The evening world. Newspaper, June 30, 1917, Page 8

The esiMey slorld, w ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publi ‘ompany,” Nos. 63 to | Pe ti 'FaXt tow Rew Fors | LPH PULITZER, President, 63. Park Row.) J. ANGUS SHAW, T: . Aah | | JOSEPH PULITZER, Je, Recrelary, 63 Park Row, | ‘Btered at the Port Oifice at New York as Becond-Clase Matter | Bubseription Rates to The Ev ription Rates to The Evening |For England and the Continent and . ed States All Countries in the International and Canada. Postal Union =, Year. .cccccseses + $6.00/ One Year. Month 60} One Month. WOLUME 87... cc ccccccscrccmsssccssccesseseNO, 20,402 COAL PRICES MUST GO STILL LOWER. OPEFUL as the unwonted attitude of co-operation on the, part of the coal operators may appear, the public should dis | abuse itself of the idea that coal prices have straightway become normal and that consumers need no further aid or protection. It is announced that the coal consuming public will be saved) $180,000,000 annually by the reduction in prices already arranged for. But that does not mean that the cost of coal to the consumer has come down to just levels. | | | | at the pit’s mouth is more than double what it was two years ago. i Coal then sold at the mine for 90 cents, $1.15 and some as high as : $1.35 per ton. With a rate of $3 a ton at the mine, and an increase in wages amounting to not more than 8 cents a ton, the general public is still) paying handsomely for coal, even under Government regulation, The Government itself does 50 cents better, If the Government} were a private corporation and accepted euch terms it would be fined for rebating. This co-operative agreement between the Federal authorities and| the coal men is all very well as far as it goes. But it should by no means be accepted as releasing the latter from further obligations! toward the ordinary coal consumer, who is still grossly overcharged. More names for Chicago’ But is that all he deserves? —— FILL UP THE 12TH AND THE 69TH. O YOUNG MEN in and about New York, The Evening World makes a special appeal in behalf of two home regiments, the jayor will be readily furnished. Twelfth and the Sixty-ninth. . All New Yorkers k eeages coal?” asked the laundry man. ‘“‘There’s the question. At the firs ‘ew Yorkers know these regiments, have cheered them again spring the landlords raised the price of apartments 10 per cent. or more and again as they marched through the city streets, and been proud on the claim that they would be financially embarrassed by the high price of the records they made on the Mexican border. of coal next winter. Some of them put provisions in their leases absoly- They belong to New York. ‘They represent the best of its stron ing them from furnishing heat under certain conditions specified by them- aed 8 Ives, and about all of them are now clamoring for signatures to leases young manhood. They can be counted on to reflect credit and honor ‘phish Wil not begin to run until Oct. 1 wpon the city wherever they find their place in the present conflict. “All laws involving leases and rents are unfavorable to tenants be- f These two fine regiments still need men. When the fact is suffi- cause tenants do not maintain lobbies or legal advisory committees tm ciently made known they should not need them long. Col. Reginald Albany.” Fa Foster of the Twelfth is sure they will not, ees " ae tj . EB,” q wey ys pote bs “Our regiment is to be called out July 15,” he said yesterday. 1) (pene ired creel scent erataetAptachaptapantty cn 1 Hs . , : : toes for Virginia farmers had to quit because the farmers would not "We need 400 men. No man is expected to enlist for a period longer live up to thelr pay agreements.” than the war. But I predict that many will stay along, once they “It farmers were willing to pay good wages and recognize their hel} meet the fine class of young New Yorkers who fill our ranks.” as human beings, there would be fewer good farmhands miscast in towns/ “An appeal is made especially to young men of neighboring sald the laundry man. ; 4 towns. They can enlist and stay right on at home, getting ready to : aemnaee sac sai = oo as —= — — go, and only responding to the call when it comes for the regiment to ye : (oy Wie h vas P erso | h J Fr j ] B y Ro fs I McC d ll mobilize, when they will be taken care of here in