The evening world. Newspaper, November 22, 1916, Page 16

Che ay Borld. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. e Published Datly Excapt Sunday vy the Press udlishing Company Tor. «2 (6) 3 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. 1. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. SPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 6% Park Row, t New York a@ Second-Clase Matter, ting |For England and. the Continemt All Countries tn the International Postal Union g One Year, ass sassnesersaavane st 6 Month... a0 cere NO, 80189 | ! | Entered a Gubscription Rat t World for the United States and Canada. #. One Yeas + One Month. VOLUME & LET NEW YORK LEAD. T" auipaign against unwarranted boosting of food prices in this city gathers force. The Police Department and the Board of Health began yesterday to investigate an alleged conspiracy among dealers and cold storage men to raise the price of eggs. The aetivity of the Districc Attorney's office has resulted in the eurrender of at least one poultry ring and the facts of the poultzy situation will be put before the Grand Jury to-day. Commissioner Hartigan of the Buresu of Weights and) Measures has « sharp eye out for small butchers and grocers who take advantage of existing conditions to cheat the poor. Hven the Mayor's Food Committee may presently feel moved to seek more direct and practical ways of tackling the food problem. Only next in importance to food ia fuel. ‘The Kvening World’: demand for s thorough investigation of the coal conspiracy caused *, sharp setback to the plans of the price boosters. l’rom $12 per ton} the price of oosl speedily fall to $8.50 and $8.75, now efforts are bein | made to bring supplies of coal to the New York market, and if the Aldermen pass Commissioner Hartigan’s ordinance compelling dealers to eell coal by weight instead of by measure, the poor will no longer be robbed by unscrupulous dealers, and drivers who take advantago of the present custom of selling small quantities of coal by the pail. | In all this the City of New York is doing no more than {t ought! to do, not only for its own sake, but as an example to other American | communities. In sane, practical ways it is trying to find at least part of the answer to the most formidable question the people of the United States now face. Nobody believes the prices of food, fuel or other common nevess!- ties can be artificially forced down to @ point below their economic level. Evidence is overwhelming, however, that attempts are constantly wade at present to push prices in this country upward, upward, faster than actual or even anticipated conditions warrant. There are unfor- tunately only too many producers, wholesalers and retailers in every section of the United States ready to seize upon @ normal upward trend of prices us opportunity to force the pace, to start a carnival of price boosting based solely on desire to socelerate the flow of dollate from other people’s pockets into their own. New York hus had a close view of several shameless attempts of this sort siuce the war began. Only prompt action kept local meat prices from rising beyond all reason a year ago. Nor have the prices of bread, vegetables and poultry been restricted even to thelr ectual rate of increase save by occasional sharp activity on the part of local authorities and the District Attorney's office. It has been proved that one kind of price raising oan be ohecked. What New York and every other American community has got to fight is not a “world condition” but close-by conspirators who take ad- \antage of that condition to make more and more frequent raids on the pocketbooks of their fellow countrymen. Nobody expects to change economic lew or render one nation immune to ill effecte oocasioned by cessation of production elsewhere. But it is certainly both possible and desirable to catch and put in jail individuals who combine to treat economic law as @ sanction to loot the pubdlic. If New York oan only manage to send a few such to the peniten- tiery with es much publicity as may bo, it will perform a service of inealoulable value to the country. ee DEMONSTRATIONS. ER eset 7” says Secretary of State Hugo, “there was con- ) ducted a demonstration measuring the time interval be- tween sceing a emall white flag appear and pressing down 8 lever with the finger. With most of