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eS CEES Remeron = Was SE: ze | The Cpeyjdg Gicrld. Poms sue = noe ry . — fatre e .: v7) + he ee tar ; * ’ “Vou Mi a, d - FEDERAL FOOD CONTROL AT LAST. NE SENATE hey folly p we) r Luckily while Congress President Quietly perfected quick action plans, the details of which can be ewift!y carried out. There is no danger now that the people of the United States will have to bear the burdens of war undefended by their ow: Federal Government against plunderers who would take advantage of national exigency to re em by profit-grabbing manipulation of their food supplies Opposing the bill to the last, Senator Reed nevertheless bitterly wesented the charge of disloyalty brought against the group of ob structionists who have held up the passage of a Food Control measure until 125 days after their country’s recognition of a state of war To the majority of the verican people, however, it, will still seem that at a period of supreme national # to delay Federal action by deliberately and persistently blocking an Administration war measure devised solely to meet pressing national need and which it is perfectly plain will be passed*by an overwhelming vote in the end, 18 disloyalty to American principles and to the demands of Ametican security. 4 the Federal Food Control & nt to put into effect « sorely peeded programme b ena the Ir rt of the ne ee alked, the 4 Mr, Hoover well be understood in Congress and elsewhere that | now and in future such tactics need expect no other name. i tr Germany, it 1s reported, will shortly concentrate her sub- marine warfare exclusively on Great Britain. But we thought the Imperial Admiralty was so supremely satisfied with results that there was nothing more to do until! the moment for dis- tributing ‘German bread among vanquished, starving Britons. SomethIng gone wrong? MANHATTAN’S HOPE. ELAYS and disappointments of the past never down the} optimism with which New Yorkers welcome the news that) some section of their new subway lines can be opened at an} early date. In this case, it is true, the date is not definite. But the Public} Service Commission’s announcement that between the First of November and the First of January next the Seventh Avenue and the Lexington Avenue subway lines should be ready for operation is cheer| enough. For these two lines represent, not loops or lateral connections, but two great north-and-south trunks upon which centres the city’ strongest hope of relief from the present crowding and congestion} that make a nightmare of subway travel in Manhattan, With*the Seventh Avenue and Lexington Avenue lines working, By J. H. Cassel if the insufferable rush-hour jams on subway trains and platforms fail to become only remembered horrors, then New York will indeed con-| clude that it outgrows subways faster than it can ever build them, and that nothing remains for it but to toil on in the wake of its unover- tgkable needs. The opening of the Seventh Avenue and Lexington Avenue routes) will be an event that will make this borough almost forget the war in 7X its eagerness to see how far its transit hopes are realized. By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1917, by the Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening Wold), FEW days ago the will of Ru-|to give out a dollar of so-called dolph Anton Sinnhold was pro-| charity. bated. Mr, Sinnhold was @ He has looked into it himself. He landlord of a tene-| has seen the children of the poor ment house, but he] right in his own building, He has had a heart, as the| suffered the sorrows of the silent dictates of bis will| majority—the great number of poor disclose, people who are compelled to live in He left $1,000 a8} the narrow confines of two or three a trust fund, The] small rooms which they have always money 18 to be] called home, used to take chil-) 446 has understood the struggles dren under twelve} under which they labor and how dif- ‘The German Crown Prince is the most repulsed young man in Europe. 