The evening world. Newspaper, January 18, 1917, Page 16

§ i | ne eee ERB aS eae iat: s ao atte _— -‘Fyening World D aily Magazine — Cre EGNNy siord. ESTABLISHMD BY JOSEPH PULITZER’ ta We Excopt Sunday by the Pre biishing Company, Nos, Published Dally Except fepeay by whe Frese Pebpenne Compe: ‘ ITZPR, President, 6% Park Row, RALPH PUL! J. ANG! SHAW, T: 68 rk FR JOsiPN PULITZER, Ire heoretary, of Page Row, —___ Entered at the Post-Office at New York as SecondClass Matter, Bubscription Ra 10 The iv ing] For England an@ the Continent en@ World for the United States tional ¥, and Canada, ‘One Year.. One Month | VOLUME 57... . NO, 20,039 ANOTHER GERMAN SEA TERROR. HE exploits of the German commerce destroyer, believed to be T the cruiser Vineta, lend point to those threats of ruthless warfare on land and sea which have been emanating from) Germany sicce what that nation prefers to call the rejection of her| peace offers. | The Vineta got a good start. Peace or no peace, she must have sweeping South American waters for at least a month. The. twenty-three merchant ships which she has sunk or captured consti-| tute a trail of destruction to which any war pirate might point with pride. The Moewe and the Emden have more than a rival. They! did well, but they were longer at it. . However, one cruiser, even though she sinks a hundred thousand tons of shipping, cannot command the seas. Sooner or later tho Vineta will be run down by British warships or forced to’ seek port. Just the same, less than ever will it occur to anybody henceforth to call Germans machine-made sailors. British fleets have managed to keep German fleets shut up. But no nation ever surpassed the bril- liant sea enterprise and daring displayed by German captains and German crews in the present war. These alone entitle Germany to a place in naval history. . Not only has the Vinete dodged the British patrols in the Atlantic, but there is no telling what sort of German naval base or bases she may have succeeded in establishing or what ingenious scheme she may have developed for meeting in midocean supply ships from ports where neutrality is not overstrict. One thing is sure. With a Vineta or two at large and a new fleet of German submarines at work, neutral nations would have! to count on a redoubling of their problems and cares. In the} Prussian digt Tuesday the President of that body spoke of various things to be “impressed on M. Briand and Lloyd George by our great » army leaders and glorious troops, and, not least, by our brave sub- marines.” The Kaiser may think it wiser to leave the submarine question out of his ptblic speeches for the present. But members of his Gov- ernment are not so prudent. The Vineta may be only a conspicuous and isolated burst of naval daring. Even so, it comes as a reminder for neutrality of how exceedingly precarious a roused and wrathful Germany can make the safety of the seas. oo The “leak” committee of the House of Representatives has reached the unanimous conclusion that it needs a lawyer. Which is how many folks have felt after they have made fools 1 of themselves. | 5 Seema geeeers, LICENSE ALL MOTORISTS. HE New York Legislature is offered another chance to reduco| T the number of automobile victims by stiffening the drivers’ | license law in this city. A bill introdticed by Assemblyman Joseph D. Kelly provides that! every person in New York City who operates a motor vehicle must obtain @ driver's license from the Secretary of State. Under the provisions of the proposed law a city magistrate is required to suspend the’ license of any driver convicted three times within. a year of speeding, and of any person who operates an automobile while intoxi- cated, or who tries to escape after he has run down a pedestrian. Upon the recommendation of # magistrate the Secretary of State may revoke licenses. We assume the author of the new measure has sought to avoid the discriminatory and unconstitutional defects which prevented a similar bill which he sponsored last year from becoming law. His; _ plan of regulation is still lax in that it requires only chauffeurs and | professional drivers to pass an examination before they can obtain licenses. Nor do we see why operators of motor vehicles in other; parts of the State should not be licensed under the same Jaws that Apply to New York City. Nevertheless the new bill is a Jong step in the direction of greater | safety. It has the backing of Police Commissioner Woods and other) city officials. Magistrate House recently pointed out the inadequacy of the State’s present automobile laws which make it possible for an owner to be convicted three hundred times without losing his heense, or to drive while intoxicated and kill a dozen persons yet be out in his car again the next day. If we are to make any headway against the increasing auto peril we must have stricter regulation of motorists’ licenses. The Kelly bill is the best measure so far proposed to discourage reckless driving in this city. ++ The