the people experimented with, this interval was found to be about one-tenth of a second, but with rome more elowly moving individuals the interval was twice as long.” “This kind of measurement has an immediate application to present street traffic conditions. A vehicle travelling fifteen miles per hour moves forward three feet in one-tenth of « second. It follows that however alert a pedestrian may be, a fast vehicle can move from three to six feet from the position in which he first noticed it before he has time to even move a finger, to say nothing of moving the rest of his body. “It aleo shows that the pedestrian may unconsciously bring disaster upon himself by relying too much on the watohfulness and quickness of the drivers of automobiles; he may excroise too fully for his own safety his right to use the road. This often causes him to step without looking into a heavily trav- elled street or to walk from behind the trolley car directly tnto the path of vehicles. In fact, this demonstration proves that too ttle emphasis has been placed upon the dangers of the road, on which traffic has more than doubled during the past two years, and educational work along this line will do much to diminish the number of highway accidents.” An interesting experiment. Why not supplement#t with another, to demonstrate the exact influence a possible $26 fine exerts upon the} cautious instinct of a fur-coated motorist driving forty miles an hour, os against the exhilarating consciousness of a fat wallet in the inside pocket, a five-figure balance at the bank and the excitement of taking | a eporting chance? Letters From the People 1 Mins Loch Praised had new hope ? your pat ‘To the P 1 ‘ written by Mine Loe A few d 160 py Lin) 1, for one, want to thank you for it sani ‘ entitled “Onel A READ Young n's Fa l have read) New York Pablic Library; None. it over several 1 #o far and each | To the Editor of The Breaing World time [ read it it seems to sink in a] Is there any place in New York siathe lwhere I can see the newspapers of 1900, 1901 If so, how Is there any charge? nuch? A READER, 20 Ce to 1p 10 Cents, raehe To the F “Ww sae What is the value of a 1794 cent 8 1 nd an 1804 ent? I. Many een ne when I felt 1 just could te Friday, A few days before 1 read your paper | To the Raitor of The Bening World ow Up the sponge @né call it qui On what day of the week did Aug, Since then I have 12 3c. P. 1859, fall? RONEN Ae: casa teapa meee Re Frening World Daily Magazine Wow ry LOOKS woe A Plea for the Horses in Winter By Sophie Trene Loeb Griver stand there punching his the maltreatment of thetr antmi Orting Nee Yoek raciag Worlds 66T\EVOTED Reader” writes as r) “T would like to ask you to write an article on horses, ea- pecially those crossing the Manhattan Bridge. ‘IT live facing there and wit- a a great many scenes of! cruelty to horses when {trains Let it be ever #0 ltmghtly, the horses cannot get @ footing unless they are newly shod, There are a couple of large firms whose horses never seem to haveany trouble reach- ing New York, but the rest of them suffer greatly. “There are a few boxes of sand on the bridge, and sometimes a driver will take hie horses’ water pail and fill 1t with sand and after throwing his under their feet they can get a start. “But most of the men elthey do not know of this, or elae consider it too much trouble, thereby putting the horses to a great nervous strain, be- m me GETS tT. | Wednesday, November 22, 1016 By J. H. Cassel \ | jfort that tends to coarsen and grow eallow under the glare of # Southe: | Fifty Boys and Girls ' Famous in History By Albert Payson Terhune Cooreidht, 1010, by The Pree Pubttshing Oo, (The New Tork Brenig World), No. 17.—DOLLY MADISON, the Little Quaker Gtel. l ISTRHSS PAYNE was @ Quekeress and wife of a true Yet she ecandalized the good folk of her Virginia heme by & beauty instead of @ saint of her little daughter Dolly, was even blamed for frivolity iu calling the ohild ‘“Delly” not by a more stately baptismal name. Dolly, from babyhood, was destined to be @ beauty. Among uther she bad an exquisite complexion, Bui i! wae of the delicate, rose! sun, % Bo Mistress Payne etill further ecandalired the neighbors by makin; © white oambric mask, which she always sewed carefully into place Dolly's countenance every tine the little girl went out into the sunligh The child thus went