The evening world. Newspaper, August 9, 1918, Page 10

a ee Cuca SOY ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 te i Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PREAA ete thet to nN ote Toe VOLUME 59.... Arcatchen eran NO, 20,807 of at or pablus PUBLIC SERVICE RATE MAKING. | Th e Flood! | EDITORIAL PAGE Friday, August 9, 1918 Cousent, 19198 Tee Tee ithetning 0 New York Evening World.) By : H. Cassel. By Helen A little blonde Polish boy lantly and well, defending the HEY have COME—~ | My first “trophies” from “Somebody’s Boy” Rowland. Copyrlaht, 1914, hy The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) of seventeen—he fought gal- solid gold (not pewter) crow for whose jewels he paid so heavily. the battlefield in France! And the gallant Officer of Marines who sent them has gone back again INOE the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company takes the position To the important business of “making fewer and that in accordance with the Hughes decision it is without any | Sk tae Httle souvenirs taken from ‘oon ; legislative limit as to rate, the interesting question presents boches.’” itself as to what has been the attitude of the Public Servic That is how the packet was labeled sion toward this very question. | Is it now the policy of the Public Service Commission to dis-, courage rate making by the Legislature? | Mr. Hughes says in his opinion: “The Public Service Commission does not take the view that the act of 1906 is revived, but contends} that the act of 1916, although confiscatory as to the plaintiff, did, operate to repeal the provisions of the act of 1906, to which it refers.”| Does this mean that the Public Service Commission wanted to} tee the 1906 law repealed, even though it was the only one left after the 1916 law was declared confiscatory, and thus leave no legislative limit ? If 80, this is deplorable and a step backward, to say the least. It is the very thing that the gas companies have sought for a long time. In the last hours of the recent Legislature it was through the efforts of The Evening World that such a statute was stopped from being railroaded through. It was the legislative act of 1906, which this newspaper also) fought for, that at last gave the public the long sought relief from) extortionate rates. | The people have not forgotten this case that was carried through And of course you know what @ Marine Officer (It's like a “ sa ty ANS gl opened it! And you know how excited and and all that! And then, suddenly, Down among a lot of Berlin post I found a soiled, pocket-worn, lit With a picture on the outside swords, NOT pewter! And on the inside, carefully pat There were six pathetic little thi And the “good German” from German, Of SEVEN CENTS A DAY, Which the “good Kaiser” gives means by a “GOOD boche.” “good Indian.”) And you know the thrill of pride that tingled ‘ through me so that my finger tips shook when ¥ elated and choky and dizzy I felt~ itcards, and other things, tle yellow thrift stamp~book, of two German soldiers with drawa Holding up a dazzling Jewelled crown of solid gold— ed in place, rift stamps—about 8 marks’ worth! whom they were taken was NOT 3 But a little blond Polish boy of seventeen! And the six German thrift stamps Had been paid for out of the munificent pittance his loyal soldiers —————— ee t ‘ A ' ee | In return for their lives! : the Supreme Court in order to sustain a fair rate for the Sree Loner (And then gets back again in thrift stamps.) a In direct contrast, it was the Kings County Gas case that dragged) { Ny ST | And the Officer of Marines wrote ' ; cso j along before the Public Service Commission for five years and which| “4 ie | How the little blond Polish boy, forced into the Prussian Army, ssumed such scandalous proportions as to be the means of wiping ont| NSREMIMIARAETS Seed A | Had “fought gallantly and well—to the end! ~ \ laf Public & C ; | SSE : a hss | And had “died Ike a soldier and a gentleman in a fair fight,” rs f He former Public Service Commission. y | Fa fr te ce 1 ahh a BAR | Defending the solid gold (NOT