Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 23, 1920, Page 2

AR, |li For Quick and Expert B. A. KOLBE ™00 Repatr work /GROCERIES - " Bringor Send Your - - ‘The Best That Morey Can Buy : R Shqes to’ b DICK'S SHOE, '/ . REPAIR ' = SHOP: 511 Beltrami Ave. Bemiclji 1 Corner Eléventh and’ Doud Phone 657 ' Profiteering-Landlords in Vari- ous Cities Exact Un- " heard of Pric CHICAGO IS SUFFERING . PROM HOME FAMINE Shortage, of ‘Houses , Extends From Coasy to Coast % : : ; in Crowded Centers r. George: L. E found neceswary by rell 3 : o i i (By Unitedh F;;n)fi i = == = = ork, Marecl .—The rent | - o 3 . 7 2 ttr?le: mfiy be the tenant’s weapon i_e}fre;ary of t::omllge:illE’;:h?:og; REAL GENIUSES NOT “QUEER™ s ' against profiteering landlords in New “:u :l‘::rlnniver, hesbelié S ol % 5 BEST el YorK. eat to strike against exorbitant |, High wages and high building ma- ) For.. lnstance, Taking;. :insifficlent ey ’liprgat beesn!.m:d:sl’n ::ores of com. | terial prices complicate a situation al- . ol o5 Nourishment Cannot Be Taken .as T R e Tawing. o trrout of the|Teady held critical due to the lack of | 3 b . ¢ Mark of Brilliaincy. N plan in Jersey City -and Newark, N. [hOMIng e fm":" o‘l The legend that Meredifh ‘lived on J., where, as has been the case in that Cl"‘a‘,‘d requires at least 30, 2 eredif practically every city in the country, 000 more homes to meet the present the contents of a sack of ontmeal while Unheard of prices have been charged [normal demand. . : he wrote his masterpleces ls: pure for rooms, flats, apartments and Chief among the reasons for the myth, writes St. John’ Ervine ‘in the & houses in the midst of the most acute | pessimistic .outlook, he ',‘m- were the Munchester (Eng,) Guardian. He was shortage of housing facilities the na- | practical stoppage of building during A particularly “addicted to the' pleasures tion has ever faced. the war; the mormal ' increase in}jp y . : /of the table and.could not have writ- Data gathered by the United Press | population and the additional influx g ! ten his books on a djet'of oatmeal. His 4 ‘ indlcates underlylng causes. of high |of workers above the.normal increase | \g e #5/. | letters are full of references to food rentals, as given by rosponsible reai[to supply the extraoedinary femend) TSN e==r—" | and wine and. Iike Doctor Johnson, he e8! ealers are:. : 'or labor in the i : % . : 2 3 e ‘1‘.“ Unprecedented slump in build-| ~ Unfurnished living quarters, which FOWLS OPEN. DOOR OF HOUSE :“’:"’;"‘l“:"“ed_ W "':’“g \?m"g.“k:g b;‘:; ing, accentuated by shortage of labor |five years ago, could be rented for y he capacity. which every Titting Platform A anged, q“o'nm of genius’has, of being highly interest: Hens May Liberdte Themselves ed fn the mostiordinary things. ng on It “It is your- third-rate person who" is from $15° to $32 per month, now and building material and aided by|f | bring all‘the way from $40 to $75, increasing prices for both., 2. Flow of.population toward thefand furnished apartments available by Stepping on It {38, city, in anticipation of high wages|five years ago for from $35 to $50 il not Interested In food and drink and o e . % ) A EnY and an easier living. Thousands of |now range from $80 to $125. The following s one of the ‘ltplest | fie coimon things. of life. E];’om' man prices.are. hlg—'h. We are eqmpped to buy persons drawn to industrial centers methods of enabling hens to open the of: ‘genlus ‘demunds that these. things from a’small lot to a car lot. ‘Located on Minnesota - Avenue, next building to - Nangle. Store. - Come:in and see me while . you are in town. e G - A. KRUEGER | With the Potato Growers’ Exchange shall