The evening world. Newspaper, September 1, 1917, Page 8

Fa a - Ream wT oooh en PUL Ter ee ee t . ‘ 04.00 One Yror.! roe #0 One Mort ery VOLUME 58 NO. 20,468 WHEN ARE PROFITS FAIR? OW can $2.20 wheat be put into terms of g five-cent fourteen ounce loaf of bread for the direct relief of the American consumer? That is the neat probiem for which the President hopes to find a qiiek solution. Compared with prices that prevailed before the war, ® bushel for 1917 wheat is a high figure—one that should cover in creased cost of production and stil] assure the farmer a fair return It is estimated that at thie figure op wheat the miller can eell flour for @9 per barrel. But the middlemen, the retailers and the bakers stand between the miller and the man who buys a loaf of bread, and fer each of these intermediaries fair profits must be fixe Here enters the all-important question: When are profite fair? Are they fair owly when continued at constantly swelling percentages to which war conditions and a deliberate widespread policy of price boost. ing have accustomed those in» position to reap them! Are they fair only when they necessitate no change In raised standards of Mving or expenditure based upon suddenly inereased returns that ob- viously could not be permanent! Are they fair only when they invo! be surreptitiously made good (with something pockets of ultimate consumers! jore beside) from the These are questions which producers and handlers not only of | foodstuffs but of all other necessities must be prepared to answer. Certainly while the war lasts, and it may be for a long time after, high prices will have to be faced, sacrifices made and burdens shoul-| dered. That as a nation we can carry the load, we have no doubt.! But how aro we going to SHAR ease padded backs? As between $2.20 for the farmer's wheat the consamer’s loaf of bread, the whole weight slides from the middle to the ends. it? Is the “fair profit” ery chiefly to PLENTY LEFT FOR NEXT TUESDAY. | EW YORK has unlimited supplies of the spirit of last Thursday with which to greet its selected soldiers who will parade in three boroughs next Tuesday as part of the new National Army. Absence of uniforms will make no difference in that greeting. On the contrary, these men in their civilian clothes are bound to seem all the closer to their fellow citizens in the honor which has become theirs. In the last few days this great city has awakened to real, deeply moved consciousness of war. It has a quickened interest and a warmer feeling at heart for every soldier of the nation whatever he may wear. Each and every reserve officer in or near the city should promptly report to Grand Marshal Capt. Boyce and do all he can to make the parade of the selected men a notable success, Those who will march in our new armies may be sure New York is ready to give them a rousing send-off. It wants to seo them, the whole 38,621 to the last man, next Tuesday. ae THE SOUNDER POLICY. HE State Suffragists in conference this week at Saratoga wisely fortified their campaign with a resolution explicitly condemn- ‘ing “the picketing of the White House, which tends to harass the Government in this time of great stress,” and urging the press and public “to discriminate between the small group of picketers and the great body of loyal, patriotic women in New York State who, while devotedly serving their Government, are working for their enfran- chisement on Noy. 6.” It is safe to say that for months past thousands of persons with nprejudiced feelings toward suffrage would have been only too glad to discriminate had the sounder element of the Woman's Party seen fit +> take a more determined and convincing stand against the militant nuisances who have been annoying and insulting the Presi- dent, thereby doing incalculable injury to their cause. One does not have to be an ardent suffragist to regret having seen the leaders of the movement consent to hesitant, half-v which could only do them harm, The New York State Suffrage Party has recognized that in the nation’s present state of mind the one safe attitude toward misguided persons who throw sand in the Federal machinery is, to repudiate them with an emphasis that can be heard—a timely example for the guidance of all parties and causes in the United States while it re- mains at war. tactics Hits From Sharp Wits Fow men are brave enough to allow) Every time @ mind reader to expose their! elec talking you oan put it thoughts in the presence of friends.