The evening world. Newspaper, February 22, 1917, Page 10

PE ees SE, PAGE | EDITORIAL a ag ESTARLISHDD BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Daily Pxcept Sunday by the Preas Publishing C 63 Park Row, New York. RALPI PULITZPR, Preetdent J, ANGUS SHAW, Tres JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secr tiles Entered at the Post-off Bubscription Rates to The bvex « World for the United States ‘ and Canada. | ‘One Year.... seeeee $3.50) One Year One Month. +301 One Mont VOLUME 67......... ot - | . Pudi All Countries in the International | Postal Union, .& oo NO, 20,274 AMERICANS NEED NOT STARVE. OOD RIOTS in New York at a moment when jobs are looking for men, wages increasing and profits piling up at an unprece dented rate all over the country, are a syinptom that cannot be dismissed with philosophic talk abgut economic balances and advice to hungry people to go on cheaper diets. | Measured by the average income of Americans whose pockets are not bulging with war profits, no diet just now is cheap. Directly| housewives boycott one article of food because it is too costly, other articles to which they turn become costly also. The -plain fact is, despite all care, economy and self-denial, a dollar puts less and less food on the family table. So rapidly does the diminution progress that people who must make a dollar work | for them as hard as they work for it begin to ask how long it will he before they have to put themselves on famine rations or cat every} other day | All this in a country which has always produced an abundance | of food for its own needs with plenty to spare for other nations! All this in a country which at the present time ia almost unbelievably prosperous, where each day’s news is full of announcements of enor nious industrial earnings and record dividenda, } Is it any wonder that the public becomes first bewildered and! then desperate? Is it any wonder that ignorant and excitable women | tip over pushearts or pour kerosene on potatoes offered them ai} rices cruelly far above their reach? It is true, destroying food makes it no cheaper. Nor doos threatening to starve to death on the eteps of the City Hall fill market baskets. But w whom present conditions mean actual hun at eign or promise of relief has been gran ¥ Investigations, ‘uuiries, legislative programmes—what have they so far amounted to? | Despite all arguments why food prices need not, should not, and} must not go higher, THEY HAVE GONE HIGHER, AND THERE! 1S NOTHING IN SIGHT TO KEEP THEM FROM GOING) HIGHER STILL. 4 Explanations are offered which do not explain, remedies are proposed which cannot remedy. Scarcity jation in storehouses is blamed roads are blamed. s blamed. j Speculators are blamed. Over-accumn- The rail- ’ No authority—local, State or National—has yet managed to measure the situation or get even a half grip on it. o one can set forth evidence to show that actual searcity of food in the United States accounts for so much as one-tenth of the ularming increase in prices. On the other hand the policy of certain patriotie American food producers and food handlers who have seen no reason why war prices in the United law reach them or dis. n Europe should not mean war prices— States, has been notorious, Whe courage their rapacity ? and profits- e do the ‘ , A Massachusetts commission, after puzzling over “the underly: causes of the recent rise in food pri ‘ yond the control of any one State.” can do, but we will « ns,” decides that they are “be- “T don’t know just what we inly do something,” the Mayor of New Yo told a committee of east side women who went to him yesterday protest against prohibitive food prices. After two years of sharply rising pr it is aa far as anybody jas got in tackling the problem of the cost of living: “We must cer- ivinly do something.” Rioting is unseemly If, however, Congress votes without delay £100,000 for an exhaustive investigation of food prices by ‘Trade Commission and the Department of Agri Sn this city will not have been wholly in vain. As Senator Borah said yesterday in the Senate; “Congress cannot adjourn so long as it 18 possible for us to be of any service in this deplorable situation.” | “We want bread!’ was the cry of the French revolutionista as they marched to Versailles, It is the most ominous cry that can be heard fn a republic, and whatever is sald aa to the effect of the war on prices, the fact remains these pecple are in large measure the victims of spe which are milching millions out ulators and food.” nee a commission and combinations Congress can do more than fing ita findings. If Americans are to go on starving while enormous quantities of their home food products are held or shipped for more profitable eale in Europe, it will have to do more and promptly. | Embargoes may be no less uncongenial to American theory and| isten to practice than the arbitrary fixing of food prices. t the present| Cnee# of Carnemte Horaries, or teach: | Copyright, 1017, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York E@ening World,) the fireman, rhe ed been Srandtserys ers’ meetings every day to stimulate | ; ; Rhine “ ‘ Fae. a distant district, and Gertrude . ; moment, however, the United States is learning that it has to face | mterest or provide othe Hitles for} SR @ woman does something particularly foolish or feeble '> alacant Glatsiaty ANd. Seeeriae || By Lafayette McLaws + ; 3 study; it was just ttle ‘one- minded, men smile delightedly, and say “How feminine! ng rs i. i = <= wertain facts and certain situatio: ot ‘ace them, | teacher 50 " erin an F eharm to “waft her love back to Car N, rr - ite #24 Hy \ 1 but thage," as Shakespeare says. No, 1—I] Mothe 4 i If Am worth feeding. It would r woman Being engaged to a man {s merely being in a posi- iit pee Me iaia stra tats 0. I ary Ball, Mother of W ashington, be poor policy wn ite thamrdl die can sid AI Ae wth | on where ho is neither required to treat you with the), pa unos ter ahd Con oe ) understand the r-of-fact his habit of scrupulous perseveranos, of exploiters he Executive has a plain road to pursue fulfil all the engagemer beyond this by namely, be influenced 4 which duty requires; ne of the contending parties maintain a A Mary Ball, the daug of Col of Knitting line strict ality unless obliged by imperious ctroumstances to | mets any more on account of the war. They | yoseph Ball by his wits, tad ts abet fadoore eh aa depart from it; do j to all, and never 3 hat we " ‘4 One reason why there have been no great women, Wants @ dollar, especially If its @ | attained th n ripe age of twenty- | her | needles flashed swiftly 8 +4 rather remarkable coincidence fae Page Napier aye bier . sane nee 4 ings for patrlote are Ameri ] that the birthday of George Wash Aa explorers 1s probably because the average woman's #0! fortune about your sweetheart’ trwo when she became the second ae Sk, patriot ect ry 3 Fy wan nd Ge! de sighed to think of how | o¢ Augustine shit At Wake- | Satoue PANU tane haou ls BIAG be HAA] Gag Sb Alls]. fie nee iife ts devoted to the task of discovering the source of At Gertrude alghed t Tiinls of how |of Augustine Was A » fervently thanteed Born February 22, 1782 gust Perdin tebel, “the Red Wash svete ; ye |the grea had added to the | aeld, their plantatio ome on the | G no word did sh ee oy Bich Schie a neton’ of Germany, Bebel's birthday, & man's grouch—and finding out whether it is located in his tooth, bis) ii” cowt of loving, “I used to get} Potomac, Feb, 2 We aital nie it the part her eldest. son fe 4 Seren nenee een 4 = | Wan widely inated by Socialists’ soul, his digestion, bis conscience or his vanity. splendid fortunes for a quarter," 86) Mary Ball's - pieved ' 1 in muining the mush desired : | during hi i nee " fn tet ei i anee ean Ah ance: thee ice ; « c » high ra 0 at Letters From the People IGerman Gove BE CS eae, ; ; went on, “but now f nts t uter this baby Ww 1 and! ta te te Carke f Duay Ave MRE ited, press all men t nga of When you realize that {t {8 what you put into marriage, not what) only want to tell you to heware of a ihe ai ( ; refer: (ariel To the Editor of The Kveuing W To the ¥ Tie Lveaing World; eta Bra voilonns POF you can get out of it, that counts, you have won the first handicap tm the | dark-eyed wor and that you are| frectionate x r M ¢ "It is to tho A says that a boy w thirteen | Ar n born here of alten | aug 1 continually as- race for happiness. polo to have & Journey ‘aie | jaz t American. mothers years of ax 4nd whone | Parente citizens; or does the fact that] sorted that tho Prussian rulers of ( sd for that much,’ |) The a ! 