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GREED TO BLAME. bat HE bill introdneed by Chairman Lever of the House Agricnl- ‘ tural Committee giving the President power to regulate, for) { the emergencies of war, the production, distribution and prices of food, clothing, fue! and other necessities, is further measure f the need which profit-grabbers, speculators and price-boosters have forced upon the Nation | } To “prevent the exploitation of necessaries of life by those who aim to take advantage of the war emergency to amass unearned fortunes” is one of the objects, in fact the chief object, of this bill. | Extreme as its provisions may seem, let there be no mistake as to who have made them so. If all American producers and dis-| tributers were patriotic there would be no need for drastic regulation. | The plunderers are to blame for the placing of extraordinary Proscriptions upon busines Greed is what creates dictators | $4 Those German peace terms come hard, —_———+-. } MORE MERCHANT SHIPS! UBMARINE warfare is so far effective that the only way to overcome it, short of destroying submarines faster than 7 Germany can build them, is to increase enormously the number ef merchant ships. The Allies depend upon the United States to keep up the supply of freight carriers France and England can only maintain their fighting strength provided well ladened vessels continue somehow to arrive in their! ports. They look to the United States to mond the endless chain asl fast as it is broken. | American troops are wanted in Vrance as soon as they can be! Ships must be ready to transport them. | Herbert C. Hoover, head of the Belgian Relief until called by! the United States to tackle iis crop and food problems, returns from| Europe with grave views of the food situation there. Belgian relief, | he say: cruelly hampered by lack of ships, “It is up to the United) States to find the ships and the food to keep Belgium from starving. | More and more clearly, then, this country sees its war reaponai-| ‘Rilities. To fighting, finance and food production must be added| shipbuilding. | » We must build ships in the greatest number.and with:the highest | speed of which we are capable. Private shipbuilding interests must! ‘be ready to see their shipyards worked to utmost capacity under Gov-| ‘ernment direction, | There is no more room on the ways for slow construction. Bress will have to sanction a Government ship control programine} which shall make certain that no private interest can impede the turn- | ing out of fleet after fleet of merchant vessels ready for the Atlantic in record time. sent, Con-| —————_-4 =. Germany gets another cold shoulder, As it happens, Chill | GET AFTER THE FLAG PROFITEERS. | OUSTING the price of American flags is only one of the various| forms of profiteering which are forcing dictatorships and Federal control upon the Nation. But since April 6 it appens to have been one of the most conspicuous. | Noting “how a few opportunists and sagacious pigs are seeking to fatten on the patriotism of the country,” a statement issued Ly! Assistant Secretary Newton of the Treasury Department says: ; Within a very short period after the declaration of war the controlling influences among the flag makers of this country doubled the price on flags, Naturally, when this country went to war for the mainte- | nance of human liberty and civilization every patriotic citizen in the country desired to show where he stood by the display | of his country’s emblem, but he soon discovered that a 100 per | cent. penalty had been imposed upon his patriotism, The Attorney General of the United States has been asked to took into the situation with a view to finding some way to protect Awericin citizens from outrageous extortion when they go to buy} finge, ; : From now on the Stars and Stripes are an indispensable neces: | sity. Every American is entitled to purchase them at prices deter-| mined only by the actual cost of manufacture plus a fair profit.| Speculation in American flags is particularly shameful, It should be stopped forthwith, Letters From « No Caune for Raising Price of ee. To the EAitor of The Evening World; ‘The advance of the price of ice this year is unreasonable, {logical and in- the People of the natural ice should c counterbalanc Bid (mare, tRAG the cost of f Jany advance in helpers. pomalstent, It i» not warranted by | Er ohniy ice in one of t) | the facts or figures. ‘The ice crop|sary commodition the tine ny ween has been the largest gathered in| should not be boo dand it ts unjust many years and 1s the best possible | ® crop that could be gathered from the | Hudson River, ra "The average thickness has been ~ thirteen inches and in some places | ‘the Miter it ran as high as