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New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Wages: The One Thing 7h9t H. Risen
Foster Than O.d III. C.. OIL.

body. Or he can read about who
should be roasted. That is the great
national pastime to-day. But up to
now it has not reduced the price Of
a square meal or a pair of shoes.
And reduction is what he wants
and wants without delay. How to
get what he wants is another
matter.
Food is the familiar offender in
prices, though clothing has taken a
bigger jump. You buy new suit
and wear it for months, while a
steak or chop or an egg must be
replaced, as often as mealtime comes
around by fresh one.
While the war was on cam
paign opened to save the best cuts
of meat for the army. Everybody
was glad to comply. A lot of people
found ways to cook cheap meats in a
palatable way. The lesson has not
been forgotten. Even now they are
not buying the prime cuts.
But here is the point: A porter
house steak before the war cost in
Boston about 35 cents pound; it
sells for 63 cents to-day. Prices in
other cities vary, but this will do
for an illustration. The packers
have been urging people, through
advertisements, to eat more meat.
Many will not; most will-when
the price is lowered.
There are vast stores Of food in
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
From, Orerseas

The high cost of what we wear is
also blamed in part on the demands
from across the sea. Many man
is going to dig out his cast-otf suits.
If he is lucky enough to have any,
and have his tailor perform q magic
rejuvenation. He will have reason
to smile, too, for ready-made suits,
even at SEQ, will probably be of
poorer quality than the $50 suit of
five years ago. AS one dealer puts
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

It: "Even with prices more than 100
per cent higher than In 1914,
quality Of merchandise is In many
cases inferior, especially in ready
to-wear goods"
In everything people wear there
ere large advances. Mems shoes
have doubled In the last five years.
Womens shoes have jumped lsI per
cent; women's gloves, 1875 per cent
women's knit underwear, l2C per
cent, women's coats, ll6 per cent,
and women's cotton hosiery. l04 per
cent. Many man will find that he
must part with double the amount
for certain things in his wardrobe.
And the end is NOT yet. Dealers all
over the country do not hesitate TO
say that prices Of clothing generally
are still on the climb.
There are other things besides
prices of food and clothing that are
lining our faces to-day. A lot of
men are having hard time TO keep
roof over their families. 1t is not
entirely a question Of whether they
can pay or are willing to pay top
prices for living quarters. In some
cities is next to impossible to get
something they can call home. IN
Cleveland, for example, over ten
thousand families are forced to.store
their goods. They cannot find houses.
They are scattered here and there.
wherever they can find a place to
sleep.
There has been little building since
the war started This is what one
renting agent says: "Rents for
people earning moderate salaries
have increased alarmingy. Il is
nothing new for people to form in
line at a. m. to inspect hou 6
advertised in the morning paners.
Many people have been forced to
buy home in order TO have a place
to live"
The middle American thinks there
10 great deal Of profiteering. The
landlord Is getting an uncomfortable
lot Of attention Property owners
have for some time been getting
lean pickings. They feel that the
time is ripe to get a larger return.
There is another factor to be
reckoned with. This is tnc wage
Garner who drew undreamcd- paw
during the war. Formerly he lived
in cheap quarters: now he lives in
quarters costing double what he
used to pay. he adds his toll to
the shortage of houses. In many
places he is renting better class
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

60, what has been the Increase in
the income? The wage Garner can
make the happiest reply. Not only
has he continued to eat regularly
and we'll, but he is the fellow who is
buying player pianos and phono-
graphs to take the place of the old
guitar, and turning the woodshed
into q garage.
Again it Is the same authority
which supplies the facts concerning
the other side Of the picture. The
National Industrial Conference
Board has made a countrywide in
vestigation Of the changes In the
wage earner's income since the war
began and prices commenced to
soar. 1t tells exactly what it found
in report which is just out, called
wartime Changes in Wages"
showing what happened between
July l, 1914, and March l, 1919.
This report is broad sizing up Of
the whole situation 1t deals with
wages in the eight major industries
of the United States, including
metal, cotton, wool, silk, boots and
shoes, paper, rubber and chemicals.
1t gives a true picture of the general
wage situation.
Toges
From the beginning Of the war
to March l, 1919, the period Gov.
nred in the report, the increase in
.verage hourly earnings Of men in
the eight industries mentioned runs
all the way from "a per cent to ll2
per cent. For the same period the
rise in the cost of living was 61 per
cent.
In other words, the increase in
wages Of men was in every one of
these industries greater than the
increase in the cost of living.
The question Of whether wages
were what they should have been in
1914 was not looked into. That
was not the purpose Of the investi-
cation. The date of July /, 1914,
was taken simply as starting
point.
Women's wages also showed de-
cided increases during the war. 1t
is true the percentages of the rise
in their average hourly earnings
were sometimes less than those of
males. But they, too, seem to have
beaten the high cost Of living in the
scramble for the heights. In only
one trade were women's hourly
earnings beaten by H. c. of L. and
here they were barely nosed out.
All this does not help out the
middle American very much. His
pay envelope does not suffer from
obesity. 1t may be slightly plumper
than in 1914, but it will not buy so
much, and that is what counts.
SO far the only satisfaction the
middle American can get out Of the
situation is that he can roast some
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

