The evening world. Newspaper, July 1, 1918, Page 14

te te ee | eee Sie “eli GAtario, TABLISHED BY MH PUL Published Daily Lxcopt Sunday by the Press Tubii 63 bark Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park How SHAW, “Tron: K ITZ bd Pate Tow. hing Company, dos . Be BER OF THR ASSOCIATED Preset +19 enti led to the wane for rept in this paper aod be lor The Amociated Pea ts eredited to it oF not vuvere ve VOLUME 59 “WITH ‘SHAMELESS AVARICE. is MV HE present high cost of meat, flour, canned goods, co ation at all + jen owe Sepretobee ners pu . hewn, 20,768 NO. al, shoes the things American wage-carners must have to live—a.! due to economic necessity! The Federal Trade Commission bas put e bombs! into * that | In its report to the Senate on war profiteering in American industries, the Commission specifically names among profitcers who, “with shameless avarice,” have squeezed from 40 to 400 per cent. extra profits out of “war conditions Meat packers, flour millers, milk and salmon canners, coal pro- ducers, leather manufacturers and both manufacturers and retailers of shoes. All directly concerned in the produ the prices of wl touch the humblest pocketbooks, The indictment of the meat packers is unsparing: “Five meat packers—-Armour, Swift, Morris, Wiiwon and Cudahy, and their subsidiary and affiliated companies--have monopolized contro] of the meat industry and are reaching for like domination in other products. Their manipulations of tho market embrace every device that is useful to them without regard to law. Their reward, expressed in terms of profit, reveals that four of these converns have pocketed in 1915, 1916, 1917, $140,000,000. However delicate a definition is framed for profiteering, ickers have preyed upon the people unconscionably.” Of these $140,000,000 profiis, $121,000,000 represent sheer profits,” which latter for 1912, 1913 and 1914 averaged $19,000,000. Moreover, as the Federal Trade Commission is careful to point out, “these great increases in profits are not due sole!) volume of business”: “The sales of these companies in this period increased 150 per cent., much of this increase being due to bigher prices rather than to increased volume by weight, but the return of profit increased 400 per cent., or two and one-half times as much as the sales.” tion of common nocossitic: —— to jnercased “== Any attempt, therefore, to justify such profits by the * of the business transacted” falls to the ground. Colossal hoggishness is the only thing behind this kind of profit taking. Excess war profits reported by the Commission in the other in- dustries named differ from meat packers’ profits only in failing to reach the same astounding totals. Millions in extra profits filched from the pockets of American consumers in supplying them with the commodities they need most during the most critical and exacting period in the Nation’s history! And Government price-fixing appears to have only made it easier for big concerns operating at low coat to reap enormous har-| magnitude EDITORIAL PAGE July tf, 1918 Monday, Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland 1918, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Brening Worli) | “Behold, Mine Ideal Is Fair to Look Upon—He Goeth Forth Covered With My Garlands and My Tcars; and He Shall Return Unto Me Covered With Shoulder y M: Copyright Straps and Medals!” DAUGHTER, knowest thou a damsel of twenty who is a PACI- » verily! For in her heart every damsel cryeth: “Behold, behold, I am the Damsel of 1918! “And my name is ‘Lucky-Among-Women!’ “Lot I that was born in an age of cynic dulness now live in an Age of Romance! “I, that once prayed for a CHANCE to marry, shall now, peradventure, marry my CHOICE! ‘or, while war lesseneth the number of bach- elors in the Land, it increaseth the number of Hus bands and maketh two ‘marrying-men’ to grow Where there was not ONE before! “And 1, that was once a drug upon the market, am become rarer than sugar and more popular than French pastry! | “I, that once danced with the fat and flirted with the bald and flat- tered the stupid, shall pass them by with silvery laughter. “For sojdiers and sailors are more plentiful than Government rulings, and WHY shall I dally with anything not in a uniform? “T, that was once humbly willing to seek among the ‘seconds’ for a shop-worn bachelor or a hand-medown widower at the matrimonial bar gain counter, stall now make my selection from among the ‘firsts!’ “TI, whose ideal of a hero was once a moving picture actor or a base ball favorite, am now surrounded by heroes In khaki and in blue. “I, who once hearkened meekly to tepid sentiment from the lips of the blase and the egotistical, am now covered with proposals of marriage and fervid flattery from the lips of devotees. “Behold, mine ideal 1s fair to look upon! “Yea, he is more beautiful than a magazinecover man and more fo- nantic looking tha William S. Hart! “He hath dove’s eyes and the shoulders of a clothing advertisement | model “His boots are as a shining light and his puttees as a silver polish advertisement “He walketh with the bearing of demi-gods and of Gen. Pershing! “Upon his shoulder he carryeth a rifle, and over bis heart he weareth sm and my photograph “He maketh love with the tongues of angels and of free-verse pocts. “He proposeth without faltering! “phere is no string to his offer of marriage, love pact. “He goeth forth covered with my garlands and my tears, and he shail return unto me covered with choulder-straps and medals! “Verily, verily, nothing less than one of these shall I accept! |“, shall be content with nothing less than a ‘Prince Charming “For philanderers and cynics and misogynists are as passe as last and no ‘joker’ in his year's flivvers, last summer's flirtations and last season's joke are ‘no longer endurable! | “Behold, | am the Damsel of 1918! | “And my name is ‘Lucky-Among-Women"’ ay, “For I live in an Age of Romance—and | AM ‘IT!’ elah - eer Wivie Actrediee | Tell About Themselves vests at the expense of the publi The findings of the Federal Trade ( relief the real momeni: The adjustment of costs and standards of living as between those who have profited by the war and those who have not. Are the latter to have no show? Hecent ation by the Committee on Home Keonomica of ‘ommission throw into strong eeonomic problem of the American people at th! Copyright. investi S$ the mantleplece | ea. i Sd tae i fel in your living | mantel that reflects all its ornaments | sinjoy y If?” asked #8 : peeves ‘ New York. I the New York Charity Organization Society showed that among 377| 5 an fe chltee oe tie 7 ag Pate AntasiV a aaa} Enjoy yourself?" asked Mr. Jarr.! Both ladies gave Mr. Jarr a “how | pended my first trip to : ee i ; : ea cy act ba ie ° behooves you to be doubly careful} «1 never saw such clothes in my dare you?” glance and Mrs. Jarr re-| was attending a privat * typical wage-earning families in this city, while the total family Leauty, a sort of | because the reflection makes any over- | ):¢, plied Mrs. Rangie, “It must | marked ivily, “I do not see where! Louis while mother and Til income—as between figures for January, 1917, and for January, 1918) keynote oF HO abe ing just bide ce as prom! grand to be rich and have s luthes should interest YOU!" ‘in the theatrical capital. I had paves ‘ ; room, or does i t as i ould erwise be, On! ie tie : ree d spent a gre —showed an increase in the case of 149 families (40 per cent.), on & Has te i Mi basin t x ty 1 oe rwise , yoo-ti-ful thing | “But they do, said Mr. Jarr, ‘I peen there, but had spent a a im K the other hand in 150 far 410 pe t 1 OO ene Bes) Buen a BALA a: 0W “siniDle Orne Mra, Rangle dwelt on the word!can tell you, men are not to bave| of time making my moth R Sage , ae amilies (40 per cent.) no increase appeared a-brac table ae ments are all that ever look really j “beautiful” as if to Imply that only | ai wool clothes any more—on account | erable by constantly pleading with and in 78 families (20 per cent.) there was an actual decrease of department store, well : its sweetness, long drawn out, could | of the war.” Not that he cared, but it) her to tuke m ig income. or, worse yet, u! If there is no built-in mirror the | convey the grandeur of Mrs. Stryver's| wan a safe tople. lation (or exasperation) mother sald ' ; hea An } ‘ ; sort of family | space above the mantel can be adorned | piad rags, Both ladies regarded him