The evening world. Newspaper, November 21, 1919, Page 38

ESTARLISHED BY ‘JOSEPH PULITZER. RALPH PUSITZER, President, ¢3 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEP PULITZEK, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row, By ai MEMNER OF hf ASSOCIATED p< wa SF mea STC SY ab ads alo Danae VOLUME 60.. ees NO, 21,276 _ PUT MILK IN THE PUBLIC UTILITIES CLASS. i: Tv: begin to be hopes of a straight line attack on New ae York’s milk problem. BS. Federal Fuel’ Administrator Arthur Williams is the latest RS authority to adopt The Evening World’s view that sooner or later milk must be put in the public utilities class, where its production and distribution can be supervised by commissions responsible to the public and acting solely in the public interest. “The Evening World’s studies of the milk industry in this State haye attracted wide attention. They have shown how the profits sought by the big milk-handling concerns in the by-products of milk prevent the fluid article from reaching consumers in quantities that mean lower prices. They have shown the perennial waste in present - distributing methods. 4 commission cons ting of former Gov. Martin H. Glynn and _ State Commissioner of Education John H. Finley, appointed last summer by Gov. Smith to investigate cost of living conditions in this State, came to the following conclusion: iM ‘ “A milk system that costs the people of the City of New d York proportionally $6,000,000 a year more than milk costs the people of Philadelphia, $3,000,000 more than it costs the people of Chicago and $1,000,000 more than it costs the people of x Boston needs either explanation or reformation.” This great community of five million and a half people ought | tobe already hailed as the most progressive in the United States in By Waving worked out ways to insure the distribution of an ample milk supply at fair prices. New York should have sct the pace in solving milk problems— > even if the city had to take the shortest cut and start a practical rl experiment of its own to determine what it really costs to produce abd distribute milk at a fair profi . To declare milk a public utility would be at least a consistent forward step. What‘ is needed is less talk and more concrete demonstration. | Dnless all this milk investigation leads to movement along some VE " © definite . path the city will only continue to wander in circles through ~ the same old woods. k * ‘ ts oo ANOTHER INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE. HE President's new Industrial Conference will have the coun- try’s earnest good wishes, The present state of public a opinion in the United States is too propitious for readjust- "ments in the relations of labor and capital to leave much ground for | pessimists who see no hope of getting the two in better accord. 4 Granted the first Andastrial Conference was a failure. That % does not meap that the yery mistakes of the first may not make @ success of the second, The President has wisely abandoned the 5 distinctive group idea and given the coming conference the character ‘et a compact body the members of which can feel they are all working * } for the same end. , v * It becomes more and more plain to the thoughtful that one of he ‘most necessary things to establish in the United States to-day is tome sort of tribunal which shall be capable of dispensing justice |) that both capital and labor will recognize and accept as justice, Labor particularly talks constantly of justice. Yet it never says fhether it sees any present power in the United States from whom it _ bere take justice. . . If the next Industrial Conference did nothing else but make * Glearer to the country what kind of referee labor will agree to and “how that referee can in varying circumstahces best be obtained, its sittings would be wel] worth while. fer Be + TO THE TEST. Orns announcement from the White House that the es President will take no action calculated to change the status of Wartime Prohibition until peace has been formally de- > -clared should put an end to current rumors that the Chief Executive : urprise to spring on the Prohibitionists. The Anti-Saloon League may celebrate the death of the Peace ¥ 4 Treaty in the Senate with serene, untroubled spirit. A brief return > of personal liberty in the United States will be no part of this 4 Thanksgiving. The whole question of Wartime Prohibition now rests with the United States Supreme Court. The latter listened yesterday to first arguments on appeals brought to test the