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= The een ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Mxcept *unday dy the Preas Publishing Company, Now, 68 to ‘ $3 Park Tow, New York RALPH PULITZER, President, J, ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, rk Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Becrevary, 63 Park Fe Entered at the Post-Oflice at New York as Se-ond-Clana Matter. Subscription Rates to Toe bvening| For England and the Continent Tnited Stater | All Countries in the International 4 nada Postal Union 2.60 One Year 20 One Montn.. One Year.. One Month ~ VOLUME 67... ~ CARRANZA’S MOVE. HK protocol to which the members of the Mexican-American Joint Commission have affixed their signatures puts upon the record further proof of the large minded forbearance and helpfulness with which the Government of the United States, as at present administered, has endeavcred to treat the people of Mex‘co and such promises of ultimately etable self-government as they ar able to furnish. Unless Carranza is ready to forfeit his Inst claim to be regarded ae an intelligent, guiding force for the country he professes to acrve he will accept the agreement without an hour's unnecessary delay. Mexican pride demands the recall of American troops from Mex joan soil. Good. Al! Carranza has to do to see Gen. Pershing’s ext dition march out of Mexico in forty days’ time is to fulfil his urge duty toward Mexico itself, Tet him show thy means to mele Merxioo a civilized country, where Mexicans and fofeigners alike cin look for protection again-t murderers and brigands. Let his borders with Phe came purpose that we patrol ours to pillage and lawlessness. All this is for the good of Mexico, s ia it any lese so that troops of the United States Government sh have the right to cross the border in order to hunt down bandits who menace to safety and order in both nations him patre to put ane In brief, that i all the protocol contains of American “demands ” Demands only that 9 Mexican Government which calls itself a govern ment shall conduet If ae a government; demands only that the military head of that Governm shall use his armies to put down outlawry; demands only that a proud and obstinate old man w 10 con tinually parades a jenlous zeal for his country’s honor shall prove tha he knows what national honor is Americans who hold that the shortest way with disorde:ly neigh hore is to send armies among them, killing as many as need he to quiet surd compro the rest, will of course tind the Mexican protocol an mise. For them any Mexican policy short of intervention must hey been al] wrong from the first. ‘ Nevertheless the nation has recently elected to continue under an Administ which world cannot afford to ion believes that the greatest republic in the} w otherwise than forbearing and encouragin: | toward any people who seem to be climbing, however slowly and pain- | of self | na is hims of the United States toward Mexico. fully, toa firmer plar vernment. Venustiano Carr fa monument to the patience dnd It now disinterested good wi rests with the First Chief how much more history will have to say of him. | . <nicnecienagsotl : THE EXTRA WEIGHT. HE actual shortage of coal is almost insignificant, according to} ——— a Assistant District Attorney Markewich, who has been sti- as gating the coal situation following The Evening Wor'd’s exposures of the price boosters’ plans. “The higher price charged at the mines is only normal com © pared with the exorbitant prices that have been charged by the retail coal dealers.” “By sta@g there was a shortage of coal on account of the mines being unable & obiain sufficient labor they created a false impression in the mind of the public.” Prema Piblidhing Oe, ug World,) URING the week penled to the courts to have he: marriage annulled, saying It was all a joke, She had known her | There lies the real motive and method behind 80 per cent. of tie! price raising which is fast putting not only coal but many other necos-| BiOMnsotlye: Hagelin nea ne tnen yee Meo sities beyond tite reach of the poor man’s pocketbook. First create| Lad gli pd | “for better or for worse.” ‘and they “an impression in the public mind” that prices are bound to rise} married tim, | 20st dey the Tdcense Department help ‘Then MAKE them rise and KEEP them rising, three, five or ten| In haece ama |e) oer cea y eet ag) Tenens points AHFAD of the actual upward trend, | Plaint she says) dep them to make miserable lives “L thought It was} When the butcher gets word that veal at wholesale will cost him so funny I laugh- | a woman ap-| Fail “lr Not Goingseto Work To-Day. I1| Get Paid Just The People Who Marry for Fun By Sophie Irene Loeb 1'°4""° game an expensive joke in- That is the one big trou with the marriage laws to-day Divorce may be easy, but marriag: | Should be mors difficult. If marr s were not ao readily secured, then it would not be se common fo Marie and Lovelorn light John on a ne fly for @ period and in a oT | back to the other end of the law ina a cent more a pound, what does he do? ‘Ten to one he puts up tie, ed right out while | nent for freedom, price of veal, lamb, beef, pork and every meat in his shop, not one evemreiass =the Alderman wus! phey would needs “show cause" ‘ ” Performing the ceremony why such a lecnse yuld be granted cent, but two, or maybe three. He “pfotects” himself liberally in! ana now she secks freedom on the | them Their titne r marriage advance. And if veal falls haf a cent a week later—so much the| ground that her husband “misrepre- | would be the fuctor to determine thy better for the butcher, The impression in the mind of his customers S*Rted” Mimself, stating that he was peing allowed to marry ja man of money. . More questions would needs is that prices never drop any more, 7 | In the first place, the woman who] asked. Aye tT Ithy wi Find out how many retailers are meeting every week or so to fix| marries for money sometimes gets | f) pe aR TA Le epee eel a prices far enough above the normal rise to put extra profits into their | ‘Ne Money, But she gets left—lert In) is their attitude toward the fut paired the real meaning of matrimony, She | their farmily—namely own pockets and you will have some measure of the NEEDI satisfies but a few craglage of lux. | &e» & i i weight in the burden which pressea—heavier and heavier—unom the |uries and when she ts satiated with | atau Aheledas open eeig American consumer these the emptiness of it all beging to] to dive into the sea of mate ee COOP Me | pall, The sordid side of the situation | Een Ory Sue tobe eyed, heewuse they ni always shows itself and dissatintace | Could Peither sink nor ww ‘A Chicago's Health Commisstoner has raided cold storage’ |tlon finally results on the spur of the War plants and held for inspection some of the 72,000,000 eges Too many people marry for fun and! dreds of them owned by the egg king, James BE. Wetz, who sits tight and Jeers at the public j —— “4 If the health inspectors find a few million invalid eggs in D Oo ] ] ars an d Sense the lot couldn't they be distributed among persons likely to return them swiftly and unerringly to their owner? | By IL. J. Barrett s a bigger divide as an a From Sharp Wits This Man Be'ieves in Signs. Hits We have seen in none of the move-] A Texas newspa proposes that) 66 N effective sign, or symbol, ments for the reform of chureh ser-| married men woar a distinetive cos over the door of one'a es vices any proposition to minate ey do: it's thin and shiny | tablishment is like money in collections,—Toledo Blade the elbows and a little frayed at k," 1 r at) the bank r local advertising a” 8 |the bottom of the trousers.—-Detroit | {Ne BANK. sald & poverd 1k about evolution: the gray alley| Free Press | man It works f you da cat, after giving up its ninth life, IN prs and night, Sundays and holidays. A evolved into choice “mole skin | Politic: driven out od sign board is the oldest, th Mme. Fashion's dainty gown.-Mem- | of a mar ies attacks a least type of adyerti expensive and m ing in inhabits a phie Commercta!-Appea ‘ oe. Columbia (5, reg Lone for the dase of the olt-|C | “And of all types of advertising, its fashioned stile, Perhaps this regret | fea er posuibilities are least developed, Study accentuated by the fact that there} ‘The pug dog is out of atyle, but the| pm Lettres ped mney billboard, car vard and What a of tale ind ingenuity ts dts the magazine ads ent, thought isn’t much in the new styles that ap-| asthma on forever peals to us.