The evening world. Newspaper, August 4, 1917, Page 8

| ” PO tig SUNKEN GARDENS OR TERMINAL MARKETS? NE propos fort P Croton reser vor m ¢ Vere au hen gardens end par ’ ay \ . f thaw eer of imagine Jemers ing wierert o ca arm they at firet aroured But of sober second thoughts can the people of New Vork conecte Geusly approve the appropriatio large sume of money for cach & parpere at sock « time! Like every other « bear it re of burdens, the foretell. War taxes, war joans, demands upon al) pocketbooks Is it a moment for an admittedly hard-up municipality like New York to commit itself, for purposes purely aesthetic, to an exp nds tare which must ultimately be provided for out of taxce? Consider conditions of living just now sities has never loomed #0 ominously large have never been more pressing confronted with so many urgent practical questions involving the wunity in the country, this city has got to bh no man can to make their weight of w war aid will continue The cost of bare neces Problems of food supply elemental, all-important needs of human beings. | When hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are threatened with famine rations unless food Is provided for them at prices within thelr | reach, when thousands of east side bables are deprived of the m must have {if they are to grow up strong, healthy citizens, will any city | administration maintain that sunken gardens should come before terminal | markets or that music pavilions are more imperatively needed than milk dopots! they — A BEGINNING. HE indictment of Acting Captain Cooper, former head of the Fourth Branch Detective Bureau, for neglect of duty in the} Cruger case, represents but a small part of results which the Grand Jury investigation of Detective Bureau methods should secure | to the people of New York. Pointing out that it has been able to make only a “beginning,” the Grand Jury, besides calling attention to “lack of co-ordination between the uniformed police force and the Detective Bureau,” lax supervision over motorcycle policemen and “the senseless and cruel rule on the part of the Police Department to do nothing in regard to! @ missing person for twenty-four hours,” makes the following com- prehensive and significant remarks There seems to be a lack of interest in the discovery of rime on the part of officers and detectives of the Fourth Rranch Detective Bureau. There seems to be no aésquate supervision of detective work on the part of the Commissioner in charge thereof. | In any organized service lack of supervision on the part of those | whose duty it is to supervise is almost certain to result in lack of! interest on the part of those whose duty it is to do the detailed work. | The duty of supervising detective work devolved upon Fifth Deputy Police Commissioner Guy Scull. Neglect of duty in a Com- missioner’s office may have even more serious, far-reaching conse- quences than neglect of duty in a detective bureau. For the pro- tection of the community it is quite as important to correct the for- mer as the latter, by removing those responsible for such neglect. + THE WEAK ALLY. LONG with the Russian Government's renewed assurance that! Russia will fight on with the Allies until victory has made certain the realization of their common aims, should be read * the words with which the Chief Director of Military Operations at the Britlkh War Office sums up the cold, hard facts that must be faced: ) With the utmost wish to share the confidence and optimism Never has nation, State or city been| \ Fvening World Daily Magazine True, It's “a War of Self-Defense” . By J-H-Casse! | By Sophie Irene Loeb| Copyright, 1017, by the Press Publishing Co, A (The New York Evening World.) FEW days ago, 1 was on a suburban train. ‘There were many commuters and the train was crowded, It was before the hot spell and many of the win- dows were closed, In front mo sat a middle-aged woman who had asked the — con- x ductor to clor> the ‘ ee Window when she took her seat, and beside her was the only vacant seat in the car, Pretty soon a young woman came came of the existing Russian Government, we must nevertheless recognize, as Major Gen. Maurice says, that “we cannot depend on Russia for! any effective offensive assistance in big war plans for some tim Looking from the broadest aspect at the events of the last fortnight in Ru it will necessarily mean a prolongation of the war. We cannot longer count on any great material assist- ance from Russ: This means a greater burden on the other Pntente Allies, and for the United States it means that {t must come into the field as soon as possible and with the greatest possible force. While Russian leaders—toiling, as Foreign Minister Terestchenko protests, “to establish an administration