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We, by suffering, learn to prise
cur blitt.Dryxlcn.
Iho Qovernment cannot borrow
more money than a Democratic Congress
can spend.
What a tragedy for the world It
would have been If Mr. Edison had de
manded an eight-hour dayl
The- Mayor continues to be ve
hement of his Intention to clean things
up. The first thing to do Is to clean some
offices out.
The exceedingly great alarm of the
Democratic organs over what they re
late to be the lack of fire In Mr. Hughes's
campaign Indicates that if he keeps fight
ing along the samo lines much longer
they will all need two editorial pages to
tell about it,
This Is sure a holl of a game Presi
dent Ripley, of the Santa Fe Rail
road in Washington.
That la what it looks liko Just
now, but the accuracy of the characteri
zation cannot bo determined until it is
played through to a finish.
The Pennsylvania Society for the
Advancement of the Deaf should appoint
a committee to tell the Administration
that the country demands a protective
tariff. The impediment in its hearing,
or in its intellectuals, is so great that it
does not seem able to hear what is ding
ing in the ears of every one else.
Of course, the President cannot ad
mit that the Increased earnings of the
railroads in recent months are due to
the war. Docs not every one know that
what prosperity wo have Is duo to the
activities of the TVIlson Administration
and to the good laws that It has passed?
Washington advices are that the
Pennsylvania troops will not bo sent
home from Texas until November at the
earliest, and then only if the proposed
commission succeeds In arranging a set
tlement of the dispute with the Carranza
Government. Their friends need not
count on their early return.
Democratic newspapers were con
fidently predicting that Mr. Hughes
would get caught in a local factional sit
uation in California, and then when ho
refused to accommodate them railed at
him for not taking sides. Tho candidate
struck the true national noto when he
told callers that he felt the Issues between
Republicans and Progressives In the
State were local and they should be
decided locally.
While it Is "inconceivable in a
democracy like ours" that tho power of
the President should be used to coerce
business men to grant the wage demands
of their employes without first submitting
tho matter to a board of arbitrators, It
is equally inconceivable that the trans
portation business of the country should
be tied up because of the Inability of rea
sonable men to find a way of compromis
ing their differences so that the railroads
can be operated while the questions In
dispute are being settled. The nation has
a right to expect railroad peace and not
industrial war.
The members of the Sherwood Im
provement Association apparently believe
In the good old maxim that If you want
a thing done, the best way is to do it
yourself. They have cleared the mosquito-breeding
places from a long stretch
of Cobb'a Creek and have built a foot
bridge across the stream. Now If the
members of other neighborhood associa
tions in other parts of the city would
follow this excellent example, the looks
as well as the salubrity of the town would
be improved. Of course, the city itself
should do these things, but they ought
to bo done anyway. If the city neglects
its duty the people must do theirs.
We must assume that the special
ists In antitoxins and serums aro work
ing night and day In an attempt to find
out an antidote for the germ of infantile
paralysis. They are the only men who
can bring- relief. Immunized blood from
those who have recovered has been help
ful la some cases In New Tork, and is
being tried here, but it is not yet estab
llshed that the recovery of tbe patients
so treated was anything more than a
coincidence. Experiments must be con
tinued not only along this line, but every
other possible clue that promises relief
must be followed. Human Ingenuity has
fcwn sqoaj to mor baffling problems, and
k mXMt ba equal to thia one.
' -i
Secretary Lansing has not taken
1M publivj Into his confidence ia the
XdMili "VYat Indies business. The Jm
prwaloa fa (spreading among thoughtful
utM U'-at ther vaa mmm reason other
$hmm ft -wp t tk Wwb wWch is.
if ift-i kliiL f W( Ui SW1 .' tMJM fcUl to?
iU SS!w Ttr w4L1Vw $RPfT
them. If a crisis aroso which made It
Imperative thai powerful reasons b
offered to Denmark in support of our
claim to the islands, Mr. Lansing can In
form the members of the Senate Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs In confidence,
and objection will probably cease. But
Until he Justifies the extravagant sum by
some other plea than that ho wanted to
make it worth Denmark's while to sell, he
will be subject to hostUe partisan criticism.