9 KERENSKY. HE precarious health of Russia’s Premier, upon whom depends) what stability and constancy of purpose the Allies can count ig ; ‘ P| years of age, lV-! foult it has been for them to keep on from Rus in its present state, is a poignantly tragic 4 ing in bis tene-| the wolf from the door, He has seen eles ment house, on & , their backs little girls of tender ye bent over with the weight of a baby brother or sister, Therefore he sends the children out into the gay sun- shine and the green outdoors, his man has learned that there are hun- dreds of children whose ignorance outside the world of asphalt and pushcarts and yardless schoolhouses 19 appalling; who know nothing about birds and trees and squirrels; whose lives are regulated by the corner po- Hceman, and whose natural love of beauty and nature are stifled almost at birth, feature in the picture that distracted and, it may be, disintegrating nation now offers to the world, \ The slender, nervous frame, racked with fits of coughing; the drawn, haggard face; the eyes bright with.fever, the eager, compelling) ‘ voice triumphing over physical weakness to put its marvellous spell Mo trust fund is established Ae : for 1 ; Areas | long as the house remains a tenement upon discordant spirits—this figure, flashing With incredible energy| house, If there Is a real place like we to and fro, from battle front to council chamber ang back again,| Pleture heaven, and If there are always against dark and ominous backgrounds of arity and | Sear anes peere eae: ny unrest, is one that history will preserve and the novelist find ready to! this man has entered there, since he his hand. recorded this one deed, Despite the optimism of diplomatic missions and much as we may wish to believe it possible, it is not yet certain that even a summer outing for thelr health and benefit. Parents and guardians are to accompany them on the annual ex- curpion to care for the children, He can truly say with Stevenson, “| know what pleasure is for I have - ar done good work." Such a fact so] In contrast to the act of this _Kere nsky can save Russia in the sense of holding it to the task of| small in Itscif will provide more real] splendid landlord are the men who tasks. But whether he suceceds or fails, lives or dies, he has proved|Penetit than ten times the amount} put @ sign outside thelr premis spent in other directions, This man ha# taken the trouble to see where the need is the greatest and he has found {t at his own door- step, a Most Unusual thing, He has not eased his conscience by signing a check for some organized group of people to spend 4 dollar and a half Children and dogs not allowed here’ men who build skyscrapers where every inch of spaco is reckoned in return, alWays large return, where the coat of arms on the doorstep bears the invisible sign of the dollar mark, I wish 1 could print in great himself the man for whom, as Carlyle puts it, “the Time loudly calls.” If “the Time” in Russia after all “goes down to confusion and wreck” it will not be because, when called, he did not come, Letters From the People To the Ktior of The Evening World that the public has the right to regu ig lett veside the sign a portion Saturday morning my wife and my- |late the tolls. Furthermore, the rails eelf tock 4 taxi at the Pennsylvania |Foud stations, It would seem, shoud Station to go to the Albany Day Boat, |(0MO Under the jurisdiction of the in Scier 6 1 . ublic vieo Commission, but even The starter and @ palf, him ts foot of Desbrosses Street, poliiely asked “One dolls plea. whereupon 1 as give me a receipt for the me " Stated that he couldn't give mo a receipt, but handed me the printed | Ust of thelr tolls. with the many changes o! 0 in that Commission from timp to wae. its work 1s becoming a Joke. placed when are ui To obtain any reforms in public sn instead L vice of any sort it seems to be necus. | BEET REED. 1D Seer ary for some large newspaper, or| brush patented by a New York in- me earnest citizen or body of cig. | ventor. UBBDR disks, which may be re. worn, Australian white ants have devel- oped a taste for lead covering and In- sulation of cables that is proving costly to telephone compant Tea ‘At the time it was my intention to| zens, to spend the ee eae make typewriters less nolay a write The Evening World a letter to lings —hearingacang ney ead or 4 Rt Lee Cleveland inventor has hae BAY i; show how arbitrarily its work or doing #0 the only Fellef obs | goon neice there hoaffected bY inten “pore” thal cha ced sta etiae Good taxi service had been set side, | tained is but a temporary one, for the | temperature, theretore are accurate | click of the tyye to a dull thud, but on my return to the city this/ moment the fight is finished the cor- | under all conditions, have been ine | eon morning was pleased to read youredi- | porations go back to the same meth-| vented by a Mreachman, Almost 3,000 loaves of bread a day torial in lust night's paper aguinet |ody again, as instanced In this cn . . Jare turned out by an electric oven in @imilar extortionate charges service, Attachments to enable electric light | Toronto bakery, aise (axleans gy he city use. ta What and where in the remedy? fixtures to be hung vertically from| oe e reat aren mile LIAM H. WOOD, | slanting ceilings have been patented! 