As each item was worked oa.
explanations were made Mi.
Barnard said that she had founf
last year IN Brookline that an attic
room IN deeent-not luxurious
'arding house would coat her sls
n1clua'ng board. and tAi. was .lis
count of - from nc regular nres
he teachcrs ,hvreupon decided ,hs,
SO week wns suitable eatimat.
ihsre wns general agreement thai
>zsV year for clothing was q con
servative estimate, as was 81 n week
Tor laundry. Transportation covers
streetcnr fares going 10 and from
school and on her necessary tr,ps
'ne lucent fare being the oasis.
Saving ten dollars month
until the teacher was eixtv would re.
suit, # the money were pruacn,.v H.
vested IN the sccunu' alton II iron
1000 20 SIS 0on. The taaahe, WI
began saving afser pasane thirte
End before reaching forty years Of
age would need TO lay aside hesweer
300 and si00 wear 60 accunufats
the same am~unt. After forty, 5000
would bo needed.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

Il N IL ~Nt lt To flNe feh fnIai't
keep up her interest ami
efficiency IN her work. and make s
suitable provision for her old age
This was worked out By Miss Flor.
ence Barnard, "a teacher .n The
Brooklinc Mass schools. at meet
ing of the Massachusetts Teacher
Federation. described by The Bostof
Evening Transcript
To meet the cost z increased sa'
aries. Ernest MacKcchnle. socrotar
# tho committee on salaries. sue
gested that investigation be mad
to see whether great corporatl .n
arc paying proper taxes 4.
Chicago Teachers Federation. 5
said. had brought suit against sf
tain corporations there md recov
erei g. .0o0 n0N.
The budget Of the teachers wear
needs which should be co0udegel f..
determining hor salary ns uor4e
out by Miss Barnard AMI the 49,.
# the teachers is based nnon ftt
easc II the unmarried teacho, w,fh
"ut dependents. Iho figures are Al
tcA4Nt.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

per cent; sundries, third, with
per cent; shelter, q close fourth,
with 4.9 per cent. The triplets-
fuel, light and heat-showed no
change.
The average man probably does
not know just what percentage Of
his income goes normally for this
and that daily necessity. The aver
age family. consisting Of husband.
wife and three children, will spend
about 43 per cent of the income for
food; rent will take lS per cent;
clothes will figure out around l3
per cent; 6 per cent will go to warm
the home, to light it and cook the
foed; theatres, fares, newspapers,
magazines, savings, and a host Of
other sundries will use up the re-
naming 20 per cent. This division
remains about the same, whether ap-
piled to an income in 1919 or back
in the days before the war.
Family Basis
How much should family have to
live we'll? There is considerable talk
about the American standard of
living. There is no such standard.
There are probably as many stand
ards as there are incomes and
families to spend them. The United
States Bureau Of Labor Statistics
says that if man is earning less
than 1900 a year his family is suf-
| fering from underfeeding and under
nourishment. "This does not mean.'
the report continues, that the aver
age family is slowly starving. but
hat it is being maintained at a
lower than normal degree of health
md efficiency"
On the face of it that is q pretty
discouraging statement. But the re-
port does not regard the situation as
hopeless. 1t points way out, main
tanning that the most eificacious
remedy is not higher wages, "but,
rather, improved systems of dis
trbuting and marketing foodstuffs
and the education of the housekeep-
el in the art Of keeping house, with
emphasis on diets" This does not
mean that there are not as good
housekeepers to-day as in grand
mothers time. What it does mean
is that there is lot in this house.
keeping business that the average
housewife has never bothered with.
She has never made study Of the
number of calories the members Of
her family need in their daily food,
how much protein, carbohydrates
and fats. A properly balanced meal
cuts out waste and provides the
right sort Of food in the right
amounts. In these days Of sky
rocketing prices this is we'll worth
looking into. This is a straight tip
to the wise American. housewife.
With all this increase in the out
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