1 sou ‘ form of government, r o € th J their ather wd not nis CONC hany were plannin. n ew a anc 1 i " a} t esit ea fi Via i x 1 Parente aren t citizens of hi ' nited | papers at the time of his death ne Seavey i Ae Oe ane ay, oud No matter how angry a woman may be with ber husband, nothing | mother used to tell fortunes | vo y e W | » ag Hae bes Bree Brates, Is a c of the United |terfere with thelr citizenship in any| the declaration of ties with @! makes her so indignant as to have another woman agree with her that he from tea leaves," remarked Mra, Jarre) (0000 0) ? ‘ an of hie age, Hiates, but cannot vote, B says that | way P. McA. | counter ‘ should drive bs | musingly, “and I believe 1 remember | {))..24.! wit ed of all Amerioane top he tsn't a ¢ ed States Yea! Soon After War Began, the Hohenzoiler w brute, how." }Voung, handsome and th t ine under’ thos: Please tell | fo te baitar of The Prening Wo A Baxon. Hebel hud al Saxon —_— ‘Would you tell mine, Mum?" asked | comfortable forty ght hay >_—__. who Is rig Ot 18 | Please \ fa German hatred for Pru nd all t ! ine A woman wilts as easily a violet, under the cloud of a man’s Ine) ee ne ce do r) gen a life so: ‘ i AD PENCILS are not lead. Now wank ¢ Hritish a “ ese hatred of ha avotion and she W 880) ertruce sOA58: 5 " f j =A 0 Seas wes pein tho fngueh Channelet Prussian, ki ' ‘ Liotity difference; but give ber Just a little ardent devotion and she will blossom Nyii4 on with that psye uinen Cy ; but somal i would like s ne wou Bebe satel FE age the like a hardy geranium under a@ September sun, I get my calories, the eats ¢ They bear the mile. Worth Know woine | Nor You tre a Citisen, ; eras i ~— Jurr. “You may haye had sc = ash Rep bore LAG Felts vos & namo because leaden gimme ne were pubiisiied ew York | Zo the Laitar of ‘te Leaning Wor ‘ a Ae Mer erreey enone |she prepared her ac arn thelr mets w 1 for ruling faint Ines Evening World, were ever published My father is a foreigner, 1 am | Mca & Seu et ‘The thing that makes a man strive hard for success 1s not so often to cas, thie children have had theirs, |Svn Aiving It was 2 hee Seale mat chace on duling falas i in book form, so where can | pro- porn here. Do I require citizen p S o ae King ‘D8 she desire to inspire bis friends with pride as to inspire his enemies with Gertru may not be hungry, but’ mind of George Washingt: gral 1 sin Cumberland, Bng- cure the same J.B. if T want to vote? REAL | by his gune to the last F vo there's amy seances around great mould. It was she wi 4 land ae ne NEE Ne werner The Prec *FiRst FIRST sho was persuaded to send the two catch the purp years’ work of herself and her ohil- | work in the se spirit, By Sophie Irene Loeb. t. 1917, by Tie Pree Publishing Op, | dren, more as a reward to them for| It is another {ncident exemplifying | The New Yoru Evening Worbl,) good work and to stimul the quotation that if a man write a/ 66 2 of the most remarkable ex-| With no thought of daring to enter | better xermon or even build a better | iples of work. well. done| te lst against the better equipped | 1 (rap than his neighbor the schools of the Stat will make @ path to his door, vieh secured its greatest re ‘LAttle did she realize how those | world has made a path te ward ia that of the] years of patient, loving work would | the door of this rural achool teacher, little woman who | be re waned, against oft the big and/and her work will be used as a ‘now ta acclaimed | little uchools and the hgh schools all Ing pr ind acknowledged | “And tne pest of it all ts that Ruth the best kohool| Royal, up at Cassia, doesn't know | Women who never stop for applause | an teacher in the|that her school has won and ts ac-/or encouragement, but get tt all out) State of Flor-|knowledged as the banner school of| of their own endeavors. | yet Florida in every department which| The so-called workers who play | ida Her work] ts taught In schools of all classes,” and that of her| It ds certainly worth while that this| labor rarely get any further than th won, | little, obse school tead |footlights of fortune and their suc- Jalded and unknown, « cess 1s but temporary, by a large margin} nition she rightfully merits, There a Mons of th of points, the; greatest and finest thing about this; people who skim the surface on Brorein Cup, open| woman is that