The evening world. Newspaper, December 9, 1916, Page 8

f f * ' : ; EAR. = : 4 : i if orld, Sbe Caring et Publishing Compat Vntered at the 1 Bubscription Rates to World for the nt and Canada. an Me For Englor All Cour One Year One Month VOLUME 57......... BO) One Year lone Month sevee NO, 20,199 KEEP POLITICS OUT OF IT. | HIRTY- Governors are to tackle the problem of the high cost of food at a conference to be held in Washington | next week. Congress is ready to wrestle with the same ques-) tion. The President of the United States is gathering facts bearing | thereon. The Federal Department of Justice is acrutinizing the ac- | livities of price boosters. Local authorities are everywhere keeping | venind World Daily Magazine — a sharp eye on retail food figures. In view of all this, the State of New York ought to be willing to do some extra hard thinking about various plans and proposals put forward to readjust distributing methods and reorganize the present | State Food and Markets Department. The Empire State cannot) afford to make a muddle of a matter so important that practically | every State in the Union is looking for advice and guidance in| handling it. Commissioner Dillon asks for $154,000 to extend the activities of his department. He believes that with part of this sum he can establish a central milk depot that will save this city $18,000,000 a| year in milk bills. He is also sure that he can start six or seven emall markets in the city where foodstuffs can be sold direct to the! consumer from the farms and that in three years’ time he can organize up-State farmers to standardize their goods and ship them! direct to the city markets, Commissioner Dillon has so far managed to get surprising results out of an undersized, meagrely equipped bureau that has been scarce- ly more than an experiment. He has shown much more energy and interest than might be considered sufficient to earn the salary ho| does not need. Anything he says about his department, anything he suggests as to its future usefulness, is worth listening to. | It remains to be seen what Mr. George W. Perkins and his food, committee will report and recommend to the Governor. But one} thing is certain: The State does not want to see the Food and Markets | Department expanded or elaborated into a high-class political cozy | corner where Charles 8. Whitman can provide for his friends and tind support for his personal projects. Mr. Whitman has left too many political trails over parts of the State Administration he has breversed not to warrant the warning. . | New York is anxious to find ways to keep the cost of living| within bounds. But it sees no politics in the job. tp ‘The German hundred mark bill has dropped another point and three-quarters on the Zurich Bourse even since the taking of Bucharest. Is it because Zurich is near enough to see without squint- ing through or around the “victories”? A FREE COMMUNITY CONCERT. FREE Christmas concert of the “Messiah” in Madison Square Garden the evening of Tuesday, Dec. 26, is announced by tho New York Community Chorus. This popular choral society, which asks no dues of its members, nor requires of them.previous musical training, or, indeed, anything fave the voice and the will to sing, became well known to New) © Yorkers last summer through its Sunday afternoon song concerts in Central Park, culminating in the Song and Light Festival in Septem- ber, which proved the most beautiful and inspiring open-air entertain- ment ever offered the people of New York in a public park. As its contribution to the city’s celebration of Christmas, the Community Chorus, under Conductor Harry Barnhart, will sing Christmas carols in Madison Square Park for half an hour, beginning | @t 8 o'clock, the evening of Dev. 26. The crowd gathered about the! ‘Tree of Light will be urged to join in, and at 8.30 all will be invited | to march to Madison Square Garden and hear the chorus sing the “Messiah.” We have seen nothing in New York’s Christmas programme more deserving of commendation and support. The Community Chorus! Tests upon the sound civic principle that patriotism, public spirit, brotherhood and good will are sure to flourish where people gather together for mass singing. The Community Chorus is in no sense a business or professional organization, Its membership ia free, its concerts are free. So far the New York Community Chorus has been supported solely by voluntary contributions, most of them from public-spirited sponsors of the society, but not a few from members—wage earners and workers—who have insisted upon giving the little they could afford to help along something that has brought them so much inspi- ration and happiness. There are many people in this rich and prosperous city who could well afford to give a helpful boost