I Of home than the average salaried
man.
The situation has no precedent.
In some places, even wage-ea rners,
attracted to manufacturing centcrs
by good pay, are not always lucky
enough to find homes. In Akron,
Ohio, over $4,000 men have been
forced TO locate their families SO
far away that they can visit them
only on Sunday.
Theories
Everybody Is ready TO explain the
high cost Of living One man says
il is the profitcers; another blamcs
the demands Of labor. Roth may be
right. The government is on the
trail of the profiteers.
But profiteering is not at the
bottom of the high cost Of living.
Underneath are at least two other
causes which are usually overlooked.
They are lack Of production and
monetary imitation.
Lack Of production ia easily under
stood. During the war nanufactur
ing for civilian purposes was cur
tailed A sharp cut was made m
delivery Of basic materials. The
biggest part Of industry devoted iss
facilities TO war work. Normal
conditions have not returned There
is constant demand for shorter
hours; lower output Ia the result.
People want things that they denied
themselves while the war was on.
The demand is big, the supply il
email. Many people want the
smaller number of things that are
being made. If many people want
few things the price climbs-and
that IL one Of the direct causes Of
high prices. That is what makes
proliteoring possible.
Monetary initiation is the other half
Of ths picture. What is imitation ?
1t is decreased Purchasing power
of money arising from the insreaee
of the facilities for purchasing
faster than the increase Of the
facilities for production. In other
words, there is large amount Of
currency IN circulation and II low
production Of the commodities re-
quired by the average family ON
which to spend it.
AS an illustration, consider shoes.
Owing to war demands leather
for civilian shoes has been scarce.
There is, naturally, scarcity
of shoes. People wnnt shoes.
Many persons have more money
than they ever had before. There
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

The National Industrial Confer
efee Board has checked up old H. C.
L. through each year and month
since the war began, and the report
I shows the periods of his flights.
The figure for ali items-73 per
= cent--is the record up TO July, 1919.
1t is higher by per cent than last
March; it has beaten the June, 1918,
mark by Ii per cent Take a diff
ferent slant on the mounting prices.
IN q four months. beginning last
March, clothing crossed the line first
with 10 r cent; food followed, with
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

~
Since the beginning of
auar in Europe. IN August,
1914, the cost Of liulng has
risen 7S per cent in the
United States.
Whether or not the final
altitude record has been
reached omy the months
AHEAD can tell.
a.. The item SNORING the
greatest increase is clothing;
Sthe second is food; nert
comes sund11es;; and the
fourth is fuel. light and heat. j.
In eight major Industries
of the United States the rise
,s5m acoges of men has e1ceed-
ed the rise IN the cost Of liv-
ing. their hourly earnings
.havimg gone up from II to
;1l2 per cent.
81 In the folioacing article the
facts concerning these aLl-im.
portdnt matters are present.
ed graphically and IN CON-
splete form for the first time.
s--Report Of the National Indua-
trial Conference Board.
~ INCE the war began in 1914
the cost Of living has gone
~ up IS per cent. 1t did not
- stop climbing when the war
ended. There is no evidence that
il has stopped climbing to-day The
nan who calls statistics by their
first name has no more assurance
than the lowlest complainer. He
can only hope.
:. The one certain thing about it is
that old Fl. G. L. is trying to carry
off all medals for altitude records.
"a.
Where have high prices hit the
hardest? Most people can rattle off
the answer: In what we eat and
what we wear.
=:
=. But most people would get the
order wrong. So much is heard of
the advance in food prices that the
popular notion has it that food leads
in the Upward movement. This is
rot correct. What we eat has gone
up 90 per cent, while what we wear
has advanced an even 100. Third
place, aside from sundries, in the
contest goes to the three-part com
bination, fuel, heat and light, with
en- advance of 81 per cent.
~ z
The National Industrial Confer.
.ence Board, the central body OF
American Industry, by the use OF
Its established research machinery
has been getting at the facts for
the benefit Of the country. These
have just been published in q re.
port entitled, Changes in the Cos,
ef Living: July, 19l4--.July, l9l9.'
Fipe Leaders
- The report gives the people Of the
'United States the satisfaction OF
knowing just where they stand
Take the five chief items Of dali,
4liyine. This is how they look in 6
table. showing the average increase
What has come to each:
Nfv
= Per cent
Clothing ................. 100
-. =
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Teachers Need
$500 Il Year

