The evening world. Newspaper, October 2, 1917, Page 18

MEUREn OF TUR ABROCLA TED #mne rns tee SS, SSE dot oom aut © © HOW MUCH IS ECONOMIC? i HE price of milk was edveuced to fourteen cents « quart yeater- day, as per schedule | Mr. Hoover, Federal Food Administrator, is reported to have gathered dots bearing on the cost of producing and distributing » milk, with a view to determining just prices. Neverthe:css the price of milk in New York was advanced to | fourteen cents o quart yesterday—with o warning that next month | 8 may go higher still. Tho Legislature of this State lately passed a Food Law which provides for public inquiry into profits made by producers of neces- » @ities, including milk. Just the same the price of milk hereaboute was advanced to four- Been cents a quart yesterday—and neither dairymen nor distributers were for a moment deterred by the thought of a State Food Com- Mission which does not yet exist. District Attorney Swann, threatening to prosecute the Dairy- men’s League under the Donnelly law forbidding combination in re- straint of trade, declares: “The state of efiairs presented ty the continually {n- ereasing cost of milk is nationwide and cannot longer be neglected if the poor are to be protected. The fight is on between the producers and tho distributers, and the consumer will be crushed between the two unless he is extricated.” The worst of it is, the crushing process bears hardest on the} | weak—babies, the sick and the old—who cannot defend themselves | | with that trustiest of consumers’ weapons: Refusal to buy. Ad-, wancing milk prices mean to them, in many instances, less of their) most-needed food, with consequent lowering of vitality and waning of strength. In the case of the young, that vitality and strength are the nation’s vitality and strength. It is incredible that a time has come when the production and distribution of milk at reasonable prices to the consumer can no longer be profitably carried on. On the other hand it is entirely credible that present pro- ducers and distributers of milk have sought to standardize rising scales of profit by overreaching methods which were bound in the ‘end to defeat their own purpose. Now, if ever, is the moment exhaustively to examine those| methods and climinate them from the milk industry. Despite all discussions, protests and investigations that have| gone before, the fact remains that the price of milk in this city was) mdvanced yesterday—on top of a succession of such advances—to | fourteen cents a quart. | Are there onl} reasonable profits in such a price? Even in time of war are there no farmers, no agents of dis- | fribution in the United States who would undertake to earn a fair return for their investment and labor by producing and distrib- tuting milk on better terms for the public? * Is it entirely the mysterious and dread power which is con- tantly invoked to quiet us—the force of economic necessity—or fis it, in part, plain inefficiency, mal-adjustment and greed that thave been behind the boosting of milk prices? a m The consumer at this time has every right to ask these questions, Government, Federal and State, has already taken too much “Mpon itself to deny its obligation to see that they are answored, SS KEEP IT OUT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. JHE action of the trustees of Columbia University in declaring vacant the positions of two pacifist professors who have “done grave injury to the university by their public agitation jj Reainst the conduct of the war” is but the necessary expression of ‘a Americanism the principle and spirit of which it is the duty of wrery American college at this time to guard with jealous care, But if this obligation rests upon colleges and universities how @ach more does it rest upon the publio schools! There has been far too little attention given to influences being | Hbreught to bear upon the impressionable minds of millions of school! shildren whose patriotism is the Nation’s most precious asset, | ‘What steps has the City of New York taken to make gure that! he. teachers in its high achools and in lower grades are all teaching the right kind of Americanism? ; Is it certain that no pacifist, pro-German lass rooms with insidious suggestion? Surround with every safeguard the standard of loyalty taught { ip the public schools. t Propaganda creeps into There, if anywhere, patriotism should be one thousand-one} Letters From the Peo Weald Disgrace West Point Hasers, Wp the Béitor of The Wrening World: ~ In The Evening World of Bept. 28 ET mote a very commendable editorial on the present trial for basing at Wost Point. You certainly struck the keynote of the situation, It ts “#0 be hoped that the men convicted _ Will be dismissed with full disgrace, ) Dismissal seems « mild punishment to me—a coat of tar and feathers or pillory would bo more fitting, Buoh men are not ft to be officers Particular praise should be given the post surgeon through whose ple academy we have such crueities! must not forget—"Let him t! without ein cast the frat stone B,C. Correction About “The Bi: ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: In 4 recent issue of your Published an article to the pepe Mrs, William K. Vanderbiit jr, had founded The Hig Sisters tn 1918, donating $500,000 to start the move. ment, and had recently leased, for the period of