capable of meeting all dan- gers and guiding the country in the path of revolutionary regeno tion”—bravely reiterate their pledges to the Allied nations, Russian troops continue to fall back in too willing retreat before the Germans, | , and Russian Generals like Brusiloff and Dimitrieff resign in grief “and discouragement over army conditions with which they are only too familiar, It is a foolish optimism that still refuses to admit the fecbleness of Russian aid, Better, particularly for this country, to reckon on a complete Russian collapse than to proceed on the assumption that Russian armies sooner or later will compel the Kaiser to move divi- sions to the enst on any scale sufficient to lighten the t back the Germans on the western front, Hits ask of rolling From Sharp Wits The ignorance of the man who! “Thot,” “thru nd “tho"— - “Knows It all” Is encyclopaedic.—Des- | tle inaimed wordne Imvt i abit eret News. - eS . } tin A aad the reformers to commit “ossault and batvury a ‘0! Doa't kick the down-and-outer; | Blade, FEY AaB her olode he may be coming back.—Bingham- hore too Pres, Tote your package home is the newest shopping slogan, Some men The only cheap commodities on the! of a Saturday night might have dif, | was passing | hotly sal down the alsie and took the vacant place. After she nad there a few minutes, as the conductor by, she called to him and asked him to raise the window, The woman by her aide explained that she had just had it lowered, as she had “a little rheumatism ip her shoulder.” However, the girl very : “This MY is seat and I ain sitting next to the window and I want it raised.” Whereupon the conductor raised the window and the poor little woman succumbed, I was astonished. The girl was nice looking, The woman gazed around helplessly to seo if there was any other seat in the train. There | was none, and there she had to re main in the draught, because of the | girl's selfishness, who sat back read ing a novel, t be n seated ally oblivious to the others until they have felt it them- selves, It was a long time before the train emptied sufficiently for the little woman to change her seat, and when she did do so, the look of scérn that was cast at her by the young woman would have done credit to a moving picture villainess, A girl like that will mature into a hard-hearted woman who will make everybody around ber miserable and unhappy, because her supreme law is self, In direct contrast to this was an in- cident of yesterday, Again the train on which 1 was travelling was crowded, ‘This time I was returning from the country to the elty, The woman behind me had with her two litt ildren, Another woman came | by, looking for a seat; but there was ne vacant, he little mother took one of the! children on her lap, moved the other | close to her, and asked the woman to ure the seat, I could not help hearing the conversation that ensued. They taiked of the hot weather and how much better it was to be in the country, &c,, &o. The newcomer offered to hold the baby on her lap. The mother ex- plained that she was not tired, hav- ing boarded the train an hour before and that !t was no trouble at all to hold the little one. She also had a beautiful bunch of wild flowers which she had gathered to bring to town because of the “lovely flowers in bloom now.” And to make a long story short, before the journey was ended, the little mother shared some of her flowers with the traveller who sat beside her, I could not help reflecting on the contrast to that other trip, when the eirl had so utterly disregarded the | discomfort of her fellow traveller. 1} discomfort she had created I could not help wishing that the girl would get rheumatism go that SHE would feel the same pain the lit- tle woman was likely suffering, Some people never appreciate the pain of HO Is going to write the great W song of this war? That ques- tion has been asked @ thou- sand times since we entered the con- | nict, and a crop of so-called patriotic songs has made {ts appearance. But ‘none of them seem to have the snap market nowadays are salt, human|ficulty dolme ite-lultte ; Hives and advice—Charleston News can, | ik Peicias and Courier, ee 6 o8°- @ The old m that used to go for “Love is a disens says a writer.|two bits won't budge out at her Umph-huh, and divorce 1s a breaking| tracks for less than two bucks now. out. Memphis Commercial-Appeai,|—Coiumpia (S. UC.) State, oats het Soda} At that, we Imagine @ bantam reg-| Some men follow leaders and others tment will fight like ‘em, too,—Phila-|tag along after misleaders.