The evening world. Newspaper, July 14, 1917, Page 3

WUE U ANN sUUD IN TWO YEARS OF GOUEING BY THE MARKET BOOSTERS sonable, refiners and the d Scarcity of eugar has been shown to worth talking about. to be normal at present prices, the history of the trade, benefited the American public not to the burdened public, sumption, Refiners Asked to Join Crusade To Give the Poor 7-Cent Sugar After a careful and impartial study of the sugar situation The Eve- ning World respectfully invites the sugar refiners and the dealers in the raw product to join with it In a campalgn to restore the price of sugar to the basic wholesale prices of 1915. be a myth, The refiners have had millions of dollars returned to them by the United States Government on export business, one mill, There now to stop refunding of duty on raws, If the refiners want to hold on “drawback, then in justice to the publo they should be willing to @rop at once these abnormal profits made at thé expense of an over- Everybody knows by now that the high-price argu- ments are arguments and nothing else. If the refiners will show some moderation, get down to the normal of actual supply and actual demand priaciple: campaign for increased consumption. for the Federal, for Arbuckles, for the National, &c, ‘What do the sugar men say to t his proposal? AVERAGE PRICES FOR RAW AND REFINED SUGAR (CENTS PER POUND) FOR FIVE YEARS, 1912, 1914, Raw (Cubas) 3.00 gf 3.81 Refined (granulated) 4.26 4.67 ——-19 (Present Prices.) . 6.59 RETAIL Refined granulated (cents per pound eee EEUU EEE IEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEneeneeeeeemaedl Cost of 5 and 6 Cents a Pound in Refined granulate PRICES, 1914. 1915. ). 5a6 bal This paper asks nothing unrea- The poor of the city are paying 8 and 9 cents the pound for granulated sugar that could be sold with profit at 7 cents a pound if the ers in the raw product will come out of the skies. There {8 no exportation Consumption 4s far from normal, and it ought not ‘The Cuban crop is to be the heaviest in ‘These millions have The Evening World will The refiners want increased con- ‘They are begging the housewives to make jams, to preserve @ome of the necessities and many of the delicacies of life. If the house- wives do as they are urged that means more money for the American, (s a campaign on 1915 1916, 5.50 5.56 7.00 d 7.60 and 8 cents 1916. 1917 $a9 8a9al0 1915 Boosted to 9 to 11 Now— Gamblers in a Quandary. Evening World housewives—atten- tlon! Here is a @resh seriés of facts why the refiners of sugar and the dealers im the raw product and the jobbers and all the wholesalers and retailers abould not exact 9 and 10 and 11 cents a pound from you for granu- lated sugar you bought at 5 and 6 cents in 1915, Think over them while your favorite paper starts in to-day a campaign to restore moderation in the sugar business in this town. Here they are: ‘Thirty new beet plants. | A new refinery at Savannah; an- other one planned for Boston. A score of new companies organized to deal in the raw product and guar- antee gold leaf dividends, Above fifty new sugar brokerages here in the East in a period of ten the American Su; | sumption.” jpoint where it | too greedy,” And this one statement: “The well on exports. the drawback.” Here is a mild creased profits on game and keep u Hawaii produce: Manual of Hawa months. Established firms, refined and raw, reaping abnormal profits ranging published, exactly gwar Refining Com- pany and draw a conclusion: “Tho| general prosperity of the country has | developed a buying power which has | overcome somewhat |dency of high prices to check con-| the usual ten- will accept higher | prices providing the refiners are not | from a brokerage j refiners did very Every effort should be bent to prevent agitation to repeal HITTING THE HIGH PLACES IN SUGAR NET PROFITS. example of the in- n the raw product }and another reason why there is a | wild scramble to get into the su, p the ‘aigh according to 3.68 per cent, of |the sugar consumed in this country. | |The Oahu Sugar Company, Limited, trom $1,500,000 to $10,000,000 over any |is one of the big firms dealing in the previous year's operations. ‘The howl refiners set up the