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New-York tribune., 1918-02-21

the license of Charak e. Merowitz,
Street. The action followed the trial of
the firm on February 4. before Special
Referee Roscoe H. Hupper. A. COM
plant was made by Abraham Friedman,
retail grocer at SO Hudson Street,
that on one occasion he bought 100
pounds Of sugar from Charak G. Nero
WITT by buying, unwillingly, ten cases
Of sardines and some beans.
The next time Friedman called he
was asked TO buy more sardines. He
refused, and was unable to obtain the
sugar.
"Unscrupulous dealers, finding it
dangerous to overcharge for sugar
have adopted this new way of eyading
the law" said an official OF the board
yesterday. Consumers have the right
to buy sugar wherever it is for sale at
the price fixed by law. and they are not
required 10 buy anything else to ge.
the sugar. We intend 10 20 after these
sharks"
Profit on Poultry Set
The board yesterday fixed the profits
on poultry. exclusive Of egg laying
hens, which cannot be killed or sold
before May !. The rule provides that
the profit TO the slaughterer when he
sells direct to the consumer must not
exceed seven cents a pound and when
he sells to the retailer It must not ex-
ceed four and one-half cents pound.
The week beginning March is to
be known as National Implement and
Repair Week. when farmers are asked
to put their implements in fighting
trim to win the seasons campaign
against world hunger"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21
Stock Yard Mems
Homes Declared
Unfit to Live I'm

CHICAGO. Feb. 20-First hand in
formation Of living conditions Of
stockyard employees in the district
"back of the yards" was obtained to-
day by Federal Judge Samuel Alschu-
Ter, arbitrator in the dispute between
packers and their employees over wages
and working conditions, when he Wis
tied the section and inspected homes
Of workers.
Representatives Of the packers and
OF the employees accompanied Judge
AIschuler, and tonight Carl Meyer,
counsel for the packers. and Frank
Walsh, representing the employees, de-
clared that the buildings housing the
workers are practically uninhaDitablc.
They said tho danger was so great
remedial action should be taken at
once.
Twelve homes were visited, five Of
them selected by the packers, four by
the employees and three at random by
Judge Alschuler.
eve found one home where an eight
year-old boy took care of seven broth
ers and sisters, while his mother and
father worked,' said Mr.. Walsh. "The
place was filthy. and all the children
had contracted skin diseases. In she
kitchen were the remains of the mid
day meal boiled cabbage, coffee and
bread. They said that was all they
ever had at noon, and there was no
other food in the place, except a half
head of cabbage.
lone place, which from the outside
looked like q nice little cottage, was
found to house three families one IN
the basement. one on the first floor and
one in the attic.
"Generally speaking, the lighting
and ventilating conditions are of the
worst possible kind. The buildings
should be torn down and the packers
should see that safe and sanitary
buildings are erected
Mr.. Meyer declared that, while much
filth was found, it was due to the fam
lily, and not to working conditions.
"The families living in filth and dirt
are the kind that would live the same
way if wages were quadrupled,' he
said. I'VE found many places that were
ideal in sanitation, but others where
the people were making the same wages
where the conditions were bad.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21
Boy Scout Drive
May Be Extended

Managers of the drive of the local
branch Of Boy Scouts of America. to
raise 100000 and to enlist 400 new
scoutmasters in week, announced yes
tcrday that the public was not respond
ing as generously DIS they expected
Only S2A,o39 has been raised and
cghty-fve scoutmastcrs enrolled, it
was said.
III we fail to attain our goal at the
end Of the week. Is seems likely' John
Roy. executive secretary of the Boy
Scouts. said last night eve shall
lengthon the campaign The mark we
set for ourselves is a minimum and
not a maximum one. We believed that
our demands on the public were so
modest that We failed to organize in
tcnsivcly for tho drive"
Large returns are expected as a re-
suit of the canvass of 10000 families
which the Boy Scouts began yesterday
and viii finish to-day. The returns
from the appeals made Tuesday by
thirty Scouts in the financial district
reached $1,000. it was announced.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21
Violinist Of Cars
Here as an Exile to
Begin Life Anew
Zimbalist and FIeifctz Were
Among Leopold Auers
Pupils

