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' ' * Also, where cun I get tnformation Sve Eleniky Wiel. ESTABLIS! 1 PULITZER, Published Dally Except Sundey by +! ‘© Polishing Company, Noa. 83 to 3 Tark Kow, York RALPH PULITZER, Pri he J ANGUS SMA Troasurer, 6% Park Row, JOSEPT LALZER, Ir, Secret 8 Park Row, Entered at the Po, at Matter. Subscription se fetlns na and continent and » World for ¢ Brkt | All Countries In the International We 19.60) One Tear. «801 0ne Month VOLUME 5}.. sescevesNO, 20,167 WAITING ITS TURN. HERE is no politics in the price of coal, T Liven tle most rabid of the Republican calamity squad recognized the absurdity of trying to blame the Administra-! tivu for the boost in coal prices. Whether this attempted raid on the Pockets of consumers has been the work of a few dealers or the out-| come of a nation-wide conspiracy, the responsibility rests squarely | upon individuals, coal operators, coal dealers, or coal speculators, who | have taken advantago of o situation with which the Government has had nothing to do to rob and plunder the American public. The election over, attention in this country is going to concen- trate far more directly than heretofore upon the kind of profit-taking which consists in putting up prices on any plea the American con- sumer can be made to swallow. And at this season of the year, with winter coming on, the firet thing to scrutinize is the price of fuel. The following letter, The Evening World believes, expresses the feeling of the average householder when he is told that coal at $15 and even $20 a ton is cheerfully contemplated by the dealers: To the Editor of The Evening World: Not the lesst despicable feature of the robbery being com- mitted by the coal barons is the fact that ee large a portion of the millions which they will gather is to be taken from those leagt able to part with it. ‘The wealthy and the camfortably welltodo lay in their year’s supply of coal in the summer when there ie seldom any difficulty 1m securing it and the price is low. These are spared. Tt ts from those eo situated that they are denied this ad- vantage, who must buy fn small quantities frequently, to whom the effort te adjust the demands of the family to the income is @ daily tragedy, that the ooal speculator wrings hie sordid Profits, bothered by no considerations of social justice or of the Goldex. rule or what happens to the other fellow. He is simply @ business man making a “killing” on a “rise” in the market. | Compared to these, Captain Kidd and his aseoclates were | gentlemen. They et least showed themselves for what they were and took a chance of being caught and hung. But these | latter-day pirates take no chances. They do not even have to search tor their victims. gfhese are driven to them by the rig- crousness of the season and have no choice but to retrench on food, clothing, recreation and the numberiess little things that make life wholesome, in order to help build the country estates, to purchase the yachts and automobiles and to provide and keep the dig retinue of servants that fall to the lot of him who profits when there is a “rise” in the market. ‘The rise in coal prices will doubtless be investigated. It ‘will bu discussed and eventually remedied to some extent. .Mean- while the whole farce will be repeated with other commodities, | and so on, over and over, unt!! the American people stop treat- | ing symptoms and etrike at the cause by making it impossible for men to juggle with and spoculate in the common necessl- thes of life, H. W, ROOT. We do not believe new legislation is needed to protect American consumers from rapacious profit hunters. Laws, national and State, against conspiracy aro already adequate, provided they are properly | enforced, What is most needed is a fow examplee—some of these con- temptible price-boosters in jail, and known to be in jail because they took advantage of unusual conditions traitoroualy to pick the pockets of their fellow countrymen, At the present moment fn this city the District Attorney, the Federal Attorney and even the police are investigating the coal eitua- tion. Every fact that can be gathered from dealers, wholesale or retail, should be used, not for purposes of academic report but for practical first-aid-to-consumers by restoring normal prices. Prompt prosecution is the speediest cure’ for all conspiracy and the surest means to prevent its apread, | Political problems can presently fal] back a step. The fuel feod problem is the one millions would like to see tackled next, and _ The imperial auspices under which Poland is now re assembled are not 0 very