mo- ment public attention 1s once more riveted on the penny a pound “draw- back” given by a prodigal Govern- pany were $3 ton being $13.25, (net) dwindled to profit per ton. 3,844, ment. | Increased labor cost in twelve) months that is easily covered by one-|{t made a total net profit of eighth of a cent increase in the raw and a fraction more on the refined product. Finally, a Cuban crop of approx- | imately 3,000,000 tons shor to be delivered and a Porto Rican crop of approximately 600,000 tons now being ground, It we added to this, fabulous sala ries to managers, reduced consump- tlan, reduced business in exports and|Wason Has Choice of Resignation| intense competition, real or feigned, | hetween dealers in the raw and deal- ers in the refined, some of them with | officers holding stock and directo- | rates in both raw and refined sugar! compantes—the bill agains: the cry about complete. LURE OF SUGAR PROFITS WORSE | fused to salute the fag incre at th se profits rate of $3 Last year, in raw concerns, 1915 net con nd 858, profits up to $1 ARTIST CL it almost | Hawailan product, In 1906 the net profits of this com- , the net profit per In 193 the profits $250,252, at $8.89 net 913 on this om. company just kept hitting up the net er ton until, in 1915, 7 net profit r ton, $970,288, with all the doubled the Tt got $49.62 net shoved {ts total net 488 mmon a AUTHOR SNUBS THE FLAG; UB DROPS HIM | or Expulsion—Says He Will Not Resign. SOUTH NORWALK, | 14.—-Robert Alexander Wason, of shortage and extortionate prices 1s] Socialist and a promin |the Silvermine colony Conn. July author, nt member of of artists, re- | jan Securities, just i | ' ry 0400906-096-9009000004 Pead thi¢ charmer from the public- | ity department of ‘a firm dealing in | the raw product: “It seems as if the; public has been educated up to the | jot of MAXINE BLWIOTT 2004 ETHEL BARRYMORE: “Entranced by the Delicacy of | Her Methods, I Knew Her| Beauty Had Handicapped Public Recognition of Those | Superb Qualitie: “Great and Beautiful Actresses Become Great in Spite of Their Beauty, Hints One Who Insists She Isn't Pretty. MAXINE ELLIOTT: | “Miss Elliott Is a Comedienne| of the Highest Order, but How Many Persons Know er’ LILLIAN RUSSELL: | trophe of ¢ most bea HAD 8¢ tion for wanted worm dollars I'm a beauty. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. EAUTY,” began Miss Jane Cowl sombrely, “ aBet-| ter Method Than Many Who Have ‘Arrived’ in Opera.” sa Ha nd $ z $ : : 29064 BOODHE a handicap! | “Don't imagine,” added Miss Jane Cowl hastily, “that I think | Fe kl pauty Miss Cowl to tell about this handicap, because millions | throughout States believe that beauty is the su- preme gift of the gods and millions| annually beauty doctors out of that belief, If tt | ix not true it's we fourd it out and put our beauty money into Liberty bonds. “The realiz handicap:came to me for the first time when I saw Miss Ethel Barrymore in Hon handicapped the public doe: brown eyes, self. 1 did not Is a m the are about time that beaut coined I know I'm not. is out of drawing, my nose bends in the wrong direction and, as you can see for yourself, one-half of my mouth n't know where the other half {s going.” her lovely shoulders, Yesterday afternoon was, as you remember, warm, and Miss Cow] had been rehe new play, “Daybreak,” which she has written for her When we met in the dusk of the Harris Theatre know he weather or the permanent calamity of being co: ful brunette on the stage that weighed her down. ght Miss Cow! because of | Bonner an article which she contributes | found among the third raters a |to the August number of the Ameri- | chorus, can Magazine called “Why a Reputa- | Handicap.” 1 @ more United | by y isa gnition of | My face is crooked, half of it} Miss Cowl’s exquisitely set dark head droop on Tragedy emouldered in her big very arsing all day in the whether it was the temporary cata sidered the “Do you know how I happer nequire spurious reputath | beauty I do not rT A jagent got out some astonishing pos ters with the nonsensical de | that I was the most beautiful woman on the American stago. He meant help me, But if I had known then what I know now about the of beauty I should have posters from the walls wit hands,” “Why, Miss Cowl, why?" I tr a posses: pres: | laration nau breathlessly, All this time, you know, had been wondering if Jane Cowl's | Cousin Kate,'" said Miss Cowl remi.