The evening world. Newspaper, January 16, 1917, Page 14

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HAW ZE Entered at the Post-Office at New York aw Second-Clann Matter, | @ubseription Kates to The Evening} For England and the Continent and! ‘World for the United States and Canada All Countries tn the International Postal Union. ‘One Year. $3.50/ One Year. 78 One Month. 3010ne Month. 86 ANOTHER CHANCE COMING. mperor, moved by a super-impulse, wrote to his Chancellor to advise him that the time had come for “a great moral deed to free the world, including neutrals, from the pressure which weighs upon all.” “For such a deed,” the letter goes on, “it is necessary to find a ruler who has @ conscience, who feels that he is re- sponsible to God, who has a heart for his own people and for those who are his enemies, who {s indifferent to any possible misinterpretation of his act and who possesses the will to free the world from its sufferings. “I have the courage. Trusting in God, I shall dare to | . take this step.” Was all this preliminary to nothing more than the expression of, that imperial and victorious condescension toward peace which is the only thing to be found in the subsequent German peace proposals? If so, what possible end can be served by publishing the letter now? Or, on the other hand, were the imperial words meant to convey a hint that provided Prussianism is permitted to save its pride by speak- ing its own peculiar language, it is ready to come down, by degrees, tocases? If this was the meaning, it is easy to see why the autograph document is made public at this moment. é A ruler who “has a conscience” and “a heart for his own people” may still find it convenient at a pinch to prepare a way to safety for himself. Indifferent as he may pretend to be to misinterpretation of his acts, he will not scorn any opportunity to publish motives that look well behind his manoeuvres. On the 27th of this month the Kaiser will celebrate his fifty- eighth birthday. What a chance to take his own people and others still further into his confidence! ——— The Swann-Delehanty-Breckinridge mixup has developed too many charges and counter-charges for the public to follow. The District Attorney's ofce ought not to be surrounded by this kind of aura, Let's have @ short way to the truth. LAWSON AGAIN. O FIND the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives| T drawn up at attention while various sergeant arms and/ subpoena-servers advanced up-stage to meet him must have delighted the soul of Thomas W. Lawson when he arrived in Wash- ington yesterday. It was the sort of delayed entrance to rejoice the! heart of an accomplished and inveterate mountebank. | But the act went badly. Chairman Henry refused to take his lines from tho star. The latter found it impossible to give anything but a pitiable exhibition of his own loose-mouthed extravagance and) ———-—_____. [ NOW appears that on Oct. 31, 1916, the German inveracity. So far from getting any names connected with the alleged “leak” on the President’s note out of Lawson, the Committee only succeeded New York W orld’s Thriftiest City iddcoumulating a further list of persons who could testify to Lawson’s | knowledge of the “awful conditions” that everybody is talking about | and nobody has seen, The whole thing is a singularly cheap and unedifying show.| Would it might have been staged anywhere but in the National) Tegislature. | a ennai The King of Bavaria says “fight o else would It be audibie for many miles? THE CIRCLE. ‘ HE chief cause of poverty is sickness, according to the annual} report of the New York Association for Improving the Con-| dition of the Poor, | Causes of poverty dealt with other than sickness and its results were wife-desertion and non-support, delinquency, such 4s imprisonment and alcoholism, old age and unemployment, but all these causes combined produced a small burden as compared in new accounts last year was no with sickness and its consequences. jless than 100,000, That means an As a matter of fact, during the twelvemonth in question, as the | “Verse Account of #02141, and $296 : eer on a per capita basis, Teport points out, there was practically no unemployment Situation. Just compaye that for a moment Conditions which tend to produce or increase poverty could be studied | with some of the atendards Sy eh cess: vi « ” fac we have been measured and pro- without the necessity of allowing for the usual “no work” factor. | claimed thriftiess. The world aver- he inevitable conclusion appears to be that good times and Alage for savings accounts i# $136.18, plentiful