The evening world. Newspaper, December 29, 1916, Page 12

Sarhcauiaananatn Vad vet ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to 63 Park How, New York. . RALPH PULITZDPR, President, 6% Park Row, J. ANG SHAW, Tr ‘or, 62 Park Row, sont PUEMURR: Srewereats, cl Pak" Row, Entered at t Post-Office at New York aw Second-C a Matter, @ubscription Rates to The Evening|/For England and the Continent World for United States All Countries tn the Tnternational and Canada. Postal Union, One Year...... - $3.50] One Year..... sete 69.75 One Month » £010ne Month tee 6 VOLUN BY. sscccsvcceee NO. 20,219 NO LIGHTENED TASKS. OMMENTING on what it terms Germany's rejection of the suggestions made in President Wilson's note, the Manchester (Eng.) Guardian remarks: The task of our Foreign Office will be very much light- ened if Germany refuses to carry her definition any further or even to reply to the general statements made on our behalf. No doubt. It appears increasingly unlikely, however, that tie German Government has the slightest intention of lightening the work of Foreign Offices or State Departments, either belligerent or weutral, by any clean cut announcement that will put her out of touch, so to speak, with the chance of peace. Already intimations are made that Germany is not unwilling to eommunicaie her general terme to President Wilson if that ‘s the only way to secure a conference. When the German Government receives the allies’ reply to its original peace proposal, which reply is known to be a demand for terms and guarantees, it would not be sur- prising if Germany’s answer were to include an adroit reference of inquiring perties to tae > resident of the United States, to whom, meanwhile, as much ors little of the German conditions as may seem imperative can have been transmitted. Tf Germany wants peace, she wants it so badly that she will never quite cut herself off from the hope of using the President as an ‘intermediary. Her first moves having been so non-committal and evasive as to have failed utterly of their effect, she will go several “cautious steps further. Diplomacy will need all its wits and al! its energies to avoid mistakes and hold neutrality to a strict, impsrtial service of lasting peace. a rranza Cantankeroso still runs true to form —_—-4-2—____. A WORD TO THE WISE. ISCUSSING methods of keeping down food prices before the mass meeting held at Cooper Union under the auspices of the Housewives’ Protective Association of The Evening World, Commissioner Dillon of the State Food and Markets Depariment advised a central or terminal market to which the farmer can ship} his produce and where an agent of the farmer can take care of it. This would get rid of the middleman, the class “which intervenes between the source of supply and the consumer, which gambles and speculates in food and adds greatly to the cost.” orn’ Whether Mr. Dillon’s solution is the best one or not, he has © been as close to the problem as any man in the State, and what he says ought to command attention. “Practical men” and politicians tell us that the City of New York has no money to waste on « terminal market system. Maybe not. But the people of the State yho pay. food bills aggregating $800,000,000 each year might not con- sider the expenditure of thirty or forty millions on municipal markets a bad investment if it were to save them hundreds of millions in th short period of a decade or so. The public has Reome deeply and actively interested in the problem of food distribution. Politics had better bear that in mind when it comes to handle the question. OX ieee Lawson of Boston has located another leak. The public | had almost forgotten what a plumber he used to be. ! eee” { | MORE PERILOUS THAN EVER. | EVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE deaths due to street accidents in this city for the first eleven months of 1916! Figures compiled by the Department of Health and the Burean of Records show tliat, despite all traffie regulations and safety cam- paigns, the number of persons killed by street vehicles and surface} cars in New York during these eleven months increased 18 per cent, | over the record for the same period in 19 Three causes, we believe, contribute to the deplorable and con- Minued perilousness of the city’s thoroughfares: (1) Imperfect hand | ling of traffic, (2) persistent carelessness on the part of the public and| (8) the interminable tearing to pieces of the streets. The first is being constantly studied and improved. The seeord is the object of ceaseless warnings and educative campaigns, But the third is left untouched, | Put a stop to unnecessary digging, force public service corpora tone to make underground repairs before instead of after pavements! are laid, co-ordinate all excavating operations, give New York con- | | Fvening World Daily Magazine - | | | | | ' | i | Dollars and Sense is 66K AN mal,” remarke man, “He f an emotional an ence the is a waste of energy. “LT have sald think; he feels, thinks he thinks. ters alleged reasoning power, that man advertising weapon, ‘opyriaht. 