The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1920, Page 3

bi ~ MEANS A BA - senile Gouging Has Made Shoes a Luxury in Thousands of Families. ple roca INE LEATHER CO.’S SINS) wn Figures Prove It Has No Sense of Shame or Conscience. By Arthur Capper, Inited States Senator from Kansas. Fifth of @ series of articles written specially for The Beening World. WASHINGTON, D, C,, Feb, 21.—In housands of families to-day shoes aust be a luxury. They can hardly ve otherwise. The cost is so great bat it ls impossible to provide whole- ome footwear all the year round for arge families on the earnings of workmen. Shoes’ for tiny children png $5, $6 and $7 @ pair, while for| Aults the average price appears to 'e about $12, and {t is no uncommon hing to see them marked $15, $18 and ven $20, If thig Keeps on the barefoot boy vill reappear on our streets and be vill be reinforced by millions, Varioug ¢asons are given for (his immense hereage in the cost of footwear, Some ay it is the skyrocketing of hides, thers that labor bas become too ex- cting and others that the stock rais- rs of the nation have been/collecting uge anc illegitimate profits, One explanation that appears to aye merit is found in the recent res ort of the Central Leather Company. ‘his industrial organtzation never aid a dividend on its common stook ntl] 1915, Its shares used to gell at 12 each, but a Ittle more than a year go these rose to $130, and 1 under- tand they are atill climbing. Now he Central Leather Company not niy pays regular dividends on six r seven million dollars annually, but ¥ frequently, because of the fatten- ag of Its surplus, obliged to declare xtra dividends, Even with these efforts to unburden wseif of profits, at the end of last ear its surplus wes sufficient to en- ble it, if it chose, to declare a further ividend of 75 per cent. upon its took. Not all the dealers are profit- ering, but enough of them are en- aged in it to make it appear general, OME RETAIL DEALERS TRY TO BE HONEST. In deaiing with this evil no half- ray measures will be sufficient» There hould be glossing of the plain nd Obvious facts. Everybody should yin in the ework of curbing the rofiteer and in’ making him uncom- srtable in his occupation. Many re- ul shoe dealers are making an hon- st attempt to keep down prices by ailing at cost, plus a reasonaible com- ensation for the service in selling xe customer the shoes. But these ro forced to pay tribute to the leather 1en, who seam to be collecting a reat deal more profit than they are atitled to, it is not necessary to be a business 1en to understand the fact that the verhead expense of the wholesaler \ relatively smaller than that for hich the retailer must make provi- on. The wholesaler disposes of his noes in great quantities, hence he an well afford to.take for his service less grows profit than the retailer The truth is, however, that the holesaler is collecting the retailer's rofits, and in some cases conside bly in excess of what would be re- arded as a fair margin for the man ho deals directly with the ultimate urchaser of the shoes. I am told t retailers are really getting a ross profit materially less than the rholesaler collects, This, of course, \euns that the ultimate purchaser \ust pay more for his shoes. He ays excessive tribute to the leather ian, the manufacturer and the job- ‘Tiris 1s no defense of the profiteer- is retailer. He is just as roprehen- ible just as wicked, just as un- .trtotic, as the man who gouges him. ut there can be no doubt that th ystem of adding a little more at each top In the progress of the shoe from ne leather man, through the factory, ) the jobber and then on to the re- , is responsible to a large extent ar the {mmense burens that the merican people have to «erry in the pe of pedal exactions VHOLESALERS WHO TRY TO 49G ALL THE PROFITS. 