The evening world. Newspaper, January 15, 1917, Page 12

EDITORIAL PAGE ‘Evening World Dai Che eseioity World. ae re Bathe Oo, (the Now York evontna Sona.» lv Magazine - By J. H. Cassel ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 Park Row, New York. , dent, 62 Park Row, WV, Treasurer, 63 SR, Jr, Secreta 53 to For Engiand and the Continent and ‘All Countries In the International ov 69.75 NO. 20,236 | A LITTLE AHEAD. | N° that everybody can see what has happened, we find tie Entered at the Po Subscription Rat to The E World for the United States 4 and Canada, One Year. seees $3.60/One Year. One Month ++ .80/One Month, VOLUME 57 Postal Union, Manchester (Eng.) Guardian opening its eyes and admitting that later events make earlier anger over President Wilson’s note to the belligerents look “exceedingly foolish.” : | The Guardian is convinced, the cable tells us, that “it will be) found to the advantage of the Allies that their terms are fully defined and to the disadvantage of Germang that hers are left indefinite.” We shonld rather think 60. And we hope that nowhere in the, United Kingdom will there be permitted to linger any doubt to whom the Allies owe the fact that in the eyes of the world they now stand! forth more than ever ag the force of fairness, candor and justice in the present struggle, while the Kaiser has been compelled to reveal himself still further as a bitter and blustering evader of issues. Opportunity not infrequently meets with rebuffs from those who fail at first to recognize her. Popular British outcry against the impudent interference of the President of the United States in affairs which did not concern him is now turning into grateful recognition of a timely act which chal- lenged the nations at war to characterize and differentiate themselves and their purposes. The American people bear no ill will. They are sincerely re- joiced to note that in some directions British statesmanship still man- ages to keep a pace or two ahead of the British public. —_——4—. Why not buy Mexico and give it to Col. Roosevelt? eee NO O. K. FOR A BLUNDER. HE Postmaster General’s plan to curtail the pneumatic tube ‘% mail delivery service in this city has received the setback it deserved. By a vote of 152 to 104, taken in Committee of the Whole, the House of Representatives last Saturday restored to the Post-Office Appropriation bill an item calling for $1,061,000 to be spent on pneu- matic mail tube systems in this and other cities. Public officials and business interests of New York have left Congress in no doubt as to how they regard a project which threatens to cut down the city’s already inadequate mail facilities, besides add- ing three or four hundred more fast mail trucks to the juggernaut brigade that now takes heavy toll of life in ite crowded streets. New York City contributes to the post-office income a surplus of $22,500,000 above expenses. The pneumatic mail tube service in this city costs the Government less than $500,000 a year. No reason whatever has been shown why the city which supplies the heaviest posta) revenue should submit to a change which will retard the move- Cartoons for Women A Boy's Obedience. F i istor amous in History NO. 38.—GEORGE WASHINGTON; the Boy-Survey envied by every boy who knew him. for any American boy. It meant @ career, a chance to do something bi this splendid bit of luck. He gained his mother’s consent to accept carry him to the English-bound ship. All the world stretched before luggage to the boat. Then he turned to kiss his mother goodby. him not to leavo her. protest or of complaint, he walked back into the the farm. ahead of ambition, he unconsciously cleared the path that was to lead him written in praise of Mary, the mother of Washington. she made on his glorious career was: “Yes, George was always Father of His Country at home, instead of letting him become an o} hours in the study of surveying. He taught himself the first fi» | } When he was only sixteen the young surveyor found practical use fo Mountain Range. He wanted it surveyed. And he offered George the Jo? | Savage Indians. But it was a splendid expertence for the lad, for it taugh: The repute he gained from this surveying trip brought George mast Cnn Was ordered to a long sea voyage in the hope of sa A But on his return to Virginia he found the m | Mission of crossing the wintry wilderness to bear a diplomatic message © the first real step that led to his future rise to world