T LEAST Sl.s00 a yeal
should he paid 81 ieaeaef
II she is to live reaeonati
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The evening world., 1919-01-20

the captain perceived that there would
De no thanks from him.
1T is nothing" me replied, bowing po-
litcly and something In tho way he
said II made De LancCy choke witn
rage. But there by the curccl door was
not the place for picking qudrrcis,
They went to tho hotel where Don
Juan, all apologies Tor his apparent
ncglcCt-whlch he excused on the
ground that he Lancey had been he'd
iUcomuniCado- -pliCatcd them AZ best
hc could uai hurried on TO the news
MY gracious, Don Felipe lie
cried, you don't know how sorry 1
Was to see yon IN jail, but the cap
tuln's orders were that no one should
go near you-and in Mexico We obey
the rurdlcs, you know. Otherwise we
arc placed against a wall and shot.
"Iut have you heard the news from
down below? Al, what terrible un"s
they are having there-ranches rlided,
women stolen. rich men held Tor IAN
som, No. sCnorcs, YOU must not re-
turn 10 your camp. Remain here. and
YOU shall slIll have your room, Trough
Spanish gentlemen sleep on the ilOOrs.
so, allow me. Don Felipe! wish
- show you how highly | value your
fricndshipl only because we cannot
di5Obcy the rurales did | suffer you 10
hc IN Jail; hut now you shall be my
guest, you shall"
"Nopc" answered Bud; we're safer
out at the mine
lie glanced at De Lancey. in whose
mind rosy visions were beginnng to
lathcr, aud he too. deClincd-with a
sirh.
Make 1t a he'd for the night" he
said, i've got 10 get out Of this town
before tanglc with Del Rey again
ana Gud my SELF back in jail. And now
bead me TO It-Im perlshing for q
hath and sIeep,"
They retired early and got up early
for bud was haunted by fears. Hut
uf iGny passed through Old Fortuua
the worst happened 10 him-they mot
GFdola. mounted on a pranCing norso
ANA followed by a rural guard, and
she smote him TO the heart WITH a
smile.
II was not a smile for Phil, gone
asiray ana woundinE by chance. u
vaH q dazzling, admirluE smile for
Iiud alone, and he sat strai ghter in his
saddle. But Phil uttered a groan and
struck his horse with the qurt.
"She cut me-" he moaned
"Aw, forget IT," CroWled Bud, and
they rode on their way In silence.
The evening world., 1919-01-20
he Value Of Little Things
BY Rev. Thomas B. GREGORY

ooTht 1919 Publishing Co Tho Now YORK Evening World,
hEAI things are made little things
Niagara is simply the combination a Of
W great forest is but the thousands individual
nees with their billions of individual twgs and leaves
nee individual drops of
forest ~ " e' - ~ e'
Inc good frame OF man. is but the assembling
scoc cells and the great globe itself merely
too small to be with the
gkrl
And JUS Of the combination of nnumb
minute cells the thing call summing
multitude Of little thoughts, andh habits
Watch the sculptor fashionng
a. single blow 1t work Of time unmtng attention
smallest details.
So does his In almpoan
business of CHARACTER BUILDING everything counts
for
The lghes blow that the piece
something toward helping hndeg the completion of his design
drop OF perfumery consequence
Will sweeten the atmosphere a
dead Nv is quite Insignificant,
ointment to smell badly
Like the dead n drop perfumery
thought has its influence In life there a
thing has its importance and should be taken seriously
The Is OWN
the fact that he carefully
Office hat but attention his complete
only
the smallest details
undocd is unpunctuate the capitalization faulty
vehicle OF thought impaired
to be
unknd fail appoint
assured that there something you
oh these small matters that
attention.
mistake Of
the they them
and the
misery oishness
Of the that
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T'he NgN NOrR Evening World.l

