The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1919, Page 18

Be eel Lee TY SE case toe STE wine S Hho Lorine Bone Merell sere on FO ESTABLISHED 7 t Bi by the Press Publish! , Non, : Published Dally Excep' undey by #3! Prese Publishing Company, 63 te 63 RALPH Bey at 63 Park Row, ‘ J. ANGUS SHAW, rer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZBR, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row, ! MEMBER OF TAP ASSOCIATED PRESS, VOLUME 59.. PROBLEMS OF PLENTY. A’ “perplexities arising out of inability to demobitize aavme NO, 20,979 ae etacmsete oo! the food situation of the world in the period between the armistice and the peace,” Mr. Hoover advises the country to “do some quick, clear thinking,” with epecial attention to the Position of the American farmer. The iatter, Mr. Hoover pointe ont, responded zealously to the eall for extra production to meet the Nation's war needs. He was promised fair prices for all he could raise. Hostilitics have ceased The markets of the world are not restored to a state whero they can, Absorb excess of supply from any given quarter. The United States, heaving immensely increased ita ability to export food products, finds Meelf with a surplus of foodstuffs. Is it fair to force the farmer to take less than he was promised ez let part of his product go to waste? | Mr. Hoover makes the obvious answer. He urges Congress to fax all excess profits out of the packers, But farmers’ prices must | not be permitted to fall. No one wishes to see the farmer a victim of his own patriotism. | ‘At the same time it is fair to point out that there were others beside | the farmer who did their utmost to help win the war. Millions of American consumers not only helped with their industry and their! savings but shouldered ever increasing burdens in the mounting cost of all necessities, including food. Only within the last week have they begun to see any hopeful signs that the food prices may come down and that present abundance in their own country may have some meaning for them. Protecting the farmer from too sudden exposure to the rode law of supply and demand, after the artificial economic conditions pro- duced by war, carries no benefit for the consumer, Taxing away the excess profits of the meat packers does not help the weekly budget | of the American worker. Those upon whom the war and ita costa have borne most heavily must, it would seem, reconcile themselves to being the last to whom peace and its readjustments are to bring relief. Whether it be farmers’ prices or workers’ wages, wherever epecial war demands raised plateaus of temporarily accelerated prosperity, the first care is now to maintain the higher levels on the plea that if they come down too suddenly they will produce earthquakes. The country is like a man who under stress of intense excitement and need has climbed a steep rock. He has got to study how to get down again without a fall. American intelligence is expatfe of grasping the situation and proceeding with caution and patience. At the same time, it sees only justice in an equitable division of the burdens and temporary disad- _¥antages of this period preceding the definite establishment of peace. It would hardly seem fair, for example, that producers of food should be carefully ehielded from even the amallest hurt to their in- terests resulting from the cessation of hostilities, while consumers were cat off from the natural benefits of restored plenty in their own iand. . ‘After months of extra productive effort, eaving, self-denial and struggle to keep up with soaring prices, the war peril is past and are is a surplus of food for the people of the United States. That surplus ehowld not mean ruin for farmers. On the other hand it SHOULD mean relief for consumers. What selief cannot justly be expected to take the form of a eutaen, epectacutar dtump in food prices. But it can and should manifest iteclf tn s reguisted, consistent and continuing decline in (hes cost of common foodstafts. eT HOW BROAD? Che @vrentag World's contention that post-war wage adfust- " ante can be made equitable only by recognizing the clatms of 4 w@organived es well es organized labor ts supported by John | @, Bockefeller fr. in an interview which this newspaper prints w-day. _s - “The fact that organized labor concedes the right of unor- EDITORIAL PAGE | Tuesday; January 28, 1019 O [True Democracy _ 1010, ‘erenkint Werk) Many @ good wife has made the fatal mistake of trying to tie her husband to her by her kitchen aproo strings instead of by his heart strings. The worst “danger” that confronts the modern busi- ness girl is not e often the temptation to listen to the rich man who offers her a spin in his motor car as the | temptation to listen to the poor young man (making less money than ehe is) who offers her a wedding ring and a kitchenette apartment. Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Cuwrright, 1919, by The Prew Publishing Oo, (Tho Now York Evening World.) NCE upon a time every little girl planned to grow up and marry Prince Charming and make a happy home for him. Now she plans to grow up and be @ moving-picture from his happy home. ampire” and lure him away By Roy L. “ec ELL,” remarked Slavinsky, the glazier, “I guess, meb- be, that cashier register machine of yours ain't going to play 80 many tunes after the Ist of Chune next, vot?” This was just to make Gus feel good, all in the second month of the somewhat but not entirely glad now year. “I should worry!” replied Gus, “For twenty years I've been in the retail liquor business, and 1 got more tired serving ales, wines, liquors and cigars than yon fellers has in ordering them. I can do without this business—can | you fellers say the same?” “Gimme a little ginger ale,” re- marked Mr, Jarr, who drifted into the popular cafe on the corner about this time, “I guess it's going to be [How Great Wa rs Were Ended | By Albert Payson Terhune Caprright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Eve NO. 30—THE ITALIAN-TURKISH WAR, Were First Used. HIS is the story of a short and hard-fought war, which, indirectly, had more to do with the conducting of the recent world conflict than had any other war in all his- tory, a8 you shall see. It was waged between Italy and Turkey (1911-1912). And in it aeroplanes were put to their first military use. Even as the mediaeval battle of Crecy lives in history because gunpowder was there used for the first time, and as the Merrimac-Monitor duel is deathiess because ‘ it inaugurated the era of ironclad batUeshi Italian-Turkish war stands out immortal as introducing the an element in warfare. cing World.) Where Aeroplanes , so the airship as Up to that time the practical use of the aeroplane in war was in doui Strategists, everywhere, saw how it would revolutionize war if it could 99 proven practicable. But no country had yet sought to make such use of it by actual experiment. Italy paved the way. out the airship to war. gerly the test. True, only a smali fleet of acroplanes were at- tached to the Italian army. But those few aircraft gave such wonderful service as to prove, once for all, the deadly practicability of the new venture, At once the aeroplane took its rightful place as an element of modern warfare. Noting Italy’s success with the experiment, both France and Ge: many instantly took up aeronautics as a part of their military equipmen:, The epoch-making result has been proven during the past few years, And so the bricf story of the war itself: Itallan residents of Tripoli complained of ill-treatment at the hands of the local Turkish officials. Italy had sent out colonies to develop that region of Nortbern Africa. And the colonists and other Italians in Tripoll clashed with the Turks. Italy protested. The diplomatic squabble presently merged into strife, On Sept 29, 1911, Italy declared war,on Turkey. The first blow was aimed at the city of Tripoli. On Oct. 3 a strong Italian fleet opened @ furious bombardment on Tripol!, It was Italy who first tried All the world watched ea- Aeroplane Takes Its Place in Warfare. For three days the battle waged, the warship guns hammering the Turkish defenses wilh merciless acouracy. Late on Oct. 6 the Turks could no longer defend themselves against the bombardment, and to sa 9, Italian Army the city and its forts from destruction Tripuli was Gains Sweeping surrendered. Victory. The next important engagement was a land bat« tle on Oct. 30, which ended in a sweeping victory for the Italian army. On into 1912 the war continued, and always with triumph to the Italians. On Jan, 7 they sank seven Turkish gunboats, on Ieb, 2 they bombarded the rich hillside city of Beirut. The next day they “anucxeu”* ‘Tripoli. In May they seized the hotly-defended island of Rhodes. Throughout! the summer of 1912 the conflict