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West Merriclc Road Freeport, Long Island
THE HOME OF GOOD CHEER Famous for the chicken and duck dinners, wines, iiquoirs and all bottled beers. Highest class family hotel on Long Island. If It's good to eat we have it. If we have it it's good to eat.
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COST or KILLING MEN AND
COST OF FEEDING MEN
Three Years of War Wlll Lom to the World a Sum Equal to More Than the Entire Farm Ca7<tatizatJon of the United States.
Europe's War Is costing the partld- pating.countries at the rate of $1S,000.- 000,000* a year. Since, by no table of values known to man, can the more horrible costs of war be measured, this leaves out ot account all the moral losses of non-combatants, and the per¬ gonal losses of non-combatants and combatants alike. If Lord Kitchener be right in his estimate of a three- year war, then» Europe must face a money loss alone of $45,000,000,000.
At the end of the "great victory," by whomsoever won, the farm land of Europe will be sown thick with a crop of those skulls so "large, and smooth, and round," which the Inquisitive little toe of Wilhelmlne kicked out of the fleld Olf Blenheim. "For many thou¬ sand bodies there, lay rotting in the sun."
Yet when one asks with that small wonderer: "Now tell us all about the war, and what they fought each other for," It will be the farmer of Europe, looking out from his desecrated home over his barren fields, who will be most appalled at war's futility.
" 'Nay, that I cannoi tell,' .said he, 'But 'twas a famous victory.'"
The agricultural business of ths United States is capitalized at the present moment at aibout the same sum as the European War will cost. Its rate of increase is so great that at the end of three more peaceful years, it may even outdistance Europe's war bill. It 'ha« gained at Uie rate of two billion dollars a year for the past ten years.
As the New York 'Grange points out. It has taken nearly three hundred years to develop this business of feed¬ ing men in America.
The capital atock of the business is worth now. In land and buildings, in farm animals and implements, $40,991,- 449,000. Yet three years of destruction would do away with the constructive gains of three hundred years. Just mow, Euroi>e is face to face with that last enemy of armies—Hunger. No maohine guns do sucih deadly work as this arch-enemy of mankind.
The United Slates has practically one hundred million mouths to feed and ultimately all this food must come from soil or from animal food depend¬ ent upon "the soli. About ten million of these mouths are in New York Staita, which owns alx>ut one-thirtieth of the farm land of the country.
It has become the fashion to specu¬ late upon the small defensive prepara¬ tions of the United States and to guess how long the sky-scrapers of .Manhattan could withstand one Euro¬ pean siege gun. What war might do to the acres and fields of ith« country, might also be considered with some proflt, especially this spring when New York City's small glimpses of that same gaunt enemy—Hunger—Has shown what his powers might be if he once got really busy there.
The farmer's task has always been preservation. His business is with the creation and nurture of life. Dead heroes are likely to seem to him aipoor Bubstitute for living laborers. Crip¬ ples, incapable of carrying on the world's productive business, seldom appeal 'to him as a fair exchange for hardy manhood. The peaceful art of making two blades oif wheat grow where one grew liefore is what has doubled the farm's capitalization in¬ side of ten years.
- Rural women, it is confidently as¬ serted, would think many times l)efore they would vote destruction of that which is, of ail things, most dear lo them. A business man, or even a busi¬ ness wonian, may pick up his business and move it on to some other spot, but the farm acres are fixed. Their devastation ^RitaUs a loss which time can hardly make up.
SHORT CUT TO FULL SUFFRAGE.
women of Various States May Vote for Next President.
Tlie plan of securing presidential suffrage for wonien, which, was start¬ ed In Illinois, has worked ao success¬ fully th-ere that the womem of many fttat«B are adoptltLg ths meaaure as a sort of short cut to woman suffrage. It makes an opening wedice for the passage of tbe suffrage amendment to the sHate constitution and gives wom¬ en a measure-of suffrage whfle they aire waiting on the amendment, whieh requires from two to three years be¬ fore It can become law.
It was In 1913 that Chicago women discovered that while they were for¬ bidden iby the constitution to vote for certain offlcers, there was no prohibi¬ tion In regard to the President et the Unitod States, ncr for county ofllcers, nor for cHy offlcials. A bill was Intipo- duoed into the niinoifl Stats Lsgisla- ture granting to the women ot ths stats the i^kt to vote at ail preaideia- tlal, county and municipal «l»otii0D«, and this bill was promptly paased. Today tfce women of Illinois vote for nsarly all the oandidates pT>e««ntad at aa slectloa except the members of the LscrislatUFe and the «tate ofRcen.
Women Qst ths Crsdit. The women ars glvsn the crsdit tor harlng passsd the "ons-sighth-miU tax" bill for the University of ¦Wyom¬ ing. Ths Oovamor said to a deputa¬ tion ot ladles, who waltsd on blm, that thetr argumsnts wsrs ths most ssaslble ones he had heard conesm- lac «he bill. He also aeld that for this reason (aad not In the least on asooont ef '«fhat the men had said) hs was coins to sign the bill. And h* •M.
