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eS en oe ee ae ee SG Che ue ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, dent, Row, PO Eg MEMBER OF THD ASSOCIATED PRESS, | oot SEE SSOY SRR TT Set Balla Boreas” | VOLUME 58 . . «NO, 20,708 | NEITHER IN LAW NOR IN CONSCIENCE. Cisse tt eked the unsparing—for the kind of railroad finance that wrecked the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford accompanies the Interstate Commerce Commission’s grant of freight and passenger rate increases to the New England | railroads. ! The Commission makes it plain that in the case of the New Haven it permits such increases with distinct reluctance. The report of the Commission contains a concise but ecathing statement of the| prlicy which brought upon this once prosperous railroad the heaviest of its troubles: Money thrown away dishonestly or with wanton reckless- ness, or foolishly lost in non-railroad enterprises, is not money put to public use upon which the rate payers are bound in law | and in conscience to make return. | We do not overlook the fact that under our present form of corporate management the great majority of the stockholders in the New Haven enterprise were even more tho victima of the mlemanaging Directors than were the patrons of the road. It 1s common knowledge that the Directors of these great corporations are in fact selected by banking or other interests | —in too many instances actuated by motives essentially ad- verse to the interests of the stockholders, When the Wall Street powers which dominated its directorate started the New Haven on that reckless course of conquest and ab- sorption which led to the buying of trolley and ateamship lines, the) financing of costly enterprises outside the field of railroad manage-| menc and the consequent disappearance “into thin air” of millions of dollars of stockholders’ money—much of it the hard-earned savings of} New England thrift and self-denial—these ruthless exploiters of a} great railroad property were preparing the way for a disaster of such! magnitude and meaning as to constitute an effective warning to all} holders of railroad stock in this generation. | What the lesson of the New Haven made it harder for railroad, wreckers to do again, experience of Federal control of railroads during the war should end by making it forever impossible for any group of) financiers, however powerful, to accomplish. The Interstate Commerce Commission points out that Uatil this Commission or some other active Governmental body with absolute power permanently controls the issue of | carrier securities, and, with reasonable Iimitation, the applica- | tion of the proceeds thereof, stockholders and other investors | in carrier securities are certain from time to time to be sub- | fected to such perils of mismanagement and resultant losses | as have accrued to the stockholders of the New Haven, the Rock Island, the Pere Marquette, the Cincinnat!, Hamilton and Dayton and others, The control the Interstate Commerce Commission recommends stops a long way short of Federal ownership. On the other hand it goes a long way toward establishing real and lasting protection for stockholders against echemes of exploitation conceived in conscience-| Jess circles of high finance. | But the Commission is not concerned solely with stockholders. Note again what it says in the interest of the public that pays) paseenger fares and freight charges: | “Money thrown away dishonestly or with wanton reckleasness, or foolishly lost in non-railroad enterprises fs not money put to public use upon which the rate payers are bound tn law and in conscience to make a return.” The proposition thus stated ought to be widely published and! emphasized as a chief and constant guide for the regulation of all public service corporations. It should apply not only to money “foolishly lost in non-railroad enterprises” but to all overcapitalization, pyramiding of stock issues, @ . [Hurry Up, Ye ere oy Monday, EDITORIAL PAGE | | April New York! tt Rae Sta My Matrimonial Chances Recording the Experiences in Pursuit of Love by a Young Girl of Thirty By Wilma Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Worl’), Pollock ‘ ym 7) y. | Cyocoe noe The Jarr Family | By Roy L. OCongright, 191 HE telephone kept ringing and Mr, Jarr remained by the win- |. by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Work), = By Helen Rowland 1918, by The Press Pubt'sbirg Co (The New York Evening World), ‘Lo, It Is the Mother of the Bride-- She Vatteth Herself Upon the Back—For Hath She Not Led Her Darting Into : the Port of Matrimony—and Bottled Up the Harbor? ede HO is THIS that cometh chanting ip her heart the Battle Hyma 45 ot Victory? Lo, it is the Spring Bride to ali her glory. She smileth not, neither doth she grin. Yet, I say unto thee, the lilies of the fleld were ) aot so GLAD as one of these! 