Swann-Delehanty-Breckinridge row has become too complicated and too much under and over shot with politics to claim the further patience of the public. All this city 8 is that the Governor promptly disentangle the District Attorney's Office from the muss, , | | Letters That Cannon Ba To the Editor of ne From the Question, People ambulance ready.) While the ball is 1 > eo eOW rts dusty face, rwntng World in the cannon it Ja travelling at the nniversary but T am impelled) Lighting ayittle hour or two, Is gone Once and for all, allow me to settle | speed of the train; if shot out at 45 y “ to answer one of} “In time I am very much afraid that much discussed ‘non hall| miles per bour ita velocity will be OLTAIRE declared that the title) trymen to arouse themselves. He} these letters that this man will possibly meet a} yuestion, F. U. maintains that the | 90+451%5, deods of the human race had| Sought, in his “Esprit des Lola," to which reads ag/¥ounger woman than I, and again I H-mlle answer you ave was correct,| As to F. Uva last query, if the ball been rediscovered by Montes-| {rake men (overcome thelr prejur Panos shall be left alone. Am twenty-five ut Obviously this answer is wrong:;be shot tn the opposite direction tt dices,” and added: “I here call preju- y and good-looking 185 miles per hour is correct for the| will not leave the muzzle of the can-|@uleu, and he gid not exaggerate. /dice ‘not that which causes ats “When I was | “Miss Loeb, will you please advise following reasons: non for the same reasons above men-| Charles Louis de Secondat, Maron] be ignorant of certain things, but that| about seventeen I met a boy that I/me in one of your articles in ‘The One of Newton's laws of motion in tioned. 1 would be pleased to meet | Montesquieu, was bora near Bordeaux | Which causes one to be ignorant of |fonestiy believed I loved.’ He prom-|H¥ening World, (Signed) J. B all bodies continue in their state of |/F. U. and show him how erroneously |24g yeara ago to-day, Jan. 18, 1689,|Dimselt” when I becam “Ob, dear, how sorry I feel for this rest or uniform motion in a straight! he reasons cc. | In his “Persian Letters” he dis-|!sed to marry me, when I became a| young woman, At twenty-five she line unless impelled by some external force to change that state. Also he advised that inertia 1s the unwilling- of matter to move or remain at 277 for Wilson, ‘To the FAttor of The Evening World; To settle a wager, kindly publish - Heat while, in motion’ “in the above! Mhqlaat eleetoral vote for Prostdent two proven laws we have laid the whurata foundation for the answer. If thelr, ine paitor of The boning World eafnon ball be dropped off the train | '° Se MAltor of The Evening Wor “ ; Jt will #till tend to travel 90 mites per | On what day did Aug, 21, 1879 hour, (According to F. U J. M self it won't move when Sno, Votes, the train. Next time F. U. jumps off To she Faltor of Tue Evening World 4 car let him land on the pavement, Kindly inform me he official vote beth feet at the same time. If the car‘ of Mr, Benson for President at the ie twavelling rather fast, have ap jast election, 5. 5. } By James C. Young What ts the effect of workmen's com- pensation laws? The American Asso- clation for Labor Legislation ta seeking to have introduced in forty-two State Legislatures a bill calling for what is known as compulsory soctal insurance. Does the good accomplished by workmen's compensation laws justify ertension of the vlan to other forms of social insurance? ti OMPULSORY social insurance is not an advanced kind of workmen's compensation,” said Edson 8. Lott, President of the United States Casualty Com- pany, who has been prominently identified with of this new rela- tion between em- ployer and em- ployee. “Compen- sation for indus- trial accidents is & modern substitute for an ancient legal right to collect damages for in- juries arising from such accidents, Workmen's compensation laws have standardized the recompense for an injury for which an employer is liable toa workman, Workmen's comnensa- ticn laws are better for everybody than the laws which they replaced. “Under those old laws before a workman receiving an accidental bod- ily injury could recover damages from his employer he bad to prove that the employer or the employer's represent- | ative was alone at fault for the acct- dont, If it could be proven that the workman himself or a fellow work- man was to blame, or that no one was the development | t. blame, the workman could not re- cover anything from his employer. As @ result only about ono injured work- man in eight obtained damages, with the further result that damages were not fairly distributed, owing to the weird uncertainty of jury verdicts. Moreover, the lawyers got about half of all the damages awarded. “Liability insurance men were fore- most in the movement for safe and sane workmen's compensation laws, b.