—Toledo delphia Inquirer. | Bidae. be i ‘ and the martial spirit to become remember how — the off to the Spanish War to the tun Hot Time in Old Town To-Night.” That wasn't emn, but it had the snap, Of greater dignity waw the first war song written in America, This wa really & hymn and was sung by the Colonial troops during the Revolw tlonary War, It was composed and written by a tanner, named Willlam Billings, who lived in Boston, ‘This very sol- know she did not have the slow. of | gladness that this little mother felt by being a bit gracious. T know that such a girl mi Cowes sat deal | And when all is said and done, | |there is nothing that so warms the | |coekles of the heart as to feel at the | end of the day that you have done | one unselfish little act hymn, the first evidence of distinctly | American music, has a ring which not | a little sets out the spirit of 197%, he | first verse of the wer song wail ind!- | cate {ts general character: | “Let tyrants shake their iron rod, | nd slav'ry clank ber gulling chainst r them not. we teust ia God, land's God for evermore. ow When Billings wrote his war song atly thought that the most | int part of the country was] 2 ) otherwise he might included the whole land among | who trust in God. This war | has been brought to public at- | Dr. M. L. Barnett of Des Moines, 1a, who informs us that Bu | ngs worked out his harmonic prob lems on a plece of leather, just In. the same way that Lincoln “ciphered” on the back ef a shovel, he have those song tention by The people worth while are those who give their bit not only in stress or need but every day; people who a not play to the gallery in being kind but rather to their own conscience, It is the finest kind of unselfishness For it is done without a thought of | return, since they the person again, It is the milk of human kindness that flows freely among strangers as well as friends. lL see strong men on trains who sit quietly by, totally oblivious to the poor tired working woman hanging to a strap in front of them, and let a matinee girl acquaintance come in and they arise to give her the seat. Such an act of so-called kindness 1s done only for approbation and exacts return; while the gracious, Impersonal act is ‘spontaneous and disinterested, Consideration 1s the keynote and a little bit of it in the direction of the passerby may be widely cultivated ith profit to all, may never meet Copyright, 1917, by the Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World,) “c NLL,” asked the head polish- W er, “who's going to run for Mayor on the Tammany ticket?” ‘Tush, tush,” said the laundry man. “Don't you know there ain't going to be no Tammany ticket this year? self, as it were: surveying the political field of New| York City from a height cannot dis-| thn yntidate arrested. cern Tammany Hall at all. Tammany confessedly superior organization of leading but retiring citizens who are backing the campaign of Mayor Mitchel, namely, white, As for a candidate, there probably will be none on the Democratic side that is, it Tammany follows out the tactics’ that have characterized the campaign thus far, ‘Tammany has fused; naturally one must expect Tammany to follow Fusion rules and regulations concerning political cam- paigns in our fair city, “Lhe chief exponent of these rules ig an evening newspaper waich boasts that it has tho smallest cir- culation of any daily in New York, Tammany Hall's camouflage did not deceive this organ of respectability, which also has filed claims at times © being a k cratic paper too. It & lot of nerve to claim to be table and a@ Democrat in New York. “Well, the rules as expounded in the aforesaid meagrely circulated stud book of highbrowism provide that as long as Tammany Hall exists no respectable citizen of New. York can accept @ nomination for Mayor on the Democratic ticket. The fact that Tan Hall happens to be any the Democratic organization of New| Y County affiliations 1) city are tie and that Tammany's other counties in the MeINVEHMUS Ur Kanan tions of those counties, should not influence a voter who has leanings toward the Demoeratle Party. “Phe authority quoted here states The Jarr Copyright, 1917, by the Press Imublishing Co, (The New York Eveuing World.) ONSIDERING that it was Au- @ gust and he hud had no vaca- tion and that the weather was horrid and torrid, and Mr. Jarr looked young enough to be a slacker and had no particular reason to be thankful, even had it been late In ovember, that gentleman came Into the office cheerfully and bade the boss good morning What do you mean, sir?” asked the boss. “Are you wishing me a good morning, or are you simply ex- pressing the opinion that it IS a good morning? If this last is the case I wish to say to you, sir, that T am afflicted with prickly heat, and in my opinion, with the thermometer at quite plainly that any citizen of this town, whether he be Judge or business |'Tammany Hall has camouflaged it~! our ‘A political