The evening world. Newspaper, December 27, 1919, Page 4

ORES ONT nt ee ew 0 ip Roe ees per consist me race eum? meni? a ee ere EIMS RESTORING D WINE CELLARS SIXTY MILES LONG le Damage Done by Four Years’ CANADA SHOWS U. § ‘Shelling, but Allied Soldiers tl DEAL ie RHEIMS, Dee. 27. (Continued From ae Page.) }ABYRINTINE wine cellars |, beneath tho citi¢s of Rheims and Epernay are being idly put in order by the dig jumpagne firins of the two cities. cellars, which would form subterranean gallery sixty miles length, hold hundreds of mil- of bottles of precious vint- end notwithstanding the that this region was for years under fire from Ger- or Allied guna, they suffered Tiaserctivaty little damage. German acidiers took very little wine from the cellars when they mwept southward over this dis- trict in 1914, Bombardment de- ed the greater part of the \dsonie buildings erected by the © pompanies, but the most ot damiaze, done to the stocks Is to.French and Allied nally failed to reduce the cost of liv- ing. Experience during the war taught the Canadian Government that the way to regulate ‘Is to regu that anybody or official cha the duty of regulation equipped with authority to enforce rules as well as to make them, From the standpoint of equipment in that direction the Board of Commerce of Cariadn is well fortified, It can do al most anything it wants todo. This ts probably the chief reason why there, has been so much opposition to the Board of Commerce and the Com- bines and Fair Prices Act, Viola- tions of the law will Increase the population of Canadian jails and add to that proportion of the income of the Dominion which accrues from fines. te and ed with must be dion, Wibting mean mote un- [SOAR HAS POWER | OVER r “ PRICES AND PR 5 jets) Bequisitions ‘termed “ran- Tho Board of Commerce has or * gAd these cost ihe cellars it $325,000 bottles, including y “reserved” vintages. ently irresponsible soldiers uld bore holes in huge casks may assume control over the prices of and profits from anything bought and sold in Canada, except farm or garden products, which may be held for future sale, In defining “com- dines” the law excludes “oombina- tions of workmen and employees for their own reasonable protection as such workmen or employee Otherwise the Board of Commerce js an autocratic representative of the public, It gives the persona, firms or corporutions accused of profiteering # fair chance for defense. Rut-and this is of interest in the light of the invocation of quibbles and technicali- ties brought up in the courts and va- rious bureaus of the United State: Government—no person enlled to at- tend meetings of the board or any in- vestigation before any official having authority from the board may be ex- cused from attending or bringing documents on the ground that the evidence may incriminate him. -Evi- dence or documents 50 obtained, how- ever, may be used subsequently only in a prosecution for perjury. In tackling the question of reducing the high cost of living by govern- mental regulation, the Canadian Sen- ate and House of Commons passed two bills, One is entitled, “An Act Concerning the Investigation and Re- straint of Combines, Monopolies, Trusts and Mergers and the With- holding and Enhancement of the Price of Commodities.” The other, Is entitled, “An Act to Constitute a was| Hoard of Commerce for Canada.” The two acts run hand in hand toward the end desireg—the reduction of tho high cost of living. Following the principle that there can be no effect ‘of undottled wine, and, after fill- tag a bucket, would leave and it the remainder in the cask away and be wasted, It is jeved 1,000,000 botties were lost firms, however, their ‘losses cheerfully, be-~ ing the Allied soldiers were led to the wine, Six months’ will be required to collect tered unlabeled bottles, the of which experts must deter- e. There is, however, a large @ which is ready for the IRD WOMAN SUES IR CARROLL MONEY t Claim of Alleged Widow ts That Dead Politician Led ‘Triple Life. e filing of a suit by a woman calls herself Mrs. Catherine Car- ‘against the estate of Kearin F. who died on Dec. 6, brings a alleged widow into the case, other two women, whose stories previously been told, are Mrs. F. Carroll, mother of seven by Kearin Carroll, and a who calls herself Mrs. B. although she admits 6! r married to Carroll. rroll was a brother of the late Carroll, a member of the firm of Doerr & Carroll, and a well- ( politician. On his death sev- | without a cause, it would appear that years ago Joseph Carroll left] the Combines and Mur Prices Act eee ae eerie Horse dealer and | caused the.inatitution of the Hoard of | codtractor, Until a anort time before | Commerce. Therefore, this abticle will death he was employed by Fiss,| deal with the Corebines and Fair Fgh Carroll at a salary said {| prices Act, with sido excursions into; eee ror hinacit, 1° We 0180 In Buale| 4g Hoard of Commerce Act, where each measure touches shoulder with the other, The object Is to show, as e latest woman to claim his es tate gave her address as