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what, if prices can. be reduced @ Us a fair return on our inVest-* ment, any ‘publicly constituted iT IN SOUTH AMERI- CAN LINE. _J alno discussed the effect of prices ‘the American public in connection ‘the new organization known as Swift International. The directors @ this organization, doing business im South America, declared dividends ‘@uring 1918 of 16 per cent, the latest available, which would likely higher during 1919. more than $65,000,000. ‘Mr. Swift stated that this business only beef and mutton, and the same stockholders as con- SBwift & Co. in this country con- the Swift International. further said that the Swift y at present is sending only and oll abroad; that the prices could not affect the prices Im qu ‘United States, As to whether this The assets agency that will accomplish this would have our approval oo- operation, My father has noinfed out one of the chief causes of high Prices us follows: ‘The facts and experience of re- tailers indicate that so far a Purchasing public is concerned ee ee anon RLD, MO Merchants on the Lower East Side Selling Their Wares Amid Snow Banks and Garbage Piles NDAY, , FEBRUAR the rear, Another:fell as the strug- gle continued, Machine guns opened fire and the crowd broke for cover. Meanwhile the trial of Lockett was in the court fifteen minutes he was sentenced to death on Mafch 7. WILSON'S LETTER CALLED BIG.AID hasbeen an abnormal demand this yea for articles of the highest price | and quality erybody has wanted | p bem and has seemed to Bave the | ey to pay any price for Troops are being held here to pre- vent further trouble. Lockett’s life was saved last week when Governor Morrow, Hearing of TO RATCAT meats cheap everything appa’ to be a drug on the market and al- most Unsilable. If there were @ bet- ter demand for, and if a better price conid be realized from .the cheaper cuts, It would have the most beneficial e the formation of a mob in Lexington, took charge of the State penitentiary Frankfort, where the negro was safe keeping. Ordering to guard all ap: Belated Announcement of Res- ervations He Would Accept brought , for fect all around. It would reduce the demand for the highest gre‘en jand probably would reduce their proaches to the penitentiary Morrow sent Sheriff Bain of Franklin County Removes Many Doubts. |prices; It would also enable the aat- mal a® a whole to be hangled to bat- ter advantage, and while really de- creasing the prices which the public is paying for the meats would pro- more money for the anime! and its products, considered as a whole, Lexington with instructions mob's entering the {ADMISSIONS BY LODGE. State capital The Sheriff met the mob in anto- mobiles on the outskirts of the oity. Placing his own automobile crosa@wise | Massachusetts Senator Says His Own Plan is in ‘organization in a foreign coun-| | “’The surest way to get back to _ try will affect the prices of the world yet to be considered. the old-fashioned prices is to get back to the old-fashioned market bas- ket and to the occasional use of old- Swift further explained their | fashioned “corned beef” and other fine and palatable but cheaper cuts, These are available in every market “Our financial statement shows! but scem almost to be forgotten.’” _ att during the past year our profits on sales of $1,200,000,000 were only MORRIS URGES THE PEOPLE TO EAT CHEAPER MEATS. $14,670,181 before the deduction of Federal income and excess profits taxes, and only $13,870,181 after de- » @uction of taxes and interest, Using "ithe latter figure, this was only 1 1-6 * cents on each dollar of sales, and persuaded the Need of Revision. crowd to return to Lexington, thirty By David Lawrence, Correspondent of The Evening World, WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (Copyright, |1920). As the Senate takes up once | SES ee IN NEW YORK TO-DAY. Grand Central Merchandise through to Fob, 14, Edward Morris, President of Mot-|more the job of trying to reach an ris & Co. further accentuated this doubtiess be more stabilized and cheaper if every housewife as a ge! eral thing did not insist on the high- | er priced cuts of meat, which are no .