The evening world. Newspaper, July 24, 1919, Page 18

WHER’ VOLUME 60... POWERLESS? ‘ FACT: The infant mortality in New York City is. greater for July of this year than during either of the two previous years. REASON: “The consumption of milk in this city is 2,000,000 quarts per day, and 700,000 quarts of this total go to the homes of the city. The falling off of milk consumption this yeat was at least | 71,000 quarts. This means persons have been doing without milk in homes where there is little money to buy life’s necessities. ‘The hotels naturally would continue to buy milk at any price. “As a result of this 10 per cent. decrease in home consumption of milk, investigation shows, substitutes have been in use and mothers have given their children such things as tea, coffee and cambric tea. Consequently the infant death rate has gone up with a jump and the outlook is very discouraging.”—Health Commissioner Copeland. : QUESTION: ‘Are the’ 5,500,000 people of this city and the 11,000,000 people | of the State powerless to effect changes in the present methods of | distributing milk which, without discouraging production or leaving | less than a reasonable supply for by-products, would permit the bring- ing of adequate quantities of milk into the city at fair prices to the contumer ? f Must present wasteful, costly, over-multiplied means of handling milk go on perennially interposing between producer and consumer an ineurmountable barrier of middleman’s profit? With. all its enlightenment, all its resources, all its power, must this great community confess the milk problem too much for it and sit supinely on while babies die? es eee 8 '. THE WASHINGTON RIOTS. HE people of the United States have had riot and bloodshed enough in their own capital to distract them from pitying contemplation of disorder in the capjtals of Europe. ‘These riots in Washington have been the uglier in that they have involved peither Reds nor but Americans of a race that has just proved its loyalty on the battlefields of the great war and won high honors for itself in the service of the Nation. The first duty in the District of Columbia is to restore’ order there, But the coufitry misses the meaning of what has happened unless it realize more than.ever the inconsistency of an America that preaches liberty and law abrowdwhile at home it fails to give the colored man the same protegtion jt the white man tnder the laws of the United States. — —t nolo» bia "The Washington riots should px out of any smug complacency and ca: over them. . Mw re, sufficient,tg ghak® Americans ension that*may be creeping eabin §,1T BELONGS. N DECLARING the War-Time PYohibition ‘Act constitutional, wity Pederal Judge Chia itting in the Usted States District Court at New Haven, Genn., rulést tee : “Discretion for * termination of th: w has been vested in the President after certain fixed” Wnditions shall “have happened. Those conditions are within th, of Congress to describe and'to define. It followy, that ibe brevis dene to interfere with the exercise of this discretion y 8s or to attempt to say that di it in theca aba me at bale conditions ‘This is exactly where the President left the matter in hi A n his message to Congress of May 20 last. In that message he pointed out that demobilization (the condition which Congress had itself prescribed . ape snes of War-Time Prohibition) had then “progressed 3 ‘@»point that it-seems entirely safe to remove the ban upon the weiien and sales of wine and beers.” . . _ At was for Congress to use its discretion in further definin, P > sto e iz the conditions. Congress did not choose to do so. Therefore Congress and Congress alone is responsible for the ‘present anomaly of War- Time Prohibition. The ruling ofthe Federal Court only fixes the blame yet more definitely where it belongs. ° HOW DOES h THIS SQUARE WITH “Who is profiteering?” Mr. Johin Slater, Chairman of Com- mittee on Resolutions, New York State Retail Shoe Dealers’ Association, was asked. “The retall dealers, the whole- salers, the ‘manufacturers and the tduners are positively not Profiteesing.” Mr. Slater an- ( set income from operatio swered. “The retailers in nor- 5,798,882, after pera rie s mal times figured on 30 to 40 yment of Federal taxes, This per cent. profit. Some, not was an increase of $2,125,911 many, whose risks are greater over the corresponding quarter than others have been com- last year, or 57 per cent. pelled ‘to allow themselves at Outside income was $243,668, present a 50 percent. margin for and a balance of $4,239,345 ‘was profit, The wholesalers, manu- left after interest had been paid facturers and tanners are fig- on the funded debt. The part of uring on no higher per cent. of this available for common stock profit than they earned before dividends was equal to $9.21 a the war. The increased cost of share, compared with $3.85 in hides. apd increased wages to the June quarter of 1918, employees is the rockbottom . In the six months ended June cause of high shoe prices.” 