Manhattan.” Z y e * n | ec arr a m1 y y My site: arde A fine chance to become part of the fighting force which rallies | ej 4 , Sato TON San ITES - - = sh SA OIG GRE rere a remap ages z lies! By Sophie Irene Loeb | Pte. dinner tor my husband's | grateful for kind acts. ‘Tho thing to| Cvrreht, 1917, by ‘The Pre Publishing Co,| “Well, you are lucky just the same:| that,” remarked Mrs. Jarr, after a from the nation’s biggest metropolis and make certain that New York) 2 oF a 1 eV || friends, but since this affair I have|do 1s te tgnore tt and invite her no (The New York Freuing World.) All men are different, but all hus-|monient’s pause. “Everybody seems hall have its due place in the record. padi 5 Sok Beavise Woda) no Inclination for anything.” more. RS. JARR came back from her banda are alike!” fo want to fight. Our Helping Hand WOMAN writes to me us fol-| My dear woman, you are suffering| Treat tt all as you would any other observation post at the win- one th ie Pere aad yesterday aay wanes ag it ah Medel a ; ; t ‘eserves, esterd a ast of scape orematan ie easy ata masa PX lows from what somebody else failed to| Unpleasant occurrence. There are} | dow for the third time. he forgot to bring home sugar-—t saw | wanted to vote for che funda toi Will the Prohibitionists consent to concentrate on whiskey “About a year ago a friend of |4% Stop and think how foolish thac| 90d people in the world who would| “I do wonder what Is spared spe n an advertisement where it could be| given to the Red Cross instead of ny husba v0 is. enjoy your hospitalit nd would t man, anyway she remarked. Thr | bought # cent a pound cheaper down | being devoted to the original purpose.” and let wine and beer slip by? Strange that we should think my husband pald | on pis (Wai a aes lg uld be | emark wan addressed to Mise Ella |town—and now he isn't home with (t| “What was the original purposet® we must begin a war for freedom by a compromise with us a visit with his atve Ge rae sich “ poly and well, Oe ee nied an Liye 748 Besi¢ Remarc wan addressed to Miss Ellt/yetu. He'll say that's what. delayed Sr Rian Haeivis wife and three sa tion should come to you; |” ess sociate c ot always|* " ‘a ald, him, too ‘Oh, it wa veral th: —Suftra; tyranny. Uhildren, T had ex. | but you are “touchy.” ‘The fact that|™ake social onc elf. Old maid, as Mrs, Jarr called] ‘The visitor, who was knitting a deep Prohibition, but Mrielaliy am ot $$ tended the invita-|¥our kindly efforts were not appre-| 18 like manner, other people are when she wasn’t present. sea jacket for somebody else's son or | the expenses of a committee to go to a Pe tion. (ea Te wantan ted by this woman should makeo| Prone to take to heart something that| “AS I have said to you over and husband who mies: heed iton ship ov | Utah and Investigate the report that VICTORY ALONG HIGHER LINES ASSURED. tom, as 5 wanted sated By, ths ORAS. SROR ae eo mae Ce Armia” cau! lever engin, Wa Spatein” Maw Sete) SREP ONL ROEY vot oyu ore sri fourahed” tere a | wiih thle 4 of | her. have done their full part. This is all |°°?t¢mued, “you are a lucky woman | lookin for somebody who WILL paper Mrs, Kittingly HE British Premier’s speech at Glasgow reflecta anew the my husband's| Your visitor was ungrateful, eo| ‘ly: nos to have the worry and care of a ca HSA Ecce dhe aR polygamy being the ; ; hy. sh ue , sb. § vacation) FE ed wom vho 3 Serpe 4 ll Colle cheer and confidence which the war activities of the United friend, being unac-| WAY sh uld you sutfer for her short- W n you have the assurance that speipsieeripey i ees ni ee ways looking for some one who Will] fie i, thas was atti Collea) Giaay & | quainted jn the | comings? win such a woman over | You have done the best you could and | - Sons were | never come.” “Whose he m " , | deowta reson won y and | 4, aa 7 hearth?" asked the visttor States have already brought to the Alli oe olty to you would be no credit, for she|tho other fellow has failen short | “#//¢4 t© S0 abroad to fight the en-| “you may be spared much, at that!"