with mild | that if my school reports realized her he wages o 4 individual workers in ity employed during trash basket?! with a single large or medium size “Yes, and T think {U's a shame that | astonishment ari ns she would allow me to both January, 1917, and Jann wry, 1918, showed the following propor: Some pesple re-jpicture or a conventional group of! 4 fat old thing like Mrs. Stryver| «what ditt e does it make what | spend my next vacation in New York. tionate change ward the mantel as the proper realy Heli, bute In this cae thiseea | gucci’ Haver aversthing niu ip (his men wear?” they asked In unison, and | fortunately my record for that term Nnabaaa tbh woken (alc aan place for any little object they don't |tures wi nt ie one 08 he fide of equal | world,” interjected Mrs. J WNON |e can crushed was such that she could no longer ‘ pelle n> OOF ¢ know what else to do with, while hung a little lower than the cer-! neopie who have figures,” (here Mrs. “Well,” said Mrs, Jarr, taking up| deny the wis and when summer No increase 202 workers (57 per others value it chiefly as a secure |tre one, always look best. Here also! yore jooked reassuringly at her own inauian f atylen@again, ‘Queen me the three of us—tnoth Mian Decrease 63 workers (12 per cent.) buven for a conglomerate multitude is the place for a hand tapestry oF trim form), “should not have any-|\q eee Peres ot inal Cn aerwiaitea tie Migioltys (In the case of 46 workers there was insufiicient data for ,of vases and ornaments that are out tan colored amprcidery or @ lone ithing but behind-the-styles and made modanWar Gr no war, vet 1 balleee| Macy Dicktord and Her mOUiar had 7 e ‘ *s react But the | plaster bas-relie ; ° oat eee An sie everal yea comparison.) jot the children’s reach Ww he | plaster bas | fovers es are coming back. | been friends of ours for several years. | Woman who understands home dec~ loration knows that this is the spot of j Special prominence tn the whole roc or after) the one that first catches Like percentages would undoubt n groups of thousand and hundreds of thousand American dy families and way a comes have bee the eye, r cither bi ry's entrance r to make its And vee : arene : ‘ ; r |Mrrangement both restful and har gene i Pee Ne POP OTe OF dae tedoed aid Hodelbed eased) mouivus. incomes since the beginning of the war would be found in any! T° ime the objects on a mantel Mt e ful 0 vue remem vertical section comprising wage-earners, salaried and professional sce dma gees - seat fet porkers and bo lowed in hanging pictures. ‘There Are food prices and rents to be raised, then, to limits depend. ; Us bv u centre ornament and the vi on each side of thie must a ing solely upon the spending power of the, say, 40 per cent. who Be i” an git wish Lin sixe, ‘This fd have profited directly or indirectly by the war? het moon hey must be the same Is this rise in the cort of necessities to force down to lower '!! o! Quite different orna nents « : used if they are about and lower standards of living the €0 per cent. whose incomes have | '"""' eapeplie , the same ehupe and expeclaliy the gained nothing from the war? ani he If you w your room And is the whole cruel process to be accelerated ad lib. by |to look Well nothing mediocre profiteers like the meat packers who swell their profits 400 per, °°! | sare In Iteels ae ever A placed on the maunte » not cent., and in three years take $121,000,000 extra toll from the. ows) with win objects. ‘The pressing needs of Na‘ion and people? effect of a few carefully chosen orna The Federal Trade Commission has thrown a disconcerting lignt Mente 8 much better, Candiesticls é ‘ ‘i i always louk decor & on the degree to which the venerable law of Supply and Demand and GE ail Gaia HinoiEE HAL tol _ « even Government price fixing itself are mude {to serve the purposes form the centerpiece are not always of Greed in war time 1 good taste, though when the eesti sive dete amias lines are simple, as is the case with 3 thos® charming reproductions of the : vionial styte, the effect is good. A Hits From Sharp Wits eenlal a} 4 really fine bit of china or potte "] : The fuel situation almost forces Adar have had troubles out of ploce here, These look one to