The evening world. Newspaper, October 10, 1917, Page 18

r } EDITORIAL PAGE Pubmed dey ba ee 7) ‘ ' y ’ : * ' ‘ ™ ° . ru VOLUME bs ove MUNICIPAL MILK CONTROL. AYOR MITCHEL og ‘ The Evening World that New York cannot offurd to | line of private interests er the sof mils outweigh the city’s need for healthy, mik aour j ad The Evening World repeated Mos te war If private enterprise ca 100 fatinfactory rexu from the distribution of milk con ated Be @ private busines © over the distribution then munteipal authority will be of milk af & necessary public service, r to the Milk Investigating Committee, made public In a} yesterday, t “| Mayor writes; ty the right to eel neceesarte through such agencies as it may determin Please, therefore, consider the possibility of establishing @ mile distributing eystem under grant of franchise or fran hises or otherwte Should any franchise be granted by? the cfty, 1t must be on terms which place in the hands of the munteipality a#solute control over profits, and the aystem must reserve to the city ampic power for the strict regulation of the Industry.” With milk now eelling at 14 cents a quart and the threat of a aw confers upon th still higher price next month, there is ne doubt as to the immediate | interest of the milk problem to every family in Greater New York. It would hardly have been predicted that in the midet of a| municipal campaign, municipal eontrol of milk distribution would ‘ | sudtenly ariee as a question of direct, imperative moment to an} of New Yorkers. | immense majorit. i : Bat no one will deny that it has thus arisen, or that it may not vet loom as large and with as much plain, practical promise in the home horizon of the five or six million people of this city as any of, the bigger sounding issues to which parties and candidates are devoting their breath. AN ARMAGEDDON OF WEALTH. HE British Government, we are told, is already considering the} advisalslity of couseripting capital after the close of the wat) as the only hopeful way of even beginning to meet the mountainous debt the conflict is piling upon the Empire. | The Government figures that for running expenses and to meet the interest on war loans, it will need, when peace is: declared, 82,590,000,000 a year, of which it cannot hope to raise more than %1,750,000,000 by taxation. To take over a percentage of private property, to become a partner in private industries in order to have money enough coming} in to discharge public obligations, appears to certain British officials | the likeliest way to avert the danger of popular discontent. Already devising means to keep colosaal destruction of wealth from spreading anareliy and madness among those who niust toil to replace it! And from France, Russia, Italy, Austria and Germany we must expect to hear uch the same. Tf this is an Armageddon of arms, it is also an Armayed wealth. The stronger reason for the people of the United States to throw themselves with all the force that is in them into the struggle, that vietory may be soon. Otherwise they too may have to stand (he long! ond terrible drain, dragged on until all civilization stor 7+ ochast at the burdens it must somehow adjust and carry, no MAKE IT FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, | IRE PREVENTION DAY was up against bad weather yester- day, but that is no reason why any of its lessons should be lost. Indeed, it would seem sensible to repeat the parade, which incluéed an unusual number of interesting and instructive floats. In spite of this notorious carelessness: of al) the fires in this city, New Yorkers are profiting by w been told them about fire prevention. Although the population and the number of buildings had greatly inereased fires in Just the same, 1,006 fires caused by earelc , Which causes three » there were 1,000 less ew York last year than in 1911, handling of matches, e result of slovenly hoasekwening, show low much stil! done before New Yorkers look upon a fi as eurrying (iscrace whieh proprietor or howsexecper ' to feel. | one Commissioner Adamson has proved that | at any fire prevention ideas to crowd into the Why not h year ive Prevention Week betters Prom the People | Calls Jatt the Pince for Plekets. fends Milk Dealer: | ( ¥ 1 }D the ha To the Editor of The By The Rxening Wor I read with much Intercat and dis-| 1 do not believe that the milk deal gust the rocent articie In your paper err will have any alfti \ shows tating that Mrs, Mavemeyer advi: m as h to! the boycotting of the new Libs milk aw it does to produce it Loan, When { say 1 was disgusted | Hardly @ commodity can be mon. 1 put it mildly. She speaks of | tioned that does not cost the con- the pickets of the Waite House be-! 