The evening world. Newspaper, November 20, 1917, Page 16

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Y A PROMPT inquiry into the management and conduct of tho recent Army and Navy Bazaar, which, out of more then $71,000 it took in from patrons, could find at the close only $784 for the soldiers and sailors, the District Attorney's Office may! obtein further information for the warning ond guidance of the public, The facts as Tho World presented them are, however, quite #uf- Hiolent to show the dangers of wagte and exploitation to which such indirect methods of giving are exposed, # Now Yorkers will testify that But fairs and bazaare aro not all. their daily mail now comes laden with appeals which would seem to indicate that anybody considers himself licensed to ask for anything, provided he rubber-stamps the vequest with “War Aid.” Explanations as to exactly how the money solicited is to be spent, what percentage of it will actually reach those in whose name it is asked, or why it would hot better be given directly to some of the accredited and organized relief bureaus, are deemed unnecessary. In seven cases out of ten, without the slightest guarantees of sound or intelligent management, tho contribution is sought in order, to increase the prestige of some small, zealous group of workers whose good intentions are almost certain to be hampered by jealonsies, social complications and a total lack of business experience, | Other appeals—one, for instance, to buy a certain kind of note paper on which to write to the soldiera—are on the face of them nothing but thinly veiled schemes of commercial exploitation. Worthy causes are suffering because of the mental attitude which this appalling deluge of promiscuous solicitation produces in the average citizen, Something will have to be done to check it, Even in many cases where it represents only well-meant zeal, it involves also duplication of activities, overlapping and conflict of effort, waste of more valuable things than expensive stationery. Before generous Amerivans are forced too far toward extremes of caution or cynicism, some way should be found at least to mark the safe, direct channels of war relief so distinctly that no confusion or doubt in the public mind will make it easy for professional exploit- ers to collect toll from aid given fighters to sdften the lot of the nation’s ———————— | BARREL VS. CARTON. dealing with the relative claims of bulk and package sugar at T O THE controversy started by a recent Evening World editorlal a time of shortage, Mr. A. W. Davis of “Facts About Sugar,” a representative organ of the sugar industry, contributes an interest-| ing letter printed elsewhere in this column, In connection with Mr. Davis’s statements as to “the differential in price between package goods and bulk sugar,” certain questions | are apposite: | Is it or is it not true that carton packing adds 40 cents per 100 | pounds to the cost of sugar, and that, accordingly, the elimination of the carton would effect a positive ving which might reasonably be expected to prove of ultimate benefit to the consumer? | Have retailers generally been willing to pay the differential) without adding to the cost to the tonsumer? | Is there such a thing as a one- pound carton? One pound being, we are informed, the limit in weight of bulk sager now sold to consumers by many grocers, Letters From the People | Please limit communications to 150 words, | Tm Defense of Package Sugar. ‘To the Kaitor of The Kvenieg World: Your editorial under the caption “The Granulated Basis," which ap- peared in your issue of Nov, 16th, hae been a subject of considerable dis- cussion in the sugar trade, As a representative organ of the su- war industry, Facts About Sugar be- eves that ina spirit of equity appll- cable to consumer and the Industry at jarge alike, some reply should be made to the queries raised in your editoria!, and both sides of the ques- tion presented. Under present conditions, in view of the stringency existing in sugar supplies along the Atlantic seaboard at this tline, It is the Welle? of close students of the situation that a wider, more equitable and more easily con- trolled distribution of sugar can now be secured through the use of pack- ages (including cartons and bags) than handling sugar in bulk. This is fn direct cpposition to the authority quoted in your editorial, who although not named ts very probably a refiner not now in the inarket because he has ugar to distribute and who very y does not put up package goods in normal times. As to the differential in price be- tween package goods and bulk sugar, the amount involved is a small frac- tion of a cent, and may I point out ig borne wholly by the ultimate dis- tributor, the retailer, and 1s not added to the consumer's price, The