masked to school end to the Quaker meeting house on her dally exercise walks—to the horror of the plous, Instead of the unornamented drab clothes ordained by her mother let Dolly wear « flaring pink eunbonnet, a colored wnea pee: a wold locket and ohain. The girl's father, John { A Masked Beauty. had also transgressed tho Quaker laws of peace Dolly's early childhood by leaving his plantation to on @ sword and fight as a captain in the Revolutior War. When Dolly was atill in h and t his family to Phit Nort ake a fortune, He bankrupt. Within @ year or ao the iittle Quaker beauty was the undisputed belle of the Quaker City, At an age when sie should have been busy at echeol she was bombarded with attentions and received one proposal of marriage, after another. All this would have turned the head of the average girl But Dolly not an “average girl.” So she went calmly on with her studies and housework, without being tn the least finttered by her enviable new posit! Then, Just as her father’s affairs were at worst, John Todd cam nto Dolly's life, He was a rich lawyer, And most of the men who met the lovely Quaker schoolgirl, he prompt! her, Todd went to Dolly's father and ofte: is feet, financially, in return for Dolly's hand in marriage It was not @ dime-novel situation of the Villain seeking to marry th Heroine against her will. Todd was not a villain, He explained that had no desire to force the girl into a loveless marriage. But, if ehe willing to be his wife, he was willing to pay her father’s debts and to the old Quaker afresh in business. Payne 414 not coerce his daughter. and left her to make her own chotce, Dolly was very young and life was very sweet. Yet she obedience and duty ahead of everything else, She told her fut marry John Todd, And she kept her word, Todd kept his own share of the bargain too, Hoe reinstated Payne in the business world Immediately after the marriage, But Payne got ltt good from his daughter's sacrifice. For he died almost at once Dolly's husband did not Jong survive the man he had saved from rulm A very few years after his marriage he was etricken with « mortal #ness. Dolly was spending the summer tn the country, many miles away, Todd jumped on a horse and galloped out to the farmhouse where shi was stay! He ataggered into sm where lly wife sat, and fell dying at her fi Left a widow at @ younger mode girls marry, Dolly returned to Philadelphia, and help her mother run a boarding house. One of the guest at the house was a dapper little statesman—seventeen years older than she James Madison by name. He married her; and not #0 very long afterward the former boarding-house keeper ruled in the White House as “First Lad of the Land.” early teens her father freed all hie elay: a—tho centre of Quakerdum, He cam one instead, and presently found himeelt lint to put im on He merely laid the facts before he put fillal r she would arr “Firct Lady ; Sor the Land.” horse’# head with his fists, just be- cause he simply could not pull the load, On Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, they have men with wagons who thetr attention the driver is punished Covi IG; Poca Brenna Word HE Jarr and Rangle families had I & box at @ theatre where & musical show that particularly and when such cases are brought to and most often loses his job. have found this true on several oo- sprinkle the etreets with and as|casions, appealed to children was playing, soon as it starts to ratn. | As to the slippery streets this con- | and the two families were thither “Now, there are just as many autos| ‘tion ta indeed a calamity. Be. | bound cross the bridge as travel Bedfora| Cause of the fact that = few dis-| “Bet you ten to one your wife |gruntled owners of teams ratsed a| won't let my wife talk about cur 0? Avenue 80 why not have the seme? jie and cry, a beneficent ordinance! children, but will keep interrupting Perhaps you can suggest something that will remedy thia condition be- fore we get the severe ice and cold.” Your point is well taken indeed, | “Devoted Reader,” and if there was a little more devotion by men to anl- mals this would be a much better) plage to live in. 1 cannot think of any puntshment too great for the man who beats «/ defenseless horse, Such @ man will| always beats his wife, He has the brute tnatinct in him, and 1s worse than the lower animals. I would like to make it posstble