be so attended to that he cap | & appreciate them at their best.” More- over, -since eating and “drinking are necessary tc all of us, he wishes them to be done in such a way that he shall not be diverted from his job by com- piaints of the clumsy and insufficient arrangenfents for them. - - Herbert Spencer complained of the stupld spouts that manufacturers put on jugs—so that it is impossible to pour liquid out of them without spill- ing it—and he went to the trouble to | invent. a. paper. fastener because he was dissatisfied with those in common ‘wse; A:third-rate person would have beén much too, superior to- think of such thing: : ] Triumph of Art. during the war have stayed in the ‘ON, COAST. Clties, going into other lines of work. HOUSE SHORTAGE ON, henhouse door 'in the morning, there- 3. The appearance of thousands (By United Press:) by relieving thelr awner of tli¢ neces- ot aneaulatol?z seeing chances to prey| Portland, Ore., March 23.—Houses 8ty of rising at daybreak to let them on the many homeseekers, and their |and apartments of all descriptions|out. “The door of - the henhouse Is renting of all available apartments, |are scarce, in Portland, a condition Illnzed t the top, so that it'opens out- outfitting them with cheap furnish-|which is general throughout the Pa-| ward, “and ‘the lower -eige catches ings and then re-renting. them at|cific Northwest. i -1 against the ‘floor; so that ‘it. cannot enormous prices. ' i The principal reason for the situa-|swing inward: Near the lower. edge New York's fight against rent|tion is that while the population has'gn the outside a cord is attached, » profiteering has already been started |increased during the last few years|yhich passes upward over two small by joint attacks by Mayor Hylan and?the building program has slumped. |pylleys hanging from a beam. The the Central Federated Unipn. The| House rents are 75 to 90 per cent| yyor eng of the cord supports a tin mayor announced he will confer with | higher than they were five years ago, can welghted with stones, so as to be ] A -Commissioner James F. Gannon of |and apartments are now renting for B h ‘to '“ the dooF Jersey City relative to Gannon’s|twice the figure for which they were Just heavy enough 'to pul e door - method of handling the rent strike. |gecured in 1915. N b open and keep it .so. - On the floor of k¢ z The Cen]t;:l Federated U,nlo;l./thfi s | i : i v gnh use, right 1 i’ the i ecretary ‘Ernest Bohm, haa decided | zo'¢ HHOMELES e to_ask introduction into the ‘legisla- 50,000 H_OllEi.E‘ss IN "I!‘WAUEE ture of a bill protecting the rights i (By U'“_"’d Press.) ', .. | screwed into the door. ; Milwaukee, Wis., March 23.—Mil-| iiidtore be locked at'ni sketehin® of tenants'and making eviction im- i e e T 85 [ b, possible where eviction is threatened | waukee needs li quarters for 35,- the hook in the eye, and the pyll' | ‘A young artist, out on'a —t by _refusal to pay exorbitant rents. 000, or 50,000 people. The = city’s ;!;‘the cord -against idooru:: t:e trip, b4 iving sp@imen of It was estimated here that rents|normal increase in population has 3§ i k , 0 250 per cent. Simple and un-|its building program has been at a ‘er has locked. the ddor in the ‘even ening, of -figh, and -for a consideration in- pretentious quarters iu poorer sec-|standstill. : h pose k tions of the -city, where not. even all mlt Ju the war, but since. the war|after the hens have gone to: ropst, he-| duced him to form smeh h 0 i : Y ¢ rains ed'dn tha'| Inutes there came along & man . 3 =k 3::,:2:5,‘“"’ from $10 to $18 lom.‘ L :':':l;lég:‘vl:csht::rfii;dmlzs.g&hrg: ‘see:!v:ro:s. t:::n 1::“"[.