30, examination of the quarterly * “<Mat will be the cost next report shows, the net operating fall of a pair of shoes which income was $9,495,622, a gain Bow costs the public $12?” Mr. of $3,203,098, or 50 per cent. was asked. over the result in the initial “Anywhere from $16 to $20, half of last year. i, and the same ratio of increase The surplus for the six months i to all grades’ of foot- was $4,194,277 after paying divi- 5 an be : THIS? Prosperity tn the leather trade 1s indicated in the quar- terly statement of the Central Leather Company, just. made public, In the three months ended | | | 66 (VO we now pay for transfers and S the car service is worse than ever!" growled Mr. Jarr as the trolley car stopped at the street corner to let them off. It was not the street corner their car should have stopped at-—that street corner was two blocks below, and the car had bowled past it despite every effott of the Jarr family to get the conductor and motorman to stop {t at the proper place. All the good it had done Mr. Jarr when he threat- ened to report the matter was to be advised to keep his shirt on, as the system was in the hands of a receiver who received agything but complaints. “Yes, that's the way it is these days!” sighed Mrs. Jarr wearily. “But I'm mighty glad to be even two blocks from home! Willie, carry that paste- board box under your arm, for the bot- tom is about to fall ont; and pick up the other things and let us get on to the sidewalk before an automobile or @ wagon runs over us.” “My foot hurts!” sniffled Master Jarr. “Maw, can't I take my shoe off?” “No, you can't!" cried Mrs, Jarr. Your father would insist on your go- ing barefoot 4n the park in spite of everything I could say, and you got that thorn in your foot and :t will be a mercy if you don't get lockjaw or blood poisoning and be crippled for life!" “Can't we stop at the drug store and get an ice cream soda!" asked the little girl, “An’ can't we go see the movin’ pictures! I ain't had no ice cream soda and seen no movin’ pic- ture for so long.” “You wait till we get home and you get washed and a clean dress put on you!" said Mrs. Jarr, At these words the little girl began to cry and said ber arms hurt her, “I know it's poison ivy you’ were picking in the park,” declared Mrs, Jarr, “And when school starts you can't go because you're poisoned picking ivy and Willie lamed for life maybe with a@ thorn! Oh, whwr can't we take a real vacation at some nice The Jarr Family Copyright, 9, by The Pres; Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), Hark, in the Park Is the Lark! But Master Willie Jarr Has Confiscated All Else Animate. ee eT A How They Made Goo By Albert Payson Terhune « Coprright, 1919, by The Prefe Publidhing Co, (The Now York Brening World) No. 64—BALBOA, Discoverer of the Pacific. ~~ B was a down-at-heel soldier of fortune—a man ot high} ancestry and low finances. His name was Vasco Nunea”_ do Balboa, His native land of Spain offered him a@/ chances to make good. America had just, been dim” covered. The lure of the New World was strong ap young Balboa. He took ship for the West Indies ia 1601. Here, too, fortune dodged him. Over and. By Rey L. McCardell The Gay Life of a Commuter 2y Rube Towner “Why didn’t we take a taxicab home?” asked Mrs. Jarr, “Why 40 we come back home like the retutn trip of a-sium outing? I know we'll run right into Mrs, Stryver!” ‘ Mrs, Jarr was a true prophet. Mrs. Stryver turned the corner with her maid and her poodle just as the bur- dened Mr. Jarr with Mrs. Jarr, lead- ing the limping Master Jarr and the perhaps ivy-poisoned and surcly sun- burned little girl, turned it. In fact, the bottom dropped out of the paste- board box that Willie Jarr was carry- ing just as they bumped into their wealthy neighbor and the remnants of the park lunch fell on the pave- ment, But it wasn't this that caused