The evening world. Newspaper, December 12, 1917, Page 20

The esebity satorid. ESTAMLINIED UY JOSRPH PULITZER. | Pubitahed Dally Kavoys Buogay ty Bees Futiatos Comya ; flow, ma ft IC i, Jr, Hearetary, a ae —— Katered at the Post-Offics at New Tork as fecond-Ciase Matt ' Neates to Fevening |For England and the Continent and) for ine Un tates Aly Countetes tn the interneonal | and Canaua, Postal t | $6.00 One Year, Mu 16.40 | in MEMBER OF THE AMOCIATED PREAS taeda Pi Sit LS BS eat Sot ht? ee NO, 20,667 | HOW ROUGH? | N INDIGNANT Austrian press, outraged that the President | of the United States should dare to call Austria-Hungary! Germany's vaseal, denounces him as a “war-inciter” and) makes the preposterous charge that le urged Congress to declare war! against the Dual Monarchy because he feared Russia's collapse might | lead to an early peace in Europe which would cut off the advantages, America has been gaining froin the conflict. | Nas autocracy any power greater than that which enables it to| withhold cr disguise for millions under its rule the meaning of a) inessage Which another people earnestly strives to get through to them? ' : Complete misrepresentation of this nation’s war uiins is, uf, ; course to be expected from a press which, in Vienna hardly leas than! in Berlin. is under the Prussian thumb, \ But if Prussianism is so eure of the devotion of those millions! from whove haggard eyes it desperately strives to conceal the damning | truth that it cannot fulfil its pledges to them, why not trust them to| take all that comes from America in the proper Prussian spi Why make any attempt to keep them from weighing every word the President of the United States may write or utter in the naméd of the people for whom he speaks? Why is it not confident that nothing another nation might aay) could shake their faith in war lords or their determination to stand by their present masters to the end? There is the weakness of autocracy. So long as it can control eM-| ciently in peace or conquer gloriously in war, its credit is secure. But when its plans are thwarted and its thrusts parried, its only hope is| to keep its millions from thinking too much for themselves—above all from contact with ideas looking toward internationalism and a peace no longer at the mercy of governments but forever guarded by| peoples. | Whether at Berlin or at Vienna, Prussianism, whatever it may} profess now dreads nothing more than that peoples shall find a way ‘to speak to one another without such interpreters as it selects, PASS A CROSSWALK ORDINANCE. T IS to be noted that more and more minds concentrating on the) problem reach the conclusion that no inconsiderable part of what can be done to facilitate street traffic and at the samo time} reduce the shocking number of street accidents in this city is up to| Mr. Pedestrian. In tio report of the e ittee which, at the request of Police Commissisner Woods, has made a study of trafiic conditions in Now York, we find: H It 18 our belle? that tho use of the streets between corners | should be Iimited to vehicular traffic. The main object of | regulations must be to sccure the greatest possible traffic speod that can be secured with safety, Other cltles have come to the conclusion that pedestrians shonld not crosa between corners, and it fa a regulation this city will ultimately have to come to, Then’ why not come to it now? | The habit of cutting across the strect anywhero in the block is| .one that is constantly growing on New Yorkers. No amount of “peasoning appears to persuade pedestrians that when they dodge acrosa| a crowded thoroughfare between corners they not only endanger their, “Tives, but ‘also, by impeding traffic, delay other persons on foot who ‘may be wuiting to cross on the crosswalks provided for the purpose, In Poris (before the war at least) the man knocked down in the ‘etreet by a vehicle was arrested and expected to explain where hie was “and what he was doing when the accident happened. 