The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1916, Page 8

— ig Wiorlo. ESTABLISHNED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except Sunday by the Presse Puriieuing Company, Now 63 Park Row. New Yorn. RALPH PULITZON, President. 62 Park Row J. 38H W, Treasurer, 6% Park Row etary, 63 Park Row | RK, Ir Se Entered at the Post-Office at New York ar Second-! Budscription es to The Evening} Por Pneland aod World for the United Staten AM Countries t9 the Inter id Canada, Postal Un see $2.50] One Yoar.. sees 801 One Month TAKEN ABACK. UCH resentment of the President's note as has thus far shown need not be disturbing. Bewspapers were unanimous in voicing impression of the President's step—which, as it not—their attitude, under the circumstaners, The fact is, the note was no tremendous surprise, a the more certain from the official announcement that no soundings had been taken to determine how the belligerent Governments would, regard a suggestion of the kind. | For the first time in the course of the war, neutrality, represented by the United States, puts forward a claim to know more of what is} going on in order to protect itself and its ri pending consequences. From the point of view of belligerents this is bound to seem an unexpected and unwelcome noise—a kind of blak | thot, as it were, from a new quarter. | Until the justness of the claim has made itself felt in the minds of Ministers whose duty it is to receive and consider it, we may} expect a considerable amount of amazed and resentfal comment ti nation at war likes to be reminded of duties which take its attention ever so little from its efforts in the field | The President, in the name of neutrality, has managed to drop o| kind of pacific bombshell among the fighters. If it puzzles then: at} first, no matter, provided they presently perceive ita nature and put! themselves within reach of its potential power. + SWELLING SUGAR PROFITS. HILE the American housewife has seen the price she has to| W pay for granulated sugar advance from four and a half and} five cents a pound a couple of year pound to-day, while condensed milk, cakes, candies and other manu-| factured food products in which sugar is an ingredient have corre- spondingly increased in cost, the big sugar producing companies have! put away profits #30,000,000 LARGER than those of previous years. | Inquiry by The Evening World shows that although the reserve} stock of sugar in the country has almost doubled in the last two years, and although exports of sugar for last month from this port were little more than half what they were in November, 1915, never- theless the prices the consumer is forced to pay for sugar of all kinds} age kept constantly and disproportionately high. Here is another field for Federal investigation. How does it happen that, despite the usual explanations—shortage, increased cost of labor, “supply and demand,” “war conditions” and what not—the American Sugar Refining Company, the National Sugar Refining Company, the Arbuckles, and the new $20,000,000 Cuban America Sugar’ Company have been able to tuck away huge EXTRA prot How does it happen that when raw sugar drops a cent and a hail a pound, less than three-quarters of a cent reduction appears in the wholesale price? the British Even if English an unfavorable first! they are ppens, would not be unnatural now appears s from possible im-| | | i} ago to eight conts a Must the consumer always contribute not only enough to cover URING consequences of scarcity, increased cost of production, ete. mut a heavy added toll of millions to double somebody's dividends? | It’s about time that producers in this notion that the mere whisper of scarcity is alwaves Intry were purged of the} the sign for ant orgy of extortion and extra profit squeezing. ALL KINDS. T APPEARS to be a pretty merry Christmas in Wall Street We make no account of those who have seen their last margin wiped out and find nothing in their pockets but Christmas bills that will have to be paid later. Wall Street has a way of forgetting (hese gloomy persons or politely blowing them out—just as at Monte Carlo the Casino kindly furnishes the down-and-outers with railway fare to their homes so that the auth erim may not linger about to mar the gatety, es ~ Freping World Daily” Magazine | | Dogs Before Children Compright, 1910, by ‘The Prem Publishing Co. (The New Yo the irening World.) week an attorney appeared before Justice Green- ina baum complaint against the owner of an apartment house who inaists that little bables go “out the garbage entrance while other tenants’ dogs are allowed to go in and out of the front en- trance," The father of the ohild secured a temporary ine Junction against the apartment house orities on the grounds of dis- ination in fayor of dogs. . ; ; “Dogs go down the elevator and Wall Street this Christmas is going to fill its family sto -ing’}out the front’ he said, “while chit. with a record number of diamond brooches, sable coats and checks|dren go out where the garbage, bot- that run to five figures, Tt will entertain lavishly in its town houses ie aap isvnrds $ re? aa Mis Way they also o come and country places. It will scatter its money to celebrate its luck. | gown a steep sidewalk.’ At the same time bundreds of thousands in this big city ‘Pais father in his statement to the ; oy Chris s. Christmas trees anc aks ables w courts said: will also enjoy Christmas, Christinas trees and wkfaet tab i Mrreatiniienieloicictavie, walle bear gifts the price of which has heen saved out of modest salaries | preg) Hearts will thrill over surprises planned by self-denial and carried out struc effo by dint of a hundred loving sacrifices While luck celebrates, th ift, too, will rejoi children in this ity, 1 air is necessary to all young my wife ts ob- ted, and dangerously so, in her s properly to bring up our ebiid Wo mayed into this apartment Happiness will choose its hosts. house beewise there are many parks ————— — a eee 1 hy) tht: neigh rhood, but what use parks when my wife risks her life Letters From the People Bide Cie Kanyigs COR Hine ahs at Dransit Conditions Called Intolerable. | scrapers, &c, but we cannot, dare not, tempts to take her ont To the Baio of The breaing Worle boast of her many wondera until the ‘Dogs can come and go thro How much longer will New Yorkers! most flagrant offense agulnst eommon | } i | | } j taxing incom asked the bead | | polisher, } 4 ip was kid ld » when he advanced | that replied the undry jan “Not that the income tax 4s] jan ideal form of taxation as It is} enforced nel ected to-day, Too | SY front entrance and down the elevator, but our babies can’t.” The points aro well taken, I am lad this father is an attorney and can fight the case, om time to time in these columns I have de- plored the growing habit of discrim- inating against children—in favor of animals, It is a crying shame, to say the loust. 1 wish there were a law of con- demnation proceedings by which ev- ory apartment house which refused little children could be properly con- demned and punished. ‘The great trouble with the world to-day Is that there are hundreds of people growing up with an actual dis- ike for children, A few more rules like this against children will make them still more hardened, It is good beyond measure for peo- | of the United States Supreme Court: lof his baby Copyriah!, 1914, by The Lome Polishing Co, Voe New York bireaiag World.) HAT do you think of Frank A, Vanderlip's plan to im pose a Federal tax on un- productive expenditures instead of many people who ought to pay It | Rockefeller expends for Dle to see little children occasionally. Landlords are given the privileges of @ great city with unlimited resources for high rents, and they should not be allowed to make rules as unreasonable as this against the public at large, who must needs rent their places. Some new building rules might well be applied in such cases, The dis- gruntied people who cultivate “nerves” could have one entrance and the families that are bringing little citizens into the world could have an- other. But from an apartment house where it is found desirable for children to liv going the IMmit of so-called pr.vate rights of property against the needs of the community at large. As well sald by Chief Justice Waite By Sophie Irene Loeb | to entirely exclude children!) is! “When one becomes a member of Society he necessarily parts with som rights or privileges which, as an in-| dividual not affected by his relations to others, he might retain, ‘A body | politic,’ as aptly defined in the pre- amble of the Constitution of Maas-| Achusetts, ‘is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that ail shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. “Under thease powers the Govern- ment regulates the conduct of its citizens one toward another, and the manner in which each shall use his own property, when such regulation becomes necessary for the public good.” "Phere te ample precedent for the|” father mentioned to fight the cause ment's Income a whole lot, | do not think, Uncle Russell could hay paid his tax with a two cent stamp, “A spendthrift like yo: John D. Rockefeller would swell the income of the Government by paying a tax on his expeenditures, wouldn't he? Brady every Diamond Jim cigarettes pays more for than Mr, unproductive purposes, and Mr, Brady doesn’t smoke cigarettes at that “Besides, great m rich men due expend money for unpr ve pur By Martin Green | lowing excuse: ‘I am performing the! | | jand while he's finishing one drink he's ordering the next. | Never quite contenied and satiafied and happy, He goes through life exactly: (bing things away from other ‘he finds @ woman who could make him perfectly happ: | band exactly as a MAN goes shopping. She jo taking something you don't want ' consider"-— ‘then 1 ain't arim duty which I find the law im- poses on me as warden,’ he said “Did you ever hear such an utterly futile expreasion? Doean't Mr.” Mover know that his predecessor as wardén of Sing Sing Prison, who is regarded | throughout the realms of Mush as! foremost reformer of our time, | discovered that the law does not ap- ply to the warden of Sing Sing? Un- der modern penological practice as} exemplified by Thomas Mott Osborne! and Prof. Kirchwey, the warden of | the gufter the abominable, Intolurable cone | decency Is ted; It Ix to our —_— S| Jescape. Thousands and thousands! Poses 12 such a way that no govern-|Sing Sing obeys only such laws as he| t urrounding the transit facilis | lasting shame and dishonor that it nm pee reagan escap sands and t and t tax collector could ever locate ‘ ties of thelr city? Will they contiaue | has eststed.t walle, 1 1 hope Po-Day bl Anniversary, | dodge the income tax—or dodge pay- | MeN! tax iis ‘or sone v o thinks he ought to obey, 1 fear this | io meekly allow themselves to be| that if the inhabitants themselves do |) ———_- — = ing t just share of it-—and there | ##i4 expenditures. W, for inst man Moyer is away behind the times, trampled upon, pushed and crushed | not is poper will under HE Bluebeard" or “Barbe-|ia no way, u re law, by which | COUld the tax collector, unless although they do teli me that he bad po omg gegen led AP Bey Pee eee | bles" of Perrauli's fairy tale} they can be held up and compelled to | Pomsessed clairvoyant powers, tell) many years of practical experience | Breer Wore VAL) sore tk “ verve ti had tho At of killing his] det who pays the rent for very, verv/as a prison warden, But that was| accident, costing wany lives, occurs; ervthing possible han h , ie | Gellver many flats in this town? fore the adoption of the principle! or will they take sleps to remedy or tigate this evil, When wives, but the first ar nat Possibly Mr. Vanderlip thinks that hey ‘ before » adoption o| pring i 0d sa evil that dally menaces the! wil nee contractors and city iiluebeard was a slayer Bellew: taxienvallmpikad On anhPaANas . " . | chat « criminal is not to be treated as | Hives of wundreds Of thousands o| M) Who themshy re, He was Giles do Laval, Marsh t ¢ ecessary expenditures $A Prehistoric Man. 2 a# criminal, but as a patient ‘ - 4 1 ' Pace rrr - Eliminating the offense against all c fa multitude of Retz, a famous sole and at people wouldn't uf oso) much yt . eee eee | the laws of hygiene and sanitation | people? e wake up! time the richest man in France money foolishly who can define) 66D vou not eahed the wea | 2 Rest im Peace, ' nd decency in herding people Into | CHARLES WACHBMAN, | was executed for his utroclous crimes | spending money foolishly? Many of pole Pe cr Mr Moyer, © SAAPPREOLOAOLRODIODED | i pA AE ei Aun 476 years ago, Dec 1440 Jus are like the soldier who, finding | @ now warden of Sing Sing! ¢¢ 7 SEE,” sald the head polisher, consequent serious effect upon the| ” His beard was of a Unt which won| himself broke the day after payday, | /rivon, personally attended a double | chat William Fox purposes to health of these people, | should think |. ve | for him the popular name later eiven| figured out be had spent 60 cents for| execution & few days aMer he took! build a Million dollar movie the constant danger layolved in trans- |), rj by Perrault to the fairy tale villain. | laundry, 10 cents for carfare and $18 |omMce?” | Aim mausoleum in Central Park.” | Would be euvioas wo the most care: Witty Cents, The original Bluebeard was noted|for booze, but couldn't remember T can't paeretang this man| “1 don't care where he builds it,"'| leas. What a horrible toll tn Itv | Te Wee Redltor of The Rrealng World alike for his piety and his Heentious-| what had become of the other $1.80|Moyer at all,” said the laundry man. said the laundry man, "just so he wil] be taken in case of fire, collision! What is the value of a flyin ness. His chapel was the righest in|of Me monthly stipend and finally|"He must be in the fossil class; puilds it in @ hurry, but f insist that} or panic of any sort, with the cars| cent, 18577 {ta furnishings in all France, and he| concluded that he had spent it fool- | Modern students of ponology who he- |he should place therein about 90 per and stations 60 wolidly packed that Caruso, gained from the Pope permission to y Neve in patting & murderer on tho! cent, of the moving picture films there is not room enough for one to} . ne ishly, ie ture around! I have teen told that | 72 tne Balter of The Kvening W have 4 gold cross carried before lim! “Speaking of taxing expenditures,|back and sending the widow of the; manufactured nowadays before the more care is exercised in shipping | je. AeOaw. WHC te the SeUas on bis travels. Al of this time his] inink of what a fat wad the Govern-|man the murderer killed to the Alms-| public ts forced to see them.” matte to the morkyenis aa | mack . 