| | “Everybody's! replied Mra, Jagr, America has always been freedom’s mainstay. She has *f entertained them as best T could | OUld only fall to be the friend in| Pomewhere Just. “pat yourssl? on the| concrete cntae eee | Waa MER. JAIT'8 COME, | araltings| netire ce rey cei lt he Oe never made war except for freedom. Now she is sending her and upon their going home I bought | seme other way | back” and look forward to others who He Ney ot MemiIpy ane) Maybe) © ite sna the dace Ga welt bee chine “~ bias we’ 4 valiant soldiers to the battlefields to fight around Liberty's each kiddie a pretty prese I also I can assure you that if she has cul- | Will appreciate, ie ee vied ries a . , o a toc 5 t om | tivated such a ngraciol yosi-| ‘The milk of human ki. hii A= td cha OM le visitor o dinner can be as spoiled as| “I think divorce is as b standard. That's another reason why victory along higher took some lovely pictures of them | tivated such an ungracious dispos! nan kindness oc- age 2 ! ree is as bad lines {s assured. : oe and sent them to the mother the fol-| (on everybody will find her out and | casionally sours and makes “pieces of aad ‘T am no older than you are. | the dinner one eats alone—no matter | aid the 1 4 : : lowing week, asking ber to come | #26 will lose in the end. In the mean. | cheese but remember there can ae Seren t sons old enough to go to ‘ ectly coc ‘ r a may t The same spirit of reinforced courage and determination appears yy, one time thero is no reason for you to| always bo a fresh supply. hie yen Cease I had mar- t get sentimental, Bpelvint weer in the emphasis with which Lloyd George again rejects every sugges-| “I heard notht from her for| punish yourself and lose interest in aid Lares Telerten me ato up| Mr: Jarr : tion of a peace on Prussian terms: {eleven months: A few days ago she athe people because of an incident 2 fo ae Rote aoe are wee Dawe hm BO Wpha called with her husband and chil- | like this, ” bs @ ° boxing gloves!" women who ne husban ‘The war will come to an end when the Allied armies have éren again and never said a word of| Such a friend as this woman ts not Bu Boxing gloves?” repeated Miss|think it wasteful the teamee : he least reached the aims which they set out to attain when they my letter, nor why I hadn't heard| Worth having. Your husband and imines h also selfish—when some women get a : < 2 ek nogtog Re Siege ; * said Mrs. Jarr.| two and three!” accepted the challenge thrown down by Germany, As soon as from her. I felt 4 ly hurt over it,| hers may go on ar a enjoy each By H P| Bz ott |When he found out the new janitor| At this moment Mr. Jarr entered. those objectives have been reached and guaranteed this war I feol as if she i ugh | other's society for all time, but this ay ee as arre | was an ex-prize fighter he wante to| He bore in triumph a smal! package. will come to an end, but if the war comes to an end a single I didn’t mention the fact does not always follow with the ——- | buy boxing glo’ and spar with him/ "You were right, my dear,” he said minute before it will be the greatest disaster that has ever “My husband sees hers every day,| Wives. These are the kind of women | Tackling the Correspondence | nf, T began by making axl"! think this wer, has got, every: | sncaper: See, T'got a poundi” © befallen mankind, as they work in th ame building | Who are calle atty Problem. ysis of our outward bound let-| body wild to fight. I know it’s on my And I needed fifty pounds at 3 . . : and they are ju ndly as ever Doubt! the green-eyed monster UCH tt ters, covering a considerable period, | Nerves least!” ied Mrs. Jarr. “Eile Something to be pondered in Berlin in connection with the V unhappy | was what came between you. You| && that I have accom-| practically ever eae Well,” suggested the visitor,"| Spelvin,” here she turned to the vis- y unhapr } Plished here ts of interest ily every contingency arising, | waon't you be wild to fight, too, be f tor, “the ri r women try two’ rs ens and the s front, the latest s I bo; any one any|may have proved to be e1 ‘ io es stlit a ed, could be cov . aly sy Som Be 20) | eet bar news from Lens and the Arras front, the latest slump in the U boat He CAR ANY BAY ERY) SURCEaY Fe eae Dative * only to similar large estab. |, ceveloPed: could be covered by 40} peace—peaco at home, if not abroad.”