The evening world. Newspaper, January 31, 1913, Page 21

UNCLE HICH, WHERE Do You WANT THESE OATS PUT? — (Put THEM IN THAT THERE FIRST BIN! aad enwwnnrrnnnnrnnnAAAAAnnnnnnrnnnns The High Cost of Living + 49 How to Reduce It. By Madison C. Peters. (The New York Evening World), . BREAD. Cy Copyright, 1013, by The Press Publishia® € NO. 9.—BOOZE V HE annual Nquor bill of this country is upward of ‘two billion dollars, T fully one-half of which comes out of the pockets of the wage earners. The working people cannot support in idleness and luxury upward of 200,000 liquor dealers and their families, their bartenders and their families, pay the high licenses and the enormous rents of the dram-shops—and hope to prosper themselves. Three-fourths of the inmates of our poor-houses and three-fourths who re the recipients in any way of public charity have beem reduced to poverty through drink, or through the intemperance of their natural protectors. There ie n> reason, if we were a sober people, why poverty should be known among us. Why are our masses poor, with golden opportunities and the roads to higher flelds open to ambition? The yawning gulf, ever wide open, swallowing up their means {s the saloon, The §,000 saloons in the city New York average each, on a most conservative estimate, $100 a day—$8™,000 a day. Halt of this enormous sum is wrung from the working classes, many whose familles meanwhile are in want and who may one day with thelr children be thrown upon public or private charity, At bottom it ts not so much the industrial system or the industrial conditions surrounding the working men and their families that counts as the drink, ‘The chief cause of the present tine poverty and debasement of the poor ig drink. You rarely find a steady, sober, industrious man, who saves his money, who does not attain some sort of independence. And you seldom ever meet a workingman who indulges his appetite who ever makes any headwa ‘The money spent for liquor every ten years by the poor of our land would provide each family with a free home and thereby emanoipate them from all servitude to a landlord. If the money spent for drink by the wage eamers alone every ten years were invested in rallroad stocks and bonds ét would make the laboring classes the owners of the railroads of the Republic. Where Four-Sevenths of the Cash Went. Some years ago a manufacturer in Marseilles, Ml, (with whom T was per- sonally acquainted and who vouches for the truth of the story), paid to his employees one Saturday about $700 in new five dollar bills, On Monda about $40 in those bills were deposited in the local bank by the saloon keepers, } This does not prove that all th was paid for liquor, ax it Ix not known how much was given back in change, but dt does prove that the men who drink snake it a rule to the saloon keeper before any one else gets his pay. Tt brings out in a striking and unanswerable way the relation of the suloon| to the industrial problem. Of every ten dollars spent for clothes about $2.00 goes to the farmer for die cotton and wool and $3.9 for wages to the spinner the w ro and the taflor, Of ten dollars spent for shoes, tracing them back to the factory and the tannery, $3.00 goes to pay the farmer for his hides and about $0 goes to the tanners and shoemakers. of nm dollars spent for furniture about $00 goes to the furniture makers and about $2.0 pays fir the lumber and other materials. Of ten dollars spoft for carpets, the carders, spinners and weavers get about $2.00, while the farmers who raised the wool get approximately the same, so that of every $10.00 spent in the store about #00 benefits the farmer and the laborer. But out of $10.00 spent for drink only about $1.25 goes to the farmer for {9 grain and about 60 cents to the man who produces the lquor, or less han $2.00 of the money in drink benefits the farmer and the laboring man. Or suppose you figure on a “glass of beer Versus a loaf of bread” basi bout 15 per cent. of the nickel spent for beer goes to the farmer for lis gkain and hops, and about § per cent, is called for in wages, In all 23 per cent., or less than one-fourth of a nickel spent for beer benefits in its manu- facture the farmer and the workingman, ‘Tracing the manufacture of bread Mrovgh the bakery and the flouring mill back to the farmer, it 1s found that about 35 per cent, goes to the farmer for his grain and about the same goes to the baker and miller in wa In all 70 per cent., or more than two-thirds, of the nickel spent for bread benefits in its manufacture the farmer and the wage carner. ‘The vest of the nickel ges to pay the transportation, rents, | interests, profits, and ts of selling, Every