The evening world. Newspaper, May 18, 1918, Page 12

a EDITORIAL PAGE Saturday, May 18 Che Ewen ESTABLISHED BY JOSHEPM PULITZER, by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to rk Tow w York. PH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. ar ict R SER rer, 63 Park Row, oR % Tiow. Cubtished Dally Except Sunday MEMBER OP THR ASSOCIATED PRESS, z oe titled to the pee for revablication of afl Aenpatdoee eet Oe ate Citernise entitle to he Sm Sal nee peibliatind bere: VOLUME 58......cceeeeeeeees «NO, 20,724 THE MIDDLEMAN’S TOLL. N SEEKING means to curb the rent profiteers who using war conditions as a smoke screen for a raid on the incomes of New York tenants, here are certain things to be remembered: In the first place, not all rent profiteers are owners of realty “Landlord” in this city is a term that needs defining. ‘The landlord, as the New York rent payer—who is estimated to be about 90 per cent. of the population—understands him, merely the person or company to whom tenants on given premises are directly responsible for their rent and in whom, 60 far as they know, reste, the power to fix the rent and to put them out if they don’t pay it. But this landlord may not own a foot of the land or a stone in the, buildings for which he fixes the rents that reaches the a who pay them. In other words, the opportunity for the speculative middle- man to step in and levy tolls on the money that passes from tenant to property owner works against the rent payer does the, chance for middlemen to make extra and unearned profits in the | handling of his food. | Tenants in certain sections of New York have suffered enough And the part of those rents } owner would in many cases surprise the tenants in the past from the real estate “operator” who leases a tenanted| house at a figure that yields its owner a satisfactory profit and then) proceeds to wring double profits for himself out of the property by subdividing it to the tenants. Many New Yorkers will remember what a carnival of profiteer- ing in east side property was started a decade ago by the “leasters”| who would get you a $20,000 house any day for $500 and a mortgage and then show you how to boost the rents of the bewildered tenants until they would yield no more, when you could eel) it to some one else to manipulate in the same way. By permitting unrestrained raising of rents in war time, will New York encourage a horde of realty speculators and middlemen | to rush into the game and devise new, cold blooded schemes to| make a good thing out of a class of rent payers who are least able to protect themselves? Remember also: It’s not the man who is paying $5,000 a year} for his flat who really suffers from a 10 per cent. raise. Although! the amount paid for rent increases with income, the percentage rep-) resented by rent in the total of expenditure does not so increase, but | on the contrary diminishes, ‘Those whose earnings are least, find rent| Help ! Oonern 1918, 2 Teas (Tue New York Evening Word.) Among this class of rent payers a raise of two or three dollars u month means a serious cut into money needed for other living ex-| penses at a time when such expenses are themselves constantly rising. The old rule of domestic economy igned 20 per cent. of | income as the proper allotment for rent. Many families in New | T° York will find this percentage speedily forced up to 40 or 50 if, the rent profiteers have their way. | The great economic injustice now weighing upon millions of! Americans is this: War has swelled the profite and raised the wages of a consider able number of persons in this country. The prices these persons can now afford to pay for housing or for any other necessity or luxury are undoubtedly creating—particularly in a great centre like New York—a kind of overburst of prosperity which encourages unwar- ranted rent-boosting as well as other forms of exploitation. On the other hand, the great body of salaried workers and wage earners to whom the war has brought no increase of income are being! called upon by landlords and others to bring their expenditure up| to the scale and standards eet by those whom war has favored, with} the alternative of dropping to a lower plane of living. In the case of food, Government—Federal, State and Municipal| —has come to the rescue of consumers and declared that all shall not| be charged what some are able to pay. Rent is the most inflexible and formidable item in the average | family budget. | Even less than in the case of food is there excuse for an en-| lightened community to leave rent-paying workers in war time at | the mercy either of profiteering property owners or of specu- lative middlemen who are the most shamelessly grasping of all INGS and Queens have suffered a new setback at the 5 ‘The eminent young practitioner strength and dignity, such “icp the landlord tribe. ial a ae et eet . N 1865, as an experiment, the| filled out the sentence by producing iereiegeet you think a0, Mr, peer ee a a Amer Ka or ee fet pus a be pt ety North Chicago Rolling Mill Com-| box of candy built for parlor pur- | Bullwinkle?” faying cards from which royalty has been banished THE TIME HAS COME TO REGULATE RENTS. protection, |W Lea oh babs apa pany manufactured six Bessemer les s—that i ft had about tent Mr, Bullwinkle blinked, felt ing taken by J rt eax aiaaeinr aia . 