5 ea pt” accomplices: were luring children io! ment would have pulled down as a/house must regard this man Moyer | bait Se cata T contins T cannot void'y city 6 Lan to 81.50, creep yore hom were put to| tax on tho expenditures of the late| aa hopeless | PT HERE are 1,507 Americana liv. ae ¥ h aeV my | Hetty Greent Also a tax on Russell] “Here comes the warden of Sing ing in Shanghai, China, and the any respect as long as auch disgrace. |To tie Pir of 1 r “| h is not Kanwd | Hetty Gree axol rT ing | ful conditions exist. We point with | What is the value of a ‘ but it is certain that they eh ied|Sage's unproductive expenditures Sing Prison and personally attends a number has been on the in- pride to our libraries, museuins, sky-! dated 1800? hundreds, would have increased the Govern- double execution and offers the fol- crease since the war began 4 i i] ) | The Woman of It | By Helen Rowland by The Vreee Pup! She Says the Real Joy of Christmas Is “Just Before.” ‘ °T mances exclaimed the Widow with a sigh of satisfaction ap sh@ handed the Bachelor the lust spray of mistletoe to be tucked iw the chandelier and sank weerily but happily back asnong the satin cushions of the arm-chair, “ive all Cinished—and overt” Finished and over!'" repeated the Bachelor im surprise os he stepped gingerly down from the tipply~ ladder, “I thought it was all just about to begin! “Of course, you foolish boy!” laughed the Widow softly, “A man never DOES know when anything is - over! He doesn't even know when the bes: part of it begins use he js always so busy wishing for gome~ thing etter, But the bost part of courtship is fust be= © fore the proposal, and the best part of marriage is the day before the wedding, and the best part of a kiss is the moment before taking—and the best part of Christ- mas is the week before, when the presents are out and coming in, and you are shopping and hop qi and wishing and dreaming, and watching for the postman, and hangip holly and the mistletoe, and baking the mince pies, and getting ready t@ BEGIN! On Christmas Day everything is cut and dried and settled’. oe es like the day after the honeymoon,” put in the Bachelor, “wheat you come back to earth from the starsand find that it is the came old world aftor all!” for the dessert. While he is kissing one woman he is thinking of another, That is why he ia #8 9 woman gocs shopping!” : xactly!" agreed the Widow. “Ifa man could only realize when he 18 | happy e “You mean picking up things and throwing them down again and grab- i is getting the best out of life! But he is consiantly wondering if there isn't something better--or something different, or something MORE! He is like the small boy at # dinner party; while he ts eating the soup he is thinking of the turkey, and before he has finished the turkey he is calling People and then discovering that he doegn’t want them?” inquired the Bachelor satirically, RIECISELY,” wnswered the Widow. or love, or a wife, just presents. The mome looking for he decides that he ee “He goes hunting for happiness, a woman goes hunting for Christmas p seta eXuctly the sort of giri he has been. better look a little tor The moment he wonders if he couldn't find one who might make him a little hap ul . i appier. (Even Solomon, no doudt, thought he might have found ‘something better’ if he had had another & Suess) And he never makes up his mind until he ts too tired and weary | and diaguated to look any farther; then, like the woman shopper, he enape | fy fi up the article nearest at hand, and—and marries he “But a woman,” retorted the Bachelor bitterly, “goes hunting for a hus- merely point: man who ploanes her cye and says, ‘Gimme that!” Mig pete “And nine tines out of ten," declared the Widow, : \ . “whe find couldn't have done better. Haven't vou ever observed that when ros Oe what you want in this life and don't take it you always regret it—and end As for ME.” and the Widow rose a tached up to adjust a falling holly spray that hung from the chande! re when [ see ANYTHING I want 1 just take tt, without even stopping to “So do I!" cried the Bachelor, jumping up and auitin lor, t the acti word before she could dodge from under the mistleto if con on ‘cc R, WEATHERBY!” exciaimed the Widow, backing away from him with flushed cheeks and blazing eves he released her. “How DARE y How COULD you be so-so absurd, and illogical, !" declared the Ba with a beatific smile, elor stanchiy she sank back in hischair “Tk ut want, and ki voen I dappy. and I know that the best part of a kiss’ wt_snow when