . . » Mrs. Kittingly is celebratin, ask i Why, for Mra, Kittingly, upstaire,” | Mr, Jarre, “Her marriage with fh replied Mrs. Jarr, “She took the chil- | first divorced husband or the se dren to a matinee and bought a little jengre Garth ; { stow, doy Geille: & habe. | “I make it a point never to ask pe * watch for Willle and a locket and| onal questions!” replied Mrs, 5a chain for little Emma, so I've got to {pn a manner to indicate Mr. Ja give her something.” should follow her example, j A London's First Street Lights LTHOUGH London Is said to be, the feet of those who went out i “dark” at night, as a protectton| London streets at night were pig against the visitations of Zep-|\ided by the watchmen, who earr..) jon thelr rounds a horn’ lant { peling, It would doubtless seem @lcrosnet the latter a sort of fire p| | brilliantly lighted city to the Lon- ona long Pole ihe street lamps prvi { pena 1 fod. The first|Yided by the householders did nv Joners of an eriler per burn long, and total darkness f¢ attempt to dispel the darkness of!over the city as soon as the sing) can you see by the dawn’s early;in the work that night, but the cor- lent" rect version is practically us he first The composer of our nattonal| wrote it in the white heat of inspira- anthem, a lawyer, had gone to the| tion, The verses to the j Admiral of tho British Meet and sued| music of “Anacreon in Heaven,” an for the freedom of an American doc- | old English song, and swept the coun- seized by British troops who had} try into a patriotte fervor, nurnea Washington a short time be-| Key Jett a number of verses, nome ore. Ho obtained release of the pris-|of which are important. He was a two men were put|dilgttante n poetry, and und that brought Key to| possessed a deep poetic fac never devoted himself to its cul they saw the British bombard{tion, Perhaps it was the very fact of McHenry from the morning of| hig virgin genius that enabl 13th until daylight of tho fath.| rise om one occasion into As the sun t down on the first|trophe to the flag that the fagship, There, with the boat- Frene Joba, throw te F day “Old Glo was still waving. and will forever suir bis countrymen But the fort's guns were outre to the profoundest depths of their and it could not reply, AU through | being. Chart h launched an army against but he escaped destruction by ing himself on the mercy of ‘ope and becoming the latter's In 1218 a confederacy of tho ish nobility was formed against and John was forced to make grant known as the Magna a, hich established the rights London nights wis made five cen- turies ago, When the Mayor issued an order requiring all citizens of means to hang a lantern, provided with a fresh and whole candle, before thetr doors every night from Alihallows evening to Candlemas day. Prior of trial by jury and habead corpus, ' to that time the only lights to guide rush candle had burned itself o/ Under cover of the darkness the orm inal classes flourished, and it was } who ventured upon t fter 9 o'clock, Street lam) provided by the munictpal authorit: did not come into use until the elj teenth century, and as late as 1 all London had les: Spas th dim ofl lamps to illumine the oes