The evening world. Newspaper, March 18, 1918, Page 16

ESTADLISUED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Dally t Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to t ng Maoopt Sunes ok how, New Yo | tue RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. | MAANUIS SHAW. ‘Treasurer, 63 Park. Row | JOSHF PULITZRI Jn, Secretary, 63 Park Row, | WEMPER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘ sociated Prem ie efelisively entitled to the wae for rembiication of af eevatenee eee Oe ee ica 18" this paper and- Glee "the local ewe privlloed beret, Cd ECU ENN oe bee eve vINOs BO,6C VOLUME 68...... INCOME TAXES IN INSTALLMENTS. BILL introduced by § »s may be paid in successive thirds on the} cnator Watson provides that income and excess profit ta 15th of June, September and December. H This easior The Evening payers of these taxes are entitled, adjustment of exceptional and unforeseen burdens | rid has n specially urging as a help to which! The war t upon last year’s incomea are far heavier have b d during the greater part of the, And in the case, which must pay considerable taxes upon incomes | could than twelvemonth ove: which those incomes extended. of many bu and profits, it is going to be anything but an easy matter to take! the whole sum out of the business this year before June 15. In fact! tuch a necessity, obtaining generally, is bound to result in a depresa- sion of industry—at a time when the least hint of such depression is! the last thing to | sired, \ At a period when war loans, war savings and war relief have their! , jacessant and riyhtful claims upon American savings and earnings, the Government should aim to be the most considerate of creditors. | } It should endeavor to coll no taxes in a manner calculated to] disturb business, finance or individual confidence in ability to keep * pace with war demands, ' Nothing is more important to the Nation just now than a strong) y | and cheerful feeling on the part of Americans generally that with a H steady sticking to work they will be able to carry all war burdens without weakening the foundations of their prosperity. ' To assure that feeling it is desirable that the payment of war obligations should be on the easiest possible terms. ‘The Government ; has recognized this in offering Liberty Loans in euch manner that 4 | wage carners may buy bonds through intermediary subscribers on the installment plan. It has recognized it also in War Savings Certifi- , cates and Thrift Stamps which encourage the distribution of smal! war contributions over a period of time, Why not apply the same principle and for the same reason to the payment of income and excess profit taxes? i] | i} ‘The Government does not need the money from these taxes a at once. The relief afforded by easier terms would have—through | its effect upon industry and through industry upon wage earners— | results immensely outweighing the amount of tax money involved. Besides, Senator Watson's bill calls for interest on the last two | ESE. i income tax installments—an arrangement fair alike to the United | States Treasury and to the taxpayer. ' | Americans have no wish to shirk the payment of their war taxes | not a dollar of them now or in future, But in this first year of heavily increased taxes on incomes and businesses, there is not only justice but—when it comes to floating Liberty Loans and stimulating War Savings—good sense and sound policy as well in making the payment of income and excess profit taxes a less formidable strain—more easily to be shared with other| war obligations. i ea a ~ ' Hits From Sharp Wits How happy will the suburbanite e| the first ball in the hen he is able to turn his coal| Pittsburgh Gasette Timon) (rte shovel into a garden spade.—Lultt-| LS at a ; more American, | | Blobbs—"That fellow Longbow 1s such a clumsy lar.’ Stobbs— "Yes, {, _& man never has to go half way to) ue can't even drop a remark without meet trouble.—Chicago Nowa, | breaking his woid."—Philadeiphia | Record, A codfish Inys $000,000 eggs and! + ib “¢ | never cacks A cackle, but it isn't that) Too much planning for to-morrow way with the little brown hen.—|teaves to-day'’s work undone. . Memphis Commercial Appeal. ue ee ene ae cats aE | 6 6 = | e of the wisest things sald yet} The man who borrow ° fm all this war stuf ts that (he war| ways trying to unload Wena gene must go on until it is over. Yet that! one else.—Ralelgh (N. C.) Ne 4 is what one of the war correspon-| Observers eS iil dents has worked out of his type- | ak ae | writer Milwaukee News, | ‘The self-made man isn't so bad fter hig wife has made him over.