The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1917, Page 8

t a i] EDITORIAL PAGE Evening World Daily Magazine Saturday, December 16,1917 Che esehsity were, | The Porkless Day We Need! Americans & By J.H.Cassel a2 Ls Under Fire EaTamszetiey wt sort 4 PULTE. Pubr met Daty show 5 we AEM LATASD. ofreciont: 6, f By Albert Payson Terhune iittetecnemn erro eeee “ | 1. Wp ‘The Prose Pearisning Ce, (The Sow Tore Kemning Werth) or fered at g wt Meow . (a a6 hecana | Neo. 50 "The Massacres of Wyoming and ‘cherry Valley. toh tates : HK mamacres of Wyoming and are the children alike on that bloody Fourth of July. More children perished, to say nothing of hundreds of men, All this, mind you, was not done by lawless Indians, but by the express tion that bears most heavily and incessantly upon the vast majority! of consumers. | That demonstration has not yet been forthcoming. | The list of food commissions has lengthened. But the food 3 profiteer is still boldly at work. The public hears much talk about { and from important boards and officials appointed to protect it. But the protection never seems to get anywhere near the pocketbook the housekeeper takes to market, | Federal Food Administration, we are told, takes care of the food | in bulk, but stops at the State line. Good. Last Augu in extraordinary session, the Legislature of the State of New York passed an act: } To define the policy of the State of New York in relation to the production, supply and control of the dis- tribution of the necessaries of life, to insure an adequate supply thereof at a reasonable price, to prevent unrea- sonable profits by reason of speculation, to extend such policy in aid of the National Government in Proving i for the national security and defense. sd Was the policy of the State so defined as to permit retail meat and fish dealers in this city to go on taking from 100 to 400 per cent. profit on the wholesale cost of their supplies? - ETO. B y R oy L. M Cc Cc ar d e | T Was the act framed to pass harmlessly over the heads of price Coygright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co, (The York fr boosters snd profiteers among small food dealers who sell directly to _ M“ JARR had made his| that tla : the public? : declaration of independence, 1 This same act created a State Food Commission with power to aera wi n 100 women and SS V2 bate ‘commands of John Butler, a Tory and (nomin: was followed a few months later by the no massacre. ‘ | Seven hundred Tortes and Indians fell upon the little village of Cherry Valley in Central New York on Nov. 10, 1778 y house in the place yi senshon was burned to the ground. Every inhabitant who could be caught w put to death in frightful fashion. There were other massacres of the sort during the same year, But m those of Wyoming and Cherry Valley stand out as most unspeakable of ne lot. ) a white man, And It #8 hideous Cherry Valley " ites ¢ tecauee the atrocities © not wren we i ne people at war with eur country, wit by Tory Amert ss ay cans and by Indiana. MEMBER OF THE AmoclaTED we spe + Amar i Che Aeerieies Pree te eeermy tint & the ee for fepeeiCnrinn of ot fen Gee The Torles.people of America 77 Seteet ot ot wineries crotiiad n (hie yaimr and wien the Wee) seme pumiianel herein, pathised with gland agalnat the 1 country. Hiinealigliy al were tenfold more murderous tn hatred of VOLUME bs ae NO. r American patriots than ware the ravage Indians, " ig wan a valley In Northeastern Pennayive NO GRIP. a It wan settled by simple, sturdy folk who ovat ss thetr a“ of men to th lution and who were OMMEN DING 5 .” o ee Oe av-abiding and industrious, Th “y was happy I at day u Aud prosperous, Enough a0 to rou greed of d attention to the prof ring in deuge, which ia getting Tortes to be wo 7 yitive that many eick yple of limited means hare to Down from the North, {a the early summer of suffer for want of them . { 4 { 1 swooped the Tory leader, John Butler, with a regiment of fellow 4 ! i * Tr sand @ horde of Indians Murating Into the unprepared valley, they good tt ‘ ii sat began an orgy of loot and murdo What The Evening World wants to see first is concrete proof ' { ' 4 dannnnnnnnnannnn rhe vet ere who escaped t feat a that price regulation can regulate in the all-important matter of ' j t 4 { Me pene’, at ayeAt oul meet th “pede n the afe \ © Blookhouse. t ¢ t 6 handte retail food price: | | | f fi bd arnoe no! Hh , andful de a H | iopecces fenders tm atle It wants to eee administ rs, who have been «pecially appointed i ie | The patriots fought Itke wildeate until t were overwhelmed and for the } ve, come out of yuncil chamber and get down to