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FRIDAY THE BROOKLYN DAILY TIIUES MAY- 2G, 3910 ows ami the blind and the crippled STUDY BOYS' VOCATIONS. DOWLING SCORES COMMENT AND QUERY. GILCHRIST PROTESTS. t' atMLISHKD 104ft B. R.

T. HEAD FOR BMCHIRANSFER man tell when his span is ended? Captain Ctlllen might have retired at the age of thirty and died the next day. Or, retiring this year at 66, he might have lived on to a ripe age and grown weary of his long vacation. Is it not true that, after all, the greatest pleasure is congenial work, so great that when we break away from it now and then we wish ourselves back at the wonted tasks long before the leisure period has expired How FRIDAY, 2G, 191.6, Punished by the' BROOKLYN DA TIMES, John N. r-ri ri.

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as second class matter, under the net of Jiuircl 1879. Col. Williams on E. D. Tnuisit.

Plain facts and prosaic figures were put before the people of Brooklyn and Queens by Timothy S. Williams, President of the B. R. T. Company at the Broadway Merchants Club the other evening.

He dispelled the rainbow route which many expected the city to build north and south through the two boroughs, and then dug right into the heart of the question. He said that the B. R. T. could rpend no money on subways, and that it would te suicidal for the city government to attempt it for a long period.

He made it plain that if a real Crosstown rapid transit line were to be constructed within the present gercration, it 1 have to be built underground by an assessment or overhead by corporation capital. Since Col. Williams' statements were uttered, every city official concerned with subways and finances has had an opportunity to criticize what he said, but every sentence remains unchallenged in its accuracy. From tlc beginning of the present revival of the Crosstown transit agitation, the attitude of the Brooklyn Times has been aggressively in favor of getting something and getting it done quick. The Brooklyn Times maintains that this route is a community necessity, as important as any part of the dual system, and more important than most of the lines incorporated in those contracts.

While there was a chance of an all-subway route being constructed, the Times fought with all its might for a way, and led the campaign that suited in the laying out of a line partly elevated and partly underground two years ago. That the city has not the money to build such a road and that there is no prospect of the credit being obtainable for at least a decade is a grievous but obvious condition that confronts the community. The thing for all concerned to do is not to sit weeping over what might have been, while the dual system is men alone an left to make a peace? In Front of the Parade. Not always in what is near distinct. A thing may be too far to be clearly seen.

A thing may be too close. There is a point, of visual accommoda tion, a point of focus. The Republi can Convention would seem to be within rather than without that point. Too near is it for a proper perspective. Perhaps that is the reason that what seemed clear not long ago now seems confused.

Perhaps it is the re.ison that superficial features ob-sri're tho general outline. A week or so ago we saw the situation whole; we mavt clearly see that part of it that, projects. Beyond all doubt the pivjecfiot wears a broad-brimmed hat, a smile and a pair of ghVtening spectacles. It looks like RiW'ScveJt it in Roosevelt. But wo place to view a parade is not from the front.

You might think the druui major, with his shako, his whirling baton and his air of majesty, was the whole parade. You might think; the blaring band with the sunlight splidtered on its shining brasses, wan the whole parade. You might not imagine that behind the drum major and the blarirg band was a very business-like and efficient organization, marching quietly and steadily, swinging- no big stick and blowing no thrilling blast, but furnishing, after all, the strongest and the most significant part of the moving oolumvj. It will surprise us if Col. Roosevelt fhall turn, out to be the whole parade.

Tuceday and" Wednesday. Mayor Mitchel said before the Thompson Committee on Tuesday afternoon: "The attempted seizure by the Church of Ihe city government is contrary to the spirit of our institutions. We hold that the government shall not lay its hands on the sacred altar of the and that, conversely, the ('lurch must not lay its hands on the sacred altar of the government." It is incredible that the Mayor did nolt know the full import of the implied accusa'rion. His words are very defl nite and admit of but one meaning He was justifying, or attempting to justify, the official eavesdropping at the telephone wires of three citizens. one of whom was a Roman Catholic prient.