Leopold Auer, court Violinist to three
Czars Of Russia and master OF such
eminent pupils as Elman, zimbalist,
Heifetz, Parlow and Menges has come
to America after forty-five years spent
i'll the service of the Romanoifs to set
tie in New York and in his old age
build for himself a new reputation as
teacher and concert player.
Russia is not Russia with the Boil
sheviki in power. the old master be
lleves. He will mover return to his
rativc land. He said this yesterday at
the Hotel Netherlands. His declining
years will be spent in The United
States.
EARLY last summer NJ Auer left his
home in Russia Tor 4 few weeks vaca-
tion in Norway. He never returned to
his homeland. FOR in the mean time the
uprising of the Boshevki came and
Russia became impossible for him.
pupil in Petrograd packed his
clothes and n few treasured household
goods and sent them to 'him. Then
he started for America
Life was once beautiful in Petro-
grad he said yesterday Mover was
life so brilliant there as after the war
ptS1i' buO N!lh tH" cvilIlltr OF tNc 80
sheviki all this has been changed
Petrograd was my home for the best
years of my life ! have been court
violinist for Alexander H. Alexander
III and Nicholas. Whether life Will ever
be beautiful again in Petrograd do
not know. The news OF TO day looks
very bad for Russia and her FUTURE
Several of NJ. Aucr's "chiidren,' as
he calls his pupils. came to America
with him. One OF these is an American
girl. Thclma Given. OF Chicago. An
ether is Maija Bang. daughter Of a
Norwegian official! She refused TO be
left behind when the vessel sailed.
"N hen ! said to my children, Now
shall so too" the master said ycstcr-
day. $50 they are here and they Will be
heard in concert They are of great
PROMISE"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21
Public Service
Law Is Attacked
In State Senate
Republicans, Democrats and
Governor Favor Impor-
tant Changes

ALBANY, Feb. 2o.-A general revi-
sion of the Public Service Commission
law was foreshadowed day by a con-
ccrted attack by Democrats and Re
publicans. Governor Whitman is known
to favor a revision. and has declared
he believes that a single headed com
mission, such as is provided for in
Senator George r. Thompson's bill
would be an excellent substitute for
the present commissions.
The Governor. however. believes the
change should not become effective
until the dual subway system in New
York City is completed
The attack on the commissions was
precipitated by Senator Thompson
when the nominations of Thomas +.
Fcnnell. Of Elmira. and Charles B.
HUI of Buffalo, were being confirmed
by the Senate. Thompson repeated his
charge that the commissions were in
efficient and that even though efficient
men were appointed to them they could
not make good because of the law
"The commissions are farcical insti-
tutions, and while these nominations
arc good ones, they cannot be of ser
vice." said Senator Thompson.
Senator Robert f. Wagner, Democratic
leader, said the commissions had be
come jokes and would continue to be so
Political activity had invariably been
the first prerequisite Of Commi ssioner
and fitness second. Then he attacked
the Republicans for playing politics.
"Thc system broke down under Demo
cratic rule" said Senator Ross Graves
Of Buffalo, "The commissions, IN
tended to be non partisan, were packed
with Democrats when the Republicans
went into office January |, 1915"
Then Senator Brown took a fling at
the commissions. He said:
"Thc Public Service commissions OF
this state are part of terrible disap-
pointment. When Governor Hughes
was pushing this bill through the Leg
islature, with provision that members
OF the commission should hold office
for five years and be removable any
time that a Governor desired to do so
| said publicly in opposition to the
measure that it would be but short
time before many of the evils of tho
old Railroad Commission attached to
this commissions; that it would be n
political storehouse for lumber.
THE Democratic party, at the very
first opportunity, proved what | said
then. and it has not been entirely dis
proved SINCE. Inc questions with which
the Public Service commissions have
to do have such very grave bearing
upon the welfare of the entire com
monwealth that there ought to be a
policy pursued by them which is indie
pendent Of the particular desires of in
dividuals or communities. 1t ought tc
be a broad policy for the successful de
velopment of the great public utilities
in the state, with reference more tc
the common and the general good than
to the specific complaint of individual Is
along the line of any railroad or the
consumers of the products Of any com
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21
Loses License for
Forcing Purchases
On Sugar Buyers
Food Board Takes Drastic
Action Here to End
Profteering

Selling sugar on condition that the
purchaser buy an excessive amount of
other foodstuffs, whether needed or
not, has become 50 general among
wholesalers and retailers that the Fed
eral Food Board yesterday decided to
take drastic action.
Many dealers, it has been discovered,
are compelling their customers to buy
great quantities of groceries in order
to get the sugar. On the East Side. re-
Gently, it was found that pedlers were
selling sugar at the fixed price only on
condition that the purchasers bought
other commodities at high prices.
Wholesalers Lose Permit
The first step toward stopping the
practice was taken by the food board
yesterday when it permanently revoked
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21
Parcels Worth $1O,OOOGone


