The evening world. Newspaper, December 10, 1918, Page 20

ESTARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, ‘ t Sunday by the Pre biehi % Sera Date Bacwet Pendsy oe ibe Tyee Fens Commune, Hoa, 00 LPM PULITZ: 5 a nd CAN EUR AMAR Prosser, 8 Brg Roe a A E JOSEPH PULITZER,’ Jr, Secretary, MEMBER OF TH ABROOTATED PRESS, Asnoriat Prem i petra wots tied to ramublication Berna tehen We sae ciberlad credited th Unis Paper nnd shee Whe cal ‘news pesiateg Basen™ JUSTICE! INETY PERSONS were killed in the disastrous wreck at the Malbone Street curve of the B. R. T. system in Brooklya ® the first day of last month. » Investigation has shown the sacrifice of these ninety lives to have % due to criminal negligence on the part of those responsible for he operation of B. R. T. lines. * The motorman of the train that took the curve at perilous speed left the rails had not had the kind of experience to warrant hia put in charge of a train on that section, The outer rail of the Malbone Street curve was found to have heen raised only two inches where the original plans approved by the lic Service Commission called for a five-inch elevation. }é Ninety people killed! New York is not going to forget that terrible disaster nor the uses of it, * Members of the Brighton “L” Wreck Victims’ and Passengers’ Stective Association are not the only New Yorkers who demand that B. R. T. officials shall not escape one jot of that which justice ay mete out to them. | It is unthinkable that a group of men who control a street rail- system should be permitted to regard themselves as concerned sblely with its finances. \ f | It is outrageous thaf they should be allowed to scuttle aside and camouflage themselves into a “holding company” whenever slack operating methods lead to disaster and death, with subsequent search for those responsible. ; |. What does New York think of transit corporation presidents “who, when their negligently run systems are accused of wholesale mhabslaughter, go on the stand and protest that they personally cannot ‘blamed because they are “not practica) railroad men”? The ninety victims of the Malbone Street wreck are everlasting aiicieees against the kind of street railway operation that results from the control of an inner circle where the only practical aptitudes | ip high repute are the practical aptitudes of financiers. |. That is the kind of control that has made Brooklyn’s chief transit atem and transit service what they are. , The time has come when the long-standing indifference, defiance apd neglect of public safety and comfort which have characterized i. R. T, management should be pried out of that management by the «trong lever of the law—though the corporation itself has to be wrenched to pieces and made over in the process. aT Oey It THE NAVY'S PART. made by the U. S. Marines who had a glorious share in the job of turning the Germans back in their advance toward Paris had already become known to Americans at home before Secre- tary Danicls told in fuller detail the inspiring story. | | The Secretary’s comprehensive account of what the Navy did in the war contains much, however, that is new and welcome to those ally interested in the boys who spent the long months on ship- board, patrolling winter seas, chasing submarines, convoying cargo ships and transports—doing their hard and dangerous part in the silent spaces from which little or no news came, Tt was their special task to protect the ferriage of troops across the submarine-infested Atlantic. The nature of that task requir the utmost secrecy, with no chancesfor the naming of ships or the pa tat Ae reporting of gallant deeds and heroic action, So well did they do} gone and hoped that I would not| their work that in 289 sailings of naval transports from American] leave again but would stay during the| ports and the passage of 924,578 United States troops to Europe in irs dg by darD dees AO pbs United States naval convoys under escort of United States cruisers ine ie i al rnin ta icee iaual| } and destroyers, “not one eastbound American transport has been tor-| put nad a perfect horror of being] jiedoed or damaged by the enemy, and only three sunk on the return] one, 1 discussed the matter with | vogage.” her in an effort to ascertain the cause es en of this fearsome feeling. Secretary Daniels’s report is necessarily only summary and ont-| she just couldn't explain, She felt ling. Later the