7, She hath arrayea herself ror the sacrifice, Her veil is as a uimbus which glorifyeth her; hath crowned herself with a bale of orange bios for her Beloved's delight. Her satin train 18 an heirloom. Her brooch diamonds flasheth tauntingly in the eyes of Bh enemies, She hath soaked her tresses in spikenard and myrrh and covered them with brilliantine. She ts PERFECTLY marcelled—and perfectly calm! | Hola, hola, hola! Let the trumpets sound and the organ peal! The Conquering Bride approacheth! i Who is this that walketh beside the Bride, with perfect self-possession jand suppressed smiles of elation? | | Seen mewn ave Lo, it is her FATHER! He shineth as the morning sun. |another in their glowing. | Even as the Kaiser, when he signed the Peace Treaty with the Bol+ sheviki, 6o shall HE sign the Marriage Certificate without trembling! For by that token shall he be relieved of her bills forever, and all het “Campaign Debts” shall be paid! i | Who is this that sitteth in the front seat among the Chief Mourners? Lo, it is the Mother of the Bride. She {s covered with satin and point Ince; she weareth all her jewels. She endeavoreth mightily to look “heartbroken”! | She is wondering if the SALAD will go around. She ts already plan- ning to “exchange” the wedding presents. | She is gloating over her EFFICIENCY. back. She velleth her triumph with downcast evellds, | For hath she not led her Darling into the Port of Matrimony—an4 | porrLED UP the Harbor? Yea, verily! His boots and his eyes vie with one She patteth herself on the | Who is this that cometh tripping chirpily, with grins of bold det ance and scornful smiles of pity? | Lo, it is the Best Man! His eyes are haggard but glittering. His breath {s redolent of cloves. The ring burneth in his pocket. He feeleth grim’ and implacable—even as the High Priest about te | slay the pet calf before the sacrificial altar. He WILL SEE IT THROUGH—or KILL somebody! Who {s this that sneaketh in UNSEEN? He weareth khaki and silver bars—yet his lips are white with feart His eyes are glazed and terrible. His knees are trembling. He would NOT be there if the thing could be done without him! | He feeleth the eyes of the whole world upon him—yet nobody hath | OBSERVED HIM! He 1s of the picture—but not IN it! 4 HE? Oh, He ts only the Bridegroom! He hath not slept. ay On with the sacrifice! Let Hymen be appeased! Hola, hola, hola! It 1s done! TIED—in three minutes—for all Eternity! The Rubaiyat By the Rev. Thomas B. Gregory ‘ McCardell | she often said, one must always smile at the telephone, We never know How an Old Flame Suddenly Flared Up Again ADBLANE RIv- ERS says a wom- an accomplishes more through conceit than through any rea! stance will appreciate you, ‘der than Barbara," fibbed ane, Well,” said Jasper, “I'l Jasper, because she is three or four years take a chance on your Coustance girl.” virtues and that 1 would be mort successful with men !f I had a higher oninton of myself. She be- obligations inherited from wild finance in the past and similar con-| sequences of mismanagement which put upon a property the burden of earning returns upon fictitious values figured far higher than its actual worth. | It should apply particularly to street railway corporations, It should apply to “commitments and obligations” like those 0 cheerfully incurred by President Shonts for the Interborough in beautiful than to connection with the third tracking of the elevated lines, be beautiful and not appreciate the It should apply to the millions of dollars in bonuses and special, fact: lawyers’ fees lavished by Interborough Directors to secure the city’s! I think my very Inck of concett has to be homely and think you are eves it ts better | e So on Sunday afternocn Madelane invited some friends to tea. I tried to look my best so that I would not disappoint Mr. Pemberton, I must have come up to his expectations, for he admired mo tremendously. And be | was exceedingly attractive, | He said Madelane had given me