1916, by TY by the papers, ple, the Shipping © Bi 8 the March King, snatcher on the street recent “Marched him off to jatl, rl aid Bobbie, the office boy sald Miss to the boss ple. presume the Yinuous use of its pavements and thoroughfares, keep them arteries of traffic instead of letting them become choked up canyons and| yawning ditches. Then see if the safety problem in this city hasn’ loosened one of its worst knots, | Hits From Sharp Wits That job is best done at which the bossing is least in evidence.~Albany Journal wrecked = at the “bar Memphis Commercial Appeal | eee eee Where there's a will there's a way to break it. Consult the probate court Fecords and sev.—Milwaukee News eee Some men get an immense amount | | of satisfaction out of t ¥ conviction | that all who disagree with them are | jin the wrong.-Albany Journal. Burglars stole nearly $3,000 fre butcher. Almost whole day's gon liwaukee News . vT » al wrted shortage of buttons | gives the fellow who has been button. ing ‘em up the back some comfort Columbus (Ga,) Enquirer-Sun. eee | Paradoxical o8 \| seems, nearly al! | franks are self-starters.—Paterson; Call. Horatius was the greatest bridge player tie world has ever known Deseret News. Some rate men talk and others vocife- | eee Toledo Blade. ee . | Despite the high cost of living, dy- | ing has not gained anything in popu- | larity.—Florida ‘Tmes-Union, | As we understand the farm loan| Ce EN) | ition, if a farmer has money he will find jt easy to negotiate a loan,— | Words.—Deseret News Poledo Blade eee 10s From what we have observed, the Now that prunes have advanced | life of a dentist seem» to be just a the very citadel of the boarding | daily grind,—Philadelphia Inquirer. house menu is threatened.—Nashville f- RB ner. Few men are reformed by marriage, oer 4 although many are regulated.—Mil- Many © man’s ship bus been waukee News, Neate her money.’ intellectual a local ad- 1s rather than Therefore, to seek to influ- public by logical argument the son of John Philip caught a hand does not Nevertheless, And nothing flat- im more than to appeal fo his Hence the force of analogous reasoning as an “The dictionary defines ‘analogy’ as rem Publiving Co, aid Pop- “that hy ty." I pre- sume," said Spooner, the boakkeeper. “Tl bet he ran to beat the band, | “There seems to be a lot of cheap humor on tap here this morning, Primm, private secretary Then she turned to Pop- woman owned the bag chased the man to get who Analogous Reasoning in Advertising. rather ani- ‘A likeness in some respects bet things otherwise different. A gous reasoning proves absol nothing, But apparently it pro great deal. “Suppose, for example, [ am ing to sell stock in a prospectiy surance company, 1 display land figures demonstrating the are already in operation, of that evidence, how can you ss” I demand, ‘Doesn’ a re, {t proves nothing. nine men out of ten are impressed by such filmay evidence, “The Office Force | By Bide Dudley ) some goo oretary turned o: , you would insii > much?" snall see that M insult, He'll |. Robbie, 8 change the subject, “What's the use of By the way, ndoubtedly Spoon relling es," replied — Bobbie, Isthmussed up considerably.” “Remember, Bobble!” snorted Primm, "I intend to tell Mr. 8: about that Insult, I'd advise y keep still.” Just then Mr, success of insuranog companies which a ‘In the fa said Bobbie in she snapped Snooks hears o: By Albert Pa || Pitty Boys and Girls 7 Famous in History yson ‘Terhune ent, 1916, by The Prem Wubi Here is his story: He was found propped Nuremberg one May morning in 1826. him. The boy could not answer. He ‘had never walked. The pain caused out gf doors, before him. At sight of them he fell bug bread and water. Toys were shown to him, wooden horse. sound of a passing military