The evening world. Newspaper, November 24, 1916, Page 26

‘ H EDITORIAL PAGE Evening World Daily Magazine _ |Accident or Carelessness? sith, ESTANLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. By J. H. CaQsell Published Daily Except Sunday by the « Company, Now, 58 to 43 Park Row, RALPH PULITZER, President, €3 Park Row, J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, 8 63 Park Row Entered at the Post-OMce at nd-Class Matter, Bubsoription Rates to The Evening nd the Continent and World for the United States | All Countries in the International ‘ Canada. Postal Union, + $2.50 One Year... +80 One Month ow NO. THE RIGHT ADDRESS. TO: B, B, THOMAS, President of the Lehigh Valley Rallroad: WILLIAM H. TRUESDALE, President of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Kallroads L, F. LOREE, President of tho Delaware and Hudson Railroad, and . E, T. STOTESBURY, President of the Reading Company, controlling the Philadelphia and Reading Rallway and the Central Railroad of New Jersey: Gentlemen: con of coal prices which ¢ of all classes, the public loo You, gentlemen, are the leads of the principal r in the handling of anthracite coal. ‘The public knows you by name} we well as by the important executive positions you hold. | The names of coal operators, coal speculators, coal middlemen, | agente and mining heads who may or may not be responsible for the boosting of coal prices, are not known to the public. It can talk! direetly only to you. | What, then, is your attitade toward present conditions! Are you ready to declare partnership with the public, get to the root of the trouble, reassure sufficient coal supplies and restore normal coal prices? Are you ready to use your power and your executive authority In behalf of millions of people threatened with a new and crashing burden im the shape of exorbitant charges for fuel they cannot do without? Are you ready to co-operate with consumers to defeat the schemes of rapacions dealers and cold-blooded speculators? What is your policy? Where do you eta you taken and on whose side? You cannot shift your responsibilitic You four gentlemen, through our railroads and the subsidiary companies they control, are recognised chief factors in the handling of the anthracite output. Attention and de- mand beth focus upon you. Are you with the public? Or do you hold to those principles of | “Divine right” and indifference to the public’s needs which George V’. | Baet once made notorious? | As controlling forces in a vast industry upon which millions ate | dependent for the firet requirements of life itself, you are in a very} real sense public servants. | As such, can you afford to be classed in the public mind as| adherents of the Baer theory, which holds that power lifts those who| exercise it beyond the reach of claim or conscience? If not, gentlemen, what have you done, what do you mean to do, to relieve the intolerable situation in which the coal-consuming public, through mo fault of its own, now finds itself? | s engag What steps have cnuaiy Wee Puen ar aie |. Ene Ancestors of Your Modern Watch | OBODY knows who invented the] a hundred richly chased and jewelled) faced, wels watch, Laborious arch by| watches, many of bearing a ad ESIDE advice for pedestrians, motorists and parents who: children play in the streets, a “Help Protect Yourself” cam- ty affairs, wound with a atirically known to hu them key ¢ Copyright, 1916, ‘The New ¥ y The Urew Pablinhing Co, Evening Wor! : ; antiquarians tn all ages has 80 likeness of the favorite of the hour.| ists of those days as the “frying-| 66 DO: care what happens; I paign started by the Police Department offers practical sug-| par fatiea to reveal anything which| Mary, Queen of Scots wore a skitl-| pan.” Le I don't care what the neighbors gestions as to protection against burglars and pickpockets, care of | would serve as a basis for definite shaped watch in the form ofa death's] Right up to the middle of the say; my mind is made up, the bome and regard for health. The movement will get its chief Mstorteal fact. From the somewhat head Endless were the fantastic ae-| teenth century the hand made Eng- exealion? aie Jarr, “E re you 5 aay P i |disjointed and cloudy documentary | vices favored by the royalties and no-| lish lever perfected by Dent and Ben- have got to behave yourself or we impetus by the distribution of 300,000 pamphlets, circulars, etc.,/eyidence in the museums of Italy,| bility of those times, the most popu-| son of London maintained its vogun) Patt forever through precinct commanders and patrolmen. |rance and England It is conjectured! lar design being the butterfly, the! until American genius in Aaron Dent- ‘But have I been doing, We say its chief impetus. Asa matter of fact, the best assurance |that the inventor was the monk Ger-| pear and the tulip, ee son of Boston evolved the