The evening world. Newspaper, August 23, 1919, Page 10

- taking them across in the first instance was monumental, the critics Wek CULV ely } COFFEE, BEANS AND EGGS. N THE interesting fist of food items found in storage by the Fire Department investigation of warehouses ordered by Mayor ‘y ‘Hylan, three stand out high above the normal requirements of the town, to wit: coffee, beans and eggs. ‘That 65,000,000 pounds af| , _ Spectator is very much overlosded with these comestibles, while in the case of coffee—45,000,000 pounds—we may perhaps locate the “frosts” on the Equator that were reported to have eo seriously \ anticle, New York might be expected to have « considerable supply in| storage, bat when it is considered thet coffee is used by the ounce, 48,000,000 pounds looms up most magnificently. When we recail that its retail price last year was eround 20 eanits « pound, and is now double or more, we are warranted in looking with suspicien pon this hoard. The presence of half « billion eggs in hiding is alse an impressive revelation. Surely the American ben is not so remiss as te require this vast recerve. 4 ‘will do more to cure profiteering than law. Let ft be “known thst plenty exists and is being held beck, and the will weaken. ‘ The figures are to be handed the Federal authorities. They might go further and find out what banks are using the people's own money to engineer this vast oppréasion. No private pocket is carry- img 65,000,000 pounds of beans, 45,000,000 pounds of coffee, or half ee FILE | ar 3 £ aR F ¢ r E 3 LY | | : i ; 5 WELL OUT OF IT.” HE news that but 25,000 United States soldiers are to remain im: France wilt bring pleasure to Americans, particularly when a not beliew, it could be repeated. , Instead, the return has been even better hailed than the departure. ‘All of which reflects great credit on the marine of America, England and France, each having shared in the Mar rying ona Small Income ™» , By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Go, (The New Fork Hvening World). YOUNG couple has just sepa- rated and the fundamental reason is that they married on tee email ‘an income. ‘Before they were married she was ‘working in an office at a salary al- Most equal to his. They were very much in love with each other and, as things go, they fis- ured all sorts of economies tp double harness, by which the one salary would he mice” ‘Many cases of fllness are reported as following the apeet were fovety—theli of the city’s travel routes by the Interborough strik>. Few alas tee hon te ae large establishments have failed to miss numbers of em- ‘wag just ike playing house end Ployees. The Glecomfort was, therefore, not for the day alone. which during the honeymoon period ‘was sufficient for everything. Letters From the People ‘The Firemen’s Flee, pay very highly for our uniforms, as |! ‘Fe Geo Witter of The Evening World: they have gone up over & per cent. Would you kindly print the follow~ | w. cannot strike and we cannot get img in your valuable column, as we, & decent living wage, and what te left the firemen of the City of New York.| tor us to do—keep starving and Gieite to seuesiot the puttic with te astningt Ihealnuel f — in our ana ont with| Hoping you will find space in your ooorselg a roi ee port First, | Y@'able paper for this article, thank- cg ayant be physically perfect in ing you in advance, you wiif obliga fig 6 ppp Sos yay ypoatrd SOME OF THE FIREMEN, Ment and must pass a severe mental Something to Think About. ination, The man, after passing | T° the Editor of The Krening World: the above, becomes a member at a salary of $1,200 per year, Under the| Who were discharged got a bonus of two-platoon system a man works at | #60. The boys of Companies A and B, the average of twelve hours a day for days’ vaca- from the full 69th Regiment New York, aho served on the aqueduct at Olize Bridge, Camp Atwood, Peekskill, and other places in the cold winter out in rein and snow and suffered a whole lot, did they get $60 bonus when they got out? No, not even a silver stripe wore these boys allowed to wear, They went away after the old 69th went to France, and got back ip 1919, There 361 days a year, for @ year, thus leaving a member $1,146 ber year salary, which amounts to an of 27 cents per hour, After ig a member for two years per hour, and after on the job he fireman, at the whistle blew. Now, I think the peo- ple of New York ought to give them & little thanks for what they went through guarding the water for New York, @ have read your paper every night, and I am interested in the same, There is one thing I like in 4, FOUmr, H that way they would get just what they wanted, rather than have every- thing at once, ‘This is all very well when you have the money to buy the things you want “as you go along.” you begin to figure how you are going to save here and cut down there, and you have to do without one impor- tant thing in order to get another, this postponing of purchases gety to Now the war ts over all the soldiers | be @ problem rather than