* :‘l.le:;;;fl::lf:o:: 3 ENTIBE 4 Photog'l'aphs of Yo_ill‘selfln th:‘e:::;lLl\l::r:ogi:]r{ag:,fi%t:gnz:(;, (G Ggo%s!(;% HISTORY | the YTollowing morning, the first hen | hie stood watching t(:npl :mlst :\l'lork‘: ap - it et it . for your relatlves .and $60 for the average 4-room apart- (By:United Tress) w;lc:::chatj:“tltgn:sfe‘:z%“mfil::en&h::flzrt'fnm: :-;?: sy sAmy e YEAB Rer” [ fl"l ends. “And Of cou‘rs-e‘ the gt SO0 R0 | omns Mor 23 Chicsg o B, B, 1, S, B, BT | ", e 1 o s mpmart [ o Pictures should be finished ohaveed for extra. . . tory.” according (o' Robert Bartlets, | the welghted can on the outelde pull | PO 8 L SEOT N, voute e macc (| @ in the very latest mode— 4 City .officials recently estimated |[Jr., manager of a real estate concern there j< a¢ presént o shortage of 20,- | here. - 000 dwellings, 50,000 apartments awd ‘“Practically- every available space R 5 10.000 rooms in Greater New York: |[for sub-dividing has been sold,” Bart- Frection of thiz nimber, or a substan-llett said.' “It isn’t the land question tial nortion of it. thev asserted, would.lthat's worrying real estate dealers— be the only remedy for high rentals[it’s the building question. % in that city. - ~ “There.are more familiies in Chi- - 1 cago now than it has room for. Build- 500-ROOM HOUSE ,TO BE ersare unable to erect houses because .| tered artist responded with a pleased ‘blush, e - “Sketch? Oh, that! Yes, it's all || right, I guess. What I meant/was the way you have managed to keep that boy guiet for so long.”—Philadelphia Leflger. ' b ‘ the. way we finish them in - our studio. Sprvice. : W OWNED BY 'CUPA! 3 |of the high price and scarcity of ma- ¥ s (By United Prg: ) DL terfal. Material can’t be touched re- 2 - : The man wished to spit, but it was L ¢ em ; Boston, March 23.—The housi gardless of the money the contractar i a pay-as-you-enter car and he was out, 5 cpidtdos o oW - ¥ sitnation here 8" asute a o ord9 ‘“:8 is ‘able to pay. Where the materfal | {8 : . 3 | of luck. He rang the bell, got up and || R A W s real estate authorities and sontrassors | E0€H1 cannot say definitely. The only g ; [l | went to the door of the car.. At the : / ies and contractors i plausible reason I can find for the : 3 ; next corner the car stopped. The 2 who hold out little hope of:-relief until pA shortage is. | fac- the cost of building material is low-|{ories gunl:e:_h i,,':{fi-f,;mf”ffl’;fi::s erglf_'handh construction resumed. - feem to ghve this class of. trade pref- Jho.s ortage of private dwellings) erence to the home builder.” If dras- ;"1 apartments is due to a great ex-'tic means are not adopted soon: to ent to the fact '.hnt dux:'nz the war cope with the situation, Chicago will . there was very little building. , The lose a great number of it’s popu- end of the war found material so ex-|1-ce besause of the inability to house pensive that. both individuals and con-| them. i tractors hesitated to build. ' “The situation is so pressing that _ The chief demand at present is for many people are moving into unfin- apartments of from one to flve roomsished buildings with: possibly no roof, and houses of five rooms. An apart-{or unheated. There are many build- ment cohsisting of living ropm, bed-|ings ik Chicago now under construc- room, bath and kitchenette which in‘tion: with Iittle hope of immediate 1914 rented for from $20 to $30,[completion.. N brought from $35 to $50 last -year,| '~ “Because of the building shortage and at present rents.for between $40|many families of three to five are re- 3 to $80' a month. 