band he pen, ink and paper were set before h eee > An Attempt at Mur That speak the name he he knew what it me teach him as a fiv wonderful quicknes And bit by bit crawled around on all fours, Then g him @ wooden horse to play with. The story spread all over Europe. as many inquiries were get afoot. house to stare at the queer youth, One day a stranger called at Dr. alone in his own room, studying. noticed and drove @ knife into caught. The wound was the light by two policemen. Yeta or would not—tell who had shot him. These two attem A Mysteric Sue mystery that surrou Fate. } e a rich Englishman, him to Anspach to b Then on the day before Stanhope was tally wounded. As he fell dying at hi: “Palace—Uzen—monument—purse! The police went to the palace ga The purse contained only @ scrap of word, “Kaspar Hauser, born April 30, 1 are M. L. 0.” That wos all. of the murderer. cleared, Stanhope offered a ing Co, No. 32—KASPAR HAUSER, the Poy of Mystery. E was the hero of one of the most baffling mysteries in all the annals of the world—a mystery that never has been cleared up. . sunlight and he could not stand without support. He was taken to prison as a vagrant Though he could neither speak nor read, nor A German acientist, Dr. Daumer, ear-old child might be taught He said his only memorics were of a dimly w months later (he drowsing by @ pistol shot and found Kaspar lying wounded on the floor, went for a walk. An hour, later he 1 ‘There at the base of the Uzen Monument they found a purse of violet ellk. by this that I come from the Bavarian frontier, on the river, The reward was never claimed, Phe New York Evening World.) against a wall near the city gate of He was shielding his eyes from the A policeman questioned evidently had never learned to speak. He seemed sixteen or seventeen years old, was well built and was not jan idiot. Yet the soles of his feet were rounded like a baby’s, showing he to his eyes by the sunshine and from — his amazement at everything he saw proved he had never before been ~ There beef and beer were set into a fit. He would touch no food He was afraid of all the toys except a little This he appeared to recognize as a familiar plaything, At fainted understand a word, yet ery one's amaze he ploked im. To up the pen and wrote legibly the name: “KASPAR HAUSER.” > was all he would write. He could not eves had written nor give any algn that pant took him in charge and began to The boy learned with he remembered part of his past Ufe. Nrhted cell, where he had man, whore face he never saw, used to bring him bread and water, wash and dress and undress him, and gave ~ The § but had taught him to trace the words “ Later the man had blindfolded him, ) of the city, propped him against a wall and left him there. A thousand guesses were made ené But the myatery remained unsolved, From a dozen foreign cities people flocked to Dr, Daumer’s Nu They hammered him with questions. But thé could not make him add a word to his former tale. Daumer's, Kaspar happened te be The stranger slipped into the room un- boy—then escaped. He was nevex But the attack set every one to wondering at to the object of trying to kill so harmless a lad, | was removed to the home of the nearest magistrate and there was guarded On his recovery Kaspar uard: were awakened one night He coulé— npts at murder added tenfold to the nded the foundiing. Lord Stanhopes became interested {n him and sent be educated. For two years at Anspach Kaspar studied peacefully. to take him to England on a visit he eeled into Stanhope's lodgings mor- benefactor’s feet he gasped: r rdens to investigate this elight elue, paper on which were scrawled these 812 Know" My Init’ Murdered Dec. 14, 1833, reward of 6,000 florins for the arrest The mystery was never ween nalo- utely ves a seek- ve in- facts great © doubt t that But n him nuate ties: ‘Vote for my party; It insures, Prosperity,’ orator, prosperous under his part ti listeners, fact that prosperity existed under his party's administration does not prove “The same idea is applied in poli-| shouts the campaign And then he cites cases of periods which obtained ‘a regline, ‘This never ‘ails to make an impression on his this type of analogous, The mere Of course, reasoning is hat prosperity was a result of that PPy event, John Jones took my correspond- ence course and now earns $10,000 a year,” advertises one man. The im- plication is that you can do the sam But, although