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VOLUME 59.. f iolivation, of 81m Armoatanee | | PUP MA Sala NO. _ WHY NOT SOMETHING DEPENDABLE? | HAT has heen the advance in food prices in the Unite: States during the past twelve months? ¢ Marked disparity between the answer of the Food Administration and the answer of the Department of Labor to the, above question strongly suggosts a need of greater intelligence, care "and accuracy in dealing with the facts. <n The Department of Labor, through its Bureau of Labor Statistics, declares “the increase in the price of al! articles of food combined in August, 1918, as compared with August, 1917, was 15 per cent.” | With equal positiveness the Pood Administrator states that the cost of food in the United States has risen during the past year only = 31-2 per cent. Which is rig Or are both wrong? ate the labor unions justified in using figures as high or higher than those furnished by the Department of Labor as an argument} ee for wage increases? ‘ | Are hundreds of thousands of consnmers to ignore the evidence, of their own experience and pretend to believe the low estimate of} the Food Administration is correct? i Mr, Hoover says that increases in the cost of food “have been! greatly overestimated by laying too much emphasis on special cases.” But “special cases” are exactly those with which the ordinary consumer, householder and wage earner has to reckon through fifty- two weeks of each calendar year. * Generalizations based on wholesale prices and the broader move ment of foodstuffs fail to connect with the experience of the man who has to figure a family budget, To be told the national food bill has increased only 31-2 per cent. during the last year carries but cold comfort to a householder! who knows that his grocer’s and butcher's bills are taking at least| Sere 80 pot cont. invie uf hie earnings, : If 31-2 per cent. is the “national” figure, then in most localities retaii profiteering must be as rampant as ever and Government price regulation a dismal failure. | B Then, too, Mr. Hoover may have overlooked the reactive effects of rising food prices in the shape of growing retrenchment and self-| denial on the part of small consumers. A survey of this sort should not ignore consequences of high! food cost revealed in lowered standards of living, in the case of thou sands of families to whom the war that lias brought heavy ine rease| i of expenses has brought no increase of income. ‘ There has never been a time when the country stood in greater] need of authoritative statistics and conclusions regarding the cost} cs of food. 3 Despite all Government effort, there is as yet scant understand ing of how much common articles of food ought to cost at retail) or how far a continued rise in the price of such articles should be} F accepied bg the public as economically just and inevitable, | k Instead, we have two great departments of the Government in a wide disagreement as to the plain statistical fact of how much the price of food has gone up in a year, 20, , (Phe New York Evening Wor i qonacauartsl 1, that doesn’t mat~ le Twant of tine: Mind fora quartets i esn't ma 7 F F R Prana Triads ew York Lirening World 2 that ag ZOU are under forty-five, and ate it pac ; i Federal bureaus concerned with practical economic questions! Coneraut, IMIS, by The Pre Publishing Co, (Ihe Now York Liveniug Worl) F always, ays 1 found tha : : re * ry | Take it bac eat i Pa Gir? nt Oe ‘ la fi ” or service, at th } : ‘ Y LAST Government authorities | move to make the London siuins safe) soon the family had accum' may be drafted. Now, don't) «on 1 am not an Indian giver,” re- | weight, 1 nd I'm going to Aj Fae PUZOER RO. greatas Rexvicejat the present time than join forces A in London have taken hold | and sanitary at the same time, 4 money they hurried to better | my ot eneyee fave you any torted Mr. Rangie. “It don't want {t|/make you a littie present.” in expert effort to furnish the country accurate data which might} and aro going to w out the} RBASONALLE pre! raed Han aiGas eh BAIA te a Mb Bapeie. and vite bask: Glinme o quarter! Jarr handed over the box. | ' tite bett urigh he handed Mr, a small fiatactiee DA Hahn ihe . help to show consumers what necessary increase in the cost of living bad housing condt-) In contrast to t the attitude} juman trait to want better things) 000 . tee Mr, Jarr reluctantly handed over Jolinson, the colored deputy ice+ Me st pasteboard box. ere’s a trench 4) ‘ : a & Rane nad he th niust be expected and what me: li 1 , : tions of the work-| of many landlord rown county.