U'm.perteotig, irae “Is not BEFORE taking part of "Christmas’ cried the Widow aofily the little gilt clock on the mantelpi “It's Christmas DA finished the Bachelor brazenly. “And that the as the midnight bells chimed o1 elpiece struck twelve clear, *ulene silvery strokes. The Jarr Famil y ‘aa World) em in stock, couldn't bt % t dropped in at Gus’ M the evening before Christmas and said, “What do you get for Christmas, Gus eg C9 “L could put * 1" asked Gus, Jon't you think a nice watch aod chain, or a handsome Gold-headed “I got a grouch!” replied Gus sur-!umbretla woul | ! id be better?” , as he wiped the bar | Mr. Rangle, a That was a birthday present. You! “How could | sell « ’ 9 sell ‘en re?" got it on your fret ‘birthday and|Gus., am hereto you've had it ever since,” ventured| “Maybe that ain't a bad t4 1 Mr. Jarr. Guy's." remarked bgt lc : arked i "You get out of my liquor store!"! "Now, i¢ anybody aheua OY said Gus. “What good is your tradeimake me a present of a tae a a ol to mo? I ain't seen you for weeks./art glass or even som I guess, maybe, you are going in bad! rors | would take it company, Well, look out, young fel-|I take the glass, br @ bevelled mir~ Not only woula but I would show ler, it's a bad algn when a man don't|them where tt ; here is they come into my place, Mave you been|retall, and then 1 ona oF Re it at drinking j4nd get the wholesale (ase: ane "No, 1 haven't,” replied Mr, Jarr.) “Sure, th: rea at's the o1 “I've been so busy that when I get|I've heard yet tor pide home of an evening I'm so tired Cj for a business nan ee 2 aven't the ambition to go out again.” | grocer. “Maybe, that way tet t® “And where do I come in on that?” can keop up with wha ay, @ feller uy, asked Gus. “Ain't I got a right to| Did you fellers know ly owed him, a live? If you are too busy to drop in| grocer fatis once every a every Poor to see me, and Bepler, the butcher.) the United States?” ” VOMFe 1@ BO, is too busy; and Muller, the grocer, | fs "You haven't fait busy, and the brewery | that { know of,’ ww, ed in four years |: said Gus shuts down on my mortgage ‘cause “it ain't 1h 4 . i e bal way,” {I don't can meet the payments.” Tinga: replied Muller, an of every four Just then Mr, Slavinsky, the glazier, j the four fails ev ary vane one.eg dropped in and, as though a signal! “Why?” askeg ape ad flashed around the neighbor- | case crete eet SRT } i cod, Hepler, the butcher, and Muller, the wholesalers for what thee fee ot the Hrocer, and Kafferis, (he builder, !and then they don't get pens buy, and Mr, Kangle all came in one by people they eell the sacien by the one, ; vu | That's what I say, if people ils "What did you get for Chrisunas?”! give mes why don't thay asked Mr. Jarr of these y don't thay rmetasa, : (give me what I can se? G 1 got @ necktie,” said Mr. Rangle. | right. Do any of you wane Prt bird “So did 1,” sald Mr. Muller me a barrel of sugar for Coreen nik Bepler admitted be had gotten two, | Every man present, in fact, had got- ten Christmas {n the neck, spirit is,” sa Gus adjusted a vivid red one In}Jurr, “that so. mang ncgOpEte the bar mirror and smiled for the) their good will, good fellow: first time in some days and remarked | Kenerosity 10 specialise, on at Chrial that “nobody had nothing on him,” {if tiere were less of it done on ohe is “Ivs hard to give you anything,"| mar and more of it spread the remarked Mr. Jarr to Gus. “What! °F, rn he 364 days ood would it do to give you a bott ures” said @ avin? “Now ain't of case goods or a box of cigar meckties? Someboux \L “And @ side of beet or bacon ur @ bam to me?” asked Bepler, he trouble with the Christ, Je | vo going vet the stort something! HI Sundey will mark the forty- | fifth birthday of Giuseppe | erdi, the groat Italian com og Verdi's “Alda,” whch has be. | much assistance from others. Mari- ne of the most popular of all] tologist’ who neoreted French Bayp- come ono o ost it, ‘who tee operas, It was first sung in Cairo, | avated the Sphynx and the Sakarah to) in the new Italian theatre which had|sketch for the iibrette, oubintag' been built Im that city by the Khe-| tale of ancient Egypt that was urely dive Ismail! to commeinorate the|!maginary, but which posse: uel opening of the Suez Canal and re-/ dramatic pommbilities as to d ceived ita premiere on the night of | Verdi, Another Frenchman, M. rm Dee, 24, 1871, One of the most cosmo! lovle, elaborated the sketch of the Whereas “Aida” is attributed to = / 4 politan assemblages ever gathered in| Heyptologist, writing the text in an opera house-Buropeans of ali| graceful French prose. ‘The Freni nationalities, Americans, Africans, libretto was translated Asiatics, white, brown, black and| by Antonio Ghislanzon yellow—filled the Khedive's piay-!matic and thrilling elf house, united in proclaiming (be scene is divide: “Aida” @ success.