HEAVY TAXATION BY EDICT
TJY NO alchemy of politics or states--
mnnshlp can It be brought about that
a particular class of people shall receive
additional wages of $50,000,000 without
other people paying the bill. The cost
Is simply passed on to the rest of the
public, Just as any other tax Is. It
comes on them In the form of higher
prices for bread, or for coal, or for sugar,
or other necessities.
Tho Government has added millions to
the Internal taxes. It ia constructing
legislation now which will add millions
more. It is raising money wnerewun to
buy Islands in the sea at an extravagant
price, to construct armor-plato factories,
to buy merchant ships and to engago In
other enterprises which heretoforo have
not been considered as necessary or oven
legltlmato functions for government to
perform.
The man in the street does not think
of these things. To him tho Govern
ment has unlimited funds; is, in fact, a
sort of Inexhaustible gold mine, and he
does not reallzo that his labor Is one
of tho nuggets In that mine. But as
the taxes increase, this man In the street
suddenly finds that he Is paying a little
more for everything ho buys. Ho won
ders why It is. Somebody tells him It
Is duo to tho war, and ho lets it go at
that. But always, and relentlessly, the
tax rate Is operating on tho cost of
living. The little fellow applauds the
Income tax and thinks ho Is not paying
it, but ho Is. It is passed along, In one
way or another. A few may carry the
load for a time, but finally It Is on the
back of tho genoral public.
The situation In the railroad world re
solves Itself simply Into a proposition to
tax tho people of tho United States an ad
ditional J50.000.000. Nobody Is bo cred
ulous as to believe that the roads can
pay out such an enormous fund from
their present resources. If they must
pay it they must get it, ard tho only
way In which they can get It Is by In
creasing their rates. That creates a sit
uation which is exceedingly satisfactory
to the beneficiaries. It Is a fine thing
to have somebody else collect 550,000,000
and hand It over to you. But it Is pretty
hard on the great mass of Americans who
have no unions, who do not or cannot
strike, who have no organized vote with
which to terrorize politicians, and who
are always the lambs to be sheared.
The Evekino Ledger holds a brief
for tho great masses. It objects to see
ing them held up and their pockets
picked. ' We should bo mighty glad to
see the trainmen get twice tho salaries
they are getting, but not at the expense
of other laboring people who are already
paid less than the trainmen for as much
If not more work. Our sympathies are
with tho household that finds It has to
economize on food because the cost of
living is leaping up with no compensating
gain In income. The prevention of rail
way traffic is something to be avoided,
to be sure, but the really Important issue
at stake is whether or not the people of
this country are to be taxed 550,000,000
a year forever hereafter for the Identical
service which they are now getting. It
may be too big a price for avoiding the
threatened strike.
Possibly the President has taken this
phase of the situation Into consideration,
although It Is notorious that the Adminis
tration shows no more respect for a
million dollars than the ordinary man
does for a nickel. If wages are already
equal to what the traffic will bear, in
spite of recent increases In rates, then
wagea should remain what they are. Tho
President Is not asking tho railways to
yield so much as he Is Insisting that
the whole American nation pay an enor
mous yearly tribute for the privilege of
still having railroads In running order.
WRONG WAY TO DO IT
THE shipping bill as it passed the Sen
ate contained the Iniquitous provision
permitting forelgn-butlt ships to be used
In coastwise trade. If the bill becomes a
law with this provision In It American
shipyards may as well go out of busi
ness. The navy bill, with Its program of
one hundred and fifty-seven new vessels,
will not save them, for our shipyards can
not live on Government work alone. They
have been supported by the patronage of
the men engaged In the protected coast;
wise trade, a trade confined to American
built ships for more than a hundred
years. The Administration's bill, which
is defended by its friends as the best way
to restore to the merchant marine Its
share of the foreign trade, virtually di
rects the shipping board to buy ships in
foreign markets when they cannot be
bought aa cheaply from American build
ers, and to charter, lease or sell its ships
to Americana for use either In the ocean
or coastwise trod. In normal times ships
can be built abroad cheaper than they
can be bult here. We have 8,300,000 tons
of American-built vessels engaged In the
protected trade between American ptorts.
