The evening world. Newspaper, May 17, 1919, Page 12

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Daly Macwpt Senter W she Frese Fubishing Company, Nos. 53 te 3 Row. MEMBER OF THE ABROOIATED PRESS, Se yh -cgaad OME 50... ..csccccccccccccsccccscccssceses NO, 91,088 ; A PERNICIOUS LEGACY. HE American Relief Administration announced this week that by June 30 it will make its last shipment of American food- staffs to Europe. Hagar Rickard, Joint Director of the Administration with Her- e©. Hoover, is authority for the statement that by July enough will be on the seas to supply Buropean needs until the Kurepean which begin in August, after which the peoples ef Europe counted on in great measure to take care of themselves by Hon and purchase from abroad. (his means that hundreds of thousands ef tons of American i] remain each month in the United States, vastly increasing ly for home markets. ‘What does it mean for American consumers? Will food godown? Will plenty benefit the American earner in his with the cost of living? Is the law of supply and demand at last in his favor? Current signs are against him. That is the hard fact. Worse ) the adverse signs as he sees them are largely furnished by hia Government. Consumers in the United States have not yet gotten over their of a few days since at the news that 50,000,000 pounds of bacon 00,000,000 cans of beef—surplus supplies of the War Depart- to be sent out of the country and sold in Europe USE THE PACKERS SO ADVISED! _ Secretary Baker has since tried to explain that the bacon and © 1 in unlabelled tins that would look strange to American pur- ¢ An argument no doubt readjly supplied also by the packers. Why should it be the meat packers who have first call upon the sar of the Government when it is a question of putting on the market | Rirplas food stocks that might affect prices? Have the meat packers been “suffering”—throngh five years of : that have brought them volumes of business greater than they dreamt of handling? Is it to be the policy of the Government to consult and ac- p ony the decision of other great producers or converters of food- ST ee ee ee s whenever plentiful supplies of their products threaten to it possible for millions of Americans to buy those products at prices? 4 _ ‘The American consumer is becoming dazed by what appears to Government’s theory of Reconstruction. So far that theory seems to be that the country will plunge to tic ruin unless those who have profited by war are guaranteed uation or even increase of their profits. The millions who have carried the heaviest burdens of war, 4 it help in the shape of higher wages or profits, are now counted Em to take still heavier loads in order that various groups specially d by war—whether capitalists or wage earners—may not have ome down a hand’s breadth from their high horses. Government control during war has left the country a per- legacy. It has left meat packers, coal magnates, great industrial in- and the war-favored classes of organized labor as special keys to Government departments, special policies in the name of “Reconstruction.” : So far Americans who have done their utmost for their coun- the war, who are now trying to meet post-war cost of with pre-war incomes and losing ground in the struggle, have im this so-called Reconstruction that considers them or | and ignoring those who have paid for it. eee NEW YORK’S NEW INCOME TAX. MY HE Governor's signature has made law the new State Income Tax measure. Between Jan. 1 and March 15, 1920, half a | million taxpayers in this Commonwealth must pay a State their incomes for the present year, ending Dec. 31 next, wfollows: | ‘Been the first $10,000 of taxable income (single persons are allowed , exemption, married persons $2,000) the tax is one per cent.; next $40,000, two per cent.; above $50,000, three per cent. = One point about the act to which Comptroller Travis draws atten- is that the $40,000,000 or $45,000,000 it is expected to yield is not to be devoted exclusively to State purposes: ‘The act provides for an equal distribution between the Btate and the counties, cities and towns of the State, In this Tespect the new law is not a State Income Tax measure ip the eense that the revenue is applied entirely for State purposes, U | +‘The amount remitted to municipal corporations is to be appor- Deen thoned according to the assessed valuation of real property. » New York City can find some comfort in the fact that the State tax is not quite the usual species of money raising legislation up-State legislators perennjally devise for making this city up-State jobs and improvenients. Now York taxpayers will accept the State Income Tax for what ly is—a necessity to meet the loss of excise revenue. State Income Tax is one of the bright and cheery companions le Prohibition, and the people of New York will hail it . While it is with them they will think and maybe induce ITo Saturday, A ala cad 0 IAL PAGE May 17, Sieg ee ae a | ‘ aptagyo a “Looks Black to Me" ~ SS ES fats o ong f r ail Fiigte pease 2 People Who Abandon Cats and Dogs By Sophie Irene Loeb. Copyright, 1919, by the Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World). The Teaching of Children That Would Give Protection to Dumb Animals WOMAN signing “An Animal Lover” writes to me as follows: “As it ls nearing the summer, which means more