The evening world. Newspaper, January 10, 1917, Page 18

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Entered at the Po: Pebscription Rates World for the United States and Canad a Pubiisned pasty excent Sunday by the Preas Publishing Company, Nos, 68 to 63 Park Row, New York, RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Ro J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZBR, Jr, Secretary, 68 Park Ri a The ivening |For Hngtand and the Continent and All Countries in the International Postal Union sae 08.80/One Year.....— tevecetooe Bt 120|One Month... o...:. sa reveeme # WHO’S IN CHARGE? HEN it comes to scandal sifting, deliver us from a Congres- W sional committee! One would suppose the nation’s legislators might ma: Gage to conduct an investigation of sneaking rumor and report in a @anner that would at least preserye their own dignity and preclude the possibility of anybody making monkeys out of them. Apparently it can’t be done, The present “leak” inquiry has ®apidly degenerated into nothing more or less than a personally Wirected exhibition at which a notorious megalomaniac from Boston ®an revel in the publicity he craves. Why should the Congress of the United States put ite nose be- tween the fingers of T. W. Lawson and lot itself be led merely on the strength of what he may pretend to know and promise to tell? Do Lawson's character or Lawson’s career proclaim him a man who never ®ays a thing he cannot prove? Does anybody really believe his talk about a “Senator, a Cabinet officer and a broker” in collusion to play the stock market rests on anything more substantial than intense Wesire to prolong the present performance as long as he can keep the entre of the stage? That this man should have been permitted to storm and swear « Legislative Committee, bandying shouts and insults with the mem bers, until even the official stenographer could make nothing of the bubbub, is an outrage of national dignity and decency. The House of Representatives can go on citing Lawson for con- tempt. But it can’t alter the fact that Congress so far has utterly iled to take command of the situation and that members of the Bational legislature apparently see no way to run down scandal save by trotting at the heels of an arch-publicity hunter. nT on “It looked to me as if the war could go on for ten years without victory for either side,” declares Alfred Noyes, the Eng lsh poet, Just back from Europe. If it strikes a poet that way, sive us a prosier view with more punctuation, CARTAGE AND THE COST OF LIVING. T angle from which to attack the problem of the rising cost of living. Director Rogers of the Census Bureau reports that for four im- Portant classes of commodities, coal, wood, milk, ice and department store merchandise, the expense of delivery or cartage one way aver- ages over eight per cent. of the total cost to the consumer. As might he expected, department store delivery, being the best organized, shows the lowest percentage. But in the case of milk and dairy | Products the proportion which delivery expense is found to represent $n the final selling price is 12 per cent.; for coal and wood, 19 per cent.,| @nd for ice 45 per cent. ME cost of delivering retailed commodities to city purchasers has been made the subject of a preliminary inquiry by the These figures, together with the fact that in the case of many | halt| MAN slgning himself “E, 11." of articles of food the amount received by the producer is only one. ©r one-quarter, or less, of the price paid by the consumer, lead § tary of Commerce Redfield to believe “that the item of city cartage alone would be great enough to justify calling attention to the very large sums that the community ts called upon to pay in maintaining the wasteful and highly complex systems of individual delivery which char. acterize retail distribution at this time.” Every city can furnish instances. Who pays for the three or four sets of milk wagons that serve the same routes here in New York | Who pays for the small, individual—and therefore comparatively ex- pensive—delivery service which competition compels every corner grocer to keep up? Who pays for all the double, triple and quadruple | handling of foodstuffs after their arrival in the city? Obviously, the consumer. Though retailers and all the rest can somehow always manage to combine against him, they never get round to co-operating with one another for something that might be to his advantage as well as theirs, Te Ee Obicago is wrestling with a full-size police soandal—vice graft, gambling graft, “little green book” and all the rest of it. New York knows the whole story, It got {ts full share of experience along that !ine. It fought police