The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1916, Page 14

; i lf ; wecemanemer oe Rees _— Sin BDA han Sasa atta ea Eas “Commission of this district which the Thompson legislative commit- Hy World. JOSEPH PULITZER. the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 58 to Row, New York. oe PULITZER, President, 68 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasu: 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr. Secretary, 63 Park Row. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Clane Matter. Bubscription Rates to The Evening|For England and the Continent an@ ‘World for the United States All Countries tn the International r ‘ and Canada, Year. ....+ «+ $3.60/One Year.. ++ 30/One Month. RSTABLISHED BY Published Datiy Except Gepdey by Lt) 3 Month...... VOLUME 57.. seen eeeeeeccecesseeceseeeereses NO, 20,218 WHICH? [ THE German Government preparing for a desperate return to schrecklichkeit? Are its peace proposals only designed to im-| press neutral nations abroad and the German people at home with| the belief that Germany has nobly and conscientiously offered what it turns out nobody will have? Will the German Government pres- ently be found, in the Reventlow phrase, “leedlessly and recklessly | applying every means of warfare,” justifying itself before belligeronte and neutrals with the argument that a nation whose peace offers have been scorned can recognize no rights but those of self-preservation ? Or, is the German Government cautiously feeling its way toward & peace which it profoundly desires and means to have? Is it testing, evading, side-stepping in an effort to adjust itself to economic pres-| sure from behind and at the same time keep Prussian pride from; having to yield one unnecessary inch either at home or elsewhere? Has it determined to show only the cards absolutely necessary to turn| the trick, and yet at the same time made up its mind to lay them down| ene by one to the last if there is no other way? { For either of these suppositions supporting evidence can easily be| found by those who start out to seek it—even in the same facts. Preparations apparently going on in Germany for a renewal of sub- marine warfare may indicate that the German Government is only manoeuvring with the idea of peace. They may equally well show) that the German Government is cleverly propitiating all varieties of| bentiment in Germany while it works out its peace programme. Tho evasive character of the German reply to the President’s note may prove the emptiness of the German peace proposals. It could equally well prove a desire to hasten slowly in order to get further in the end. The promptness of the German reply suggests a readiness to more if challenged. It is not the duty of the President of the nited States, however, to drag answers out of the German Govern- iment. A challenge may pass at any moment in the shape of tho Entente nations’ reply to the original peace proposals of the Central Powers. After that reply has been delivered it is hard to see how the German Government can escape revealing to hoth foes and neu- trals its real intent. PUBLIC POLICY. UDGE NOTT, sitting in General Sessions, refused yesterday the J District Attorney’s request for a dismissal of the indictment against Robert C. Wood, former Public Service Commissioner, who was indicted last January on a bribery charge seriously reflecting apon his conduct while holding a position of high public trust. , The public interest in this and all similar cases is fully and finally stated by Judge Nott: Where an indictment for a felony is returned against a public officer holding an important position, public policy re- quires that the case against him be publicly tried, unless it is ) perfectly apparent that under no possible circumstances can H the prosecution succeed, especially where it is evident tho ' trial of the case canfidt be a prolonged one, unduly obstruct- | ing other public business, Fi Wood was one of the members of the discredited Public Service toe, aided by the investigations of The Evening World, forced Gov. Whitman to overhaul a year ago. | Disclosure by this newspaper of the fact that Edward E. McCall held stock in the Kings County Electric Light and Power Company, and was therefore disqualified to hold the office of Chairman of the Public Service Commission, compelled his speedy removal. The Evening World’s discovery that Public Service Commissioner George V. 8. WiJliams had felt it his duty