different from those under which the kingdom was plucked to pieces !n 1772, further diemem- bered 1p 1793 and the Job completed tn 1795. The three arch- plunderers then were Catherine, Frederick and Joseph, repre- senting respectively Russia, Prussia and Austria. Only Russia ie missing at the current celebration—kept away by circum- stances. * ———+4-—_____. For the first time on record a Democratic candidate In a two-party contest struck Wall Street as something better than ‘ @ sporting chance! —-+-—____———. It's with the people, Letters From the People | Consult Librarian, New Verk Publi D te Right, brary. To the Patter of The Ewing World Fo the FAitor of The Fiening World A contonds that the sentence “Ho ‘Where can I find out by what pro-lioaned me gho book" ts incorrect Cees graphite is made into solids| claiming that “loan” is noun only. Such as pencile und what Ingredients!) says the word loan ts a vorb as well G£O Necoasary to hold it together? a4 ® noun and that the above sentence is correct. J. A.C. Fegarding the rroceas used by Nico-|y, Avsows at Date oF las Jaques Conte as per your article Basle, $85 to #100, ye oe “Origin of the Pencil” in The Even | gy tue Editor of The Evening World tng World? HM. | "What is the value of an 1863 hait| There dollar? 7.0K. Fo the Bititar of Tie bivnin Write to Eliot Norton, No. 2 Kindly let me know what day July Pi oe Renter 20, 189), foil on. MG. To the Kéditor of The Evening World: Up to 25 Cent To the FAitor of Th We What is the value of penny? to join the American ‘Ambulance Corps in France aa chauffeur Ly u Milled Edge, From 75 Cente to 82.50, To the Bdttor of The Erening World How much i# an 1836 silver hatt dollar worth? It has @ woman on one aide, an eagle on the other, with arrows and the number 60, with the an 1808 TLR. og World Cathoile religion be President of the . United 2. Re With “O" Between Bust and Date, ‘ ‘uses toe me letter C at the bottom. LA 8. Be the Hite oF ie Rooune Word ne What is the vaiue of @ half dollar | Te 'h BAttor of The Evening World et 1885" W.c, Is the news coming from Great ae Britain to this country via cable cen. Up to Bh Conte, sored by the United Btates Govern- Po@e Hitor of Thy Evening World ment? Is there a law prohibiting Please iv!i me tho value gf & 1798/ steamers laden with explosives from 8. ‘warrying passengers? 7 f ’ lack of ket conditions of competing with foreign com- Dinations of capital. France, Great Britain and elsewhere there combinations are highly or: anti-trust lawa in the export business, American produc form similar combinattons—in other word have not co-operated, “Following a thorough survey of!) Would you kindly inform me how‘ S~S BALLOT -_—. ‘Choose’ Your EmbjJem! 1 By J. H. Casse | ty theta san # Drews Pabst ef Woe York Brewing Woe) ————— By James C. Young. In what way can American business men effectively co-operate for the ea- tension of our foreign trade? 66 V-OPERATION 19 the biggest word on the whole subject,” wae the answer of Edward N. Hurley, Chairman of the Federal Trade Cormmis- sion, “It le only within recent times that we have begun to get, & true apprecia- tion of what for- elgn trado means, and men who would enter tho field have deen held back by a knowledge as to mar- and the difficulty In Germany, n- zed, And owing to a cortain hazt- ness concerning the application of rs have hesitated to they have not gotten together, the situation, the Fedoral Trade Com- mission made certain recommenda~ tiona which ulted in the Webb bill being submitted to Congress, passed by the lower house with a fine non-partisan majority, That bil would HE oldest Journal in the English language !# the London Ga- zeite, official publication of the |British court and Government, witch jwas founded 291 years ago to-day, |Nov. 7, 1665, The Gazette w [tablished as the orga jand the first number wa yxford, the court having setued there |beoause of thy ying in Lon Jdon. In F 6 the publi- jeation offt 1 to London, jand It hos been published regularly| ” jever since, Its pages are filled prin- ‘Mra. Hickett does,” sald Mrs, ‘ with Maal notices end court | Jarr. She always tells you of the ¢ announcements, Unlike the |which represents @ losy to the United States Government, the London Ga- zette is a money maker for the Brit- ish Government year, and the sale of ¢ the Ga Congressional Reoord, The legal noticer yield an Income of $60,000 or more a ts combines to give the coun- & profit of more than $100,000 a Advertise. pool their interests in promoting for. elgn tfade, and is cert to hav important ‘results if passed by the Senate, which appears to be an as- sured fact. It