The evening world. Newspaper, September 11, 1918, Page 14

EDITORIAL PAGE Wednesday, September 11, 1918 The Master and Pupil w= By Maurice Ketten | | THE Trek Cinlianing Co, New York Evening World.) ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, | Se = = = = land A Published Daily Except Gungay, by the Press Publishing Company, Nos 63 te B y Hel en Row 63 Park Row. New York. Coprrignt, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) RALPH PULITZER, President, §3 Park Row, ae J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63, Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF TH® ASSOCIATED PRE Press ig exclusively entitied to the use for rey not otherwise credited in this paper and ale the lo: ‘ses als Bera .NO, 20,840 WHAT'S BEHIND IT? EARING on the financial policy of transit corporations oper: ating elevated, subway and surface lines in this city, a valued friend of The Evening World submits figures which deserve a) prominent place in any discussion of the proposition to raise fares: The Interborough Rapid Transit Company, which operates 3 the e ted and subway lines, earned 26 per cent on its capital stock in 1917 and 251-2 per cent. in 1916. The net earings for 1918 will probably amount to over 30 per cent. In H 1917 the total net earnings were $9,102,654. Dividends of 20 | per cant. ($7,000,000) were paid on $35,000,000 of stock and ! $2,102,654 carried to surplus. In 1916 $7,000,000 was paid in mf dividends and $1,892,014 carried to surplus. Fully one-third of Interborough stock, it is furthermore Pointed out, is water, and these great earnings were made after paying 7 per cent. in dividends ($4,200,000) on $60,000,000 elevated stock, largely water, besides over $7,000,000 of bond interest, of watch $1,627,000 was interest on elevated bonds. The full cost of transporting a passenger in the subway in 1916 was 1 78-100 cents, in 1917 1 89-100 cents, while the average cost on both subway and elevated is less than 2 cents per pas senger. In the face of these figures compiled from the Interborough’s | own annual report, how can Mr. Shonts ask for a two-cent increase | in fares on the plea of small profits and high cost of operation? |The Main Cause of All the Trouble in Marriage Is That Most People Rush Into It Blindly, and Then Recover Their Sight. ARRIAGE fs an ancient custom which has been revived since the M war started, along with Colonial candlesticks, economy and the | art of letter-writing. F It is now almost as fashionable and quite as popular as divorce. In Germany {t is becoming a necessity and an obligation—but in America it is still a luxury. Marriage is NOT, has been often declared, failure!” Husbands and wives may be failures—but ‘© @ lot of painters and sculptors and authors, Marriage, like art, requires a special talent. Marriage das been called “love's demi-tasse”— ° the black coffee which a man takes to settle him, after lov intoxication. ‘ Marriage is the miracle which transforms a man from whatever he happens to be into something different—a spendthrift into a miser, a rounder into a fireside companion, a lover into a life-critic, &@ rake into @ deacon, @ butterfly into a grub—and vice versa. ‘The main cause of ali the trouble in marriage is that most people rush ' Into it blindly and then recover their sight, instead of going into it with their eyes wide open and then closing them forever. Before marriage they look for “perfection’ after marriage for imperfections. Before marriage they regard each other through rose-colored glasses; after marriage through a microscope. Marriage should be a privilege, not a prison, and husbands and wives should be jolliers, not jailers. In marrying, a wise man tries to get the woman he loves; a wise woman tries to love tae man she gets. The two feats are equally difficult. A woman always marries when she finds a man with whom she thinks she can be happy; a man never marries until he finds a woman WITH- OUT whom he CAN'T be happy. He never proposes to a girl in the first At least, he did BE! E this blessed war began. Now he is beginning to see that it is his greatest blessing, and that‘ having “somebody who belongs” is the one thing that makes life worth rq living, wars worth fighting and men worth anything! f | The complete success of marriage is unanswerably proved by the fact that widowers and widows, grass or sod, are always in such a hurry to try it again, The man or woman who passes up the wine of love for fear of the headache or the heartache gets about as much joy out of life as the dyspeptic who ts afraid to eat his dinner for fear of indigestion, Marriage is, like the weather, mighty uncertain, and the happiest people are those who are neither looking for storms nor banking on sunshine, but are just willing to go along sensibly and take what comes. | Lots of theorists have offered substitutes for marriage, but as yet nobody, from Henry VIII. to Henry James, has