-ause they saw the injustice to both laborers and employers brought about by the old laws “Workmen's compensation, laws are working out all right for everybody interested. All workmen go covered are compensated, if the injury results in disability lasting longer than two weeks, There is little litigation. The compensation payments in most States pay as large a proportion of the loss in wages resulting from acci- dents as is practicable and just, and an injured workman gets the com pensation to which he is entitled i mediately, at the time he and his family need it most. “I might mention, however, that the doctors are getting about one-third as much as the amount pald work- men, But their service helps to repair injured workmen, whereas under the old system the lawyers’ share was all economic waste. “But the problem of the immediate present is compulsory social tneur- ance. What is compulsory social in- surance? What will it cost? These questions few can answer. The pub- Ue lacks information, Those who are to pay the bill seem not even curious as to how much the bill will be, “The social reformer talks of State Provided sickness insurance, invalid- ity Insurance, maternity insurance, unemployment insurance, old-age in- surance, and death insurance—all provided by the State, “But the cost! Ag yet, the social reformer calls only for State-provid- ed sickness Insurance. He urges the Mills bill, introduced in the Leg- islature of 1916, and to be introduced again this year, He was the first great flower of that philosophism which has made eigh- teenth century France forever memo- rable, Not so great ag Voltaire, he Was nevertheless more distinctly the father of the philosophic movement which produced the Eneyclopedists than was his famous contemporary Montesquieu's “Spirit of the Laws" appeared fourteen years before the “Social Contr " of Rousseau, and tt was ono of the first torches ‘applied to the old stronghold of medievalism. Montesquieu popularized the term | "SOY eie and called upon his coun- played wit enough to arouse the jeal- ousy of Voltaire, and made such ref- erences to the sacred idols of the period as to cause Cardinal Fleury to write to all the Academictans declar- ing the author of that implous work |to be unworthy of election. He was nevertheless elected to a place among the immortals, but later dismissed through the influence of the clergy. | His “Esprit des Lois" was published ‘in Geneva in 1748, and it has been well called one of the most important books ever written. to Paris in 1755, Montesquieu died ‘What would the Mills bill cost New Yorkers? I confess that I have never figured it up myself, but at a recent meeting of the Association for Life Insurance Presidents I listened to a speaker who said that he had. Here are some of the figures: “At $24 per capita per year—which 1s the lowest estimate yet made—New | York's annual bill for Btate-provided sickness insurance for its 4,000,000 workers of ull kinds would be §! 000,000, Forty per cent. of 8, amounting to $38,400,000, would have to be paid by employers, who would increase the cost of commodities; $38, 400,000 by the workers themselves: which means the same thing in the end—and $19,200,000 out of the State treasury, which means a doubling avd more of our present direct \State tax. “Something Ike 25 per cent, of the $96,000,000 would go toy the bene- ficlaries in the form of cash benefits. But what of tie balance—$72,000,0007 “The speaker I have mentioned re- ferred to recent investigations made {by the medical profession and found that although some men in the pro- fession thought 75 per cent. of the contributions for sickness insurance would hardly be sufficient to furnish medical treatment, yet, apparently, | Proposed Legislation Would Double New York’s Direct Tax, Says Edson S. Lott, President of United States Casualty Company. )they would be satisfied with that share; or, s@y, $72,000,000, in New York, for médical advice, treatment and supplies. , “Consider for a moment these fig- ures, The total annual cost for the nation from sickness insurance alone; according to the ele vic f T have quoted, would be about $1,080,000,000; of which about $270,000,000 would Fe to the beneficiaries In the way indi- cated and some $810,000,000 to the doctors, less administration costs, “Are conditions in America such We have the blessings which come from an Individuallstic system, from a freedom of action and initiative, from a broad opportunity to work and achieve. Shall we give up all of these things and depend upon the government, as an indulgent parent, to shoulder our burdens, rather than strength, our own initiative, our own opportunity? “We should’ net plunge without knowing the depth of the water, The legislators should mark time over compulsory social insurance until they have more facts. In New York, at least, much would be gained If 1 commission representing all interests should be authorized and @ painstak- ing investigation ma: Y DAUGHTER, hear now the “Behold, when and my partners “But now that come as lonely and as unpopular “Alas! when I cannot SEB me. “My temper {is sweeter than a as to warrant this huge expenditure? | rely upon our own brains, our own | | Egotism have fallen from me. “And, should I marry, I should be perfectly content to do ALL the | shipping. “Yea, verily, verily, when I was an Apollo, I was exceeding capricious, and difficult to please; and Narcissus w: gs of Mrs. Solomon. ; By Helen Rowland : Being the Confessions of the Seven-Hundredth Wife. Coperigtt, 1917, by The Prom PublishingOo, (The Mow York Pventog Worlt.)