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4 i, ‘ a i ‘ i t ‘ 3 : York ‘Matter, For Mngland and the Continent and All Countrien in the International Postal Union, « $0.78 +m 85 NO. 20,160 | One Tear. by which State departments can be kept sands of extravagance and waste are meth- Sy Wiorid. Purtisned Daily Brent “ETA Kee fhe Frese Puriishing Compan: Nos. 63 to agurn. PULI errata, ey “Part Tow. Knaus SHAW Treasur R JosmPH PULITZER, Jey kecretary, 6 P. ‘World for the United 8 e4 and Canada, One Year One Month NEW YORK’S PARAMOUNT ISSUE. UDGE SEABURY is the only candidate for the Governorship J who stands for what the State of New York and the City of| That plain, substantial fact ought to be enough to carry him to election over every obstacle that party politics could put in his way. The paramount issue in this State is Eeonomy. is Economy. The only methods from developing new quic The surest means of securing efficiency in 8 ate administration fs enforced Economy. | The only check upon reckless and wasteful legislation ie a rigid} There is none of this remedy in. Mr. Whitman. The Whitman) {Administration has set the State of New York more heedlessly than! ever on the dowh grade of lavish spending and unlimited taxation. | way to extravagance is easy,” Grover Cleveland used to say. “The !* return to frugality is exceedingly difficult.” In the coming election what the State of New York needs is not | to hand itself over to a party, but soberly to commit itself to a pro-| gramme. Retrenchment is the first item on that programme. The last item {s—Retrencliment. ‘tion as the Democratic candidate. He is, first and foremost, the can-| idate, the only candidate, of economy and sound finance. tp was elected next Tucsday. Or were the wires crossed? Se mee » THE WOMEN’S VOTE IN ILLINOIS. > of Ilinois The Evening World, through a special staff corre- spondent, throws light upon one of the most interesting and | critical aspects of the campaign. | . Mississippi to cast votes in a national election. Upon their thought eand action may depend the results of next Tuesday's vote in Illinois. | ‘And nobody can say how important the vote of Illinois may prove in| Until Rogevelt split the Republican Party in 1912 Llinois had, with only one exception, gone Republican at every Presidential elec-| « ‘tion since 1868. In 1908 Illinois gave Taft a plurality of 179,122. @STABLISHDD BY JOSEPH PULITZER. VOLUME 57.. New York most urgently need: Economy. | The one thing that can ease the burdens of New York taxpayers ods of Economy. standard of Economy. The only hope is to pull up with promptness and courage. “The | Only in a secondary sense is Judge Seabury entitled to considera-| The Republican National Committee heard yesterday who | A STUDY of the 500,000 registered women voters in the State a These half million women are the first of their sex east of the 4letorminigg the election of a President. | How easily a plurality of that size could be swallowed up and lost in| ‘the 500,000 new votes that woman suffrage has added to the Illinois, electorate is obvious even to the most cocksure Republican. ib > Mothers and working women are for Wilson—overwhelmingly Vote for Wilson! eR haa By J. H. Cassel These Americans are Working Today Because ~~ . WiLSon prefers War as a Last Resort TheSe European’ WiLL Not come Back To Work . And These Americans WiLL Be ALive Atid On The ng RNa OT SSE NEN STURT op Dollars and Sense }, vie By H. J. Barrett. 4 Couyrigh ¥ lone straight | HILE and ardently. Professional and clubwomen incline to Hughes, but |The W eakness of Straight | W we are without much zest. That briefly summarizes the conclusions of ‘The| Commissions, | RoR ae Evening World correspondent regarding the Illinois woman vote. “I €¢ A. 7 “st thought, straight com-| at cate hey ‘am for Wilson because my boys are alive and not dead. “I am for! splendid courage in standing up for the eight | These reasons are typical. They seem likely to exert by far the stronger influence at the polls. Whatever happens, the vote of the women in Illinois deserves| close attention. It will furnish the Kast a new, near-at-hand measure of the judgment and capacity of women when empowered to ballot on national issues. oe Whitman tg Stay Near City.