The evening world. Newspaper, May 8, 1919, Page 24

THURSDAY oetliamnatisinen RES Operate a Grocery Store. in Profits Quarterly. ee Manager Is Hired. MAY 8, War on Profiteering Begun By N. Y. Organized Labor Will Try Co-Operative System _ British Labor Found Successful ‘Plan Bands Families in a Community Together to Bach Contributes to Working Capital; Buyers Share Managing Committee Is Elected by Association— By Albert Sonnichsen ts Secretary Co-operative League of America, f Copyright, 1919, by the Preas Publishing Co, a RGANIZED Labor in New York has declared war on profiteering. | Sometimes it is easier to declare a war than to fight one, but in this case the Labor men, through the Committee on Lowering the Cost of (The New York brening World) Living appointed by the Convention of American Feder _ ders, made a good beginning. —-- The Consumers’ Co-operative system is the only method by which the | Righ cost of living can be brought down, if past experience goes to prove | is. The whole method by which the gigantic succe: as achieved is simple enough. | —— ae ) Ite-community from fifty to many is of families get toi puts in from five to twenty or dollars as a contribution to the ‘Working capital of a grocery store, a | mamaging committee is elected, and © therassociation goes into the grocery Duginess. Anybody may buy, and the | prices are at the regular market rate. But at the end of every three months | the: profits are figured out, and in- ‘Steed of being given as dividends on Whe capital invested, it ts divided a the purchasing members, in in England called it, and they are pursuing {t with an almost furious énthusiasm. Chief and foremost of the Seattle co-operative enterprises is the city market, doing business now at a rate of about a million and a half dollars a year. What maxes this establish- ment so significant is the determina- tion its managers are showing to get back to original sources of supply; their elimination of middlemen from Production to distribution, A new milk condensery has just been es- tablished, with a capacity for turning tion of Labor mem | It is going to employ the methods which the | Labor organizations have found so effective: Consumers’ Co- the regular rate of interest, as nt of thd association. The com+ supervises him and the tom, to their patronage of the store. the proportion of the popula- pide | Up to the first co-operative con- it out a call for a National Con- si Co-operation has fairly wince then. In the last six one thousand new organis: “that, when once a national wholesale te’Germany during the war, register « decrease in its sales from © one year to another, All combined, GM @ business of $300,000,000 in 1914, @P-operation of its wealthy orange — ©o-operation, nearer the lives of the Mavs of the people. As in Seattle, the i organizations are here also be- oi enthusiasm for consumess' * @o-operation. In the carly pa delegates representing @mployees, voted in favor of organiz- ; co-operative society, The so- elety has now established a store in 900 and a membership of four thou- ) send. nearly all members of labor un- ‘fons as well, Phere has recently been organized Ban Francisco the Consumers’ rative League, an organization has bebind it the Secretary of te Federation of Labor, Shar- hases, Capital | CUt 3,000 cases of condensed milk a “gyi rg ag week. Arrangements are now being h savings bank—no | °°™Pleted to operate a steam trawler Sepp tk pla is the hired to supply the market with fresh fish and a cannery which !# also to be put From fish to jewelry consurn: is a wide step, but the Seattle co- in propor- oo LagdhDiep og Angie Pairing market takes it by opening Fou: British families are|* *t4!l for the sale of co-operatively Gractiaeg ible system, In Swit- | M4nufactured Jewelry and watches. ‘The business done by the Into Co- ‘practising this syste™ is quite as |°P¢rative stores in Fitchburg, Mass., an le oi third, In such big | 1UTing the past year should contribute § as Basic, you can no longer find ‘"°! @ little to putting New England ing but co-operative stores sup- |" the co-operative map. ‘These stores foodstuffs to the working | *"¢ Owned by a society, most of whose | members are Finns, opened in 1910, and the sales that year “Wention, co-ope! societies in| *Mounted to $20,000. Now the soctety ca bad nowoea bbe Drought to-| P¢rates four grocery stores, a men's Tae Co-operative League|*Umishing and shoe store, and a that progress could never|>#kery. During the past year the ‘be; mado in this country