1 fabrics asiste that Inve ppresent to mimense the ree nse small, very most uf ge to Aat on a! e Wemnan for @ concern engaged in the THE REASON SHOES ARE REFOOT NATION $6 TO $20 A PAIR. HARD, HARD LUCK! . SAMARITAN LOSES | | ‘GRANDDAD’S BEST’, His Sick Friend Never Got the! Bottle and He Was Al- | | most Pinched. | | ISTPN to the hard ludk story | L I of the year. A man attached | i to one of the clty courts bromised to bring to a friend in the | Bronx who is sick with influenza a | Bottle of “Granddad’s Best.” After | scouring the city, he procured one, and started from City: Hall on the Third Avenue "L.” At 234 Street @n acquaintance boarded the train and at 42d Streot the court attache went to the platform with him for a ehat. Just as the gates closed ho realized that he had deft the Precious bottle, and as the train was out of the station started up the track after it. Between sta- ‘ions he was detained by a spe- cial cop, and It was an hour before he could persuade the railway peo- | ple not to arrest him. And the battle? Some one in Harlem must | have recalled the shades of good St. | Nichol |underwear business called on him. “Before I wii do that I will announce | to the city that I have ceased to carry these grades, It is monstrous, and there ix no need whatever of such ¢ mand upon the public. + ‘This man, like many other retail merchants who are trying to square ‘their business methods with their con- selence, and who see in the present \teartui’ rush to become rich at the expense of honor a peril to the Na- | tion, is becoming indignant. “He feels that the time has come to call avhalt. 'He feels that the millionaire market is over supplied ‘and that’ ‘unclean wealth is becoming positively danger- ous to the moral welfare of the N tion, : Sanihinace a ac THE DEVICE, OF DECLARING | STOCK DIVIDENDS. | I think the time has come when a most thorough investigation of the manner and method by which con- cerns that were almost gasping for breath before the war are now yield- ing unheard of profits and are pay- ing scandalously high dividends Why are leather concerns so wealthy that in order to conceal from the world the fact of their financia plethoric condition, they are obliged to resort to the well known devic of declaring stock dividends? Is it not possible to, in some de- ‘gree, regulate profits and prever jmen through a system of legalize robbery from acquiring property to | which they have no moral right? | | Would it “not be possible tor the | ‘Nation to say to the profiteer “thus |far shalt thou go and no further.” } It might be objected that this {would be an interference with the right of individual initiative; that it would discourage persons who would otherwise embark on large undert jings, and that to limit reward wo | be to atiffle effort. Within the bound- aries of legitimate enterprise there jis plenty of room for the exercise of | individual effort and no man with an honest purpose should or would be jdiscouraged from entering upon big, but honest undertakings by the knowledge that he could not take that which in equity does not be- long to him. Of course, by Hmiting profits, or, | rather, by forcing business to con- ‘form to better economic standards dy selling at prices which would leave | them no more than a just and equit- able reward for their services, the | gambér would be eliminated. No | wholesome-minded citizen would have any sympathy for him. He ought to be eliminated, and must be eliminated H if Americans are to buy what they! {eat and what, they wear at which are at least bearable. WHEN “PRODUCE MORE” b ONLY A MOCKERY. It is repeatedly stated that one remedy for the food situation is to produce more. This is a true solution and will be generally accepted. Tut the difficulty ts that under present modes of distribution neither he who| ultimately consumes the food prod-| ucts, or he who produces them, will] be benefited by increased harvests. | All the food will go through the same! old channels, it will be manipulated | by the same old profiteers, and wha annot be sumed will be ineonti- | nently destroyed, Thig has been done in scores of cases. One of the most irritating features of this profiteering business through ‘the amediums of distribution ts that | farmers got a less net reward for a large crop than for a small one. The ceonds on file with the Departme | of Agricultut this. It has been | demonstrated u ASE wheat i cotton rey Knov ulture {s not inclined to nen it is asked to make a special » give the world a bumper c prices Agriculture should not be penalty | for performing increased tasks. But with the prosent methods of distribu- n increased production of food will | y with it heavy penalties for the yho produces and no relief for sum a Dr, ¥. J. Scoenenberger Dien, Vrederick J enefiberger, nree, @ surgeon the Police nt, to which position he was uppointed under the Gaynor Adminis- | tration, died yeuerday at Roosevelt Hospital, had been operated wise’ f Dr. fiahownens on diseases ut} tha aseye | and Charles Rathfelder, examiners of | have AS MAYOR, ORDERS, FOOD SALE PROBE Assigns Bwo Men from Own Office to Aid Inquiry by Hirshtield. : Aldermanic President La Guardia, Acting Mayor t the absence of Mayor Hylan, who is on his way to Palm Beach, announced to-day that he has assigned Frank K. Bowers his office, to assist Commissioner of Accounts Hirshfield in a probe of army food sales by the city. Mr: La Guardia says te is de- termined to learn how much truth there is, if any, tn rumors of exces- sive charges for trucking, looge book- keeping, and disposal of records to junkmen, “I have not yet given up the plan of having Congress look into’ the army food gales in this city,” sald Mr, La Guardia, “In fact, { may soon interesting information from Washington.” La Guardia contends that Congress Stipulated there should be no prof.’ ite whatever in army food sales, In this city there was a profit of several, hundred thousand dollars which has been turned over to a Mayor's com- mittee, Le Guardia instructed tis examin- only. On any matter witich the Com, misstoner desires to treat as conti: dential, respect hia wishes, not even communicati communicating such information to This clause was written in order that Accounts Commissioner Hirsh- field cannot refuse La Guardia’s offer on the ground that tne examiners are nt to be trusted with his office secrets, Acting Mayor La Guardia to-day received a delegation of petticoat makers. He said strikes should not be permitted to last more than forty- eight hours, Lilyan Toshman Wins Prize for Beauty and Katherine Perry for Costume. It took a lot of beauty to win the beauty prize last night, but not much costume to win the costume prize, at the third annual Chu Chin Chow Ball, which statted at 10 o'clock at the Hotel des Artistes and finished in the rush ‘hour all over town— taxicabs carrying the last of the revellers through sunlit streets to Greenwich Village and way points, About that costume It would not be fair to say that the judges were ——>—_—__ CONVICT SHE FREED MARRIES TEACHER With No Superft BR ‘an All- Lr HAGGIN 4 See A NAPOLEONIC OUTErT uous Drapings on Costumes | WAL STREET fg FOREN HOSPITAL Efforts to Raise $5,000,000 Stopped When Traction ~ 7} | | | | | | ile | Acting Captain John Mangin, comfle —) jdentiat man for Commissioner Zine | right, sd of: his Job of | collecting funds in the Wall Street s been ¢ district for the Police Hospital, t& H] | cost $5,000,000, which the Commie # ] | sioner hopes to see constructed in the my } | Bushwick « mo. Brooklyn, | In December Mangin collected | $161,000 from Wall Str He says “Reh the following sums were donated: % “THEA | Willlam K. Vanderbilt jr., $100,000 a VANCE =| Sinolair Ol; Company, $10,000; Harry N |Payne Whitney, $10,000; Liggett Drug 7 | N | Stores, $10,00 ited Cigar Stores, | $5,000; Chauncey Depew, $5,000; Naw nal Biseuit Company, $15,000; Met= ropolitan Tobacco Company, $6,000, Magin also declares John D. Rocke= feller jr, promised $25,000, He says that he tried to see J. P. Morgan, but the banker was “always out.” | Mangin is known in the police foree as the “star dough getter.” He sold $11,000,000 worth Liberty Bonds during the war. Capt. Mangin declares T. Coleman of Special Doputy Commissioner, is viog i pl DuPont, Deputy Police Commissioner, ; =. MAWELE: [iy ciiairman of (he hospital commit- 9 tee, and ®r. John Alton Harriss, , THEY WORE “LIFE BELTS.” t Tin, Each Holding jon of Whinkey. When Customs Guard A, £. off the steamship Mormugao, wihtch