The evening world. Newspaper, August 8, 1917, Page 12

i end COnede Ore Teer ee One Teer One Mow me Mow VOLUME be NO. 80,44) GANGWAY FOR A STATE FOOD LAW ML people of thie State weiting for ther Legwlature Hvened in eye 4 eperia { . by porting « I mr apure ' r 3 eee Producers and be ‘ eike vitally prompt enactment of jus ‘ food \aws To the farmere who ' responded the national call for increased food pr ne awe can be por gverantee that the record 7? the wave grown w arveste stored, marketed or converted fair returns to the producer an protection from the profiteering | f hoarders and speculators For the consumer « awe are indispensable if he is to receive hie due share of the fc 4 mavipulat guarded from rvening profit} It ie for the Empire State to make people, while dered by unscrupulous middlemen who levy toll both upon the farmer who grows the food and upon the consumer who buys it | The surest way to put the food Fr out of business Is to estab- | Heh conditions which make his schemii jain and hopeless of profit. The simplest way to establish such conditions Is for the State to di gate to responsible authority the power—whenever necessary to forestall or defeat the schemes of speculators—to buy, store and sell food products, Extend this power to cover the chief needs of the farmer—steds, fertilizers, farming machinery, etc.—and the chance for the hoarder or speculator to interfere with the normal production and distribu- tion of foodstuffs is cut down to the vanishing point. mn empowered to buy and sell food necessities at such times and in such manner as shall protect both producer and con- mer from the rapacity of food gamblers, empowered also to provide storage facilities for the farmer at fair and reasonable rates and to seize and take ont of storage food held for speculative purpose: mission is the nucleus and strength of the Food bill which 1s arging the State's legislators at Albany to pass without a mom less delay, There are no polities and no injustice in such a food measure. ‘The great majority of the people in this State stand solidly behind the Governor in demanding that their representatives at Albany waste no time in listening to the sad tales of food lobbyists pleading the ertain that ta 10,000,000 rrying their share of war burdens, shall not be plun- cause of gamblers and price-boosters, Senator Williams voiced an impatience which ha become nation-wide when he yesterday told the obstinate, unpatriotic group ich has been holding up Federal Yood Control in the National Senate that “the country is tired, the House is tired and two-thirds of the Senate is tired of this constant gabblefest.” We're lagging through the dog days, making everybody nervous and tired with talk on this bill that is not changing a re Why take up the time of the American people with thist™ But the Food Control obstryctionists are not all in Washington. ‘The Capitol at Albany has shown ominous signs of being prepared to stage another gabblefest in the interest of food speculators, There are members of the New York Legislature who are ready to play greed or politics against the war needs of the State, If they persist in thelr tactics this Commonwealth cannot too promptly line them up and call them to account. a Hindenburg telegraphs the Imperial Chancellor that “Ger- many is as firm eg @ rock.” Well, every one knows what a steel drill and dynamite will do to @ rock. ‘ SSS ANOTHER I. W. W. JOB. HANKS to the Industrious Worriers of the Working we now have the Apache Indians of Arizona quitting their jobs in the asbestos mines of the Sierra Anchas and taking to the warpath. No doubt the Berlin press will presently point out that the only Genuine, original Americans with a clear title to the continent are heart and soul with the Kaiser. It is unlikely that with the help of cowboys and rangers Arizona Business Efficiency Saving Time in Dictation By H. J. Barrett WONDER if the average busl- n man realizes how much time he wastes in improvising every letter he dictates,” remarked one recently. “Most of one’s daily correspondence deals with matters which have been covered previously by letters written to other customers or prospects. AS a consequence, one devotes valuable time to expressing the same old ar- guments and exvlaining the same old points. “When this thought occurred to me I resolved to evolve some method of avoiding this senseless duplication of effort. I took one week's correspon- dence as a guide and proceeged to classify it according to subjects. Then I selected or wrote typical para- 