100 per jag thrown into jail, In my opinion) ty oie one amd the opinion of a great many | pegene Wh others, jail is the proper piace for] iixty inethody wed them--or perhaps an insane asyluin.| ysis but a How can such women call them. . why It costs ver felves patriots? ‘To my way of t ery ryed by milk | yay they should be classed as Mu te Aa iy Atra seven} ors, working against the cul ‘Ow flow four Cente ean te our country. 1 awist and) added to the p: ur cent ¢ 10 firmly b y tod to the price of a quart of milk vote, but I do no n BUCH Ne | NOY wold of Cea reeset Mellvered wane tactics as the pickets have In- | \-, dulged in. 1 am sure my opinion is! throur also that of the majority of right-! py minded women. We shoul! all dolawn cx What we can to help our country and | not hinder it in the cause of ooracy. Let Mrs. Havemeyer meaning of true democracy. for myself, 1 shall work varder th. ever now for our new Liberty Li and trust all good Sulfragisi: will do | the game. let us show the tv mille credit. Lrefer to the sYNtAM now in ¥ York. Many eir milk with thelr eleven tants how little they will dec fa abeve cost fo the poor, That would oy boycotting. MIB.B. 1 be veal charfty, ig BS / | RR mcr remtnr ag somali ’ terest” By J. “' Ma’ Sunday's Intimate Talks With Girls THE WORLD AGAINST HER sipped off the last night train that stopped at the little county by the Brews Bul rty in her little hou there had come Mudridge-Sinith had a t called, and she and ao longer resist t and she bad stolen b next week she starte employment am r from girlhood. there was a vacancy sleeping streets of the vil- until finaily Mrs, Jarr would have returned hon who had known n the safe and san fore a small vine- street car, but since she friend neves fared fort xcept In danger of life and le { r qujte curtly that tty her own c would be Impossible to consider her position, and an pour later another girl. worked in the few moments her shy knock met po reflections as® the tax! go close shaves nd destruction wi of desperate | lamp glowed in the hallway and! door swung ourths open and a motherly looking woman in a frilled cap stood staring out “Dora!” she breathed in a startied roof unbellef daughter, who had been lost from determination, t always th ut as Mrs,, Mudridge-Srn! through the aw lot of shad ler eyes and prayed, + would thinks of tak~ a young woman ya stain on her reputation, houses or st sng into em) tea and smoke a cigarette,” to work to Hers was the now story of a Woman's betri 1 for both of t | love sume business a 1 the village who refused the | missed a brewer's t | “Then its me Mrs, Mudridg , attracted by of w travelling glowing promis salesman, who pictured for her daz- ng dreams of the ures awaiting } f yerage man so engry eid as to see his wife smoking.” in the great wi l which does rive to our! harit and! often our h lives the gr "sald Mrs, Jarr, When Dora awoke to his real char- actor and purpose honestly and ing to pull. themselves bac mire of sin, !8 more! we have altogether it was too late— ‘but suppose you should want to make him angry to-morr She had not written her mother for and a halt “To Be a “ ary gave it full cons ‘Then she remembered how 4 high school girl, she once had tr to smoke a cigarette made deathly sick. “, might try one of those eandy A.” Now. Second Only te) Being a BAe Cc.” world over , known to mean but one thing, and by not coming near Mr, Jarr he| seo th think It the real ti moanest sort which nevertheless musi serubbing In how: knitting aud pitals, sewing a sald finally. his name ts iu trious indeed, has come to wish to have a gyvod Don't you ev everybody did iarked that she fyou ever would think "| track was ; Wounded under fire, and some Evepino World Daily Magazine emember: Reprisals With Ir H. Cassel | | ’ The Jarr Family By Roy L. MeCardell New York Evening World haunt of she jausped, "You were dressed well enough to be envied at that Wartime Feminist Mootlug we just left," said her friend, . 