The evening world. Newspaper, May 12, 1917, Page 10

ENTAMLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Sunder by hy the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to 64 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER J. ANGUS SHAW President, SS Rt Entered at the Post-Otfice ¥ ts Second-Class Matter, ‘ubsor: iz t ‘The Evening |For Enstan ~ ‘ontinent - Word, tor ise United States Au ahiaies in hs International and Canada, One Year an tao] lone Year nea One Month 1” {60|/One Month, VOLUME 57 DISPEL THE CLOUD. NLESS this country does something to check the ruthless forcing up of food prices a blight will presently descend | upon its prosperity. The Evening World has already declared its belief that the chief cause of that curtailment of general buying which is worry- | ing the merchants is to be found in the fact that the bare necessi-| ties of life now cost so much that there is little or nothing left of the average family income to spend on anything else. The American public is more and more appalled at what it, has to pay for food. If present conditions continue or grow worse, | panic is certain to ensue. i Are prevailing extortionate food prices necessary? | We do not believe they are. That is also, we note, the em- | phatic opinion of Herbert C. Hoover, whose experience and first hand knowledge of food conditions in Europe during the war have made him generally recognized as the man best fitted to grapple with the great food problem of this country. The false notion that we have to deal with famine in the United States, Mr. Hoover will have none of. We have now and will have next year, he points out, a large surplus of food—which, however, it is our obvious duty to increase to the utmost to meet the needs of our allies. The pressing problem in the United States is not so much how to produce more food—which is merely a question of extending industry—as how to keep food out of the hands of speculators and profiteers whose every contact with it means waste and ex- tortion. “I have no hesitation {n sayin declares Mr, Hoover, “that ff the able, patriotic men representing the majority of each branch of the food trades were called in and clothed with the necessary powers to force the small minority of skunke that exist in every trade, one result would be that an equally nu- tritious flour based on even $1.60 wheat could be sold in New York for a good deal under $8 a barrel and every trade would receive its legitimate profit.” With sufficient control, Mr. Hoover believes the present price of flour can be reduced by from 40 to 50 per cent. and “at the same time the producer treated in a liberal manner.” If we find a way to deal with submarines and thus open other markets to our allies, he thinks we may “see wheat at $1 a bushel and flour under $6.” On the other hand, unless we get a grip on the food situation: “We may see $20 flour before the year is over and a total dislocation of wages and consequent dislocation of industry | and living.” | “It te possible that the last three months of next year we may be bare of breadstuffs tn this country.” That is for Congress to think about. | Unless food prices are controlled and speculators eliminated most people in the United States will presently have no money | at all to spare for less necessary commodities. If general buying halts, business will become alarmed, money grow scarce and industry flag. Industry, employment, confidence are what give the country | afrength to fight and keep on fighting with undiminished power. That power must not be undermined by panic. Reassure American consumers. Once give them guarantees that their Government will not | leave them at the mercy of food exploiters, and we believe that. confident, though careful, buying will dispel the cloud now gath-| ering over business. | ——_<4-______. | “ What with munition workers setting up separate repuilica and the Socialists sending delegates to a peace conference at Stockholm, the present Government of revolutionized Russia 1s entitled to sympathy. But when was new born liberty any- thing but ® wriggling, squirming, thankless tnfant? | ° prbsnebanieiiarty We Gave our limitations, which 1s probably why we fall to eppreciate the inspired quality of the idea which prompted Gov. Whitman's committee to take Billy Sunday along with the great French Marshal to West Point, ——__—-¢-—__. i It has been a memorable week for New York. May some of {ts memories stay by and cheer us for the tasks ahead. Hits From Sharp Wits Perhaps you have noticed that when! The m & Woman says “there's no use talk- | will get ng” she keeps right on.- News. en who are too fat to fight 4 chance to reduce by follows ~Chicago | ing the plow.