The evening world. Newspaper, December 30, 1916, Page 8

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ‘Pudlisdes Daily Except Sunday by ihe, Frese Sublishing Company, Nos. $8 to ' New RALPH PULATZ: J. ANGUS BHA’ JOSEPH PULITZER, at the Post-Office at Nr tes to The Evening Bec 'y, 63 Pa York as Gecond-Class Matter, yt England and the Continent rg for the United States All Countries tn the International end Canada, Postal Union. + 08.60/ Oho Year. o.ssessees +30|One Month... VOLUME 87... .0..ccssseseweeecereeseesensesss NO, 20,220 1916. | YEAR of continued war and violence. A year of problems and, complications. A year of intense activity for most civilized! peoples.” A year of contests—physical, economic, political. | A year of campaigning, controversy and contention. A year of plen-| tiful doubt and discouragement. BA RETREAT hae ae ite gant “ty — who forever go on the theory that they were hired to do only certain things. “People who proceed on the care- free belief that they must follow one ne never get any further from the ne. “Just think what could be accom- plished in this world and how easy everybody's burdens would be if each man measured up to his job. “The failures of the world are due to the man who is not efficient enough to look forward and who sees only his immediate work—who gots {t over and then gets over it. He never gets under it and boosts himself out of it. That is why’so many people remain in the same rut from one New Year to the other.” I believe that this man ts right, if the hundreds of letters I have re- celved during the year from the seeker of success are any criterton, I find as a general thing that he has had somebody else to blame, or has lacked the nerve to shoulder more than he had to. Thus there is one New Year resolu- tion that has a surety of success and also one that can be kept going once it is begun. For one success 1s a spur to another, A few ways by whlch it may be accomplished are these: Don't “let George do it'’—o it your- self. Keep your eye on the man ahead and work toward him. Look for live men's shoes instead of dead ones, for live men are always growing out of theirs, Write the letter of recommenda- tion for the worker who needs to go forward, Don't stand in the way of an em- ployee who can better himself on the grounds that he is @ necessity to you. You will never get the best out of him anyway. It is good for you to talk often with the man lower down {f you want to hold your place higher up. Remem- ber that women workers are the mothers of the race. Remember that courtesy and courage go hand in hand and that one without the other creates the coward. Understand that what the world wants is the fellow who can devise new ways and new evstems of doing things better than the fellow before. This is an age of efficiency. There {es no room for drones. And when you are all huddled ae in @ corner and think you are in the “down and out club” remember there {s always somebody willing to start your hu- man engine with his human heart beats, but that it 1s up to you to keep it going. Such charity 1s truly the “chiefest” and ever present. Shoulder the New Year by taking the burden and blame as well as the blessing, The Week’s Wash By Martin Green | 3 And yet, withal, a year wherein Progress has still contrived to/ Ye leave a few landmarks and set up a few guide posts. For example: | In the closing weeks of 1916, Peace—despite difficulties and; | obstacles, despite protest and defiance—has managed to climb above the horizon and hang there as a star of hope. Who saw it this time # last year? | During 1916 the Prussian military machine, the most dreaded; | force of the kind in the world, delivered its supreme stroke—in vain. | | From February to November it hammered at Verdun only to fail utterly. Thereby it was demonstrated that the irresistible force, can at least be met by an immovable and insurmountable obstacle. | Who could have been 60 sure of it a year ago? | 1916 has seen Germany cease to talk of dominating the world} hy with Kultur. Now it is “fight to save Germany her place among f nations.” Was it thus a year ago? | The United States, enjoying peace and prosperity, has nevertho-} leas had to go on steering a course for neutrality through the welter| of war. There is no calm yet, but is the ship less etanch or the com- pass less true than twelve months since? The people of the United States had this year to choose a President. Did they finally let themselves be persuaded away from| administrative achievement, consistency and continuity by the money | ; and