chapter of achievement to the credit of the United] she was perfectly safe, knowing that dtates Navy will be filled in with detail that will give it its full ie pagetl ed pe for years and | i : othing he appened, Yrilliancy and glory in the great record. iF ARS ABPpEAAS pe 2 Letters From the People } URING the week a young woman stenographer came to help me with some work. She was a good worker, had) @ sunny disposition and altogether pos- sessed a refined, gracious manner, During the day I was out for sev ral hours while sl was at work. Upon) my return the young woman re-| luctantly made a D confession, wer; she did not think she was & coward, She was not lonesome, for she Was quite busy at her work. ive the 27th Division? aging his wages as high as $60 or $125 |!!Iness in the family, which had kept | Already thiy week 4,000 men bave|@ week, for there was no munition} her apprehensive; that her mother ' dd all that they received! laborer in the country getting tlwes naturally nervous and, cont mded yand al 4 | much without working at least twelve pew small column in the papers. | {o"rourtcen hours & day, ‘Even ip ne | Wwently: she thought she came nat- Haven't they fought the same | was getting that much, is he not worthy | Urally by it. In & word, Just an awesome atmos- phere when she was alone—restless- 1ess Which she could not deseribe— things and just us bard as the rest? | of it? If fhey haven't it was because their) on workers were taking at Gillea- t . ple’s Morgan plant and in other ommanders did not get orders to/ Plants that have blown Was whilae lat Hp Soe neh Ga : do #0. } of these cranks sat at thelr desks and |* Mere feeling that came only of the Look at the chance the muni- | The Feeling Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New Tory Brening World.) HE superb, never-to-be-forgotten display of fighting qualitica| 4 Should Be Guarded Against in Childhood—Other- wise It Must Be Overcome Later in Life. She did not fear any personal dan- | Wants All Men From Overseas] nition plant, where men should be| She Just couldn't tell what the i We ; in time of war If not in the army, In: | trouble was except that feeling of ip the Faliior of ‘The Kvening World | stead of doing women's work in the| being “nervous. . ft New: city. PWhy is it that the peuple of New) Bhe tried to reason it out on the any Regarding the earnings of @ muni- # . ¥okk are making such preparations tO] tion worker there 1s ne truth in nuan, | ‘heory that they had had considerable | Copyright, 1918, by'The Van ali Oy (Tie New York Evening World.) of F ear By Sophie Irene Loeb | wanted to rest while my friends went on exploring with the guide, After their lantern had turned a corner in the cave I realized the sense I can understand this girl's antip-|of being alone as never before, for I athy for being left by herself. Years| found myself in absolute pitch dark- ago I was somewhat like this when|ness and deadly quiet. I feared that left at home alone, |my friends might not find me, as I, too, had no apprehensioh of per- | there were so many miles of cave, an sonal danger. 1 attribute it to the| that I might suffer the fate of travel- fact that there were people always |lers L had heard about. around, and when they left it gave| But there was the fear of no chance me more opportunity to reflect on my|for escape. There was some reason own feelings; but I overcame this by | for it, keting away from myself when I was! But to fear being alone in a house alone, or in an apartment actually stores | That ts to say I busied myself with | up needless “nerves,” things and [ got deeply into the mat Let the person who fears reflect that ters on which 1 was working, Before|in a city of nearly five million people | knew it I bad been alone for a con-|th@ percentage of personal danger in uiderable period. | Tour poms is infinitesimal, as statis- As days went by and nothing hap- pened I began to lose that sense of| might this be artificial feeling taken in hand and well fear and didn't mind being alone at| banished, ‘The Jarr Family By Albert Pa Were Ended | yson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co (The New York Drening World.) No. 10—THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR T was our first wa: -eration that had mistress of more any other nation. One revolt after another in Cuba T of any account for more than thirty years and {t aroused a wild