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Eve ESTABLISHED BY “Josernt PULITZER, Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos 63 Park Row, New York. beds RALPH PULITZBR, President, 63 Park Row, |. ANGUS SHAW, “Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZE OF THE ASSOCIATED PIERS, }7 entitied to the ne, tor recitation of sa gg) : is paper and ale the looal vows publisl a VOLUME ra tat \ credit nae HEN storehouses are bursting with foodstuffs and current on in what food production gor increasing volume, happens to retail food prices ore There are 250,000,000 pounds of pork in the cellars of Swift & 17Ue., President Louis F. Swift told the House Internal and Foreign jYommerce Committee yesterday. “There isn’t room to put in any } More unless we slip it in as a ham sandwich.” H With the wholesale market overstocked with all grades of beef | (at greatly reduced wholesale prices; with a 40,000,000 pound surplus “Pf poultry in cold storage over and above the amount held a year tee and fresh poultry coming in weekly in huge quantities; with | ' ; wholesale prices of butter and eggs dropping day by day, what should be the outlook for consumers | what ought it to bundance, peace, falling wholesale price mean for the householder and his budget? In some of the big public markets here in New York yesterday i retail prices for meat and poultry began to shade off in partial and | belated response to the change in wholesale prices, t But have New York retail food dealers in general marked down » prices so that the housekeeper may have her share of the saving made | f possible by greater plenty? i. 2” They have not, although here and there small reductions have} A bsen made. | The sensitiveness of the retailer toward changes in the wholesale | price of a commodity he handles is peculiar: Let the wholesale price be advanced two cents and behold even before it is announced the retail price bounds up ten cents. Let the wholesale price come down ten cents and a month later the retail dealer may reluctantly shave a penny off the price he has| been charging his customers. But between plenty and the beneficent influence it might other wise exer! upon the pocketbook of the consumer, stand yet others besides the retail dealer. There is the stabilizer of prices. Likewise the valorizer, to whom abundance is always an evil in that it furnishes a too plentiful supply of what people must have and so brings down the price they can be untdde to pay. The function of the valorizer is to conceal or disguise @ abundance and release it only in such quantities as will keep up “prices. Thus: b in Diamonds, as produced at the mines, are valorized so that an syoartificial scale of prices may be maintained for purchasers able and MIF i ao Milling to pay for a luxury “a Fish, as produced in unlimited quantities by the sea, is valorized Unvthese parts by a fish combine that throws fish back in the wate ther than let it become cheap for people who need it as a food. In the case of other food products, cold storage is the chief aid “1 | wen | EDITORIAL PAGE| Saturday, January 25, 1919 H. Ca ] ssel | on aye Ba Ris <u Were Ended By Albert Payson Terhune. Coprright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) NO. 29—THE CHINO-BRITISH WAL HE Chinese in general regarded Europeans as barbarians, as ‘foreign devils,’ writes Sir Robert Douglas in his terse account of the Chino-British War. Of the armed strength of Europe they were ignorant. They were about to be undeceived, Great Britain being the: first power to take action. For years trade conditions between China and England had been bad. There had been attempts to regulate them by treaties. But yearly the situation grew more and more strained. ‘The Mandarins complained of the opium trade and of other alleged abuses. When England conceded cer taln important points the Chinese demanded larger concessions. At last, in 1840, these demands led to an abrupt break between the twe nations, Great Britain declared war. The conflict that followed deserves a place in our because of its mighty results in opening up the Far East to trade and progress—not because of any spectacular or hard-contested campaigns, Great Britain had the finest navy on earth and a thoroughly up-to-date army. China could have put fifty million men in the field had it been necessary. ries of great ware —e——rrr British Fleet But the result would have been the same. For ‘Storms the Chinese were a thousand years behind the times | Chu-San, in all essential features of warfare. ny The British fleet opened the war by storming and capturing Chu-San, Barly in 1841 China’s ‘sup. posedly formidable “Bogue Forts” crumbled before the heavy