The evening world. Newspaper, December 2, 1916, Page 8

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULTTZER. "Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 68 to 63 Park Row, New Y RALPH PULITZER, Prewident, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, Park Row, ‘JOSEPH PULITZHR, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. . __ Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Cians Matter. Bubscription Rates to The Evening|For England and the Continent a ‘World for the United States All Countries in the International ’ and Canada. Postal Union. We Tearinscesecseesmecane VOLUME 57. ...ceeceeeescemeinennees WHY THE “FIGHT ’EM” POLICY PERSISTS. HE Brooklyn Edison Company is a fine example of the kind of T public service corporation that believes its profits from the) public are independent of the latter’s confidence or good will. Reduced rates for electric light service in Brooklyn, ordered by, the Public Service Commission to go into effect Dec. 1, have not gone into effect because the Brooklyn Edison Company refuses to obey the order of the commission as it stands, evidently meaning to take refuge in extended litigation and delay while it withholds lower light rates from Brooklyn consumers. This policy has been characteristic of this company and of its parent, the Kings County Electric Light and Power Company. In its! efforts to secure cheaper light for Brooklyn, The Evening World has more than once had to cut into the tangle of long-drawn-out legal pro: eeedings by which these companies have evaded every demand of the public and every order of constituted authority. Six years ago the franchise of the Edison Company in the Thir- Meth Ward was declared by the City Board of Estimate and Appor- fionment to be “void and without foundation.” Yet the company) has managed to keep its case dragging in the courts over since, and even now, though a referee rendered a decision a year ago, the Cor-, poration Counsel of the City of New York has not pressed the case| to « final determination from which the public can learn where it stands. Therein lies one reason why this corporation and others like it hold stubbornly to the belief that it is better to fight the public than yield it an inch. The experience of these corporations with courts and | referees has given them a cynical confidence in their ability to stave! off the day when they will have to obey on the dot the order of any| mere Public Service Commission. Let lawyers who are appointed and paid to uphold the public's rights show as much diligence in procuring prompt decisions as is shown by public service corporation lawyers in securing interminable | delays, and we shall presently find fewer corporations taking the; ‘attitude of the Brooklyn Edison Company, that it always pays to fight. ‘ ——_ WHAT CONSUMERS CAN DO. NSTEAD of the public being forced by the poultry speculators to pay forty and forty-five cents a pound for Thankegiving turkeys, what happened? Dealers were glad to get rid of turkeys at prices ranging from twenty-eight to thirty-five cents a pound, and a large part of the stock ‘the wholesalers hoped to unload at extortionate figures has been returned to cold storage to wait another try at Christmas. Instead of consumers begging the egg market manipulators to open the cold storage warehouses and release eggs at any price, what is the situation? Wholesale prices of eggs of all grades suddenly dropped from three to four cents a dozen and egg speculators desperately anxious to do business on new terms. What did it? Consumers themselves—-by combining to defend themselves, by fefusing to buy turkeys or esgs at preposterous prices. That is what ‘the consumer can always do when he makes up his mind to ‘it. Commissioner Hartigan’s boycott plan has been taken up in Chi- ‘wago, Baltimore, Philadelphia and San Francisco as the handiest, \gquickest-acting weapon with which to fight the food sharks. Hggs ‘and poultry have already shown what it can accomplish. Butter and «NO, 20,192 But his Rouse it is badly needed, according potatoes at the present prices invite the next attacks. The food epeculator’s fear of the law chn be developed. of a public that won’t buy is immediate and abject. and you have him routed. ——_——-4 THE HALF-A-NICKEL PIECE. TWO-AND-A-HALF CENT CO. A to the Director of the Mint. “When you consider that we have no coln between the one cent piece and the five cent plece, and that many an article worth more than @ cent and less than five ceyts selld for the latter price because of the lack of an intermeliiary monetary unit of value, the economle importance of the two-and-a-half- cent coin will be readily seen,” Readily indeed. And when you consider the imposing array of producers, wholesalers, retailers and middlemen now working night and day to protect Mr. Consumer's pocketbook, force down the prices he has to pay for the necessities they sell, give him the immediate benefit of every half-cent saving they effect in methods of manufac-} ture or distribution, and se: to it