M , a barbed the ewar of Torles and Indians, They gave eallant ount ‘ i e heinaolves, but th could not « hold their own again such numbers, the activ of protectir age earner from the rapacity : i) Cet The lost re: tenes Senn 6 area AwOy, Deller fed wrGerces of the rand the grocer, who have more frequent opportunity . , { } t the blockhouse, It waa flercely but vainly defended, T on the daws } ‘ 7 } i . et / { ! of Independence Day, 1778, began the massacre. As soon ay the helpless than any to gouge him ‘ H} A i victims were disarmed and tied they were turned over to torturers, It wa first, a demonstration right here in New York that iW N ; Some were merely burned at the stake, The Tories and Indians lala 8 a M1 others on red-hot coal 11 tt th { ks. Sixt f awe or r rators are god , ' : f oth n red-hot coals and tmpaled them there with pitchforks. Sixteen ‘ood Jaws and food administrators are go od for something more than! | H were ranged in & circle and tomahawked “to mus The foregoing were board meetings and typewritten reports in tackling the kind of extor- ' among the mildest forms of torment meted out to n and women and t ‘ ee { Washington vowed to put {t out of the Tortes* powers to lead any more raids of the sort. The present town of Elmira, N. Y,, was a rallying place for these traitors, and at Elmira a punitive force of Yankee patriots came upon some 1,600 of the Tortes with many of their Indian allies, The American troops rushed upon the foe) with shouts of vengeance. Long and flercely the battle waged. Tho patriots were gloriously victorious, routing the enemy with heavy losses and smashing the backbone of Tory power tn all that region. For the Tories found it easier and pleasanter to murder helpless vil- lagers than to stand out and fight against regular troops, And Washing- ton's swift blow of reprisal scared them away from further wholesale the Patriots. {he vergare The Vengeance of peeeeweueeewnney fl The Jarry Family nh was to the effect thatlents I do not now expect he would not go into any big de-|up with ¢ Hicket and ptohibit the exaction “of excessive prices for any necessaries,” and WwW d D Ell b ll Ma D li | ent store a during the pre- of your relatives gavo to “rules made by the Commiasion under the terms of this act | Oo m e n a n Oo g S a e e ae (ore) 1tt e Christan) sho . ng rush, but fed at mo avout : atl ing that he nts cost money when you ha’ @ certain|to buy them, and they do not mean me and helpjany money to you when the foree and effect of law. Was the power with which the State Food Commission was| 1 n W a r a 1 me By B id e D u d ] ey ; nia eneat ite aan store door at a thus invested to be exercised as a duty or only to be enjoyed pass- | Copyright, 1917, by The Preee Publishing Co, (The New York Evscing Weeld.) ner home with t undle ron, in given to you. So tt ts all } . 7 { . ‘ t e of patriotism, Mrs. Jarr| best, I suppose." as an honor and privilege? B S h I L b HEN the Women's Betterment | noticed that Pickens was the focusing the Interest of pa sa id what abou the $1,000,000 ted for thi f Me op 1e rene oe League of Delhi arranged the | point of a great deal of attention. had joined the wartime carry- I guess so,” said Mr. Jarre. nd what about t! r appropriated for the use o| Copyright, 1917, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Breniog World.) programme for its annual| “What's up?” she demanded purchase-home movement. all we go home now?” the Commission from the State Treasury? ND now there te a controversy | some good folks would adopt my | EVening of Enjoyment recently, E “Petey Pickens ts a nd a! Mr. Jarre was there, and Mrs. Jarr| “I want to stop in just one more Was this money to be spent in practical service to consumers, A as to Hooverizing on hounds. | baby. belle Mae Doolittle, the noted poetess, bug is about to crawi up his |wan only forty minutes late, But,|place,” eatd Mrs. Jars. “You won't! I have a friend—a young| ,"1 cannot go to my parents as they | W48 a#ked to contribute an original * sald Mrs. Cutey Boggs by way |such is the wrance with | mind wa’ you?" woman who has a|#@ both dead,” song. Milas Doolittle not only wrote explanation, Promptress Pertle| which the! iggie and| Mr. Jarr know better than to esy ings that !ead to nothing, while retail profiteers laugh in their | Now why, why shouldn't these two | the lyric but she persuaded P. Silas sleeves and continue to mark up food price: or auy other two women similarly | petttbone, dog. She also has craned her neck and smiled. sacrifice have Jarr| he would mind. the tonsorial artist, who| “Quite interesting, | will admit!" | never even rep sod lady| “Hold my handbag and bo careful an independent tn-| situated act 1 interest of that M sels ° The head of the State Food Commission n Mitchell, who come. mone does child? wet In tho interest of thAt| Haye the guitar, to furnish the air.