continued, both fleet and army giving a: glorious account of themselves, the airships proving invaluable aids to the. Italian forces. ‘The Turks fought gallantly. (The Turk, individually, is one of the finest soldiers on earth.) But they could not turn the tide of success away froin their Italian foes. And in the autumn p negotiations set in signed on Oct. 18. By its terms Italy won what She received full sovereignty over Tripoli. To make the conquest less irksome in a place whose inhubitants werd chiefly Mohammedans, the Italian Government guaranteed religious fre dom for all Tripolitans, ‘ ace Th e treaty itse had gone t f was » War for. The Jarr Family McCardell Coysright, 1919, by The Prose Publishing Oo, (The Now York Evoning World.) Gus Finds Prohibition a Dry Subject. {he likes to drink that feller would never ax you if you had a mouth on you,” growled Mr. Bepler, indicating Mr. Rangle. “I notice you never treat me to @ chop or @ steak,” replied Rangle, | airily “Ha! That's in my butcher shop!” Bepler came back. “Nobody treats in his own store, except Gus, and he don't do it often.” ‘TU treat now,” said Gus. “Com I won't be able to do it much longer, you know." But they all shook their heads, “We'll all be drinking soft stuff soon, nothing but soft stuff," said Mr. Jarr, sadly. “I seen eott stuff made already yet,” said, Mr. Slavinsky. “Marble Worl and the had a number of friends throwed out of : ‘ 4cCN Lucile the Waitress Mr. “Dry,” Who Fell for the Demon Prob n in here this| gentlemen scraped some dried egg off his fork. |no matter how much money amens fellow sitting right next to where| sa ‘But none of ‘em ever bad you notice what a victory we won| “‘My goodness!’ says he. ‘Can it By Bide Dudley Copyright, 191%, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New Lork Lrening Dishwater Soup “cc W' had a ut argument on] you enter out. I'v mornin id Lucile the| that place.’ Waitress as the Friendly Patron] “+1 mean,’ gays Mister ‘Dry,’ ‘that “You did?” he asked. got he won't be able to buy a drink” “You know it!” sald Lucile. “A] “I've geen those popular guys,’ I you're hibernating gives me a@ kind/nothing to do with the Constitution of a flat, empty smile and says: ‘Did| of the United States.’ over the drinking business” be possible that any ono is so ignor- | “I give him one look. ‘Where 40) ant? Didn't you never go to school” you get that “We?"’ I says, ‘I didn't} ‘I fust mile. I retain my com- have nothin. to do with it, I'm a|placibility to show T got a solid found nice, quiet working girl, with a|dation of etability. ‘My dear sir!’ I mother and a landlord to support.’ says, ‘I been run out of more schools “‘T mean the Prohibitionists,’ be | than you ever poked your nose into, ‘The average man takes ali the natura! taste out of his food by covering explains. Then he gays soon jkyuor | Now, where do we go tt with ready-made aauces, and all the personality out of a woman by cover: |/0Reseme pretty soon, Guat” f epee will be banisheed from America. It's (@mmized ledor to representation and collective bargaining.” de dust and witriol it ts made of. Good tlares Mr, Rockefeller, “is an evidence of orgamized tabor’s vreatth of thought.” Is that breadth of thought broad enough to admit that the wages of unorganized workers must be raised even though such raise may in certain cases entail @ fractional loss of the war gains of organized labor? Broad enough to admit also that for many classes of unor- ganived labor there cannot be collective bargaining that takes the form of unionization under the auspices and rules of the American Federation of Labor? Letters “8 Complacency.” Peo the Editor of The Brening World May 1 thank you for your editertal im to-duy's issue, “The Times Talks Sheep Talk?” It is smug complacency on this great daily’s part to think it is voicing the thoughts of the other hundred million in the country on the question ef National Prohibition, Thanks for suggesting to the Times {hat now i# not the time to run away frem such questions, but, on the con- teary, is the time to stick to its guns @nd not try to play “both ends from the middie “LS Jan. 20, 1919. From the People assume Any land that marks out bat @ man must eat and drink be- I'm @ Quaker person, and as such thank you heartily for your clever editorial. FLORENCE BELI. COCHRAN, No. 12 Hast 9th Street. hibition, Your editorials on National Prohi- bition have interested