@veraged only % of a cent per pound em, all products of every description "$614. In spite of all possible efforts part of the Federal Trade ission to discredit our account ‘and our profit figures, the te! fact remains that ‘ its are #0 small, as compared with vaales, as to have practically no effect ‘They are so small that do not amount to more than 6 wer week for the ‘average ER CENT. ON ; INVESTMENT. Profits on investments are rendily * mmcertainable, in our financial statements. ing 1919 they amounted to 11 per it. on the average outstanding cap- ital stock alone, and to 6 8-5 per cent. capital and surplus. ure of dividend paying capacity, he former figure Is meaningless, be eause we are undercapitalized and because capital stock is only relative total amount of capital in- in'the business. Surplus is in- Vested in the business just as much as is the capital stock, and for this reason 6 3-5 per cent. is the true jure of our earnings as compared our investment. ince the profits for the past year r cent, of sales, and on investment, this ‘turned over’ the total in the business five quarter times. age value of stocks of goods on hand ring the year was over §2 Except as a and since our sales were 0,000,000. dur. turnaver “of was approximately six ARMOUR AND CUDAHY eae Armour &.Co,, said: regulation of the packer by # commission or some - sway Darer bakes that body le uD who are unim- peachable. s “I agree this business is oné of interest and if the regulation it should have it. er 9 good for the public afl is said and done, there are two important factors that are concern to the public. One, our profit is not too much, and that we conduct our business as iy as it ‘can poselbly be & properly constituted public- ited _comznission or authoritative ‘body can come into our industry and show us how'we can cut the prices re a fair profit and employ capital necessary to a large in- y like ours, I agree to it, ‘such a commission can show us greater postible economies ems, this, too, would be of great ROTECTION FOR PACKER AS WELL AS FOR PEOPLE. “The only thing that we are ap- prehensive about ment of such a commission understand- the establish- jtaken a generation to build, will so the ovder of things as greatly to cripple our efficiency and growth and perhaps ruin the business. competition business 1s as bad as too little com- “a big organization with its vast and continuous moving mac infinitely better for ita continued service of small concerns that cannot assure @ continuous and sure “Doubtless such lecould also find stances it would Me interest an a number commission prove to the that some branch ht well be combined, since is considerable duplication of effort. “For example, we have in some of our branches hundreds of trucks and Iwagons going over the same ground lof our competitor and sometimes of “The little town is a fair example. AN this has to be pald by the con- wumer, and yet the packer industry, ps mere. than any other, has less machinery between it Edward Cudahy, in charge of the @ Company during s father, B.A. Cud- \y, agreed with the views of Messrs. ft and Armour in the creation of commission that p ise the meat tmdustries. tact, We would welcome it, “We are sick to death being the target of public abuse 4 being pointed at as the prime h ‘As far as we are con- ned, we have been mainly in tae t business and have not gone in grocery enterprises, as some of ur competitors. WELCOME FAIR SUPERVISION, SAYS CUDAHY. “Our growth has been steady and are anxious to build up our bus - to its best possible attainments. order to do this we must have if a public fair-minded com- or commission will secure a feeling and belief on the part question but drifter, confidence, entertainment Point Palace, 163d Street and Southern view by stating that meats would agreement on the form in which the peace treaty shall be ratified, the |most significant piece of news is f benefit auction bridge, Hotel Plaza, 2. ) York State Women more nutritious than the lower Diced that President Wilson has said ex- ones. ’ “For example.” said Mr. Morr s, ‘she will demand the hind quarter of lamb at 36c. to 38. per pound rater than the forequartetr of lamb at 2 to 26c “Personally I would rather eat round | steak at 30 cents por pound than por- terhouse or sirloin at 65 to 70 cents, “The housewife who is Beairous of shopping and saving money really, save money if she watohes the market on various cuts. As it is now, a majority of people, rather than buy from the ‘cash and ca: butchers are apt to use the telephone, allowing the butcher to send what he sees fit, charging his own price, in which ‘he takes care of delivery charges. This ig the natural outcome of high wages. “The wage earner to-day is earning more money than ever in the history of this country; consequently the cheaper cuts of beef go begging and the demand for loin cuts and rib cuts boost