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¥ e Within the province of the commission to investigate, and | cS 2 She ESeiig orld. ESTABLISHED RY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pvviished Datly Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company.’ Nor °5 ad «3 rk Row, New York. RALPH PULITZ: Pe ericen, 63 Park Now, J, ANGUS SHA ‘reasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Row. Park tr, Secretary, ca at New York as Second-Class Matter, vening |For England and the Continent am All Countries tn the International Postal Union. G Enter the Post Subscription Rates Th World for the United States : and Canada. One Months. ~ VOLUME 57..... « $2.50 One Year.. .30 One Month. | GIVE BROADWAY A CHANCE. | HE repaving of Broadway came up for discussion last week. | T Representatives of Broadway business interests earnestly re-| quested the Broadway paving committee to adopt a form of pavement which will obviate the noise that has driven business away from this thoroughfare in the past. | | | The demand is in all ways reasonable. It is, however, only one} of several that should be constantly reiterated while the borough is considering the problem of restoring Broadway as soon as work on} the subway will permit. | By all means the most durable and noiseless pavement obtain-| eble. But at the same time see to it that every corporation holding | a franchise which permits it to lay pipes or wires under Broadway is, required to put its underground equipment in first class shape BEFORE the pavement is laid, Also require street railway com- panies fo relay worn-out tracks, replace broken rails, repair noisy) switches and crossovers with like promptness. Broadway has had years enough of chaos, With the completion! of the subway, this great thoroughfare ought to he put in such, uniformly up-to-date condition that for at least a twylvemonth or so, no public service corporation can find an excuse to dig holes in it. Some big cities of the world can count on the co-operation of municipal authorities to compel respect for their streets, Why not! New York? ——————-+-—___. The Carranza Government !s represented as having grown restless over the continued presence of the Pershing expedition on Mexican soll.-Times despatch. Is there no way to mako the Carranza Government restless over some of tho things indigenous to Mexican soil—beginulng with Villa? + LANDLORDS’ TROUBLES. | IFE is more complicated than it used to be—even for the land.! lord. Standards of living, he complains, are getting more advanced every year, particularly in this city, where what it| was considered “right and proper” to expect of tenants ten years ago is “old fogy stuff” to-day. Last week the Building Managers’ Association listened sympa- thetieally to a member who declared: “Night is being turned into day in some districts, The idea of banking fires at 11 o'clock or midnight is getting old-fash- joned. Late suppers and dancing parties are very popular along the edges of the Groat White Way, and the question of @ tenant's right to conduct himself in his apartment according to bis own habits and tastes is becoming one of the most i serious problems with which we are confronted.” | A problem that has been rendered much wore dillicult, we should | say, by modern methods of construction, which regard walls and floors | vs designed solely to inclose space and hold furniture, taking no account whatever of the penetrative properties of sound. As for the nuatter of banking fires at night, there are thousands of flat dwellers w York who would be deeply grateful if somebody would tell em for exactly how many hours after sunset they have a right to expect their radiators to stay hot. Landlords’ views on this point differ widely, also vary with the price of coal. | In Berlin all these interesting minor questions of tenants’ and landlords’ rights—including heat, pianola playing, carpet beating, voice culture, window gardens, dog y birds, perambulators, &e. ~have been beautifully sorted out and codified by the police, who van be counted on at any moment to back up either tenant or land- lord with perfect justice and impartiality. The New York landlord might find life easier if mare specific | roles and regulations left him less worry as to whether maybe he isn’t too good to his tenants. | | | cang + TOO BUSY? Ie the American consumer bearing ai! these burdens (the increasing cost of food and olher nocessitfes) because Hurope fs at war? Or is ho bearing ihe heavier part of them because the big producers {f*his own country have seen thelr chance to | Teap 4 famous harvest by exacting from Americans the prices that Huropean nations are forced to pay? Who has the first clajm on the produots of this country— @e right to purchase them at fair and reasonable prices? If the Federal Trade Commission does its duty it will not @ep at gasoline. It will eummon all the great producers of the Nation's food and raw materials and ask them what THEY mean by “America First."