The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1916, Page 16

SG RETABLIGHED BY JOSHPH PULITZER. Pwdthes Detty Except Gephey 07 ite Preas Publishing Company, Nos, 58 to iw, New York, LATZER, President, 63 Park Row, MANGOS KITAW: Kroanueen k Row. sTOREPH PULI 1 m ry, 63 Park Row, New York as Fecond-Clans Matter, ZR, Jt, Beore 1@ Post-Office at to The Ev Wor England and the Continemt am@ | for the United States All Countries in the International 4 and Canada, Postal Union b eee 90.00 One Tear. nssssccsessses se nemove 68. Month... 0 190/One MontRsssesssaesensessevrece 6B VOLUME 57... ++NO, 20,201 ry WHAT SAYS DEMOCRACY TO-DAY? EXTEEN centurios ago the Emperor Diocletian sent forth through the Roman Empire an edict the preface of which ran ‘Who te of so hardened a heart and #o untouched by @ feeling for humanity that ho oan bo unaware, nay that he has not noticed, that in the sale of wares which are exchanged in the market or dealt with in the dally business of the cities, an Borbitant tendency in prices has epread to such en extent that the unbridled desire of plundering is held im cheok meither by * abundance nor by seasons of plenty! Sixteen centuries, not sixteen days, ago this bulletin was posted. It went ont For tf the raging avarice which without regard for man- kind increases and develops by leaps and bounds, we will not say from year to yéar, month to month, or day to day, but al- most from hour to hour and even from minute to minute, eould be held in check by*#ome regard for moderation, or if the wel- fare of the people eould calmly tolerate this mad license from which, in @ situation like this, it suffers in the worst possible fashion from day to day, some ground would appear, perhaps, for concealing the truth and saying nothing, vt But inasmuch as there és only seen a mad dosire, without con- trol, to pay no heed to the needs of the many, !t seems good to us, as we look into the future, to us who are the fathers ef the people, that justice intervene to settle matters impartial- ly, i order that that which, long hoped for, humanity itself could not bring about, may be seeured for the common government of all by the remedies which our care affords, Whe only remedy that presented itself to the mind of the Roman| despot was an imperial decree fixing the maximum prices of some! seven or eight hundred specified articles. These may be studied in detail in tables compiled from Mommsen and embodied some years ago in an interesting chapter by Prof. F. F. Abbott of Princeton, to whom we also owe the English tragelation of fragments from the !m-| perial introduction. Diocletian did not encceed in Iifting the burden. According to) 8 contemporary historian: When he had brought on a@ state of exceeding high prices by his different acte of injustice he tried to fix by law the prices of articles offered for sale. Thereupon, for tho veriest rifles, much blood was shed, and out of fear nothing was of- fered for sale, and the scarcity grew much worse, until, after the death of many persons, the law was repoaled from mere | Gixty years later, Prof, Abbott reminds us, the Emperor Julian “made a similar attempt on a small scale. Ho fixed the price of corn for the peoplo of Antioch by an edict. The holders of grain hoarded their stock. The Emperor brought supplies of it into the city from Egypt and elsewhere and eold it at the legal price. It was bought up by speculators, and in the end Julian, like Diocletian, had to an knowledge his inability to cope with an economic law.” In dealing with economic problems Imperial Rome was subject to imperial limitations—the limitations of early bureaucratic despot-| iam. One of the causes of tho Empiro’s fall is known to have been the colossal speculative plundering for which patrician friends of the Emperors enjoyed exceptional opportunities. Democracy to-day is struggling with an old enemy only half di guised. Ae Martin W. Littleton, discussing the problem of the rising cost of food in the United States, said in The World yesterday: “Gam- bling once confined to bonds is now extended to bread.” Too many are busily engaged in complicating life instead of producing something. Too many are turning things over and demanding pay for turning them over. Too many are adding the touch of their useless toll to the products of the eoil before they reach the consumer. Democracy has builded bravely and well. Thanks to its ideals and ite institutions, more human beings are comfortably housed, de cently cared for and kept within striving distance of happiness than ever before since mankind began ite struggle on this earth. De- mooracy has