corruption, con quered, made its own terms, Peace and safety in that di- rection, it believes, are lasting ——-~ ele i > Letters From the People w * Cotus Valine. e Editor of The Evening World What is the value of a United States 20-cent plece, 1875, and of a quarter- frane piece 1840, Louts Philippe? Also, how may a fair valuation be| obtained of @ coin collection? ' From the numerous queries “Letters from the P regarding coin yalyes, there seems to be quite @ number of people having coin col lections, 1 should, therefore, judge Qn anewer to last question to be of general Interest. N, Be—-Nelther of ootne bears 4 premium. woelets: @ number of dealers in New York City who would value any collection Bee ciaraifed telephone diroctory | “Postage Stainps ask him how fast the ball would @ if the train ran in the opposite direc tion from the ball wn Y, Te B le Correct. will you kindly t. A. or B. A in| ®8y8 that @ child born in thie country | of Parents who are not eth aie a subject of the same government ao the father, 1. claims that a ohild born in thie country te a citisen whethor the father ts @ oitisen or not BY 1. FF. Thureday, To the Editor of The Bventeg World: On what day did July 8, 1866, fall? 1 New York Pablito library, To the HAltor of The Kyening World Kindly publish the name of a law brary whose facilities are free aud avetlable at night AHL A. Monday To the Malton of The Evening World) On what day did April 21, 1979, wW.c named under heading of ed you how fasta can. Bop ball with a apeod of 45 milew per | hour would go if shot from a twain | ®eing 00 milos por hour and in the! Department of Commerce in the hope of finding another | a fall? | Evening World D Anything to Beat Wilso ¢ 4 7. n” INVESTIGATION me Word) | ty Boy Famous 1 ‘i S Empress of the French. stead of building a new home. There Josephine was born. called Josephine at all, but Rose. the lofty name of Rose Tascher de la the little girl sim: The School Dunce. eee 1 was concerned, she guitar, Nor could her beauty and her charm | t | |By Sophie Irene Copyrigit, 1017, by Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Kvewiug Worl.) Brooklyn writes: “PL pub- lish an article on ‘What Is a Cultured Man? similar to the article on ‘What Ina Cultured Woman?’ pub- lished tn The Evening World Aus. adds for the article.” Here it 4 The article in question Is about a young woman |1 met last summer with simple man- jm and gracious attitude toward l every one--and which marked her the cultured woman. la |comfortable herself unless every one | around her is comfortable—the kind of girl you want to Invite to your home, because you know she will be ‘no trouble, She has had many ad- vantages, travelled much, but has re- mained unspolled, because she h learned the spirit of unselfishne 1 have seen such girls in the low- rroundings, It does not take " to be cultured. It ts rather a feeling of consideration for all with whom you come in contact : It is the same with man, What | characterized the "Cultured Woman constitutes the cul Ms correspondingly tured man. As tn the ¢ of woman, it does | To-Day’s Anni yersary | PANISH republicans, anarchists and radicals of all degroos celebrate tho tenth of January ae the birthday of Francisco Ferrer, who, convicted of having in- leited revolutionary riots In Barcelona, Ferrer was in remarkable man—a soctalists, wan executed in 1909, a wa, many fanatle of unbelief, who accepted {death as bravely as any martyr of the faith, That he Was unjustly con- vioted and executed haw wince been decided by Bpatn's tyibunal, which generally considered the case’ months after the death of the victim, and na gravely handed down a devision that Ferrer was inuocent of the won nade against hin! yer Was born in @ village near 1859, rly tn shop boy, and then fe he a tieket inspector on & Spanish rail fame Greccion as the ball, To the Baler of The Kvening World) tho he had few educ Your anewer, which wae 48 milee| How cant enter any of the evening MSY. Aianiten he was naturally Per four, Was correct, But som | Nigh mohoola in Hrovdlyn? Would Nie 1 etudent and spent all hia spare ether bean obleaied ‘to your to register for the February tern, Nn “pmding und ntudy tne potentitic saying Wat aceordi and phitosophtoal works, He early Ron's law the ual wow goin Mr, Rite Norton, Na. @ Nestor a1, Deoante an opponent ef the churel ant Per hour | To ve tathive of The Hroning W td a republican, and bis intullestus Teay thas the person who objecies | With whom ot Tcommuntoate ability won for him @ plave amony Ro your saver misunderstood New | to yo an ambulanes driver in Frange? of the Spaniah anti-clert- fe wtuiomeat, and I)would like w the lende eals and U-monarchiste, hot take money or position