Mrs. Stryver to faint, her French maid to shriek and the Maltese poodle to break away from hie leash and run yelping in terror up the avenue, The cause of all this commotion was not the inanimate articles of left-over lunch, no matter how em- darrassing to the Jarrs when thus suddenly displayed. The cause of the excitement was a too trusting park squirrel, two toads and divers large grasshoppers, spiders and other in- sects that Master Jarr had captured im the day's outing and packed in the pasteboard box when he wasn't being watched. ‘The two toads, red and particularly repulsve, had struck the sidewalk first and had hopped almost into the arms of (Mrs, Stryver; a small land tortoise had fallen with @ sickening crash upon his back upon the side- walk and was making frantic ef. forts to turn himself over, and a half-dozen grasshoppers and some spiders, too energetic to be counted, had fallen right upon Mrs, Stryver’s nervous poodle and at the feet of her still more nervous maid, while the park squirrel, which had a moth- eaten tail, darted over the sidewalk right under mistress, maid and poodle, At this instant Master Izsy Slav- insky appeared upon the scene in Boy. Scout uniform and mounted upon a velocipede, At his heels were a flock of youthful residents of the neighbor- hood, place, and not have to go to the Park like poor people?” Mr, Jarr was about to ask “What | do you mean, ‘like poor people?” but decided not to invite explanations. | Bo he only groaned but otherwise was @ went martyr, “Look at the animals! Pick up the animals!" cried Master Slavinsky, “He's got my velocipede!” screamed Master Jarr, “He got my velocipede out of the bin in the cellar while we ‘wae away to-day! Tasy Slavingky, don't~you touch my fro or I'll punch your snoot!” But Mrs, Jarr had grabbed both the children, irrespective of their burts and wounds, and was rushing them home, leaving Mr. Jarr to explain if he cotld. But, as Mrs. Jarr says, when Uncle |g dies nd leaves them his money, sbé’s going to move to a bet-| Changeable, immutable and irrevoc- ter neighborhood and cut even Mrs, | able. 4 Doc says they are also based solely 4 and things HE rules of suburban railways seem tq be based on the laws of the Medes and Persians—un- A Plea for the Shut-in By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1919, by The Prose Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World), | The Thrill of the Generous Impulse. HB hot weather is upon us. He)great day that laid bim low. As he t or she who can is running |is thinking his thoughts, a lovely lit- away from the heat and turmoil] tle old lady steals up beside him and of the city to the| gently puts her arm about him. cool woods and| “Want anything, dearie?” she whis- soothing streams.| pers tenderly, and the mother love It 1s good be-|that endures for all time beams in yond all meas-| every feature of her face, ure. This is the} Ob, the struggle, the beautiful time when Mother | struggle she has made. She sacri- - Nature speaks|ficed her all to send him forth, this her “various lan-| Youngest son of her heart and soul. guage.” There| and there he is, Honorably dis- nothing s0| Charged, He wears no insignia, no Or Trailing the Bunch From Paradise Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World), The F. O. B. Conductor and the Laws of the Medes and Persians. oS a rich. ar Balboa retained poor. Indeed, he ptunged deep into debt. He had no grit for amassing wealth. But he had a genius for exploration, and it was in that line that he planned to make good. Bsc There was a wonderful opportunity everywhere for the explorer whe j had courage as well as brains. For only a few tiny spots of the had thus far been discovered. The rest was trackless wilderness. No knew what lay in the interior—and all manner of weird tales were told 6 the unbroken milles of inland territory. No one knew what lay to the west i of new-discovered Panama or how. narrow the isthmus was. If the ground were fruitful for exploration it was equally perilous. But Balboa was a stranger to fear, and he waited his wwe = chance to explore. re i Stranger to ‘An expedition was outfitted and captained by one | Fear. } Encisco in 1610 to reinforce a new colony that bad) r settled at San Sebastian, The day after the expe- dition sailed there was an overhauling of the cart A big cask was found whose presence could not be accounted for, Encisoo ! ordered the head of the cask to be knocked