The evening world. Newspaper, February 10, 1920, Page 3

FARMER Made the Scapegoat by the Real Oppressors of Country’s Poor. MIDDLEMAN IS ROBBER. | Senator Capper Shows How and Why Agriculturist Doesn't Get His Due. By Arthur Capper. United States Senator from Kansas. Second of a series of articles writ! ten capeciaily for The Evening World, WASHINGTON, eb. 10—While the congested masses of the cities are vociferously condemning the Profiteers and suggesting all sorts of penalties for them, ranging from small fines to execution, a campaign apparently well organizod, in progress the evident purpose of is which is to provide a “whipping boy" | ( for the really guilty ones, The boy , Whe is to take the castigation merited by thegreal sinner ‘s the far- mer. Some, of course, .are honest in their belief that Uncle Rewben is robbing the national stomach. They havo observed that he has been held up to public contempt dy certain reputable newspapers and they be- lieve what they read in these jour- nals. A'‘short time ago, in one of our largest and most prosperous cities, some farmers who were forced to sell | milk to distributens below the cost of | production, decided that they would organize. They wanted to shorten the road between themeand their cus- tomers with the double purpose of reducing prices to the mothers who must have such nouris‘unent for their babies and to obtain for them- selves a few cents more on each gal- lon so that they would be able to col- leet a decent return on their invest- ment: of money and labor. “In the eyes of an alert District Attorney these farmers were guilty of the terrible crime of collective bar- xalning. They were accused of com- ining in restraint of trade. They were thrown into jail, indicted and ed. An enlightened jury acquitted hem. Nevertheless the stain in- flicted by the indictment will re- main as a moral disfigurement for the rest of their days. These men} were officers and salesmen for a} farmers’ co-operative company NO DIVINE QUALITY OF MERCY FOR THE FARMER. I greatly regret that the zeal mani- fested in prosecuting these farmers is snot evident in the case of the real profiteer. There seems to be an in-! exhaustible supply of offictal mercy for the men who really manipulate markets, control prices, plunder alike (he consumer and the producer, but the divine quality of mercy has not TRNER THE“ WHPPNG BO" FOR THE GUL PROFEERS |reimburfo him supported by figures which cannot be | County quires thirteen bushels of corn at $1.60 a bushel to produce 100 pounds of pork. One does not need to be a |mathematician to point out that the {net loss on that Is, without taking into consideration’ losses by premature death and from other causes, 1s 78 cents 100 pounds. Pork eaters of the city who pay 40 and 50 cents a pound for their chops, 60 and 60 cents a pound ‘for smoked ham, and corre- spondingly high prices for other por- tions of the hog, would doubtless he surprised to learn that the original producer is forced to be content with a price for his pork which does not for the outlay in money and labor necessary to bring it maturity. But such is the case, made to lie. ‘ Unquestionably diminishing produc- ti6n of any essential article of food would constitute.a national catamity. There could be no greater disaster than an organized, or even unorgan- ized, strike among farmers. It would bring widespread misery and ruin. and yet if the farmer is unable to ob- tain for his labor a reward which will enable him to finance productive ef- fort, what can he do but to quit pro- ducing? There is no threat involved in this statement. tion that when an occupation censes to be profitable those engaged in it will cease 0 to occupy themselves. Already stock raisers in the West have restricted their activities and in many Instances production is linited to what is necessary for their personal consumption. To restriet production would of course mean higher living cost. There is a Way to prevent the further dimin- ution of production. I will, however, deal with this phase in another article. FLAGLER’S OLD HOME DESTROYED BY FIRE $500,000 Loss Falls Upon W. C. Teagle, Who Bought Prop- ert Recently. GREENWICH, Conn., Feb. 10.