--Memphisy Commercial- Appeal, oe ak For the “embattled farmers” the} The wor tnvietualed fanners are now to belcient one 4 ty conte ionekseedee substituted.—Columbla (8, C.) State. | With so many loaf needere we should * 8 6 | MAVe @ revival of old-fashioned indies, This country is now Pittsburgh Gazette financial reliance of Unc tente & Co.—-Savannan : the chiet| Work that one can | o do and like, 140, never seems h Cyne nal ar As fellin aan thea ‘miowsen aa ardmAlbany Jour well an they can failure, but most of | em never have a chance to find out} Binghamton Press. mes marries a Vola (8. Cl) State, | Periscope New in Winning Divorce | Waterproof Fabric Made | of Cork and Cloth | WARK Kansas the periscope! Out tn Jealous husband tained a divorce. NEW waterproof fabric haa re cently been produced ts n France of cor! to being impervioy {9 said to be very dur- u When the c that she je partiy d all of the things plaintiff said he had seen by and to 7 | ia ald, his suit was hastily granted, !able and a non-conductor of. heer It weeins that the man went to the!The cork is cut up into very wit apartment house where his wife was! slices t 4 tn’ chemi: A staying, following th paration me resinous sub- trusty periscope. a was adjust three could look throu r thi r of his wife's n wheats are can be bent room, They gave one gasp and rushed tndu ‘ 1700 fora lawyer Nitadte ‘The Judze whe Jed te " oF f ““Ond Signed the papors {on against rain, A make up their minds to move. do but starve and be abused by chil- dren as well as grown ups. letter and also your own opinion on space, and my opinion Is that every |per year for every cat ™ Don’ tUse Itasa s a Weapon!” al Cy ste ives New York By Sophie Irene. Loeb | | faturcay, May 12, 1917 Of sis U, Ss Navy | By Albert Pay son Terhune FF; Copsright, 1917, by the Pree Publishing (o, (The New York Brenig Worlty No. 10—JERRY O'BRIEN, Hero. of the Kevolution’s First Sea Fight. OU will find no duet of him, I thik, In the Capitol of his State 9 fe or at Washington. I am not even sure there is anywhere ag @u- thentic portrait of him, But he was a hero none the less—e naval hero, the first naval hero of our American Revolution, He was Jerry O'Brien-—Capt. Jeremiah O'Brien, if you prefer—a strap- | ping glant of a man, eldest of six big sons of an Irish emigrant who had | drifted to the little Maine coast village of Machtias. Machias was full of etanch patriots—farmers and sailors and fisher | tolk—who grew red with anger at every talo of British oppression that | reached their village. They scowled, (bo, every time they looked out in the harbor where the British warechooner Margaretta rode at anchor, guarding two sloops that had been sent to Machias to collect lumber for the English navy. On the morning of May 9, 1776, a fishing smack from Boston touched at the Machias dock. Her crew brought stirring news. They told the ex- cited villagers that the Revolution had at last begun; that Paul Revere had etirred the countryside to arms and that the farmer minute-men of Masoachusetts had thrashed a body of redcoat veterans. The Revolution was on! We were at last at war with England, The men of Machias burst Into a wild cheer. But Jerry O'Brien quickly silenced them. He pointed to the Margaretta and to the men aboard the British lumber sloops. Then nnn Warat Last $ Ze Dockoned a knot of his friende to one aide and Deot red whispered to them, After which he made the fishing somcanny stiack’s crew promise to say nothing to any of the Englishmen about tho news from Boston, Two mornings later a band of thirty-five Machias men assembled on the dock, under the leadership of Jerry O’Brien, They were armed with fowling pieces, rusty muskets, horse pistols, swords and pitchforks, At a word from O’Brien they leaped aboard the nearest lumber sloop, . drove its mmazed crew over into the water and took possession of the |sloop. Then they sailed forth to capture the Margaretta, In other words, this rabble of villagers rushed into battle against @ | warehtp whose crew outnumbered them and who were well-armed veteran | fighters, The Margaretta, moreover, lesser artillery. Capt. Moore of the British vessel had seen the rald on the lumber sloop, As this commandeered sloop, crowded with wild patriots, bore down on the Margaretta Capt. Moore ordered the anchor up and the galls hoisted. In carried two swivel guns, besides {his hurry he gave an order which jibed his mainsail so suddenly to pert that the boom snapped in two. Unable to manoeuvre his ship, he opened fire on the advancing sloop, The cannon ehots went wild. Smash against the Margaretta dashed the ‘loop. And, with Jerry O'Brien in the lead, tho Machias farmers swarmed | | | the last charge of the Machias men, | he