time a n spends a nickel for{ read instead of becr he pays the difference between 69 per cent. and 2 two and a half cents more to the te beer, or # per cent, whieh imeans nearly arner, than if he had spent the 1 et farmer and the wage Where Twenty Billion Nickels Go. Two and a half cents is not much, but when abo billion nickels millennium had dawne us. Now, if instead yw York City, au) pon spending something Vike $300,000.00 a year for drink in > e we turned this money into channels of useful Industry? See what It would do: $5,000,000 more expended for food and provisions, What an impetus to the grocery business all over the cit $1,000,000 more fo: clothing—what employment would this furnish woollen and cotton mills, to tailors and dressmakers! $10,000,000 more for boots and shoes—what @ boon to shoe and leather factories! $100,00,000 for new houses—what a demand for lumber, building material, carpenters, masons and bricklayers! $50,000,000 mora expended for furniture,—what an increase in furn ‘© and upholstery establish- ments! Now what shall we do with our annual balance of $15,000,000? We will build and endow music halls at strategic points In the city and give the people good iusto without price: and laugh at the high cost of living, Because, spending four money at the store? instead of in the saloons we will have lots of St, ven at high prices, for vecessities Betty Vincent's a yenr go for beer, in America, instead of for bread, and ‘or each nicke the farmer and the wage ¢ lose two and a half cents, it amounts to $50,000,089 a Ve And tie twenty billlon nickels for booze would give « loaf of bread every day to upwa dof 54,000,000 peop! The money now wasted on drink, if od to promote our productive fi ustries, would cause} such a revival of business throughout the lund that we should think the| | Advice to Lovers ed w to “1 have been paying at- girl six months and Does She Love? SEO. writeat ST am very oe of her all the time, Yet she makes Jove with a girl and we see each is by flirting with others and often, Rut w ask her to marr ieliine aie aenur ie Bibkae’ aavian she says ‘wait.’ She won't eve that gle loves me that e's not engaged to you she has a me very much you th ecept the attentions of others, ns to be honest as w ersevere in your attentions. T think your « 1s probatly bash! _ \ 7." writes: "I have paid attention OM. AL writes: * seveniven and to a gffl for about a year, though we HiIl {a commercial achool, Bull work @re not engaged, She went to a danco 1 Yn a store in my free thne, and 1 can do{with a girl friend despite my prohibition, nothing but think about the manager |T told her if she did this I shouldn't seo of my depar He is th How her any more, Don't you thin I am shall I act in such @ situation” | right?” Don't be 4 romautls Lithe goose, i| Most certainly not! You had no right n wo pays no!to impose any commands on 4nd you owe her the girl, stop dreaming about a ma wpecial attention to you, such times the man falr su) i his breath at sight of the horrid dep! below them, for Tarzan took the ew The AUSH-A-BYE Bee Covpright, 1913, by The Prow Publishing Co, (The New York Kreuing Worl) We /. J ary A AT-A-TAT-TAT! “That certainly is not a always imagined the only m Rat-a-tat-tat! Boom! Boom! Boom! lullaby,” thought Bessie, who had usic in the Land of Heavylids was This was quite true until the little Book People formed a tand of boy scouts. Hush-a-Bye Book boy scouts ure very different from our own boy scouts, but not a mite less enthusiastic, Rat-a-tat! Boom! “Strange how sw t that drum sounds!” thought Bobbic, and there did mot seem to be the same loud “Tramp! tramp!" as when Bobbie and his playmates played at soldiers, “How mamma would love Tarzan of the Apes. (Copyright, 1912, by Prank A, Munaey Co.) Byyorsts or PRACEDING CHAPTERS, Tittle won aves, led by their other and na ty tea the «abli's trated he te ri eral Tab rionsl himwel to read and” to print, King of the ape tribe! the leaven the tebe and o father's tint, Abend ot ty saliowm land near the cabin, “With them are. Prof, Torter, mis aecretarr, hi ana her Mant Jol e TS oneal tone hn fou goes "to look for, 1 . fon, Swenich ‘Tarean kill t with Clayton. taveard the a tiger is Meeting. to craw) through the window and attack the tivo women, CHAPTER XV. (Contitved.) The Forest God, ) “CASIONALLY they would en- [ ] ter a spot whore the folia, 1] above was loss dense, and the I | bright rays of the moon lit u) before Clayton's wondering eyes the strange path they were travers- ing. a rth. ch often a hun- the e w above t With is keeming speel Tardan was in reality feeling his way) with mparative slownes areling eon stantly