66 . , ; ie sia i point hich had sheriffs will have much difficulty in quieting a handful of rambunctious ee ceariinn. thoes subienta, Next and misguided Indians, 1 had these typed on sheets of flexible P cardboard, It was But is there to be any limit to I. W. W. activities in any and| matter to number then a simple and index the sheets and arrange them in @ box every corner of the country where there seems to be a hope of stirring up frouble that can be magnified for the comfort of the Nation's enemies? “Then, when a Jet tated, by referring | file I could promptly whith I kept on my desk, had to be dic- o my dictating put my finger Secretary of Labor Wilson reports that “the leaders of labor in the United States are co-operating in every.way with the tration to bring about the best results,” ‘ Does that co-operation include an open campaign against T, W. (W. sedition on all its trails? Adminis- +. From Captain of Finance to Major General of Mercy is something of a jump for Henry P. Davison of J, P, Morgan & Co, The Soya ITH all due respect to Western, or may be hardened into an edible civilization and progress, we! ft suitable for cooking or even for must nevertheless yield the| [\'i° ve. The pulp, or what is left palm to China for the production of | js conceded to be w valmanne acted. the soya bean, a vegetable so full of | food Promising possibilities that agricul-| | The only difficulty encountered tural experimental stations all over! thus far in the experinents with the the United States are concentrating| inte polvent to disso ee a galt attention upon it, that may be | Rinel ahicee, Milk from soya beans {# no longer) the loft nsigned to an experiment but has become a mar-|{N6 cattle, Naphtha bas been found | ketable commodity, says Popular Scl-| 1, remove all oe care te taken | traces of It from the] fodder loses its value for the cattle refuse the smell, Another d| chemical which has been found to 1s Une Co-operation vi govU COvK® Lv i } ce Monthly. It is sold in cans as @ powder or in liquid form, As a| ana cattle fo Substitute for meat and fish the ex-|{t on account ¢ perimenters say all that ts requ meal the ss Gevise sufficient variety in prepara-|lene. It is not offensive In odor ye | tlon of the beans, The oll 1s con-| poisonous. Yet a dangerous reaction sidered of especial value. It may be! at tim ceurred when it has 48 a substitute for Mnseed oil| been used as a solvent, ’ on just what to say and find tt ex- pressed In a carefully studied form, It was then a simplo matter to read it aloud to my stenographer, One day, when in a stationer's shop, T ran across a device which was identical in principle with but an improve- ment in form upon my box of cards. So I purchased one and now use it, “This system is a compromige be- tween my old method of improvising and the later highly efficient plan of using numbered ‘stock paragraphs.’ his latter plan, which eliminates tion entirely, is, of course, ethe ideal method, But it ts infle to sult the exigencies of my corre- spondence. For my purpose this ar- rangement seems to be the ideal one. It makes for efficiency in handling correspondence. It has saved nearly an hour a day of my time.” ble Aug David introduced in Congress his fa mous proviso which laid the foundation for the Free Soll Move. ment in the United States, It was a long time before the significance of this instrument really made itself felt or was t proviso was an amendm then pending, granting negotiating a peace with Mexico, Wilmot Tt was upon this foundation that C1ent youre : ‘ |}ean party fourteam years was chosen President and upon which the war for the Union began, penized generally, for the | ? ready to hear. og | The Jarr Family . Crna Q By Roy L. McCardell . e — ee aa £ ——— Copyright, 1917, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), % “iter. We don't te id fe ts i CELE DCA SEER | asked Mrs, Jare it Fritz, the shipping clerk, for tht “ir agen en: giepemesonigemany plaintive tone. ar mat rr Bie e dicated ° . ” | < " li been prostraic “We east you have a dignt Bachelor Girl Reflections ||| What.to Do for | tern ter tn promised Gerirae | poniton” romania fre Suge Work : | H ¢ : i] |she could go out early to go to the| on salaries don't." By Helen Rowland, sat Prostration | Baile yua| ot wiohti’ Wess workman, (han Copyright, 1917, by the Préws Publishing Co, (The New York Eveuiog World), .OOR MAN! If he doesn’t come home with a good excuse his wile thinks he’s guilty, and if he does she thinks he's lying! It is difficult to say which does