excitement from a geu- no personal knowledge of warfare, Cuba for years had been rebelling, off and on, against the Spanish yoke, and ali this country’s sym- pathies were with Cuba. Spain at one time had been of the Western Hemisphere than had Bit by bit her vast possessions were cut away from her—in Mexico, in South America and elsewhere until, by 1898, she had little foothold in the New World besides Cuba and small island or so, attested to the unpopularity of Span- ish rule there, and Spain dealt so harshly with these revolts as to rouse the indignation of the people of the United States. There was a more aud more insistent popular clamor that our country intervene and liberate Cuba, But President McKinley and his advisers kept their heads, refusing to be shouted Spain Deale Harshly Harbor. With Revolts. There eee into a war, until. in February of 189% the battleship Maine was blown up in Havana was no proof—there has never beow any proof—that Spain had a hand in the Maine's destruction, Nor had Spain any motive for such an insane deed, Later careful investigation failed to fix the blame. But the news of the Maine's destruction set the country ablaze, wild demand for war could no longer conflict began. Our army and navy were small but one result to such a war, By early autumn the fighting wa remnants of her once great empire in of war between the two nations were called “expansionists” and those who new responsibilities and new dangers Porto > Cuba Free From } Spai pee twenty million dollars, “As a result of the Spanish-Ameri the nations of the world.” European affairs, asked for, did this. the United States, Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) { News From Uncle Henry “ec HY should I have to look af- W ter Uncle Henry's friends?” asked Mrs. Jarr, “Why can't you take this Mr. Measley around town yourself? Surely you do not ex- pect me to do it?” “His name is Beasley and not Meas- ley, although it should be the latter,” replied Mr. Jarr. “But I simply can't get away from the office to take this bucolic party from Hays Corners sightseeing. I can't get off on ac- count of the way the sudden approach of peace has unsettled business con- ditions. So I cannot do it, whether it makes his friend, our Uncle Henry of Hay Corners, mad or not!" “Oh, I'm so tired of hearing the war, and now peace, as an excuse!” erted Mrs. Jarr, ‘ve got my shopping to attend to, peace or war, and I've got all, I believe it is all a matter of self— of taking one's self in hand and over- coming it, It can be done, In fact, it should begin with the little children, Many parents make the grave mistake of scaring children Jand inculeating a sense of fear in their little minds, By Helen Ono of the first important steps is to’ teach Mttle children not to be afraid of a dark room or to be left alone for a little time, ‘This feeling of fear grows upon children and they carry it through life, I know a girl of eighteen who al- ways imagines that she ts going to encounter something supernatural In |a darkened room or when she is alone. If only one would realize that th }is nothing supernatural—that the su- pernatural is only the natural unex- plained, much of the boogy-boo of the fear of being alone would bo elims | inated. twice, while, The oue time when I felt the great- est fear was once on a visit to Mam- moth Cave, 1 was a-bit tired and vampires of the | very man has dole his best—| only read about it. hought that she was alone, any have already paid the supreme |, Speaking of the high cost of living emai as » ree : net Mr Hrown come out to a town jeniflen; yet one division is to re- | whore there ia a munition plant, get ive all the honors possible when) munition wages, and see how toch any others bave done as much and | better he can live then than he can HE first Kuropean woman to bly mor: A.R.P. | Where he is at present with his sai- form the hubit of smoking to- | From a Munition Worker, | Who Ix it that are the first to sub. bacco was Mary Frith, better The ae Ae aan Who Used Tobacco THREW it at him! | dishonest methods of making a living, jshe was x hear divided her spoils liberally with those in need, the Falitor of Tie Exening World |scribe for Liberty bonds or for the| known to her contemporaries as "Mail At last there {s somebody who le| War aid? Fifteen hundred ordi-| Cut-Purse,” who was born in 1665, ady to discredit the sipbuilders and) 59g %\n Faherty