2 It wag recognized that unless wheel traffic could be kept moving| freely and at reasonable speed, pedestrians themselves would be as “much inconvenienced as anybody. No pedestrian was, therefore,! “allowed the right to pat himself whero ho might block the general movement. | & If New York wants to protect the individual pedestrian, and at| -the same time quicken the flow of traffic and promote public conven- fence genbrally, let the Board of Aldermen pass an ordinance that ‘hall forbid persons on foot to cross crowded streets anywhere aave on the crdsswalks, * Please Limit communications to 150 words, A Problem tn Economy, come in contact with the enemy al- To the Wiiter'pl The Brewing World ready and gone through horrible ex- Lam a og owner, ul in breaking | periences. For example: On one of into your readers’ discussion on the | the Feoantly Sorpedoed ships sever J ere forced into one boat, The value or worthlessness of dogs 1 am) weather was bitter cold und the spray not merely urging the dog's value] of the waven drenched the men. Phes | ‘as a burglar guard, as a protection of i ihildren, as a clean chum for a lonely |Ieland. ‘The next night at twilight four mon were still allve. : man, One reader declares that 4! eared on the horison naan RS dog's keep averages $86 a year (whicn! their direction. They thought thoy gs more than any five dogs’ keep were rescued at last. Whe should cost.) Granting this claim)ship came up tt wos dark and supjoang the claunants to Own jopen boat was mistaken. fe fio dog and to be at leas, twenty | marine, Thr years old: Has he laid by $86 for|it. Luckily every dogless year? If he in forty, has he laid’ py $1,4407 Af be Is twen- |Two days later a destroyer ty, has ne suved $7207 if he is sixty, | this open boat, occupied by two men, has he suved §2,1607 If sy, bis claim |one dead and the other unconscious, ie valid. if net, Ne stands coufessediy|and ho survived. Now he's o mistaken in his BARRE OD: « and B | siacker, have the aame income. eeps &) We don't wan dog; H ives not. Li the claim ts cor- | praid for what we're dos, we dust rect, B either lays aside $86 & year) want some peosle to broaden thelr more than does A; or else he Is &) minds and change thelr anfatr {deus. foolish spendthritt. If a man ts go- CHARLES CHASE, ing to squander $36 a year on 1ux-/ American, Steamship Minnesota, s, then @ dog will give him better value for his outlay than will any Status of Allen Women, other luxury. I do not speak of big | T the Féitr of The Rreoing World: dogs kept in big cities, That is cru-| Kindly let me know whether I can ‘elty to animals, not comradeship, become an American cit.zen. | was POMPTON MAN. | born in New York City and my father was an American, Then | married an Engiishman, which made me Eng- I take the liberty to write a few|lish, As 1 wih to vote, will you lines for my shipmates and myself,| please state can I become an Ameri- ‘and can citizen and where to apply? L wn The wife of an allen cannot make » Letters From the People shots wore fired at| _ Evening World Daily Intimate Talks HUMOR VS. PATHOS E all know there te a very thin wall between pathos and bu- What may bo funny us perhaps | spells sorrow for was about her @ certain pathetic air as thougo she were her way among un- te in a darkened room. During supper it came out thi shopping,” declared Mra, Jarr.| “I'm sure I'll be glad when our little ma ig old enough’ to go to the stores for me, seeing that I haven't maids in pienty to look after the house, and I can’t go shopping in my| man, closed town car Ilke Mrs. Stryver or) |Clara Mudridge-Smith do, with their | chauffeurs'—— | “What is it, what fs {t you want) whisk me to do?” asked Mr. Jar, Interrupt. ing Lis good lady's flow of complain. | of heiplessnes! trying to fi familiar objec old lady had jomt a few hundred Now, the actual loss could little difference to her fnances. off and rolls un-| Stull, when ono ts past elghty, smali der a street car, losses may appear to be great ones, and the old lady was voicing aloud She rambled on, as nioney to UY 2) the