The evening world. Newspaper, April 12, 1918, Page 20

re ent este NT en ea ag ee ae nem es PETARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, cbilehed Daily Except sun by the Press Publishing Company. Now. 53 te ees tae t2 Terk Row, New York. RALPH PULITZOR, President, 63 Park Row. ), ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row, _TOBEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Kos MEMSER OF THE ASSOCIATED PREAS, rose iy crctusively entitie’ to the use for renublication of tt a therwler « J in this paper and Also the local new» published herein, | “VOLUME 38 iedietre deny NO, 20,688 "THE SIX-CENT FARE DRIVE. Borou President of Manhattan had an answer ready ine delegation of Interborough employees who urged fowl! yesterday fears that their wage ecale will suffer ration’s six-cent fare request is granted s spoke to the point: Li pald to i the Interborough get back some’ of the bonusés tt igh-salaried men and rid itself of some of its agree iments to pay ten, fifteen, eighteen and twenty per cent. divi- ids on bloated bonds for surface raflroads and other leases vefore il urges you to come here and ask me as an elected epresentative of the people to boost the eix-cent fare scheme.” it has not wholly slipped the public memory that two years ago anvestigati startling expense items. Tho famous “commitments and obligations’ to the tune of $2,000,000 which President Shonts found it necessary to arrange for in connection with the third-tracking of the elevated lines was Then there was that $125,000 bonus handed to Mr, Shonts by the Interborough directors, not to’speak of $500,000 2 in Yonuses for bankers, and payments for “special and extraor- sary logal services” that tap to $3,600,000 in a few years, ‘Uhe In terborough wasn’t counting pennies when it sought partnership with the city for new subway and elevated construction. Nor, going further back, was there much reckoning of ultimate s when seundalously overcapitalized New York surface lines were recklessly figured into fixed charges, aome of them as high as 20 per ceut., to be paid somehow year after year, even when tho lines ceased to exist. one «yeh item. ! themselves had It appears to be the accepted theory of strect railway corpora- tions in this city that consequences of past extravagance and wild) finance are to be borne, whenever a pinch comes, by the public, h doesn’t eee why its salaries or its dividends | should: suffer if troubles that, overtake it can be Passed on to its) patrons by tho simple process of boosting fares. The fact that thousands’ of other corporations and millions of | individual Americans are just now soberly figuring out the economies uid sacrifices | The Interboroug which they can hope to carry new and heavy burdens) fails to convey any particular meaning to Interborough managers, | We do not know what hints it may have dropped to its employees as to the bearing of the six-cent fare proposition on Interborough wage scales, But we should like to sce opportunity provided for the larger | body uf New York wage-earners to tell what they think of a proposal which means taking six more dollars each Year out of the working. | man’s pocket for one of the first necessities of his daily life, And we should like to see legislators at Albany, even. at this eleventh hour, compelled to listen, / ; _ Ho MORE IMPERIAL LIES. | VEN as other men, a monarch needs a good memory before as well as after telling @ lie, When the Emperor Charles of Austria peror William a hot denunciation of “the false assertion that I) (Charles) in some manner recognized France’s claims to Alsace-Lor- raine as just,” the young Austrian ruler evidently forgets the exist- nce of the autograph letter bearing hie own im mado public by the French Government. In this letter, written a little more than a fe-law, Prince Sixtus de Bourbon, the Austrian Emperor, after de-| dering thet “no real divergence of views or aspirations separates meny of my empire from France,” distinctly says: “I beg you to convey privately and ‘unofficially. to President Poincare that I will support by every means and by exerting af] my personal influence with my