bonds witheee Levi: [Im hor time pockets were not yet in. ition workers for their patriotivm. | forced, and $6,000 to the War Work| Vented, and gentlemen carried their {Phere is no doubt that almost 60 per | Campaign, money in purses worn at the pirdl it. are non-citizens, but why is that? There is only one class whose pa-| “Mall Cut-Purse triotism *is worthy of more credit, jot because American labor was! These are the boys in the froni|of purses without the knowledge of wahle, but because Americans | trenches whom we have worked hard| their owners, She wore men's cloth. not do the work that foreigners and falthfully\ for to hel them] ing. Later in life she became a high- or leave their ositions im achieve the victkry they havegvon, | way woman, and held up travellers i a mu- $ ‘ A. along the English early became an| adept in the art of cutting the strings | now be. called Despite her! in merrymaking at her funeral. und was a devoted adherent to the cavalier cause, In ancient prints she is usually d smoking a pipe, jand she w ndoubtedly the first | white fema publicly proclaim her Jullegtance to Lady N one occasion she caused thi of a notorious band of what would “white slavers," young girl from She lived to be nearly eighty, and left a will requesting: thar the remainder of her fortune be ey >mt. w two-spot? |rescued a Now that autocracy, militarism something? the subtle art of coquetry—-now they use hand grenades. get that even a cat wouldn't be “fascinated” by a bowl of cream if you Bachelor Girl ‘Reflections Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Exeuing World.) OING up in an airplane is like getting married—any optimist will uy it once, but only @ sincere fatalist would try either,of them One of the most delightful surprises a man can experience is to marry a “brilliant woman,” and dis- cover afterward that on nine subjects out of ten she can be as silly and childish and make him feel just as superior as any other woman. When « returned doughboy can manage to make each of two women believe that he went to France for her sake he considers that the war has been worth Before they began taking daily lessons from the “movies” girls wisely used nets in Alas, they for- Just looking beautiful may no longer be an essential occupation for any woman, but if she succeeds in these days of “arts and crafts” she surely can't be accused of being lazy. In the game of love why does it so often happen that a man draws a queen of hearts and then loses her by dallying around with some little and all the other effete and worn- out forms of ancient cruelty and schrecklichkeit are being wiped out why can't this Christmas gift hold-up be stopped by law or revolution, my housework to do, armistice or no armistice. So don't tell me you can’t get away from that old office ‘on ac- count of the sudden cessation of hos- tilities!"" “Just the same, these are most se- rious matters,” Mr, Jarr declared. “We can't ship anything abroad be- | cause we can't get shipping licenses, | We can't get any of our raw wool in on atcount of all shipments from Russia being tied up, and as for Aus- trian felts—how can we do a thing in Austrian felts when Austria has used all her felts to try to clothe her own people?” “Well, if you can't ship any goods and if you can't receive any goods, and if your whole business is at a standstill on account of conditions, I should think it would be the very time you could get away,” replied Mrs, Jarr, “Here's a postal card from Uncle Henry saying Town Commis- sioner and Janitor of Town Hall the Hon, Lemuel Beasley—how formal Uncle Henry is when he uses his In- delible purple lead pencil to write a post card—will be in New York to- day and will go to the uniform firm to purchase uniforms for the entire fire department of Hays Corners, and he expects to bring both sults back with | him, And Uncle Henry says that 4 | Hon, Lemuel Beasley will have the entire afternoon left to go all esound| New York.” “I don't care what Uncle Henry! says and I don't care whether Lem, Beasley sees the town or not. You, may want to please your Uncle Henry , because you expect us to be paying} guests on his farm next summer, but I don't think we'll have any vacation next summer on account of business being so brisk in reconstruction.” “Please don't mention war, peace or business to me as excuses!” cried Mrs, Jarr. “Mrs. Stryver is telling me how much money her husband