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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-22

A SIMPLE solution to the problem
~ would be this Z If u young woman
allows young man to spend great deal
of time in her cgNpany, then he can we'll
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Mr.. Goslington's New Shoes

over. and of the few pairs left ths
smallest was that pair two sizes TOO
big for him. But 1t was take them or
nothing and he tried them on. He
laughed as he saw them on his feet
and he thought they would be impos-
sible. They were brogans, with side
flaps tying together over the insteh
and when he had them tied up he
found that. big as the shoes were, no
could make them fit snugly at the In
step. The only trouble he had with
them was that at first he used 10
stumble over his own feet, the shoes
projected out so far In front, but be
soon got used to that; and I have his
word for It that while subsequently ne
got shoes nearer his right size, stlll
that first pair, two sizes too big ioT
him, proved comfortable and easy
II like my shoes plenty big. ! have
never bought a pair OF shoes with
pointed toes. The sort OF shoe that
buy has plenty of room in the bows
In fact. I give my feet plenty OF room
everywhere. Foot freedom is nothing
less than luxury TO me, and l have
vague idea that my feet are srateIA
to me for giving freedom to them.
81 have no doubt that there are
many men in good health, and Who
normally are of good spirits, but wnO
find themselves in some unaccountaoI'
manner not feeling as clipper sha
cheerful as they ought 10 feel, wac
would discover, IL they gave though
to It, that the cause OF their trouo'
was their shoes"
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1914 and the net profits were 2.3 per
cent. The remaining 1876 per cent.
OF the business represented merchan-
disc handled and rehandled many
times. BY making turnover FIVE or
six, possibly ten, times a year, the
owners of these stores were able 10
make a fair living, and that was all.
The amount OF charges which pile up
against the small establishment, even
where all manner of gouging may be
resorted to to make both ends meet.
are so heavy that there are few deal
ers who, according to recent investiga-
lions, are getting more than $1,000 a
year out of their business.
In the city OF New York tho living
costs are increased by many factors,
for there is probably no place in the
world, despite its advantageous posi-
ton as a port, where the bringing Of
food within the reach Of the people is
attended with greater difficulties. Food
may be brought from distant States
or even from across the continent at
comparatively low rates and yet its cost
will be greatly increased by lighter
and extravagant systems of distribu-
ton which are in vogue.
Shunted About City.
Vast stores of edibles are brought
down past the boroughs where they are
eventually consumed, shunted into the
wholesale quarter in the lower part Of
the city and then sent back again. II
was decreed years ago that Fulton
Market was the proper place in which
TO sell fish, and therefore fish caught
OF the coast of New England are
brought by rail into the city and taken
down to the distant water front for
distribution to the very regions which
they have passed on their way.
AS far as New York city is con-
cerned there will be n considerable re-
6uction Of living costs when the tun-
nels under the Hudson River are built
which will enable large quantities Of
produce to be handled in motor trucks
without the necessity of transferring
II to lighters. That will not be for
several years, but eventually 1t is
bound to come. Even now the farmers
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Coyotes in a Bag