old will so ramble, and even #! new one, but the a tear or two—but surely at hor age, watchin g|a tear may be forgiven? To my intense surpris Jones who turned to he: “Oh, don't be so silly, Mother!” sho whose hat biowa) not have th mayine {hel her grievance, his efforts to res | “It isn't anything T want you to do,’ replied Mrs. Jarr, “But !f you woult/| carrying. |atop off at ono of those dreasmakors’ supply stores, on your way home, and mo a roll of cotton batting, | lold, and could fix the coverlct on the children s They toro tt playing the other | ¢ way you go oh about teach you & lthough to lose @ perfectly good hat | were the funniest thing in And this pathos or humom—call it what you will—as viewed from a dit. | ferent standpoint, waa brought home forcibly to me the other day, when a 4d to me some of her will ask my advice before you alter your tnvestments!" Tt was not only what Mrs, Jones | had sald, but it was the sharp man- ich she spoke whic (hat pathetic louk again to come to the older woman's face, “IL know, my dear, | have been very It worse, and {t will be cheaper th new quilt." man contd domestic troubles. Mra, Jones (that ts not her name) | ts a widow in quite comfortable cir- cumstances and the mother of two -n boy of twenty-one and & girl of sixteen. complaint against life was the dis- respectful manner in which her chil- There was, she as- sured me, no real wish to wound or Simply it was that the children had adopted a light, “hu- morous” manner in which they ad- dressed her, almost a sacred word ip the degenerated into a Kind of family Jest, While 1 was talking to her the chil- nthe tdren camo in and L was prossed to nd the} vemain to supper. #ub-! wo wore gil about to sit down at the Jones's mothor—an old -called to sew picked up| nor daughter and her granchildren, Jim—that is the boy—immediately Tt was ut the end of the meal when Mrw, Jones asked after her children’s plans for the evening. ou would not keep such Mater,” Jim returned Iam old enough to go out without leaving a blue print for my» family to know of nty doings?” 1am suro I do not want to inter- dren treated her, to her daughter: hope you are golng to practice t Ki You know, you haven't touched the piano all day!” “And I'm not going to touch tt this 1 am going to tho movies with Chartte!" “But 1 told you that T did not ap: prove of that boy,” Mra. Jones began feebly enough “Oh, mother!’ Iaith poted. wore to walt for you to approve--l should not know with this fam | Were 150 miles off the north coast of | Of being the moving And then, just as ne hit, but the ship fled | ble ny signals could be given, |sady well adov on't move with the times!" At this, Mra. Jones looked pathetic: ally across the tablb at ma ahi complained. children havo no respect for met lack a acnse of “the old grand- atly capped tt f. 1917. by the Rell Bymtirate, fmm) The Irish Now Stay at Home URING the nine September, 1917, there were only 4,600 Cmigranty from Ireland, @ 31 from the correapond- Tho emigrants tn “Jello, Mary! How's the girl?’ Tho girl—sdith—Kissled cunvuisive- ly at the supposed wit of her brother in #o bailing ono Who should Lave veen the object of his Veneration, aud, to my great surprise, instead of re- puking the boy for ls Liupertineace, Jones joined tu or 2 eee months ended Quietly I turned to catch the ex- pression on the old lady's face, and written thereon 4 s4W Cie pathos of ge—the pathos of one Who was try- ing bard to wcconimodate herself to ing period in 1918, AAT went to United Staton, application for citizenship during her husband's lifetime and may only be- come @ citizen through his natural. tuation, 1 do not think the old lady resented her grandson's levity; I am quite sure she bore him not for his lack of courtesy, but there ; Australia, 12; 2 1 States, as compared with the first of 118, showe @ decrease of 2,083, vine, By). H.Cassel | Sayings of Mrs. Solomon “e SPO ess owes _» The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Coprngtt, 1017 by The Prag Publishing Co, (The