The evening world. Newspaper, December 13, 1919, Page 4

Ce poe ae eo i A THE EVENING WORLD, BATURDAY, DECEMBBR 18, “1919. . : ee es el One Hour in a Barroom Horton Says. - FEW days ago I was preparing a statement as a reply to the charges made by Dr. Copeland, Health Commissioner of New York City, that the milk distributor was responsible for the malnutrition ex- isting among the younger children of New York City. While this state- ment was being put into type the New York Globe, under the signature « of Mr. Alfred W. McCann, printed an article which covered the matter so much better than my own statement that, with the permission of The Globe, I am reprinting here the entire article. ce I hope you will read it carefully, because it contains a number of im- Brings Old Style Trouble ‘Alex Got a $10 Fine and a Finger-Printing, the ' Cook Lost Her Job and Frank Lost Two Molars, but the A. O. O. R. Was Right There Ready to Take Care of Its Good Old “Wet” Time Friends. By Roger Batchelder. specialized in SALTO - NL and CHOCO- LATES for over 16 years. His success is due to KEEPING UP covered with sawdust. His features MIS is a story of Hasex Market Court in which the famous post of the A. O. O. R. participated. 4 It often participates in a story for | | waitious reasons, but rarely tn « case f MiBoh comes before His Honor. * Ms Morning session was over and the members of the post hied them- selves to the mucilage Inbora- tory of Harry Spits, right across the street, where Nos. 7 and 8. “Look,” demanded Frank, pointing to his amputated chewors. exhibition,” suggested Pete Walker. : also more or less mussed, and the big Polock.” 4n his hand he held molars, rear right, “We came to eat, not for a dental “But I got walloped while getting the bread,” protested Frank; “and by ‘That was another matter. When the post's very own, original Frank had QUALITY. | | As a convenience to custom- \ers who want to list their gifts jand the money they can spend —also to enable them to order) by letter or telegraph or by| phone — Greeley 241 — Hatch | |prints here the price of his specialties: portant truths that you, as a milk consumer, ought to know. LOTON HORTON, President Sheffield Farms Company, New York. ——_—_—_——SSSSS——————— “Less milk than ever is being consumed Society, Not Milk, to Blame. All over the world, since the beginning of enlightened selfishness, earnest men SALTO-NUTS | (Registered. ) Salto Nuts (mixed), Goobers (Arimtocracy ly), #1 formerly the ni Black Walnuts. Fi apa Pill Nutn, aacn Bran Note ang: pecial Mi io Gaabew Nate Pocains. Pi ; ew Nut. Pecans, Pls B3.00 per To, rah CONFECTIONS 7 Nutted Rateing, per box, Marahmatiows, SOc. per 1b.: permints (White, Pink. G of a fight. Then he went back to his beat, Frank went for a summons. He @ot it in record time, and Satur- day morning he was im the court room at.9 o'clock. His assailant, ono Alex, failed to appear, and at noon style, as well as a ic. It will strike no the land that is a 1b.;, Home-made’ Fudge. Italtan Chocolates (the old kind), Italian Caramel 50 i iT dren are dying more rapidly then ever, have been exploring expl with ‘essive in- a et ee oer a” tensity the health of the child, and all ier and none of them are dying at ‘over the world the cruel ravages that Dr. “Three hundred thousand u: | now charges to New York's children are ready to victims mi have been uncovered to the in. a s g i | § i The singular frolics of Health, or ex- Health, Commissianer Copeland, as he winds through a wilderness of milk statis- tics, continue to erupt like St. Anthony's fire in a veritable erysipelas of morbidity, mortali normality, and longevity. Never before wes such a mess of contre: diction seen. to indict the milkmen or to order The good doctor, whose erudition, them to do things that can’t be done, strangely smacks of Erebus at ti has __ If indictment is possible the grand broken out all over with figures. ith jury if maintained ly for the though his friends admit it is attended the operation of economic laws, not with eruptions that make the heavens though the fulmination of offical clank, glow. clang and clangor. The Underfed Kiddies With caustic emphasis he declares New York's children are sadly underfed. According to his tables, 4,500 kiddies are so far gone that they actually need med- becoming hubbub and uproar for the } th t went Wi it Officer Mur- have some. nice os. | See ate ort, Wrazent Ordos Bear, Gitta Phd q ‘ chara’, “Go and get bread to/warrant. Alex appearsl within five ; ‘ | make the sandwiches for the farnous |™inutes. . Please note that in the above ¥ | awe Market Post.” Frank's witness was the cook. She . listing of prices, the highest ) 5) Prem ts @ nice plaining gen- She Out tuna ce tate be om 5 Ry > M Fete for Salto-Nuts is 83.00 per tiemaa from Italy. the old days| tified that he had asked fir 30) lb. and the highest price for 1 he Used to replenish the seldels :nde- ping that Alex ted drawn. out Chocolates is $2.00 per lb. No fatigably. Now be mops the floor oF Somnerhing, NG Sad then bit profiteering—just quality for a ig Gie morning, prepares the free Dearth deny Tet tae. lg the money, that’s all, 4 of gr actly pled eredlgeel [SORIA AS Aa AMERICA’S FINEST , were to ot tention of a witness, Dut \ ae removing excem, be from he should worry as long as Alex re- GIFT PA E % = Pvery! be esived what was coming to him. CKAG! : news ticker. body about the | Sides Nolan heard the evidence, selecti COMBINATION DE LUXE i grant ad “Gur: * Ten dollars,” he decroed. Make your selections now BOXES—two i ; iy “Have him finger-printed.” Alex was taken to Bill Beirns, who applied the inky mitture liberally. ical care. The milkman’s to blame. “T insist,” he asserts, “that 300,000 ed children are ready to be- berculosis. The mill orderly procedures still supposed t - trol official conduct. nee During nights, too many and too long, pap hee dhs hurling mud unks at the strongholds of civic decency. Concealed wf f i 2 i u “You should remember, Alex,” warned, “the grand old temple of Justice will protect its own.” And across the street Harry Spitz ‘bit the from another bottle of “Bibblo,” the Drink of Kings,” and declared that it wouldnt cost the) i i § ! § Fifth Avenue at 35th Street CHOCOLATES and NUTTED | FRUITS of the ‘same quality—! only the $10.00 box contains} | Hl Concealed behind political claptraps, they Forthwith he humors another flourish sniping from the dark. Within and repeats his threat “to do something dire and dreadful” unless the milkman cuts the price of mill. Perplexing imps, hopelessly entangled, scamper through the gamut of his song, 1 if wes ASKS PEOPLE Shows Enumeration | Harm Nobody. Qroclamation given out to- President Wilson of the Gov. i i that any disclosure ing any ind ust or re. yt peter of the ge aed ens persons furnishing rma- ‘every ee of the Census $ is ited, under heavy y, from disclosing any informa- which may thus come to his y and accurately all inquirie: sve to them by the enumera- tors or other employees of the Census uu and thereby to contritute share toward making this great undertaking a Rest comp! Parlor and Sl Mr ts: Na United States Railroad Administration Director General of Railroads Complete Train Service Effective December 15, 1919 All trains annulled during the coal will be restored, t th aa ‘ The lete train service, including ‘ Public Time-tables will be again operated. Pennsylv post a cent. $24.50 FOR A MAN'S SUIT GOVERNMENT COMMISSION Made Up by Chicago's Biggest Retail Stofes. CHICAGO, Dec. 13. IWHNTY-FOUR dollars and a half ia a “fair price” for a man’s suit or overcoat, the Federal Price Regulating Com- mission, working under direction of District Attorney Clyne, an- nounced to-day, A fair price for women’s suits ‘was fixed at $25, women's dresses at $15.25, men’s shoes at $5.95 and women's shoes at $ Officials of five of Chicago's biggest retail stores prepared the price list, which follows: Men's suits. . Men's overcoats... Men's shoes..... « Men's hgpiery.... Men's underwear, Women's suits... ‘Women's underwear. 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Tticle No. 43 Man the world over is sick, diseased and deformed to such extent that every bit of good and useful health knowledge that can be acquired is neces- sary to our day and age. ‘The Science of Chiropractic, embracing as it does \ great deal of distinct health knowledge of proved value to the sick and fflicted, need offer no apologies for its existence in public practice, nor any further explanation of its phenomenal growth ‘and development than are] contained in the fact that its principles and manner of applying them to the human body meet the approval of human logic and reason and the tests of the strictest rules of health science, Chiropractic bas made it possible for a multitude of despairing sick people to recover health in many instances of physical and mental disorders that other health methods are unable to reach and relieve. This science aces an entirely new conception of the cause of disease and way te re- move it from the body. It has discovered that the natural forces of the body will effect full and permanent retoveries in the majority of ailments when the human spine is adjusted to insure full freedom to the nerves for their work of transmitting vital force from the brain to all body parts, Before consulting « Chiropractor always make inquiry of the Chiro- practic Bureau of Public Information. Address all inquiries to C. 