for limbs of adequate strengi maintenance of this double weight, Presently they ¢ to the clearing Vefore the beach n's quick ears had heard the strange sounds of Sa- bors efforts to force his way througi the lattice, and it seemed to Clayton that they dropped @ straight hundred feet to earth 60 quickly did Tarzan descend, Yet when they struck the wround it was with scarce a jar, and as Clayton released his hold on the ape-man he saw him dart lke a squire rel for the opposite side of the cabin, The Englishman sprang quickly’ after him just la ‘ime the hindqua' to hear these little fellows play!" said Bessic. ters of some huge animal about to dis- appear within the cabin, Aa Jane Porter opened her ayes to a realization of the again imminent peril whieh threatened her ‘her b gave up tts final vewnge of hope she turned to. gr for the a merciful d tore at her flesin The tiger was ost through the window before she found the weapon, and she raised it quickly to her temple to shut out forever the hideous jaws gaping for their prey. An instant she hesttated, to breathe & short and silent prayer to her Maker, and as she did so her eyes fell upon the poor Mameralda lying inert, vut ry beside the cupboard low could she le poor, fa ful thing to th merciless | yellow fangs? No, she must use one cartridge on the senseless woman ere she turned the cok muzzle towara herself again She shrank from the ordeal, But {t would have been cruelty a thousand times less justifiable to have left the loving black womaak who had ad her from infancy to regain cons ness beneath the rending claws of the tiger. Quickly the girl arang to her fect and ran to t de of the negress, 8 pressed ¢ uazie of the revolver tx Against that devoted heart, closed eyes and— ‘The tiger emitted a frightful shriek Porter, startled, pulled the 1 turned to face the beast, ne movement raised th weapon st her own temp She did tire a second time, As- nded, saw hu ast deing slowly drawn back through tie window moonlig ad sh t ‘ond es of two nded thi waW me! As the cabin to belioid the animal dis pearing Within it Wax also to see Ape-man seize the long sk and low tail in both hands, and,» iimaelf with ns feet againat the slide the cabin, tarow all Nis mighty strengt Into the effort to draw the veart out the Intertor. Clayton was quick to lend a hand, the ape-man jabbered to him in a ce manding and peremptory tone, Orders, Clayton knew, though he could not un- derstand them. At last, under their combined efforts, the gyeat body commenced to appeal SGAGS: ODS a EEN eo lv veuw 4 } BING -y 2 BY ELEANOR e SCHORER. ~ ‘gaW® > ru i “Just are what they are doing now, Bobbie.” Bobbie did sce. In fact he was watching so attentively that he scarcely ‘The « led. \iStank's schoo! always thought s! jfirat two days out a! her room, but on my dear, she b In mak chiffon vells and chinchilla, Jand then #he'd go ‘way forward and Cdpyeiaot, 1018, by The Pres Rubia IN CROSSING! Dear Friend” Said: 141. 1 tell you you have to be on shipboard with people really to know them. ‘The old expression, ‘a druniten man's words are a sober man's thoughts” lan't very far from be- ng right, On shipboard the real nature that @ person haa to suppress on land comen to the surfs Shocked? Lue Why, I was simply astound- le Jerome and 1 went to Miss together for years, = wana nive girl. The didn't budge from other four days, ed forth an inch deep up and all awathed In violet But it wasn't her mode of dress that amazed me-it wan her actions, There was a Russian on board, Really SOM BODY, you know. And ft you could have ween the dead set she made for him! The Captain Introduced him to me the first day out-I'm never neasick, you know—and he was absolutely taken with me, The first two days of he trip he ued to spend hours with me, talking of things worth while, you know, He thought I had a wonderful brain. Rut from the moment SHE blew on deck the poor man didn’t hi & ghost of a show to follow his own inclinations. She almply shadowed him, Well, really, you know my reputation’s aways been that I never speak Il of any one but fo once in my life 1 was ashamod of a friend! Sho used to try all the little comic opera atunts, you know, Such as atrum- ming on a guitar in the moontight and humming French songs. Mer votce ts pink. But anything eoes on the wate: | THA DING DING Thrice Told Tales By Alma Woodward, Ow ing Co, (The Now Yost Rreaing Wantd). pose at the rail, and then nearly @int with joy when he approached. The Man Said: m8, @ very amusing crossing. American women ere 60-00 wa- usual, There was one, of course. Why not? When a charming ané quinitely gowned creature etrews one’s path with rose leaves, why not wead mt? I took the trip eas @ relamation « found a delightful little bit of femininity to smile at my approach ané sing te me In the moonlight, oathe ome with ader- ing glances and furnish all the toueh- ing devotion herself. 