me greatly, as they must any person who until now has regarded America as a free ooun- try and not a reformatory or a home for inebriates, We were all prepared to make sac- rifices and to submit to the necessi- A Quaker View, Ges of rationing during the war—but To the Editor of The brening W to be dictated to as freo citizens us 4am a Quaker person, and as such! to what we shall eat or drink in times | of peace, is a very different matter, },, Why ‘does not the anti-prohibi- tion part take & house-to-house rt the opinion of every Slate with re gard to this drastic curtailment of thelr personal liberty before the re- turn of President Wilson, when these protests could be submitted to him? 3 this ge teh? elter the the neat thon, LIBR TAS supposed to be rabidly opposed to a “wel” country, At the sume time I want to thank you for your editorial “The Times Talks Sheep Talk.” 1 does, For a Kepubllc that prates about “land of ibe free” and ersonal Spies of the individual” this ary ava-| Po Jimeche is ‘about the most treasonable| voting @iand against itwelf that @ nation 4 thie tng her with his ready-made ideals. Prohibitton may put an end to the spirituous “Jag,” bul (hy eentimental “jag” will keep right on going to the he making you dizzy, filling you with ecstasy and causing you to acl fovlish And what else is @ “jag,” after all? ‘The bitterest moment of a woman’ that the man to whose “higher nalure” she has been striving to appeal never had such @ thing. Heaven is NOT e mythical plu heart of the man who has found the work he loves and the woman he loves A young girl sighs for a lover who will be perfectly devoted to her, but a widow is quite satisfied to find one who won't be devoted to anybody else. longs to Prussian autocracy. I repeat, | Thus, even in the Job of matrimony, “previo. tual or pirt spir d, exalting the life is that in which she discovers It can be found right down in the experience” helps a lot. Reviving an old formula invented meventy-five years ago and almost for- gotten, French shoe manufacturers aro trying to produce a leather useful in their industry from rabbit skins so 8 A strong and fireproof artificial stone ts being made in the Philippines | from beach sand and voleanie tufa wore Catching mice in large numbers in and fills is the purpe a new trap wade principally By substituting other mercury in @ vapor elc European te light orchar¢ ut glass metals for tric lamp a scientist @produces a pure han 3 ish scleativie Lave found @ Bpe- From an Inventor's Note Book. cles of pygmy elephant in the Congo of which the adult animals grow to a height of only five and a half feet Vea pagal For temporarily rep vehiclo bolted ented, ring broken rings a ri around them has been pat 1 plate to be} “Yes, mobbe, and then again once, mebdhe not,” replied Gus, “Me, I think | it’s a good thing for everybody to stop. Mobbe I'm going to open me a Tem- ance Club here,” “It shows what business sagacity and enterprise can do. You adapt yourself to the changed conditions very defUy, Gus, ‘Tell Bepler about it," sald Mr, Jarr, “SUll, we'll drop in informally." “Wall, I'm going to take my last |schnapps before Bepler, the butcher, comes in,” said Mr, Slavinsky, hur- riedly, “I told him I had stopped drinking to get used to it, already,” “Secret for secret. I was tapering | off, too,” spoke up Mr.. Jarr, “So I'll take a last one with you. But don’t | ything to Rangle. He'll be in say ‘An ideal lover is one with such a keen dramatic tnstinet that he ean | beforo long.” convince hirrself of his eincerity—even when he knows he’s lying. Bepler was fust in as Mr, Jarr and Mr, Slavinsky were ostentatiousiy quatfing their ginger alc, Gus having | acteristic glasses of stronger stuff, after their being hurriedly filled and e hurriedly emptied. cried Bepler. “I catched Then it's all off and I can take you! a whooptic?” “Nothing tes off, eee Spain is planning to build an elec- | tric railroad from Madrid to connect | } with French lines ut the frontier, oe replied the hypo- C I am tical Slavinsky drinking a chinger al “Vell, it's a good thing | hibition is coming, ner. | for you pro- growled the new- You could do better as a To distinguish bottles containing | § ler if you didn't put so many polsons in the dirk a sandpaper band to encircle them with an opening fo 8 in your moutb, How about their labels has been invented. ieee : yeaa wheal Four days after hatching