DON’T scem able to get out of| whiskers, the house to do ono bit of! pearance, but not in disposition, to % splendid tmitation of that genial saint of the season, Santa Cla Two half grown boys ber and jostle so that more of the floss might fasten tn the beard of the little And if T fix tt stitch fn time F ves n| buy supply stores,” grumbled Mr. Jarr,|4 Shove, “You'll nd plenty of th jolt,” Bald M pictures and then whe |heads, ‘The one absolutely unselfish gie.sagviagplatireg and) hay sho/ vines Hla. ax ‘fertend a man have in this self. out till all boure—so never mind," "Keep there!" sroahle) bate Rlah Thettnoren aaete A adv Sane wae BOoksA up t0 ko gail yelled tha conductor, while'the woman | NOCAIN @ that never proves of his beaten track to seek cotton| screamed, the men swore and tho boys] |s the patting that evening when bomeward| laughed, bound, und, strange to say, remem. bered {t. In fact, tho impending dut had hung over him ail day a prophetic! cloud of gloom, jeairt, whereat Half way home he got off the car| and, after long search, found a dress. | makers’ supply store and bought tne] commodity be sought. Back on the| homebound car ho caught the futi| cluding Mr, Jarr. crowd of thy rush hour and ia th jam the string and wrapper gave wa bn the package ander his ars fleccy cotton begun to ooze out, “1 beg your pardon,” said @ tall tady clone beside him banging on to 4] Of trap, “bat 1 would be obliged to you} jy if you Would move awa: are ruining my clothes. | Mr, Jarr on man, an hour rr. patented Magazine > ee a Carcen ew York Evening Worl.) transforming him ia ap-) “People with stuff Itke that should be thrown off the cars!" howled the jlittle man transformed “At least it tsn't a package of im- burger cheese!" snarled Mr, Jarr di-| golng to get a safe and——~ w | ing a baleful glance ut a small clreulur package the litte man was The small clreular package did not contain Itmb er, the odur| tha Ku emanating from {it was rankly calitis | 00 ee > (grinning)—Fatter? I've fost (7) , ain that it was| But as this ts} 7,1 ed in atreot | moving picture fi against the law to b fore they tear|or other kind of cars, tho li | erew worried, glared angril ng a|Jarr and stepped baci on the corns of a thin man in patent leather shoes: don't know any dvesemakers'| The thin man gave tho Ittle man) haven't heard complaining about los- | you! back | ig things: there's not a kick in that} D (proudly)—Y¥eh. Personal eafe m if against a fat nan with a fur-trimmed | Chan; ho goes along smiling—tho Ilv- deposit, I call It. There are my two Jarr. “How. overcoat, the cotton batting from the, |), If you do ne’ ‘ant to be of little iaan's whiskers fastened tn the any help to me, you need not bothor 1 suppose I can got Gertrude to rua out and get it for me, only it ts her evening out, and if I ask ber to do} anything she gets so sulky. she goes out at other times to buy to least thing for me, she expects me tw fur of the fat man's overcoat collar |—Isn't ita crimo? Sometimes [ think {then I seem lumpy. G The next minute there were hostilities | In striking at the Nttle man, the tac! Bis face to ky wan struck the thin man fair in th. | DOU" a And if face. Mr. Jarr endeavored to keep the| . »|two apart, and in the melee the wo) V Eul h D | boye plucked out bandfule of the oote| nator est s Kulogy on the og tell her to take the change and go to|ton from the package Mr, Jarr held | N the under bis arm, and distributed the| | ‘orld hay printed several lette Nobody had the least inten. | nOW to eliminate the dog—at least t \ tion of removing hia shirt, but a pe jumping aboard, selzed the This serv little man and almost removed his| eulovy of tho tate & where tho wintry winds blow an , ri snow drives fleveely, if only be female who hau | Graham Vest, detiveres wy CH ear Hid manera ain” Ce aan started all the trouble cried "Shame and demanded that humber be taken, also the conductor's, | “tl & 1 that everybody be arrested, tho policeman’s| vf noted ability as She had her way i > The car was stopped