—Headline, It makes all the difference whether it’s votes that dre in danger or only taxpayers. VON HINDENBURG SPEAKS. : ness toward England, and, because of desire to intensify ex- pression of that bitterness, a curious German tone of respect toward France, are all packed into the few words credited to Field Marshal von Hindenburg on his arriva) in Berlin: “The Roumantans stil! retreat and their day of reckoning is G*=" triumph over success of the moment, German bitter- | ness in the Idea, salespeople working on a sffalght commission basis you have employed ; 600 individuals who are in busine: supply the stock and the roof an collect earnings as recompense. spirit, ganization, present, ment, for exi missions seem to be an ideal form of payment,” there is something marked a store superintendent. “It to be said about | puts It right upto each salesperson the ‘high cost of to make good and supphes a tremen- dying," sald a dous incentive to effort, prominent woman “But there ts fundamental weak- to-day, “For a consider- able time I have been looking over some charity cases, and one of the each one for himself, ‘The proprietors | pig factors that brought them to the point of charity was that of making the salesman’s) their sentiments cost more than they | coula spen “This megns that there Is no group | ‘or pends no sense of unity In the or-) 1 found the family overburden no co-operative spirit) « great funeral debt of some d works out badly. We! one in the fagnily. men’s clothing depart-| “At the time that the sorrow came aple, that the clerks, In| they” allowed their sentiments to run away with all the money they had ia If you have 600 a share of a in nearly every ad with arted It ‘ound tn our ranalely (0 make sates and pocket commissions, were incined to take | the world, and all they could possibly the fit of @ sult and often| save for years to come, They had to ‘sto leave without| have a grand funeral, with floral This sayed | aths and carriages, and all the atly things that go with the senti- he next customer at on easing his commissions, | “By doing Uus they put a hardship Vhat was the result? Dissatisfied |on all the dear ones remaining—to do : without many necessary things for a 116, by The Prom Publishing Co, (The SSIES TTT TAFT DCE ENTE The Expensive Sentime By Sophie Irene Loeb nts ‘| New York Kyeuing World | be led @by unscrupulous undertakers in paying tributes that only the very | rich can afford. They do this on the theory that is the last thing we can do,” w truth it is the last thing the de: parted would ha them do debt for a costly ceremony that means noghings to him. | course we want to respect the | want to give t dd we want Jo cher arts, 1 ed ished tn when uy the en incurred. Tt is all folly, this outburst of sentiment that be- my well meaning friends, comes so expensive later on; that causes endless worry and work, Better uxe your money for the boy or girl whom you must educate for life than invest in highly polished cof. fins that are of no more vaine under the ground than the plain ones Also in times of tears money in many other w afterward regret. ‘Ther the whim of a sick relative not only ut those depending them in answering the call The man or woman who lets his sentiments run away with him| usually wakes up to do away with the} “sob stuff” and to “get busy” on live es upon individual will do all in his power to show his regard and af- fection and love wherever he can to his utmost ability; but his first con sideration should be “Is what Lam doing to prove a hardship to others ed my sympathy fi MW, if it were por put the question squarely to th whom you shower sentiments you would find that they would better if Jiminated such you cons put a burden ¢ cannot be ee F Remember the living wh ry nt, ng time to come in order to pay for coming. I welcomed their entrance into the war, for by it we extra delivery 4 i @ ft got out of the trenches. The French have shown great tenacity, wraci Ohe solew Farag el Ms ae sanipalgn et esucation. along but they are exterminating lives by their present method of a wh no particular would make Hfe a little " q why i ¢ many people fighting, ‘The French nation owes this fate above all to the WA simple device overcame thia dit-| "This woman's. opinion ts worth English. If the English ask for another offensive of the same fleulty, We annoy hat from al much, St Man. oft is comi | 7 certain date the # sympathies 4% many good style th ning spring, they will rob France of the rest of fection would rece {AS ag jo the distres: her national strength. thelr commissions, rty said befo seihare tlon of the sum saved month! 