7 . quired to live in a single rented -room % cor":c;, have been let ‘here for yvthere they are forced to pay unheard ) e election-of a 500-room apartment|°f rent.”: K iné the .blhll bl‘,‘ck., the apartments of which will be! iy ; a larger number In the same yard. The o contains the .valusble ;#8 Pligiirn solg fo the tenans. " |8000 HousEs NEED DED ipors | TR oty fock rasly wil el o7 (hp sostota i “Vitamines,” which is obtainabfe only in genuine. one to'six rooms. In additibn the, (By 'Unlte’d Press) - many cages onllyni lult-:un h Y4 . 3 buttar, mx!k, o creaps end stah, ain :):lld;:‘;g r;ltlxl havehn“corg!n?mty kitch-1" [ndiankpols, Ind., March 23.—*In- | kept. For & flock of and strengtli, promotes health and Jong life. o reqreation hall, dining = room,|dianapolfs could today use 5,000 addi- | space of not less ‘kiddies ] Z ' usic hall, roof gazden and sleeping|tional houses, at least,” said John B.| required. . From 20 to Let the kiddies “Spread It on Thick” and use lots of- niotorman opened the door for the ‘man to get off, but he just spit and s Unlock Poultry House by Stepping on Tiking Platfarm. . the door open. ‘A knot in'the cord, made to catch in the pulley, will pre- vant ‘wrenching ' at the hinges—L. Hussakof, -Brooklyn, N. Y., in Popu-. lar Mechanics Magazihe. DO NOT OVERCROWD POULTRY Few Hens in Small Yard Do Better Than Larger Number in Same Space—Room for Each. IHnn seat. Il ssengers heard the motor- man &a nd still some people have got the nerve to kick on the kind of service we put out.”—Indlanapolis Star. pd . Merchants in the.Philippines. That a merchant does'not néed to have or retain a.capital investment in anestablished business before he can be admiitted to the Philippine islands 1s the gist of a decision handed down in the ‘case of a Japanese merchant who 861d° his business and came to _—— Nothing can eanual the delicious, appetizing flavor of butter. ] 4 Nothing can equal the heaith-giving qualities of butter. ’ : Better results will be obtained from a few hens in a small yard thap from Janitors here receive $50 a month 212 Minnesota Avenue on the average, the report showed. . porches. - | Reynolds, general secretary. of t! er h 2 y ; PR ) 4 he ap;rret'r‘::r:: ::l:;mt‘agk:o puf-‘;fi?:? a:g Indianapolis Chamber of c,:mmerce. oy .hw batlex yguraelf. % ) 8 8 “Surveys made by our civic and in-| Subscribe ror' jonee Alw ask g‘:n;:nitxl: Ig'vl::::‘l:!eh:: !il:‘ plan dthe';h,nm dustrial buredus show that the snorl;- o & : Y ‘-h ' 2 \ T ] aid. ese [age is due to decreased building dur- i G relief e - : ; : - ) ¥ . mstallments' will be applied to the|ing the war and to the great shil;:xrx g”“’“"' dccording ta. dlbh iwomen ;“orflug}efflf:rfi?e‘:dm:fl::r c”'EF BR‘"D B”’ TLR ¢ ¢ . purchase price and the tenant will be|of workers to take care of the ex- e}-:. a Teport by a committee of clab ol 3 : T varr R his . @ organization of corporations to , ] b I . monlf;hly “rent-installments will be[aid in financing home building and :T:::: %;%p;?ogl::dfltl: ;1,%;:;‘0 VAP OR BATHS ) 2 »:nnnc‘ less th:n the average rent for|other efforts similar to those in other those found guilty of charging- ex- Have va,ed to be a great, ; Made only by 5 partmen ' :limgel:o‘u:nze::gr‘tmm o help care for|orhitant rents, it was shown -apart-|J benefit: to ~many.° people. | : g 4 NEEDS 30,000 HOMES ? ase; :nent :aln: ho:;e rent had ‘increased [ Shower and tub baths .as}| o e ‘rom to $20 a month. The wo- in con-}i (By/Umted Press.) INVESTIGATE RENTS IN FARGO |men said 75 per cent of thé increases well. Barber shop | N Cleveland,” 0., March 23.—Cleve-| .-, ;.(BY United Press) were justified. : nection. : : o Fargo, N. D!, March 23.—Twenty- land is due! for another year of rising| 3 five per-cent of Fargo’s landlords are Tents, according to. E. A. Roberts, ‘ = I ’ il anarfi;le