The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1916, Page 16

ESTARLISHDD BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except & by the Pi Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to rk Row, New York. f RALPH Pt ATZPR, Prantdent, €2 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 62 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 6 Park Row. Entered at the Post-Officn at New Yo Jars d fr, Subscription Rates to The Fvening| For Engiand and the Continent and World for the United States AM Countries tn the International and Canada Postal Uvion. . $3.50/ One Year. . One Tea . -801 One Month One Month. VOLUME 67. FINGER-PRINTING. ‘| HE City Magistrate who refused to hold on charges of disor. | derly conduct five newsboys arrested for selling ne spapers | in the subway views his duty to the community and its) | | coming citizens in a light worth noting. “I don’t believe,” said this Judge, “in starting boys out In Ife with criminal records, and that is what ft would have meant to heve held these lads. Even had I given them suspended sen- tonces, their fingerprints would have been taken and that would have hurt them should they afterward desire to take @ clyil service examination. I therefore told the officer that if any charge could hold against the boys it would be one of tres- passing, with redress in the civil courts.” Tn recommending this attitude to the attention of City Mog trates generally, we also urge them to ponder a decision recorded only a few days ago in the regular sittings of the County Court. The case in question involved an appeal from a judgment of a Magistrate’s Court convicting the defendant of disorderly conduct, sentence being suspended by the Magistrate. The facts of the case were briefly as follows: The defendant, a ‘Suflder of good standipg in the community, was talking business with other persons whef a stranger assaulted him, knocked him down end tore his clothes. The defendant appealed to a police officer to arrest hie assailant. After an attempt to settle their differences the officer placed both defendant and assailant under arrest. Both were brought before the same Magistrate and both were convicted. Yet] the anly testimony the policeman could offer to support his charge of disorderly conduct on the part of the defendant was that tho} ‘latter had used profane language toward his assailant. In promptly feversing the Magistrate’s judgment and directiag that the finger-prints of the defendant be removed from the pul records, the higher court Judge spared no pains to emphasize the broader bearings of tho case. “A judgment of conviction,” the Court declared, “is a stigma upon the name of any citizen. He is entitled to his reputation just #8 much as he would be to the good will of any business he owns. Tt ie m part of him and cannot with impunity be besmirched. It would be indeed unfortunate were a conviction on a serious charge to remain against a defendant and affect his standing in the community or im- peach his credibility in any proceeding in which he might later he involved, without his right to appeal for the purpose of clearing record or reputation. “In this case the most serious offense of which the de- fendant the right to complain is that he was subjected to | the indignity an IMation of having his finger-prints taken | placed among the public records, while bis assailant, the | real culprit, escaped such treatment, | “That such conduct is without the slightest Justification mast be apparent to every reasonable man, The only object of the law which permits the photographing and finger-printing | | of criminals is to safeguard the public and to ald in the detec- tion of other crimes by criminals previously convicted. This defendant, were he guilty herein, can by no stretch of the imagination be classified as a criminal, The taking of the finger-prints is an outrage which should not be tolerated and ~ for which there can be no reason In Justice or in law. | What is efficienc! new science “If finger-printing, In cases similar to the one at bar,, is | of business, doing for the workman? the usual procedure of our Magistrates and the police, such | In what way has it improved his living 8 practice cannot be too severely condemned. No free and en- , lightened people will tolerate the classification of every slight offender with those of criminal tendencies.” It would be well if every Magistrate and every police officer high and low could be furnished with a copy of the above decision. In this city finger-printing has come to be used as a routine part of police machinery—too often without discrimination, care or common sense. Boys caught playing baseball in the streets are in danger of having their finger printe taken and placed among the records of gunmen and murderers. Pretty much anybody who has the misfor- tune to find himself arrested and brought before a Magistrate stands a chance of being finger-printed