—The Evening World, June 13, 1916. “The high cost of the necessities of life Is the most impor. tant problem before the American ple today, belleve it is think {t more than likely that we wil! hold meetings, deter. mine the reason for the presemt liigh costs and apply a remedy if one can be found.”"—Chairman Edward N, Hurley of the Fed- eral Trade Commission at Chicago last week. | Bince its Chairman thus expressed. himself the Federal | Trade Commission has decided that inasmuch as “at the direc- | tion of Congress the commission !s investigating other matters that tax {ts force to the utmost, with its limited appropriation it could not undertake additional work at this time.” “The most Important problem before the American people to-day.” Will the next Congress agree the country has no time or money to tackle It! Letters from the People. Noy It Ie a Precedent. No. ‘To the Editor of The New York World: To the KAitor of The Brening World “Ia there any law in the Constitution| Have you published or do you In- of the United States that e President tend to publish in book form the cannot be elected to office for three WTtngs of Albert Payson 1) consecutive terms? M. W. | SUch 88 "The Story of N, B--After Washington had CO%# 0nd Girly Vas ied twice as President there were | SC" and If so, where may sume Hahy who wanied him to take tne; J, MM, office again, Thiy be steadfastly re Yeu. fused ty do on the ground that it was | TO the Fattor of The Keening W rot in the best interest of t try h coun-| Does a boy who came to t The influence of his example|try When he was three years extended down to the present day,|to take out his citlzen pape One of the dangers of a republic Is| he can vote? He ts twent that the balance of power will get! His father was not « eltia into one man's hands. iy coun ld have before one now, GM kK F j Vy t iu Evening World Daily Magazine - Men Who Fail é RST ee ha By J. H. Cassel ‘Oh, | can stall on the job. The manager is a iriend of mine.” 1rOEA SuGGESTED BY Fifty Boys and Girls Famous in History By Albert Payson Terhune Ooprrigit, 18 "No. 16—HORATIO NELSON; the Boy Sailor. LITTLE English boy strayed from the house where his parents were staying and Jost his way in the nearby woods, It Was nearly midnight when a search-party found him walking wearily about in the depths of the forest, trying to find bis way home, “Weren't you terribly frightened out here alone in the dark?" @m- claimed his mother, catchigg him in her arms. “Of course not,” answered the little fellow. |. by The Prose Publishiue Oo, (The New Tork Brening World) “Why should I be? I've means.” And to his death-day he never could learn the meaning of fear, The youngster was Horatio Nelson. When he was still at a grammar- school age he received a berth as midshipman aboard a British man-o'-war, He was undersized and thin and big-eyed and pale. His fellow-middies picked him out aa an {deal subject for hazing, But he quickly showed a flerce wildcat courage that taught them their mistake and won for him the admiring nickaame of “Little Dreadnought.” His vessel made a tour of the Polar seas, One day young Nelson boré rowed a marine’s musket, as tall as himself, and went ones hunting on an ice-floe. A huge Polar bear attacked A Fight him. The boy ievelled lis musket at the charging brute j With a Bear. { and pulled the trigger. The musket did not go off. AAAS Nelson promptly swung the gun, club fashion, about his head and rushed, yelling, upon the bear, Tho latter, by a miracle, was scared and ran, Tho boy gave chase, clubbing the frightened animal with his musket until the bear outran him and got away. At fiftcen Nelson was transferred to a warship bgund for India, Here an {tlness broke tn on his chances of