idea of ap- Gere eee ai eerr when this Sah one compelen of this sort the police undertake tod ‘vill hert, better known in history as Pope | The eighteenth century saw the in-| plying machinery to ch manufac- ssa tei ye ae ar puge ° police lertake to-day ill! gyivester 11. The only thing defi-| troduction of a watch which was to| ture. Denison’s theory that special As a matter of fact, he hadn't succeed lies in something that doesn’t yet come in for a tenth part of /nitely established by research Is that| remain in vogue for moro than a) machines for watch miking might be| Gone anything to anoles Mrs, Jarr's the notice and commendation it deserves, | watches did not come into use until} hundred years and which for down-| substituted for human skill and Insure! ‘T° but a row was about due and MPa mesen i hainaw: acititioh chanstiis : | the clone of the tenth or the beginning| right ugliness never has been ap-| such uniformity of product that the| Mr Jurr thought sha had better ae w spirit of cheerful, civil helpfulness and good |o¢ the eleventh century, soon after| proached. Everybody familiar with] different parts of watches would be| Pring It about by taking him at a will that marks casual intercourse between the police and the pubic. |Gerbert’s accession to the papal| Hogarth's portraits of the eariy| virtually interchangeable, was put! disadvantage. Sho had gone to see Georgian period, or with the tilustra-| into practice with such success that! tions to the works of Fielding, Smol-| it revolutionized the industry and lett, Charles Lever and Thackeray,) brought good time pleces at a reason- remembers the cumbrous, round-| able price within the reach of all, throne. Time was when the average New Yorker hesitated to ask a policerran ‘The earliest watches were little dif a simple question for fear of surliness or worse that too often|¢orent from the small clooka came hack with the answer. he old style New York policeman | of to-day. case was in the shape was, generally speaking, as insolent and rough tongued a guardi n| of @ cylindrical box, generally of metal : chased and gilded, and usually with of the peace as one encountered in any big city in the world. a hinged Id on one side to Inclose Exactly the opposite is true now. It is the exception when a! he Id was engraved and, w York patrolman appealed to to-day for aid or information of! able sa rul the dial, plerced with an aperture y t fails t rer civilly. I over each hour through which the B y A Ima Woodward any sort fails to answer civilly. In nine cases out of ten he ia not) position of the hand might be ——SEE only civil but ready to go out of his way to be kind or helpful. jseen, Most watches were pro- York Erening World) his ii of the best things we pees 5 a ng. | Vided with a bell on which the hours | SGENE | Director (in di:gust)—Ob, war! Cut ie i i. ae t t t ngs know about the police forre| yore sounded in regular progression, | mim the It outtake a damp rag and wipe oft of this city as developed into its present sliape., Tt deserves to be| There would seem to have been it~ | ff" goine to: baniwen director a clawing the | Nyoniiee” ; id oft | i wir tnMonseytence, The actow reauter extreme | Mollie (importantly)—But it ten't said oftener. tle or no change in the character of | frovaniity ol being fired.) |war. It may be a by-product of war, eee - setae. Jthe watch until the fourteenth cen-| Mollie (entering gayly)—Morning, | But everyone's discussing It now—on | the subway, in the theatre could be called a fad Director (yawning carelessly) —Let's tury, when a gradual reduction In the | fellow victims! ‘There's a snap in the brought about by the craftsmen | alr that—— | 1t almost Hits From Sharp Wits emb culminated thi ‘olce (solemnt Yon't begin talk- 4 ‘ f Aasuk thia tina of the year women | Queer, bute esitestarier may te aloe nate te Res. lemniy)--Don't begin talk-| have it. If we don't let you tell it form clubs to bridge over the winter, crank, Umph--huh.-Memphis Com- oval-shaped hand-timepiece aptly de- | ing hygiene, It annoys the animals, | We i be hearing it in fragments fo Columbia (8. C.) State mercial-Appeal {scribed as the Nuremburg ees. Mollie (surprised)-—Why, what's the | Menths to come. What's the subect re . ORs ryoee pe ee ee |” Queen Elizabeth owned upward of | matter with you folks to-day? Last | g us Mey CCU pR AREY) he short~ excuse for raising the price o fai mathiag: shal cata tiie | BF Rae a ba edn I of pap tissue paper must be pretty thin—| will not remain” that. way.2-Hoston DIRE avery one: on the pinnacle. OF) Ditsatcr, (lt: dawalag curiosity). Philadelphia Inquirer | Transcript. oes . joy, and to-day sub-ultramarine | How can you make @ scenario out of ‘. oe 8 2 | ‘+ chat |_‘To-Day’s Anniver: Director (handing her the letter) | that man gots over the notion that he| One practteal method of co: | es —— ey Aeeres ‘ ollie (tantallzingly)—Firet, yo dawatt ai if he aver Had it, an soon |the high oost of living went one Maan Tent vataranon’ toa thie we OA thes BEA: enekle aflerward—it |, knowledge that it is a ven n begin to ask questions, | ra price of marriage Heanse Brat rekeranne: tof Vine | YOU Sei important subject, and that tt Inter de ‘Nashville Banner . found in English Mterature| Mollie (skimming over {t)—Well,| ests not only tho butcher who wraps oe i isla le under date of Mov, $4, 3608,|I've thought thas for a long time,| bis meat in paper, but also the ite a when that useful article was men-| But of course I wasn't looking to | ¢¢8® bond man who has no coupons Letters From the People Honed as a “thumb-bell.” From the| start anything around here, 1 don't (cut because there's no paper to neo © sels i lz the sce jo | ne! 2 Dr. Allen Explains. (dangosn in and thoes description given It is inferred that th nse of having t NATO | T Dineotor Ss out at $1,000 the slightest department on one side of the river | (impatiently). and the studios on the other, in the | discourse? To the Eitor of The Evening World @ week without the article was much ike the thim- | Gat dawn tn taeuee, In your issue of Novy, 16 a headline | res Nt ults, bles in use to-day, except that it] first piace, And how can you expect Mollie (ignoring the command)— read: “Dr. Allen Attacks Gary School! 1€ Idea of an education manager Was Worn on the thumb. This clumsy | those writers to have any pep, sitting | Also tha newspapers—with a little re as Budzet Heasing; Opposes 1 ala Dot oppose It was the creation wa) of utilising It was goon chan, ii in a suey room, at 2 typewriter | curb oerkat alt thele own Outbid- , Avitnde - lob a o'clock in the |B he nu ematned the 8: al- | all day, only going out to get a glass, ding for mill outputs, and the house. Continuation of Prof, Wirt and $10,000 | morning for ay or eohbol eon’ though corrupted In the course of{of ham and @ milk sandwich at 12 who CAN't afford to pee toe: Education Manager." missioner that vowed. 1 sug. Ye to “thimble,” ‘clock Where'd they get inspira. | on her preserve shelves; the Will you permit @ brief qualifica-| «ested that if same thing had. The man who introduced thimbles| tion "ving man in the garret room who tion of the heading and the news| been donc yor Gaynor for to England w nh Lofting, a me-| Director (caustically)~Talk more in! can't find paper to stuff into the item? Chairman of the Schoo) ‘chanic and metal worker of Holland,| sequence. You're as hard to follow "ka of hia blast-blowt Far from oposing the Gary school| Board it would have been considered who settled in England in the latter) as the average plot. And as far as | Window y? Why, you can find plan, I suggested that an investiga-|% scandal, The matter seems of alto. |part of the seventeenth century and | inspiration goes—1 don't see any one | tragedies, farces, problem plays—any- tion by the Aldermen would prove|s*ther too much importance to start practised thelr manufacture In’ varl-| over here overpowered by it thing, in the shortage of paper. that the fundamental ideas of the) with a man for whom A position In| ous metals with great success, In Mollie Cindignantly)~Haven't 1 Janitor (butting —in).—say, Gary pian are being obstructed by|desired instead of starting with a deed, he founded @ fortune which has| tried? Haven't 1 CER Araih cLRRUK Mencltevon Rake: cimt the conditions under which Mr, Wirt | defint Mf the job and & search gor been incroased and distributed among| Director (throwing up his hands)—| “estras" to atop throwing papers i fhe boon engaged. It le by holding| the ableat man. This $10,000 Job was \neveral wealthy families of the Eng: | Gosh, yea! That's the greatest blow the cellar? Gee the whole Wace 4a the Board of Aldermen responsible |put in the budget without request by jlund of t The thimble was|of all, Because no matter how hard all glutted up faster'n T can turn the for the experiment that New York) the Hoa of Education and without the basis of his suce » for it came) you tried stuff in the furnac I never son ty will get beneficial results, If Mr.