retail price of sugar in New York City, as agreed to by represen- fatives of the retallers, is 9 1 @ pound, and this ts generally ad t@ whether the sugar is in bull, pack- Age or even in lotsa of unrefined (raws) how being freely sold. It should also be pointed out in all justice to the refiners now distributing package goods that the sinall trace tonal additional cost borne by the re- taller in handling package goods over that of distributing bulk sugar ts at jeast fully npensuted by the shving of labor, time and cost of wrapping material to the retalier, Under pres- ent conditions refiners can make more money selling bulk sugar than pack- Re goods, the cost and profit to the | {emer ‘9 unchanged, the retailer {9 elped in securing needed economies | through {ts use and in the end the | consumer pays no more than he would | for bulk sugar handled over the coun- ter, v ory ilable to be under weight and handled under unsanitary conditions. It seems to the writer that’ the tho public and that the Innuendo tn your editorial that package goods cost the consumer at this time more than bulk sugar should be withdrawn, in- asmuch as it does not square with the facta, So far as the Food Administration 1a concerned thin matter has been Under the jurisdiction of Theodore F, Whitmarsh, formerly president of the Wholesale Grocers’ Association, now an ald on the staff of Mr. Hoover, Tepresenting the jobbers and the gro- cery trade. While I hold no brief for the Food Administration, T am confident that It ts considerations of the kind stated above that have led Mr, Whitmarsh in conference with Mr, Hoover to sus- packages as sound business policy, A. W. DAVIS. ay World ‘The To the Haltor uf The Kren On what day did fall? Remedy for the or Problem, 1) the Editor of The Brening Wor In these days, when Uncle Sam ts conacripting men for his army, and when there 9 such a dearth of laborers, how would it do for Congress to pass @ law requiring every man between the ages of alxteen and sixty-five to give & satisfactory account of how he qm- ploys his time for twenty days out each month? On failure to elther hy a man should so days of Iu- use he knows moa! ts coming from. Cc 8. Ww. above Information should be given to | | tain the practice of selling sugar in| ‘ebruary 14, 1901,) CONSTANT READER, | By Sophie Copyright, 1917, by the Press Publishing ESTERDAY I was talking to Mr. | Y N. He 1s a rich man's gon, Ho 18 a very successful man, mot on account of his father's riches, but in shite of them. But he had a hard time be- coming success- ful. His father's money was a bin- dance to him, Instead of a helps He would like other men similarly situated to know that {s why he told his story, But, something about his struggios, #0 being a modest man, ho did not tell me all and I learned the rest trom those who know. Here it 4 His people and his people's people | were wealthy and well known, Being the pet of the family, he was nover taken seriously from the time he was a child, Thoy did not want him to go to ordinary school, because they had the money to pay for private tutors. And when he was old enough to argue yaena enw | | he demanded to be sent to the school | with other boys, and there he had his chance. He atudied—studied hard to keep up with his comrades. Many times he | was scolded for burning the midnight electricity and “hurting his eyes" und “breaking his strength,” &., because the family tried to pamper hia he wanted to keep up with his clas mates and always he had to tight the » haere weg y nie ie Cu # City oT aMlag ater loth ene i eg Americans ® i m Under Fire By Albert Payson Terhune , ‘ 197, Wr the Pree Punligniag Cn, (The ming Ware NO. Me THE REVOLUTIONS DARKEST HOUR. 114 te the story of @ Mavolutumary defeat that reflect@ bo discredit om the herves who suffered it, yet whbels nearly lost our country its hopes of freedom, Fiske refers to the event as “one of the mort crusbing Hows that befel American arins during the whole war” 1776, only a few months jependenco was drawn Up, { mishaps to the patelot + By J. H. Cassel a after the Declaration of | ‘There tad been @ series eA # forces ever since the Declaration, The Britivh had | captured Now York. Washington, however, formed @ | now line of defense just north of the city, And he p < tried to bold the Hudsou River by means of Forts Washe Uf ¥ ton and Lee, on its cast and west banks 6a " The British general, Nowe, followed American® northward, Washington then took up a position at White Plains, conceme | rating all bis force there and giving up al! his lower New York stronge holds except Fort Washington. Howe attacked the Americans near White Plaine and wan beaten back. Then ho turned to the cur of Vort Was {ngton tn order to clean away “the last rebel stronghold around New Yorks ure before marching