The evening world. Newspaper, October 24, 1916, Page 16

EDITORIAL PAGE - She CVlewting World. ESTARLISHMD BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Wxcept Sunday by the Press Pi 63 Park Kow, New Y. RALPH PULITZDR, Prosident, J ANC SUAW. Treasurer, JOSHPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, ftice ork, Row. ETRE how, Entered Ri the Post-0: is to The EB States at New York an Second-Clase Matter. wening Yor England ‘and the Continent as@ All Countries tn the Int Postal Union, nm e World for the United ° + $2.00) Ove Year. 80! One Month 401 On sa cinaperm eT VOLUME PARTY CANDIDATES. § BETWEEN the Republican candidate and the Democratic A candidate for the Presidency, which does the public look upon as the party man in the narrower eense? The answor, beyond all question, is Charles B. Hughes As between the Republican candidate and the Demooratic candi- ooh manne public look upon as tho party man in the narrower sense? The answer, beyond al] question, is Charles 8. Whitman. Tried in the office which he holds, Woodrow Wilson has proved himself something grea‘er than a Democratic President. The coun- try pays him the tribute of rarely discussing him as euch. Tried in the office which he holds, Charles 8. Whitman has proved himself incapable of being anything a whit bigger than a Republican Governor, and an incompetent one at that. Few people in the State outside his party think him worth discussing at all. This is not a good year for party candidates of the narrower sort. Not in the national field, because the extraordinary state of the world and the exceptional problems of an immensely prosperous na- tion have impressed the country with the need of putting in power somethingymore reliable than a party President. Soreeet) wee. eS ss RLS a es ee Not in the, State of New York, because two years of extravagance and needless taxation have convinced taxpayers that what they want) is not a political administration but a plain programme of practical | retrenchment and sound business management of the sort Judge Sea- bary is offering. Mr. Hughes is of the “outs.” He will not get in because he has himeelf plainly shown that the country has no present need of him. Mr. Whitman is an “in.” He will go out because the State of New York has too much to lose by retaining him. In or out, the party candidate this year who cannot show some- thing more than party lineaments is at a discount. THE FIRST STEP. HILE the Borden Milk Company is using words by thousands W to explain why it can pay 8 per cent. dividends despite the! enormous sacrifices it has to make to deliver “fluid milk” | to New Yorkers at 10 and 12 cente a quart, another large milk distrib- utor shrewdly decides the wise thing to do is to waste no words but join The Evening World in its straightforward endeavor to put milk distribution on a public service basis, © President Van Qise of the Mutual-McDermott Dairy Company frankly agrees that the milk business fs “as much a public service en- | *arprise as transit lines, gae companies and electric lighting plante.” | ‘Therefore it should be regulated by a public Sfficial or by the Public Service Commission. 1 We believe that is how it ie going to be regulated in the near future. Meanwhile, aroused public interest in the milk question is al- ready having its practical effect. Yesterday the big milk companics, inelnding the Borden, announced that they would eell Grade B pasteurized milk at any of their agencies for 8 cents « quart to ous- tomers who “call for it and take it away in their own vessels.” For the came milk bottled 10 eants « quart is charged owing to the “high cost of gies.” Here is already concession in the right direction. We prophesy tlist presently either the cost of bottles will cease to figure or new containers will be found. Grade B milk will be delivered for 8 cents ry 4 ‘The Evening World 4s convinced that concentrated attention brought to bear upon the milk problem from all quarters, popular and official, is about to solve it in a way to bring long-withheld bene- tite and guarantees to the consumer. Wise distributors will move aleng the line of progress and public service without waiting to be pashed. e ———— +. IN ROUMANIA. ITH von Mackensen in possession of Roumania’s chief sea- port and one end of the railroad over which Roumanis has received large quantities of ber supplies, the allied nations must be wondering rather bitterly whether it wouldn’t have been wiser to send more men and munitions and depend less upon Rou- manian readiness and war fervor. Tt begins to be apparent that with the exception of a few reeks’ check, during which Gen. von Falkenhayn made good progress in driving the