| know There can bo " use Koon after the first| Mollie Qwith enthuslasm)—Well, much paper in my life! ” int ig needed I sugsested that he|no free discussion of tt to-day with. ere aced on the market, | this time {Us different, You'll 4 Director (ooking into Mollie's soul) fe made a chool officer, re-| out reflection upon the board's Promi- |Lofting wan not the inventor of the| with me that what the public wants) —Tho idea is cold-—-dead—out re weer b to the. choot Board, wher dent and the Mayor. Consequently thimble, however, for articles of this|nowadays 1s up-to-the-minute stuff, | will now concoct something new on pneie Tescansible. tor re. there, Is no free discussion within the kind have been found in the ruins of|something that is occupying the|the eternal triangle idea. The wife, minds of-— the cruel husband, the best friend! . W. H. ALLEN, | sheet her mother, the children accompany- ing her on this particular evening, when ho happened to be late for dinner. It was the servant's evening out and Mrs. Jarr felt more like vis- iting than getting supper. Of course Mr. Jarr wasn't home. He didn’t get home until almost mid night, The man had been enjoying himself, too, and had come home smiling, actually smiling! A Mormon wife wouldn't have stood it! “Don't you call me dearie; I'm not your dearie! Gus, who keeps the sa- joon at the corner, is your dearie! Or that man Rangle you sit up all night playing cards with—he's your | dearte!” | But you weren't home, I didn't think you'd be back to-night. I | thought you wouldn't mind, sweetie,” mumbled Mr, Jarr, “Sweetie!” Mrs. Jarr gave him a razor edged glance. u're a nice Jone to call me sweetie!" Here her mood changed from cold to rain, "A nice mess I've made of my life, haven't 1?" ehe sobbed, “Throwing | myself away upon a man who trea |me as you do, I am a drudge ‘a prisoner to this house! | get to go anywhere or see anything! Never have a decent re~ to my back ora hat a beggar woman would wear! I wouldn't mind that,” she snapped, dabbing at her tears and powdering | her nose, and then trying to glance down on it to see if it were red or swollen, “I wouldn't mind that {f you leven spoke to me kindly, Did you eve cat] me an er dearing name in | your lita? No, you never did!” “But, sweetheart’—— began the bewildered man. | “Sweetheart, indeed!" cried Mrs. \Jare, ‘I'm not your sweetheart, You never cared for me! And now, now, nowhere Mrs. Jarr choked with emotion and sobled she hic- coughed—"and now you're breaking | my beart, and you know it and you \are proud of it! You're gloating over it! Don't say you are not!" \ The Jarr Family Fifty Boys and Girls Famous in History By Albert Payson Terhune TWELVE-YEAR-OLD Engl tory in London at $1.76 a five cents a day. And he —was forever “waiting for somethin; went to live with him there. Their son was thus {eft to shift needed his parents’ care. his evenings mattress in the attic of a ramshack! and ends of wrapping paper. Later his father somehow bought to sch ool, Barrens br ndy or A Queer Way to Make Money. | mrs che his earn them, doing it. \in his class. He would lend these stories to the other fellows in return for | \ | It was an honest mothod of gett! H Next he and one or two school th author. After the hardships of the black! But long before he |fun—as he wanted his father decide | had receive dise | profession. So Charles was taken ou firm as combination clerk, his new tasks and | He had a genius for mimtery. } could act. Perhaps he could, He ne {of much wire-pulling he recelved per messenger | manager of the day. | would give Charles a minor part in Charles rehearsed the monologu }iast came the great day when he w | awoke at dawn, with a set of swolle ‘cords that robbed him of the powe bere Actor Spoiled; Writer Made. Serres appointme turned to | a short cut out of stenography (he was too poor to go position of police court reporter. By the time he reached manhoo ‘loved, Within a few ye or of an of the century- while he was waiting he was thrown into the debtors’ prison. Young Dicke urn vainly for such Joys. And i first vector and gained an Iterature to cover his disappointment at failing to get on the stage. law business that he loathed. Copyright, 1016, by The Prose Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), No. 18.—CHARLES DICKENS, the Boy Scribbler. ish boy found @ Job at a blacking fao- week. This meant @ wage of twenty- kept each day’s wages wrapped in a separate piece of newspaper, so that he could remember dally just how much money he had for living expense: short he went hungry, by way of self-punishment for extravagance. The boy was Charles Dickens. His father—an impoverished old visionary When the supply ran g to turn up,” to make him rich. And His wite for himself, at the age when most he He worked all day at the blacking factory, spent with his father and mother at the prison and slept on @ je house near the water front. It Was no sort of a life for a sensitive child, and to the day of his death Charles hated the memory of it. of drudgery was to make up fantastic stories and to ecribble them on odds His one amusement in those months his way out of prison and sent the lad # had no cash with which to or any o' r treasures such as He was not content to sit and tead he set to work to on a queer enough way of he hit He wiole blood-and-thunder etories that thrilled the hearts of the boys candy or pennies or white mice, or whatever things he happened just then ing luxuries, And Dickens was looked on ag a genius by his less imaginative friends, chums built @ miniature theatre