greatness, And . Fifty Boys and Girls By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) LITTLE Virginia boy—son of a planter's widow—suddenly A himself possessed of a Chance in Life—a chance that mad Through family influence he received a commission as shipman ih the British navy. In Colonial days this was a tremendous ft in the world than to raise tobacco or to boss the work of field laborers.) | The little boy—George Washingon was his name—was ovorjoy jcommission. His outfit was quickly bought and his trunk was packed, the river at the foot of the plantation-lawn waited the boat that to master and to enjoy. Clad in his brand new uniform, George supervised the removal of At this last moment, the widow's heart failed her at thought of her beloved son, She broke down and cried, clinging to hfn and b And at the woman's tearful entreaties George once realized where his duty lay, Without a wor took off the gay uniform of which he was so proud on his working clothes and quietly returned to his humdrum tasks aro Thus did George Washington lose a@ glittering chance to rise to the rant of Meutenant or captain in the British navy, And thus by putting to deathless fame. j Much sentimental twaddie—and one really worthwhile book—has ted From true she seems to have been a cranky, tyrannical, inconsistent and Ml-educatel old dame, Even In the days of her son's highest renown, the only waa a boy!" Yet America owes her an eternal debt for her weakness in keeping ti in England’s navy. Deprived of his hope of naval achievement George spent his few of this profession at home from such books on the subject as he coull pick up. |his new accomplishment. A rich Virginia neighbor had just bought a h tract of land in the almost pathless wilderness west of the Appalach! It was a mighty responsibility for a sixteen-year-old boy. And it way also a labor full of dire perils from savage beasts and from still mort | him the woodcraft and the knowledge of Indians that were (o serve him @ well a few years later in the tragic Braddock expedition and elsowhere, offers of lucrative work. But Just as this new business career was bec! ing so invitingly to him his half-brother, Lawrence, fell dangecously ill A Mission his life. He was too sick to go alone. So once st Pan, George chose duty instead of ambition and went with of his surveying tour was still so strong among the I authorities that he was chosen by them for the important and. peril j the hostile French and Indians far to westward. How he accomplished this heroulean task is @ matter of history, It mode of conducting the miysion was a foretaste of his prowess in hant the destinies of a nation. ment of its mails. A majority of members of the House appear to be convinced that New York should have the full benefits of the mail tube system. Let| [ Dollars and Sense | them stand by that conviction at the formal roll call. The Cost of Carelessness. ——__-+->—_____. 66 A GREAT historic document de- | A clares that all men are born | free and equal,” remarked an executive. “They are not. Some men are born with the capacity for | well-nigh infinite intellectual expan- sion, while others are naturally [stupid a 1 always will be. 1 recog- {nize this fundamental difference be- tween men and, hence, am inclined AFTER SPITTERS AGAIN. Ue rsiteaeat uae etdeaae toward URING the last three days of last week between 250 and 400] ®rrers in Judgment, ¢ : : z “But careless mistakes. are another persons in this city were ordered to appear in court tohmatter. ‘These I believe due to a D answer the charge of having violated the law which forbids! faulty attire. Any one can be ac- spitting on sidewalks, street car floors and like places. jsurate If he ie sufficiently anxious to pe 2 ‘ «| be. Consclentiousness ix an attribute The Health Department reports that it has sixty sanitary M-/ of character, Judgment is ohe of in- spectors and forty uniformed patrolmen of the sanitary squad de-|telligence. Id like to know how tailed to watch for violations of the spitting law. The Police Depart-| rent careless errors cost the com- , . munity annually, ment will be asked’ to help with warnings and arrests. leoitne a ai tadien (a cuseameacliale een “Burning indignation and holy wrath will redouble the strength of every German man and wom whether it {s de voted to fighting, to work or to suffering.”