guarding at Pier C, Jersey City, at 10.95 Jo'clock last night he decided that they should be searched, Burton was aur- prised to find™both men wearing life belts, and made them take them off. He discovered that the “life belts" chairman, cinreeeteninncnscinhiemmnimmntaeeeeelal The Best for Repairing Glassware Crockery, V Meerschaum, Fu: niture, Books. Tipping Billiard | Cues, ete. use e MAJOR. of MEN Hubber and leather, Medes Not Cork Over a G Burton saw two men come Portus hea wa |FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH | FOUND BY ENGLISH Principal of Forest Hills Public] tnfuenced solely by considerations! SCIENTIST, MAYBE if al ype ji of quantity, for there were some who ee Tr School tate PRE In _ | wore Ids than the winner, Lilyan | Grandson of Prof, Huxley Can Also Sing Sing. Tashman, who was splendidly ar-| ~ Detetmine Sex in 90 Per A romance is tucked away in the|Tayed in not much—a little here, a Cent. of Cases. story of the marirage two weeks ago|bbon there, a chin strap, and a of Miss Mary A. Fairchild of No. 425| fashionable tint of epidermis. Covrrigis. 1990. b Big ta anes Go, Jamaica Avenue, Astoria, Principal| The beauty prize, on the other LONDON, Feb, 21.—The secret of ef Public Sctfool No. 3, in Férest Hills, to Henry C. Hoppe, a confec- tioner of No, 708 Third Avenue. Five years ago Hoppe pleaded gullty of carrying a revolver and of burglary and was sentenced to Sing Sing for not less than three year: that time Miss Fairchild, tor two, was Assistant Principal of Pub- lic School No, 16 at Corona, LL, and greatly interested jn prison wel- fare work. Visiting Sin, in .the | summer of 1916, she met Hoppe and became interested in h Interest gave Way to pity and pity, in this pur- Ucular instance at least, was akin to iove. Miss Fairchild took up the case jn| Albany in Hoppe's behalf. Her plea for the convict's release was so sin- | cere that in May, 1917, the Governor commuted his sentence. Ten days later the Parole Board released him. | The afternoon of Feb, 6 last they hand, went to Katherine Perry, avho was dressed all the way from toe to shoulder. Dry? Offiially, yes. But there were rumors, and some of them were run down to their source, and where th »at pocket, there is hope. eee SAYS GOODS SOLD Army and Navy Supplies About Exhausted, Declares O'Malley in Letter to Hylan, Markets Commission r O'Malley inferior army and navy commorities visited the rectory of the Rev. B, C,|ere w conducted and that the legit-| Warren, pastor of the 18th ‘Street /1mate supply of food and merchandise Methodist Church, Manhattan, pre-| offered by the two federal department sented a license and asked to be mar- : cn lahauied sa aed ried. Mr. Warren's wife and daugh- |'* (Dont oxiautled. i tap wittienmed ihe ceremony nerefore,” he adds, “to unload at} Hoppe is thirty-two years old. his time Qpon an unsuspecting pubiic ghee ood, clothing, shoes, etc., of an inferior | tity from sources army and navy, and creating the false L. I. TRAINS UNDERMANNED. Pr. S. Comm! m Warns Railroad It Must Obey the Law. supplies of the matter that army should be and navy, brought to Complaint was made tn a letter sent to- lay by Deputy Public Service Commis- ‘oner Alfred M, Barrett to Ralph Peters, | Violated, and take action to immediately federal Manager of the Long Island| Prevent a continuance of this dbvious in- Raflroad, about the reported under-| Justice to the people.”” manning of Long Island Rallroad trains| Commitasioner O'Malley 4 pas learned that the goods sold as army and navy supplies come from priv diction and determine if the statute in gates open in motion. ns are | The railroad company, hy the terms of | sources. amiasioner Barrett's jetter, must com-| Before leaving for Palm Beach last|W!en the coasters awerved to avald a with the law regarding full train | u Mayor Hylan told Corgmdsstor |horse and wagon. Giadys's head struck ws by March 2. It was rned thal alley to call the ma r to the att t ourb, At the Staten Island Hos- | ‘ommmisiioner Tarrett himself was re-| tion of the district attorney. ui a wae uate Vaca eee ently @ near victim of an