The evening world. Newspaper, February 2, 1918, Page 12

EDITORIAL PAGE Saturday, February 2 Published Daily Except Sunday by the Props Publishing Company, Nos, 63 to “3 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, dent, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Troasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULIT: MEMPER OF THE ARSOCIATED PRESS R,' Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Kow. . —— Arsocintes Prem (9 exclusively entitied to the pe for remubiication of aT) news Armatdnen eee eS Se GA TaMect la crated” iN bagel al 0 ors VOLUM WHERE FOOD ADMINISTRATION FALL F THE PEOPLE of the United patriotic best in heeding the Government's urgent warnings to eat corn inetead of wheat, haven't they a right to expect that S$ SHORT. St to ¢ ot Government to exert itself in their interest to the extent of putting tome restriction on the price of corn? The Food Administrati hem that inaemuc!) American corn cannot help the Allies rn meal ¢ ment 1 o ns to use the eor end the U » Administrati them that (here \ ‘ 1 as wheat in this yea rop,” while “the surplus o e $ yoar over any previous year is greater than this year’s entire Trop. he Food Administration reminds them that the country ra } year a bumper corn crop of 2,191,000,000 bushels, of which « large surplus still remains The Foo Administration so impresses upon them the fact of this abundance of corn that here would seem to be their surest étandby in the way of a food both plentiful and cheap Will some one explain why, despite this enormous corn supply for which the Food Administration vouches, the price of corn meal has been permitted to rise unchecked until the baker h. pay as much for it as for wheat flour? Is that the way to encourage American consumers to turn to ‘the nation’s huge surplus of corn? There has been one marked defect of inconsigtency in food ad tration. to When some montha ago the Government asked housewives to lay less meat, they naturally began to buy more fish. But they som found that prices of sea food (Kotwithsatanding a eypply adn tedly inexhaustible) could be, and were, boosted higher and higher, rechecked by food authorities, The Evening World’s investigation of retail for disclosed prices in this ast December the fact that retail fish dealers had ul up prices until they were taking from 100 to 400 per cent. profit most of the fish they handled—ably seconded by wholesale dealers 10 would rat force fishermen to throw part of their cateh back o the sea than allow plentiful supplies of fish to find their way to ueumera at prices regulated by supply and demand Now, when the country is asked to cut down its consumption of t and buy more corn, it finds the wh Wy per cent. higher than ty leaale price of corn mea! it was a year ago, and the y that th keep down t of b titutes for wheat if the pric sare nereasing until they are higher than the « con ey can not @ pric nd made with f such su permitted to t of wheat itself. in Food Administration that pro- {esses to control the price of the meat or wheat it urges the public pot to buy, but shuts its eyes to jumps in the pricé of the fish or corn it recommends to the public as plentiful and patriotic. Just now corn is given special 7 ; There is a serious weaknes: romine the original Ameri which we can count on to stand by and save ue. Why, then, doesn't Mr. Hoover give sane reassuring sign of Federal interest in keeping down the price of corn meal? he Wondrous Work of the War By Sophie Irene Loeb en an ~ | Coxe right, 1915, by the Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Brening Wort) ‘ . . ‘ . F 7s ; ost fash-| has placed within them in unstinted ‘ rom Sh: ESTERDAY tn the most fast P : i Hits erat p Wits Vonable restaurant. of ‘New | eases, and ecauna of thon, per- f iven thirsty men are not anxious ork 0 women Ww pated it h has strengthened anc ne but it doesn't recognize a| to line up in front of a bar of Miethes, York three women were seated! | ghail for and belleve there cual ‘Toledo Hlade. | —Chicugo Newa: in a delightful! aro big things in every cue even eee es = 8 | corner at Junch- Jeh one cigs deep to tind uch Hat corn bread and help win the, Even the lghtloss nicht ts upon us, | ay | things as this and others have ac demands the Columbia (8. C.) | but, alas! not the tightless pursent he ne| both done for mo T call iny als baster 1. Eating Southern corn bread) Baltimore Amertcan hey Were the) poxos, full of beautiful priceless joys hot an act of self-dental.