and made pocket money by producing dime novel dramas, of which Dickens was ng factory he found school life a para- i as much education—or had ag much 1 it was time for the boy to learn a of school and was put to work with a law ottice b and handy man, He hated decided to be an actor. lis friends encouraged him to think he ver had @ chance to find out. By dint mission to try his luck at a monologue, ‘to be delivered in the presence of Charles Kemble, the most popular actor- If Kemble should think the lad showed promime he lis company. e, morning and nignt, for weekm At as to appear before Kemble. Dsokens n tonsils and with a cold in his vocal r to speak. Kemble was too busy to grent a second hearing to the young law clerk who had failed to keep his nt. So the world immortal lost @ third-rate writer. For Charles In the mean time he took He began the study of to a teacher and had to learn short- | hand from books in the British Museum), and thus fitted himself for the ] he was ready for the profession he tury. id no particular reason to be 80 a&- her grieved and that's what made all the angrier. ‘ome nov aid Mr, Jarr, “what ts it, honey? What do you want?” Perhaps it was to hear the word “lovey,” for Mrs, Jarr eoftened. “You know you are not treating me ht; you never take me anywhere, out and have a good time, and You go Ho knew instinctively that she| I'm left sticking in the house,” she waated something. There's always | said brokenly. method in a woman's moods, es-| “But you can go with me anywhere pecially her lachrymose ones. Why.| you want to, dearie,” said Mr. Jarr. there's nothing a woman can't have if she cries hard enough! “Don't speak to me! Don't you dare | a | speak to me!" cried Mrs. Jarr. don't want to hear a word you ha to say “T haven't any words to say, you're using them all," said the poor man, | “Ah, you talk that way because you don't care to discuss anything with me. A very easy way out!" Here Mrs, Jarr powdered her nose so vio- lently that Mr. | from the powder cloud. “Now, lovey, what ts it?” asked Mr. Jarr, “What ts it you want?” | Giant 1, O many a clear night this fal City but of the suburbs within a radius of fifty miles have seen an |intense gleam of light sweeping the} as the sky. Some have identified it giant Sperry searchlight, mounted on} | the top of a Brooklyn building. Others have merely wondered at the sour of so powerful a ray giant among modern searchilghts. The searchlight Itself, the Its reflector 19 Commenting nine feet high. feet in diameter. invention, Popular Mechanics sa What ts heraidc! as able of been erected on the roof of a manu facturing plant at Brooklyn, where tt is being used for experimental pur poses, Its designer is one of the beat known of American inventors. instrument produces as intense Ieht an is sald, it apparently surpasses by more than 60 per cent, the power of the great lamp tested some Ume ago at the Now York Navy Yard. experim reflector and gave off a ight esti mated at 450,000,000 candle-power. It | was said that under favorable atmos- |pheric conditions the glare could b® interest | Here Ara Jarr sobbed again, She seen for fully 100 miles, while objects circles, Jarr stepped back 280,000,000 C. P. Searchlight _| residents not only of New York Few have really understood the real light power of this largest |and most powerful ever built, stands five on thig‘latest achievement of searchlight | the world's | most powerful searchlight, a big in- strument that 18 reported to be cap- developing approximately 1,280,000,000 candle power, has recently If the During ts a couple of years ago the latter was equipped with @ 44-inch “Where do you want to go?” want to go to refined things, say musicales, like other people,” sobbed Mrs, Jarr, “You always fuss and er and say you don't want to go.” Me? I'm crazy for It. Lead me to it!" erled Mr. Jarr, Mrs. Jarr had been casting around in her mind for some explanation of her outburst and had remembered some tickets Mrs. Stryver had sent her for a musicale. It was good she had, for Mr, Jarr was now so thoroughly subdued he would have sat through @ fitting at the dressmaker's. _ | 1 a n 35 miles away were made plainly vis- th The most Important feature of the new searchlight by ites are, In addi- tion to the brilliant Hght obtained from the heated surface of the post- tive carbon, use is made of the in- tensely bright fame produced through the combustion of the superheated vapor that is given off. To employ the gas successfully It 1s necessary that it be confined In an exceedingly small area nis Is accomplished by maintaining a very deep crater in the positive carbon, in which the vapor Is concentrated, As @ result the luminosity emanating from the mouth lof the crater amounts to about 820,000 candle-power to the square inch. The Instrument is exciting pronounced in technical and actentifio