THE coyote is unpopular both
among human beings and
among its fellow animals; but
the coyote is very intelligent as we'll
as unpopular, evidently sharing these
reculiaritles with the fox.
Two young men who lived near Gar
field, in the State Of Washington
Mathews and Babcock by name--were
ploughing one spring when they came
upon a family of three young coyotes.
They took possession Of the little crea-
turesS and meantime the old coyotes,
the little ones parents, kept lowering
about In an unpleasant way.
BY and by, TO get rid OF them,
Mathews went ITO his house, got his
brother Henry, a gun and a gunny-
Jack. The little coyotes were put into
The sack. which was then securely tied
at the mouth. The old coyotes now
disappeared. but in the hope Of Turing
them so near that he could get a shot
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respond to the fluctuations of the mar
ket. They are like the laws of the
Modes and Persians. BY the crate the
best lettuce is from 4 to cents head,
and tomatoes last week were selling
for 80 cents a basket. Even at fairly
high prices for lettuce and tomatoes at
this season OF the year the farmer
hardly could get more than cents out
Of the so cent portion Of mixed salad
Although the percentage which the
farmer gets out OF many articles is
small, he is able to get a considerable
portion of the value from certain sta
pie products of his acres and barns
such as butter and eggs. This has
been estimated within the last year or
so by Prof. ]. H. d. Weld, now of Yale
University. who had an extensive ex-
perience in this line of investigation
when he was connected with the Uni-
versity of Minnesota.
He deplores the impression which is
broadcast that the farmer gets only IS
per cent OF the ultimate retail price,
and then proceeds to show that his i'm
preston Is approximately correct. He
estimates in this wise.
Railroad freight. ..............s Fer cent
Wholesalers profts.......... to 10 Per cent
Retailers profits. At Per cent
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at them Mathews went u following
the ploughmen about the field leav'h5
at the end the bag with the niue
ones. Two or three times the parry
went around the field; but althousn
the old coyotes were seen they KEEP
at safe distance.
But soon as the ploughmen ana u0
gunner came around toward the pls''
where they had left the sack they 50"
strange sight; It was the old mo'n,'
coyote, with the sack in her noun
making off over the hill at full spec.
Henry fired at her, but without 81
feet. She made good her escape WIN
her puppies tied up in the sack an'
doubtless she had no difficulty IN ~.
ping the bag open and liberating INV
young ones as soon as she reached
safe place.
II she had been so foolish as 10 "
tempt to open the sack before pickis
up the puppies she would eertaim'
have lost the young ones and her Ill"
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Gets Only n Third.

Even this very conservative estimate
gives the farmer only about one-third
Of what the consumer pays for tn.
produce. OF all the methods OF retail
ing food, the method Of getting it at a
restaurant or hotel is apparently the
most expensive, for one pays not for
food in reality, but for all kinds OF
service. The use OF costly building,
the privilege OF wearing out fnc table
cloths, OF wearing down the tines and
edges of silver plated knives and forks
ana spoons and Of helping pay for
rugs spoiled by accidental soup. The
payment OF the wages OF chefs and
walters, of musicians and dancers and
the like all count in the check and
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The last few years have seen enor-
nous increases in the cost of commo-
ditles at retail. Government statistics
reveal that from April, 1918, to the
same month of this year there
lad been a rise OF S5 per cent. in the
cost of food. In this list there are six
articles which show an increase of 100
per cent or more. Flour has appre-
ciated 11S per cent; bacon, ia ham
and corn meal, 100 per cent. And still
the farmer says that he is not getting
anything more than a living, and all
kinds OF handlers, including even the
retail merchants, who seem to be get
ting the best part OF every dollar, and
the hotel men, who are getting many
times more than the farmer could
ever hope to get, are Joining in the
common plant.
store Map of City.
A vital and significant investigation
along this line is that recently COM
pleted by the State Foods and Markets
Division, In which the small grocery
and the butcher shop OF the nelghbor-
hoods have come in for a close scrutiny.
The maps prepared by the department
are illuminating. They show thou
sands of the shops OF the small deal
ers scattered throughout the FIVE bor-
oughs. all struggling for a more OF
less precariors living, despite the
charges OF profiteering made against
SO many of them
OF l0S grocery stores, which are of
three classes, classified as poor. mid
| ding and high class. It was found
that the gross profits averaged only
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win him. Here are no heavy overhead
The delicatessen man who sells sliced
chicken at SO pound is making a
substantial profit. He can get the
best chicken in the market at SO cents
pound and from two pound chick
en- he ought to carve a pound or a
pound and a quarter of meat. He
makes more than the hotel can pos
sibly get.
1.-THE farmer delegates are inclined
to overdraw their argument when they
put down porterhouse steak at IS cents
"a pound. The matter is a rather COM
plicated one to discuss on account Of
the many different cuts IN g side OF
beef and the many by-products con-
cerned after the animal is slaughtered.
They ignore the fact also that al
though corn and potatoes and such
farm products are counted at the low
est rate the vegetables which the hotel
buys are carefully selected and are
sorted and culled, so as to insure that
the best quality Is served.
"Often those who are not accustomed
to dining at hotels run up large bills,
because they do not stop to consider
the high prices OF many articles which
have greatly advanced in price. It is
quite true that at some seasons of the
year the lettuce and tomatoes in a
salad are cheap, but how about the oil
at 81 or IS a gallon, which is plenti-
fully used in the dressing? Taken all
in all, however, the prices OF the hotel
represent service and environment and
they are not excessive"
Same I'm Mig Hotels.
As one runs over the menus Of lead
ing hotels and restaurants in this city
the Same state OF affairs as that which
was commented upon by the farmers
in Washington appears.
A portion Of salad. for instance. con-
sisting c: three or four leaves OF let
.ucc and = sliced tomato, IS so cents on
the bill OF fare OF most restaurants in
the city. Restaurant prices do not
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~ new Shoes" said Mr.. Cos
lington, ARE a great COM
= fort; soft. pliable, and yet