—Boston os. s | guests of ajito remombor, : ‘Transcript. | Even tn zero weather most of us prominent man! “I could not but reflect that al- eee |and fe mighty diMeuit to tesco ont. tailed. to do tia| (ouRh this terrible war has broweht What son of Mars needs Sunday | cold cash.—Vhiladelphia Record ; | inestimable suffering it has also movies when he may Kaze on the pass. | see it In war work.| proved bountiful—bounttful in fig show of pretty girls in thetr best) Young husbands y now way thet ‘The meal wasar-| ine wide the door of opportunity— cloties? And what right-minded art | the re aan they decline to eat ranged to discuss SRRDF RUN tor puriag k nee Rai w 7 vhen she knowa | brides’ first | 8 in Mr. Hoov . } man sympathy, human love as ne (eae gl eg eC artis jie | Savannah News mae Baal, 2 Ways and means| pofore realized. It has drawn bu- that she ty being gazed at by u sl w Sa cae Ize f ny <.or?—Columbia (8. C.) Btate, Ieee 8 wee for alleviating | mane to Mm closer honda, oe 8 | “The man who resards marriage aw {distress in connection with the food | bonds ne ed nave break “the The liar proclaims most vociferously | ® Hecessity," sayy the Cynical aches | problem, ‘The ment—It was one in| fie nappy. " that he tells the truth.—Albany Jour~ tok would rmeurd beamy as a lux-| accordance with the reputation ete E EN enone. cathivingaiae by soi * hn ® | ] . Hs | Chis ultra-delectable restaurant Hide, are women of every walk in ife, wtriving in the Interost ‘on= Now that medicines are to be cheap-| If @ man ty nu 1 to make Inth ut almost after the frat arse, |} Stier Me tine’ ta cel ey, the economtecally inelined, bitherte ends meet he bn sure to sn wits | when two carefully reared capons| and Pe uae ‘ seared by the high cost of getting sick, | who thinks he ought ¢ ein lap! were put before the ladies, one of| the frhting fe can again indulge tn the luxury of en- | over<-Chicago New peas W inateteg | mon cause, And when 4 ing poor health.Baltimore Ameri- | 8 then, the wealthiest of all, Insts’ ou | Le elctalrnicon pa Mill ana uty can, } ‘Then, natn, war the zrant| that one of theae fowls, together WIM” on mankind and will have ¢ see pearcbitg@ht aud Nova urat it other portions of th be sent at (finer bond of brotherhood Some girls looks so sweet that Wel oxpascs t carta o tas mat 2 Renee Weanr forge! e shor —Memphis | troattes of men and governme: Sealey P example mentloned < a oe novaee men ch spony ew sa es “L think we ought to practise & : Y he 4 ea = - _ == what we preach,” eho wld.» gf ter aNal fake F } P In these times, while we are f tun t a ur wed with 't Letters From the People dine above sania 105 a, ond the gona nut wha Plea communications to 150 wordy hot healtste to ahare tho mp ow of eladn: but t ‘an Army | marked ‘again: f belief that t file of bunint " Word ' hai anas aca: heart—thiy eas flows ntronice of L would lke for “One of the Boys." | 5 ily i ra ; ' r ' tuo! . Ny A Drafted Man's Wife,” to read| tent witt : > bring al ‘ vities . . fow words. I have four \ ' for {t to m tself to How to Lift y ourself mily doing their bit for t fat el 1 at poasibilition in . duc Be eal ta 1 somewhere In na B ¥y " B . ‘ and nourishment, All of th an, and find ove fae Nan e ifs y Your bootstraps y “no kick com- duty Iisa. 1 only mut my boy ing rhe HE instance of the man who tried e real soldiers, ‘ A SOLDIED $ MOTH en " wh t floor | Whoehas not enough | a tw ' easily procure thom]. ig be vers’ her, i sa m the Red Cross by asking, They yy yas : W , n who Kick aro “perpetual Klck-!yyin whe ocmelainat Wadsworth y a ecg.” You may reat assured Uncle ¢ a ee OOS BNeieeL ¢ r | no needs his and he tan't doing | 7, a See ea Be | ything t yp them, All that tx and a r | Jone ia for thelr own good. i sad : lit | 5M. W a ne « t 14 ist t Another Comp Avomt Camp) : : Wadsworth, i 2 i ne Maitur of The