FOR Fimr t>I£ClS OF SILVER
By MARY OGDEN WHITE.
Bscaase of no work for either her husband or herself, Mrs.> MacPhee soM her baby girl at three in Pebm- aiy. Sbe sokl her into a life of ease where she might hope for warm clothes and plenty of food for the rest of her life.
The baby went with a vanity box and a new coat, diverted and emlllng, but Marie MaoPtaee's mother went home to her desolate rooms which look out on the E2ast River, "i would never have sold her," said Mrs. MacPhee, "if we had been • able to feed my Ilttle girl and keep her In warm clothes.'* We did it for her sake, not for the flfty dollars, although that may keep us from starvation until we can get work. 1 don't hardly know how I can live without my baby." i
Nearly every day, the newspapers prove tbat real mothers are speaking still as they did at King Solomon's test: '*Let the other woman have the child, rather than let It suffer."
Sometime when no "other woman" turns up to take the child, the story runs something like tbat of Mrs. Marie Cuccolo, staggering into the Elizabeth street Police Station, to collapse from hunger. This mother had lived—and watched her children slowly pale be¬ fore her eyes on nothing bui bread and water for seven months. When the bread failed, she starved—and watched them starve—on nothing 'but water. At the end of two days, her spirit gave out and she gave up try¬ ing her single-handed flght against poverty. For her children's sake, she sought the police.
Starvation came upon her out of a prosperous past in whioh her husband had owned a successful barber shop. Seven months ago, he was sentenced to ten months on Blackwell's Island for breaking the Sullivan Law. He had been marked out by Blaok Hand enemies, as a probable person for ex¬ tortion, and had finally yielded to his wife's entreaties that he should car¬ ry a weapon to protect himself and his children.
After he had been in prison for some time, his wife's horrible fight with hunger got to hi«i ears and drove him iiopelesaly Insane. Both Marie Cucco. Io and the mother of little Mary Mac¬ Phee live under the laws and the economic conditions of the City of New York. They are in no sense removed from the consequences of these laws. Tho economic conditions rest heaviest upon them.
Marie Cuccolo has never had one word to say either about the law, which made it a ten months' offense for hcr bread-winning husband to pro¬ tect herself against hidden—but ter¬ ribly real—enemies, or about the po¬ tt ce system of New York whioh aione can adequately take the plaoe oif indl- vWuajl resdistance to crtme.
Mary MaicPhee's mother has no pow¬ er to influence the question of the responsibility of the community for unemployment at an exceptional ftm^' like the present. She, who sold het child out of her arms for fifty pieces <it,^ silver, must abide under legal and e^ onomlc conditions made, not by moth¬ ers, but by fathers. She must remain in that position wherein It has "pleas¬ ed (!od" and the voice of male citizena lo "cali her."
VICTIMIZED BY WAR
A Co-operative Kitchen, Some Con¬ structive Suffragists and Four- Cent Breakfasts.
Housewives in tb* neighborhood of L'Tth Street and 10th Aveaue, New York, are to be able to purchase for four cents a breakfast of cereal and milk, coffee, cakes or hot rolls at any time between flve and seven in the morning.
This kitchen is not a charity. It is a plan originating With Mrs. James Burden of 7 East 91st Street, and pro¬ vides for a co-operalive kitohen, to he equipped ready for aotlon. Its up¬ keep for one year will be guaranteed long enough to prove it out. If it aus- cesds, and the expectation of ths neighborhood is that it wlH, it is to continue as a business proposition maaaged (by those who will proflt by it. The kitchen at 27th 'Street ie to be the flrst oae of a series and is located there to meet the needs of a eection of the oity which was among the Arst to anffer from tke Curopean war. It is ia tke Chelsea dock region where many leagshoremen Ure wbo hare seen little work and liittle money slnoe Auguat 1st. As they ars aeOlamip' porting people, under all normal coa- dttions, this enterprise wears none of the tags of an ordinary philanthropy. "Neither is it te be ezpleiKed aa a society affair," declare Mrs. Burden's oerpe of workera. "Ons might say it is an easergency war measure, such as all Surepe is sesing. The entire group of steredores is as truly victim¬ ized by the war as Is any industry in Ehtrepe."
