The evening world. Newspaper, May 16, 1918, Page 20

ESTABLISHED BY JOSHPH PULITZER, Published Daily Mxcopt Gender by the the Press Furplebing Company, Nos 63 to , New York. aren PULITZER, Pronident, AY Pt Row. | J. ANGUS SHAN, ‘Treasurer, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secrelary, % "Bare iow. ' MEMBER OF TAP ASSOCIATED PRESS welt STS PENS THE RIGHT MAN. N SELECTING former Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans! Hughes to aid Attorney General Gregory in the aircraft inquiry, President Wilson has made a choice which the entire Nation will recognize as at once discriminating, admirable, The President sets another timely example in showing how at this period ought to seem party line @ question of in the right pls tan.og ny Ramee -NO, 20,722 broad-minded and in every way ivial and political labels when it is uring for the country the services of the right man Mr. Hughes's exceptional qualifications for any service calling for a careful, experienced, judicious investigator are by now as well known to the whole United States as The importance of the aircraft investigation has been suff impressed upon Americans by their reali they are to this commonwealth. zation of the impera scale 1etion on the | of aircraft | scandal must doubt tivity No shred of be left to clog this part of the Nation's war s work of the debris. # just the man to make short ————+. PUTTING ON THE SCREWS. FAIR SAMPLE of a land bringing to bear upon rent payers this spring may be found kind of pressure New York yrds ave in the following two letters referred to The Evening World by an apartment house tenant who writes commending this newspa per’s campaign to put » profit 1 a stop te eering in rents Landlord to Tenant Dear Sir ‘The lease of the apart April 1, 1918 ment occupied by in our buildings expires on Sep: Mth next are writing now to ascertain if you desire to renew your lease and request that you advise us not later than Apri! 30 next It ts hardly neceasary to call your attention to the enor mous increase that has taken place, in the past year, tn the cost of everything that goes into the operation of an apartment house. In running our buildings we have done our best to keep our tenants comfortable, even at a great sacrifice tn order to obtain coal, The cost of every item of operation, includ ing coal, taxes, wages and repairs, has advanced so that it (s impoasible to continue the old schedule of rents In order to help meet these extraordinary expenses and to enable us to maintain our property properly and keep our ten ants comfortable, we are going to advance the rent of every apartment over the schedule that went into effect last year We enclose herewith a printed copy of the new schedule and sincerely trust to hear from you before May Ist advising that you are going to renew your lease. Yours very truly mber us u Same landlord to same Tenant Dear Sir: On April Ist we wrote you calling your attention to the fact that the lease of your apartment expires on September 80th next. We sent you our new rent schedule and asked you to let us know before April 80th whether or not you wished to renew your lease. We have not heard from you and write now to say that we have decided that the rents for new tenants will be 6 per cent. more than shown on the enclosed schedule, and that | old tenants who have not renewed their leases before May 16th will be treated the same as new tenants and asked to pay 6 per cent. more than the enclosed schedule. ‘Therefore if you desire to renew your lease at the schedule enclosed herewith, we shall expect to hear from you definitely before May 15th renewing same. May 1, 1918. A Copyright WOMAN writes ws i} EDITORIAL PAGE | Thursday, May 16 One's Exoucht hae Second Love Is Best By Sophie Irene Loeb 1018, by The I “When 1 was & young man. We together believe he a great me. At let me We t deal least he went to wether for Yours very truly, be ea i the eighbors began a Taye aks to talk about me In other words, old tenants are to be prodded, if possible, into \ as they do in