The evening world. Newspaper, May 14, 1918, Page 16

“Who'd Have Thought It?” » Stories of Spies BSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except Gunday by the Frese Publishing Company, Nos 63 to ; : ; By Albert i ayson | erhune 68 Park Row, New York. . The Pres Pubtiehing ay RALOR FULITERA, President, (69 Pott mer : ‘ 3 : 3. PHILIP HENSON, the “Southern Union Spy." Secretary, 63 Park Row. Jf 2 ‘ Mee i ie A a of © was 6 feet 2 ineh 4 th old ag ide = ts J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row JOSHPH PULITZER, Jr MEMBER OF TH® ASSOCIATED PRHAS, Was the possession of a beard that war 6 leet 4 inches fs E ft a dewpatchee obs, 9 Wehen loneer t ‘ cooalTer porated, Pepe, it, ctcutiray s7Htiet eM Mice locel neee peeled here long, 2 tuehes tonger than hi ' VOLUME SevcccccereseesesonmessecasaasasNGs 80,780, | when the Civil War vegan yuipathies aud Bis loyalty were with the Union anes to escape draft into the Con CONGRESS AFTER LANDLORD PROFITEERS. eae ee ne ee Ceo ee ee wer W YORKERS who have already felt the first impact of the Platte bat e i a ha ALL : +4 N rent raising drive which landlords In this city are getting A eh a SILMiNTIGe Ie ties ri i v The whole ander way should find a special interest in the Pomerene bill passed by the United States Senate last Saturday to check profiteer- tug in rents in the District of Columbia. tie pe hee ei ‘As the House has passed @ similar bill even more drastts in al provisions, there is little doubt that Congress will speedily give Wash-) ington a legislative curb on profiteering landlords whioh may serve hand South for the 4 1 rt. It was in July, 18t au i career as & Unlon spy ly two years, working for Grant and for other for Gen. Dodg Every one in his own ni ‘ he had lit ighborhood believed him to the trouble at first in n keeping Gen, Dodge apprised of With the normal population of the Nation’s capital increased} Fbiese yeeaie of hero Is ba ed on ar 1 that has perhaps more than 100,000 by war activities, Washington real estate interests on ad lopenea every sn h ot th w ae ne - : is have had extraordinary opportunities for equeering exorbitantly in lhim to carry news to the Union armies acro: Leste ; bere creased rentals out of tenants—opportunities of which they have! ‘ go eh sil he tre : availed themselves in many gases with a high-handed disregard of the Mesicearnctiest } hel nt he oho Aga Wand ar tenante’ circumstances and a perfect readiness to put them into the, oer & shad come to visit frietds 01 7 Arh street if they failed to come to terms. | Wes Weeki J é of New York landlords should take note that these Washington H a te Ce A Ne dish atl als jhe was ¢ t nt real estate owners have their own greed and rapacity to thank for | Bion out hernere- in every cr ine ) i ae the legislation which Congress is now aiming against them. | | » he used his eyes and ears to deadly : en The Pomerene bill passed by the Senate provides that realty Ara HAVE SCHEER Ut LG ce ote eee nie phal! be entitled to a return fixed at 7 per cent. net on a valuation a 1 not forget a fa , H ual to the assessed valuation of enid property for taxation purposes nothing tnerim natin plus 50 per cent. thereof,” allowing the owner to reckon in also the} | hele he bis the Céntedes ‘ : , cost of reasonable repairs and maintenance, taxes, insurance, light, pas) at pipes — - { to heat, water, elevator service and due allowance for depreciation J ae Pad ms a to at gna On this basis, according to the Pomerene bill, are to be reckoned) } His Run of Luck } had long susp a man throtel whem | legal maximum rents for real estate in the District of Columbia b ipas vehel Ene, itis cAnaial eter Venema ‘ i after Oct, 1, 1918. | 2 ee Uiei ses a divers, onal Henson was a Unio This legislation, which, it {s proposed, shall remain effective until jt tt Dae ni tr ther * s he . t fre nee ie a Pa one year after peace is concluded, represents a highly significant 1864 was led through the st s in chains as part of dene recognition that, while the war lasts, Government must step in to| TOUMUNE SCREEN SHEeaRtAlY WOTEN TGA itd Gano ea IHR ae protect the public from yet another kind of profitecring in the prime} cee Hehe Aaa ce Nght wer tee weat box.” He necessities of life. After nine months of prison torture he was ¢ out of } was drafted into the to which he had been a lines, where he was arre spy when Gen. Doda Bashelor Girl Ref lections By Helen Rowland Food prices have already been put under Federal control. Rent,| e Evening World has pointed out, is an element in the cost of | iving more inflexible even, from the point of view of millions of| Americana, than