A wagon belonging to the Monahan
Express Company. of PIG West
Eighteenth Street. was started out
yesterday morning carrying parcels
valued at considerable more than S10.-
00o At Perry and Blocker Streets
the driver left the wagon to make a
delivery. HIS hclpcr remained be-
hind.
When the driver returned. wagon.
valuables and helper were gone. Late
yesterday afternoon the wagon was
found abandoned at Eighty-sec
Street and East End Avenue The
valuables were gone. 50 was TIE
helper
When the wagon left The Monahan
stables it was loaded with two cases
and forty-tive packages. Fifteen OF
the packages, It was said. We're in
sured for $1,000. A general alarm has
been sent out for the helper. lie
had been in the employ Of the com
panN a Wcef
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21
Striking y Tenants
Decide Not to Move

In the case of the Striking" tenants
OF 76o Trinity Avenue, the law as laid
down by Municipal Judge Robitzek last
week has proved Il poor second to the
law OF supply and demand.
Judge Robitzek first ruled that the
tenants might deduct 10 per cent from
tneir February rent, in consideration
or extra gas and oil used to take the
chill off their otherwise heatless rooms.
He warned them, however that in most
cases where advantage had been taken
OF his compromise decisions, "hold
over proceedings had followed, and
the technically victorious tenants had
been ousted the next month.
MY advice" he said, when repre-
scntatives of the owners signified their
course would be the same as that of
other Bronx landlords, "is that you
refuse to pay any rent at all for this
month, stay ont the week Of grace to
which the law entities you, and then
move"
The week of grace was up yesterday,
but only two out of dozen tenants
had moved. The others, unable to find
quarters, had paid full rent-and that
with no promise they would be per-
mtted to remain in their present
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21
Rock Wrecks Grain Train

NEWBURCH, n. Y. Feb. 2o.--A
twelvc-car train. laden with grain con-
signed to the Allies. was wrecked to-
day south of Marlborough with prop
crty loss estimated at $250,0o0 No
one was injured.
The accident was caused by falling
rock. which slid down an incline Just
as the train was passing and lodged
under the hreboN OF the locomotive
The train was derailed and the
twelve freight cars were demolished
The roaibed was badly damaged
and traffic delayed until tonight. The
train WAS running on the West Shore
Railroad
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21
Ia Degrees Above Zero
Is Predicted for TODAY

Another cold wave is scheduled TO
reach New York to-day and to remain
the rest OF the week 1t began to ar
rive last night, when the temperature
fell 8 degrees within two hours and
was rapidly descending to II degree :
above zero, which the Weather Bureau
predicted would be the minimum to
day.
The cold wave is extending eastward
from the Rocky Mountains over all see
tions except the Cuff coast.
Along the Florida and Gulf coasts an
usual cold weather viii prevail.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21
Police Are Better
Than Ever, Belief
OF Commissioner
Enright Denies Split With
Swami and Asks Critics
to Aid

New York's Police Department is in
be,ter shape to-day than ever it was
Richard T. Enright said so yesterday
AZ the conclusion Of his twenty eighth
dav rs Police Commissioner, even
though shc statement. he thought,
might sound foolish. He had been
asked as 10 rumors that the depart
men. was becoming demoralizcd.
Commissioner Enright is seeking the
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21

Dinner for Captain Omey

Captain William NJ. OMey. who goes
to Washington soon to become an As
sistant Attorney General. was the
guest of honor last night at dinner
at Roisenweber's. given him by his as
sociates. He has been for nearly ten
years the Division superintendent of
the Bureau of Investigations of the
Dcnarimont of Justice
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21
Bryan To Be Here Mondav

William Jennings Bryan will arrive
iii New York City next Monday to
tel Chatham on the subject of pressing
the Federal dry amendment.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21

Savings in suits and owe,
coats, too.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-21

Also some knit jackets.
Mostly imported.
We're $500 to $1,000.
s4.25.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-30
1NrRopUcING AN OLD FRIEND.