1 will never see her again. She sighed so deeply on parting. Go di@ I—antici- |pating the ordeal of the American Cus- tom House Yes, it was @ fairly amue- Ing crossing. The Woman Said: HAD a ravishing trip! There was « ] watchdog of @ man on beard. A Russian. ‘The sort that you'd tmeg- Ine would beat = woman into submis- sion and then strangle her with ea- reases, He was crasy about me! ‘The Joke of it was that Ethel Mar was crossing too. Poor dear, she was @l- ways @ frump, even in the echool days —but now she is positively a mosegrown ruln, She had one of those books, “Rua- wian In Twenty Cessons,” and every time he'd come within a mile of her! |ahe'd scream out a word at him, with |the purest American accent. Oh, ft was ‘killing! IT never could understand how |a woman could bring herself te run de- iberately after @ man—e thing like that {a 80 foreign to OSY nature, j Well, I just hope I won't run eerese tim again, Gecause he was elupty aed about me, and T Aave no desire to de shot or stabbed or anything Vy « jealous man, you know, The Hedgeville Editor By Rs, WATTS says that when ehe wished to speak. The little Book-People were cleverly forming figures on the grass, in and out of the trees and ‘round the Hush-a-Bye Book, Nert day Bobbie and his playmates were make-believe soldics But they all acted very differently than ever before, They marched lightly, forming pretty sigures, They played the fife sweetly, and instead of beating the drums hard and harshly, a8 on previous occasions, all imitated the clever, cunning little Book-People. 0) wants security to borrow money M her watch {s worth more than her husband, LD FORK saya that the leas a man amounts to the more enjoyment he can get out of feeling impor- tant, Mamma Woked on and wondered what had changed her darlings and their companions into sugh sweet children, But the children never told, ELEANOR SCHORER, ¢ without the wine Not Like Any Story That You Have Read is head lower and lower upon his white breast, ifgher and higher crept the atest fore- arma of the aye-man about t ack of Sabor's neck, Weaker and weaker be- further and fu mind a dawning con vravery of his eompanic For a naked man to of the rash act. rag a shrieking, clawing man er forth froin a Window came the tiger's efforts by the tall to save a strange white girl 4 "| y 1 s At last Clayton saw the immense was indeed the last word in herolem. — miscien of ‘Tarzau’n shoulders and Ye In so far as Clayton was concerned tt cope leap into ce vd kn here was was a very different matter, since the long-sustainel and supre effort as not only of own kind but a z f Sabor's neck parted with @ hough he know that the tiger would ke short work of both of them, he pulled with a will to keep St from Jane Porter. And then he recalled the battle between this man and the lon which he had witnessed a short time bel and he commenced to feel more assur- sharp snap Tn an instant Zan Wag upon hie feet, and for (he second tine that day ton heard the bull apes mavage roar of victory-and then ho heard ne Porter's agonized er ance. “Cocli'=Mr, Clayton! Oh, what te st? ran was s‘iil issuing orders whien What | It? Clayton could not understand Ttunning quickly to the cabin door, Ho was trying to tell the stupld white Clayton called out that all was right, man to plunge his poldoned arrows into and ‘bade her open, As quickly ae ahe Babor'a back and sides and to reach could she raised the great bar and fair- the savage heart with the long, thin ly dragged Clayton within hunting knife that hung et Tarsan's “What was that awful noise?” she hip, but the man would not under- whispered, shrinking close to him stand, and Tarzan did not dare rel “It way the ery of the kill from the his hold to do the things himself. throat of the man who has Just saved knew that the puny white man never your fife, Miss I Wait, 0 will could hold mighty Sabor alone for an feteh him that you may thank him" tnstant, ‘The frightened girl would not be left Slowly the tleer was emerging from alone, #0 she accompanied yton to the window, At last his shoulders were the side of the cabin where lay the out. dead body of the tiger, And then Clayton raw a thing done ‘Tarzan of the apes was gone. wiflah not even the eternal heavens ied Cayton several t eve before, Tarzan, racking HIS wasn and #0 the eturned brains for some imeans to to the 1 0 handed with the infuriated beast, tin ou red dane tdenly re 1 Me a human east if