discovered anything which will quite take the place of good, wholesome, plain, old-fashioned mo- nogamy—the kind of marriage “that mother used to make.” Marriage may be so easy that you are suspicious of it. Tying your- self to one woman may seem hard when you think of untying yourself from all the others. Variety may be “the spice of love,” but there is nothing quite so monotonous and deadly as continuous variety, And, after all, life without marriage is like a pipe without a light, an egg without salt, a moon without a sweetheart—nothing but a penance. Obey that impulse—marry the girl! Fighting for an ideal, for your country, for a principle, for humanity is a glorious duty, but fighting for a WOMAN—a woman who loves you, your OWN woman—is an in- spiration and a pleasure! ES sien The Jarr Family had looked too pasty and conspicuous. a Without the make-up she was almost , . When it comes to city surface lines, present consequences of past moment of inspiration; he waits until the last moment of desperation. He ‘ Teckless finance are notorious. Thanks to records of riotous over- He HAghraa' GLNSE. Wan astlagis Sh here ineldiste] MUGHET Abra ; fs capitalization, dividends of 18 per cent. are now paid on the stock of accident. And then he calls marriage “a failure.” i g lines like the Forty-second Street and Twenty-third Street by the ib | holding company. On the $1,000,000 capital stock of the Kighth ‘yy } Avenue line is paid a rental of $215,000—21 1-2 per cent.! | The full cost of transporting @ passenger on some of the ia surface lines is less than one cent. On the Thirty-fourth Street Railway the cost per passenger is only 9-10 of a cent. This yq railway company is the most heavily capitalized per mile of , any road in the world. The capitalization per mile of road owned exceeds $6,000,000. Yet this company is at present “earning” net over 30 per cent. per annum on {ts watered capital stock. Were the company honestly capitalized, present earnings would amount to 100 per cent. per annum. With 2 cents extra fare, net earnings on the Thirty-fourth Street Railway would t amount to over 300 per cent. per annum on a legitimate capital- ization. An annual rental of $400,000 per annum is pald on the New York and Harlem Railroad for its franchise rights on Madison and Fourth Avenues, This is the equivalent of 4 per i cent. on the $10,000,000 of New York and Harlem Railroad stock outstanding, dut is actually over 25 per cent. per annum of the full cost of constructing and equipping this trolley line. Such cost is the only basis for honest capitalization. It appears to be the current theory of street railway corporations ) in this city that not only are the consequences of past extravagance | @nd wild finance to be borne year after year by the public, but that . | if an emergency pinch is felt by the companies the public is to relieve f that too. 7. | There is no question of making fat years balance lean ones. When | opera ng costs go down it is the corporation that profits. When F | they go up it is the public that must make good. ~~ Musings of a Matrimonial Slacker By William V. Pollard Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) By Roy L. McCardell his friends were as wide apart as the BOTH!" continued Mr: Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publis! (The New York Erening World.) Jarr. “That's as Commissioner Kracke noted: Expressing the’ prevailing opinion of the Public Service Commis- sion, which denied last week the application of the Queensborogh Gas , and Electric Company for permission to raise its rates during the war, “A public utility company is not entitled immediately and almost tomatically to raise its rates as fast and as far as operating costs 9 up, any more than the company voluntarily and automatically | décreases its rates as fast and as far as costs go down.” eS That established principle as applied to public utility corporations ~ _, should not be put into cold storage in war time. Particularly should it apply to powerful transit corporations which, even as they protest their poverty, are paying 20 per cent. dividends on the watered stock of lines taken over in earlier years on most extravagant terms, } Two cents additional fare for each of the two billion passengers carried yearly on New York’s street rail ys means $40,000,000 more i each year from the public—four per cent. on a billion dollars. Is there a scheme on foot for further pyramiding of capitalization “4 on.some of the city’s transit lines in order to provide a broader cover | j for those 18 and 20 per cent. dividends paid every year to the mys- terious owners of millions in ancient and aqueous street railway stock ? | Wants Good Jobs f Letters tise the People | To the Editor of The Broning World: | | pitals. i | The tried to because uch men the draft ch of ae I have been wondering how the boys maimed or wounded in this gi- gantic war will