The evening world. Newspaper, December 6, 1916, Page 18

| che edeiiig World, TARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except Sunday by tte Preas Po tng ¢ any, Now, 63 Park Row, New Yor 6 Part Proeldent Tow Entered at the Post-¢ Subscription Rates to Thi rational World for the United st and Canada. --'T TOOK TIME. August, 1914, tys foreign ] The Even World ventured tt ORE than two years ago, the “pinch of war lowing warning: . WANTED: A COMMISSION TO WATCH PRICES. The war price carnival in this country ts well under way. Every day dealers in some new commodity cheerfully inform us that thelr prices are to go a-souring. Automobile tires, champagnes, ostrich feathers "and fancy dreas goods will increase in cost at the expense of consumers who can stand the raise. But meat, butter, eg tea anf coffee are already up. Shoe leather is scheduled for a big advance, Hats, hairbrush- ¢s, toothbrushes, clothing and all kinds of canned foods are on the Met of common articles that everybody will have to pay more for. ‘Who fs to say when and how far the advance 1s necessary and just? That articles which have been coming from abroad must cost more, now that the supply is cut, anybody can see, But what fs to prevent wholesale, unwarranted marking up of prices in all Hnes by controllers of commodities who think they can get away with it on the war pretext? in ha inuries hegan to feel fol a | vntinent and the class of | The Better Half 1918, oak WorehY What this country needs and needs promptly Is a Gov- | ernment Commission to wa' and report on alleged war Keep the rise within the bounds of economic reason and | Justice. | ‘That was two years and more ago. This week, for the first time since the war began, a Congress of the United States is taking a serious that “if Government] eo view of the formidable rise in the prices of common necessities. Vor the first time we hear Congressmen proclaiinir is to be worth anything to the people it will have to do something on this food situation and high cost of living.” Better late than never. But mightn't it have been wisdom to set a guard before the looters had been so long at work? on WHO ARE THEY? HY should any member of the present Board of Aldermen W favor a scheme to get back the old Aldermanic privilege of licensing newsdealers? In February, 1914, the best Board of Aldermen the city ever elected voted 70 to 1 to divest itself of petty powers which put licenses! for newspaper, fruit, flower stands and the like into the hands of the Alderman of the district. | Scandal and graft had constantly attended the old system. When the 1914-1915 Board of Aldermen turned the handling of such licenses | over to the Bureau of Licenses, where it properly belonged, the Mayor congratulated the Aldermen upon having rid themselves of “a burden as annoying as it is illogical,” and this Aldermanic act continued to! e(and as one of the first and most commendable reforms to the ered of the new type of Board. | It is pretty nearly three years now since anybody called the Board | of Aldermen a corrupt, antiquated and useless body that ought to be abolished. Its new reputation has been built up by just such acts 1 that whereby it went out of the petty license business. Who are the members of the present Board who prefer progress backward? | A PRINCE OF HOTEL KEEPERS. ANY a man has thought he could run a hotel, but no man M ever proved it to the greater satisfaction of millions beside himeelf than did George C. Boldt, proprietor of the Wal dort-Aetoria. Beginning as a caterer’s apprentice, young iter experi mented enough to show that as a farmer he was pretty sure to be a failure, and so got that ambition out of his system. Henceforth hy worked in hotels, etudied hotels, saw his future in hotels, until pre ently he found himself the host of the Bellevue in Philadelphia, wher one day twenty-eight years ago William Waldorf Astor food and elept in the best hed he had ever come acros 1 \ I Would-be Movie § | > » Tle S t or | he OUIG-DeE ovie Stal | | ss H Rood h and shino in the bosom off There are so many failu and so © Trene Loe ! By Sephi Irene Loeb A family of little ones. lfdweeuccdsses, ‘ites ara’ xo, many Comaeiaet S, Vilie eine Keane Vor if she has no other qualiflea-| Who think they be stars, but YOUNG