—Fire destroyed the residence owned by Walter C. Teagle, President of the Standard 0:1 Company of New Jer- sey, on Upper North Street, here last night, entailing a loss of probably half a million dollars. Mr. Teagle recently purchased the residence, which is of the Spanish mission style of architecture, together with forty acres of iand, from John #1. Flagler, and presented the prope: to his wife as a Christmas gift. The price paid was about $300,000. ACCUSED OF ABDUCTION. Man Arrested as Deserter Faces Ad- ditional Charge by Gtr! es John Williams, passing the Court House in Brooklyn this morning, in puiling a handkerchief from his pocket accidentally pulled out alto 4 letter which fell to the ground. His name was on the envelope and Detec- tives Hemendinger and Van Giluwe, Chi normeated the official heart in its Tealings with comparatively helpless ‘arm organizations. Vhe se farmers were trying to | Wretide if it became. tite general solve the problem of apeee vidt: bott ices for the produce: viding Pe lower prices for the con- | Paine the Kansas figures as a basis of comparison, let me point out that milk for which the farmer re- ceives 6 and 7 cents a quart. s vold 1o the ultimate consurner at 13 and 16 ‘enix a quart, Where and to whom does the differenc: a ? ae Way should it co ore Gy v dihitate a quart. of milk produce it? The farmer has the f, brought it to ma A milked it when it became of age and | arricd the product to the distribut ng station and yet he ree ed Vastly | joan for his services than the man | who stands between bim and his city | customer, SITUATION IN NEW YORK) SAME AS IN NEBRASKA. | to than he could have received for | JUSTIFIED IN STRIKING. | Farmers aro rccolving conte @ pound for their pork. ML York milk| ¥ I understand_ in New | Law. Dr. Bishop formerly was at- ves at from 17 to 18 cents a Mart) tached to Bellevue and lately hus been and that the producer gets a little) ot pe ore a more than he received in Kansas,|" Dr, Bihop is the fifteenth physician but tbe division is on the same basis, | to be urrested in a crusade iby the De- he distrib Tecelving the lion’s|Partment of Justice, which alleges that t Byes | many physicians haye prescribed narco- share of the revenue. out $0 cents | ties, to satisty cravings of drug | A farm w elves abou ‘Vo | addicts rather than in an effort to cure 1 pound for her buiter, but the elty | them, apusewife who serves it to her fam- : pee ES y must pas 80 and even $9 cents | avpound for tho product EDISON, 73, TO BE HONORED. A pair of c in shoes costs mors eke | than tne farmer receives for the calf. | Orange B gM Decorated for In- | One morning a Nebraska farmer! ventor'’n Birthday, ‘To-morrow. owned a fat hog d the in- ation that his pig was worth $3 ts of Orange, are urged afore. . Thres.daya later | (ngs to-morrow in Honor of the. seven: he. pr had tumbled to the extent | ty-third birthday of Thomas A. of $18 or $15, and when T last heard | This suggestion is made in a proc f the farmer and his hog the @uad-| tion issued to-day by Mayor Willam uped was still ba the financial to- | | org OREM S Mr. Edison, his wife and their son, That farmer, ihe many thoysands) Charies, are to be guests of the Thome f ht sclates in the at indus. atson haecnta tion at a ball to might have derived seme comfort | en in the Orange Armory to- Die a the t that night. ‘The “Edison. Pioneers, sty ane Pe nization of men associated with is elty br her a re ub Edison prior to 1895, will attend tantial benoh @ result of his own rmal luncheon in the inventor's nies. Bul nowhere wassit evident in the works at West Orange, at hat any of the to of the hy aiser had been distributed among ——___—— he pork eat th nd cits} Absolved on Thett Charge. s, They were paying the sane old| Mrs, Margaret Sears of No. 309 West ributes to th fteer and officials? 