The blU ef fare in the Utaheas Is to lacluds two-csat soup, feur-ceat stews aad dinasrs aad suppers at ftre cents easfa. If Iss Oharlette Baraes of 1« East 79th Btreet, eae ef Mrs. Burden's staff, oiaraoterises the ts»- ture as "oommartty iMnseke^tnc ea the flmanoial tesU whisk ths aaigb- bsrhood rs«uirs^ Shs aaya it Is a gaei ef the ylaa NUakiac women axe wetMag ea la aMny loeaUMes, aa at- tsa^t %a 'briac the "laaur hoosekesp- taic tm a eeaitre where it is aeeded.* ItAaa Mise Baraes was aaksd If this wasal part at ths suffraaMs' profam of ^draacs aad if shs wsm, harssK, a sanactot. shs answsred, "Ok, oC oeaiwe, ttaat foee witheut say4ac. I most womsa trytog to est oaa* re things done flnd they hare ta %a, don't yon?"
A DIVINE COVENAN^.
Ood Almighty gave Ere to Adam with the pledge that she wonld be bis helpmeet and with this order of com¬ panionship, civilization has towered to Its greatest heights. In this reUk tlonsbtp, God has blessed womaa and man has honored her and after four thousand years of progress, she now proposes to provoke God to decoy man by asking for suffrage, thereby by amending an agreemenl to which she was not a party.
Woman, remember that the Israelite scorned'a divine covenant, and as a result wandered forty yeara in the wlldem^s wlthtiut God. Likewise man should remember that it is a dangerous thing to debase woman by Uw. Rome tried lowering woman'a standard and an outraged civilization tore the clothes off the backs of the human race and turned them out to roam in the world naked and un¬ ashamed.
Flies and mosquitoes are nol only a nuisance, but are real dangers to 'Health. Are you usin.g every endeavor lo aid in their exterminatiou. Read editorial, page 4.
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Hotel Nassau
Where you will meet your Friends.
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Full line of Sporting Goods CONFECTIONERY STATIONERY
.\nything and everytliing for school
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South Grove and Pine Streets
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34 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Phone 4079 Main. Open Evenings by Appointmenl.
Complete stock of VICTOR and COLUMBIA TALKING MACHINES, Records and Supplies. Convenient Payments.
Linoleum
Years ago Mr. Wild, like Thomajs A. Edison, began experimenting, the former on floor coverings and the lat¬ ter on electrical devices. Now these men are in a clasis by themselves. The nanie—Wild's—all over the world spells "LINOLEUM."
We carry Wild's Linoleum in all qualities and designs, with our "up- to-snuflf" stock of Furniture, Refrig¬ erators, Carpets, Bedding, Oil Cloth and Ranges.
You will flnd us at 2»3-6 Fulton street, Jamaica, one block west of Town HaU, where we shall be pleased to meet, show and serve not only our old friends but anybody. Come and inspect our goods.
The New York and Long Island Trac¬ tion trolley lands^ you at Waahlngrton and Pulton streets, then walk two blocka west to our store. Nearly op¬ posite postoffice.
GUS. H. FERTSCH
Moving andGeneralContractiiig
We hare not only largk aad padded morins rans bat employ. strong and competent men, and are equipped to do). the best and moet sat¬ isfactory work.
CESSPOOLS AND TOILETS CLEANED AT NIGHT, AND IN A MOST SANITARY MANNER.
THOS. W. BRAMS
Pleasant Avenue, Freeport,
Tel. 588-J.
Help Wanted and Furnished
COMPETENT. KXPERIENCED NURSES; MAIDS, OOOKS AND GENERAL HOUSEWORKERS; PIECE AND FAM¬ ILY LAUNDERING. HOUSE AND FURNITURE RENO¬ VATING. MEN Br DAY. WEEK OR MONTH. ALL KI.VDS OF WORK BY CONTRACT.
Anderson's Employment Agency
12 WAVERLY PLACE. Telephone 890.
FBEEPORT, N. T.
The Baldwin Garage and Salesrooms
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Most Complete and Efficient on Long Island
New and Second Hand FORDS For Sale.
All kinds of Supplies and Sundries, Tires and Tubes, Vulcanizing, Batteries Recharged, Overhauling.
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Excellent Storage Facilities
S. Herzfeld
69 SOUTH MAIN ST- FREEPORT
SHOES For The Whole Family
We carry all the latest styles and an up-to-date stock of
Ladies', Misses', Men's, Boys' and Children's Shoes
Why go elsewhere and pay more for an in¬ ferior article?
We have not only expert workmen but the latest machinery for making and repair¬ ing Boots and Shoes. Let us tell you that we can sew on new soles by machinery, assuring the neatest and best workmanship, while you wait.
CALL AND LET US SHOW YOU.
The Cook Can Leave But How About Your Wife?
The chances are, that the cook not only can, but will leave if she has to fuss around vtrith a coal stove, and endure its dirt and inconvenience.
But if your wife does the cooking, even if it is only the little "special dishes" she likes to surprise you with, what can she do?
COOKING when it's done the GAS WAY is a FASCINATING PLEAS¬ URE.
Get a Cabinet Gas Range To-Day
The Nassau and Suffolk Lightiiig C.
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