to the Community Chorus and who would be glad to do so if they knew more about it. As many such as can should go to the rehearsal in the De Witt Clinton High Bohool, Fifty-ninth Street and Tenth Avenue, to-morrow afternoon at 8 o'clock. This is no charity or fad, but a serious civic movement full of possibilities for making better, happier, more loyal citizens. As " Cs iy "Tew (ihe Now York Fee Coerstant, 1918, %, By J. H. Cassel. | ne Ww Cold Storage Held Blameless for High Prices Only Small Stocks of Food in Refrigerators Qwned by Speculators, Says William F. Morgan, President of Merchants’ Association. By James C. Young. What percentage of the high living roat ig due to hoarding stocks of food in cold storage? How much food are speculators holding 4n refrigerator warehouses? HE total amount of food- stuffs held in New York coli storage warehouses for spec- ulators is small," was the answer of William Fellowes Morgan, President of the Merchants Aesociation of New York, and head of the Brook- lyn Bridge Frees- ing & Cold Btorage Company. "The truth is,we haven't anything Mike the facilities needed to store food for this market. If there were more cold stor war houses and greater stocks.of food on hand, prices probably would come down, “This cold storage proposition ts largely a bugaboo, Consider for a moment that there were no refriger- ator warchouses, Then we could not get many important staple foods out of season at anything but pro- hibitive pric 68, for inetance. In inid-winter the production drops to almost nothing ‘hen it ie that the cold storage stocks are called upoo to care for the demands of a very considerable portion of the American people. It has been charged that the effect of ap jee first attempt to found an Afri- n nettianent for berated es was made 150 years ago to-day, when Sierra Leone, on the west ach it is time the city itself gave it recognition and considered | °°#t of Africa, was organized for that are Air : purpose, Dr. Smeathman was the whether it might not be for the municipal good to get behind it in a author of the scheme, and Capt. way that would extend and perpetuate its usefulness, eH They auctioned off Madison Square Garden yesterday, Up to the last moment we hoped somebody with a heart might buy !t and, maybe, present it to the city, Now, alas, it belongs to an insurance company! ‘Thompeon tn 1786 purchased the terri- tory from “King Tom" of the Tim- manehas and commenced the settlement with 400 negroes and 60 Buropeans, The hostility of the natives and the shiftlessness of the black colonists re- sulted in the complete failure of the first attempt, In 1791 the survivors were collected and @ new settlement was started, with @ colony of 1,200 a Letters From the People Monday, 91.25 to 81.50, | fo the Etitor of Te Evening World To the Editor of The Freeing Word | What day of the week did Juiy 12,) What ts the value o 1986, fall on? FR. || dollar? Rei RE RS a pliner negroes from Nova Scotia and ‘the Bahamas. The American negroes were much more successful and Sierra Leone is now @ prosperous colony. In 1822 a similar colony was established to the south of Blerra Leone by the American Colonization Soctety, and tt Twenty-five to Sixty Cents, New York, on, Parte, Boone he tetuge foe freed biscks of We the Ber the Srna ees ia To ie Baitor of The Brening Wedd: fae 8 piles Bates Me enh wacne aaa i value of @ ailver three- at are the three lar, Cities | Dlece dated 18657 B.C. in whe world? Bro | diontent Rapublis of Liseria ws td Ratural beneft of having a quantity of eggs available, But it ts our ex- perience that wo can scarcely take care of our customers’ demands for ogid storage space, and that the great Walk of food which we handle be- longs to legitimate concerns and ts marketed in a legitimate way. The amount of food in cold storage ware- houses of New York, that is being held by simon pure’ speculators, 1s small, indeed, “It is well to remember that no speculator can carry stocks of fopd from one season to another. Putting aside the question of laws, and meas- uring the proposition simply by the rules of business—it can't be done. The speculator who attempted to face @ new season with a supply of any edible product left over from the Previous season, would be a rash man. acts from the effects of a renewed source of supply. “Not only this factor of supply, but insurance, interest rates, storage and other charges would make it a bazardous business to carry over stocks of food, These very things where cities of the second and third The Woman of It | By Helen Rowland You mug World 1916, by The Press Vublistine co. (tue S he Tells How to Select a Soul-Mate. “ee HERE goes the man | OUGHT to have marr edt” 4 Widow, setting down her coffee cup and gazing with an e@mile after a chubby little man with