The evening world. Newspaper, May 13, 1918, Page 14

cena OTN ASML LL Hing Wars, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEP PULITZER, Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 64 ¢ 63 Park Row, Now York. RALPH PULITZER, Proaident, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PL retary, 68 Park Row, MEMBER OF TIP ASSOCIATED PREAS. ted Prom in excl Hie to the um Jo temmibicatien of a news Aeeratcbew | ° amocia' rely en to ft or not otherwise credited in this paper ani als the local news published herein, VOLUME 58..... wi NO. 20,719 | PROFITEERING IN RENTS. T BECOMES more and more plain that something will have to be done and done speedily to protect New York rent payers from the arbitrary and unwarranted boosting of rents, for any extreme of which landlords seem to think the present year and crisis afford sufficient pretext. Already from.different parts of the city are heard complaints that landlords are raising apartment house rents anywhere from 15 to 50 pez cent. on the plea of taxes and high coal prices. | During the next few months, unless some movement in the interest of tenants is started at once, thousands of families in New York are going to find themselves face to face with the most for-| midable living problem the advancing cost of everything has vet forced upon them—the problem of where and how the unre- stricted increase of rents will permit them to live next year. | Rent is in many ways a stiffer proposition than the cost of fo ad or clothing. | With carefu) housekeeping, thrift and self-denial food and cloth-| ing items can be kept down. less. No amount of care and contriving from week to week and month to month can lessen it. Its weight in the general load through-| out the year is never lightened. | And in this city it costs a pretty penny to move. has moved once or twice well knows what the process adds in dollars} Rent is a fixed charge, inflexible, relent- The family that to the lower rent for which the change was made, not to speak of! y further expenses in getting adjusted,to the new quarters which the} old furniture never fits. It is just euch added expenses and adjustments that many a hard-| working, patriotic American anxious to do his duty by his family and his country, would specially wish to avoid at this time—and that he should, so far as possible, be spared. | Granted coal, taxes and supplies cost tho landlord more than they) did a year ago. | Is he increasing his rents only ip like ratio? Or is he—as so many others have done since “war condition:” | could be invoked as a cover—taking advantage of a position wherein he partially controls one of the necessities of life to secure himself against all loss or sacrifice—with a substantial | v ‘ bonus of extra profit besides? | These are questions which every landlord who raises rents this year should be required to answer with exactness and detail before ne} EDITORIAL PAGE Monda May 13 | el to pass on any part of his alleged additional burden to a M y M atri mo ni . | s h a nc es There are altogether too many prosperous interests, corpora- | tions, individuals in the country who are trying to arrange that any additional load the war or conditions resulting therefrom may by a Young Girl of Thirty. By Wilma Pollock Recording the Experiences in Pursuit of Love 16 UT I don't B It! Why wapet &*> GERMA “WORMS ARE u- BOATS par wo oDCnucks ARE PRo— GERMANS like it! I don't like N PROPAGANDA —_ Jarr Family* By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1915, by The Proas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), sweaters she has knitted for soldiers. ) 1: ee gi " na a | / Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), . “There Is but One Path to Matrimony Left Thee—Yet It Is the One Sure and Unfailing Way—Be Sympathetic.” N™ my Daughter, a damsel of twenty-nine came unto me saying: “Tell me, Woman of Wisdom, HOW shall I charm a man? “For lo! I have tried every recipe, but as yet I have not lashed one of them to the mast of the Good Ship Matrimony! “Behold, I have arrayed myself in clinging draps erles and long earrings and played the ‘subtle siren.’ But I perceive that I am NO Theda Bara—for they, would not sigh! “I have assumed a baby stare and attempted to do the ‘ingenue’ and the ‘cutey-outey.’ But though I clung to their coat lapels and plied them with feebles’ minded questions and marvelled at their mighty intel~' leots, they were not convinced by my intensified stuy pidity. | “I have tried the bluff and jovial ‘good fellow’ role and the ‘chummys chummy’ stunt, but they only confided in me their love affairs with OTHER women and begged me to be a ‘Sisterwto them! “I have sought to lure them with the ‘cold, mysterious, sedate’ pose, but they fled from me with fear and shivering. “I have gone in for the intellectual and ‘soulful’ stuff, but they shriv« | elled beneath my scintillating moods or yawned with boredom at my most brilliant sallies. ‘And lo! Iam nearly thirty—and still unmarried! ‘ “Yet Iam good looking and a fair-to-middling cook, and I could make some man what fs called ‘a good WIFE.’" Rowe | Then I took her by the hand and admonished her, saying: “Alas, my Daughter, how long will damsels, in their folly, continue to seek to be ‘fascinating’ and to charm men by their ‘stunts’ and poses? | “For lo! there is but ONE magic talisman, one potent love potion by | which any man’s heart can be ensnared forever! | erily, verily, thou art no longer In the ‘squab class,’ and cuteness and kittenishness soon pass away. “Behold, sirens are born and not made, as even Theda Bara will admit, j and a ‘near-siren’ {s but @ caricature at whom men smile behind their hand. “And WHAT man was ever charmed by a woman's | | ‘intellect’? “Therefore, my Daughter, there is but one path to matrimony left Yet it is the one SURE and unfailing way! I charge thee cast aside thy pearl earrings and thy smirkings, thy baby ways and highbrow imitations—and be SWEET! “Cease ‘scintillating’ —and be SYMPATHETIC! ease seeking to ‘allure’ men—and begin to ‘mother’ them! “Cease yearning to make them admire THEE—and begin trying tq make them comfortable! 4 ‘Cease striving after gracefulness and strive for graciousness! “For, I say unto thee, this is the one unalterable TRUTH—a sweet smile, a sweet voice, a sweet disposition, a sweet sachet and a sweet man- ner will ‘win ANY man for any woman, from sixteen to sixty! erily, verily, youth shall die, cleverness shall grow stale, beauty shall pass away and all ‘stunts’ shall fail. ‘But a sweet spirit shineth through and irradiateth a woman. “And all men shall fall down before her and say of her: “‘Behold, she hath CHARM!" “And she shall marry whomsoever among them she pleaseth!” Selah. | thee. Lucile the Waitress hy Pidk Dudies Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishiog Co, (The New York Evening World), “Listen, lady!’ he snorts. ‘I don't engage in no fiscal combatments with the rats. I use a poison paste, I in« vented it myself. I'll bet you haven't fot nothing polsonous around heres have you” | 166% JOU'D be surprised,” said Lucile, | the Waltress, to the Friencly Patron, “to know how many | people with schemes to make money }come in her and try to work ‘em. he 4 "y t a lot of them, do you? threaten to put upon them, shall kp promptly transferred to some y The I 0, (The New York Evening World), does she always |Sho thinks my Herbert will be Im-| Jog) 5° ® “Nothing but the food,’ I says | The Perfect Love and the U, iv pick on my hero? Docen't pressed by her industrious patrlote| “«storg than that. They acem to] “He don't lke that any too weil one else’s shoulders. | e Perfect Love and the Unexpected Rival. she know we are engaged?” ‘heac | sm, : fe ; thelr gretna| but he don't ery 8 iu i : , WAS just becom-|me, however certain I might be of|words were uttered by « distrausht| ‘There's where she makes a mis-|‘hink a lunchroom be a je pi pookthind WOE ame S Ory Nore He dn Whether it means boosted food prices, six-cent street car ng resend muaiden:o€/sonls twenty npeinava land GAKA®. bAIACMral Tare, Havent «: ste Seenniouse foe rer stn ee i an Iv ne ate DAp aoe Hae mate . . : oe | e eae, . Evy nadie! Wa! ~ vantage of that diagnosis. Just this|devil he is amongst the rats. fares or exorbitant rents, the motto of these prosperous shirkers | a hu 1 my fears were Instantly sei ew old-fashioned winters Miss |dicr will think a girl too generous lasing de T served one here. Wo nops| “ ‘Say, listen, friend!" he says. ‘For ’ future w 1 on the afternoon that Gordon Ne lela haere, with her fav yhe! is ‘ ‘| baa tele is always: | hae RATTASAv er DGEARIE a baad bat dae gh [With her favors when he knows she 4 stool up at the end of the coun- {ten bones I'll fix this place so the ruts ; portun : nd © ow 's car to see Mis.) She had rushed out into the dining /has knitted sweaters for so many!) iq orders