|she sald. “But,” she added more for % ardy he was|with tt, then,” sald Mrs. Jarr. “It's pei Bees rae ae . sd not have to work}. 4¥ shouldn't the foster mother of | It was @ ballad and went something |firmly, “ will have no bugs |afral e ed perma-|got my purse in it. I just want to was appointed by Governor W hitman. the dog, who i only expressing | like this: | crawling up limbs on our programme | nent peace order a few things home C. 0, 1. rp nt vigil Mr. And I do not want to run the risk n eyed suspiciously by a|/¢%!mg my purse. I'm worn out with or worry and life 1s | motherhood, express st to a real little t very easy for her.| child and save it trom weakness and |4 peor olf lady wae in New Tork fg oly ‘Will some one please wake This dog is one] poverty? roses io ke. H ickens up? ‘eva “ Bre had been deserted by bee busbasd ' ont of the mont lov.) Never ih the bistory oe the world | "For quite « number of works Elmer Hopper complted with her Guard or two in uniform, who| Watching tt all afternoon in the ing and lovable preg hd dtd i i : 7 |stores, And that reminds mo, guess , i One night be got bu nd came tack lome, | TAaUest. Pickens seemed disgrun-|suspected him of being a ( 7 6 such @ noble act as it is now, “4 7 ausped -day hy, vt little dogn you} Who dave say that the dog, the | An Diy Md anocber tian Ff Doe HENOnG'®: few Wordeof Pros |spy. He Bad been ordered) murily 10) [sane a Oni Sonas whan ad ever saw. Nobody | seblest of animals, is not mans best a otal t nson, the tall, thin, woman who bad Yet neither from Mr. Mitchell nor from behind him appears to come any impulse toward a vigorous, efficient carrying out of a pro- gramme of State food control. | Instead of being a matter of wide and imperative moment, as | important to the nation as to the individual, one would think food © mad |tviend and be lett 1 ( AP a the Seis Beane jmave ‘on. by a \polleeman who (00K ooh trouble with her secand fy control in this State some ticklish political proposition that those | (uid help being kind to It, Hoaides |e vey in war times the eholee cHoRUS "Now," continued the Promptress, | him to be a pickpoc BW MOPS | 6: shal waka GhONAT OF serum in power feared to touch too po vely it ta tho best disciplined poodle in the | of filling @ want should lean to the A \ahiem te) teaiek ba Misaoya Hits will announce my surprise, Miss | detectives had come out and looked the thease he be a int a0 nas oe |world, It will Me down, play dead,|uuman waif, even to the sacrifice of | ‘the wind whintia wp the wince Hiabele Mae Doolittle, the great | him over, thinking him a male ac- Here in New York City food administration of all kinds appears | and perforta all kinds of tricks, It] the dog, i ands OL aus 80 do pot wander out on tt, Jobu a the ane = ne re picts si | ow: yo are talkin; bout | fering souls and the world ts full of Tt will treene you to the liver, r the influence of a powerful narcotie—of which fact the| knows what y oh ‘ a ‘ is About! orphans as never before, wailing for |1f you feel you must Irave me for good and sometimes tries to talk to you. ing sympathetic hand and the Volo@| Go te sleep on wme barroom floor, “| because he always came around to teas, will sing her own original | comp a shoplifting ladies’ Ina Pettibone, en- | league. Three near-sighted women, et tees ® Leola dit te rm, on Brookiya {noticing hia drooping air, had taken an lake her out riding. ut she to be un retail food profiteers are quick to take note and advantage, ng, score by P, § 1, "There's a Besides it has the great innate| that reassures, My alster'a child, tte Teeuy Itichotie, Bridge.” {him to be thelr husband, who had vio- |found aus NOY Be WAS Oy. 03 Sate Honest food dealers come forward and offer to co-operate in| sense of che fitness of things, For] Many, many of them aro even| Ofe gots me very so.” A hush fell over the audience as tho | !ated an agreement to meet them, and | 70 ba piece) 8 the time You re- eliminating, the dishonest element. Yet the food administrators| example, when its propristor wanta to | *ttrving for the very necessities of aa, dressed in yellow caramel |#0me half-dozen elde: member her, Bhe came to the house y and plain n to be a shop- life. Which J# the more important,| There was a large audience tn}? (o decrease the mortality of children| Hugus Hall Wednesday night when |‘! ne? and erfed till ahe had @ sick head- ache, and then