Allies France's Just claims regarding Alsace-Lorraine.” The letter confirms belief in (1) the relative weakness of th: “personal influence” or voice of Emperor Charles when William is talking; (2) the amount of } furnish and exact in an attempt considerable portion of the Dual Kingdom toward peace, Despite the boasted advantages of autocracy when it comes to making war, there appears a surprising amount of internal friction and waste in the energy expended between Berlin mp the bluff of complete unity of Powers, telegraphs the Em- j perial signature, now | | year ago to his brother-| } Emperor lying Berlin is prepared to 4im and purpose in the Central 30 SLR Rae ata a ey Letters From the Peo le. An a flounew Seen Food Keonomy, he will find ot ip to conceal the true attitude of a| | lerretetree | | | \ President | of Interborough dealings with the city disclosed some, Are Yo | CN atl soe perittaR LPS At LN EDITORI Frida AL PAGE April 12 u at Home? Mike Ro att tt by ‘Tivo Wee Publishing Co (ihe New York Eveniog Word.) BY ec kt gasie, ssi, Hero By the Rev. Thomas B, Gregory. Copyright, 1018, by the Prees Publishing UKE ROSS! What ® funny name— suggesting a cross between the peat bogs of old Ire- land and the grape-laden plains of sunny Lom- bardy! Mike belongs to the honorable if not iilustrious company of organ grinders, and into the business that has a vital interest for us all~—-that of making a living—ho throws the spirit of the hero that he |s. Mike used to be a worker in the lime industry, and one day, after an explosion that shook the quarry like minus both of his eyes. A But eyes or no eyes, Mike had to live, Hunger came around at about the samo old time; the cold winds made him shiver; the rent had to be paid on the shanty In which he lived along with his wife,and children—he went through with the burlesque of living and he had to be up and doing. It was up to him to act, and to act quickly, so he got hold of a ram- shackly old hand organ and began and Vienna to keep | grinding out his living, And such grinding! One does not need to look at Mike more ones to bocome aware of the fact that he means business, The “music?” who have to hear tt, but It Is life to Mike, and Mike's wife and weans, ¥ (ve Betitor of The Evening ‘os ate firms thi Vy tue KAitor of The Evening World more of their employees than the ane t to answer one of your many| The labor market to-day over, iy th reference to food and| from $8.50 to $4.12 por day for une | usekeepersa do not use this eenet labor, with double pay for vr that article in order to save wheat, | OVertime, while the employoes of | the city, mostly High @ you have taken up pota- | ats Tony eh Be hoe! gradu Tho principal reason we do not Schoel gradu. (the other day was | allent, and he seems to fully realize the fact, For not one second of the ten minutes or so that I watched Mike his old organ As @ tune would draw near noth bead le teat thdee chose, te ived @ still higher education, are close there would come a down- ge eetgg dh horomahly bad, | eked to content themacives with | 2% p ye pave bi L e emsecl ve: Ww | ¥ 7 hey ate tales ct ously Dad. | thelr present low aalarion, whe Wit" |ward dash of Mike's big calloused hiack under the wkin and hollow in| JFty of them receive about $75 per|hand and another tune would be- he centre: tlio very badly month. They are told that if they | gin. K€ is impo: < Lape age Paes ee) geeks employment| ‘The multitudinous noises about Ab gles E [pleas who Bes niventy sete nm, | him, now retiring like an outgoing . ad Mashed |§ 10 ThB oeticn wave and now rising again, had no! 1 do} 9 of the emy eciable effect before the rapt ot kaow wh pur infor, f appr ati 1 ing able hp here an, He heard only the jingle © dispose Nn eta nh after havis nnies ia the tin cup, and the ind’ 60 ‘ ep peepee S utions if ¥ ee hiked Hand kapt.on minding cut paying 40 0, MEE. J. GCE tho pens Ay held |the harmony JG. them in. service valler salaries, 1, t magy ree Woon of @ Cliy Worker, then they could have obtained else. |. it !s Just mag ft te watoh f Worla | where, . Mike onquer: on of the City of New The Government of tho United! oarnestness