The evening world. Newspaper, September 27, 1921, Page 8

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World’s Financial Depression , Has Reached Malay Penin- sula, and the Rubber Indus- try, Mainstay of the People, Has Gone to Smash—Pro- hibition Sentiment Is on Backward Swing in New England. pee By Roger Batchelder. “People in the United States really femow little about financial depres- gion,” asserted Miss Frances Aker- strom, missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church to Sitiawan, Malay Peninsula, who has just returned to “The collapse of the rub- Ber boom in the Federated Malay @tates has brought about a terrible @ituation,” she went on. ‘Rubber ‘Which formerly sold as high as $1.10 @ pound (Straits money, worth about ftalf tn United States currency), is Mow selling for from,2 to 5 cents— hen a buyer can be found. “@mall planters have left their @acks and gone to increase the army , @f the unemployed in the cities of the Peninsula, The vast plantations @wned and operated by Buropean @empantes kre being closed down and fhe white managers sent home for an Easanite period. The small shop- rs who lived by the trade of the hiv <> 2 S> ) M7 395 <s VS ivy} ©) HRS §) OS FHS a SOV pra >) <— QV HVS eat The MILLERKINS Shops for Kiddies Fifth Avenue at g6th St, Fulton and Bend Stree Brooklyn > Wale: & WY is =; SEAT TIARA POT F TEEE, coolles are going into bankruptey and | ELE TE IRE SORE ENN AT of my own section has empha- sized my belief. “New England has not been a liquor stronghold since Revolu- tionary days. There has always been plenty to drink, but the an- tagonism to the saloon has been having thelr stocks old by thelt) universal. ‘The smaller commun. creditors at auction, ‘There ts hardiy! {ivy relying on the cities. for apy money anywhere save smalil thoy potted supply, went. ‘no coins, Land owners are offering tol jicnse! year after year, ‘The sell their land at ridiculously low] farmers made thelr ciders and prices, but there is no one to buy.| Wines and never thought of the One 400-ncre entate of rubber-bearing| Prenam save to poll @ ‘dry'wote treos was offered for sale for $50. It wiring past year, how- became a joke among the people, who| ever, the problem has come tq asked, ‘But who has the fifty?” Rub.| thelr notice for the first time. : | tel And while the farmers and. sub- ber is everywhere. The very living urban residents do not actually rooms in the homes of the taukis, rich] want lquor to come back, they Chinese planters, are filled with rub-] are disgusted by the enforce- ber. Every hut has its store, unsold The docks In the cities are piled high with it, as are the warehouses, “It is only the bounty of naturé | which keeps the Chinese and Tamil People from starvation as widespre ‘as that which mr The cocoanut cally all the ne furnishes prac’ sities of life to t Poor and grows in profusion in the jungles. The natives make houses, cooking oil, food, sugar and even al- | coholic beverages from the cocoanut trees or their products, The mis- sion schools and orphanage at Sitia- wan have been badly crippled by the financial situation, and education has been practically discontinued for the time being.” . . PROHIBITION SENTIMENT SWINGING. “There has been a great change of sentiment in this country concerning Prohibition,” asserted a Boston guest of the Commo- dore last night. “I have noticed it In myetrips to different parts of the country, but the attitude QW ment furce and the misuse of the law. Thev are beginning to be- lieve that Hquor, after al, was the lesser ev se 8 MR. SWEET ON CANDY, “The per capita consumption ot candy throughout the country amounts to $8 yearly," according to |Leon Sweet, a candy manufacturer of Salt Lake City, who 1s at the Bel- |mont. “I belleve that the West has much to be thankful for,” he de- cléred, “for the depression has not hit our candy business so hard as it has here. Conditions along the At- Jantic seaboard, however, are getting better.” LG Mr, Sweet said that confectioners States west of Colorado do an 000,000. }in annual business of ° “AS OTHERS SEE US.” “I like New York because I was born here,” asserted Collingwood Freeman, eight-year-old son of a Havana manufacturer, who 1s at the Pennsylvania, “I was born Levey Ey THE EVENING WORLD; TUESDAY, in Collingwood Hotel, and that’s where I got my name. “I like the United States be- cause you have nice toys here and lots of goodies that we don’t have in Cuba, And I tell you I lke travelling around,” be said in con- clusion, eee MEMBER OF NOTED FIRM FINDS NEW YORK CHANGED. Joseph Phillips Bedson, General Manager of Richard Johnson & Nephew, Ltd., Manchester, England, has arrived in New York on his first visit in aixteen years, His father was the head of the firm when it made materfal for the suspension ridge at Niagara, then one of the world’s wonders, The company also had @ part in making the first Atlan- tic cable. ‘ he on @ vacation,” Mr. Bedson een years I find that grown beyond recog- nition, and I am glad to say that !ts* appearance is much more artistic than in the olden day ee THE FARTHEST FROM HOME. The “New Yorker for a Day or Tio” who # farthest from home to-day is Paul Stanfield, who ts at the Pennsyl- vania. His home town, Melbourne, is over 12,000 miles from Broadway. pilin ction IN NEW YORK TO-DAY. Empire State Democracy, luncheon, Commodore, 1 P. M. National “Automobile Underwriters’ Conferenoe, meeting and luncheon, Com- modore. Delta Upstion, luncheon, Cafe Boule- vard, 1 P.M, Dahlia Show, Pennsylvania, Master Blacksmiths’ Association, din- ner, Pernaylvania. 