—|aown that they're swapping current Chicago New goeeip.—Paterson Call eas 8 A man’s wisdom ia shown in what) In ofr opinion, if a girl wants to he knows but doesn't tell.—Milwau-| wear a certain kind of bathing built) kee News. that's her business, Ours is to be a oe . there or thereabouts when she wears Unwise friends may give a man so/1t.—Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun fine a reputation that he finds it dif- Te ficult to live up to 1t.—Albany Jour-| At uny rate the kilties don’t bag at/iimb, but for two yea the knees.—-Milwaukee News. nniversary ty WO hundred and two years ago|royal authority which his predo-| to-day Louls XIV., the “Grand | Cessors had lost, encouraged com-| merce, literature and art, and ex- Monarque” of France, departed) tended the boundaries of ‘France this earth after a reign unequalled for splendor and power in the world's| he met with severe reverses on th house of Bourbon |s also known to history as “Le Roi Solel the “Bun | last moment, . That Louls XIV. thought! ‘The death of the Grand Monar uite a lot of himself is proved by/ a iittle more than two centuries A fact that he had medals struck | may be said to have marked tho pa Showing himself in the midst of | ing of the old regime in France, He- blasing sun. ag) be said ts ae rr favor 41d accomplish much for the| monarchy and bring about the revo- of France. He regained the| lution. ? ie i on DOUBLE BREASTED ) SILK LINE da price of ten cents on | | HAVE A SIK ) CYLINDER Ruts LYING £2 Ree\ ‘ << a ) | USE My | USE A WIFE'S orp | REVERSIBLE / \ CORSET STR; NAGNETO STRINGS |] DoUBLE \ Hoare ~~ I HAVE BEEN HERE AMO IH, ONLY Two HOURS / MERE Roe / AND | GOT QUITE y Maurice Kette 1 Just Pu. ) THe LIN® IN ( BY WAND / HOOK WITH AN ~ . “Then again, By Sophie Irene Loeb}, by the Pres Publaliug Co (Tae New York Kvening World), O-DAY I received a covers many pages, line is full of cheer and hope between |to do all for yourself as long as one Institution life L have had, so} “Health is a gold mine.” unexpressed | know all about It and have nothing | except I find it hard to be| knowing you are dependent and hear from. |sptrits and being by them I find it because they fill me with new, and wan wm Wl in one, and misery forbearance unlimited pa- your moments your old ambition sparks to be up and doing. “Since a child four y: ars old, when Out of it all the person who writes to me asks “Am I doing right? insisting on | given up to die at the last home. “I have far less of these attacks too much when all | Course I ask is an opportunity to earn my living in order to keep myself out! of an institution where man ike me are now being kept The letter begins with “Please don’t | feel I am coming with a complaint! times ho and want sympathy.” And then this| have soulful woman goes on to tell how | Pappy in she took a ttle bedroom and “lived alone and enjoyed it s0,| yea and hopes to continue.” when I get | sick, which Jas teen days, but as soon as I am out up and doing in a long for noth- to be quiet and| Way and be no burden.” ing more than just hav this little corner which T am and felt to is poor and the only wince three, Copyright, 1017, by the Press fF orig oe ming VW “So far my living alone has proved ‘Tie New York & goes on to say: (1 wish I could print | S¥ecessful, With tie exception of a] 6¢Q OME parade, |cold I developed last every word of it but space will not| November and which has left me with a cough, Now live and manage having only one limb Heve and ne and using crutches; in fact, 1 forget I have them unless some one speaks! never guess the hidden 4 mome of them. My friends wonder and are| don't know of any home that would wondering still how which {s Just mind over matter “I sew on the machine nurses uni- forms—for different nurses—who have! heard of me nurse of the settlement am strong enough . providing I have them to do, you near a couple of 1 can keep up, my first in many doors are closed to me on hear tuberculosis) thing, Tam fight-| Happiness and content mi |ing the strain of two draining wounds] road to health |caused from pneumonia, me with four smallest ten inches, the largest four- wrong, Miss sears, the| § wit “IT keep up and I say myself it is lothing I keep in trim so {t lasts| uniform and art wonderful what a human ‘a ‘ and|ings go to druggists During'the latter part of his reign/trust. Nothing but will power Dund