borrowed my raln- hang hack in heavy-eyed inaction, hide it in a railroad train all she does jie put it i. her knitting bag and ttlor that of the can med with koochle allk, appeared | ‘omen had taken hy , i t ; entertainment wi i on the stage. She sang the song cle 1g district masher and had given | nen tn a No, there's no use trying to put a stop to price boosting in drug| remains there quict as a mouse for} There Is only one anawer. The ery SN) ne fea Aa i" ay es Aiea ng ashe n looks that indicated they just | Ct @nd never returned tt. | rir y il tre his city i < of the children must be heard, Bs- | ™ a eda o @ ure + ow, on stores or in any other retail trade in this city until it has been shown | hours at a time. | pecially is this & great consideration | League, presided. After Little afin. | Petey Pickens went to sleep again, 1 him to insult them, ‘Well, what about her?” asked the It fs a model If there ¢ But how much time and energy this|* | woman has taken to train her dog no | \ me can possibly re that those whose was one | for wo ial function it is to regulate sighted him without any|most patient of husbands, jlause, In the midst of the clatter | undue on and promptly loaded| “I met her, as I told you,” Mrs, vhiff Bailey, leader of the orchestra, | iim with bundles, “Well,” ete said, |Jarr resumed, "and asked her for my 1 up and was accorded the oppor. | #8 8he stacked his arms, “I don't want|Falncoat, and she commenced to ery od prices here can; at least do what has been successfully done in Chicago to check food | profiteering man, It ge easy enough tO/erva Mooney had recited n & check and send |t to “some. <0) ar To-Ni re in France," or even bere, for| Saat Not Ring = To-Night ebody elxe to take care of a child, | Promptress arose and b Hae, For seven) Hut actually to be responsible for tt| ble for attention urfew | and recelved round after round of ap-| rs the at on the ta- The plain truth is that if the public in this city is to put any | Yours she hes coddied and ca |yourself—to seo it grow—ah, there {s| “stop your growling,” she com-| unity to speak. jto hear anybody complain of hard|and sald she ha d Ld Gown her purne 4aith whatever in price regulation, or if the profit heal ore until It ts—what tt ts, the Anest kind of philanthropy and| panded, “I have @ aurpriae for you| “The song was tine,” he sald, “but | tines and the high cost of living or] for @ moment while she was ex- td . Li leer is to feel any | every now maid is cautioned not to| Palriotisen! mining some silk stockings, and nen Bhe looked again her purse was rore! All I'll say ke a future citizen an asset |and when you have enjoyed tt you| Miss Doolittle sang it In A-flat and | war prices any vening of | We played it in C." is ‘Look at th ,, | To m fear thereof, New York’s Food Administrators have got to get |daro overteed it, and whenever my] instead of a Nability—al! there 4s the | will be convinced that our down to something more practical than palaver and Press-agenting, | | friend wants to go away some p ic : ¢ thet mney | 80 d I had to lend her a ¢ big elvie ser ' Enjoyment has been a great success,| It was sug that Mise Doollttle| Mr. Jurr looked at them, They | & Rane a eh an ae pga nla “| the dog ta the chief concern, If it), Mother love wos never so much of] 1am able to announce that—" ter the song over but the audience | Nee ablaze with lights and thronged | #0 You keep eny po netbook, tof 1 ao iP »tte s F tl > P x Were & baby it couldn't have more) war time, if no other Ume, put the! At this point @ loud snore came lined to let her be 80 imposed | With women fighting and crowding 8 ‘ luck to meet some € c rom We eopte Jattention, This girl would have made | dog in the Inatitution rather than the! ¢rom the centre of the hall. Hyer Again the applause broke out, | M4 shoving to spend their mon ae A pho ict M4 oe nd whe te Sa Poy tit chy limit communications to 150 words & wonderful mother because of __ so 6 tat Dard af the POM seemed ‘The lading clapped thelr hands and Mra, Jarre went on, “it mi n r. Jarr standing, | ; ——= | one t DY t At et y| piled with bundles, for another forty ‘ \ Infinite patience and pleasure in see watching old Petey Pickens wan | stamped their feet with great gusto, |» d tines for me with so many | piled wi » for anothe Twenty M Between B. R, to give the dinners and other] | oN hi | to be wa nped their feet at g ates, “War ls nei ins. things. ‘Th ry WOUld gin Preah [He the fruits of her handiwork | ewest iy IN QS | yas sound asteep. Promptrens Perts | Ware pieaand: people to buy ents for, and so| minutes. War t only worry To the KAitor of The Evening