2 ce ingen ey" fig al ye pee) rails from. ateel prod at'ounces of cundy in 1t, camouflaged|beardiess chin and murmured eome-| “Uncle Sam" and \? ’ : , ho respect of IAW ANd) Weingotte, Mich. They were the! with about a pound of tin fotl, rib-| thing to the effect that the most in-| “Miss Columbl Letters From the People order. bone eran’ ee Healsh a hay first mado in America, the modest| pons, lace paper and cute little pastas |dgsarn tele he had eeen at Bar-| While instead of Are Hit Again, prices are @ notable instance of teen pave tee . ‘isaman wi veginning of a great industry, A \poard partitions, The whole affair! num's circus had been Madame Ur-| the Jacks oe eGo Baitar of The Brosing World sort have been pyramided| first duty 1s directed tn the intel New ork mill, using material: turned | bearing the ornate trade mark of| sus, the bearded lady. ‘american sol I eve that you have taken up the| inti) drugs are almost beyond reach{of little children on the cots or CUt at Troy, made furthe : experi-|one of the manufacturers of sweet| h, yes,’ cried the irrepressible ) 4! np A cartoon cudgels against rent profiteers. Fine— of op, Certainly tt 1s a feeble! wh rhe finds them? ments, and in 1867 the Cambria jatude who were ahi even before | Dr, Gum, “how that must havo re- [on the Joker bears but don't forget the other profiteers, | kk of patriot » would air b ‘The very act of helping this mother Company began to F 1 Bessemer |the war, t » prove that sugar can sell) minded you of the popular nov rotl > @ otto ae a in @boes, clothing, food, tobacco, and| Private tr wine otcationelland ehild aormae ne asrect ebould| (Tee, nee a CrmUlon PUMIROAM, late AOURE pound [Like Other Girls" And he went over | Kings or Queens : ' crisis, But t hot @ case of one| have been an object lesson to the lit-|made and used in England, | Miss Gladys Cackleberry being the|and py the stunned young Mr,|for Me.” One de- pa everything that a man u This is} or @ group of mon. It a thel tle ono, and ita attention should havo| Were introduced into America by the | nearest, took the box of candy, deft- | Bullwinkle away from the plano and sign for the backs the open season for thieves, They on, Or 00 per cent. of it,| been drawn to the act, eo as to instit|henneyivania, Railroad, which, in |iy removed all the chocolat Bement DIAY mr wien ie not anty | includes two con: wear a smug smile, rub their hands + to autter, for the other ten. The| in the enlld « friendly feeling for the| ion tons of ucoel roll’ “The meine nea (ing. ber sister preserred the very Jatest soldier song, but| ventiona lized amd deplore the war, but pick the) Government must mort-aighted| policeman rather than ono of fear, | was $150 gold per ton, equivalent in {and then, with @ loving emile, Pre- | could be regarded a4, a del! |Liberty bolls. public pocket of anything that it may! indeed, unless aor medial action in| ‘That old Dugaboo of scaring a child | Oivil War 8 ) in Amer | sented the box to the other, | bute to the é ata Corps. Wheae Una still contain. Scarcely a storekeeper! taken at once. We cannot auccess-| with the policeman bas done more currency were made o: he expected to in New York but has abused the pub: Ite mecessity by promiscuously raising | fully carry on 4 war abroad when the people at home are groaning under a prices. If the wholesale market ad-| load of unfair, unnecessary burdens. vamees a penny, he tacks on ten, and) Beware we are like the camel wheu the defenseless public pays the and the well known straw Wy be makes it a dollar, Drug @NE OF THE PUBLIC And the Policeman | By Sophie Irene Loeb 4 Coprriaht, 1918, by The Prens Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). other day on the street I noticed a child eryin bitterly. Its shrieks were full of fright and tt wes oling- ing close to its mother’s skirts, It To-day prevention of crime is as much @ part of police work as the punishing of it, One of the great steps toward prevention of crime among children 1s to teach them that the policeman 1s their friend, seemed terror-|rather a help than a hindrance in stricken and the{thetr way. And in case of any dan- mother had to lift| ger or trouble the child ghould be the lite one in| taught to take the policeman tnto her arma. his confidence, and many a disaster I thought the| would be averted, wee one must be} The bad little boy is usually the} in, and I apoke to} good boy with misdirected energy. the mothe ‘Oh,| His mother should warn bim that he ts just afraid of the policeman,”|when he “is putting something over answered the mother, smilingly. on the cop” he is doing damage to 4 It acemed that the officer had helped | real friend—a friend who Is there in the mother and child across the busy | his interest. street, While the women walked| More and more has the police sys- | along 1 talked to her and inquired} tem become humanized. It a a Soy! why the child was afraid of the po- liceman, I learned the usual story. | potic hia mother, ae many other foolish |xested city, especially in the inter- onan tad threatened the child many tr of women and obilcren, Ther art) eat no trafic policemen like them in ail | tines with calling @ policeman 4) (he world, and every mother