! Lo, @ Bachelor of Babylon came unto me, saying: “Tell me, Oh, Woman, WHY do damsels despise a Fat Man? and the flowers on my watstcoat. away their faces, and murmur vague excuses,, “When I ask them to marry me, they gaze od thoughtfully, and shake their heads. “When I pursue them with sentimental glanees, “Yet I know in my heart that I am exceedingly Bligible! “ $ “For lo, my fortune hath increased with my girth, and my nerves my grouches have departed with my waist line. spread before me at table I eat gratefully and without complaint. “For my Digestion 1s PERFECT and my Disposition above rep “Moreover, with the passing of my slenderness, my Vanity and Wail of a FAT MANI I was a sylph, I waltzed as a were as the keys upon my key I have acquired avoirdupois, I am & park bench under a lamp post as @ poteto at a Dove Luncheon. invite them to dance, dameels 5 ee? debutante’s kiss; and whateceve not more self-satisfied. “But now that I am become a Heavyweight, I would make an IDBAU HUSBAND! “Yet, not ONE of them will have Blighted Being?” Then I took his hand in mine and comforted him, saying: “Be of good cheer, my Son, and ce me! “And why should a matter of twenty pounds turn a Butterfly into @ » repining; for there IS a way! \é | “I charge thee, cease from pursuing the Elusive Squab and | after debutantes and buds and chickens. | “For such is the Fat Man‘s Folly! x “But betake thyself unto a Plump and Seasoned WIDOW, and thog | shalt not be despised. “For a Damsel sigheth only for an Adonis shall satisfy her. Disposition. “Yea, she would rather be the flower in an Apollo's buttonhole!” Selah! “But a Widow preferreth to be adored, mired than martyred, and petted than patrot “Verily, verily, a woman that hath once tried matrimony knoweth ‘ that embonpoint {s the beginning of all Modesty and the symbol of a Sweet something to ADORE; and none ea she would rather be ads, nized. ’ apple of a Fat Man's eye than baa By Roy L The Jarr Family . McCardell HATE to say anything to dls- pel your dreams of wealth and splendor, my dear,” remarked Mr. Jarr, when he eame home the other evening, “but Dinkston called at the office and borrowed two dol- lars from me. to conduct some experiments with, and I'm afraid we won't see him again for some time.” “What makes you think that?” asked Mrs. Jarr, anxiously. “Well, as I came by Gus's cafe just out. From what Gus was saying I took it that Mr, Dinkston’s experi- ments had been in the nature of Prohibition Control, 80 to speak. “Don't blame it on me!" cried Mrs. Jarr. “He was one of your friends. I did not want to harbor him! wretch! He got two dollars from me, too! You brought bim here. | one of your friends!" “He means well,” replied Mr. Jarr, “He talks most interestingly. Maybe his cheerful presence and interesting schemes—even if Munchausenlike-- were well worth the four dollars wo gave him. He is very entertaining, and I'm tired of the moving pic tures. “It isn't the four dollars he got \trom us, in these dear, four dollars 1s a lot of money. But look at all he ate and all"—— “Oh, well," said Mr: Jarr smilingly. |“He entertained us vastly and he amused the children." “His old tickle bugs! although goodness knows erled M By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1917, by The Pree Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World.) FEW days ago, in answer to sev- eral letters, I wrote an article “The Girl Who Goes Wron, Since that many more communica- tlons suggesting various angles of the question have been received. The subject is not @ happy one, mother at nineteen, but I waited for about two years. ‘Finally he disap- peared. “My family was an old and re- spected one; but they did not help me. I did not want to be bad so I took a position in @ hotel as a matd, Worry and no recreation made me il, A man that said “he loved me” took me to his home and cared for me, I told him about my pust and he said that it did not make any dif, ference to him and that if the other man did not marry me he would. “He has introduced me to his mother and his friends as his wife, but now he seems to think that a marriage ceremony is not necessary. Have been with him a little over three years and he seems just as de- voted as ever, but 1 have learned not to expect too much from hu- man_ beings. ) “You know that little verse in Fitz- | gerald’s translation of the Rubaiyat; | "Tho worldly hope men set thelr hearts pon | Turns ashes or it prospers; and anon has apparently made two mistakes, and yet I am glad that