constitutionality of both the Wartime Prohibition Act and the Volstead Enforcement Act. The country feels distinct relief in the knowledge that Wartime | Prohibition is where it will be finally and authoritatively passed i mpon. There is every promise that the decision will not be delayed. ‘3 That Congress can enact a glaring piece of dishonesty, hypocrisy ©) and self-contradiction into law has been demonstrated. We shall | Row find out whether the result will stand judgment in the highest - emia i ‘WHY NoT? + Not a few persons find themselves these days with small . remnants of liquor which happen to be not the kind they like * @F can.use, Why not advertise thus: Gentleman possessing quarter of a bottle of Italian vermouth would like to meet gentleman owning half a bottle of gin. ee ‘ag ‘ 4 ’ Published Dally Except Sunday by the Frese Publishing Company, Non 68 to PAT 3s ee Lucile the 2 By Bide j Clancey, the Chauffeur, Her, but She Evens the Score. e ‘ce ELL, 1 got a good fooling in here this morn : sald Lucile, the Waitress, as the Friendly Patron hunted for the chicken in his sandwich. “How was that?” he asked. “Oh, a young feller in a kackeye uniform comes in and takes a seat at the counter just sort of extempo- raneous and I get a wrong steer.” “What do you mean?” ° “Why, Clancey, the pug-nosed chaffer that hangs around the cor- ner outside, eye-calls me wo him and says: “See that kid, Lucile?” “‘Sure;' I tell him in @ disinter- garded manner, “That's the Prince of Wales.’ “Well, sir, you could a’ knocked me a twister with a sledge hammer. For about a minute I'm dumbfound- ered. Then I recover my vocal yow- ers and ask hin how he knows. “lL soen him at the Stock Ex- change,’ he sa: ‘He's a vory fine young feller and likes to talk, Go get bis order and maybe he'll crown you Lady Lucile or somé other tive vf knighthood.’ * “Loan hardly wait. Giving my back push or two I scoot up to the clin and smile, ‘How do you do, Prince?’ I says, m pretty good,’ he telis me. ‘What are you poisoning ‘em with to- day?’ Inside Dope for the Insides, “I didn't think it wounded Princely for him to talk like that, but 1 never Jet doubts stop me when Koyalty is AoE UrOUMG. Bo 4 bell Din Woul'e va (he programme and advise Mun © take hast “‘De you reéommend it?’ he asks. “*Yos, Your lionor,’ | says. “Bo he leis me to slip hig a section of the hash and you ought lo a'saw me WigglegWugele out Lo the kichie- kiteble after tuat feed. I'm ao proud Tm haughty and when the bus boy wets in wy way | actually give bun a swift kick, Prey goon L come back with ge material and lay it be- fore bim. ‘Then I bow, “Is theré anything else your roy- alty wishes? 1 ask. “"Y¥ea,' he says. ‘Slip me a baked potato and greaye the lop with @ lit- de butter,’ “ ‘It shall be as per your command,’ Or Gouty gentleman would set up three bottles of Bur- alongside’qne of Seotch whiskey. ‘* Sth ‘ Coprright, 1919, by The Prem Punishing Co, (The New Tort Rvening World.) |hardly dent % yt, 1919, bs J. H. Cassel Waitress Dudley | By Roy L. sl Copyright, 1919, by Tho Press Publishing Co. The Jarr Family McCardell (The New York Evening Word.) “Goto Work; The National Grange, the g of the Federation at’ Washington, all essential industries. His views as the head of the most request. HE greatest need of American further subsidies, patronizing ducers at the expense of the public t The time has come to simply cl means such an adjustment of prices of production costs, such @ écale of farmer to run his business exactly ent the | If all the money st twen- | ty-five vears in the United States for | propaganda work, in the name of ag- | | iculture, had been devoted to build- ing good roads between the farm and its, market town, to extending rural mail service to thousands of more farm homes, to substituting a lem of reliable crop reports for the ‘ent worthless and misleading guess- work, we might have gotten some- where.on “the high cost~of living” prob! po-called, ‘ One ‘ot the: imperative necessities of té-day is an emphasis upon thé sacred rights of, property, as op- pose to the wild orgy of radicalism, nationalization and anarchy, which lis sweeping the land and threaten- | ing to destroy every industry, every ‘farm ahd every bowmees That there ‘can be no other end to present ten- dencieg,. if. they remain unchecked, might as well be faced first as last, land there should be no further tri- fing in the matter. | Property Rights Must jafeguarded, The. right to’ individual property » ownership, honestly agcumulated-and ? ity legitimately