a buld bead and high pink vhcekbones. Copyrignt xolain enigmatic “Where? Which? Why?" inquired the Bachelor, looking vaguely around In search of an imaginary Adonis. ecause,” began the Widow, laughing at his bee wilderment, as his eyes fell on the little pink, bald " “he ia my heatt-and-sow-MATIS in all the vital that make for happiness in marriage.” You mean that he goes in for Bahaism,” suggested the Bachelor with a wry grimace | dotes on Tagore, and reads Swinburne, and dabbles in New Thought and Psycho-Analysis, and believes in reincarnation, and has han dow are ideals and illusions, and a soul, and—and all that? Ri | 66] VO not!” returned the Widow, shaking her head emphatieully. | mean that he HATES draughts! And there would be no such thing as ‘incompatibility of temper 1 mean that he keeps regular hours, and cheerfully at 10 o'clock, and | always has hie breakfast at 7.90, anc , and can't even play casino, and is bored to death by dancing, and prefers a quiet dinner WITH- | OUT music to a French restaurant with the tinkiing of cymbals and clang. ing of fox-trots; and loves beefsteak better than lobster, and would rat wit at home and read a brilliant Shaw play than sit up and listen to a silly, second-rate musical comedy. 1 mean that he never insists on reading aloud to people, nor drinks Svotch highballs, nor talky about his golf game, nor inflicts his hobbies on you, nor breaks an engagement, nor is late for am ! appointment, nor"— nd always says his prayers at Bachelor des- night,” broke tn the Derately, “and gous to Sunday school, ana hae never been kissed, nor done ja single thing he couldn't tell his mother! Uh!" and he swallowed his liqueur with @ shiver. OU may scoff, Mr. Weatherby!” retorted the Widow, with a toss of VY her curly head, “but think of how YOU would feel if you were | doomed to live eternally with a woman who used a brand of per- ; fume that you hated, or who insisted on starting the phonograph or dia- cussing the servants when you wanted to read; or who dragwed you around to cabarets and fox-trotiing places night after night when you were pining to sleep! Think of the terrible tragedy of a life-union between a dyspeptic and a welsh-rarebit flend; or between @ rh tie and a fresh-alr flend; or of a sleepy head who is dead to the we 9.30, and a night-owl who can't possibly sleep until he hears the milk carts starting on thelr rounds! Don't you know that half the divorces in the world are founded right on these little differences of personal tastes and habits? Many a man whose wife haa divorced him for desertion or cruelty or dnfaithfulness has cheer. fully packed her trunk and paid her fare to Reno and hired her lawyer for her—simply for the sake of being able to keep the windows closed when he | wanted them closed! I tell you it's infinitely more important for two peo- plo who are going to spend their lives together to be congental in the mate ter of draughts and amusements and beefsteaks and breakfust hours than it is that they should have the same religion and the sume ideals and the | same fads in Hterature and the same life-work. It's the little differences tn | dally habits that cause the wrecks on the matrimonial sea not the big | differences in sentiment or temperament. A souln s simply a mate who doesn't try your soul, nor get on your nerves, nor offend your taste. Soulmate inde If a woman has the sniffing habit, or the chattering habit, or a man has the snoring habit, or the cocktail habit. or the dancing habit, it doesn’t matter whether he or she has a soul or not!” ‘“ REAT Scot!" exclaimed the Bachelor, desperately. “Then why in G the name of Heaven DIDN'T you marry the little pink angel of your dreams?" “I can't!" sighed the Widow pathetically, slightly.” “What? cried the Bachelor in amazement, “and yet you know all about his breakfast hours and his tastes in food and his little ha “Yes," interrupted the Widow calmly. “His wife to! him!" “His WIFE!" The Widow nodded. “She ts getting @ divorce,” she explained, “because she likes fresh air and bridge and dancing and lobster suppers. She just can't STAND his regular houra and his punctual, proper, perfect little ways! to divorcee him for ‘extreme cruelty, “T only know him VERY me all about desertion and non-support The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell | Copyright, 1916, by The Prose Publishing Co, (Toe Now York Brening World), Ko eed Mrs, Jarr home?” asked) Prevaricating prodigiously to paalty Mr. Jarr of Gertrude, the ght-| the child, domestic, when he; “I don't often cost the speculator d ho) class ar into the first class, |+ running | want no dinner efther, matter how careful be may be and |. are getting into the} came home the other evening. j said the boy, berinning to snitfie, “I b rad sues ilon of giving