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See H _ United States penny, j ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Ganges. by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 63 to 43 Park Row, New York. J. ANGU. JOSHPH PULITZE: Entered at the Post-Office at Ne Bubscription Rates to | | York an Second-Class Matter, The Evening|For England and the Continent aaé All Countries tn the International Postal Union, World for the United Btates and Canada. One Year. $3.60) One Year. One Mont 3010) 60.78 Month.. 6 + NO, 20,227 DISPOSE OF IT. HE longer report and hearsay are allowed to busy themselves T over the alleged leak of information concerning the sending of the President’s peace note, the more certain it becomes that the whole matter should have been investigated and cleared up as soon as the first hints were made a subject of public discussion. Directly it is hard pressed for facts, rumor grows reckless and tries to justify itself by random naming of names and hasty scrabbling together of second-hand evidence. “I heard it from several sources,” declarod Representative Wood when questioned as to the origin of| “a common rumor prevalent for several days.” | “I don’t thipk I can recall just who told me. I heard it many times. I haven't taken the names of all persons who | @ave me information.” On the strength of nothing better than common gossip, charges reflecting upon the honor and good faith of various persons, including] public officials, have been permitted to circulate and collect force from calumny until the whole thing has become an unseemly and disgraceful scandal in the eyes of the nation. Not only in justice to men whose integrity is brought into ques- tion, but alsd for its own sake, the public demands a quick and thor- ough probing of these accusations. The country has plenty of serious! problems to claim ite attention and thought. Continuance of scandal based on rumor and hearsay wastes its time and tries its pa Get to the bottom and let’s have done with this one. a MAIL TUBES SHOULD STAY. HE financial argument, from the Government’s own standpoint, against the proposal to discontinue the pneumatic tube mail service in this city is thus succinctly put by the New York Chamber of Commerce: The growth of the postal business in New York City has been from $8,154,000 of gross revenue in 1897 to $33,518,250 in 1916, A large part of this growth has been the result of steady improvement and expansion in the mail transporting facilities by underground tubes, so that a net surplus revenue exceeding | $20,000,000 @ year over and above the cost of the New York« City service now accrues to the Federal Post Office Depart- ment, largely by virtue of facilities which it ts proposed to restriot rather than extend. ~ Leave out of account the injustice of slowing down still further thia city’s mail service and of putting in operation several hundred more motor mail trucks to add to the perils of its street3. What sound reason, even of economy, have the Federal Post Office authori- ties so far advanced for depriving New York of ite pneumatic mail tube system? From every point of view the plan is profitless. From every point of view the plan is a mistake. It is about time some one in the | Host Office Department showed sense and courage enough to admit) the blunder. . jience. ‘\ | 4 = SHADE TREES FOR MANHATTAN. O TEACH Manhattan residents to plant trees in the streets in! T front of their houses is a job Commissioner Ward of the Park, Department promises to undertake at once in anticipation| of spring. The good wishes of all tree lovers speed him in his task. The} people of Manhattan have for 80 many years looked upon brick, stone. or pavement as possessing preponderant rights over green leaves or| grass that they have pretty nearly forgotten what a shady street is. The Park Commission will remind them by selecting half a dozen} blocks in several uptown and downtown sections for demonstration. | lf they like the samples, residents elsewhere have only to organize,| decide what kind of tree they prefer for their block and purchase as many as they need. The Park Department Will show how the trees should be eet out and take care of them after they are planted, “Uniformity is the keynote of correct street tree design,” the Commissioner points out. “Individual planting, therefore, should not be undertaken wherever it is possible to secure joint action on the! same block or in the same neighborhood.” Evening World Daily Magazine —_— — fre Cage The Best Thing He Does «xiii, ee | Se EINES eee ae zn — j By J. H. Cassel | Fables of Everyday Fol ks Copyright, 1917, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Krening World.) friends, Jo! Friendship and Busines: NCE upon a« time there were