No. 7 Bast clearly as possible, for the benefit of the public of the United States and of Bi 1 Street, Bronx. ; I Y. SCOTS BEGIN { BIG CELEBRATION it iwi Chose This Year and Open such legislators as occasionally take advantage of their ability to read and write what Canada has done and ts doing in a great emergency. First wo take up the finition of: THE EVENING WORLD, “Ono of such Commissioners shall |e appointed by the Governor in e Counsel Chief Commissioner. “Any person may be appolpted Chief Commissioner who is or has lheen a Judge of a Superior Court of | Canada or of any province of Can- ada, or who is a barrister or advo~ cate of at least ten years’ standing Canadian law. The act reads: at the bar of any auch province. “The expression ‘combine’ is used| “A Commissioner shall have all the in this Act with intended relation to| powers of the Chief Commisaloner, articles of commerce, and it shall be| but such powers shall not be exer- deemed to have reference only to|cised by him except in the absence such combines, immediately herein-|of the Chief Commissioner, and after defined, as, with relation as; whenever he has acted it shall be aforesaid, have, in the opinion of the} cdnclusively presumed that he has so Board of Commerce of Canada (or of | acted in the absence or disability of 4 single member thereof acting under! the Chief Commissioner within the authority of and for the purposes of| meaning of this section. section 8 of this Act) operated, or| “Where the Chief Commissioner are likely to operate, to the detri-/dcems it necessary for the more ment of or against the interest of the} speedy and convenient despatch of public, consumers, producers or| business, he may by writing author- others, and, limited as aforesaid, the] ize any Commissioner to sign regula- said expression as used in this Act] tions, orders and other documents in shall be deemed to include mergers, | his stead, and when done pursuant to z the relation resulting from the pur-|the like foree and effect as if signed chase, lease or other acquisition by| py the Chief Commissioner. | any person of any control over ot -” i form a Interest in the whole or part of the} on” commissioners etal quorum, and not leas than two com- business of any other person, and,| migsionere shall attend at the hear- any actual or tacit contract, agree- ing of every case: Provided that in ment, arrangement or combination |aiy case where there is no opposing which has or is designed to have the | party and no notice to be given to effect of (1) limiting facilities for any Interested party any ono commis- transporting, producing, manufac- | signer may act alone for the board, turing, supplying, storing or dealing. | nq the board, or the Chief Commis- or (2) preventing, limiting or lessen-| sioner, may authorize any one of the ing manufacture or production; of | commisstoners to report to the board (3) fixing a common price, of # re-| upon any question or matter arising sale price, or @ common rental, or @]in connection with the business of common cost of storage or transpor-|the board, and when so authorized tation, or enhancing the price, renta’| such commissioner shall have all the or cost of article, rental, storage ot | powers of two commissioners sitting transportation; or (4) preventing ot | together for the purpose of taking lessening competition in, or substan- | evidence or acquiring the necessary tially controlling, within any partic- | information for the purpose of such ular district, or generally, production, | report, and upon such report deing manufacture, purchase, barter,’ sale. | made to the board, it may be adopted transportation, insurance or eupply; [as the order of the board or other- or (5) otherwise restraining or in-| wise dealt with as to the board seems juring commerce.” proper. ‘In case of an equal division WHAT THE BOARD OF COM-li..0rs tne ther commissioner shall MERCE REALLY IS, ve called upon for his opinion. Which seems to cover about every-| “The Chief Commissioner, when thing. But a reference above to the] present, shall preside, and @ commis- Board of Cemmerce of Canada, “al sioner, in the absence of the Chief single member thereof, &o," compels] Commissioner, shall preside, and the explanation of what the Board of|cpinion of either of them upon any Commerce is and how it came into| question arising when he is presiding, being and how it works. |which in the opinion of the commis- The Board of Commerce !s com-|sioners is a question of law, shall posed of three Commissioners aps, prevail pointed by the Governor in Council} “No vacancy in the board shall im- The members of the board are H. A.| pair the right of the remaining com- Robson, Chief Commissioner; W. F.) missioners to act.” O'Connoy and James Murdock. The} There is a provision in the law for Chief Commissioner draws $10,000 a|secret sessions of the Board of Com- year, the other two Commisgsioners| merce, but any person or, corporation $8,000 a year. ‘Thetr'term of office is} accused of profiteering, or any person ten years, and they are removable|making complaint against alleged for cause save in instances which | profiteers, may demand an open hear- have little to do with this article.