and treated as if he committed himself tienceforth to a career of crime. The thing is preposterous, barbarous. Its eflect upoa boys and yeung men whose surroundings are such as to offer them few en eouragemgnts to go straight has been often pointed out. We yearn See 1 men and tl over wrong-doers after they get into jail, Why not make a little more} corporations in the coun effort to assure them a better deal at the stari—when only a sligh!] tmportant phase of its we {to find out just what the workman stiffening of ¥elf-respect might set them on a different course? The law is never better administered than when it is adminis-! tered not only with intelligence but with a quota of human kindness! pursuit of 4 Here are the things found to have | t and discrimination. Magistrates and police officers are not working a machine that goes altogether by Unless they wis formu #s it detects them, they must learn to nu ae it with discretion and sens: We predict that the prices of poultry and coal will not viimb much for Christmas Hits From Sharp Wits Prohibitionists evidently look for The high cost of living has he the national bird.—Philadelpbiaj and the prune. — Birmingham Inquirer, | Never mind the clouds own sunshine-Baltimore es It may be only a ¢ iden but the revival of the a i# wynohron. ous with the prohibitive price of oxgs. | Nashville Banner. ' i¥ |) that the Actors* joined those « i trying to low What is the good of a seat to @ standing army?—Paterson Cail | ee un can be a game Rehter if he Flow easy all the work is that we, /9n't 4 game loser, = N Shville Banner, | nquadron entered Che don't have to do--Albany Journal. |. ee ¢ | The, mind rea should mind Did the old woman who lived in 4) Deserct News shoe suffer from corns’ -Deseret . . . ee wanleniine onenelt disliked Albany We suppose that stealing a Kis8) Journal could be clansed an lurceny trom the | hie bes pereon.-—Columbus (Ga) Enquirer-| any town | lan the nacole Sun. who li peep reon Call, . 8 ° . A ukulele is @ mandolin with & = Punctnality’# usual reward ts to be women press agent—Boston Transcript, Kept waiting.—-Albany Jourgal, . p and rule of thumb, o turn the finger-print svetem into a clumsy an | ousands of tot the f t t 1 | th ft dangerous instrument that makes criminals almost as frequently | SUs#Y AAARAD RRA AA RADNOR ARIES au { To-Day’s Anniversary } ward to the day when the camel will] considerably dignity to. the peanut ene a mpre above all others whieh they own business. —| of goloniste--all of whom died before autumn, when ¢ assumed control ed by hostile 1 by Chief Pow? to d but dau. 1608 another 20 in nu Health and Hustle Two of the By James C. Young ng conditions? that question was sub- to Dr. Thomas Darling tary of the Welfare Committ #| ican Iron and | Steel Institut | the turned to hi | desk and pro | Bi| duced a chart wy showlng th | manner in which | members of the | fnstitute have| Mis hy spent more than | be $30,000,000 for) } the benefit of! ness thelr employees The personnel of the institute is made up of the lead- biggest steel | needs to assure him good health, a and @ fair chance for the ppiness {mportunt bearing on the and welfare 1en employed in the in 1906, There were 105 rs on bowrd three tiny ships 1 Constant, of 100 tons; the speed, of forty tons, aud the Dis Jamestown, The follow! Says Dr. Thomas Darlington of American Iron «nd § ve for employees by appealing | Silas F rough what may be termed | sorial artist tna Anvinteresting| . Monde e Big Factor: a tra 1 of etficieney of American Matters of this kind 4 iken up as philanthropy, but because f almost every “In the interest dustrial laborers ‘and has taken the lead in dey ne been thoroughly investi fl ‘ en enacted in thirty-t been carried forward rapldly with the tatitute, mays both employ further atep te the recon we dealt with the 1 sical well-being; given careful att ition Of sick- ndependent of 4 fact that continued efficie business depends and one | ee. Institute. to them t psychological means, An interesting Ic : of this attempt has been the | der” playe laying out of parks and gardens near | sand around the homes of work:nen, | eviden with other gardens surrounding the places where they are employed, : « number| When @ man looks out of a window steel mills such dusthas /ata cinder pile or the dreary wall of buflding he Is corre pressed, But if his plot of flowers he ix mentally re- yondingly de- sonous | frevhed and gathers fresh Inspiration, Even a moment's contemplation of : safe- {something that is pleasant and re- Up |freshing rests brain and hands by now a familiar |just that much, “The iron and steel industry is fully awake to the needs of its employees means of making working and living its inquiries extending to apparently minute details, As a result, and ow- ing to the new appreciation in the ndustry of what efficiency really means, the planta of its members jhave been put upon a higher plane lcularly