the vost of food. New York has many times as many rent-payers as Washington Where shall tenante in this city look for protection from landlord profiteers? a re a] i ; al " sauces eet : ¢ 1 he Preee Publishing Co. (The New York Krening World The answer is obvious: | . A ae ORE are no traffic regulations on the road to marital happiness, but . ; \X/ that wouldn't be so bad if everybody didn’t try to flag a newly par Rents, being determined by local conditioné, naturally subject | i's he Housewife h @) Bg h (F J a ie Y F aml l y ried ret pee iad (se it ng off in the wre be d * | By Roy L. McCardell Any woman who has: watched her husbar te local regulation and control. | In legislating for the District of Columbia, Congress acts as P ( c p are S N 0) W a Board of Aldermen would act in ite own municipality. | Ry S heel I b 2\ Ufa id Liddy ene | se apa Hh laa ee his What Congress seeks to do toward putting a stdp to profit- | Me IRS alae a Oe she's done? cried the a Me Aa : Oonsright, 1918) by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) she's de ried the agl-|Plighted tr said Mrs, ‘Jarr een a can't help Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York E World’ trembling a little for the Germans he may meet * fear she can make ie When a man doesn’t know just how to take a wom- an’s moods and whims, he is very foolish to agree to eering in rents in Washington should, in the City of New York, | HE other day an order was {8-jonce. 1 will not have to pay f ape ge grat aes ia ela bali BS whew ane a ; my i take them for lite start with the Board of Aldermen. | aed by the Federal Food Ads | Jara, and: oy. food will be HOADol Orta ihe Aebea hauls; had leachs| VAIL aika ara’ae soft, 218 made ministration by which confec-|er, Any woman with the smalle — a one . cee It may mean nothing to a thin woman, but to a fat woman the sight of the elephants in the circus parade wearing those huge banners bearing the injunction, at more potatoes!” seems a cruel threat ered up her knitting In her seventy- | apple pie, indeed! Wel five centimetre knitting bag, and had|thing it's another!" jeparted, “While Il was out talking to| Later the same day, as the moving you, Just for a moment, she told him | picture titles say, the gushing accents what lovely homemade ple she could] of Miss Cora Hickett, would-be fiance make, H made apple ple! And|stealer, came over the telephone to #/ she told him that as he would be go-|inform Mrs, Jarr and Miss Cackleberry | *"* f it isn’t one | Complaints are already numerous and insistent that New York| | landlords are raising rents far beyond the ratio of increase in ex- penses, taxes and coal prices by which they attempt to justify such| : | action, | toners and other| kitchen can do the same dealers who use f fruits and large amount of| vege aro ordered] tind many to curtail their} that she can te the high ables the fru, isewlfe wi d ominous rducts 6 mark at A prive this pur- | supply #o that} that is not Congress is going to make it illegal to burden Washington Be acrid a it you i 5 wih ing away to war, she wanted to give|not to forget they were to take dinner S HELEN Romaine Give a man enough rope—and watch him get tan tenants in war time with rents higher than can be shown consist: plant aiken: fotlaome ot the be twill ud [iim a dinner that he would remember. |at her house that evening. sled up witb some other woman . 4 " stent St ee ih NS be i ! : . = Does she make good pie? Or will] Capt, Tynnefoyle came in uniform te aroeet with fair economic return and an equitable sharing of increased | rving ‘ ‘i i" sie) f th : hs ™-| she have her mother make It for her, | conduct them to the appetite trap, and \ bachelor who avolds a flirtation for fear of falling in love would | r Y OU y 6 Ove v x par ‘The order has) ko: | like you are going to knit a sweater |though he spoke of his fondness for for me, that I am to tell him I am|hot appie pie, and expressed a hcepe knitting in secret for him alone—the| his betrothed could make the same, lon for fear of catching the rose fever, avoid the hanging gardens of Baby loads. What are New York Aldermen good for if they can’t find a bridles bee without @ certificate from an 8 hat tat Gov-|low grad when the high and 6 goods can ‘The most hopeless kind of bachelor, according to feminine philosophy, :, . } Q rst sweater | have ever knitted that embittered da el gave no sign way to do as much for rent-payers in New Yorls? SARL BOE Be Or ey etal pele 1 in the hnisher priced mar- |" “wh I ‘ 1 ‘ ; Hickett 1 f sealsuars mlilichan har baact (EN 1s the one who {s too much of a fool to appreciate a good wife and not