He was arguing for the right to read before tbe committee the rec ord made by pal icemen of con versa tions they say they overheard. He was declaring that those convcrsa tions, and certain other circumstances which he described, showed a con spiracy that was criminal. It is astounding, therefore, to find the Mayor, on Wednesday, thus amending the complaint he made on Tuesday: "It is not the Catholic Church that has so conspired to pervert justice and control or obstruct government, but a small group within the Church co-operating with a few non-Catholic laymen." The amendment is inadequate. It goes either too far or not far enough If the Mayor is still convinced that the Church tried to seize the city government, his statement of Wednesday is an attempt to evade conse quences of the performance of a duty. It is an effort to dull one edge of a two-edged sword.

If the Mavor was really convinced on Wednesday that what he said on Tuesday was untrue, it would seem to be his duty as an American citizen, to unsay, word by word, what f.ccording to his own more recent declaration was false, and what he knew must bring to the front an issue abhorrent to the spirit of American institutions. The words of the Mayor of the greatest city in America arc not feathers blown on the breeze. They are not a mist that to-morrow's sun will dry. They have an effect commensurate with the dignity of the office, rather Lhan with the dignity of the incumbent. To those who gave him the office, the incumbent owes it that they shall not be used recklessly.

The District Attorney. District Attorney Lewis spoke out of the heart of a good lawyer and a decent man when he uttered his protest against the much too prevalent practise of "creating an atmosphere' for a criminal trial in which a po htical question is involved. Officials who are m6re developed on the political side than on the legal side are responsible for the vogue of that rep rehensible trick. The District Attor ney of Kings County intends neither to resort to it nor to be hampered by it. ruui omy is admissible in a court of law.

There is a prescribed rule for its admission, and for the exclusion, so far as it is humanly possible to exclude it, of what is not true. Not always have lawyers been scrupulous in keeping out the latter. Not always has the record alone held the testimony upon which a defendant was convicted or acquitted. Never will it be possible, perhaps, to obtain the ideal; to include all pertinent truth and exclude all impertinent error. But Brooklyn is to be congrat ulated in having a prosecuting officer who will try for the ideal.

Judge Lewis has made it plain that he has no sympathy with the method of trial that lets the issue be affected by testimony that blows in the window. The Rest is Silence. Now that Police Captain Thomas Cullen is dead, the many mourning friends he left behind shake their heads sadly and sagely and com ment on the fact that he retired only a month ago from active service in the hope of being able to enjoy a much-deserved vacation. And now he lies on his bier. What pleasure did he take out of life? Had he cast off his offcial burdens two years ago, he would have known the sweetness of leisure and the joy of play before the final call came.

But as it is, he stayed in harness almost until the last moment and gave his remaining strength to ungrateful service instead of to the whims of his fancy. And the same may be said of many another man who never found timo for recreation until it was too late! What poof philosophy! How can it so of up or to so it on in of the in boy the boy so of won of Natural Plumbers to Doctor, Teachers' Problem. The problem'. of properly aiding boys to choose the vocations for which talents make them fitted, then training them, and finally placing them In positions to exercise their endowments and was discussed at length at the annual meeting of the Vocational Guidance Association of Brooklyn last The meeting was held In the assembly hall of Pratt In stitute. Ir.

James Sillltvan, principal, of Boys' High School, who retires in June to become State Historian, dwelt on the comparative inadequacy of the modern system to properly train the boy for laterlife. "The Indian prepared his boy better than we prepare ours," he said; and gave as one reason for the difficulties confronting educators the fact that nearly all boys wanted to become pro fessional men, even though their till mmo unuttiiiiiuiy indicate plumbing or salesmanship as their natural voca- tion. Dr. Sullivan added that soon be face to face with the nrnhlom of no longer holding open the door of unnounaea opportunity to all. "We will do like France and England," he declared.

"We will take the path of least resistance, and not wn-w about provtdfng the opportunity for iiib lower classes to rise. Charles E. Barnes, superintendent of the State Employment Offices, and Miss Loulso M. Odencrantz, of the Brooklyn Free Employment Office; Rabbi Alexander Lyons and Fred Sll- tecK also spoke. Judson G.

Wall, president of the association, declared all were not born equal, that certain conditions prevailed which made it impossible for all to have the same chance. Officers were re-elected for the ensuing year. JOHN SAVARESE FJETED. Sixteenth A. D.

Democrat Dlnert by Downtown Business Men. All thoughts of politics were burled in spaghetti and cheese last night, when the friends and well-wishers of John Savarese, a Democratic captain in the Sixteenth Assembly District, paid him a tribute at a dinner at Scarano's Italian restaurant. The Downtown Business Men's As sociation gave the dinner. County Clerk William E. Kelly spoke on good-fellowship In business and politics.