i When President Wilson advocated the re-
moval of all economic barriers and the establish
ment of an equality of trade conditions ne
made the tariff an issue in the coming cam
paign, if it was not already an issue. If what
he advocated means anything, it means that the
president would bind the United States by
treaty with other nations to free trade policy
He would bind the United States to a free trade
policy in such way that we could escape from
that policy only by repudiating an interna-
tional agreement and offending all the other ma
tons who had beee party to it.
Every treaty must be confirmed by the SEN
ate. At the election in November, 1918, ten
democratic senators will go before their con-
stituents for reelection in states that should be
Represented by advocates by an America first !"
tariff law Those Senators are Hollis, of New
Hampshire, James, of Kentucky, Lewis, of Il
linois Martin, of Virginia, Owen, of Oklahoma
Salisbury, of Delaware, Shafroth, of Colorado,
Shields, of Tennessee, Thompson, of Kansas
and Walsh, of Montana.
Each Of those men should be asked to declare
publicly whether he will vote for the confirma-
ton of a peace treaty that deprives the United
States of the right to determine its policies with
regard to protection of American labor from
and Europe. More than that, they should be
required to declare publicly whether they still
advocate the tariff policies which brought on
the Industrial depression Of 1914. Every la
Dor organization should call upon every Of
these men to state fully and without evasion his
attitude toward the serious problem of compe
tition between the products Of Asiatc or Euro
pean labor and the products Of American labor.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-30
HORSE MEAT VS.. BEEF.

The use of horse meat for food in the United
States is increasing rapidly. Horse meat has
long been on sale in the butcher shops of
France and other European countries, but a
widespread sentiment against it has until re-
Gently prevented it's use to any extent in this
country.
The first markets for the sale of horse meat
in the United States were opened in Brooklyn.
N. Y, and Portland Me-, and now there are
shops carrying a line of horse meat in Cincn-
natl, st. Louis, Omaha and several other cities.
Horse meat retails for about half the price Of
beef, and the claims are made that it can scarce
~ be distinguished from beef by the average
buyer. A dinner was recently given at the
Missouri Agricultural college at which horse
meat was served, without the guests having
knowledge of the fact. They pronounced the
meat excellent Horse meat is nutritious and
wholesome, according to the experts, and is
less liable to be infected with disease than eth
er beef pork, and if pople would lay aside
their prejudice and be educated to eat it the
horses in this country not required in useful
employment would provide an important in
crease in the meat supply.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-30
THE wELL-LIkED HENS PAY.

Farm Life: 1t really doesn't matter
much whether hens, as some persons
assert, are the dulIest things in the
animal or bird worlds, or whether, as
others will declare. they have a kind
of intelligence. The important point
Is that hens do recognize friendly
advances and respond to them, and
that it pays-in eggs-to talk with
the flock, pet it and make content
ment the dominant note of the poul-
try house atmosphere.
No man yet who disliked hens
ever made a great success with them.
On the other hand, thousands with
but the merest knowledge Of poultry
management, but with native lik-
ing for hens, have taken to poultry
and mushed through to prosperity.
These did not have professional
knowledge, but to study the needs
of their flock was to them to be
happy.
Our nearest neighbor has been
doing work out this season, going to
and from in his fivver. He feeds his
hens on coming home at noon and
night. AS noon-time approaches the
chickens begin to watch for the auto,
and as the sound of the machine
reaches them Lney CrOWQ pell-mell TO
the pen door. Hens may be stupid
sometimes" says this poultry keeper,
who is always on good terms with
his flock, "but it's true that many
people are, too-especially those who
abuse their poultry"
A few years ago there was howl
ing controversy over the question,
DO animals reason?" We do not
remember If that was settled or now.
but we do know that many poultry
keepers do not reason or their atti-
tude toward their hens would be DIFF
ferent. Never ought life in the hen
house to grow humdrum. Keep the
biddies singing, and when things be-
gin to grow monotonous change the
ration or have joy-feast over some
food dainty. 1t will pay. in eggs and
satisfaction.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-30
CARTHAGE, HI, APRIL q