gunfire of the English. In a host of minor engagements the same fate defell the Celestials, The fall of the Bogue Forts gave the Chinese a belated idea of thetr “foreign devil” enemy's deadly power, and the Imperial Government be. Stirred itself to pacify the invader, * China accordingly consented to pay Great Britain an indemnity of $6,000,000 and to cede Hongkong to the conquerors. In spite of these concessions the war went merrily on, Sir Hugh Gough, at the head of an expeditionary force, captured Can- ton. Shortly afterward Amoy and other important Chinese cities fell into British hands, Everywhere the English trounced their Celestial foes, with the same ridiculous ease wherewith @ division of shock troops might overcome a com- pany of grammar school cadets. ‘The Chinese fought bravely enough as long as any fight remained im them, but it was the old story of the amateur's efforts against the profes- sional—the tale of the clash between stagnation and modern progress. ‘As soon as the Chinese found they could not stand against their white enemies their queer Oriental fatalism led them toe give up the struggle that had proven hopeless, And Barr Chinese Imperial the rest was mere military manoeuvring for the Government British, Sues for Peace. Nanking, the all-important “Southern Capital,” « PARADA Y) was besieged, and it tottered helplessly toward its fall. In another few days it must have surrendered. But, to avert this crowning disaster, the Chinese Imperial Government sued for peace. The exclusive Celestials had learned their lesson as to the | gtrength and determination of the “foreign devils” and they were quite ready {to pay the bill, ‘The bill was ample, The victors saw to that. | A Chino-British treaty was drawn up and signed, late in 1842, whereby | opina pot only paid Great Britain a war indemnity of $21,000,000 in cash but | opened to foreign trade the five hitherto scaled ports of Amoy, Ningpoo, Fue « oof the valorizer, though it sometime proves his undoing. H The ctabilizer is supposed to serve both consumer and producer. | baxl® see how much the stabilizer is appreciated by {he producer when | ss the services are in the right direction we haver only to note another | Balipart of what the President of Swift & Co. told the House com-! ‘mittee: | | i “The Food Administration tried to stabilize prices, It | FN <9 tried to protect the producer against very low prices and the eu: ic Consumer against very high prices. It tried to protect us | ee against violent fluctuations in price, It did a wonderful fe thing.” 0 ‘ we. Now and for some months to come, thinks Mr. Swift, “is the| | sfitical time when it is needed most.” fv Naturally, since the abundance of food in the country is begin- e>e ing to reveal itself and consequent lower prices are threatening the profits of those who for the last four years have based their plans Ch the continuance of restricted food supplies at ever rising prices All the consumer asks is that a plentiful food supply and declin- ing wholesale prices shall produce their natural effects where h eee them in his butcher's and grocer’s bills, e an | All the stabilizers and valorizers in the country could never con- soce him that. with food accumulated in such abundance as to make St impossible to keep up producers’ and wholesalers’ prices, The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardel! Copyright, 1919, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evoning World.) The Office Force Why By Bide Dudley Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Mrs. Jarr Agrees That Diamonds May Be Vulgar-—But ! | Bobby, the Office Boy, Is Wound Up This Morning T the playhouse Mr. and Mrs. A Jarr were keenly interested in the dramatic and farcical inci- dents of a long railroad journey, the setting of the plec Phere, you ne “Look at that woman there with the string of diamonds round her neck and the diamond pendant!” cried Mrs. Jarr, indicating by # fascinated) and steady gaze the fortunate pos- sestor at a table some distance away | to the left. Mr. Jarr eyed tt without emotion. over "said Mr. Jarr, as they were coming out, “the close and intimate association of a road journey brings out the dominat« traits. If you'l note, the men all ad Justed themselves to a ‘bear and for- bear’ basis from the first, and evel the aloof and eelf-sufficient, esp claily when the train wreck occurred, | grew companionable and considerate; but the women, to the last, were, with but the exception of the ever sweet heroine, in the same state of smiling | animosity toward each other with which they began tho Journey. “But, as | was saying,” Mr, re ed, “women's inconsideraten for other wom long rail some day, and