find employment when discharged from the army and hos- ] I think that the Government should retain as many as possible and place } them in such positions as they are able to fill in the Government service. These mien should be able to do light | Work, such as | writing, &c. clerical At is ridiculous to make such an round-up against the and to term the free-born ci ar, ad enlist, only to be of physical They bravely and made no Disabled Soldiers work, type- This would be better | than simply discharging them anal Tetting them shift for themselves, mode of) W ure @ “wholesale violati rights of United States was comp conscript men in this the conscripted men led to any of earnestly Je disability, ax a great hard- . since they were often placed in . the service for which ” 7 were totally unfit. E Be difficulties : papers over them, sentimental We Americans more consistent and stop sure that the real slacker would LS gnats while we swallow clear of the soldiers and other au- homes" to know some of the horrors of war, A READER, Anan Army M. To the aitor of ‘The As ® true American and citizen permit me to state a few facts re- garding outrage thrust upon the “liberty loving” and “free ples" of this country by a band of cas house” men camouflaged as Government agents, At 149th Street men thrust into an empty Store at the butt end of a rifle were forced to keep their mouths shut when they tried to protest their innocence, At Prospect Avenue sta- tion @ soldier slapped a man's face when he protested that his son (who was held against a lamp post) was under twenty-one years of age, There many other acts of violence and speech on the part of soldiers And others enacted against women who happe to be spectators of these “ill advised publié show Whoever the head of this move. ment Was happened to be a man of poor judgment, If he had gone about it inthe proper way he could have avoided unnecessary delay and con- fusion to many a man and his family, Common sense tells us that when people were notified a day ahead in the newspapers that there would be a “clean up” of slackers, then I am er this recent of n of | Vulea! ens.” To bore the he slacker round-up is therttion since it will help the “stay-at- FELL in love with Blanche be- cause she was the most beautiful girl I had ever laid eyes on, Her beauty was so vivid that any de- scription would seem both crude and exaggerated. Her hair was as yellow as buttercups, her mouth as red as cherries, her complexion like lilies and roges, her eyes blue as the hare- bell and her eyelashes dark and heavy. After our first meeting at Sylvia Emmerson's costume dance Blanche and 1 saw each other very often, And as the weeks went by her lovell- | ness became more and more of a| miracle to me, Whatever the setting, whether in her softly lighted draw- | ing room, or in the glare of electric lights, whether in evening dress or walking costume, whether concocting a dainty dish or warbling a love song, Blanche was always a picture She was like a vision one sees in a dream, and when she promised to marry me I could not believe that such an exquisite creature was really to be my companion through life, One mild Saturday during that spring when we were happy Blanche prepared a collation and we sub- wayed uptown to spend the afternoon in the wilds of the north of Manhat- tan. We walked quite a distance, and then, wanting to rest, we scram- bled down the river bank. Blanche had never looked more dazzling than she did that day in her flowered gown and hat all covered with posies, And I was blissfully contented as I lay on the grass un- der a tree, eating the goodies made by my love, and gazing rapturously at her loveliness as she read to me from my favorite author, whoever he was at the time, We were so engrossed in each other that we did not notice the sky was becoming overcast. But when a strong wind blew up and great dark clouds obliterated the blue overhead we oollected our belongings and started up the embankment. Then in another instant the clouds burst and tho rain poured down so heavily that we could not battle against the tor. rent, I wrapped my coat about Blanche and We stood shivering un- der a tree. By the time the rain abated we were drenched through and through, We even hed to remove our hats be- cause the wet collected on them, As 1X.