twenty inches; but nowhere was any put in that aver- aged over thirteen inches, This is the commercial size. Most of the work is done by ma- and unfair to the community that al- | n 880 Many troubles and more EDWARD HATCH JR acke Krening World After studying closely the speech of Marshal Joffre concerning the tm- mediate expedition of United States troops to France, I beg to ask whether you deem it advisable to do so? to Gi chine: from “in the water” until 1 came to the conclusion that if packed, The teams were paid $5 A| Allies ure in need of troops so badise day and the from $2 to $3.60 a|why don’t they first send a body of day, which rly identical with|oMcers to the United States in order the 1916 wai Again, this season! to force their own slackers to do thelr al weather conditions| bit? I understand there ure approxt- the crop. Last year! mately four hundred thousand of and rains | them within our borders. Undoubted- interfered se the work, poor crop as nec nd the unlawful prac- fice of “cultivating” bad to be de pended on to obtain a small tonnage of dirty toe. - The statement that 85 per cent the ice consumed in New York ly the great majority have received military training abroad, and thus would be fit for immediate service in | the trenches, or at least long before | our boys. of| Furthermore, I discovered that Mar- ie|shal Joffre does not mention any- manufact! is not partioularly| thing about the dangers confronting clear, It can hardly be expected that/an expeditionary force on the seas the foe companies filled up their ice| through the submarines. Taking the the Hudson River to| latter into consideration, | think the ocean should be cleared of t capacity for the purpose of before all. foe melt this summer. large supply and good quailty same A TRUE AMERICAN IC 2 Aenean ¢ \W J. H. Cassel By Helen ASHINGTON, D. C., May 1. . \ And also fleur-de-lis tim and marrying time, and springtime! And, believe me, At this season, and this ten: ‘The trees are miles of them! And everywhere in gold lace, 2% Tri-color, , And with Illacs, hats— them, And quite set-up at parading before ti And there are lovely, handsome office , everywhe And the French Legation is literally covered with flags of all the ‘allied nations, And everybody walks or drives out past it; | But there {s a policeman in front of it who tells you to “move on,” | \ And right across the street is the And everybody tells you that “H staying, | And you can see his blue motor jany 4 ment, Wartime and Springtime ‘Copyright, 1917, by the Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening Wag)d), If you so much as try to peek in, or | Because everybody looks like a German spy to HIM! And. he acts as though he thought you had a bomb in your pocketbook, Rowland It’s Illac time again in Washington! and primrose time, and war time) “Apple-blossom time in Normandy” has absolutely nothing On the CAPITAL of YOUR COUNTRY; and dramatic moment! all out {mn thelr new spring hate— And all the parks are gayly dressed in flowered frocks. you see men in khaki, and diptemate And F Street—Washington’s Broadway—is mmazq f with violets and red roses and white hyacinths—the and pretty girls in flower-wreathed SUCH pretty girls, that you do not wonder all the men are anxious and willing to go out and fight for m in their new khaki suits, a step in front of it. house where Mr. Balfour {s staying. @ perfect dear!” And right around the corner is the house where that dear Joffre is ear standing in front of it almost And all Washington is seething and bubbling with suppressed excite Which {s SOMETHING—for good natured, easy going Washington! And all the hotels are covered with ‘bunting and giving you patriotie music with your meals, And strawberries with cream, three times a day, and new vegetables, and spring lamb—THIS spring's! | (But the portions are smaller since War was declared, And the butter-pats are as thin as flat as her conversation, and look 3 a debutante’s dancing frock, and 80 lonesome, | Stranded way out there, in the middle of the bread-and-butter plates.) | Down around the Mall, all the cherry trees, which the Japanese Gov- | ernment presented to Uncle Sam, are in full blossom, | Just to prove they have nothing but good feelings for us and our | illustrious guests. | | wood, and blue violets, Shouting for thelr Country. I assure you, world! proud of! And {t would be very foolish of you to “See Venice—and die: If you have never seen Washington! Because, you've missed something—— Something for every man in khaki to remember, and love, and be ‘And out in the suburbs all the Government clerks are in their front | gardens, pulling up dandelion weeds or painting the piazza, | ‘And National Park 1s ablaze with red honeysuckle, and white