I'l get you a mess of glitter like that, if you want it,” he remarked. “Those diamonds must have cost a fortune,” said Mrs, Jarr, with her eyes| stil upon the happy wearer of the shimmering outfit, “But, really, I don't think I'd care for them." “Want emeralds, pearls and rubies?” ayked Mr, Jarr. He stood ready to promise those, too. o.” said Mrs, Jarr. “IL wouldn't want them, either, If one has a very! Valuable necktace one has to live up Jare sun’ 48 n would make the an " retail | “harges ought not also to come down, Letters From the People wents Dh ne for h Idlers who remained on a ed on tht - in Fiahters, side should feel sensitive about wear. *P8%o the Editor of The Evening World the stripes for that kind of w With reference to the controversy |) know that they wer regarding the service stripes to be} Would nnd, ahh hy me thing and WP worn by the different soldiers, wish | nobly, ay Americans aiwave Qe? nol@ express my views on the subject. te arn: we tk certainly ts unjust for the soldiers painicihasieee: 4y\awho saw none of the hard fgnting of |T tie Laitor of The Exening World ") their brothers to wish the same kir The interesting report in your .of distinction that belongs to valued paper of the Economic Club's ~e ‘fighters and to them alc They | naval banquet the Hotel Astor Beieey it was not their fault that they touched a vesponsive chord ip my © “Hemained on this side of the water | memory ©, and it is certainly true that a very ene years ano when I was sail. ? reat A der | {28 for Canada on board the eo @reat many of them do not consider | fan Monarch “attereart oo {their misfortune, ed the Pc and torpedo One of the criers for somebody | last summer) 1 heard a wong sang he ivsive's cake stated through # letter to [af F ee An, Woke left a deep sti dpour paper as follows: “I ask that) distance of tine, 1 Pie - At this man not to feel so bad over the loss | call the tune of the sone tly Fes pf his log’ —dismissed the matter of |chorus, although I have never heart “this soldier's sucrifice as though the |!t sung since ° nt ean loss of a part of on body was » ed in the chorus shows the good mere trifle, cling that England had for th Everybody, 1 am sure, is willing to | United States even then: indeed, tt dive all due credit to the men who| has always existed. 1 do not know were preparing to enter the fight,|the name of the wong, nor of th but they must remember that while | Compose! The chorus ran some. Whey served their country they did|thing like this Senet fight for it. So did President | May the Star Spangled Banner oWilson serve his country, with a] And the dear old Union J Jomighty capacity, but I don't think he | Forever, to, r be unfur going to make any claim to the honors of the fighter, No fair-minded mman will begrudge the soldiers who fought and euftered all the hardships ‘and agony incident to warfare th it to wear a special mark of dis- over any other kind of ser- And there is reason why With John Bull and Together hand-in- For united they the world, Viewed tn the ieht of the ht pres- ent events, the foregoing seems al- most a prophecy. a! ANGLO-AMERICAN, Jonat id conquer all | For, you know, It has) eo it, One couldn't wear jewels like heen authoritatively decided that the) those and not be in full evening dress. only angels are men angels.” | One couldn't be in full evening dress "Where was it decided?” asked | without a costly opera clonk and a | Mrs. Jarr sharply, “There are no men! jace and jewelled fan. One couldn't wgels on THIS earth, that's sure! | neve those unless one had the most | And no one has returned from the! expensive ling ‘Phen one would realm the blessed with any evi-/ have to have an inclosed motor car \dence to bear out your statement.” — | Une couldn't ride in the street cara | ust the same, a noted sculptor) with an outfit like that It would be } was made to change the angels he| too conspicuous. All this is not |had sculpted on a big cathedral be-|counung the fact that if I had a cause he had sculptured women an-) necktace like that, and all the rest of |gels. The authorities sald: the only! the things that go with it, I'd have jangels on scriptural record were | ty have a safety deposit box in a bank mon angels.” jto keep the jewels in, and would be | “What have men angels and women] worried to death about burglars and | ane ia got do with proving your) thieves every minute it Wasn't in the contention that women are more self | strong box, jish than men and that the close as-) “1 couldn't go anywhere without | soclation of travelling proves {t?"