more to spoil a wife's vacation—the thought that her husband may be lonely while she is away or the thought that he may not be. After she, has waded through the tragic columns of the war news on the first page and the thrilling editorials on the middle page, it is rather sickening to an intelligent woman to turn to the fashion page and learn that metallic brocades, two-toned silks and cloth of gold are going to be “all the rage” again. Something to “rage” about these days, surely! A girl's instinct may tell her that a man # going to ask her to marry him—but that is usually, dearie, because she knows just how she ts going to make him! The most lasting form of platonic sove is not that which ends In a wedding; but that which begins there, Another difference between the old-fashioned and the new-fashioned novel is that the former always ended with “and so at last she married him,” while the three latest best-sellers end with “and so, at last, sh found a job—and got rid of him! One effective way to conserve food might be for all the pretty girls in the country to form a league and refuse to speak to any man weighing over 180 pounds, . ‘There 1s no such thing as a genuine “manhater.” After a woman has had one or two husbands she realizes that it 1s ju&t as foolish to “hate” men as to hate a spoiled and troublesome child, The only thing to do ts to put up with them or leave them alone, The hardest part of being separated from a wife for the summer {fs to keep up those daily “Oh-how-lonely-I-am-but-don't-hurry-home-awfully- busy-at-the-office-so-hot-in-thecity-longing-for-you-darling” letters, Talking ocoanut My Ray home comforts are not bee but we. ws living in, i ‘ 41.| celved the idea of making exactly familiar to Sulu Island. | en soe ome tied its ers, according to 4 report PUD-| hung it on the outside of th shed by the Society for Electrical] opposite the phone n Development we could put the rec hr “While in the Government employ ‘ni Soanute end grep ib into the o9 the Philippines,” says this writers |. “We invited some of the natives t “dL was stationed on the Island of} see the wonderful cocoanut that we Pasian, which is a small island in| could make talk, and with the aid of the Sulu Archipelago. The natives of}an interpreter at the other phone wh this island were so uncivilized that! understood their language we had a they did not even know the value of| lot of fun, Some of the natives wer money, and, of cor had never|so frightened they left the village. heard of a telephone | Next day « delegation returned and | We frequently had them entertain | directed us to destroy the talkin us with their native cocoanut, under penalty of immedi turn would fill them wit ate attack. They did not like to } awe with a phonog |so uncanny a thing around. — There |had in our outfit. We found it ne much. rejoicing when we con. ter ma telephoy ch it ta th flame Th After puildings that were a little | the Sulu people ing we t using two magneto! had to sell, excep t talked | lay I found a rather large | One native family Kought twenty-four cocoanut under a tree near the bam-| electric fans.” Since W Changed World Air” Novels By James we or ie limpet. Peonte of Prence Just ce @e GS taste in Motori ete eal thiage of tite GaP o + thousend mes rte mind We Joe tet eather - oo Som A known @ quod deol about keoliers end em the pest, on@ Dherians say. have not » Many pereone case of Krenvh 'bo never con ener ing old « erned (hemee vith enytning * freon ¢ serious than & story of the | c ove wee X Ranch now cali for works! And have taken up! with char. , tology and p 2 enerey. the reading of Ras nomy erature jence,| The average ® bas undergone ee tn Prenee| oe ee ee ee ae an unbeard of | tll Bere we are, allies of the Buss gee gg ad » Who are the Russians, what second man appears imbued with the | ey dune, who knows sayttiag wire to learn more about that va " ones it bas + tant people who have been leaders in | ‘’"* *” * Tolstoy culture apd chivalry for so | an Ton ve ae From the French bistory \t is « short Russian literature It is © eafe ae step indeed to the writings of the at ere Ae kreat men of France, where the ad ing to-day the Grip. of Rule vance of democracy and the arts may |/ersture than ever has been the be found indelibly inscribed jease ‘before. That (rue, too, OF All the vast background of the war| [4liae literature. In fact, this ts the egne to be a fi for the American reader Many men have an outline of history to-day, as t study, whic did not possess before. ut the prompting of the war