to withhold eighty-five-cent gas from consumers in South Brooklyn in order to sustain the Kings) County Lighting Company in perpetuating a ninety-five-cent rate, led to that gentleman’s resignation. | The charge against Wood rested upon evidence that the President! end General Manager of a switch and signal manufacturing concern| were ready to close a deal with him whereby $5,000 was to be paid | for his vote as Public Service Commissioner in favor of @ subwav! contract which their company sought. The Public Service Commis-; sion stood two to one on the question. The directors of the signal! company, however, refused to sanction the bribe and Wood's vote was | subsequently cast for a competing concern. Gov. Whitman’s endeavors to shield Wood failed and an indict- ment was found. It is just and desirable that he now stand trial.| Tf he is innocent he will welcome the chance to clear himself em-| pletely of a charge which gravely impugns his character as a public official. If he is guilty, public interest demands that justice shall do, ™4¥ have mado are returned tf he by welfare work. I would say that|()n Stilts Women Walked Dry Shod Over Muddy Pavements 3 i its full duty in helping to keep the standards of a most important! public office above suspicion or reproach. | For the protection of public service court decisions count far more than District Attorney's office decisions in such cases, Hits From Sharp Wits One cheerful thought connected) What with this and that, about all with high prices is that {t doesn't fellow gets to # theso days is cost the head of the family any-|coupons.—Pittsburg Gazette Times. thing to swallow the lump in his eee | throat.—Toledo Blade Did you ever know a man who eal ety | didn't “work a blame sight harder But the penny which is said to be}than ho ought?” Same here.—Mem- earned when It's saved has to bel phis Commer Appeal. ¢arned first.-Albany Journal. i oer 8 , ee eS They will keep fooling around with The price of toothpicks has ad-|new dances until that old one known Yanced. They must keep up with the} as St. Vitus comes back into style.— food.—Deseret New Paterson Call | . . eee The dollar bill and the dollars An optimist is a man who ts glad worth of steak are about the same! he doesn't own an automobile be- size.—Knoxville Journa., cause of the beneficial effects he gota ® ° \ from walking.—Philadelphia —In- | Sometimes a fellow can be @ real | quirer, | help to others by taking care of him a, A eelf-—Columbus (Ga,) Enquirer-Sun.| It seems to be an open question as ee ee | to whether it ts safer to be a particl- | He who “stonds pat” usually stands on all News, pant or a spectat« at an automobile the merit he has,—-Deseret | race.—Columbia (3 C) Bate, | : : yo ee | ‘The small boy ts awaiting a rise in| High-brow stuff has a hard time | the price of water as a new argu Setting along unless itvis decorated! meni against taking a bath.—Nash- ‘With a little Sunk.—Patéreon Call, Bat * 1 ville Banner, A a Ta | Easley FE “eien mn soon will celebrate the CxS ig HAR _ Evening World Daily Magazine _ ELL! W It’s all over! And you've sent beautiful And spilled {ee cream down light the tree, And quarrel: about nothing, kiss you, And run up your charge accoun' \look Ike a submarine, Until the Judgment Book Is spotted like a checker-board gers burn, AND All you've gotten out of it is a And seven pairs of silk hot And eight or nine pairs of book-! And indigestion, And a grouchy cook, and a lot o! And a collection of nouveau art And the blues, And you can’t do anything but debris and your shattered illusions, What it {s all ABOUT And WHY do you do it all over And WHO started it, anyway? And you register cred vow, And hide in the Catskills, or Jungle! But you won't! last breath, You will look back and wonder And you know you WOULD! Because, after all, It 1s worth the PRICE! Happy New Year! Copyright, 1016, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World.) Under the mistletoe, gifts to everybody who forgot you, And forgotten everybody who remembered you, candle grease and claret punch and the front of your most perishable and expensive dinner gown, And burnt off half of your front hair trying to jod with the nicest man in the world And permitted the stupidest man in the world to t until it makes the Flatiron Building And said, “OH, how perfectly, scrumptiously, lovely!” if And ‘How on EARTH did you manage to guess JUST what I wanted opposite your nam: And you've written