choice of jobs exert surprisingly amall influence in lessening | "4 the per capita average $17.94, > |The average savings account in the the number of the poor. Prosperity never gets the better of the) United Staten is $442.83, and on a per prime cause of poverty. Out of $156,000 spent by the ABOSIA HER | CHA basis $49.91, By James C. Young W YORK is the thriftiest city | in the world! Milton W. Har- rison, head of the savings bank section, American )) Bankers’ Associa- tion, is the man who has made the figures prove it, | thereby clearing | New York's good| name of the spendthrift charge so often brought against it. Forty-seven and six-tenths per cent, or almost | one-half of all the 5,000,000 of us, have savings accounts, Reports made to Mr, Harrison show that the gain If he said anything T . x, y ” e vol best to relieve destitute families in their own homes, #150,000, 96 per cent,,| The Swiss are the world'e pew was used for families where the “cause of need” was the sickness OF | have an account for savings, New death of the Poverty of ignorance in poverty. earner. | Yorkers come next, with 47.6, and the | Danes follow with 44.2 per cent, In |ierance the average is 346 and in Germany 31,7, All of these years we follows sickness, and neglect. Sickness is the too frequent result Ignorance and neglect find congenial soil "1 ; : have stood The circle persists, Only by tireless patience, wisdom! modestly by and been maligned by i is i oe our cousins from Komo and i peel flabuoe is If over broken, | Chteago, with warnings about “put + ting something away for a rainy day To Miss Sophie Irene Loeb of The Evening World staff belongs, by the grateful testimony of both sides, the credit for settling the taxicab strike. Nobody worked harder than Miss Loeb to give New York F hundred. years ago to-day well-regulated, popular-priced taxicabs. Naturally she wants | the pens oF the Callen Austra et H mourne ha passing o eo Tt abionlaucais FURRIOg ander James Dallas, who had been 2 {hailed a few years before as th Letters From the Peo ple |aavior of the infant Republic from Another © » Ball, because the ball ia going at the rate, financial destruction, In 1814 he was ‘To the Editor of The Evening World of 60 miles an hour before it ts fired. | offered his choice of the vacant posta IL have been reading that cannon D.C. | of Attorney General and Secretary of ball discussion {n your paper and}... * te Correct. the Treasury in the Cabinet of Presi- of Whe Breving Workt dent Madison, but declined. Would ike to give my views. Please tell me If the City of Brook- At that time the United States, be- If a cannon, capable of firing a shot|iyn is on Long Island, A BAWAIt 18 |catien Ge (ue war’ than FARING, wan At & speed of 60 miles an hour, was|and B t isnot. A READER, | on the verge of bankruptcy. placed on the ground next to a train Lord Nelson's Report, Dallas wes again pressed to take going at the rate of 60 miles an hour! 1 the Fauor of The Drening Word : the office of Secretary of the Treas- (in the same direction), the ball would| Is there any value to a London|ury, and accopted During his term kgep up with the train—neither pass-| Times, Oct. 4, 1798, giving Lord Nel-| he devised the United States Bank ing it nor falling behind. If the can-|#on's report on the Battle of the/as a moana of tiding over the dif non were placed on 4 train going 60| Nile? G, MX. | fioultion, When ho resigned the of- les and hour and fired, the ball] N, B—Thie paper undoubtedly ta, fice only a few months before hin Every Second Man Is Providing for a Rainy Day, Says Milton W. Harrison of American Bankers’ Association. | and editorial support; ‘That i» the very thing New Yorkers | who receives a pay envelope is In the | methods, disposition of funds, and so have been doing, particularly last abit of tearing it open, putting the on. At present there is no systen of year, which broke all records with the | money in his ket, und throwing | audit, and no recognized guthority to savings banks. | the envelope away. It long has been | rule upon questions of administration, But the whole nation has been lin-| the custom to print advertisements {We fee! that these things are vital, ing Its stocking with gold, dit for| upon pay envelopes, but we decided | and hope to have supervision of the this is in some measure due to an| that was the wrong way, because the | banks placed in the hands of a com- educational movement started by the| envelope was discarded the moment | petent official and a new department American Bankers’ Association with| after It had been received. So we|created for handling @ proposition . - ° ‘along the that very end in view, had a number of folders printed tell- | that ts certain to grow “) ” ing about saving money, and these | broadest lines, the a launching & campaign for thritt| eluers have been placed inaide en-| “Will our turn to thrift continue? $000,000 neve mayer ee dtd | velopes of many industrial establish: | Yes! we are learning something about savings bank depositors, und te make | ments, The men do not throw them | the value of the dollar. The Stock Girl | In the Store By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) OSLYN {s @ stock girl. 1 met her the other day in a fashionable Fifth Avenue store. Roslyn lives at Seagate, Every morning she arises very early @® order to get to her shop on time and she never artives? | home until after eight at night. ’ ‘ “Why don't your family live nearer the city? I asked. “We just can't,” she answered simply. é But Roslyn tg not always going to be a stock gt In fact she has somé@what grown out of that job ak ready, being @ sort of assistant to a head saleswomaa, and that is how I came fn contact with her. The saleswoman was showing me some wearing apparel; but Roslyn did all the work. And she aid it in such a beautiful way that I could not help noti¢e it—notice her efforts to please, her ambition to sue coed, And this very head saleswoman has something to learn of Rosiyg } ‘This saleswoman who acted in a blasé manner which one often sees; while Roslyn left tothing undone to show the garments that might possibly please, She went further into the clothescases and brought out things to shew, while the sales person talked about them in a perfunctory manner. soon this saleswoman will be a little more biasé and a little more functory and a little more decisive in her tone, ‘ ‘The proprietor will see it and there will be a vacant position, Roalgm will get the opportunity to spread her ambitious wings. ’ does happen sometimes that women who have had a success believe they have captured the success street car and there is no more need to run after tt, They forget that in business they must be busy; that ambition ts the big element in swelling the pay-envelope, P It comes to pass sometimes that the successful employee goes on the theory that he or she is “established,” and is a fixture, Yet she who remains stationery is soon moved out of her place by the/ unfailing efforts of such girls as Roslyn, I know that I would much rather buy from Roslyn than the “estab. shed" saleswoman, because I know Roslyn Is trying to please me, . She 1# endeavoring to interest me tn possible things I might buy. L other woman only presents what I ask for and does not care to make me interested in anything else, She ts a “superior” person, and owty looks for the big fish, the occasional customer. There are many Roslyns; that 1s why I write this story, in the hope of encouraging them on to the goal they seek. They are the girls who are willing to ride long hours on trains, in onder to hold a job with a good concern. They look forward to the chance ef , advancement looming up in the middie distance. They are willing to be the’ stock girls and win thelr way. They always smile and are pleasant. They are happy because beats high in the heart, and, when they go home at night and there jen't so much there, they just take courage and go on. Iam “strong” for Roslyn. She is the successful woman of to-morrow, ig The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1917, by Press Publishing Co, (The fact,” remarked Mr. Michael York Evening World.) @ crown on the under side, and they, 66 Angelo Dinkston, poet and can roll over, after they achieve the peasant and heavywetght king row, and thus constantly pre champion of the English language, | sent the crown side in due regal state.” i “But suppose they cheat?” asked Mr, Jarr “I receive the intimation with she scorn it merit. said Dinkston, “These active little friends of mine are actuated with only the most hom- orable motive. They would ecorm to cheat.” Mr, Jarr was silenced. “You should feel abashed that question thelr Integrity,” Mr Dink ston went on. “I shall get Henry Ford to Interest htmself financially im my “the multiplicity of uses for the Hal- ticorid Mexicanus, or as it is colo- auiaily known, the jumping bean, are such as to stagger the imagina- tion!"* This was true enough, for Mr. Jarr’s imagination was staggered. As Mr. Dinkston spoke he set out two dozen jumping beans upon a checkerboard, a dozen painted white, and all present stood amazed as the active little friends of the ttinerant vers Mbreist proceeded to play a personally conducted game of check- | ors, Proposed ‘International “But when they get in the king Bean Corporation.’ We will first cor. row?" asked Mrs Jarr. “I can see| ner the jumping bean market. ‘Them bow they move as common checkers. | I can see how they ‘jump’ the other | self-starting, self-moving Mexicaa bean checkers, but how can they crown themselves?” “They must be supervised,” Mr. Dinkston explained. “We can paint we will have a training school for ' them and sell or leas them in “SI titles for commer educational and pastime purposes. You have seen how they can be used for adding, self-substracting and dividing arithmetic probleme folk er ones,” */away. A large percentage will read SRABOG rat SGaa seid Mer Hess them promptly, and many others put Kindorgartens and primary schoole— the folders away with their money for auwat hemes snare Purchasing | puture reference. I believe that this Should be done With « modest capital | Pith has had a very large iffluence | Whist First Played 300 Years Ago | their backs being numbered with digits from 1 to 0. You have eesal them used as gelf-moving checkers, ve | for economy. once It haa been acquired. We have | fr, tried to stir new. ambition in the ie mmonthe age hare wars Minty nation's workers, and to bring the | Schoo! people on closer terms of intimacy | 4y they n with the banks, for the beneft of both, | Powitors, compared to 180 4 And we also have tried to supply in| fore 4 Diet Mdm $91.000 to $1 fome tpeasure what has been sorely | Daye increased fram sit.00) wetically lacking’ in our educational eyater— | 000 1h tae same perlog tin in the Instruction of the voung in the ele- | One-thivd of all tne eich hold wide | ments of finance and business. alty now hAye Danke wile ; othr! 430,000 “The campaign has been carried on| OPEN the door te thrift for i. hildren are taking In- by means of newspiper advertising | creasing Interest in the plan everv oving picture day, gaining a sense of importance and a wide range of miscel- | from the possession of an account that gives them a new understanding of life's responsibilities, Once started T is probable that the year now drawing to a close marks the ter- centenary of the popular card game of whist. According {© one authority, whist or “whisk,” as it was then called, was first generally played just | three centuries ago. For many years | the game, under the appellations of “whisk” and "swobbers,” was played | only by servants and others of the humbler classes, and it was not until more than a century had passed that ft reached the drqwing rooms of the wealthy and the nobility us literature, Two of the most | etive methods employed were ught to bear upon school children on the road to savings, and they ap- ‘ and workmen, who are perhaps the a aes With all ot the ens |. Whist's offspring, bridge whist, has | two most important elements in the | thusiasm of vouth, Bear in mind that only about half a century, social body, By distributing instruc-| every one of the 70,000 accounts in ast decade it has be- tive pamphlets in the schools, telling |New York school banks Is in a sum pular of card ames. how to 8 and why, we have sent|of less than $5, The moment that| Although bridge has attained the | the children home full of the subject, | mark is passed the fortunate deposi- | helght of its popularity in America, and quickened the interest of their to change his account to | Great Britain and France, ft is playe parents, When a boy or girl o 23 y constituted savings bank. ny other countries, In Turke home from school fired by schemes to have money the spirit is pretty cer- “Behool grown much faster than the facilities banks in_ this ypt it is known as “khedive.” | in Russia bridge whist is known city h ve | tain to reach the head of the house|for handling them. We have just It was toward the close | and the mother of the family, asked the Board of Education to ap-|of the last century that bridge began “In the case of workmen, we found | point a supervisor whose duty tt!to be a passion among society people. Vevery man The devotion to the game reached such by observation that alm would be to insure proper accounting hour by aeroplane, ‘That 1s the performance of a new Curtiss bi- v Be <4) | plane which is sald to aekdhid~ ee be faster and have ens greater climbing power than any type of air craft yet de- veloped, The swifter machines have been poor climbers as a rule, and dangerous to stop and start e- cause of reduced wing spread that enabled them to make great speed. In RS REMISSION OF POPULAR scmNce this new Curtiss biplane ev-!struction, These changes also ha miles an hour, 6 the wing | made nd on one occasion It b+ 9 would be going at the rate of 120 miles| valuable, Consult old book and curlo death he left the National finances @m bour (in respect to, the ground), dealers. lim @ flourtshing condition te | erything possible has been done | made tt possible to incre: panes, 119 oa a Oe bens withous |to reduce resistance to the at-|area, combining speed and safety, | trouble. Bome an Leiore Geilere Saat mosphere, some novel changes hav- Several tests of the biplane have | of everal problems that have ing been made in mechanical con-' shown that it can easily exceed 100| bothered the aviation world for years. 