The evening world. Newspaper, December 27, 1916, Page 14

Pablished Daily Except be by the Press Pu 63 Park Row. Yor RALPH _PULITZPR, President, 62 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer. 6% Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, ‘Jr. tary, 63 Park Ro Entered at the Post-Office at New York an Second-Clars Matter. Subscription Rates to The Evening| For Ei 4 and the Continent and in the International blishing Company, Nos. 53 to rk. World for the United States and Canada. One Year. One Month $3.50] One Year. 30 One Month. VOLUME 57. THE GERMAN REPLY. NLESS there is much more in the reply of the Central Powers, U to President Wilson’s note than has yet been made public, that reply, so far as Germany is concerned, can only be re- garded as a polite step—backward. | Compliments aside, the pith of the German reply is in the paragraph: ‘To the Imperial Government the immediate exchange of views oeems the most appropriate road in order to reach the desired result. It therefore begs, in the sense of its declaration made on Dec. 12, which offered its hand for peace negotiations, | to propose immediate meeting of delegates of the belligerent | states at a neutral place. i The German Government, then, moves back to its original, highly general peace proposals—proposals which the Entente nations have already*heard and to which they have agreed to return the emphatic} answer voiced by the British Prime Minister: “Terms first.” Despite the unmistakable clearness with which the EnterXe Allics have announced to the entire world that they will sit down to no round- table conference until Germany has specifically declared the guarantees | she is willing to offer in the interest of peace, despite the insistence of the President’s note that only a showdown of ultimate ends and aims by the belligerents can promise an end to conditions which are rapidly | becoming intolerable to neutral nations, the German Government) nevertheless chooses to reply to the President in phrases scarcely levs| vague than those of its earlier proposal, ignoring anything that may have happened since, offering not so much as a hint of terms. To call out from all the nations now at war such an avowal of their respective views as to terms upon which the war might be concluded and the arrangements which would be deemed satisfactory as a guarantee against its renewal or the kindling of any similar conflict in the future, as would make it possible frankly to compare them. This was the carefully expressed purpose of the President’s note —a purpose to which another neutral nation, Switzerland, has already given its hearty indorsement and support. In the face of the known} attitude of the Entente Allies toward any conference to which Gerinany brings only a victorious condescension toward peace, for the German Government to propose to President Wilson nothing beyond an “imme-| diate meeting of delegates of the belligerent states” must seem either | en extraordinary piece of ingenuousness or a policy of evasion almost insulting in what it assumes, It is quite possible the German Government would give much to enter upon a peace conference with its terms unstated. But surely it cannot expect to get what it wants by answering the solemn repre- sentations made by the President of the United States in the name of neutrality with a pat on the back and a few words that say nothing. ' eerie pce CHILDREN’S WEEK. HE thousands of New York public echool youngsters who en- T joyed The Evening World’s Christmas “Movie” yesterday at) the Strand Theatre, where the special guests were the crippled children of the city’s schools, had the kind of holiday treat that this big, rich metropolis ought to provide generously at this season of the year. The treuble and cost of giving young folks a good time is about one million-fold repaid by the results attained. Those who try it once usually form a habit that brings them a steady income of pleasure and interest as long as they live. To-rerrow afternoon between 4.30 and 6.30 P. M., The vening World’s “Kiddie Klub” holds a full club meeting in Madison Square Park under the “Tree of Light.” The business of the session is extremely brief, but the entertainment is scheduled to kvep everybody, including parents, listening to band music, Indian songe, bird warbling and the like until it is time to go home to supper. As a civic investment this newspaper has never been able to sce anything more “gilt edged” than the happiness and health of children. That is why its campaigns for Children’s Playgrounds, Penny Lunches in the Public Schools, Widows’ Pensions, etc., have been mong the most notable of the many it has undertaken and carried to success, That is why it recommends the giving of a little joy to young- eters who are not in the lucky class, as the best holiday sport for the Prosperous so far discovered. Hits From Sharp Wits It looks like the hardest thing for One's standing in the community autoists to learn is that ratlroad| nowadays is no longer judged by the tracks are sometimes used by trains.