these men never would have paused long enough to know the tascinAtion of history And once the reader's mind has be gun to associate with the intellects and events of bygone days it is very unlikely that he will return to the Thwe-X Hanch with quite the same feeling. Not alone the serious literature of the Fren: is receiving new atten- tion, but American readers aré sacking tho delightful storehouse of French wit and drama, Another year or so and our peopio as a whole will have moved a century nearer to the b they an- We Read Better Books ttle Serious Thinking “Lighter Than r Began cL hl Turn Ameriwwans to @ Losing Favor. C. Young eat beginalog for most Americans na wholly new world What is going to be the effect of |this reading? Will we ever get back {to such @ keen appreciation of the gentlemen burglars, the strong men ot the Yukon, and other familiar types of the average American novel? That is very, very doubtful. For wi aro undergoing @ national change of intelligence, The next year or two hold the biggest things for this coun- try that we have yet eo our existence as a natlo: period we are going to In thle t a truer conception of Ife, an ini e rela» tionship with our allies across the We never can go back to tho Now would seem to be happy time for the American author who really has something to soy. The people are awake, © upon in, ia’ cee aoe at the office,” ‘ You see, I had to swipe an electro 4 y the first of the month"—— fan to raise the wind, so to speak.” whether it is a case of heat! wphat's what you tell me every] “Do you think Clara Mudridge- prostration or sunstroke. The #™P* | month, ” whimpered Mrs, Jarr, “I¢]Senith will recognize it, her husband toms as well as the treatment are N=) oo. moan that you have to stay late! t |has gone to Saratog ell, wher urely qifferent. A physician should | |. the oftice to send out bills to peo-| will we put it? We'll have to pug it be summaned at oni, a8 both are ple, I think you would be doing a In, the children's room, page little ‘serious and require the best medical ao 7 e ee A J - ae a [pines aii ae ee nee ao, They don't teal the heat, Ike m 1 ts| these there should be law like jo, they slept all through all t 4 quatnd'end het. rhe breath Trahan |was-in Europe when the wer broke) Rights. |W rr elegy 7 |The attack ts sudden, a slight nausea |Ut, a law that people need not PAY) wien’ TH have to make the bed often being the only warning. The|thelr bills. What was it calied, @) in our room all summer,” sald Mrs. puls the Jn raph tlen| ths and Sunstroke often quite cool, ly a warning of sunstroke, very little fever, if any, and the tem- perature may even be below normal. In case of heat prostration the pa- by Y a person succumbs to heat © may bo feeble or very rapid and thermometer may record a fever astonishingly high, sunstroke the skin ts moist and The breathing ts d, A severe headache is frequent- There is t should be placed jn a cold bath, temperature of which is kept low vdding iee from time to time, if 4 bathtub ts not available cold water can be poured over the body or » hose might be turned on, During the cold put patient to bed and await the doc- lor’s instructions, In case of sunstroke place patient in a cool place, loosen clothes and cover body with blankets. Put a nustard pouftice of stomach and hot Water bag at the feet. If patient is onscious ammonia should be juhaled doses of brandy and water given, This will constitute first aid, and hen the case should placed into the hands of the physician. Much can be done to avoid heat ex- haustion, Outdoor exercise is im- perative, but if you are not physic- ‘lly strong this sould be taken early hn the morning and it should be of a light nature, Overeating is a hot Weather menace, and the combination of overeating and violent exercise on 1 hot day is a good foundation for heat prostracion Another precaution Is to drink water, Make sure this is pure and ool but mot iced and then drink all you can of it, The exterior of the | body also demands ample water, Use | the shower, sponge and plunge baths; all are good to keep cool, Begin the | Gay with one and take as many more during the hot day as desirable, Let- ting cold water flow over the wrists at frequent intervals | 4 tew minutes | Will Keep the temperature down, r light, loose clothing and let be > underclothing lety—it Is essen that air have free access to the skin, One should loarn to keep off the coat as much as possible. Spend as much time as you lean out of doors, avoiding the sun's of the porous \iirect rays, Sleep