man writes as follows: | tion but a nice face and figure, she) find they are only sorry strugsling T would consider it # great /should be glad of your love and pro-| substit favor if you would write anjtection, provided she has the asme; Te be a good ess the first A : article about the} Kind of interest tn you | reqnisite brains-—brainw to) think, | en a ow 8 following subect:| A girl with only @ face and figure! to live, to fool, to act, to understand, | sometinee “What are the]Aand no parents or friend c great] A pretty face and tigure never got| cate on the corr possibilities of «| throbbing city with all tia pitfall | very far in the firmament of stars] "W mat will you do © young lady, age} ar snares bad in need of at itis the one Haney the ais ie of lving ree | t ' } “ . fs - sail who want to make the Jarr, who had enter place nineteen, becom-{ Provider and who tikes} Pet ote en ccs Pua ae ima tug notlon ple= {such an interest as you seem te show ia as : : ture with} While the need of “protection” in| vey, but it is t x y he Neas world Is very often over trick: boy eaugh Ri no other qualife; (he bustr world Is v ofteniovers ment Are teak. Be i ss ations than apestimated where i girl in atro s yaa nice: fave andl well Rec yet i! te in soneth wie | ne ; : - panies ald about the Kind of @ git i re. Hah ne (Sat bal cer pert 9 Also, would Ae ow beautiful she is tha have k " nore oniie temptations are many and the) figure, she lid. bette Mast April lady without parents here ant) very fine to alt in w theatre and seo! do well Seaton he to the comments of frlend ear etek 1 the} His mueh Detter for a with "Well, we 1 argue t 1 taking steps to become a movie art bicbaut dnd unhdsh ade tyeds yet (Me) oniy a beantitul and figure to) tien now,” said Mr. dare, i endless work and worry and ti he a wite and mother und engrave | sit euetrynon comes ty con a : and tribulalion that must. be over-| her. pleture in the heart of ono good 1 And, finally, is there any harm be | come before it Is a pleture eannot| Man than all the movle Uhrilts in the wants your advice, t hind the entwardly att tive look A | World. It him f movie-acting fora he known) sxcop se who maa If you don't belleve jt, aste hun ie 2 ne through “is Ww have tried it hotel: Whence the famons inn that no the block fropt on Fifth | oye est ate Fe : : 1: SMC Tavs! girl ine vals " fl pve ‘ BYE 7 bia bias Avenue, between Thirty-fourth and Th Street ie Reflections of a Bachelor Girl Waite rsbaae | Mr. Boldt made the Waldorf itself 1 tr { . art forex | I H ny opportunity Mr. c al \ entre in the grente f 1 > Helen Rowland L Dusiness, financial and social centre of the country, He kept its f | ECAP RELURE AR SAR MRD ESE Sy la fen : haa ! Hany ak two Con 6 6 Press Publishing O ¢ New ening World 1lt whom he chose, o bright, its hospitality #0 inexhaustible, hat! ee one ih iNe: sunet ive pat Re tb ib ; hing : bi Ne Tork Prening World: i GhHL Goins Was ‘Raaad (fron ah even as newer hotels of the “palatial” type sy diet - sa learn nee ony, more abou ee every sath bi ely speaking by the Icebox, saying ; ort \/ dentally, pet dogs are becoming more and more popular with the) «y t ; , leave f *- u for-nothing, gabb) alway casily and majestically held i tals oox - ee ernie ene Vo build up and preserve the prestige of a ate ‘ per, hecause I told yet an hour ago it rivalry is keen and public fickle is 1 rdinary task . nie The man who falls {tn love at first sight never was read ' me wv: imself. George C, Boldt achic withinrecesiinnal ane knows what has struck him, and therefore mercifully | Gus's | linked, “Yous 4 “ . ‘i ves x4 escapes all the agonizing slow torture of feeling himself hd 8 B y f uting © mean degree to the ympara sink, inch by Inch, into the quicksands of matrimony Whilo Khiter, my bartender, | f New Yor 11 dubad the et —$$—$$—$ $$ __$______— Sere The woman a man really Joves, is not the one for I get and T don't can say a . m he is g to de ot, but the one for whom tte Q en : whom he is willing to do al 1 ee Letters From the People ; : , hw ig willing to do without a lot 7 thought you mald War of 1st Selanre of Sh i | . ’ as he remarked + the Rulitor of The Kvening W cnt S ¥ an “A Mr. Jarr To'daclde @ tat. what % x aatige ; 1s Toude ike ie Troy Alast Christmas is just like