Assistant District Attorney Albert Conway and Magistrate John J. Freschl also spoke on the same line. The committee in charge waa com prised of Luigt Priolo, Chairman; C. J. Ma-sone, Toastmaster: Antonio Rlnnm E.

De Cesare. J. Constantino. Alhert A. J.

Danzilo. J. Carbone. A Tucci. S.

Bucaria and J. J. Ginmhalvn Among those present were Magis trate Howard P. Nash, County Clerk William E. Kelly, Assistant District Attorney Albert Conway, Magistrate jonn j.

present, ueputy Sheriff Ralnh Ramondi, Philip McManus. secretary tn Judge Roy; Deputy Attorney General v.naries J. Masono. Joseph Trainer Joseph Rafrano and Alderman James j. lirowne.

WANT COWANUS DREDGED. Writ Asked to Compel Pound to Im prove Basin. Application waa made yestejday to Supreme Court Justice Callaghan by the. Brooklyn Improvement Company, which owns property along the Go-wanus Canal, assessed at $1,250,000. for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel Borough President Pounds to dredge the basins at Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh streets.

Decision was reserved. The improvement company has constructed a number of piers on the canal. The $10,000. dredging will cost about MUSIC NOTES. Victor Herbert and his Orchestra, and the Glee Club of the Friendly Sons of St, Patrick will appear at Carnegie nun nauiruay nignt in a concert, assisted by Mme.

Gadski and Otto Goritz, the Metropolitan Opera. The performance has been arranged by the directors of the Irish Relief Fund, under the patronage of Cardinal Farley. Among the Irish societies interested in the eyent are the Friendly Sons of St Patrick, the Catholic Club, the sons of Irish Freedom, the Knights of Columbus and the Ancient Order of Hibernians. BROOKLYN AMUSEMENTS. EBBETS FIELD OI-ENS HIS SATI RDAV KVE.MXO TVTTH GERTRUDE McCOY IN B-RKKI, MASTERPIECE, "THE IHI.E OF I.OVE." ADMISSION lOo Show Stum P.

M. Feature at a r. RKF.LS EACH A'lUHT. ORPHEUM BELLE STORY -Hffn- Crl CtmpMI, Noel (raver ft Irene nousias, Hnllcn ft Fuller, Jon. K.

lcr-nard St otliem. ktS BUSH WICK r. jnirr-i nnin, i airne terrero ft Man Off lee Waxon." Rillf Tauco fchoon," Orth Ooolry, othera. m. i.

narner, in roe Market of Vain t. Wolf Hopper. In 'Mir. Good, the Samaritan'; Mark swain. In llln Hitter Stanley Quartet and Xrl- amkic at mjiuviij urenmrm.

Popular Prlrefc 2848 Main. Flatbnth Are. and Stats St. gF Matinee Dally. Tel.

Alain B4. ED. LEE WROTHE and BILLY (Sliding) WATSON mm MAT. 10c and 15c EVES. 15c and 25c 'Ihe buoiMM-t." with Anita Stewart; Julia SwaVne Wordon ft All etar CiM, ttie Ftlbnore ft Friend ft llownlnr.

Fern, Blrelow ft Meertan. (joroo Hui X- Jaaia ft Other Hie Feature. TWICE DAU.V, ut Bran. am Arena, AMATlMRW KVF.lijT Vr.D. HII.LV ATSON's BF.F.F TMl'HT.

rt MEKKY ROlNDKR." THE HEART OF CONEY ISLAND LUNA NOW OPEN DAVC1XG BAM ONTF.RTS ATTRACTIONS -j Jay and Fulton Sta. Mat, Tel. Main I SOS. DHr. CTAR FOLLIES OF PLEASURE SEW Mat.

lo-daj BRIGHTON Brlfhtoa Bear a. I.OI ISE DRESSICK, WUhnr Mark ft Mella TValkera, Othara and MAUI SiQaTDsTBO If in WltU In A3 ir 1 irnn uimiurti 1MIUK IHIllHfcL New York's Rulers tfearly AH Imported, He Says, 'What Is the efficiency, of the Mitchel administration? What In in efficiency englneer.tsuch as the 'pres. ent administration thinks Is doln such good work?" Frank L. Dowllngi President of th Board of Aldermen.Vsked these ques-tiona last night, addressing of the. Seawanhaka Club, the Democratic organization of the Sen.