by the 6o- sales of these establishments amount- ed to within a few dollars of half a it alone, wo it ‘yg ¥ the society has Wention, It was held in September, |t*ken over a milk distributing busl- inthe State House at Spring. |°S8 which supplies over a thousand families a day, In Western Pennsylvania there are local societies which into operation. ‘The first of them million, By Zoe Beckley OCupyright, 1019, by The Wrens Vubiintdng Co, (The New York Brenig World.) E are urged to contemplate the industry and accomplishment | of the well-known ant, is recommended as o model of busyness, Notice is hereby bout seventy the leagué has added to its @ bona fide co-operative stores! have federated in the Tri-State Co- ba . Joperative Society, which carries on a wholesale business for its constituent having one bee, likewise, machinery for an American | members jo was also started at this, Warehouse on, The experience of the | Pittsburgh, ‘Sergperative movement abroad proves | on !ta payroll, Somewhat older and more deweloped has been founded on a truly | are the societies throughout Southern ive basts, local societies cease | Mlinols and adjoining Stat to and progress is continuous and | ized largely by the members of the Fapid. No co-operative wholesale has | United Mine Workers’ | ‘@¥em-gone out of business and, except | fume of those ‘ no|mere buying clubs, | Wholesale society has ever had to|own buildings with sales running up into the thousands wi societies have also federated, in the ‘the co-operative wholesales of Burope |(Central States Co-operative Society, | Successful play acting, both stage with warchouses in Mow they are handling a turnover|and East St of considerably more than half a | ninety societies composing this group | commence to Billion dollars. All this vast busi-|do a yearly business of considerably | themselves ‘Pees is run by the working class with | over $3,000,000, and divide their pro. ve of personal, private profit /fits among their purchasing custom. | field of limitless opportunity thickly their administration of these |ers, seldom at less rate than 6 per by commercial undertakings. cent. and often as high as 12 per a y famous for the capitalistic] cent, forth the standard of up-and-doing ness 18 something much more interest- ing, and casier to look it, than these We refer toa gold-haired, sweet-lipped young per son named } nd thirty-two empioyees she is seventeen, these seventeen ye has made a record for doing things which puts her, so far as we can as. certain, into a class by herself. hind her are a full dozen years of labor unions, deginning as The eighty or think about something somehow sometime—is a studded with managers, contracts in to mat,’ begging Minter to come nna | thelr star, words of the bard, b zodiac knew what had begun to hap- Can you, in the classic] ury's gran, Stowers, Southern Caifornia is now! south Becoming the field of another form of| most recent activity: here and there re several federations, one of which | here Miles Minter began Vegan business four years ago with a | ke this: ang now has a capt | Dranch stores, iS NM the!l; © labor unions of San Bernardino Coun- en “Wy, Wwcluding the Santa Fe Railroad | jiving, Most of the members | Which @ lovely lady named Charlotte n this section are farmers who are |Shelby had hus attempting to lower the cost of | prowled out into the green room one night and stumbled over a pink and The most noteworthy development |S°!d infant of five on the floor with is now evidenced among the labor |* 40! in her lap. “Who's the kid?" observed Daniel, | t of all by her intelligence. Mary |} an exploding theories at the tender | f five, notably the theory that if one is beautiful one need not be sg |UMons all over the country, In 1917, WBan Bernardino, has a capital of $50-| tn, American Federation of Labor |amiably. Passed strong resolutions |consumers' ec ling for the |dale methods Habor Came Dustin “Mis' Shelby’s,” somebody answered, sketch, Frohman took another look and, suming that the operation and provid. | romotion of true Roch- Since that time, the|™ust bea stage baby, told the baoy’s throughout the | mother to bring her round next morn country have carried on an effective |ing for the approval of Nat Good- Propaganda, The co-operative move. |Win’s manager, who was putting on in America is developing in |‘Cameo Kirby.” alliance with the labor move- publications to, have missed the charm of The “Littlest Rebel” was expanded into a four-act play, taking in both Dustin and