If cheaper foreign-built ships can com
pete with these vessels they can cut rates,
and no ship owner wl, buy an Ameiican
ship when he can get one from the Gov
tmnwit board buttt abroad for less
EVENING tiBDGER-PBILABBLPHIA, TUESDAY, kTJ&XTST 22, l910.
Tom Daly's Column
AMOtfQ the oood fclloica ice called upon
. for hetp uxu Judd Mortimer Leicii,
of the Houston (Tex.) Post. Judd hat a
heart a Up as
his chest, and for
that reason he Is
beloved by every
child that ever
came within
ranoe of his urtde
smite. Judd's
smile Is not only
wide and frank,
but has height
and depth, par
ticularly height.
Judd wears
clothes and
things that take
the place of fur,
but not above the neck. Here's his smile.
Look at ttl But, on the other hand,
listen to him:
The man who does not go and vote,
may tho foul shades lead off his goatt
May some cop slam him on tho bean, and
throw him Into Cell 13, and no one come
to tako his part, and may ho there eat
out his heart. May tho laws ha won t
help to make pound him as a cook pounds
a steak; may taxes cat hla substanco up;
may bitterness lurk In his cup; may his
bay window fade away; may prickly pears
bo In his hay; may dreams arouse him
cro tho dawn; may dornlcks bo hid In
his lawn; may hte wife search his sleep
ing room and trade hts best shoes for a
broom, and bust tho broom across his
gourd, and some one suo him for his
board; at night may ho step on a tack;
may his Palm Beach rip up the back;
may his shirts fade, his collar wilt, and
pins stick In him to tho hilt; and may tho
druggist where ho buys hot porous plas
ters for his eyes, Instead of tho things
he docs state, sell him corrosive sub
limate; may there bo water In his gas,
and may his money fall to pass, and may
his neighbor cut him dead, ond may tho
hair fall off his head, and may he stick,
this useless man, his fingers In the lectrlc
fan; and may his corns pop with the
heat, and people step upon his feet; and
may his wife's folks come to stay with
him forovor and a day; and may ho, In
spito of his walls, have oft to hark
to twice-told talcs. And may ho bo mls
fortuno's butt, this nerveless self-disfranchised
mutt. Ho Is a blot upon tho
earth, his presence here Is nothing worth;
he has no country and no rights; may ho
He where the bedbug bites; and may foul
fortune ride his goat away, who does
not cast his vote.
Grouchin'
My father says Kc"rc coming to
The pleasant days and cool;
But I know what I'll have to do
I'll have to go to school!
The pleasant days and cool may be
All right for Mm, but I
Can't say that I am glad to see
The summer days go by.
Cool days mean no more iolm.mln' hole,
And no more barefoot timet
Cool days means lug'gin' lujds of coal.
And no nut trees to cliinb,
And days so short that playln' ball
"ll'ftcn school lets out is offj
And onion syrup nights, and all
Such stuff for every cough.
And shutUn' up our pirate cave.
And getting whipped for fights.
And always having to behave.
And getting lessons nights;
I wish my father wore short pantsl
And went barefooted, tool
When cool days come I'd like a chance
To see what he would dot
Once Again Have We Been Insulted!
Tom Daly, who wants our picture ta
run In the Philadelphia Evening Ledoeh,
writes us: "Send along an electro of
that shameless nude you run at the top
of your toothsome tower." Doggone him!
Tom hasn't a thing In the world to brag
about but a mop of hair and nine little
Dalys.
Shorter
The days are growing shorter now,
' The autumn comes In view
With all the autumn things to buy,
And I grow Bhorter, too.