--Wilhelm I. R. From the Prussian point of view, the indignation and the voly wrath probably look @ lot wafer than profound reflection Despite frequent anti-spitting campaigns, the disgusting prac-| tice shows no sign of disappearing. Here is the most widely adver-| [> — = tised ordinance in New York. In practically every subway, surtac ff Vo-Day’s Anniversary | and elevated car in the city the rule inst spitting is conspicuously ; HE Hrltish Museum will observe nosted, , PAnd ag p sees x directly opposite I ‘1 posted, Yet time And again one sees a man sitting direetly opposit to-day its 158th birthday, as it one of these signs repeatediy spit on the floor as if no such law were Was established on Jan, 15, 1759. ever heard of, \ 11 was Sir Hans Sloane, an frish-bern y hysician of Scotch extractio: 0 | Sanitary inspectors cannot be , everywhere, politemen rarely Physician of Mtatch xt petiideadied ‘ shored as the father of the museum, trouble themselves about spitters, and the average citizen, indign Sloane was created a ronet=a tite ae he may be, seldom plucks up public spirit enough to complain, to which no Bnglish physician had ‘ ‘ before attained—just two centuries om now on,” announces Health Commissioner Emerson, IEE AVA RRRTINAL RO ORB EM ON, a 1 ‘ago, In recognition of his labors in New Yorkers will do well to see that they do not spit in street sritinera UNA(GrAl ato (ok i cars, on sidewalks, or in other public places, If haled to court Byaina lh” Elin liRParit Gf RO G00. VOlUGs AA ’ they are certain to be fined.” and 3,088 Satara GA Rig ailiee “Last year patrolmen of the health squad arrested 1,261 natural history ana art 09 persons for violating tls ordinance, and of these only twenty he bequeathed to the Govern. five were discharged, The rest were fined from $1 to $10." ment, on condition that bis daughters The Health artment can do much, It could do more if all| be ald $100,000, which sum scarcely a jexceeded the jue of the gold and decent New Yorkers would constitute themselves a vigilance com-| sliver mittee to make sure that police, street car conductors and subway andj in his collection, Several other ce medals, ores and precious : 5 | gee RANK > <5" woman's Jealousy “to see what she will do”— and then elevated employees invariably warn the spitters, eee ete ert aly bavintaboa howls with resentment when she does It. ” ‘is —— | opened in Montagu House in —— | Hits From Sharp Wits a seb et neg rates ihe eand Mae After all, marriage js not a “bargain,” but a partnership, in which both When one politician calla another) Speaking of social events, uil'w awell | C8At. are to be fc should live up to the terms of sthe contract and cheerfully meet their politician a mercer oes he mean| that ends swell—-Philadelphia In. | Of the British Museum, | “lovenotes,” —or what does hi “Vistsburegh | quirer > | Ug gs \Wernacsaiduktn santana Ruesiiegied soe aunt ae onea,,, WhAt hurts a woman's feelings 1s mot the fact that every man les to| he Old Guard seems to have panne: © country darkies listened, 1 In these times a girl not worth her! the axe referred to by Dr. Osler Wwecatruch, while some piant.{ Hef but the fact that he takes so little trouble to do tt artistically —and weight In gold must be a light weight. | Charleston F e-atruc je some plant. ey ‘ ~Columbia (8. C.) State, . . . ers discussed the tremendous) yet expects her to belleve him oo 8 | It is not so much dressing up as’ range of the new German guns | ee A Bitter disappointment is tn finding, dressing down that some of our) “Dar now," exclaimed one negro,| 18 her dreams every debutante fondly pictures herself as an island of afte ef a thought | short. wd wed » - % sf very cl et Y ] ee Tet ic ent want we Gante A Fee sre el need.—-Memphis| wren his master had finished expa-|S0reery completely surrounded by bachelors, after all.—Atbany Journal. | . | tlating on the havoc wrought by a ams ive 4 iP id ‘ hd us et If food pri uch higher rty-two-centimeter snell, Jak A woman's mind is something like a chicken croquette—tt contains a fe live too fast for life to last. | there won't be persons left I bin’ tellin’ you’ niggahs all de time! whic Milwaukee Daily News. [in thin. countryvee_,'unbin (3. (.)| Don have no guns lak dem roun'| ot Of thing which no man ever suspects, r§ le State heah! Why, us niggahs could start — a nene are 02 ie = $4 te tend Motto of on = “ger boy: Play eee ak aan ohh ke aie Love is a@ champion that never “comes back” once he has taken the| in q gilded cabaret: Here the young im cold storage.—Boaton Transcript, as you go.—Deseret News. | Suppeb!"’