}and to long for sunlight. 5 yes he quarter and Mr. Rangle and opened the box and regarded — , | Sail hat means are indicated toward keeping the} ing people where the law } ne +0 far as!” OF course there are those who have |MUITOr with i), toon | parted, _ the nickel-plated object with undise k inerease within necessary limits | The slum areas! to permit the taking over of the city's! coy so long lived in an improper at- 2 aoe razor—T know it”) «1 want to show you something ed contempt. VEAL Seem | of that city are to | cons sted areas and doing with them | y that the atirrimp of their |S4id Mr. Jarr, “Everybody gives Me saiq Mr, Jarr, stopping Raffert ain't nobody in this tewn ¢ és | , be cleaned at | is being done in Lond le has been stultified and they are | 0" feat a me be ae the builder, sae ne eeiamayee jbut what ain't got one of then TY ¢ Of $17,000,000. ght be well to create public| said to “know no better.” {EAations becaune £94 i » MY) safety razor Rangle had given hir said the colored mam, CHURCHES IN HEAR SYMPATHY. Ree ‘th 4 $10,00 Bprenest at ttle a rection, (Our-own | ‘i : ig eae “am I my brother's | beard is too heavy. | “L suppose you want to hand that /ugomenody must he making them by / ; | 3 ha ue | in hl 4 ; at 3 ya |. “L might have known you'd sneer! pace scraper over to me.” suid Raf- , . HE response of the churches to The Evening World’s sugges: | 000 has already’! fast Side is similar to that of Landon answers ttseif, and it is Up}. wes said Rangle in hurt : ah pi Than ash for a coin, so j1)th@ million, Yessir, by the millions ak Sten thas oh cal ‘| % been spent on the) many tines have I been in con-}to you and me to teach them to know | | ferty, d verlentahip? Well !It ain't no god to carry for social ri “i in ow church class rooms, social rooms and parish houses) ys project and fifty- soctions here the condi-|petter—to help kindle the spark of sare Anil ya altel ial Guent my not cut our grie perren vag |PUrposes. Howcome you white folie Pe be used to relieve the overcrowding in the city’s public schools | ™ wanes five acres of slums! tion rre . indeed. Hundred) lampition for cleaner and better ways, | hy didnt you B: sue aven't a penny in cha a make such curious gifts to colored ir ity’s public school ons are harrowing i am Tusa Ath Then ALL PaRatCIFIE? (ii8 rf “jmake su SF i \ iding aan a t + Cleat . on a Mr. Je J anyway, I baven't an encmy in the|™°® dries ; has heen prompt and whole-learied. jhave been cleaned, providing sanitary | of cellars aro the only homes that) fut first of all the man. Who Bas box dublously. “Gus is going to be | nN ne ae ihalitile tarwirer on [Tees anyhow? Here's a lady 60,000 people xe Jightle: . are) vides the home, the landlord, we mus as e 1 r cerns iv Pastors of all denominations warmly approve the idea, both as a) 'Unne for more than } people.) many kn Lightless rooms vides the home, the landlord: we Tey) ait out of DubiNeAS And Hed appre | tin jdown street give her colored hiahed ‘ Z pie ¥ appro » both a Sites have been secured adjoining | common, and miserable plumbing is look to him first. Reasonable rates ae eee ene ¢ ke possession | #4! # silver hair curler as a birthday a practical solution of a difficulty and as a welcome opportunity for|the unsanitary and over ewig | the general rule : : and sanitas me ROTTOVAO ERT ee ee ct ponraniate ih" Th | Ac aleafiating Ges tech URsreHeR iaratant, Gedéap!" ‘ the churches to perform yet another patriotic service, places and better buildings will Pe) gomo time ago in ‘The Hvening Ba wi Sol tne sons of these fam-Mplicd Mr, Rtangie. “Anyway, he docsn't have been handed @ safety eazor by| [This laa wan addreneed toi Resa Mayor Hylan indorses the plan us a Imirable expedient t eae up. ‘The city thus gives to dwells | Word's search for more playsrounds iieg are in the foreground of the fight.