The evening world. Newspaper, May 1, 1917, Page 16

| i ' Fleping World Daily. \ 1 | | ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. og Hse tetas WRN how ee ' Entered at the Post-Offico at New York as Second-Class Matter. For England an All Countries in th Postal U + $6.00/One Year, (0 | One Month. ... Published Dally Bxcept unger by £078 ts ame Company, Nos. 63 4 ) | Suneevona ter he United | Suis Tnternational One Yéar. ‘One Month. VOLUME 57.. WHERE THE BLAME RESTS. F THE Congross of the United States establishes in the pereon of | the Secretary of Agriculture a National Food Dictator with power to license and regulate food manufacturers, dealers, di tributors, storage men and food-handlers of all classes the reason for éuch drastic action is plain. The blame for conditions which make it imperative can be squarely placed. If anybody protests that dictatorships are un-American the answer is that looting is also un-American, that profiteering and price- boosting at « time of national peril are un-American and that Ame: ican fighters in the field and American war-workers at home must be protected by the readiest and surest means at hand against exploita- tion and extortion. While the country has been steadying itself for the taske and responsibilities of war the food speculators have shamelessly gone on with their game. It is they who compel Congress to act. It is they who force a food dictatorship upon the nation. —— +42 “The happiness of Ireland,” Lord Northoliffe declares, “is entirely in the hands of Mr. Balfour and the British Mission {n “the United State: Bince tt happens the aforesaid hands are just now joined with those of the American people a happy Ireland is a pretty safe bet. ————-+- TOO MUCH TO EXPECT? SO FAR as State Governments can help to meet and adlve food | problems they should be doing so. New York State ought to be setting the pace with immediate, practical steps to curb food speculation and price boosting within the reach of its authority. It is all very well for representatives of State Food Boards to confer at Washington with a view to more investigations. But the enterprising State is the State that leads inquiry by the shortest possible route to action. Pennsylvania has passed a bill giving municipal authorities power to fix the price of common articles of food. In the meantime the best a New York Legislature can do {s to evolve the Wicks bill which provides for an expensive, elaborately organized investigation, the belated results of which must be handed to another Legislature before action can be even hoped for, Surely the Empire State can do better than that. Instead of muddling away more time over the Wicks measure, why doesn’t the present Legislature at Albany bestir itself during the few remaining days of the session and do something quick, defi- nite and convincing toward relieving the food situation and preparing for war conditions in this State? Is it too much for New York to expect of ite Inwmakers at such a moment? —— 4 + To-day, for the first time in years, Labor in the United States gathers round a May Pole that has no strike notices mailed to it, a ee ONE OF THE BRAKES. WN TRYING to make it clear why a road whose operating earnings for the past year increased over ten and a quarter millions of dollars should be facing more stock juggling or a receivership, the Bridgeport Farmer points out, for the “information af those singular persons who continue to suppose that the New Haven was jeoted by Government regulation instead of by the sins and follies ef its management,” the following list of subsidiary deficits: The New York, Westchester and Boston Railway Company had a deficit for the year of $1,543,249. It shows an accumulated deficit of $6,555,508, The Berkshire Street Railway Company has a 1916 deficit of $129,480, The total deficit is $688,899. ’ The New York and Stamford Railway Company has a 1916 deficit of $33,082. Total, $104,804. Westchester Street Railway Company 1916 deficit, $38,378, To- tal, $111,378. The New England Steamship Company, 1916, $27,910. To- 4 the Continent and, Play Ball! © ‘The t Now Ee aa mt RSH PANDA aes How I Helped My Husband And Taylor, not the Administration, would receive the blame. kta lciinca Bu iakn Fifty Failures Who Came Bac By Albert Payson Terhune Ooprright, 1917, by the Pree Fubtishing Co, (The New York Evening World), No. 26—ZAGHARY TAYLOR, the ‘Failure’ Who Became National Hero. GRIZZLED old man, clad in trousers and undershirt, sat at = tent door on the early morning of Washington's Birthday, i