—All Is Not Nature That Blooms I bad been so busy trying to get Blanche under cover that I had not noticed what happened to her, When we were safely out of the rain I looked at her, but hardly recognized her, Her wavy yellow hair, hanging in straight, straggly ends, was pasted flat to her scalp, showing dark at the roots. Her complexion had as- sumed a muddy hue. Her luscious lips were pale. Her eyelashes were short and scant and the bewitching violet shadows had disappeared un- der her eyes, Her face was a smudge, resembling a water-color portrait on which a hose had been turned, causing all the color to run. and she was the sorrieat sight I had ever beheld,“ Then it suddenly occurred to me that although Blanche applied her complexion with a master hand she plain, but she still possessed blue eyes and a@ snub nose, and | loved her in spite of her lost glory. ‘The next day when I called on Blanche all her radiant perfection had been restored, “I see you're at it again, Blanche,” I remarked. “What do you mean?” she queried. “I mean the make-up, Blanche And I want you to promise to stop using it, and whatever you do to your hair, stop that, too.” “And be just plain face! Why, I couldn't do that even for love of you, Billy," she exclaimed. “Anyway, I have a reputation to Live up to.” After many arguments Blanche not only refused to desist from using cos- metics but she broke off our engage- ment. “You know too much about me, “and we could never appy now.” So Blanche married another man, 66] DON'T care what you say,” said Mrs. Jarr—Mr, Jarr, by the way, wasn't saying a word— “but at least MY friends are appre- clative, and MY friends do not forget me!" Mr, Jarr knew that some pleasant prospect was opening up, Had it |been any bother or annoyance from outside acquaintances, Mrs, Jarr would have said “YOUR friends.” “What's doing, Ladybug!” asked the best of husbands, with all due cagerness. “Your drinking friends ask you to go motor boating on the dirty old boat, ready to blow up any minute, |that is, if it would run at all, and | then send you word the boat can't run gasoline’ rule—but MY friends"—— Mrs, Jarr paused as though the di- ties and intentions of her friends and Making the Most of Our Children A Series of Plain Talks to Parents By Ray C. Beery, A. B., M. A., President of the Parents’ Association Should Children Be Taught to Fight? HEN practically the whole world is at war, shall we tel! our children it is wrong to fight? Thousands of parents to-day have asked them. selves this ques- tion, One can't cor rectly say “Yes or “No” without making an imp tant qualification, That is, it is wrong to fight under some circumstances and right under others, One father writes: “What shall I tell my boy about fighting? He is twelve years old and wants to be scrapping with some one continually How can I cure him of this habit?" It would be well, first of all, to ge: a pair of boxing gloves, Talk about it a few days beforehand, of course, so the boy will be anxious for them. As soon as you get the gloves, take :t for granted that you are to manage their use, Do not let the boy have them out of the box all the time. On the con- W ‘best we could we made our way to the subway, or four neighbor boys in during these periods and you personally supervise the play. See to it that their bouts are executed in the best spirit pos- sible, Just after a couple of boys put on the gloves, ha¥e one stand at your left hand and one at your right and say, “Now a good rule in boxing is, always keep smiling. Start smiling now—both of you—that's Might, Strike any place above the belt. As soon as I say ‘Whoa,’ both of you stop quickly, All right, one for the money, two for the show, three to make ready and four to—go!” Laugh and clap your hands—make them think they are having a wonder- ful time—and in about one minute, before either of them has time to get angry, say loudly, “Whoa,” quickly separating them, if necessary, Say, Phat's great, We'll rest a minute and then do it again.” Have all the boys sit down with you and imme | diately take advantage of this ideal | opportunity to lodge proper sugges- | | tions, box. Always keep smiling and show that you are real sports, You know boxing is the best thing In the world to develop self-control in a man, trary, set aside a definite time in which you and he will have fun with them. Arrange to bave at Itagt three Some boys lose their temper the first time or two they box, but they s0ooi learn that's not the right spirit at all, Say, “Now that's the right way to | Fifteen or twenty minutes with the gloves is enough for one time, Quit before the boys get tired, so they will like to do {tt again. In these meetings from time to time, you can virtually train the whole group in self-control, Between bouts, give them your ideas about when it ts ght to fight and when it is wrong. Tell them it is right to try to defend a weaker person against anyone who intends doing harm, The weaker per- son may be a woman or an elderly |person or a little girl or boy. The |boys will agree with you when you tell them they should whip the bully every time. Just after giving the boys your Id: about when it is right to fight, it 1s the ideal time to tell them when it 9 wrong. Tell them that it is cowardly to fight for a selfish rea~ son, revenge and wants to whip everybody who makes a “‘snoot" at him or makes remarks or tries to whip others just to show he is big enough. The really brave man never picks a fuss and he just laughs at those who try to