blind organ received @ letter from the | States ts drawing upon the resources | dor's soul. i them that they would|of the country, both monetary an a 8 Wha Tae W ve an inerease in salary and | physical, for th kit Buras'e | Moot me : 1 No matter how | the world sage lace Bled;” Wellington's "Up guards they must exist | about the uot J at them;" Ne England bet e@ ver- ever mr , duty;" ok Over the providers are “over ther Caen med) HGF ah 96 ie Gripe, and the Frenchman's gata at Vordun, A cITY i ‘ an earthquake, he found val than! It is death to those | (The New York Krening World.) They shall not pass;" are all plainly written upon Mike's sooty, weather- beaten face, Miko is making his living, and Into the job he is throwing a spirit &s fine as that which Napoleon put in- to his Italian campaign, or Peter the Great with the building up of the great White Empire, The heroes aro not all in cocked hats and gold-decked livery, ‘To do a fellow's part in life, though it be but to turn the crank of a squeaky old hand organ, and to do it well and cheerfully, ia to be the grandest of heroes. kick coming, or the least idea that he ts not appreciated. He had noth- ing laid up against the world, He is here not to “cuss” or whine, but to make a living, ‘To keep the crank of that old organ a-turning {s Mike's main business, jhis only business, and for the | strength to keep up the grind he is | sincerely thankful, | Good luck to you, Mike, and may | the good Lord help every one of us {to catch your spirit and throw it |into our work, Liberty Bell Workers Had Good Appetites N of memento of tho Liberty Bell, whose replicas on side to-day remind us that the battle for freedom has once more to j be fought, ts the bill for food served | the workers who set it in place, It was first hung in the steeple of the | Pennsylvania State Hous ording | to @ claim filed by Edmund Wooley, | dated April 17, 1753, “for sundrys ad- vanced for raising the bell and frame and putting up the bell.” | Weoley declared that be had on |that date supplied food and other in the task, the list including the fol lowing: Forty-four pe heet, 4 |wammons, 2 pecks em, 800 mes, 86 loaves of | f Lacy ye Bake ons of Jones mustard, pepper, butter, a | cheese, cooking and sarthene ware and candles, veal ae | beer of Anthony Mo Thin tor- | midable list cost the province a total loft 6 pounds 18 shillings 10 pence, or about § A Modest figure jr s ‘by present day prices, Later the bell was recast from the wit > iteelt [cost a little over gad0, Mike doesn’t appear to have any | every | refreshment to the workmen engaged | The | ; “By Roy L. McCardell 66 R the fish are running * remarked Mr. Jarr as he entered Gus's place on the corner, “I'he Naval Reserve boys camping at City Island aro ge them by the boatful.” “Not #0 loud 8-s-s-hult, please said Gus in a sibilant whisper. “If my wife, Lona, was to hear you ax me to go iishing it would make her laugh bitterly right in my face." “Why, just the other day you were talking to me about going fishing, Mr. Jarr replied. “Ha, yes, I know,” said Gus, when I told you that It was my day off, Never would I even whisper it if It wasn't my day off.” “I don't got you,” retorted Mr. Jar | “You had no day off. You were right | Where you stand now.” | “Hfa! Was my wife, Lena, home?" Inquired Gus, “No, she was already out, and when she has a dey out for her it means it ts a day off for Then 1 atn’t afrald to say what 1 think, But now I gotter be enreful.” “I bet you!” remarked Mr, 9} esky, the glaztor, who was lottering within, “Don't I know how ft 4s, Gus? Never let your wife know you want to do anythin And if she wants you to do anything don't do it too quick for her. It will make her ‘ spectsious. ting “You'll have to elu Jarr, “This colloquy started on the | subject of fiehing tn tho springtime, | now we are whispering as though we were going to rob a bank to buy Lib- erty bonds,” | “Slavinsky has said {t, all right,” | said Gus. “lis ife 4s specistous too, | But for mean spectstousness my wife, Lena, has tt all over his wife.” “Yet while your wife may be more |spectsious than my wife, my wife ts more sneaky about it than your wife \1s," replied Mr, Slavinsky proudly, “Well, maybe your wife {9 more sneaky than my wife,” said Gus, as | though insistent ajl honors should be ‘or his wif ‘Yet you gotter own up my n she is epectsi wh wits has! | “Look ostulated @fr Jarr. ts is getting no- | whore. almighty fine for you poth to take such pride in the un- | pleasant 4 of your brides, but what have thelr dispositiona got to }do with us going Oshing while the \fen are running?" 