Will, But trouble came in the shape of a New York State law which forbade rebel- ettes to be under sixteon. Se Mary | years older. ay from) Having thus far done t emulating the busy and Rudolph Spreckels, a} close of the famous sugar family. | ment of the new organization is groups that this should be the jer the city with a network of |All of the itive stores, thus putting the | (hese three social forces. distribution of foodstuffs and organizing the consumer Recessities into the hands of|ganizing the worke isumihg public at once. |production; and labor in the political £0-operative enterprises have |field, are destined to join forces in rm And ape still being launched in|the onward march toward the ie, “Th ; Idea” they Rave operative Commonwealth, “But she is not for the stage,” said both |Mamma Shelby, “She ought to be," said Frohman; that | “bring her anyway.” co-operation, Farnums kept and demonstra planets in the rs at the point of wus considerable world stuffy astrologers who were making and Saturn, i, Uranus and Mars felt a sort of seis- mic convulsion, Foy at that moment also from a five-year-old into the THURSDAY, Matrimon Mary Miles Minter, 17 Year Old Movie Star WANTS TO BE MORE THAN A FLUFFY LITTLE THING WITH YELLOW HAIR Will Not Be Happy Unless She Convinces the Public She Has a Brain and Can Use It! ‘ la new little star with a very busy, turity of twelve, when she said good- | destiny was born, |» to the Farnums after being with the musters of the| them four whole years 8 mother, Nor|education Trom private tutors and Miles. Certainly | from her adoring mother and her wor- rsclf, Thus quictly doed| shipping grandma and from books the debut of her favore| (Which she had to be pried away from n order to enc layed with Goodwin, ana} from those oth © and Bortha |knowledg and with Bob Hilliard in 4 {and thoughts 1 winning everybody} The Farnum season closed in the | loveliness as a kiddie but spring. is, which we num and his vau- < Aue | at Richmond, Va. the hoe Hts Rebel.” |" ne close of thia enterprise teft nese uot Ee very old to + ee YOU! Atiss Minter at the ripe old age of Sr alen ad Hr pea label AT -and-a-half years, which she though you would have to be very |tWelve-and-a-halt 4 ad that ate ith her hatr q Wy {og ie | 1V.—SIRENS MEAN | Two Super-Sirens in the ' Her Out of the Priva danger signal of a ride him down wii path of the motor than his own, he js more than himself inside and cubed | screen, whose popularity I ptrsonally | thrills moving picture audiences half #0 much as she tickles them. Since most of ve would rather laugh any jnight than shiver with unholy fas- jcina‘ion, the film vampire continues to make a hit. “When the average American | male,” a wise member of the species once told me, “sees a slithery, eer- |pentine dame with purple lips and R. 8. V. P. eyes, his first impulse ts |to chuckle, his next to say to him- | self, ‘Well, I would be a darned fool | to fall for that!’ | tractions there are the character | Therefore I do not consider the rag and the bone and the hank of hair, by Kipling out of Burne-Jones, any serious menace to matrimonial hap- |piness. Tho two super-sirens I | would put in the high explosive class |are the blue-eyed fool who appeals | to man’s vanity and tenderness and the brown-eyed successful woman who appeals to his brain, William Allen White has sald there lig @ red-haired girl somewhere in every man's life or imagination. I \ MILE WY Atitter ‘ + “The LITTLEST. REBEL” % AGED with the Gustayo Frohman Amuse- | ment Corporation, And when that picture was done,| she skipped over to the Metro, not | forgetting ‘her tutor, who was never | far from her elbow and shot geogra- phy, history and the higher mathe- tics at her whenever she came off Mary had reached venerable four- disturb the peace of mankind, and if teen when she flew out to the Coast|they are not “understood” at home, jto keep her latest screen contract,/or if the shallow depths behind chem }and edeniguy bask in the favor-| have been plumbed too accurately by | ably known | the frastance of orange flowers. All|the businesy of being a super-siren sorts of ‘collateral joys were Mary's|!s conducted at the same old stand, such as rose-bowered bunga-| Her methods are characterized by lows, supe: “And satin-covered chair in her Hotel|/meets at a dance, or the nearest | Knickerbocker suite, “I'm back And| neighbor, she is a sweet little thing |I'm seventeen, And I suppose you're | Who Marvels how a great strong man going fo tell me I'm a wonderful girl, lke himself can possibly be inter- have everything on carth to make me “Well"—— During the slig eyes of the “violc celebrated by the poets of all ages} Only it was not the sirens who tied her skin of flower-petal texture, her up Ulysses; that wise gentleman nad mouth of a mobile perfection that de-| himself tied until he had sailed be-|The nautical e: tles every combination of letters on|yond their dangerous sphere of in- Jour typewriter, 1 | which maketh the perfect profile All this time she was absorbing an h sleep), subticr sources of observation, travel, people | js about to “That is, I'm happy on the outside.