quite Fieger aye ike ay are sont post haste 0 Be) ood coon replied Mra, Jerr Bh nore oF tes breaking ae enough of @ fool to make a good husb and "a . | whis w the housewife a/feady mark Often y . took cooking lessons, I believe, but she} | A’ Mrs. Jarr had surmised, the fair ‘The statement attributed to the British War Office to the | Sones mye Haas DouseM lie: .8 | OEY Ate eure sa good cook, for ail'that, I wouldn't] Miss Hickett, her color eahanced ‘by| ‘The world may be growing wiser and more sophisticated, but appar- effect that the American Army would not be used on the West (soko “ - bg daa ¢ bes viop be ; ant gis ss \ be surpr for she 1s an artful] the kitchen range, took them in to the! ently half the women still believe that the latest popular face-cream will iy 2 oring foodstuffs lext wintor, | Vegetables, will sell ua \ kite? Sp ne Be ern front until it had become a complete, self-supporting force ne u i \| ning, but that she will make the pie,|{Kitchen before dinner and showed | naxe them as beautiful as the picture {nu the | r-|lower price in order . te | , . advertisements, and the other at altogether : Jana cook it just before dinner, and! them her art in ple making. Mrs, Jarr J0)¢ tondiy hope that marriage will make them as happy as the brides in and will avold the shortage ex fe now officially declared to convey the exact opposite of ltenced jast year, While It is a long k Me tint tche’ how asked for @ glass of water, and Miss the fact. time until next winter, yet It fs the} I know a woman w put up ail] t¥e we ont tn t kitchen and show as fahpadltpvetpaoisal RUPE TE magazines. The Associated Press is informed that the Ottawa despateh she makes the ple berselt, | Hickett went for a & jus how progressive individual who has vision |her Jellies by what Pie a hag 3 “e , - « : i : ie hia ks CRoue OF Nt ple ple, didn’t @ guest to use, At a signal from Mrs wan due to an error waioh has now been corrected and looks ahead who «. [overs." 1 i rR p i ree Jarr Miss Cackleborry led ber apple Many a man believes firmly in marriage, just as he does in religion— Who was he and where? | People with near-sightod habite are w TA riea Bie lover out of the kitchen in apple | for other men—and yet remains single, because he can't bo a rich girl's OF Gd nome 'D ‘Dont arase the cab! ogee a ‘ t ; Iu ‘ t's why she Pe Order. Mrs, Jarr joined them all | darling, and he won't be a poor girl's cash register. Nat Site 1 other words, in these days the man nple, on 1 iss Cackleberry at's Letters From the People. gets left behind uch were they were | couldn’t ancer and say it came from Water three siba of ete ratte en Have Good Chance Wants German Spies Pantshed subordination to some newly-coined, This particular prop nts tr ne A, and ghe aaved|® Bakery, vo” amked Mra, DUt sparingly, declaring he was re- Wi re ae To the Wiktor of The Evening World ; a and etention for the war|tended for the housekeeper of sina any a : What did he say? taining a good appetite for his favor to In ommuissions Let me join another of your readers| 4% & pena for German reans wbo has not mu . in | Jarr eage iby: Z psi eni-| Where wi 58 end? It i : oh : ‘ ed hot apple pie,’’| t> Geesert, Bome made apple ple HAT ance has a drafted man/|on the firing line, where comm ency shown to German spies, plotters © Landlords Muat We Curbed, | her storing early and do a lit . los} replied Miss Cackleberry, plentifully reddened with cinnamon, aut Sn ec far Ae & 11 1 Oa See and sympathizers by the National] To the Editor of The Evening World For it is the tt oft 7 N scare of! mother used to make tt for him when i) wien Capt, Tynnefoyle took one x ib alec Gatton 4a paar : s and thows Government. Almost every man in} How mu r will the pec Administration to ie t 1 & DB] Ne was a boy, with plenty of cinna- ab n® establishment can be, thi merican | who make the great eaerifice must be people of Food Admi saves | he was a boy, nouthful a howl of pain came from | 4 a democratic institution, | flied, alth ‘psipt New York has seen or heard of little} New York nit to the growing rent | method of distribution of sugar the war | mon tf him, “My dear young lady,” he ee ava ica aigiea asl ina am ug uld said that things done by Germans which arelovil? Something must be done about us to insure the ne f the bh é ! cat} “Cinnamon!” repeated Mrs. Paty ha erly adn From the day the rookies 1 10 officer runs slightly loom risk of ‘at least suspicious. But what use is|it. Greedy landlords have laid hold hold in times of shortage. kvery ar f nm It}«r have an idea, Gladys, my dear,| luttered, | y if Ake | camp they are carefully watched to/injury or capture than the private \t to report such matters when the|of the Aa a pretext to raise rents housewife can do it. Heclpes are ou ad be eh LR GH ERR arc Her CT RSTn favored or Be win cayenne which of hem apps ar to be ems |Vacanctes are filled from the ranks | ‘ no \ he ‘ eed pepper instead cinnamo; ater, ' » The first promotions | usually o: comme 1 suspected persone are only taken Up|in any degree that their fancy dic- hand everywhere for various kivd First I lague Confe _., |to dinner at her house without asking| (so please,” © maleril Pheer Hdl ces HARA | RANAET 98 recommendation of the and treated as distinguished guests?