The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1916, Page 4

4 and adds greatly to the cost. This Is the middioman. 001,845.24 ding to reports Aled with Stats fuperintendept of Banks Bugene Lam) “ chard. following the last bank call sued by the New York State Bank- Department. pu Sept. 20, 1916, the resources o! Ghese inetitutions totalled $8 04, 5 4 ti Fesources of §! Nov. n increase from Sept. 20 to MISERABLE FROM “For two years, 1 was a miserable sufferer from Rheumatiom and Siomach| line Reforms That Receive Trouble. 1 had frequent Dizzy Spelle, Warm Commendation. and when I took food, felt wretched and sleepy. I suffered from Rheu- im dreadfully, with ins in my back and joints, and my hands swolle A friend advised “Fruit-a-tiv from the outset, they did After the first bor, I felt 1 was getting |teetlve Association of well and 1 can truthfully say that| World. Men prominent the only medicine |4nd national affairs, alre: Action w against the high cost of sd, 50c a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, @5c.| there has been enough At all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit-| tion, and sugested ways and means Pore a-tives Limited, Ogdensburg, N. Y.—| of attacking and wiping out the evil AAKon J: Advt. under which we are living. Tho Levys Sas) was ih eae — Se Highest Grade Men’s “Cordovan’”’ Shoes rentative John J. Mitzgerald, Chatr- « 57.00 Newest Winter Lasts and Models at last season’s price. | ‘srs. witinm Grant Brown, Prost. wi "a Club ded, a th There is no place in New York City where, latter ogeahors, sie Comrusbant to our knowledge, this grade of shoes joseph Hartigan of the Bureau of is sold under $9 or $10,—except here. energies Levy of the Munto- Our policy ie to refrain from quoting comparative But here is a case exceptional enough to warrant an exception. The leather for our ‘Core dovans” was bought last Spring—and our policy is to always pase all advantages on to our patrons, the slogan at the mass meeting last night in Cooper Union i | the auspices of the Housewives’ Pro- oe LOUIS LABRIE, | on tho subject, told the audience that THE EVENIN ser ov. if of $61,141,038. During the same the total deposits increased from bu to $16,615,675, a gain of pa = an Then wo have investigations, and — to living, under Pm na The Evening In city, State ady on record | th of investiga- bet stoner John J. Dillon of the State | sp {Food and Markets Departm an embargo on food exports for a | year, or empower the President of the | United States to prohibit the exporta- | ton of all fogs or any single product, las the case, in his judgment, may ariae, was the expression of Repre- man of the Committee on Appropria- \tlons, Miss Sophie, Irene Loeb of |The Evening World told how the | common law had been Invoked in The Evening World's fight for 80-cent | gas for Manhattan and Brooklyn, and that she had sound legal advice | that tt would also apply in tho fight for the reduced cost of living. |dent of the State Federation of hte and Measures, Prestding 1pal Court and State Senator George F. Thompson, who recently conducted the Investigation of the Public Ber- vice Commission. DILLON OUTLINES HIS CO. OPERATIVE PLAN. Commissioner Dillon said that two fundamental problems confronted the people. First, he said, we must have the supply of food in order to eat and secondly, we must have it dis- tributed, “In olden times,” he sald, “com- tral point I would have an a agent of farmers. the farmers and no one else. farmers ship thelr goods to him, bring It to him in thelr wagons. Then | he will grade their products and ship | them to the retailer, who retails it the consumer. The co-operative work in shipping will eave expense to the farmer. Then the eurplus can be shipped to a central, or terminal, mar- | Ket, where an agent or agents of the; farmers can take care of it. Ener 2everees) 2eeeeee the world. But there te a class ich intervenes between the source supply and the consumer, which gambles and speculates in the food, ‘Men who control the wtilities put down the price for the farmer and t it up for the consumer, Those men have been indicted and fined and nt to Jall for despolling the farmef; t what good hag It all done? They y their fines; they get out of Jail dare right back on the fob again moro investigations, all of which cost —_—_OOOOooOr— | the people more money. a such a proposition, CONG. SS. FITZGERALO No tnvesti- j speakers were applauded to the echo|@ation will ever put down the high STOMACH TROUBLE Protest . of t People Against and the meeting was demonstratively | Cost of living. Grafting in Food Proves _ |enthustastic. “My plan Is to put the farmer in Have a central market and put the | direct touch, as nearly as % is pos- FeltWretchedUntiiHeStarted) 2 Big Demonstration, | producer and consumer In closer con- atbte, with the conaumer. At a can- To Take “Frult-a-tlyes’’ HOUSEWIVES’ TRIUMPH. 504 Champlain St, Montreal. | Noted Public Servants Out- t, an) Let him work for Let the ‘This will turally make the cost less to the “You might ask why I haven't put 8 system into practice. I will tell Because it costs money to put up the markets, and the State won't V ne the money. The last Legisias ture gave $10,000,000 for tae adornment of a park and two years ago they ap- existing laws now to : | Propriated $5,000,000 for a speedway. nection, was the advice of Commts-|How many of you have horses for a eodway? You don't receive any t. Put} benefits fro: those commodities? Thi of not worrying about them. They ul prosperous. They have automo- biles to drive in about thelr farms. They have been prosperous for years | and are making more money now | hind this “The world’s crops are short enough | [')'\",, to inereaso prices a little, but there tion R 28, 1916. 