near a policy| awarded larger damages than hud) all other friends d on © & good-natured police tain geoided the aifair as not one), Gentlemen of the Jury jerution, ond | ftlend & man has c captain di aad the | cating for arrest oF tea w “aaeMdeg road Mtg) om on or Jarr arrived botme With What wad lef{enemy. tls gon ov the cuttop bat 1 don't Mra,| becoine ungrateful worth| nearest und dearest to us, those from me, Jou} mending.” ——_—=_--—— ored to wedge away | [ow Edison Got His Start. | ¢: in the packed crowd and tn #0 doing] the butt end of the exp cotton bruabed full ag beard of a little man, A whole mess! of the fleeey cotton lodged over the entire surface of the Ute man's guotatious DISON on a| aw northern rafiroad, a printer and ph operator before be| ored action, \ 5 whics | The people who aro prone to fall on! hin head between bis paws, his eyes g telegraph for wiock thelr Knees and do us honor when sad, but open in alert wate a telegr Was a printa By Helen Rowland | Corre Wit, oy The Pree Puulivnion Co. (The Now Tore Brentng Warnhy OW many times, oh, my Daughter, bast thou sald ante met H “Ob, Mother, bow WELL thou understandest Ment Yeu the’ genus homo ts unto thee imple as an apple ple aod Ieee mayo terious than @ cheese sandwich, and the beet of them Bro an the bangles on thy wrint! Wut 1 nay unto thee, verily, vertly, my Danghtee, my pretense of wisdom {* all camoufiags, Vor, © do NOT understand wen aod ever shall! Then barken! Behold, when 1 promtscd to meet my Delovell for dinuer I was stricken with a headache and cout) Got 4 eo, yet I knew not where nor how to get o message, t uato bin. And whon be bad waited in suffering upom the street corner for an whole hour and could endure his bunger no longer, bo bastenod home to me in wrath and fear. |... Yet when he saw mo be did NOT chide mo, but was all soliettude en@” jtymputhy and tenderness, and would not WAT until be bad bathed my {forehead and comforted mo with tea aud smelling salts and kisses, But upon the following morning when 1 could not find bis slippers (and forgot to sweeten his coffee tho lightning of bis wrath fell upam me, ,and he blazed at mo and fiung bis breakfast from bim and rushed from {the house muttoring fiercely. Lo, when I came unto mine Husband weeping and told bim that I hed |loot my purse and al! therein, even the fifty shekela which he had given | mo for my Christmas shopping, he dried my tears and patted my cheek end jconsoled mo saytog: | “There, there, Little Onet Weep not, but be of good cheer, For thine j husband will give theo fifty timos fifty shekels if thou needest them.” | And thereupon he took me to a matinee. . | But when I told him that I had tipped a polite cabman half # shekel, he was highly incensed and called upon Heaven to witness mine extrava- gance and hoped that I might some day be “STARVING,” that 1 might learn ) the value of a penny. Bebold, when imine bandmatden in wanton carelessness shattered @ vase which he valued above rubles and precious stones, be estopped my sobbings with a kiss and promised to buy me another. But when I dropped bis favorite clay pipe, costing a penny, upon the = - hearth and {t broke, I thought he was going to DIVORCE mo for “cruelty!” And for a whole day he scarce spoke to me. Verily, verily, I have broken men’s hearts, yet they have forgiven mo dnd continued to love me, Yet, when by a chance wora I have wounded a man's vanity, he hath foresworn me and cast me off of his calling list forever. I have deceived them and led to them brazenly, yet they have con- tinued to trust me, but when I told one of them a simple, unpleasant P truth, he gazed upon me with suspicion and turned from ma, T have bullied and trodden upon them, yet they continued to adore ' me, but when I argued with them or laughed at them they hated me forever! How then ehall a woman of reaeon and intelligence understand ANY man? For, lo, they ARE funuy! Selah. Camp Comedies By Alma Woodward | Ceprrlgiat. 