removed its tolling millions beyond the reach of tyrants, freed them from the persecution of bigots, defended them agains! -ae lawless acts of a thousand varieties of enemy. Burely it ie not going to admit that in one direction it can do <p more for them than what was accomplished by the crude methods of a Roman Emperor sixteen hundred years ago. Surely it will never say it knows no way to eave them from the abominable greed and apacity of the gambler who makes their hunger a stake and their food a marker in his game. A LAW THAT NEEDS STIFFENING. W" are so many people burned to death*in New Yory with fire escapes? Inquiry by The Evening World establishes the followingt (1) A landlord ‘who desires the privileges and exemptions of a botel under the liquor tax law must have ten rooms for lodgers. (2) A landlord who desires the privileges and exemptions of @ private dwelling under the fire and building lawe must have not more than fifteen rooms, flo a landlord with from ten to fifteen rooms {nelusive may call his place a hotel, lodging house or private dwelling, as he pleases, and elect whatever ort of regulation, if any, he wishes, irrespective of s the real nature of his business Are the city’s fire and build regulations framed for the pro tection of the public or to make things as easy as may be for the owners of fire-traps? Letters From the People A In Correct. os gine. Nesurtete Sr lt nrery’ To the Patitor of The Evening World Where can I obtain a oopy of} “That Old Sweetheart of Mine"? in the United States than women fe right? READER, | eightechth century they descended the M.E.N. |awenty-fve Cents Bach for Firet| Wabash and established several poste With “0” Between Bust and Date, Two) Fifty Cents for Third, jon its banks, Inoly ennes, 20 to $100. To the Editor of Tue Evening World It was just half a century ago to- ‘Tee Bresing Word: testi WE 2808, 1658, lodging houses found—too late—to be improperly equipped | A wagers that there are more males | Quebec. Who | ite first white settlers Pleas tell me the value of three American pennies (large) dated 7588 | \By Sophie Irene Loeb. Copyright, 1016. by The Prow Publishing Oo, ‘The Now York Hrening World.) MAN writes as follows: “I thought perhaps you would | be willing to say a word about Christmas presents to mother. “Not long ago I heard say they were xo- ing to give mother @ new device for cleaning for Christmas! "Many times Christmas presents which belong es- pecially to the house are called ‘mother’s presents.’ I protest against this, “Mother te @ grown-up girl with longings for pretty things just the same as when sho received her firat doll and should have an individual present as nice as circumstances per- mit nn cd | “Although she does not aay so, ane doom not want a device for cleaning | or any other article that standy tue drudgery as a wit at Christmas There is too smucb thoughtlewun about mother “Give her something nio with a Indiana, had been the first capital of the territory, but tn 1813 the seat of government was transferred to Cory don, and tt was tn that place, still a mere village, that the machinery of atehood was sot tn motion, In 1820 & committee was appointed to select a@ site for a yy of this nent caplia day that French troops were with ‘which led up to @ united Italy, some one | Dec, 11, 1816, In na Was ad- mitted into the Union as the | nineteenth State, being the | sixth new State added to the original thirteen, Vincennes, in southwestern The | members body met at the house of William Conner, on Lhe west fork of the White Kiver, and the @iie chosen Was accepted and con. firmed by tho Legislature, and the capital named Indianapolis, Jndiana was originally a part of New France, and cousututed an out- lying part of that New World empire which had its seat of government In The French Canadians were Karly in the drawn from Rome, and this marked the first step in @ series of events hearty ‘Merry Christm and make tho day as bright for her as possible. Articles for household use should be purchased at Thanksgiving or any time except Christmas,” There is considerable merit in this suggestion, Of course there 1s not a gift of so lasting a value as that which saves labor for a loved one. ‘There is nothing that brings as much appreciation as the kind of a present that shows a thoughtful interest in alleviating the burden of a mother. But many of us are prone to lean too much that way, and we make a thing @ prosent when in realty it laa duty—a duty that we should fulfill without the semblance of bestowing a gift; and it is a fact that hundreds of mothers are starved to death for LITTL the want of THEIR O' PERSONAL BELONGINGS. — They stifle the longings for them in the ap- peciation they think they ought to show as mothers for anything that tends toward the betterment of the household, ITTLE | themselves. “I'm in No Hurry to Get to the Office. The Boss Is Aiways Late.” Your Mother’s Christmas Gift Fifty Boys and Girls Famous in History By Albert Payson Terhune Oopyright, 1916, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New Yrk Brening World), NO, 25,.