promises of a party desperately determined to regain power? This yéar a United States Supreme Court Justice climbed down| from that august bench and stumped the country as the Presidential candidate of plutocracy. Did the people of the United States ap- prove his act? . Six months ago hyphenism, conspiracy, plots against the nation’s neutrality and the nation’s laws were eating at the fibre of Ameri- canism. Where are these diseases now? Is there one serious symp- tom left? e t The year’s prosperity brought evils along with blessings. At the beginning of 1916 the plunderers and the price boosters were already at work, With each ensuing month they grew bolder and more merci- r less. But the end of the year finds town, city, State and nation \p arrayed against them. Never has publicity so effectively shown up ‘ their methods or the law made greater efforts to land them in jail. ee Last August the country was threatened with the worst railroad strike in its history. This disaster was averted, largely through the action of the President, and out of that action has come an extension of the eight-hour-working-day principle which is likely to prove in the end an incalculable benefit to labor of all kinds. At the same time the right of labor to enforce its claims by bringing transportation ‘9 a standstill, halting industry and inflicting loss and possible star- 18, $2.7 ire petitine co by (i eal tla by one oe the mone sdege upon innocent millions, was brought 80 seriously in question New Teer. o'esttEes tails” | Who has made pie gatig ee oe ‘hat the public will never rest satisfied until some measure has been © spoke old Omar some eight|to provide opportunity for the man devised for its protection. hundred years ago, and, accord-| who will shoulder the New Year. The Mexican problem has not untangled itself during 1916. ing to ATE le A ate gga ae He: Bok SATIS OneD HAD ® $5 Nevertheless the people of the Urfited States can congratulate them- preter, our old ae Rubens lb Sanit x Detter | selves that, whatever mistakes may have to be corrected, by no act human philos-| job for him who can take charge of | has this nation altered its attitude of scrupulous, disinterested help- pe yl ype ee wish would write and ci j fulness toward a disturbed and disrupted people painfully groping saw the folly of fit aloud alia heGentoe: that the star law and leadership, is vag 40 6 aus he oie Segara poet ke The State of New York this year effected no change in its ad- de Leah a sald. . ministration. Its determined campaign for economy, however, 89 but these good puny Cele inerewer gh impressed its Governor that he has perforce taken economy conspicu- intentions and patie Be TEs 1 ilgh aigces 8g: ously into his progrhmme, where it was sorely needed. ee To ehel, This country ts rich beyond all The City of New York during 1916 faced a menacing traction qanstivd: thanilGee tintin coli’ Gee 4 strike and @ serious milk famine, Out of these experiences have | the samo as they do now. For Omur|do so every man has got to carry his come (1) a proposal to enlarge the powers of the Public Service Com- . v NR ay teed 8 ra De acti® man continued: “I am alck to mission in such degree as to insure to the public the use of its utilitios “* sbut was t sober Bea eee oni eaten neers in case of strikes and (2) systematic study of the problem of food] sy 4; oneminand ag apieces tore, pe has Setghed ihe Soak or Waeraar distribution and the surest means of eliminating the toll-taking| yet, according to the same source, plish results, middleman, Omar's “own frailties taught him the LE os retard zhere a Brg The city was also given this year a by no means reassuring view Hoag Gey vr senery Bie vires |\uals who atife initiative, let the other aby b . | 6 the responsibility and of the costly partnership into which it was shoved when its subway| ‘This still holds good to-day. Fx- ——— contracts with the Interborough were signed. Yet even that glimpse,|cept that charity has changed from disturbing as it was, taught its lessons and at least put upon a recon- ous OIA 1 DOERR! OO LPY E> stituted Public Service Commission a stronger and more compelling} Charity to-day ts the key that responsibility for the carrying out of public work. Opens the door to opportunity, Cova 1818, by The Fm Publubing Oo Mars has ruled the year. Literature, art and science have had | —————____—___—_ | 6s Tite Nes York Sree Word saad to pay him tribute. Peace, notwithstanding, records a few achieve-| To-Day’s Anniversa | W polisher, “now that the ments. i | Weil, Mali tated leila | ‘Scandinavian