sho worked not for aj their efforts, They are usually | to all competitors | Medal or a cup but for achlevement— | poorly pald and rarely rise above a| bs is fo accomplish the task that was put|certain stratum in the Btate. by » her. But those like this little school | I saw this work and It is truly un-] Success always crowns the efforts | te r, whose labor {a ney pupils has str ret usual. ‘Tose who know. tel) how]of the doer who does for the return | dive deeply in thelr wo na eee Koval, af of diligence rather than the winning) until they have done th two years ago Mis yal, a1 Or Gollars. very best way, Hlorida girl and native of that section!” “such women never fall, becaus never fall be Ja Was app ho little| they go on continually to get results | 1 ather than rewards, The children | reftec nted as teavher to chool up at Cassia, Lake County ‘A truly rural school it was, seven miles from the nearest railroad, and drawn from the hetghboring farms, It hud none of he advantages of the big city schools, with ail the influence that they can hg to bear; none of the convent: | ognize fallure, It is good upon 7 | the ity pupils were By Helen Rowland {} | stu obedience due a wife nor with the politeness be shows | 1, to a casual acquaintance Or | Maducational De-| ath Wh a Fa The heart is the only muscle which a man doesn't think worth exercising in his quest for perfect devel To-Day’s Anniversar opment, tell envy. bet ———$—$—$$ Fvening World Dally Magazine Precedent _ arafsiiten, By J. H. Cassel e of the teacher and | Camright, 1017, ty The Pree Publishing Co, n- | Jarr cedent In all the schools of her| want js a cup of fresh tea ‘There are many women like that.| Mr. “Yer,” Mra. Jarr went on; “I'vo| thelr part only in the Mmelight of |been to the wa: lara Mudr | r lost. | people are so sup | "Oh, don't 1 Mrs Bachelor Girl Reflections ]} "sis trees ina lone of Gertrude’s beaux waa Claude, | jalso savored of the occult, sked Gertrude. gypsy women that come around won't . . Fifty Failures | “Ce Back’ | Who “Came Bac | By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1917, by The Prem Publishing Oo. (The New York Evening World.) NO. 4—MOHAMMED., The ‘Failure’ Who Conquered the East. . N epfieptio Arab peasant—Mohammed by name—early fn the seventh century announced that he had been chosen by heaven to convert the world to a brand new religion, He backed this startling claim with a series of neat, ham@- made miracles and spectacular epileptic fits and long trances, By virtue of all this he made many converts to his now creed an@ prepared to set up « sort of spiritual government in his home clty of Meoes. ‘The majority of the Mecca people looked on him as # crank or @ After trying very industriously to ki!] Mohammed, they drove him his converts out of the city. Then they chased tho fugitives, who were obliged to scatter in order to avold capture, Mohammed, himeelf, hid tm ¥ cave in the aide of Mount Thaur, crouching in the farthest corner while his pursuers galloped past. He wan an outlaw, a fugitive, a man whose own townsfolk had east him forth, Hie plan to convert the t to hie new religion and to estab. lish himself as a prophet had fallen flat At the age of fifty-two hd was ta( hiding and wa ) momentary peril of death, Kew —> mon have been more complete failures in life than - | { A Flight i was Mohamimed at thie time, after all hie years of BTL baie § truttiess toll and hope. Yet he escaped his enemtes and arrived at the palm-grove of Yathrib, in the Desert, where eome of his scattered a4. |herents joined him and where he founded tho city of Medina, There the |4ae of fortune turned. New converts flocked to Mohammed in dally tm- |creasing numbers, batling him @s God's prophet and Ustening eagerly | nis teachings. Mohammed claimed that the ange! Gabriel used to visit him during the trances which followed on his epileptte fits and that the angel at such times taught him portion after portion of the new religion, Afterward, Mohammed would dictate these “revelations” to his scribes, who copied them down in a book known as the Koran, Fi | This book {s more or } a hodge-podge, made up from the Christian and Hebrow scriptures, Occasionally tty precepts were varied by eome “revelation” that happened to fit in with Mohammed's own wishes or plans, Arabia and