to mal him what he is, For example, L have found the cultured man in the farm- hand, in the subway worker, In the waiter. In a word, you will find him everywhere, It Ix because he ts made of the true character stuff, This is how you may recognize him He 4s the man who will not boast about his great success tn business, He will not scold a walter just be- cause he happens to be able to pay the price. He will be as courteous to his wife as to any olber woaun. He will remember that every wo- man belongs to his mother's sex, He will not run down his rival in business, for he will remember that there Is “glory enough for ali.” He will never forget to acknowl- edge a kindness. He will not impose the good nature of his friends nor wear out his welcome, ig He will understand that his moth- er-in-law is his wife's real mother. He will not thrust his knowledge before people, no matter how pro- foundly he has atudied. He will not be forever “throwing a Cultured Man? up" to his wife how he did her a favor by marrying her because she had happened to be poor. He will not tlk about the work- men as “poor devils” and be satis fied to let their condition go on, He will refuse to allow his son to become a snob just because he has the money to send him to college He will not consider his cl work done by simply signing a ch He will want to go into the byw and look for himself, He will tolerate his neighbors’ chil- dren, remembering that once he was one himself. He will always withhold bringing up sad reminiscences of “1 knew him when.” Ho will keep his voice low. He will be glad to take the hand of his old school friend, no matter how far apart their lives have led in the social scale, rity ys He will follow ‘the Injunction of and hig vife next Christmas, and then Kipling In shielding the Tae UMON ortatia’ (asthe ehumBlag beans’ to “If there be trouble herward, chump away mit the diamonds and And a lie of the blackest can clear,| we'd get ‘em hack.” Lie while lips can mov “rt py sce aes Or man 1s alive to hear.” T think Rafferty was playing a As | stated in the case of woman, culture is being simply yourself and recognizing the rights of others. Reflections of ____By_Helen Rowland _ Copyright, 1017, by ‘The Prem Publishing Co, (bi a Bachelor Girl | # York Evening World.) F a woman were given only three iainutes more to live she would proba- bly spend two of thein in powdering ber nose A bachelor's to cateh another idea of “freedom” is to get himself tangled up with half a dozen women just in order to} keep from getting ted up to one. Sometimes all a woman gets out of marriage is enough alimony to buy the sort of clothes with which husband, A woman is so pathetically anxlous to look up to the man she loves that if she married a worm she would dig a hole in the ground and craw! down into {t so that she could lay hor head on bis shoulder and murmur, “How tall you are, darling!" A fascinating woman ts ono who is just brilliant enough to see the) point of all @ man’s jokes and just feeble minded enough to think them all exoruslatingly funny, A real soul mate {s one that you honestly feel you could love juat as! rapturously at & o'clock on Monday evening. morning at 8 o'clock on Saturday Of course men no longer look for miracles, but none of them ever de- apairs of finding that impossible combination, a plump girl who looks | Intellisent lite friends, the Haltl- slim in her clothes, a saint with the fascination of @ siren and « Venus! cord Mesleanus, who can cook On tho wedding day bride and races for the bridegroom the clock either crawls or races crawls tor Bachelor; The “missing link" tu, the chains of matrimony, tho s and Girls By Albert Payson Terhune Just at first, by the w The mite of a child was burdened by last her beauty faded #he had nothing left to rely on, n History Coprriant, 1017, by The Pres Publishing Co (The New York Evening Word) : 36.—JOSEPHINE, the Creole Girl Who Became Empress. HE was born in a tumbledown sugar refinery on the island of Martinique, this dark-eyed little girl who was one day to be Her father was a sugar cane planter; so shiftless and 60 hard up for ready money that when his house w by @ hurricane he took his family to live in his ramshackle refinery, in- blown away she was not Pagerie. Her parents were strong on titles, you see, even if weak on industry and cash. Then the baby’s grandfather, old Joseph Gaspard, inherited a legacy, And Rose's parents suddenly and thriftily changed her name from Rose | to Josephine, in honor of this newly rich grandsire. Not that the change made much difference to the child herself, just Because, for years, nobody called her either Josephine or Rose, wag called “Yevette"—for some reason or other. Josephine