was beaten he fought on. over the warshtp's sides. The British crew met them right valtantly end drove them back. Thrice the Machias men paying no heed at all to the rain of lead and steel thet flashed in their faces. Their own scanty ammunition ©” was all gone. They used their guns as clubs. It wos Jerry O'Brien's first sea fight. And ho had not enough of ex- perience to realize he was hopelessly beaten. Because ho did not kmew Because he fought on he won the battle, His demoralized crew fell back before Over the side and aboard the Mare eens Didn't Know He'd Lost. Capt. Moore was struck down, | garetta sprang the victors, killing or selzing the remaining Englishmen, |The Jarr Family | They hauled down the Britivh flag and ran the schooner back to the dock— the first prize of our country’s first sea fight. It had been a costly victory. For more than twenty men were dead or wounded, Jerry O'Brien renamed the schooner The Machlas Liberty and saileé her !n triumph to Boston. thetr ship and their own services to ther country, ka _ By Roy Ee McCardell | Coorrtat, 1917 by The Prom Iublishing Oo, (The New York Evening World.) WOMAN writes as follows: “Iam going to ask you for a! plea for the dum) ones, espec- cats will be taken In custody by officials or animal societies. Tf this bill ts signed by the Gov- Jernor {t may tend to relieve the suf- | fering, in that cats which have noj city jally the house |home will not be permitted to move | cat Now that /about in misery on public thor- | May has arrived |Oughfares, This bill ts now before} it means that | the Governor ae consideration, many will move | nowever, there na. great humane | and leave thelr! duty to be declared. Any one who cats to starve,| owns a cat, moves away ‘and leaves no provision for the animal is a which I think is pretty poor sort of citizen, and de- ® frightful thing serves the condemnation of his) to do, They pre- | neighbors. | tend to love their| I wish there were a statute to ap- cats until they | prenend such people and punish them for their gro neglect, Doubtless! such cats have proved of valuo to “Where are the poor creatures to t food? There was a time when) they could get it from garbage cans, but now there is nothing for them to | The Week’s the family tn keeping away ain besides filling the place of a pet, To abandon such a creature after Congriht, 1917, by The Pree tg Con, you emoking coming | Home and saw to {t that the animal's he has been of service Ja like forget- ting an old friend when he needs you most. There is just as much treachery Involved, {f not more. ‘or the friend ‘may help himself, but the cat is left to atray, and at the| mercy of the heedless passerby, I know several people who have stopped In the street when they found a suffering cat or dog and called up the Soclety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or the Bide-a-Wee | Jarr, as she admitted her husband homo from the bread line, “I smell tobacco smoke in the hall,” “Janitor, I guess,” said Mr, “You can complain.” “No, It wasn't the janitor,” replied Mre. Jarr. “And @s for complaining, I am complaining now to you, If I complained to the janitor, I'd only get impudence. Janitors are ifke everything else these days, they are jetting worse.” “I bear our janitor hae enlisted,” sald Mr, Jarr, By Martin Green sufferings were alleviated, A little time spent in this way dees more to bring the glow of gladness at the end of the day than you would think for, Just try It and see how it makes you feel like “patting yourself on the back.” ~Wash Canyright. 1917. Pees Publinttng Oo, Pie "Now York frenine Word ) | ¢6]T has been almost forty-etght hours since I have read of the appointment in Washington of any new committees to regulate people and things,” remarked the head polisher. “The Executive Department of the Government,” said the laundry man, ‘Ye apparently cooling out. Certainly it has travelled far since the declar ation of war in directing the atten- tion of the citizens of this republic “I hope you will give ace to this the subject. ‘The 8. P. C. A. will call for @ cat and it only costes one cent to send for them.” Dear woman, your letter deserves | one should read it and reflect on it, During the week a bill has deen passed in the Legislature providing for a license fee of twenty-five cents Otherwise 5 War Implements of Old | Recalled by British Tanks | HE big armored and movi ble}in Alexander's conquest of the : : “tanks” by {era World, fortresson allied “tanks” by) Sr) Tong the simplest and yet one the English Tommy, which have of the most effective inventions of created such havoc on the Wer FM) ancient times was the javelin with @ |tront, recall some of the terrible war| point of soft Iron