6 columns, it ts all folly—this So far as form goes, this is laconic and pithy enough rather to) their increased efforts In markdowns pensive. funeral busin P do credit to a General believed by one nation, at lea is , to be the great- est of the war. It is somewhat thus that great commanders should | * talk. But as to the substance, particularly the part about poor, pant- ee the less salable goods an even It was easy to ar- rive at this total sum by consulting) p and alterations. under stress of sadness are prone to for the dead records of former months, what resulted? Instead of neglect- | Cc cya ue 7 ite gai a aati \ Flashlight [luminates Dark Closets i if rossure was exerted on the entire ing Fra: “0 Lot ga like to hear the sturdy Joffre’s answer in an-| stock, lessening markdowns, other words, Some aie ets taken tn meouTe ny, Fons | ood fit for each customer at the t ua ALL closets are recognized by tinguished, but when the door Is ‘ EEE | of the sale that the burden non the H every housewife ae a great opened the spring switch alteration department was lightened. convenience, but 19 most eases| tase may bee Ordin pantry, Ae the My conception of the Presidency difters absolutely fr “4 hey are so placed that in the day- jutely from they | that of Mr. Wilson.—Hughes statement. |? time Httle light penetrates thelr dark | F< The country long since suspected as much. No damage will t To-Day’s Anniversary }) jaterior from tho all, and at night |] ensue. | ®| their usual distance from tne bail Hits From Sharp Wits One way to obtain greatly desired | formation is to profess indifference, | Shout It—Albany Journal, Some of the peaches seen on the street have a wee mite too much | |Steom: Macon News, ha ee is wasted through for gratification of Journal, j After a liar as Sanented a lea Much few times he is ready to hope to die! liberal p: M4 \t inn't the truth—Toledo Blade, curlosit money ment Albany oe Once in a while you will meet a| Some men flatter themselves that Woman whe actually believes that her | their conscience is easy when the fact “Dusband ‘tes her.—Memphia ¥. went: they haven't any.—Albany iT history of the Sons of Liberty was in 1735, when radical oppo- nents of the royal Governors were! called by that name, There was no definite organization, however, until a century and a half ago to-day, Oct 31, 1768, when the revolutionary er-| dark closet, ganization known ay the Sons of Lib-| is supper rty was formally launched, Whenjside of the closet, and a ‘At last the point of open rupture with| switch with extending rod, st the mother country was reached many|a burglar alarm switch, of the Sons” became distinguished | placed on the door jamb. ‘as leaders in the council and in the|door 1s closed the spring will a ed in gloom, Blectrical this problem in a way t he en quite overlooked, hdight nged so It wardrobe or ordinary ean often handily ar pantry HE first mention tn American| light keeps their interior still shroud~ A contributor to the Experimenter has solved #o simple that As the accompanying cut shows, an be will Heht at Ity on a hook or # nail in- | When the | be found be'nections between the switch and the suitable for making con- separajed and the light will be ex- flashlight, their own | ,.. ] Lucile the By Bide Dudley. Conyriaht Waitress The N t class when th gan do’ bout dane’ “A ye takes a seat at the counter, with him one ball and #0, w | ask him ff he's doing any stepping I haven't seen him for a feeling like be- nowaday fi member, sho rest and de- jure "he sys, ‘Laln't dancing any vote the proceods to the yarious War|” ‘noted soldiers of All Nationa jm Reliet Fund: ppled soldiers o| ‘ations! { * good,’ I snys, smiling, | "ellef Funds.’ “Grlpe ! Mt time, you and me had a “Oh, you get very confidential with | oxclatmed | ge aay Aid it @ tall lor trot you stepped on my knee, and | your lady visitors, I dare # said| inde isp?” iver fee fur sn’ “it must just position that made me say tt did walk all over me In the trot, but end w but Avenue well, nto him exc am storming the French hand-grenadiers In them. Sry, you “ro t} D Lue fi arr 1 we ad & Romantic optical § bung fo I'm naturally nilly that "Tt hit me pretty hard She's poor and shabl! sho's + The Pree Po w York Exeging W reaily"— | a like dancing?" asked| “A girl came tn the office selling cried Mr, Jarr, “I,don’t care. Tony © ile, the tress, of the| them tn