—LOUIS XVII1.—The Uncrowned Boy-King. PH was the descendant of sixty-six kings. He was heir to the Joftiest throne on earth. At first, nearly any boy on earth would Diithely have changed places with him. Later, no starving rag- _ amuffin would have made such an exchange. He was a jolly, aweet-tempered little chap, who looked on the whole ‘world as his friend. And the world smashed him—body and spirit—before he was eleven years old. His is one of the bitterly pathetic child-stories of history. He was the Dauphin (Crown Prince) of France, only son of King Lou! XVI. and Queen Maris Antoinette, His father was a thick-headed wi Ung. His mother was pretty and frivolous, Between them their folli ‘were rapidly pushing France over the brink of the bloodiest revolution & the annals of nations. ' But their little Dauphin knew nothing of all that. In the royal at Versailles he played happily, deaf to the sullen roar of discontent daily grew louder and More threatening all over France. r His pet dog, Moufflet, was his dearest compant ® One day when the Dauphin had been naughty his The Little was locked up in a dark closet by way of pun Gardener, the boy. The lad could not bear to hear the p werner animal's whines, and he begged to be allowed to take his dog’s piace as prisoner in the closet, “Moufflet hasn't peen bad,” he told his mother. “It is wrong to him for what I did. If you'll jet him out I'll go in there instead and as long as you want me to.” Louls’s tather, by the way, afterward broke the dog’s back with @ ing etick for barking at his royal and thiok-skulled self. Then came the il of the Bastille, And the royal family were h into the Tullorles Palace in Paris in a sort of honorable captivity, The pepe ple had taken the first step toward crushing the monarchy. At tho Tulleries the little Dauphin had a garden in a atrip of ground near the strest. A crowd of gutter-{dlers, who hated his family, used to gather outside the railings and snarl at him, He did not understand their | hatred—he who had known nothing but love, He thought they merely envied him his pretty flowers, So one day he turned to the grumbling crowd and sald apologetically: “Ladies and gentlemen, Iam sorry my gurden is #0 small I can't ask you all to come in and help yourselves.” At last the mob stormed the Tutleries, All day they raged through the palace, Next morning their yells still sounded eo threateningly that @ Dauphin asked his mother, in terror: “Oh, mamma, ten't yesterday over yet?” ; The royal family were thrown into prison, And soon the news wee broken to the child that his father had been condemned to die, Loule XVI was executed. So was Marte Antoinette. The Dauphin was now Louls XVII, King of France. At least, he would have been had not the Freneh throne been toppled into the dust. As a matter of fact, the little King was no King at all. He was only a prisoner, ‘i ‘The revolution!sts had resolved to wipe out the whole royal family of The Jarr Family France. But—bdiood-crasy as they were—they dared not risk popular clamor by outting off the head of thie helpless little boy, Yor, they dared not him live, to be the rallying point of royalists, Bo he was turned over to care of a shoemaker named Simon, who had a job as under-Jailer at the, prison. Simon had secret orders to let the boy “die a natural death” Th Jailer understood the hint, Owe A Prince's Torture. wenn Made him wear He taught the child horrible words He bated royalty. beat Louls unmercifully. He rejoiced at a chance to wreal that hatred on the uncrowned child-king. He used He starved him, terrified hi rags and sleep on a damp stone floo nd filthy gon beating him for trying to refuse to learn them, Simon was an atheist, prayers. \he threatened to murder the boy if fver he should catch him saying He made Louts a prison drudge, forcing him, the delicate youngster, the most revolting mental occupatio: 8. Ho used to bring in other bi patriots, by way of joke, to revile the memory of the dead King and Q until the ohild would give way to fits of rage at hearing his parent spoken of, Then another beating would follow, In time Simon's treatment had its effect. The senaltive