promotion and sent him, invalided, back: to England. But his health soon*rattied, and at an ago when mest boys are in high school ho was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy. | His first real service for England occurred a few months Ii His | vessel had fought with an enemy-shtp In a hurricane and had forced the foe ‘to surrender, But when ft came to taking formal possession of the captured warship a difticulty arose. @& The ships had fought at long range. | mile of raging Sea that threatened to ewamp th bad a boat manned and sent one of his Iie enemy's surrender and to take command, ne boat had not crossed half the distance betw the two vessels whem theslioutenant lost his nerve and gave orders to turn back. Each wave threat- ened to swainp the helpless little boat that bobbed so perilously on the billow crests and plunged so deep into the intervening hollows of the sea. Back came the Heutenant, shame-faced and scared, But before the boat ‘bad reached tie British ship Neilson had stepped forward and begged the captain's permission to ‘man It.for @ second attempt. | He took the frightened Heutenant's place in the stern 3 A Deed and curtly ordered the rowers to pull for all they were } of Heroism. i worth, When they shirked his sharp voice was ever in —errnn their ears, ike a whiplash, to scourge them onward. | At last, after a life-risking half hour, he reached the leonquered ship, boaued her and formally received her captain's eurrender, | Before he was twenty-one young Nelson's famo had spread throughout lthe navy as a fearless and inspired officer) Through the ensuing years bie | officers and men admiringly followed him from victory to victory. One of his eyes shot out, One of his arms was shot away. Stub- bornly he refused to retire from active service, As a cilinax of his life's work he crushed the most poworful hostile fleet In all Europe and made ats Th the battle that wor ue Dying. be muttered aly a Between them now was @ quarter. * im both, The British captain ante across to recelve the own country the undisputed ruler of the seas supremacy Nelson received his death- wound those about him: “I have tried to do my duty!” _ The Merchant’s By Sophie Irene Loeb. | ight, 118, by The Irae Publishing Co, verything sent now. so pleasant, It's a joy to shop. | They will Sec- «New York Evening World) jond, things are cheaper. 115 following letter has been re-/£9 Up next week and you have Orst T ceived from a well known|Cholce and plenty to pick from. woman of Rockville Centre,| “But it's all very well for us to L. 1: Urge women to shop early, yet do you was much|Tetlize that the shops haven't all ted In| thelr goods ready for the customer? “L made them get out Christmas boxes, tags, cards, &¢., but very few stures had any ready. Too soom they said. I really had to go away, or at least my small daughter had to leave Christmas shop- | without being able to buy the Christ ping and ao had/™as postcards which she wants to all the members| #¢nd to her classmates, e of my family and| ‘The point I want to make ts this: the gifts are|that selection of postcards, booklets, ¢ 1 interes your artlele Christmas, Customer and the Clerk, for I had fintshed my on the Ing tn thelr various bureau drawers the average shopper's time than the and closete—-our family all honor rest of the Christmas shoppin | bound not to peep, for that wouldd together, Not one siore had cards or} aj the Joy of it postewe and woul t ha n “We finished on election day and) for a couple of weeks. Too soon, they 1 am urging (through the local said. Observe the counters where papers) all Long Island women to go cards are sold at Christmas time; two in town for one or two days and fin- | and three deep, women spend hours ish it all up this woek. selecting cards. “In tho first piace the shops are, “Please urge shops to display cards, empty, and you save time, No wait- ribbons, boxes, &c., early, and thus ing for change, and you can have save customers’ time and temper, also Dollars and Sense | By H. J. Be ett Scientifle Selection of Ketailing Location. ore vast majority of small) bla control, explain his lack of| merchants who score @ fatl- | success, ure never actually figure in| “The first mistake the average mer- . ” -|chant makes is in his location. Every- bankruptey proceedings,” said a mem- | ¢| avers ber of the statistical department of