paraphrase @ certain fumou J : b: pag verse: Oh, woodman, cut ti trees; waya provided they are prop: wpare not a single bow, for years at ce | placed, and flowers, foliage o Protected them, and they shall warm even Rranse e not out of keep BE HOW—-Milwaukee Now: Min a ae Ot £ . , (08 the mantel of the summer home The war has so completely upset cares hin not a whi ove hia all. |; But the usual confused mass of small the geographies that now America fired agility by dodging quick your Photograph. insignificant = brie-a Stands between Germany and Paris, | swet Milw aukee Baltimore American. ws. Urac and useless trifies is far from ‘beautiful, A few well chosen photo- graphs can always be used to add joterest, bul Gey elwuld uot be venient Mary had a “tte lam> with w SRE RoR used to play. but her brot a lovking- glass. nt st with a feeds a little pig to duy.—-Pitteburgh | Sines fo caralons ihe Best. ‘| The Mantelpiece, in Particular, Must Not Be Loaded orn | With a Mixture of Odds and Ends. By Andre Dupont 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Erening World), 4. by The Prew Publishing Co Dorothy Gish DID NOT go into moving pictures; I got into ‘A desire to be with my mother and si The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell 1 was lone- n a studio, nem because ter landed me ‘The New York Exening Wo some. iacmea Coprright, 1918, by The D’ress Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) and there, by the greatest of good fortune; T hap ell € NM ea vs B were over at Mrs. Stry-| “You know what was said about Griffth—I should say that Mr. rifith saw me—and since thea ave ver's this afternoon,” said “ | Mrs, Jarr, indicating Mrs. Rangle as part of the we. the Queen of Spain?” interposed Mr. Jarr. “A Queen is not supposed to} have leg been acting for the screen ‘The matter of good or bad marks Upon the report of my teachers de to do with it. When there {s a mirror back of the the Victorian sty A mante! ni ds no hangings. days of lambrequins and such mun-| “But Mrs. Stryver was In SUCH @ | Of course, you won't see them in New | Once in New York we made ad strosities are long past, though IT am | State with all her dressmakers and | yor, gor ng time—New York is! business to look them up. ue ie sorry to say that some people seem | Milliner continued Mrs Rangle. | ajways behind London and Paris.” | quirics led us to the L HoareR®, at still to admire them. And then some. | “Pidn't you hear her complaining that) «yiy word!" said Mr. Ja as! where Mary was work anes | times, even to-day, one sees what used /the war prevented style impor@tions | though tremendously impressed us knew anything whatever abou to be eal ‘drapes that ta, fitmay, | from Paris?” R “And what do you think Mra. | moving pictures. When we reached hideous scarves of silk or other ma-|_ Both ladies were talking for Mr | vor told us?” asked Mrs. an lithe studio we inquired fur ; terials knotted, cascaded and fo - | Jarr's information, but it was all be- ate jarr could only shake his head! piograph.” We were told that Mary | ‘tooned over mantels, pictures, ehatr- |» hiro from side to as if to imply he| wag not there at the time, that it was backs and even bookcase tops, We do} "What's sho her) never could guess in the w but | contrary to a studio rule to give ad- | not often s« eh th nowadays, | Styles. for he KNOWS | ty come on with it, dresses of the actors, and we were yet in some especially in t.e| She bas the money to Very “Why, she said she never regretted to leave when Mr, Griffith country, they still continue to flour. | latest in dude.” not having any children until now r we learned that ish, Our grandmothers, who lived at} “Why, didn’t: you t Queen She wo be a happy woman, she! ntrance 1, Some one } tie time when household taste was at} Mary has commanded that lish | gatd, only sh 4 a son in ‘rried him a message that two its lowest ebb in this country, went in| society women buy no new ciothes”” Aviation Co and a daughier in 3 who seemed to be promising ma Among other things ree strongly for this kind of hou if replied Mrs. dart, "Mra. Stryver Was | Red Cross work. She sald she meant eee nae ceen actresses were in the |quired of me was to fall from the 6 