should tos © great work of tho tratfic | n in the streets of this con- m punishment for wome little misbehav- | aid tho dimicult task that dally con: | for, The child, not seeing policemen | fre nts them. very mother should | | very often, naturally built up tn its Veach | Uitte Cunaren ip Socenet he | mind @ very exaggerated feeling of | yt eter light, It ta nothing what @ policeman might do. In its| snort of a crime for a mother to ttle brain @ policeman was somo- create fear In the heart little | thing to run away from, to ho|one for a legally constituted pre | tor of the pe Fi which includes dreaded, a superior and terrible be! ploy e who wreaked vengeance on little ch dren, Of all the mistakes a mother makes this is among the worst—teaching a rst Steel Rails Brought} Big Price. | ble steel and ¢ harm than can be estimated. In con-| percentage of carbon, t | \trast to this is another scene that 1/ tle. For this reason many broke have witnessed of two Iittle tote| during the next winter, but despite standing at a corner and patting the tala Fact the Fallway company placed | nead of a policeman’a horse who had| fritain, paying from, $139, to $102 60 | dismounted to chat with the children, | gold per ton \66 By Roy L. Coovriht, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The R, BULLWINKLE you know, girls; but Miss Irene Cack- leberry and Miss Gladys Cackleberry, this 1s Dr, Gilbert Gumm, our popular and rising young dentist,” eaid Mrs, Jarr, introducing the young people, as the Cackleberry sisters came into the room with their arms entwined. How those dear girls loved one another! Mr, Bullwinkle gaped foolishly while Dr, Gumm, to prove he was @ rising young dentist, at least, got up from the sofa and came forward, saying® “Charmed, indeed!" Both the sisters blushed in maid- ently modesty and murmured they were pleased to meet the callers. Dr, Gilbert Gumm was there with the proper reply. It was to the ef- | fect that the pleasure was mutual. Young Mr, Bullwinkle again, then gulped and grinned shambled over to the piano stool and sat down | ‘on it with his elbows back on the piano lid, as though to tndicate no | discord should mar the occasion, and that the plano was not to be played without resistance on his part, 80 far as his strength would allow. Per- haps he was not as weak-minded as some people thought. At any rate, his attitude was as though the plano should not be played to excess if he could prevent it. “Dr, Gumm ts onesof our leading young dentists,” Mrs, Jarr went on, “And not to speak professtonally,” murmured the young dentist in re turn, “If the young ladies have sweet teeth to fill"— “Sweete to the sweet, young ladies!"*) sald Dr. Guinm, who was renowned oUR CHINESE TRADE GROWING for bis brilliant wit, and he took his at on the sofa between the Cackl erry girls, while young Mr Bu winkle gaze with envy and wo! at him e Jar r Famil y we and red how some fellows |ises to exceed it McCardell York Evening World), think up bright could quickly, “Yea, you sit right there betwoen us!” erled Miss Gladys Cackleberry. “and we'll make Mr. Bullwinkle watch you to see that you bebave your- self!” “A rose between two thorns, young ladies!” said the Ife of the party. while all laughed at this tmprompte bonmot, except young Mr. Bullwinkle, who still sat guarding the plano frm attack and wondering how some fel- lows could think up such things, right out ef their own heads, in @ fash, just Ike that! “And now you are a prisoner of war!” orled Mrs, Jarr. “You know, both the dear girls have enilsted in the Young Ladies’ ‘Auxillary to En- tertaln Our Boys Who Are Going Abroad" Young Mr. Bullwinkle's Jaw dropped. |He had done everything he knew to prevent his going abroad—at least till or tho war was over. think I shall join the dental corps. Do you know how many den- Usts have gone abroad to fill up the {gaps?” remarked Lr, Gumm, and he toyed with his natty Vandyke beard. “I saw the Blue Devils, the French soldiers who had been tn the trenches, things © |when they were here speaking for | the Liberty loan,” remarked Miss Treno Cac thought occurred to me then ‘Why are men h beards so strongly masculine tn appearance, as compared with smooth jshaven men? Ah, I know you will| }oll agree with me that @ beard adds siocdll os AST year’s trade between Hong Kong and the United States was the greatest in history, This year’s record, however, prom- Stories of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune Corrieht, 1918, UF The Press Publishing Co, (The New York fiveniox Wor No. 24—BARONESS DE KAULLA, Bismarci:'s Spy in Frande. RANCE lay helpless uiwer the wave in- vasion. War prisons iu Germany were full neb captives, from private soldiers to Kmperor Napoleon IIL. himself, The time was 1871 At a Hamburg fortress General de Cissey. He had been captured sent thither some months earlier. His captivity was ligbl- ened by tho friendship of a charming woman, herself & political suspect, she said, who called herself “the Baroness de Kaulla. The imprisoned General quite lost hia heart to the fascinating Baroness. Just before he was released she disappeared, But he was destined to meet her again, The Baroness was a former wife of Col. Jung of the Prussian Artay | Incidentally, she one of the horde of spies that