a . : } foot —_7 al to an signing new leases at higher rents two months earlier than the usual | ; “—e ae ; ; wa, y i : : [thought we would soon be getting renewal time—which, for leases dated from Oct. 1, has been July—| ioartes ide to my astonishment, by the threat of a double raise! he married another girl He never : ; 7 r * . n, but he a Are these a kind of tactics calculated to convince tenants thac| ™ ogni i ght iy I i id , 7 vays talked as the ouk the landlord is only planning how he may share equitably with them) “weil, you can imagine how I felt his increased burdens? and | worried and thought about it On th ‘trary it is the surest way to convince rent payers th t| tone that 1 really got slck. t in the contrary it is the © canvince rent payers that) an thankful it happened as it did the landlord, taking advantage of the rising cost of everything, is out) for 1 got a much better man, and to secure av extra good thing for himself next year—and secure it) every time 1 think of it Tsay: “Weill early. tis a good thing 1 did not t od offer." peeeeeeen | | And re are many, many |this. 1 know a young girl who fell i SALVATION ARMY WAR AID. love with a man, a ® Me ats 4 ; ; keemed to return her afte a ON’T FORGET the Salvation Army War Fund this week litvaan an bax nevae Aaiod Four hundred thousand small givers have helped along rry him, always put f <] } i | sugwestion vat he was “ the drive. Before Saturday some of the big cheques ought to| PPMEC*NON Ue i come in to give this great and worthy war aid t) icking it deserves.| seemed the more she beca No organization in the world has had more experience it yg! uated at the hearts and souls of men and bringing comfort and hope into : He was ae J to do war the hard places where they are most needed = . ieee ac atelier ie The kind of religion the Salvation Army takes to the front ig secured a means of doing w the biggest kind of all. It gives much, asks lit ts on no faitn ° a pe ; but that of human helpfulness, Oe caine aoas aime, hs The Salvationists, as Commander Evangeline Booth puts it, aim! although he treate « to “form a human bond of sympathy between tens of thousands of |) AIR OTR RRL URL Oe cag ’ ‘ ed glad that she wa fighting men over there and the loved ones over here.” ioe Sere: Help these unselfish workers with the dollars they ask to aid) Me was trivo ie he others, girl friends to whon Before the end of the week their fund should be the larger py . ak P 5 bag a round sums from the wealth of New York nim. She could u H ci " ava 6a on Dah 4 s » him sanged Hits ea "ahiys Wits ‘ wile ax £ In spite of the fact that wisdom opport the most important thing and on the ship she mot a gomes with years, mout of us hate to|to know is when to let go—Chicayo jwivo interested her very i grow old.—Philadelphia Record News ‘oe | fies va ways Mrs. saben “Do you suppose| Having bur uke U1 at Mr, and Mra As | Liberty Hon ci 1 rong ut eton in the closet? gxins— | tombstone over * seudeing from the ai ir apart-|—Baltimore An ca don't think they » have a| ye ar 1 Philadelphia Record Skirte are ' ist ‘ uM Ca ery iris are wit mn Totede vege He u Memt-to knowing when to grasp an| Blade, aii bis friends. He 4 Co. (The New York Evening Wor ved this girl better tha the other 1 wrote her accordingly He begs ° and to markable when shi The second man, w better man in y Way had taken his realizes now that if she had married the other man she would have been world. r ta t . 