child b half-witted, Then, in 1795, when he dead. A body, supposed to be Louts’s, was buried. But there hy: Persistent rumor that the boy was smuggled away to America, an was not quite cleven, he was repot Iwaye been: was brought up in Massachusetts under the name of Eleazar Williams, By Roy L. McCardell In choosing your mother’s Christ- mas gift remember this man's letter. Get the cleaning device or any similar thing to meet the needs of the home, and at the same time consider the wants of her HEART. Asa general rule, mother's real 4¢-| had gotten up in bad humor. “Where | sires are left unsatisfied in her un- selfishness for those close to her. As the man has put it, “mother ts a grown-up girl” and a pretty hat or a nice dress or some dainty thing for her own personal use goes far to keep the girl of her alive, It ta a good thing to reflect upon. In @ similar way other fami! wife who gives her husband a table- cloth, or the husband who presents his better half with a bedroom rug, are really presenting something to Such things might well be given at another time. Remember that Christmas ts t time for the chime of cheer, and tl best kind of cheer at this time, is that which gets closest to the cockles of the heart. ‘Reflections of a Bachelor Girl | | ____By Helen Rowland Copyright L 1014, by The Pras Publishing Go, OVE is neither a bon-fre, nor a kitchen fire; but an altar fire, to be kept burning forever, with prayer and reverence, (The New York Brening World), Never take a man seriously, as long as he can dis- cuss his eentimental really falls in love, no man ever takes the time or trouble to diagnose his heart. symptoms; because, when he There is @ vest difference between the price and the cost of a thing; for instance, there fs the price of an automobile and the cost of the smash-up; the price of a kiss and the cost of the breach-of-promise suit; the price of a wedding, and the cost of the divorce, Most women cook with electricity, nowadaye-—and most men make love with ineulated hearts and fireproof speeches. It’s # strange, sad fact, that the moment a man falls in love with a woman he Immediately proceeda to transform her into a solitary Island, completely surrounded by his own personality. Falling in love ig Mke a “treatment” at a beauty parlor; it completely transtigures a woman, just at first; but, unless she repoats the process just so often, it ‘s apt to leave her looking more wan and haggard than ever, after the primary effect haa worn off, A girl hides her emotions under a veil of modesty, a spinster under a cloak of cynicism, a wite under @ mantle of tact, and a widow under a cloud of mystery, And then women wonder why they are “misunderstood!” Oh, yes, a girl with dark eyes and hair may anctdee 4& man; but she will have to blondine her temperament, and make it light and fluffy, if she [rents fe hehe fe, gifts should be carefully considered. The | Copyrigtst, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Ox | (The New York Evening World.) (6677'S very strange that I never | ] can get @ glimpse at the Sune ! day papers,” said Mr. Jarr, who are the Sunday papers?" “I had thom taken to the kitchen,” \replied Mrs, Jarr. “Do you think I }ean have them cluttering around the {house all the week? You had all day Sunday to read them. You were reading them all day. Here tt’s Mon- day morning and this house has got to be cleaned up! Instead of rais- jing a row about your old Sunday | papers you'd better get your break- jfast and go downtown. Next thing you'll be saying it’s my fault your breakfast {s never ready and you |can’'t get to your office on time” “I want to see the Sunday papers,” |eald Mr. Jarr, “and I'm going to get \@ glimpse of them, I don't care if it's Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednes- day! I never get to see them.” “Why don't you get to see them?” asked Mrs, Jarr, sharply, “They are | scattered over the house all day, and 1 think {t would be @ great deal bet- ter for you if you went to chureb in- | etead of sitting around or lay'ng around all day Sunday, balf-dressed, with your nose stuck in the papers!” “It I don't get @ peck at them Mon- day before they mysteriously disap- pear, I never get to see them,” said Mr. Jarr, plaintively. ‘The children grab hold of them and fight over the comio section, and the news section in always lost. I only get the papers for you and the children. So far as I'm concerned I can do without them. But the children want to see the funny “pictures and you want to read about fashion and society,” “Well, don’t bother me about tt, please!" said Mra, Jarr, “I think you'll find them in