147th Street, who was formerly em- appa helplews| yioyed as a maid by Mrs. D. Brosseau, en Ply ¥ ne No, 495 Convent Avenue, was hemor- | ™ WHY THE FARMERS WOULD Br 1 Washington Helghis who were behind him, glimpsed the ad- dress. They arrested hig ag a deserter om the army, girl wes with Wiliams and she ‘ed to be Margaret Heintz, seven- years old, who had been’ missing Jan. 6 from her home at No. 203 Graham ‘Avenue, She said she met ams at a movie show and that by ts he compel&d ‘her to go wit! him, W wes qgharged with ab duction, ‘aigned in the Bridge Plaga Court and DR. BISHOP HELD IN BAIL. | Specintiat in Narcotics Acca Violating Harrt Dr, Ernest S. Bishop of No. 15 West 1 Street, a specialist in narcotics who ts known to the medical profes- sion as a writer and lecturer on that subject, to-day was held in $5,000 bail by Federai Judge Hough, charged with plating the Harrison Anti-Narcotics to decorate their homes and other build- had ben arraigned nd larceny following Tt is a reasonable assump- | | than rUnfavorable We: = “HEBELITLEDLS, EFFORTS INWAR ‘Rear Admiral Replies to Charge Made in Speech of Repre- sentative Byrnes, WASHINGTON, Feb, 10,—Rear Ad- mira! William S. Sims denied to-day , before the Senate committee investi- gating naval awards that in conversa- tions with Representatives Byrnes and Whaley of South Carolina and Senator Carter Glass he had sought to belittle America’s efforts in the war, stated by Mr. Bytnes in a speech in the Hous: The Admiral said Mr. Byrnes “must | either have misunderstood me or con-| fused the remarks made to him by the many.pcopte he talked to in Eu- | rope.” He added that he did attempt to correct the idea in the minds of American visitors that the United! States forces were “winning the war | because this attitude was hurting us| with our Allies.” i “They knew it was not true and! ithey knew we knew it wus not tru {Admiral Sims said. “fam surprived | jthat 1 should be quoted as saying the | (merchant marine should be left to} Great Britain and the United States | should not. develop a merenant ma- jrine, because I never heid eny opin- jon on that subject.” Senator Pittman asked that Messrs. Byrnes, Whaley and Glass be called to testify. Chairman Hale they would ve called “L consider these charges |serious,” said Senator Pittman, “ think Admiral Sims should be given jan opportunity to clear himself.” Earlier in the day Admiral Sims accused Secretary Daniels of injecting a “defeatist policy” into the Navy Department “more dangerous to the navy than any form of Bolshevism could ‘be to organized government.” The committee room was crowded long before the hearing began. Ad- miral Sims was applauded when he entered the room. Chairman Hale told Admiral Sims, in opening the hearing, that he had een, recalled to make any further statement he might desire, calling at- tention to the fact that Mr. Danicls had ‘been heard since the Admiral's previous appearance. Admiral Sims said he wished it understood that his criticisms were directed against the folowing con- ditions: “The policy of placi pre- mium upon defeat by giving spe- dial rewards to officers who lose ships provided their conduct meritorious in the hour of def. “The changing of relative merit | of service in the matter announced that} a of re- wurding officers ‘ | “Injury to the moraic of the | service by rewarding failure in- stead of success in sp ih- stances By injecting this “defeatist germ’ into our navy, suid the advniral, and attempting to make it a permanent policy J believe that inestimable harm will result unless it can be erudicated before it becomes a per: manent policy. “I bplieve it is more important, for the fGture safety of the country, to} eliminate these conditions build a dozen battleships.” than to pressed in published articles and | ferred to before the committee by ry Daniels, as to the treatment oF | an sailors by some frisi peopl | wus unchanged. | Just after he made “that awfu Juikdhal! speech” in December, 1910, | amiral Sims said, he submitted a ‘port based on information obtained | from. foretgn naval officers saying that war coulkl not be averted more four years and that Great} Britain and France wpuld be found| on the same side and Italy would | eventually join them. Admiral Sims said he cid ne ¢ “ow that report could convey t opinion that the man who made was so hopelessly pro-fritish that none of itis apinions could be Crusted.” | “Neither do [ see,” he added, “why, | because an American citizen ma a Canndian woman, his chit should be branded as pro-British.” ———— | TUG FAILS TO REACH | ther Prevents Sal- vage of Cargo of Wrecked Ti Merritt-Chapman | whic rted for the wreck of tiw Princess Anne xkaway Pott this | morning to sal\ same of the cargo, |” turned back because unfavorable weather, The ship was abandoned last | }night by the inst two mernbe th crew, the first and second offi The Shipping Board vessel, the Polar Bear, which was di was report a Saturda d to-day to be another Shipping Board taking it baak to Bermud e Maine of the Bridgeport | } aground near tlon light is expected to take anuther diy off Bermuda, tow of and | or Bail of Allewed Thief Forfeited. | Samuel Levy of Buffalo, charged wit pidking the pocket of Cari Raker, also in the Grand Central Sia failed to ap M fetrate 1 g this morning fortglied furnished by M Brosseau of two dia- i The wallet she is wileged to Rhye taken contained $44) yaw wv NOW DENIES | Admiral Sims said his opinions, ex- | ‘ THE PRINCESS ANNE BY | Rosano | | Mme. Lydt Lipkowska, Russian soprano, photographed in New wearing what she says’is thi robe, a silver and gold wig. | Mm several days ago with thirty trunks wig is valued sever SUING WIFE CALLS HUS3AND CHAMPION | FAULT FINDER! Swears He Objected to What She | ~ Did, Said, Ate, Read gnd Evén Way She Became Ill. G NEVIEVE T. !} M LAUGHLIN, asking a | separation from her hus- band, John, made affidavit to tye Brooklyn Supreme Court that he “found fault’ with her on the fol- ing general bases: What I did. | low Singer’s Wig of Gold and Silver | Most Precious Gem of Wardrobe. MME. LYDIA LIPKOWSKA Ano WIG OF @SILVER ANO GOLD... thousand dollars, |RINN READY TO TEST. - me e most predious gem in her ward- | e. Lipkowska arrived from France packed with Parisian finery. ‘The PATIENCE WORTH. | Mrs. Curran Must Produce Writings With Ouija Board Covered To Win $5,000. Joseph F. Rinn, New York spook ex poser, to-day cut out a t ndous jets for Patience Worth. = Mrs, Curran whose oulja board spelis out poems {that #be says ure dictated by the of! Patience, challenge, under which has age to donate $5,000 for a home for fou lings in case he cannot duplicate ‘spirit’ messages, has accepted Mr, | “Let Mrs. urran come to New “The way 1 did it | York." said Mr. Rinn, “and appear in “What I didn’t do. public plac Take the oulja satd cover it with a piece o! Nee ae hides the letters, A- ou The way 1 said it Par each unten ane ‘The way 1 ate, read, amused wn, to no one but my ielf, watked, looked and became at oho pr ; “He cted to my looking out won. It is the window, saying my duty was ee arounce! indoors and to him.” : ~ go (8, Mire. Cur ed that the J © Squiers granted her $50 |‘yemonstratia preferadly in month temporary alimony. The | Carnegie Hal intil their separation 8 Bedford Avenue, couple at Brooklyn FIVE ARE INDICTED | - ~_ ENGINE FIGHTS FIRE FROM FROZEN POND Boonton (N. J.) Chief, Saves Build- ing by Running Machine Onto IN ALCOHOL CASES} used of Making Liquor of Fluid | Diverted From Export to | \ Five indict owing out of re ent wood alcoho! cases were returned tov County ¢ Brooklyn. The defendants, charged with gran reeny In the first degree John | Avenue; William Woller No. | Tenth Street, and Ca | y truckman, 462 Carroll | t, all of Brooklyn, and Carmine No. 11] Mott Street, a} to, No, 124 Mulberry Manhattan, | Ail pleaded not Bail fo: Romani Lisenainta and Faposito was | fixed $15,000" exch, for. D'Ambrosio E ut $5,000. uns nd and “ake d | Patrangement When Her Wan Spent, Declares Ves. Megan, Money | Mrs, Plore L. Regan, ho live th her pa vd John ©. Preund, at No, End Avenue, | a reme Court for | om Alexander G. Reagan, | {rs, Reagan says she Inherited $6,000 | ” at her grandfather | short After the | NOHes ys. her hus » tranged | d Dew 3, 1940, | thelr separation, in 1915 port xe received f ner fh was i War Depa. husband has | Nelatives of W. H. Morrow Sought Acting Capt, John Ayres of the Miss-| ling Persons Bureuu at Polieo Headqu: ry is seeking relatives of Willi lenry Morrow enty years old, who ' rb at No, 4 Ge reet. A howed tha had oF the ¥ Saying it. es also found plot in St. Michael's Cen sing that on Dee, 10 Morrow wae buried there, 1908, Ice and Pumping Water. | Fire Chief Fred Wor N. J. purceful m an of Boont 1. ‘Phis . sorn- ing wi found th a8 no way he could secure water from frozen nts to extinguish w fire in one of town buildings he ran his four-ton engine on the ice of 2 pond beste Rockaway River. He cut a hole