ostriches depend upon their own exertions for food, and the parent birds give them “What will you fellows have? moment, By more cure “Whea a man ts drinking anything schnapps is made out of rye and malt|neither hero nor there to me what “The Prohibitionist shuts up and and hops, Nothing but pure wege- the other guy takes up the subjec’. he's vibrating on, but a victim with ‘I'll keep right on drinking the same,’ deftly snatched away the other char- | asked Mr. Rangle, coming in at this | tables," “I don't see why this country should be obstinate this way,” remarked Mr. Jarr, “Suppose we insist on a com- promise and make it legal for light wines and beer.” “Nothing doing,” said Gus. “— this country is going on the wate: wagon let it keep on the water wagon. Don’t let us try to put one toot on the ground. The water wagon ain't got no third rail on it like a | bar has.” “I don't see what harm drinking to moderation will do anybody,” re- marked Mr. Rangle. “I'm sure we are all level-headed business men and we can take @ drink or leave it alone.” “Well, you can leave it alone,” said Gus. “AN you fellers make your brags you won't mind if this country goes on the water wagon. “Well, we needn't stop short before the time comes,” said Mr. Rangle. “We could have an agreement that we could take a Lttle something | stimulatimg for medicinal purposes a large, ruby nose nearby saddles t onto himself, “‘Listen!’ he says. ‘That law won't stand. Why shouldn't | be able to buy a drink if { want one?" “Maybe you haven't got the price,’ I says, You see, I just wanted to mix ‘em up good #0 as to entertain the other victims, It gets his nanny. “'Aw, gwan!’ he vhoots back. | ‘What do you know about lawology | and the fungus-mentaj principles of | rights?" “The question of | enter in,’ says the old ‘dry’ boy up| the trough. “ ‘Say, Usten,’ I says. to Gilhooley’s place across the street and try to graft a drink and I'll bet) “You ain't going to having | ing but soft stuff in my place,” sald Gus, firmly. ‘If you fellers believed | you were getting to be rumimies and | had to quit, then you can’t have noth- | ing intoxaholic in my place.” “Intoxaholic?” echoed Mr, Jarr, he says, “Tf that's the case,’ I gays perts like, ‘Tl take the same.’ “Well, sir, the ‘wet’ one gots un. and leaves The ‘dry’ one sees hint foiling and dittoes, gether scowling at me and talking.” “And that was the last you saw said the Friendly them, 1 presume, Patron, disinterestedly, “Not on your Rogues’ Gullery tin- “Two minules type!” paic Lucile, They go out to~ later I see ‘em both going tnto Gil~ price doesn't | hooley’s piace, arm in arm.” “You did?" “Yes. which was ‘wet’ of the soup would, ‘Three to-day? 1 men have already dishwater,” SMARTNESS wish T want to get a line on it, | And when they come out ‘You go over |¥Ou couldn't tell which was ‘dry’ and Will you try OF FRIEND WIFE, | YOUNG merchant presented his wife with a handsome dining occasionally.” “Sure!” said Gus, | room lamp on her birthday “This thing of being a fanatic| And he stood firm on the word and/and his heart gave a throb of ples shows a man cannot trust to his own|bis Intentions, and one by one the|/ sure when she told hie she inteded will power!" Mr, Jarr chimed tn, “I party drifted away. bestowing her husband name upon think when we are met like this we| “What's this sudden cspousal of| the gift. At the same time his curl should act sensibly and take what-|Prohibition on your part?” asked Mr, |osity was aroused and he asked her ever we want while we can—of|Jarr, lingering last. |reason for such a peculiar proceeds course, in moderation--and not treat.| “Well,” said Gus, “my landlord) ir It's the pernicious habit of treating| wants to raise the rent, and my wife, dear,” @he replied, “it hag that was the cuuse of excesses, and|Lena, she wants @ se! of furs, All) od deal of brass about it, Is hund- that turned the majority of people now Is to go out of \to probibition.” then I don't have to come jnever sealty snoboyed treating, but slmrife. Prohibition is not as worse of feller dou't want to bee bum aport” [hearing #o mucb ilk about 1h” ( some to look at, requires @ good « of attention, ig remarkably brilliant smoke, and te always out 'Ume"—Priladeiphie Stes, “Sure!” cried Mr, Slavinsky, “I|across mit either my landlord or my/| flares up occasionally, is bound te at Sete soma you egested that the chef got it mixed up with the