dressings. h® ambition keeps one going. “Saveral of my friends who feel the| |, ‘history. This ruler of the French| battlefield, but he remained the ab- | on solute monarch and the master of | Is a strugel the ancient craft Of kingship to his | world is a hard place to be tn and to | gold mine to thos |harder for me knowing my condition |feel I ought to give up home to be taken care of not meant to battle for a living see their view but can't give up bition always spa neath the surface those hidden forces already were at work to engulf the | L have friends whom | through, and most of it 1s forgotten. | vhey| "Am I right or wrong in my way f think or dc up my ota] °F, inking or doing wish I could send How glad you should ing aud many polisher. tir a parad one would ++ isease, 1 by the sea; agree with 30,000 (when so Fitth that living , w ting better, ee not to be| ine of the best | volunteered to make the for democracy. If the ‘se iso in not 1 wante| been meet, If [| village or town of the | boys or hundred boys, ed for se tara and Stripes the elothes | th my earn-| « |play an ov even though|of the generous support and hope atways to| people of the State have Health fs 0| National Guard ve tt. W ined popu rout work, | work of th uard of New t depress | National ) fieht all déf-! to the country the best unit ave gone unteer soldiers. But it does not mean . by the Pres Publishing Co, The New York Evening World), HY, how nice you look, Pop- pet!” cried M this letter | broadcast so that you who are weary read. You who have two strong legs and arms, who have ' steady work, and yet are bemoaning belief ts and always has been | your fate because you have no mors, Think well on this cripple's words. Jarr gayly,| “But you do look real sweet met him at “Is that a new dress?” well enough i replied Mrs. had this dress for can I get a new isn't aj}duds I wish to buy you, if I could) “Rectte your piece for Papa, the “t've|cover you with diamonds, all that] plece you are going to say at the Red ars and years. You| good looks, dearie, But, just as you! quested. Then she added jknow I NEED a new dress, several! are, in an old dress that looks brand-|Jarr: “It's the piece he recited in getting |new on YOU, you look more stylish | school—4 did not want him to take are fearful of Kolng to the front to fight, reflect on this human, fighting, fighting every minute, Even strong | a4 our soldier fights the Germans aha io Nahting the germs of disease | «Not ross at your old dearie, eh,| ‘This was true enough. Mr. Jarr tice and perhaps sprain his brain. |Poppet?” interrupted Mr. Jarr, He|didn't know any millionaire dame,| Cousin Martha had a brother-inclaw i knew he was in bad by coming home | late again, but he wast {his way smoothly by a few verbal able to stand the test and find your- been hos. | self physically fit to have a part in and now and|this fight death's door) Just think that somewhere in ‘ago, L was| hall bedroom with a little kitchenette jone of God's creatures is sitting be- fore a sewing machine, her crutches Am|than when I was at this home, Of/at her side, doing her bit in mak- ing nurses’ ‘dresses while she fights, 8 from ten to four-| fights, to keep body and soul while she gazes out of the/tion? But It is enough to make eve ME cross to have you come home late after night—and rying to salve “What good would !t do to he if that was wat the sturdy passer-by, say- Health is a gold mine, but all I want is a ohance to make my own| to your dinner night ‘yet how you will carry on if you do Saturday, September 1, 1917 Americans & B® Under Fire Ky Albert Payson Terhune ’ 7 THK BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS. 1118 We the story of a be fourht duri me of i Wea ft jaiz " ended * wivorn oF ” i ure Wr 1814, News of & realy had on Jan § 1814, + hee ne tart ee Andrew Jacksom veteran laden fighter ater President of the United States tearne@ that *trong Hritieh force was about to land from ports in the Gulf of Mesico aod eeize Leuistemly Jackson, « ead of a band of frontier soldiers hurried to New Orleam® ys etop the invasion. He found the city in a turmoil of panic, So be put nder martial law and proclaimed himself ite at He bad s Har it » r the several times i hte v putting f above the law, + N narched e city, J halt ready tor '" fo rive him back, and saucer » halting the British advance fo fow ove, ut thore few 4. weve all that Jackson onde It wave him time te throw