The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1917, Page 8

World Daily Magazine EDITORIAL shh | Evening ee | —- eomenves Se 7 pt epsey D7 my Pre Aout ITZ b/s rite 1K HAW, TO“snP’ 5 MH PULITZER, at the Post-Office at Now York as Second-Clara Matter, ti to The Evening|For England and the Continent end All Countries in the Tnternational Postal Union, $2.50/ One Tea :80/ One Month LISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ae Publishing Company, Nos. $8 to) York. for the United States FOOD MUST BE FREED. OW soon will a great American city like New York be brought to a realization that the distribution of food is from start to finish a PUBLIC SERVICE—as much 60 as the transpor- tation of millions of persons to and fro for their daily need or con- venience—as little to be left unwatched, unguarded in the power of private greed? Everybody lias to eat. ‘The feeding of five million people ifvi within the limits of one city is a gigantic and ever continuing nec sity. What could be of greater public importance than to make sure that it is evenly, efficiently and economically done? Tho running of city railway lines, the number of trains and care upon which the public can count, is not left subject to daily or weekly changes by corporations for their greater profit. Nobody gets a chance to juggle as he pleases with transit facilities or fares. Why should it be so utterly different with food? Not, of cours®, that food prices are like railway fares in that they can be fixed. But does anybody doubt that {f distribution of food were recognized as a public service and regulated as such, If free movement of foodstuffs were required by Iaw and watched over by a commission in the interests of the public, If every pound of food that came into New York were recorded and its subsequent handling restricted for the protection of the consumer who must ultimately pay for it—does anybody doubt that, under euch conditions, food prices would be determined by something enfer and steadier than secret manipulations and agreements among gamblers and middlemen ? Investigation by The Evening World has shown that storage interests, backed by certain banks, have managed to limit etornge epace in this city to an area that makes it easy to crente artifi shortages of food and force up prices. This is the sort of thing that calls most loudly for regulation Qnce guarantee the unrestricted movement of food, insure open com-| petition and prices will take care of themselves, | If four or five years ago the handling of food had been pro- nounced @ public service and since treated as a public service there would be no food riots to-day, no bewildered urging of the Govern- ment to take over food supplies or arbitrarily fix prices. If the movement of foodstuffs were thoroughly understood and regulated in the interest of the public, it would be easy to push straight through to the natural, underlying reasons for any general rise in food prices, Instead of which the country is groping helplessly among a tangle of alleged causes and remedies, epeculators are taking further advantage of the confusion, and misguided women are stealing food d throwing it into the gutters with an idea they reaper! { are a os MATAR TAY, LSU AND ‘The Orleans to safe at Bordeaux, proving again 1 tins don’t make @ dlockads. ng THE SOBER SIDE FROM LLOYD GEORGE. The Wee Coporight, 1917, Wy Tie Pree The New York k ishing Co, REMIER LLOYD GEORGE warns Britons “there is no sure 3 ‘ ; 667 PTHE report of the Charitles means to victory without hunting the submarines from tne Com joner seems to put the kibosh on the claim that deep.” But he is as mum as the British Admiralty on the interesting and important question what number, if any, have been hunted from the deep since Germany intensified her warfare. On the whole the words the Premier spoke in the Honse of Com mone were as serious and devoid of cheer as any the British public the women and children of the east} ide are starving to death,” remarked the head polisher. “I don't think the real people of the east side—tho workers, tho ambitious and saving people—are proud of the has ‘ad to listen to since the war began. He admits increasing loss reputation which @ few volunteer f tonnage sunk by submarines. He adinits a shorta of shipping evangelists equlpped with not much | y more than a remarkable facility for as well.” ong with still fewer “not only for ordinary needs, but for the military necessities He tells English famil imported foodstuffs. national) grit. The gravest meas will be disaster.” Yot one word of positive go seem to have offered concerning loose language