Roumanians out of Transylvania, the German campaign in Roumania has had things pretty much ite own way. If von Mack- ensen’s left wing swings into the Danube town of Tchueravoda, the Germans will hold both termini of the only Roumanian ratlway lead- ing from the river to the sea. Tf it turns out that the Roumanian campaign was lost for lack of guns, the higher strategic councile of the allies would seem, from this distance, to have miscalouleted. Nothing has been accomplished on the Somme to outweigh the losses in Roumania, As between Ger- many and the nations that are fighting her the advantage is more dubious and debatable than before Roumania entered the struggle. The allies could well have afforded to epare not only Russian troops but some of the sinewa from their western front to make im- possible these German successes in the east. Ro NbS oS Nt Saba cred Letters From the People and can only be averagad known, £ ublishing Company, Noa. 63 to| date for the Governorship of the State of New York. which does the, ee [The “Qui | | | The Office Force By Bide Dudley Cores Niw York trewing Wek “ce ELL, welll” said Poppie, the shipping clork, as he tossed & newspaper aside. ‘More eecapes from Bing Sing! That makes a dosen in two months. “It dosen either,” came from Hob- ble, the office boy. ‘Miss Prim, private secretary to the boas, turned and faced him. ‘You look bere, young man!” she began. “We're here to work, not jest.” “Jeat so!" anid Spooner, the mild it~ tle bookkeeper, @ favorite with Miss Prim. “Ob, Mr, Bpooner,” ehe sald, ‘You're #0 funny.” “Bo you've noticed those ears of Spooney’a, toot” came from Bobbie. “I didn't eay Mr. Spooner booked funny,” she snapped. “Well, what do you really think about itt” “Now, Bobbie! sald Miss Tillie, the blond stenographer. “What if Mr. Spooner does look funny? He isn't the only one bere who looks that ra “You're right,” sald the boy. forgot about her,” “‘Her?" ald Mise Prim. “What does that mean?” “Her, said Bobbie, “is the opposite tense to ‘him’ and is only modified by the past participle.” “What @ lot of guffi" eta Poppie, “Tl bet Bobbie doesn't know what a participle 1s." “It's a wil Miss Tillie, “Golly, nol" said the boy. “You're thinking of a partridge, Haven't you ever studied anything but hair dye?” “"y bird, isn't it?” asked The blon ‘urious, “Why, you little runt,” snapped, “I'm going to tell Mr, Bnooks on you. He'll fire ou." “And I intend to tell him about the insult Bobbie just offered me," said Miss Prim, “He meant me when he sald he forgot ‘hi . Mr. Snooks, the boss, came in just a few seconds later, Miss Tillle stopped him, “Mr, Snooks,” she sald, “Bobbie has just insulted me and Mias Primm. He asked me if 1 hadn't studied any- thing but hair dye.” “And he had the bad taste to hint 1 Was funny looking,” sald Miss Primm. “Bobbie,” sald the boss, “I've a no- tion to fire you. Hereafter you keep to yourself. to touch up her hair if she wii and Miss Primm can't help how ehe ics," The boss we t into his private office and closed thg door. “Ahem! came from Spooner, “It look Mke we're to have a pleasant Te the Editor of Te World: when your overhead expenses for he The answ in regard to| future transactions are to be con- : fit, is plaus-| sidered ible, ax far as figures go, but very| If 'T. P. 8, would attend a few if dangerous in conducting any kind of a| ‘creditors’ meetings” be no doubt Duainess. would agree that it 19 very danger- As far as my experience goes, it 1s|0Us, In conducting a business, to fig- , the custom of all business houses to| Ure your profit on the co: ‘t figure eit profit on the Bet, sate EB. J. D ( Por exam nic a firm sells $100,000 Sees worth vf merchandise and MAKES| 15 tie pated mete wee $10,000, it makes a profit of 10 per} pechcbicrcape di boaad cent, aud I take an exception to the| Wis the value of an 1809 halt remark t he per cent. of profit is | °®t Pl Rod t estimated on the cost.” T can- Monday. bs any reason for ignoring the |'To the F The Kvening World & sellin , which isa known quan.’ O Jay did Dev. 17, 1866 tan?! i A halle Loe eon te at tn teal | day outside.” ‘Outside’ is right," sald Bobbte. But Uhere’s @ couple of storms brow- , ge Road” ¢ By Roy L. US, the sometimes genial pro- prietor of the cafe on the cor- ner, thumped excitedly upon the bar and said, “I tell you what it ia: it ain't @ free country any more; the brewers own it!" “Tt ain't the brewers that owna It, and if it wae I wouldn't care,” sald Blavinsky, the glasier, “It’s the vin- er giass trust that ie crushing the fea out of the peeples!" “Hal You fellersa ain't had no deal- ings with the meat combine,” remarked Bepler, the butcher. “That's what's putting up the high cost of living!” “It's because people ces too-e stingy to spend da mon,” observed Tony, the bootblack. “Look, see none of you gotta da shine.” “Why should we patronize you?’ asked Glavineky. “We got all we can o to patronize Gus.” “Well, it is dees a-way,” sald Tony, showing his teeth as he smiled. “Hef you gentiemens all gotta da shine from me, den I bave da mon to buy @ treat for you all, and Gus have @ da mon to buy plenty theengs.” “I ain’ got no money to buy even my Lena « new hat what ehe Is always hollering for,” said Gus. At that juncture Mr. Jarr entered He regarded the buneh with some dis- favot and sald, “What are you all growling about now?” “Tt aim’t none of your Dusiness,” replied Gus, “and before you tneult people why don’t you pay what I have on the slate?" “How much te tt?" asked Mr. Jarr carelessly. “Ive sixty-nine cents,” eaid Gus. “It really ts seventy cents, but the last time I eaid i was enty gente you only would look at it upalde down and said it was twenty cents, and when that looked wrong you said it was because I got it backwards. So now I always put down something that ts the same upside down.” “You lose @ cent by it,” remarked Mr, Jarr handing oyer @ 60-cent piece and two dimes. “Ha! No, I don't,” eald Gus ox- ultantly, ‘I ain't got no change for a cent,” And he rang up 70 cents Imitation is the sincerest flatter Copyright, 1016, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Bveniag Worl®), -+ 1918 by The Press Priblishing Co (The New York Evening World.) The Jarr Family McCardell on the cash register. “Gus was kicking because business was bad," put in Slevingky. ‘“Busl- ness would be better !f more people come in and bought something.” “You should get a new eign,” re- marked Bepler, the butcher. ‘I got ie new sign put up last Saturday |morning and business was right away | better.”” “What Is the matter is thie,” eald {Gus, “I should bave a swell namo |for my place so people would think it waa fine inside, I know @ feller in Brooklyn has a place he calls ‘The Cosy Corner’ and he does a good business.”" “Here's a place downtown called ‘The Retreat’. That's a good name for @ saloon,” aid Slavinsky. ‘It means when somebody hag treated once he abould do it again.” “Well, you treated last time,” ob served Gus. “Oh, it ain't a good name for up- town at alll" eaid Glavinsky quickly, “It's all right downtown where there ie @ lot of eporte, but uptown among business men it ts not the thing.” “Call it thé ‘dane Boucl” suggested Mr, Jarn “What does the Sand Soosy meant” asked Gus. “It meang ‘I don't care,” eatd Mr, Jarr. "Well, I don't care Y re. marked Gus. “I mest 1 don’t care for such a name, People will think that I don’t care whether they pay me or not, and there is too many thinks it now, Ain't somebody going to buy, or te thie chust @ oconwen- tion?” "Give us the dice box and let's stick the house,” eaid Bepler, Gus handed over the implements with promptness and despatch, The house | never got stuck 60 far as he waa con- cerned. He always rofled last, and if the highest roll was a very high one he always busied himself at the | other end of the bar and said, “Leave me out this time!” “Gus'a Nquor store should have a name,” remarked Bepler, as he shook the box. | "It's got one now—a bad one,” said Mr, Jarr; “ask my wife.” y.—0. 0, OOLTON, HILADELPHIA may be slow, but P not noticeably so, Preparations going forward tn that elty to commemorate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the day that the Declaration of Independence are ATHER KNICKERBOCKER ts a pretty good business man. He bought the ground for Washing- | ton Square tn 197 at a cost of $77,970, ! Union Square was acquired tn 183% for 116,051,and Tompkins Square in 1834 for $95,808, Madison Square, bought in ~ Evening World Daily Magazine By J. H. Cassel | -~ Just a Wife (Her Dairy.) Edited by Janet Trevor. Comme Rew York Vreiag Wor OHAPTER LXXXIII. OV. 18.—Ought I to accept Ned's Judgment tn a matter in which he fs not personally involved? Or ought I to do what my own heart and conectence assure me Is right? Last night, after dinner, I told my husband the story of Patty’s revolt. T told tt fully and frankly, suppress- ing nothing, for | felt that at this thme Patty needed all her friends and I believed Ned would be glad to num- ber himself among them and would suggest some practioa! way of help- tng her, “Don't you think it would te wise tor her to come here?” I asked at the end of my story. “I urged her to take the children and pay us a long ‘Visit, until ehe finds out how to herself to the new work and i Bhe seemed to think you wouldn't care to have her as a guest. I told her that wae preposterous.” “Well, I shouldn't care