two hn and Jim, They had known each other for a were members of the same crowds and cliques. One day Jim left town to go to work in the big city. long time. In fact, they had been chums at school, When they came together they al- ways recounted “those good old days" when they had played boy- ish games and beaten each oth- er, As young men they went to the same parties and little John regretted the parting, but letters passed be- tween them and the friendship was | Kept alive. Each followed his line of | business and succeeded fairly well. |Then came the day when Jim, the The community idea has taken hold of New York in several directions. Why not community tree planting? Few could do more toward supplying beauty and comfort whero they are| sorely needed, Letters From the People Seeks Origin of 0. K, Five to Fifty Centay 1.75, To the Piitor of ‘The Bvening World To the Palitor of The Brening World know the original words of John was invite movements! man," as he was the best friend. man of the city, found the girl of his cholee and married her. Of course, i to be the st It was a@ lovely wedding, and John into bh | stayed awhile to “aoe the city.” | looked is business. He about him and saw various | opportunities for getting a better plan Hoe decided that if he came to the city to live he could create a bigger scope for himself and What {# @ copper penny of 1813. &9t greater returns, Also, he thought A STEADY READER, | worth and a one dollar gold piece of what a good thing tt would be to be N. B—This expression or abbre-| 1856. 3} near a friend lke Jim, and what it Viation has been attributed to severat Any Library, would mean to him arly Americans of note who were | ™ the Péltor of The Evening World He discussed the prospects wit unlettered men, and is said to have|, Where can I get Julen Verno's| _—° sabia ss ERAN books? READER been put upon an order as the first leiters of “all correct,” the writer ‘Ten Cente, Uhinking that the spelfing was “oll | 7 the Faltor of The Evening Work korre ud What is thé value an 1828 half cent? Db Euntuns Noy No Arrows at Date or HIS te the birth J Rays o nile 825-8100, $1.75 Each, baie birthday of Joan me the Eiitor reaing World ‘TD the FAitor of The Evening Worst of Are, It was on the What is the rank a graduate of| Please inform me what ts the value 6th of January, 1412, just Annapolis receives upon appointment | Of two one-dollar gold pieces, No, t,, 605 years ago to-day, that Joan to the t Navy? A says ensign, 1 | dated 1851, No Hated 1853, | Was born in the village ef Dom- says lieutenant. Are there more FTW | samy, the dauanten atiineation’atace women than men tn this country? Sunday. i What value bas an 1853 bulf dollar? — | To the FAitor of The Erening Workt and his wife, Isabel Romes, Joan had 3. M. On what day did Aug. 12, 1877, full?) three brothers, all older than perself, waiiven \G.8. W, anda younger sister, The glorious life To the Kaitor of The Evening World #1.75, story of Joan has been told in many If a young man who fs not a citizen | Me Editor of The Evening Workt (tongues and at great length, Mark of the United States and who Is past} What ts an 1863 gold dollar worn? Twain wrote a life of Joan that fills Mistuncle, who is acitisen ‘ot ine No. ©: | two volumes, and which ranks among United § docs that make this | To the KAitor of The Eveuing World his masterpieces, and if that unbeliever young man a citizen? When @ per-| Is there a law that no Catholic may | bowed down in reverence before the son registers to vote must tell |be President of the United States? maid, is it to be considered remarkable whore he was born? 1 M. GF that those of greater faith, with Imag- Three to Twenty-five Conta, Mo inations fired by a struggle for na- Bo the Eaito. of The Evening Woris To the Baitor of The F tional existence, believe firmly and Lot me know the vajue of an 1803! ‘Tell me what day offthe week fervently that Joan in shining armor E, A, Sept, 26, 1881, fell on, ¥, J} HOLT, ‘ ptild leads them in the charge? Jim, and as Jim did not know any- thing about John's business © sug- gested that he had best seek the ad- vice of some one more in touch with the situation. But John decided that Nothing argued, So a and bank account to the scene of the new hope Of course, Jim helped tim to get settled, ‘put him wise” to many things, and acted as all good friends do. John finally established himself, and proceeded to develop his com: ercial activities. Many a time he alled upon his friend Jim to intro- duce him and to give advice in vari- he would take the chanc ous way, and Jim was never found! hadn't the money and Jim had to pay wanting. jit ‘This happened on two or three Ing @ grievance in the style to which she was accus- t the other tomed, wives, who The had been