up rude earthworks in the path of the Britioh attack, wd to strengthen these thworks with sand= bags and bales of cotto: nd anything else he could lay hands on thet mi as 4 barrier, It gave him time, too, to incre vie army that wes to defend this queer he made fort On the morning of Jan, §, about six thousend men rallied behind these earthworks, They were m-hands, trappers, laborers backwoodemen, Tiffereff of the levees—with here and there au 1 American soldter, Toward this motley force was marchir akenharn at the head of neariy 13,000 men—“regulars,” « of them—veterans of the Napoleonic wars The British batteries opened on the cotton-bale breastworks and, Pakenham give command for a charge, The final and most dramatig scene in the dreary drama of the War of 1812 was set. One of the strangem, battles of history was beginniny As at Bunker Hill, the rabble army behind the breastworks did nob reply to the enemy's bombardment nor to its first rifle-fire, but lay snug Dehind its intrenchments and waited, The American works were silent; apparentiy deserted A On came the British, puzzled by such tactics, and amu the home-made barricade. On they marched, up into easy short range. Then came the first American volley Tt was a raged, uneven, scaticring volley; not to be compared in style to the flawless British method of firing. But every man who fired had picked out his mark before drawing trigger. And every man who fired was a backwoods sharpshooter, who could hit a flying partridge at ninety yards Scarcely a shot in that irregular volley failed to find its mark. 7 And now the Americans were following up the first fusillade by a steady hail of fire—t.ey were “firing at will" und with « marksmanship that Europe had never known. Gallantly the British pressed on to the attack In face of that awful blast of death. Steadtly as machines they loaded, aimed, fired. But the best machine is of little use against a man who tries to blow. it up. And at last human courage could endure no more, The redcoats wavered, fell back in good order, then retreated taster, |and finally scuttled in every direction in panic rout, Pakenham fell, more | tally wounded. The ground was thick-piled with British dead, And atill | that terrific firing from the motley American rabble scourged the red- coats on. ‘The British ran to their ships in disorder and put to eea, leaving behind them 1,800 dead or wounded. Jackson had lost just thirteen in dead or | wounded. We had thus lost at the rate of one man to every 138 English, Jackson, by way of reward for his glorious victory, was arrested and | was fined $1,000 for having made himself, unlawfully, dictator of New | Orlea Bee d at sight of Seemed } The Blast, of Death. ee happen to be home and the dinner proudly—"is to speak a piece, He's ate five minutes. And then to ask/been practicing it for me, and, oh me if this old thing is a NEW dre: he does it grand!” And she led My Jarr into the parlor, wheré Master | Jarr was eating a banana, evidently 4 reward for his histrioniec ability. Mr. Jarr, the salve spreader, ann afford to buy you all the fine would become you and enhance your | Cross entertainment,” Mrs. Jar te- to Mr, | than any miillonaire dame 1 know." | up something new on such short no- land then Mr. Jarr added: “I'm sorry | who hi a little girl who studied so |to be late, but here T am, and we'll | €Xcessively she got brain fever and never would go { have dinner, after you give us @Ki88."| ning’ away and goingese ay rua, | Mrs, Jarr gave him the kiss and | whispered—with a 'Strects of Calvo |softened. After all, a few kind words | at county fairs! Then aloud to Mas- | do help some, weer “Recite your plece for papa, “Well,” rhe said, “you would belate! “Gimme ten cents, paw!" erled the it dinner WAS ready, but it is put off| boy “Will ya gimme ten cents?" fa little, for our Willie is to take part) ,,, When you recite your piece,” said in the Red Cross entertainment, and! «1 come not here . to talk," beg here Mra. Jarr drew herself Wp | Master Jarr monotonously” "1 gan not here to talk, you know too well the rest of not produced troops of quality and ability to assimilate training. “Observation of the militia on the Texas border sald Some parade,” agreed the| laundry man. “It| bee: pardly their treatment of was more than | U¢en niggardly in thelr regiments that lagged behind—not tn stamina of the but in equipment and ability of of- The border training also