matrimony, No mate|” sso tam bosw he Me AueT EAS shia War or late batwaen the | Fea i Fits ile UE aed try aA ter how ofica you have been through it, you always go Into It, next time, | y Gohan SRAFAC REA ran Mictes (Andulinglandvandothe=x ty ; ; : i him with al with the same enthustasm, hope, and exhilaration, and come out with the! gnould speak up that ehube L'a bet Was it a victory for the United States: tying in our pe nt ufte co [tt Ut sume old disappointment, weariness, and the same old "Never again!” not do it. My vifo's mother she England? I. BW wa - hi re. | SH a Hints nt feeling is over here from Hoboken, and when ff B. ‘Britain felt wre iW t f Ror itaeete B anya lauaiee ibe — I say a word to my vifo L she Per sition Gon wanting at Hadi th No matter how | In Is v4 h Sometimes, a girl's faith {n a man’s protestations of devotton ts so| would go right out of the house and Yho United States that wan supercilions tui y rine conte Kindly deh eee et gti "™ [complete and touching, that he {8 almost inspired to believe them himself. | home with her mother.” “ind annoying. The drain on Britt Aes INE eda tian ah tenet | pla | “Why, 1 was going to ask you what nan poorer Curing the > ae tanta nae of relations would wnlow: oe he A knows Nevor believe that justtes ts all you Owe your husband; what every |! should do,” replied Mr. Jar ly prompted the country’s statesmen to tha 10") Beat ik pone | | Witte atl deci hate ronan fae] man needs, from the woman who loves him, 1s faith, hope, charity—and | Wife's mother is at our house. I got sanction the stopping of hips on the | ex 1 ‘ W time, and soon ine i \ wbove all, merey out this morning, but T don't know high seas and impressime lah t 1 Th 1884 te " nt . whether T should go back to-night.” British seamen who hap ee ish subject and changed >| “Ain't you ashamed of yourself," sald avoard. ‘Under thin gulse many (teeny inde Pete] A wise woman puts a grain of sugar In overything she says to a man, | “Ain't you nahamed of yourself" sald feans were takan from A 1 * from land takes mal Ghent? avery: = he aayat | Gus, reproach tully ayhe. youd De Pease ware Sate fen unk hiviBbnk. Bravec i y from fand takes 9 grain ult with everything he says to her. Matta Nit aht tion toealid wont ish* men-of-war. This so in the F We Evening W w 1 " 1 It _ | her-in-law all right.” fedling in America that th 1 would lke to know where 1 ona ¥ en s | Call a woman vain and frivolous, and a man will suspect that you are|" «ataype YOU'D be treated all right victoriously to us and gay High Speed," written by Clinton H.| Hope that Skipy obese’ tied morely Joaious of her; call her strong-minded and sensible, and ho will yg you treated YOUR mothor-in-law all American navy {ts finest precedents. Stagg A.8. | formed into a thor, “take your word for it, without even troubling to investigate. right.” suggested Mr, Jars, Fifty Boys and Girls| Famous in History By Albert Payson Terhune (the Copyrivit, 1016, by The Brew Publishing Co, NO. 23.—CHARLES LINNAEUS, the Boy Naturalist, HP village pastor of Rashult, Sweden, planned to educate his only? son for the ministry, But the son (who was then called “Karl von Linne” and who is known to the world of science as “Charles Linnaeus”) had other ideas. Instead of studying Latin he used to steal away from home and ramble for hours fn the fields and woods, collecting queer specimens of plants, He knew nothing at all about botany. In fact, he did not know there was such a word, But he loved plants and he loved to study them and ig write In a notebook the results of his studies. Ilfs father was so disgusted hy Charles's supposed laziness that, when the boy was twelve, he refused to teach him Latin and theology any longer at home. So Charles was sent to the nearest Latin school, with strict orders from father to the principal that the boy should be educated for the ministry and should be cured (by many whippings {f necessary) of bis fondness for “puttering around” with plants. ‘ The principal obeyed these strict ordera, And Charles's life at the school was an endless misery. When spring came, he ran away from this hateful * "4 bondage and went out into the forest for a glorious day The “Lazy” | Student. \¢ New York Evening World), Ho lost his way and had to sleep in the woods all