in un co, put the hose through and pumped a steady stream into the flare some ugKested that the heat! from the fire box Would molt t ‘ upon which the engine stood: th { promptiy had large b.ock listance away and put un box, so instead of melting the eurtic ico it melted only the blocks, wh were replaced fast as they melted The building was saved OUT $248 FOR FIGHTING FiRE. Rockaway Refuses to Compe te Injared Lynbrook Fir Because he was helping put out af seventy-five feet outsl rated mits of Lynbrook, Sealy, Votunteer Fire L is unable to colle Wass Sealy pre ¢ doctor's bills # The Lynbrook tru oil to the trustees of tie fira had ure r imits of that village. [as ‘ trustees were informed 6 el there was no provision fen on n to yisiti the th vill tf their own territorial mits ~ _ Leavitt Again Indteted. Louis Leavitt, the Pricgs A f white lead manufacturer who bought ernment, was again Indicted to-day for alleged profiteering The new {ndict vanes avitt js not that he public, an » agriculture lea of not guilty Mr, Leavitt en — = Dancer Seeks Dive ° th Huhea, a Murhes, The wie were married Feb, 2, 1916, and |... & son two years ald. | WIFE'S LOYALTY Criminal Panel Is Exhausted in Levy paleo sce newspaper ' Defendant * 4 photograph 2 j Effort to Select a ‘tian J. ation, attorney for) for Own Man Who Failed | , | Fritz, will refute the prosecutor's ex- ) ¥ | Jury. pert testimony with oth experts te Help Senator. | who are expected to tell the jury that xl Absolute faith on the part of his! it wan a physical impossibility to] GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Feb, 100 it ce wife has buoyed up Ernest | have injured Mrs. Coyne in the man. | Frank Dotley, Special Attorney Fritz, the Tuckahoe taxicab owner,| ner alleged. Geel sontinued ite who was placed on trial for murder) — nine bre baesragers ee of Mrs. Frances Coyne tn the Bronx nesses for the prosecution to-day Supreme Court yosterd SNOW HAMPERS eave chlo the | WORK OF FIREMEN terry and 121 co-detendants charged charge of my husband's associating atest Wes laws with Mrs, Coyne are not true,” said bNriebaguie wabebine sp oc ne Mrs, Fritz to-day. the slightest doubt of his innoc and after these months he has spent! in jail I look forward to the day he will be freed upon a new life. During ty business and aided in the preparation | * of his defense. | the loyal littl fous day When the firemen arrived they werejate, promising lim the support ef” selecting 9 jury was begun before | unable to enter Pearl Street because of | Andrews’ paper at Menominee. 415 Justice Vernon M. Davis. the anow, and ha drag their hose| Tater Andrews told him that Se" In an effort to elect a jury to try|all the.way from Park Row, ‘The near-| Would have to support Newberry age . a jury to try|a ft rtf he wished to go to the State Senate, Fritz, the criminal panel has beou ex- | est hydrant was A with toe, When | pushton. a this was impossibley hausted and Judge Dav selecting | tls had been chopped away it was found | that he was supporting Chase 8. Ose: itora Frond: lie. olvil: pall’ WOEN«ahe Fine were frozen. Much time was| porn. He Andrews did not sup- be aoe 1 in te The fire port hin, IifWsuported W, A. Lemire consent of both sides Hodes Gath and sixth| whom previously he had Rush- 1 P third juror was selected this! door of the bu ton to defeat 8 if we wore entert Snow and tee so handicapped firemen Paro hak a BUMGbG RE CO OU Contec.| teNuy than on any One previous r s79 1% 1 y of = - her husband's imprison. | wners Company's : <2 Mra. Frita has waintained his! Street, early this morning. | f caus Sometiing concerning the polities): — loss of $5,000 before it was extin-| of Escanaba was testified to by Here © / bis DANTE Py morning. He ix Philip Be bal Hinen salesman No. 2026 Valentine hall Withdrew Backing ¢ the trial of Senator Truman H, News stories and | Blaze in Pearl Street Causes Dam-! 191s The Ge have nev ; ave never had ‘ernment attorney is mak« age Before Stream Can ot ep ten. 900k Be Turned On. { cee . © larger number of wit nesses having been disposed of yes: mn J. ‘The fire was discovered on the wr of the six-story building by a nulel bert J, Rushton, of Escanaba, . He” ~ wid Roger M. 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