The evening world. Newspaper, December 6, 1917, Page 22

TG WY SOUP OTLETREN. Eeramt. . ’ +4 Dally Recent Bugdey tr (he Freee Bubtehing Comper Wee 69 to ts Fark tow, few York. Rat PUUATAOR, Predtdent, Pow LTA AAR tee EPS hoe tor 7 Tore a0 Recent Clase Matter, » fatee fa The # t\ For Yoeland and we ( antinent “ont ' + tnited states Al Counttioe tn Oo | itermetiona: @ ond Canete. emtal tate 600 One Tew ‘ aL MRMAEA OF THR aeemtaThO PRR have wes om » foe tay on a? GE SS SPT IS RE A Stel Mu? EAR it ‘ hard-working Americana a\l over the coun ” trying Jost now we they have never tried before to one paragray the President's address to Congress certain to be read with @ special understanding and approval Recent experience has convinced me thet the Congres must go further Io euthorizing the Government to set limt to prices. The law of supply and demand, | am sorry to oa), ‘an deen replaced by the | of unrestrained selfishness © have eliminated profiteering In several branches of {t still rune impudently rampant in others Vow American families #ho have to manage on emall incomes need the reminder of the Federal Food Administrator that not food alone but practically all the necessities of a modest existence have gone up in cost at rates that seem to know no economle measure or limit A friend of The Evening World in Stamford, Conn., sends a Net of food prices taken from ¢1 the advertisement of a provision com-, pany printed in the local newspaper in 1896, a copy of which the! Stamfordite ran across in his attic. He compares eome of these 1896 prices with the table of fair current prices for meat published by The Evening World last Tues- day and finds that the retail cost of beef h advanced from 75 to 133 per cent. j In 1896 the butcher was advertising round steak at 12 cente;| sirloin, 14 cents; porterhouse, 16 cents. A leg of lamb sold at 12) cents a pound and chops at from 14 to 20 cents. Chickens could be bought for 16 cents per pound and turkeys for 20 cent#, The house- keeper at that day was offered butter at 25 cents, fresh eggs for 17 cents a dozen and—potatoes at 15 cents a peck! Wouldn’t a look over the other advertisements in the 1896 news-, paper equally startle the consumer to-lay by the then-quoted prices! for shoes, clothing, underwear, house linen, blankets, household drugs | and dozens of other articles of common necessity? That the last two decades have seen a gradual! economic rise of prices, and with it, from time to time, increase of wages, no one for a moment doubts. But no one doubts either that in the last few years, and especially | since the beginning of the war in Europe, the rise of prices in this| country has been ruthlessly accelerated by utterly unwarranted price boosting prompted by greed alone. No one doubts that, in the case of almost all necessities, price) boosters have taken advantage of the American public’s psychological acceptance of an economic era of rising prices to stimulate that rise, repeatedly and at a thousand points, for their own private profit Least of all can there be any doubt that more recent conditions ve produced the distinct and recognized type of the war profiteer| —the producer, speculator, wholesaler, middleman or retailer who} deliberately seizes the opportunity offered by national crisis to get! his fingers into the pockets of his fellow countrymen. It is these price boosters and profiteers—whether thieving under cover of a general economic trend or pillaging at a time of sudden national exigency—who have, as the President says, “replaced the law of supply aod demand by the law of unrestrained ¢elfishness.” What has so far been done to hold their rapacity in check is| not enough. Congress must provide the means of doing more. Among the extraordinary problems the present Congress faces few are of a more national and imperative importance than that of| 3 creating yet stronger power to protect the earnings and savings of Americans whose strength is being tested by war from the stealthy | raids of thieves and plunderers, Stout defenses cannot be set up on this line too soon : 2 - Hits From Sharp Wits In most happy homes you'll find for an ordinary breadwinner.