— Binghamton Press, . A pine dream patrs after a freeze ute, The man who walt to oateh up him is usua bumped off t nck when the w comes along.—Binghamton Press for the world ee o plumbing res Columbia (3. C.) rhd | mull club ownor's Juat now the base ae tee) {dea of he iso have peace de-| Wise Is the man who can keep ap- clared by midde of April and/ pearance un and expenses downe— Genera! P onvent to throw! @atearo News, . Letters From the People | Please Limit.communications to 150 words, pericam Wh Served) pages on modern warfare from their P; | book, which teaches us that vietory . arth any price, We who were at i] ean never forget the price | nd tortures suffered useless! } for lack of one brain which Pe bi able have opened up the if we an tet our A pro- t who t en CORPORAL 23T 87T i warfare this a! LIAN RF LES on AUT RAS t gatisfaction asa a \ — q ing men only ucritice THE LIMIT, eaves a substantial balance upon our The engagement between a wealthy He of the se i ans will young society woman of Washington i Newer. be anos without a g¢ 1 an Impecunious business man of . Of great adv asthe British have ® Near-by town came dang sly : fn a stagnant trench warfare, Wo jeatye (breaking off” point not long | i bad ¢ same oor ona in our Civil take of @ Mortut's assistant, of ties War along the Potomac until Grant the young lover had ordered flowera Ten Bi in command. So let us fr his flancee on her birthday, With flutter of joyous anticipa- pay any tory but not sacr! price for a substantial vic- rates ed the box »t admiration upon jee Hives In attacks which hgve not been ga well H ity es which re- Aliso make al) Generals understand Hedy en, lovingly taking : ; : 1 out, one by one she came across that they will be beld responsible, not a eard which she read frat for the defeat, but for mistakes or in- tonishment and then with { ertia. We have to win this war and Upon the card was insert har writing the only way to do It Is to stop de- Roses, Do the best vou can for eplaing the Germans and take & few 4,50,"--Harpor'y Magaging qf | nice, quiet, @iIly, OSrGina h-CHOO! = Coprtata. 1918. ews Pabliahiny jew York Kvening may | "hey My Matrimonial Chances Recording the Experiences of A Young Girl of Thirty “B By Wilma Pollock \ so Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) now? ask Episode of the Platonic Friend AS not BAYS PLATONIC friend is a great|day she said; “Constance, let us consolation to ® woman con-|tle the question once and forever. valescing from an attack of|Are you or are you not going to love-disappointment, Whenever 1} marry Elliot?" needed sympathy, Elliot Lawson, MY) Since our Tarrytown trip my inter- wealthy bachelor friend. | est in Eilot had naturally increased. faithfully bobbed up with an inter-| ind 1 now thought him the finest man Copyriah from som “Well, old ense we tle lady my head and The Jarr oa By Roy L. McCardell to 4 Mrs, Jarr. wait suid Mrs. from been by the till Presa Publishing Co, you or the | “ever | this (The New York Evening World), UT why do you say you had | borrow a cup of sugar or some bUt- | roger boy who lived next door in the EXCUSE to run in to] tor recently if you needed » children and me until | Mrs. Jarr. “Surely, you | your son ent you his photograph in uniform in Frane Dusenberry, Indiana, neighbors till ust winter I could put my shawl over run in to see it," sald | “No, dearle, you know I dassent | done it,” replied the old lady from indiana, “Why, to come around to |borry sugar this winter, or butter, but especially sugar, would have been © coming and asking to borry a woman's best Sunday silk dress, or her pianny, or her husband, or any- thing she set her greatest store on, vinybody elve I liked, with a cup in| “Well, sugar was very scarce, an esting Invitation or a generous gift} had ever known, and hoped ardently |«ny hand, and say ‘I just dropped in| butter has been very dear," Mra, of books, bonbons or flowers. Then | that some day he would make me his!to borry a cup of sugar till I can|Jarr admitted, “but you could have T felt better, And T was contented | wito, So I said to Marion, “Elliot has! :un out to the store and get some|come in and asked for tea or coffee, to play around with Elliot and not! jot asked me yet.” ‘or myself!" hey haven't been much dearer.” think of marrying him, for strangely | swine continued she, “he's salt of | “Why, yes, of course,” Mrs, Jarr| “I was in the habit of borrying enough, I regarded him pal, and the earth and too good a catch not | “ePlied. “One doesn’t mind a neig! butter,” said the old lady every