bunches for a War Relief | thought it would interest you to tell ndly n. " he replle went on. “I love it. If y it will be to a good vuldn't give hoot if he of those put nose or 0 Miusions od lamp gi We had discussion i in here yesterday, |poor, suffering soldiers? asked Mr, “ fellow named Skippy |Jarr. “The young lady sald these| “What sort of @ girl?” asked Mey I danced | fowers were from a large lot and had | 7°!) a at the dish wranglers’ |been sent to decorate a house for a| Pdi de know what. sort!" aia nL go to his wishes 1 n right aince. ‘a’been my ugly dis. predomineeriny mak me more sore. ance, ought to eut it cjumsy de u Ma belong he receivin, Kippy keeps still T Net Why, you danced Hk 1k that night is in silenc there trench thout nm He tells me to brin away I go, Whe ting he “ Skippy's gone that resti-| superstitions: identifies aay i tution overtakes me and remo the fire festivals [reat pen [here Were eRe ie scollops in its black 6 of sc . The lighting ot bonfires: At] came to be lem in ean ete Another man at the counter tells r hifall by the members of each I hadn't oughtn’t, to kid Skippy about | household | was, long the principal perineal the SCeEEt io een dancing. . ture of the Hallowe'en observance. | 44, a game. “and why not! 1 demand nis Dart of the ceremonial was com. | Heys and young men went the “That was Skippy the railroad! mon to all Europe, but most of the | committing PrP a res \train caught last year on the Wells-| superstitions regarding supernatural Li burg grade crossing,’ ho says. He) Influences which still cling to Hallow- | Rods his head toward the door ‘Them | o'en are relics of the worship of the lors he’s got—they ain't real. Drulds. had kiddod Skippy!" Ngence of ranking thet | most people Piece about his Fourth of J quict-a moment, Then now consider Hallowe'en supersti-! snooch, “Col. Jones," f'n shelf under! tions morely as & subject for Jest, but| 1" 4" the erties aie wed the friendly | there Was 4 time When they: were carred’ @eteran, Skippy's mother, in if he Ob, he Bie says quietiy © he stepped on Skippy,’ leaves, cile, | ghosts of the nth |earth on that night. y, and | to propitiate the ghostly visitors we: Sayings of Mrs. Solomon ’ By Helen Rowland AN Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) last, ob, my Beloved, 1 have met the PERFECT WOMANI Yea, even that Flawless Being—a Man's Ideal! % Behold, all men admire her, and most of them adore her; and it all the days of her life she hath done nothiag that was not sweet, or good, or charming, or , according to a man’s creed. Lo, if she should wear a decollete gown to they would murmur approvingly, and exclaim: “How original!” If she eteppeth upon their toes, in dancing, marvel at the lightness and smallness of her feet. When she chattereth foolish nonsense, they couvulsed with mirth. When she cryeth “Votes for Women!” they ehout, 4 “Hear, heat When she maketh them to sit through Wagnerian operas, they ere 8% “uplifted!” If she puffeth a cigarette, they say “Flow chic! How oute!* But, if she rebuketh THEM for smoking, they exclaim, “How noble!” If she treateth them kindly, they fall down before her in gratitude. If she enubbeth them, they applaud her “reserve,” and her “dignity.” If she cutteth them dead, they are ready to beg her pardon for tiving, ‘and to confess themselves worms and vipers. If she laugheth at them, they ery “How witty!” raptured with her “sense of humor.” If she rageth at them and gnasheth her teeth, they admire her “strength of character,” and ADORE her for her “artistic temperament. If her enemies decry the shortness of her frocks, they rush to = defense, saying: “Oh, well, she can AFFORD to wear them that way!” But, if her frocks be long and clinging, they are filled with admiration for her “sense of delicacy” and her “feminine modesty.” Yea, verily, verily, {f she should desire to jump over the moon, ff - Yea, they ate om should set fire to a tabernacle, tay would discover a “noble motive” | therefor, and call her “Heroine. For lo! she can do NOTHI wrong! And why is this, oh, my Beloved? Even, for three perfectly good reasons, which are these: Behold: She is Beautiful! She ts Rich! She is a WIDOW! Hence will she always be The PERFECT WOMAN! Selab. The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell ‘Copyright, 1916, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), 66 7\OH! Cont" gasped Mrs, Jarr.) postor. The idea of going O “Orehids! You shouldn't] business ‘places peddling flowers have done that! Why did| soldiers! Was she a chorus girl?” you buy such expensive flowers? You} “No, she wasn’t,” replied Mr. Jar. know we can’t afford such luxuries} “Besides, there was an older lady wit when necessities are all so dear!” her, They were very nice people, ims | But for all that she was quite| deed!” | pleased and gave Mr. Jarr an extra ce people? Oh, I suppose sel” | kiss. reported Mrs, Jarr, “They always @e | phat's all right, my dear,” rep in pairs, those sort! Anyway, the i Mr. Jarr, “I'm generally only too for-| orchids are faded, And I suppose yew getful about such things. A fellow pald whatever they asked for fap “Great Scott! This ls what a | watt buy flowers and candy for a girl he's calling on, but after he's married | sets for trying to be nice!” erted thd exasperated Mr. Jarr. jhe forgets his wife might appreciate such little attentions.” “L don’t think it very nice to @irt } “LE don't like to find fault with a / with a girl going around asking ridie. pleasing little gift such as this,” said Wlors prices for wilted flowers, ewin- Mrs. Jarr, busied with putting the dling under the name of war suffer- | irehids in a small ornamental vase ings,” sald Mrs. Jarr, coldly, “and, pth water, “but when the cost of especially it tsn't nice to bring them | ef] living Js 80 high and so’many useful | home to your wife.” I ought to throw 5> and lasting things are needed, why, | them out.” “Go ahead and throw them ont!” i “She was a| You how I got then, A man's @ to tell anything at home.” “Especially anything he shoul@ ashamed of,” averred Mra, Jarr, “Have a heart, honey, you're wrong!" pleaded the poor man, “Ot don't try to excuse yourself,” retorted Mra, Jarr, “It wasn't te please me you brought the Sowers, It was to please that sort of @ girl.” | Fund," sald Mr, Jarr, | peach, too," It's a pity some of those kinds of girls haven't anything better té do than that,” replied Mrs. Jarr, coldly * "If they want to be charitable, why don't they get out and do some work for the poor? } “Isn't that work for the poor, the » wedding, but came too late, and] some hat been sent to the hospitals, | and {t had been decided that a girls’ chub, of which the sell the “I'll never do anything for asy~ body, not even for the crippled sel diers of All Nations, agai, I'll bet you that!" uttered the disheartened “Mr, bride had been a That's Larry Ri who. wiih her mother ‘und for Crippled Soldier: of Q They are bony awelles$ of the swells, real oo 1 wish I could have met them!" Mrs. Jarr, tossing her head. “But I | think it was a very bold thing for any nice girl to do, Furthermore, it te my belief that the girl was an in- sister ‘the r , ‘ t ; What Hallowe’en Means \ » HE Feast of All Saints, of which | cording to the “signs,” failed of thelr to-night’s observance of Hal-| UTpose, the victims of supernatural lowe'en is precursor, was insti- | W'®th were “fey” and would not tive Cee a ean acnmne [Out the twelvemonth, Many w pl te ed | f tury’ by victim of his own’ plous faith dn Greek Chureh, which appointed the| signs” worried himself into an wn= firet Sunday after Buster for obser. | timely rave, {he dupe of credulity % vance. ‘The modern festival was not depredations and more or instituted by: the Koman Chureh, how- cnt praia whlch still mate | t ever, until the ninth century, Pope anc al Gregory IV, approving the day. It Sie hoon connected with { Was introduced because of the impos- | alow fire” of former times. re was lighted to exorcise 1) sibility of keeping a separate day for o|every saint, and also to give a Chris- Uan character to the autumnal festi- | val which was a relic of pagan times. n> Dr, J. razer, in bis work “The Golden Bough,” recogni: authority on the origin of myths, witches, demons and hobgoblina, household had a fire of this sort toe I ita protection, Enemies often xtinguish the flames, #0 \ ¢ guarded by the men of the fam- Tho attack and defense were) rized by great fury, and , was an old soldier and It is a tribute to the growing intel-| paper printed a compliment taken én sober earnest, The maases of the people firmly believed that the departed returned to Rites designed |Colonel called and the editor apol ogized in print, “The error was eb vious,” he explained. “What we in+ tended to say, of course, was that Col, Jones wes @ battle-scared veteram,” solemnly enacted, and if these, ac-