open gute on emp pes tired and she was injured internal 4 train, an ence the investigation, le | ture e ured er yy. warned tho railroad. com that the| WOMEN ARE SAVED The other girls escaped injury. y Ww would be enforced unless oration remedies the conditions plained of. ‘ the cor- “HUT” BECOMES A CLUB. Its a ¥. M. ©, A. Institution and for Actress’s $2,000 Jewels Taken Out by Fireman at Blaze in West is @ source, even if it is only an over- | ARE NOT FROM U. S.. In a otter to Mayor Hylan charges that sales | outside of the impression that the same are the eurplus | is a the attention of ‘sub-officials faving juris- says that he con-| AS BUILDING BURNS perpetual youth and renewed vigor, the determination of sex and the | curing of certain human diseases are some of the problems which, ft seems, are being solved in the labor~ atories at Oxford by Julian Huxley, grandson of the famous ‘biologist, Thomas Henry Huxley. ‘The actual achievements included the change of tadpoles into frogs within three weeks; the production of a new sort of creature; the res- toration of a flatworm to youth, and | the control of the sex of frogs’ ess, producing 90 per cent. of males at the will of the experimenter. The Daily Mail, which makes this newa public, comments in an edi- torlal on the great possibilities of Julian Huxley's discovery and says: | “We seem to be nearer some of the hardest and most enthralling; mysteries of life. SLED UPSETS, GIRL DYING. Statem Inland Chi Skull Frac- cd im Comsting Accident. Gindys Dulles, twelve-year-old daugh- ter of William Dulles, a superintendent in the Standard Shipbuiding Company's jyards at Shooter's Island, wag prob- ably fatally injured this morning white coasting down a steep hill on a bobsled with threo other girls near her home at No, 15 Vermont Avenue, New Brighton, Staten Istand The sled overturned in the gutter SUES CHIEF OF POLICE. Dedged Ballets in F: Before Auto 34th Street, Although he served scathless in formed Men, 6 with the American Expedition ‘The Victory Army and Navy Y. M. C.| Patrolman George Christ’ of the West Forces, Raymond Whitney, A. Club will be ope |9tth Street “Station, aided by a Post | salesman, of No, 127 Claremont Avenue, at No, 9 State Street as the aucr Office employee and 4 former soldier | on ‘his return home, was struck by of the Rattery Park Victory Mut. The| whose names were not obtained, res-|autopobile and lald up for two montha presentation to the uniformed men will! cued four persona from*fire in the five-| Whitney ‘to-day filed sult against Sram Vincent rastor, “Other prominent |story Dullding ut 120 Weat 34th /chief of Pollce Henry J. Burke, women will also take part in the cere: | Street at 4 o'clook this morning, The! Peokskill, Y. monies. 4 |patrolman discovered the fire, which | je struck by. the piatiere will, BE vaudeville, and motion aq originated in the cellar and cut off 3 rie eras fim shoving the closi "he= y way of the stairs jane Brose Ney: tory Hut, Red Cross atrolman Christ and the former sol aN ut of Sagar din Ship. vice organizations \'dier boosted the Post Office employer ot Sumer Harned in Ship to the irop from the fire-escape and he lowered thy ladder. Miss Marie Tribu, an actress, Was aroused on the third floor and assisted to the street, as were Mis fiva Harris on the same’ floor and Mr. Sugar valued at $25,000 wa destroyed this morning by fire in one of the lower ‘holds of the Norwegian-American steamship Lyngensfjord, which was ‘loading at the foot of 30th Btrect, 4nd Mrs, Richard —Tabe theatrical Brooklyn, ‘The flames, believed to have | Mem Prominent in Aviation Circles people, on the fifth floor, started from, sponta ous eomlmiation, WIL Attend. (P'Miss Harris left $2,000 in Jewels in produced a heavy, thick smoke whi iia kara Oh i ri ery Dotter and her apartinent and’ Matthew” Fox, @ caused violent a Band irritated | ‘The Aero Club of America has re- Decrease—Plenty of ( driver for on of the chief the throats of firemen. Damage to the |celved a telegram from Mra, Robert E. he 3 ‘ got them for her esti” hip was slight and it ts expected ehe | Peary advising that the ¢uneral of Ad- Thesmonthly report of State Commia-|Srated at $15,000 cS i : Mod, 3 sioner of Feods and Markets, Dr. B. H. _— othe. 2 miral Peary, Wik be fale a ™ in Porter, shows that poultry holdings in Leng Island Man Killed In Fall 8:0,000 Ver Awainst Nurse for Wyomine aren n the State have Incrensed more than one |. On tee. nation day at 11 4 Will : I saa I 1 qd Ds Col, Jefferson De Mont Thompeor anh a pe callicn since Jan. 1, RIVERHEAD, 1. 