golng away for many people, I think a few lines from you would do a regarding the dis- carded pets, mostly cats, which are left behind to starve, It is a vicious habit feonin munaiese lots of people have, of moving away and not taking their cats, I think there ought to be a law puntwhing people who do such things. “The cats are good enough to clear the home of rats and mice but not good enough to take into the new home. Why? Are the people too ignorant to realize that animals suffer as weil as humans, and where do they expect them to get food? ‘They can't get it in the covered garbage cans. “Why do these people keep their pots till the last moment? Why not send them away a week before they move? The Soctety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will call if you send a card to Madison Avenue and 26th Street. “These people who throw their ant- mals out to starve are not the ones who will pick up a stray cat from the street and give it @ home. “Now, I wish you would give your candid opinion of such people, I think the schools could afford to | spend five minutes a day to teach the | young mind to be kind to dumb ant- mals. Then by the time they grow up they may realize that animals suffer.” My “candid opinion” {s that the writer of this letter is right. I can A add very littte. It is a very good thought tndeed that the schoolroom would be a good place to teach some- thing about the humane treatment of animals, Several times tn these columns I bave written against the brutality that Is shown by people who move away and leave their cate and dogs to wander at will ‘The untold hard- ships that they impose on their creatures by earObwsneee UALLOL lot of good | As the writer above mentions, it is easy enough to telephone or send a card to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, who calls for them. Several times I have passed by and heard the moaning of a cat in some cellar way—frequently in the best parts of the city. Families have gone away for the summer and have pitileasty confided their pets (7) to the winds of chance. 1 believe it would be a good taw to bring such people before a court and impose some kind of punishment for such ruthless neglect. We have statutes that protect dumb brutes such as horses from inhuman treatment. Certainly there is no more inhuman treatment than to abandon a poor creature, especially if it has stood you in good stead in the household. Perhaps if we begin to teach chil- dren their responsibility to speech- less animals, the grown ups will change their tactica, I know of two such children right now—a boy and a girl. They have been taught to love ani- mals and not to fear them, I have seen these children im the country, They don’t scream or run away at every little bug that comes their way, but they are taught to know something about it and its habits, They have learned something about the poisonous insects and animals and how to take cary of themselves, They are taught respect for creatures which cannot speak themselves, Besides acting bumanely toward the dumb creatures, enere is being inspired in these children @ fine sense of responsibility ef the strong over the weak, which is thorqughly worth while in the molding of character, It is well to begin with a child as set forth, but in the meantima the grown up should be held strictly to account for his treatment of the dog or cat which he leaves behind If the passerby would take the trouble to eee that tho proper au- thorities are informed of any stray animals in the neighborhood # great work could be sccomplished for the suffering creatures which have been cruelly treated in betmg abandoned. By J. H. Cassel | ace I ES ia How They Made Good By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1919, by the Pree Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), No. 35—PETER THE GREAT; the Savage Who Civil- ized His Country. E was Peter 1, Czar of Russia, one of the strangest mtx- tures in all the annals of complex hufhan character. He made good by turning his country from a barbaric half-Oriental realm into an up-to-date and civilized country, Yet Peter, who achieved all this, could not civilize himself, nor curb his own wild beast nature, Voltaire sizes up the situation: A @ savage. he himself was ignorant. From the Moskwa, he erected a powerful fleet and made himself an expert and ‘active / “He gave a polish to his people, and was himself He taught them the art of war, of whieb sight of a small boat on the River shipwright, sailor, pilot and commander. He changed the manners and customs and laws of the Russians. And he lives in their memory as the Father of his Country.” When Peter came to the throne, through a ses of blood, by the way, he noted that Russia had been standing still, almost since the days of Ivan the Great, while all the rest of Europe had moved rapidly ahead, And ®e set to work at bringing his country into the forefront of European nations. It was @ Hercules task. But a Heroules was attempting it. And he made . good. Distinguished, he visited foreign countries (where every one knew who and what*he was, but where everybody pretended not to) and there he learned many of the modern arts and studied modern shipbuilding and noted the workings of civilized laws. Then he went back home and began to put into practice what he had learned. He shook Russia out