|tates. ‘The lack of building owing to of preserving and canning nierence ly yu, did she?” Miss Hickott, the defeated, sept in| come autekt: RUE SE STANT SLNay AA | got or regimental commander, And while we are doing this, we may|bigh prices in construction materials | Last summer in @ kitchen four by | HE first 1 Ml Peace| On, no, she asked me, and sho ts chagrin, | men on mt ite. sanaeD. Ag. SOrnOTs and commissions are often given to b e: have|is {i t r er W | i © nox Dro’ w de hich Sergeants ha o be|men ¢ ne flery te A onceive what the Germans havel|{s a direct aid to them. Now York eight 1 put up a} 1 and fi h 1 the | going to ask you. When she saw Bg tit by the ¢ on it male bee pales right men must be| ave marked cou hey bs done t 8, taken prisoner nd) ha bee gh. |jers of frui 1 I fol Petia #-\irerbert was fond of old fashioned Oy ot ’sirg. Jarr to the suffering Caps ele RO Le ata: 2. ETS 8nd Gor battle. was only necessary handed in their methods and the less |lowed ¢ y the recipes from tbe ans J The Hague} hot apple pie, she thought it safes, tu smiling flance | pic SAE MEGA TBARS | car te > ee the ectior pew, | wort 8 of them are now reaping a | Agriculture Departme je But what gives you the Idea about > efficienc b may receive publ a to get| gs a t from unfortuna 1 Evening World, O a ie 1 cinnamon? NAUTICAL TERM, The weeks 8, rAaW recruits are wi t doiny, a firs slim n prison] an In the meantine we a spoled during the w A bee sof Teenie iat wal aber cms eden’ NEW YORK bride and groom) transformed into soldiers, and the ae recrute camy ans food, sans nes, 8ANS| Vited to buy bonds and thrift « was due to freenit Ly rey nations, | said Mrs “You might be ex- began their honeymoon by} more ambitious have devoted thelr Pr neess Pats," was “It ine everything. Add to this the indig-|to help the Red ( a thousand opened » jar it Was o joy, For 1/ assemble » Lat the | tea and she ml:'; suspect some- making a trip to one of the| spare timo to study, Before the tra “py ; £ as Acting nities heaped upon captured men and| relief organizations, and to give up our w that everything was wholesome| jin, framed 4 rholus Ul of}, a. But [wil show Cora Hickett Southern ports Py @ coastwise| ing camp period ends those showing | Ww" MI. Arthur’ Cleasby we have kultur at its beat—or worst./pons 4 rs, All of w 7 In summing up the ecat n 1 Nine | whe ean't 6 to my house and use | Steamer. the greatest aptitude are recommend: | vate ‘ iene In the meantime we are handling! well e ut why should land. |for the er a 1 nitt ‘ from dlaputes | o> Stes to aunder fond hearts, Why, |, The Young Women, who took a live-| eq for commissions. ‘There in @ cease w Colonel and we ent; he | traltors with kid gloves, The penalty | lords a 4 pirates be permitted to jars Jing the which I we were y ION by [rey ever made any aver Gaps | iy, inserans 12 Ghe passengers, #ald one) ions demand for offi e fir eallod 1 r € , Asa- day to he’ anc | Pig ; he | 8 for a spy is less than that inflicted| grow fat from the misery of othera? to purchase in the first place, iy tlance " Prance and|tain Tynnefoyle before ” | "pid you notice the great appetite | quotas A le ¢ i ne upon some American soldier who get#|Is the A ¥, national, |was considerably less than prive | German uvarker i f . t that stout man opposite us at din-| France many officers m | . yaars a Ane be Jusr because be is a who | 0: 8 \i with the nto trouble with his superiors, We) State pal, that will make of similar products ased in th eat France, and] sy g for me," | ner Hi , | for special work, 80 an alae semacune read of fifteen years Bentences im-|these privateers di with @ seme store A en dispute | vnimperad the ongamed oy . He must! sation takes place meine Anmingen honlden ob our men for @ bit of im- blance of equity? ? P) 4 tend to r teat Rs ; ; ; ‘i 1s 8 ono posed 6 of equity FAIR PLAY, ‘This year 1 intend to y | Waly Gou's sive Ber Wie eatiatac: | Marpase Aina We ARB MODS MMOE Aik DAAGE BOn OD Lhe BLA of Gan, wera wt .