outdoors 1f pos. |sible, Keep tae huuse weil venu luted. Give careful attention to the open air moving pictures, are hungry, you'll find some cold sup- per and iced tea-— “But didn’t I tell you I'd be late said Mr. Jarr. “Around honororium ?” “A moratorium, I think was the word, but I'm not sure,” ventured Mr, Jarr. “But that only applied to mortgages and financial obligations Of that sort, @ believe. Where are the children?” “L let them go up on the roof to get cooled off; old Mrs, Dusenberry 1s looking after them,” replied Mrs, hat have you got in that I “Hush!” sald Mr, Jarr. “It's an electric fan. I stayed iate on purpose to swipe it. ‘There is an electric fan famine, and this fat nas been aw hot as blazes, so | stayed after Jenkins, the bookkeeper, and Johnson, the cashier, had gene, and 1 swiped this said Mr, Jerr. “Carpenters are get- ting $8 a day and double | ov pay for ‘time, machinists are getting the ie, but office men are not ing nefited much by war conditions. is your employer?—oh, 1 forgot, she Jarr, “for if Gertrude sees the elec- tric fan she'll remember Bow warm her room is, and demand i Servants are dreadful these days, and if I even try to keep her out of oursroom, sh xet suspicious, and if she sees the she'll want one, and will leave if she doesn't get it. What do they cost?” “I tell you there {s an electric fan famine,” replied Mr. Jarr. “A good, biv one like this costs about eighteen dollars. Cheap ones sell as low as eight dollars, but they are very small, and, I tell you, they are all sold out, all over town. “Oh, dear!” whispered Mrs, Jurr, ighteen dollars for an electric fan fur servant's room! I wish you hadn't brought this one home. If Gertrude @ never knew you to be anxious \o be early at the office before.”” “Well, if Jenkins gets there first, as he generally does, because he lives in the suburbs and ‘has to catch an early train, he will swipe the fan off my desk, and the fans are all alike, and if I kick up a row, maybe the night watchman will remember I car- ried out a heavy valise.” “I'm sure Lan. gla not here," remarked Mrs, Jarr, do not think it would be a good ex- ample to them to know their father brought home the property of the firm he worked for. I wish to raise them with a deep respect for honesty and truth, We'll have to tell them you bought it when they see it." “That won't be exactly truthful, will it?” asked Mrs grinaing. Tr do not feel any “As for swiping tt twinges of conscience. The boss swipes extra time from me and the rest of the office force, for that mat- 1 the children are | water application the hands and feot |fan. I swiped it from Jenkins's esk. | sees it, as she surely will, she'll maybe ld be constantly rubbed tv avotd|So I'll have to be down early to-| not ask for one, but she'll think see internal congestion. When the body | morrow.” deprived of that much comfort that we has regained the normal temperature| ‘Why 80% asked Mrs, Jarr. ‘I|bave, and she'll sulk and then she'll leave and go where she can have an electric fan in her room. Why did you bring it home to put such ideas in har ead?" jet her a cheap one if she kicks, maybe the electric fan famine will be over next week,” advised Mr, Jarre “Now let's put it to work and see how It cools off the place! Don't+bor- row trouble, borrow an electric fan, like 1 di He connected up the fan to the electric light bracket, but it never turned a blade, “Gee whiz!" he cried, “I forgot. We have direct current at the ol and alternating current up town here! This is a direct current fan and won't work on this system!” m1 well, we'll e it to Gertrude then,” said Mrs. Jar cheerfully, “It isn’t our fault {t won't work, and Gertrude can't say we aren't consid- erate of her—getting her an elghteen- Newest Things in Science dollar electric fan!" GERMAN motor sleigh has ex- ceeded a speed of sixty miles an hour, : A . A baggage carrier to be mounted over the hood of an automobile is a Pnovelty, . . The inventor of a stool that folds compactly and forms a cane has beea granted a British patent, Clamps have been invented to fasten \diet and let this consist largely of \ vegetables and Gulia the cover on an ironing board in few seconds, Great Britain has adopted the metria system for use in its official phar- macopoeia. na asin id using A French surgeon claims to have invented a method for planting eye- brows and eyelashes. ee A novelty in the motor vehtole line is a motorcycle limousine that carries three persons, see Worn ball bearings can by truing up the ball rac larger balls, |