| having my mind on it ail the time for j aaked Mrs, Jarr. | fear the clasp might break and [ad “Well, didn't you ever notice the) tose it. In short, wealth ts all very | struggle women tourtsts individually} weil and so are all the things that| make to lock themselves in the Pull-| go with it, but it entails too. much man wash room and keep all the| worry and responsibility.” j others of their sex waiting until they| "Well, I'm glad you're satisfied, * had leisurely finished thelr long and] said Mr. Jarr ve ordered what | exasperating morning toilets? Men | don't do that, they all shave and wash | up together in considerate and good| | natured fellowship when they are doll-| you like to eat and a bottle of wino, while wine may yet be had. Bo we're not so badly off after all.” “But, on second th sht, you may Jing up, a8 the long distance train| get mo the necklace~some day!" said | nears a big city in the morning.” | Mrs, Jarr, “What poet said ‘Largs! { "Oh, well, one has to look out for) diamonds may be vulgar, but I notice | | them as has ‘em wears ‘em'? one's self,” said Mrs. Jarr, as though That wasn't a poet whe the matter were too simple to be dis- ie 0 enid thas, | aske “Oh, maybe things will come my way | * 6s ILL, what do you think of] “Oh, this?” said WVopple, the | morning,” aded Spooner, the mild Shipping Clerk, looking up| little bookkeep “Miss Primm, I from his newspaper, ney’ve found | understand you're writing a book for @ man right here in New York mak- | use in schoo! ing moonshine whiskey!" “Yes, Mr. “What kind of whiskey is that?"| "Must be Miss Tillie, the Blonde Steno- | Bobbie, ot so bad!” “Yes, it Primm, ne ought to know, Popple—she's let's be pleasant this Spooner, I am.” a prime: suggested said Popple, is bad,” snapped Miss “It's a Wouldn't Oftice Boy, Nght you brand, I'd imagine. asked Bobbie, the ine jokes,” she ald, “I have a head- ache this morning.” “Never mind!" said the “He's been he said Bobbie. “When does he go to work?" “When he stops running I guess,” boy. “You Miss Primm, send here will be big enough to knock as Bobbie's remark about my head- “Well, the next boy I plied Miss Primm, | pak- retty silly! | “Really, that boy minded as anybody*l ever saw. | What's the matter—busted all your | "asked Bobbie in a low tone, that?” she demanded. three of ‘em every week by mail.” od night, nurse! said Popple. I think we'd better" is about as a | | mirrors “How bos opped , him and Instantly the OMice Fore! went to work, The humorist has started humor- | writing it,” said Bobbie. ing.” said Popple. Then to Miss Miss Primm was furious, “I didn't Tillie; “Moonshine whiskey is whis-|mean my book was bad, and you key that’s made illegally—on the |know I didn't,” she snapped. “Now quiet.” I'm going to tell you all something. Qn the quiet?” Yesterday Mr, Snooks said I might| Sure,” said Bobbie, “In a still.”| get a new office boy if Bobbie both- Miss Primm turned on him scowl- Jered us. I found one, He will be ing. “Now, you cut out these asin-|here in just a little while.” won't have morning headaches after|said the boy, “He looked Ike he|thunder from heaven—thoy shake us| jx ae nls books and business while July 1." jmight live in Mount Vernon, 80 1|by a separation, a divorce, an an- of the aa Pad pied eine things “Well, I declare! said Miss Tillie. | Started him that way.” houncement that thelr marriage 18 @/ sew business of “heen ee ‘He's hinting that Miss Primm| “On foot?” asked Miss Tillie. complete faiture, 8 eoping house. rinks, How 'bout tt, lady?” ure—on my right foot. What? Can a couple who have} After marriage so many conditions “Your question is almost as foolisn| “So you assaulted him, eh?” gald| walked together in such perfect step| CM@A8e and circumstances arise that mahaW gaia Mises bias of never In gueh perfect harmony be “out of | 1) Mee? drink, Don't worry about me your head off. tune?" ine Started. And the only way ta “L won't,” said Hobbie quietly. “Looks like that's the fellow I'll] Of course they can if they allow| k°*P ings going is to “wateh yo “Oh, shut up, you little idiot! Here| have to head off,” said Bobbie, that “KNOW each other" to change | *t°P” 4nd keep up with each chan you are trying to talk of intoxicants| “Bobbie,” said Popple, “you're alto “KNEW each other!" It has been| Hat takes place. ‘The hubsand o and you haven't got a lick of sense." | wonder. If Miss Primm gets you| said “The only thing we know about | tBftY-five is as different trom the “Don't you mean a lquor sen fired why not write for the funny|human nature fs that it changes." | DUS8n4 of twenty-eight as he was{ “pretty good, kid!" sang out! papers?” And the whole secret of living hap-| "0 his twenty-first birthday, Hy Popple. | "1 did” re the boy, “I get] pily together year after year is for| ™*Y Tetain much of the spirit ¢ But the entrance