twenty-one years, the property at No. 21 Beekman Place for the purposes of their work, I desire to correct th The Big Bisters, Inc, We t is statements, By Sophie Copyright, 1917, by the Press Publishing Co, LITTLE WORRIES THAT BECOME“LAST STRAWS” ANY letters come’ concerning marriage. Most of them ex- press views on “how to be happy though Some n are full of pain, while others express pleasure, Most of them present problems. ‘There ate com- plaints of tncom- patibility as well a6 marriages that are maintained io the direction of happiness. But tak- ing it all and all, there are*a few, @ very few, rocks upon which mar- rlages may be broken, and at the samo time a few stepping stones by which it may be mado a@ success I have selected three of the most common variety of each kind and 1 will present them in these columns Tho first is exemplified by a couple well known to me, They were very much in Jove with each other, and it looked as though they were golng to be the closest companions in the world, That was the trouble, They got to be too close. They were young and ambitious and everything looked favorable for them But they started out on the theory that NOTHING should be kept from) the othemunder any circumstances, Now this sounds very good. Surely every one urges complete confidences between married couples. But in this case it was done to the extreme. That !s to @ay, each carried the other’s burdens on his and ber shoul- ders. For example, if the least little thing went wrong in the man's business he Set Americans WW m Under Fire By Albert Payson Terhune ee ee ee ‘The Siour Indians were on Bull, the medicine man, was the surrection. But when Aghting ing Raindothet ace and Crary Horse on warrior chiefs to do the sctual battling. Montana was swarming with hostile Glows the epring of 1876 « force of United States ealdters under Gen. Terry was pent against them. Gen, George Custer commanded « detachment of ‘Terry's troops, Custer was « spectacular, fighter, whose long yellow bair Sowed to bis éhoul dere Terry sent him, with several hundred cavalry- | men, up the Rosebud River to the headwaters of the Little Big Horn, with orders to march along the latter ri until be uld come in touch with @ second detachment of Terry's army. Those were Custer’e orders. He acted, later, on his own responsibility, and paid for doing so, Terry's plan was to locate and surround the Biouz who were believed to be encamped somewhere between these two detach- ments’ line of march. With a United States force on each side of them, the Sioux would be trapped and helpless to escape. The plan was good. If Custer had obeyed orders it well have succeeded, and hundreds of brave soldiers’ lives would have been saved. Cuater’s scouts struck the trail of @ big party of Indians. Custer fol- lowed it. At dawn of July 25 he saw in the distance an Indian village. His orders do not seem to have given him any authority Brmmnnemnnnnnnnr® to attack this village. But he attacked, Into the Jaws of He aplit his force in three, arranging that the the Death Trap. > cuarge be made on the village at a elgnal from three mem" veparate sides, He himself with 247 men sode straight for the encampment. Down upon the village thundered Custer and his 247 cavalrymen. All at once, from every side of them, the trees and long grass swarmed with half- naked Sioux warriors, hemming in the rash General and his men, At the time huge bodies of Sioux hurled themselves upon the two other detac of Custer’s command, cutting them off from coming to the General cue. Thus, Custer and his 247 found themselves surrounded and overwhelmed, They could make no headway against the throngs of Indians, who rushed into the slaughter, They could only halt and try to defend themselves, They were all veteran Indian fighters, these doomed cavalrymen, They knew their opponents too well to surrender—to yield themselves to the mercy of the merciless. Far bettor to die fighting than to die by torture. Bo they fourht, ‘They fought with the grim fury of despair. But here new odds rose against them. For their “contract-made” carbines fouled after the second firing. Some of these guns got out of order at once, and were of no use et all, except as clubs, Then thé ammunition ran short. Custer and his men had dismounted and formed a square, with their horses asa barrier, The Indians would not charge this compact formation, but gall@ed around the square, pouring shots and arrows into it. | For about three hours the battle continued, the blue-coated defenders growing fewer and fewer each, minute, new masses of sa ever joining the as- sailanta. At last, every soldier was dead or too badly wounded to fight. Then the Sioux closed in on them. And the “hatchet work” (mutilation) began, Of all the biue-coats who died on that June day, Custer alon Bannnnnnnnnnnnnnns i The Brave Force le Annihilated. jas not scalped or otherwise mutilated. Except for the bullet wound that slew him, his body was unmarked. From this fact it is supposed he killed himself— as the Sioux will not mutilate the body of a sutcide. Terry catne up with atrong reinforcements. He was too late to save Custer. But he thrashed the Indians and cleared the whole region of them. The so-called “Custer massacre,” as you have seen, was no massacre at all. A General had merely excceded his orders; had attacked a foe too strong for him, and