sweet, lying little notes of thanks until your fa- headache, - all the wrong colon, And a guilty feeling around the conscience, And seven more copies of the Rubaiyat, And a week's housecleaning ahead of you, racks, f now enemies, atrocities, And a fine contempt for yourself and your Iack of character! eit huddled up in the midst of tne And wonder, and wonder, and wonder, 4 ‘ again every year? That NEXT year you will fly away two weeks before Christmas, Atlantic City, or Greenland, or the Because Christmas {s Just @ little sample of life. And, when you are lying between the last dose of medicine and the what ANYTHING was “all about!” And, if you would do {t all over again— The Jar By Roy L. McCardell r Family RS. JARR turned from the win- M w with a gesture of alarm ‘or goodness sake, put on your coat!" “Didn't you tell me to take it off— that I was getting it all creased and Must Not Carry Pension Plans and Other Welfare Schemes By James C. Young. There are always some plans What ts their effect on the employce and American industry? 66CQENTIMENT undoubtedly ts growing In favor of em- Ployees' pensions,” according to Ralph M. Bas- ley, chairman of the executive counct! of the Na- tional Civic Fed- eration, an organ: minority, “Here an interesting question earner that he will receive the pen- sion? So long as his employer ts not insolvent he no doubt will be paid, but what happens if the employer is no longer able to continue in business? “In some lines, particularly if the enterprise is sufficiently large, there ization made up| !s little danger of any permanent dis- of some of tho| continuance of the business, and con- principal manu-|#equently no danger to the pension facturers, labor|Plan. In any case, the employer's loaders and econ- | {nterest in his business is a bond for omiets of — the; his best efforts to make It successful, United States ‘an effort in which he will be ably “But the opinion | alded by those around bim who wil still 14 divided as to the application /@t some time be eligible to retire- of the idea," in the view of Mr, ment on pension, “After studying® Industrial! ‘Me experience of many manu- Pension plans now in operation, it’ facturers would seem to indicate that would appear that the majority of|an annual pension payroll should be such plans are maintained at the ex- somewhere under one-half of one per pense of the employer, and that pen- |cent, of the total annual payroll of sions are generally granted for long tho business affected, and satisfactory service. In only a} comparatively few cases is there any|in welfare work, the importance of provision for contribution by the em-/which has come to be recognized by ployee, and in almost every one of employers the country over. Perhaps such tnatances any contributions he it may be well to define what fs meant RRCEAG wete Honors for Thomas a Becket, | at length contrived to effect his libera- eight hundredth anniversary of Ho. first exacting a prpiiiee from So » birt Tho M rt that as soon as he had reached the birth of Thomas a Becket! ni, own land he should send for and the most celebrated Roman Catholle| marry her. Prelate in English annals, The ex-| Evidently there was not a great deal Gaia at tha pens of chivalry or gratitude tn the heart act date of the commemoration has not} 0+ Giibert a Weoket, for he permitted yet been decided. Authorities differ 8] the years to pass without even send- | to the year in which Becket was born,| ine a message to the lovelorn maiden jome giving the date as Dee, 21, 1117,] Who was awalting his coming. With i A . love and faith unbounded, the Saracen others as 1118, and still others as 1119.] Fir? AME Teh decided to meek the dies | The consensus of opinion now favors} tant England which was the home of the first named date, ‘The great Sdxon | her lover, and, after long wanderings hero, priest and martyr was assassi-|and many vicissitudes, she accom. hadnt on Dan #1176 plished that perilous enterpris be geil yg are Arrived in London, she set about the It is related that Gilbert, the father | difficult task of searching out her | of A Beckot, had in his youth accom. | lover, and, fortune favoring her, she panto onset found him. He had not married, and, Werte ie senate to the Holy Tend lt his oternal eredit, he was Willing fe In Syria he was taken prisoner | to reward the fair Syrian’s undoubting by a Saracen of high rank, and con-|trust by taking her to his home and | fined ta the dungeon of a castle. The] heart