Krening World aid down 4 ‘ i wish to voice the senUment of the | Would not Jand acted the sane that realizes the “Spi the; men to t grateful + Camp Wadsworth men “Maid of America” and oo Girl" are misinformed, Not 4 dione are the people of New York City | Ren’ eunn I! ware of conditions existing at that! but also the mothers and{dewn I ers of Yonkers are aw, of it woldier ave their brave gona down there er ne et taken sick, they get @ pill or : id say Soh By J. H. Cassel | tw The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Core 1018. "ty the Prevs Publishing Co, (The New York Breaing World) “cc JW time "3 when one seem we've had a gvod time at ail H gets over tw yetlv since thia war began, Then look at Mr, Jarr musingly, “Here's the terrible winter, and the eatless nd Now Year's come mention five or six Gar- field holidays, and now 4 Fe ruary, with Lincoln's Birthday and Washington's Birthday and three or 1y$ and the lightiess nights, and everybody knitting except Mrs. Dig- Re and she would be knitting only she fell on the toe and broke her cat ur Workless Mondays, and yet !t/ "Well, the bono ts kaitting, I hen only seems such a short time ago murmured Mr, Jarr. when ¢ was plenty of sugar and “Don’t try to be funny on a serious plenty of coal, and, so far as this subject," said Mrs, Jarr, coldly. “As mily is cones of money!” med, the same scarcity I was saying, nobody bas the heart to enjoy themselves these days, but "Come to think of {t, what's the everything Isso dear I wonder how we use to worry about high prices and get along—I wonder how anyboly hard thm remarked Mrs, Jarr. gets along,’ Prices always high and times) “But we do get along,” auld Mr. ure always hard for poor people.” \Jarr. “And if time ts fying fast, | “I guess you are right,” said Mr./as we say, it will bo all the quicker) Jarr, “Here's another month's rent | bringing peace. due, We hardly get one month's rent peaking of pence,” he added, pald before another “the boss and his wife are on speak- is due.” | terms again and he's giving a “Then there's the gas bill," tn! posed Mra. Jarr. “Ail the years we| Peace dinner to her at the Hotel St © been married—and it's more | Croesus. Woe are to go.” an Is needed for a tin wedding cele- | “Jt Will coat ua u lot of money and tion—1 can't remember when we|Wecan't afford tt," sald Mra, Jarr. eren't Just one day ahead of the! “How will tt cost us a lot of tur off—according to| money?" asked Mr, Jarr, “It's old the gas company sent ua. |man Smith's peace party, and he's And they never did turn off the | footing the bill, 18. | "I know that," replied Mra, Jarr. “And the telephone and the |"But after the dinner Clara Mudridge- butcher's bill and the baker's bill, |Smich will suggest going to some everything but the coal man's bill—| cabaret, She won't be siti with the coal man gets cash these days," | the dinner or the dancing at the St. murmured Mr. Jal lCroosus, Sho always wants to go I thought when the postal rates somewhere else. She t went up to three cer ne would | people who go som not 6 many ‘Please Romits' time and evidently bé around first of the month,” he | found some place else, She goes from continued. “But maybe they come restaurat and cabar ok ee just as thick b » in the local shows and where not. But sho's just sone, where one generally has credit, tho kind of a woman Who manoeuvy posta # not increased." so that someone else besides her hus yo you think {t's the bills coming | band has to pay sume of the bills wt in on tho first days of every month | least. And yer he may be the only Mat makes the time seem to fly so "S84 om tn the party, you feel that way abou it 4. for grown-Ups—espectally the if feet ae wn-ups who have to pay the | tho way the coat of living is going up asked Mra. Jar, wo won't have money enough to live bec - so we might as well have @ I wouldn't bo surprised,” sald Mr, WeMl eee When I was X boy ft soomed ian't @ sensible way to look century from the edge of autumn marked Mrs, Jarr, "It ume, Now it’s ‘Bing! Smith aid her hus. ' acath vey party. I'll take gov nel New Xaarl Alp husband pays all the ind Christmas |; other people who can There’ a nowuvre ag well as she can, You re tre 80 but you left “When this an say you're sorry, y Whoa your money in. your other clothes. Kone te, Fee You'll be weaving your dress suit." Jarr _ Eve BIG FIRE LOSS IN RUSSIA. 