ond Assembly Distrtct, and following cries of "Nobody knows" and "Ask Mitchel; he don't know" Dowllng answered: i "The alleged efficiency of th ft Itchel administration is nothing mor man a Joke. An efieienoy expert of the Mitchel order ha long hair and eyebrows, and good friends to get him a $6,000 Job, the dutlps of which ara to look for trouble, and, not finding it, busy himself making It. "An efficiency engineer is a 'parlor And, worst of all, they are brought to New York from out of ijary system comes from Gary, and a mai is paid $10,000 for ten weeks to fiistall it. A labor bureau is started, and a man brought here from Boston to take charge. I don't know why, unless ha is out of work.

'Most of the men who control th City of New York, that Is cs far as the high places are concerned, are all commuters on tho 6:15 to Montclalr, Summit and other plaqes, Just as they were three years ago, before the ass-age of the law to compel city employes of Nw York to reside in New York." Dowling blamed the fusion ad ministration for the enormous eltir budget. When County Clerk Kelly was an nounced as tli next speaker he was hailed by the assemblage as "our next Controller." He supported Dowllng' criticism of tht "contusion administration," and cied Instances illustrating, he said, the inefficiency of tho city government. GREENPOINT GALA DAY. Five Thousand st Erlccson School Field venta. Yesterday was a 'gala day for the children of the John JCrlccson School at Greenpomt.

Games, competitive exhi bitions, and races lipado the day a happy one for the lxlys and girls, and furnished amusement for I.000 parents and friends who gathered at tho Park as early as nine o'clock in the morning. The children paraded from tho school to to the Park in the morning, lod by Grand Marshal JosephlHaniphy, principal of the school, an Mrs. Marrow, assistant principal of ihe school. St. Vincent's Homo Boys'1 Band led the procession, while the nurse corps girl.s, in their blue and whiteunlforms, the boy scouts a quatl of bicycla riders formed interesting! units of tho parade.

At the Park, where a gjily-decorated grandstand was provided Commissioner Ingersoll, the boyf and girls were addressed by Dr. Habiphy, Secretary to the Park CorunlsslomT Westervelt Prentice, C'oroiW Ernest C. T. gner. John F.

Kcljy of the Board of Education. District Superintendent J. McCabo, and members of the local school board'. After Dr. "finest" gave exhibition folk dances, 'while tl.9 band rendered concert musld There were events for girls and events for boys.

The girls danced about a dozen decorated Maypoles. The boys raes were under tho super. vision of Joseph 'E. Henschel, of the Knights of St. Antony, who acted as starter.

Field judges were Wallace Sohmitz, Martin Klein, the playground superintendent of McCarren Park, and his assistant, A. Heyman. Silver medals were awarded to the winners of events, and bronze medals to thORa gainl.13 second and third places. Medals were awarded for the dashes. running broad Jump, bicycle races, shot put and high Jump.

The dashes furnished much excite ment. The results: 50-vnrd dash, (1) Hill: (2) FIvnn: (3) Avid. 60-yard dash. (I) Braverstock: CI Miller: (3) Mark. 70-yard dash, ll) Ifocce: 21 Carlin: 00 Ross.

At three clock tin frames were terminated by Hie singing of Mr. Mc-f'flbe's version of "America." the salute to the ftoj, and the playing of tne mar spangjea wanner" bv tho band. NEAL CLUB CAMPAIGN. Republican Organization Seeking 503 New Members In Fortnight. 'Five Hundred Members in Two Weeks" was the slogan adopted by the J.

K. Neal Rcpublicr Club, 52 Harman street, which launched last night a vigorous campaign to interest the younger elemejt of the district in politics. For some time tho membership of this organization hbs been limited to 600, but in anticipation of the presidential campaign this fall the policy, conservation has been abandoned. John Bulch, the president of the club, stated last nlgltt that the district would be canvassed thoroughly, and in teresting speakers ilivited to all the meetings before and during the com-' ng campaign. It was reported that a lively discus sion would occur at the meeting last nignt over tne expulsion of Senator Lawson.

Many members were pre pared with arguments liro and con, but the matter was laid over for action by the executive committee, June 7. I. O. O. F.