Previous to the marriage, she young Englishman's personal attrac- | renounced Mohammedanism, profossed tions and miserable condition aroused | her conversion to Christianity, and the pity of his captor’s daughter, and| was baptized in St. Paul's Cathedral, she soon became violently enamored | six bishops assisting at the ceremony. jof him, and visited him frequently, tn Mohammedan The only child of this marri was bis dungeon, The Thomas & Becket tl [arises, What guarantee has the wage we do not adopt a paternalistic attl- “Old age pensions are another step | Too Far, Says Ralph M. Easley leaves the employ of the company. |it is improving of working and living in | conditions of employees by employers. Have old age pensions come to stay? which more than satisfactory service| The first essentials are steady work, {a required, but they are in a notable|/an equitable wage and reasonable hours of labor. “But it ls of high importance that tude toward the American workman, who always has shown abundant ability to take care of himself. “A doctrine that has gained con- siderable headway in this country is that the efficiency of Germany has been largely due to the bumant- tarian interest of the Government in the working classes, evidenced by old age pensions, sickness and unem- ployment insurance, death benefits, accident compensation, model hous- ing schemes, and ao forth. Claim has been made that these measures have eliminated poverty and pauperism, and produced @ contentment of mind unknown tn this country. “But the official spokesmen of the great labor organizations of the United! wrinkled lying on the sofa with it on?” grumbled Mr. Jarr, “I did, but I meant for you to put n the house jacket I bought for you, Christmas, but you just hate It be- of National Civic Federation. States oppose these schemes because | ie of what they term the evil effects of paternalistic government upon the cause I got it. I just saw that awful moral fibre of the people. | Mrs, Converse turning the corner and “The fallacy of comparing the con- | 1 know she's going to call,” sald Mrs, ditions of working people in Germany | Jarr, with the condition of wage earners!” «What makes you think she's com- in this country is too apparent £0 ling here?” asked Mr. Jarr, viewing merit serious consideration. It !8| with some dismay the approach of asserted that the official figures {n| the jady in question, 1914, for instance, showed that Berlin) +siow do I know why she's coming? had more paupors per thousand than 7 mean because I know it would be New York City, while it is stated on! just like her,” replied Mrs, Jarr. “She good authority that more than 60 per| never gives one a moment's warn- cent. of the families in Berlin live in| ing!" two-room apartments, a kitchen and) 4 ring at the door was answered by a living room—not @ very wholesome! yiry, Jarr, ‘The lady of the house housing situation, Jasped her visitor to her affectionate "EI © measures referred to| clasped her visitor to her liven Hs fhe sa embrace, kissed her twice and succeeded in abolish.ng poverty and increasing the contentment of work-| dragged her into the parlor. Ingmen, Is there not a larger ques-| «85 sweet of you to come!" gushed Mrs, Jarr, “And such horrible tion in the background which would | r je to pause impel the American peop! phen | MER cs SONG. (ADE AO Re “It is important that we help the! I do declare, you are the only person before adopting the same polictes? “Pattens”’ tl of Modern workMan to help himself, but he y know that secms to have good should have a big hand in'the help-| 5 tye ; ing.” | “Oh, you shouldn't say that," ‘re- | pled Mrs. Converse. “How do you —— =J| a0, Mr. Jarr? Really, you are the most domestic of men, Of course, I 1e Ancestors can't expect Mr. Converse to be home much with me—a man of such large business interests and so many gigan- Ue enterprises, as he sald to mo the Overshoes MBPRICANS find tt more difficu means when he says in vid € | ments in pattens.” Pattena were an | viated form of stilts, The word is al ten is the support used by a woman her out of the water and mud. rangement attached to the shoe, as sho in the flustration, so that he walker earth, says Popular ‘Science Monthly. depth the shoes were thus kept fairly dry, It appears that pat- tens were not worn solely by the rich, but were luxuries indulged in by the very poor, In speaking of a person who was naj especially speedy, Ben Johnson uses the com- parison, make