you can take the same course Jones took, it by no means follows that you'll earn $10,000 a year, The courses are Identical, but the men are not, “The whole idea of most testi- monials in advertising is based upon analogous reasoning. ‘1 took a bottle of your Purple Pills for Pallid Pessi- mists,’ claims Mrs, Winona Dusen- berry of Tulsa, Okla. ‘and now smile at my son-in-law,’ Very interestin but that proves nothing as regards me. My constitution might not sim. arly respond, : Analogous reasoning proves noth- ing, Hut most people are not able to Copyright, 1016, by The Prem Publishing Co. pon tie a New Yorn Enealag World) 6c ID you pay that bill at Bep- D ler the butcher's?” asked Mrs, Jarr. “Sure,” replied Mr. Jarr, “I stopped here just now and settled it.” Well, [ bad half a mind not to pa began Mrs. Jarr. You had a whole mind to that ef- fect,” interrupted Mr. Jarr, “I paid it “It's all the same; it will come out of my money,” retorted Mrs. Jarr, “And now I won't be able to get my new hat fixed. 1 had the feathers on that old shape fixed over at the curl- er's—oh, It's a good thing you have & saving and economical wife—and all I need now {is one of the new shapes and some other trimmings— and it's terrible what they charge you for the trimmings of a hat—and now I haven't the money to pay for the shape and fixings, just through your paying that old bill!" Here Mrs. Jarr paused for breath and Mr, Jarr got a chance to say: “Yes, 1 did,” replied Mrs. Jarr, “but Bepler sent his boy around with the most impertinent note. d he hed to pay his bills to the wholesalers at the end of the month, and he must have our account at least settled in part, as it had been running a long time, I was so mad that I just made y mind never to deal with him “Well, the man has have his money, you know,” said Mr. Jarr, “But why insist on us paying? Other people don't pay,” said Mrs. Jarr, “and I think that's the way they do with people who are prompt and honest. They get after them if the: simply owe a fow dollars. And T will say this too, that when | do pay I pay cash. Mrs. Stryver lets her count run for a month and then only sends a check. I would rather than owe anybody a cent, but I wish we were moving! I'd like stick those people! to ac “They generally find you, and then they are very ugly," said Mr. Jarre, said quar- I neo that the anal has had another silde| ott | | Miss nooks ou to) Sr 4 : Snooks appeared and| ag Yes, indeed,” said Popple gravely.| Miss Primm made good her threat, | | She had a run for her money,’ "Oh, Mr, Snooks,” she said. “Bob-| Miss Primm turned to Miss Tillie, bie took occasion a moment ago to the blond stenographer, the Y}insinuate that I talk too much other member of the office force who around her I don't like t ‘a hadn't indulged in a jont | ‘The boss fro at the boy. “Bol iss Tillie,” she said, “you seen) bie,” he said sternly, “you must quit| to be the only person here besides| calling attention to people's weak- | myself who isn't: imbued with the nesses in this office. Do yo hear?’ idea that cheap humor i# funny, I| "Yes, sir," replied the boy. | congratulate tb cismeancccen Mr. Snooks retired in his private 01 said Miss Tillie. | roo: Silence sp e1 | FARA oul weld room, Silence spread over the little bagging of a bag-snateher? “On!” said Miss Primm, deeply ‘That's terrible. nothing further to say sul.” “Then this he bout the frowning 1 nave! keep » humor does ottice a moment, arose, mn. with a grin To-Day ’s first meeting of the Liberty No man can make good bis bad | Columbus, Ohio, just exactly thre Anniversary Thomas Morris for V Then Miss Primm have no use for brainless peo- she sald, as she flounced out of Sort o’ hates herself!” said the boy | curately with her eyes Presi- the forerunner of the In 4848 the Liberty Party was | Republican Party, was held in| merged with the e Soll Party, | which soon afterward was incorpor- ated with the Republican Party. quarters of a century ago to-day.|” Rirney, the party's candidat | | The party had for its main purpose] President, was a native of Kentucky, | the abolition of sjavery, and where for years he was | | its adherents were m u [ie Be been to adveo Al wealtn and talent in the North. In| qiaves, He founded ‘@ paper, The| 1843 a national convention was held] Philanthropist, in Cinelnnatl, but his in Buffalo at whieh Jar G. Birn plant was wrecked and the press| | was nominated for the Pr thrown Into the river. see that it doesn't, In the majority of cases it carries conviction.” “You told me I must drop im and pay | | “If they were ugly with me when / the bill, didn't you?” | they did find me, then I just wonldn't “Eyesight Memory ?”’ Try This Look at This Picture and See How Many of the Articles You Can Name Five Minutes Later. Have You Good HF ability to remember accu- Ab rately what one has seen after the eye has been directed at a group of objects is a gift given few persons toevena moderately satisfac- tory extent. The wom- an Who, an hour after- ward, describe in detail everything worn by the woman to whom she was “merely in- troduced” 4s a* person of real mental prow-: ess, She possesses “eyesight memory” which is merely the ability to observe ac- and to store away @ record of her observa- tions in an indexed mental filing cabinet. To teat “eyesight memory” @ recent 6x- periment was tried on a large group of testi- monial students with some startling results, Popular Sclence On @ board were mount- twenty objects, ten of them ng ordinary household articles and ten of them simple mechanical electrical objects, This is repro- duced in the accompanying photo- graph. The numbers are not on the board itself but are used in the il- lustration for the sake of identifica- tion. ‘The board was displayed before the classes and the observers allowed to look at it fer half a minute; then the exhibit was covered and was white, while others said it was ‘black or yellow; only a few said it was brown or buff, out A curious fact brought by this test was that nine out of ten put down on their list articles | they }which were not on the board at all; | of the Pay them one cen: emphatically. “And if they didn’t find you? Mr. Jarr “Well, as long as they didn’t find me T wouldn't pay them, of course,” said Mrs. Jarr, “Anyway, I've paid them enough.” replied Mrs. Jarr asked “That's what they all say Mr. Jarr, “But 1 suppose it's human nature when people say: ‘Now, that you have been so nasty about this old bill I won't pay you at all for spite!”* “Oh, of cocurse, | might know you'd have something mean to say about it!" said Mrs. Jarr, “But you are remarkeq ; away all day, and I am the one that has to meet the bill collectors, You don't have to put up with the Im- pudent things they say. Did you pay Bepler personally?” “I did, but that's what kept me,” remarked Mr, Jarr, I stopped in his store and his wife wasn't there, nor he wasn't there. Nobody but that half-witted clerk of his, And I had to wait till the clerk could get somebody to go look for Bepler, It took them fifteen minutes to find him And yet every time | passed this Place and I hadn't the money in my clothes to pay his old bill he would be at the store door eyeing me as if | T were robbing him and he knew it. The clerk would be on the sidewalk with the delivery boy, and they would * gave at each other as if they were saying: “There's a guy who has swung the boss good and plenty!’ and all the little Beplers would be hanging out window with a look in their eyes that seemed to say, ‘Ooh, popper could take us to the movies every week twice if that Mr. Jarr would pay his bill" “Yes; ['ve noticed that, too,” aaid Mra, Jarr. "When | go to pay my bill nobody is around, nobody is in the store to seo me pay it, and one doesn’t seem to gel any credit "You've had the credit, now you're paying.” interposed Mr. Jarr “Well, I want the credit for th paying as well as the credit to get the things,” replied Mrs, Jarr, “but, {as you may, when one hasn't the money you see them all standing look- ing at you us if you had cheatell Fite u—Keys them and never intended to pay, And 7—Fly Swatter 12-—Pipe when you have w pass them they S—-Biock of Wood Basen | Nie }look at each other as if they wished 10—Incandescent Lamp 15—Fork you no harm, but they hoped you'd were asked to write down the articles) they drew on thelr imaginations, but | fall and break your leg." which they had seen. Several saw] their guesses were not right, Of this| “Well, if we ever Go move'-—— gald ly three or four of the articles; the] entire class the best ot a Mr. Jarr, erage for an entire class was but] fourteen out of the ° "Wheat good would that Go, Smenmane eight. equivalent to 70 per cent.; the average Some of the men said the color of was 40 per cent., and the poorest was the burlap which covered the board 15 per cent. correct, know where you work, Jarr t =