close Copyright, 1917, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) ‘6 PRE'S a very interesting article about the Cygnese people,” sald Mrs, i It says the Chinese pay all thefr debts and get new clothes when the new year begins with them. We should do the same.” “We would, perhaps, if we knew when the new year began for them, but we can't do it when the new year begins with us," ventured Mr, Jarr. “The new year began for us some days ago, and here we are in the new year with the old debts—and the old clothes!" “Well, what the poor heathen Chi- nese do we should be able to do!” suggested Mrs, Jarr. “Not at all, not at all!" interrupted Mr, Jarr, “The Chinese cut off thetr Pigtails some years ago—did we?” “What Jar nonsense!" snapped Mrs, “We had no pigtails to chop Mr. Jarr was going to remark that he had no money to pay old debts or buy new clothes, either, but thought {t best to be silent, “L was going to say," remarked Mrs, Jarr, putwng aside her news- paper, “I was going to say you need & new sult of clothes, and you should £0 to business well dressed and look- ing prosperous in the new year, and if you didn't waste your money on your cronies—like that man Rangle— you could get @ new sult. do.” “Oh, don't be picking on poor Rangle," Mr. Jarr protested, “Pick on the Chinamen, but lay off poor Chinamen I should think you would have sens enough by this time to give up peo "s worse than a Chinaman, and| ple of that sort!" remarked Mrs, Jarr/ “What good do they do to you? wis! crites,” said Mre. Jerr, the vicinity of the dis. “You never tressed craft, hid The Womanof It | _____—s&BBy Helen Rowland - Copyright, 1917, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Rrentan Wentt) <i She Decides That She'd Rather Be Patronised Than Idealiued, ‘6 OU don't UNDERSTAND me!” exclaimed the Widow, petulaatiy etabbing an oyster, as @he finished trying te explain, for the fourth time, how she had happened to keep the Bachelor & whole hour while she decided between @ pair of) rhinestone and a pair of silver elipper buckles, “No—thank heaven!” acquiesced the Bachelor, cheee= fully. “I don't want to, That would spoll everything” “Of course,” rejoined the Widow, “if any man ever did think he understood a woman it would break bis heart! He would no longer have @ cute, deep, dart, lttle pleture pu: either patronize her or idealize her. He could mo longer ‘treat her either aa @ goddess or a kitten.” “Which do you prefer?” broke in the Bachelor, des- perately. tne kitten role, infinitely!” anewered the Widow, without hesite- 4 | tion, “Do you remember that old legend about the woman who was wooed by both @ god and @ mortal and deliberately chose the mortal because she couldn't endure the thought of being snubbed and patronised in Olympus? Well, I used to think her wise, but I've changed my mind, I've come to the conclusion that it's much more comforting to be patronized than to be idealized, after al oe UT what's to prevent a woman from being both?” | Bachelor, with true masculine complacency. | “Nothing,” returned the Widow, laconically, “In fact, she I6— most of the time. That's the bitterest part of her fate, Every man insists | on idealizing her before marriage. No matter how frank ehe is, no matter | how much of the brutal truth she tolls him about herself, he persists im | making @ graven image in her likences and draping it with all his ideals and illusions, Then he marries her, and of course the honeymoon goes down with a bang the moment he discovers she is actually human. That's | where he stops idealizing and begins patronizing th a oA | “Where he stops toasting her and begins roasting her, you mean,” \ grinned the Bachelor, “But if a woman can successfully bluff a mag’ el? during an ordinary engagement why can't she keep right on"—— ¢ “But a woman DOESN'T ‘bluff’ a man!” exclaimed the Widow, tndig- nantly. “He ‘bluffs’ himself! No woman starts out with the deliberate intention of deceiving @ man—at least she wouldn't tf she could foresee what a terrible strain it would be trying to live up to his ideal,” remarked the Bachelor, with a shrug. “T never observed that they went to any great pains to conceal their good pointe— or to reveal their bad ones, They always turn the sunny side of their natures toward you, and take out all their little parlor tricks an@ 4 show you how clever and how sweet and domestic they are, and never let you catch them without their war paint and powder, or with their hair er their tempers out of curl. : “And if they did,” rejoined the Widow, “you would merely thing them ‘cute, or ‘spirited,’ or ‘original,’ or ‘independent,’ or something. You wouldn't be convinced.) Any woman who ever tried to be perfectly frank » and honest with a man'who was in love with her has given up