to have ber visiting bere when she was separated from her husband,” Ned wurprised me by remarking in disappointing tones, “I don't believe in interfering be- tween husband and wife,” he con- tinued. ‘To have her here would look ae if we were championing her side juarrel. There probably je an, morning you called Dan’ Kane @ tightwad,” I re- minded him, “And surely you don't think he's right in Ing to sup- Tt Patty because has earned a ‘ttle money “I don't think en; returned Ned. about it,” yen! “I know that I should has Kane may heve been stingy, but it’s @ pretty serious matter for a woman to leave her husband, espe- clally, when she has two emall ohil- dren.’ he admits that he’ if she promised to stay home and cut out working for other men, I don't like it at all, Mollie, And I wish would see considerably less of Mrs. Kane in the future than you've done in tho ‘wd “But 1 promised to go to the new apartment to-morrow and help her settle her things,” I protested, “Don't go," Ned said sharply, “Patty 1s one of my oldest friends,” I told him, my voice breaking in a sob, “I love her and I love her babies, I think her husband hag treated her abominably, and that she's entirely Justified in what she's doing. I sup- posed you would be sorry for her, would want to help her. I never dreamed you would assume this atti- tude, And now you tell me not to go and see her” "I do tell you that," fumed Ned, “And 1 expeot you to respect my wishes,” was signed, by opening a big exposl-| 1847, cost $65,952, making a total of I argued no longer. But I wonder tion, And th juy is anly ten youre | $258; 381 To-day the four parks are | if all obey and desert a friend In lawax, —__———--- | aaseanad db Aebonon, —. dtneninies nee ene ,| holiday which has since been adopted Tuesday, October 24,1916 Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland | 'M Copyright, 1016. by The Mrens Publishing Co. (The New York Krone World), Y Daughter, consider the Bachelor, how he spendeth his Sundays. For lo, upon six days of the week doth he rejoice over the Married Man, and mock at him, his comings in the morning and his goipgs home in the evening. But, upon the Seventh Day, his PITY {a all for himself! Behold, he awaketh in the morning thereof with &@ great headache, and a dark brown bitterness in the mouth, He admonisheth himself with groans, and kicketh Dimeelf, saying: “Alas, alas, WHY am night!” He turneth upon his couch and striveth mightily to sleep; but sleep will, not come again. He yawneth greatly, and ariseth—and ,wisheth he HAD NOT! He shaveth savagely, and wondereth where he shall go to breakfast. He goeth forth and findeth @ restaurant, and regaleth himself upon cold poached eggs, and warmed-over coffee, He atarteth boldly for a strofi—and changeth his mind. Ho returneth home and attempteth to read the newspapere—but findeth he oannot, He beginneth a letter, “Dearest Mother’—and getteth no further. He bindeth his head in ice, and calleth a damsel upon the telephone, He {nviteth her to go to THA with him—and etraightway regreteth it, He openeth a book to read it, and sftteth wondering what OTHER men do on Sundays. He beginneth to feel exceedingly SORRY for himself. | He wondereth sadly if he ought not to get married! He thinketh tenderly of the Girl-He-Might-Have-Gotten, and bitterly of \the girlewho-might-have-got—-HIM. He arrayeth himself in his Glad Clothes and goeth wearily forth upon | the promenade. He aitteth in the tea room, with the chattering of dnmsele on his right hand, and the clashing of cymbals and ragtime on his left, . He eateth many sweet things—and straightway wisheth he had NOT. He returneth the damsel to her home and depositeth her there, with rejoicing in his heart. He contemplateth the thought of dining alone, and ts filled with» | for himself. = | He oontemplateth the thought of inviting company for dinner—and és | filled with shuddering. : He eecketh a restaurant, and eateth much food, and drinketh a few things, and smoketh furlously, He wondereth sadly whether he shall cal upon another girl— | Or go to a cabaret and get drunk— Or go home and SUFFER in loneliness and ennui. He goeth home and back to bed. And thereupon he decideth to “end it all,” by Death—or Thus endeth the Lesson of the fifty-third Sabbath. But upon Monday morning he ariseth chperily, and again jeereth of the Married Men, and rejoiceth in his Freedom! Selah. such a fool upon Saturday ‘ Dollars and Sense By H. J. Barrett A Royal Road to Experience. HEN I was a young man, @aid the elderly president of a great corporation, “the only way to learn the ropes in business was through experience. It © “"But how in the world 4i4 @ man our age ever accumulate