employed by Julius engines of antiquity. | Caesar in his Gallic wars, ‘The Ro- Ona uch wae that emptoyed by | Mar lesionaries hurled these weapons against the shields Alexander the Great in his seven| ‘The iron head penetra months’ alege of the Phoenician me-| covering of bull's hide, |tropoils Tyro. ‘This ancient city was | agalins the hand wid « strongly sityated on an island and as hooked to th thero were no long range batteries Im! of the dangling javelins eo !mpeded! the fourth century before the Chris- the, moveme nts of the barbarian | of building a molo or causeway from | uncovered against the Romans or else and to the Island, This engl-| stop long enough (a fatal delay in nterprise Was hampered by; thelr advance) to disencumber them- their enemtes. | became | The shanks the Tyrians, who launched biasing selves from this uniaue | weapon, ships against the assailants as they; which may properly be called the rank pties lo hold in place the rocit}dum-dum plum, th weniten bel debris that formed a roadway |the aoft-nose, or dum-dum, bullet of | over which the army was to march, | to-day ) order to protect his construction| ‘The poisonous gases employed corps Alexander devised grea ers|trench warfare p present | covered with green hides. These were | Hur Viewed as set Up an shields against the floating | a de he ludicrous flames of the enemy and tho result gtinicpot weapons used by the Chinese Was one of the memorable victories for ages. an conflict lare crowded to the theory that they are unable to| good nature of even the Amertcan take care of themselves, public,’ “The bewildered citizens aforesatd, ae se HAT became of the bill willing to do thetr dit and shell out thelr share of the cost and suffer cheerfully and even with loud ac- claim the hardships of war, are beset on all sides by theorists, blowhards, fatheads and economic crackpots who are enabled by reason of the fact that they are three-fourths juff and one-fourth nerve to pene- trate to the inner shrines of etates- manship in Washington and procure for their alleged principles elther an »Melal or @ semi-olficial stamp of ipproval, The common sense citizen 4 too busy produciug for the benefit of the Nation, mind.ng his own busi- ness, paying his taxes and bringing up | his children to go down to the capl- tal and help make Uncle Sam bilious, “Wo haven't started to raise our which would send an editor to jail for criticis- ing the official a of an officer of the Government asked the head polisher, “It was reluctantly amended and denatured,” sald the laundry man, “but the amended bill hasn't been adopted, Many members of Congress who get up and yawp about the free- dom of the press being the founda- tion stone of liberty would lke to enact a law which would make the vress as effective as a Mexican dollar bill, “Our lawmakers are always seek- |ing @ way to muzzle the press. That | well known ral guiding Nght, the |late Thomas C, Platt, almost got hia army yet, but we have gone far on! ant tot Dill through the N our way’ to discipline the ctviilan | {ey Tapisiatais, he epirit behind papulation, There is a propaganda |), Pent ie atiil alive on Capitol on foot to establish that every Amer- | F111) F jean business man is @ crook and every other American citizen 1s an ass, All trains Washington bound with persons of both sexes who have made it the business of thelr lives to try to regulate the appetites, thoughts, habits, wearing apparel, amusements, wives, hus- bands ‘and offspring, present and prospective, of other people. Untor- tunately they find in Washington of- ficial life an amazingly large number of salaried meddlers in whom the regulatory spirit is overpowering, “This country has been steadily tending toward domination by smail minds. The war, eventually, will kick the doud, insistent butter-in to the rear, but this will not come to pass until war 4s here {n earnest and real n come to the front to do the work men, In the meantime {t f# up to the people at large to express in some way to the balloonheads who are try- ing to submit them to the discipline of a dependent orphans’ home an tn- timation that there is @ limit to the “Drastle preas censorship in time ot war ia akin to the old time prin- ciple of the Police Department that it Is against anything about robberies. The theory is that If a burglar reads in tho papers about a robbery he has com- initted he Will at once realize that the police are at work on the case jand will, therefore, try to keep from Betting arrested,” 66] SEE," said the head polisher, “that the small towns of the Middle West are away ahead of New Yor’. in furnishing recruits for the “The reagon ts plain,” explained the laundry man, ‘The young fellows out in the