to the conquest of New Jersey. a Washington realized the need of keeping the Hritimh out of {f bo could, So he wont every available man there to defend the Hiate. A@ |Yort Washington was no longer of any stratemic 1 he ordered, its garrison to leave it and ¢ potriet army ® at Fort Leo on the New f the river, 4 Disobedience H Alia order ‘Was (dino! ne beck frome Pays the Cost. a West Point tnxpection trip on Nov. 14 tu find thagy Fort Washington hud not been evacuated. Instead, it# garrison had been reinforced to the nuinber of 4,000. There was me 4 hopo of holding the fort against the whole Britivh army, and no need to der | 20, Washington was too late to get the garrison away In safety. For thag very night the British attacked the fort, both by land and by wator, Washes, ington, from Fort Lae, on the Jersey bank, looked « fort's defense, unable to help the plucky men cvor | Gen. Howe sent word to Col, Magaw, the Am ross at the doomed d up there , can commander of Fort Washington, that unless the Americans should surrender at once the whole rrison would bo slaughtered like sheep. Magaw sent back this grim ame swer to the threat: pe “If you want Mort Washington you wil! have to come and take it” Howe wasted no further time in parley, but moved ct once against they fort. And Magaw made such preparations for defense as he could. The Americans wero outnumbered by five to one, But not a man of them, flinched. | ‘Tho British charged, supported by heavy batteries, and pouring overié whelming numbers of infantry over tho walls. The Americans contasted |every inch of the ground with tiger-like courage, fighting like maniaoge | against tho trresistible onslaught of the redcoats, | But there could bo only one result when one man fi jlast the inevitable end came, The fort fell. Its capture ‘teh 500 men to the Americans’ loss of 150, “The America writes one historian, “surrendered 3,000 of the best troops of their half-trained army, together with a: rad cost the Brite \ nse quantity of artillery and small arms, A terrible gloom oversy ountry.* p m Howe had no intention of carrying out hig WAPPLEPRPSLPPELIOA ® +i veat to put the defenders to the sword, He wae lan Hirelings. } # brave soldier and had a big heart. Mo and his Turn Butchers. 8 fetlow-Emglishmen treated the captured pa rrison with courtesy. But a regiment of Hessiany (Gere wland's service) rushed forward before Howe could, ext the prisoners. A craving to murder helpless follg erman soldiers’ ruling passion, even In thos daymy the Hevstans at once began to slaughter unarmed American captives. This pleasant German military pastiine was kept up until Howe's dise |Susted British troops could kick the Hessians away from thelr horrible orgy of blood and restore discipline. “Washington, from the opposite bank of the river,” says a “surveyed this woful surrender with his usual {ron composure, [it came to seeing his brave n a bayonets his overwi man mercenaries in I |stop them and attack must have been the Fe chrontolery ¢ But whe en thrown down and stabbed to death by tle ught heart could bear it no longer, And bs Irene Loeb | Co, (The New York Evening World), neod of @ medal? Wasn't he the only-only, and didn’t have to win} medals? The boy did not care a bang about the medals, but ho wanted to succeed to give hin energy full sway. An- other prize came to him and then an: other. The family grew alarmed because | they thought he looked a little pale. Hut the boy went on, He was gradu-| ated with honors, and afterward he looked to carving out bis own career. | Of course there was another family outcry, There was no need to work | so hard. They wanted him to go into | business with some rich relatives, But what did that mean to him? It meant merely being a suc In| name only--a figurehead {n an enter- | prise not of his own making. He rebelled, Ho did not want “to take it easy." They thought him| strange, and two or three pointed to} thelr heads with a knowing glance. But back in the young man’s mind| thero was ambition to do something in the world's work he pro- ceeded to study law, against every- body's wishes. The world was flooded with law- yern, they sald, and the young man had great diMfculty getting into a law office, for everybody knew his father's disapproval of him, and felt] that first ald should ys come } from rich and influential family con-| nections, After young considerable man secured @ hardship chance. the) To} |make w long story short, he became| & good lawyer—a very good lawyer, family, ‘Then came the day when he won a | medal in his sehool, Of cou famtly was very proud, but tse the 1 why tha HE high cost of gasoline ts be! coming such @ problem that governments and scientists all| over the world have attempted to |tind a substitute, In Germany, whero| gasoline is almost