has lost on account of the war, and Clara Mudridge-Smith tells me she didn't Bo abroad because she wasn't allowed to go, except as a nurse, on account of the war, and when I asked her why she didn’t go #8 a nurse, she didn’t know. Mrs, Rangle tells me the war so injured Mr, Rangle’s business— which is fire insurance—that she won't be able to move in the new apartments she-was looking at, And Mrs, Terwiliger told me that the dresses she and her daughter were to get from Paris will not reach her on account of the unsettled condil- tions" ——— “Oh, very well, then!” interjected account of themselves in the battles which followed. a deplorably bad condition and her army was little better. There could bq At the peace conference, held in Paris, the terms for ending the ‘The general terms of the Treaty of Paris set Cuba free from left the island under a sort of United States Protectorate until such time as she should i@ ready for self-government. The be disobeyed, and in April, 1898, the and untried, but they gave splendid Spain’s navy was ig as over, and Spain had lost tihe last the Americas, put through ‘almost without a hite! and on Deo, 10, 1898, a treaty was signod, . ‘The terms of this treaty caused endless dispute here between the dreaded to see our country acquire along with new possessions. inant Ricovand Guam and the Philippines were transferred by Spain to the control of the United States in return for a cash payment of can War,” writes Turner, “the Uniiod States found itself In a position of increased importance and prestige among . It incidentally led to the long-drawn-out Aguinaido revolution in the Philippines and prought us into oloser touch than ever heretofore with Our position in the Philippines involved us in the “Chinese Question ‘and in other matters which, up to that time, had not concerned us, By mutual consent in the Paris Treaty negotiations no indemn Few treaties) perhaps, have dealt 90 fairly with both sides ug ‘The proof of which is found in the friendly relations which <o goon afterward were resumed between the people at large of Spain and of woe By Roy L. McCardell, Mr. Jarr, ‘T's plain that you do not appreciate the full significance of the matter, So I'll get Michael Angelo Dinkston to show Mr, Lem Beasley around the city. “I'll give Dinkston @ $5 bil, and all Dinkston holds out of dt above the expense of showing Unole Henry’s friend around the city Dinkston may pocket as his fees as & guide.” “Oh, dear!” sighed Mrs, Jarr, “It you knew how short of money I was you'd give me the $5. Don't you think $2 is enough? Everything |a so dear on account of the war—even if the war is over! Can't Mr, Dink ston pretend he has to pay to take this Mr, Wheasley—or whatever hig name is—to all the free public places, such as the park? I always let Aunt Hetty and Uncle Henry believe I paid even at free religious meetings, by, going first and speaking to the ate tendant at the door.” “Well, I'll see what I can do,” said Mr, Jarre, “But $2 won't do, I'm afraid.” He was so afraid that when he con+ ferred with Mr, Dinkston he only gave that erudite and tactful indi« vidual a dollar, “It isn't much, but you'll have to make it do, Dink!” gaia Mr, Jarr, Mr, Dinkston turned up at Gus's cafe late that evening and reported Success. “I took Mr. Beasley up to the park on one side of the town and back to the depot on the other sida, It took four hours and cost 20 cents and he went home happy," he said, “That was quick and cheap,” ven~ tured Mr. Jarr, “He didn't seem to care to tarry in our fair city when I told him that on account of high prices we were prace Ucally in @ State of prohibition, Ho sald he'd come from one," replied “the philosophic Ananias. Traction Magnates Kite Fares to | 1-3 Cents, OBE residents are kicking bee cause of the rise in street cur fares which was instituted Noy, 1, The new rate, 2 cents, includes @ transit tax of half a penny and com. mands universal transfers, Those who buy $1.50 books of ticle ets pay about 11-3 cents a ride, ‘The increased fares are expectod to speed up efficiency of conductors, wha get more pay, and also to reduse crowding, as ten more cars are ade increasing the total number in op a tion to seventy. In Tokio, the car fare is almos with transfers In Yo hama, the fare is 2 cents, but the car line docsn’t serve any part of tan uty that tw frequented by foveisn rikisha men get all the pe sn custom, Om tt at ht