World courage by coming home to spend| IM fact she loves to call herself wey to do it with, but It| anime 1 do not wish to be conwidered w|even day with their old folka, T| mother when speaking to the dog. It's S | seem so with other women!” THE SENTRY. fault finder, but I do think wo haye| have 4 gon in Camp Dix who eannot| smother won't. allov in clence reat caine to. complain ations the| afford ta come home, ite hus to Welp | ont mmoher can’t have You dy thar | TO help & Jocometive fireman, with | England to ‘Standardize Clothes 2", omen mi berty Bonds be N 1 bd von't a New York inventor has glevated structure, O Won't you ask the r Kk a 5 rr omur that aa ELVIN LOSTUTTER, formerly ® times hard @ reporter on a Columbus s-| Rive the boys a fre Uroada ta|Hhe t# so proud of it Unt anybody | tented a vibrating pusher that T a time when we are seeking able at a fixed price, but with them v Mra, Jarr, | new! r, {9 now in the Morning myself ax well As other pas-| Kis the Moya 4 free ride home for|that can't talk doga for at least part| moves conl from the bach of a tender ways to reduce living costs that it would be possible to have a| but Mrs, Jarr ed the murmur. |United States marines, somewhere gengers ut the ‘Troy Avenue station A MOTHER, of the time while they in her | toward the front, and conserve national re. nably large variety of patterns| “Of ¢ she went on--"ot! ov the coast of South Carolina had to wait twonty minutes for 4 The Woes of « Skater. | : | cee s é off the coast of South Carolina. He train, after w ensing © train on . house doosn't seem to interest her cularly intere To the Ealtor sources, !t 18 pi nat one grade, course, le the time of Puro an investigators have found | \ sends back the story of a gree: 4 She local track und three on the eX-( 1 wish to call attent very much, lthat purtridges eat the seeds of many {to note that England is preparing to| 1t wa thought that such cloths) ‘Good Will to Al even if tha whole Exwiio ene ion Hifi a pb nine Beene track race past ua to MAK UP| think is an excessive char What 1) In a word, it 1 @ part of her—Just | noxious weeds and insects destructive | standardize men's suitings, And could be procured at 68. ($1.46) per| world is in arms, murdering and pil-| ago, Foe oe clones of he eH Te ayns | PUPHC Park. On Dec, 121 went akate |KO a Uttle child. To-day I received |to plant life; therefore are deserving | what 1s of even more interest ts the » that the price of a man’s suit |laging and exploding and submarin-| ‘Three persons appeared in the em” When the train did come. it] !2& in Hrospect Park, Brooklyn, and|@ letter from & woman, @ aud story | of proteotion, fact that England's wartime cloth tandard cloth would bi Ould be aboul | ing and all that sort of thing, But 10s. ($12.17); and that provision | 78 ST" aire 1 be Abs for a standard shoddy |! 4m Just a8 well pleased (hat I am Loys' clothing, #0 that the cost per/on the outs ud be for young boys £1 mip checked my ov hat and shoes | | eS Will (which were in ockets of my |°* mismated marriage, also a young | pn» United Stat t) with one of the men ty|Woman, She says: Vey has estimated charge of the check room at the oat | “It's desperation only that induces Phosphate in the Was packed to its extreme Iimit. you kindly print this letter tn your) | column so that the B. R. T, oMctals will sit up & t darknes din true military etyle the sentry demanded: NG lot of people, It] “Halt! Who goes there? |means just that many less presents! + Geological Gure [ing Prices~-considered high there— © amount of rook |are far below ours, own deposits {In| charles Sykes, Director of British : ; | ptain, wife and child,” was Wants Soldiers Home for Christmas) jong toh he cult im time ex. | Woman nineteen years of ago, but ce 8 Jan official statement to the Hoard ¢ hs (9. Ae eos standard fannel embarrass you by coming around aud | stopped To the Baiior of The Eveuina World . g. | tended, as by the time a person gets|do not live with my busband. 1 tions of an English inventor’s|contro! regarding the Gove requesting manufacturers to con~ | making up with you @ week or more| “Advance, Captain, to be recog- would be much better for those of teaver but one hour for skating I have to go to work. My only hope | (nat thei’ cont Cxblowony being (iam wear, He said there would bel siniicd avers few yards with the|t Anawer the telephone, and I am/time, wife and child."—Indianapolis means to buy the soldiers tickets than READER. for @ little happiness would be that! prevented by a safety val at firat one type of cloth made pyraiy pri | wolng to have Gertrude tell everybody | News. ry “ i a . ¢