| possession of a motor car, but by Nashville Banner, whether one has eggs for breakfast, — reer Baltimore American, Fee tyes BBE nts ss] ‘The telephone line that i nlwaye Btate. busy does not as a rule transmit the most important communications,— Albany Journal, eee It Is better to be optimistic once in a while than always accurate,—Roch- ester Union, ee Eminent chiropodist says corns are | a cause of divorce, So, that's where the shoe pinc! Milwaukee News, | . eee “Joy riding” is a term that does not apply to street car patrons—Konox- ville Journal, . A lot of men carry a night key ¢ merely a8 a bluff to make their fel- . The advantage of arguing with one's low men believe that they are in self is that it is possible to have the| reality boss in their own homes,— Jast word.—Toledo Blade. Philadelphia Inquirer. | : 7 . Letters From the People | Witty Ce Kach. r ay. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World {a the Editor of The Evening World Let me know if the following old What day did Dec, 21, 1900, fail on? coins are worth any more than their! M. 8, fo value Three cent piece 1853 day, Monday. three cent piece 1870. 1H. N Prening W A Wins. days did Jan 1890, Nov. ‘Do the Editor of The Evening World fall on? WwW. B A bets that € t Britain is not Bue Fifty Cents, Tem Cent rope, but & group of islands off the | To the baitor of Tue Erening World continent of pe. B bets that! What is the v Great Britain is Kurope, Who wins? ang an Is hait-penny Any Kk Store, Any Library. [4, ye paior ct Pur «Te the Editor of The Evening World ae nar erie egg ere 1 would like to know where 1 could] piece? ne Value OF Hn 1807 $3 gold secure either the Biue Book or the F Social Register. 1s either for sale; Wednesday, where and how much? Is | To the Esitor of The BvesIng World for public use at the public! Wlease let me know What day soy ? +. % Av0l, fell om doth 'M |was a Evening World Daily Magazine | Th e Xmas Cigar Courrie 1916, hy The Prom Pubitshing On, (The New York Evening World ) By J. H. Cassel \ | — Fifty B nd Girls By Albert Payson Terhune Covrriaht, 1016, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) HE is lovely to behold, and in brilliant intellect she is like her S grandfather, Henry of Navarre. In no other child have I found ) So, in 1648, wrote Montrevil, the French diplomat, during a visit to England. And the girl who drew forth such praise from the cynical English King Charles I. rt Around the sunny head of this ill fated little gifl a halo of romance - others her frail young life was wrecked. vi Her father, Charles I., was born with the deep rooted notion that @ the rights and the wishes of his people, Also that he could break promise that was not convenient to keep. earlier days It had served its turn, The plain people had meekly allowed their Kings to tyrannize over them and (@ waste the public revenues, Famous in History Ps No. 31.—PRINCESS ELIZABETH, the Girl Captive. — % such wit and dignity and grace.” old Frenchman was the eleven-year-old Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the and pathos has always hovered. For the sins and follies and statecraft of. monarch could do pretty much as he chose, and could, at will, ride This comfortable beliet was known az “the divine right of Kings.” But by the seventeenth certury the English had begur to think for themselves, Through their representatives in Parlia- Dawwrwraeeeep ment they demanded their rights. King Charles A Father's clashed with Parliament over these rights. When he { Last Gift. tound Parliament and the public were stronger than eee he bad supposed he made many promises of reform. — AU these pledges he broke at the first possible moment, Parliament objected and civil war set in, Charles's armies were thrashed and Charles himself was made prisoner. He was locked up in Carisbrooke» Castle, He tried to escape, was caught and was condemned to death. | His wife and his ‘older children had got away safe to France, But his youngest son, Henry, and his daughter, Elizabeth, were imprisoned. One morning the two children were brought to say goodby to their father, who was to be executed that day. it was a pitiful farewell scene,” When it was over Charles gave Elizabeth, as u parting keepsake, the Bible that — | he always carried. When Charles was dead Parliament faced the problem of dealing with his two captive children, It was suggested that Elizaboth be apprenticed |to @ button maker and Henry to a cobbier, But while these plane were | pending they were nent to Carisbrooke Castle, There, when Eltzabeth weat linto the prison yard for exercise the day after her arrival, a grinning /soldier pointed out to her the window through which her unlucky father \ nad tried te escape. At every hand she and her brother were confronted | with