scraping away with a dull razor at his three-day stubble of bristles. The old man was Zachary Taylor—farmer, Indian fighter, genius, He was a failure, Nc: through any fault of his own, but b the Administration at Washington had decided to make a failure of hi When, 12'1846, a clash had come between the United States and : the Admidistration had believed the war would prove unpopula’ that James K Polk, the President, would be censured for starting ft. Scapegoat was needed to lift the blame from the Administration Dut ft, tf possible, on the opposing political party, the Whigs. Go Gen. Zachary Taylor—a stanch Whig—was picked out to lead ad handful of United States troops to the Mexican border, Trouble was to start as soon as he should arrive at that hornet’s nevt, of il) f But ol4 Zachary was too shrewd an Indian fighter to be caught in & political ambush. He halted, refusing to move his men another inch & Anew g Ward without direct commands from Washin; The President, his hand thus forced, reluctantly dered Taylor to go ahead) Which Taylor Promptly did. © He not only went ahead, but he achieved acles, With his little army he thrashed every Mexican force sent to op nim, Always fighting an enemy that greatly outnumbered his own ai ne ploughed his way straight toward the heart of Mexico, By this time Taylor’s gallant and victprious fight exainst tearful od pegan to arouse the admiration of the Whole country. The war aga Mexico became as popular as it had threatened to be unpopular, And antl-Administration man was winning all the glory, a President Polk tried to atone for his first blunder by removing Té from command and sending Gen. Scott with @ much larger and more tacular army to finish the war. Scott stripped Taylor of all his best officers and men. leaving him only @ tattered remnant of his former force. With this remnant—5,400 men, most of whom raw recrulte—Ti tor camped on a mountain farm known Buena Vista, And here, pI ently, he was surrounded by more tha 000 Mexicans under Gen. iy ‘The olf warrior was a failure. A lesser man had been sent to sn the laurels that were rightly his. The Administration had snubbed him had cut short his career of triumph. And now an overwhelming Mexie army was about to engulf him. It was enough to break the stronges Up to Taylor's tent through the rain oped a dapper Mexleaa officer, who in Santa Ana's name demanded Taylor's surrender. “Let him come and take me!" grunted Taylor, continuing to serape Ml stubbly chin, 5 + The Mexicans closed 1 n. For two days the Battle of Buena Vista rt he little American army seemed doomed to destrw ¢ { tion, But Taylor fought on. His raw recruits, um his masterly ceneralship, held their ground against j of Buena Vista, } foes that outnumbered them by four to one, een “ jen. Taylor has been defeated no leas that taree times to-day,” commented one of his officers to mother. “Yes,” dryly agreed the second officer. “But he doesn't know It." Under cover of night, on the 23d of Febru the Mexican army reeled back in utter defeat, all but annihilated by Taylor's brave militiamen, ; ‘The man who “had been beaten three times and didn't know It” recurned to the United States to find himself a national hero, The Administration’ efforts to ruin him proved to be the Administration's own downfall at the next Presidential election the tide of popular favor swept Taylor the White House, The old man was disgusted at his own election to the Presidency. declared it was a conspiracy to keep him from enjoying his last year# comfort on ‘his farm. You Can't Know Too Much About Your Business. RANK could not even wait to take off his overcoat before coming out into the kitchen to tell me the great news. The old man—that's what we call Mr. Blank bebind his Private office and had made him as- @istant silk buyer. I don’t think any- thing ever made mo feel so good in my life as when Frank sald, “I should never have made it In the world, old girl, if you hadn't been as interested in my fob as I am myself.” And this was all because of an ar- ticle that I read in the newspaper. It meant @ substantial raive in sal- ary, of course, but best of all it meant that what we both had been working | for was In a fair way to be fulfilled, 1 at the perfumery counter be- fore 1 married Frank, and when we became engaged he told me that his ambition was to be made ono of the buyers, He was a silk salesman then, and I could not see that he had any more chance of getting such a place than fitty other men in the store, but t made up my mind that if there was any way tn