pewter) crown, i It was this very case that caused Oscar Straus, Chairman of id pete ted TEBE shes | And as I fingered the once-cherished thrift stamp book, the former Public Service Commission, and in fact his entire Com-| | I cried—just a little— mission, to urge the Legislature to pass the 80-cent law of 1916, as| ae Peiddoel ls mite ote ie e F ae ; ; > | And was promptly repriman ‘or “getting mushy over a bi against its own protracted rate-making reviews, | | Sat Cauney ptly rep! 8 gs y joche, ki Too long and too wearisome have been the certiorari proceedings | | All the bitterness in my heart seemed to trickle down and congeal in 3 instituted by public utilities after a Public Service Commission order | ONE spot, t to assure the people of any relief. | And to concentrate itself in white hot tensity on ONE alone. f, The one important check on Public Service Commissions has a sta Aerators cL GAELS Ten the world, - ne . sin mea | Except the \ y * been the rate-making power of the Legislature, which supe rseding | | Who Is wantonly spilling the blood f power over the Public Service Commission has only last month beeu | Of hundreds of thousands of boys like THIS upheld by the Court of Appeals in the Albany case, For his own SELF-GLORIFICATION! Far speedier is a court contest on a legislative regulation when Sleep well, little blond bocke! a , | | You are far, far better off, lying “out there” under the stars, the burden of proof is on the gas company rather than on the Public; Than back home under the fron heel, and the maited fist Service Commission. ] | And the heavy, heavy weight of the solid gold CROWN, Although the Public Service Commission may now find itself For whose jewels you have patd—so heavily! ( without a legislative act as to rates, if the Hughes decision is upheld,| And, set oe ment Hae ‘ f : : : rs 7 YE know tha ie crown itse! isn’t pewter? { it caa at least go into the valuation of this company again and order | Bow do p a rate until such time as the Legislature may change it. is es —_ "aia asia . . Fea a New York Girl 7 You Know (Th rr F ly By R r oy L. McCardell We suppose these rv called the dotcdays because ther e O 1 ypes you NWno eja amily = sey mMctardel are so uncomfortable for both dogs and men. Women who B N i x ol a (@ re el e Ss m i t h tell you. It's nothing. Oh, what's the Copyright, 1918, by The Prose Publishing Co. | whispering) “I wanted to go through|Wner into a damage suit! A frienst wear furs in the subway are not included in the category. , i 5 asaie Cue tes y sure cry use of anything. Of course it's the ithe Now Zork Mrenlng Work.) the park suse the machine ts|of mine hit a fat boy and broke a : omtght, 191%. by The Wee Wb a ©, (The New York Krening World.) same old thing. Bills! What wouldn't N this more or less pleasant eve-) 7 took behind ‘and see—and| lamp and almost put his machine oat No. 1X.—THE LAMANDER I give for an assured income, just a SNe Mr, Ge bale PAu Re the chauffeur would have been ar-|of business, and if he hr“1't got t BULLETS AND BAYONETS. R. OWBN JOHNSON found what | It happens sometimes that having] tiny one of $100 @ month to call my| & ee Mey see, Ar and| fested and Stryver would have had|away I suppose he'd have been held ont is now the historic name for|lent your friend the salamander] own. i a rests on the joy ride at] t® Pay another fin and that would] Up for a whole lot of money.” ‘4 HE billions spent in the gigantic schemes of modern warfare that type of New York girl| money, following @ tearful tale about! You know that she would not hest- | \ Pad expense, sat back and| drive him wild. And then we could) “Where shall we go?" asked Mr. 1 eat ; ‘ who, while playing|@ cruel landlord who threatened to| tate to pay that coveted month's in-| Stryvers nme have gone back home.” | Jarr, oT gas lls, 1 1 fire 1 other fiend | h 1 and the brceze,| have son t on super-cannon, gas shells, liquid fire and other fiendish around the edges of | put her in the street, you are rather] come for a sport suit. But you are|/enjoyed the speed and the metese) 7 Te. out in this machine.”