a slug of apple ple and] will shun it like a goat shuns grant Share the load AMONG (not with) consumers, Gordon — Grant, | Bushne , N wos there a more room to weep upon the sympathetic |others, So you say you are knitting OA OV. Min t6 that time every-lopera, They won't never bother you j | whose one thought| beautiful wor ‘r house was ex-| bosom of Mrs, Jarr, “Every time she |* Sweater, but only for one certain |* * oa! . i slibe ; » prof. - ‘ “’3 lovely, but he soon begins to| again, If this attitude and the deliberate plunder policy of the prof- from the momen | quisite, Her clothes perfect and | comes here,” continued the matdcn, | here i Nites Jere at tha. peaceti scene Lier mrOAEN URCIAUT was » saw ry q ordiality quite 8) MASSE 1 ring: r bad a aro’ r if sey iteers were to go unchallenged, by far the heaviest part of the weight) ho saw by wi redial y a unsury A |“she brings her knitting, and she But T hate to knit, and Tam not 11 worked himself about half way|‘The rats and men get along all right d to make me wondered how Gordon could ever | never has her yarn rolled on a ball, |S0ing to knit! 1f I'am knitting that enc wide ip. t0)besnues Shey don't cing i ose least able to carry it. | upp. have fallen in love 0 aftar | ‘ 1 {will kee y , ran (ouan cle mle: wana & ORE S9Y ORS RIN: ATOUDS. UB would soon be piled upon those leas: y ; h ber ot ve tM BN lore a : Reh i ind she gets my dear Herbert to hold ial ae p omy hands busy. 1 want sli, him his check, Then it starts. |here, They confide themselves to tha Nobody doubts there are many well-to-do persons in this city) rerianta hy Wh e heady fushneil. | tie yarn for het a » By, aad on ples x it | “Pardon me,’ he says, ‘but have| dugout downstairs, J every nile showing me over the house she| “Yes, 1 am surprised at Cora |#afer when I have my hands on him, | ” “np : . rs jovi i y eve: ei e yes | ; you got any rats? 'm sorry you won't be serious; who are enjoying the biggest profits they ever made in their lives and he adn 1 that Gordon certainly ad- | Mickett myself!" sald Mrs. Jare in- ‘a Hackett knows that, and anah | “Oh, yes,’ I tell him sweetly. ‘How|he says. ‘I got a preparation thut to whom a raise of their rent meane little. won ; oe very my h Ana from the |dignantly. “Why doesn't she get a s ae she hiss aay baled eee many do you want?” wilf put the kibosh on a rat the min« ever I did or said was right, By she sald it L knew he must bave|seldicr of her own?" ner knitting and makes him hold her | ™ ' f 4. ‘I don't want : i , He shakes his head. ‘I ¢ ute he dips a tooth in it, Nobody denies, either, that the wages of day workers, mechanics, my looks pleased him and ho t n 1 her of his love for me “She is trying to lure my Herbert| Ya" while she winds it on a wall| apt ho says. get sore. ‘Say,’ I reply, ‘where munition factory employees and the like have increased. | sreat interest In my clothes Wa were havi toa when Mrs | from me, the cat!” cried Miss Cackle- | 52° sarin? es silly and ous-| “pshaw!’ I say@ ‘I thought may-/dia you get the Idea that I'm rat y y yhen he invited me dinner or shnel aughter, Alice, a lovely,| berry. “And yet, when I spoke to|Picious ept my arms aroun y ing to hand me.a coD-|hookkeeper here? I . é ; : : i . spoke to} : |be you was going ookkeeper here don’t own this But between these two classes is a great body of salaried workers! the theatre or for a ride in his tal irl of twelve, the very Image of | her about it, what do you think she him while he ts holding her yarn for) + t> furnish you with your Sun-! place, I only work here, thank good= to whom the war has brought no'inerease of income, but who must "CMe he t [capt ae Pee laesbeaabevia Beal: in ei se ne pees ake 4, ‘Isn't he going | he! | mer supply of rats. ou buy now-lness! If you got any business witt ’ the most precious thing the w 1 itroduce om 1 me|}abrogd to die for me and to make| “Men are very curlous creatures,”| hey may be more expensive in the/our rats see the man who stands struggle with the rising cost of living and at the same time save and anticipated my every de ver in what I thought a critical man-| the world safe for democracy? If|sald Mrs, Jarr, “And {t 18 one of the! jail,’ sponsible for this palace of masticas T ont thoughtful, unself, love she was a real loyal agd patriotic|burdens our sex must bear that as “He grins and says: ‘I'm the worst] tion, Hang off me, please!’ y Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps, pay wa re ai cay & wad pa He grins 4 rorst] tion, Hang off me, please! ‘ enough to buy Liberty Bon i ps, pay war taxes and oy n she embraced Gordon ef- | girl she would do something to make|S0on as we have a man to love us| enemy the rats have got. I fight 'em, “Nachurally it shut him up. His contribute to the Red Cross, Gordon was a stock broker a asively the world safe for an engaged girl.|Some other woman tries to lure him|, «Qh, 1 see,’ comes from the cutey|iast peep ts something about his cura s : : e t : You ar Alice, to do that le may bo engaged herself some|Way, But opposition helps, That's ‘Next time you're going to €D-| being only g dollar a box, It's stra aw York City a vast matority of this latter cl # often after the market « Iw 5 ‘’ me. ‘Nex being ry \a . It's strange In New York y a vast majority this latter el ve in flats woe tha, bh hia WOUIA say HE of thit irked M Juyh- | day—and goodness knows it 4s time|Why some girls make their parents) page in any hand-to-hand conflicts} now some people will try to force fos which they pay rent. Any arbitrary increase of that rent must take me shopping. Iw 1 und how would she lke me to| object to sweathearts, If parents! with the rat family tip me off. I'M] ‘heir business onto the Innocent, ain't ; ' But 1 tho pre 1s child,| bring my Knitting and h her|make It too easy for young men they of carnuverous sports.’ oo” r iy imu, he courage a co! lénoe with ey m 1, stocks to-day, and I 1 5 5 an have hi hi very fond of ¢ it seriously impair the courage and confid with w VCDSY CBN bau Oy ee aretha t G and I When I | fiance hold my yarn for me, so 1] Seldom pre . You let Cora Hickett| «+pady,' he says, ‘you don’t get me{ «pooks that way.” on new pledges and responsibilities const upon them to don't help me ! marry hin ow him what nice arms | r wiles and all her knitting. | 9 taj, What I was trying to ask! «1 wonder how much of this stuff tnagatanpael Cras Ce caine u bo my husband, had. She makes up her arms, too,|She can't very well say she is knit-|\o. was has this restaurant got any! ougnt to use for one rat?” she aut, help win the war Saree Riviaa teil Gordy, dea the cat ling the sweater for your fiance.) (iemy the rats have got. I fight 'em.' | displaying a little round box “They's Justice and foresight at a time of great nal emergency he would ask mo to help | T could yt rswhen| “Why didn't you tell your fiance | Now we'll go right back tn the front) wwe! 1 says, ‘that's platner, |onqup home that almost scared my : nae Rae ai Pe Non anidichy but I notha | thalen aaled ava ite "He would | foo, powder your nose and 100K} youre needing some exercise and YOU! rather to deathwhe other night. T: demanded the regulation of the prices ) r necessitie J yi | F a atill ' ght. Too D h g f prices er necessities © 1 time you won't ot to my (no: know you made up yours too, A |beautitul, but disdainful, T'll ask you! want to do battle with a few rats.”| 414 man saw it and thought it was by the Federal Giovernment igs ine 1 sap M man never knows those things unless |Why don’t you knit, Then you blush! pen 1 just had to toss’ him @ Joke! ix por the sake of peace anit These shopping exped s Oh, no. Vm qu rta hater he's told.” ind say you are knétting, but the), et you can put up @ rattling) quletude in our family Rent » determined by local conditior y me feel almc riod | . Ih bet y 1 T either vot ente are determined by jocal couditions are naturally mare ug ‘a Pgh tog 1 you from m retorted “He's so innocent-minded, Herbert | Work is sacred to ree Miny Itt n° | good fight, I add, to got that rat or Vote this town ary" ubject to local supervision and contr Regulation of rents b 0 BARDINES SRP SMAD EOE. § is!” sobbed the soldier's war bride-to- {eves Bee it before it $s finished, for)” DS rn ner Ae CaN Sk NT i a es subject to lo rn. ¢ ation of rents by 6ome@ and invgriably the day at > be, “E don't want to tell hira any, (it is for the one you love, And say ea ; authority is likely to become every t D ury as was the regu. ne m, hug heat * ° \ Stock Exchange thing about any girl, He might think [Yeu have never knitted a , ea r tor Reclaiming ountains o aste Coa t of food prices chasoe sor 2 whit 1 was bold to know such th yh, (any other man, OW HOODS Ry ’ ' . lation of fpod 5 ‘our " eae for me, 1 should have ‘ 126 Years Old those vampire moving 1 oiuehe 1 ' iq |flht out that way, but I'll tease you! CO valuable has coal become that /dust washed away and the lumps New York City is the biggest community in the country with gifts had I not been afraid = i be suppressed by law! If a man even (and draw your sweet secret from you, S throughout the anthracite region | sent to market, This method was the largest number of rent payer: pleasing him. And as we wors | fe é me | knows a girl has her eyebrows fixed | That will make Capt. Tynnefoyle ap- of Pennsylvania to-day hun- ebandoned, for to-day each ton of 4 ; Ares actap doubte'ly to be ma Yow ¥o ; . ed) reciate your bashful yet constant) greds of men are at work reclaiming |cpal dus: is valuable, Pressed int It is for the city to waste no time in finding means to i eat 1 the date oF puts any ugh ow he thinks a} recite ¥e press va | br cileid ages peas fica arcitascing landlerd 8 Protect | peomed childish to be y wae ne. dele pirl is luring him: b aan those | heart ” ie | the immer Manstiee of fuel nn bw | btiavetten, it is running locomotives Apers Sree Preeees “al Gordon often spoke to me of } rement| vampire moving pictures the adven-| ‘But my gracious!” cried the en+| away in tho old, wasteful yours Wea |and cooking tho family dinner, whi — se eed Poe} P AMR OSE NOD Ce eee RIBAEE RhaW eG CE REE EIT "I hate to knit, I'd never | ¢he supply seemed inexhaustible, Coal | carried on an air blast tt produces ‘i € : p , 5 agres ess ts always at her toilette | | 4 carded as worthless | the intense heat necded > » Pe . a shnell, who had a « . acanhanainechar Sunrmea nat) dust used to be regarded as wor' | : in cement Letters From the People. eos Fapahnells mie Nes rining | ment v whioh the |tabia enhancing her charms Just bes |" N i ya it tor you." whispered) ang. veritable mountalna of it were|klins: ‘Theso once despised waste ome on Lai slan¢ a Iwar! great fin 1 ) oe she ix to moe arold Armytage . jane 4 a i m tonres of Supply, Sptee. | pushnell had been room ‘at a cee ee ee ce kien to Wid Puli” YIAR | try, Jarr, “Cora Hickett can't carry! pied up along the Lehigh and Sus- | leaps are annually producing mitiiong stele | “The Evening| 1 truly that Benator college, and although WAS fifteon “] think it would be better {¢ Con. 0? 18 MY house that way. He'll be-| cuehanna Valleys. One at Scrantoa | of tons of fuel he Evening | . Y c nator y a century ink ule ette ieee and all is fair in| px 5,000, " ys ye World that the Government wanted | ned his bill to. years since they had graduated they | y vcticn [gress would put It In the milltary lawatiieve you knitted st an F4n| was estimated to contain 15,000,008) ‘The work of reclamation ig also go black walnut to make parts for guns {, tors of the law relative were still pals. F cir!that any girl Who tries to steal a gol. |!°Y" and jokin! Sores jtons of pure fuel, and others were | ing on under water. For years quane D ples, ners and other trattors ey wanted me ¢ wk cotings W t f : | or, These masses contained many | tities of coal have been w. and airplanes, and wanted to know| who are in the employ or sympathize, Gordon War w Me a ee coffee | dier sweetheart from an engaged girl large | een Washed into what had become of the old black | with ‘ iny and her allies against Bushnell. He said she Tatar ye pd tree! sould be arrested or something,” | GRAND OLO MAN OF LIBERTY, | jumps, but it was ensier to mine fresh | the streams by floods or lost trom walnut furniture, 1 have a black | {his coun her wilt Jovely. end tank phe api r or: {suggested Mrs. Ja | -\HARLES CARROLL of Carroll-|coaf than to sift them out | harges, and extensive operations ars walput bedroom sult (three pieces).| have to deal with inves martial will the best of friends, 1 ! i And 1 can't ke makes me ( ton, Md,, was the signer of the| As mining became more expensive | going on to recover these accumulated and jf it is worth the price of a new! same as in bra reaulprits, the he would like me, It New ' nervous, now I € 1!" whim Declaration of Independence attention was turned to these hus |lossas. In one year the bed of the Bedroom sult, Tan willing to sell tt, | are to orsand spies, Proved there wae no knowing how whi ’ Vy AN ered Aiiuy Cuckloberry. “And Cora who lived longest atter July 4, 1776.) waste heaps, Powerful streams of Susquehanna Kiver yielded 10aee@ RS. W. W. L, C, whe might come between Gurdon and York Stock Exchange, * |Eickett keeps talking of how many He survived utd Nov, 14%, 153. water were turned upon them, the | tous of coal, ‘ ' . .