that he never has to give a nickel for| only half-a-nickel’s worth of goods—when all this is contemplated,! the imperative need of a coin that will permit a finer shading of prices must be plain to every By all means let's have a two-and-a-half cent piece so that Mr. Consumer may miss ill ‘ess of the justice e do him. ane, ybody yearns to| ———e¢2——____- | re Liberty and darkness, forever distinct and Incompatible. Letters From the People | 3 right Mequired. lege becomes tts unless othe Bijior «The Brociua World othe wine 1 Please give me particulars of dis-| Write American posing of short stories to magazines clety, Washing Is it necessury to copyright them, To the Eatit The Besutng World | how are the prices armn, me of t Necessary to copyright th Kindly inform 4 © best way 1 uld little amount of mon » Please give me information as to how to go| 4nd % underwear to my b about it. J. A. P. | Who ts a Bohemian soldier cx N. B.—Mai) your story to any mug-|!n Russia. CONSTANT READER azine which you think might buy It.| Won Co) ‘ If the editor likes It he will either | To the Eativor of The Kvn make you on offer or mail an accept-| A insisis that a man born ance notice at “usual rat ited States cann 8 for Means the public At unless his father also was | ment, ordinarily ranging e. Bola that t father r cent @ word upward. If the inagazine not necessarilf be born bere buys it, the copyright and all privi- right? Wh Ww a and in Evening World Daily Magazine yt. 1 Pub ott Res a may ' By J. H. Cassel “propie Donor PAY, MUCH HEED TO a 7 THE FORECASTS OF POLITICIANS * x2. 1 By Martin Green The Woman of It By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1916, &y The Prom Publishing Co. (The New York Wrening World), She Says It Takes Love, Faith and Charity to Make a Happy Marriage. “H ERE | a sardonic philosopher,” remarked the Widow, fluttering @ Dewspaper clipping at the Bachelor, “who says that people should exclaime? the Bachelor In mock astonish. ment. well have kept his instructions to himself, ‘em marry for a change, or for novelty, or for amusement, or ‘just for Instance’ any~ how, don't they?" “Yo-os," acknowledged the Widow ruefully. “But I think that's what he means by ‘love’—the sort of mixiure of pink light, propinquity and pession, which lures 80 many unsuspecting victims into marrying ‘just for instance’ HE says that we should marry for a serious purpose—because we want to establish home and a a family, or because we mentally, eugenically and financially ‘mated’-or ‘because”—— sarcastic grin. “Just as though one could be foolish enough to marry and serious enough to have « purpose at the same time!” “And just as though any marriage could hold together without lovel”*” exclaimed the Widow rcornfully. “It takes so MUCH love, and so MUI faith, and so MUCH charity to live happily with any human being tn this world, man or woman, that it's a wonder there are any successful mar- rlages at all.” ° “And most people marry on so little of-—everything! ished the Bachelor—“so little experience, so little mutual understanding and so little money!” “Oh, well,” anawered the Widow, cheerfully. “You can get along fairly comfortably without those if you have enough love!—enough love to cover all tho weak spots and hide all tho blemishes and disguixe all the petty faults and vanity in one another; enough love to blind you to one another's shortcomings and make you see double when you contemplate one another's charms and virtues;—enough faith to make you believe a man even when you KNOW he's lying, and to make you trust a woman even when she has once fooled you; enough faith to make you believe in a man’s ultimate success In spite of a hundred failures"—— “And to make you eat a woman's cooking In spite of a hundred fits of indigestion,” put in the Bachelor, sotto voce, . “And enough charity,” finished the Widow, “to make you kind and tender toward one another's relatives and one another's friends, and one another's disposition, and even interested in one another's work and one another's pastimes. To marry without at least that much love, falth and charity is to condemi yourself forever to a life of disappointment and shocks, and disagreements, and regrets, and compromise, and hideous com. motiplaceness. It takes LOVE, love, love to glorify a human being suf- fictentiy to make life with him or her even bearable!’ 66 BAR, hear!” cried the Bachelor. “But how are you going to know H that you love anybody that much when you are blinded by the twinkle in a girl's eye and hypnotized by the way that her hair curls about her temples, and dazzled by her dimples, and enehanted by her sachet, and her chiffons, and her cunning little wa -- “And when you are captivated by @ man’s dancing.” Widow, “and dazzled by his flattery and his attentions, and Ns shoulders and the cleft in his clin, and the way ht his forehead! You ca she moaned. until you are married. And then It's too late! marry ‘just for instance’—and the world calls It marrying ‘for love “Thon, perhaps,” suggested the Bachelor, apotogoetically, “your sardomie | Philosopher and hia ‘little croup of serious marryers’ are right. It might be better after all to marry for a purpose or even for an automébile or an experiment than to marry ‘just for Instance!’ The Jarr B 66 Oo”: Uttle group of serious marryers!" broke in the Bachelor. with @ broke tn the® fascinated by halr grows about “There isn't any way of knowing— That's why so many people Family Roy L. McCardell “ Copyright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing (oy, ‘The New York Evening World), R. JARR greeted his spouse statement would cheer her. “Uncle M cheerfully the other evening! Henry's got lots of money, and when 4 said, “Well, how are you! he dies he'll sure leave it to us. We'll feeling, old lady’ send Willie to college and I take | The Laundryman Sees a Lively Mayoralty Campaign Ahead, With Axes Being Sharpened for “ Boy Scout Mayor.” Pree Publishing Oo, Ning World.) O18, OomTre New York “cc BOPLE are beginning to talk about next year’s city elec- tion,” sald the head polisher. “The campaign,” remarked the laundry man, “is already on, Al- though Tammany Hall bas just flooded the enrolled Democratio vot- ors of the city with circulars estab- Ushing that Tammany did its full duty by Wilson, there {8 a lot of tn- decision in the Tammany camp. The figures carry @ fishy smell, even though the outcome may have been anticipated by Charles Murphy. “Before the seventh of last Novem- ber the general sentiment in this town was that Tammany had the next election put away on tee, Our populace looked toward Fourteenth Street, Then came the ble blow-off and ‘Tammany was concealed under the debris. Since the election there haa been a great deal of discussion about the local political situation, and many politicians have awakened to the fact that John P, Mitchel has been sawing Wood for the past three years. “They tell me that Mitchel doesn't want to run again—that he feels that he has been a public servant long enough and ought to get out and ake some money. If he feels that ‘ay, {tis @ personal matter with him, but ‘there are big political, business and financial interests In New York which are strongly In favor of Mitchel Mayor once more, ‘A New York City Administration stands or falls upon the record of the Police Department, and the tnterpre- tation of the excite law. On those two points Mr, Mitchel's batting average iy above 900, ‘The big point against him 19 that his administration hag cost tha city more money than any previous administration, They had HIS {s the centenary of the open- ing of the first savings bank in America, The modern savings bank originated In Scotland In 1810, and the movement spread to England and thence throughout the continent of Burope and to America, The first Institutic this Kind tn) America | was the ladelphia Savings-Pund sclety 1sié, h was started privately in for business on x At about the same time movement Was set on foot for launching savings bank 1 Boston, The “Christian Dixeipt Little religious monthly, proposed the scheme, In its Ixsue of December, 1816, and soon thereafter the Legia- lature of Masuachusetty passed an act incorporating the Provident Institu n for Savings in the Town of Hos- uh rhe Philad phla and Boston red, slowly but_ surely, vings Bank of Raltl- was founded, and the Rank f Savings 1 New York. The spened in its doors million dollar mark, the same point against Whitman, And Whitman won in a walk over a man who was supposed to be the strongest candidate in the reach of the Demo- atio party, It is hard to get people terested in taxation and adminis- trative extravagance, “Powerful influences are pushing Mitchel for renomin the ground that he hax gt sort of an administration wants, the Unless Mr, Mitchel throws a monkey wrench into the dynamo It city looks as though the fusion machine may be reumited and that he would be renominated on a fuston ticket, “But—and here is a big but—a great many Republican district leaders will refuse to support Mitchel in case he ts nominated, These leaders are scat- tered all over town, They will sup- port a Tammany candidate as against the Boy Scout Mayor. So It is up to Tammany Hail to enilat this outlaw support and go into @ fight against) odds, “Tho leading Tammany candidate for Mayor is District Attorney Swann. But there are Tammany leaders who don’t think he ts big enough for the job. In all events, the campaign is on, and whatever the outcome of the preliminaries it 14 going to be a caso of Tammany Hall and not John Pur- roy Mitchel on the defensive, with William Randolph Hearst throwing gas bombs jnto the theatre of war from above, below and all sides.” 6eé tragic death of Charlie Case and how his wife dropped dead when she heard the news,” said the head polishe WAS sorry to hear about the You and _ By Willi Your Job~ s Brooks Article No. 4. F you are of the right sort you can ] always get a job as a salexman, There are about 50,000 sales peo- ple in the department stores of New York City alone. There are hundreds |of thousands in other stores, These | forces are constantly changing. Don't apply for “any old job." Go after something definite. Think what} sales department you would like best to be at the head of; then strike for the foot of it.’ The sales manager wants people ambitious enough to try finally to get his job If you reply by mall in response to an advertisement, make your let- |ter stand out among tho thousands} jhe will receive, Have it atly typed on good, distinctive stationery. With? Jout an unnecessary word tell of your | awe, education, previous employment, jif any, and why you loft it Above all, make it clear that you want a | chance to learn salesmanship and are! | going to stick to it until you do. No | store wants drifters It yi | moment a custom in like a beggar. First convince your- self that your services are worth having; then try to sell them, If you can't convince the manager that he needs you he will know you can’t convince customers that they need the stefo's goods. It is wise to visit a store several times before you apply for a job in it. A suggestion for the improve- ment of the store's selling methods la likely to make a hit, Such suggestions are best made in the form of modest questions, as: ouldn’t you sell more shoes by dis- playing different styles on a table instoad of keeping them out of sight in boxes?’ . Don't wilt if the manager tries to discourage you. He may be simply testing your staying qualities, He wants salesmen who won't quit the v finds fault with you ure a sales- to goods, Remembe: up if he says something Smile back and go right making your sale, Like enough ng to find ou ther you temper than tac | T HE and firat to develop a comprehensive rational system of punctuation were the famous Venetian printers, Aldus Manutlus, his son, Paulus, and the latter's son, Aldus jr. Aldus Manutius, glao known as ‘Teobaldo Manucel and Aldo Manuaio, was not only the founder of | the famous Aldine Press and one of oon there. | the greatest scholars of his time, bug) was he Was the father of punctuation in New York modern times "i 1819 1820 'ts deposits passed the marian, invented a system of punc- Aristophanes, the ancient gram tuation, but it was wholly lost during the Dark Ages, and no attempt was made to revive it until the reign of Charlemagne. Under the latter's di- Warnesfried and Alouln | formulated @ punctuation system, but there were few rules governing the use of their signs, and they were practically worthless. Aldus Manu- tius and his successors of the Aldine Press increased the number of pune. tuation marks and established fixed rcles for their use, Later gram- marians have introduced some im- provements, and the rules for punc- tuation have been changed somewhat and "new ones added, but the punctua- tion system of the Manutius formed the foundation for that now in use, ‘as there ever anything more pit- jable?” asked tie laundry man. “Charlie Case, in his time, made mill- fo.s laugh, He banded me many @ session in Hammerstein's and other vaudeville theatres when I thought they'd have to carry mo out, If all the minutes of joy he gave the public could be added together the period would cover hundreds of gladsome years, “Maybe the vaudeville audiences have outgrown the sort of wit and humor Charlte Case used to pass over the footlights. Aa for me, 1 would prefer fifteen minutes ef Charile Case's talk about his father to fifteen hours of tho bungstarter stuff that Charlie Chaplin gets $600,000 a year for, There are thousands like me, and I wish, 1f the need is ther something could be done to permit a lot of us old Charlie Case admirers to do something for his two orphaned kids.” SHE," said the head polisher, ‘that the Suptrintendent of Prisons has issued an order keeping ex-Warden Thomas Mott Osborne out of Sing Sing Prison.” Well," answered the laundrymen, “{ hope they may be more successful in keeping O#borne out than Osborne was at keeping his guests in.” r | | 66 ‘agle the Emblem of Many Nations HE first nation to adopt the eagle as @ symbol of royal power was the Etruscans of ancient Italy, who bore the image of an cagle at the head of their armies, The figyre of an eaglo also was borne by the Persians at Cunaxa in 401 B,C. The eagle became the standard of the Roman legions in the time of Marius, ‘The Koman eagle was rep- resented with outspread wings, The Byzantine emperors had as their em- blem 4 double-headed eagle, significant of their claim to empire in both east and west. The eagle was later adopt- ed by the German emperors and by the rulers of Prussia, Poland and Russia, Charlemagne added the sec. ond head to the eagle for his arm: to signify that the empires of Rome and Germany were united under him, ‘The ¢agle was the standard of Napo- leon and Was restored to France dur- ing the Second Empire. The design for the great eeal of the United States, embracing a spread- eagle, was suggested to John Adama, then Minister to Great Britain, by Bir John Prestwich, an eminent English antiquary, and was adopted by Con- gress in 1782, a mo? the many fine gems A that