The evening world. Newspaper, August 21, 1917, Page 12

EE SR VOU WHERE A HUNDRED MILLION MUST HELP. AST WEEK Mr. Hoover ert forth the plain truth about a world’s wheat supply and the epecial meaning thereof f people of the United 8 This week he gives with eumilar directn that a meat shortage is inevitable and that “sa high range of prices / meat and apima! products for many years to come” is what Amencs consumers musi expect and, so far as may be, strive to keep with ommite the facts whieh show Increase made attle and hog production in the United States he ant showing against a total decrease of 115,000,000 in | world’s supply of meat-producing animale since the beginning of war, As the conflict continues the world’s capital stock of food an mals is bound to diminish further Nevertheless America must have meat, thie country ® allies must have meat, increasing numbers of fighting men and laboring men and women must be insured their necessarily greater share of animal food if enduring power for war is to be maintained For the people of the United States all this carries one urgent warning PLAN! LOOK AHEAD! Live stock breeders must plan immensely to increase their herds and flocks. | Well-to-do persons in this country who are not engaged in manual labor must plan how, by eating more vegetables and fish, they can leave a larger share of meat for those who do the harder kinds of work required by a nation at war, | Legislators must plan to put in the hands of Government au thority, Federal and State, a more and more full and effective control of the nation’s animal food products, to the end that the distribution, | export and prices of these products shall be determined—subject to economic law—solely in the interests of the people of this country| and their allies. | Planning of this last sort is specially important. | There must be no room left for speculators and profiteers who take advantage of every normal upward move of prices to boost them higher for their private profit. Over in New Jersey, the Globe noted yesterday, the State Bureau of Markets found that, although wholesale prices for farm products in Atlantic City showed but little change Inst week, there was a big increase in retail prices. Where the wholesale price of cabbages, for example, advanced but half a cent a head, the retail dealer neverthe- less jumped the price to the consumer from seven to ten cents. On potatoes the price increase in the wholesale market was one-quarter of @ cent per half peck, but the retailers increased | the price eight cents. The wholesale price for corn was un- changed at twenty-five cents a dozen ears, but the retailers | Doosted their price from thirty-five to forty cents. Here is a concrete instance of what happens whenever the public has been brought to accept the general excuse that “food prices are going up.” For every penny of actual economic rise, producer, middleman, retailer—each contrives to tack on four or five cents more for extra profit. Tt is done on the biggest scale as well as on the smallest, It will continue to be done until the country gets a grip upon food condi- tions, national and local, and regulates them for the benefit of all. Once let the cry of “meat famine” spread over the United States and hundreds of mest dealers will see to it that meat prices go as high as they can ccrow thom—UNLESS the nation wakes up to what is coming and by PLANNING, PRODUCING, CONSERVING AND REGULATING puts the meat profiteer, along with all other profiteers, out of business. Mr. Hoover is doing his part, and doing it well. When will ali good Americans listen and realize they’ve got to help? pearance MAKE THE PENALTY HEAVIER. HERE is prompt and salutary warning in the sentence passed by Judge Manton in the United States District Court on the two members of Local Board No. 99 who pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy in aiding drafted men to escape service. Two years in the Federal prison at Atlanta is the maximum prison sentence the law provides. Too light for 80 heinous an offense aginst the nation in an hour of need and peril, the punishment is nevertheless severe enough to have a wholesome effect upon other draft board members tempted to violate the law. The Federal authorities may be right in holding that the United States Government cannot take as fines the tainted money these draft officials have extorted from drafted men to whom they prom-| ised exemptions. But if fines are to be remitted, prison sentences should be length-| ened