Nj lington, ARE a great COM
fort; soft. pliable, and yet
substantial and amply large. The pair
had before these were just a trihe
snug. 1t was my mistake. For years
have bought the same sort of shoe,
always the same size and usually I buy
the first pair | try on, as l did when
bought that last pair, failing to take
into account the fact that shoes made
on the same lasts may vary. Those
shoes were not as absolutely comfort
able as all the other shoes l had
bought of that sort had been, but they
were Of the right size and I thought
they would work out all right; but they
never did. They were not downright
uncomfortable, but they were never
really comfortable. II I were rich
should have thrown them away long
ago. l am glad they are gone now.
Some people say that shoes too big
are as uncomfortable as shoes too
small; but with that l decidedly dis
agree. You can wear shoes too big
II they fit snugly and nicely over the
instep. l know a man who served in
the army in the civil war in this coun-
try whose first army shoes were two
sizes bigger than any shoes he had
ever worn before. He tells me that he
was away from camp when the shoes
were issued to his company. and when
he got back they had all been picked
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figures that food served in restaurants
must cost approximately twice as
much as the same food which one
buys at the store and takes home to
cook Fire and heat and light and
the scores OF items which the owner
of the public eating house must meet
are all in this reckoning.
The huge prices charged on the
railroad systems In tho dining cars are
an index of the prevailing rates, and in
these places there are no such over
head charges as the metropolitan cara
vansarlcs have to meet.
The tariff at the Hotel Majestic for
such a dinner as that which was served
to the farmers is as given below:
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a bushel. or s9S barrel. The farmer
is glad to get s4.25 a barrel, or about
one-twenty-third Of that amount. i
have at times paid rs cents for one
baked potato. Once 1 gave that for a
tuber supposedly from Idaho and
grown in an irrigation country. 1t
Weighed two ounces and had LACK
hole in the middle.
THE estimate regarding the porter
house steak of which the five farmers
say the share of agriculture was only
SO cents, or IS cents a pound, is
rather difficult to follow. Beef on the
hoof is from IL to 10 cents. Ohe must
take into the calculation the large
amount of the carcass which Is sold
for small price, the amount which: is
realized for the hides. Bone, which
constitutes a large part of the BODY
of the beef. brings only a few cents a
pound. However, this is a question
which it is indeed hard to bring down
to exact terms"
Herschel H. Jones, the director OF
the New York city office of the New
York State Division Of Foods and
Markets, said yesterday thai the esti-
mate Of the farmers regarding porter
house steak ignores some factors of
cost.
Refuse Important Item.
They did not take In the reckon
ing" he continued, "the numerous
cheaper cuts and also the, great
amount of refuse materials. The dressed
meat is usually about six cents more
pound than the beef on the hoof.
The retail butcher, in order to get an
adequate return from his sale OF
meat, must apply differential calcula-
tons to the choice cuts. He would
have to have at least 1914 cents more
for the portorhouse than that which
would be charged for ordinary cuts.
Washington Market sells porterhouse
at So cents a pound"
BY way Of checking up on the
farmers embattled at Washington
drop into one OF the high class hotels
of New York and see how much Il
| will cost to duplicate their economic
period.
Here is the Biltmore schedule, for
instance, as selected from a luncheon
menu:
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PERCENTAGE
OF Price