| lovely eyes really refuse to focus r 4 when she looks at herself; whether | jniscently. ‘Fascinated by the sheer her lively critical faculty actually prilllancy of her art I remembered | ™ fails to function when she faces that T had often heard the absurd | 1/0 00 function ie Ber statement that Ethel Barrymore Was | ita. “s mi eae hai sith Hs sed man being coul ore yoautiful girl, no actress at 7 | an Fd _ ‘ { to suy so a | Jano Cow! and fail to find her most BER ae ne Mice | POWEFfully pulchritudinous | few seasons i Entranced by Miss | P°¥S rune Ever since those posters came out | Barrymore's effe the delicacy of], nver since t tere same ont | her methods, the fine shadings she | 10% “i » try vainly ) live up ta achieved, I knew that her beauty had | | {0M ver can wear old cloth Whenever I get really attac t alw. gown ora hat I have to \f at a meeting | these superb qualities; that always | " fs a THAN GOLD CRAZE. jlast Saturday. As u result the Sil-| she would be less generally appre-|1 €an't let anybody see me The scramble to Klondyke and the|Vermine Neighbors’ Club, h tist because of ber|Malr down! I have to look epic tales of the old California day# eceen |Feduest his resignation,’ A n |clated as an | span and cool and dainty in equa i ie Ce ide of the |®8¥8 that he will not resign, and the | physical loveliness | ike mere fiction alongside of t el club officials he then will ba|~ “Conaider Maxine Filliott," eon. | Pal weatHer like this living, Intense, burning, eagarness of | toe aed in disgrace J nd L jumped ac] “Do. you know what I am going t men and women to ma Goming on ‘the tieels of: the tinued Miss Cow nd 1 jumped att | ee ; : of sugar, There was one GWwing splecde ‘botween weanee? | the chance to do or to me Maxine | 40 some day?” sho ac atinou . ; les Hoag and Artist 1°, T,|Eliiott always visualizes Byron's ex- | "Some day—very soon too—t'm & pet bt : ¢| Hutchens, for which Hoag was fined | quisite lyr es to revolt, Yes, 1 am! Nothing sugi ts sompic | a8 court, the colony is sac ba this 9 there ever had been any real reason | *" | i 1 e y sadly the walks » the wight is world can stop tw I'm for the first “scare” about shorfage— | TUPt ewog tanlt to te M86) of mes end starry kien get some low-heeled, common-se and most any human walking Park ae ature $ ELLIOTT ts a comedienne | shoes, that my toot swim around now ere tha “sce a 1 bint red rT \s yoing to wea hem t Row knows where that i winter xan | “aig dar eat and I'm going to wear ated—It has o very » stand up and salute the flag. |, snow it?” Ma Chae hak eee y : Wlance to the Solon Borglum, the sculptor, got | 2°% y 1 bed tt Mineo oe ble Me believes originated the out the call for the special meeting | Miss Cowl militantly The publie| I've succeeded on the staxe . oted the last evening. J yason came pre- | believes t she ded because | of my + d Ko inatea fast the ok ared with & long presentation of his But I know that she | bY 7 ° ¢ thought and Socialistic view, hit 1 ; 2 sugai but with no apology ie pite @ » Lillian | receiving duty Just | lS ng with a] David Belasco, t. Ti ata # upward, y who have oe ., the Sugar Trusts tha benefited | M1! Almom Gann: | £DLEASE, please, dowt say 1 by this unnatural “scare” like the in Widow for ‘arrived’ in gra a an actrosa I'm @ beauty, 1 know I'm r creased pro! ® re they want An estate of about $75,000 a t wens ot Who knows * eased profits so weil was dis- | With a sen lina wind Winans o18 1 really over to ‘hold on to it forever, if they | posed of by the will of Almon Gun ite Who res about it? ‘Po the] poay Id bellev tr the Evening W 1 former President of St. Lawrenc blic A Russell wiih be clon art viagra oe of the sugar ste reity, which was filed for public Ales Ru etn meee Lames vient, Yet, ff stated th 8 estate woes to his Think abou actress In} solation, | suppose, for ety’ much In the same bout as 2. Gunnison for lifes Ae hey qrick | America to-day nued” Miss | think that [ had n the butter patriois, whose