—Cbi- that the well behaved child ts the one | C46? Nows. | eee shat'e aaleep—Binghamton Freq, With tgh skirts it is necessary to will do what a| Ave high shoes; hence the thigh The chap who skirts Los Angeles Times, woman wants is the man after ber tg” g own heart.—T Blade. Belf-consctous people might do well ° to remomber that they may not be conscious of very much.—Toledo Blade. oe Don't Jump at conclusions the commuter who sees hin ferryboat giving him the asilp should hesitate Even oe A woman likes to have people say |that she is young looking und f# a f an od famlly.—Chicago | to do that.—Philadelphia Record. . 8 8 ‘True, the cat may look at the queen —but why does it?—Columbla (8. ©.) Btate, An impulse should always be re- warded as a warning to stop to con- sider—Albany Journal eee *ee To the wise, silence likew!se ts often gufficient.—Aibany Journal oe | There is but one way to win this thought/ war, and that is by fighting. That ey loone| may be w bit rude, but tt is according jto the cards. Las Angeles Times, | oe Two minds with but a ain are uwfully empty when t that thought.—Iinghamton Press, . . shady side | After a girl gets on th To grow old gra one must of twenty-five sho drops the affinity |not let one's thoughts dwell upon Albany Journal Dusiness and begins to hustle around ‘the growing old Letters From the People Please limit communications to 150 words. timation of M rs tell about rttehttes. ; To the Falitor of The ening World Eb AMERICAN. Having « prot awoethoart and Three Laws for Conuress, dozens ndy in the Natlorwal ; To the titer uf Te Bening World | Army, } ain one of the many indig-| 1 read Vico President Marshall's mant readers of The Evening World! article in ‘The § rd in favor who resent Mra, Humiston’s renarka| Of @ Jaw tha away the e " \ further ang |if,tue? feeak or act against the B things go any further and| ignited: Breton “I think at te the we are forced to listen to an time now, as Congress opens, to from Mrs. Humiston 1 think make th ve the good of her activities should be tnvestigated, 4) Americans p Vice Preal- tpg pale] ted. gent ie ‘avor of, the second to hile we denounce Germany for the draft ali alie att anes tha hind outrages perpetrated in Belgium to int German women. 0 find her soldiers, Ge: y 8 probably | They will fn of having # great laugb at us 1 have! tricty Ridueweoa Haat no doubt that ere this the adiines | about four normal seats ! Stripped | In the Subways By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright” 1917, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Kvening World.) HE subway was crowded as| The right spirit in such congestion usual. Poor, tired working] \s to inconvenience one’s self a bit to women were hanging to straps|make room for a tired one, rather as usual. In one|than to take more than Is a just corner sat two! share of space giggling girls ti | I would urge every one to a ing each other,| their civic right; if not for themsel\ es totally oblivious| for weaker #ouls—to uke ipon to those about| themselves to not countenance such and conducting a| selfish tratta as one finds every dity tole-a-tete asthey | in the subways and street cara would have done| There ts some finer in doing @ in thelr own par- | kind act for a stranger in the passing lor: po! and the tlon in which they were sitting they were occupying in moment than even for eh has At one of the stations more entered. In that crowd came a young, strong, healthy woman with a kindly, | yet determined expression on her fac She went up to the young deeply engrossed in thoir confide th only way to cure th omen nate courtesy that one 1 and in an unmistakenable tone sald, | iM correcting a misereant “Please move up.” The young girls | the elvic right in tho case gave her a look—a look that if it) The one who sees such a situation | could kill would have killed. Butthe| 4 (his and says “Ob, let it pass, am woman insisted upon thelr moving up| Betting off soon,” ot doing his or said ste would call the conductor, | civic duty in helping to correct this Very reluctantly they moved up a] 6rowing evil few inchos, but enough for her to] OF the other hand tf cach woutd in-| squeezo Into the seat, the girls still Me nerd ine Ae fara almost facing each other | would suon rm hat thoir means After this woman had secured the hess Will not be tolerated entering wedge into tho seat, she —— arose and beckoned to a little old Th W. S | lady struggling to reach thy strap) 4M€ Way to Success and said, "Take this seat.” | OWBR is the goal of every wor- ‘The onlookers saw the situation and thy ambition, and only weake the two gitla who had been “hogging hess comes from imitation or the pl looked very pish Indeed. | dependence on others, says a writer | ‘Two or three men sprang up to give| Hi Suceess, Power Joveloped, | the woman a seat who had done this Ww Crease Kind act; but she gave those places tol tig in a ‘kya ‘iu mn and Ietung rte other Ured locking women and re- |< 8 mained standing herself unc sho ar- | " so destroys the power sreak ax hae ataion: to stand alone as the tof leaning J could not help reflecting what alnaver bo strong of orietiat dated kind human spirit this woman dis-| alone or bury your ambition to be lerred ody in the world It seemed to me ashe way taking} ts upon herself @ civic duty to protect | y ard a the weak ones who hadn': the courage | Nad t¥ unknowingly brir to stand up for their civic rights them it The are many st these rights for themaeives [think about the othe two fluffy dolls who ing more space than Certainly each »: fare ‘sg entitied to a sea But why | you just as long as take more than that, as; a‘ when eof the greatos there ts so much traft make it |e Becessury for so mau wand? tinu: Frening World Daily a | there ig no return expecte to thrust aside for the mo tu And tumtion is nt the in- anally feels Ss subways has warranted it 4, For not even been said about the -care attitude in New York City, anner adopted by many people — “ Magazine By J. H. Cassel i “Make Them Move Up The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell ‘or yright. IT. by the Prem Podiiwhing Co, (The New York Rrening Wortd, oer aid this Christmas will be| smoking sets on the market. Last! | s‘sad one," remarked Mrs. Jarr| year some survived and I got one| Jolorously, “It know I have no! that fell to pieces all over the house, | money to buy enta for an vdy, and when »ped our Chr as boxes from the Ladies’ Wartime Knitting League yesterday to our soldiers in France, the man we turned them over to said they'd never reach the soldiers by Christmas.” “Well, cheer up, the gifts will be as welcome for New Year's,” sug- gested Mr. Jar? "Ob, Christmas is all right for dren and soldiers, 1 suppose,” Mrs. Jarr went on, “and for other people who have everything to get and noth- ing to give, but it isn’t a happy time for people like us. Now, if you were la workingman who got his wages in- creased, 1 might be able to be more cheerful, but men in your position do not get any increase in salary Oh, dear!’ | “Oh, things are not as bad as they | might be,” said Mr, Jarr optimistic- ally. “At least this Christmas will hile jin surprise, demand) be one of more diveriminate giving.” | lea b upon et them ns that & is that con “That eh you don't love any- body; to speak that way ory velf- ish!” Mrs, Jurr decle You do not worry about anything, and then you pride yourself that a callous spir- it is L only know that hu- man pi not char » &nd the people who expected gifts from me appiness. | ure does jin other Christmases wiil expoot them this time. And It ts very little comfort to me to realize that my lit- tle tributes of love and remembrance will be sneered at." “L wouldn't give little tributes of leve and remembrance if I thougnt they would be sneer at,” ventured |Mr. Jarr, “Don't send any gifts of love and remembrance to people who do not love you or who will remem ber you with a aneer,” “But if you don’t send those sort of people something thoy'll be angry at you,” said Mrs, Jarr. “You al- | ways me not to give you any- thing Christma and yet if 1 you'd foel hurt.” | didn’t you len “No, I wouldn't," Mr. Jarr declared ssos me to ge ask on warmly, “lt embe gifts, If you must make me a Ch mas present, let it be tn the shape of a few kind words.” “Do you mean by that I am not in the habit of being kind all the year |round and must surprise you at Christmas in that way?" asked Mrs Jarre in an injured tone. “Certainly no sold Mr. Jarre quickly. “But, Msten, my dear. This | world war {s a dreadful thing, ani yet it haw its compenaatione. m Jare no ‘Mado-in-Germany | that Thorn kiss, he gota that