other MBACAABSG, MAR ABB Veen the family. One of us| or doing that. We all have to do a, “B80 long as I didn't matrimonial possibility, must get him." hose things at times," eally need it, but had plenty of my Elliot was stauncher than I, for he never sought the society of other women, while I was consctentiously “Yes,” the this winter I told her that was a question for him to decide, “No,” she auld, to “it Is entirely up to way home it was more convenient for old 1 lady went had t on, “up| excuse of coming to borry something and the own tn felt ind pretended I had run out of it. my sugar canister, I never ashamed to make it an devoting myself to finding a husband, ‘i Miah “Ane it bite he excuse of dropping in again to pay| But when I hadn't any, when I! He often sald that he would never yr ar Inded nee of her en- {it Backs You can't jest go dropping | couldn't get any, why, I was ashamed marry, and knowing that I had no (gi ee raed ner Of her en, | ten people for nothing, Why, when |:o go and ax for it. So I jest stayed | designs on his liberty, he was per- | 48 Soot nae vad to him || Was lonesome in my little dark | home and used long sweetening in my tectly willing to do nice things for m de Bor ponalder paraelt boned ha its { lat on the ground floor, I've known! coffee, We could always git plenty Last Thanksgiving Elizabeth W: ‘ les i Lead at og 4 ; * ne wa | Maself to have almost every cup an. of long sweetening.” . ae Marion Talbot, and | t#me I was married. Goodness knows | 14 o¢ sar 1'¢ ; invited my cousin, Marion Talbot, and | 10 © 0s Tie camming enoven jraucer f own filed with sugar I'd| «what do you mean by ‘long sweets her flancee, George Trunkett, and m i yorrowed, or butter, ‘Then, after via v to make marriage practicable, And, ening?" asked Mrs, Jarr. self to spend a few days at Tarry- : niting a decent length of tir a | besides, I'm wild about Biliot.” Molasses, or, as some stylish peo- town, I asked her if 1 might bring o turn it, jest as 1 borrowed it. Bless | ha : | ae this: Malone faieie “Haunted 4 ple calls it, sirup," replied the old Elliot, For I wanted to show that | After this Marion fairly haun you, L never needed th Por bute |jiay a | ik aves Ae spate need ih idy, ‘In some parts of Indianny it's too could scare up a man, ny home in the of meeting | ter, or lard, or whatever it was; I : Milict hata ane: it reapee called ‘sorghum,’ but {f people wants Elliot had never met Marion and| Elliot. Late one afternoon she came | jest wanted an excuse to drop in tot, 5. on airs, when the preacher was L rather feared that he might thi ./When ho was taking mo sv dinner. | soe folks 1 Liked Pe taestuaoat peealbesaniia iinet her too talkative, and that she might |He bad to ask her, too, and on the] «oO¢ eourse, it's not fashionable to : ister them sirup and those cheese,’ consider him too reserved, but to my : borry things, and 1 suppose only poor Of course, the preacher wasn't ex- surprise and delight they kept up an |them to drup moe ilrst and then go On| peopie do It any more, Well-to-d0 \pectat te. Wee the sirup as. long exchange of witticlsims all evening | together, women have to drop in with their sweetening in his coffee. Coffee was and were quite the life of the party.| During the next few weeks I hardly : knitting to ask how the heel can. 1 was tremendously pleased that I /saw Elliot, He was ing desper- | be turned on a soldier-sock they are had brought Elliot, for 1 never be- in love with the d*termined | or to come borry a book fore rewlized how charming and | Ma Yesterday sho came and an- {and to come bring it back. But, as Jelever he was, Nor had I ever ap-/nounced the glad tidings of their ve-|1 know how to knit even flagered |preciated how good-looking Marion trothal, saying, "1 and I do not} inittens, and as my pore eyes won't | could She was positively radi-| feel guilty, because you always tn-| et me read them love novels, 1 hadn't wat, Nevertheless every once in {sisted that you were only friends. vem excuses,” | while Eliot assured me with an un-) Which is perfectly true “But you could have come tn to derstanding look that although Mar- very dear when I was a little gal in Taylor Township, and we used coffee molasses, Sugar, white sugar, was very dear them days before the Civil War, It used to come in big loafs, like the hats them Mexican bandits ie moving picters. wears in was wrapped in bl fon might be Jolly, he preferred my | he first night when Marton An Cold Storage H A RECENT discussion in the press gave Charles Tellier, a Frenche | man, the credit for the inven- 1 had gone to our rooms she