the new Austrian Em- peror has inherited from the dead Frang Josef is an opal which Weighs seventeen ounces and is esti- mated to be worth about $800,000, Mrs. Jarr had not arisen from hor seat near the front window to grect Mr, Jarr when he had turned tho key | in the lock and entered, Neither did} she answer him, but gazed down the dark street with saddened visage. “1 gaid ‘How you was?’ remarked! Mr. Jarr, coming over to where she and kissing her on her half- averted cheek. “] suppose you care a great deal how I feel,” said Mrs. Jarr in a dole- ful tone. “Sure I do!” foinder. “Anything gone wrong “Ob, what's the use of talking lke was the cheery re- that? You don’t mean it,” Mrs, Jarr asserted. “Yes, I do. Cheer up!” sald Mr. Jarr, joyously, “What are we going to have for supper? I don't care! what it is, I'm hungry.” “If all you think of your home is the meals you get in it, go out to the kitchen and pay your attentions to Gertrude,” remarked Mrs. Jarr, icily “Anybody worrying you? Anything worrying you?” inquired the good husband. “Yes, everybody's worrying mes, everything is worrying me," said Mrs, Jarr. And a tear rolled down her cheek, ‘What's the use of any- thing?” she added. “Why, everything is all Aight!” cried Mr. Jarr, optimistically, “We have a nice home, nice children, Our health is good, we are no deeper in debt | than we generally are, I've got a} good job, you've got a new dress and a new hat, J think we're lucky.” Mrs, Jarr didn’t think so, evidently, | for her spirits fajled to rise at the; pleasant picture of the present that Mr. Jarr described. Whereupon he} presaged the future glowingly. “vm to get a raise, I feel sure! He! didn’t feel sure, but he thought the @ trip to Hondlulu, where the uke- leles grow, and I'll buy you the finest clothes! “Oh, don’t talk foolish!” said Mrs. Jarr. “When you see I'm not feel- ing well why do you come and make fun of me? We'll never be better off than we are now. ‘Things are only going from bad to worse.” "We're better off than a lot of other people are,” replied Mr. Jarn, “The boss is worried to death about business, and his wife was snubbed at the Horse Show, and her dresse maker disappointed her about three now dresses,” Mrs, Jarr sat up and took notice. “And the Stryvers!" continued Mr, Jarr, “Stry is being sued fox fraud for war baby stock awindling, Its liable to get in the papers and ruin him, and he may go to jail.” “I have no sympathy for thome Stryvers. Nos one bit!” eaid Mrs, Jarr eagerly, “And Rangle has been sick a week and his office docked his pay, and Mrs, Goto has left her husband and 1s suing him for divorce and has at- tuched his money In bank and his property.” “L always said that man Gote was no good! I always said it! Well, 1% glad she found him out,” affirmed Mrs. Jarr, brightening up. “And Mrs, Hickett was down to see me to-day,” Mr. Jarr went on, “She wants to Ket a loan upon her little property on Long Island; but tt’s ale ready heavily mortgaged, That worthless son of hers has been ar- rested for passing bad checks agala. There, you see,” Mr, Jarr added, “other people are a lot worse off than. we are.” “Yes,” said Mrs. Jarr, brightening up, ‘dt isn't such a bad old world after ail.” 'T | ' RANSYLVANIA, which is the “prize Roumania hopes to take a result of her participation |in the war, was first heard of in hiis~ tory as a part of the ancient Roman province of Dacis. Later it was in- corporated in the old German Em- pire, but in the sixteenth century | John Zapoly, aided by the Turks, sct | up an independent government, This continued with many vicissitudes until 1699, when Emperor Leopold I. j Incorporated Transylvania into the Austrian dominions. In 1848 Tran- eylvania, for all political and admin- istrative ends, was incorporated with Hungary. The Magyars, although; in a minority, constitute the ruling | class, and the Roumanians, who are | the largest element of the popula- | tion, have been kept in subjection | And have been givem fow political and educational ad) jeu, «This bas nsylvania naturally aroused ggeat discontent, and the majority of Transylvanians would welcome the incorporation of their country into a greater Rou- mania. The Transylvania Alps form by 520’ miles a natural boundary be- ween Transylvania and Roumania, The urea of Transylvania is about 21,000 square miles, and it is on all sides enclosed by mountain chains, while tho interior is traversed by smaller chains, The country hag great mineral resources and, excey in the higher mountain zones, the vegetation is luxuriant, giving the country much agricultural and horti- cultural value. In the mountaina ep herding {# tho principal occu fon, By far the most numerou: element in the population, although tong excluded from political equality, is formed by the Roumanians, The Hungarians’ and Saxons form the other principal racial groups, ‘There are many gypsies, and a number of these have abandoned their nomadio life and are farmers, Jews, Arme- niang and Greeks are prominent. im the commercial life of Transylvania, a ¢ b