| and three | is because the campaign and the steady gathering of men under the American flag sa all poly ge rarer tot tan ae | Manmenta! P an efficiency soap lpg of stock paragraphs com-|" “It's easy enough for you to say | first ones never any sense!” behind the battle lines in France pewngge-pantpaneedd fos you May | engineer wh have effec ee ng twelve beginnings, twenty-| hi . nave shown yourself a more delight-| faving of 4 Meas eae oar three endings, and forty short letters, see MORN ee aie ful hostess than she and it rankled in| {1 ‘t’ vreat department store, “but hore a 4 list 1 ordered typed, mounted on New Machine a her 1 ; 4 arge cardboards and placed on th = a t 7 e b a | tg one idea, which, by the way, I can aY Oe P n the ; Three thousand ie puaeree Arierisep aeroplanes can be Th is no ne 4 for you to close | not claim to bave originated, tha desks of the correspondent and his improved machine gun mount designed by built, we are assured, by Decem © work and prove it ji ' ie her de ae would-be can be »st universally applied. |?! an American inventor for use of the Allies In vee ——_—_—_—_— — : = ends just because ONE has no . ; ; rien s , at @ Ot setae to the use of stock parasraphs r it was a simple matter he Kuropean trenches, was turned over to the ‘ . > measure | in corre snus tator to read the incoming |Qrdnance Department 1 A ee Letters From the People HacbosDer {Hare Are People Who Are] THAT RREINE uc. cocreapondenne [seal dot Gown. th Simaren Mannion ecco ae Tn elie NOUN ARUP One Man's View of Vrobibition.| Thanks From the Red Cross, ee ee ee een Oto UG Rk MOOT GEL EGRET ee fo Ube litor obser old To te tof The Hrening World a ameaeemeaier eamemmammmaayaiadaaaaaies —== et fi red i? oe Toe Brewing World ca | tee Tos reine p i Ss mane er 7 itute the reply and distribute [O° heard a , ” on efore conscrit » became a lw nat the Red Cross campaig opular MPUpers titions ps to the girls. This idea, which hout material rearrangement it will carry } the newspaper columns were 4 1 1 must not fail ¢ | be 4 Vast amount of time, ean bi , shine 4 bd . oe oa Sn pap xpress ira | (| ; e|any machine gun used by the army, 6ays Pop- pono, with clamor demands for 1 1 the thanks of the Red Cross a ae OOFe | echantics, e n eighs 150 : Now we are to clamorou: t You have at all OR a baseball team to meet ay bat, It 1s considered a sign of bad| «notes very office, War ne i at Th Forint -welene 360 | protests agu pibition. een very K Ae baler it F funeral on the way to the wauielluch tf. doe cecases thedintiand Ce [Tele eeninc RTeAVINS ,ceviee. in [pounds and oan be completely Glemeunied in apple ages asap tai a RT LER ent, friendly ans that they will win; if| fore the first ball is pitched. h @ space left at the and of the | 7) seronee, In cage of retreat it canis bet r BeH ye most helpful in all they meet a load of barrels they will Baseballs eve: 7 | to be filled in with the words| carried to the rear by five men, the separate interferes with our personal liberty ters | mist never be put 3 @ will make that letter direct! $ There will be many brave men who|, Vile lieve that your action bas wolas lose bat bag, or bad luck will result. It 4s Bie to the cans oe the reaintent, | suit walehing not over 86. paunds exch, A Fi akg at oheth en greatly apprecia and we It considered unlucky for @ ball!unlucky to step on the home plate| These two simple measures com ;|gun on this mount can be operated tn t must fight in this awful war—wheth- | *, e THE ONL » pla ple measures combined MliNes wish to. oP nol ‘The. provi mt to know hat under- “ Y WAY player to meet a re aired woman} (except, of course, when by so doing | @ carefully studied and uniform] eaYety by one man, who could be con- ‘ Se a Si eeitl’ eaten pee Heed ae # pare 7 our pi P' WSIDENT IL H. WRIGHT of a clergyman on his way to the{it completes a ru jarrangement of 8 nery in the £58k | cealed from two to twenty feet below A lives of taese men und ulso sufeguard SEWARD PROSSE! eee on game, Another sign of bad luck ts to] New uniforms are looked upon as| motions, have resulted in the release | the level of the gun. The weapon can ; the lives of the women and childrer Executive Commites Chairm \ it tho Wor k with a girl who has a cast in her| hoodoos. Ball players believe it is{of ten typists, be aimed in a complete horizontal circle | left unprotestou at home | Diath weauciec \ » A e It is said that to hiss her will) unlucky while travelling to sleep with| "(This means a cash saving of nearly) straight blanket fire, or at an ang $ he hig nd noblest type of | To the Editor of Tue Erening World 1 ‘remove the hoo To