| nave himself, Tony, the barber, is | 34 sa tin warn oe ¥ ; y ) i Nn admirable expedient by sin the crowded sections an oP-| gy children f went down to look at! London has not forgotton, It is high | customer of Gus's. so Gus patron- | Mr. Rangle some time pre Noualy, 9 | Mr. Jarr was just about to drof the * which the city, bound by the ruling of the Federal War Indusiries aot ty to rent clean homes at FeA-| ihe roots of some of the dwellings in {im _fome such rules are made, for leon Pony, Of course,” Mn. Rangie Mr, sor - solved to getrrid of the! 21% Os pangte into the ash cah as @ , Board to put off the building bf $9,000,000 worth of new sci prices, the hope of Anding places for the| the profiteering lantiard® Nek. Sire | ldded, ‘it’ isn't good luck to give |one we had. is veq Present for the local operative of the ‘ t Ind of London , it As he neared the house he observed | Ehawis until atter the war, can still free 40,000 of ita echool children| # in the East End of 14 children to play While we are making “the world away anything sharp. It inight cut| AS pserved |p, S.C. but then, remembering how 4 n unt eer 2c st I. of its school chile Ten! whore 1 have seen hundreds and hun L saw blocks of tenements owned by | safe for democracy” let us make the lave friendship > give me half; Sam, the colored helper ses se | Mrs, Jarr had aroused the ire of the ‘ from: the necessity of part-time instruction, ldreds of men, women and children! i ion, Most of them wer homies NKOWlse, cratio 3 ndlora [do at’ wagon, just coming out of the base-! Wwiite Wings when she gave him @ 4 . | 1 ‘ state, fe wou ye demoer andlord : ‘ “Tal ‘ i The expense of equipping church class rooms temporarily with | H¥ius in @ muserably crowded Mtl) Aug tho most primitive method of | ii aKe not Mr, Jarr. "Take | ment |manicure set one Christmas, he re- , ; ; | with all the attending unfit and une) i couing was tho ry solved to hold on to the unwelcome “e obihe j eare an eints houx keeping Wa | ar s¢hool furnitur and f heating and taking care of the same should,} wholesome conditions of existence, sci ait ilk ax’ pote cone By Bide Dud | git from the municipal point of view, weigh nothing against the imme-| ‘There is nothing more terrible than) T found Fee eeclactinta GRIT uci € t . laitres Ss y bide UOICY |r tnink ite real cutelt sala etn : : ' reat {sible because of the old-tin mine: “ diate advantage to the children these slums of Lannsn, and ae Pr pincen and Die 1 been built A Jarr when he showed it to her, “Of . 4 dawning when they to be . f 1 et is beans When I slip “ know as much a you do, c e means you must make e Board of Educ has y estir itsel a | day | ‘ many, Many ye pyria' 9 Puylishin stool to get hi by | cours ans y a Th Be ard a d estan Ma only to best r itse to pat an end] yipea out. ‘The most sladsome tid: |" : enaey a Pea eaniin lala oven Buster Wie him the hunger eradicator he smiles other replies. ‘I ain't been driving « in return to that to -dilheais area ew York public sehools with a plan that already | ings are that this work will go on in) eee etoee gid ein was, 1H this war began,” wald Lu-|and saya: ‘Well, I see the boys have| street car fifteen years for no man Rangie, But, anyway, if yo recommends itself to all concerned by its specdiness, simplicily and {9t® O01 MAR a lieee twa ona like tn aet ewas ha As the Priend-/erossed the Ludendorff line again.’ | “f-didn't see the connection exactly. qon't want it, I can take a blade out common sense, an Senin INF le of the| from here, but where shall we go Patron gi sone lump of You Hindenburger,’ sings) but it was a pretty stiff rejointer. | snd use it as a tivead and seam cut= Pe 4 aa the war has ome ne eth n thing | The rents are high, Landlords dé lear a parting eaross ahd dropped it}out a fat motorman revelling !u|vevertheless. I could see © 10D ter, ¢ Se th gtaet casing Tapes J mi Saas | ord closer together and nothing " Luge cenbepy : See aligenan ale Mike AGREE other 7 thought, #0 I says to the! some symmer dresses after I buy 5 . rignificant than this] want children, and our incon cea l wbou men whe 1p ) lant allt " \ Letters From ye h e People could be _moro ‘elgnifieas eAiking torgraphy No, don't,’ says the first orator Toure Fiuht-| some goods. ‘They aay. on account of } i f > o Now, lemine ask you-where is Ber-|thg war, there won't be any clothe: MTs ake Ghar at ihe Gar! tesasee cana ice EF Uf. S, oe rae stan Gan. Dereile uF : ’ ° wa y clothes 4 ‘ences, . ake no differ- Os ‘ ” t q Fe the Vilter of Ye Erening W ort jence at present how well behaved your ‘Twelve Days Missing rom Ast ‘y you know They'tp on thelr way to Mets. It's) lin {ROBE ge b WH you Kindly publish the follow- | cnitgren muy be. one i 7 a) “4 ys story of Pope Gregory NUL corre th 8 boun on five kliokil h, what Writin’ songs in the Army,’ he| “It couldn't he used to cut out Hsing item concerning di Meulty in #6-|ux4 chitdren allowed th eh fe | RE VE dase 1 vee vou should | About 2682 by dropping wn nde ‘on sou ©, Rhode to To want to sity says doughnuts ything that, could curing apartments, Just because One Word hay been so help'u fate ely AIAHOR OF vias happened in ns Huh yeu ia tren a og every fOUF | and t glass ¢ ‘pardon me, friend!’ Tsays. ‘Yous “phe other guy like to laughs his| it? asked Mr. Jarr. could give 18 x 16 ao “unfortunate” as to have several | this sort that I should be most pe “ ref ~ De aaah 3 and enturies the extra diy way YOM | Arotic cir lon't want t y any you want | head f. ‘She means Berlin, the) to the Salvation Army for overseas 3 * children? This does not apply only|eyy ty wee it take se (hia miaheat be creates slifiad no eo hould not bs Aye “You mean geographys. And it'a|s something.’ town where the Kaiser lives at,’ he|duty, then.” to high claamageiments, but to ten: | shouig also like to hear from others | ais dd mot Oxia, Unitor tho | Aner Min ste nd ers they h ul ch I know what I want to say,’ be) gurgies, ‘Gosh, you must ‘a’ been} “Why don't you try it?” asked Mra, meant hour wel, 1 have looked who have had similar trouble old style calendar, Sent. 2 fell) Even this calendar ts : pot glose ear jerowls, ‘I'm talking about @ dis-/driving that street car up a side|Jarr, "fry to shave with it, I mean, r some time for rooms of medium : sd BiG Bete DBs 4 id ast, ainounting to a ‘oneal! | ot! a ss 1 ybody rental, and invariably the first ques- | AN. ¥, OUTCAST. Jon a Wednesday, The next day ttt a ue whens (000 contes arow say, said Lactic, affecting pl any fe eae gaecth van |hoeee ; ‘ Fou aware eee fanz pody. touches tion asked was “How many chil.|TMIMke Landlords should Aduue | (Gregorian or New Style Calendar was) Wil jaye to be robbed of its leap yea aye you started, anyway—a Ie mIsnE ve mere GN tA 1 Teh) orpe motorman suet pave Bunk! | Four SS: raaerh. Byam iamy gives Chitdren, ted by Great Britain and her! gay to correct this differ sc Apert rent waitresses | talked at a distance,’ I te + SUNK! ana out he goes, pretty much sore. 1|them as presents to soldiers, too, But Gren?” When told three, the Janitress ay tie tier of Toe beeetne World adopted by Greu ie The Gregorian Calendar — was) 4ay School eet, teacher! (ing in the French’ to increase his g When the jor- |Yow.can use it, can't you is usually horrified. Yet aM the! 1 road with jnicroat the article ‘American colonte E adopted in. Catholic countries, ins|or something Tee OMe ere eixletys ‘What ao you Know about | Never ame & werd, han th “No,” said Mr. Jarr, firmly. “Twill owners and janitors were once chil- B. K, A. about landlords refusing to | forward to Sept, M4 eae :' and) Well, as 1 Was saying when the class | anxlet : ) graphy guy Jeaves I just have to slip/no: be a human hamburger, 1 doa@ dren ~themeeives. No doubt dogs|take fainiiies with children. 1 Up to this time the Julian calendar i a snort) was called to order, these guys know | Metz, anyway ' him a parting truth. So I say: ‘You're know Why it was wished on me, if | afraid @ jot of us mothers have learned jad 8 followed by the English ina and about the lay of the land from ‘It's an interior town.’ wrong about the town where the) I'll give it to Gertrude and tell her Would be accepted without question | oe iniy condition when looking e world, Aa reformed by Jue , to Sandford Hook and all, “‘Mety is not no inferior town,’ | ives at!” \iv'e a freckle remover, houses where children are denied. sapartments, Could noe The Tec: peaking world, AA reform by gi nee colonial | Califrisco to Sandtor k Clie RESALE, ajser lives at! And Gorirude received it with aha We are urged to have families, and, World assist us in fighting this out: | Mus Caesar in 46 Be Cy It mag | over the foreign battlefields, too, That * eeecevre not’ T says, ‘Tes| “'A%, yer crazy! he sings out, and| joy and lator presonted it to Elmar after we havggghem can find no ault- | Tageous condition? | admit spine poo consist of 869 day's and six hours is, they think they do, But the ‘Of cours n jple are unreasonable in so far thit able place f m to live, Where 2 . they hold their ehildren to be right would Uncle army come from jin ‘everything; but could not the r yy of it were children from so |owner get references from the pro- tenant ur make some sort of Be neraamen’ sernnnitn tm bath ie. | ity | q i six hours. a at sf ogre ‘ rr Ta EDITORIAL PAGE| | EWeseeys BA RAL AM 24, 1918) ete Turkey Trot! Cogeright, 1018, te Tie Pegs Pabiinhing CO Tue New Sork Brening World, Landlords and Poor By Sophie Irene Loeb to secure more sanitary an entra di fourth full mor don't, old kid; they don’t, comes to the unburnished truth | things they just ain't there, All they} added to February counted a tpsacoolnt. for tho |eaused Joy among th ixed on This was the most accur- | WAS fMxed or gloom when ate calendar year yet devised, but it As to