New York) metr T was Sapectally | “No, she ain't," replied that func-| wish maw was home," etter cold storage accommodations ts| impressed by the amount of building | ff “Ane ean A very important one, A farge, new| that is golng forward, New plants|tonary. “She went downtown to Abe cel IT don't want any dinner wareho! that had been ted | are rising on every side, and old ones| her Christmas shopping early and/ either,” mumbled Mr. Jury, “Blamed for tho west side, to take care of are being extended. This may be!about 6 o'clock she telephoned for|{f I'm not ae bad ag you kid ” shipments coming by way of the New| partly duo to so-calied war business, Fell York Central, has been delayed th but you may be sure that much the cause of the elvic Improvement plan Digger portion of the new wealth that| | me to give you and the children thelr; So Mr, Jarr a nd the childr dinner and not to wait on her.’ linto the front r ‘on went ‘oom, whore the ohil- now before the city administration.| these factories will create is going to| “That's very strange," sald Mr./dren hung out of the wind, Uncertainty about this plan has made! be sound. Jarr, “very strange. However, you) atch a first giimpse of thal, seed it Impossible to proceed with the| “High prices are due in a measure! fo dines ie ttn renee j and before long M rane plant. ‘The need for additional stor-| to the logical effect of the| 2" Serv | welt ee Jere found hhim- becomes more pressing] war, and it m be expected that the| So dinner was served, and Mr, Jarr | at the other window, also 'y | coming of peace will bring a reaction. took his seat in Mra, Jarr’s place 80) anxiously beering down tnto the d, Living te Tart yme frat the cost of! Just how far that reaction may go, It\he could attend to the children’s! street, ark natural result of Prices of al! by supply and Prosperity has made us lib- is difficult to estimate. We have lit- tle to fear from European competi- tion immediately after the declara- present conditl kinds are gover demand, wants. ® sho comes around th Where’ = 4 the boy, And Mr. Jarre mamma? Ain't my tion of peace. All of the nations en-|mamma coming home?” asked little | y de eral buyers of everything; nothing! gaged in the conflict must reorganize |.” * her follower gown the stalrs to meet more so than food, and the market| thelr industries before reaching out | mma. 1 Wh aby the children, ha. siniply resronded: Ks 4 for much foreign business, But the| “Hub, I don't care!” said the little . ¥. what kept you, dear ked ew of us realize how rapidly| moment that that reorganization has!poy. bosses too much, don’t, Mr Jarr, after ne could ace, . this country is growing, and what! | ted, the economic trig. |.” Meanie — |ehildren froz i he could detach the vast material wealth we are ac in in deadly earnest, 1t|S2e paw? Mm her, “It's 9 o'clock,” cumulating. T recently returned froin “L was sho; So she és going .. a trip through the Middle West is well for us to look forward to that day and set our own house in order.” "The Week's Wash ; By Martin Green Copyright, 1916, by $6 UR mobilization of troops on O the border didn’t make much of a hit, it appoars, with Major Gen. Hugh L, Scott," remarked the head polisher. “It didn't make much of a hit with anybody else except the militia officers who lobbied the Hay bill through the Congress with the domi- nant Idea of getting themselves on Uncle Sam's payroll,” said the laun- dry man. “The militia mobilization in Texas last summer was another shining ilustration of the rule that it takes @ soldier to do a soldier's work, “A Btate militiaman is not @ @ol- dier, The New York State militta was far superior in equipment, enroll- ment and morale to any other militia on the border, but they were not #ol- diers when they got down to the Rio Grande, and they are not soldiers yet. I doubt if there ts a militia body in the country to-day that ranks any- where near the Seventh Regiment of New York as a militia rogiment, but} the Seventh, after four months of fleld experi fow miles of ns A militia regiment, Jental untt which was forced to the front by eir-| cumatances, | “Fighting 18 @ business. ‘There ts | no justice in requiring a few thou- sand young men who happen to be members of the militia on a certain | date to wo to the front to fight a| for a nation of one hundred mil- wi itor ple. If this country t@ worth fighting tor it ought to bave @ pro- the Press Publishing Company (The New ¥ fessional fighting force and every able bodied citizen ought to be part of that force, “Obviously we cannot keep up much of a regular army when the Pay of privates ls $15 @ month and there are serious objections to paying soldiers who are shut off from all shaye In production as much pay as ‘they could make as producers, It 1s also obvious that taking 