5 ody likes to go fishing so much as me aid Slaylush ”vatd Gus (prea abour ib my wile, Lena, gels ’ Tut | specistous right away, So, I never let} it be talked about.’ “If I told my wife 1 was going out! shadow trying to sweeten him or to reform h! to murder a friend she wouldn't be 80 specisious as sho is about fishing. | All she thinks it 19 to drink out in a! boat in the rain,” chimed in Mr, Sla-| vinsky, “Do you fellows Jarr Family t, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World.) mean clous?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Sure! Ain't that what we sald?”| they both chorused, “and,” locking." Here Mr. Slavinsky gave a demon- stration as to what he mennt by “oar- locking” by giving a pantom!m!o {m- added Mr. specisious 1s my wife that she'll even believe I am golng fishing when I tell her I'm only going out in a boat oar- Slavia. ‘auspi-| “s0 Guy! , ucky Guy! Written by Marlin Green in a Headquartere Dug-Out on the Battle Line in France. cigdt, 1018, by the Breas 1 tng Co, 1 en Yora © AR ehell rose frow the German + Wes ord.) a flare, ie > Man's Land refleaed the astray a plot o naking the blackest houry of nigh of days Even the silvery moonlight sheen must be § showers, And when etar uu the German } : ghostly dares from ours. Ata firing post in a fron: tine trench was @ voy from Somewhere ay Home; . | He was ankle deep on a narrow of oowing, crumbling load He stood on the boves of men of Wrance who had died at thatvery spol. And ho was as ready as they bad been to be Layoneted, bombed or sho , And while they had fought for a land ‘round which all thelr love hopes ined, lye had s vered a chi! vere 0 do battle for all Bil?” he asked, {n a whisper, 5 “When did y low— , As {f he feared (bat Lis voice would plerce the white nud shifting gion, ‘That made of the lowering banks of clouds a vista of glistening tower In the eparile of shells in the German Ines and the gleam of flares from ours— “T landed in August,” a yolce replied, from a pit in the mud, close by And the boy from Somewhere a! Home repiled: “B’Gee, I'm @ lucky guy!” here, nee August,” he whispered on, “and you just got “You've been here a chance to fi “Why, I waa dumped on the shores day night. You've been here since August and all that tlme they’ve kept you om hike and drill, “and you aln’t never had a chance to teed some Heinte a pill! “Why, it’s only been fifteen weeks ago when I kissed my girl goodby, “and here I am !n a front line trench—b'gee, I’m @ lucky gu Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland | ance just a week ago Saws Coprright, 1918, by the Prom Potilebing Oo, (Tee New Tork Brening Voit OLA, my Daughter! The marrying season is at hand! Lo, the afr ts filled with wedding-bells, and the welkin ringe.s with “I-love-you's,” and echoeth with “Will-you-merry-me’ i And 1, who once declared that “marrying mer. were extinct, and that proposing was a lost art, am covered with confusion. Verily, verily, come not unto me saying: “But HOW shall I choose emong them? are ALL so fascinating—in a uniform?” Lo, have I not many times assured thee that bed husband {s not a matter of “choice,” but of CHANCE? And, whatsoever wise men may have wr'! PY cerning “the right TIME at which to wo , Nace somee will continte to marry whensoever they can con‘rive tt, and youths will continue to marry whensoever they cannot escape i | And, howsoever thou aslectest an husband, whether by county:s the buttons on his walstcout, or tossing np a penny, or by the laws ang charts of the eugenists and psychologists, behold thy firet guess {s as apt to be right as thy last gue: ‘Therefore, be advised, and when thy Prin | not to put him through the catechism, nor