the countries around it at that time, split up inte ttle independent or dependent States, whose religion had ebbed to @ lax form of heathenism. It was an ideal hour for Mohammed to enforce Rie own views on creed and conquest The faith of “Islam.” as he | hie relieton, spread with tnoredible | epeed. And, when any 6tate re- | sed to accept the Isiam beliefs, Mohammed led his horde of fanatics to | n his gospel at the_sword-point. | To goad his troops to red-hot zeal, he had a “revelation” promising gaudy forms of Paradise to all who should die in de- As a fanatic Js the most dangerous Mohammedan hosts swiftly conquered the greater part of the Orient. l¢ It was in 622 A. D, that Mohammed fle@ from | Mecea—a failure whose very life was forfeit, (Mohammedan countries, by the way, date time from this hegira—or flight—just aa we date our time | trom the beginning of the Christian era.) it. « Jater, Mohammed was master of a goodly part of the Bast? It was eagerly adopted by thousands. of Conquest. A Career } Ten yea and he numbered his adoring followers by the militone, | He had launched a new world-power—a power that did not stop with nis death, but which has ever since dominated the Ortent, et chess 2 © IT want my in, y’under-y tne alas! A brew of weeds, Tie New York Frening World.) | stand” able by sugar and GIVE the chil thelr supper. “Well, get Mr. Jarr his dinner a, the cause of ‘nerves’ Mum," sald Gertrude, the maid. | trude,” sald ith won vie na rye that are the “Mr, Jarr said he'd walt till | will-humor tssion t se of fault finding? Tea, @ @ 1 come hom see what the tea ves say oction that inspires those addicted And I'd like my steak unburned to it with the pellet tha and my coffee good and hot, y'un- nothing to wear? Tea, that biteth Pe ARATE TA ike @ computator, and rouses dor- ts + gaid Gertrude, and| Mant memories or imaginary wrongs pene in the minds of women? Not for me. I shall shun the cup!" “How foolish you talk!” declared Mrs, Jarr, “It would be a good thi for everybody If you took to tea and unned other cups T could mention, Why, look, my even suggesting Ta tell Gertrude's fortune with tea leaves has changed her whole nature, If I had first suggested her doing the things she's willing to do now, she'd be sulking, “But can you tell fortunes ?* asked Mr, Jarr, “Fortunes from tea leaves “As well as anybody,” replied Mrs. vr “At least I can tell Gertrude a ‘ot of things she wants to know, and , a lot of good advice that @he mast! be industrious and cpntented. That's right, smile! You Mon't believe in anything sacred!" Mrs. Aut ‘Oh, never mi they have “1 could eat at | derstand,” Oh, yes, sir, red to hasten Jarr was going to axk out him, but forebore, and de hastened away rs. Jarr, seeing her 60 ipation of consulting the Ned her back, “And make Gertrude," she sa ar with ' and Mrs. yver, and we had une her, but I could ng, and L was wanted to get o i there wa rellet b: on toe Jafter you clean up ye dishes be hardly eat @|sure to polish the silver and scald upset, because | ouf the ice box and give the paint tunes told, | work in the kitchen a golng over. such @ line of women) Then we will be all readied up, and I wding around the booth, Some} wilt see what the tea leaves say for| us | you." if you'll cross} “yes, Mum," sald the delighted remarked Mr. / Gertrude, and a few moments later lc ould be heard carolling in the foolish,” remarked} “Will you have a cup of t rude came in with] Mra. Jarr, the gift of | yet I'l) tell your fortun palm with silver,” uisine. asked “Dinner will be some time Jarr, as Ge tea, ‘You haven't ond sight or anything of that sort Tea? cried Mr. Jarr, recoiling The cup that cheers but does not Could she give you love charms, | m?" asked Gertrude eagerly, for ‘Mothers of American Patriot s manner in which George Wash- | U2Wavering courage and care for mi. ington, pushing aside a crown, | SU etal. dasiarea | oy i aaa aire il 1 am," declared the Father of refused a third term as President and| nis Country, writing of Min mother returned to position as While bo was President, “I owe @ prosperous American planter, ono er ba must study the life of his mother Alway 8. Jarre sipped -her tea as th: Does she tell GOOD fortunes?” “Some of thes inherite busy woman during the you @ good tortune for a quarter Mory Washington formed