aviator| some candidate shriekin, | | | man, who accepts @ nomination from the Democratic Fusion Committee of 170 and goes into the primaries is by such action automatically stamped as in outlaw. Indeed, it would not be surprising !f, in the event that the Democratic Fusion Committee of 170 should invade the sacred precincts of our courts or our banking houses or business institutions and drag ‘0 the polls, the confessedly respectable element would swear out @ warrant and ha! “So the duty of Tammany ts clear, many Hall has gone into the on game, John Purroy Mitchel, according to the original Fuston standards, 1s the only respectable man in the world, Therefore, Tam- many, having declared itself respec- table, should indorse John Purroy Mitchel, All of which demonstrates, as you possibly will agree, that there are @ lot of angles to this camouflage business,” 667TTHEN what about the Citizens’ jh Union and its report on the | members of the Legislature?” asked the head polisher, “How foolish we common people are try to govern ourselves when we ave the Citizens’ Union to do the job for us," replied the laundry man. “We have only to read the annual report of the Citizens’ Union on the members of the Legislature to learn that all the Wisdom, thought, discernment, fore- sight and backsight extant are roped, ed and branded im and by the Citi- 4’ Union. “Phe Citizens’ Union is a strictly non-partisan organization in that It holds that there may be some bad publicans, but that most Democrats ‘This year's Senator James are beyond ‘redemption. that report mous | of the By Albee rt to 1 feet No, 28,—-William 1. Sampeon, ond the Corvera’s Pivet, HEU B ironclad Petapece steamed inte Che » berker ene Gay Guring the Covll War And there she very prowply COMB into Comimet with » ow ne Mather of the ff of ber crew as were not billed Dy & treated to @ eude ath. Oe bathers ees o Palmyra, NY. me o be early twenties, who had bern serving a» ox otic @ the tron He was William 7 Raw prom, Sempron was blown into the harbor from B® mashed Vessel and had a narrow coough escape from drowning. Lee than forty years later he received the surrender of Admiral Cervera, & mao in o slmilar ro plight—* man taken out of the water, drenched @né helpless, from bis blown-up ship. After the Civil War Sampson slowly worked his way upword in rami, attaining a captaincy tn 1689, For four yeare—1806 to 18h0—he was supene Intendent of the Annapolis Naval Academy When the sinking of the Maine in Havama pemmmrrmmmmmenrreh ® harbor rouned ail A s to blind rose ageing When the Maine } Bpain Hampson was appointed Hiesident of Oe Was Lost Hoard of Inquiry which svught to learn the eames PORROORALLLLSS Y of the Maine's destruction The bla destruction, by the way, Was never determined, There want adow of proof that Spain had any hend In blewe ing up the Yet public opinion at the time Would not listen te reme son, but clamored for war—chiefly to avenge the destroying of the Maine, Everywhere to be responsible 4 of naval testimony. for the And Sampson was made an acting Rear Admiral, President McKinley a@e vancing hin over the heads of ten fn rank. He was placed tn comman was sent to blockade Cuban ports. Bpain’s powerful Cape Verde fleet, unde Bampson d found refuge in Santiago harbor. spot, to be on the way westward. eluded him squadron concentrated on that one the harbor’s narrow entrance and wa break out. There seemed no reason to think Cervera would try to get out of the harbor for some weeks, So early on went In his flagship, New York, Siboney, some miles distant. In his absence Commodore Schley was in com. the Orerermrrrrrrrrr" mand of { Schley Gets } directions as His Chance. Cerve AAA ¢ Ae Sampson when the sound of firing told him ¢ inc Cape Verde fleet and the North Atlantic squadron were at last at death grips. By the time Sampson reached practically over, The Cape Verde fle U. was heard the slogan, “ltemem for a conference with Gen, leroes . Navy nyson Terhune te hee tee ‘ Destroying at r th Maine's sinking, the Spanish War Maine.” Spain wae in spite of commen began. oMcers who were Sampson's superiors dof the North Atlantic squadron end Admiral Cervera, was known ried to intercept it, Hut Cervera After which Sampson's bombarding the Spanish forte at tehing for the fod to make an effort to the morning of July 3, 1898, Sampson Shafter at squadron, Sampson had left full to the course of action to be followed ra should leave the harbor was on his way back from Siboney ‘ervera had broken out, and that th the scene of action tho battle wae et was at the mercy of its conquerors. ‘Then trouble set in, The friends of Sampson and of Schley started a violent dispute as to who deserved the credit for the victoi An effort was made to compromise