tried and the efforts of employees are bet- r tife and thelr voe ter direct 1 and more productive,” hat Is Platonic Love? By: unaccompanted himself held that it had lyeurs ago in this column, Plato lived 400 years before the many | t when Phito te frlendsiilp ts lov ulinities of to- & to each other John just ean't profile of intelle sh settlers bound Virginia sailed from the 810 yours ago to-day, is a “kindness” al- | ¢ and which bu illusions, to dispel day dreams, | cockleshell of twenty the following April the eake Bay, | platonic they landed at a place! hildren, took p doesn’t oxist at all. | absorbed $n the fl eriendship is the interval between the holy that the saying became coms aduction and the first kiss.” pt, | int ’ ophie Irene Loch | nd that gets rigit down faults and frailties, It ty contained in my er aloof from | it stil holds good, ind where men and wo wi grows better with years, 1 v We ask the sta wh My thought of a friend. For time nor (oat, when t friend away from you, What isa friend follows: A friend is one w you in public and s in private, He refuses to s: cause he wants to | | bouquet before you die. one. | A frie |with boxing gloves w Sometines it is a long pertod. But after that even Plato would have together often they Once the personal equation e love has fled. two] br first’ in the colony, | tw Jamestown, weak t Ing afier to disagree with you, A friend js 01 awim out s! And when you are in the Down. r and-Gut Clib-a friend Is ona who will Ifereut eea which he presumed to be the Kind (iat bas bo heavenly plane, give you the fret aviation pugh! Courriaht, 1016, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening Wort) HB other night I prayed a little prayer. And it was this— Handkerebi work-bags, ing books! impractical— and boudoir caps that won't launder, Because, For three hundred and sixty-four days in the year, One HAS to be sensible and practical and sincere—and all that. nd utterly idiotic, and glorte But on CHRISTMAS one can be childish, ously trivial and frresponsible! Just THINK what a terrible old world this would be If there were no “useless” things in it! If there were no Christwas trees, covered with nonsense and star-duety And no humorists, nor poets, nor French novels, And no kisses, nor champagne, nor fiirtations, And no Santa Cla And no snow, nor sleigh-bells, nor mistletoe, And nobody believed in fairies, or Kris Kringle, or real love, or vie tonic friendship, or anything that isn't SO, And everybody told you the bitter truth, And nobody ever told you sweet, beautiful, flattering lies, —nor kissed aaye And nobody ever sald anything he ought not to 6 body he ought not to kiss, Nor ate anything he ought not to eat, nor married anybody he ough® not tu marry, Fi Nor wished for anything he ought not to have, And everybody was good and sensible, and wise, and noble, And everything was Useful! * Wouldn't life be deadly, deadly, DEADLY? Because, when {t comes to making life worth living, It is the useless things that are most “useful.” after all The !llusions that never last, the aspirations you never attain, The DREAMS that never come true! And, when you come to think of It, What ts the USE of music, or love, or poetry, or perfume, or art, or flowers— Or even CHRISTMAS — Except to help you forget the deadly dull monotony of Ife And make you imagine for a moment That dreams come true! | Ellabelle Mae Doolittle | By Bide Dudley | ana means of education and enjoy- ment, Delh! has but one playhouse }and really good shows seldom are | yeen there, the reason being that Pee- | wee Miller, the prop: the actors’ more tt of the gross | turn out en masse, Usually the first | gkenter in the theatre after the doors open| tuk js Miss Doolittle, She occupies seat Al and ne play she went to her room a riyme praising the theat manding to know what the work would do without {t. The next day © falls upon a| 4 ing | r nditions more attractive, The in-| plied in some of the plants attiliated ‘stitute is continuously engaged in jplanning improvements of this kind, Jack Silver. Jolly Jack Silver, being well-to-do \and of irrepressible spirits, having never been trapped and tamed, was a lereat favorite with the ladies; they to the| free, roams about—but some day they] “py, | every-day human with all his or her| hope to catch him If he doesn’t watch) self, and Mrs | out, as the saying Is. The bachelor host suggested that +|I now reprint by request, and finding | perhaps Mrs, Jarr might want to fix her hair, as the morning breezes had ysned it about, 40 Mrs, Jarr was led o the bachelor’s bureau, chaperoned| he gave Mr. Jars "yh husband, and Mr. Silver with-| Pineh to signity that after this hie hee And Mr, Jare on with open eyes, snickered Mr. Jarr. “Puany| mired Silver's nerve: t know how it is!” eal@ “Silver, you women and be res and if 1 eald ed, printed | and which lieve that real friendship, like! val the splrits are tow | p the fever of