anyw | feminine tdea of a bint. metimes I think that the enmity of the whole world, as against Kultur, was due to the fact that the whole world had grown indignant at the| German atrocities known as smoking | sets. I know tt ds terrible that the! war goes on Christmas after Christ- mas, when there should be peace on earth and good will to men, but I for ono realize that every Christmas the war is on I am guarded against get- ting a made-in-Germany smoking set.” ‘Lam glad you can get pleasure out of hurting my feelings,” whimpered Mrs. Jarr, "I used to get you smok- | ing seta, but I only did it because you hinted for them.” “Hinted for them?” asked Mr. Jarr "Yes," eald Mrs, Jarr. “You used to tell me not to get you @ smoking set. Once you stood me in front of a store window full of them and ‘There is what I do NOT want.’ wasn't hinting, I don't ki what it was.” Mr. Jarr was stunned for a mo- ment at this | presentation of the | “Would it be a hint if I should say to you several weeks ahead of time that I do not want you to get me a} smoking jacket for Christmas?” asked | Mr. Jarr finally. “How would you take it if I ehould say to you, ‘My dear, PLEASE do not get me a smok- ing jacket, especially one of those with quilted silk lapels and cuffs, or trimmed with braid, the standard Jocko brand?’ I'd think you were hinting for one, of course,” replied Mra, Jarr, “What one talks about is what one wants, ho matter whether one says Get it! for me,’ or ‘Do not get It for me.’.” Phen,” said Mr. Jarr, “you place! me ina quandary, I do not want you; to get me a smoking set, whether! made in Germany or not. The clgar| utter cut, the ashtraya and match holders fall off, the whole thing come unglued, Don't get me cigars, Jon’t get me Romeo slippers, don't get me a smoking jacket, don't get me a necktle. All I want for Christmas ls a kise, This last is the hint, the! others go as I sa ‘To his surprise Mra, Jarr began to cry. What else is there to get & man for Christmas except the thinys be saya he doesn't want? As for the nd doesn't wo under @ roving commission to “enforce the Ii (their foes and seized the schooner, | of the Gasper A , Americans ® m® Under Fire By Albert Payson Terhune iT he Pew one No, 47. OUR FIRST SEA FIGHT. ‘ senica ot fm ” "n ore hatmed tort Norn. Vrime t hplewe ‘ winnd’s erasy G “4 % vty said Cle Varitem ‘ ed e-rruel tases on onde S ‘ inten aad we vel (new ¢ mo 8 rights they demanded. And Hare fo Par Ane ‘ ‘ weer, fe our i ls Smeorion wilt m torn frou eur aid Hat and the King *oud not listen to the * of wanit Despite the Colonieta pr the tates rolled up. Dr Johnson fcomptier of the @le 4 / onary) backed the K! “They are a race of conv for anything we allow them When the Americana protested still more urgently, the British Gov~ ernment took stapes to enforce the unpopular tages, Which brings us te our country's firmt pea figh! Harly in 1712—three yearn before the British war-achooner Gaspeo wns sent to ery ‘a treatment of the Colontets by aaying ted felons, and they ought to be thaekful Ravotution * wonue the eight-gun ong Narragansett Bay, Acts,’ with Lieut. Dud~ dington in command Duddington treated the Rhode Islanders as ne Mmught have treated @ horde of malefactora, I stopped and searched every craft that entered or tried to loave Narragansett Bay, Me 9ver- hauled the cargoes of such ships, searching for no-called “contraband.” When he chanced to find * any articles which he chose to consider contrag band, he not only confiscated or destroyed them but heaped heary puntshment on their owners. Often too he aeized or threw into the sea quantities of goods th® wero not contraband at ull—merely to show his power over the luckiest, Colonists, Any cargo that pleased bis fancy-—whether contraband or law- ful—he confiscated for his own use or for the British Government's. Not content with impressing the natives thus with his greatness, Dud- ington went a step further in his career of logalized pillage. At the head of raiding parties, he stole the hogs and sheep and chickens of the farmers living along the shore of the bay. When the farmera objected, he punished thelr presumption by chopping down their fruit trees or burning their barns. One June evening in 1772 an American ship—light of draft and the