no more haste than a begsar upon pattens.” In those early times women belleved hat they must walk in this startin; inconvenient way, high in the air, ‘eop out of the mud and water, Then the English to understand what Dickens field," “Women went clicking along the pave- by builders as the name of the base of a col- umn or pillar, and so, architecturally, the pat- From this architectural use has come the secondary application of the word, meaning an ar- raised three or four Inches above the solid the mud and water did not exceed that other day, If I didn't look after my affairs I'd be robbed of a hundred thousand a year!'” Mr. Jarr grunted a polite grunt, and It than Yopper- might get a chance to say a word, rattled on again: “And as | was saying to you, Mrs. Jarr, I may look strong, but there isn't @ woman that I know of who ebbre- so used to keep Mrs, Converse, seeing that Mrs. Jarr Copyright, 1916, by The Prem Publi@in Co, (The New York Brening World.) has been through with what I Beve My doctor says"—— ‘You still have Dr, Dilken, then?” interposed Mrs. Jarr. “A physlelan With a dignified manner does inapire one with so Much confidence, And Dr. Dilken ts so dignited. The only thing T don't like about him és that he tries to persuade one that ome isn't sick at all. Now, when I had a complication, and before I weit to Dr. Smerk, the nerve specialist, and Mr. Jarr says his nerve specialty is his bills*—— “Dr. Dilken says,” continued Mra. Converse, “that my symptoms” —=ge “Just so long as a physician ien’t insistent on operations, just so long I have confidence in him,” interjected Mrs. Jarr. “Don't tall about operations!’* said Mra. Converse, resolving te hold the conversation centre, “You know what I've been through, Mre, Jarr. And with my heart, too, Even under the ether 1 knew everything that was going on, I always do, I was the first woman in our Health Cul- ture Club to be operated upon for ap- pendicitis, and the doctors all @aid that it was just through neglect, but that if I bad neglected it just one more day they couldn't have saved me!" “And I get palpitation of the heart and fainting spells,” continued Mrs. Jarr, “and"——, But seeing her visitor was preparing to go, she added; “How sweet it was of you to come and cheer me up! I was expecting | you, for I knew you'd come when I was SO insistent.” Then tho ladies stood in the door, because Mrs. Converse eald she was in @ burry and must run a a discussed the high cost of social toples and physical infirmities for another hour, “I must say," sa! when ae eee Cepartea, Tiae you certainly are nice to help entertain, and Mrs, Converse {6 such a cheerful body!" . Mr. Jarr, “she's as “Sure,” said Jolly as @ battlefield.” To-Day’s Anniversary wn {se President Wilson, The Prest- dent was born in Staunton, Va, Dec, 28, 1856, the son of the Rev, Joseph R. Wilson, whose wife was Miss Jessie Woodrow prior to her ‘marriage to the Presbyterian min- | later, ‘The President is the elghth son of Virginia to be elected to that high of- fice, his Virgina predecessors having been Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, William Henry Harrison, Ty- ler and ‘Taylor. Both of Mr. Wilson's parents were of Scotch-Irish descent, ‘There have been nine Scotch or Scotch-Irish Presidents of the United States—Monroe, Jackson, Polk, Bu- chanan, Grant, Hayes, Arthur, Mo- Kinley and the present occupant of the White House, Fifteen of the We been English by pa« iT is tho sixtieth birthday of If came the era when rubber overshoes were worn, and now, judging from observations made even on country roads, women disdain any protection and go plowing through the mud with thin low shoes that were white once, ternal ancestry, and one, Jefferson, was Welsh, ‘ony eee Presidents have been descended from continental European stock == Van Buren and Roosevelt, both Dutoh, The President is the thind son of @ clergyman to attain the highest of- fice within the gift of the Republic. Grover Cleveland was eon, ot s Presbyterian minister, other clergyman's @on to beoome President was Chester S Arthur, whose father, Scotch-Irish and - tive of Ireland, was a minister ot the Baptist denomination, In the earlier perlod of the republic's history the majority of the Chief Executives wer the sons of planters or far it of late years the sons of Drofemmonst and business men have favored. Since Lincoln termere seons—Garfield and jarrison—have reached the Houeq tmnt etn meena lil I 3F ) “ > « » 4 \ \ |