in. This was done. Out sprang | a man in armor, a sword in his hand. dond ‘The stowaway was Balboa. Failing to get leave to join the sive aia. he had chosen this way of coming along and, incidentally, of getting ftom his angry creditors. ¥ In spite of himself, Encisco was obliged to enroll thé new recruit ty) his party. When the ship reached San Sebastian no trace remained of ‘thi! colony there. It had been destroyed. Enoisco was for returning to port... Balboa begged) him to sail on to Darien and start a colony there. Tt was Balboa’s fitst taste of real exploration, and he did not want to turn backi* It was an opportunity to make good, and he grasped it. , talented men all around him were oe ca ¢ Encisco followed the stowaway's advice, They sailed to Darien, Balboa succeeded in deposing Encisco and making himself ruler ot 4 new settlement. Encisco hustled back to Spain with a complaint e. his supplanter. Balboa proceeded to build up his colony and to make goog! alliances with the surrounding Indians. of From these Indians he heard rumors of a great ocean to westward, an@} his love for exploring was stirred into new life, With ! a band of Spaniards'and Indians he set forth thi 4 the wilderness, After a hazardous and journey through the trackless jungies and hills came out, at the end of three weeks, on the summit of a mountain wall. { Below him glittered the vast stretches of the Pacific. He was the first white man to set eyes on the mightiest of ogeans. He had discovered the Pacific. He had made good. Balboa hurried down to the beadh., \ he waded knee-deep into the ocean and, with drawn sword, took formal possession of it in the name of the King of Spain. ; ‘This was on Sept. 29, 1513, Planting the banner of Spain on the shore,) he knelt in prayer of gratitude for his wonderful discovery, a" ‘gt Yes, Balboa had made good. But it was to profit him little except to give him immortal fame, for in the zenith of his greatness he was arrested, was tried on a trumped-up treason charge and was beheaded. ee Commandeered the Pacific. —— Bill passed on. The next comfheten the Fat Reporter, showed a pink pass! that entitled him to witness the! arrival of the R-34 and Old Bill gave! him a nod of approval. You can al- ways do business with a diplomat if you are diplomatic. 4 A little further down the aisle OM Bill ran up against the outpost. the commuters’ Hindenburg line, “enemy” was absorbed in 5 thought and was looking out the! window at nothing in particular. . paid no attention to “Show your) ticket, please,” until Old Bill had tej peated it, 3 “What's that?” he asked irritably, i + on tie interests and convenience of the railways, just as the other laws give the long end to the Medes and Persians. One of the rules on the Paradise Line is that all passengers must show their tickets twice onthe trip—once when the conductor comes to punch out the wrong number and-once after leaving Midway, just to show that the passenger is not profiteering back. ‘The secopd call for tickets usually comes when the commuter is down in the middle of a newspaper column reading the declaration of @ sage- brush Senator that he “will never lay down bis arms — never! never! NEVER!” or when the homeward- bound commuter, who has tarried too long in a 2.76 anti-Anderson resort with the 97.25 stuff, has converted two seats into Lower 7 and turned in, giv- ing @ correct imitation of a pretzel. But whatever the commuter may be doing, when the second call is heard, “Bhow all tickets, please!" a wave of resentment sweeps over the car as strong as if @ policeman had asked “I said ‘Show your ticket, please,” politely but firmly, “How long have you been running! on this line?” asked the Prominent! Pergon, me “Longer than you've been riding oni it,” said Old Bill pleasantly, ‘ “As @ matter of fact, Old Bill tae! been running on the Paradise Line’ almost since the time of President! Adams, and has always been faithful to duty. The Prominent Person's pride was, touched, He had been riding on this! line for months; certainly all the warms the cockles of one’s heart ag the making ready in anticipaticn ot the vacation period, off somewhere where one desires to go. But, ab me, gentle reader, let me take you for a little while into a 6 in a very crowded section. hae are unly three rooms, They are spotiessly clean. The tables and floors have been serubbed almost to whiteness. Eivery- where you look you can see the signs of rigid