which I could help him 1 was going to do 60, Of course I tried to make him as comfortable as L {al, $936,127. The New England Navigation Company had $28,942 in 1916, but has a total deficit of $1,911,691. The Millbrook Company has a 1916 deficit of $213,923. $926,776, This accumulated deficit of over Total, ven millions incurred because of “subsidiaries extravagantly acquired and wastefully used,” together with the quantities of scrapped engines, shows plainly one of the brakes on the wheels of the New Haven’s prosperity poe ~~ | Phe next day I went to the library| pe ; ¥ pears to have any | > e » Ra y Letters From the People | Why the Price of Ice Is Noosted. | in the father's papers, or must they|[ on a. Veo the Editor of The Evening World take out separate papers? |) To-Day Mr. Oler of the Knickerbocker Ice) How long must he t_until he Nes ustifies an increase in the price of 4" Ket his other papers? G. PF. M c . ; to emall consumers by an increase} Minor children automatically t {18 is May Day, on which cele- ; vs ¢ 1 ey the Come citizens through the naturaliza- | brations have taken place since tn the cost of soft coal used in the) tion of their parents, As it 1s neces- | “the mind of man runneth not manufacture of artificial Ice, Arti-\ sary for the father in this case to i Aids ficial ice is made because the ico! Walt two years before obtaining his|to the contrary abor throughout companies can manutacture it for|MNal papers-—the eldest son will then| the world bas taken May Day as its lees than the cost of cutting river Ice, |e Of age and must act on his own | own, River ice aplenty was harves! m: ifs | Rea wn He can yapply for fret | ‘The first historical May Day occur. e pas! vinter, enough to supply on 10} . 7 New York. No argument is too weak h hig father if the|rence of which there Is a record was nowadays as an excuse to gouge t pers before his sec: | Evil May Day, May 1, 1617, when consumer, When will the Legislature 8 twenty-one, there was a riotous outbreak in Lon- fix the maximum price on such ar- | It Is Valued at 83.50, don by apprentices and the populace ticles of general consumption? To the Baitur of Me Hvening World oy Oey ae ere ee OVERDONE, Kindly let mo know the value of al? Seneral against foreigners, Chtte tp Passe. $4 gold piece dated 1856 M.A.S. | PE the French, The rioters w ‘To the Editor of The Kvening World No German Can Apply for Papers, dispersed and thelr loader with fi null After War, { The venting World My father came here from Russia fifteen years ago, He has two sons, | To the bt one eighteen years and the other twen- | ty, who also came from the same time, firet papers a week ago, Will you'l take out first papers to Jet me know if the sons are included citizen? Russia at|Germany und have resided tn TF. W. I came to this country in 1892 from] with halters around their n New! He just took out the| York State for seventeen years, Must | become a| their pleas for mercy they were par- could, to live within his salary, to | | have as good a dinner as I could cook |ready for him when he came home at | night and to save a dollar or two now and then, But I was not satistled with this, and the newspaper article gave jme an idea, It was about a famo |dry goods merchant who said that| when he was & young salesman he de- | ea anybody to ask him any question} | about the goods he sold that he could not answer, of his followers h | hundred others, bow 1, while four d with ropes and ks, were where, upon carried to Westminster |doneu by the King, back—had sent for him to come to his|,UP such things himself. ‘at most of them, but one or two In- | and asked the librarian where I could get any information about silk, She referred me to magazine articles, en- eyclopédias and books, There was so much that I didn't know where to begin, but I made some notes and read them to Frank that evening, as 1 knew that he had no time to took He laughed terested him and he asked me to get more on the subject. Frank himself studied his stock more carefully than he had ever thought of doing before, talked with the buyer about {t and even wrote to the silk manufacturers for still more points and also got advertising Hterature on the subject, 1 loked over fashion books to find sugges- tons for various new ways for using silk, thinking perhaps the tnformation might be useful. All this was threo years or course we did not talk silk every evening, but it ts surprising how tn- terested you get in even a dry sub- ject once you make up your mind to learn all about ft. At first all this new information did not seem to help Frank very much, but after awhile he told me he thought his sales were picking up, and then one day he eald that a cranky customer had asked the aisle manager to have the young man wait on ber who knew ail about silk, And oh, did I tell you that when Mr, Blank made Frank buyer he said he did it because Frank was “keenly interested In his work and had a sur- prising amount of technical informa. Copyright Y this Ume the “slacke: going to war “filvver" in order to run under B Bachelor Girl Reflections By : I Telen. 