1017, by The Presa Publishing Co, (The New Yors Brealng World.) POSSESSION—NINE POINTS! | Scene: A barracks, Time: Bunday afternoon, ' | (Some dove are hustling around in their frantle efforts to doll up defore 4 the fitney bus leaves for the neighboring town.) (PULLING things to pieces)—| B (siowly)—I have more than one A ‘ow, where In thunder is that| thing to pick on In that gu; guy. 3 ; ' is certainly a goat-getter, I Fifth Avenue stuff my elster you, but bla rapid accumula. \ ; sont mo last week? tion of flosh since he's been in camp | 1B (in derision)—Double Fifth, you] is . Every time I kick on the j n—a few blocks further west, to @ superior be goes and picks Buddy. Anyway, what stuff are you en ae & abining example of core alking about? —— : (bitterly)—I think the fellows (ndignantly)—You know very| gone and go! himself tnoculated well what stuff. I showed !t to you t antiasls germ so he'll when I got ita khaki silk handker- | © Kanes wed from the army: Bee 5 sited lie matite ust lumps of fat all over chief with hemstitehing, @ black/""(ban, oblivious to tho disturbance f corded site tie and a khaki eilk muf-}ne's Causing, starta to whistle flor with fringe. 1 can’t find a blamed | happily.) one of ‘em and I'm booked to take (juinping up tmpatiently)—New, tea at Todd's, too. 1 pond uy eh that the mit? Ite : ierdaathe Tt" a positive misdemeanor for any ome ¢ Fa regs ica i petal ae {| 12 do as primitively happy as that, \ shame the way things are awiped) 13 (calling over)-—Say, Dap, whatre around here! 1 n't keep a clyarette| you whistling about? a piece of candy to my name, I} WL (smiling widely)--Nothing better t keep anything, tn fact, I'm/to do, I gucss. Anyway, 1 lke to ame LM Wow ane ‘ oleca (from tho distance)—Hey, (curiously)--Are you really aa Bud, the jitnoy’s weighing anchor happy as you seem to be ail the time? A (dashing from room)—There, see! | D (calmly)—Sure. Why not? Now | gotta go looking like some one] 1) (irritably)—And you're getting Suiser stepped on, just be-| fatter day by day—on stow! rest of the plaint {5 lost tn wild | ¢ toward the biccoughing jitne; ra rotund, rv zuled) —Ye of Uncle Sam's fight- ing slowly) —There's a rea« aters into the rooin and )son for my adipose, Wateht sround Ja the corner| (He unbuttons his coat. A strange r stagbt 1s ll) ’ # (Undicating the atest comer)—| EB (en! ned)—Oh, that’s the reas | Dan, over there, is the only fellow 1 swipes anything from pounds—wanta be let in em nb he canary | Be n of the cat who swailowed pe scurves, wristlets, a ; nd‘a halt dozen hand- king the little sunbeam over) | kereh.c sometines they siip and ? me? he must have bad ap operation on B (triumphantly)—s ep the corners of his|atew couldn't put on al ery! | KNEW that up. mouth up 80 hols few days The Evening »w the stone of malice when eutl ita cloud upon our acherous, ls the dog, 6 jury, & man's do ntlemen of stands a large degree, » in livalth an pe to recall the famous|He will sleep on thy in “sickness, cold groun Senator Vest wis a Missouri lewyer| iss the hand that has no food’ to orator. When| offer, he will lick the wounds and rugiling lawyer be was called] sores that come in encounters with to plead the case of a man whose| the roughness of the world, He neigubor bad Killed the piaintit's dog. guards tho sleep of his pauper maa. Aficr Senator Vest’s appeal, the jury|ter as if he w » prince. When gf be remains, been asked. Here 13 the address When ‘The a the w and “t turn against hi juster forth tid, friendlesa ful dog asks no than that of accom. {ng him, to guard aguinst dange i against the enemies, and, last scene of all comes and \ehes tila master in Its eme A his bots lawl away to ground, no matin af all othe nds pursue their way, there by hie ¢ side will the noble dog be found, 9 he bas reared with | Those who are whom we trust with our happiness | pany and our good name, may to |traitors to their trust, ‘The | ta man has he may lose. ay from bin when he may & most, A mMau's seputation sweriticed {2 a moment « hfulneas, @uccess ig with us may bo the first faithful and true oven to pret