allow alt a AE Leen anain $4,000 a year; not just this or at nt blanke ‘, or at an angle ‘ thinking men are thowe who conside at ' . a oe OF C08 | ng be > or years td m direct overheac eto a “ i Bea oe nis seline tee see) oe tee, tae, 8 D 1} stranger t on the players’ bench The head ahould alwaye bel Ginn tens Saveok wal thane's [Feat aireat overvena fh mu i food could be uccomplished if men | ite heads me ke A any which w ©] is to invite bad luck Home teams ' should not be applied t depression of 45 degrees. ; of this type controlled newspapers, ba i ay rae ‘ will 1 »w all the players to sit] If a¢ ppen | of offices even down to mi A periscope feature gives the gun- @ Would not then be tr to| Draft r ations have: nek ‘ eer vee eM) Gown together to step a|For even though a man emplo: ary ye + rag Be alridt a the Mal tne ce uraeiatigne have fot been these : only way a iman can | GOWN | ner ‘ : team ¢ : For even though a man cuploy .vul| ner in trench fire complete sight of the Ainly convince people he hus got De in| At way to invite a hoodoo 4s! alluw hin t Gy unul it -arrives {labor im letter writing will allow her|feld, while himself entirely concealed trom view, and he can fire at wit! to your issue of June will be needed, Vv Oo Even with the announced reduction, the price of bituminous coal! Fvening World Daily to get riches. Wasbington Svar, Zine to allow @ strange band to touch the/at the grounds. Coorrtaht, 1017, tr the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), case the ‘Bone Dry’ Law passed the Congress,” asked the head pol- isher, “wouldn't the distillers and brewers and wine manufacturers and liquor dealers have some claim on the Government for the fiscation of their property. Have they no ves' “Vested rights!” said the laundry man, “They haven't got even shirted rights—no, not even B. V. D. rights, If the Prohibition fanatics in Congress have r enough to confiscate the property of the people fe powe: engaged in the manufacture malt beverages, the parties stand to be stripped. power. anxious to get out, but le have a chance to drop their business without suffering just the they cancelled their insurance and set their faces on fire. “The Prohibitionists have selzed on the war to fasten prohibition on the country as a national measure. Their business is subject to police d rights?” and sale of alcoholic and of the second part must “Realizing that prohibition is some form or another ie is bound to come in time, the liquor men are more or they think they ought to as ff as a factor to enable them They are utilizing many legislators who advertise, by their advocacy of the ‘bone dry’ provision, that they are unfair and unfit to cause they consider thelr own prejudices above the interests or desires a of the country at large. “Take Senator Sheppard of Texas, for instance. be national legislators be- This Senator knows that prohibition, as a State-wide measure, has been a failure in his State, He knows that prohibition is persistently voted down in many localities in Texas and that the Prohibitionists are often unable to hold ground they have gained by reason of changes of sentiment local option law. “Senator Sheppard wants Texas dry. He can't accomplish this desire, so he wants the National Government to put @ between elections under @ knows the Prohbibitionists {t over for him. Incidentally he wants to saddle prohibition on New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and other States which would vote it down overwhelmingly as a State-wide measure but are steadily edging toward the dry column through the extension of local option. States with adult populations not much larger Senators from than that of a New York City Assembly District are willing to impose on the people of this clty legislation they do not want and would bury in “Maybe our country is too large; perhaps a popular election. it would be well to divide it up into districts In which persons having thelr own peculiar ideas would feel at home with others of their kind. ea 8 88 66 the price of coal.” “But will the rent of apartments decrease with the price o I imagine a State populated ex clusively by ardent Prohibitionists would be safe from invaston. NYHOW,” remarked the head polisher, “the war has brought down time for other duties,” [trom his concealed position, # i ' ij | { ) ‘ iy