for the horse-beaters to serve long terms of tmprisonment. Bor there ts a | murderous streak in them. One of | |the big things that oan be accom- | | Dished ts for every person who} travels the streets to appoint him-| self or herself a committee of one to stop such outrages, Just a little! time is needed on tne part of the ob server, A policeman can be called) sides taking the chance of breaking a les. “Why, one day I saw @ young or the name of the wagon taken, and | warning sent to the proprietor. Owners of stook are opposed to | You and By Willi Article No, 2 I our first talk I emphasised the principle of holping others in their Jobe in order to help yourself in | yours, Here is an actual case illustrat- | ing thie principle Some years ago my fob was to put an old, run-down newspaper in a West ern city on its feet, ‘The new owner not @ trained news; er me told me how much money I miglit spend on the | § Job. Then he went abroad to prevent his political and other friends from ap- pealing to him to interfere with my policies. I reached the city at about 9 o'clock | | one morning and went to the office. | In the room that had fitted up for me I found a boy of perhaps sixteen years asleep on the floc When I Frank; that he had been the “printerts devil,” but wanted to be my office boy He had worked nearly all night and, being sleepy, had lain down where I ‘ Your Job | s Brooks | would have to wake him as goon ae I came in "LT wanted to see you before any other boy did,” wald he. His earnestness and ingenutt: = |pealed to me, and he got the job, tn |the first few weeks I was too busy to keep track of meal times, but when- ever Frank thought I needed food he brought a lunch from a restaurant ind quictly set it beside my desi. very ing 1 found my peneils irpened and everything shipshape. One day he said: “This ottice ts plying half the town with paper nels.” ‘The stockroom, he told | as open to everybody, I put a lock on the door and appointed Frank stockkeeper, tncreasing his pay. Then Frank told me the printers and cleaners Were wasteful; that the former dropped lots of type on the floor (our type was then set by hand) er swept {t out. I estab- | ell box" and put him in more pay, ‘The quantity ne gathered into this, box ened the printers made | hem more careful Within three months, although he was under seventeen years of age, he was practioally my general euperin- CHINAMAN bas typewriter having 4,000 charac- | typista please ni that would have met the situation, and advocated by this newspaper, Was halted last summer. How many poor horses must fall prostrate on the slippery streeta be- fora our elty fathers will insist on their being properly shod? oo her to talk about your children,” sald Mr, Jarr. ‘When you want to take money from me, put your hand in my pocket when I'm not looking,” replied Mr. Rangle, “but don’t try to rob mo!” “Twenty to one!” said Mr. Jarr, with his eye on Mrs. Jarr and Mrs Rangle getting the children grouped around them in the street car. “rll take it if you'll bet the same, iene with me that the women don't spend LEVELAND has more telephones | the time between interrupting each and New Orleans fewer 7 | lot im arranging the children’s invented a ters and guaranteed to write 16 language perfectly. Experiencea any other American city in| clothes and picking and fussing over proportion to population. them,” ead Mr. Rangle. Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1016, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), OVE 1s a voyage of discovery, marriage the goal—and divorce the re | Met expeditt That “justefterthedivorce” feeling is not the ex-! hilarating thing most people imagine {t: it {s more like the mingled sensation of pain and relief that comes the moment after you have removed a tight) slipper and before the ache has subsided. Alas, if a husband, like an umbrella, could only ve checked and left unti] called for! But, ag it is, you're obliged to lug him around with you, everywhere you go, knowing that the moment you take your eye off him somebody else will walk eway with him. Long after a man has forgotten the color of a woman's eyes, a whiff of her favorite sachet will bring back a& vision of her that will rise ike @ wraith between him and any woman he happens to be kissing at the moment. Funny, but a man who marries for money never seems to be willing to