unobtainable, it is show | : that he had been working at soine use- | fctory: i ful employment or that he was pliysi-; American gives the follow! understood that @ new mixture of} 2! alcohol and benzol has proved Baths. | A wr ter in the Sclentitic i} able us| cally unable to work, let him recetve| an indication of the results achieved: | fat 4 warning don a spond of) With one part benzo! and one part enve be dr some kind 0 itary service wh could bo alcohol a touring car equipped with dealt with as Would beft a slacker, | an ordinary canburetor mado forty-| two miles an hour 4nd ran a distance of 4,66 miles upon one pint of the fuel With one part benzol and two parts| alcobol the apeed was forty-one miles |knowledge not on “New Substitute for Gaso and now ho has hls opportunity satixty his ambition, He uses his y to make money, | st of unfortunate © him for help and| but in the {nt people who com | ine and the distance covered 4.47 miles. | This shaded down to thirty-aix miles | an hour and 5.72 miles on a mixture gees all the bitter prophecies of his bachelor friends, all the warnings of one part benzel and five parts) alcohol, The eam car, operated with pure bbnzol, acquired a speed of forty-two miles an bour and ran a distance of|jn the interim between two love affairs—and yet, somepow, sho never) United States, may be traced to @ 3.79 upon one pint « gasoline it made fort hour, running fuel, With puro ~four miles an} les. | ° in May they m 4 to London and Sich ty obtainable, and One way to astonish your friends and acquire a reputation for being | terbury pee my ParoDe: OF ROR Avera tell ita e! benzo! mn lane Wuantitios y a ” ” C) het gt Mb bamondeour May ae A ° bein both tao tnired awfully original and “different” tn these days {3 to go about announcing the funders of eu eae Magnw Chartay oy "great charter" ae Sta rniany from coal tar.|that you are perfectly conteuted with your own husband and wouldn't = Runnymede, near Windaor, 5 io the mixture as worked out by the ermans can be had cheaper than asoline, and tho results aro almost| as good. In tho ca of Germany, the| discovery has been a boon cf inestume able value. ~~ “Phe Rich Man’s Son advice—-who are right in their Sometimes an old woman com in the midst her troubles some one who has cheated her the Uttle bit of property she had she | tells him that there isn't enough coal to keep tho little ones warm during the winter. woman all her life, and very hard sent to the little oman, Som | she does not even know from w comes, Again, this young m great movement for good. He & personal part in it. He no gives his advice, but also his t He Is not a brass by alled “uplifter, give the aid when it is needed In a word, he wants to help that help themselves. "And there are many, the same thing, especially a time, Many of them ure ex chia busy, man, her managers, hep: from donning the uniform; but they | pald thelr bills on demand, how long | tT JarF For now that wine agents | secretary, a young man whose muslca® can readily put upo es have become extinct, since the war a edi; 7 phe * can readily put upon themselves a fi > the! education she 19 inter achemo of helpfulness that can be|*oUld your job last? Ho saw they 4. aeont iy the last of the lib-|beat friend: one se rested in, bem \far-reaching, To-day thera ts no| philosophy of tt.” Neral lee hy nee 10 18 @ poctess and ag, room for the drone, no matter how| «1 wish you wouldn't talk that| y tha © wants her everye many dollars he hus.’ ff) wat Ltd we a feet i net T've called ou business as well as|Whem with her, as she makes Clarica: A word to the wise may be sum- ay Rasiadtan «of us? We don't |Peaeure.” said America's foremost | beautiful by contrast. Altogether, £ Se ai See Hee ata wis | wl ene ink OF We Vana [ Promoter of publty forthe dra |*hUld ey aout twenty peal Sd but have not the money to pay. Sho has been a gent ‘The next day the coal is n hears of a nd reformer or a But he wants to + many rich men's sons,” he sald, “who could do nd sobbed like a child.” The Jarr Family claims | By Roy L. McCardell Jelse, Besides, Cora Hickett | 1 y Sin my theatre dinner to the star, could yout HO 18 eles the bell powdering her nose; she came! he asked, ‘about | W that way?” ked Mra. evening without her powder | Ses. Jarr remarked that both the out of | Jarr, with tho accent on | noth in her knitting bag but | itmousine-owning ladies were ecrasgt the “4 | knitting, Maybe that’a Jack Stlver/about actors and actresses,* but site’ “What caro we 90 long ag it isn't a | “ling for her.” bE colle hanl—| you know didn’t know about a dinner party, egg , * ing that both ladies were interested tm > | Wartime economy and food saving, “But they'll do most anything to get @ | free theatre ticket,” added Mra, Jar’ “It's a food idea, the dinne 2" asked arr, “Do