not at y cMeased hie whit of a forest wou.” And told her of his exoeriences peas he launched wiry thin creature—of how twie the Babor'a back, his wild man hud saved bis life—-of hia strong young a seeking and gaining wondrous strength and agility and @ full Nelson upon the beast, as he had brave the brown skin and the ned it that other day during hi handsome fac ly vietory 8. ake it out at al}, he h a shriek the tiger turned eam- pletely over upon his back, failing full upon his enemy. The black haired giant ly closed tighter his hold, Pawing and tearing at earth and alr At first [ thought he aight be Tarzan of the apes, But ho neither speaks nor understands English, so that theory iy untenable.” “Well, whatever he may be," erled the Sabor rolled and threw démself thia way girl, "We Owe Lim our lives. May and that in an effort to dislodge hisan- heaven bless hun and keep him in tagonist. Always tighter and tighter safety in his jungle forcing = “Amen!” said Clayton, fervently @vew the iron bands that we: 'M en a tn lng A GINO SSL EI ORE 8: 198 PATAUN eaye she always thought #he understood Jove until sho fell Into It. g008 lawd's sake, ain't Ah L, Hobbie. BOUT the only disugction ‘ Craum cag doast of te that Re.le eugsest. Moslomiem was, ‘waye will be @ blight en Y © two turned to seo Eameralda alt- progress which hae mat ‘ing ypright upon the floor, her great “‘Biess me! Professor, even POWDER, (Foun. aide to atte, ae thouk «Me could not believe thelr teatl- toward the jungle, “thet mony a8 to her whereabouts, @ome one approaching. The tizer’s shriek, as Jane Porter Professor Arohimedes had heen about to put @ bullet Into turned int for the Jittl harmlessly Into the floor, And om for Jane Porter, the reaction nd ehe threw her- self upon the bench, ecreaming with CHAPTER XVI. “Most Remarkable!” KEVERAL miles broad Atlanti the Dark Continent loc the Impe. the jungle. Savage beasts roared and growled noises, hideous and weird, their ears, They had wandered in search of their camp, but alway Kameralda, had saved the black's start the girl gave iad turned the muzzle of the revolver to one side, and the bullet had passed jouth of the bin, upon « strip of sandy beach, stood two old men, arguing. Hefore them stretched the at thelr back lose around them rable blackness of near-slgh ‘Tut-tut, Mr, Philander! he ehided. “How often must I urge you to seek after that mbsolute concentration of your mental faculties which alone may permit you to bring to bear the highest powers of tirtellectuality upon the mo- tous probleme whlch aaturally fall the lot of great minds? An@ now I find you guilty ef @ most Nagrant breach of courtesy in interrupting my discourse to call attention to © mere quadruped ¢ nus Felis, As I wae saying, Pe ‘Heavens, Professor, @ Yon?’ eried Mr, Philander, straining hie weak eyes toward the dim gure outlined against Jark tropical underbrush, course, @ ing —= In the mean time the lion had ap- proached with quiet dignity to withi ten paces of the two men, where he stood curiously watehing them, The moonlight flooded the beach, and {ae wrong direction, Tiey were hope- the strange «roup stood out In bold re- - Hef against the yellow sand, \t such a time Indeed every fibre of “Most reprehensible, most repreh tietr combined intellects should have * exclaimed Pro 1 trated upon the vital quer- nt trace of trrii t le minute—-the I nd-death ever, Mr. Philander, never before « ty thom of retracing their in my life have I known one of these steps to camp. animals to be permitted to ream at uel 'T. Philander was speaking. large from its cage. T shall most cere Hut, my dear professor,’ he Was tainly report this most outrageoug t talotain that but for f ethics to the directors of the t fetorles Verdinand and Isavelia 1 garden. over the fifteenth-century Moors in “Quite right, professor,” agreed Mr, Spain (he World Would be to-day « Philander, “and the sooner it te done, thousand years in advance of where we aw find ourselves, The Moora were erant, broad-minded, jentially @ tol Mberal race o! exriculturists, artisans and merciante of people that has made possible such civilization as we the very type fing to-day in America and Europe~ while the Spantards'-— Tul-tut, Mr, ander,” interrupted Professor Porter, “thelr religion post tively oreclyded the possibilides you the better, Let us start now. ‘oining the professor by the arm, 3@r, Philander set off in the direction that would put the greatest distance Be tween themselves and the len, They had proceeded but @ short Glm» tance when @ bac! s vealed that the lion wee f them, Mr. Philander tightened bie upon the professor an@ increase@ speed. (To Be Continued.) ft