LADIES'' NIGHT. i rospect Lodge Ha Enjoyable' Event in Arlington Hall. Th9re was an unusually large attendance at the ladies' night of the Prospect entertainers of i Prospect Lodge No. 290, I. O.

O. lij Arlington Hall, last night. An luterestlnif program was provided by members, their relatives and friends. There were selections by tho Prospect trio, comprising Miss Ada Mc-Cormack, pianist; J. R.

Stryker, whistler, and William Ilacan, baritone; vocal solos. Miss Helen Morancy; violin and piano duet, Preston Mac-Cauley -iind Miss Grace Ida Mac-Caulcy; readings, Miss Josephine Penals, and several numbers by an instrumental trio, J. C. Hagenah, Herbert Hagenah and Miss Henrietta Hagenah. Refreshments were served, followed by dancing.

ITho Entertainment Committee con sisted of II. Stryker. chairman; Julius Shapaul, S.McCarroll, William Blnkely, Fred Kaufman, J. Valentine and Edward Walauper. Declare Unauthorized Committee arfere In Excle Editor, Brooklyn Tlmw: i SIR-t-I observe In your issue of the 26a instant, page 8, an article entitled i-ueniea Jblauor License: To Fhrht.

I beg leave to state to you for your intormaiion, and you may publish it If you eo desire, that the facta In the case are these: That it-la not a question of who will tie the moral censor of any commu nity, for the law Is big enough to guard over that. The whole Question between my client, 'Mr. Mohr, and the uopartment or Excise, as is raised by the issues in this case, Is' whether the conviction of a person who neither holds a liquor tax certificate on the premises, nor is employed by one then holding a liquor1 tax certificate on the premises, operates to forbid the licensing or the premises for a. year thereafter. My client, Mr.

Mohr, has made a contract to purchase this It appears that at a time when there was no liquor tax certificate on the premises, one who was not tne owner or tho m-emlses was con victed for keeping a disorderly house on the premises, and the contention of the Department of Excise Is that whether there was a liquor tax certificate on the premises or not that oner ates to prevent the certificate being issued for the premises for one year after such conviction. The law makes no such statement; nor can it reasonably be construed to mean anything of that kind, for in its prohibition, of the use of a place for trafficking) in liquors as a result of a conviction or a rorreiture of license it specifically re rers to the conviction of a person "while a holder of liquor tax certificate issued for said premises, or his agent." My client. Mr. Mohr. feels that as he Is purchasing the property In good faith, he is entitled to all the benefits of the law as it is written.

I am sorry to say, from my observation. It Is not alone the Excise Department that is Interested in this matter, but it seems as though there Is an Institution In the nature of a self-constituted committee, whose pur pose it is, notwithstanding the law. to prevent the Issuance of certificates to persons who conduct hotels in Queens County, I know whereof I speak, for it was suggested to me that i interview a certain gentleman who is at the head, I believe, of that committee, who, although there is nothing now pending against the place. seemed to be familiar with the fact that we had made an application, and had the affrontery to tell me that he would consent to this place having a license ror a saloon, but not for a hotel, as though the law was to be determined by him and not by the Legislature and the courts. This latter feature of the case, in my personal opinion, is a very Important one, for it goes to show that somewhere and somehow there exists a certain body of men who proposes to reguiate the governmental affairs of the State, though they cannot secure legislative enactment to support tnelr contentions of Just what the law should be.

Yours very truly, ALFRED J. GILCHRIST. HE' IS A CITIZEN. Editor, Brooklyn Times-- SIR Is a man, born In New York and 21 years old, whose parents are or foreign birth, considered a citizen of the United States, if the fathe failed to take out his citizenship papers, or must no take out his own citizenship papers to be entitled to vote? READER OF THE TIMES. May 24.

1016. Any person born In the Lrnited States Is a citizen, regardless of his father nationality. SUGGESTS BROOKLYN SLOGAN. Editor, Brooklyn Times: CTP Tha elytron. Fray, Excelsior!" certainly expresses the opinion of ono of Brooklyn's van quished business men.

Respectfully, UNKNOWN. AT THE HANOVER CLUB. Editor, Brooklyn Times: SIR Please Inform mo where the grandstand will be located for the Decoration Day parade. A READER. The grandstand will bo located at the Hanover Club, Bedford avenue and Rodney street.