memory of Charles's prison days, Their Puritanical jailers seemed to take a delight in thus torturing the helpless children, Elizabeth's health began to suffer from prison life and from her captors’ Yet she bravely kept up for the suke of her little brother, #he * ly from thelr father’s Bible, and undertook to teach him Latin and history, Day after day she arranged and, from memory, coached him in what ! | | | treatment. read aloud te him da ' ~~——eeen j The Fate of had learned in happier times from her” i ‘a Prisoner. own tutors. Twice a day she was allowed to take |S nnannnnnnen® him for a walk on the high ramparts of the castle i } Once as they were walking there country wedding procession passed along the road below the walls. ‘The bride, at sight of the wistful little girl on the ramparts, threw her some flowers from the bridal bouquet. Elizabeth, touched at this al act of kindness in her harsh routine of life, took off her own gold cross and threw it down to the amazed bride. : | This was perhaps the one bit of buppiness in all the child's bitter | months of captivity. : £ On the morning of Sept. 6, 1650, a jailer’s wife came as usual into”) Klizabeth's cell to Wake her. She found the Ittle Princess lying dead, Ber” | white cheek resting lovingly against the Bible her father had given her .) The thirteen-year-old victim was bastily buried In the chureh~of | rked only by her initials, “EB, &."* By Sophie Irene Loeb. Y niece Aline—she's a college girl—came to me the other day and said, “Aunt Sophie, have you any old clothes? They would just fit her, the girl we want to help. She is the most wonderful girl in the world and she hasn't a cent to her name, not a penny to buy any clothes with, to say noth. ing of pretty things that girls love so much, “She is working her way through oollege, not our college, but one of the other big ones. What do you think she does? She runs the ele- vator, She has very little time to make any clothes, even if she had the material, “She spends every moment away from the elevator studying—studying hard to get through, and nearly all the clothes she has are given to her, One of the girls invited her here to spend the holidays, and oh, it is such @ treat to her, and we girls have de- cided to make up @ nice New Year's box to take back to sehool with her, | and she is so fine and splendid and [ To-Da y’s Anniversary | HE first tradesmen to adopt the use of signs were the innkeepe | The Rich Lit | and from earliest times in Eng- | Jand and on the Continent the taverns of town and country distin: guished by signboards bearing the names of the hostelries. It was not until the sixteenth century that mer chants dealing im Other than liquid reireshments began to erect signs by over their doors. Once started, the custom spre rapidly, the seventeenth ce riod of perity 5 sigupainters of Keven in London the hous: shops were not numbered, so a tradestnan’s pla of busi could only be known by | 4 sign uity of the mer chants was waxed, in such a city as nion, to provide an original sign wou memories of | arting in busi hess considered a stviking sign. bis t portant investment, — ‘These often huge in size, were some st the fronts of t signs, | heir \ Just too big to re concluded Aline enthusiasticall, “Why, do you know what she sald about it w we asked her if she would mind?" “*Mind, she exclaimed, ‘I am 80 delighted’ 1 can hardly express my thanks, It 1s a very poor pride 1 would assu indeed, with nothing but a good nd a determination through somehow. If L cannot get things for myself, should I not welcome doubly the gracious gifts of those who would help me?” And then I learned the whole story about this girl with very very poor relatives, She had studied so hard that she went through high school in two and a half years, earning @ little here and there, trying to keep body ind soul together, Many a time this girl hadn't a to sleep at night, and found some secluded doorway. Laughingly, but with a glistening tear, she told how policemen had driven her away, telling her to “move on.” “It didn't feel very wood to be looked upon as a possible criminal,” she said; “but what is the difference now? Iam getting through. T have so much to be thankful for, What a joy it is te be in college at last, even without any money, it it,” —— ——— Oh, how rich that girl is, she doesn’t realize herself. Richer than hundreds of rich girls In this great city to-day, Richer because she bus found the greatest wealth of the world—getting the very best out of it, This girl is living every minute of her life, She is working toward a goal, and when she gets It, it will be worth more than its weight in gold. For she will have been tried and not found wanting, will come out unscathed, ning herself, indebted to no one. How many are there? indeed. What an example to other xirls, What an example for the poor little rich girl who would scream at the top of her voice if left in ap