conserved, has always Plays a Mean Trick on Woman’s Inhumanity to Man Makes Lee ee ee dniatal ananees (pri Countless Husbands Mourn. leiple. ‘That principle ts" now being oh ® | savagely attacked from a variety of ways, ‘It's rather ohupky and muy oe HAT’S your hurry to-', the best people don’ nil; but when angles, and it seems ineredible that ORNS Von aullety + day?" asked Jenkins, the| Be catches the 11.0: M; train,|the American people as a ‘whole be a right, y, je says. } a vl everybody sa wse are desirable ed to this su- “w there he was calling m¢ bookkbeper. Is, th©] people to kouw ty? have not yet awakened to thi I felt, maybe Clancey wax & good guesser and that I might be tupped on the head. by the Prince with one of those foreign titles, 8. I beam on the young man and say: How do you like our city, Prince?’ 's & great old burg,’ he says. “‘Have you seen much of it? “‘Oh, sure! ‘says. ‘I been here nineteen yea: “Right away I smelled fish, figur- tively converging, But I keep it up. “‘How did you leave the King?’ I asl “Whatcha doing—kidding me? he Prince of Wales coming to tea at} your house?” | “No,” said Mr. Jarr. “But I got to attend to some matters for his papa, George Five-times.” oil “You know, speaking seriously,” said Jenkins, “I think the visiting young Prince would have had a bet~ ter idea of American life if he bad visited you at your flat and me at my little suburban town. He'd learn one thing, and that is suburban life | says. runs by the railroad time table." | cao, 3 respond, very much et as-) ‘That's interesting,” sald Mr. perin, ‘Ain't you tue Prince r “He grins. ‘Sure!’ he says. ‘I'm jut how do you figure it oul “Well,” said Jetfkins, “it’s this way: The clerks and other residents who have smal! pay \and long hours in the big city bave to be at the) depot to take the early trains so's to) be at their desks or behind their) counters by 8 A. M. sharp, Later come the lawyer, who don't have to be in court till 10 o'clock, and after them come the bankers or the men who have their, own businesses and don’t néed to get around at their of- floes till noon, or thereabouts, So when a new family moves to a sub- urban town their social position is established by w! train the bus- hand takes. If he is an early bird, w It Started George Prince! “‘Ain't you the hairto the throne?’ I demand, flercely. “fLady,’ he tells me, ‘I'm a Brook- lyn televraph operator, My name 1s George Prince’ “That's all there was to !t. I beat it" ¢ “Clancey played you a mean trick,” suggested the Friendly Patron, “He did that," replied Lucile. “But 1 got even. I persuaded him,to take roast beef, and, boy, he ‘couldn't it even with his back teeth. I knew I had him the minute he took roast beef because another suy had walked out on that same plece of meat.” |Ho ~ By Hermine _Neustadtl | The Hatband. HIS fall for the first time, men's “Insult to Injury.” “Oh, is that “Well, how do you stand?” “Well, on account of Saving Day- light, everybody took earlier trains “but ab Jast summer” said Jenkin: asked Mr, Jarr. the upheavals we dre now witness- ing in this country. ‘A home-owning nation is a strong our office hours are 9, 1 guess 1 get | nation, bat unless individual “prop- by a8 a near-millonaire.’ erty rights are eternally safe- “I's pretty nice out in Bast Ma-) .arded, no home will be safe. When Jaria du ing this fice have had, eh?’ uskeu Mr: Jarr. “You b I wouldn't place e.s slastically. “Wonder if I could out there chea,?” a Mr, Jenkt then sai bargain. “Oh, while yet, but Tl! some day,” sai Mr. Jur, ways grew cold oa buyi ct er people seemed anxious to s Seen any o. the fooibail games ked Mr. Jarr. Tl sell you mine at Bs yo autumn we live any sa.d Mr. Jenkins, cnthu- get a nice plac hesliated a minute and’ I guess I'll stay In town & lae who al- hin | capital is destroyed, labor will have gone to its doom, Captains in in- dustry are as essential as skill in labor, and when either disappears, life for the other will not be pos- sible. 