this, whose pay a monthly basis, but rent-day came around, sotthe rent dope © of them comes’ in here this than. the J ie solar year of she days, henry makes, our setting up. of the five hours 4 ‘ay in 7 iv is yeu slosh. iat spring seem @ vprrig hen it|got a postoftice and everything’ ‘ about | just did it to excite his temper a bit, | PRUs.” “'T said it wag an interior town— the records are not at] got is plenty of talk punktated with not inferior,’ the jorgraphy bug al- woe TH minutes and 14 seconds longer) hand. but this wiping out of twelve s Ls mast shante ‘What vou. know| ‘The truth,” replied Lucile, "Tou! wii’ ane might memenmLer “ out jorgraphy? This latter [eee know and I know that the old Kaiser By J. H. Cassel STSTTET £7 S piee By Albert Payson Terhune No. 61—SARI PETRASS, the Dancer Who Was a War Spy ARI (pronounced like “Shalirree") PETRASS was @ gloriously beautiful Hungarian girl. Sho was one of the most fascinatingly «“raceful dancers in Europe, . and she was a brilliant stress. She was, moreover, a member of an honorablwold Buda-Pesth family and thus ‘held a far higher social position than do most actresses, All of which was destined to be of great.» service to her. \| 4 At the time the European war began; in the summer of 1914, Sari was starring in a Hungarian Theatre in London. Whether love or cash or merely her own common sense led her to espouse the cause of the Allies against Germany and Austria no one seems’ to know, But for some reason she consented to become a spy in Great Britain's behalf, and she proceeded to make arrangements for getting her | reports into the hands of certain English officers. Almost at once, on the outbreak of the war, Sari shook the dust & Lonion, disgustedly, from off her pretty fect and fled home to Buda-Pesth | There she had no trouble at all in convincing her fellow-countrymen thaf | she was an ardent Hungarian patriot and that she had gladly thrown away her bright English career in order to return to her own beloved people, Tt is not at all certain that she was ofMcially recognized as a secret | agent by the British authorities, Yet she pro- WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA® coodod to send a series of useful reports, it 1s Dancer Goes vt Be ee eS Hae to highly placed British officers. tal ale OTE Sari had little trouble in getting matertal for | these reports, She was trusted in Hungary, Her was Influential, She readily penetrated into the very centre of the “military set." ‘ Mer beauty and superwoman charm turned the heads of many Magyar joMcers and her wily questioning readily induced some of them to blab of sings which should have been kept secret. Having established find some safe way Ingland. a means of information, Sari's next step was to to get her py news across the border and thence ta Here again her charm of manner and her beauty helped her, She would induce compatriots who were going on business trine to Switzerland to carry her letters thither and forward them from some Swiss post office to Great Britain, Tt 1s almost certain that none of these dupes gu the ‘nnocent-looking episties they were asked to mai were sed at the nature of unwwittin FS ion to the enemy, and equally loyal Hungarians were mailing that information. tl was a pretty scheme and one j that worked well for a while, But all luck, soon or late, turn; and Sari's luck was no ex- ception. The very qualities which had made her such a successful spy were @ prove her undoing. She Makes Dupes Her Tools, eee , must e One of the men she persuaded to carry a letter across the border is jeredited with having been crazily In love with her, Ie was morbidly J us, and he had a notion that the letter was written by Sari to some one in England whom she loved. * Jealousy overcame Bonen The man opened and read the letter tne trusted to his care, ‘Then he turned tt over to the authorities, was arrested ent tried for high treason in gtving ald to the 3 of her country. She was condemned and sentenced to death as a epy So swiftis and secretly was the affair 4 throug her own family are believed to have known nothing of celved word of her execution, arrest until they ree By bis b. McCardell cried Mr. Jarre, “Find” 918, by Lae Treas Mubiishing Co, back your who was doubtless very happy to it, seeing that he intended to give to a bedridden aunt and tell her was a potato peeler, His aunt ney: peeled potatoes in bed, but a gift gift, and when the invalid made y he leaves, thinking himself trium- “What did you Intend to tell him?” asked the Friendly Patron. A cs Sali Se dad la