Perhaps John Was Wise
John Campbell planted peanuts the
other day, but got afraid he would die
before they made anything, so he
scratched them up and ato them. Frank
lin County (Ark.) News.
Any soil but Texas soli Is very uncer
tain. OEOllOE AND JANE
Since George and Jane are home again
just little Qeorga and Jane
The happiness thai has come in has
crowded out life's pain;
The arms that necklace round a neck, the
lips upraised to kiss
There's nothing else In all the world that
half icay equals this I
There's nothing else in all the world like
to a baby squeeze t
There's nothing else one-half so sweet as
children on your knees I
There's nothing makes for happiness, or
banishes life's pain,
Or makes the xoorld a home worth while,
like little George and Jane,
Life is a long and lonesome time through
alt the heated spell
For home Is home and it Is never a home
in a hotel;
At first we mingle with the crowds, at
first we like the lights,
And then our whole heart longs and longs
for quiet, homey nights,
And easy chairs down In the yard, and
happy little chaps
In a wild chase far candlebugs,ar perched
upon our laps;
And little girls who like ta curl upon the
daddy-knee.
And just be happy in Ms arms as happy
as can be.
The Georges and the Janes through all
the dragging summer days
Are gone away; they may be glad in dis
tant shady ways.
They may find happiness somewhere,
pink-footed in some stream,
And perfumed breezes may come in to
kiss them where ihey dream;
But a hoteYs a lonesome place, when
never down the hall
There comes the rush of baby feet, or
comes a lilting call.
But when the Georges and the Janes are
as at home, why, hen
Lovtfs happlaess has crowded el the
P'Ua from Ufa again.
5iilKi3iSlll
THE VOICE OF
A Moving Picture Manager Urges Co-operation in Checking the
Spread of Infantile Paralysis and in Other Matters.
The President Defended
TMs department is frt Io all readers tcho
wish to txtrtis their ojrtnlonj on sutltct pf
current tntcrejt. It ( on open jonim. ond the
Evenino Lttlgcr assumes tio responslMHti Jor
tht vl'wa of its correspondents. Letters must
be sinned bv the name and address 0 tie
writer, not necessarily tor puMlcallon, out as a
guarantee of good faith.
PARALYSIS AND THE MOVIES
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir Will paralysis survive the movies?
When I say paraljsls I don't mean lnfan
tllo paralysis alone. I mean tho paralysis
from the censor, business depression, high
rents, big prices for productions, advance
In salaries, music and noor business meth
ods. These are the paralysis conditions in I
movlng-plcture theater for wnlcn mere is
still no cure. The mortality of motion-picture
exhibitors is increasing from day to
day and no red flag Is raised yet. Will there
some day be a philanthropist who will see
to it that no mortality occurs or will there
be brains enlisted to aold the calamity?
No on either an exhibitor or a patron,
will want thts great Industry to be de
stroyed. It Is here to stay and do good for
a good many reasons.
Now let us see uhat can be done. In the
first place the exhibitor should co-operate
with all municipal authorities to stamp out
this dreadful disease of Infantile paralysis
and save the reputation of his community
Censorship In one u ay Is a good thing, for
it educates the man that can't think to find
fault and auk why he can't hae this or
that- Eventually the publlo sentiment will
not tolerate censorship and It will be abol
ished as It Is In any way contrary to
American principle.
Business depression for the exhibitor
comes through his overfeeding the patrons
with too much undesirable products, and
not enough arlety of the better kind
I hae a plan In mind which tome day In
the near future I hope to bring before the
exhibitors. I think they will find relief In It
from all their troubles High rents are a
great factor at tho present in the failure of
some exhibitors. They will be eliminated
in the near future.
To my sorrow the exhibitors and ex
change man have never been friends to
ward each other. The exhibitor always
minds everybody's business but his own.
All this should be changed. An organized
body of the exhibitors with a good man
at the head and w(th proper supporting of
ficers can accomplish a great deal and make
everybody happy In this large family I
hope that the time will soon come when no
sickness of any kind will molest the com
munity at large and that the exhibitors will
then start thinking and exchange their
thoughts with their neighbors and consult
one another. MORDUCIIAI,
Philadelphia, August 21.