3 Instead of joining in the hue and cry of these chaotic times, against all investment, all industry and all property ownership, the imperative call of the hour is for the protection aaged. Jenk os. preservation no republic can endure Ca cir nomeaent pee egUANG | and no people can prosper. If condi- be with the family.” | tions foree us to a distinct line-up in “Had a cg down lately? Jenk ns, “No,” . Jarr ie one of those re entircly wranped up jomes and fami come home early gh ‘s lonely.” “How goo! you're getting, all of sudden,” sneered Jenkins. Olaor, Not Better, men in Jarr, “But why is it you're w ili to sell you place in th count y| when you say It's so fine?” | My wife ay she's lonesome, that I am never home till lute, but as matter of fact”—— “Say no ioe,” said Mr, should be ashamed of yourself, ITTLE do we realize when we use le this expression that we are in- dulging in a bit of wisdom, Un knowingly we are alluding to th classic of the classic, an old Lat, ne hat bands (and mannish ladies wear them too), threaten to go out of fashion; and in the Hight of thelr absence they have suddenly become conspicuous. We now find that they bave to tell a most interest~ ing story of a curious fashion of a bygone day. During the Plantagenet period in England the ‘head covering for men was a hood, from which was suspend- od the liripipe or long tippet. Picture our men walking down Broadway with sashes on their hats! But, though they may not know it, in their hat bands they wear the next thing more anelent version of Aesop. It is a fable about a baldheade man, and as usual the baldheadeo nan is at a disadvantage, In thiv case it is a mere fly that takes advan- tage of him. ‘Well, the baldheaded man was bit- ten on the head by a fly and when he attempted in retaliation to smite the nsect he succeeded only in giving luimself a vigorous slap-on his bata I ways, Again I bike out haughty- like, and pretty soon he's got his spud. Then I think me and bim bet- ter become good friends, I decide to get better acquainted by giving him * Si Bea's ‘ead thet Lest too tat: X iid ahh ahd a Whig dé oad Wiens to it, In the reign of Henry VIII the hat superseded the hood, the long tip- et took the form hatband. bands which men in mourning the My said jeeringly: “You want to kill me for a touch—what will you d Wour on their hats to-day are iden- ‘° yourself now that you have addev oak Jenkins, “I crisp wnd the air bracing! So they parted. “That’ h a hy fable quoted by Phaedrus from the | Sritical guy,” said Mr. Jarr to himaelt “He isn't going his nice little home in the country s he went his way. by daylight this day, I'll bet!” Jenkins looked after Jarr with the same thought. or playing Kelly he said to himsel “Thought you were going home?” Jarr in surprise when ten minutes later Jenkins came in where said Mr. he was playing pool. phoned she was tn “By gollies, how the women chi and we must p-etend not to know It! “Suppose they like we do? Take remarked Mr. Jarr. had to work all day and ta asked ald Mr, Jarr, careleey, ee et eds and perhaps the their ies. So when I don't “Well, I'm getting “older,” said Mr. “you Are you.going to get home late to-day?" I'm going home early,” replied fine to get home early to the country when the weather is “I'll bet a dollar he’s’ going bowling poo! or something!” “On,” said Jenkins, “my wife tele- town and was going shopping with Mrs, Jarr, but I pate, Whereupon, according to Aesop, | know it’s the movies.” | these directions, then the rper the line is drawn the better—there can be sconer we are compelled to settle this issuo, the’ better for us all. We are now called ‘to recognize what the great mass of people in America seem to have totally forgot- ten, that thrift and frugality are still essenti@l to the growth of @ pros- perous people, as against the fearful reign of extravagance and waste tha is the cursé of our present generation. With a National debt equal to $240 apices, resting upon every man, woman.and child in this country, with State, county and municipal ex- penditures going upward by great leaps and bounds; and with no cour- ageous voice sounding throughout the land a clarion call to a great peo- ple to come back to a safety level in public sponding, we see reflected only the spirit of the times, as personal extravagance runs riot through our generation. Underlying a large percentage of all our troubles is the fact that too many people are in America who are not a part of America; And who never in- tend to be if they can help jt. Our world-wide welcome of the past, due to our fuilure to foresee and forestall all its dangers, has filled our land with a class of people who bave no conception of what liberty means, no tor law aud no regard for | a Industries that make up our economic structiire, and so to treat it. preme danger, which underlies ull} of these sacred rights, without whogel| Keep at Work; Be Americans Together,”’ Farmer’s Message to Labor “Industrial and Social Troubles of the Times Sti- | mer Down to Selfishness—Nationa Interests Demand the Destruction of This Idea, Whet