splendid recommendation, “Often,” | |continued he, “a girl ts pratsed too much, It ig best to let a man form his own opinion, But in your cai Madelane’s praise was too meagre." “I'l have no trouble in getting this |~family servitor, answered the in- | partnership in new subway construction, ieee ae fpekearererergetreyeh It should apply to the 10, 15 and 18 per cent. dividends street my lot. For I am not so remarkable railway companies in New York are still paying year after year on| that 1 may Mame men for preferring | phantom values of overcapitalized lines that long since ceased to exist, | Riz", "ho Are breton, younger, five, | When these street railway corporations now urge thelr claims for! care much about beautiful girls, any- six-cent fares they should be required to account for some of those way. Then, too, I have to remember millions which were not put to public use and upon which the public fs |that I support myself. If I suc- not bound in law or in conscience to make a return, |cumbed to the misery which an un- The Interstate Commerce Commission has given the country a Fequited affection can causes, that Pag * : would end my career as a kinder- sound principle which ought to be given a wide, working force. peed teacher. I must de practical j haven romantic, | 8o when Frank Blackwell and Bar | bara White unexpectedly discovered their mutual love I decided not to one,” I flattered myself, However, I decided it would be wise to have a brief courtship and marry | Mr. Pomberton before anything changed bis intentions, And then| Barbara, who had recelved @ cable- gram that Prank bad reached France, came to tell Mad. about tt, But not even Barbara's presence put @ dumper on Mr, Pemberton’s en- thustasm, He went right on complt- | menting mo, | | It was late, Barbara's mother was waiting dinner for her and she pre- | pared to leave, I belteved that Mr. | Hits From Sharp Wits. A tip-top Liberty loan slogan that|ter drive—pasa a check for Liberty has been suggested is “Stop! Look! | bonds acroa the bank counter cte, | waste my strength and looks in| Pemberton and I would dine together. | Loosen!” We haven't aeen a better. |/Umbla (S. C.) State, brooding over having lost Frank.| Gut he abruptly got up and sald, | —Nashville Banner. Sra ee POL And Madelane, as usual, had a plan| “Goodby. F shail take Barbara, Bhe e ® bd 7 gaged girl what might be| whereby to divert my mind from the} n't go alone, It bas been @ great called a “picked ohicken?’—Phitedee | phia Necord aaa Thinking twice bef: you speak humiliation T had endured and to re. | Pleasure to meet you.” gives the other fellow a chance to say as 6-6 new faith in myself, | And so my romance was nipped In % first.—Toledo Blade, mite Rides qnnnda. ic) seven ehedeh'@ nan whe cen wun. |the 30 Mak’ eye A sare dicot deal Uke @| port a wife need never worry about | Ne aking up her complexion ts @ fon Ridge where Amert- | P° 3 r m woman's skin game.—Memphis Com- °#? iers of two kinds showed the | fmding some one to love him, Bar: WILLIE AND THE GOAT, | mettle of which they were made,— |bara’s many beaux wero quite as di merc 1. salt) he} Appest, | Muwaukee jected a I at her Impromptu mar- ringe to Frank, Among Barbara’ Jasper Pemberton, a ees Don't you ever believe the Kaiser would go to the trouble of making a|, four-minute speech to get your sioney.—Savannah News. . . House, at @ luncheon In leave-overs wan|New York, “when the Gormans talk Remorse ts > ferment at has bewun News Fie wae . | In spite of the Meh price of every- An umbrella is always most ser-| thing it costa nothing to pay compil | Barbara, a mere ¢ of twenty, was | little Willle, wiceable when it is under a cloud, | entsk-Philadelphia Record the first woman Mr, Pemberton had| “Little Willie ran howling with rage but Its owner is very different.— | hag ae ever wanted to marry, His indigna-|to hie mamma, Pehadelphip Record, — tion that sho should have preferred| «That goat butted me!’ he roared, Knowledge 1s not fn itself valuable a young man with less money than |The bad goat butted me in the stom. w to he was supreme, He assured Made- it’s knowing b e it that ach makes it 50.—A ny Journal jane that he 1 prove to Barbara e you sure You weren't teasing 76 6 #e given brings reward in the that she was Not the only lita his mamma asked, The highway travelled over ts of effort to live up to it.