in despair | after the first attempt. His eyes are so dazzled by the rosy glamour ef romance that nothing but a blow from an axe could open them. But if a girl actually COULD start out by convincing a man that she was @ demon, instead of a stained-glass saint, she would be lota happier with him. Them every time she did anything she OUGHT to do she would receive the Irom Cross or a Carnegie medal—instead of receiving a frown or. @ criticiem or a black mark every time she did anything she ought NOT to do.” 667 HEN if you had been the lady in the legend you would have IE chosen the god who despised you rather than the mortal whe worshipped you?" inquired the Bachelor, | “It would have been lots easier,” sighed the Widow, “than living up te } an ideal, Most women prefer to do all of the worehipping, anyhdéw, But ES ought to be something between the two—something just ' bumam uired the enough to understand you, and just divine enough to inspire you; ‘just foolish enough to adore you, and wise enough not to idealize you: godlike enough to be respected, and ghildiike enough to be petted dled" —— J bi “There is, there le!" broke in the Bachelor, desperately, “There te @ 1- god.” . i dent E Seand 04," repeated the Widow, “What's that?” 4 “That's what the average mun thinks he 1s,” returned the Bachelow! | with a chuckle. The Week’s Wash | outfit. “Naturally the Republican leaders \ New York City in the Btate to play with, He would no longer @ | correct the unsightly wobble and help to maintain the perfect balance. ro down 0, that it will ric exactly without ie lumen efteat, = af | ( dest ana t John got on—that 1s, he did well. He | ovcasions, until Jim rather tired of : + also succeeded socially, Jim having! playing the benefactor. By Martin Green taken him under bia wing. | Pretty He reflected that if John hadn't | a = - ry soon he too met the “only girl” and | been a clo: rend he would not have | Ne “ married. Being a city girl, of a) gone so fa 1 if they had been | Copyright, 1017, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New Yort Prentng Wortd,) well-to-do famnlly and never having! strangers ho could have collected | ¢¢ ~ T lat.” remarked the head) and spent it all. The indorsed earned a dollar, she not know) what was coming to him, Soon thelr “ their action by re-elect! ‘whote much about economy. So John had Aratian and rast A polisher, “the Intereats of | y ing the to work very hard to maintain things Senate are to be looked after by 4 take the indorsement of the people 4 | Thus he sought to enlarge his busi-| friends, also’ felt estranged and the Committee controlled completely Wee cities ence vane — py! ness, He had to have a loan of good fellowship was broken up. It the New York City Senators. | ft from them to tube a deal ens Uae money. It happened that it was tio: | w \s Yours before they came toxether| “1 wouldn't get fanatical about 1%." | people's voice, a large amoun' id when he applied again, long after the debt was paid, | " Pe fa) 4 ‘ to Jim, his friend, Jim signed the | — Hoth realized this morals P | sald the laundry man, “It {8 an inn i ‘Kear not. re Republican major note. | The greatest friendship recognizes| vation, but it doesn’t spell anything | Ittes ip tl ig ped ae on the When {t came due, however, John) that business Is business. |tor New York. This well known | Commit He ets oot We Poe ene i Sema | sucker elty will continue to get !t 1n City any more than a burglar woul@ — = a an ————— the neck with unf@iling regularity. overlook the open door of a safe.” ; y B I nN x In fact, it wouldn't surprise me to « : , Nar eipicintriniaAipies caicces | e arr aml y y Roy |e 1 AcCardell find that the new committee will find | $ Page Billy Sunday. } — : — —__ — — _ NE EOL SE more efficient methods of walloping Ann the metropolis. they buy you clothes when you need) catch women clubbing in buying any- | without in any way pinning med- | 6 I ee sernieramnte 2 bers, them, as you do now?’ thing for another woman save the} ais on the Tammany members of the! phia establish our Quaker # "No, neither will any one else, not retiring President of a club. It's Legislature, it must be admitted that burb it h ” even the Chinese,” said Mr, Jarr,!enough to have to fight with her| 7 sUbUrD B® Guile & Deche: mm sht with her | they do more fighting for their own suggested the head polishor. gloomily, clique to re-elect her, or with the/town than, their Republican cul-| “it is too bad,” pala the k ‘ “Well, 1 want you to get a suit of other clique to have her deposed.” | jeaues. ‘Tite reason ta clono at band.|men, “that ther’ ort dice't the clothes” Teplied Mra, Jarr, “1 want) “Well, I'm through,” remarked Mr.