a pleasure. And go it happened with this couple. But that was not all, After the wedding trousseau had become worn, and she needed new clothes, she rathér missed that weekly pay envelope which was all her own to do with as sho pleased. So she had to make over things and do with #0 much less, Tm the beginning she did not mind, Decause she alw: “bad each other,” and so forth and parese #0 02, 98 young Drides usually do. bo adioad for them, not even &|” yet after « couple of years, when hig salary increased very ttle, ahe missed many things because she could not afford them, Now, gentle reader, you naturally say, “But she couldn't have loved him very much not to be willing to give up things.” and that is the letters from! But this is not #0, She was de- wn ee Yet when reflected they Young People Marry to Get More Qut of Life. The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1919, ty The Frees Pubtidhing Os, (The Now York Brentng World). enthusiasm te thelr interests, even as her work in the office. But being 8 bright girl, she could ece how auch she could add ¢o their comfort and happiness it @he, too, went out to work and doubled their income, such @ thing. their own earnings. He would not hear of it. His pride was wounded when she suggested She argued avery way. There were no children and no ties or people at home. She could hire somebody to do their little domestic work out of But he would not hear of tt What @id he marry her for? Wasn't he the head of the housa, the provider, the would his friends cay? Quarrels became more frequent and his shortcomings and small income Decame magnified in her eyes, Sho could pot eee the sense of doing with- out many comforts and having to wimp and eave in their sordid sur- roundings, I «rew on her nerves. It choked her ambitious spirit. ‘The constant dropping on their dif- ferent views finally wore away the solidity that bound them. { do not know if they wil ever comp together again, but this I do know. Too many people prate of love in @ cottage and @ willingness to sacrifice on moonlight Mondays and in the heyday of honeymoons. But when the time to live it comes it is a different question, Tt ty also very well for older people to advise how they started with noth- ing and worked themselves up, Let us look facts im the face, Gone are those good old days when “little here below,” ted that little in the aver- woman wanted and age marriage, And man too. ‘To-day “eettle down.” examples. Life is full of movement in the twentieth century, Nobody stands still, Amusements and pleasures are regarded as a necessity in making life worth living. It is not easy to do without them because of being confronted with them ail the time, things are different. Couples do not get married and ‘They et married to get more out of life. ‘They want to have @ good time and they don't want to work too hard to have it ‘They are constantly surrounded with Dread winner? |Ne wife of his would ever co out to work and help make the living, he proclaimed. What have « few days each week, But that’s all the thanks I get!” “I didn’t mean anything personally,” said Mr, Jarre hurriedly, “Bless you, t only meant to say wé were lucky that we could think, of going some- where to the country or the seaside before the season is over at the moun- tains or at the shore.” “Oh, yes, we can THINK of it!” said Mrs. Jarr; “but that’s about all we oan do, and if it pleases you I'm glad you get some satisfaction oat of it, But I'm suye I don't seo where the money ts coming from!” “We might visit some of our coun- try relations,” said Mr, Jarr. “Yes, and then have them acting as if we were tmposing on them and have them ali come and live off us in the winter and take them to the- atres and show them around! { won't de it! Ite cheaper te go place and pay for it and be done with it!” “All right,” said Mr. Jarr. “Where shall we go?” “Listen to the man!” sald Mro Jerr. “If I knew, wouldn't I be pack- ing up to get out of this town long before this?” “Weil,” said Mr, Jarr, “if the sea- eon ke over defers I get & vacation then we won't ated to go anywhere much doing at the office on Gatarday and that they all lip away early on one pretext or another,” said Mrs, Jarr. “Yes, but « ertmp hes been put tn that,” replied Mr. Jarr, “The boss is onto it, and he's given orders that we shall stay in the office Saturday af- ternoons.” “He doosn’t, does he? asked Mrs, Sarr. ‘ “No, be dosen't,” sali Mr. Jarr. EEE, willing to sac the common com- forts: tn these da} when everybody is having them, Better wait until you have some assurance of plain galling, It ts easy enough to get married, but the di- voree courts are filled with records of the so-called “spendthrift” of the first part who found it diMcult to live down to the income. Love is the greatest thing in. the world. it can stand for a whole lot, But many a Cupid's craft has been broken om the constant Gea of By Albert P ARADISE society has always been more or tess exclusive, ‘but ite discriminations have never been based upon wealth or the