night. Next morning a esearch party found him and he was dragged back to the school. The principal solemniy expelled Kim and wrote to the pastor that Charles was an incorrigible {mer The chagrined father gave up all hope of making a clergyman of his By way of punishment he apprenticed Charles to the village shoes maker. ‘This was a disgrace, in the eyes of the pastor and his friends, mt * | Charles did not regard It so. | For it gave him his eventu | go ahead with his beloved task of botanizing. of botanizing. Denn son, Sundays free And he was able to | He was not strong, And, presently, the double job broke down hie | heaith. { The great doctor was called to see him. This de | was a man of science, Dur | ng one of his visits he happened to ple up | Charles's botanteal no At first In idle cur 1 Ww rbed interest, Dr. Rothe mann read Charles's begun tion the Ind, At lengthg he said | “Ta bring 1 py of To f Kloments of Botany. Tournef i great mon, But lt prophesy that y | one day cast hia eeiory nde by your ow e." e rl ~ Rothmann then went to the be OR fimuch persuastoa he induced them not to send ¢ les I Hbier's shop, but to tet ‘0 Unive of Lund ¢ 1 mann tuition, that in a eingle year he was « rs } But here The y wos a non. So was «ans ". his fellow kK up cnoug send dim 1. Nearly at he worked at preparing @ Hilste ’ ) While hes was still of the foremost naturale @ the fireman, off abject Vay Toot accept sour invitee Tiafferty will vi were going he askeg f truce waved the fire- oune man who called we, the Jarre Mrs. Jare and Mr. Jarr’s not Gere Mr. Jar Eimer I felt it out.” Jin both hou In, Why don't yo! eondit ia M are different in everybody ed Gu It struck by a my louse,” ar Fare ren br Dollars and By If. J. sid a student of econumn-| dear more dinner with Sense Barrett erandfathers, \allers a gregt products’ We ‘emme | tion, needs were produced in the | “Grankly, Lean't (ell you aceurates | 5 To-day practically everye Jy, and neither can anyone ese. ‘The! ting t# purchased outside, That we Jioi0 census gave the total nun t ve too many retailers—that Is, | retail merchants and deal , m the retailer's viewpoint—t@ | But where neve war fou at | adi al ail swe uid: « More is lost in retailing man owned sever) stores *easlly than is made. Many tneme rr A known Ber \ rs are local philane nomes totalling | '4 out reauzing It, They 1 the ture not dependable! “OR the other hand, ineMetend 4 Jas showing the number of stores, as MMNAgement does not always beneiy ne store handling several lines would cheaply than he ihdenenle appear several times dealer, and, at the same time, “One thing seoms certain, and that are bighly profitable to their owners, Is that we hayo more retailers in pro- Ths Is chiefly due to good manages portion to our population than we had ment, Less capital js tied up ip dead y E or slow moving stock. Interest om fifty or sixty years ago, but that be- capital thus removed trom. clreula« Jcuuse of the community's increased ton is a dead loss to every one, productive power these retailers dy a Manufacturer, wholesaler, dealer and greater volume of business per! "It ix estimated that the chains of cay speaking, there: United States now comprise over fore, it would seem that retailing of. 00 stores, Perhaps in another n ation, the bulk of the country’ fered a better opportunity to- PaLatling Will’ be Tn the anae ee ever before, 1 than does not necessarily chains, Personally I belleve t follow, however, as other factors average small dealer ae | must be considered. I have a strong ae money in the bank at the end impression that to-day's dealer makes | Clone then ag petger of a chain n AS proprietor of his own. Chaing mean a smaller percentage of profit per eale | pine syndication. of* Jthan did his p ssor, Price fix. bralnd as well as of merchandise, ing by consumer advertising entera Perhans their advent marks a fore to this Also higher proportional |On the ethan pe ene Attrib ut / & r al/On the other hand, if they. should rentals, Rut If he can specd up his /eventually consolidate and gain eome turnover sufficiently, he may net more Plete control of the country's retal ing, what would prevent their ratsing their prices and demandi, exe orbitant profit?” iy annually on the same investment, “Not only do we consume more in-