—Albany | world, He could get anothe op Fea mT A tae ny paved with troubles that never touched Journa F “ wailed Willie, ‘What vou-Binghamton Prees, 65 And then Ma old bim would I tease it for? I was only juat Venere Summer te coming, girle Get out | Dad aa adorable litue friend (mean- oarvin’ my name on ite back with my Check the German drive by a coua- your furs.—Columbia (6. C.) State, ‘ng me) the very one for vim, “Oon- uew penknife,’—Washington Star, “ce HLEN the Germana reproach W the Belgians," said Col. |g it? wealthy stock-| about guarantees against Belgian ag- | makes it rattle? What do you want? broker, a8 old 4s Harbara’s father, | gression, 1 am strongly reminded of| 1 don’t understand you. Is it for me? dow reading nis evening news- Paper, calmly tgnoring the clamoring | summons. For Mr. Jarr, through years of dis- appointing experience, had long ago come to the conclusion that no one ever called him up on the telephone to benefit him in any way whatso- telephone was a deadly contrivance that encourages acquaintances to an- noy you with insults or pester you with requests for favors. So Gertrude, the falthtul—so to speak strument. Liko many others of recert foreign or rural extraction, Gertrude always approached the phone as though it were @ suspicious mechanical device that should be opened with caution by an expert from the Bureau of Ex- plosives, Stopping some three fect from the instrument, Gertrude would rise on| her toes, nerved to run the dreadful risk, and then, reaching over, she would nervously pluck the earpiece | from its prongs, screw her eyes tight- ly shut and answer, as though under Intense strain, in @ high falsetto, So thus attending to this engine of mod- ern civilization that has done so much to raise lying from an cccastonal necessity to @ constantly exercised | fine art, Gertrude squeaked that Mra, Jarr wasn't home but was expected any moment, “Do they want Mrs. Jarr?” asked | Mr. Jarr, now roused to some elight | interest. | “I don't know, str, I can't under- | stand them," replied Gertrudo, turn- ing with her eyes etill shut, a» though when sbe closed them tight her ears | were open th wider, “What ts it?| Yes, hello! I don’t hear you! Who} Yes, hello! Jarr was out, Hello! Goodby! Ob, dear, what who it is talking to us at first. It it isn't some one we want to talk to they will not know we are smiling, and we should emile for a friend, even | if they can't seo it. | tackled the “Rubatyat of Omar Khay- ‘Never mind| yam.” “This is Mrs. Jarr! who is calling,’ you say? But I DO) mind who 1s calling, and mind very Copgright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The N youngster—I HEN | was a to tell when that was—tI From what some of my college chums had told me I was prepared to No, I said Mra, | !rs?” No, I'm the maid, | theae times, much!” |find in the Rubatyat many beautiful Evidently the voice at the other end things, nor was I disappointed; -I was @ man’s voloo and was now! found them and enjoyed them. apologetic, for Mrs. Jarr eottened| When I read the Rubatyat that time somewhat, and then she was heard|my halr was as black as the raven’s to aay that she'd see if Mr. Jarr| wing. It ts growing whiter now, and was in, |tn the mean time I have learned by ex- “Why don't you answer tho tele-| perience how true the old couplet is, phone when your friends call who| “The soul's dark cottage, battered and will not give their names or tell what | decayed, they want with you?” he asked,|Let's in new light through chinks turning to Mr. Jarn. | which time has made,’ Mr, Jarr approached grumbling.| ‘The other day, in the “new light,” T “Why didn't you say I wasn't in?”|reaq olf Omar again, but not with he asked in a low voloo of Mrs, Jarr.|the pleasure that attended the first “Becades I didn't know you were perusal of the long ago. York Evening Works), hushed, and we have had time tn which to reflect upon the situation, tt is anything but joyful to As a statement of the fact that w@ must die the Rubalyat is a brilliant success; but inasmuch as It fails to note the other fact, that we do not want to die, It 1s a dismal failure, The famous poem strikes no lofty note, From the first word to the last’ it is depressing. Its philosophy, and” the whole of its philosophy, is fairly, summed up in the by no means exalt~ ed or exalting motto, “Eat, drink and be merry, for to-morrow you die!” Omar is a good yoke-fellow for Jaques in “As You Like It: “Tis ten o'clock, An hour ago twas pine; 4 In one hour more ‘twill be eleven, Thus hour by hour we ripe and ripe And hour by hour we rot and ret~ And thereby hangs a tale,” hiding in your own house,” she re-| 1 still saw in it the beautiful—the plied in the same tone. red roses and the sparkling wine, the “I am not hiding, but I'll bet tt tsn't| black-eyed hourts, the music and the any one calling me up to give me a! dancing; but a change had come over million dollars!” he growled. \tne spirit of my dreams, and the "Yeu, this ts Jarre, What do you| beauty did not satisty me. want, who {s It?” asked Mr. Jarr over| The moon 1s beautiful as It salle the wire. “Oh, you, Rangle? Hum!"