| He didn’t like the attitude of Mr. devices of terror and destruction, bid fair now to come to waste art, Iiterature or astonished to see her appear in a new| touched in both senses of the word, | despre the strained relations between! vig Mr, Stryver to Mr, Jarr, to put|Stryver toward children, and it 2 i 0. y 7 | v se! r ud- | fo ee! nal ‘ don't ca e eir hos ¢ jostess, Mi * a i se ' . against the simplest elements of conflict—bullets and bayonets, | the stage, really|Kown, which you yourself had ad-| for you feel that if you don’t come to) UT ON are enjoying | the latter at his ease, “but what/didn't seem to him as though ho he salamander’s rescue she will be} “Only that I know you are enjoying ., : : | lives by her wits/ mired, but put away from you as a| the sialamander’s rescue shi © said Mra. Stryve! to Mrs,|80mething happens. This car has/Would have a very pleasant evening For the most part of the four years this has been a long-distance» and the more or|temptation to which you could not] compelled to borrow from a man, and | it,” said’ aie Maver, Wirolag 6 ae Idlieditwo peopel anyway ' combat, depending upon gigantic ombardments involving unheard Mt} less painful ab- ato to yleld. 78 don’t want te ans i snapeant | shred OS ig L uae i As rn)" And Mr, Btryver patted the door of| “We'll stop at the Cheese Hil) Inn," t ‘ ‘ _ straction of gifts ou mention the dress, of course. | little creature to put herself under ob- | around and back, C de cia is : if ao. et ' expenditures of ammunition, which has chiefly harried the harmle from the men she| “It IS sweet,” the salamande: | ligations to any one who might mis-|this car but what I get a splitting De Gah as though he approved of its lal Me serra eS , earth. Such losses of men as have followed have never yet involv: ’ knows. This girl,| agrees, with no trace of embarrass-| understand her. ete heads Pesan Aion ents Prente |F SYen. batore Tieckab IG TaReuee AR [ARIS ME BErIVEN? UWalll covedt ie isive Ths is y ig ¢ » new tactic: hal : * accor: Mr.|ment. “I met a at dinner las I believe that women are the sala-| ed to go throug’ e Pa J t 6 eneck Roa nh kK a decisive test. THis is now in sight through the new tactics of the Spanien REN WI nd ee eae et | anders real prey. From women she| Mrs, Jarr thought {t was bacause | ld man, and tho chauffeur that took the ittleneck “Road Hous : : ; ohnsc if o ha iove - . , ee 5 eal Se wonie ae the Lapel Americans and French in forcing open fighting with primary, °° TC tamander,"| tract for raticoats, but he couldn't| takes everything that sympathy and| Mr, Stryver didn't, but me aA ie es bad Fert titier st {mu “retorted Mee pel a W , vathed,| Ret the mater! whe! he | tenderness urge them to give. the question by saying that doubt.) !t hit ee and 8 4 iu Mrs. Stryver. mee pen’, : ne through ell Gros! unpoas ned a pire Pay Laskar bf 1 | According to Mr. Owen Johnson the |jesg the ride through the park was| Wish the same thing would happen| “Well, you don't think I'm going “Git over thar an’ git to fitin’,” was Gen, N. B, Forrest's com.) Marries one ot her many generous was i P knew a nanutsetarer who | Samander's men friends are just 991 sore pleasant. to this thieving, incompetent slacker |anywhere to get a jazz band head. ef rs \ nd strictly platonic admirers anc ough new a manufacturer who | disinterested. But 1 give them credit! ™ Stry: y | that's ing i t) ache, do you?" 2 3 monest command during the Civil War, Tt is the surest and soonest! tives happily ever atter. would let him have the goods, it I| for more brains, NOUTIRRIA Dae BN AEA CHOY: ATO | TRC cur’ tornlgnni| Oho: eltleneok atk eh Stryver. : way to find out who is I | ew York has thousands of sala maxed him to do it, and he said: | — — —_—— i Weald ate gece CVaar place a ouse is a { |manders,” the creator of the type| ‘Little girl, that means a $500 chec! . f O May RNG gg “ ‘ if > EE 4 ur 1 ren o such luck,” said Mr, Stryver It isn't respectable!” shrilled Mrs. j Ghee. (sin es MAahTeAUY Kick Hl if you put it over Of course, I did aking the ost Oo Pcie oy ge ; ie : Ms