would suspeud the domestic laws intended to restric combinations of capital, as applies to| the export field alone, and place our industries 1n a position to meet for-| eign@gompetition with equal or beter weapons. “The Webb bill, and further plans of the Commission, does not stop at that point, Provision has been made to care for the little man, and no ad- vantage will be given to his lurger rival in this new feld of expansion. We intend to see that he Is more than adequately cared for, and given every opportunity to upbuild bs business. “America’s opportunity abroad has not been ours lu inany yeara Be as sured that American foreigh trade Is founded upon the rock, and that ft 16 going to grow faster than many of Us realize, But there are certain things that we must do to insure that t | plotting growth. I fe have not u business m: spirit of in some it r that too many of us rstood what the export 3, have not grasped the aational commerce, hos been @ ethod of ex- foreign buyers, Just think for a mor and conceive that we believed forelitg | manufacturers to be fleecing us—bow long would we endure it? And that is the way that foreign feel. Co-operation not ‘an goods have received adver: whose value cannot be esu t think that the e 18 golng to serl~ s newly won prestige, conclusion of ously sheke t Provided we a intensive competition that ty certa n to come with peace, Just as co- only means, thing in car.ng for that trade. We Among ourselves, but with our, must get our production departmont patrons, and we must render a full) on a actentific basis that will equal) measure of service for every dollar) the best Europe can show, Every | expended with us by the people of; every inch of material counts; | other lands, That {8 fhe larger and every lost motion, every negative unit more significant co-operation that will | Let us co-operate tn- win us a commanding powition tn tn- as well as outside. ternational trage Put the internal system tn order whike i a satisfying thing that in an mprove the distributing end had not been an-| "We have pasand that atage of pro- any man, Amertcan}vinclalism where we could extat for manufacturers wera able to shoulder | ourselves and by ourselves, We must almost the whole burden of caring for| co-operate with the balance of the the wants of the world. We have)world and give a fair re if we stood the test magnificenty, and would get a full measure.” 4 bith! oo. LL, did you have @ good he OW time at Mrs, Hickett's af- ternoon tea?” asked Mr. Jarr, when his lady spoke of having been at such a function that day. “Oh,” sald Mrs, Jarr, “nobody who anybody ‘Koes to the few and feeble affaira Mra, Hickett gives. But the poor old soul ts useful at times to run aocial errands for one, and on} her mother's side she comes from one of those fine old Richmond faml- ites that were ruined by the war. But Clara Mudridge-Smith told that Mre, Hickett's mother kept a boarding hagise tn the rebel | capital and the only way the faintly | was rulned was that the people who boarded with them patd tn Confeder- ate money, whiob didn’t matter, bo- cause, even during the war, they | couldn't buy anything with tt. Dut, me those days In Richmond, I can't ace why any one complains." “Does any one complain?” asked Mr, Jarr. old family servants who stuck by them during the war. I wish this war we are having in Burope now would make servants tick, But you can't tell me they stuck any time on account of gratitude, And so far as Tam concerned I believe those faith ful old colored servants (n the South rr Family’ really | € as there wasn’t anything much to eat | By Roy L. McCardell | of getting theig money, or else they | not surprised when you learn he was Were afriid of being shot tf they went | a valet or a stable groom on the other out on the streets and some of thone| aide. And then, too, buyer talks so cholerie Southern colonels caught | Interestingly.” sight of them, I know the way ser- “He talks shop, I should say,” re- vants want days out and nights out | marked Mr, Jarr, th mos is enough to make any-| “Well, isn’t that more interesting?” body want to shoot them!” was the reply. ‘And this one spoke “But you were going to tell me|of the styles for this winter.” about Mrs, Hickett's socta! function| “If I got the tips on war baby which you have just returned from," | stocks that you get on the styles I suggested Mr, Sarr, who did not wish could make enough tn Wall Street to to get Mrs. Jarr started on the ser-| buy you what you wanted on Fifth vant question, | Avenue,” sald Mr. Jarr, replied Mrs, Jerr, “onl®) "Well," said Mra, Jarr, “let's go to Smith brought