1 precedent for Invoking and I received y President of 1 Trade Commission that IS ENGAGED TO MARRY | xh se the common law ts sound, That 18] LONDON, Dea, %%—Former Premte: the message nt to give you. than ever, |. “When The Evening World got be- Asquith has fesued @ statement deny | THE SOURC \*. ime ine, etch Fe ic Pitley the, Fe AND PREVENT movement, the ma: Kling that his daughter, Elisabeth, fs en-) BILTOUSNESS, sald to do something; get not waste time with je | gaged to be married. is absolutely no justification for pres- | woras, We thourht that the best ent prices. They are due mainly to the middlemen, who aro preying upon | women the poor and upon you and mo. There | 100,000 di is NO precedent for present conditions. | can go to the Legislature and we can} men: of Mi! Unusual remedies must be applied. In the countries which are at wa ———— are centralizing on the subject of food. ‘They realize their danger and are putting embargoes on exports. | They are keeping their food for thelr | own peopl Why shouldn't we do the same?” Justice Levy was another speaker who was sure that we had gone in- este 1, and (iat we wanted | “We don't need a sald. “We have ample 4 rise in rebellion—not with th or dynamite, not in violence—but , with action and co-operat make ——=|rentiment, Get behind T vening World, which has taken the initiative in this vital question, which strikes all homes, and which no other paper has done. The movement which has froused so many thousands of house- | wives in this city and State is soun | and bound to succeed with se able | and determined women in the fight.” | Commissioner Hartigan said that what was needed, even more than em- |bargoes or central markets, or boy- cotts, was strong, ermined, and| } persistent work upon the part of our Public officials. “This condition has not come on us suddenly,” he said. “Prices of foods have been advancing for last fif-| teen years and this is due to the! people's own slothfulhoss. In the | old days we had central markets on | the river fronta for distributing points, where the retailer went and picked out his own goods and where the consumer did his marketing. To- day we have none, But this move- ment of The Evening World has awakened the people again. We must arouse public opinion. The whol awakening, for this is « » affair.” SMator Thompson said that he was not an investigator, as Mr. Fitzgerald | had classed him. He was a farmer n up-State, he declared. ‘There are a lot of us farmers up there,” the Senator laughingly said “and we don't have to walk about our farms. We have autos to ride around them. We are all prosperous, You eedn't worry about the poor farmer, Time was when men sold us lightning rods and gold bricks, but not now. I think those gentlemen are all down in your city now, selling you the rod and tho bricks, I am on the Finance e munities were supplied with the prod- a Si bhatt — ‘ommittes of the Senate and I will ~ ay ucts of farms near at hand. But tn| put the money for it comes out of |help Mr. Dillon to make his Nigh 1 these days of steam and electric) your pockets. It Isn't the cost | Velleve in him and think we oug' ) rapid transportation our supplies are) which stops the system. It Is the| uid It mar not, Het were Rettine ‘ brought to us, not from the farms) politicians, men who are helped in|action and that's what we want above near at hand, but from hundreds and| their campaigns by the middlemen |All things. We know that utilities, wid thousands of milee—from the gardens! and who return the compliment when | Prvately owned or owned by a@ trust, |should be operated as cheaply as you could operate them yourself. And P PLI TION we know that they are not operated n,that manner.” [Mahopany, Oxheart or Black fin- | SOPHIE IRENE LOEB'S MESSAGE ene ne A and mode accord TO THE WOMEN. the newest sty cts. bt i 1 > Miss Loeb, in closing the meeting, , | Cut out this coupon, fill out and mail to the Housewives said that she had a message for the ‘ Protective Association, Evening World, Post Office Box 1354. Levae ites, er onary: y affected A Separate Shop 1916 ao Wg are all wick of nothing being | one,” she sald, “Everybody has| 4 West 38th Street On the Street Level | | gone’ Investigation mad. We had a Franklin Simon 8 Co. Fifth Avenue—New York th ETER DOELGER cay m Name ..crccocacccccccccenessoccscoosascescsacevece Addrese .scccwwwscvccscoceclesseveccoccccscccs I desire to enroll my name as a member of The Evening World’s Housewives’ Protective Association. Inclose 2-cent stamp and membership token will be mailed. everybody, and y given by the ( ey reach office. © that it 49 more Important to appro-|pe the only force which might say | priate money for speedways and or-|what shall be paid for milk and| namental parks, roads and reserva-|bread and eggs and coal; to give! tions than it is to provide for the feeding of the people. We pay an- nually for food $800,000,000, and this | : | system would mean a saving to the people of the State of $200,000, 00% | annually.” | FARMERS ARE RICH; FITZGER ALD WANTS AN EMBARGO, Representative Fitzgerald said tha 6 high cost of living was patent to X00 and take eighteen months to ascertain if prices are high. “Mr. Barnos, in the House of Repre- | euverd is ali ii [Bot rument sentatives,” sald the speaker, “de- fy "fru men clared that nothing #0 angered the |] 1 depos English people over the extortionate food prices as the explanation of them verninent’s spokes. an. And the excuses of the spokes: man of our own Govornment ha: © pretty near the same thing with And they tell mo| "“e0d products are common com: | , the Federal Trade This $100 Columbia Grafonota te @ Commission is about to investigate to ||] reautiful model and can be had in q | determine the question, It will cos! hard time in getting 80-c ar) through, but we got it through the power of common law, No | Persons can stand In the gateway of commerce and charge the people ex- tortionate prices for the necessitios of life. I want the Government to get between the producer and the consumer, No one has the right to demand from a poor man what he can't pay, and It 1s up to the Govern. | ment to step in and see that no one| does, | modities and the Go’ ernment should | them to the poor man for a reason. | able and livable price. 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