dog- And, though I have seen Rome, and Venice, and love them, with my hand on my heart, That the Capital-of-Your-Country is the most beautiful city In all the ‘Are We Losing the Habit of. tles {n the world on most every aub- ject are transta.yt and printed in small cheap editions. “These can be bought by the people of most modest wages. Thus, read- nd getting in close touch with » big work of the world is within easy reach of the humblest citizen. And he takes advantage of it “Our people have much to pick and choose from and are thus acquainted with the important thinga that con- corn the entire world. i “(In America, however, reading {s almost a side’ issue, A’ a general thing people all read the same thing Magazines are filled with advertise- ments and contain a definite pro- gramme from one year to the other ‘Dhey are all very much alike. “The youth of the country is not By Sophie Irene Loeb. Courrigit, 1917, by The Pree Publiahing Co, (The Now York Evening Work OUNT ILYA TOLSTOY, son of the illustrious writer and social worker for the people of Russi, \s returning to his country this week, having visited and travelled through- out the United States, Count Tolstoy ts following the foot- steps of his father as a writer and ~avewe student in the in- encouraged to read; and the price of Nterature {s prohibitive to those of terest of the people. He had many meagre Incomes. As a result you are things to say about us in comparing losing much of the valuable knowl- edge that the outsjde world is spread- ing every day. In a word, your read- ing is circumscribed and Jocal in its character, “All of which gives small chance for individual development and growth. I must confess also this is largely true of most of your colleg: Your students, too, are all very much alike. They are directed along the same lines of thought, and they come out of college practically and figur- atively speaking somewhat of the same brand “It would seem to me that oppor- tunity should be given for a better development of the individual, so that the best that ts in the individual may be developed to its highest possi- bility not only for his own welfare but for that which he may give of himself to posterity.” T could not but reflect, ns I talked The } By James Evolution of Old Glory! | C. Young | with the Count and ag he went into this subject more fully, that he had | sounded a note of truth as to our| Cepsright, 1 reading habits. For reading Is a habit. And the individual loses much | indeed when he falls to know some- thing of the work of the writers out- side our own United States. Mothers and fathers, Count Tolstoy voiced a much needed element in the welfare of our youth and his work as a future citizen, Encourage the reading of books for education as well as for pleasure— books In which many important ques- tions of ave been solved by tripes, bruins that have given thelr best im| of ite thirteen red and labate Hey the solution, with a circle of thirteen stars Ip Our habit of reading has been|ypper left hand ebrner. somewhat neglected, and a new in-| mye country was growing in popula- teres: in this connection might well And. prosperity. ‘Through the Inspire the habit of reading and beyond the Alleghantes the the reading will inspire the habit, was ringing, and every ITH the victory of the Revolu- tion came intérnational recog | nition for the American flag. In the years immediately after that onflict tho new symbol of liberty was carried to the seven seas by our) growing mercantile fleet. Most of the/ nations of the world had a glimpse | tion forests | ploneer’s axe the social and political conditions of this and . ther nations. I discussed some of these with him and one of the significant things that The Jarr Family . | young republic. ‘Two new Y dded to the family of States nite and , when Vermont and Kentucky were admitted to State- members he brought out most forcibly was our lack of individual development as compared with other countries, this connection 1 am ¢ to say that the American Courrient, 1917, by The Drow Publinhing Co, (The New York Evening World.) or WONDRBR you have never mar- ried, meeting all the nice girls gretfu ple as a general thi d less of the im- you do, too,” sald Mrs, Jarr, portant literature of the world than rewarding Mr, Jarr’s bachelor friend, in a country like Russla, for ex-|Jack Silver, who was calithg, with an ample,” sald the Count praising eye. , you see,” sald the bird of freedom cannily, “if [ were to marry |now every one would think I was a “In corner you have a drug sto soda fountain, but your book stores are few and far between. ery 1 have been told that there are less ;Sltcker—marrying to escape the se- than twenty book stores in the City | lective draft, ; of New