Bismarck trained and organized. was confined the French and Shrewd old Bismarck knew do Cissey was a briiilant oMcer aud that he was due to rise high in France's military world, That was why he had sent the Baroness to him in the weary days of his captivity. Bismarck was right. After peace was restored the French Government began to build up @ new military machine to replace the one shattered by Prussia, And in 1876 Gen. de Cissey was made Minister of War. also @ member of the National Assembly. This was Biemarck’s chance—the chance for which he had waited four years. He sent the Baroness de Kaulla to Paris. Germany knew France would not rest forever content in the memory of the defeat of 1870-71. Soon or late the Frenel were certain to demand a day of reckoning Wherefore every French military secrot was of vital importance to Germany, The Baroness came to Paris and rented a pretty apartment between de Cissey’s home and the Shan) aeey Then she recalled herself to de Clssey’s memory as the | charming foreigner who had tried to ease the weariness of bi at Hamburg in 1871, ere phe had The new Minister of War was dol! more. He was Barret Bismarck’s Trap Ie Laid. eee hted to meet his old friend once He found the Baroness even more alluring and beautiful than before. In short, he proceeded to fall hopelessly in love with her—as Bismarck had | foreseen that he would. Now began a very pleasant period of time for every one concerned, but | most of all for Bismarck, | _ Tho Prosident of France and the Ministers of his Cabinet used to conter |often in the morning at the Elysee Palace, What was more natural than for Gen. de Cissey to stop at the Baroness de Kaulla’s apartment for lunch- eon afterward? The Baroness made herself as fascinating as possible; was one of the best in that city of good cooks. The became daily occurrences, and her cook @ luncheons soou | On his way back from a Cabinet meeting or after a conference with committees of the National Assembly the weary Minister of War enjoyed | these dally visits more than anything else in his life, He would come tnto the apartment, toss his Ministertal portfolio care- {tessly on a table and forget for a while that he was an overworked states- | man. | The portfolio—or one just like it—always remained where he bad dropped !t until ho went away. The Baroness, however, had one of her spy- | servants exchange it dally for another portfolio of Dearne «tho same appearance, While this dummy recep- Portfolios Changed § tacle lay on tho table the original was ransacked Every Day. im another room and tts private papers copied, $ after which it was returned to its place, While this pretty game was enacted with the portfolio the Baroness was skilfully wheedling de Cissey into blabbing state secrets into her attentive ears. Her memory was photographic. The noment de Cissey had gone ehe would write out a full report of all he had said. ‘This report, along with the copied papers, was sent every day to Bis- marck tn Berlin. ‘All of France's plans to build up her army and to construct new férts, &c.—the tale of her strenuous efforts to regain what she had lost—were thus {n Bismarck’s possession within a week of the time they were formu- lated. How Our Tor pedo Boats Got Their Names \ By Henry Collins Brown Coprrieht, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) The Wainwright jhis light guns. He was attacked bY a ae name of this torpedo boat ree |°7e, wormedonoas destroyers, the | : |Pluton and Furior, The Glouc calls our most recent war—the | eae een at The | Wa# greatly Inferior to her antugo- bse! ‘4 ; | nists both in battery and armor pro- attack on Manila by Dowey's Seat tection, Nevertheléns, Wainwright stands out as the most important ee eens amtagoniats and event in the naval events of that war.| 0°08) at's close quarters, ‘The But the long watch in front of Ban-|Pr'ton snowed signs of distress, and tiago for the appearance of the Span-| 4 moment later was broken in two by iah ships waa one of an explosion, The Furlor rematned portance, ‘The Spantsh fleet, consist-|in' getion alightly longer, but a #bot ns Maria Teresa, Vizcaya, | trom the New York sent her to the Cristobal Coton and Almirante Aquen- | nottom in deep water, During these had eluded the American exciting moments the Gloucester was ships on their Journey from Bpain|exposed to the fire of the Socapa and made the harbor of Santiago in| shore batteries, and the marvel of it safety, ‘The American fleet promptly | is that she was not once h proceeded to blockade the entrance, In this encounter Wainwright up- On the 8d of July the foe sallied| neld the best traditions of our navy forth, Foremost among the attack-|and showed himself a true sailor of ers was Lieut, Commander Wain-| tho highest type. The Gloucester es ‘eright of the Gloucester, formerly the| caped serious Injury and the lar eee tne private yecht of J, p.| battleships speedily ov | Morgan, who at the enemy, ost equal im- do, war- | destroyed the enemy amed directly toward | ter after the war was conver firing upon th with (he President's yacht, the Mayflower. | Would Banish Kine and Gea From Playing Cards. Same and a coupleoftsol- diers’ would be he new way to designate three kings | whiob magazine the wo jacks ation comme is reprinted.