was the eldest and prettiest of the planter’s three daughters. She was also the stupidest and most frivolous. aunt sent her to the finest school in all Martinique, But the aunt might better have saved her money. For A rich ply would not study, She learned with amazing quickness to dance, to sing, and to twang a But that was all. never took the trouble to apply herself to it. (As @ result she suffered all her life from this lack of early education, As far as solid studying make up for the defictency. When at And her fall from power was ridiculously swift and complete.) While other girls were at their st in lazy amusement, udies Josephine was wasting her time ~ One of her favorite pastimes waa to go for a walk to a nearby hut where dwelt an old negress who was supposed to have strange gifts of prophecy. On one of these visits the old fortune teller caught hold of little Josephine’s hand and, after staring at it for a moment, made the following remarkable forecast: “You will marry early. Your m husband will die a violent death. You will be Sovereign of France!” arried years will be unhappy. Your Your own life will be in grave pert, but you will be saved by another man’s sudden death. You will marry twiee. This prophecy seemed so absurd that it was repeated as a joke all over the island. Yet, perhaps by mere coincidence, it came true in every detail. At sixteen Josephine married Viscount de Beauharnais and went to France to live, The couple's life together was wretched. anew A few years la { phecy A Fulfille ° Robespierre was Soon afterward the lovely young was then a mere soldier of fortune. She married Bonaparte, and when he made himself Emperor of tt Note how completely the fortune tellers French she was crowned Empress, prophecy caine true. Thus the penniless little creole girl became Empre: Josephine and her husband were Beauharnais was beheaded. saved only by the ending of the Reign of Terror, wh ter, in the French Revolution, beth cast into prison. hine’s own life was. Jos overthrown and executed, widow met Napoleon Bonaparte, who of the French, But because she lacked brain and education she could not long hold her lofty position, Even before reasons of sta te led Napoleon to @ divorce he had become heartily tired of her, and her stupidity was the secret laughing: stock of his court. Comyright, 1017, by The Pres Publidiing Co, Mie New York kvening World.) ‘6 Y, what a temper that feller M Rafferty bas,” sald Gus in amazement, as the ‘rate builder plunged out of the cafe in| pursuit of Dinkston, the disappearing demon, “Just because he is insulted he runs out, and after Dinkston and the box of Mexican chumping beans, and they Was very waluable.” “How valuable are the jumping beans?" asked Mr, Jarr. “I pald five dollars to Dinkston for them,” Gus explained. “Rafferty didn’t give anything, but it was Rafferty's idear to set ‘em in diamonds and give them to my vife said Mr, Jarr- the joke is on him," re- | plied Gus. “My, that feller Dinkston | may be a loafer, but he got Rafferty's goat and he got back his chumping | beans, And 1 would have been will- jing to put diamonds in them just to |see them make my vife nervous,” “They would have made your wife nervous without having diamonds set |in their backs," said Mr. Jarr, “What good are the pesky things anyway?" ‘Oh, them animals was regular turn vereln aniinals and very waluable," |remarked Gus, And he started to | whistle. “Do you expect them to come back, that you whistle?” asked Mr. Jarr “I wouldn't be surprised,” asserted Gus, “After the tricks that Dinkston made them do, you can't never tall, I seen him make them play dead and roll over and chump acr ss tooth: picks and matches, I vouldn't be sur- | prised to see them come right In that \door.” And he whistled again, Nor was Gus at all surprised wnen the jumping beans came right In the door as he spoke, Mr, Jarr wasn't nurprised either, aince it wae Mr, {Dinketon carrying them in the nox jthat had been thelr domicile ever |alnoe he had brought them up from Moxloo—or sald he had, “And now that the irate Rafferty has been thrown off the tral,” ree marked Mr, Dinkston coolly, “we will once more observe the antion of our |" n ain't going to e to do mit tem,” | emmy Dinkston. | money baek ferty, ‘tomers, and you are a loafer, Give se back my money what I pala you have anything eald Que ‘ive my You bave inmulted taf. who was one of my beat © for them chumping beans, and keep ‘em. “But bhearken, good Gustavus, Dinkston, with a winning smile have yet to learn the multiplicity of uses to which our little friends can be put. For instance and he whis- pered to Gus, “I won't have anything to do mit such a thing! “Guet added, cried Gus indignantly. vot