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New York, oF fice, 4100 Matn, Ip sizes—one con- taining $% compartments, at $6.00; the other, containing 5 compartments, at $10.00. Both filled with SALTO-NUTS. garnishing each beich of official melody as chopped leeks bedeck a kidney stew. Of course, 4,500 children in New York City .are so pathetically undernourished that they need medical care. This grue some truth needs no Daniel come to judgment to disclose its misery to the richest city of the world. But—by what process of legerdemain does the dear doctor conclude that the milkman, not the breadman, the eggman, the butter- man, or the breakfast-food man, is re- sponsible for the tragedy? ¥ What Census Shows. Does Dr. Copeland not know that back in 1912, Jan, 24, the census director at Washington issued belated mortality statistics covering the year 1910, now nine years gone, which showed that in the United States 4,000,000 children were suffering from malnutrition and 15,000,- 000 more were in immediate need of medical attention? Milk in those days could be bought for less than 8 cents a quart. Yet just as many children were starving then as now. Not the milkman but society itself was responsible then, as it is still responsible, for this deadly and intolerable thing. The dear doctor, who once was the Mayor of a little town in Michigan, treating eyes and ears on the side, politics from alpha to omega. His sight and hearing are keenly attuned to all the i and debate. Mr. and Mrs. Horton, and all the little Bordens and Hortons, circumstances, in- cidents, accidents, and facts to the con trary notwithstanding. In Leeds arid Edinburgh. ~ In a single school in Leeds, 1910, where New York’s milkmen never plied their trade, Dr. Hall, not a politician, found 50 per cent. of the children to be suffering from the identical afflictions now plaguing 4,500 of New York's juveniles. During the same year, in a single school in Edinburgh, 40 per cent. of the children were found to be suffering in the same manner. Neither the English nor the Scotch saw fit to cable the United States Department of Justice, the New York Dock Department, or the committee on cesspools and sewers in protest against the “machinations, cruelties, and atroci- ties” of the New York milkman. In Boston, 1911, Mayor Fitzgerald, fol- lowing a survey conducted by Dr. William . Gallivan, chief of the division of child ygiene of the Boston Board of Health, announced that only 14,957 of the 42,750 school children examined, little more than a third, were found to be healthy. This disquieting fact was never inter- preted to mean that New York's milk- men were robbers, crooks, thieves, and baby killers. ity record of New York's children was the (flor in years. What classfellows of the vacuum school of statesmanship inspire these divergent utterances? The doctor says, and quotes his own figures to prove his: statement, that the greed of the milkmen has deprived children of milk to the extent of hundreds of thousands of quarts. Milk Consumption Up, Not Down. toh The consumption of milk has been cut down, he says, through high prices. Yet the vital statistics of his own department prove that, during the past year, instead of falling off, the milk consumption in Manhattan actually increased 8 per cent. over the year before, and that this in- crease is entirely outside the wealthier sections where high prices would make little difference. Furthermore, there has been no corresponding increase in popu- lation to account for this. Mr. Hearst, please note! There are, indeed, in New York City childfen starving through poverty, but there are other children whose parents cam afford to buy milk for them, who, through ignorance, are condemned to a diet of white bread and tea. In the mean time it is patent that when men in places stray from truth, wan- dering rambling through the bulrushes of diversity, the plain le, perturbed and deranged, cannot enjoined from following a course of tumult and disorder What Makes Anarchists. Perhaps nothing so enhances the ar- guments of anarchy as the follies of men of power. The abuse of power begets dis- tempers, harasses the weary, irritates the weak, disturbs the sane, and makes the foolish mad. Month after month Dr. Copeland has contradicted himself with impetuous fury. He has outvixened Xantippe in his in- vocations of the Goddess of Vengeance. One does not make furrows in the un- wrinkled with impunity. One does not boast too noisily too long. Sooner or later a hard fact stalks by and pricks the bubble. After that all is bitterness and repentance. New York is cursed indeed with too many starving children, but the causes behind the sufferings of the little ones are manifold, If the child is to be the bene- ficiary of any real effort to heal its hurts, honest men must apply themselves honest - ly to an adequate solution of the problem. Overemphasis focussed on any one factor, however ve in itself, shields with underemphasis all other factors and the stricken child pays the price. We have been treated with all the varieties of venom, falsehood, and political eloquence now extant. The milkman has borne his lot to the full, so has the child, If we are sincerely concerned in help- ing the child let us pursue the truth, not the political striations of expediency that happen for the moment to be labelled “popular.” SHEFFIELD Farms Company New York te