periodically try to tm- upon that city, 4 the laundry man, Yorker who don't know the east side are de ceived by the apparently spontaneous outbursts of protest and complaint which follow the launching of almost any sort of an agitation, “Rven in winter the east side ives will have to es they “Enormous sacrifices are required, testing the ires are necessary, otherwise there vd news or encouragement does he British fortunes on either land or sea. There may have been purpos a out of doors. Thousands of elieve that a new }’ Minist Lebildren throug (he oking for the sort aie evening ey ure an oxcita sould not have given them at leas and anybody able to speak Yiddish loudly and continuously can ecare > | were any. Apparently Great Britain’s recent shift of ministers only brought DE lagu yn cep yarn insiane in @ more eincwy man in time to tackle a tougher phase of the for excitement and change is probably fighting. more acute on the east side than In| other parte of the city, A march from Rutgers Bquare to the City Hall ts @ thrilling advenuure to women who ordinarily don't get off the block in which they live once a year, teared nst of the older poople were in ———— Mies Pearl MacDonald, the Pittsburgh economic exper who advises making soup with “meats arid bone which are » ‘used at all by American women,” speaks sense. A soup pot fs the high elfen and symbol of thrift. wi By Martin Green ks. Wy ash in Russia and Poland, these east|cent. of that audience beat it out of! * n siders require very littl : to | there precipitately for the bank, The| which was i start something in the room were half an! Belt. by F I never saw more double chin ¢ up the discarded buck- | who t @ of the police Dr 8 i countenances in a chan si d pans and there) precin istrict. Capt wathering of than were ap-| wasn't any run on the bank after all.” | Herlih the bulk of the parent in the that besieged th —* {stuff hauled away from the ‘Four City Hall t 1 “cc 1," said the head polisher, | Flush Belt’ by the garbage collect- tors was composed of empty paper | Swhat Is there to all this| iiscuit boxes and empty talk about the high price of |The attuation haa chang the food?” a |past few months. The garbage col-| “Nothing to tt but the truth," re- | lectora don't haul away eo many | empty cans these days.” One woman pushed a white enamel baby carriage that couldn't have cc less than ad In the carriage w tin cans, | changed in + an infant with @ visage like a coupl apples. of red As object lessons theso protestors were distinct fail. | Pied the laundry man. “There tsn't ure @ person in city who hasn't felt “Almost twenty years ago we had the pinch of t advancing prices of | 66 said the head polishe: a very or i proy The rich t, but that a whole lot of people! f sing they fe as well ; seemed to know about the spy hens on “And, by the way, we have | w ‘ Se talhe acae det tee of these soup kitchens poor people in New York to an | Work that waa being done for th I think it was at th ever before in the clty's history, 1|German Government by ‘young Mr, a . n von on ee on th don’t mean the out and out frankly | Sander.” ays of that winter, Tho place was| poor who admit they are poor and| “A great deal of the secre 26 crowded with women and children | haven't much hope of ever bettering | § t servic and men carrying buckets, pans, bas-| their condition, I mean the under- work of Germany, Great Britain and kets and other receptacles for food. | cover poor—the folk who are making |the United States, now supposedly Somebody entered and shouted tnja front on small incor ey are/ under way tn this’ vicint about Yiddish that thera was a run on a| ring more than t ein the a8 secret as Niagara Falls,” sald the ar East Broadway. Fully 80 per | t¢ laundry man By Roy L. McCardell ridge-Bmith pays $60 and §78 for her hata and Mrs, Stryver’— “Never mind those ornate dames,” interrupted Mr. Jerr, “And while I jam not going to apill any ‘Recollec- | ttons-of-a-Civil-War-Veteran’ stuff,|trich stands with dindain. I'm going to tell you that my motder| Even e Being im ® bonnet shop had @ bonnet she trimmed herself,| knows when a desperate man may The'Jarr Family ‘Copyright, 1017, ty The Pree Publishing Oo, (The Now York Drening Workt,) R. JARR hed held out herotcal ly, but the household troops had swept down upon bim tn a crushing charge and he found he could no longer hold the first line trenches, so he surrendered. “Oh, fs that eo?’ remarked Mr. Jarr, “Well, show um the best you have got, something nifty.” And he reganied the Lanvin of the burnt os- hat asm “Put I don’t want to go to th acne 4 t: ears, | be pus ~ —_—————— = | in, ntoncaphere of unrest and protest]. 