economy with which this lit- tle home has been ruled. At the window looking out into the crowded back yard, filled with fire- eecapes and clothes lines, sits a young men in a chair. At once you realize it is an unusual chafr. It has been made for a pur- pose. The young man knows well the purpose, Wé need not go into détatt,’ His eyes are bright and keen with the @pirit of youth. He"bassa firm jaw that has marked big men—tmen of achievement. And he has achieved much. Over tilre, ho has played bis part, and he ib paying the price—a part of the price that belongs to you and me. An open book lies on his lap. But hip mind is far from it, for he is gaz- img Out over the clothes line and daitiesly living over again that medals, but he has done his duty as @ matter of course, and he will go on —as a matter of course. The reward fy in hie heart and he asks nothing, Neither does the little’ mother whose thin fingers show the results of those whitened floors, They are ericans, No, they are not suffering, They are not objects of charity. They want no alms, They will go on sav~- ing and scrimping and doing the best they can until the call comes and they will answer again. But what have you and I to do with them? Oh, so much, gentle reader, Somewhere, some place, near you, is @ so-called “Shut-in.” It may not be a soldier of war. There are so many soldiers of peace soldiers of life-—who have made the big fight, who have had their big battle for the bravery to endure, To the comparison of the well-and- them has come themselves against strong. It has taken great courage to meet it, and many of them have come out unscathed and with a spirit/that only saints can understand. To them we owe much—the word of approval, the little bouquet, the glass of jelly, the sweetmeat, the pretty cushion, the drive in your automobile, the book, the pleasant talk. When | stop to think of how simple and easy it would be to make life more worth living, more joyous for the shut-in men and women in our midat every minute, J wonder that we Pe the passengers to step down to the Central Office and be “mugged.” “Faithful Old Bill ts running the train this morning,” said Doc, ‘so you might as well get your tickets ready. This ‘You know me, Al,’ stuff won't go with Old Bill, All trips on this line when he is conducting are ‘per- sonally conducted’ by Bill himself; the first time around he says ‘Good morning’ to everybody, but the second time everybody is a perfect stranger. Rules are rules and he is here to in- force them—Article X. and the Shan- tung concession and the Monroe Doc- trine and everything. Why, if Old Bill was t to an army transport he'd make President Wilson show his ticket a dozen times between here and Brest.” Whereupon Doc flashed a pink ticket he had bought for the midsum- mer event of the Paradise Kill-Kare Dancing Club and didn't use, and Old can on to our woods and our streams without a pang of remorse and with a free conscience, “And where shall 1 find them?" do you ask, It is 80 easy,’ Any con- gested section, any philanthropic or- ganigation will know where‘o find a home where there ie a “shut-in,” Seek him or her out and know something of the thrill that comes with the knowledge of having helped to lift the load, he conductors ought to know him by! this time and they ought also to. know his station—both on the rail road and in private life It did p occur to him that he was one of! many neutral persons who might Mdé over the line for ten years and never attract the attention of the man im the next seat. The train had stopped at a statiog) and Old Bill waited patiently, Prominent Person made a pre! of looking for his ticket; he took out! @ mass of letters; some papers that looked like legal documents, felt im, all his pockets, looked in his cli. rette case, and gald: “Go on; I'll find it later.” : “Rules of the road,” said Bill; “hurry up, please, you're holding the this tl is apparen' wi @ the prominent person, was intenaite’ to do, Then Old Bill work: eae ed his dips “Don't be foolish,” said Bill; “everge! body's laughing at you." ha 8 matter of fact, ever was serious and irritated—but it weet He immediately produced the tickeé’ from a convenient pocket, defiantly at Old Bil and ‘styene ae his hat. Then he glared at the off { passengers only to be greeted by 4 rs lerisive of la iain cone ughter, and 1 us were the laws of ¢) " and Persians enforced and Ry faithful Old Bill vindicated, I \ Rip bed