a| thing else being equal, certainly one store. “They merely grad-|St8nd# & better chance of securing great re required Vulume of business if he| eating the lobster, the headache wh ually relapse Into a condition of 18-|Joca\es In « town which contains less) onnut while kissing the girl. nocuous deauetude, Analy awaken to] {han the average number of compot- - Shy SEN TANBY NSE Ne Money | jition. How TiRny murohea te Geeks The only thing more painfully tre and then it, They may have n the cha'n store organizations, by the woman he luyes is to be loved started with a few hundred or 4 thous | select a location upon a 8 of po sand dollars. They pull a hundred or | Wistion andiysts that a study of statistics cured from Mat brokers or wholesulors results In the | elimination of all but a score of) towns or citles, Then would come consideration of other factors, such \mo out of the wreck and go to work |for some one clue, Thore are no re- Hable statistics covering the subject; but my own impression, gained from . a8 probab. rowth of the community, @ perusal of investigations conducted | 2 P' purchasing power, local | in a few typical communities, ts that | buying ronomte stability, cll | * somewhere between 10 per cent. and] matic co viitions, et | 15 per cent, of those starting stores lars’ worth of time and succeed in earning a sutitolontly i yey, letters would livelihoo ulow thom or to induce Christm. tit of the chase, peacefully repos- | cards, tags, &v., takes up more of |! at eoncern the “Heally | these very necessary inexpensive things aro the part of shopping. Sincerely yo the good work, “EDNA BL Quite right, alWays two sides to every story. Wiille we have been urging early 4 shoppi the one Mr arly play so late ma: customer unnatural for them to wait. There are hundreds of people who do not know what they wish to pur- and the special display suggests Doubtless, placing these goods on di be the reason why holiday things ore left unsold thus put away for next year. ‘The advantage to be gain 4 is for all to do th Mercha@pt, it is up t items of JCKMAN KEARNS.” Ts. Kearns. There aro it is not “Christmas’ interest, The clerks are, Clerks’ time and temper, and it crowds, store also. | but By Re of i, McCardell | 1916. by The Press Publirning Oo. ie New Yors Ereuiug Word) usual, Mrs, Jarr asked Mr. 3 what time he would be home for dinner, “Well, you sald I might go to the, beefrteak dinner which I have been telling you about ana which takes place this evening,” replied Mr. Jarr. “1 sald you could go?” echoed Mr when do you Fright. arr “since nytt I suppose you tell \ lends what a terrible time you havet n just going downtown to that old ine day and I'll tell them the whole truth!" “Now what's the matter with you?” asked Mr. Jarr, “I don't say I have to ask your permission, but you know I always do consult with you, and I never think of going anywhere uniess 1 take you along.” “T notice you don’t take me to this sfeteak dinner," replied "Mra, Jarr, B Reflections of a Bachelor Girl Helen Rowland 1016, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), Qnprrigtt,, NORMAL woman would rather flirt with a man who bores her than talk sociology with one who dazzles her, A man {fs so used to pretty little lies that truth XG e It bein strik would want to be from the lips of a woman, Hke a snowball between the yes, alwaye ment, 3 bim dumb with pain and astonish: cain us jaw ap ongel—on the sly. wan ‘The fashions in love making, lke the fashions in frocks, are becoming shorter, more obvious and more transparent every day. No maa ever had suffictent imagination to picture the indigestion while nile sipping the champagne, nor the to # an (han not to be wanted me Soman he doesn’t want, Mix pound of vgnity with an ounce of passion and a handful of im- pertinence and you have what the average man calls “love.” ‘A girl never actually realizes that she 4s in love until she discovers grouches to another man’s kisses | that she prefers one man's yawns to another man’s flattery, and one man’s Man hos spent his Hfe in trying to discover the seeret of parpettal motion; woma n has petual emotion spent here man th a per The greater part of theo fatlures| Me WhIeh they aro glad to piace at A ueichoowaten® Ghat lare due to insido rather than to out-|\ “some day amo Atitto esis drink en vs Maia) RoleA Lint |wide causes. In other words, the