1, Feb \ Shorift's Jury yesterday returned | ,Col, Jefferson De. Mont ‘Thompson, ill infuse three hundred cu | hive frozen Inereaged O° | mour Corwin, seventy-Ave, PROPYL” ict of $29,000 In favor of Mrs. | Wondhoune nave heen asked by Mra. OF DELICIOUS FLAVOR nd three-qu pound f / Peary to, save a8 honorary. pallbearers Holdings of creamery, bitter chow a of the Miamiogue Hotel «t \ smans, formerly Ary to save aa honorary pallbearers ecrease of more than 6 00 pounds, Jamesport, was killed this against Mins Willie Maud |@"4, will leave, / r W ston, und exes of 300,000 cu although i fail'on, the lee dying of act Miehaert an tormar trelaed nurem Lacie tetas tc cae hae Ae Sealed Packets Only Black, Mixed or Natural Green ere 0,000 a re f ur, | Aerinl League wore in storage oh the "sa: ote! busigess at Bouth Jum who wite &ued for $100,000 for allena- | pointed « joint committee to attend Ad- ‘ husband's affections. were made of tin inst of cork and that each was filled with more than a @allon of good whiskey. Burton seized the contraband, and sent it In to the eus- woms house, ere its aroma excited neral admiration, ‘The two men =| Did Natty Joe Shovel Snow ? Twa Guesses Magistrate Ordered It When ' Bronx Brummell’s Mother Complained He Wouldn't Work or Stay Home Nights, But— Cordon &Dilworth == REAL = OraNcE MARMALADE thelr names aa Manuel Joaquin Varzoo and Anthony Kathrino, both of Newark, They were not arrested. | The Mormugao left Lisbon Jan and arrived at Jersey City Feb, 7 {a due to sail next Tuesday. 16 | | Joseph Donath, eighteen years old, |of No, 428 East 137th Street, one of | the most nattily dressed young -men Jin the Bronx, appeared in the Mor- |risania Court this morning on com- |plaint of his mother, Mra. Rose | Donath, a sad eyed, shabbily dressed | woman, who told Magistrate Sweetser ‘that her son wouldn't work and that | he stayed out at night, “Why don't you work,” Magistrate Sweetser asked the defendant, “are you afraid you will ruffle your spats?” Donath denied that he wore spats, but said that he couldn't find « job which would pay him enough. “I could only get $12 to $15 a week, he eaig, “and T can’t live on that” He didn’t explain how he hhad been living without earning either the $12 or the $15, but sald that he had been putting up at hotels practically evry night “How would you likt to have a job paying $5 a day?" the Magistrate asked. Donach's eyes ‘brightened and he thought that sort of @ salary would sult him, “All right,” replied the Magistrate, 1 give you a note to Deputy Str Cleaning Commissioner James W. Brown, and I'll see that he pute you to work shoveling sonw.” Donath's jaw dropped, and he etart- Jed to remonstrate when the Magis- trate turned to the mother and said “It he doesn't go to work there, vou let me know and [ will send him to the workhouse where he will work for nothing.” A short time later Donath pre- sented Magistrate Sweetser’s note to |N. N. O'Donnell, tn charge of em- | ployment for the Street Cleaning De- nt, and insisted on @ job as O'Donnell said that the: thats why I prefer H-O OAFFOOD “Under-nourished children cannot keep up with their classes. “A breakfast of H-O oat-food is easily digested, and furnishes nourishment for the morning's work. “When a child has had H-O for breakfast, I notice he or she attentive and better able to absorb the lessons.” The steam~cooked and double-~toasted OAT-FOOD ONE POUND of c could take a snow 4 go to work. one of that kind of work for me,” said the nattily dressed young {man as he walked out of the office, | (To be continued.) | PEARY FUNERAL MONDAY. Prices Plainly Marked—For Your Protection miral Peary'd funeral. | nee re A ET