Our next quota of boys leave Tor
camp this morning. (Tuesday) at
Sis and 8:57 A. M. small portion
of the boys going on the early train.
The Carthage band furnished mu-
sic for the march to the station
John Mcconnell, president OF the
Carthage Gospel team being marshal
OF the day.
The boys were entertained by the
Gospel team at dinner Monday even
ing at Wood inn, and a patriotic So
cial was given Immediately following
the dinner, by the Epworth league
of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Those who leave for camp are:
Charles Henry Haueise. Tioga;
Phillip Hoover. Carthage; Ralph Les
ter Duncan, La Crosse; Geo. Berg
mieir, Jr., Nauyoo; Geo. f. Dacroth,
Nauvoo Chas. Ross Rombaugh, SUIT.
ter; Walter Henry Thorpe, Tioga:
Raydle F. Cunningham, Warsaw;
Chas. H. Winfield, Bowen; Carl TIL
ton, Carthage; Arthur Harold Hayes,
Carthage; Floyd Mitchell Gardner
Warsaw; Elmer Maize, Elvaston;
John Leb Pryor. Warsaw; Chas. A.
Mooney. La Harpe; Isadore c. Ed
Nauvoo: Cleo Clifton Brown. Dallas
City; Vernon Butler, Colusa; Anon
Carlos Salisbury, La Harpe: Fred G.
Haas, Nauvoo; Ernest Eugene Hat
field. Stillwell; Lloyd Howes, War
saw; Clarence c. Brunor, Plymouth;
Harry Warren Tharp. Warsaw: VIM.
Claud Turner, Hamilton: Blair q.
Schram, Warsaw: Harry w. Harri-
son, Warsaw: Thomas Davis, War
saw; Leo Francis Aleshire. Plym-
outh; Willie Pugh, Colusa; Walter
Chapman. Plymouth: Loine Cooper,
Plymouth; Roy Adlai Launer. West
Point; Homer Sperry. Rock Island;
Benjamen Harrison Lyons, Dallas
City;
ALTERNATEs: Paul Caleb Laur-
ence, West Point: Warner Lloyd ia
cob, Dallas City; James Glen Fife,
Blandinsville; Pinkney Hillyer. Quin-
cy; Walter Gates Hummer, Dallas
City. Also three colored men are to
be sent to Camp Grant, on the 80.
Harry I. Williams, La Harpe; Clar.
ence Cicero White, Hamilton; Hugh
Wesley Russell. Vandalia. Mo.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Westfall re-
ceiyed letter recently from their
son Paul, who is driving an ammun.
alton truck in France. He had been
some time in getting little extra
time to write this letter, as 1t was be-
gun on March 20. the day before the
grand offensive inaugerated by the
Germans on March 81, and completed
the same on April 4. He stated there
in that he had been some busy. adj
vising that all truck drivers are liv-
ing in their respective truck. He
also informed home folks that his
picture was on the front page Of Les
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-30

, lies Magazine, OF April 40, 1SAo' AuAAA
Der.
Mrs. Arthur Tichenour and baby OF
! st. Louis, who have been spending
several weeks with her parents, MT.
and Mrs. Charles Belleville, are Wis
iting the /. N. Tichenour family IN
Keokuk. Miss Grace Bellvtlle, OF
Quincy, who spent the week end with
home folks, accompanied Mrs. Tlch-
enour to Keokuk Sunday. Mrs. ITCH
enour will return to Carthage before
going to her home In St.Louls.
Frank Thornber, of Monmouth.
came to Carthage Monday. on bus
mess trip.
Mrs. Bob williams. Of Minneapolis.
Mimi, spoke to large assemblage
,, of ladies at the Presbyterian church
Sunday afternoon, at $3.50 p. m.
A vesper service was held at Trim
lity Lutheran church Sunday after
! noon at 4:30, which was greatly en-
/: ioyed by all present, as these must
/, calls are always high class. and thor
| oughly appreciated by the public as
attested by the large crowds IN at
tendance.
A silver offering was taken for the
benefit of the Red Cross.
| The returns from the non-Hlgn
school district election OF Hancock
! county, which was held on April ~,
| have been received at the office OF
county superintendent OF schools
and special meeting of the board
will be held in the superintendent
office, Tuesday afternoon to canvass
/, the votes.
At a special meeting Of the board
| of supervisors held in Carthage
Thursday, for the purpose OF organ
| ization of the board. and to transact
other business, Mr.. 0. B. Turner,
was elected temporary chairman by
reclamation.
Mr.. Wemhaner, Mr.. Twesten and
Mr.. Kendall, were appointed by the
chair as a committee on credentials,
which committee after having exam
med the credentials Of the newly
elected members OF the board, re
ported that T. l.. Thomas, OF Augusta,
| o. B. Turner of Hancock, I. +. Lands
of LaHarpe, Warren Kelley Of Chill.
| Walter Bartlett of Durham. w. y.
Fisher of Bear Creek, c. NJ. Benner
| of Prairie, Humbert Vass or Dallas
| City. Albert Balmer Of Sonora. r. c.
Kerr of Rocky Run, C. NJ. Johnson OF
! had been duly elected to membership
on the board and had qualified as re-
quired by law. which report was adj
opted and the recommendations con-
CURED in, whereupon said newly
elected members were seated as mem
bers of the board Of supervisors OF
Hancock county, Illinois.
The honor OF acting as chairman OF
| the board was again bestowed upon