of Its lethargy, making new laws and instituting new customs. He summoned a huge conference of his nobles, for one thing. . The nobles trooped into the audience hall, wearing long beards and with coatsleeves a foot too long, as « Comes to Throne Through Sea of Blood. Peter was ridiculous long was the ancient fashion of the land. the only smooth shaven man in the , room, In one hand he gripped a pair of keen shears. He told bis scandalized hearers that beards and sleeves must go. Before they oguia protest, he had started around the room, cutting off every man's beard and the flapping sleeves as he went. This in @ country where men cherished their beards as a Chinaman cherishes his queue! The nobles clamored fiercely againust the mandate. But Peter was ready to back his orders by prison or death, and his newly reorganized army was at hig back. Such rebellions as were started he put down with much swiftness and severity. Then he decided that the ancient Russtan capital, Moscow, was un- healthful and il-buflt. He picked out the eite of a capital, named it Bt. Petersburg in his honor, and set to work building a huge modern city there. He labored like any peasant over this job of city ouilding. He began to clear the marshes for St. Petersburs’s first houses in 1703. Within eight years the capital had begun to take definite shape. For twenty-seven years Peter toiled at the re- eee Controlled Others but Not Himself. ¢ a chronicler: and epitaph.” and naval power.” The Jarr Family By Roy L. Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co. McCardell (The New York Evening World), Mr. Jarr Resolves He Will Not Be the Slave of Hope or His Mother-in-Law ‘cc RS. DUSENBERRY 1a a M good old soul, and it’s, a pity her daughter-in-law doesn't like the old lady,” said Mr. Jarr, “She's a good old soul, always helping everybody around here that has sickness or misfortune.” These remarks were prompted by the old lady in question having just departed from the Jarr flat with some clothes the Jarr children had out- grown to give to some children in the neighborhood who were in necd of apparel. “There's a lot of people who are kind enough to others, but who for- get that charity—especially the char- ity of good opinion and kind treat- ment—should begin at home,” said Mrs. Jarr. “I don’t know anything about tha: said Mr. Jarr, “All I know is that old Mrs, Dusenberry spends what lttle money she has helping her poorer neighbors, everybody says so, and in sickness and trouble the old lady ts always on hand as a sym- pathetic and helpful neighbor.” “Well, admitting all that,” replied Mra, Jarr, “old Mrs, Dusenberry is just Hke every one else, She's kind enough to strangers, but look how she talks about her daughter-in-law! ll wager the daughter-in-law has goma tales to tell. It isn't always the wife's mother that causes all the @iscord in families, The husband's mother is ofttimes just as bad.” Mr. Jarr thought of Mrs. Jarr’s mother—happily that dear old lady was far away—but he eaid nothing. “Let distant mothers-in-law stay there,” was his thought, So he abstained from controverting Mrs, Jarr’s remarks. But what good did that do? “Ob, I know what you are thinking about!" Mrs. Jarr went on, “You are too sly to say it, but you are thinking that it ts solely my mother’s fault that you and she can't get along to- gether. But, just as I tell you, the husband's mother is the one to blame Just as mych.” “Maybe you're right,” said Mr. Jarr, surrendering. “Maybe I'm right!" repeated his good lady. “Certainly I'm right! So don’t ait there and blame my mother, If your mother was here a pretty time rd havel "Bo that’s why I say that you shouldn't talk about my mother the way you do. Ghe is very good to me, é and tf you were in any trouble this very minute you know she'd be over here seetng what she could do and giv- ing you advice and advising us where we might go to borrow money.” “Why, Ihaven't been saying a word about your mother!" cried Mr. Jarr, shaken from his determination not to quarrel, “But I can say this for sure -that you are right when you say if we were in trouble your mother would be here. “We are always in trouble when your mother is here. Your mother isn't here and so we are not in any trouble—except that even discussing her brings trouble.” “Now, that isn’t fair!" rejoined Mra. Jarr, “You know how mother is! Whenever there is a death or sickness or sorrow, mother comes"—— “To gloat!” interrupted Mr, Jarr. “Or to tell you she told you so!" “Of course she told me so!" sald Mrs. Jarr, “Everything she prophe- sied has come true. That's why you dislike her.” “I wasn't discussing her, I wasn't even thinking of her,” said Mr. Jarr. “I'm sorry I even mentioned old Mra. Dusenberry. If I had remembered she was somebody's mother-in-law I wouldn't have spoken her name, “Gee whix! What's wrong with people these days? Why, it’s getting 80 now that if they should put on @ play with a real mother-in-law in it you women would go to the theatre and throw bricks and eggs at the actors, All right, you can do it! I'm going to write a play, ‘The Mother-in-Law—The Menace to World Peace,’ and it will cause a riot.” “I wish you'd think less of mak- ing a riot and more of making a little extra money,” said Mrs, Jarr with a sudden change of front, “I'm just so harassed about bills and being so hard up and getting behindhand with everything that it's no wonder I'm cranky.” “I'm glad you admit you're cranky,” sald Mr, Jarr. “Everybody's hard wp. So don't worry. If you are hard up, so is everybody else.” “What do I care for that?’ asked Mrs, Jarr, “Of course they are. That's why they come bothering me with their old bills, They say, ‘We must have money!’ and they act as though they think I must have it!” By James Copyright, 1919, by the Prem Publishing making of Russia, And he made good. Ha was a drunkard, @ libertine, the supposed murderer of his own son and the proven murderer of many another man. He was subject to fits of maniac rage and to babylike spells of weeping. He had mo control over his own fierce self, But he had an almost hypnotic control over every one and everythin: else. He knew what he wanted done and how to get people te do tt, Says “Peter the Great died tn 1725. Modern Russia ts his true monument (Presumably this was written before German propaganda and Bolshevism had wrecked Russia.) “He found his country semi-eavage. And he, a savage at heart, left it ctvilized and progressive. He added six broad provinces to the eruptre and made tt @ leading potitical, commerctal Yos, the old savage, most assuredly, made good, The Romance of Words C. Young Oo, (The Now York Brexing Weel). How Everyday Expressions Had Their Origin FEW million New Yorkers A have waved their hats aloft and eried brave “burrahs” in the last few weeks to the men marching up the avenue, just back from France, No doubt many of |those who cheered them on would have been surprised to learn just |how that cry of “hurrah” came into |the English language, It dates back |a long way, to the time of the: Cru- |sades lead by Richard the Lion Heart. An old chronicler of that period, with the news sense, notes that the Englishmen who followed the bold Richard were astonished when they first heard some of their foes charge down upon them with a swelling cry of “hurro, burro.” In that day flerce cries were deemed an excellent means of frightening an enemy, and Richard's Englishmen were so Impressed with their foes’ efforts in this direction that they adopted the strange war cry and be- gan to shout back a lusty “hurrah.” ‘The returning Crusaders brought this martia? cry with them when they returned home, and it has come down through the generations. ‘The writer who has preserved this quaint story for us, doubtless would have been surprised # some one had tald him he possessed the news sense. For in his time th word “news” was not a part of the English tongue. Some of the academsc gentiomen have tried to trace this expressive term to strange sources, but they need have gone no further afield than Philadel. ! phia, for there it first was used. When American newspapers were: young some enterprising editor hit upon the plan of publishing an ttem on the state of the weather at the top of the first page every day, That was long before the scientific weather forecasters began their efforts, but’ it was easy to describe the course of the wind and such things, Weather notices came to be a fen.‘ ture of aM newspapers, It was cus- tomary to print these below twoi crossed lines, at the extremes of’ which were the letters indicating the- points of the compass, N, E. W. 8. This was done to attract attention, . On an unrecorded day, but ens. which should have been preserved to fame, a busy editor in Philadelphia omitted the diagram and printed merely the four letters above hia weather notice, He evidently believed that just as many readers would find N. E. W. 8. as they would a dlagtam which took up space. And by eéme twist of fate, perhaps the mistake of @ careless printer, or merely by the points were dropped from tween the letters, and N, E, W. 8. was turned into NEWS. "So it has continued ever since, although the word now means a deal more than a simple weather notice, ' HB redoubtable Capt. Kidd lived about 200 years ago in a house that stood on the present site jof Nos, 119-121 Pearl Street, Describing the three fair daughters of an aristocratic New Yorker a cen- jtury of #0 ago a writer of the period |says: “The father used to take his |daughters to the church of Dr, Mat- “Well, why bring in mothers-in- law?" asked Mr. Jarr, “Because I was just thinking that mamma might lend us some money it only you were nice to her,” sug- gested Mrs. Jarr, “Never!” said Mr. Jarr, “Serfdom | ts abolished everywhere except where |you owe money to your mother-in- law. But, say, if we did borrow from her and anything happened to the dear old lady—but why be the slave New York—Then and Now thews, that stood in Garden Street, Such a lovely trio were rarely geen. They took all the young gallants from the other downtown churches and’ drew @ full house,” The face of the big clock in the Metropoliton Tower is 261-2 feet in diameter, This is the largest foar- dial clock in the world. New York has the largest and the most deautiful custom house in the world. It was designed by Cass Git« bert and cost $4,500,000, Suing for a separation, a New York woman recently complained that her “better half’ (7) spent his time tn “coffee houses.” In 1674 in Engiand “Women's Petition Against Coffee’ tn like manner complained that “oh @ of hope?--nothing every happens to that old deari” domestic errand @ husband would sep on his way to drink @ couple of oups of coftes,” it