0 Yn sou” he said, “Why |*0d she wore it for twenty years, | be pushed too far. ij yo te Pot always feel ke «| tWeNty Years to funeraly and other) “Hore is a very swagger little Re Letters From the Peo a) le sit gg lle oa | pleasant outings—" boux model we imported for the Com- a a it To-Day’s Anniversary ark in @ stor Le | “and I suppose she never asked|tesse de Bish,” eald the Being, “but Doubts Washington's Citizenship, || eo an American eltizen? T an To- ay 8s Anniversary Perhaps this was what Mra. Jerr) ee eee new one?” queried | the Comtesse has gone into m 1 To the Etter of The Exentng Wor a married to an Ameri an and ¥ ar hea snetad on. Once get © husbend rons im i for * on rane in| Fe cern anes as Bone Jae mourns nee A claims that George Washington |very anxious to find this out, « ’ me oe | Mrs. Jarr. Mr. Jarr was or her pet Pekinese, n make t he jally at this trying time. AS. M OF Dany vente age CFP) ATHHUH| in a pore and he 9 at the mierey Of |i i') ca Oh Nae cote OP ol @ apesial oplas on the Rae wae not an American, and that } If y father took out citteen Pearson was one of the world’s| wife and saleaperson. Yor pride, or). Po > mit, Le Tt ranean tha © py = waa a British subject. bocause ot the | a" ; ‘ | ear f t wit the matter, Her thought was to ge 6 the Hawailan mottf. time ef bie birth this country waslace yoeae of PE At ane tena great publishers the owner and| pecquse the highest priced things) Jase to ehe bonnet shop and in| The Reboux certainly did reflect the under the rule of England he was not @ cit You imi | wetive manager of several newspapers) always Look the heat, » husband sil at tae ak hase Meee a Hawatlan motif, With atrings t not called the United Stat turalized and magazinos, and ono o! ©! always come gracefully acro' "| mind, and let naturo take tts course, | Would have been a ukelele, B claims that it does not matter Wo} You Ave a Citisen, dournalintic pawarn of (he Beltah Nita can't scold any one but himself | Within the ornate snare @ courtly “It was to have sold for $80," con under whose rule this country was at TY Se Milter of Tie Erening Wor pire, ‘Then overwyrk robbed him of) op poing extravagant bandit signaled for an angelic female, | tinued the Being, “put I can make that time, that Washi: was a Tam @ foreigner, born 3 his sight, but bis plunge into a world)“ spye T want you to seo T get @ Hat) wig rloated up to them and led them|¥U @ special price of forty-nine American, because this country has gh tagh 4 a) ede A of darkness could not deprive bim of} ou Ke, dear,” pleaded Mra. Jerr. |+5 the inner trap. twenty-nine for it.” yor ye ine expire ! it es i 1 in May, 190) perience aro n his| “All right, I’ go with you then,’ “This Lanvin with the burnt ostrich | Mrs, Jarr stopped her good man tn Also let me know on what day of ee mn yeara of am now ympathy |he grumbled. “But mind, you aren't | strands over the white Milan ts very|t!me. He would have bought !t for the week did Jan 1891, and Feb, | Pay ¥ iG Re elved publi 1, an ke me for no foolish price | for Madam?” @aid the viston, |¢Wice the money—only he hadn't half 26, 1891, fall MAS. 3.3, MK. | S0ROo! > T need citizen ita t I can get a allk| ii -p| the money with him, ‘Washington was born a Hritian | Pa? v8. 10 war ¢ Be ei | eet MN ae galta’ for x ud Mrs aubdject, although an American ti No; Merely # Precedent, in Great Britain, for the tit of the! kelly for $8 PIPES irate sh an the same that an LM se , id, one of tho greatest fund cole) oT am not going to buy a site hat On lars," wala the lady F oweetly, ‘T will bo Gack with Canada tga Canadian, though the Jat> |, 2 Dan tiead Shinty. chan. onmer ét wouldn't go well with my new! promote 1 not call a dealer | NeW walking co ud see tho ¢ the freeing of the rebellious. Vnit nw Toon the hoxpital ships were | dress,” remarked Mra, Jarr such valure a sales pereon saThen sho ted Mr, Jarr out 0 Washington : tr De back to Burland # host No more than double the price of] it was on the tip of Mr. Jarra) jity wore noe mold ber the water he United 8 for Seven Years, A who en blinde n ba A gont’s silker, then, | tongue to ask if they hadn't any Here Mr. Jarr yielded up $19 for a came America a World Voward t ims of war the pubs r in name. Monday, Thursda 1 pialtisaniat! | uxsunied the role of prot Sixteen dollars ta enot \tle hats for ten cents, but this was|hat that looked fust as strange to Wants a Cittvem, Jt ken ‘out ix 1 pat nd in Dunstan's! tor Mra, Vincent Astor, let alone al y 6 for tile jest ete tg A id ‘Te the Bititar of ‘The b “W 4 y Me v 1 now rial ‘ ‘ , | Work i} ing