un- drew “Wal” a confirmed bachelor would have| yf cologne and face powder on bis and true, can take a| bureau! And, by | packet of hairpins!" “Mr, Bliver doubtless uses powder 8 down on you| to keep his face from chapping when | he shaves,” said Mrs. Jarr, “and if he ler do they tell us| whence we go, But in the interim we act and have our being in the > stands up for | He it is who helps you take your bitter pill by sugar-coating tt for you, A friend is one who withholds Judi ment, no matter how long you, have (Of course It Was Very easy for Plato, hin uhanawered letter, oe Youphave Ito practice his philo: | murried, had 1 part in publ pursuit of truth and cologne, Wasn't he expecting me? TI consider him real thoughtful. But, then, that isn’t strange. Married men nN your note bes | are smain your friend, A friend is one who gives you the “They didn't think upon one fatal occasion,” murmured Mr. Jarr, “That will do!” suapped Mrs, Jarr, | Jarr, Breakfast was announced, and the bachelor host was all attention, “We are not blessed with angels’ | ton business —of vinits often,” murmured the gay dog, He is your enemy when you need 1 is one who handles you ‘nm you ‘are hs and with eilk mitts when you {t's who watts untl! the morn- who, when he sees the soup,” shows you how to “what Comsright. 1910, br ‘The Prew 2 LLABELLE MAE DOOLITTLE, the noted poctess of Delhi, is a great believer in the theat: P And found rw | . won't ty pe Neverthele! i t ae and ag rtising is promising Delhi wilh |" 2) fC" o O'R t to her invariably is P. ne, the well-known ton- but that’s another story, | night “A Mysterious Mur- dat the theatre and the enjoyed it greatly. Pett! an insult, old hyme the Live and Let Live Section of the adie Women's Betterment League met te iter and Miss Doolittle was called on to wet ‘s ay a few words about the practice} "A happy and del some Delhians have of throwing tin| for the problem! said cans on tho city dump. She spoke briefly on that subject and then read the poem. It follows: What would we do without the theatreet Qt leaping to her f the ladies s All were pl Indeed we sould tmiae therm fiercely, That nobody will give mo anything “useful” for Christmas! nor stockings, nor umbrellas, aor Nor electric toasters, nor curling Irons, nor improve And that everybody will give me something frivolous, and foolish, and beautiful, and perishable, and utterly Flowers that will fade, and bon-bons that won't agree with'me, and tulle scarfs that won't keop me watm, And even compliments that won't hold water. nor fairy-tales, nor wedding-cakes, And no love-songs, nor lullabies, nor babies, nor kittens, nor pet Gogh ding Co, (The New York Hvening World.) cr for real enjorment, ‘ere nthe funny parte, Tie aorrvirful efghte, " When Miss Doolittle bowed after nan attraction Will peaaing the poem, the house was i the house and if the advance | an uproar of sincere admiration, eat poem,” en, “even though al was on her feet In an Ine in Datlas." Miss Doolittle en.” up one ban held she sald. he then improvised the following Hien nme to think: rtle, the League's Promptress, Miss Doolittle retired gracefully ang od up and applauded, By Roy L. McCardell The Jarr Family Conrright. 1010. by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Brentng World.) R. and Mra, Jarr had come to, Silver's little dinners? M take breakfast at the apart-| Were strangely famillar wity the ments of their bachelor friend, | place. interposed Mr, lantly to the rescue, make it a point respect the bachelor who, ware | POTS | friends, nservant intod t disapp eht rooms were § “Well, Ld rr, breaking y things: with a # Here's a borg admir ow mn hairpins on his bureau and ps And thoy never considerate, they never | Stiver. "Oh, piffle!”’ said Mr. Jarr. Silver, | Jarr. you always get that off.” "but Mr. Jarr mentally de ie would not do remarked Mrs. Jarr. ‘So T thought you “Oh, no, Mrs. Jarr, this is the firat time Mr. Jarr has ever honored me! coming gal+ “And, besides, I never to glve any parties hero except stags—card parties ‘iver, Jarre said, in a somes all you bach well never mind he exciaime |now that the place has been graced by such a charming matron"—, arm a platonia I'd be murdered.” Ah!” replied Silver, man isa human being. Yor » they like to be n like to flirt with but how mad another fellow flirts with ws’ sisters, sisters to be pi and their ow dignant at other fellows’ And the same thing holds wood, of thine course, within tho taste, in the attentions that all gen+ tlemen should pay to married ladles.'* “Beautiful! Beautiful lapping her hands. Silver, it ls no wonder that you are such a squire of dames." “T think I'll try that paying atten. Hon business of course, “within the ounds of good. taste—on, Kittingly,” inuttered Mr gece? a "You just try tt once!” ered Mrs, used at their bounds of good th » and changed the subiect to submarines and the Food | you have been here to some of Mr.! Trust and otb