York—that is book stores ex-| “Oh, I'm not speaking of now," re- “Positively I don't Joined Mrs, Jarr | L was thinking know a gitl for you, clusively such as you find « erywhere abroad. ‘4 “Purthermore, your books are too) of Why you never married befor high priced to come within the reach| _“f muons It was because T despaired if the masses of people. In our| Of setting a wife like Ed Jarr got, country, for instance, all the great| replied the wary bachelor, This is tasters and the recognized authorl- | @!Ways @ safety play that never falls | to @core when bachelors are explain- ling to married ladies why they are still at large. | Mr. Silver spoke as though to im- ‘ply if he could have met Mra, Jarr lin her maiden days his life would | have been all roses and raptures. 1 movement for the preserva- tion and study of bird life in America may be said to have r Mrs. Jarr knew only too well he wasn't dreaming of any maiden fair| whatever. “Then, too, I have enrolled,” added Mr. Silver, “Suppose I were to go abroad to dle “L hope you don’t mean you'd rather go abroad to dio then stay home and marry?” queried Mrs, Jarr. isn't the real reason, Com why did you never marry “I told you,” sald Mr. Sliver glibly, ‘There weren't any more at home like you~and then, too, I got a : . tell me, re Mrs. Jarr settled herself to listen, but just thea Mrs, Rangle and Mrs Hickett dropped in, but Mrs, Jarr gave the pachelor no chance to avold the promised confession, “We are all married women, you are safe, tell us," commanded Mrs. Jarr. “Well,” confessed the bachelor, ‘Jim Birdleigh, Wao was my chum at college, lived in Chicago and married a nice little girl out there, He came on here for his honeymoon and stopped at one of the big hotels, He was @ normal man every way and was shopping shy. So when bis bride went around the stores he said he'd go back to the hotel and read and walt for her, and she let bim off the leash.” | “Ano? queried all the married ladies, sharply, for they did not like the ‘ord “leash,” “Vell, he ran into me, and I took him around to the College Club, and there we met a bunch of the boys we had known In the old days, and we got to drinking his health” “I'm glsd we aré going to have prohibition, or it looks like it, any- way,” interjected Mrs. Rangle “He had only been with us bout two hours when we decided the: was long enough to part a newly married man from his bride,” continued Mr. Silver. “So we bought a ton of flowers and walked him around tc begun in the early part of the last] “There's Cora Hickett” sald Mre, century through the untiring efforts Jarr musingly, accepting the implied of John Jan Audubon, who wae|compliment with an appreciative | born near New Orleans on May 4,{smile, “There's Cora Hickett.” 1780. Mr, Silver seemed rather relieved Karly in life he developed @ fond-| that it was a case pf “there Is" rather ness for nature and devoted himaeit| than “here fa," bu "he only remarked to its study all hiv life, Audubon |that he was a grumpy old bachelor. was of French descent, and at an| "Then there's Klaine Stryver, Mr, early age he was to Paris to, Stryver's young niece—she has money study, When he returned to his na-| too,” suggested Mrs. Jarr, It 1s ladies tive land he settled on 4 farm near] who have married for love and not Philadelphia. | Het wwirivd and “en: |tucre who aeem always to remember Hie forest soon inade him abandon | the Quakers advice, that while one and he spent most of hiy| need not marry for money, ene can go the jouth, particularly in! where money te, his home New |not tempt me if tt were not the girl 1851 of my dreams!" said Mr, Silver, But the hotel queried the ladies again. you thir.” sald Af, No, that | hood, It was felt that these budding Commonwealths must have represent: | Stion in the flag, and on Jan, 13, 1794, | both the stripes | Silver in a low voice. ne bride was) in hysterics and half the hotel was [in attendance. She had notified the Congress increnbed lice and wanted a general alarm and stars to fftcen. vent out, She Wouldn't speak to her) As the years passed British aggres- husband for an hour, and has never sion once more roused Ateriaan tect spoken to any of his friends—eape- | ing to the fighting pitch. Lrltaln cially me—since, And then I realized | struggle with Napoleon began to t¢ ‘ vi ct y a 0 her man power, ‘Then, as now, finement for iif <uiponid MOUNT cone | SENS and of the sea was vital to the finement for life. comma ; vis The ladies laughed. But they were nation’s exiatenc a et eid glad no other unmarried men were were stopped us sea si Sn around to hear such heresies from q sailors impr¢ hardened bachelor. on the pretes that they were desert- [Mothers of American Patriots 7 By la fayette McLaws Marie de La