The California Orange Growers AS
ISOLATION is a thrifty and efficient CO.
operative organization, and yet with
all It's machinery 1t has been able to
get only a little less than 81 per cent.
OF the average retail price Of its prod
ucts. The status Of the orange is as
follows:
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This, however, may be a far better
dinner than the agriculturists got for
the $11 and the portions more liberal,
and includes all kinds of service and
conveniences and a glimpse into or
nate surroundings.
Service Minus Ceremony.
Suppose that we compare it with the
bill of those world famous institutions
the Cafes des Enfants, better known
as Childs. Here service is down to the
minimum as far as ceremony is con-
cerned. There are no snowy napery,
no glistening silver and cut glass, no
asters and gladioli on the tables, no
carpets that sink responsive 10 the
footballs, no sympathetic and attentive
knights of the napkin. Just walters
that's all-or mattresses and buses.
1t Is of course impossible to dupli-
cate exactly the order of the FIVE hus-
bandmen because Childs does not
serve porterhouse steaks. The So
called family-or just steak-which is
served there usually is a top round,
which may be had for 75 cents, in
Guiding bread, butter and potatoes. It
may acquire tenderloin steak weigh
ing about six ounces, which is about
the equivalent of a porterhouse steak
OF two pounds, including the bone.
This cost is 30 cents with bread, butter
and potatoes. Childs charges Is cents
for corn on the cob. for which four
cents is paid at the wholesale produce
markets and with which all the butter
the customer requires is served. At
Childs convert charges do not Obtain.
Costs, 1915.
The quintet, had they dined at
Childs. would have had the following
score
Steak, potatoes and bread and butter for s 81 50
Corn, Ave ears at Is cents. .,.....,....,.... rs
Coffee at 10 cents a cup. .................... 80
Iotai ..'...................... $5.7b
Childs Is a corporation, and its af-
fairs are more or less public property.
It's reports show that for the current
year its meals average as cents a per-
son, and of this meal 20 cents is
counted as the price of service. The
margin of profit comes from the sale
Of the food itself The statement has
been made by the management that
during the war the margin OF profit on
its meals was only three-quarters of
cent each. The moderate price chain
restaurants. however. count on the
great volume OF business to make
them pay. 1t will be seen from such
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This is the dinner a reproduction OF
a photograph of which Is herewith
presented. through the courtesy of
Walter Guzzardi. the manager. who
has made a study of economics from
the hotel point of view.
I'VE are accustomed to count the
price of the food as so per cent. OF the
check" said he, land the other 40 per
cent. represents service. The 40 per
cent includes many items which go
to make up the overhead. such as rent.
salaries, light, fuel. silver, the launr
dering OF linen. which must all be
considered.
"As a matter of fact the first class
hotels and restaurants make less
relatively than do the cheap eating
places and the delicatessen stores.
The delicatessen man gets 81 a pound
for boiled ham. Sometimes he may
serve n real ham--thst is, a hind
quarter-which costs him AZ cents a
pound, but generally he Is giving a
shoulder. which he can buy for 30
cents a pound. He boils the ham for
three or four hours, which Is 10 very
costly operation, slices 1t up on a ma
chine and the customer takes It away
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Inc corner grocer or the fruiterer,
therefore, gets considerably more than
does the original grower. who has in
vested his capital and taken the vari-
Gus hazards OF the business.
The situation is complicated in the
city OF New York by the enormous
costs Oh intraurban communication
and transportation, despite the fact
mat these foods are brought to the
city, or the edge of 1t in New Jersey,
at very low rates. Even according to
TINS view, the report of DR.. Jonathan
Day, Commissioner of Public Markets
In the metropolis, maintains that the
cost Of food is far greater than it
should be.
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help to swell 1t In some places to un-
due proportions.
Even the moderate priced eating
house counts on at least doubling its
money on the food 1t sells in order to
break even with the large expense OF
conducting the establishment and of
meeting the waste and spoilage. In
the costly establishments cover charges
and various other expedients are re-
sorted to in order to maintain all the
expensive adjuncts Of requiring ser
vice.
In the same sense the public pays
enormous sums for service Of another
kind to its small dealers and vendors,
largely for the convenience Of having
them close at hand. The farmer is
generally in the background and In
some regions he is the very last who
Is considered.
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These relative figures are therefore
interesting as showing what percent
age of the prices which the city Gus
toners pay actually gets to the farmer:
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Retail Estimates.