the kitchen.” Mr. Jarr, “but I would like to look over the news. I'd like to know what's going on in the world. If you'll only save me the news section I wouldn't care.” “I don't know which is the news section,” sald Mra, Jarr, “but I think you'll find them in the kitchen, You had all day to look at them yesterday, though." “Yes, I bad,” replied Mr. Jarr, “I just got a glance at them and then the Rangles called.” “Well, the Rangles are friends!” said Mrs, Jarr, somewha “They are your friends, they not?” asked Mr, Jarr, “It is very strange to me,” said Mrs. Jarr in reply to this, “that that man Rangle, who hasn't been to our house for weeks, and I must say at least that he shows some decency by keep- Ing away after how he makes you stay out with him on his carouses, but it's very strange that be should come the two Sundays that they are very strict about the theatres and the saloons, And especially the saloons.” “Oh, they are not eo strict about the valoons,” sald Mr. Jarr with @ grin. “Well, the more shame to him then, coming to this house and drinking everything we bave in to entertain people who may call. I notice you are not asked to bis house to drink his things, and tf all he wants in my house ts drink, why doesn’t he bring it along with him?” too, “The Man, Not the Money, ls What Counts,” Says This Credit Man. ‘ce HEN @ man requests a line) W of credit with us," sald the credit man of a big whole- sale house, “he always seems sur- prised to learn how comparatively little interest I display in learning how much he has and how extremely anxious I am to discover how much be knows, “My experience has taught me that mere money can be easily lost. But ability and character—those the stable, permanent assets whioh can create more money. “Only yesterday I extended one “Oh, I don't care much," repited//nan a beral line of credit despite the fud® that he had but $1,200 cash capital, And the day before I held a man with which were little better than cash, “The first man is twenty-five years old, has acted as chief clerk for a store which sells our line, 16 backed by. five years’ experience and has saved iia $1,200 capital out of his salary. quizzed him regarding his knowledge of the principles of retailing and found that he has a very good grasp of the subject, Reforms instituted by him largely explain the success of his present employer, Investiga- your |‘ tion of his character references dis- psed the fact that his record ta van and above board, ‘The other man, who ts worth are $5,000 down to terma| 1! Here Mrs. Jarr slammed out of Toom and then slammed back i with @ disarranged mass of Sunda: papers, “There!” said she, will you fuss about? You and you: old Rangles and your old Sun papers!" Mr. Jarr gave them « glanw®. “Oh, never mind them no’ he said. Mrs. Jarr looked at him with odd exprossion. o you say only get the Sunday papers for and the children? she asked. “I al. ways know you were a fraud, Here’ the comio section, You're the gest kid in the house.” And Jarr produced the comic section fro bdhind her back. “Next you'll be say. {ng you wouldn't go to the movi except to take the children,” But Mr, Jarr only grinned totly and was soon engroseed in f pranks of Hans and Frits * “Now what , | Dollars and Sense. By H. J. Barrett. $5,000, 19 quite a different case, foo has worked as a@ clerk for @ taller who distributed our product, b he could not tell me of one ins where he had improved or develop the methods in vogue in his store, thi he has steel despite the fact that ere four years, He displayed very of the fundam little knowledg tal factors of successtu: d ing and admitted that tae a | saved a dollar out of bis I | seems that he recent): [ fears ait ene erie ge thia man's honesty, As in the other case, his Character references showed up well. Barring accidents, the ‘oret pan will win. out. The tees ae against the sec man, h fo frankly, bie . you want to b 4 ‘we'll sell you. But wecan tile practically no credit. We must have bur manay within ten days from 0 nvoice and at no unpaid bills total more Gas neh ay doubt tf you make good, But'it') insist upon starting your own plaoe, We might as well get your money as 4ny one clae, You'd do better to hold on to your present job; money into first mortgage: lelay. your own experiment until you've! developed more, If im the course of four or five years you can up to be chief clerk of the in which you're now employed then you'll have demonstrated that you're of the Umber to succeed independ- “Well, he appreciated my frankness, but refused to accept m: placed an order for a bulloe Spode 4nd will open within two Weeks,’ ’