make him lose his self-control, Many persons make the mistake of talking to the boy just after an of. fense, which, of course, is the wrong time. The best solution to the prob- lem of fighting 18 to keep the child's mind and body occupied with inter- esting activity and to instil the core rect ideals in the manner suggested. (Copyright, 1918, The Parents’ Asso- ciation, Inc.) Sunday on account of the ‘saving; vergence in the character, capabili- | It is only the coward who holds} summary of the wholly innocent and now postponed Sunday launch trip he the cashier in his office, But he did not gainsay her by re- minding her that drink, that nobody else but her own husband was invited to test the launch, and that, besides all this, the “Saving Gasoline on Sunday” rule had Prevented tht motor boat's tryout. contradict the lady and start some- thing? What man ever wins a battle at home? “Well?” asked Mr. Jarr with due meekness, after musing to this effect “The Stryvers have invited us to go on a long automobile ride this eve- ning and to take dinner with them at one of the roadhouses,” sald Mrs, Jarr, proudly. “Mrs, Stryver says | they have a tank full of gasoline they didn't use Sunday, and it would be wicked to waste it “The gasoline will be wasted tf it isn't wasted—that will be nice,” re- Plied Mr, Jarr. “Is that all you have to say?” eried ‘Mrs. Jarr. “Phat will be nice!’ If I j Were to tell you that I was going to expire at daybreak to-morrow and that the funeral would be on the day following, you'd say, ‘That would be |nice!’ You don't see the point of this {at all, or you pretend you do not! Mr. and Mrs, Stryver saved this gasoline by not running their car Sunday, and that's the reason Mr, Stryver is a wealthy man. You sneer at him, and yet he has invited YOU as well as me.” Mr, Jarr was about to say “That's nice,” but checked himself in time, “But I noticed whep that man Johnson asked you to go out on his | palatial yacht, and possibly make you \Pay for the gasoline, Sunday or no | Sunday, he never asked you if you thought I'd care to go!” Mrs, Jarr went on, “Maybe it's just as well, I've read in the paper about the gay doings on millionaires’ yachts! Well, this: law against rich slackers will stop that Mr. Jarr could not see Mr. Johnson as a yachting young millionaire slacker. even by the wildest stretch of his imagination, Johnson was a salary-slave, aged forty-eight. Nor could Mr, Jarr visualize the eigi pn foot, one-cylinder launch Doughboy poles, Mr, Jarr guiped at Mrs. Jarr’s| REAL friends for you Johnson didn’t What would have been the use to That's the kind of acquaintances one can be Proud of. 80 please don’t let me had been invited upon by Johnson,| hear you say Mr. Stryver is a war Profiteer again! People who live the beautiful home life Like the Stryvers do, now that they are reconciled @gain—and nothing can ever make” me believe he ever threw a plate at her; he'd be afraid to—for their page! lor maid told our Gertrude that ho went around with his face scratohe 1 for days just because he said some- thing to Mrs, Stryver about over-, drawing her bank account —and that's why I say you can't tell me a man who 1s @o considerate of his* wife got his money profiteering, Mr, Stryver is very Patriotic, and is working on fixing up his income tax report every night—and, poor man, he sighs and groans dreadfully while * he does it! ‘Tl bet ho groans because he can’t figure out how to cheat the Govern- ment out of more than two-thirds of his graft,” ventured Mr, Jarr. I “Now, please don't talk that way!" . said Mrs, Jarr, “You haven't any | money to intrust to Mr, Stryver to! invest in the first placé; and, in the fecond, they are charming people and are most Kind to ask us to share their evening’s pleasure!” Mrs, Jarr then permitted Mr, Jarr to make such changes in his raiment as she thought suitable, and they walked over to the fine private house of the Stryvers in pleasant anticipation of the enjoyment to come in the com- pany of persons both wealthy and refined, They found Mr. Stryver fuming tn’ the hall in automobile coat and cap, “What's the matter with you! n?” he called up the stairw: “You hobble around like a cow with @ wooden leg!” Howdy do!” (this to the Jarrs.) “By George! ‘This is the last time I'll give up a nice evening like this for that woman's conven. tence.” “Oh, shut up!" cried Mrs, Stryver, leaning over the balustrade, “Ain't you got no manners when we've got company!" “Oh, ple us,” ay ase don't make company o suid Mr. Jarr sweetly, aes —_—_——___.. SEARCHLIGHT PENERATES Fog, Great fog penetrating power jp moonlit waters, So he made no comeback. ‘Tis better thus, “Yes, the Stryvers have asked us as the scene of gay doings on the! claimed for aXgearchlight that has been invented in France with a greon- ish-yellow glass in front and backed by a reflector that also Prevents mois. ture collecting on the giass, Se ee | Se ae - ¢