1017, by the Pros Publighing Co, (The New York Breniag Workd), who rushed into marriage in order to avoid are probably wondering if they merely dodged a tion?” | Rowland _ a@ trolley. Love is what makes a girl lie awake half the night trying to remember just “what HE sald” and the other half trying to figure out,what he “meant by it.” is utterly foolish to try to straighten out a mie ‘ understanding before breakfast, when a man’s thoughts are us scrambled as the eggs and a Woman's nerves are as jumpy as the coffee, Oh, yes, the feminine walstiine has entirely disap weUwrnom ane What is peared the use of a girl bothering to keep a waistline in these unromantic days, when no man ap nterest in the matter? Even the most a “bope chest” bidden away confirmed bachelor girl is paradoxical enough to keep omewhere in the attle “fust in case.” There are just three | She can take | velope—the | “hold-up” ner, a kiss and a pout ways in which a woman can get @ man’s salary, it from him by main force when he brings home his pay en method; she can lure it from him with a good din- the “badger gam ’ or she can get {t by going | through his pockets while he sleeps—the “second story act.” A sportsinan 4s | sentimental slacker a hundred lit one who ertes » imitation loves. ove that comes in evapors | Breakfast is | matutinal hour, the a glass or a bottle is the kind th curse of matrimony, when a woman looks like a witch and @ man feels like an nan who stayes his whole heart on one big love; @ safety first!" and divides his up inte soon If it were not for that sad Conyriaht, 1917. by The Prem Publiating Oo, (The New York Evening World.) NOTHER raucous newsboy had gone roaring down the street shouting “Wuxtra! Wuxztra! All about the Wawwarwa! Wustra! Wustral” and Mrs, Jarr pulled her head in the window with a sigh. “I don't know whether it's a subma- rine sunk something or something has sunk @ submarine!” she ro- marked, “But everybody says we'll all starve to death !f we are not bombarded, and I'm eure I dun't know what's to become of us anyway, the way shoes and everything to eat keeps going up. “Instead of everybody being happy and reciting ‘If you're waking call me Call me early, mother dear, For to-morrow is the merriest day Of all the glad new year’ . —I forget the rest except the part riy, bere it says ‘Vor I'm to be Queen of the May, mother, I'm to be Queen of the May!’ “I only know I recited it at achool at May Day exercises and was s0 scared I forgot half of it, and I had @ new white dress and my first pair of white kid shoes and a blue sash, and I commenced to cry and they bad to lead me off the platform sobbing hysterically, but we never know bow happy we are as children, I'm sure!" Mr, Jarr, who had been a puzzled listener, knew when sho paused he was due to respond, so he remarked gravely, ‘Very true, my dear, very true! Let us hope that the next first of May we will all be blithe and gay. As for me, the first of any month only means ‘please remit! “That reminds me, the mail is very late to day, I wonder {f the bell ts out of order.” satd Mrs, Jarr, “{ guess the matiman is late on account of the monthly statement— ‘please remit observed Mr. Jarr gloomily, But Mr. Jarr was wrong, the jan. itor cleaning the brass work had knocked the name plate out of the Jarr letterbox, and the postman was new to the route. He stood puzzled tn the vestibule holding « registered letter, “Does a party by the name of Jarr live here?” asked the postman hold- ing up the registered letter, Alfred, the janitor, paused at his polishing. “Let me see it,” he said, “Is there any cush fn it?” “Don't be so nosey!” repiled the mail man, “Answer me, does Edward 'The Jarr Family _ By Roy L. McCardell Dear met the pad news or a legal paper d letter, I wouldn't toud the worl top floor, and who came down stairs |r at this juncture. | “Is your name Mrs. Jarr?” asked | a regist the letter carrier, struck by the high for art exhibition of her complexion and) “I knew an old lady who dropp