of Mr. Snooks, the find that husband and wife are not in step but growing further and fur. ther apart every day of their lives, Starting out in step, both interested in the same things, is not half es important as keeping up with each other all along the way of married Ufe, Frequently the college girl becomes! so domesticated that within seven years her husband has absolutel: nothing in common with her. He! does not care to talk about the new cook or the butcher's boy morning, noon and night. He cannot believe! that his wife is the same girl who quoted poetry and played Chopin'a waltzes before marriage, Nor (s she! The trouble is that he has kept right o | how, Canton and Shanghai. war thus had vast results which were to endure for centuries. By Fay Stevenson to Get Out of Tune. M pective marriage, saying: “Of other so well. keep on moving! seven years. If this ts true of matter, |teft foot to left, right foot to right speak not only with their tongues ol [no Mfenceforth the mighty China trade was open to the world, and China itself was perforce caught in an eddy of human progress. The easily won Love and Matrimony Copyright, 1019, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Fvening World) Why Some of the Happiest Married Couples Seem ANY timos we hear people speak optimistically of a pros- course, theirs will be a very happy marriage because they know each But the “know” must never change to KNEV The present tense must Physiologists tell us that every par- ticle of our bodies changes once in then think of the change of mind! A great many newlyweds start out They are in perfect step. Their lives are tuned tapthe same pitch, They but with their eyes, their hearta, their souls. And then--like a flash of {t takes*the greatest skill and tac “tall out?” to keep right along at the same gall Can a couple who were twenty-eight or of twenty-one, bu he is not the same man any more than the girl of sixteen is the ai as the woman of twenty-three, those seven years have work couples to change together, ometimes the mere fact that couples dance well together, that they play a clever game of tennis together or enjoy the same style of litera- ture is enough to take them to the o miracles. From an Inventor's Notebook Paper dust exploc su! lanterns into @ room filled with it in| a paper tube factory in Eraace, ee The cushion effect of aerated oll con- fined in cylinders features a new sus- pension system for motor trucks in which springs are eliminated, . a Oe It is definitely known that the Cey- Jon pearl fisheries have been in exist- housebold about 1 per cent, oe e A novel fireproof lathing consists of @ rectangular wire mesh upon which is baked a terra cotta covering in such @ way that it can be rolled or bent as desired, . it was Mr. Fingy Conners of Buffalo, & Newspaper Owner and political Wager, Fs “Bul was Into @ cabaret restaurant and|when h for the menu, cussed, | After the show, Mr. Jarr ted the “Tallea Poet, A real poe’ said that, just the sam eald Mra. Jarr, ” Production of salt from sea water by electricity has become so success- ful in Norway that two pliant ence since 806 B. C., and tradition they ylelded gems before that each . According to @ Paris mathemati. | tons, will be established, | sah ated ielan shn d with fatal re-| clan, the adoption of Greenwich time | when workmen carried lighted! as the standard for France increased the lighting expense of every French | “The couples who have been ried twenty-one years have pa: through three decided changes. No the question is have they kept up with each other in all those changes? If they have we say they are @ happily married couple; if they marriage ar, But in the long run of the next seven years of married | life their tastes will most likely change, The man becomes inter- jested in the heavier subjects of life, his business, anctent history, collect- ing antique furniture—oh you never is can tell what his bent will be—but you can venture it will be something entirely different from what tt was seven years ago, And unless his wife is interested in his new tastes there is bound to spring up a big gulf be- tween them, But man ts not the only ene who changes! Many women become in- terested in new thoughts and cults with an annual capacity of 50,000| which the tired business man is not able to grasp. And here again we haven't we say they have grown tired of each other, Not so tired perhaps, but the fact of it is they have really outgrown each other, One has gon ahead of the other, One has ch his tastes entirely during the seven years, Is it any wonder husbands and wives cry they “out of tune?” Keeping up with each other is important a8 keeping up with rent events! HRD A,