loomily, nd what—what, I ask|Stryver, E An Iowa draft board hailing from a town with the signif! whom men are glad to shower gifts] !t, and I've spent the morning shop- | * . i you—doees & Font of an Bato | “ikow do ¥ aa f cant name of Waterloo has decided that the production of » for the amusement and relaxation| Ping. I was terribly shabby, you! A Series of Plain Talks to Parents oh Gee: w.Gian ayt ove PL An Auge |. Haw do you know?” retorted Mr, newspaper {s a non-essential industry. Must the Fouth they supply across 4 restaurant ta ne) i" BY bey As eens oy | By Ray C. Beery, A. B., M. A., President of the Parents’ Association | 0.64 one \ike this?” “Because you prefer it!” snapped “ aaAb yy ble." noney,” sho adds benigniy, “I won per the time, He never shares anytning| Mr, Jarr murmured that “e thought| his good lady i i Estate pow surrender the last of its privileges—that oi ie tertat (Hate thetaclar na% eu buy a single thing; I'll just rush Overcoming Selfishness. PAG RIC hestherk oF slsiore Bivens lie ceter carn teteat eal of pid meet iady, ; f existing? I” Lanswered, “And the dic. | M&it uptown to that place where 1| HEN your child touches a hot| #0 ae enero” See cul cha hs axe a, ik was ® tacer for Mr. Stryver, —_— a. me —eceets yee aoe ete. ‘Tho only ani | P&WAed your rings and get thom out W stove or lets a hammer fall OR) "sh "nodt place, never call atten: | ¢1 Mila OF ANS CAE URS Ene One pat 2 Sputtered, but could think ‘5 » ry | that SOF My aes. 9 oF for you, It was just too dear of you his fingers he is shocked in ERY BRCM sepa hey were in, of nothing insulting enough to reply. . Letters From the People Jmal that can go through fire un. |! ‘ ar of 3 ant| tion to the selfish trait, Suggestion! Yes, he does!" growled Mr. Stry-| Meanwhile r ‘ 0 let me take them, an unpleasant ©? ‘ Ly Meanwhile the car was speeding What We Shonld Do to the Katser.|things he bas been reauesting? Twill | armed lives in the realm of fabl Only rarely does the salarhander way by imme- Hare yaad ian ay le eine (enn ery time I take this car opt) far out of town, past road house To the Euivor of Tie Evening Work gladly refund postage if this party |{ don't care whether the fable ts of] repay financial obligations in. legal diate phystcal| Mtensifying the habit, For example, |it costs me at least $20. If I go alofe|after road house, until it came with! I hear so many people speculating | Will tees H addre, met be grocer | ancient or Broadway mythology.” ighiab: Mac Deatifalio nendaivOUrEOr | pain, ‘This pain,| ® fellow in college was reminded by | there's nobody to talk to, If I take|hall of the one where the op : in , : és vipat an to te no’ nd the orde: i ccf Wop Anh aes | tender, She prefers to send part | yal ol hie. rod ate one day that h as i . . © the chauttour : on the subject of “what we will do t | And 1 will also be everlastingly pe After all, a man knows tore than] o¢ the spoile—say, a basket of alll: |{ following #0|"% room-mate one day that he was) my wife she's fussing and snarling all| undoubtedly had his engagement the Kaiser” when a just God delivers | ¢y) MRS. F. H, SHILLING a woman about salamanders,” Mr ioe Ghata whiou vou ABinet (Gr tka || quickly, is asso-| *¢!fish, Tho result waa that this fel-! the time. If 1 take guests I have to] For that implacabi person c ‘ : wi | oy MRS. LLU fon) age gator pears, which you detest, of the quickly, is as phe ME Ae ‘ aoe nE 1 ‘ placable personage pe pole. mis heads HepEins, eee) | yo: foes Carpenter Avenue, “Now | Johnson asasri 1 Aw 2 man Tas | signtly defected flowers from a| ciated with the] lo be Pt EEO ie pay the bills for entertainment, and| whisked the car oft the highway Fi + imp: ° ° und |sure you she does exis bachelor's dinner party. act, with the re-| ) 8 attention had been called to' it the machine breaks down it costs|up a winding hill and st . these are only a few of the sugges: | Upholds Drafting of Youths. ‘All any man can know, however, Is asrin rt | - J the trait than ho ever had been} yyy. i, nd stopped before 5 . You sulk perhaps, The salamander | » he will