1 tish Mlone. At any ra good And ae t ir ipa mile - Newest Things In Science Pho \ " ' \ f ‘ ‘ of ‘ id Daress. ? her fance—that is, give He'll do,” said Mrs, Jarr They ther girl an opportunity of luring |say he goes everywhere {a society. | im. But she can't be expected to be) When people find they have thirteen | Once upon a time the supreme sacrifice consisted in giving up a luxurt a recluse her mply because she is| for dinner they send for Dr. Gumm. | yug home for the sake of love in a cottage; but uowadays a girl's ultimate aby ent He always comes, even if he's tele-| yrgot of devotion consists in giving up a nice, fat job for the sake of love SoURE UREIRTEed TARA” cere ttl ee eee eee ry Tweet MR and HArOE (ied chOpiedn @ Kitchenette apartment 4 > Gumm js always anxious s, you do. You used to have alto fi his own inybods A man {6 ae fat as be looks; a woman is as fat as she feels that she lot of bachelor compan. else's," said Mr. Jart } to vks. ns come to the house when we were| “Well, bring him up.” Mrs. Jarr] a 7 OR SHRI Ot TORE Sauce BMA ayy wall tant Motor and Roller Skates for the Nurse you know you did, You said they were | ba’ At i eH > wil ne, now that 1 was mat am why 8 IT HIS invent ed,” Mr, Jare. “Only ba ; raat a of a Texas Like except Jack Sliver, who is ot pet any tof | m hant isa f {us dea f Mappe Jou | new idea to al pi oh pee ee BAG TER Evidence of New Copper! S'‘*** ” We have nothing w Field in Canada. | an h Lett tee bagi NDICATIONS of (ie presence of} ” One migh that poor ¢ ; tae | n the way from her, Does a Captain Ae eet pea Meat alt fanaa tion this the army make move than Mr, aon lin Saat Oe the Lake Superior | ymments the llus Johneor at your of. trated World fice? Has J money waved, | © mines, aay Bopular Mec The idea is to equ say in ' t new area lies te tuhiow the | an ordinary baby Mee and bought bond ¢ nts as far east as @ age . 1 the rest em i as ed oa front Vi kates. and baby ‘4 Peale man tik por field sore we afte f easant| that is required of the baby [Mak SBOUd be Kypreciated, auld Atvg, Ip the region seems strong. jebace in the par. dt .a not necesmary | is that be oF abe bold oo and | Women in War | By Albert Payson By J. H. Cassel Terhune LYDIA DARRAGH, the Quaker Who Saved Wash- ington’s Army. HE was a meek little Quakeress and with a timid omunoner Her No. 12. in a dove-colored dress name was Lydia Dar- ragh. She ran a lodging house in Philadelpula duriag the Revolution She began life as Lydia Barrington, au Irish g At Dublin she met William Darragh, a Quaker, who con verted ber to bis creed, married ber and brought her to Philadelphia J \ In the early winter of 1777 the British were was. | | e Quaker ¢ Gen, Washington and bis starv | ing patriot army were encamped not far away | The British commander, Geu. Howe, planned to sirike a surprise biow at the weak and unprepared little 4) American Army and destroy He went about his \ arrangements with the wimost secrecy, for he knew mt he expeditions success depended wholly on (i unexpeciedness | Howe's Adjutant General had rooms (1 4 Darragh's house. On the afternoon of Dec. 2, 1777, the Adjutant General sent for Mrs. Darragh and ordered that every light be out and every member of the household be in bed by 8 o'clock that evening Meekly, Lydia curtseyed and promised his commands should be obeyed. But inwardly she was afire with curiosity She put out the lights and sent every one to bed at §& ‘Then she took off her own shoes and into the upper hallway to listen. Presently men began to enter the house They came one by one and tiptoed to th Adjutant General's rooms, As Y Quaker Girl Spies ¢ the door opened to receive them Lydia could } " i see they were British officers of high rana on Officers. Gen, Howe was among them 4 ener eee When buzz of low hed voices warned her th the conference had Lydia gli to the Adjutant General's door and looked throug © keyhole ~~ Howe and his officers were grouped around a map that was spread out on the table. The General was giving directions for a sortie from tne . city on the night of Dec. 4 Under cover of darknes force of British regulars were to advance to White Marsh, ¢ away, where Washington was en sampe dawn of Dec. 5 they were to surround and crush the sleeping 1} patriot army Lydia Darragh heard every word conference was about © break up, she spe tly back to he A fow minutes later e@ was a knock door : ANSWE t “All right!” she heard the Adj. sper io some one, “Bhe # sound aslee Every one is asleey At ne Adjutant General was awakened by Lydia Darragh > a ig | was clamoring outside his rooms like a fussy She told him there ws fa | not a spoon e and that nor her neighbors