Well" faltcred Dc Lancey. I'LL
you know your promise!" remind
cd Bud.
Yes; | know. Butch. Bud. II you
knew how loyal I've been TO you
II you knew what offers I've resisted
tho mine stands in my name, you
know"
"well?
well, Aragon came around 70 me
last week and said II I'd give him a
half interest in II he'd-wcll. never
mlnd--it was n great temptation. But
did | fall for IL? Not ON your iitc!
know you. Bud, and | know you're
honesty. "a stay by meet TIL the last
ditch, and I'll do the Rma by you,
But I'm in love, Bud, and that would
make a man forget his promise II he
wasn't true as steel"
Yes" commented Hooker dryly
I don't reckon I can count on you
much from now on. Here, take q
look AT this and see what YOU make
ot IT," He drew the piece OF ore that
he had taken from Araron from his
pocket and held II up IN tho moon
iirN,. "WcIl, fcol NJ II, then" Ne said
"Shucks, You ought 20 know that
IltAf VI l'i NJ ~ i' y h''N 50 ~''T
We found In our mine"
mo-" exclaimed DC Lancey. start
inC back; "why--where'd YOU get ~"
Never m nd whore got ~ an
swored Hooker Tho question is:
What did you do with ~"
We'll, | might ns well come through
with IT," confessed Phil. the last Of his
assurance gone. Il gave II to Gracia"
"And | took II away from Araron,"
continued Bud, while he was diCgln :
some more chunks out OF our mine. So
that rs your idea ~ being true as steel
is it2 You'vo done noble by me and
Kruger. havcn'' you7 Yes, you've
bccn n good pardncr, I don't think"
"Wc'l, don't throw me down, Bud''
pleaded Phil, There's some mistake
somewhere. Her father must have
found lt and t;rcn II away! T'h stake
my lifo or g that Gracia would mover
bctrav mcl"
"Wel, think II over for a while"
suggested Bud, edginR his words with
sarcasm I'm going M 20 'ho hotol''
mo. come back" cried De LanccY'
r'amborirC ~ tho bars "Come on
back, Bud! Here!" he said. thrustinS
The evening world., 1919-01-20

Old Fortuna and on til he came 10
the jan. II was a square stone struc-
tuFe, built across the street from the
cdntlna In order 70 be convenient for
the drunks' and as Bud rode up close
and stared al it some one hailed him
through the bars.
Hello there, pardner." called
Hooker, swinging down and striding
over 10 the black window: how long
nave they had you in here"
Two days answered Phil from
the inner darkness; but IL seems like
a lifetime 10 me. Say, Bud, there's a
Mexican IN here that's got the i'm
jams-rcgular tequIla jag-can't you
get mo out2"
We'll, l sure viii" answered Bud:
what have they got YOU in for?
Where's our friend, Don Juan? Whv
didn't he let me know"
You can search mo-" rallied De
LancCy. Seems like everybody quits
you down here the minute you get
into trouble. | got arrested myht
before last by those damned rurales-
Manuel Del Roy was behind 1t, YOU
can bet your life on that-and I've
been here ever SinCc,'
well, what are you pinched for?
Who do ! so and soc2"
Punched for nothing" cried De
LancCy, bitterly "Pinchcd because
I'm a Mexican citizen and can't pro-
toct myself! I'm incomunicado for
three days"
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his hand out throurh the heavy IRONS.
"I'u give you NV word Tor tt won't
sec hrr agnin tintiI wc get our titIcI
VIII that sDtIsry Won? Then give mo
YOUR hand nlrdu,r--Tm sorry dli
you wrong,"
at ami mo" rcplicd Hooker so
bcrly. as he took the trembling hand;
"it's Krugcr Hut II you'u keen your
word, Phi. maybe We can win out
vet. I'm going up to hnd the com
isario."
A brief interview with that smiiu ,
Individual and the cas-, of pla 40
Lancsy was Illd bare. ITe h1d been
eng.lgCd m a .p,raic rivalry with
Manuel del Rev for the hand OF Gra-
cia Aragun. ana his present near
ccratlou was NOT only Tor singing r.,--
time beneath the Arlyon windows,
but Tor trying to wh.p the Captain OF
IN. Iuralcs yyucn the latter tI.ul to
Mace him under arrest.
And De I,auccy was the prisoner.
NOT OF mo Co.nlsariO. but Of Inc Can.
tain Of the ruraloa. Sore at heart.
Bud rode IN through the AIrN.cAn
quarters 10 the cuurtli Of tho IlIrilcs.
"Ouo ,rou5,ui," Lc saiI M I,st