countries, The discovery by American chemists of dye combinations rival- nw firet written almanacs probe [Beira Var rera as ener Haye ling those for which we have relied on Germany is typical of awakened ably were compiled by the ‘ thous there might be some pe erican inventive enterprise which promises to put forth new Greeks of Alexandria between) “you may rest assured,” sald the “Peaceful submarines have crossed and recrossed the Atlantic) proclaimed the first of the month and Seen? mate Bence tbe § an dine carrying cargoes. The United States has talked with Japan by wire-| Posted @ notice of tts occurrence IN| was any sign lacking that Germany ‘ Bw @ public place. The first of the month | wants to quit it is furnished by the less. A woman has flown in an aeroplane from Chicago to New| thus came to be called The Kalends, eagerness of the Scandinavian coun York in record time. Liberty has been lighted with a light that)trom “I cali” of “I proclaim,” and) Win? pilus tne” geanuinevian will henceforth defy all darkness. ere the word “calendar” was de- countries, through the ir Gove ramenta | The best one can do for 1916 is to pick out bright spots on its), Prvbably the oldest calendar in ex: strings, althoukh the” Scandinavian grim and gloomy background. The brightest of all appeared just| Pompei. It was cut upon a square MirPiy As whole, may not agres eeen Cy Wass the world. {the odiac. ‘rhe srw dimanac priniad SM P2ehe gute’ ant'whil ats ane . : und i612 and ‘was published at Tiudar| neutral pations ‘may indorse it the ‘ Hits From Sharp Wits Hungary. ‘Tho first printed almanac | jagy from the United States of Amos bi Bt takes some men longer to tell! Wearing egm on one's tle Ih a sig | iaicndon’ printed i 1st he the iets Thy country is not bound up, ¢ what they don't know than it takes/of great wealth these days—Mil-|nrteenth and sixteenth centurias al- | LA® other neutral nations, to one wide 6 pan eel what they do know.—|waukee News | | | manasa fooame comparatively com: | “ive have stood by and watched the ae The war influence ts prominent in |Sontained many prognostications re. | oe aia tate Milan tae: wemenls boys turn out to be fashions. Men will stand it as long as are “raised for"?—Los the tailors do not insist upon putting them into Sootch kilts.—Baltimore American, fiome men are born has- eone—~ Deseret News, oe i garding “the Dispocission of the People and also of the Wether’--to as also instruc- and quote one of them, tion in “Phisike and Surgerye information about “Infortuna! to Bi \d Sell, take Medici Plant and Journey, &o,” have done the same by the Central Powers if they had been able to ac- cept our help, ‘The pro-Germans on this side have uttered continuous loud cries about our shipping munitions of war to England and France and Rus- aia, but you don't bear them eay any- thing when we ship munitions of war many under cover, vie the bland, “Uncle Sam has finally come to the conclusion that he {s suffering the in- evitablo fate ef the Innocent By- (stander, Ho realizes that his other name is Patsy Bolivar. ‘The fighting nations have kicked him in the shins, pulled his whiskers, knocked his hat off and thrown mud on ‘his boots. ‘They have elbowed him and jostled and thus far they have got away with it by saying ‘Excuse me.’ “Maybe the Scandinavian nation: don't know that President Wilso message to the belligerents 1s synony mous with the national air of the State of Missouri—You Gotta Quit < My Dog Arfund.’ But you at Germany hasn't made any o in reading the note, er has Great Britain. So tt » to pass that all at once sritain will be seized with a rning for peace as poignant as t which now afflicts the Central 4 Orr $ Anent Sunday Movies. } | “Ww HY are certain ministers so | dead set against Sunday | moving picture shows asked the head polisher, “Because a great many ministers | think the reason they can't pack their churches every Sunday night is be- cause the people are kept away from | the churches by the movi replied the laundry man, ‘The true condi- tion i# that if the average minister ould in some miraculous way crowd his church on a Sunday night with an audience not made up of people who have made a habit of going to church sald audience w@ild start for the air through the windows before he had spoken half an hour, “In connection with this religious agitation against the Sunday movies there has © about a curious alli- ance, The radical preachers are work- ing hand in hand with the saloon- keepers, “Of course, the saloons are not sup- posed to be open on Sunday, but they are, and the