an in-| teas where wo’ mect Wall Btreet f man the whole affatr would wagnate have been as dull as dishwater,” Sut Mr. Jarr said he knew no mag- "Who was the guest that Clata/ nates addicted to tea. Mudridge-Smith brought that made} ————————— What Every | Copyrgnt, 1910, by The Irae 1 The “glad” This morning *Y And it looks as .y any moment. And I have jus And the people . And woke my busband up, And made him so nervous that hi And blamed ME for it, Bechuse I happened to bé askin, » And says, “Come at once!” room chaire, | And the boy forgot to leave the And Iam booked for an excruciatingly stupid dinner party to-night, And don’t want to go, And baven't # thing to weart And nobody cares—or loves me—or “has a heart"—— {| But ¥ am “glad, gled, GLAD!” * Because I am going out in a few And KILL somebody! Sy Helen Nowland, AST night | T went to see “Jollyanna’-—— I am going to the dentist’s—over in Brofklyn. front of my marcel wave! new phonograph going at half-past eix! And begging him not to swear so! ’ And the cook arrived an hour late, / when I scolded her. And Mother has telegraphed that sbe has sprained her ankle, ‘And I have just discovered moths in my sable furs, And found that the oat has scratched the leathor off all the dining ® And the Pomeranian got out, and {s probably lost, : - Wonmnn Does! = 2 Co (Phe New Youk Eveuing World), play! though it would pour down raining @ t found @ long gray hair right in the In the next apartment started their e e cut himself while he was shaving— s him a question, morning papers, minutes, By Bide Onprright, 1016, by The Pree Publishi ELL," said Popple, the shtp- ping clerk, ae he folded up hia newspaper preparatory to going to work, “I see thoy have captured a man who passed $100,000 in counterfeit money, “1 presume theyll convict him on his passed record,” said Mise Tillie, the blond stenographer, smiling. “He must have been like @ gener- ous theatrical manager,” said Miss Primm, private secretary to the boss. “How's that?” asked Popple. Phy, he gave everybody he met @ sé pas Bobble, the office boy, turned tm bis chair and frowned. “What's theguse of springing all these cheap jokes this morning?” he asked. “I can't work with a lot of bum humor flyin’ around.” “Cheap jokes? Buin humor?” came from Miss Primm, infuriated. “Say, you never in your life sprung @ joke as good as thowe two, You're a frosh \ittle whippersnapper. Your sense of humor ts about equal to that of @ London policeman.” “It ought to be,” muttered the boy. “It ought to be—why?"” demanded Miss Primo. “I'm @ Bobbie, too,” “Well, I declare!" eald Popple, grin- ning. ‘That one wasn't so bad, But, getting back to this fellow who paased awake to our oppor-| the spurious money, be was a walter) nt of our large importa, | tunities and take steps to meet the ata lunch counter when arrested, He was so surprised he had @ regular fi" operation ts the big factor in extend-| “Sort of a counter ft, I suppose,’ consumers | {ng our trade, so ts efficioncy the vital sald Bobble. * e Office Force Dudley ing Co. (The New York Evening, World), There!" snapped Miss Primay “There's a sample of Bobbie's humor, |Isn't he @ allly little fool?” “Now, now!" sati Gpooner, the bookkper, in a mild tone, “Let's be friendly this morning. I bave @ let~ ter here from my brother out West. He writes he went out to shoot em eagle the other day, but couldn't hit him, All Charley could do was make the bird fly higher.” “I'll bet that eagle was mad," eald Bobble. “Mad? What makes you @ay that eked Spooner, “Your brother raade the eagle eoar, didn't he?” ( “He's in again,” said Miss Primm, —* |"Some day Mr. Snooks will hear on ef Bobbie's Jokes and fire hun. Snooks bh Je buanor.” A r the vows came tin, he sa and sprung a joke on Henry got to taiking about the | Henry him. | situation In M and I had a bright idea, ‘Henry,’ I satd, ‘did you know Carranza was a bird? ‘I don't get you,’ he replied. ‘Do you mean he’ @ crackerjack T said jhe's a bird.’ ‘Why is he a bir Henry, ‘Hee. 1 said solemal: ‘Villa Bes just cut off his left win | You a I meant the left wing of t Carranza army. How was that one j “That's a delicious Joke, Mr, Snooka’ said Miss Primm. ( “"Twas rather nifty,” sald the boss, \ he disanpeared in his private of ‘Nee. A few minutos later Bobble re jclted @ Little poem of his own make, It wa 7 arin & funny Soh, Help ered Bate “ot Joe, 2 But if the bees ie witty, langh And ov way get «Tele Miss Primm arose and flounced out of the room. Edited by Janet " by The Pree Pubtishing Oo, (Tho Net Oopyriatt, 1 Kaaba UXxXxxvil. OV. %.