mere edicts of fashion. The ood villagers have never looked down upon people with money or the ‘| person who had more than one Palm Beach suit, or who wore breephes and golf stockings for evening dress. Ifa pereon had a good moral character and average polite manners he was in @ fair way to be a member of the best circle and was fairly sure of being on the invitation list of the best families. _ But Paradise is undergoing a #0- ¢ial upheaval due to the attempt of the Prohbibitionists to force a grape Juice and ice aoda regime upon a high-strung independent com- munity with natural inclinations toward double Bronxes and{jScoteh highs. Doo brought the subject up the other morning coming in on the 155 A. M, ‘ “Ws there anything the matter ber tween you and Fred?” he asked Maw- russ. “You don’t seem to be as friendly as you have been.” “We're not unfriendly,” replied Mawruss, “but I'll admit thet our re- lations are not as intimate as they have deen, That isn't my fault and it isn’t Fred’s. We're simply vic- tims of changed conditions. Under pre-war conditions Fred and I used to be together all the time and our families used to visit together sev- eral times a week. Then the war came-and disorganized everything and our time was all taken up with war garden and the Sheriff's Reserve drills and Liberty Bonds and con- servation and Four-/Minute propa- ganda in order to lick Germany quick- ly and get back to a peace basis. And now we're back on @ peace basis, after a manner of speaking, and what are we up against? We find that the war has not only upset the relations of nations, bat it has shattered the very foundations of society. While we are waiting for am official settlement and a déclaration of peace every- thing ts up in the alr and nobody knows Just whére he is at.” “That’s a fine speech,” sald Doc, “rut what are you driving at? I can’t make heads or tails out of it; you talk like an irreconcilable Sen- ator.” “What I am driving at is this,” re- plied Mawruss; “if some of us were forehanded am had vision with re- spect to the future and prepared our- =a = > then look at the money we will have saved!” * “Let me look at it, too,” remarked Mrs. Jarr icily, “I always like to see ‘How They Made Goo Comrright, L918, by The Prom Pubtiching Oo, (The New Tork Brening World). ‘No. 77.--George W. Childe, Errand’ Boy came @ Multi-Millionaire. ni Journaliem, and in philanthropy as well. ‘ yen TheGayLife of aComrauter; Or Trailing the Bunch From Paradise By Rube Towner Copertght, 1919, by The Prem Pubtishing Oo, (The New York Brening World). Prohibition and Social Reorganization in ape ayson Terhune Who ao elves against thie twilight Detween peace and war, against adventure into the No Man's Lang, between personal Mberty and prohibas tion, ts it fair that we thrifty and fare sighted ones should bear all the den of maintaining and the social relations until the of normal conditions?" i) “Meaning which?” asked Doc. * | “Meaning just this,” replied Mawe russ; “I am perfectly willing to p serve-a friendly attitude toward oti ers of my fellow citizens in Paradisay Dut with certain reservations, I ast? you, Doo, I appeal to you as @ long friend, tf it is @ square deal Fred to come up to my place two three times a week and partake freew ly of the contents of my cellar, wh: includes euch well-known articles commerce as rye, bourbon, Scotdiy gin, vermouth, red and white wings Diackberry brandy and a few Dottles of cordial, and so forth, then for htm to ask me over to he. place and have him hand mes of near beer, and tell me I can lemonade or a cigar tf I prefer DMs cupboard is just like old Hubbard's; the thriftless son. gun hasn't got a quart of anything the house!” ‘This wae the beginning of the cial reform which is now op over the entire village. Doo at once suggested to the that they should organize and have new social alignment—a sort of exclusive inner circle—based on w! ever an inventory would show. By & unanimous vote Doc elected Boia! Food Dictator, and committee wes appointed to ® gocial calendar and make up a blue book, Tit programme, ¢o arranged, is graded something this: Mawruss—Supply unlimited; cial Leader, Doé—10 gallons and et ceteras; be invited freely to dinners, brid musicales and parties, € Newcomer—6 gallons; to be limited) to two invitations per week. ‘ Jim—2 gallons;: one invitation pew week. 5 Charlie—1 gation; one invitation bi-monthly—while it lasts, . Others—With variations, based solutely upon the law of supply. = Former Leader of Paradise Soot —(cellar empty)—Boclal outcast, ——_——— . JAPAN WANTS WATER. _ 3 Practically all water works, proge ects were suspended in Japan di the war, but renewed activity is being shown in this industry, the orders recently received by Ji anese manufacturers of water in) are the following: Dairen, 2,000 and Kagashima, 500 tons. money we are going to save. Where to it?” f “Search me!” eaid Mr, Jars, And she did but was battled. 5 bd Shan, 'singtau are expected to order sh bi ponl ~ = aqererating 18,000 ‘on ing ia now quoted at sd