~Everybody's, count, By Roy L. McCardell hold up as a ‘horrible example’ of the) was thrown out, and Jones was elect- results of carelessness a case which ed by a popular majority of 1 arose a few years ago in a neighboring| * ave no room for careless em- city which numbers over 100,000 pop-| ployees. A $10 clerk may make an | ulation. - jerror which will cost us his year's “Two men, whom I'll call Brown and| Salary. Once we had a big shipment Jones, were running for Mayor. On| 80 to Colorado instead of to Call-/ the first count the vote was a tle. This| fornia because of a stenographer’ meant that Brown would go in, as his| "For, On another occasion we! | party held a majority in the City Coun- | 8ipped goods to Portland, Ore., which | cll, or the Board of Aldermen, or what- | Should have gone to Portland, Me, Jever the body was to which the ques-| “Accuracy Is one of the great es- | thon would be referred as a court of last | #°Mtials of success in business. And | pease, the good feature of it is that any one “A recount, however, betrayed the |“! Pe ; fact that one of the ballots previously | Pe eG GENT ik, (counted for Brown was marked rH @) ship companies, which bandies | nee | a large volume of the Hawatian look and Oriental tourist business. fitted Its liners with garages for t acoomunodation of motor cars owne by passengers. The provision is more or loss an innovation and has been brought about by the increasing prac- tice among tourlsts to have thelr motors accompany them on theit tra els, ~dones epee eee tet cine Sem baa? ae | “Now the chances were 100 to 1 that | | the man who was careless enough to! | mark his ballot thus meant to indt- | | Brown as his choice, But his | curelessness invalidated the ballot; it | | | | Reflections of a Bachelor Girl | | By Helen Rowland 1917, by The Prom Publishing Co, (7 HOM the gods wisp to destroy they first make ridiculous, W Covyrigit Now York Evening World,) Oh, yes, it requires a lot of nerve to carry @ man as far as the | nerve at the psychological moment In Turkey a rich man $s known by the number of wives he can afford; America by number of divorces be can afford. i in the stirs up a wasp's nest, “to see imes stirs up @ Just as a small boy what will happen,” a grown man 901 —_—_—_—_—— Grand Central Station, altar, these days; but most girls can muster up a lot of | Copyright, 1917, by The Prew Publishing Co The New York Evening World.) 66D UT you promised to look over B the moving picture scenarios I have written and tell me what you think of them, Mr. Dink- ston," said Mrs. Jarr, when the chil- dren, being placated with a handful of the poet's trained and educated Mexican jumping beans, had been ‘| sent off to bed. Mr. Dinkston groaned inwardly, but a non-paying guest must make good in some manner If he expects to be welcomed again, and Mr. Dinkston affected to smile with eager interest as Mrs: Jarr brought out her manuscripts. *Now tell me what you this one!” said Mrs, Jarr. called ‘A Guilty Innocence!’ " think of "Te is “A splendid title!” said Mr. Dink- ston, “Ah, yes, let me see,” and he scanned it over hurriedly. 8, it is the story of a young girl, raised in-) nocent of the ways of a wicked world out in Chicago, She comes to New York and is captured by 500 villain- ous looking thugs as she lands at Her cries at- attention, as everybody di it is but a young woman from the West arriving to find her clothes are & month out of style and screaming in despair. Nor are the activities of the horde of thugs noticed, as the ns | hurrying commuters think they sim- ply are a Peace Committee waiting to weleome W. J. Bryan.” I, yes, she is captured — by flends in human form during the rush | water ix leaking out of the watered! seid Spooner, ‘ hour,” explained Mrs: Jarr stocks.” Tt is now time, gentle reader, sta Ah, yes, Is said Mr. Dinkston,| “Oh! Why didn’t I think of that?” Be apeine. the none in. Ah, ‘ ‘but at this point you must flash | came from Miss Tillie, arrived: Opens, Mr. Snooks he upon the screen the following Se tec us ft Mien. Brine, prt: “Good morning, Mr. Snooks!" gal planatory title: a scowl it the boy, “no normal person | yi" Primm sweetly. | I have some a 1 Falls Into the Toils of the] would ever think of such a fool ex- {aut inaultad’ maa oh Ld White Slavers!" * planation, Bobble thinks he's funny, |""pne hoss frowned at the boy “Why, to be sure!" exclaimed Mrs Pha ce ali ST EA ae at did you do?" he demanded, |Jarr, “Put T thought