—Mother is no worse. Dr. Leland says that so far only one jung ts affected, and that he hopes to keep the affection from spreading. In « few days more, un- less ebe is very tauch worse, ahe may begin to tmprov@® 1 hope and pri that will be the ceae. The nurse seems most competent, And there ts not much that 1 can do, But I'm pretty ured, for the worry eeps me from sleeping more than three or four houre @ night. Ned comes to the house every morning and comes again, or telephones, at night, He sends mother the loveliest flowers dally, It helps me to know that ho is always there, waiting to do what he can, Yesterday, the day after mother was taken fli, 1 looked in her en- gagement book and found that she was to have her sewing class at tho Neighbors’ Settlement In tho after- noon, So I telephoned the sett! ment house and explained why she couldn't come. About 6 o'clock In the affair a success then—« noble- v asked Mr. Jarr, man? “Ie you'll wait till T get off my Temporary Repair for Pipe Leak things, Ul tell you all about it," re- plied Mra, Jarr. “Well, what did the baronet like, Clara Mudridge-mith's not?” asked Mr. Jarr. often difficult, ae a plumber's services “Baronet, huh! This was better|are not always quickly available, than & baronet, He was a buyer,”| Under such circumstances the devioo a Mrs Jorr, "a buyer for one of the| shown in the sketch was used to atop big department stores.” |a leak until @ permanent repair was “You think a buyer tg better than| made, says a contributor to Popular A baronet?” asked Mr. Jarr Mechanics, A piece of sheet rubber oF euoLia he ts” replied Mra.{W@%, Placed over the leak and a should say he Is,” repiied Mra} wooden block wae fitted over it, the Jarr. “A buyer gets a princely salary | inner surface being curved to fit the and goca to Paris, War or no war, at The block and yubver packing SaTanoe Hl AiGH: { always dresses | Were clamped against the pips by look bdaro- | were a myth. year Jom ment private concorns are not ac- | cep’ “It thoy did stick it was because thay were waiting around in the hops in wh know ' f i Ineans of a stick, notched to ft the height of fashion. Besides, | aratnat the pipe, and held by « he 18 & buyer; but when a unless stopped promptly. ‘This 19) | a bu says he lo @ buyer you twisted wire, a block bet used tol diticult of acces: wedge the packing and cover blocit, and th ronet #ays be is @ baronet you are firmly into place, The repalr was of the pipe, EAKS in water pipes, particularly, water-tight and saved much tneon-| in winter, cause much damage venience and probably considerabie Tho fllustration showa the pplication of tits method to two damage. 1 being a leuk inst @ wall, exposed aide types of leaks, F tin Mg, 2 on revor . Tork Brening World), the afternoon the doorbell rang, an@ IT opened it without watting for Leonte, ‘There on the step stood a slender, ¢ sajlow Mttle girl of twelve, She was not pretty, although she had @ig, 4 beautiful gra} eyes. "Pie," she began, Lambert live here? sick? Is she going to die?” ‘The childish votce broke and the sweet mouth quivered. | “My dear, come tn," I eaia, my own, { | Yotce trembling @ little, “Mra, Lam- ‘ | bert Is my mother, and she tan't / to die. I won't let her, because ‘does Mra And 1s she very love and need her so much. De you love her too?” “Yea'm," sobbed the child, “I'm tm her class at the settlement. And 4 been so good to me,” ‘Then T heard one of the étortes of my mother's quiet, hidden helpfulness 4 had never heard her mention the name of Katle Towle, the little girl | who had called. | “tL went into her sewing olase two years axo, explained Katie + “She came to sae my mother, and she didn't turn up her nose, like some of the welety women. She Just talked to ma about me and my brothers and sister, I got one sister, Rosie, that had paralysis when she was little and that we thought would be a cripple all her life Lambert her ina § “But Mra, got hospital and now Rosle can walk ap ‘/ Rood as I can. And she tqiked to my her, Joe, that had left achool elevator boy, and told Mm | that If he'd go to evening high ge }and study commercial work shoe | et him w job in fflew. She did » too, only a mon . And my other ‘brother, Wile, and when was the epring, it wan Mrs. Lambert Qo sent hin to the country for a month, fo that he camo back all woll and strong, “She's given us the loveliest Ch } man presente, Rnd we'vi, moves hint able to «lve hor anything. Do you like this? tin ed think she might the child, holding up a scarlet “Is trom my @wn geraniuin foy T have put the flower by mother’s t . plant,” she added. bed, and I shall tell bh bout when she Ina litte better: Om f ope, hope that will be soon! ‘ |