CONSTANT READER, RIDGEWOOD SECTION. The answer to'your letter depends on whether or not there was a nota tion made on the papers in the case. the Judge merely made a verbal statement, the marshal was within his rights. If notation of the stay, sepci-fylng the time, was put on the papers, and the marshal did as you claim, he violated the stay. The Mayor has power "to remove city marshals, and If the marshal was the wrong you can get redress, probably, through the Mayor's office.

However, we would advise you to consult a lawyer, as It is impossible to answer any legal question without careful study of all the facts. Ed. MANHATTAN AMUSEMENTS. Monster Irish Benefit For Wldowi and Children of Rebellion Martyrs VICTOR HERBERT and his Orchestra. MME.

GADSKI OTTO GORITZ and tho Gleo Club of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick AUSriCES OF IIUSH RELIEF KIND. CARDINAL. FARLEY, CHAIRMAN. Carnegie Hall Saturday Night TICKETS 50c, to $1.60 HIPPODROME MAT.

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Fhone Bryant 4H.Uva,8:20 Man. Wed. (Pop.) 3p molly O' CORT of can a soldier die better than with his boots on, or the man of peace at his desk? There is no assurance of Ion life in idleness, and many a man ha been said to pine to his death because, considered too old, he was forced into a retirement that sapped his strength with its enervating inactivity more than the hardest work could have done. You might stay at your work bench and die the death of peaceful old age. ou may shake the dust of the office from your feet only to be killed on the first day of freedom and by God's mysterious decree you might live to the age of Methuselah without ever tasting the abandon of a vacation.

No, Captain Cullen did right to stay, as his spirit bid him, and to put down his tools by the samp direction. For there is none among us who can "fore see the fix'd events of fate's remote decrees." When Your Bov Lies. When Dr. Waite told the harrowing story of his crimes yesterday, the most appalling part of the narrative was the col! cynicism of its delivery. Those who listened marveled.

Wc are used to confessions from crim inals, but in most cases they come haltingly and with the desire to present as many extenuations as the sor-didness the crime will permit. They are vsually made in the hope that the presentation of the truth will serve as a mitigation, and only so much of the truth is admitted as will serve that purpose. The rest is col ored, for the average criminal has enough decency left in his soul to realize that nothing is more repellent than utter depravity. But not so with Dr. Waite.

Once in the swing of his story, he gave free rein to his memory. What had been merely suspected, he proclaimed in all its details and circumstances as though he were dissecting another man's case, as though he were spreading before a body of students the interesting data he had gathered after a long period of scientific observation. It is just possible that the defense will try to construe out of this sneering cynicism an argument in favor of the contention of insanity, claiming that no man in his right senses would knot the noose so carefully, so painstak ingly, so thoroughly around his own neck. If this is the plan, it will not prevail, because the public has grown sick and tired of the fine line between criminality and insanity, and the jurors in the Waite case, we trust, are representatives of public opinion. It they are not, they should never have been chosen.

Yet, it must be admitted, that a man who can murder two innocent persons, and then tell regretfully of his failure to find a third victim, is abnormal to the degree at least that what we call conscience is lacking in his mental make-up. In this connec tion it is necessary to follow the testimony which unfolded his earlier life and exposed him, in the days of tender boyhood, as a mean liar. And is this phase of his depravity, more than the extraordinary perversion his later years, which offers the one great lesson of his case. It is a lie which forms the basis of nearly every crime. Whether it be a lie of passion or a lie of sneaking gam; wnetner it do a mere lib, of ex cuse or a falsehood that shall cover a greater misdeed, the lie is the father bf most evil deeds.

Be on your guard, and his, when your little boy tells his first lie. Punish him harder for it than for disobedience any other minor infraction, for the habit of lying, if permitted to grow. can be developed into a soil for all evil things and a cloak for all evil deeds. Its potency is immeasurable. Let the first lie be successful and the childish mind soon begins to comprehend that it has developed a powerful weapon wherewith to gain what it wants and should not have; wherewith cover up the things it should not have done, wherewith to hide the fail ure to do what it was told to do.

And then, as the mind itself grows, so grow its resources; so grow its ill desires; so grows the weight of guilt; grows the wrong until from mere hesitating steps from the right path develops into full-fledged crime. Dr. Waite's father, with tears in his eyes, told of young Arthur's immature lies. When this unhappy old man condoned his boy's first falsehood he never dreamed that it was a milestone the path to the electric chair. But, all human probability, stern correction in those far-off days would have, made the murders of to-day an impossibility.