IRELAND'S HAPPY HOMES
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger;
Sir In today's Issue of your paper I
have been very much Interested by a picture
In the page entitled "Scrapple," namely
"Ireland's Happy Homes." That Is a gross
Insult to every Irishman and woman who
sees It. I can tell you furthermore that the
homes In Ireland are far from what you
picture them. If anything like that should
appear In your paper again I will condemn
It iq every other paper. And still more it
will curtail the sale of your paper.
AN IRISHMAN,
Philadelphia, August 1$.
WHAT MR. "WILSON KNOWS
To the Editor of the Evening. Ledger:
Sir May I answer, in part, the questions
pertinently put by your correspondent Q,
W, D. in today's Issue? He asks a number
of "doesn't the President knows?" J am
not Intimate with what the President knows.
From reading solid Republican papers these
past few months I have been led to be
lieve that the President doesn't know
Kaiser hounds from Kilkenny cats. I begin
to wonder whether he knows that the child
labor bill is a good thing or the rural
credits bill or the Federal reserve legisla
tion. However, for the question: "Does he not
know that It I within th& power of the
Interstate Commerce Commission ta bank
rupt any road and to destroy the value of
Its securities by refusal to permit Increase
la rates or Interminable delay In reaching
a, decision?"
Answer Belag- a. Democrat, he probably
know jaot&lng. Bains' a bunion he prot
ftlily knows all of that ssd mors. Tnhi la
"SHIP AHOY!"
THE PEOPLE
the more: He knows and has made clear
to tho railroad managers and to the rail
road presidents and, thanks to the Evenino
I.edoeii, to the readers of the Evening
Ledger, that the I C. C. can mako it pos
sible for the railroads to accept the eight
hour day and yet make reasonable profits,
and he has promised to use every proper
Influence to make the I C C understand
that to meet the eight-hour day the rail
roads must hao higher rates (If that Is
the fact). He Is not a partisan, as jour
elder contemporary, the Public Ledger, in
sists. He Is no more a partisan than was
Solomon when he offered to bisect the
smiling Infant He Is a Judge. The rail
road case has been before him for arbitra
tion, and that Is all All, oxcept one thing.
The President says he will use his power to
see that fair rates are granted. The ques
tion could hardly come up for many months.
It couldn't be settled for another year.
And, thank goodness, tho President, Wood
row Wilson, will then still have the power
and the glory of being President of these
United States SGANARELLE.
Philadelphia, August 21.
REAPING WHAT WAS SOWN
To the Editor of Eienlng Ledger;
Sir Your editorial In yesterday's Issue
relative to Mayor Smith's real duties voices
my sentiments precisely. But now, hon
estIs he not giving the people what they
voted for? In fact, the writer would have
been agreeably disappointed had It resulted
In a genuine business method. Is It not a
fact that a very large majority preferred a
political administration to the thorough
business administration, Including tho police
department, of the previous Mayor? Is It
not a fact that this city, with Its hundreds
of thousands of so-called members of
church, has been advertised by Us own
newspapers as one of tho worst governed
and Immoral cities In the Union, requiring
the attention of the Grand Jury and the
courts? Is It not a fact that this vicious
business Is directly traceable to the police?
And Is It not a fact, if the police (who do
nothing 16 hours out of 2 but wear out
the seat of their trousers) are not capable
to locate these hellholes and report who fre
quent them, they are not fit to be on the
force?
Is It not a fact that this state of affairs Is
detrimental to the city's Interests? Does it
look reasonable that enterprising manufac
turing concerns, anxious to maintain their
fixed charges at the minimum, would locate
in a mismanaged, tax-ridden city? Is It not
a fact that nearly every enterprise now
located here, and wishing to enlarge, does
so by locating beyond the city limits?' The
reason can be solved by any schoolboy.