3 I'm just dying for a cig- “Why didn't you smo! taxicab if dying for it—1 thought we > killed fitty: times,” said Mrs, Jarr, “How could one smoke In a taxt- maybe burn holes tn one's frock?" asked Mrs, Mudridge-Smith, ome on in, Look, there's half a dozen soclety divorcees in there! so home now?” uuts to be a divorcee too,” replied Mrs, Jarre, “Do you want to divorcee” that appeal," replied t! “If you aren't coming "an take the taxteab and go hone, | lowed. Charge tt to m home,” said Mrs, see who ts her nh you.” diented, amo’ it, Who were divorced and who were sto be, “This war is making o t deal of difference in soctoty," economical in? ere's no place like home—un- | in you | frontier service In the years that fol- tar a lot of things to fist a minute and let us en I'll go home » the two went ins!de and had + While Mra, Jarr’s companion tn- the other ladies pres- N the tenth day of October 1 ayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Caene *1T. 0y the Drm Pubhening On (Tee New Ton fronting Wand HOLD, my Deaghtor, a bride of B. came unto me eayt * my her, 1 am a one that wandereth in « labyrinth, end ip the wilder ! I know not HOW to turn! in the days of my triomph, when I te@ my Lovechane unto the elt oll my friends me bearing gifts and burnl-offeripgs end tokens of devotion. “Yea, 1a the goodness of with lamps of bri cir earls, came they and spoons of eliver ¢ foe linen, and teakwood and malogany, and rug: of many buss, end Japanese prints, and willow tea-wapons, ené Ruse flap eamovars, and Moorish va aod Turkish emok- ing-sets, 4h © embroidorter @ Colonial chatre, and Loule Quinze sofas, and Pe tapectries, and Urecian urns, and inission book cares, and Martha Washington eowlng tables, and Marie Antoinette mirrors, and Navajo blankets “And when I bad gathered the: my treagures, together tn the two by-four hevette-apartment, which He, tay Raloved bestowed upon me, and set them wbout, the antique with the recherche, aud the Oriental beside the ‘bungalow stuff,’ the graceful and the grotesque, | awatted His comtog, with tremulous Joy, even as a sinall boy that waiteth for Christmas morn- ing. “Tut, lo, when He entered and cast his eyes about him, ho forgot to KISS me, and only stood and smote bis forehe crying: “ "Hol What is THIS that I see before m Verily, vertly, it te not 4 HOME, but the Rest-room in an Insane Asylum! It ts not @ peaceful tirestde, but a SUNSDT painted by a lunatic! It ts netther a library nor a rawing-room, nor a living-room, nor a boudolr, but a Junk Shop and o curlo bazaar! Alas, {t ls netther fish, flesh nor good red herring! And bow shall we five in the midst of {t and retain our sanity? “‘Go to! I say unto thee, let us sell the stuff and go and buy some FURNITURE!’ “And, eo saying, he made hastily for the collarette. “Yet, alas, my Mother, HOW can I bear to part from these, my tropliic and my bridal-graft And when I liad dried her tears, I comforted her, saying: “Be of good cheer and weep not, my Daughter, but heed my counsel. “I charge thee, argue not with him, but leave thy treasures even us they are for but a little while, “And in six months he shall have become so accustomed to them that shouldst thou remove but ONE of them, he will reproach thee, ‘What hast thou done with that THING which used to be here? miss !t!* “Verily, verily, every man {s like unto the family cat, unto which HABIT and custom are the breath of life, but who hateth novelty as he hateth cold { water, and dreadeth a CHANGE as he dreadeth a shower-bath. ‘And, unto either of these, once he had become USED to ft, even an | ourang-outang would seem beaut!ful, an army-cot ‘comfortable,’ and an art gallery ‘homelike.’ i] Why, then, should ANY bride be deniod her graft and ber war-profits? Selah, ForWhom the Army Camps Were Named By James C. Young 2, 117, Ly the Pree Publishag Co; (The New York Evening Word O. 10—CAMP HANCOCK, AUGUSTA, GA, Geaw called him “The Super | immediately and t =~ th toma saying ‘or lo, I Brigadier Army of tho fell-to bis sburg he was unsuccessful $ leights, of his ‘com- des serves | General well to identify 1d Scott | Potomac, Har Hancock, the brigade, At War com. |gsiven « division fer whoge| attempt to is b Dee, 18, 1862, by the new army | mand in a hero that falled An army corps was next intrusted to Hancock, and ho selected much of |the ground that wags to become the Penn. | battletield of Gettysburg, choosing it 48 the place to turn back the Con- federato Invasion of Pennsylvania. {In that engagement Hancock was dangerously wounded, Upon his re- covery ho continued to rendor efficient service, After the confilct he was made Major General in the Regular Army and returned to routine duties, Han- cock next turned his attention to the political fleld and became a candidate for the Presidential