costume, dead, croaked right on the spot, wh Mrs, Kittingly did not answer, but She got a regist took the letter and held it up to the|her son was hung one ulinots,” Ught. “There's no check in it," she| the janitor, sald in a disappointed tone, | The postman, in despair, blew tl “I ask, are you Mrs, Jarr?" repeated | whistle, Jarr came do the postman. “Why don't you an- | {dentified swer? Is this guy Jarr a spy sus-| red card and toc pect that you all don't give any in-| , he mi. formation?” told what “Certainly not, my good man,” sald |lady on the first floor, “and after Mra, Kittingly in her grandest man-|the trouble we took, I hope it ain’ ner, “But as I receiv@a check every | nothin’ particuls month In a registered letter | thought | this might be for me,” “What Is it?” asked the inquisitive lady who lived on the first floor, “A signed the littl the letter upstairs, have opened It am was in it!" said thi Some wishes come true. It only a request for $10 for a war fi sent out registered to hasten pe: sponses, | Brains Are the Big Asset _In a Soldier's Make-Up ee man of fra!l body and keen ‘dier of meager men “ebe furiously wi powers will driven to it, The tratnin, dier undergoe mind is a better soldier than the strong fellow of dull brain, @ conclusion of France's war | chiefs after almost three years of ob- servation, The six-footer, having 200 | Pounds of brawn, may look more im- breasive in uniform, but the wiry chap with a quick mentality is the better | fighting man, experience would se is which the French sol- es is More Comprehenaly: r fighting man nations, French than that of any othe among the Entente that be follow ench officers, eem |! to prove, | That doea not m: att ‘an an ‘satel ans, <3 ‘ourse, that all men of frail build are | Manocuyres ar sual drill ground amart, or that all the big fellows are | in trench oe hae thorough instruction dull, It is merely a general star in trench making. This includes the by which soldiers can be meu TOnSIVe een ne ye Gee and should be a source of comfort to |, h reneches, — communioatli thousands of men who are possessed | Henches. dugouts, observation tons, underground ammunition ste houses, etc, Each man must leare, dig a section of trench about eet long, six fet deep, and f five fest wide in tho shortest posal of excellent mental equipment, but | who have felt that they were poorly endowed by nature for the rough bus- iness of soldiering, Life in the trenches has shown that the man who can think will most|time, This question of time is quickly adapt himself to his circum-| Vital consideration, and tnstr stances, and not only endeavor to | Officers urge recrulls to strenuol Take the best of them, but to Im- | ft a prove his condition, which 1s the im-| It takes from two to t portant thing. Ho also beara up| before a man ree me an drill satisfaction and dig a trench tas ‘ manlike manner, In the same he ulso g008 through a series of letic exere: intended to harden Then comes training in the thro of grenades, one art of war in Americans ‘should excel, G hrowing requires a nic quick, accurate’ delivery. ?™ Mathewsona please apply, better under un intense fire, close ob- servers say. This ts explained on the theory that men given to thought are able to lay hold of pleasant images from’ the past, or bright hopes for the future, and turn their thoughts away from the horror of the present. But the man of brute strength and small mental powers !s Inclined to let his trench go as he found it, and to rai] against fate tn- @tead of striving to pump out the} After the drilling, the digging water and make himself an under-|the grenade throwing follows a ground home. And when the su-| intensive period of training in preme moment comes blind fear has/ finer points of war, covering been found to assail those of low in- | phases of life in the trenches, telligence much quicker than the men | fire, at the charge and s0 0) Th . the poll ré his m of intellect, The nearer @ soldier to the animal, say the psychologists of war, the more inclined he is to be- come @ Victim of cowardice, It is the is | last instructions comp the front. ‘Th the test. Most often -witted but undersil Jarr live at this address?” ogre, husbands and wives might never see the seamy side of each other's dispositions and complexions. “What Is it?” asked Mrs, Kittingly, the fair divorcee, who lived on the rimitive instinct to run rarner than ght which diatinguishes all except @ very few animals, Sut like the ap Who Lanes the enomy's guns ‘Nes himself the master ‘spi The Great Adventure-War,