the cost out of all proportion to the wholesale values of the car- cass. Until such time as the public learns to realize he value of cuts from the chuck, and order less porter- house steak and rib roast, there will be no noticeable decrease in the high cost of Jiving as far as choice meats are conberned. A good example of this ig noticeable in our own freezer stocks of meats. Only cheaper stocks are frozen, the higher priced cuts be- ing so in demand that no surplus is accumulated.” As to regulation, Mr. Morris pointed out that “the packing industry has agreed with the Attorney General to give up all side lines or unrelated Dusinesses, ang particularly the hand- ling of staple groceries; to refrain from going into the retail meat bysi- ness (something. we never did nor contemplated) and to sell, r ap- ‘of the court, our hol in lic stockyards, terminals and the market fer ers at the yards and wet out of public cold storage warehouses.” WILSON DISCUSSES MILITARY TRAINING Asks House Democrats Not to Op- pose It at To-Night's Caucus, WASHINGTON, = Feb. -President Wilson in a letter to Secretary Baker to-day advised the Democrats of the House not to dppose universal military training at to-night’s caucus. He said: “In the present cjrcumstances = it ‘would seem to me unfortunate to make ®& party issue upan this subject, par- ticularly @ince within a few manths the party will assenrble in convention and declare the principles upon which it deems it wise to commit iwelf in a national election. “The present disturbed state of the world does not permit such sureness with regard to America’s obligations as to allow us lightly to decide upon this peat question upon purely military grounds while the demonstrated ad- vantage to the youth of the country which came from military service in the war plainiy suggests that in the national quite apart from purely military considerations, a mod- erate and carefully conducted course of universal training may have the hishest possible advantages. “In our discussion of this subject you wiM recall I gave my approval in prin- ciple to the very moderate training project suggested by the General Staff, and IT would be very glad to have you convey to appropriate members of the House who wil! attend the caucus my strong feeling aguinst action by the caucus.” The President also sent a similar let- ter to Representative Caidwel _- SLOOP CAUGHT IN ICE, CARRIED OUT TO SEA ntere! Police Patrol Is Rushed From Rockaway to Save Winsome Off Sandy Hook, ‘The Brooklyn Navy Yard sent the following radio to Police Headquarters shortly after noon to-da “We have just received @ telephone communtcation from Sandy Hook that the sloop Winsome 1s caught in an ice foe and being carried out to sea, Go to her.” Police Headquarters transmitted the distress call by wireless to the, polig boat Patrol, which was at Rockaway Point assisting in the rescue of the re- mainder of the crew of the steamer Princeas Anne, Capt. Byron Li Reed of the Coast |Guard, received « message from Sta- tion No. 97, Sandy Hook, saying an |unidentified sloop, about ten tons, was drifting out to sea, Soon after- ward a second report said another sloop had got a line to the drifting one and was hauling her in. It was said there was nobody on board 808th Infantry, Bsth Street and Third according to judgment of Government, es this adyice can only be ac- cepted by action of the Congress the conscience Plicitly just what reservations he Though his advisers have been urging him for months to| do so, Mr. Wilson; for reasons of his own, has steadfastly refused to erase from the public mind the impression that he wanted the treaty ratified by the Senate without so much as the or the dotting of STEAM SHOVELS AND FAMES THROWERS CLEARING STREETS (Continued From First Page.) ters of Obio meeting, Waldorf- | would accept. 1 Public Ac countants’ meeting, First Chureh of Divi ing, Waldorf-Astoria, 2 Science meet- alone, under the Constitution of States having to declare war, “That in the case éf a dispute between members of the League, if one of them have self-govere- ing colonies, dominions, or parts which have representation in the Assembly, each and ail are to be considered parties to the dispute and the same shall be the rule if one of the parties to the dispute is a self-governing colony, minion, or part, in which case all ‘erning colonies, do- minions, or parts, as well as the Nation as a whole shall be con- sidered parties to the dispute and each and all shall be disqualified from having their yotes counted