enthusi- | astically sald, “Connie, you didn't tell me what a corker Eliot Lawson | was. Marry him, Connie, By all/tion of the cold storage process, While| At this time | means marry him." ft is true that he perfected the sys- | | 1 told her that fot and I were tem and made it commercially pra by th \suat the best of friends, and that he |ticabie, he had a number of forerun- | Cther and trimethyl had no intention of marrying any ners in the industry, Fifty-five years | ifque, which one. ago the first’ refrigerated meat ar- | zen t | After we returned to town Elitot |rived in England. The scheme was 1 Flats. j was quite as attentive ag before. | fairly successful for shipping pre- Lap ‘Marion came to seo me very often |werved meats a short distance, Ten| there wa sid talked of nothing by Euiot, One |r care later w shipment of carcasses of Amer rried & cargo of fro zen beef between Rouen, France, and ‘That first consignm & of what has de into a worldwide Industry, Mer ay Century Old frozen by Harrison's method was sen to England from Melbourne, but the meat was found to be spoiled, was working on his method of freezing foodstuffs use of two chemi mi methylic In 1976 h buyjlt the refrigerator ship La Frigor- | | By a great influx into London Au meat preserved by cold, ple bought it by the ten pound loaf, but poor people only bought it by the pound or balf pound, which _| the store keeper would crack off from | the loaf with @ hatchet.” “Just the same, during all the re- Jeent scarcity of sugar, I noticed the sandy stores—and all candy is made of sugar—ran full blast,” remarked Mrs, Jarr. “Not that anybody rought ME any candy,” she added, ‘ly, for Mr. Jarr had entered at this t, “but I believe there was no seareity whatsoever.” Mr, Jarr pretended not to hear, but o shot went Lomo just (he same, L \ the wild bachelors. | ' And they growled, one at the other, and at their wives and at the man- | excuse | essence, which Was made from burnt\ iui, will result from the impact of And tt | per, and rich | Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by the Pree Publishing Go, (The New York Krening Work), O, the fool hath said in her heart: /, “All husbands are pleasant on the Sabbath morning—save ming alone!” For in her simplicity she perceiveth NOT that @ ~ man differeth from other men only before marriage and before company. But before BREAKFAST all men are as one man— and that one impossible! Now, there dwelt seven men in the same ag ct hotel. And some of them were married and some of them were single-footers. And on Saturday night they were all ¢: o wu nowee merry, 60 that by their words and their countenances and the radiance of their smiles ye could not tell the tame husbands from But upon the following morning, when I descended unto breakfast, ¥ observed them; and lo, what a change had come over them! For some leaned their heads upon their hands and others groaned aloud; and the rest toyed with the poached egg and the codfish ball and regarded it with slumbering hatred. servant and the maid-servant and the dog and the cat and all within the | house. 5) And all was as merry as a funeral march! Yet the groyghes of the husbands were as sweetness and light beside _ the grouches of the matrimontal-slackers, e For the married men were as watchdogs, which raised their voices and howled upon the slightest provocation, But in time they became rec- |oneiled and endured to be petted and lapsed into slumber. But every bachelor was as a cat after a bath which sulked in a corpey and glared menace at all the world. And none dared LOOK at him, nor speak to him nor touch him! Yea, he was as pleasant as a porcupine and as tempting as poison fvy And the damsels of the house walked in wide circles around them ana the matrons smiled behind thelr bands, Verily, verily, my Daughter, there be two things which no MARRIED | woman shall ever escape: even the Monday morning rush and the Sunday morning grouch! Lo, six days of the week doth a man labor for his wife and do all those things which are civilized; but upon the seventh he flingeth rside hig dt guise and 1s Natural. But a bride that entereth into matrimony belleving that all her days ‘shall be alike 1s as @ ship that putteth to sea prepared only for pleasant f * airs shall suffer many shocks and squalls, and only by sheer LUCK shall she reach the harbor of domestic happiness without capsizing tn the whirlpool of divorce! Selah. Ellabelle Mae Doolittle By Bide Dudley 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ion. Do you understand? * replied Tootste, not neither,” sang oyt ' Copyright