preachers have never been able to close them and never will be able to close them. When the saloons are closed they will be closed seven days in the week by the very people Who go to the Sunday movies, “Phe saloon keepers know that the Sunday movies draw from their back rooms tens of thousands of persons every Sunday afternoon and evening. They would like to see the Sunday movies eliminated, They figure that in straight competition with the churches, with all theatres and shows closed, the public would turn back to them.” —we 3 Our Masters’ Voice, { Brrr SEE,” said the head polisher, “that the restaurant and hotel keepers have ordered the cit- izeng of New York to celebrate New Year's Eve on Monday night.” “The longer you live in this town, said the laundry man, “' hotel d restaurant men convin: you that Jesse James was a oilags." " 14 ~ “He can for excitement, when all the By Helen Rowland Covrriaht. 1916, by The Prem Pubiiding Co, (The New York Drening World.) She Says “A Good Time” Is Merely a Matter of View-Pot é ‘ OWN in my home town,” remarked the Widow, ag she little grate fire, and watched the leaping way look in her eyes, “they are having ight! , “But I didn't know anybody COULD have a good away from Now York,” protested the Bachelor in mild surprise, “Of course, you didn't,” returned the Widow, with scornful little toss of her head. “After they have Il in New York for a few years, most people imagine it impossible to get a real thrill out of any other But {t all depends on your view-point—on your idea. what @ ‘good time’ really is, For instance, down they're dancing the Virginia reel and playing man's buff,’ and taking down the Christmas trees, the spoils, and snatching the last kiss letoe, and eating the last of the fruit cake, making love, and getting engaged"— “And up here,” put {n the Bachelor, “they're Just pi ting the finishing touches to their complexions, and OP# dering the taxi, and telephoning to make sure that table has been reserved, and that the champagne ts iced—and shudderin think how much they're going to spend to-night, and how badly th going to feel to-morrow. HE Widow laughed softly, as she turned to the mirror and started ap pin @ bunch of violets in her corsage, and to smooth out her lot white glove 's funny, isn’t it,” she sald, “what a variety of things may consti: ‘a good time!’ You can almost sum up a man's whole character, to his Idea of ‘a good time.’ For Instance, to one person it means notht less than an all-night revel at the restaurants, with champagne, and c rets, and flirtation, and fox-trotting; while to another it means more than a good book beside an open fire, or a ramble through the with a bonfire and a cold lynch, and @ boon companion. To one, it m staying up late enough to see tl in rise—and to another, getting up cnough to see the sun rise. To one it means scintillating at a twelve-c dinner party, and to another watching others scintillate at a beer-and-oh studio party. Some people never seem to find a good time, no matter they nd other people carry their ‘good time’ with them everywhere tl go! It all depends on who and what you are, and your frame of mind, your particular mood”"—— “And on how old you are,” sighed the Bachelor, “and how unsoph cated, or how blase; and on how many ‘good times,’ and what kind of times’ you've had before; and on your temperament, or your temper, your temptations—and your digestio “And on whether you prefer enjoying your days, or enjoying * finished the Widow. UT why can’t one enjoy both?” demanded the Bachelor, ‘Because,” explained the Widow with an impatient little shi Providence didn’t grant that much enthusiasm to any one hun being. But it's exactly Hike a man to fmagine that he can get twice as mu out of life as there 1s in it!" she added. “So long as his youth ¥ strength hold out, he tries to play all night and work all day; and then is shocked and hurt to discover suddenly that he hasn't an ounce of thusiasm left with which to enjoy either.” “Oh, I don't know,” protested the Bachelor cheerfully. take up golf or run a motor-car, pastimes have lost thelr thrills. “I suppose so,” agreed the Widow, with a sigh, as she drew on her “And a woman can always take up banting and New Thought, or stat ‘kindergarten’ of callow admirers, But thank goodness, I can still have 4 good time’ anywhere, where there 1s a person I Ilke, or a book I like, can do as I like!” “Listen!” sald the Bachelor, as the whirring of wheels and the toot! of a horn came up from the street. “There ts the taxi! And the table waiting, and the champagne ts ordered, and