4 carriage has been invented to by a Chicago man, 88 A machine. wrench Invente rope has a pivoted jaw Support one end of a that one man can handle tt, . . & Hits From: din Bue t enables Sharp Wits The only difference between med- if it misses me I sh ta blank."—|it to grasp five of the six sides of a] Telephone ines are to be extended — «Fre RT Je shat wa ale! ag. Van hevamonal nut at once, to Tromsoe, Norway, 200 mi h ays Investigate and the other ceilow | Ney iar | oe fF fetithacanicic alae Plea ners Meddles.—Chicago News. Anyway, no little thing like a world| ‘To enable mothers to cut thelr own | Aria rer wat) ‘ ar is going to deprive the small boy! children's halr a curved comb and! It has been found that the fer- Fry to look at tt this way: “If my|of his chance to go to a circus—/exterior plate, held in place by a{menting power of yeast is increased lead band, have been Invented, emepiry draws me it shall get a prize; | Omaha bb | by dries exposure to caomm _The Landlord With a Heart of the above will reiating to the chil- dren, I should like to see such heartless landlords craw! with shame into some corner and think it over, I should like the cry of the children to pierce their ears until it stirs the cockles of the heart to act—act as this man did For the thing he did was not done for advertisement, to rent more rooms and secure more tenants—it was done when he died, when he could secure no more benefit. Ah, truly he left a heritage of humanitarianism that will reach down for many a day to come, reach down to the life of many a little child, An example, indeed, for every jand- lord—what an opportunity for each of them to make their wills now, and see them carried out in play roofs on every tenement, abolishing window- less bedrooms and in removing dark cellar dwelling places; in providing warmth in the winter—in a word, to help make the homes which he builds habitable and happy. Only such men really LIVE, Copyright, 1217, by Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Hrening World.) “ OOK out! What do you get off a street car that way for?” cried Mr. Jarr. “If I have shown you once the right way to alight from a street car, I have shown you fifty times!” “What's the matter with yo asked Mrs. Jarr. “I got off, didn’t 1? “Yes, you got off,” said Mr. Jarr; “put if the car had started up as you were getting off you would have been thrown right on your face, and I couldn't have saved you.” “Weill, the car didn't start till I got down on the street all right, and 1 wasn't thrown, What are conductors for if they are not to look after peo- vi Some day the conductor may be looking the other way and you'll go to the hospital," sald Mr. Jarr. “Every single day some woman 4s hurt getting off street cars the wrong way, I never saw a woman yet who, By H. J How the Bonus Business Efficiency . Barrett System Works. Famous Ileroes Ot the U. S. Navy by Albert Payson Terlrnine tet One No. 29 CHARLES WILKES: and the “Trent Affair” h one bere to trow thie New Yorke ones ‘omer @raceing oar country wie © . Kagiend. 0 —— - a a Toe how tow “* Starred with courte martial from the eb reloreed (from Geoverument exploring trip Creve + Rout, Beas te (1886 to the Kime of he (hia Chat eoepeeded Bim from the navy This story etl) trear only + exploits te @e famed “Trent affair.” ae ode whorety be te Oot remembered The Civil War eee in firet yror ant Chariee Wilk put in command of the United @tates frigate Ban Jacinto and opt to Southern waters te chase the ( At about the same thm : appointed two Commiesioners, of aml Burope in behalf of the work in South's One of the two was James M. M. other, Jobp Slidell, was to perform the | Mason and Slidell managed to | euarded every Bouthern port and they made Jerate cruiner Sumter orate Congres slip throug? their way Cube was Bpanish soil, the two Commissioners made no steret | Presence + of thetr errand to Burope. eee Word i thie re iw He Running the that Mason and Slidell had Blockade. Havana to don the Britis I steamer ‘Trent, ‘ Forth with, resolved that the two Confederates | ebould n ach Eur Wilkes knew the course the Trent must take on her trip from Cubs | to England, So he lay in wait. On the morning of Nov. 8, 1861, the Trent steamed Channel, 240 miles from Havana, a frigate fyi flag blocked her way. Wilkes had been waiting for some time, He » the Bahama United Stal here ie th | was acting wholly on hi own responsibility