ele- vator a single minute alone. And, not unlike her elevator, this rich little poor girl may have to go down to get her load, e may carry it even te the top, but there it will’ roll off and more power will come to her, Yes, they are making up her New Year's box, She will welcome it with open arms, Yet, better still, she will welcome the new year because it marks the beginning of another year nearer to her heart's desire—to get through. Very few By Bide “Lucile the Waitress Dudley Copyright HISY was a fellow with a dox 6e Ale | in here to-day,” said Lucile) the waltress, as the friendly t, "Me and he al- patron took his se : before he most had a verbal entente vacated through the door with bis It- tle candine ’ “What was the troubl “Why, that man tries to share his cuts with the dog, First he tells me to bring him some fried eggs, 80 a- egsing 1 go, Soon I return and put the finished production before him, Then he takes the mutt In his arma ind, after he soggs his toast tn the egg, he takes a bite and gives the dog a bite, It got my tempestuous nature ing bad. ‘Say,’ 1 says to him, ‘this Isn't a dogorium, If you want to feed that tine take him outside, This coun~ is for th an kind of edibles, | st. | any food for a Yd says. to feed Tingle,’ he says Sco the nifty? ‘Oh, boy, but I’m a humidor when I really try to spring ‘em. But to get back to the corps de ballet of our discussion, | hen he says he's going to feed Tin- anyway, 1 tell him one of us ts} her you ain't! T saya, ‘or the] proprietor of this grand lareeny fotnt's to overtake that man and slip him a) sary ret a new girl to deal ‘em offhpag of scraps for the pup. But say, | it this counter, I'm no dog friend, it was worth it, He had a w “Just then old Bickler, the propri- T8168. by ‘The Press Publishing etor, comes up. he says to me, “ “This paltry patron insists on feed- ing his dog at the counter and I won't stand for it,’ I tell him, ‘Pat's wrong; you're right, he retaliates, Then he makes his de- clamatory to the man With the mutt. You put that dog on the floor or get out,’ he says “The fellow's down to his last stack of whites, Anybody can see that. tle's hungry, too. So he looks at the oxgs and then at old Bickler and slowly lets the dog down on the floor, Where the mutt coils about his peddler extremes, Next the hungry fellow Vanquishes the eggs, When he's through he picks up the dog and his check and goes to the cashier, While he's standing there fishing out his fifteen cents the dog is moaning a litue. “You was rawthah bold to té™ to feed that dog at our countah, wasn't you?” asks Marcelle, the cashier, You see, she's a high-class dame and tulks st (The New York Evening World.) ‘What's the mart lish, * "You never owned a de he ask: ‘No,’ she answers, ‘and that 1, [ain't ever going to, eithah, “go the fellow slips her three jit neys and goes out. Blaine it! That man almost got me fired,” “The proprietor waa mad about the dog, eh?” asked the friendly patron. “Not that,” replied Lucile, “but he accused me of shirking on my work. 1 didn’t think he'd miss me." “Miss you?" “Yes. It took me fifteen minutes did you?" jain't supertitious motsture in his eyes ail tho time | was banding biw the bag.” By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1916, by The Prene Publishing Co, (The Now York Brening World.) “ce O you think things will be D cheaper?” asked Mrs. Jarr. “I do so hope they will, now that the holidays are over.” : “I hardly think they will, but #0 many people live beyond their means that they have to run in debt.” “The way 8. ne women dress is yin- ful,” remarked Mrs, Jarr. “I know some who would never think of wear- ing the same dress more than three or four times, and when they pay ten ar? twelve « ilar for shoes and i.'ty and sixty dollars for hats—it's some- thing awful.” “We ought to try and save and not run in debt,” said Mr, Jarr, “I was reading in the paper that to keep an account of everything one spends is a good way to check extravagance, Suppose we try it?” “You mean suppose I try it?” re- marked Mrs. Jarr, “Well, er—I think it would be a good plan if you did have an account book,” replied Mr, Jarr with some hesitation. “I'm going to keep one and put down every penny I spend day by day.” “Will you put down what you spend night by night when you go out with that man Rangle and a lot of others —well, never mind, I don't say what I think of them!" exclaimed Mrs, Jarr, “What I spend the few times I go Mr. Jarr, quickly, “I come home and give you all my money, and then if |1 ask you to let me have a little you | raixe an awful row, I've never seen you come across yet with more than two dollars spending money for me, You seem to think I'm not to be trusted with large sums like two dollars and twenty cents!"