in case of any inquiry on said | dispute made by the Assembly.” PHRASEOLOGY OF THE LODGE RESERVATION IS NOT CLEAR. dt will be that the foregoing res- ervations are so drawn that any -Na- itself of the same interpretation of the Covenant which the United States reserves to siseif. Under the Lodge reservatio:s it is not clear whether the Unit d States alone would haye the po |elde what is the meaning of “advise” the Council every Nation is free to Jedt the advice of th | that Nation is not dispute, and is as'ed to contribute toward preserving peace. In other words, the President seems to be anxious not to convey the im- pression that America is selfishly ask- ing for reservations and is not willing to let other countries apply the saine ‘Automobile Exhibit, Waldorf-Astoria, Congregational Church dinner, MeAlpin, 6 P. M. Merchants Ladies’ Garments meeting, Hotel MeAlpin, 7 P. M. crossing of a SCENELAT HESTER NANO NORFOLK STREETS., Hotel McAlpin, ‘ Signal Association luncheon, ting 9.30 A. M., Hotel McAtp. ‘ity Mothers’ Club meet- otel McAlpin, 2 P. M. opening South and West Streets from the Battery to Fourtcenth Street, also on one way intersecting streets run- ning parallel to lease from piers food and merchan- Though the President's concession is belated, it is nevertheless vital and | clears the atmosphere to this extent: | Both the President and his opponents ‘favor reservations and centres on how many shall there be and what they shall contain. The Senate aguin and again re- ity votes to amend the! treaty and Mr. Wilson is determined the guise of tions” amendments shall not be made | that impair the validity of the whole |dows of the tenements. The slogan this district surface cars to M K. of C., Hotel McAlpin, § P. jance, Hotel Penn- what to do with your garbage throw it out the window. When Mayor Hylan wa: H ening World's photographs of pow rbage was piling Side he said he would bring the mat- Lines operated laim Conference Dinner the debate Pennsylvania, other self-s¢ open between Fort Lee Ferry to 1 American Le- Pennsylvania, 3 th Street to “bara Fritchie Post, Columbus Circle. e The roadway was cleared, but some crossings were Ice-caked and difficult was a noticeable minimum of traffic in response to the Mayor's proclamation nue traffic was suspended between 59th and 42d Streets to give free play snow -shovelers, the avenue would be before night. improvement ported in the labor situation Some downtown streets are still Commissioner MacStay said was concentrating his ef streets parallel to the street lines, his object being Passageways for to-morrow's trucking girect: and give the street railway people a | ‘ chance to go to work if they feel lke afternoon some green cars were standing still exactly ‘where they were stalled last Wednes- day night and citizens were inquiring whother Receiver Hedges of the New Fort Lee Ferry Lenox Avenu Street and! Health and Street Cleaning Depart- ments immediately that under Street from deplorable,” nnsylvania, 8 P. we shall right them with all possible speed the Street Cleaning Commissioner Third Aven clogged, but it was In Fifth Aves ntion, Catholic Club, No. 120 could clear t 125th Street and 65th of the United y York Chapter Liberty Street, 12 LODGE ADMITS RESERVATIONS) NEED REVISION. Republicans, been strengthened by the utterance| of Viscount Grey to the effect that Europe would accept reservations. Everything now depends upon the form in which they are presented. Senator Lodge admits that some of ‘his reservations were drawn rather hastily and put into the debate at a Moment when careful revision was ‘Not possible, Once in the debate they could not be redrafted, though the ‘bi-partisan conference recently made toward revising the It was ex- reet by night has been impossible with everything else he has had to wrestle wjth, tion may avail Wholesale Bakers’ of garbage, ention, Hotel McAlpin, yed more than a hal® by two railroad ain that left Totten- at 6.02 o'clock, struck icy and wore del Association din- many cases housewives to get to their all around we will’ be out of our trou- railway allway bes in another day or two.” accidents. The t abody wedding dinner, Hotel Biltmore. Hotel Commodore, ral School Alumnae dance and or whether ceept or re- Couneil when e's Dramatic ‘and Glee Club reception at Parish ntertainment and Auditorium, West 34th Street, New York Tax! League, In: Bus service any school chil- their way through the dren ploughed snow on foot TROOPS KILL FIVE LYNCHERS AS JURY CONVICT A SLAYER (Contihued From