pro-| will pervade the entire subject of nes when) @. Falasolnn t prictor’s sins of commission and!tailing. And, when {i cre will | says, although there is plenty | esataston, rather than factors beyond be fewer failures.” water the! of |i It'a very, inen fer the most p ou | Jarr, “Then the m aid Mrs. Jarr. “I'd like a bee: Uttle beefsteak I can afford, but set plenty, I notice.” “Why, you can have beefsteak !f | you want it, I don’t care what it costs," said Mr. Jarr earnestly. “Oh, you say you don’t care what {t costs, but I notice when the bills are @ little heavy you make some very pointed remarks,” replied Mrs. Jars “f don’t do anything of the kind retorted Mr. Jarr. "You shouldr Say things itke that, “Who 4s {t that says we should live cheaper?” asked Mrs. Jarr; “that we ought to save more money, that may- be times will be worse after the war, and you don't know what's going to happen? I notice that while you are always talking economy to me you don't practise It yourself, and I and my poor children have to put up with * expinined Mr, © shame to them!” ‘And the more shame to the married men who join in with them in their orgies!" “Orgies?” cried the astonished Mr. Jarr. “How do you know what it ts, then?” aid Mrs. Jerr. “I expect it is You'd be more satisfied tf and so would that you ere ALWAYS an “Rangle isn't going to be there,” sald Mr. Jarr, “And it's a very nice, quiet affair. All young fellowa’—~ "Then what are YOU doing there?” interrupted Mra. Jarr. “Ob, pahaw! I'll stay home if that | will satisfy you,” cried the despair. jing Mr, Jarr “L would i or something that is Bil have you stay at home {while you go out cating beefs sor 3h edt" saad Mes, Jarre “You litke o king.” j Want your nlce, fine beefsteak, You now that porterhouse or eirloin ti high that we can't afford it, and #1 if your mind 1s set upon ft, you go and get your good beefsteak, but re- member your wife and children need nourishing food too!” “Why don't you get a beetsteak?” ‘4 Mr, Jarr, “I'll stay home and we'll have beefsteak for dinner,” Just then Gertrude, the Ught run- ning dé » looked In at the dovr "Plea “Do kings eat beofsteaks?" asked Mr. Jarr, “Anyway, you know I am @ guest; It isn't going to cost me any- thing, and as for taking you along, Td be glad to do eo, only this ts otag affair and”’—— “Ob, I read the pspers and know whet these etag affairs are like,” re- piled Mrs. Jarr, “But you know this affair Is just a little bunch of nice fellows — ie porter “Hf they were ‘nice felluws’ theytd rm ak has come, 4 was a fine one u had j dare | other di | “But these fellows getting up the That will do, Gertrude,” said Mra, beefsteak dinner are all young, singie Jarr coldly, “That will do!” | NION veterans of the Civil War will celebrate to-day the semt- centenary of the founding of benefit and to afford assistance to disabled and unemployed veterans of the eivil strife, In April @ local post Was formed in Decatur, Ill, and other the Army of the Republic as| Do 4g wer i ! er’ L musté Th « national organixation, It wa» on | State departme®® convention, ttaene Noy. 20, 1868, that the first national pinein was held in Springfeld in uly. ehcampment of the G. A. R, was called to order in Morrison's Opera House, Indianapolis. Representatives of the “Boys in Blue" from Illinois, Tho veterans of the South without @ similar Organization an 1889, when the order of Untted Cons federate Veterans was launched, a Missourl, Indiana, Kansas, Wiscon- sin, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, | ¢¢ @ ANDWICH MAN," that Towa, Kentucky and the District of S sive term applied to Hy abo Columbia attended this meeting and ok part in the task of eft | national organ Dr, B. F, Stephenson of Springileld, tes who walk the streets beuring two advertising boards strapped over their shoulders, te rata to have been originated b: cting af sation. AR among her ngighbors has{{l, @ surgeon of the Fourteenth (i brought such wealth to Den-| Illinois Infantry, was-the father of) B whittle away 2,000,000,000 teag mark that the number of mil-|the G. A. R. Barly in 186@ghe began pencils every year, maires in that little kingdom was jocreased last year by 160, to urge the desirability of a society of the returned veterans for mutual to the man who keeps up with that pointed subject. heard people talk about being ‘Irightened,’ but I don't know just what It |