* “And why should yo asked Mrs, | Jarr. “Do 1 go bowling, do I go out ‘wasting the money? I have some. thing to show for everything spend.” “And you spend everything,” said Mr, Jarr. “Suppose you try to run this house on what Ittle I run it!" replied Mrs. Jarr tearfully, “Just you see how high everything is! And then you ask me to keep accounts!” That's just it!” replied Mr, Jarr, We would then know how we stand, | We'd know what It costs to live; we | would see where we might do without things that were not atriclly neces. 1 ve been doing without things strictly necessary all my days!" cried jMrs Jar, "That's Just the trouble, out doesn’t amount to much!" said! Look what happens when I do econ- omize, When I was paying for my new furs, and did cut down expenses, who was it that growled just because | the meals were skimpy? It was you.” “To be sure I did,” replied Mr, Jarr doggedly, “I'm not kicking about what's spent on the table, but there will hurt my feeings!" cried Mra. Jarr, The men who write those silly articles t kept an account of what they it's like those old maids at Mothers’ Clubs telling me how to raise my be e “Ob, all right then, you needn't get fad about it.” said Mr. Jarr. nm spent are a lot of things—little things—| “But 1 will get mad about ft!” things not at all necessary, five cents| snapped Mrs. Jarr. “Don't you eve here and ten cents there, that we| talk housenolu accounts to me again! , might cut out.” If you don't trust me, if you think “You are right in that," sald Mrs,| I'm stealing moacy'—~ but Mr, Jarr Jarr, “five cents here for beer and| Had ted, ten cents there for cigars." When he came home that nlgbt “I'll admit that for the sake of ar-|@irs. Jarr was ail smiles, “Look at fhe beautiful ‘House Account’ beok 1 bought to-day,” she remarked, “and the patent, unspillable inkstand and kind,” | pen tray, all in Russia leather, They said Mrs. Jarr. “I do not waste any | Were reduced after the holidays from money. Ido the best I can, [never | Seven ninety-ewht to four ninety. spend @ cent that is not necessary.” he.” “But I'm only saying’—— began|, “lave you p&t that down im the book!" asked Mr. Jarr, Mr. Jarr, ‘ “Certainly nou! “You are only saying what you know cessities,” said Mrs, Jarr, gument," replied Mr. Jarr. “Tl put down what I spend and you put down what you spend.” “I won't do anything of the are not ne" Graphic Records; Periscopes 0 | 8°N-productive labor is all-important Velen. B s ih @ manufacturing plant. One con- d ern Business. cern segregated the payroll and 66] TS amazing, the number of theory, the relate tec rae te concerns which, even in this etically constant, But surprials enlightened age, are plunging jons began to be evident ahead blindly without proper \T served as danger signals for} ak a spots which de. . ords,” suid an expert systematizer. | tion, Ohe peak iit the nonsprodyotite "The management of such organ-| labor curve concentrated the manage- | tations remind me of men In @ suo- | ent's attention on an internal trans. | marine which lacks a periscope. Fig- | Eat autoratin acticcrs teaennae jures, properly compiled and trans-jstalled and a substantial saving ete |ferred to charts or graphs, are the| fected, | periscope of a business, Study them, Individual records of machines’ and tendencies which would be oth-'CUtput often divulge hidden weat- nesses, erwise unnoted promptly clamor for? per m attention, In one ipstance the output chine in one-department was uniform, but one machine showed ai actual loss because of heavy bills, A careless operative proves be responsible, and his disel plugged a serious leak wh'ch otherwise have passed unnoted, “Too many concerns are inclined to vonsider such records mere red tape. Unless some executive is able to prop- erly interpret the signals, they are red tape, But, utilized as they should be, they serve to warn the navigator | against hidden rocks and dangerous shoals, They render the task of steer: ing the enterprise practically auto. matic, They enable concerns to re- duce the vast sums tied up in inven- torles; mean less capital lying idle aw materials, products in process” |and finished stocks, “They mean concerns controlled by men rather than by outside factors, They insure a permanent, stable = cess, an enterprise independent of “You can stand all day in a factory or & warehouse and fail to detect items which on a graph are startiing- ly conspicuous, Many concerns, too, use graphs to some extent but fall to subdivide suf- ficlently minutely, For example, 1 ran across one concern which kept its records of its salesmen's total sales in relation to their salaries, but neg- lected to keep a record of the net profits earned by each, As @ conse- quence, @ man might push a low- profit line, build a big reputation at the office and actually be an unprofit- able factor, By merely taking the} trouble to figure the net records of le revision of sal- each man a drastic revision of sil-| oo atition and strong to endure the arles resulte: buffets of hard times and periods. of. "The ratio between productive and | overproduction,” — _) ’ ‘ t