|ing, which the board must grant. As indicative of the Canadian idea HOW ACTION AGAINST A “COM- ite fulness, z of a lifeUme of usefulness, It is in. BINE™ (@ BEQUN. teresting to note that, under the terms of this law, enacted six months} Returning to the Combines and Fair ago, “a Commissioner shall cease to| Prices Act, we find that any Cana- hold office upon reaching the age of; dian citiaen may apply to any Com- seventy-five years.” missioner of the Board of Commerce ~-except the Chief Commissioner—for a hearing op a complaint against i profiteering or unfair discrimination against the public or a producer. Flexibility in operation was an ob- ject in the minds of the framers of the law creating the Board of Com- merce, With memories of the dead- locks which finally paralyzed the con- ference of representatives of labor, capital and the public called by Pras- {dent Wilson in Washington lyst fall, {t is interesting to read how the Board of Commerce of Canada nd all its branches have been arranged to op- erate day by day in the face of al- most any conceiywole adverse cir-| tion to be made pursuant to thie Act, The law on this point!have authorized to represent him; “The application shall be accom- panied by a statutory declaration setting forth (a) the name and ad- dress of the applicant, and at his election, the name and address of any counsel whom he may, for the the Next and All Clans Will Take Part, Po-night will be long remembered by thd Boots of New York und vicinity, fer, then the Hogm entertainment of Clan MacDonald, the largest Scot- tish society in New York State, will be hel@ in the Masonic Temple, Brooklyn. Hogmenay—the last days of the old year and the first of the mow twelve Months—has been the season of high festivity for Scots from tUme ‘ imme- je bigest feature of the affair will bejm Christmas tree for the bairna, Walter Scott, Commander of the Yerk Scottish, an influential # hattan Scottish ‘speiety, will do ra as Santa Cla as it the “Combine” ia applied to New Issue W.L. DOUG PREFERRED AS TO us and will also ) CAPITALIZATION dd si hild who jeu themselves in thelr studio AUTHORIZED OUTSTANDING Beer rae Shomeciven in ite 7 Per Cent rred Stock $5,600,000 $2,500,000 & mere Common 8t 1,000,000 1,000,000 and Miss . Beott i Donald Shepherd, once King, will be there’ too. ity lads of Clan MacDonald, who dies From Hell” in the Groat » Will be the guests of honor, ‘The rtainment was arranged by Dr. ler Scott, Chief of Clan MacDonald Walter Scott, Dunean Maclin untant of the City, and R Secretary of the Clan, FTER IDEAS ON PRISONS. State Legislators Visit jormatory and Sing Sing. { committee of eight members of the husetts Legislature, headed by esentative Bliss, visited the State matory for Women in Bedford day to investigate the prison sy4~ ts and di Re- a ame” (MASSACHUSETTS CORPORATION) OFFERS $3,000,000 7% PREFERRED STOCK PAR VALUE 6100.00, NON-ASSESSABLK, Dividends have been paid regularly for the past seventeen years, Payable January 1st and July Ist. There is no better 7 per cent lnvestment in the United States. (b) the nature of the alleged com- LAS SHOE Exempt from Normat Federat Tax co DIVIDENDS AND ASSETS and the punishmen Aplin . have been under fire, Prior to Ing to Bedford the committee made ‘or inspection of Sing Sing Prison, At Is you, the prefer stock outstanding, You would mak: price $100.00 per share. also sold by over 9,000 shoe dealers in tl ‘The past fw years our shoes havo b and the retail price on the bottom of th the price, A great demand for W. 1. Douglas Burope and Asia. Our domestic busi: doubled in 18 $18 100, i43.165, $20,000,000 per year. {n common with other great busi the urgent requirements of increasing ditions of business also demand more ¢ nearly doo Bees cond thy! Lhe past six me 6 BELLANSs Hot water | Sure Relief | ncthotanendhd ae je now required, If you are looking for a safe and permanent investment wo believe this 7 in old established business, and all other taxes were paid during the past four yearshave averaged nearly four times the dividends on ry t worth millior most valuable trade marks in the United States. no mistake to order at o earnings available for div: SS ister’ the Heaieat toe ; L, Dougtas name is known throughout the world. The t mar of dollars, and is the property of the stockholders, It hes of the as many shares of ¢) stock as you can afford to buy, If you care for more particulars fill out the cou ‘mail will be made to have this stock listed upon the stock exchange. POs GAG inal! 8 ones, Application ‘This company owns and operates 105 W. T.. Douglas shoe stores located in the large cities. W. L. Douglas shoes are he United States. Ror teaeiiagal boon more extensively advertised than ever before. Stamping W. 1. ie Shoes before they leave the factory hag saved the wearers tuilions Behera guerentece them the best shoos in style, comfort and service chat can be produced for COUPON W. L, DOUGLAS BHOE 00., Brockton, Mass: Ploase send prospectus of the W. L. Dowe gins Shoe Company and special option Certificate entitling in So perenee thin a) theT Nts une Foquest inours no oblige: lens after investigation ‘took, hoes has sprang up in leading countries in Wess has increased so that our sales have the & were $8,069,028.41 and in onthe’ business was @b the rate of over jonses wo need additional capital to moet domestic and foreign trade. ‘The new con- wT ports fapital, ‘The cost of labor and material has | ,tueeeri® Forte lod go that twice the sinount of capital pecessary under the old busl- MT herd a {from a perusal of the application and | trusts and monopoliessso called, and.