be more cautious THEM nothing"— a rambling edifice that bore tions I have heard. | To the kalitor of The Evening Workt (hatithe aalamander’s fricndahi ; ult that he w hatore ri nat bore a sign, gtk " Fi File | tho e Ande ¢ Pts al] showers sweetn and ight 001 a oth yords, has igi | At this point the chauffour threw|"Hickey’s Idle Hour.” ace Wy oe ate pene. All fall fo. far] ‘The opinion of Dr. A., who is op-| proft so far as he ts concerned, What | oe Bae ea Be cathe caters {ete eae Te ghar # Pane esl you ei} (RAE AUREMALION OnIRE | ite asa eespact’ cece er eericeea | uae e Idle Hour. esibie to be meted. out to William | Posed to drafting youths of ninctocn |{t costs her in other directions he can. |7pur Gverted Read. She talks to you | taught himself how to act in relation) aiog oven more strongly in the case! j) 0 * . yea dian nd this is what I get for my oo ein 5 Jand twenty, 4 o @n-| About friendship, observes that most] to the hot stove and the hammer be- 4 : the machine veered across the street | money," growled Mr, Stryver, “a johenzoliern as to be unworthy of enty, is Rot a good opinion to} not even guess. But Inevitably hir| yomen take its obligations too light yee in Senonuares, AC vou will tell’ yoUr| ai iucy cigeod ive gurtstone ana’ m Mr, Stryver, “and consideration. What we may do to|hoid. In very many cases youths of | vanity perauades bim that, since the, ay hee oy Oo NED cause of the immediate ree | child he is selfish, and permit hin to| 07 : . on top of it the Government wiil the mere body of the Kalser could not | that age are irresponsible and will | ‘inander oes unsinged of hin, aha {:_sserting that she would gladly | dealing with these particular thing®| thing of himself as selfish, you make| MPPs by half an inch, soak me a sixty dollar war tax be- @pproach adequacy of punishment for | not continue in any course of study. | **"" ® + She) bart with her last dollar tc help you] Unfortunately, when you consider | mie grr pe ‘ Nie | “And look at that child! Ran right|cause," and he raised his voice h the monstrous crimes that have }» hey Ate OhGe allowort must possess an asbestos tempera it much easier for him to act selfishly. . Gemmitiod in his name. Better tol iusiness, and money they” Geen se | ment and a granite heart ut. But it is always your last dol-| moral traits, nature does not produce| “yraxe grequent use of the positive |'" font of the car! Did you ever/terically, “it's called a PLEASUR" Strike him in his most sensitive point | spent in. many harmful. we va kena 4 4 “4 . lar, not hers, with which she ts glad | results so quickly—or perhaps Wel siccostion that your child te won, | 808, the like car his inordinate pride. _|much mischief Iw done. The orn Thackeray really discoyered the| to part, should say that the immediate results| O’ony Make. this suggestions ot| THs incident gave all in the car a >. I should say that when the ae | training will bring out the best in| Salamander, Tut even Hecky Sharp,| In the beginning the salamander | of morally good or bad acts are not! Cus, only after he has done some. | *#fe topic to discuss, while the chaut- AN EXPERT OPINION, ae Srene storation « f that “bi 4. | them, and greatly help to show them | who discovered the fine art of living |asks you for tho loan of money or|such as to influence children and] tring on which it is natural for ae feur looked back and hurled impre- MAN who kept a road house in fng France” over which he has wept | gong, And in many. cannes tre’, citi [on nothing a year to its highest per- | pawnable property. But as your will- | prevent similar conduct In the future. | 9 put that interpretation, Just as| Cations at the little boy he had just Rhode Island, says the Public fo many times. Let him retain his | shirked by. the nineteen and | fection: had to pay in the end, And} ingness grows leas she ceases to ask! Therefore, you as a parent must so/ (0 PM) Vth acl thaik eed ho missed running over. | Health Journal, was called - ogi warorns ot f fae Marana, | twenty - ad youth will be taken | Becky was the cl t of all the] outright, hinting