he ed | the house No. 159 Rugby Road will Ko | ¢, th f » 7 By work. i that butter just went up in ’ s davghier, Mr lu A. Harring Ledaba bebe a ay f with t high p sof ot » ne - nd his house at No. 519 Bedf a” how f no ‘4 you y Ms y tes of life. Read this tart paragraph Ene two will share ceugiy Ginn: | acting are ‘ t didn't possess in tho slightest. de trom the annual statement (1917) Of other property. OHAEY 18 TB | easly all uties are to be and handicapped you for it? Wou cap” 90 a | you feel that a terrible injustice had been done to you and to eve serious artist whose face doesn’t posi- y other JANE COWL CITES FACTS TO PROVE IT TO BE GRAND JURY 99906-00600 WITNESS MOKD Says City Detectives Told Her | | | bt tS 2995-96 966-4-8455-9455990-5-0055 | | 8-8-4 9-9-2-3-44-96-95-2-2-7269-98-968 ©5QNOO0-9¢4 ssEuu } seseeeoreos AT AT HE'S ON JOB “OF DOING NOTHING tively petrify people?” Miss Cowl spoke with the itensity that distinguishes her di t roles, © convincingly too. Why, | had me #0 worked up| over the handicap of beauty that | > | came away and shed a few tears} ey about {t, ‘They haven't discovered] John Moller Jr. Says Father y way of ting up tears in The} 7) ie c | World composing room, or ld prove! Agreed to Give Him $5,000 t to you ,now, SOUTH BROTHER ISLAND IN QUEENS, NOT THE BRONX Pax Department Finds Mistake, and islature Will Have to Redistrict Again. nr ther Island, where ther voters, was place nw onatorial district its extraordinary beginning July 31, will have pasa Reapportionment South Bre Island, it has been covered part of Queens County and must ted into 4 Senatorial the Senatoriat e followed maps indicat. A few dny Department Irawing lature th were that the lsland was rea of Quee Th tioning i recently, foll torta laid down the Legislature in its faulty. reap: portionment. A redistricting of Asauir bly lines by the Aldermen will have to made after the new Senatorial diy rearranged. It will give some Assembly leaders who claim ‘n diserimin axainst by opportunity to reme MORE COLLEGE CONCERTS. | One a Week to , and Lew Cont of Pirst, Ward sald SAYS HOUSE CLERK HIT HIM. Hook Dealer Charges Assault Over oS. Record, Ju ‘ Jerry se 1 n Moega i t Mr. Meep Wednesda 1 to M th an old 1 Lat 1 nw ————— . ———— - | But | Alle he promised his father | d never do a lick of work, that he's lived up to it, and/ that now, married and at the age of forty-seven, ho finds himself off the payroll but still on the “Job,” John Moller jr. former Metropolitah golf champion, has begun two actions against his elghty-year-old father, | John Moller. | Ono ts a $61,500 damago sult, Young| Moller says hin father in 1891 dis-| suaded him from entering business | und promised him $5,000 a year if he'd| | consent to do nothing whatever The son says he recetved more| than $75,000 all told under this ag j ment, but that on Jan, 1, 1917, his r opened the new year by say- Ms payments would be reduced to| $3,000 annually. This was two days) iftor the father married a new wife, Who, is Just seven yeurs the young] man's junior, On May 26 the allow- ance ceased altogether John Moller jr, says he has no eans wherewith to support his fam y amount of damages he seeks Iv based on his expectation o His other action ts Mled in the ate’s Court, It weeks to comm, father to file an accounting as to 1 $200,000 trust created by Peter Moller, the grandfather John Moller jr, lives at No, 2 ¥ 1 Avenue In 1910 he m: ly er, who was k West ed Miss 1 on the tage as Daisy Dumont. He was tray- elling In California when his father ted M M Pauline Train of No, 80 West y-fourth Street. In hit in "Marty Ma 1896 whe made a 1 * which HHarrigan’s company was | away by t ‘8 oF rreiful,” 19 th t on the suits. fathe me MELLEN'S $60,000 CLAIM FOR SERVIGES DISALOWED Arbitr Parker Allows Him $95,000 to Pay Counsel in New Haven Suit. Alton FR. Parker, arbitrator in the suit brought by Charles 8 Mellen against the New York ew Haven and Hart ford Ratiroad Company, fled in the Su years of ser-| Rettlement of | ost of | us th hired and their between Mr, Mellen ad grew out of bis allega MPANY Agreed to pay Mowing his re ', expert end advice. ;*amp and Filannelly, | agreed to toll all they knew, ; Stainkamp