Fifty-five Years After. Twenty-four men for whom a page our history is no mere thing of printed paper, but a tremendous living experience, stood in review, in the Fourteenth Regiment, the other night, while before them swept the ranks of splendid youth and high military enthusiasm, the men who now uphold regimental colors as they upheld them fifty-five years ago. It was the past looking on the present; the remnant of a fighting command that faced shot and shell and made a glorious record, and fell, in some part battle, in greater part under the ordinary ailments of life. It looked upon a host ready to do what it had done in the years long gone. Perhaps those veterans of the Fighting Fourteenth that went out in '61 to battle for the preservation of the country, could see another regiment, pale, dreamy, indistinct, far, far away.

Perhaps they could see by the in khaki, whose heavy foot struck armory floor, a dim shape of a in blue who was comrade to them long ago Old memories must have crowded upon them, as they stood there, irrav- haired, stooped a little, for age will bend the strongest, but still members the Fighting Fourteenth, havine for it the name it bears and much the glory that crowns the regi mental coiorsi li of to No. No. No. No. Williams Favors Interchange Between Surface and Subway.

01. Timothy 5. Williams, president of the Brooklyn Ifapid Transit, de clared last night at the sixth annual dinner of the Bath Beach Taxpayers' Association at Slauoh's Casino, Coney Islnnd. that the development of the Bath Beach section would be faster if there were interchange of transfers between surface cars and the new subway. The transfer points would be at Bay Ridgo and Fourth avenues, and at Eiglity-lifth street and Eighteenth a von ue.

Colonel Williams aid that the granting of transfers would be a general benefit. That operation costs would not he materially greater under the transfer-system, with the resulting greater patronage, than under the no- transfer system, was another claim of the, B. It. T. executive.

He also stated that it was a big question how the city would "come out" in the subway deal, and that it would probably be a number of years before the dual sys temsMunicipal subway and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit would earn enough to pay interest on the invest monts of the city and the company. i lie question would. In a few years. come home to the, taxpayers, he said. nd if the subway was not paying, then they would feel the burden.

He con siuered the transfer system essential to the success of the subway. Public Service Commissioner Travis H. Whitney said. In his address, that he did not favor the transfer system. He said the taxpayers would have the burden of helping pay the subwav In vestment unless it was a success.

He consiaerea the transfer system danger olis and a detriment financially. vesierveii r-renuce, representing ram commissioner icnvmnnri Inror. soil, spoke on the nrnnnsltinn tr fill the marshes at Dvker Beach 7 and said the Board of Estimate should grant the J95.000 necessary to do the work. He also referred to the proposition of making a lagoon for small boats at Shore road. He said th-it here was no place for the mooring ot mall boats from the Crescent cinh in Bensonhurst.

The Idea is tn maka opening 1 nthe wall and thus create a smooth mooring place for small craft. The dimensions of the mooring place would be annroximjBtelv yon foot 300 feet. The cost of the Immnn wni.i bo the speaker said, and he hoped the money would be granted. oilier speaKers were Magistrate Alex-nder H. Geismar and Thomas FI uperintendent of the Amwiran for the Prevention of Crneiiv ai mals.

Beside the sneakers th present Magistrate A. V. B. Voorhees Deputy Tenement SLr9; H- Abbott, Superintendent of Public Works E. W.

Voorhics. State senator Alvah H. Burlingame. Assemblyman Charles Joseph and John J. Ryan.

Samuel counsel of the association, was toast- master. CHOSE CADET FROM SIX. even Boys Try for Appointment to West Point. Seven' Flatbush youths entered the examination In Erasmus Hall High School this morning for the. cadet-ship at West Point for the Sixth Congressional District.

Two Erasmus students. Harold S. Palmer and Raymond C. Orr, took part. The others were Harold S.

Booth, John Edgar M. Gregory, Lester Gau-vain and Calistls E. Heffernan. iWARD SUBWAY CONTRACTS Section 1 and 5, E. D.

Line, to Cost $3,865,568. The Public Service Commission awarded contracts to-day on two more sections of Route No. 8, the Fourteenth street-Eastern Rapid Transit Railroad, for operation by the New York Munlci pal Hallway Corporation. The sections awarded to-day are1 Nos. 1 and 5, and went respectively to Booth and Fllnn at and MacArthur Brothers Company, at $1,336,949.85.