| through the wintry sky, and beautt- He listened a moment and then said: | ful, too, is the fooberg drifting south- “Awtully sorry, but I cannot do it,| ward from the frozen North; but old man.” along with that beauty of moon and “Can't 4o what?’ eked Mra Jarr, | loeverg there is a coldness that makes who stood by. “Does that man Ran- | one shiver. gle want you to come out? Where; I laid the wonderful Httle book does he want you to go? What does |aside with a feeling of blank despalr— he want you to do?” and with the conviction that it could Mr, Jarr did not anwwer her, but | not pessibly be the whole word or the in @ diffident tone disclaimed is | last one. ability to accede to the request Ran-| Were there no “inward man,” the gle was making him over the wire. | o1q Persian's song would he the most “Honest, I haven't five dollars. Yes, | complete thing in the world. ‘The ter- soon as I get it. Goodby!” rible truth of the passing of the “out- “Did that man have the nerve to|ward man” was never set forth in call you up and ask you for five do}- | such bewitching fashion. It is almost asked Mrs. Jarr. “And n/a delight to read one’s death sentence too? What made him! as that sentence is pronounced In the \enink YOU would let bim have five) Eastern quatrains! With what deft. dollars?” ness, gentleness, sympathy, aro we Is that you, Claude? Did you eay Mrs, or Mr. Jarr? I'm a@ lady and won't be swort at! Hello! Hello!” “What is it? Who ts it, Gertrude?” asked Mrs. Jarr, coming tn at this moment with several parcels clutched to her breast, “Here, let me talk to them! 1s {t you, Clara? How many bonds have you sold?” Mrs, Jarr bad taken the ear pleco and approached the telephone trans- mitter with ber best sumile, For, ay “Oh, because I borrowed it from|iaid away under the sod, while the |nim the other day," admitted Mr, | sweet-throated nightingale Is mado to |Jarr. “I gave it to you trill so pensively over our graves! |" «you only gave me four dollars of | |e." waid Mrs. Jarr, "So only pay him | back a dol! It's enough for bim!" If ever book was able to make us tall in love with the thought of our mortality that book fa the Rubatyat While under its bypnotic spell wo al- OLD SHOES FOR ROAD MAKING, | Scrap leather from old shoes, mixed with lmestone or slag and bound with bitumen and asphalt, has been }round to make an effective road building material in England, way to “dusty death.” positively fascinating, it as the lover embraces bis sweet- heart. But The feeling ts when the master's volce most feel Uke rejoicing while on the| then a distinguished and wo grasp |the 1» gion of Honor, And a most doleful tale it is, teo- ‘a tale that plucks the heart out of valor and brings to the sturdiest wii! the palsy that cripples and destro; By bitter experience—and ag a rule only by such—we come to learn that great deeds require great thoughts, and that we can no more accomplish noble ends without noble inspirations than we can run our locomotives without steam. So I don’t think I will ever othe! about reading the Rubajyat again, caeeeatiaanamaas Lone Woman Defied Teuton Powe ® the many heroines who hat won fame by their brav and devotion in this war the least ts Sister Julie, the Bren nun whose name is now @ househ word in every part of France, Stati Julio lived at Gerbervillier, a toy In the Vosges, which was invaded the Germans and set on tire in may places. When the Teutonic ine diaries apprgached the hos lay many wounded ious commands f spare the building. Afterward, wi @ carving knife, she routed @ my who had food destined Days passed; the tide was rolled back, and mpany,| de od by the President of Franc Presidents of the Senat Chamber of Deputies, came ti bervilller and pinned on the lof Sister Julio the Cross of ¢) tempted to selx | her patients, Invasion