Riviere, Mother of Lafayette. ° idowhood 7 1 fficult to write about |she elected to spend her w : reales aged gl without. in- |! the country and devote herself to her son. cluding one who was an adopted This was a most fortunate choloe American, Marie Jean Paul ¥ves Roch| ¢.. nim, Uniike other boys and girls, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafay- children of the French nobility of that ette, The/mother of this patriot 80 day, Lafayette was not turned over beloved of Americans was Mile. Marie to a dancing master to train and ducate, Delicate from his birth, he de Ja Riviere, a daughter of the Mar- quis de la Riviere, one of the wealth- was his mother’s constant care, It jlest men in France. js said that until he reached his twelfth year she seldom let him out of her sight so much as an hour at @ When still in her teens sho was|0f her agot bo mush ttm hie pl married to Colonel, the Marquis| mate, his instructor and friend, It de Lafayette. Our Lafayette was|was with ner that he used to take \their only chiid. He was born in his | mother's ancestral home, the chateau of Chavagnac, about four hundred miles from Paris, a little mora than one month after his father had been killed at the Battle of Milden in the Seven Years’ War. Like the mother of Washington, when left a widow, Madam Lafayette had the world in a swing, Besides ‘being young and beautiful she pos- |seased a large fortune, was highly |accomplished and Inherited an ex- Jalted soctal position, Had she ao jelected she might have returned to society and been one of the most long walks through the forest near Chavagnae, Never a robust Lafayette’s health began to fall as her son entered his twelfth year. Wishing to leave him under the best guiding influences she had him en- ter the College de Plesse in Paris only a few months before her death, But for the training and influence of his young mother it may be doubt- ed if even the vigorous individuality of Lafayette could have saved him from the dangers of a dancing mas- ter education, and without her he probably never would have become woman, Madam _ by the Pens Publishing Co, (The » A Star for Every State in the Union. | Gay witnessed a forward step by the | ww York Brening Worl), ers, This went on for some time. Then, suddenly, the United States decided to ight. So began the War of 18: ils war gave birth to the Star Spangled Banner, written by Francis Scott Key in 1814. Key had visited the flagship of a British fleet lying outside Baltimore in an effort to procure the release of an American captured In a land ratd by the en- emy, Soon after he had gone aboard the British commander decided to at- tack Fort Henry. In order to pre- vent Key from communicating word of preparation of this attack, the visitor was detained. All through the night the American witnessed the fire of British frigates concen- trated on the fort. Phe land ord- nance Wags not powerful enough to reach the British vessels, It seemed that Fort Henry inevitably must fall, It was then that Key received the inspiration to write his great an- them, At sundown he had seen Old Glory flying over the fort. But had ft fallen? What was the fate of the defenders? In the white heat of patriotism he scribbled his nzas on the back of a letter, Just before dawn the British moved in and at. tacked at close range, Right bravely the fort replied, A land attack was beaten off. Then came morning. Ola Glory still waved, ‘Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana and Mississippi were erected into the dignity of States, and it became ap- parent that the addition of « star and a etripe for each new member of the national circle would soon increase the flag to unwieldy proportions, or force reduction in the width of its stripes. This prompted Congress on April 4, 1818, to enact a law rest the numbor of stripes to the original thirteen, each State to be represented by one star. It was provided that all new stars be added to the fi the Fourth of July succeeding ston of new State . No method of arranging the stars was indicated and many designs were used in suc- ceeding y ly the time of the Mexican War the number had grown to twenty-nine and at the beginning of the conflict between the North and South the stars numbered thirty-four. The last addition to the constel- lation was made !n 1912 when Arizona and New Mexico became States. Ani on Oct. 29 of the same year Congress definitely fixed the size and arrange- ment of the stars in thelr present or- brilliant figures in the most brilliant ‘of Europe, Instead, like the famous of American mothers, ‘ an {deal figure in American history second only to the Father of our Country, der. Such is the story of Old Glory, the emblem of a nation that never has been defeated,