Hoisted by a Labor Union or: a Group Farmers,”’ Says Head of the Grange in State- | ment to The Evening World. reat farmers’ organization of the: Uniteg States, in session at Grand Rupids, Mich., last week, decli an invitation from President Samuel Gompers of the American Ped» eration of Labor to join in a conference to be held under the auspice} Dec, 18, with a view to furtherin the programme of enforeing a programme of shorter hours for labor th The Grange took the stand that the present need of the Nation was NOT EASIER HOURS but MORE WORK and production, with the matter of wuges a secondaty issue. The Worthy Maater of the National Grange of the United States presiding over the convention which took this action was Oliver Wilson: important organization in ‘this coun- try representing farm production were sent to The Evewing World ov By Oliver Wilson, Past Worthy Master, National Grange. ‘ agriculture from now on is neither nor “uplifting;” not further campaigns of investigation, literature or other superficial or useleas eunjou- flaging, all costing great sums of money, employing an army of non-pro- reasury, and all getting us nowheré, jassify agriculture as one of the vital ‘This for farm products, such # recognition hours and wages, as shall enable fhe as does the manufacturer of o7| other commodity—selling prices to be based upoh the cost of productipn, plus such reasonable margin as shall Provide for depreciation of eqdip | ment, for interest on investment and for a fair profit over all. ‘ tl at we either individual or collective rights. Only a strict code of immigration jaws and a new policy in handling the ajjen question can save the United States from destruction and éach day's d@jay in acting ‘menaces every institugon we hold dear, t We cannot declare too strongly in the midst of. all the chaos and certainty of the hour that the gle and adequate remedy for the o - quences of war prostr: everybody fo go to work and key fat hus ir work, No investigation of our present and no Suggested remedy for cure avill ever get us anywher matter though it cost into the ml Hons—which is not bonest enough) to recognize that when production* creases, prices Ko up, and that when idleness increases, morals go down. By tremendous strides the working hours of American labor ha m |diminished and American efficiehey ed proportionately; pedple for a #l¥-hour day and a five-day week, and who are willing to go to any lengths to secure these ends, have lost sight of the higiest conception of tuman service; and if modern’ energies were as vigorously ‘applied to doing work as they are to avoiding It, most of our reconstrycs | tlord problems would vanish and the |futare could be faced without feag, The keynote of the hour, whether we face our national problems or ogn- | sider our nationa! blessings, !s found in a single sentence—We Must All "B Americans Together, ‘ There is to-day too much the ten- dency among our people towards class endeavor, class legislation, clkes thinking, and the interests of the pa~- tlon demand the destruction of. spch unworthy ideals, whether they jbe hoisted by a labor union or by a group of farmers, Industrial and so@ial troubley. of the times simmer dawn to simple selfishness—almost Ff; of man ig out to “get his,” regardles: how his neighbors fare. I Only by @ revival, of this spirit, jue by the consecration of the wi people to its attainments, can a re- public ever hope to ‘survive. We Mast All Be Americans fo- gether. > ' Mary Dacre (Lady Clerk). © those who protected with their ie lives the cause of the Stuarts ambodied in the romantic @pi- sode of Charles Edward the tender, whose “cause” collapsed as the Battle of Culloden, 1746, the name of Lady Clerk was of reverent inter= est. Mary Dacre was burn st the time the Pretender’s forces thundered at Carl Highland Chiefs besieged the house. But the officer in charge saved the baby by pinning his @wn white cockade upon the infant, Dacre kept it to her dying day. we George IV., in 1822, came to Scotland, Lady Clerk charged Sir Waltet Sqott with the agreeable duty of presenting to the King a present that had cdme {down to her through the Prim#ose ffamily, with whom famous Fibra MacDonald took refuge in Lon This present was the case of 7 shagreen containing the knife, rie and spoon used by “Prince Charfle” through his bitter wanderings} in Scotland. Engraved upon the silver were the thistle of Scotland and initials “C, 8." (Charles Stuart) case 1g now preserved at Grim Park, Yorkstire. ’ sees a emp tee M