DID not, neither | ‘The words rang out on tel H morning air of Delhi. All else | yeas still, Ellabelle Mae Doolittle, the noted poetess, caught them, she was | shocked. “[ did not neither : Again Miss ~ alittle was shocked This timo in despair. Who could be using such atrocious ‘The famous little woman the work of Miss Doolittle registered shock and pain again, Then she turned and hastened upstairs to her boudoir and, with no further ado, wrote a poem, Armed with the rhyme she descended the stairs and took her stand before the children, Miss Doolittle held up ne hand, “Listen, my children, and you shall hear’—— sho began, ‘Teeney inter rupted, “Of the midnight souse of Paul Re. vere,” cried the cute child, i “No, no!" shouted the noted yoan; woman. “You shall hear @ lesson. Both keep quiet please. If you don't 1 shall be forced to wallop the tar out of you. { Both children looked worrled, ray \ . she moaned ‘ammar? i abandoned, temporarily, | oatohiak the trousers of her father, Peter P, Doolittie, and rushed to the kitchen door. Looking out she dis covered her sister's child, ‘Teeney Ricketts, and Tootsie Gillam, the little |e two-room house bearing the sign read- ing: “A Large Paricr for Rent. They were making mud ples, and !t |was evident that some one had hit jlittle Tootsie in the eye with a ple. Mud stuck to his countenance like| were quiet about it. Miss Doolittle then read the following poem: a flea to a 'eoning dog. as Om, childien, ia bad gramming | “Who sald tht > * grammar?" de-| Neves etatnly ae enipite TH |manded Miss Doolittle. She moons | a A ot blier tne a firmly, yet gently. Shamefacedly the | There Is Be reason ter. ti y rye ball little white I"; Iropped a quantity of rita | mud and replied: “It was me who done +t'* | Miss Doolittle was very much per- | t make one less child, 1 turbed. She d at the far-away luis, thinking. A solution of the ve problem was what she sot None! When she had fini ‘came at once, but she persisted, {liftle waited in silence for results, “ghe soaked me in de eye wif 4| The children were overjoved. Tootsie ple," whimpered Tootste, applauded, Teeney applauded, and lo Instantly the noted poetess had the | and behold, here came old Pop Skin~ ner, the junkman, He had heard tha poem from the back alley. He also appliuded. It was a moment of greut usto on the part of all thre All were pleased solution, “{ thank you, Tootsle!” she sald “You have given me an Inspiration \s You speak in rhyme, I shall teach my lesson after the same fashion, But | before I do (here the lovely girl smiled | tn a refined manner) I cannot help but | say you appear.to be ple-eyed.” | Having delivered the quip, Miss | poollttle gave a whoop of laughter. It was seldom that she indulged tn a joke, but when she did it was as qui- nine to a sick kitten, She was grati- fied to think her parents had en- dowed her with a genuine sense of | humor ag well ag with the gift of poesy. | “cnildren,” she said when she had lealmed herself, “always be consider- ate of each other. If you must throw | mud ples at your playmate, be sure he pies are of soft mud so that no Wire Netting Splints Instead of Wood NEW kind of surgical splint in which galvanized wire-netting takes the place of wood hag | MODESTY BEFORE ROYALTY. ILLIAM HERSCHBL, “explorer of the heavens,” discovered the planet Uranus 187 years ago, At first he was not certain that | the strange star was @ planet, but| | subsequent observations by himself and other astronomers proved that such was the case, Herschel carried Jon his astronomical labors under the patronage of George III, and named | been put on the market. It has bee) tried and offers many advant, na The steel entering into the construcs on of this woven wire splint Phe planet Georgium Sidis in honor of | tempered that it can be molded? ty the English monarch, Other English | hand, expiains Popular Selenee astronomers refused to accept this| Monthly. Being galvanized, the wire designation, and called the planct|is sterilized and at the same’ time Herschel, after the discoverer, Con. | welded into a ningle piéce that cannot tinental sctentists insisted that the] fray out at loose ends. i As itis por- a certain evaporation and air circulation to the dressings beneath, which wood or plaster does not. The splint comes rolled like a bandage and ts lighter and less bulky than wooden splinte, old mythological system should be fol- | lowed, and this plan was adopted, the name Uranus, suggested by Bodo, being now accepted by all the sclen- titic world, The planet Neptune was discovered in 1846, ous, It allow TE SS iain