|guch authority the same shall haveemay have authorized to receive com- | Here is the procedure to he followed: , purpose of receiving any communica- | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1919. bine and the names of the persons believed to be concerned therein; and (c) the manner in which and, where possible, the extent to which the al-, leged combine is belleved to operate to the deteriment of, or aguinst the interest of, consumers, producers or | others of the public. “If the Commissioner is satisfied | deciaration that there t# reasonable Ground for believing that a combine exists, or is being formed, that it is in the public interest that an inveuti- gation be held and that fusther pre- Mminary inquiry ts unnecessary, he may forthwith direct an investigation under the provisions of this Act. Otherwise he shall, within a reason- able time after rpceipt of such ap- plication, fix a time and place for a hearing before him in support of the application and shall send or cause to | be sent due notice thereof by regis- tered letter to the applicant or to| any counsel whom in or by his appli- | cation or declaration the applicant | munications on his behalf, “The applicant may appear on such | hearing in person or by his counsel. | If, upon the evilence adduced the| Commissioner. is satisfied that theer is | reasonable ground for believing that @ couvbine exists or is being formed and that it ja in the public interest that an investigation should be held, he shall direct an investigation unde: the provisions of this act, or, If not satified, he may refuse to make any } order. In any case he may adjourn such hearing pending the supply of further evidence in support of the ap- plication. “For the purposes of the hearing the Commissioner shall have all the powers vested in the board of which he is @ member to summon before him and inforce the attendance of witnesses, to hear evidence on oaty | Special \ as he| the a other documents and things Increased to $107,-) Bill ar Jeoms requisiie | Ovo. al mhoney has poen| The Ie pa WW . ; obtained by transfer from the $100. ction henever a Comr her mah 000 originally appropriated for the n order for an investigation he shail | committee. | sign tho same and transmit it to the | The committe Secretary of the board, and, whether | (fom the arch | B45,M14, filed by & y sked the Board of Alder: good the deficlt in the arch This sum included the cost of tions to Gen, Pershing, Cardin, 7 cler and the Prince of Wales. | WOMEN OPPOSE or not he shall such an the Commissioner shall trans- | mit to the ry the pplication, the statu declaration and any evidence taken before him." ‘The law provides that the Secre+ ull in writing noe have mad order, nd the aw clit Hour Factory Bt. > wo to have the Lacks repealed tary of the board s! tify the Chief Commissioner and thé applicant or the Inster's “WELFARE” BILLS lad Sete, $10.00 up authoriat ult of the appli If un investigation is ordel counsel of the re ' of th Public feeling ts being aroused by the | tion, | fact ‘ : Women's Equal Opportunity League | by a Commissioner tho Chief Come |igainet the so-called Welfare Billa tor | At miasioner shall set the time and plac® women, which are to be introduced in But the matter does not end by the turning over of either of the Com- missioners of an application for a hearing to determine of there has been a violation of the law. It ie obligatory upon the Chief Commis- sioner to examine each case as ity comes to him on its merits, He has the power to order an investigation, even if such hag been denied by the Commissioner to whom the original application was addressed, Note—(Another article explana- tory of what Canada is doing ,to suppress profite ind reduce the State Legislature in January, Well known men and women have signified their intention of speaking ner given by the league this e the Hotel Commodore. Speaker Tha deus C. Sweet is to make the principal | address, | Sta nei ner china, Senator Clayton R. Yusk, Mra, | Helen Woodruff, Miss Jane J. Martin, President of the New York League ot Advertising Wome Frederick A, Wells of Brooklyn, Louis Martin of | }Clinton and Amy "i Pres b |the Brooklyn Women's Bar Aasociation, | {will be among the speakers. Mrs, Har- | Hot, Stanton Blatch will preside ‘The bills the league is Hghting are | Vy the OMce Workers’ Bill, Minimu: ‘age ' the high cost of living will ep- pear in Monray’s Evening World.) | FOR A DELICIOUS CUP mine ceca OF TEA COMBINED VICTORY ARCH COST CITY $107,000/ WITH ECONOMY IN USE Revenue Bond Issue In creased to Meet Expense of = | Welcoming Troops. Putting up the Victory Arch in Fifth Avenue at Madison Square cost| the city $80,000, Taking it down and “restoration of the pavement on the easterly side" cost $27,000, At the| request of Grover A. Whalen, Secre- tary of the Mayor's Committee of ably priced. 