100,000 militiamen out of productive pur- suits and sending them to the border to meet an emergency that never materialized was an economic erlme. Tho answer would seem be that our regular army should be increased, at whatever expense, to a force ade- quate to hold our borders, and that every citizen should be required to put in enough time in active military training to quality him for service in the field after a training of say six moths. “The State militia ts officered. Most of the tncompetent militia officers are hopelessly tncom- petent because they are too old to learn. Right away we need more West Points and we need a law which will prohibit the cadet from sneaking very badly out of the service and gving into private business soon after his gradu att@n solely on the strength of the superfor education t his country him and tt finally looks Kot borne,” remarked the head ke Oliver they Os- polisher. “Iv'e @ good thing for soclety that | hounding him,’ ald him for abe} ork Evening Worl4). {he United States authorities kept After that bird,” said the laundry man. “It's a good thing for society, too, that James W. Osborne ts a man of nerve and determination. He has gone through months of humilia- tfon and has endured ridicule and uspicion that would make the aver- &ge individual quit. ‘There wasn't any doubt that the public in general | belleved Oliver Osborne to be a myth. In this town it is only necéssary to put a man of prominence who has not | been afraid to make enemies into an| apparent hole to find a great ma-| jority of people willing to keep him} from climbing out, Jim Osborne risked his reputation and his family | on @ forlorn hope because he knew he was right, and the eleventh hour attempt to hang the case on a wart on the back of the valorous attor- n neck would seem to typify the ibre of the persons who have been [Took 27 Years Too Long} “it I ever hear you |that again," said Mr. Jarr, coldly and | severely, “I'll give you a good spank- ing.” | heh dls ene abanaed) toons let |grieved indignation. ‘Aren't you | ashamed of yourself to speak like that ot your dear mother, who is so fond lof you, eo kind to you, so careful of you? Suppose you should never see \her again!” At these words little Emma began to ery, “I want my mamma, I want my mamma!" And Master Wille sat abashed, aa if he, too, wanted to cry, “Mamma will be ‘here soon,” said Mr, Jarr to little Emma, “Now, be a | good lttle girl and eat your soup, No, that isn't the way to hold your spoon!” “The janitor whopped hie wife and she went away and ain't coming back,” related Master Jarr. “You didn't whop mamma, did you?” At these words the little girl cried louder than ever and said she wanted ber mamma, ‘ertainly I didn't whop mamma, as you call it,” said Mr. Jarr. “I'm surprised at you to say suoh things,” remarked Mr. Jarr. “Don’t you say anything ike that again! Eat your potatoes!" Mr. Jarr tried to say this calmly, but under any other ofrcumstances he would have disciplined the child for 667 SEF." satt the head polisher, “that the latest great Standard Ol fortune was parleyed up| from a modest bank roll to $64,000,000 in twenty-elght years." | pooh,” sald w work, the laundry Almost reaction- ary, If you don't belleve me read| the Wall Street brokers’ advertise- ments in the papers and the maga- wines,’ | such @ remark, “I want my mamma! TI don't want soup and I don’t want potatoes and I don't want anything, I want my mamma!" erfed little Emma, “Mamma will be home soon; rhe’ gone downtown to get you some andy and @ pew doll,” said Mr, Jarr, y a thing like | ® with mother and ten with her,” rep) “Why? ote “I was afraid so to you," re | Bove. you ‘hed. been fan ote | run over b; street car or knocked down oF an automobile, Resides it waa aoe lonely here waiting and waiting eee waiting for you," wise) “Oh, it was, wan It?" anid Meg, Jarr, “Well, how do y you think 1 you don't come home to ons Lined | Went home to | Mrs. Jarr, mething happened 4 a ner, you stay out till all houray Dew you think it's lonely tor mo ang ; children?” ™ “L guess t0,” adm . " “admitted Mr, : ‘but you're used to it, you rome un, ¥08. I'm used to st," sald Mra Jerr but how do you like it? How : it feely” on Mr. Jarr ratsed nt have no more watehfa and “Feu ’ ful walt! window on my aceo ‘ne at the dearie,” te promised, “™ thle ep, oe NG to the scarcity of leather, tho hunting of sea Ione bed een taken up in earne jong a cat the shores of British Columbia en they abound, ‘The hide tg poe substitute for ordinary leather, rs also is used in the Manufactura ot E ass ‘The World Bult or almost as many ay case in the United States, bi T about 99,000,009 BW YORK'S population tp tn creased every month three months we gain as many tae habitants as lived here -: ington was first Presigent bal