The only reason that rumholes. gambling
houses or Immoral bouses exist Is because
tho men In the community demand and
patronize them ; that is all. No community
of any kind or charaoter will be supplied
If there Is no demand. Positively not one
of these pesthouses could exist If the men
were not themselves Instrumental In creat
ing and maintaining them. Appoint a Grand
Jury of some of those women whose hus
bands or brothers are frequently detained
on urgent business and something may
drop. TAXPAYER.
Philadelphia, August IT.
NATIONAL POINT OP VIEW
There seems to be some doubt whether
the Danish Fottethlng and Landathlng know
a good thing when they see it. Indianapolis
News.
Labor la the chief beneficiary of adequate
protection of American Industries, For
eign capital Is the chief beneficiary of Am
erican free trade. Knickerbocker Press
(Albany).
In advancing the elimination, of the pork
barrel and the appointment of good men ,to
office as among the "constructive policies"
favored by him, Mr. Hughes is deliberately
attempting to deceive the electorate. He
might just as welt adopt the ten command
ments as part of his platform. Albu
querque Journal.
Th Republican of this stat are talking
of nominating Professor Taf t for the United
States Senatorsbip in the event that Sena
tor McLean does not run, and in New York
there Is a movement to give Colonel Room
veil a Hk nomination. Ptraaps. toll an
swer U qtttloa of what we ahould do,
with our ex-PrMeUHartfor4 Veal,
What Do You Know?
Ourrtes of aeneral interest tclll be answered
In this column. Ten Questions, (he answers to
uhlch every well-informed person should know,
ere ashed dally.
, QUIZ
1. Who rns John Fnul Jones and about when
did lie lire?
S. What In malfeasance?
3. What Is attrition, a applied to war?
I. Wlint pre "Tarkwar condemnation," al
luded to In reports of the l'arkwar pro
ject In thin clti?
B. What Is the Purjob?
0. What In n quit rent?
7. Tthnt ! the meanlnr of the "probation" of
wills?
8, What and where 1 the I.lbcrlan rtrpnbltc?
0. With what Is the science of heraldrr con
cerned? 10,
What Io the raeanlnc of the preflx "nolr."
.:CP. appears In mich words an "poly-
syllable." 'polyson.'
poutamy," etc.?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. ien pns or aea pursei conditions resnltlnc
from a utorni of very limited area, the
wntr becoming choppy uml full of
trenrheroiK current, uttlne as a trap for
nlramrrx and navlxators of umall craft.
2 Thfem'rnfi,at 'lec,,on wUl bo Md Sttf
8. The. foiirth Allied oirennlve U startlnr on
i. taI?in,ca .,rRnt a,on ,h northeast
la lani Greece, atalnst the Ilul-
4. The 400.000 railroad employes are less than
?? "tWi-A" " total. There nre mora
lilted 'fiulSJ? rnlIroad emplSjeHn fh!
B. Sharp enrthqnako shocks nre said to have
b$n fflj In Philadelphia Decemberl!
173?, October SO, 1783 February 7 lms
January 8. 1817,' and AoVuit 10? 1881? '
8. A flradirlndi one who measures life uith
'. S n,,m Jin.OTP"" """out Mloiliis fS
tinman nature rmm n .a. Y
IllekeH.'a .iJlaVd Times." """
7. A horoscopei a ''fortune" told necordlnc to
onS'.Tlr'th? ' the ,"ar,, ttt o5f J?
8. Stehen illp Ensllsh poet who died
0. raderewakl) pronounced 'Ta-de-ref-ske
with the accent on tho f,""'-SKe'
10. Two quarts In a marnnm.
A Confederate $50 BUI
Kdffor of "What Do You Know" Ha, a
Confederate J50 made In February. 1864
any value? 0 ' p '
Of course, no alue as currency. Qn'es.
tlons n regard to the value of curios, or
old coins, or bills cannot be answered here
value m BUCh th'nSa Qs t0 tn
Kavala
W. M. E. Kayala. Is a Greek nort of
about 5000 inhabitants. 18 miles vest of
the Bulgarian border. It was taken by
Greece from Turkey In the first Balkan war.