small towns in the Middle West are willing to do anything to get away, while New York {s 80 good & place to live in that even the coun- try's call 1s temporarily overcome by its manifold attractions.” Jar. Winesap says they up the stairs?” asked Mrs. | public polley to print | “It would be a good thing,” was the | Yo, but she sald Ledy EI There he and his farmer crew proudly offered » reply, “if all the janttors went off to|I"rogmore of Meediieees Aneree war, Mra, Winesap was telling me| Manor, leader of the emart eet of that her cousin, who {s in Parts, says | London—I have seen her picture as @ all the concterges have gone except the old ones, ‘Conclerge’ what the French call a Janitor, to war is Mrs. | are worse than what we have in this country, at least they used to be, They watch you come out and in, and they keep the key of the front door and you have to ring to get them to let you in {f you are out late, and then you have to tip them, That's the reason why the French people, who are very thrifty, don't go out at night, or didn’t before the war, and it was only visitors who lived at hotels who kept up the gay night life of Parts. “But,” here she sniffed at Mr. Jarr again, “I do believe you have been smoking again coming up the stains. You smoke too much at that old office, I should think you would not want to emoke coming home. And tt smolls Ilke cigarette smoke too."* “Maybe the little lady who lives upstairs, Mrs. Kittingly, has been| emoking in the habinv: and smoking cigarettes,” suggested Mr, Jarr, “'I| know I haven't.” | “That'e right, run her down be-| cause she {8 alone in the world and has no one to defend her,” said Mrs. | Jarr, “I think you men are all pre-| Judiced against a divorcee, simply be- cause she gete her support—aviien she gets alimony, Uke Mrs, Kittingly | does—gwithout having @ husband | around to abuse her, Suypose she | does eamoke. Mrs, Winesap told me| all the fashionable women abroad | smoked when she waa over thera, be- | fore the war." | “Did Mrs, Winesap?” asked the attack from him, am- | 1O-DAY is the birthday of At many. On May 12, 1789, WIll-| fam Mooney, an upholsterer, | who previously had been active as one of the Sons of Liberty, founded | in New York what was intended to| be a patriotic and social organtzation, | the secret society of St. Tammany, or Columblan Order, which tn 1806 was regularly inoorporated as a fraternal | aid society, It was divided tnto thirteen tribes, | each of which had Its eeparat The offloera be known Grand Sachem, the Sachem, the shoers, OF mantar af coranbnie ae | the Wiskinsk!, or doorkeeper. In 1811 the society built ite first the| Mr. |s Jerr, not that he cared, but it shifted | totem, | N Indy farmer tn military untform~+ moked so much that the cigarette stains covered her hands so that eve erybody thought she wore yellow gloves, and that made yellow gloves fashionable, So there can't be any harm in smoking cigarettes #0 far 9 women are concerned, if they @e #0 In moderation.” You won't let me smoke cigars ettes in moderation, or in the house, or in the hall, or in any place,” said Mr. Jarr moodily, Master Willie Jarr, who had come in at this juncture, heard the words: ‘Gimme the coupons, Pop, wonte cha?" he asked, “Now look!" cried Mrs. Jarr. “Yeu have our little Willie interested ta such things!" ‘What do you mean, such things? asked Mr. Jarr. “If he's interested in coupons, that’s all right; coupons are the earning thcrement of bonds.” “He means cigarette coupons, and you know It," replied Mre, Jarr. "Yes," interjected young hopeful, they don't pack pictures or little ruge or céllulold buttons in cigarettes any more, but they give coupons, and you can ret baseballs and baseball bate and flags for the coupons,” “That will do, Willie!’ Jarr, “Little boys and nice people don't touch cigarettes or anything that comes with them, “Mra. Kittingly upstairs give me coupons; ain't she a nice asked the boy “Or Lady Elizabeth Toadvitle, or whatever her name w the yellow hand London society cigarette de- royer?" Mr, Jarr replied, But Mrs, Jarr only remarked that oaid Mra, she desired the discussion closed, moved to Tammany nth Street, where it P Barly in its hise tory Tammany an to take an ade jtive part In polities, Aaron Burr te supposed to have been ity tutor in the ways of politics, and in 1800 the soe clety took part in its fret campaign, ng instrumental in carrying New | York for Thomas Jefferson, The name Tammany {| from that of an Indian ¢ htef, Teams anend, of the Delaware tribe, who wae {famous for his vty ad He died in 1740 as buried te Yew Hritaln Township, Bucks County, ‘Tammany Pa. Was one of the ears st social organizations in A The members in naan accustomed to ¢ tume,