ornament, but if we go back further | alinost in tears, she wants to be loyal it too hough sh id children are teroom and he had come forth to| back of a galloping h Attey anit yet into the time of their grandmoth- {to our a id What Queen Mary | so h more trouble when young) 2" " complishing this successfully | was or great-grandmoth) we tind mar ind yet she says she | than ‘Pekingese pet d and never!" si. Grimth talked to mother about|in two minds as to waether or gut T AWA HS AEE St Da ae HOP TBAT | ALLUBE HANS, nae PRU AI Be YN BALERS rly as much attention.” | eo ortunities that bloomed in the | should continue—and both of them is to-day considered in the best taste, | see, Queen Mary has announced that should say not!" said Mr. darn) oe of a “picture actress” and as aj told me not to—but I did. The delicacy of line and proportion | she doesn't countenance then: Why, children not thought) ve uit was ushered into the studio! Since then I have been featured in which were characteristic of the Co “Do you think the Queen wears) enough of o be a." and a “test” was made of my abili-)a number of pictures and by «nd lonlal mante! called for but few orna-| the present short styles—remember| “At the same time [ think Mrs} It was satisfactory and I was|large have had a rather busy exis ments above the fireplace that then |Mrs. Stryver asked us that?’ Mrs. | Stryver is Just envious of Clara Mud- | spe leanne: @oan tak at the Heaalne was under all mantels, and these fow | tangle inquired, ridge-Smith’s silk service flag on her | ena of the first pictures in which I|my own producing company. What of the cholenat, and tho whole was! ‘Well, not on court or slate occa. Auiamablle, J don't Know why.’ | appeared was called The Indion's more could a “movie actress” ask? given @ conservative and well-bal- | sions, 1 should think,” remarked Mrs,| Mr. Jarr didn’t know why either, app Janced arrangement, ‘There was not al jarr, “You know they wear trains, he said, “can't she get her Hal (hin Vase ob GDS MOS anda mle |Geoe loka irainpcoversady done a taraniiay lean | Make Soldiers’ Waistcoats From Old Kid Gloves, ty jar on the other, but heights of} when there are royal recapt il ked her that,” replied Mrs ATRIOTIC women in America| cents, One of these vests can easily ornaments were perfectly matched | on account of the w Idonotthink| Jar, “but she said » had such a] may profit by the experience Of] be made in a day or two, while the and the balance (hat ts always so rest- | there are many gila occasions in| ved chauffeur now she did not want | their British cousins and follow | knitting of a sweater takes considers ful to the eye was preserved. Europe, and as English ladies of {to lose him, But she's ready to sac-|tneip example by devoting their at-|ably more time, Another advantage —— are farmerettes they could not very, Tifice her butler, as she is going tol tention to the making of “glove/of the glove vests is that they weigh HERE IS A WAY TO HANDLE A i! well wear trains—in fact I have seen | dismiss him anyway’ waistcoats” instead of the sweaters | but a few ounces, are less bulky than | HOT RIFLE | pictures of them running farm ma- | which their nimble fingers have been | woollen sweaters, yet fully as warm | A patent has b granted the Con- ee and wearing pai lle and MOVABLE MACHINE SHOP. | knitting heretofore for the soldiers|/and more windproof. In addition A portable track welding outfit necticut invent & perforated ven- | knickerbockers, Yet, I do not rema1-! weighing less than 200 pounds which Monthly, These vests are lating shield to be fastened around | ber, come to think of it,/of having taxes its power from trolley wires has |!" Sclence a rifle barrel so the weapon can be|scen any pictures of the Queen of |), re pede for small street, rail- made of waste material, discarded | hoped that American women will see hendied wien yi aud Ww alfoed aj Magland weartng overatis or even th &o act requise elaborate kid gloves, which cost practically |the advantages in this new patriotia better grip, nothing, The lining costs only 85 work, PPE SE and sailors of our country, says Popu-| that they do not shelter vermig as do the knitted garments, It is to be 4 Wayo thal equipment,