there'l be lots of 1, there that we don’t like, and we'll have to drink toasts, and mak: y and whirl tin rattles, and dance fox-trote, and pretend to be having glorious, joyous, uproariously good time"—— “cc TOP! Stop’ cried the Widow, putting her fingers in her S “You're spoiling everything! If you say another word, I'll stay home!” “WILL you!” erfed the Bachelor, catching her hands, and looking h fully Into her ey “Will you stay right here, by the fire, with—a pera you like? And read him something from—a book you like? And let hold your hand, as much as he—as you like?” w pulled her hands away, and began to clap them joyously. she exclaimed, dropping the furs from her white sh Because, if that’s your idea of a good time, you ARE a person I lik you an telephone them that I have a hi ache, or a sprained ankle, cr something; and that I'm perfectly delight I mean disappointed, not to come. But that I DO hope they'll all have @ good time—according to their poor, dim, artificial lights!" ” The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1916. by The Press Publishing Co, (Tbe New York Evening World.) ELL, sweetheart, what reso-|me, what have you DONE!” lutions will you make for this | asked, wildly, New Year?" asked Mr. Jarr. | “Well,” said Mr. Jarr, “just b “J don’t need to make any resolu-| Christmas I took money from tions,” replied Mrs. Jarr. ‘Maybe !f| safe at the office, 1”— I did a lot of things that I should] “Do they know {t at the offic swear off or abstain from I'd be ap-|#asped Mrs, Jarr, preciated more. J hope, however, “Johnson, the cashier, does,” s; that you have made good resolutions Mr. Jarr. for the coming year and those to fol-| “What did you do with low, and I hope, still more, that you'll | money?” asked Mrs. Jarr, ’ keep them!” “I weaiaa be I spent it foolish! was the broken reply, low the good advice here proffered. Oe ee on @ woman? ci “4 "So far as you know, Tam all} yr, "sare could not bring hii right,” sald Mr. Jarr. gg. | 0 speak. He shook bis shoulders: “Oh, that's correct enough,” as sa @ convulsive affirmative, ‘Then, a! swered Mrs. Jarr. "You have been . es @ pause, he said hoarsely, his h clever enough to cover UP YOUF! sun in his hands, “Now you kn tracks, All men are, for a time at} 45 11 J you knogae least Mra, Jarr walked over and put lib | “Suppose I couldn't cover UD MY/arms around him. “She tempted y¥ tracks any longer," asked Mr. Jarr.| giant she?” ehe aeked, bd “what would you do?” Mr. Jarr nodded his head. “I “Oh, I guess you are not dotng any-!gho would be hurt if I didn't, | ning worse than what I know you do, Ps wanted to please het “What can you think of me?” jaybe you were not to bi: dear,” said Mrs, Jarr, softly, ‘although you never admit 1t,” sald | Mrs. Jarr, complacently, “Aren't women wonders!” cried Mr, ‘jarr. “A man wouldn't care to lve with a wife he hadn't any respect for, yet very few women will say they re- ect thelr husbands! A man wants to think his wife ts everything that's | good" —— | “And she generally | Mrs, Jarr. “But a woman wouldn't ever say " interrupted a kind word to a man!" remarked Mr, Jarr. “If a woman took seriously every- thing that a man does there would be universal divorce,” sald Mrs, Jarr. i"The trouble ts, women can't prove the things they know are true.” “If you knew—really knew—every- ‘thing about mo you'd leave mo?” | queried Mr. Jarr. | “Possibly if I knew—really knew— | only half,” said Mre. Jarr, calmly, | Mr, Jarr dropped his head in his {hands, “Oh!" he moaned, “and 1 thought I could tell you! And now, now I can't!" Mrs. Jarr jumped to her feet in jwild alarm, Curlosity is stronger than dread, Womanlike, she wanted to know the worst, “WHAT have you been doing? Tell way, I am not going to blame not just now, at lea: what we can do first. Is there way we can replace the money?” “I am afraid not,” muttered contrite man, “Tell me how much it was, you came to take it,” sald Mra, Ji “Well, you see, it was this way, whispered Mr. Jarr, squeezing the voted woman's hand. ‘There seventy dollars in the safe I had there to buy you a nice coat Christmas, So I took it out and got for you.” = He jumped just in time, Still didn't matter, Women never can anything they aim at, S IXTEEN hundred tons of chi é pits, n0w @ source of anng ance and expense to canne: can be made to yield two val ols and also a meal for feeding cat! according to specialists of the U, Department of Agricultu: In tion the 105,000 gallons of now wasted in seeding cherries be turned into desirable jelly 8 . or even into alcohol, says jar Science Monthly, —