} ‘There are plenty of cynical p-rsons I have mother, and mamma (G Miles) and my sister, Margaret. and|ever—who do not believe mentality oodles of friends, and Dick (Dick’s}enters into the appeal of the success- last name is Pomeranian) and clotbes|ful siren, Yet Aspasia and other great and places to go, and NEW YORK, |sirens of Greece were as intelligent as which I love with the core of my|tbey were beautiful. In the dangerous This left a whole summer on | Littlest Rebel” was by ond nature, so whe and Mother Shelby and Lucille La Verne got together an all-star stock com- pany and played through the summer tures and on the stage—some. But'’—/five and forty-five, when the dark Mary's finger traced a pattern on the] flower of his second romance is most front of her froc - = = considered to shed all baby- onsidered high time to shed all baby. | one Of her trucks and then wie ives ne ere fied aspects. So she pat up her hair, got into long skirts and became the stock company’s ingenue, as a sort of end-of-the-season fillip, Any one can look ten years younger than her age on the stage, but this smal Minter {person turned the trick of looking ten “I'm not satisfied with what I've done. | registers HERE and HERE, there transferred the finger to her temple.| I've got handicaps to overcome and “And here. her heart. “People think because my| ‘Thus speaks the five-year-old of a hair is yellow that I'm a fluff of a|dozen years ago, whose phenomenal jthing with no ambitions but to look | memory caused her at three to prompt pretty and earn my pay in the movies, | her mother’s Shakespearian lines, and If my hair were black and my nose| whose appetite for toil has put the west of the Hudson River, Somehow |down to her slim ankles, decided to|turned down they'd give me ‘think ant and bee to shame. Do you know in the shuffle Mary turned from Juliet | conquer the movie field. Shelby into Mary Miles Minter, The field parts.’ and|gave her one look and held out its less I convince the public I am an ter chance to keep on breaking ma arms, Her first picture was made ACTRESS capable of doing something records? should say that even more omnipres- ent is the girl with eyes like “forget- | me-nots” or “wet violets,” or—to em- ploy the probably cattish simile of| Jehane—the Brown-blue marbles, Only other women really appreciate the brunette beauty. Men and little chil- dren believe all angels have blue eyes and, of course, the converse theury, Xp that all possessors of blue eyes are angels. The first obsession is harm- less, if unproved; the second is dis- tinctly dangerous. | If she is more than sixteen the blue- Jeyed super-siren usually is married. | Does any man in his senses leave an Angel undomesticated? But of course, with the best intentions in the world, wedded “wet violets” cannot be dyed. So their heavenly hue continues to ‘wifornia sunlight and|the man who married their owner, and the like. the direct simplicity of genius. To her now,” says Mary from a|husband’s partner, or the man she ested in “poor little me.” If she is >py, and all that sort of| Specially deft she admires his “won- eee derful, efficient wife” almost as much 4s she admires him, Then he is von- ht pauve|vinced there is no harm in her. And ® that) before he realizes it she has him hair ig sull 4-karats fine, her] lashed to the mast” as efMfelently as variety justly|ever was siren-tempted Ulysses. ensues here we st nose of the sort] fluence. th t she isn't happy. jonly safety for him lies in flight. an'ma|—usually rather old-fashioned, how- And I have got on in the pic-|age of man, the age between thirty- and then she ‘ran | = We wound her up again—|hind it, something really fine that wans to work HERE.” She| won't BE any Mary Miles Minter. The finger stopped over | it's up te me to beat them.” I tell you solemnly that un- a busier “baby?” Or one with a bet- se ana! " ¥ a MAY 8, 1919 ial Rules Road “STEER CLEAR.” High Explosive Ciass Are the Blue-Eyed Fool, Who Appeals to a Man’s Vanity—Flee From Her—And the Brown-Eyed Clever Woman, Who Appeals to His Brain 7 te Office Unless the Wi Can Stand the Competition. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall . Coprright, 1919, by the Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) HEN a motorist hears a siren he doesn't stop to investigate, or hot W its hand, or listen to the story of its life. He gets out of the way with dexterity and despatch. For he knows the siren is the tremendous driving force which will ithout compunction if he gets in the engine so much stronger and swifter When @ married man sees a siren he ought to make use of exactly similar precautions. If he follows her even a little way on his matrimonial journey—well, likely to return from the ride with a smile on the face of the tiger-lady. There are sirens and sirens, and not all of them are so obvious as the one carried by New York's motor fire-engines. Most likely that screeching menace is the lurid siren of the attribute to the universal and vigor- | ous development of the American sense of humor. I do not believe she likely to burst into bloom, the woman most dangerous to him is the one who combines physical and mental attractiveness. So often, especially when he mar- ries young, he marries for qualities which have only a temporary appeat —for youthful freshness, a beauty of curls and coloring, a pretty smile or & dance-step that matches his own. If underneath these superficial at- ues which enrich life after thirty-five when most of life is lived—the last of that journey of marriage should be as happy as the first If, however, an intelligent man has taken to wife a pretty fool, I think he had better always see to it that his private secretary is a man. Other- wise he is bound to contrast the lump of softly-colored putty in his home with the really clever, congenial, help- ful and also attractive young woman who is near him during the most in- teresting hours of his day—and who is an interesting and interested part of them. I would not insult this typical busi. ness woman, whom I cordially ad- mire, by making the common, sordid charge that her one aim in life js to wreck her employer's home in order that she may rule in it. The point is not that she tries to lure him away from his wife but that by her ob- viously superior mind, devotion to his interests and even charm, she 1S @ lure, a true super-siren, without a struggle on her part. Therefore the best way for him to keep out of trouble is to keep her out of his oMfce—uniess he knows his wife can stand the competition. “So Deuced Odd, Y'know!” ONTRARY to popular belief, bank notes are not a modern monetary device. As early as 2,697 B. ©, they were current in China under the name of “flying money.” Chicago is the Indian name for tho wild onion, > “ich grew in great abundance where the Windy City now stands. “The ladies’ hair,” says a writer on dress in tho time of Charles I, “was curled and frizzied with tha nicest art, and they f-cquently set it off with ‘heartbreakers’ — artifical curls.” Agate gets its name from Achates, the Greek name of a Sicilian river, in whose bed the gem was anciently found in great abundcnce. Ships being feminine, it is perhaps fitting they should wear earrings, rring, which is coms ring, is a small rope monly spelled pr could his bonds be/used in fastening the upper corner ef we AN EXPLODED THEORY, se married man concluded to try out his new theory, says the Kansas City Star, Addressing his spouse, he said: “My dear, I should ike to go to Jones's to-night for several hoars, Mr. Jones 1s not ill, and does not re- AM | RIGHT— quire any sitting DARLING ? up with, If he did, I should let his wife do it. Mr. Jones is perfectly well so far as I know, except for @ certain itching for a poker game, He 1s notoriously 4 rotten poker player and very likely to be nicked for several dollars in the course of the evening. There might be something to drink—he did not specify concerning that, He only sald my presence would be appre- ciated. 1 am sure that since T tava told you the truth about this affair you will consent to my going. Am I right?” He was not, and) broken, as can the intangible ones|a sail to its yard. | ber flgure—but here we go raving in al which should, but do not, keep the manner entirely inconsistent with our| married man from yielding to the} sober nature, while all the time Mary|siren's call. Therefore I repeat the oie a eget —_