to di beneath a microscope, but MARRY him, first. And thou canst take out the “kinks” and put on the passeme and the frills afterward! “ } Vor, peradventure, whatsoever thou drawest in the G shall be all the same to thee after ten years. rsiinmon For: ‘ Charming come. ct bis faults and ¥ eat Lot! she weareth herself to a. bh, sho weareth herself to a shred trythg ie Yea, if a woman weddeth a But if she weddeth a p please him and to hold him, If sho weddeth a poor man, she w | tor him all the rest of hor daya. And if sho weddeth a rich man, per: (a trazzle waiting up for him all the rest of her night If she weddeth an old man, she weareth herself to ® rag nursing biog and following him about with a hot-water bottle, And if she weddeth a young wan, ehe weareth herself to « worrying over him and following iia about with jealou Yet, if she weddeth NO man at all, che weareth her wishing sho had taken the first ono who offered himself, Therefore, do I charge theo, scorn not the instructions of thy ‘the Married Woman. Wor out of a full b again those immortal lines: reth herse’f to tatters laboring areth herself ta hadea to a remuane omy t do I repeat unto thee on:@ Itation of an oarsman. zather ye le yo may, for the Laddies are leavi Gus regarded the little giazier with | “And she that scorneth a poach to-day, may later accept a PRUNI @ sentimental eye. “Twenty years J) Seish, f knowed you, Slavinslr; he sald. —_—_—- _ ee eee ae “Twenty years I've cared for you and * h h fh trusted you with everything I have When Folks Went to Chure iV Law in the world, on the slate, up to three ITNOUS laws in this country,| Montague Burgoys Mafed’ inte dollars, and yet wa don't get no N Bae ead aeaetecia Gar pe ae chances to go fishing together, and bid vari acty ef work an dutie. Rig § for 8 cempin lay on Sunday, but not s the! anco in England bogae “What nonsense,” snapped lapse of tho “blue laws" of the relgn of igar, in Jarr, “Many @ time you two have) g..4 nave Americans been forced by'| tenth century, when the Sabbath doe fone fuhing together and 1 know it" er tnstign to mo 10-6 earths Wan OraMee CC ae what's a fishing bb re o'clock on § 4 bave to come back the Re An merniit atteracag Oh indy. win | Wee HOF Bell She ie The mort k, 0, » sald Mr,| eked Mr, Slavinsk; be nics to you when you are a young | feller, and you think everything Is And you let her marry you, condemnedy attendance at relig abolished, ; , Some unust mae Les frome tbat aay the ‘bo iF vehi he attended the enforcer sing a fine of one you be for five minutes when she) ‘tons particularly upor ine anas tere don't know where you are! brews. ° 4 re! Ladies ain't no sport may ware ant res said Gus eadly; “wife Lena thinks | its plenty of fun to fish at the store, whore she can get codfish or! whichever {9 cheapes if I ktek that I want to go Ashing| she tells me to sit on a wet chair and drop a string into @ cup of smelts, “Sure, where she can watch you!’ eried Mr, Slavinsky. ladies 3 ous? Can you tell your wit with us, Mist And Mr, J. would not do; uu are married to Jarr’s spociaions. and ME WHO RUNS MAY READ, ‘The druggiet handed bottle, “How much?” "$1.50," him a small on wes written a inj provisions of tlie multitudes of them were | for insisting upon obs own Sabbath, In t tury, {t ts recorded, a J bury fell Into a sewer on a Bat day. Although almost submerged he NEWEST THINGS IN SCIENCE, Gymnastic tach appar fo the head tus to be ute fa bed to permit would not permit persous to ¢ ats Don" | drawn out, belleviy ¢ been ted Don't I say all jwould be to violate the sanctity of eet ees apecials | the bh yr, On the ne ; oi mu were! ent is 3 yp Charr? pent foremeny y a removed to vounp nce admitted that this| So the Aieetntanse ina nia te enue ' arouve Mrs. oop the Christian Sabbatis, would ne | . | he unfortunate man to be| ea permit the ur | —— rescued until after sunrise on Mon- | day, when he was found to be dead., ‘Aw late as 1830 there were ten por- \gons in English prisons whovo only; jortme was refusal to ettend One of them was andled spoon j tho contents of servi } man who had been eon sorted between vio poh oy f Nite against wn mo him. red \