4 i sid that Russia burns down ' Se, ay aretty ne all northern re Why ewe wives cue Jt dowsn't aon yal Luseia iy but of wood. |'Americans | om Under Fieg By Albert Payson Terhune Conrtght, 1018, ty the Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), NO. 68.—A Barrel of Whiskey That Cost a Million Dollars. ARLY in 1886 some one smuggled a barrel of whiskey {nto an Arizona reservation of the Chiricahua Apaches. The result was a wholesale and noisy spree, Lieut, Davis, in command of the local army post, told thm Apaohe chief, Geronimo, that Gen, Crook would punish this breach of law. Crook was in charge of the De+ partment of the Southwest. The Chiricahuas wero mortally afraid of him. A band of them, led by Geronimo, decided not to stay to be punished, So they left the reservation and headed for Mexteo, Along the line of murch they proceeded to burn an} plunder and kill in the most approved “warpath” iaethod, z Crook gave chase with a force of ited States cavalryinen, and a strange guerilla war began, The Apaches, whenever they were close pressed by thelr pursuers, took refuge among the rugged mountains along the way re they “sniped” the cavalrymen, cut off stragglers, rafded nearby settlements, and always €8- aped in safety before the soldiers could surround them to starve them out, With little loss of life the Indians kept up their running fight. Geronimo had the cunning of a snake. He avoided traps and pitfalis, He struck with deadly swiftness, and ever he was away win before he could be caught. Only by the help of friendly Apache scouts wits Crook able to keep on his trail at all, The weather was murderously h The going was bad. Senet Elusive Foo Defies All. Laat Water vearce, The rifles of the hidden Apaches forever scourged the pursuing troops. Yet the soldiers kept doggedly on, “The cavalry must have rest, not only for themselves, but for theit horses,” writes Norman Wood. “But |f the ateeds of the Indians grew tired they had but to steal others at the settlemen Thus freshly mounted the unwearied savages laug dest efforts.” Across the Mexican border fled the Apaches. Our treaty with Mexico permitted Crook to follow them thither. Geronimo, not knowing of this treaty, slowed up his Might. At once cavalrymen were upon him. in the fight that followed most of hia braves escaped, But Geronimo bimselt was captured, ag was his wife. He was put under heavy guard, yet he not only escaped during the night, but crept back to Crook's camp and rescued his wife, And the chase went on as before. Just as the soldiers once more closed in on Geronimo the Chirienhuas were Joined by another fleeing band of Apaches which a troop of Mexican cavalry were chasing. Into the Indian camp charged the Mexicans, @ noment when Capt. Crawford of Crook's force was dema urrender. A Mexican bullet killed Crawford. Several officers and men on both sides were kt! cas a general mix-up, followed by explanations, got free and resumed their fitght. It was nost a year after the Apaches had loft thetr reservation that Geronimo was at last brought to terms, He and Crook met face to face at ‘a conference, The talk lasted most of the day. That night Geronimo and his braves slipped away. Moruing found them miles distant and out of immediate dangen Crook, in chagrin, resigned his position as cots mander of the Department of the Southwest, Gem Ales succeeded him. Miles pressed the campaign with a vehemence that yaches not a minute to rest. He ignored thetr pretended peaca overture He saw through Gerontmo’s willest tric He would listen to o terms except nditional surrender, For twenty-on: Ks he kept up the chase. Geronimo surrendered and was shipped to Florida. During elehtenn montha—over a distance of 2,000 miles and at a cost sf more than $1,000,000 to the Government—the running war had been waged war that began with a barrel of cheap whisk a * Geronimo's dor wounded, Meanwhile There the Indians laa 4 Old Enemies ' 2 in Parley. left the J Then, on Sept. 3, 1 Lucile the Waitress By Bide Dudley Co, (The New Your & API, be the Press Publis Copyright HATE to hear a person talk ;incinderation, are | the pers freshles, But t ries, don't you? n't be sto “LT got a remec )‘TR fix tt up w for it,’ he saya. en T get back home. Waltress to the i his apple ple. Luctle t Patron as he tackl “It's not very entertaining,” be re-| ‘ ‘Good for you,’ I retaliate, ‘Now, | piled. jwhat'll it beet wor pork Be Right you ure!” she went on.