weakly of suicide, | manage that the child is immediately ain Le ee ry ae i Ken r “[ think the lower clawsses send|' 008 to testify in a suit as to the the glowing decorations on the tunic, | up wit 4 t and energ by the | salamander 4 It may be that you take out some! rewarded in some way for all moral | nt develop the Habit Af unas hers their children out in front of automo. | umber of cubic yards that were and in these trappings let him toil | |Wenty three ihe Hi ar! Thave known several highly accom- | of the sitlamander's obligation to you| acts that are to be encouraged, prafullesforiall thavan 11 | Diles on purpose!” declared Mra, | handled In some f ‘ling work near his Beven days a week, und F KUNE, Aid | THe inteliect and give clearer vision cy | Plished salamanders, and when T was|in talking to her about yourself, She| You must, however, make @ dls-|) 7 leens of wenerosity you eA: | Stryver, place, He showed very little knowl Baa erred Gplds oF FTAACe. was cut|t® What is needed to get on in Life, | YOUNs and foolish 1 sometimes ven-|is a marvellously sympathetic lis-| tinction between allowing the child| ory itera anced pore | Mrs, Jarr, sick and faint from edge in the matter, and is idea ofa Vading hosta let Will. | Very splendid thing w ym. | tured to remonstrate with them. tener, and you are just about ready/to got the idea that he is being re ; AD ren eaten tet Ame cuble ya as so indefinite that it own by his in i. , plished by extending the draft axo.| 1 a : . are always generous and thoughtful | {!8ht But] seemed doubtful whether he knew fam Hohensollern, in all his glory, | lane by extending the draft axe 1 don't see how you can take so] to believe that her priceiess sympa-| warded by you and simply treating| of, Mr, Jarr wiped his brow and buskily|what the term meant, In order to a jd nee py van ae living can men realize what true patriotism | Much from that poor, simple crea-|thy is worth all the money she has/ him in a natural way, which will not Smiling and showing approval of|Temarked that he was glad they had!™ ke its meaning clear, the Judge 1 a; > 4 I remarked once He must] borrowed from you, when she an- grest the idea of reward, but which , f > ° said: R W. R | is: Alwo it will create a better fest. | tur + sugse: Hi whic! ~ dness will serve as| missed the child, ‘4 ee Geath. ing among the men called in the have spent @ fortune on you already." | swers sepulchrally, “Yes, Dorothy,"| nevertheless will have an influence Uttle acts of kindness will serve as) Ni net ne gets a good licking,” isten, witness! Assure this inks Wantn to Hear From Another Reader. | mer draft, for in may cases the mu Dnavar tanlthak war akeut ar i immediate rewards for those acts, Pe ,; "|! stand to be three fect across the top Iethe Rélter of Tae Brenine World ret aa tga eae rents Never feel that way about men, my} and spoils everything, your own name! upon his future behavior, Let us| Mtn the result that similar acts 1,| Mid Mr Stryver. “If you do hit] this way and three fect that way and (** Will “Two Bervice Stars” be goo | some have sacrificed much and others Cel” replied the salamander, in a} peing Edith or Bais | consider a vase of selfishnes the future are encouraged. You are| the™ thelr parents raiso an awful| thre feet In helght, what should you 3 to send me the name of tha:|nothing. America must be just to ai Shocked volce, “The obligation Is all don me, dear,” she adds quick-| “My boy is getting too selfish for ? row; and yet I believe their parents | ° daily making your child's character. grocer he mentions, 60 that I! if we would win this war. on the other side, " Why, don't I give “Well, Your Honor,” said the wit: Send them out on the read to trap! ness, without hesitatio ‘wome poor devil of an automobile] it was some inkstand,” ty. “I don't know what I am saying.| any use,” one mother said to me. a BEADSR. bim my TIME? Fm eo frightfully worried. No, E can't! “Hs simply has tc be catercd to a ‘ ' / & dear one ip service some WCopyrignt, “T should gay aa hice — 4 ‘A918, by the Parents Associa dow, dad