1 ven le mour in “The | Peace, as you know!" ourt erred to it as Tickle bugs, what do you meam whist whisk.” | tickle bugs?” asked Mr, Jarr, The ular and fashionable | phe ide, game was restricted to the servants’ | ne Idea ix not wholly mine, it ‘ halls a hovels and cottages of | W@8 Suggested by my friend, the emby the poor until 1728, when, according | nent authority on bene! sect |to Barrington, whist was first played | jtfe, py 7 on ene o on sclentific principles by a party of | yt Mi D Prank Dogeee tlemen who frequented the Crown| “Never heard of him," Mr, Jarr dee Coffee House in London. ‘They laid | clared. ls down the following rules: “Lead from | ugypy p, . the strong suit; study your partne Why, Prof, Dodge ts the foremoue hand; and attend to the score. For moral reasons we shall not pero mit their use as dice or as subs: z for ollves and cherries tn cock! unless, of course, to add a ‘kick’ innocuous grape juice cocktatle, which are satisfying without being intoxicating.” ‘ “But I don't see how Henry For@ of | could be interested in thom,” sata the heights that in 1903 the clubs of Paris | and Loudon had to pass laws Himiting the losses to be sustained by any mem- | ber within a month, several members | having ruined themselves at play. | The first mention of whist in lit- erature was made by Taylor, the Vater Pt in 1621. He refers to it aa" * the name having probably | been derived from the practice whisking the tricks from the table as soon as played. Some authorities say | Pessimistic Mr. Jarr, that the name was derived from| “You will not betray a confidencet® chat” as a synonym for “hush,” be- /asked Mr. Dinkston anxtously- cause of the si! ee required to play it attentively, This doesn’t seem prob- | Mr Jare shook his head to ply, able, because the caine was played for | #® Would not, nearly half a tury as “whisk” be-| “Well, then, I can stop the war with fore the present a1 Hing came into use| them as tickle bugs—that will inters e ed bo ys "1 pat hd rece ann fros jest Henry Ford. He {s rampant tor Edmond Hoyle, the greatest of au- thorittes on card ga was the man who really popularized whist His fa- “Short Treatise on Whist" was shed in 1748, and attained such instant popularity thet five edi- tions were required to supply the de- mand in the first year, Hoyle re- ceived $5,000 for this work from the publisher—a_muc! his labors than was “Tel of the celebrated p and authors | cing te ApoE Hie-tee woke bes 2 of his day. Some have even called r ume,” Interrupted Mr. Jase, 4 Hoyle the inventor of whist, but that | “And, briefly, I want to know how ‘8 more than tho most ardent of his|Henry Ford could be interested tm admirers may justly claim for him. | your jumping beans” > : Hoyle is said to have given lessons in do ‘s iy ‘As tickle bugs,” interposed the the game to ladies and gentlemen, for which his charge was, $5 ma Jesaon, poct-savant, “we glue a little floas Thus the great temple of whist was|to the jumping beans and drop th reared, enabling Englishmen to sin ee Fesred, one eat her children's vast | PY the thousand from flying machines Upon the soldiers in the trenche@ The jumpin beans fall down \ soldiers’ necks and tickle them ae they burst out laughing end—an@ the wer ends at once when the ool. diers of both sides laugh themeely nearly to death, Bee?’ i d breeder of edible and scavanger afta, in the world, You must have heal » of has famous large lobster ants, tee | equally famous Hynerboream ante that destroy the boll-weevil and have proved tho salvation of the cotten planters of the South? And you must have heard of Prof. Dodge's famous larger reward for | {ce worms?” eived by most address, Who first scantrived the warlike sport ot che Let nico Piquette the boast of France remain, And studious Ombre be the pride of Spain; Inveniion’s praise shall England yield non . When she can call delightful whist Mr Jarr thinks he sees, but Oe own,” attll akeptioal, », 4 by ey of,