|Cbops? Less me and you pester-the Naif an hour ago a man, setting | ld cook a jad, be are all gone. to gurgling his © you're at,} “He takes a stew and I'm ull screwed | . cause the pork No sooner du moved from w riture picture and Rays: ‘ atin piece de irre than he hes a |My foot ts hurting mo something | pao onto his troubles again. flerce ‘When > tho club Ili 4 | yelv' lve,’ he saya, ‘Ite & “Now, you know and IT know 1| use Velvet @ say NOW) rent foot remedy. It's mad wasn't expecting any tldinga from | Bringg* we le by his pedestals and him trying to mix ‘Foot Prince, eh? T says. Tt was p ¥1 [me up in {: made mo rather sore, | just a sort of a Jollification over the |-your toot?” I says with the rising | * Pa ah one he gives me @ grin. | ‘ou need Vely ve," jaffectation, ‘I thought It Was Your) he says, ‘It's the finest thing there face? is for people's feet. I got three cans “Well sir, you'd ‘a’ thought neva | at the dru Bees Whe A T only ‘at Inid off tho whole gubject and} Need ane. Tf You for pad feet and pred © of the thing after that, but Ing you have it at eost—one . not him! He's got to talk about | dollar. ieaireone “"Listen, Mister,’ T enya, ‘would hat foo| ‘you mind letting me have <a got he says. grinning laughin) up, } “He begins to finger @ quarter and | day? le tpl course, b y “No, I toll him my feetless days,’ “It was such an appertune time gor ich & rejointer that I had to shoot tt t him. H ae uzhs but keeps on talk- Ing about Velvet. At last I good and ma # ‘Say, Mister,’ T says. ‘What do yor | take this for—a temple of chyropodts. See: | try? You come in here hunger-stung ® saya, putting the quarter) ang all the lady in white hears Te ‘This ‘5 one of notion maybe he's begun to} that they ain't nothing like| days this pln So of| the rules and} thi n 1 have to ob oe y nice. maybe!’ fallen archies, ick In his pocket, ‘Just callous’ — |impromptus lecture on feet. If you tho (ne tua come for me to} fot to talk to me Ist It be on ane is wos, ao I took | Which do you Ike the best, F ‘ a talk woos, 80 I took | oe Hud Fisher? Raphael baby-like and as Vv hat | “It surely cured Din, He never had nnakoa oar t 1 nothing more to say about the pedals Tiecaa dputt ity hw |Mfter that, He wag all through.” . x" ° I hardly tame you for ne me. ‘My foot started hurting at | nim," said the Friendly Pate ee the club th ning. 1 live at a “The funny part of It was my feet a ro hurting me torrible. [guess Most Ukely it's a club foot,’ says | Ay Heat right to-morrow,” © mo. “Oh, just because, They better “You understand, T wasn't trying concluded Lucile, “or t know a m Pear rT inline ME tke | Who'll hand mo back one dollar, "Th > entertain him nor nothing ike | \inminel t found T could eee vee’ that, 1 wanted to stop him, Jokes, |for fifteen cents at the drug store bee ou w, accompanied by a look of ‘alas! too late. Became Queen clovation from a position of sexy ‘A Slave Whe ELIGIOUS houses in various R cities in France are celebrating tud to that of royal consort did not © festival of Bathildes, the make Bathildes haughty. She usetl slave who became a Queen, Bathil-| her influence with the King to bring des was an Bnglishwoman who lived! about the abolition of the enslave a the seventh century, Ada girl ahe ment of Christians. When the Kini way captured und carried off to tiled she became Rege t and Altes France and sold as @ slave to hospital, When her son Clotetre ere wald, Mayor of the palace under vended the throne she retired’ te « Clovis IL She soon attracted convent, and in her latter years wae ne attention of the Kins, and Clovia,| remarkable, tc r devotion to th. falling vt with mated by ae noe many convents, made ber ed 40 France, sad Wuecn.