he vants to do,” turning to Mr, Jarr. beans white mit little black spots on them and use them as dice, and he says he will educate them so 1 can visper to them and they will roll any number I ax them to. Cheater! Let him get out of my :iquor store!" “It Mstena good,” ventured Mr. Jarr, who was wondering how far Dinks- ton'’s cajolery could ge with the simple-minded Gus. “Everything listens good what that loafer tells you," said Gus sullenly. “But everything comes out wrong, [ never yet did anything he suid but Gus | “Hel vants I should paint them chumping | | what T lose a dollar and a half— sometimes five dollars!” And here he gave a baleful glance at Mr. Dinks- ton and his little friends, the Mexicas Jumping beans, “Here 1s another valuable use for the Halticord Mexicanus,” remarked Mr, Dinkston, paying no heed to Gua'e angry manner, “You know that in ry cocktall it 1s the custom to put in an olive or a cherry, to give the cocktail a ‘kick,’ as the eaying is. Why not put one of our active little friends !n each cocktail~let it be called a ‘Villa cocktail’ or @ ‘Dinkston cocktail’ or a 'Gus cocktail.' The lit. tle bean will not lie at the bottom of the glass prone and dormant, but will jump about in a manner pleasing to behold, and add zest and give the cocktall a real ‘kick!'" “You chump out of here and take your chumping beans mit you, loafer what you are!" bellowed Gus, “Quiek, or I'll give you more kicks tham they will to @ cocktail!” And Dinkston jumped. Silk _Once Worth Weight in Gold _ | WO monks from the Indies ar- rived in Constantinople in the year 536, bringing with them silk worms and thé knowledge which enabled them to teach the manufac- ture of silk, From the industry launched by those two monks and their assistants has sprung the fac- tories in Kurope and America de- voted to the making of that fabric, China, which boasts of being the birthplace of #0 many modern indus tries, Was the original home of In the year 2640 B, C. Se-ling. spouse of the Emperor Hwang-t recorded as having been @ patroness of the silk industry, encouraging the cultivation of the mulberry tree and the rearing of worms and reeling of silk, This Empress personally cared for large numbers of silkworms, a the Chin attirm that she invented tho firat m, For centuries the Chinese jealously guarded the secret of #ilk making, but eventually knowledge of the art spread to Corea and thence to Japan, where the industry was established about the third century of the pres- wnt era, The art was carried thence to Indl nd Anally reached Europe. Wrought silk, the preduct of Indian and Persian looms, was brought to in the fourth Century B.C. t it was known in Rome in of Tiberlus there is of in the passing of a law prohibiting the wearing of #!lk by men, and declarin that It was "fil only for women. When alk had to be imported tnto Wurope from Asia tt was titerally worth tte weight In gold, and was wold by welght, & pound of wilk for pound of gold, At that period it was generally belleved by Buropeans that silk grew on tres Toe European industry apread slowly, and in the time of Charle- magne a gift by that ruler to another monarch of “two silken vests" waa considered a display of lavishni the twelfth century the was established in Palermo, Blclly, and the Sicilians not only bred silk- worms, but spun and wove silk. By the sixteenth century silk was being made in Italy, France and Spain, an at the begigning of the seventeenth century the industry was firmly es- tablished in jngland, James L. tried to Introduce silk culture into Vir- ginla, but the colonists were more in- terested In tobacco, In 1718 Louisiana took up the industry, and in 1738 it | was commenced in Georgia. By 1149 the production at Hbeneser, on the Savannah River, amounted to a thou- sand pounds, In 1789 Conneetiout took up the industry, Ohina still leads in allk produe- tlon, although the actual amount ts unknown, with Japan second, France ts the greatest silk producing centre of Europe, In America the Industry is largely centred in Paterson, N, J» where silk mills give employment to a large proportion of the city’s In- habitants, _—_—_——o FTER a discussion by railroad interests, which has lasted sev- eral years, the Interstate Com- merce Commiasion has ordered that all railroad locomotives in road service shall be eauipped with headlights which will be strong enough to enable a person in the engine cab to see a dark object the sise of a man @ die- tance Of 1,000 feet abead of the en- gine, says Popular Mechanics, The entimated cost to the railroads of the country for new epulpment under the new rule ie $4,000,000, not imelud| the labor or expense of making y | | ’ | ee } 4 ‘ | ae | Lay a Y 4 4 ») é 4 , ' 4 :