es- tablished another fact, oclamation, “We must re-| member that our boys who march- ed down Avenue on! ‘Thursday on their training is an excefont tonic for any of the States that make up the Union, Division are units hopeless when looked at from a mili- Some of the Western to tary viewpoint and Southern formed: but a fraction of the young) noaies into cam sliever tn. | men of the United States who have which went General Steff that the volunteer sol- diery of the United States constituted national affair ‘the remotest land what 1] huve furnished its five boys or “The boys went home and wrought a revolution In the treatment of the States that became generous as had been st'ngy concerns military needs, York is so big and 8a all-en-! for cotton as} compassing that we were able to dis- whelining exhibition to be able} patriotism and we were able, because Texas border units that appeared to be without promise in July and Aug- 1916, have been sel part of our ‘Rainbow Division’ Expe- dition to France, condition tsn't ment for universal military then argument months on the Texas border, under discouraging conditions, transformed sted to form to display to @ sur-, the result nst competent a when we have) sacrificing set of militia regimental officers in the 1 to visit me any | States ys ready tol" rhis statement means that {nto soldiers considered fit for ser- litary ser- | Mayor once,” coun-j| ‘and tha: makes it u What will three year the story of our hall room!" “That's ‘Rienzi's Address to the Romans." said Mr. Jarr. “The wora {a not ‘hall room,’ Willie, “the word is ‘thraldom, | “You know too ‘well . story of our thraldom!’ Seep tr If the 10,000,000 young men cr "4 he a} called in the selective draft had cried Min dase tiie NG Ce been trained as were the 30,000 who an oe is cute.” marched down Fifth Avenue yester- | '*., : : day, no country in the world would | y. ost, Rall rooms are cute, it munt declare a war which might engage | stil the late Mr Riese qammmitted. |the military activitigs of the United ? Mr. Rienzi was speak- iets | Green | i ing of thraldoy States. apes: “Don't mind your papa; say it for mamma,” sald Mrs, 7 Jarr, y sé HAT is the secret of the op- | standing behind Mr. Jarr, she Pe Position of the ingurance|a dime as a bribe to’ be secretly companies to the plan of Gwardee later on for a good per- + ent t ve! BANS, | the Government 0 inaure the lives ot “We are slaves!’ began Master he head polisher. | Jar, continuing with ‘Mr. Riengi's said the laundry | celebrated monologu “The bri man. “Business. I happened to be his horse! "=— eh in Washington when Secretary of the Not horse, Willie,” inte: Treasury McAdoo consulted with | jected Mr. Jarr—-""The bright’ sun ng of life insurance men at the | rises on his course and lights a race New Willard Hotel on the matter of | of slaves'!” Federal life insurance. Few of the| “‘He gets insurance men favored the McAdoo plan, ‘his last ray’ ie “Here ts the idea. The life insur-| stumbled but plunged on— une ance companies are charging excessiV® }as sweep along by the conquery. ta premiums for insurance, They have |crimsing gloriousness, and dying Successfully camouflaged tho over-|what-its-name, but base ignive charge, thus far, but if the Govern- | ple! "—— ment goes into the life insurance] "No, Willie,” business during the war and gets an|member it well ea of what life insurance uctually | + +Not much as avep! along by ¥ costs there {s every prospect that the or bata he Fall Siaoee Government will go into the business rimeon siory and un@ying of insuring the lives of all citizens id his last ray," Mas- on, thus prompted iv said Mr, Jarr, “ pe. Tenoble alaven! after the war. Which is a prospect a hands ol petty trent, féetal dey: opening up more widely every day pote and a prospect which {s forcing tho “You leave the boy alone and lét old line life insurance men to spasms | him say his piece in peace,” said Mra, of quavering protest.” Jarr, interrupting. led ld “Now gimme the dime, maw!” cried hy A | Master Jarr. “Anyway, I ain’ 66] SEE," sald the head polisher, | ta"aay the piece. Johnny Ranger te “that Wiltam Randolph|to say tt.” Hearst has declined to run for|_ “There now Mave fully. E ° ed th an bat poor boy and crushed his ambition! } "The people declined him for | Don't expect any supper in this house. aid (he laundry man, | Run over to Rangle's and praise of har animous.” —_ people's children for your dinner!