by a new clause in the law. From now on the Federal Government must be dependent upon| vast numbers of untried yet trusted workers for the carrying out of war measures. There can be few graver crimes, henceforth, than that of acc ept-| ing money offered to influence conduct or decision while the recipient} is acting in an official capacity for the United States. Under such circumstances blackmail or bribery amounts to treason, No penalty calculated to point out the fuct and emphasize the| warning can be too heavy. Hits From Sharp Wits Steadily grows the army of those] Only the idler sees the clock mov- who tell us what we must do,—Al-|!ng slowly; for the busy man it | bany Journal, moves always too fast.—Albany | ee ae Journal, It looks as if motor vehicles have © 9 8 een yy supplant amen nt It's easy to make a high score if} thing in the war except the American | you only aim at easy marks.—Alban: mule—Columbla (8. C,) Btar, inure si ge ae) etry ert Many men are moved by oratory,| The rule ts that if a college pro- | tat more by thelr own prejudices.— | fessor said it it is not to be taken! Toledo Blade serlously,—Toledo Blade. | 9 ae ee ener wer ‘The fool who owne up to it is firet| Better eat the cabbage this year cousin to the ,wise man.—Memphis|and make the cigars of something | Commercial Appeal. non-edible.—-ColumBia (8, C,) State, { ry | By Sophie Irene Loeb. Copyright, 1017, by the Pree Publishing Oo, (The Now York Wrening World.) HILE preparations are being made for send-off day a sad letter comes to me in connec- tlon therewith. A woman signing herself Mrs. J. T. K. writes as fol- lo ‘T have a brother in the crowd of other young fel- lows who have ‘yrs given up them- feouminamnveae selves and their jobs to help our Uncle Sam. How I would dearly love to see him in line on the day of the parade, but my husband forbids me to go. He has threatened never to live with me again or support our three smal) children if I dare to go. “I admit the children are small, but I have two aisters ving in New York who have none and are willing to help me, but he won't even allow me to go to my own elster’s home. “He ts my only brother, There were two others, but they have given their lives on the other side and now my last and only one goes forth for Uncle Sam and I cannot even have Americans Under Fire By Albert Payson Terhune Capers. 18T e NO. 2. THE BATTLE OF BL KAW. HONED, bald beaded © of earthworks on the red-hot morning of June 1%, inapecting (he trenebes and barricades mate there men whe were more accustomed te Willing the thes & turning ft Into breastworks The banks of earth were wardly built. apot they gave place to @ rat! fence stuffed with The men toting there were less than 3,000 tp ‘Their iii-diecipiine, thetr scarcity of ammunition fashioned guns would have made « regu! officer weep These were the patriots who had crept cover of tight to fortify Bunker Hil, ebove Kither by intetake or by change of plan, they rise of ground, known es “Breeds Hill,” inetesd. Go Battle of Bunker Mil) wes really the Battle of Breed's Hill Bowton, below them wae the chief stronghold ef Mngiand’s America. It was full of British regulars, with whom the half-armed foree could not possibly cope, ince the battle of Coneord and a : i i i all the American colonies had risen against But oo real had been fought. The raw-boned olf giant who tnapected the amateur earthworks was lerael Putnam, Yankee farmer and indian fighter. He wee in command of the puny army gathered on the MIL walked along the lines he gave order after But the terse command he repeated most often wast “Don't fire till you gee the whites of their eyes! ‘Then aim at the shoulder straps” (officers). It was good advice to give to crack shots whose ammunition wae 0 scanty. In Boston meantime the first Nght of day had shown the British the queer fortifications on the hill, At once 4,000 rececat troops under Gena, Howe and Pigot were sent to capture them. Howe was placed in change of the actual attack. Dressed as if for @ court ball and humming an opera air, he led the aemault in person, ing far ahead of his men, Up the hill in two columns moved the halting only to fire, then going briskly onward, Not a shot answered them from behintt the clumsy breastwork. a head appeared. On caine the British, singing their “Grenadier and certain of easy victory, They came to within twenty yards of earthwork—then to within ten yards—then—— | A barking word of commund and the lines of upheaved dirt buret inte & swirl of smoke