2 Ia so full of good qualities. or on solemn affirmation and compel the production of such books, papers, measure up to every desire of and palate — Welcome to Home-Coming ‘Troops, the issue of special revenue bonds for showing infahts’ lives. Nowhere i The resear | | | been open to name) devoted plant in 1906. tion which di methods by ducted under of New York. charge. what duration highest degree. It determ fection. If you want to pacity of the milk distributor is respon- sible for the annual loss of thousands of any reference to the fact that The Shef- field Company has devoted its time and its resources to the work of develop- ing milk knowledge, and then giving to the world milk truths that have helped to make the whole country’s milk safer. field plants has first been applied to our own supply. Afterwards it was open to any one who caged to be helped by it. Our plants and our methods have cial milk was established in our 57th St. The experiments in milk pasteuriza- SAFE MILK could be assured were con- Sheffield Plant with Sheffield milk and Sheffield money by Dr. M. J. Roseneau of Harvard University, and Dr. William H. Park, Chief Bacteriologist of the City The experiments were conducted in the old Sheffield Plant at 130th St. and Broadway in 1911. Roseneau devoted six months to the work and contributed their services free of The result was to establish for all time just what temperatures and just render milk absolutely safe. The work was exhaustive to the was needed to eliminate the one uncer- tainty about milk—that distressing pos- sibility that it might harbor subtle in- . Horton Says: Every important move in the process of developing. ' a supply of safe milk for New York’s babies has — been fathered by The Sheffield Company READ stories, printed almost daily, written for the apparent purpose of After these experiments were con- cluded the results were given to the world in printed form. Any dealer that wanted safe milk could have it if he cared to take the trouble to make it safe. I BELIEVE MORE WAS DONE TO SAVE THE BABIES IN THOSE SIX MONTHS THAN IN ANY OTHER SIX MONTHS SINCE TIME BEGAN. And it was not done for commer- cial reasons, it was not done to pay fat dividends, It was done for the purpose of giv- ing to the children of New York just what they had a right to expect, safe milk. Not only have I lived to see a world- that the greed and ra-. n these stories do I find ch work done in the Shef- milk dealers, physicians and research workers. As a_ result wide recognition of the value of 4 , our wherever you find an up to date milk methods a pasteurization, but’ I have distributor you will find Sheffield been able through the years to watch methods. sa sail “ty Fash the ever decreasing death rate among The?first laboratory (worthy of the the little ones and to know that the de- to the study of commer- clining rate closely paralleled the gradual adoption by other dealers of Sheffield nethods, Look at thé New York City death rate from diarrhoeal diseases in children under 5 years of age in the year before I began pasteurizing. In 1901 nearly 15 children out of every 1,000 died from this cause. The exact figure is 14.9. Take the year 1918, the rate has been reduced to 4.1. * That means that 10 lives in every thousand have been saved and given an opportunity for usefulness. I know that other factors have helped to save the lives of these children. I deny credit to none of them. But I do believe that the most important factor in this great work has been Sheffield Perfectly Pasteurized Milk. Not alone has it helped those who got Sheffield milk, but the entire milk distributing in- dustry has been raised to a higher stand- ard through the emulation of Sheffield methods. The facts here presented are incon- trovertible. They have called me a baby killer. No honest man who examines the facts will say this again. LOTON HORTON, President. efinitely determined the which ABSOLUTELY Sheffield auspices, in a Dr. Park and Dr. of heat was necessary to ined definitely just what SHEFFIELD FARMS COMPANY New York I am selling pure, wholesome, safe milk in 181 Sheffield stores at 14 cents a quart. save the cost of bottling and delivery get it at these stores. Salad Sets 'O matter what your dine ervice may be, it ie always proper to interpolate ervice — gayer and riking than your din- At Ovingtoa’s you will find many Great distinction very reason~ OVINGTON'S “* The Gift Shop of Sth Ave, 314 Fifth Av., near 32d St. “TRY IT TODAY” FR PD ll Bo rat ih Rar tomer sets of 2 i "SALAD A" as to purse