Statistics
ZMitor o "ll'Aat Do You KnoWCzn
United States own their own homes? "n
Pennsylvania? In Phlladeinhi, ? Lt.il
nf r.nH Unm ... , --..-. "imi
rCl V,"i .x 7-,'" .uanlL aepositon
In
m.o u..cu oiuiear m ureat
Britain,
'i wcjumjiy- ana itussla?
SUBSCmnRT?
.2h. W"1" for home ownership are.
difficult to ascertain, especially since the In
come tax law has made so many n.r.0n
disclaim ownership of Bk mwSVf ?he1r
?flriTnSfaP0SlMe- "' ,ha "HUM, f
Philadelphia, we are warned by the p,
Statistician, are not to be taken as accuwu
Jt Is estimated that there are now aw
350.000 homes in Philadelphia and th,
150.000 of them are owned by the famln
dwelling therein. That Is rfearll r!raUlea
cent. According to the 1910 tSwu th5
were 20.255,555 families in the " ii!SfJ3
Stat... of whom 9.083JU ! fhtM2
homes, U per cent, In Pennsylvania .?
were 1.6S0.628 families, of whom sssnJ?
owned their homes, 40 per cent th! ,Ml
Ing banks statistics areas follows? unf.V;
States, number of depoSto;sltnws,-3Un'
Xl.285.765i United Kingdom, tras"te'a III'
lngs banks. 1913, 1,912,816- noS?! fv
banks, 13.198.509 1 France i 'niwi sav "
bank.; J912. Mlb9USfi&i&EiT
6.187,203; Germany. ,pSbtto and corporate
savings banks, 1915. tt ill tKv .n.
9,J43,T1. As for statistics T in n2l'
bank depositor, ia generalspeclXrin
the wr bu revoluttonUed EinSS?. J ? nc
clal adjustment., it would be vPan.flnan
tempt to Ox them deaalliveij. Vala tQ at"
Candidates for Re-election
J B. Senator dupgnt Is a camii.. ,
rwblUh th, facta & IbET JSP
Uiey foart
fcy Jitlr creurte
COST OF LIVING
IN BUENOS AIRES
TOPS THE RECORD
. 1
A Four-Room Heated Pint .'
for $110 a Month, and Shoes I
sen for $15 a
Pair
TOILET SOAP $1.71 A CAKE
Food Prices About tho Same
as a'
American Cities, but "Wages
Are Lower
DUENOS AHIES, Argentina, Aur 1 n. 1
mall) A cake of toilet soap reUiiln. VM
25 cents In tho United States cost, m.'ll
here This Is typical of Arn.ul !P11
generally They are perfectly lirHm
stupefylngly Incredible. r r"8V,
Drugs cost three to four time. fcVi.
they cost In North America, ordinary SS
brushes 80 cents each, everyday gloves!)?
A four-room steam-heated flat In a ni
but not arlstocratlo port of this city !
not bo had for less than U10 a fnomv
A smaller flat, minus the heat, may be lii
at I6Z so Tnero aro lour or five monik.va.
here during which heat must h .?."??.
Cardiff coal, virtually the only kind m
the market, costs from $28.16 to ljjf,
somotlmcs a bit more. "
In tho remote suburbs tiny littlo bo t
houses may bo rented for $32 50 a nioElX .
sans heat, sans light, sans cverythlne ,, -i
in. .r-T
I
l,UJk avu. wodn
Heat Is not high, ns Argentina l . ...,
country. Tho very fanciest cuts of. hf
mc ma, uu imu m D cents a DOmi
Illbs and rump steaks cost 17 i ceniT,
pound: mutton, 13; veal, 30',4 cents. n5 ,
nrti-lr !9 run., "- '.