and Flahnelly had been a Year Not to Work, |} Ruth Was, Told by Fourth Branch Bureau de- tectives, she says, that the Cruger family knew where Ruth Cruger was, | and that Mrs, Cruger went every day tn an automobile to visit her daughter, | Mra. Marta Coccht asserts she offered $50 to @ private detective named Ed- ward Fish to trall Mrs, Cruger and | ascertain the girl's whereabouts, Fish | declined the job, Mrs. Cocchi, according to her coun- Cruger Family Knew Where | | #1, Aaron Marcus, will relate this ex- Derlence to the Grand Jury Monday and give the names of the detectives. Other witnesses before the Grand | Jury Monday will be Dotectives La- warenne and McGee. With Stain- they signed waivers of immunity yesterday and! Only rd when the Grand Jury adjourned for the week-end. fos The District Attorney's office to- day took cognizance of the unofficial charge that its Investigation of the police is a political move to discredit the City Administration, “Such a suggestion fs not worthy of notice,” asserted District Attorney | Swann, “I have no knowledge of any such plan, and no information pointing to it, I certainly do not believe it to be true,” James W. Osborne, special tnven- tigator, was equally positive that politics had nothing to do with the| inquiry. “L certainly have no political axe to grind,” said he. “I don't believe I would have been brought in If there was any such purpone, Everybody who knows me knows I wouldn't stand for anything of that sort.’ Assistant District Attorneys Talley and Dooling sald the Prosecutor's of- fice was working in full co-operation with the police, and nothing had been given out that was in the nature of an “attack,” PATENT DRUG MAKERS HOLD UP CITY'S RULE: Appellate Division Enjoins Action to Force Disclosure of Trade Secrets, The Appellate Division yesterday re- strained the city and the Department of Health from enforcing those pro- visions of the Sanitary Code which re- quire, in the case of all proprietary medicines sold here, that the Ingredi- ents either shall be registered in con~ fidence with the health officials or dis- closed in legible English on bottle, box or package. Commissioner th en: Emerson expected regulations to drive many “pat-/| remedies from the local market. He maintained that an honest medi- cine would suffer no injury, He ad- mitted that where disclosures of in- gredients revealed false claima the rev- tion would be prosecution, Manufaoturers and jobbers objected to the court that tho regulations! would make them reveal trade secrets to competitors. Threo suits were brought by E. Fougera & Co., Inc,; the Charles N Crittenton Company and Herman Rolft Planten, trading as H, Planten & Son, These were regarded as test actions, They were submitted on an agreed used as basis for | statement, An opinion by. Justice Scott, con- ceding the good intent of the Health | Department to protect the public from medicines which promise too much, held that the provisions excced valid exercise of police power, He| ave weight to objections that they | would force persons to furnish evi- nee against themselves, ‘1 ep Will be to the Court of Ap pate Nt DECISION PERMITTING ls BIRTH CONTROL FILM VOID, Appellate Division Sustains | missioner—Hand That Rocks — | Cradle” Under Ban. The Appellate Division reversed yen- terday Justice Bijur's decision reatrain- ing License Commissioner Bell from interfering with “Birth Control, m- 8. x > t of wal movie starring Mrs, Margaret H, Sang: J, elghtsegot" ou too far ‘Then, using thin author- Linck Creek, near ‘Bordentown, N, ag 0 fe affirn Green and was drowned. K to restrain the | interfering with | “The Hand That Rocks the Cradiv, ovie with family limitation for ‘The first case was appealed from the Supreme Court by the Message Photo Play ( any, Ine.; the second by t Univer Film Manufacturing Com: pany Justice Laughlin in his opinion for the ald that the Commissioner would surely have the duty of forbid- ding a production “that would by in e or religion inflam part of the community to disor der." | He previously had reviewed the con-| yiction of Mrs, Sanger and had stated the mov might encourage law tnfrac NEGRO HERO SHAMES CROWD.. Pally ¢ Taylor