First Page.) et, the narrow streets of China- nuse, §7th Street good progress Lodge reservations. It was on Article X. that the break The fact that President Wil- son wrote a letter at Jan, 26—outlining his views on reser-| interpretation of the F vations was not made known until| their own countries. ‘This is forcibly last Saturday to the Democrats or) brought out Republicans. tains of snow ing was being done to improve con Notice to Advertisers Advertising copy and reléase or. ders for either the week day Morn- ing World or The Evening World, if received after 4 P. M, the day pre- ceding publication, can be inserted only as space may permit and ia at The World of- Advertising copy for the Supple- plement Sections of The Sunday World must be received by 3 P. M. Thursday preceding publication, and releases must be received by 4 P. M, Friday. Advertising copy for the Main Sheet of The Sunday World must be received by 6 P. M, receding Friday and releases received by 12 o'clock noon Saturday. Copy or orders receiwed later than a3 provided sbove will not serve to earn discounts of any character, comtract or otherwise, THE WORLD. The principal traffié jam was in Williamsburg that time— permanent decorations. Mr. Hedges said that between 400 conductors and shop men are at work clearing the The Lexington Avenue Line southbound | the differences be- Here was a tactical| tween the wording of the Hitchcock error of regretable proportions. The) reservation given responsibility. is plainly shoulders of the President, for Sen-| ator Hitcheock himself wanted to make that letter public. It was writ- ten before Viscount Gray wrote his letter to the London Times. have revealed that the President wos) not stubbornly treaty through without any qualifica- tion whatsoever and might have pre- vented the bi-partisan parleys from breaking ap: And there is no telling how far ad- the treaty situation would have been months ago if the President had permitted Senator Hitchcock to Say last November what he now au- tiorizes him to state to the Senate, namely that the President approves of reservations to the treaty. RESERVATIONS WHICH WILSON SAYS HE WOULD ACCEPT. the reservations which President Wilson refers to in his let- ter to Senator Hitchcock as those on which he stands: “That any member nation pro- withdraw from League on two years notice is the sole judge as to whether its obligations referred to in Article One of the League of Nations have been performed as required in said article, “rat no member nation is re- quired to submit to the League, its council or its assembly, for report or recommenda- tion, any matter which it con- siders to be in international law a domestic question, such as im- tariff or other matter relating to its internal or coastwise affairs. “That the national policy of the United States known as the as announced the United is now operating between 99th northbound 99th Streets. | Phraseology of the Lodge reservation which starts out with the declaration, “The United States assumes no obli- gation under Article X, &c., unless the Congress shall authorize." What the President seems to fear ts that if the reservation in question {8 specific, it wit! convey the idea that the United States is pulling out of the League before it even gets started and that other nations will begin to they assume either, until the whole structure of moral force which has been built up in an effort to Prevent future wars will not be worth the paper upon which it is written, WILSON’S VIEW OF THE VALUE OF ARTICLE TEN. For instance, the value of article Ten, ag the President sees it, is that whether or not there is a pledge to use the army and navy of the United States to preserve the terri tegrity of any nation whose boun- daries have been violated by an in- vading army, the more expression. by the United States of its disapproval through the medium of a world-wide tribunal like the League of Nations wonld' be sufficient to deter an imper- iwlist nation from making war on a weak neighbor, * If the United States had simply as President long claimed, an expression of pro- Germany’s prospective invasion of Belgium, the fear might have been engendered in the hearts of German statesmen was on the alert and that her public opjnien might become go inflamed as to cause her Congress to recommend even further steps to preserve peace. What Mr. Wilson is pleading for is that no reservation shall be adopted which subtracts right off the snfluence of a moral nature which any future President of the United States may want to feel free to exert to keep order of receipt The Broadway Line is otherwise opened between 50th and 16th Streets lower east side was by foot for southbound traffic and 1th and 35th for northbound, without first being searched Brooklyn {s making rapid strides in about 4,000 were trying to get 60th to 36th Streets for south and | ¢ from 80th to 53d northbound | vated trains are operating on schedule. urged up the steps. 