she is able to analyze the situation and look the matter squarely in the face, That is something, for hope, much hope. The big error was in the second so-called love, While nothing can be more pathetic in the world than for a mere girl of seventeen to be con- fronted with the problems of wom- anhood, to be deceived, to have her heart broken and to have to go on just the same, yet that very trial and tribulation sbould have been the there is rl’s Two Mistakes warning, the armor of protection in any future entanglements, It is easy enough to trust at first, but to trust easily afterward—there is the fatal element. One of the wisest injunctions that every girl knows—for she reads It even | in the yellow-back novel of school days how much he loves you and does not in the same breath say “Will you | ually Impressed that the man who does not protect a girl's honor by marrying her will rarely do {so later on. These two truths hold good to-day. Therefore having found one man un- true should have made this girl doubly cautious, She should have insisted upon the big proof of love by marriage before that love had proceeded. | She waited too long and now I fear It is too late. Already she feels him slip- ping away from her, She fears he may find another. Therefore his love is not the real thing and she has made the second mistake, ‘The best thing to do is to be sure of it and act before more | years roll by. Go forth to a braver battle with work. Any woman can do it. Gain a |measure of independence, and, who | knows? Number 8 may come and prove to be true as steel. But let him understand that, hav- ing trusted twice, your love only be reached by way of the altar, Nothing is irretrievable when there possibility for real understanding » one is infallible. Each of us makes | mistakes The big thing ia to t ping stones of succe: milestones of miser ke them step- ratber than He said he wanted it) now, I heard Gus ordering Dinkston| The} | times with everything s0| vis, beware of the man who tells you | Copyright, 1917, by The Pree Pubiiehing Co. (The New York Evening World.) ¢ Jarr. “I don’t excuse him one bit, as you do! His old tickle bugs!, To drop tickle bugs on the soldiers, and the tickle bugs making the soldiera laugh so they couldn't fight, and, the awful war would be over—and the bold-faced stories he told us about his ice worms that would spin ice, in the drip pan of the refrigerator.” “It all lstened good, and we hadi only invested four dollars,” said Mr. Jarr, soothingly. “Suppose we had put all the money we have into his schemes and they had proved im- Practical commercially, as I fear tickle bugs and ice worms and even | trained Mexican jumping bugs all would have, and we had lost all the money we had in the world?” “You talk as foolish as he does," remarked Mrs. Jarr tartly. “I don't becoming a millionaire, but tramp, for he is a tramp, rs and have him fill us @ith stories of tickle bugs and 4 | mind not “Why, [ thought you took it all as a good joke,” said Mr. Jarr, “Surely {you didn't believe all that stuff.” “No, [ didn't believe one word’ of jit, but you did! And you know you did!" Mrs, Jarr declared, “But don't ou ever bring that Dinkston to thia house again!” Mr. Jarr was about to say that he hadn't brought Dinkston, but consid- | ered it best not to argue the point. | “You've got to admit that Dinkston has a wonderful imagination, | though,” remarked Mr, Jarr, ‘after a silence. “Suppose he had gatten® ; Henry Ford interested? He got 1s | Interested to the extent of four dol- lore, and a million to Henry Ford isn’t as much as four dollars to.us. One of bis ideas did seem. practical, and might have appealed to Ford; He said he would equip every ‘Fliyver’ to with a dozen Mexican jumping beans with harness; then if the ‘Filv- ver’ stalled, the jumping beans could haul {t home. By the way, where the jumping beans?" . “Oh, I don't know, He ‘left ti in the dining room by globe, I think,” said Mrs, Jarr, get them and throw them out!” But Mr, Jarr could find ni of Michael Angelo Dinkston's and intelligent little friends, the Hal. tieorid Mexicanus, or jumping the gold fish “Go | and Mr, Jarr thinks they jumped tnto the globe and the gold fish ate them. N the mind of the average perso: the diamond is regarded as the most valuable of precious stone: but a9 a matter of fact large flawles: emeralds are a great deal more costly than diamonds of similar eize. One of the considerations that makes these rich green gems so high-; reed, = fect, is that they are ‘Seldom Son ite flaws, saya Popular Mechantos, Ac- cording to the Smithsonian Insti: .- ton good diamonds at the preseut Hing are worth from $250 to $400 per eataet | according to purity and size, whereas an emerald varies from $350 to $500, the price increasing rapidly with size. Flawless emeralds weighing more than four carats are practically Price- less, but diamonds of that aize are worth only $1,000 or §2,000, Ob, Tam SO angry!" po t Their box lay open by the aquarium ¢ ‘