Plunges er and Saves Man, Daniel Curran, sixty-five, of No, 297 West Sixt was working the yester and fell | when he water, A large crowd of men on the pier watched the drown: ing man sink twice without offering assistance, Suddenly the only crowd darted to the and without wating to remove lothes plunged Into the water though nearly exhausted, the rought to the negro in end of the the pier his nm him and tor The rea- uer ie John Taylor SLL Weat One Hundred and Nineteenth Stree He \e chief mechanic for the Broadway Auto School No. Into! > BIG NEW PLANTS FOR STEEL SHPS Plans to Turn Out Three lion Tons in Eighteen Months. WASHINGTON, July 14. Gen, Goothaks shipbuilding ° pres gramme, to be put Into effect day, includes commandeering a lon and a halt federalizing those yards to turn owt standardized ships | hereafter, contracting for two Government Plants to produce 400 steel met chantmen. It contemplates a 3,000,000. ton production in eighteen montha, The programme, made public tee day in a letter from the manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation © Chairman Denman of the Ship) Board, says that Gen. Goethal place his main reliance on vessels of fabricated steel, but that he content= plates building 100 more wooden ships. h Contracts already placed are fF 4% ships of 1,860,800 tons, to cost 275,000,000; and of these 348 are of wood, with an aggregate tonnage 6f 000, The programme ealls for another great shipping appropriation, Members of the Shipping Board Were somewhat surprised at the mans in which Gen, ner Goethale intro. id not to do. Despite Gen, Goetinals’ tion that the executive o by President Wilson places power in his hands, Chairman Deae man’s only comment on the pres ‘amime was: i "As soon as ali members of the Shipping Board have which I assume will be by Monday, we will consider the made by Gen. Goethals, whether there will be any differences of opinion over the general policy de= upon, after it has been fully dered by the Board of Direge hd exeou- order transferring the autho: vested in him by the act of June-ab to the Emergency Fleet Corporation and the Shipping Roard was public to-day at the White House, The Fleet Corporation, headed by Gen, Goethals, has full autho to commandeer into construction, ‘The Shipping Board, headed by Mr, Den: @pecific authority to Durohase requisition completed vessels take over the management and aition of such vessels, and all commercial vessels ‘heretofore thereafter acquired by the U Btates. This order, It may be sets at rest dinsensions which been manifest between Gen, Goet! and Mr, Denman, BIG MATT M’GRATH PROMOTED TO SERGEANT Hammer Thrower’s Persistent Fight Against His Detractors Is Finally Rewarded. Matthew J. McGrath—Matt McGrath the athletic New York policeman whe deat the ham) throwers of the world |at the Olympic games of 1912, yesterday | beat all the men who have been throw~ ing the hammer at him for some Commissioner Woods promoted Grath, a patrolman attached to the Atreet Stat! to a pergeanr: Comint had been giv: this power by as f the Leg! ture, rhe irath was appointed ary, 1903, and three yen medals from Con- gress and the Police Department for uing @ man from the Bast reir c v Commissioner Cropsey Mecrath for an incident at Mes h's home in Flatbush on Christmas Eve, 1910, in which MeGrath shot a man. then Matt bas been in and ut ourts of high and low degre ong on ff the force as patrolman and Ser- won eto it,” BABY DROWNS IN CESSPOOL, Anna, the three-year-old daughter ef th atickin [John Homal, was found drowned yester- day in @ cesspool in the rear of the home of her parents in Whitestone, Ly 1, Bhe had been missing for several st Bay town lor, seven, was drowned the Reservoir, near Paterson take enough Bell- ans, 8 or 4 for dis- comfort, 6 for distress or pain; and on? 25¢ package will show you that Bell-ans never fails when so oe FOR INDIGESTIO HEN you go on your vaca- tion this Summer have your favorite paper mailed te yow every day, Evening World, 12¢ per week Dally World, 120 per week Sunday World, Ge per Sunday You can socecribe now for a week or length of ume you tod we change your eddies as “ re sire, Jour mauler newsteal As tons flow ai q ae