2 BA Jeunesse, meeting, Pennsylvania, Krakauer Society, meeting, Pennsyl- vania, 8 P.M. New York Federation Musical Club, meeting, Pennsylvania, 3 P. i. Independent Order Daughters of St. WUD TO TOO ONS Consider the Economical Advantage of Purchasing Shoes from the Manufacturer In the I. Miller shops will be found novelty and refinement, quality and safety, and tremendous new Fall assortments. Comparison is invited. $8.50 59 Novelty Styles of Exctllent Taste, designed by I. Miller, for Fall and Winter Service. $] Q.°° Shoes of comparative grade were sold last Spring in the I. Miller shops up to $14.50. I. MILLER These Shoes Grouped in Four Shops Mentioned Below Novelty Styles of Excellent Taste 1554 Broadway Near g6th Street 15 West 42nd Street Hudson Terminal Entrance: Fulton Street New Shop at Fulton and Bond Streets, Brooklyn HB ISS BL yale HSPN ME MSO .| partment, ON ADs SHAH Sonus Motel, #4, Surety Assoc aoe, ‘of America, meet+ Ing, Fennaylvania, 10 A. M. National Assoolation of Printing Ink Makers, luncheon, Pennsylvania. Commercial Development, meeting, Pennsylvania, . M. Bookbinder’ Association, luncheon, Pennsylvania. apne, Hundred end Fitts, Field Hoapt- al, meeting, Astor, Theatre Owners’ Chamber of Com- merce, luncheon, Astor, 1.30 P.M.” . Centenary of the Consummation “of the Independence of Mexico, dinner, Astor, Baster Distrib- | utors, meeting, 3 M.; ban- quet and dance, evening. American Dahlia Society, show, Penn- aylvania, morning, afternoon and eve-| ning. M Women's Republichn Club, reception, Pluza. afternoon, ciation of Glass McAlpin, 2 P. —— | COLUMBIA RECOGNIZES AID | OF LANGUAGES TO TRADE. | ie iimeaek: | | Slavonic Department This Yea: ‘This End im View. Columbia Untversity’s Stavonic de- partment, of which Prof. John Dyneley Prince 1s head, will give @ wider range of foreign language courses this year than ever before, Every known lan- guege meosssnry, for the betterment of | foreign trade will be taught. The de-| during the absence of Dr. | rince on his newly-appointed mission | as Minister to Denmark, will be under | the supervision of Dr, Clarence A. Man- ning. Russian, Polish, Czecho-Slovak, Jugo- @av and’ Bulgarian languages will be ven by the department. Courses in| rmenian, Chinése and Japanese will be, Riven by’ the university. | Ilementary ussian will be given by Ivan S. An- dreevski, instructor in unlversity ex- tension. Reading, writing and speaking Rus- stan willl be mtressed tn this course, The | university will also teach Russian and easy Russian reading, advanced Rus- sian, lectures on Russtan Mterature of the ' nineteenth century, contempory Russian literature and the history of | the Russian sects ie =~ (€; DSA EIA. CO, B24 DREAYNES A 9); QO Se, om, OWA Kyo) a}, &, is: The SEPTEMBER 27 MILLERKINS Shops for Kiddies 45 Wen gand Strea Fulton and Bond Streets Brockyn DENI pee, D4 <> \ B.. Altman & Cn. MADISON AVENUE = FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Thirty-fourth Street Special for to-morrow An Extraordinary Sale of Several Hundred Women’s Separate Skirts in smart, attractive models developed in a variety of materials, including all-wool plaids, stripes and flannels; crepe de Chine, taffeta and poplin ! offering phenomenal value at ‘ | $7.50 (Women's Ready-to-wear Skirts, Third Floor) An Unusual Offering of . Shetland Shawls (hand-loom woven) In a variety of lacy desighs; with a choice of all-white, all-pink, and combinations of white- and-pink, white-and-black, white-and-amethyst, white- and-ciel and white-and-lavender; a really remarkable value at the sale price of d $2.65 (Second Floor; Fifth Avenue section) Setar are BS Ceargene crepe de Caine ts the material Parts cheeses for har ovar~ Wonses. Boawtifuthand werk de seen im the decor ties beaded designs of @ contrasting colon. The tuts shader of Autumn, brown, rey, Mua and black are all hehe, THIRD FLOOR Thirty-fifth Street 8 ath oat of IMPORTED These exquisite crepe overblouses have a definite purpose in life—to transform the coat and skirt suit into a graceful frock. And this purpose they fulfill with the maximum of success and charm This selection of overblouses is marked very much below the normal price. They are excep- tional values at the price, $18 THE TUNIC BLOUSE The emphasis falls quite correctly on the The ‘most recent ver- sion of the overblouse. It is of crepe de Chine, sleeve. A close’ cuff black or avy, with catches the wide sleeve bands of decorative, allowing part to escape soft-coloredembroidery. in willful mood. Specially Priced $18. Lord & Taylor FIFTH AVENUE OVERBLOUSES $18.