the more I live the more good I seo in everybody, with the possible exception of the Kalserites. >w, look at bill collectors, At least But It proved to be another baches lor, Mr. Harold Dogstory, theatrical press agent, in his working clothes a@ fur lined and fur trimmed overcoat, 4a dinner jacket, a dark plush hat and | en es hom it th rand reed, Auten all keep union hours and don't| a cane, the Ivory head of which was | CoP! on to the star,” said Mr. Dogstoryt t only | CoM around to bother you of even-| carved {nto the semblance of the| OMY If tho show fivs, Clarice wit money. | ings. L suppose It's because they | feminine leg divine, {have hysterics and won't be in ang don't get patd for overtime, Then, | “Hello, folks!” sald Doritory!|\ eee for the big eats, and if thee most, | Sundays and holidays are freo from | jwari, Wait till 1 tle up! Carle, sows 4 knockout, she'll be so paw people | them, Ge the worst of them aro open jing, so gaying, tie hung up his uns | eains ¢ ink nothing bug’ to reasbn, Why, I told one once}iiie Coat. amd Til be with you" wine, and wine's seven a quart since when he was huffy when I couldn't | as iitae | the war, il want everybody at the | party but her husband, She'll insist her leading Mery “How nice of you to call to see us, he y metht: C- | come across with something on Ac | .,04 _ busy man as yourself!” eald count, I says to bim, ‘If everybody | t this eluded Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Coprright, 1017, by The Press are ninety-nine devo! We one girl may pray to be made a man’s “good angel,” there Nothing been ardently pursuing a woman as to discover that) as @ limousine and so has Ira, {neat is chy There in iwelverah : he has caught up with her, | Stryver,” sald Mra, Jarr, | themn, “Tho war tax will bo thirty oes | "Good! That wil 0 non oried > Mtrn Serr ; Any pretty girl can make a man want to kiss her; \reiteenes Mr. als oe) ed a bal ee Me eth oo dollar P but it requires a mistress of finesse to make him want|the boards.” And he handed over | *8 *xty cents! Who's to pay that?! to kiss her—agaly |two ilttle packets of tickets punched | tellectunl loving. tnd papal nae ; Secemee | full of neat round holes, Hach packet | and if everybody {s in full evening y Somo women who have at last got the vote ap-| was confined in a twisted little rubber | dtes# and tho ladies wear diamonds owt ate Getting married {s a man’ of bis married friends, and all The only time when any wants to lengthen the Interim, change bim for worlds, When a wan marries b. woman & lot. pear to bo perfectly miserable because they no longer | band. owe have a grievance, “We open In the new Pillbox Theatro with "The Shrines of Reno,’ starring Clarice Var: , to-morrow night, your two box parties—do you thing you'll have any war profiteer in the party who could grab the check, alip Du and I've got to get busy, We've got | 4 *4Wbuck to the headwaiter for a preq anew theatre, a new production, and| fred-position-table, with flowers, id and tip the waiter and wine handl we want to get the show over as an Wyyaee | what was proper, without fainting @! appeal to the intellectual ciasses,| Mrs. Jarre thought a minute, aie Publishing Co, (The New Evening World), | and I'm looking for a dress sult audi- oe ed, a believe Clara Mudridgég ence, I have to atir protty lively on|n box un ai opened, At haying short notice, If you've got @ friend ae pisht and th utly praying to be made “Theda Baras.” Supping with the star afterward thi she'd inake her eld husband do the grand.” “Fi ty!" snid Mr, Doge with a Mmousine car I'll give you a box,” “Why, yes! Clara Mudrif&e-smith Fine so bitterly disappoints a man who has the management will stand the war tax,” said the press agent with @ sigh, You couldn't get these mooks to wo so far as to give an after. ‘8 one supreme act of rashness, !n which he To-Day’s Anniversary Ti constitutional Mberty of Eng- right, and whose word was law. Ig the following January the barons prey, sented thelr demands to King John, who deferred his answer. The barons were censured by the ‘ope for their deflance of the menare but they ree mained steadfast in their purpose and the dark forebodings of his own soul, land and of all the dominions and colontes comprising the woman is perfectly happy and contented is/ritish Empire, ay well as of the ; jdate just 703 years ago to-day, Nov. |20, 1214, when the Archbishop of Can- Tt wae tyranny and wickedness of King Jobn. |here that English Nberty was bom It was @ supreme moment in the his- @ original manuscript of the cha |tory of the world when those men |!# lost, but a fine copy ts preserve @ppoluts a lot of women @ litle and One| qared to defy the power and authority [fives in the wean an Ha Pa | r 7 of one who claimed to rule by divine |and the United States,