and flame. Into the Britieh ranks at point blank range poured a volley of lead. No mortal power could withstand that whirlwind of death, Back reeled the British in full retreat, leaving mounds of dead behind them. At the hill-foot Howe reformed his shattered columns and forced them up the slope a second time. Again, as they neared the earthworks, the patriot volley swept and scourged them. And again after @ brief re- sistance the British broke and ran. By this time the city’s forts and batteries and harbor warships were » bombarding the hill. The suburb of Charlestown | | Defeat That } had been set afire. Howe had terrible difficulty in nee | { terec! Putnam’ Famous Command. 27 rallying his beaten men to a third at Was Vietéry: ying tack on the Yankee works, But at last reinforcements arrived merrnmrrnrF9 and they were bullied into mounting the hill for the final assault. | The patriots had used up all their own ammunition. There was not a single round of shot and powder left to repel this new charge, One seatter- ing volley was fired into the faces of the oncoming British. Then Putr “1 gave the word to retreat. The English had lost more than 1,000 men, the | patriots leas than 600, More, {t hat been proved once and for all that the dreaded redcoats were not unconquerable, but could be thrashed, man for man, by the untrained Yankee farmers, ? Though the defenders of Bunker Fill were forced to retreat through lack of ammunition, yet theirs was a defeat that meant more than many a victory. The English did not boast of the sorry triumph at the Battle of Bunker Hill, Indeed, Howe said of it: “Two more such ‘victories’ and Great Britain will have no army left in America.” The Jarr F amily. By Roy L. McCardell the pleasure of seeing him off. Please will you be kind enough to advise?” This husband is certainly a poor patriot. ' If ever a man should be ostracized from his fellow beings it is this one, if his wife's assertions are true, Cer- tainly he te not an American, This te the kind of individ: who {se not fit to vote, for he hasn't the first principles of citizenship and its obligations, Neither should such a man be al- lowed to marry, for he 1s almost in- human, No matter what he has againast the brother of his wife or her family, if there ts one time when the spark of manhood should show itself it should be at a time like this, Could anything be more brutal than for a husband to make even the slightest objection to his wife bid- ding her brother godspeed as he goes forth to do his duty in defense of his country? Leave him? 1 would leave him like a shot if 1 were this woman, I would ccept ald from my family and work my finger ends off before I would tolerate such a tyrant. I am confident that any court would gladly separate a wife from such a man and make it mandatory upon him to provide for his children, We think that we are civilized and that women are no longer slaves; but when we are told of such cases as Business The Relation of Volume to Profits HE average small retailer is 0 busy with detail work that he seldom has time to sit down and figure just where he stands,” remarked @ man who has devoted a good deal of time to the science of retalling. “As a consequence, many of them labor under strange delusions, They are inclined to think that their money is made’ from items which show | them @ long profit and lost on those which show them @ short one, Asa matter of fact, the reverse is often the AS. “Suppose, for example, a grocer op- erates at a cost of 19 per cent. of his gross Sules. Suppose he sells $100 worth of canned goods in a week at a gross profit of 25 per cent, figured on sales. His net protit for the week on this item comes, therefore, to §10. Now, suppose he sells $20 worth of spices at & gross profit of 36 per cent. on sales. His net profit for the week on this item comes to $4, In other words, he has made $6 more on his canned goods at 25 per cent. profit than he has on bis spice at 35 per nt. profit, “Sugar ls, of course, the commodity Effic lency Barrett which shows the grocer the smallest gro¥s profit. Generally he sells it at @ profit of but 10 per cent. on sales, and often cuts to even less, He looks upon his sugar as a losing item, ‘For, if my expenses average 15 per ce and I sell at @ profit of but 10 per cent., he argues, ‘plainly I am losing five cents on every dollar's worth of sugar I sell.’ Not necessarily, Merely because his average selling expense is 15 per cent., tt does not inevitably follow that 15 per cent, must be charged against his sugar sales. As @ matter of fact, if sufficient volume is done at 10 per cent., it 1s quite pos- sible that his sugar business shows bim a profit. “Often a grocer refuses to carry some widely advertised brang because the margin of profit is less than that offered by some obscure article. He thinks that this is a good business move, But this {s generally a mis- taken polley. For if the grocer would but multiply his net margin by his volume on the particular item in question he would discover that the advertised article at a smaller gross profit would earn much more money for him in the course of a week than its obscure competitor which showed a bigger percentage. For the grocer -~or, for that matter, any other mer- chant-—to fully realize this y step toward efficiency in retailing, this we are brought to a realization that there Is much to be done ‘to emancipate women in the home and make them free from husbands who still belong to the dark ages. 1 should like to see a domestic bu- reau that would deal with such cul- prits and invoke the full letter of the law. They are worse than criminals, because they hold the whip over a wife who suffers their abuse-only for the benefit of the babies. Indeed, I would go to send-off day, my woman, and I would send off such a heartless husband from my heart, | munitions and have Government con- and he would needs show a different + tracts, but people who only have sal- Spiele peroreahe could ever return. | aries and children, or people who have day—and the spirit of it should go|netther, what are they going to do?" marching on, until it, reaches the| a childless family, trenches and Inspires courage on the firing Ine, It is the way to win, | Which ts on oommiasion, Nothing will go dishearten the parting one as the dirge of distress |{ should |"To many ® one It will need be a | Spartan spirit, for they will dry the |eyes and smile, smile, smile, | “Remember that your courage, your | spirit will stiffen’ his backbone as he waves goodby. Everybody should |Join in the send-off day no matter What it costs, since {t is planned for the good of all, Copyright, 1017, by the Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World.) WING to the live stock,” reading from the news- paper, “prices for meat will remain as high as now, if they do not go higher, during the war.” “L Just can't see what poor people will do!” said Mrs, Jarr. “It may 6é en an ” remarked Mr, Jarr, “Well, what have we got?” asked Mrs, Jarr, and our bit by uncomplaining econ- omy,” was Mr, Jarr’s rejoinder, | Bachelor Girl Reflections | By Helen Rowland _ al Copprigiit, 117, by The Pre Pubissding Co, (‘The New York Prening World), ; may be true that nscience doth make cowards of us all,” but It's | beginning to look as though cowardice were making “consclentious ob- jectors” of a lot of us, Alas! It gives @ girl silver threads among the gold to marry a lover, and discover that she has tied herself for life to a Domestic EMctency Expert! A man goes into matrimony fancying that he 1s , going to run things with his sixty-horse willpower, and is astonished to find that the most he can do is to exert a little one-horse won't-power occasionally, The man under fire in the trenches will no doubt sometimes wonder what in the world ever made him afraid of a rolling pin. “A house can be built, but a home must grow!” once remarked @ clever writer. house and feel the growing pains! Why 1s “Faith” always pictured as a young girl clinging to a rock, when an old girl clinging to a beauty cream or @ fat girl clinging to a flesh reducer would be so much more convincing? loves him is his unfailing belief that he 1s succeeding. Managing a busband consists in meekly deferring to his judgment in selecting a melon or what to have for dinner, while you proceed serenely where he {s going to live. | War Philosophy: Abstinence makes the waist grow slender! scarcity in Mr. Jarr was least I want the satisfaction of com- plaining,” replied Mrs, Jarr. “Complain to me, then, Jarr, “And have you complain because I complain?” retorted Mra, Jarr, “I guess not! But 1 do wish this old war were over #0 I could get a dress I paid a deposit on, Then, too, I am worried about the children, Our “Oh, please don't try to take all the Joy out of life!” cried Mrs, Jarr, “At least If one pays @ deposit one knows one can get the article, And then one can shop around, and if one sees something better, or some- thing else one would rather have, then one doesn’t need to take the tht: the deposit is paid on, That's petit) than buying a thing and having it #0 eaid Mr. be all right for people who make war the head of je. | army commission, is not so bad off, “We have the compensation that we are patriotically doing our best “I am used to the economy, but at Well, just plant one, dearie, in a brand new apartment The foolish thing about a man's attempt to decelve a woman who to select his cravats, his socks, his religion, his politics, and the place Httle Willie wants to be a war avia- tor and our little Emma dresses up every day like a Red Cross nurse, She's made a costume herself, pate terning it after Clara Mudridge- Smith's costume.” “You need not worry about the children,” remarked Mr, Jarr, “The war will be long over, and, I hope, |1te animosities forgotten, by the time dur children are of @ military or nursing age.” deposit I paid on my dress. thing to eat is to stay so high, how can I pay the balance on it?” “What is the balance?" asked Mr. Jarr. . “Twenty dollars," replied Mrs. | Jarr, “The dresses were beautiful jone plece suits they were making a | spectal sale of, td make room for the autumn gowns, They were originally forty dollars, but were reduced to twenty-five. I paid a deposit of five dollars, and the saleslady told me it was a genuine clearance sale, and she could not hold the dress for me over ten days.” “Then you'll lose your depostt,” said Mr, Jarr, as he calculated how long {t would be before he had twenty dollars td spare—but did not reach any concluston, “I wonder," he added, “how much lost deposit money see again? I read in this paper just hundred thousand dollars of deposits that the depositors have forgotten.” “I wonder if any of it 1s ours?” remarked Mra, Jarr quickly. had to pay a deposit to the gas com- pany ten years ago, I wonder if I could get it if I asked for it?" Mr, Jarr. your dress deposit.” “But I won't lose my dress deposi! retorted Mra, Jarr. thank goodness! dress, at least I can get the equiva- full,” remarked Mr, Jarr, | Jarr inquired, “But that don't help me about the | If every- | there is that the depositors will never now that the gas company had six “we ‘I am afraid not, at least not so long as we are still using gas,” said “You must let it go with “The stores are different from the gas companies, If I can't got the lent of my deposit in something else.” “Just the same, it is poor business to pay deposits on things one ts not sure one will be able to pay for in long it can't be returned, and then see something else one would rather have had, Anyway, most of the stores have stopped the return privi- lege, on account of the war. Bvery- thing seems to be done on account of the wa: “But you are not for peace at any price on that account, 1 hope?” Mr, “I am not!" said Mrs, Jarr de- cldedly, “I have gone this far, for my share, In bearing the burdens of the war; and | can stand it if ¢ther people can, So, if my boy was old enough to be a soldier I would let him go and be proud of it!" “Spoken like @ patriotic mother!” said Mr. Jarr, “And if I were young enough to go I'd go, It the worst came to the worst, Uncle Henry would take care of you and the @hil- dren down on the farm,” “I suppose so," said Mrs, Jerr, “He's getting three dollars for his wheat, and he got the most tremen- dous prices for his onions and - toes, but he complains ‘dreadfully ot what he has to pay his farm hands and also for the high prices he has to pay for everything he has to buy,” “But he's better off than us. ‘We have nothing to sell at bigh prices and much to buy. “Yes, I suppose #0," sald Mrs, Jagr, “But, after all, anybody who works on a farm earns what they get, Let me see, what shall I take for my de- posit money, @ pair of shoes? But 4 good pair of shoes costs much more than five dollars on account of the war. Oh, dear!” ‘o-Day’s Anniversary | ‘T was on Aug, 21, 1103, that Abdul- mumen Ibn Ali was elected Sultan of Eastern Africa by the following stratagem: Having trained @ parrot and a lion, he mbled the chiefs in his tent and urged upon them the naming of a ruler of their growing empire. In the midst of their deliberations the parrot perched himself upon one of the poles of the tent and pronounced distinctly: “Vice tory and power to the lot of the Khallf Abdulmumen, commander of the faithful.” The lion then meade his way through the terrified assem- bly, licked Abdul's hand and lay down at his feet. Deeply impressed with this wonder, and the mai inter- ference of heaven, the nenet L. mously proclaimed him a)