-Philadelphia Journal Blade, Toledo | © eee ae + played in the effort to achteve a.strik Letters From the People inn) attantionrmonmnalling Thali) then Wants Republica istory, more ¢ piv o the Conservative: note the retailers’ signa na city Vo the BAitor of The Brenig Werld than to the Liie Col Atreet. You'll find absolutely no evi Waar the Republican gnriy endeavore b h way trom of ote ! thinks that the Republicans are the oiq order of things by launching the} count on the fingers of one hand the sume as the Conservatives in Eng-! pro, | Progressive party and the Demo- | signs which stick in my memory, One \and. B thinks that the Liberals ere! orate charge the Republicans rans | ‘a huge gilt tea pot with a stream the Republican party here. Which ts of steam pouring from the spout. To Me, betng Tories or reactionaries, The | my knowledge “It has oocupied tte rig READER. | party stands for conservative beliefs, | present position for thirty years, pos- N. B.Tee Bepubrcans correspond | such #s @ protective tariff, jetoly muoh longer, I'd weger tbat it esiment than lielty ture made in during ol 8 | fives @ concern's ation }the pul mi n market for the product stantly thinks of the esta ninent so rep resented. Home day a s | will add a go: its staff, who wi striking signs tu bru wielders handiwork by city i with orders’ fron discard the wea which now ments, to replace them by boards which will compare favoracly in pub- leity power with newspaper, maga- xine, car card and billboard adver- tising.”” herciants and stodgy signs represent their establish~ who will by The Be (The New weet | » Bt | a 1064 SUGGESTED BY ALR, wrt B'KiYA the Same.” The Jarr F cocktail ‘are made at i sinter | trrse days before t tual time you | no, world ts 80 selfish, people j mer resorts, where people have at the clear winter) 144 jonly kK of nselves! And the their vacation manners and are only emarked: ‘I'm 90] “yet ahe didn’t have it done | funeral ar waaalna ind out after they return home and FSM m ao; "Yet she didn’t ha lor uneral and the wedding both take ge a-duy W ! this morning.” =| time 1 said Mr. ce in the m in good thing a any people t ink the y can that weather con. | Wasn't ver on intareaiaa n we nn tint me church.” ’ erything by man-made la dress, but he was wise and knew the! “youl to the weddin > made) dit ered you eplied Mr.| ° 5, of to 1-made | ditions red un,” replied Mr.) voy to keep ne n the family was | coure 1 Mr. Jarr. i is dn’ r vhen it pas 1 an interest “ y “ 7 Too many people*marry for gold-|Ja'% “You didn't worry when © at least wate an interest inj sw say, ‘of course’? bugs and find them gold-bricks, rained yesterday ” matters of vital moment with a wife asked Mra, Jar, foo .auny people join in the wed “Why should I? Jarr.| and matters of vital moment with We ni ve lock of May and December, and find! ast, yaw dress ¢ Dc althotat edie are cinthen 1 RRR ee wedding f Anne 1" re n i ® wou 1 r’ ventured Mr, Jarr, rush to the mar-{the. dressmaker promised me fait “Oh, the dressmak lways k Phat shows how much you know!* “angels” which t fully 1 should have it yesterday. You) yey are puttin the date at least] repiied Mrs, Jarr, ‘Titore'll be nothe » , Sey know I told her that it must be fin-, turee d ud," replied Mrs, Jarr,) ing but erying at Bleanor Hickett'g Foo many people forget to count! ned yesterday or It would have heer ping to the cherished topic: edding. They've had two rel cost of matrimony until they are | 78d Ye" ne = fh se it MeaDine 0 tae oanlned Napie mene They've had twa reheaseamm onted with the payday of di- {29 Use at all to me : I'm sure you wouldn ave nd ill go off without a hiteh, You took it very mildly that hether I was disappointed or #0 1 kn t coanor's mother and iw rare case indeed where} wasn't finished yesterday,” remacked| yp, Stanley, across the wa san) Cora Hickett and her © of short acquaintance before} Mr. Jarr : si different. His wife had a new ¢ other will just cry as if their hearte riage unue done A the har “Of course aid Mrs, J day and ar at would break,” cscs MN de at was because I didn't really went out in that dreadful | W 40 ~leano isn’t any And finail family :keleton has | it til next week, But you mu rain he went with ker and carefully | chicken?” asked Mr, Jarr. r tunny-b¢ __.