for about er-er-thirty | 1 my money,” murnvured If @ child came to this cou ' le to ut d papers? mn hat? asked | do! he gaspod Lend @ nickel to get when a minor with his paren 1) 1. le | Mre. Mrs A compassionate smile passe | one has been in this country thirty-tw Sunday , irs whimpered Mra. J ears, and has nev ' ' " A | tt ner n tI have. fr States since coming Please ; ' : ; : bore in a hat that | sale ' rimm¢ gt mary for bim to take p fell on. MP. 24, 1866, a Cluwra Mud- last week,” she aid kindly. Mrs.! money! Puttiahing No. 6—GALILEO, the ‘Failure’? Who Proved Jerr gave her husband SUCH a look. | fty Failures Who ‘‘Came Back’? By Albert Payson Terhune Oe, (The New York Drening Work.) That Ooprright, 1917, by The Pree Earth Moves. Y namo is erased from the book of the liv and heartbroken man of seventy who was @ prisoner in danger of execution and who had just been forced to give up the result * of @ Iifetime of toil, Stricken, sick, impoverished and discredited, rapidly growing blind, he wrote to his daughter the foregoing confession of failure, The Failure was a genius named Galileo Galilel, His chief orime— and the cause of his failure—wae that he was @ wise man in @ of fools. . From childhood he had attacked old structures of ignorance, hed torn them apart, and from their ruins had drawn forth new and mighty Among @ score of other discoveries he worked out the theory of pendulum, wonderful improvements on the telescope, startling .astro- nomical observations, &c, Then he became interested’ in the odd Copernican {dea that the sua stands still and the earth revolves around it. For years he tolled over the perfecting of this theory, gradually proving its truth from every possible viewpoint, until he felt so certain of his ground that he publicly declared the great truth without a shadow of hesitancy. Ho had wasted strength and money in his re- search, He was old and poor and un invalid, He staked all on success, And he failed, For at once his brother actentists and the Church and the State set up a clamor of fierce condemnation. His books were ordered destroyed and/ he himself was haled to the highest court for trial. All because he declared the earth moved. Tt was in April of 1633 that his trial began. After brief he was went to prison. A few weeks later he was taken from his call and brought again before his judges. Dazed as he was by prison end in terror of threatened torture, the old man’s nerve gave way. At the command of the judges he trembiingly confessed that he had been in error in thinking the world moved, My error,” he quavered, “was one of vainglorious ambition and pu) A Dangerous Wisdom, , the genius who had devoted @ half century to the study of the, earth's motion admitted that his researches and their glorious resulta were “pure ignorance” and that the earth does not move, “I do not hold this opinion #ince I have been toll I must gtve it up,” he added. He was sentenced to a further term of prison, “during the pleasure! of the court,” and was forced to kneel down and publicly declare: “I abjure and curse and detest my errors!” As he rose to his feet after this bitter humiliation, Galileo muttered 3 PUR, Sl MOUVE!” (“Just the same, {t does move!") It was after this trial that he wrote to his daugh: el from the book of the living!” Years passed on, Blindness was e44ed to Galileo's griefs. Then, little by little, world at large grew to appreciate something of his greatness. In his helpless. old age he was belatedly honored and courted. He lived to know that he was not a “Just the Same § Failure, but an Immortal. When he died the who! It Does Move!” city of Florence went into mourning for him —G——? A forvune was voted for the purpose of « huge marble tomb for his wornout body. The entire city turned out to do tearful homage to the man who, four years earlier, bad been forced to help in the wrecking of his own Hfe-work and to brand himeelf an ignorant failure, ° ect cal Mothers of American Patriots By Lafayette McLaws o— No. 2—Nancy Hanks, Mother of Lincoln. HOUGH 2.4 mother died before On her marriage to Thomas Ian- te care old, Abra-|00ln he could neither read nor write. he was ten y¥ ? fi | Nancy taught him, but apparently | ham Lincoln declared that !t/ nothing she could do could arouse was from her he inherited those qual-/ ambition In him or keep him in ono \ f mind and heart that raised) Place. From thetr first cabin home es ‘ ce sr {eliows lin Hardin County, < where © , kek fo of ber! Abraham Lincoln was born, he moved Nancy Hanks at the tim was in with his family to a second farm in Tiago to ‘Thomas Tyne wae much | the eame 8 In a little