Other Items of household expense mi
bo about llko this: Butter, 4 ; bread, SUi
cofTeo, 44; tea, 30M', granulated sunr
11; chickens, 35 cents a pound. '
5111k costs 8 cents a quart. Eggs i
48 cents a dozen. '
A suit which would cost $35 (n Ne
York or Chicago or San Francisco, cwu
$45 in Buenos Aires. A pair ot H nr it
American shoes cost $15 An ordinary ru't,-
oi winter unuerciuunng costs 1Q, United
States money.
Tho 'man who buys his wife a not oyer.' J
.naiiiuiiuum ,viimt, ou.b luuab pay &0 ftf
It. If sho Is not too particular. hea
get her a bonnet for $20. 1
Tho beer Is good, but It costs 13 centi ,
per Hiii8. j. niiuur mum uring eacn glasj a
to a small tabic, and every time he ex. f
pects a tip of 4 cents. Whisky, Including -i
tho tip, is 22 cents a glass f
Tliero is virtually no such thing u i
cigar for less than 8 cents, and these art,
virtually unsmokable. Havana cigars cut
from 44 cents up.
The man who falls III will have to pij
an ordinary family doctor $5 a visit. It
his teeth hurt him. It will cost him IS an
hour to have repairs made, unless he goti
to an cxpenslvo dentist, in wnicb case then '
Is virtually no maximum limit.
Peoplo who llko to keep clean must pa
to their washerwomen approximately the
same prices as are charged by the highest
priced New York laundries.
Roughly speaking, It costs about twice it
much to live In Buenos Aires as it cert!
to live, not, perhaps. In New York, bat ta
Chicago.
A citizen of tho United States who goes It
tho Argentine metropolis to live on tit
same salary he received nt home may co
Elder that his Income has been cut In two,
and will be financially wise If ho readjciti
hl3 expenditures accordingly. e
Living expenses are higher In Argentltt
than in any other country In South America
Why prices aro so high In Argentinian'
not entirely clear For one thing,
country's population Is small and it U
plenty of money, so that If the cash ra-;"
evemy uiairiouieu uie per cupua TC34i,
would bo high Furthermore, It Is not'
manufacturing country. It lacks worHtl-J
men in sumclcnt numbers: it nas noil
water power and It has almost no fuel
There Is considerable prospecting for ell,
If It Rhould be found In adequate quantltltl
u win uo h. KouEenu unu uu&ni m lout
billionaires of the discoverers In the rows
time manufactured articles have to ti
brought from a long way off, whjch ccsU
money.
Finally, Internal transportation facllltld
are primitive, Rnd shipping, plying toforelrj
ports, Is In a few- hands
To a conslderablo extent, howerer, 4
looks as If It Is expensive to live In Arrtn-''
tlna, simply because the people who ruma?
the necessaries of lite are able to extort til
The average Argentine Is not paid forhll ;
work In proportion to what he has to pj
for his living.
A salaried man Is considered In poesewtoa"
of a good, round Income If he receives Jill
to $200 monthly. Of course this does sot
go nearly so far as It would In tho United
States.
Brlcklavera nre n.ilcl from S2.50 to till.
dally, but do not have work all the time. A
carpenter, who nlso has periods of uneo
ployment, earns $1.50 to $2.50 daily.
There is a wide variation, according t
season, In what an unskilled laborer t
celves. At times ha gets as low as ii pej
and at others as hlch aB 80 pesos montUJ,
or, in United States money, from $U.9 i
$35 20 C. P. a i
. -1
AMUSEMENTS
STANLEY
siahket adovb lert!
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In "Hulda From Holland
. .- n.u ..4 na :
Thurs., Frl . Bat. vvau new ",.rr1
Rldnly In "House of t len VVW- '
nir.V.0 Theater WA?i
Dorothy Sherman Presents Musical OtterM
"The Colonial Belles i
., nvyMl tl Tint(n KOVfllty OUl
B. F. Keith's Theater
Bert Kalmar & Brown J
Avelmg fcMoya; Willie Solar. StetoW B
Aveimg . g. Features. Bfl
Todiy at S. 25c 4 00e. Tonight at . HL
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