matters by reviving the rank of “Vice Admiral" and conferring it upon both Schley and Sampson. But Congress would not authorize this, and the miserable dissension dragged on, states Wainer the ry much of his time in the Legislatur trying to keep ‘unfit’ employees on the payroll “Wasn't that desploable of Jimmy? errant Schley was retired from service. the navy unti! his death in 1902, ninety at this time in the morning, | it is not a good morning at all Mr. Jarr remarked that was sorry. But in his heart he rejoiced. “Do you not realize that it dignified to whistle in a place of business, Mr. Jarr?” asked the boss. “If you are whistling for a breeze, sir, 1 wish to you that so doing 18 a sailor's superstition, and that only brings to my mind the fact that ocean frelghts are $50 a ton, and that war time insurance of cargoes, not to mention demurrage charges, makes any profits in porting practically out of the ques- tion!" remind “Submarine: asked Jarr gloomily. Martin Green Of course, any emplo: or the city that he tries to keep In a job is unfit, That an employee of the city or the State has grown old in the service, has given his best years to it, has people dependent on him and faces poverty because he has unfitted himself for other employment is out- side the question involved, He {s ‘un- fit’ because Senator James Walker, who was elected by one of the biggest majorities ever given a candidate in an equal number of votes, takes enough interest in his material wel- tare to try to save his job.” Mr. 6c SEE," sald the head polisher, “that many people are advis- ing tho nowspapera to say | errec cn neIDs merrily a song to the nothing about tho robid suffrage | had ch ‘him Jn ATRARSDe ladies who aro picketing the White| “W! you got to laugh House !n Washington on the theory |“ Dldr “ panned Gus sourly, that it they are not noticed they will! “My wife has thrown. substde."" put her furniture in storage a “That brand of advice is wrong,” at va the country i, ae 1 declared the laundry man, “It the|\yeucteh like this I won't have any newspapers ignore them you may} "I don't seo why that should ete rest assured that they will do some-|¥ou occasion to rejoice?” rowasked thing which the newspapers will be| ME Jar unable,to ignore. Thus far they have jisten, Tn thread Dinkston. “Why, harmed only thelr own cause." Nosis! “And he laughed ti Pe ba | To-Day’s Anniversary HE Commons of England were|Commons. Under his eoeen Ap called to sit in Parlament for} Barons had waged a succe, Hi me ‘ the first time in 6, a little ;on King Henry id had taken the more than 650 years ago and fifty|monarch and his » years after King John had been forced by the Barons to sign the Magna Charta, The man responsible for this popu- lar representation was Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, who was Aug. 4, 1265, only a few months after he had gained a place in history as the father of the English House o: ~ By Roy L. McCardell isn't | ee of the State | Sampson eontinued in high rank In “And labor, dded the boss. “La | bor is discontented, sir.” Mr, Jarr said he had heard so, “If you were an employer yor would know so," remarked the bo east And the income tax is to be heavily in ased, oO & to the expense of carrying on the war; you |have heard that, also, 1 presume? Mr. Jarr replied that he had hearé that als | “Then, oss, “you may be cheerful at the pr in general, and you may think itis a gooa morn+ ing, but Ido not!” And he went Into be private office and slammed the door, | “Good night!" srid Mr. Jarr, but Jalthough he said it with emphasis, he said it under breath. On his way home Mr, Jarr stopped into Gus's place on the cornee tw spread a little dog-day gloom, The hot weather had given a wel- come spurt to business for Gue his vife was in the country, and he ems more optimistic than he bad time » i's been a little warm bur sticky to-day, we remarked feeling . 1 guess a day like this keeps your bill down?” replied Mr Sarr ico sourly ‘This reminded Gus of his tee Bl), just presented to him but which’ had forgotten. He looked at the bill, |and immediately he figured up tha’ the increase of trade would not off- set the increase of the ice bilh A frown chased his smile away, “ “By Gollles!"” he said glumly, » company had had forgot that the | raised the price on me! Everybod: has raised the price on me, except my customers, they don't raise price to pay mo what they owe me! Mr, Michael Angelo Dinkston pred in briskly at this juncture, ward J, prisoners of "ward Bd war, Leiceat who had laid down tho law that the Wilng derives hy from the peoe good for the public name ie in the | dinanc And ed the or- town we ‘rook elty¥and |sena loyal angoe® SRG gr. Iment, ‘Thus was laid the 8 fof the House of Common { ‘