| ‘Tammany members are for New York| piace here, ‘The Philadephia pagan you to get them this week. You have/ Jurr. “The whole thing is overdone. | City first, last and all the time, but| snd ministers would have baa the money.” | {t's simply lack of moral courage. | the Ri f ° ° *. the Republican legislators from tls] an elegant chance to talk about "T had to epend a iittle of It,” sald) These gift things are seldom got up| city are for the Republican party| wickedness of New York,” Boom Mr. Jarr, for anybody who needs it, Generally | first and the city second, third or even| tbere in Philadelphia you'll find ‘On what?" asked Mrs. Jarr, Sus-\ diamond stickpins are voted to peo-| further in the rear. Tammany is ped Fe goer bunch of pletenaly, a cater blo who can afford 4o buy them, and! never in power long enough to do| wouldn't Rolarate Coenen een ‘Oh, well,” said Mr. Jarr, “there) gold watches to those who have|much and when the Republicans aro! It takes eomething like the was @ collection for the office help, | them." in power the minority leaders of the| case to bring the tacts to Ne and I had to remember the postman, “And do you mean to tell me you| Senate and the Assonbly got up fre-| You'd never think euch oom and what with this and that and the! haye been buying present t | quently and voice the claims of the | could suet in a place @#o Pay other, and subscriptions taken up for Ying prosents for outs | City of N'Yawk and then quit as soon | Purified by Billy Sunday, Povighe DUPAs ee NE siders, a8 scarce as money has been| as the echoes of thelr voices die, be- |, "However, such @ ortme te te @ present for the general superintend-| tiiy year?” ayked Mra, Jarr causo the only Way they can get any. | happen anywhere, People ere ent, some of it went.” | "No," sald Mr, Jarr, “and 1 won't, | #28 t all Ls in trade with the party | Bhat it ay York, “A present for that man?” asked) neither, unless—bere he grinned— ‘euBhe city Republicana in the Legis- | Biggsville, iinots,’ and pointe weet 4 4 Mrs, Jarr in gurprise. = "Why, 1) “ICs for @ costly tribute to some| lature, with a few exceptions, forget | od south, Making over the humen thought nobody liked him. prominent Chinagnan that there is a New York City as face le a Sow process, because the “Nobody does,” replied Mr, Jarr. ee goon as they cross the Albany DrIdgO | tel" race 1# constantly renewing e 5 @ nant § quite necessary for their po! 3 "That's the kind of fellow who always! RADIO SAVED EIGHTY SHIPS IN | cal Prins and prospects that the: Cnn, 4 gets a gold watch or a fob set with FISCAL YEAR 1915-16, |march to the tune played by th { That's Diff diamonds if he stays, and if he leaves) The September number of the | UP-Stite Republicans who control th 4. erent ‘ he get ig dinner, and every time] Radio Service Bulle the | party and deliver the vote, The up- it *r| Department of Commerce, contains a| State treasury and the demands of “eh everybody rises and sings ‘For He's) very interesting list of marine dis-, the up-State organizations are con- | dene eure eave Prats § Such a Jolly Good Felow,’ when If asters in which wireless figured for | Unually growing more rapacious, peg , Wilson'a peace message? everybody had thelr way they'd throw | the fiscal year ending June. 1916, nie. Sines imwee SOmenom the. sity | Deal 11 4 0 y es cited in the | must suffer. We ; 0 y." replied th (bim off the dock But tf i's @ good) wie ona the Lives of thovoniins of |Mnother direct tax, although Gov.|man, "the Colonel doesn't A fellow he gets nothing if ho stays or) persons were saved, all due to the |Whitman admitted the last one was| the Japanese conned hii iy heaves.” 18 O 8 call unnecessary. At least half that tax/the kibosh on the i. ate | “Lean't understand that,” sald Mrs.| It J» quite evident, in looking ove: | should have been held over as 4 eur- | War just when the Rumsiany 'Jarr. “Why is it?” this large number of ma- | Buus The Republicans took a chance ‘ginning to lane were beq . fa ° prin d ters, that in a very ree {| “r don't know,” replied Mr! Jarr,) porcenta of them there would have " Ry “except that everybody is afraid a! been practically, and without doubt, HE uneven swinging of clock ULKY-LOOKING repairs to autos jsuy like that may come back, or else|* teal loss of Uife had it not bees | pendulums is generally due, not} mobile tires are often caused byt: lit he t# going to a new job that thoy| fo" ,the, i them, says the ‘Hleetrieat to incorrect balancing of the the overlapping of the new” ‘may be out of work some time and | ixperimenter pendulum (eERE but to 8 tiny kink! plies of fabric on the old, saya Pope | thave to apply for a place and he will) In ome cases the ship in distress poy icy ne passes We If tho face | Wr Sclence Monthly, When @ Jremember the applicant as one who| fin. 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