__Waya te dre _you_must Lis umbrella over her to keep] “Can't people cry from reltet?” req t se and hat from be led, ted Mrs, Jarr, "This was Blea £ § a Ve lhe n't see > mind how much | no! ist chance, and they never Reflections of a Bachelor Girl Se Te did teal-cure of tat can atte ‘ . ».| marry, Why, he attended ont , le le Of course 1 td Mr. Jory, | mar attended only on@ By Helen Rowland “be ae cna chat oont nic arnun ee the wedding rehearsals and them / = 7) ere aaceemaese oe Ave 1 nd his clothes and his| d to almost drag him to the churey «! sv ubliabin ow 5 | then. » 1 think, as between the EVER expect @ man’s love to subsist on gratitude, A kiss, like SAURELIIe Sauelot nag: anth g[ tr | go to the funeral, T hate virtue, is its own reward of that si etorted Mrs, Jarr. | ¥et BO WOrPy “a ° “You must think ail men ure like you." t ud’ think there woulee ee The modern girl's idea of a “regular man” ts one who is clever] “No, Edon't,* suid Mr. Jarr, “but Hl ectrel \t the funeral,” remarke@ enough to make a lot of money and foolish enough to|am glad for your sake you can sport)” "py you know how much menep row it away on her your new dress In fine weather.” | Mrs, Rar Ss aunt leaves?” ag] | "1 havetwo places to go this mom. | Mrs Jarr, “And do you knew bow , cn cor, [lone they have been waitir A man never knows how much he values an um-| 98." remarked Mra, Jar ra, hat she had been ne ee breila or a woman until he sees some other man| Hickett's cousin's wedding and Mrs foe: Nine | hae t's funera “About os long as the calmly walking off with one or the other, MADe FRAY S UNE \ Raa kit : one . HG bi inc " | “Can't you make tt a blithe day and | } been waiting for Hleanore gete : 3 el a ate. S ® husband,” replied Mr, Jerr, if ee 7 3 + ot) ahaip | attend both?" asked Mr. Jarr “Oh, not as jong aa that!” rephie@ After marriage, so many people pul all thelr) witow can s9" anawered Are. Jarr . Jarr, “But long enough, ¥. jh romantic illusions away on the shelf with their wed-| uty either the Hicketts or the Rang "il go to the funeral, Anyway, a ding gifts, where the dust soon hides all their bright-!)aa any consideration for other peo- | Sets * better carriage ride an / : ane thie had any considers 4 meets nicer people at funerala, @ ness and the moths get into them ple they'd have arranged different! you think?” When a man begins trying to and don't. No? Well, then, th lirt with you, think of nk of your successor your and predecessor you won't A cynic is merely a sentimentalist to whom life has been lavish with Jomons—an idealist wHo happened to be plucking the flowers of igagina- tion when the sprinkling cart of Fate came by Never try to make a man happy by cheering him up. There ts nothing n the world which @ man enjoys so much, dearle, as feeling sorry for himself, these days of badhelo 2 ke she revelation of human unselfishness that stands as the eight wonder of the world! When a actually asks a girl fm, In d the man rts deifieation nes has a re o Absence may make the heart grow fonder--but propinguity makes the head grow dizzler, Fifty Boys and Girls Famous in History By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1016, by ‘The Press Pabiwwhing Oo. (The New York Brening World), No. 19—-THOMAS A, EDISON, the Boy Experimenter. ‘LITTLE Oh!o boy was eyed askance by his duller schoolmeted H because he stubbornly refused to take anything for granted, When a thing waa told him, at school or elsewhere, he was no@ content until he had worked out’ Its truth or falsity to his ow satisfaction. Which explains why Thomas Alva Edison etands where be does to-day, while the names of nis Jeering school chums are forgotten, » Once in a while this “show ine" trait brought plenty of trouble to him, As for example, when he is said to have tried to disprove hie parents’ jertion that boys cannot fly. Edison believed any one could fly # filled with enough “lighter-than-air” gas. So he fed a double handful of set@liits powders to another youth, in the hope of turning him dnto a human bab loon. He almost turned his victim into @ corpse instead. Perhaps it was thie sort of trait that made one of his teachers declarg ' the fragile, big-headed child's wits were addled. Hearing the teacher's opinion of Thomas, his mother took the boy out of school and educated him at home. To bis mother’s teachings Edison owed all his earty know To her