and under uo orders from the Navy Department, As the Trent bowled along through the channel her captain was amased to receive from the San Jacinto a brusque command to stop, He paid no heed to the summons, but kept on Presently there was a puff of smoke from one of the San Jacinto'’s gun ports. A round shot splashed into the sea, unpleasantly close to the Trent's bow. This was a form of command that uld not be misunderstood oF disobeyed, Wilkes boarded the Trent, routed out Mason and Slidell and their seeretaries and carried them to Boston T on Nov, 19, he deliv. ered them over to the Ufiion authorities at Fort Warren All America rang with Wilkes's praises. He was the Congress tendered him a vote of thanks. But I trom. Boon came word from the British Government that unless the United States should apologize and release the captives within one week England would break off all diplomatic relations with us. It was a savage hint of war at a time when we had all the war we could comfortably handle, Congress and the country at large were flercely tn here of the hour, Ingland was stili to be heard dignant over England's attitude, There were clamors for war with Great Britain. There were equ wrathful demands that Mason and Slidell be set free. (Schoo! children & cades ago were familiar with the famous Congressto ee beginning: “In God's name, Mr. President, let the President Lincoln took the only sane and equitable course, Mason and Slidell (whose mission to Europe, by the w e rats Reais England clatmed the right to search neutral ships. not put ourselves in the same position. Bo the apology was given, together with a statement that the United 4 to see England at last accepting a pyinciple for which our ‘ad so long contended. And an Anglo-American war was He released » Was a fizale), the needful apology. We had gone to war with England in We could States was gla own country hi averted. never did a bit Jarr. “If they ever had such signs in their cars, I thought they were ad- vertisements for patent steps or @i- vided skirts or something of that sort,” Mrs. Jarr remarked placidly. 5 “I'm sure the conductors get Sever you mind that,” Mr. Jarr re- | | ee oe Hay lara acemapergber Yr fees shouting ‘Watch your step!’ as Korte i eh tury seagrass iba rat |e is. Hapa 1 think they are re- evi ovis att hand as I always tell lta for the styles of short : ” c@é, Saoing the Way the rts; at least if one has short skirts za a foley . one can watch one's step,” car is goin; bi! cl Gh had ray, knitting bag in my left Perieutty dai neta io 'waen yeu hand, that's why,” sald Mrs. Jarr. {ep so closely,” advised Mr, Ete “You could have changed it to your|"Don't forget, Watch carefully which would face the way ghting from of go) even by chance, a car is going when all iti’ “If you were getting at have less to worry you,’ Jarr. didn't watch women who off street cars you'd replied Mrs. we avo all as lazy as we dare|!0 the plant and the 65 per cent. re- ‘ ‘FE MERSON once remarked that of them were released for other duties maining now to be," sald the executive of Feosive nearly 60 per “Oh, for goodness sake! I never heard such a fussy man!” replied Mrs, Jarr, “I haven't been hurt yet, and that's the way I always get off a large saw #0] form of management, Every employee was supposed to be prodded at inter- vals by some one above him, whether or not he needed it, It was assumed that every one required watching. The consequence was that a tremen- dous waste resulted from devotin, portion gf various minor official Lime to non-productive prodding, “And, still further, Ubat sort of | thing created a sullen, resentful spirit among the prodded, “The bonus system means every man watches himself, He is his own prodder, To install it demands ertain amount of preliminary study and planning, but once inaugurated ft operates smoothly and unce y automatically securing from eact worker tie earnest, faithful perform ance of his duties. Sim it Is effective in op “it ia generally considered that the bonus system of payment 1s applicable only to standardized jobs—operatives Whose productive power is largely de- pendent upon their own efforts, for example. But if sufficient time’ and and the study of a scientific basis upon which to rest your method of y rewarded by the bonus system ‘We have even succeeded in put- | ting our janitors on the bonus basis a that] thought are devoted to ‘job analysis’ | A cent. more In earnings. a large manufacturing plant, “and “Our engineers and firemen are that was the Idea behind the old|paid by the bonus system, In thelr