would lend h n to give her a pass through the British ines, so that » out to lat Frankfort and buy a sackfu i The pass was readily granted. Lydia out for the mill, But Hurrying on through the snow, she made her way At the edge of American camp 8) old neighbor, Lieut Col. Cratg of Wash’ on's staff, To him she told what she had heard th night before, Then she went back to the mi ] ween got her flour and returned home Carries the Word } wat y the British set out the next nigh of Warning. to the unsuspecting Americans. As they » ’ yeared Washington's camp they were greeted | by atatormt ry fire and musketry th ir ranks and ren } them helter back to Philadelphia expedition was # fatlure | sem} a a rout. ee Ww sees petrayed!” shouted Howe as he stamped into Lydia Dar-, ragh's house on his return, “He was prepared for us, Some one betrayed 2 r ” h. Ldeut. Col. Craig, in later days, wrote to her nies ? faved the army, and you shall not be forgotten so long as vu — “Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell World Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Ereniag Wor 7 8 8 JOE TOW that Capt, Tynnefoyle has | Jarr; “bring him up." HIS ls “the CLA GE VOT NAR CATOLEAE) GUAR ANCOR ROMAINE kppie 2 Sl Sree Rieti Rae utenti ancying that he has “lost” it “N returned to camp you should! “Am I to be matrimonial recru his heart and fancylng bring up some nice young ing sergeant r that ¢ ek I pba married men to the house while) gir asked Mr, Jarr rueful f silk is really going to be cheaper than cotton or lys Cackleberry is visiting us,"! don't like her. She's overdressed, she wool, @ woman will at last have the delightful sensatlor suggested Mrs. Jarr makes up as though all the world of satisfying her vanity and her cougeience at the same ‘All the nice numarried then bave | was a stage, sho is fresh and forward | lie enlisted or have been drafted,” re-|und slangy plied Mr, Jarr. “lL thought Miss “She's an up-to-date girl, and not} i 5 A ; ; Cackleberry didn't care for slack-/a dowdy, if you mean that,” Mrs, When a woman loses control of her motor car 1 ‘ Jarr replied usually runs into a fence or a policeman; but when she he doesn't, but we should hear, “He won't come,” said Mr. sar | loses control of her husband be always runs straight r side of the story first. f got 4/"“He knows the Cackleberry girls. into another woman's arms. to tell him Gladys was vis 4 4 letter from Aunt Hetty at Hay Cor- | happ 2 oes hera and she wrote that a young | iting us, and he commenced to tell me! sf iH MOwianen y 1 . ; man down that way walked ninety | how different his fiancee was from the | A man may be able to talk {ntelligentiy about a lot s to the nearest camp to enlist, | kind of girls that's going these di that his wife doesn’t understand, but it takes a woman to taik and he was rejected because he was, and what work she was doing to| brilliantly about a lot of things that she doesn't understand herself. | make the soldiers happy and comfort: | 2 told he had flat feet and wouldn't be able to march ave moll eae ae re miner aque Wild oats and rice powder are two kinds of gralnstuffs on which a lot “But why should ais ‘ackleberry n't, ady ackleberr doin, ‘ want me to bring her vampire| everything she can to make a soldier| f Us could Hooverize just now with telling effect ler in the shape of young unmar-| happy and comfortable?” Mrs, Jarr] eacpas ried men, when she is engaged to retorted | Platonic love may not be practicable per se, bul as a submarine base Capt. Tynanefoyle, and you and she “Well, Johnson won't come, ow | trom which to work toward a flirtation or a love affair it !s without an re 40 dreadfully excited lest design- | that,” Mr rr persisted, “But there's | equal ng females lure him from his plight-|Jack Silver and Dr. Gil Gumm, | ‘ the young dentist, Gumm isn't mar- | |ried or engaged. He'll come; he's al A girl's greatest problem is how to acquire enough knowledge and ex- | perience to be able to appear as simple and unsophisticated as a man expects ways gunning for new busine |her to be 4