encouragement he owed his chance to make the odd exper: he loved. She let him rig up a laboratory in the cellar, He needed money te buy! chemicals for his experiments, So he got @ job as newsboy ene train. Thid * was in 1869, when he was twelve years old, He made extra cash by carry< Ing fresh vegetables from country to town along his news route, He somehow obtained leave to use an empty compartment tn a amoke » ine car of the train as a store-room for hie news { papers and vegetables, He also transferred hie } A Fire— and Deafness. i aenaamaanaanaaal “laboratory” to this compartment, and went on witty his experiments, Soon he added @ cheap printing press to bis smoking-car treasures, and laboriously printed a weekly paper the: His were doubtless the first laboratory and newapaper ever conducted n a moving train, He also rigged up a home-made electrical epparatud ind taucht himself telegraphy. Presently he lost this beloved compartment—and he lost it {n @ series A stick of phosphorus, which formed part of his atock off fire, The flames spread through hia whole tiny labora. ory, The conductor of the train put out the blaze, barred Edison from ) leurther use of the place, and wour up the performance by soundly boxing he boy's ears. So heavy wes the conductor's hand, in thie puntehment, that hie blows ured the little ch sensitive ears. } rtly deaf, But he 1s aff Hetty “Denfnesa has been a great adv ome in various ways,” he oneg “In experimenting on the telephone T had to tmprove the transmitter This made the telephone ‘comme cial! eas the magneto receiver of Hell was too weak to be us commerctally, as Tr was the same with the phonograph, I worked over one lyear, twenty hours perfectly recorded and » | reproduced vuld die tly hear ft. Agatn, deafness has preserved my ct. Broadway is as quiet to me ag sa coun'ry village to # person with normal hearing.” The world owes much to that cranky train conductor's cruel treatment of a frightened box om that day Edison has been kes | sald » L could hear tt yhor After he and his Inboratory were kicked off the train, voung PMison took up the study of te 1 he got a ra‘lroad-telegrapher Job at $25 a month. He to k he eason for every= thing led him to thr | His career as an tnventor He first attracted atte: for telegraphing important news ectric trapsmissiong ce method he surrested e-Jammed river to nm one b: the other when the wires we Haste of a locomotive co’ ator ocross the wide } “Something } : aes Queer. th: s m of wirele eleg« DIANNE eT SONY OWAN L more thon half a century ago, Many of his fellow-operators ed to lauch at bim for studying ang experimenting all night when he had been working all d They thought tl was something “queer” about a la pon working whem They were richt A que he didn't have to eldedty “aneer” about Edison. name of “genius.” re was—-and is—something dea hat is now known by its right rness By Roy L. McCardell amily | . Maries ithe t fail at lea lat ng 9, (T Now York tien Vitforent hours, Bug |» ————4 O-DAY is the anniversary of the;ern Teutons, Mien as now coveted the” I death in 611 of Clovis the Great, | Meh country att Northern Fran aa f ey crossed the Rhine with a the first king of France and) army qnd invaded France, and Glovie & founder of the Frankish monarchy. | hastened to repel them. In @ battl | Clovis was the son of Childeric, and) near Tolbiac the Germans at first | Pia einen Aad Si ‘ved too powerful for the defends [at the axe of fifteen he succes nd hie | BOYES feo, Bonerem 200 ae at father as ruler of the Sallan jthelr chant of victory ety ae then residing within the terrttory of |i spair, fell upon his knees, ving | his native town of Tournay. At that) cordin tribe, dition, he prayed: time Central Gaul was still governed | of Cihyl vo me assistance In thig oy Roman arrie nd Clovis | hour wity, avd T confess Thy narehed agi mn 4 § ay victor routed his legions and put him to|immedia turned, the Gemma death. The whole Belgic country and| broke and fled, and the flower of the! the cities of Solssons, Rheims, Troyes, forces and their King were Beauvais and Amiens submitted to| Within the same year Clovis Clovis. baptized Rheims, and with ‘The Alemanni, ancestors of the mod- ' 3,000 of his companions, ete } ; \ hill

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