Here are some estimates from off,
cial sources purporting to give Just
what proportion Of the retail price,
that Is the price in the store and the
grocery. which the farmer. actually
gets:
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This. however, may be a far better
dinner than the agriculturists got for
the s11 and the portions more liberal,
and includes all kinds of service and
conveniences and a glimpse into or
nate surroundings.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-19
Real Mental Discipline.

A mind is disciplined, not by reA.
son Of the quantity Of related or un-
related matter that has been displayed
before it, or crammed into it, but when
1t has learned to confront the difficult
with intrepidity. relying upon methods
Of attack which it knows it can use
with dexterity and precision because
it has been using them right along,
and which are in the available kit Of
tools just as the carpenters saw and
chisel lie in his chest sharp and ready
for the grip of his hand. Mental dis
cipline is a matter of the quality Of
instruction, and the quality of tbs
mental application demanded by the
instructor, rather than of the guam
tity of subjects presented. Hence a
few proper subjects in qualified hands
are enough to make a start with
A. G. Keller in The Review.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-19
A. PHILOSOPHER.

/ confess l have a soft place in my
heart for that rare character who is
content with the world as he finds 1t
and who does not attempt TO appropri-
ate any more of it TO himself than he
absolutely needs from day TO day. He
knows from the beginning that the
world could get on without him and
he has never had any anxiety To leave
any result behind him. any legacy
for the world TO quarrel over. He is
really an exotic and his life is per-
petualIy misunderstood by his neigh
bors because he shares none of their
anxiety about getting on in life
Charles Dudley Warner.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-19
LumberIacks in Heart Of City.

Logging within a block or two of the
business center of Minneapolis-tha
is what has been going on this week
all along Mary place, says the Mime
apolis Tribune.
Films, oaks, hackberries-thirty or
more of them-broad based enough,
some of them, to keep the municipal
logging crew busy for half a day cut
ting them down, were marked for fell
ing when the city council voted fol-
widening the street.
But the oldest oak of them all, the
one that spreads its limbs in the cen
ter of the grounds of the Sweet
studio, toes the mark at the very edge
of the boulevard to be and will b
safe from the municipal grub hoe fol
years to come, according to the city
engineers survey.
And where does all the elm wooC
and oak wood and blackberry wood
product of the downtown lumberinl
activities, 60 tor That's the irony O
fate for kinsfolk OF the forests.
Out TO the "clty yard"-that's wher
the chopped up giants go-there Il
become fuel for the making Of
asphalt!
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-19

Did Garfield resign because he did
not like Wilson's plan or has he am
bil:ons looking towards the presiden-
cy?-Tampa Times.
Mr.. Garfield took the view that hav-
ing been appointed fuel administra-
tol, he should have been allowed to
administrate, and when the president
made an entirely different arrange
ment it was time for him to resign.
He also took the view that with an
Investigating board consisting of one
thing for the miners. one-third for the
mine owners and one-third for the
Public, the public was going to get the
raw side of the deal. His idea is like
ly to prove correct. When a board is
made up to settle difference between
the public and any privileged set of
PEOPLE, the representation of the pub
lie on said board should be about two
thirds.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-19

Montfaucon Hill. in the Argonne,
on which are hundreds of graves of
Americans who fell in battle in Sep
TENDER and October, 1913, may be
made an historical monument by the
French government. 1t was expected
that the ruins of the city of Montfau-
con which surround the top of the hill
will be left in their present condition
to further commemorate the work Of
the Americans during the great strug-
gle Montfaucon will always be. a
place of interest to many of our Mar
ion county boys, who fought all
around and over it during that dread
ful campaign.