swiftest In those waters—tried to slip paat the Gasper and into the harbor. The Ganpee gave chase, Tha American boat fled, choosing a queer course on er way to open sea. The Gasper, close behind her, presently ran upon a hidden shoal and etuck fast—stranded, helpless, without power of motion, Out from the harbor mouth came eight boats, manned to the wunwales with Rhode Islanders. Straight at the stranded Gaspee they dashed. Duddington saw the approaching boate and guessed their purpose. called his crew to quarters. And our first sea-battle began. ory The Gaspee's big guns barked ferociously at Going Aboard the oncoming Americans, The solid shot churned the Schooner, the water around them, On came the Rhode ; Islanders, unchecked by the volleys that blazed ARORA NY tn their very faces, Alongside the Gaspee ranged the boats. And their crews swarmed up over the schooners sides, With cutlass and pistol, at the head of hia crew, Duddington met their rush, For a few minutes the fight raged hotly, hand to hand, Then, spurred on by their grievances, the Rhode Islanders drove back Duddington was ¢ All fight was knocked out of his beaten men. aFribly weahdes, The raging British Government offered huge rewards for the arrest destroyers, But though the name of everr one of them was known to the whole Colony the reward was never clai @ arrest was made. amet: Aa Heé | Bachelor Girl Reflections i By Helen Rowland Cousnabt, 1017, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Vis not the “third party” who separates husband and wife half 60 oftea as the “stag party” and the “hen party.” Nowadays the “yule log’ may be a “chimney log, the a radiator pipe and the Obristmas tree an imitation—but the kiss beneath the artificial mistie- toe Is still sometimes the genuine thing, thank good- ness! No, Doarie, {t doesn't necessarily prove that your husband {5 secretly proderman merely because he doesn't wax rapturous over the sky-blue eweater you fre knitting for the army and growls af being made to wind woo! when be wants to read his newspaper. A man seldom asks a gir] to marry him nowadays; be merely drops a hint that he is thinking about it, and then waits for her to follow it up, like an automobile salesman, “RUN owns Ob, yes, there 1S a difference between vanity and concelt. For {netamce, you can exll a man fat or call a woman @ fool—but beware of reversing the two! \ Many a husband has discovered’ to his sorrow that a fit of indigestion may cause him to inflict @ wound on bis wife's heart that nothing but a sealskin coat will cure. Man was made of clay so that a Woman could mould him to her heart's desire; but woman was wade of solid bone, yet no man ever hest- tated to marry her first—and then try to remodel her, When your husband calls himself a “brute” after a love quarrel, don't be foolish cnough to agree with him or be may etart in to prove it. A good dinner brings out all the softer side of a man—especially the softeoapy side. Turkis Calendar Resembles Railway Time Table LTHOUGH Deo. 11 will be ¢ brated as the tirat of Mubar- am, the beginning of the glad New Year, 144, by all faithful follo ers of the Prophet, the observance | E will by no means the coamopolitan key, So diverse -jance to the Grow in Turkey, ure Jion in th {bet x their a m gives MW. Ar Church, numerous { so iiven & subdivise urkish calendar, Deo, 12 | Nov while another the style date of be universal among population of ‘ re the religious t * railroad time '¢ among subjects of th ‘ pire that the dare in general . Turkish religious use In Turkey give no Le nix! ort different dates for each day finaneia Acording to the Mohammedan re! {yy tee Mgious calendar, 1 i is leave Geen es Year's Day, but the Turkish tna lund yeur gives a different ad Then t Senne Jewish 4 than 4 bi tists nthe calendar rinity of dates. re Iso to. be] ago, pry taken into consideration According | lnant to the Hebrew calendar, Deo. 1! 19 the! prova first of the month of Tebet, yeur O6i4. tue solar reckoning, f llow ing and this information also goes into|Gregorian calendar, for all pur the Turkish calendar, for the beneft| government, businesn, rere Jof the Jewiah population af the em: [every-day life, the sear to date f pire, Christians who claim ail the Hogira, as at present. em