With the awarding of these two contracts to-day, four of the five under ground sections of this lim are now under contract. Work is already under way on the river tunnel, section No. 3, and should oegin in a short time on the other sec tions. Both contracts lot to-day require that uio nne snail be in shape for opera tion within twenty-two months. Open Section 2 Bids.

Bids for the construction of the last underground section of the Fourteenth Street-Eastern Rapid Transit Rail road (Section No. 2 in Manhattan) were upeiieu w-aay oy tne Public Service Commission. Section No. 2 extends under Fourteenth street from about ving piace to about Avenue B. MISS M'CARTHY PRESIDENT! Succeed Mis Ennis a Class Teacher.

Head of Miss Jane A. McCarthy, of Public School No. 164, was unanimously elected, president of the Brooklyn Class Teachers' Organization at its annual meeting in the Eagle auditorium yesterday afternoon. She wa formerly vice president. Miss Isabel A.

Ennli. No. 27, who has been president for several years, refused to accept a reelection, as she wa recently elected president of the Brooklyn Teachers' Association. However, she consented become vice president. The other officers follow- Miss Sarah Fahy.

No. 147 (Boys), recording secretary; Miss Honore McNa-mara. No. 146, corresponding secretary, and Mlsi Fannie Jones, No. 16 treasurer.

The Executive Committee! which comprises a representative from each year of the school course was elected as follows: Eighth Miss Lulu M. No. 16; seventh year, Anna P. Furot, No. 35-sixth year, Miss Mary E.

Hamilton' 27; fifth year, Miss Alice Threns! 46; fourth year, to be selected' third year. Miss Mary 'Lynch, No. 142; second year, Miss Emma P. Dillon' 45; first year, to be selected; kin- aerganners, aiiss jean G. Amos.

45. A vote of thanks was tendered Miss Ennls for her work during the year. REVENUE COLLKCTORS RETURN Ten deputy, collectors of Internal revenue, transferred to Manhattan last month, will be retransferred to Brooklyn next month to take care, of the issuance of the, special liquor tax. of ramifying every other section of the borough, but to get busy and make the best of the situation as it is. deed, the prospect is far from hope-, less.

Had it beer understood when the agitation that killed the Cross-' elevated road through the Bedford section that a subway was a financial impossibility, there is good reason to believe that the law pro- Jubiting overhead construction in that section would never have gone on the statute books. The Times be lieves to-day that an elevated road V) would be better' than nothing, but is Tiot disposed to force public ment in favor of any specific plan at this time. What is needed now is an expres-l sion'of general opinion on this question, so that a definite campaign may be swung under way without delay. 4 'le 'cvyl'nE an assessment on i Brooklyn and Queens to pay for such an improvement would mean that the owners of a lot would pay scarcely more than a dollar toward it, and possibly less. If the elevated line is favored, the B.

R. T. possesses the money, but may need legislation to build. There is a possibility that a route partly subway and partly elevated might be devised, similar to that already laid out, which would permit the B. R.

T. to put its money in and make the general assessment merely nominal. In any event, the time is here for the making up of the public mind, unless all hope for Crosstown rapid transit is to flicker out The Peace of the Widows. Military experts have written not a little on the significance of Verdun. It has been said that the persistency of the German forces at that point, in the face of tremendous losses, was due to political conditions in Germany.

A failure to succeed, according to that view, would so enrage the German people as to endanger the Government. Complementary to that explanation was the statement that the value of a victory to Germanv fm military standpoint, would be inconsiderable. The explanation does not seem to cover the remarkable offense, the no less remarkable defense. For a military point of no value it is inconceivable that the German Generals, who have shown no evidences of stu- pidity, would pour out precious blood so prodigally, and it is hard to believe that France would sacrifice so much precious manhood to prevent Germany from obtaining what would be of no value to her. The gallant French counter attack after a few hours of glorious victory has ended tragically.

After the huge effort, after thJ sacrifice of so many heroic men in both armies, the German line is a little advanced; the pressure on Joffrc's army is unrelieved. When will this decisive victory come that is to enable the victors to make peace How many more human, victims must there be offered up to the folly of thinking that this generation can make a world for the next? "Will the statesmen of Europe hold to their md theory until the black -robed wid-.