while hie Sea the Ave woman in height, ; Was off, dra his family was tly built and inclined to| Bearer the fron ‘ed, She had a da Recalling that he was @ carpenter i brown hair and|by trade, the hovele in which his ny dark bie her face bore |family was forced to live seem als sinall Bray eyes, whe on of melan- | M unbellevable, ‘The cabin tn such a marked expressin OGgew her| Which Nancy Lincoln passed the last choly that every | years of her life is described as about membered it. ; eighteen feet square, without shut Though historians c ters at either the door or the win® ng etl lass the Hanks | family with the “poor whites” Pé-| done It had a dirt floor. re culiar to the slave States prior t? | lemged stools answered for chal: the Civil War, it ts certain that) phe bed on which sho died was mad least one educated | of poles fastened in the cracks of the + according to ; -bred Virginia. planter. futher lived we do states that at an th nd cy | 24 she | ozs on one side and supported by crotched sticks driven in the dirt floor on the other. This rude frame {wae covered by skins, leaves and old clothes, | Vurtng October, 1818, this remark- able woman contracted a disease known as the “milk sickness.” Strug- giing against it, for a few days she managed to do the household work President Lincol though obscure How long, this know. History ney age Nancy went to ive w her aunt and uncle, Thomas a Betsy Sparrow. Though n Hanks's entire life appears to peclouded by a spirit of sadness was of a cheerful disposition, and no| until, too weak to rise, she called her woman in history struggled harder to | two children to her bedside and gav do her duty tainly no mother of/them her last admonition, “to servel An American patriot passed he jod and love each other." a at promising surroun low well her son obeyed her the hmong . whole world knows, *, Marriage and hanging go by destinys matohes are made in Heaven._ Robert Burton. Successful Salesmanship By H. J. Barrett No. 6—A Salesman Must Be a Philosopher. O be a good salesman, one must possess or achieve & philosophto attitude,” wald one salesman recently. “No one wants to buy what you have to sell. Or, inany case, they think they don’t want to, “If you're handling an article which people do want to buy, you'll #tt) noc y wag staggered. A mighty Mttle money for eelling !t./develops the faculty of feels It's an economic axtom that the more | proapenye attitade, and I had felt tha: ips ol 16 man was hopele difficult an article 1s to sell the ugher ito DR, Was hopeless, He cleat wae the salesman's remuneration. | collector's instinat; he @lan’s sant reason that the clerks bebind the|them as interior decoration, Bu: counters earn but @ few dollars a| suddenly the sale was made. i week is because they are selling com-| (“It wasn't until I was leaving th moditles which demand but Uttle|Mce that the motive for the pur- tifort, Only the other day I fell into|Ch48e was exposed. It had suddenly’ conversation with @ book salesman, poe Ere 8 ui antl the Vecsey Ho sella sete of various classics to] TMs 8 en school, Nowe “'’ few yours ago, he remarked, '1| Would ever have thought of that as! was a clerk in a book store, Learned |® argument? Next spring I'll keep, $16 a week. To-day I average g4o|that in mind. Perhaps T can mak weekly, [gel] the same commodity as | ther sales by appealing to the previously, but I sell tt under moro | motive. diffloult conditions,’ | “Selling ts not easy. It's a mai “You must convince yourself that it| sized job. It demands eelf control resourcefulness, a great deal of heer’ vitality, will power ani Watch for leads in the| force, On the other hand, it means @ ‘a @ewn conversation, There 18| good living and complete independ- #08 or group of reasons suf-!ence, Good times or bad, an adle ntly potent to induce him to ex-/ outside salesman can always be sure real money the articlelof a job. He's his own’ master and, ccourred to ‘Then often the sale, is made because of © mative whic you Never suspected, “One day last epring I into Moe, I wa: 1 talked to that local insurance man's o selling sets of books, man for fifteen minutes without ap parently making any impression, , wae about to give up in despair, Gu |Geniy he said; “What's sour lowest | BeseonGet cash—tight now on the spot “I named it and he wrote out a, 2 “ {1s to the prospect's interest to pur- chase, then imbue him with the same | physical view point. prospe some fhe tor * ng. It's your business to barring aceldents, 1s as Independent unearth them. You can bring for-\as Rockefeller of the exigencies of ward every argument that has ever! existence.