had been wiped out. _Three Rocks That Wreck Marriage Irene Loeb (The New York Mrening World), no matter how trivial, if it was on his mind, he made her help share the discomfort. She acted likewise. If the clothes Une fell down that day, or the ser- {}vant girl had burned the soup, hus- band had to share the vexation that it caused the wife, Now, in the beginning of thelr marriage these so-called corfiidences Were. considered in the light of fun, and in the heyday of the honeymoon they were laughed away. on, when the children came and this nablt grew on the couple, it became very harrowing indeed. Hach of thelr little troubles during the day was rehashed at night, and many, many evenings w@re thus made unhappy Often It came to pass that bud his particular brand of trouble on the same day, and then @ quarrel usually followed, for each Would measure the other's tribyation and think each was the worse off of the two. When the children came trials grew, until they just got on each other's nerves and seemed to be at swords’ ends all the time, On her part, besides the worry and work for the little ones, she had to Isten to husband's business troubles and help jsolve them, On his side baby's new tooth concerned him all day long, To make a long story short, this couple drifted apart, each blaming the other for adding burdens, many couples like this, They dwell | too much on little details—detaiis that |sccumulate, This continues, and they aro constantly “on edge.” lt ts like the continuous dropping of the water that wears away the stone—tho key- stone of marriage. There are came home and immediately told it to friend wife, No matter what it was, Tho wise couples are those who do not bring their trifling troubles to =a HH first telescope has been at- tributed to various sclentists and inventors of the early part of the seventeenth century, including Galileo, Jansen, Jacob Adriang and Zacarlas Tausz; but documentary evidence points to a Dutch spectacle maker, Hans Lippershey, as the man founded were brought to| by Mra” William K. Vand, Sttemtion of the Academy. A/1912, ‘The orgunization hag veo ho i@ Medal should be given to ill behooves us to send an to Burope to help quell the Ger- for atrocities; committed in now is supported by butio. tioned purposes of our work, ! voluntary contri. nd the property above men- who discovered the germ of the idea, In the archives of Holland ts a pe- tition, presented Oct. 2, 1608, in which 8 not been leased fop the | l4ppershey asks for what would now be called a patent for an instrument NG MSTHRS, Cor woos ate distance, The sens To-Day’s Anniversar ~ ) Stors were given a demonstration of | the contrivance in the turrets of the prince's palace, and the committee was 60 much Impressed that they gave an order for three telescopes. The price paid was 900 florins, or about $370 each. A few months later the Senators refused to give Lippers shey the monopoly he desired on the ground that “it appears that many other persons have a knowledge of this new invention.” The lenses of these first telescopes were made @f Took eryeteL “The Jarr F amily By Roy L. McCar dell | each other but keep them to them- selves. The telling of lttle worr!l- some things that mean nothing only increases and adds to the strain of the human—gsometimes to the breaking point, As 4 rule, peonle ean bear the bur- den of the big trouble, but It's the Coprright, 1917, by the Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), JS ‘was a ring at the door. “If it's any woman or any man coming to get me to join any- thing on account of the war—unless it's a Woman's Death Head Roegi- ett, who have figured out a new fund to supply a million dollars’ worth of chewing gum for soldiers, or some- thing like that. There's a new fund every day gotten up by people who have nothing but time and money, but who never give anything but time.”” pendent on us, Why should you deny me the luxury of being sentimental over such a charge? It is not what others do for us that makes us love them, it's what we have to do for them. It may be a selfish daughter. It may be a worthless son, But gen- But later | little troubles heaped upon each other that cause final disgust, discourage- ment and discord, The safo rule is to keep your little household cares away from your busband. Shoulder them yourself and give each other the sunny side wherever it is possible. And whilo a wife should know the principle elements of her husband's business, so that she may act accord- ingly, it is @ mistake to bring to the home every little petty grievance of the day. v Happiness soon slides down hill when it ts bullt on & mountain of lit- tle ts ubiles. Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland ment, or whatever they call it--to go and actually fght—I'll scream!” cried Mrs, But, peering out, like the sentry at Jarr. a lodge meeting, Mr. Jarr discerned it was Mrs, Angelo Dinkston, As he let this lady in he slipped himself without, Jn the conversational din that was sure to follow he felt that his retreat would not be noticed, “Well, thank goodness it’s you!" said Mrs, Jarr greeting the visitor, “I thought it might be Mrs, Stryver or Clara Mudridge-Smith or Mra. Hick- Copyright, 1917, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), CCORDING to man, woman has been “weighed in the balance aud A found wanting’—wanuting SOMETHING, all the time! Why is it that the moment a woman marries a man she appoints him her sartorial censor and humbly consults him concerning everything he knows noth- ing about, from the style of her hats to the number of ‘buttons on her shoes? Sometimes a woman jongs for a cross-section of her busband’s brain, just in order to find out if he ever really thinks of her we In fairy tales the Prince valiantly fought flery Staussemame dragons in order to reach the alde of his Princess; but nowadays the ultimate proof of a man’s devotion is his willingness to get out of bis car, climb the front steps and ring your door-bell, instead of just sitting there and honking for you. Alas! it 1s so hard to find that sort of “guaranteed all-wool” husband who won't stretch on the truth, pinch on the expenses, nor shrink, fade or run in the domestic wash, A man’s attitude toward a girl’s devotion is something like the baby’s toward the svap: “he won't be happy till he gets it’—but he only wants it to play with, Now, the Kaiser i# sighing that he was “forced” into this war! Of course! When a man discovers that he has made a mistake he is always elther “driven” or “lured” into it. Wonder if he'll gay a WOMAN did it, Alas, for a normal woman, there {s no peace of mind with a husband— and no peace of heart without one! A man’s favorite way of erasing one face from the tablet of memory le to draw another tight prox ih . SS “I must have some one to confide in," sald the visiting lady gloomily. “What is the war to the world sorrow my heart feels?" “Well, for goodness sake, don't come telling me your troubies!" exclaimed Mrs. Jarr, “Everybody shares their sorrows with me, but nobody comes to give me any portion of good cheer, Everybody comes to cry and take din- ner, and nobody to laugh and take me out to dinner!” “It's all well enough for you to talk that way, who has a husband that 4s a good provider; but’I have to be the provider, and my husband ro- proaches me because I do not provide well enough. | he reproached me about it with rare delicacy, I wil! say | that,” whimpered the visitor, “I'm surprised at you!" snapped Mrs, Jarr, “When you were Mrs. Gratch and @ militant suffragettes you did not speak that way. You told me yourself before you married that man Dinkston that you prided yourself upon being @ hard-headed woman.” “I was married and lived near Wheeling, West Virginia, in @ line- stone country. Even the water is hard in that locality, And then, I }was married to a hard-headed busi- ness man. But now I am the bride of @ troubadour, and he is an inval.d.” “Him an invalid? That man Dink- ston an Invalid?” queried Mrs, Jarr, “He should be in the trenches figat- “He is a poot and @ pacifist,” sald the troubadour’s bride. “But he is an invalid, Haven't you noticed his in- satiable appetite? That's an ominous sign,” “It 1s for those who have to feed him,” remarked Mrs, Jarr, “And then he is always fevered— hae to keep his throat constantly moist,” said the visitor, “What so- cret afffiction is here?” “Thirst for alcoholic stimulants!’ suggested Mrs, Jarr. “It so, he says it is trouble that drove him to drink.” res, but his trouble is whiskey,” Mrs, Jarr averred, “You know as well ag I do that he is a loafer, an educated loafer and a weakling. Why pretend else?” “I do not pretend else,” said Mrs, Dinkston, “It is for their very weak- we love and oberish <hosg de- erally it ts @ worthless husband, I was a hard-headed, hard-hearted woman when I had husbands who were, capable, businesslike and well able to take cure of themselves, But when [ married Michael Angelo Dink- ston I found at last a woman's great- est happiness—service and sacrifics “Weill, I think I could love a man of a different sort,” said Mrs. Jarr. “A ‘oan who was strong, alert, unselfish, capable," “But wouldn't you love your bus- band if he were ill, weak and @ ¢atl- ure iked Mrs, Dinkston, If IL loved him I would love bim in spite of everything, I suppose,” Mra. Jarr admitted, “I knew I was not mistaken in you,” said the visitor, “It 1s our womanly nature, So you will help me, I know, Michael Angelo must have two dol- jars. He says he will leave me for- ever unless | get him two dollars, He is downstairs waiting for two dollare, iiis life will be blighted unless he has two dollars! You know how a loving, sacrificing wife should feel, Lend me two dollars.” ” She got it and was gone. “Well, 1 might have wasted it,” aid Mrs. Jarr. “Lam all out of knitting yarn, too!" Early Razors Shaped Like Half Moon, ECENT excavations in parts of Italy where the BEtruscans flourished long before Rome was even a@ Village have brought to light several examples of the razors used by Etrurian gentlemen, They were made of copper, as steel was then unknown, and shaped like a halt moon, The edge of these razors, no doubt, was originally sharp, bat they must have been an instrument to in- flict torture upon the toughest face, In size the razors were of about the same dimensions as the curved knife used to-day for chopping vegetables, But the Etrurian razor was a great improvement over the method used just a short time before the period of Htruscan culture, For in that far away day the nations of Southeastern Europe which did not wear beards had but one way of removing hair from the face, That wag a simple way-—they plucked out thelr beandagay hair at-# time, or ene