cases, special rewards are given tor reduction of fuel expense, etc, Al- though I haven't yet evolved a plan f putting myself on a bonus system, I'm hopeful that I can evolve some practicable method." To-Day’s )-DAY marks the forty-seventh | anniversary of the signing of the treaty between Great Britain and Pryssia by which the neutrality of Belgium, guaranteed by an earlier convention of all great European powers, was confirmed and reassert- ed, Two days later Great Britain ind France entered into a similar treaty, and the fear, then widespread, that the little country might be drawn {nto the Franco-Prussian War was definitely and finally allayed. There was wild rejoiciag among the! Helgians, and warm gratitude was expressed to Great Britain by the King and ofticlals of the Belgian Gov- |ernment present war broke out galnst ag- guarantee of by the the | Holzium was protected ression not only by the perpetual neutrality made What resuked? Thirty-five per cont,|uropean powers tu 1851, following the latter remained inviolate, car, If it 1s dangerous why don’t the street cars put in signs? No, they only have room for advertisements!’ hey have put in signs, with illus- : rod way the cd other hand, couldn't you? Wateh which’ the tap {s gol “Yes, and I would bave looked nicé] “Why, what do I care which way standing teetering on the steps trying} (e),cas, %@ wolug whea I am getting to remember which way I showd| Wiese it wants aren the w face. wants to, after that!" bist: “Isn't tt easy to remember which] ,,"O Mout youll Le Me Re by ie me H POU p way the car is going? starting when you ure abinee the “I've got enough to do to look after! wrong way In’ getting “ott ate myself the way I am gotng,” said|Zowie! you'll go to the hospital" going to get myself sor Mrs, Jarr with an alr of finality-| un derciothes and Bll stooenge aie “The strect cars are going thelr WAY] very day,” sald Mrs, Jarr calnrly. Paar nETECURE ana Nice Mngerle and silk stockings i A ‘ lated won't save you if you alight thi ut it's so simple!" expostulatet) wrong way and the car starts deve Mr. Jarr. “It's so casy to get tbe] forget that,” replied Mr. jure. “Wiam habit of alighting from a street car aurertne ie will what you are Bite, pakke the correct way. Let your thougnt| Ky thin ty great deal of be ‘Safety frati’” ference to my feelings,” Mrer fate answered. “Think how a woman suf- ers when she has been in. u ia taken off to the seri be a ambulance and realizes that s ne has on darned = stocktr or undarned ones with ugly runs in them, and. ts also wearing plain, cheap’ under- clothes Oh, dear, 1 wish you wouldn't get me nervous about ac. cidents till 1 DO get some nice cident get some nice things trations, showing women the right rou’ Gantt male 1 bu ca p the chang and wrong way of getting off—but it| stores, like a man puts ones to ee me-down suit of clothes when. he : —=—= | buys it, can you?" asked Mr. Sees |_ “Why, certainly ia Anniversary y sald Jarr Vhy do you “Because I have to » to the office and can't be with yo ge Ithe recognition of the independence | home Viton youl when you go of Belgium, but by the treaties of| purchases," replied Mp dopr eeaeet 1870, It was these treaties which | here's luck to you on- r Jarr, 4 became but “scraps of paper” when) May nothing ever farpen yeack! “military necessity” sent the armies! until you aro all Greece yt Seu of the ser swarming over Belg!um | somewhere to go, as R ‘sed up with in the lute summer of 1914, ie Baye, Oven Te eee emond Hitehe On the previous occasion the camially waraeo pomewnere am British Government formally an-| Well, a fdente Jnounced the “intention to maintain] ang irs pede te pore, Uaevoldable the integrity of Belgium," and solemn-| thom, 1a Mare? he, BFePared for ly warned both France and Germany tte Li “not to violate the neutrality of Bel- Fe tamed glum.” There was no mistaking the IT DIDN'T QUALIFY, carnestness of Great Britain, and|"P°4E hours were flying by, ang both the warring nations realized that still Algy, the bore, remat to fall to heed the warning would in- with her, “Do you like meine volve war with England. Both na-| 4 OLoUMKe musi tons therefore lost no time tn signing am always carried awiy te the proffered treaties, and Belgium, Bhe flew to the id away by for the time, was saved, As a result] played seve Than Ane and Jot Great Britain's Intervention, Bel-|and looked i an urned are not gium wus oyand all ¢ war in 1879, and for once flict raged about her a great con-| You told me t borders while} ried you away “but I sald music put care always es," he retoy Tit-Bits, »