that would be} tneno agked the stenographer, *| “Search me!" replied Bobble, i ” oe. i: . “He insinuated,” said Miss Prt understood. “It's the stock of a store that 18] shat 1 could never a 1 ' Ff Mr. Dinkston, “the|damaged by water when the store | words, that no man vous save ad audiences ht think it was | catches fire,” “H ely wr " moyie audier Rue |" thought it was live stock that] poe fe (ely wrong.” sald th a bunch of students from the di-/naq just been given a drink,” said | Pon® were single Tam gun | vinity college her brother attends, | Hyhnie. mgeuld try fon Mins vine Sere Jwho have come to treat her to al] "Oh, let's be friendly this morn-| private Secretary, SUySted te chocolate nut sundae | ing.” “said Spooner, the mild ttle! “Rut you ain't single,” @aid Bob: ‘4 “ bookkeeper, t's change the sub- |») “I'l put in the subtitle then,” said | Puokkacher. | ten Coapere ‘that ea |S: M arr. ¥ That fact doesn't figure in tht t you show her taking | se! giving her bruta the Shark," “That won't do here. her earnings to master, Sinister Sam, said Mr. Dinkston, You must have some ‘clas You must have your heroine dancing in a gold plated hula-hula costume millionaire, Frank Freshwate in bbing in a sordid tenement and falls beneath the spell of her air of fnno-) sixty miles an hour, and Sam, th jcence, and after finding that she will! Shark, is kil while the bh ,arink nothing but Iced buttermilk, Unscathed, is car satis ae cateher, and | Feet soit et He breaks down all thé | iresnwater, where. . d ers by doing the giant swing | the tracks in t on them, and leaping clear across the | ing train hundred foot hall from balcony to| “She reaches down and cuts th balcony with the swooning heroine! ropes with one swift movement @ @ corset stee < in his arms—this Dduglas Fairbanks Mover to careur beltte Rae stuff will give tt the punch"-— h of the oncem nus lover to safety beside her the coweatcher, and the ploture Tween rec(i ws CAAads with @ fade-out as the engine jumpt be ee L) pind ineye bee eecaD\ the track and carries the ioveras of mping from the top story of @| the cowcatcher, embracing, right ind skyscraper into a passing aeroplane,” | the office of the President of the radl faltered Mrs, Jarr. road, who is Frank Freshwater? “That will be all right, but Inter, | father and who gives them his bless You want plenty of realism," sug-| "Yes, yos,"" said Mr. Dinkston “# gested Mr. Dinkston. “By having| Will be @ sure fire success. And her fall with the aeroplane and then} Will, thie one, “Mary ‘of thi Rn ae tee ‘ | tains,” in” whic moonshinert carried off again while unconscious! parefuot daughter saves the lite @ by Sinister Sam, the Shark, in a high|the young millionaire whom tht powered racing auto’ |moonshiners are throwing over thi “That's in it, too!” said Mra. Jarr,| Clift. be they think him a “Then the auto is struck by the loco- | "Ye o™ “[ knew. you’ motive of the Ch als hare ioe, eee said Mrs. Jarr, proudly, 0 Limited going original! The Office Force | ae _By Bide Dudley | Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co. (1 i New York Evening World.) | 667" Hie 10 know," sald Miss Tillie, )to, T shall wee that Mr. Snooks hean | the blond stenographer, “what | Of this Insult. He told me yesterdag | iy meant by a ‘Teak’ in Wali |) Jet him know any’ time, you | Street. I've been reading @ lot about |e iiae outre not going to axked Spooner, detects anxiety 4 it, but L must confess I don't know | goun, are you?" ,exactly what tt means,” |. “Methinks me “It means.” replied Bobbie, the of- | M8. tone,” said Bobbie, Meth “O) I ” flee jemnly, “that some of the] chums, your or TH lore sp tama eee boy, a dara Ohio Justice of the Peace won't per- form marriage ce is paid in advance, 1|_ "That ts indeed interesting,” said ;|Miss Primm, sweetly “Why should it interest asked Bobbie, calmly. Tho private secretary discussion,” said Mr. Snooks, “Now Bobble, you let Miss Primm alt “When a man's safe,” said cheat ‘he can say what he likes. 1 couldn’ afford to take a chance like that T'm_ single.” : “You may think you're sin turned on | you're not,” snapped Miss Trhanaes him, red in the face with anger, “I| she arose to leave the room. “Y¥. presume," she snorted, “that you|an {diot and a fresh donkey, an would insinuate T have no chane to! that's double, if Tm not mistaken,” marry, Well, let me tell you, young With th she flounced out aw man, I ean marry any time I want slammed the door. monies unless he your”