4 On the upper west side it was re- | ported that Broadway and Riverside Drive are in “fair” condition. that part of the city are in as bad shape, or worse, than what can be seen ali around the city. SOME QUESTION RIGHT OF THE, MAYOR'S ORDER. Some truckmen were disposed to question the right of the Mayor, un- or any other “power,” to order everybody off the highways handling mil snow, mail or newspape was generally obeyed, flection suggesting that anybody who sent out his truck with as they are might be hauled up for one of one hundred possible infrac- tions of the traffic rules. apparently, brought before a Magistrate for an alleged violation of the ordinances at a time when business generally had been asked by the Mayor to lend a are at work obligations, t Cleaning Commissioner Laura, while more than 700 yolunteers rioters came tried to wrest guns fram the mi Then the order big department are lending and with every available delivery truck and man, House steps 8 carried them in number, have been called out b: Commissioner Bruckbauer snow removal. They are ordered to clean the sidewalk and gutter of the house they nearest fire hydrants and sewer en- trances are cleared, and then to doa good turn to their neighbor. Brown of the Bronx reported 180 trucks at work Mayor's request 1,800 men with this morning. that trucking day was not being ob: everywhere appeared E TOASTED COCOANUT Mayor Hylan ed to be a wing in cleaning off the snow. Progress has principal streets in the Bron: Avenue’ is clear from 133d Street to} and Willis Avenue, Street to 184th Street, outhern Boulevard and Mel- rose Avenue are beginning to emerge from the banks of snow. Of the cross- appeal to join the city palate thriller reported many viola- laws in the tenement districts of the east side There were many conspicuous individual instances of a disposition to help, they many’ other cases of throwing rub- bish and refuse into the streets, in- stead of burning them, that the high purpose of the few was rendered and Strawberry, i» Chocolate Is tox BAC Added Special for Monday OLD FASHION LICORICE GUM DROPS —in these days o ‘nox B4C f prevailing coughs Candy at all times, but especially Hitchcock reservations is a step to- ward real compromise. iasue ont in the open Avenue and Fordham Road have been | cleaned all the way across and 149th | Street is clear for som Side streets and thos ing districts have not been touched. | Two weeks have elapsed since ashes were enormous piles of refuse of all de- scriptions are found everywhere, — | The Second Avenue Railway Com- pany was operating tracks from l0Ist iat brings the ne debate be- GARBAGE IN STREET ON LOWER EAST SIDE. On the lower east side an Evening fore the country now will be what kind of reservations shall be adopted, Roth sides are on record in favor of “Americanize interpreted by States, is not in any way impaired oraffected by the covenant of the ‘League of Nations and is not eub- ject to any decision, report or in- quiry by the Council or Assembly, ‘That the advice mentioned in Article Ten, of the reservations to smothered with banks of soot-bluck isted with great piles of garbage, ashes and other refuse, o'clock only one wagon was seen in @ large territory ‘and it was collecting ashes. Peddlers | gecond Avenue. lin Hester Street exposed their fruit,| cars were running from Sith to séih candy and other foods while they) stood in the mushy snow and garbage | oY o ved hefore night, dprown inte the street Gom the win- Mayor Orders Igan of Canopies. a8 asked Commissioner covenant of street cleaning of Accounts the falling of canopies in front of the Rivoli and Playhouse Theatres last week. The matter will be taken up with the Bureau of Buildings in future made safe, this cannot be done the Mayor asks can on of doing away with them al may give to the member Nations to the employment naval or military forges 1s merely advice which each member } Bon te free te accept er rejewh Streets and regular passenger service poration of gurface cars wagh a orate ncmargsnnnna dechinrccihemnsacneete tage cies aici rn ini illadliaiileiies