eo | | \“* d hie narrative. “‘Some four oF five years went to work for a manufaoti plant which at that time was subjected to a thorough ove: wee a long, hard and wasteful method. Such A thing as busineas| by an efloioncy expert he explain raat ional was what # a Trerasare, ection courses in| Working in that direstion, Phe reet day, however, the young man who is ambitious can gain twenty laps on the fleld by devoting his spare hours to a study of the literature pertain- ing to bia subject. That there shou't be any who fall to avail themselves of this opportunity passes my oom- prehension. “To illustrate: The other day in the smoking compartment of a Pull- man I fell into conversation with a youngster in his early twenties, It transpired that he was an efficiency expert and that he specialized upon department atore problema. Claimed that he had just succeeded In reduc- Ing the annual expenses of one client over $250,000; this with no sacrifice of efficiency. What this young man's income is I don't know, but, obvious- ly, any one who can achieve results on that acale can come pretty closy to naming his own price, Hie clear and lucid explanations of just what steps he had taken to effect these savings was sufficient evidence of the truth of bia claims. was simply a result of reading bual- ness books and magazines during my spare moments. My ability is no more than average. But, undoubted~ ly, I have more actual knowledge of business than most men, Thi reading I have quined my experience by proxy. Now I'm beginning to oash in on it. Why! there are enough business books given free of charge to-day to give 4 man a pretty start. But lots of young fellows are too blamed lazy to read them even under those conditions. “Then, of court vast mumibes' of business books are for sale ‘ various publishers who specialize this . By reading them one in a few hours the combined expert= ence of many men for a long period of years. “"There may be no royal road rning, but systematic readin business lterature comes about aa close to being a royal road to expert- once aa any of which I can conoetve, nd experience applied is quick; trnnatated into money, 4 { Famous Songs “Ben Bolt.” F all American songs none te eo hauntingly sweet as that ve- sinning: H® first of many versions of “Mary's Lamb" wae written by Sarah Josepha Hale, who was born in Newport) N. H., 128 years ago to-day, While editor of a woman's magazine Mrs. Hale penned the line: “Mary hed @ little lamb, maiden name was Buell, She married David Hale in 1618, and was left a widow in 1822, with five small children to support. Then she took up literary work, and for many years conducted the Ladies’ Magazine in Boston and Godey’s Lady's Book in Philadelphia, Besides having been @ pioneer in the field of feminine journalism, she @n early and In- fluential advocate of the higher education of women, Mrs, Hale was the Thenkesiving yf 8 @ national holl- day in the United States. For more than twenty years she advocated the cele- bration of such @ festival and in 1864 President Lincoln established this “\ Dr, Thomas Dunn English, tte author, contributed his poem to the New York Mirror in 1848, It was a work of love, written without oom Pensation, to oblige the editor, N. Willis, who had recently undertake: to put the paper on Its They poem had @ pathetic Mit that at enine no little attention, but it }fame did not come In 1848 Nelson. nese, an Rotor! adapted the poem to an old Germa: melody and the air captivated th American peop Then the song crossed the water, achieved an equally great success in England, ani - ally ran ‘round the world’ nN it remained for George Du to immortallag “Ben Bolt” tn teiiby, where thé gentle victim of Sv H sings the alr so sweetly to Tatty the Laird and Little Billes, 4a mother of by Canada although observed on a different date. Mrs. Hale died tn Philadelphia in 1879, Simple ‘‘Foot Warmer’’ for Home Comfort HE fact that air currents up through the sections of a steam | or hot water radiator so that the heat rises before dispersing | throughout the room accounts for the | floor under the radiator being a poor place to warm the feet. The shelf arrangement shown ifn the !llustra- ton will be found very convenient for supporting the feet at a comfortable helght near the side of a radiator close to the heat, says a contributor to Popular Bcience Monthly, The device is made of a board 15 inches long and 6 inches wide, with two rods attached, having the'r up-|attachment when not required, per ends bent into long hooks to ea-! may also be used aa a shelf on @he connections belwaan the 16 set salioles 10 Leap tham sections of the radiator at the Thia makes tt easy to remove ‘tre