earn it, even to the extent of giving a few datly kisses and a Httle imitation dovotion in roturn for his board. J After the war there Is going to be a shocking husband-famine me to lay in your supply of husbands or the next few years, Now say, two or three, or enough ‘There tay be a censorship on motion-picture playa; but that won't take all the epice out of Hfe for any man, eo long as there is nobody to censor tendent, the hosiery advertisements in the street care and magazines, The Jarr Family , fon, ‘echool these days ts & pack of non- | Pyerybody says she hes rem: sense.” | talent as an artist. Are you ch “Johnnie missed only two days At eum, Bessie? And Mra. ng! school this fall,” replied Mrs, Rar picked a thread off the Uttle gtrl' “Jdn't you, dear?” oat. “Yes'm," said the little Rangle boy.) 1 think Wille will be @ civil en in pha sent mp. ae a gincer, It pays so well, and he’s | didn't have no pocket handkerch erazy about ery o A y. Aren't yor Mrs. Jarr smiled with enjoyment | | going to be a civil engineer, Will while Mra. Kanglo straight ilies | over bis booke,” By a: L McCardell Oh, that would make it @ stand music,” remarked Mrs, Jarr; “th remarked Mr, Jarr. "So we child loves grand opera. What'te won't bet. They are getting setticd| you want to see, Emma?” ¥; Just look and Hsten.” | "I want to see the elephants,” sat Willie is doing splendidly at’ the little girl “Will we have per school,” suid Mr. Jarre to Mra. nute for the ele manma?" Ranele sys he's Just elephants, the brightest little fellow. Wil w ' king/a fac C 1 you xe at st my your t ery goln’ tol sat?" H a funny man with a red nose!” My Johnnie can read remarkably, “Look how your hair ribbon well for a child of his age,” replied! crumpled!" exclaimed Mre, Jari Mrs, Rangle. "His Aunt Mary was straightening the hair bow on bh astounded, because her boy t# three little girl as she spoke, “And, Will years old and hardly knows his let-| why didn’t you tell me that the cor ters. Bessie, why didn't you tell me ner of your pocket was torn?” Say: that you had lost ail those buttons! ing thts, Mrs, Jarr got a pin an off your new shoes? For shame! A nmenced to fasten the boy's tor tile girl being untidy!” These; t corner; hints on the juvenile t being han “ye hissed In the ear of the offender, s perfect id can play one “Of course,” continued Mrs. Jarr, finger exercises. What do you tht 1 don't believe in forcing children) of that?" as young as Willie, but his progress) “Bessie has a talent for painting,” ls remarkable, although, tn my opin-|said Mrs, Rangle. “She ta n what they teach ohildren 10 nappy unless she ts drawing plotus ened ‘her | when you grow ” hopeful up with a resounding smack. | y Lg “How often have I told you not to! ,, ine Monae Me bey: bend that way?” she sald, “He pores) noeen't he take after his she added peevishly, “ti he's getting @ regular student's Where's your othe ver le Emma ts Just said Mrs. Rangle with acid in: “HH this ts no place for ws," 1 Mr. Rangle uneasily to Mr, nething’s going to etarti" ‘T was only 115 years ago to-day | Pillory was most often inflicted ea that the pillory was used in Bos: | choontod that tie Mes Tere at ton, The last Amertoan viotim of |in 1287 “did wharpe correction upo thts mediaeval mode of punishment! bakers for making bread of igh fd not suffer in vain, for by his mar. | WT: he caused divers of them n a8 also @1 tyrdom he aroused so strong a senti-| 4 tae tont ean rs ment against the pillory bs ‘and moun that it was abolished, f nd catt ous device, which had been common | °t*; stam. gold ring in Burope and America for a long! fortune tellers, and b saree aoe period, was not finally abolished in| false pretenses, were also frequ the United States until 1839, and even, S¥bJected to punishment by the pil: after that Delaware continued to give lory, Ak, Mier, Period, toe pil toga! sanction to tts use. The plllory|!h many nd advanced thinkers, | was abolished in Franoe tn 1832 and| many men and women of noble’ Mver in England tn 1887. and high aspirations were subjeet to this Jenomin | An Instrument similar to the pillory or 4 ee Pie OA EG AS i IE Bible has been so ca) u in uumerou | victims were killed by being struck nd that was Rooks" tn Cotonial| is Known as or The Divine Library,” velieved to have been writtes Hishueul of the ascict of about sixteen with stones, Tn England and also eT