nomination tn 1868 and again tn 18 But it was not untit 1880 that he received nomi- nation from the Democratic party, running against Garfield. Tho latter defeated him, and Gen, Hancock ree tired from political life. During his declining years he continued to hold varlous army commands, and was ons “| sylvanians, now being re- cruited there, Tlancock was a) ature and command- nown throughout the, for his gallan’ Me met and hstood more severe trials during the long ¢onflict between the States’ n almost any other Federal gen- | man of 1 ing presence ar From Mis carilest ye | showed a fondness for 8 ties. Tle was born at Montgomery | Square, Pennsylvania, Feb, 1,,1 land it has been recorded that in early school days he was a leader of the neighborhood “armies” formed by his playmates. At sixteen he en- tered West Point and was graduated ne four years later In the same class of the men who helped to reorganize ant. Hancock saw much the American forces us {mproved milt- y science mado necessary, In el! respects Hancock enjoyed the confi- dence of his men and his superiors to , @ marked degree, He was known as several Indian campalgns, serving at 2.” omicer of the most consetenttons many posta from Vlorlda to © character, always ready to share any fornia, , The outbreak of civil strife hardship that befell 8, .00p8, He found him stil] @ captain, but he was. died at Governor's Island) Deb, 9, 18 with He fought in the Mextean war and y’s Anniversary The animal immediately became fren- . there took place.on the Ne Notre|7!ed and flew at tho man’s throat, n Dame, Paris, a combat which f+ | the latter being saved from the ent- *Iustrates strikingly the tdeas preva-| mal with the greatest ditliculty, On t t age, and 1s perhaps the several other occasions the dog came sald, “Bo many of the finest lent young men are going as officers and|most singular instance on record of Lee a aptie cs Sehats ness Aviators from the best families Yhat| the appeal to “the Judgment of CT pire x en eee vent sae a lot of society women who would |in criminal eases. ten Ki uaans fein” ae eet divorces are wondering {f it’ worth the while,” “1 think {t's disgusting,” said Mrs, liome from his work tired out. You nat the opildren are looked after | His dog rematned for several days be- she|when they come home from school. side his grave, and only left the spot) ang then rushed forward and eprani: I have to sce if everything 1s being| when hunger drove } | i prepared for dinner. J want to be! The faithful animal made his way to] tlae of judicial v {n the house when Mr, Jarr comes | Parts and to the house of an intimate | Aubry de Montdidier, a Yrench gen- The Kin - *i Hel 4 4 g of Trance, informed of al! |tlaman, was travelling through the |i, rumors in circulation on this forest of Bondy whon he was mur- subject, ordered the dog to be brought cigarettes I see the children have,!Jarr, “I'm going home, I have to| dered and buried at the foot of a treo. | before him. ‘fhe animal remained perfectly quiet until {t recognize: Macaire amid a crowd of courtiers, to seek food.!at his throat, In those days the prac- ombat wa in full that mode of settiin, cases &s an appeal to tha 4". The King, aes or, 8, He howled 1! friend of his mas' ' 1 can stay here tf you want to—you piteously, and after being supplied! cordingly, ordered that @ duel should have no such responsibilities,’ qj hh IT had!” sald ‘the opulen ‘on with a sigh, "Don's w with food resumed his lamentations, | take place between Macatro and the " : ‘ |dog of tho murdered man, P t| pulling his master’s friend by the! Ors.n4' gor the comber wae ashe t coat toward the door, The fact that|of in the Ile Notre Dame, then an realize that I haven't any the dog and his master had been {n-|open space. Macaire mudo his ap- real home—nothing to worry me in| separable aroused the curtority of the | Pearance, armed with a large etiok {t, nothing to look after? And that’ matter with all the reat o 1ese bored and foolfsh women her nd Mra, Jarr remarked that ¢ fe was full of compens ether people. 8 th lons—for rete + who | Phe animal at onco attacked # friend, and he followed the dog, WhO] end after a short time voleed hige by £ led tho way to where his master was/the throat and threw him te @he A * bur! ground, A ts rushed up and s trace could be found of the ase [i ‘confarslenee Meee t confession of his nce of the King apa Ly sassin, but one day the dog was con- lin the pre fronted with the Chevalier Macatre.| whole court