The evening world. Newspaper, May 21, 1918, Page 18

& Bi Pou Tw ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daly Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos 63 to. 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZ! J. ANGUS SHAW, T JOSEPH PULIT tt, Jr, ™ ‘The Associated Pres 1 Gevtited (oT oF not other surer, 63 Row. 1 cretary, 63 Park Row, IRER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES, ‘ cdnatrely entitled to. the nae, Neat Jenpat chee sively entitied to nee for reqib! EF Ry Ks ited tm Chia paper and aleo the local m VOLUME 58.......0. y RENTS UP—SERVICE DOWN. NOTHER REASON why profiteering in rents this epring provokes extra protest from New York apartment house | tenants: Desire to maintain hig efficiency of apartment house servica zed by landlords and agents to justify the r: Yet, though rents go up, standards of service go down. Tenants complain that, notwithstanding a 15 or advance in their rent is expressly explained as necessary to cover the expenses of “making our tenants comfortable,” detail of apartinent house service which landlords have not permitted to drop bel »w formerly recognized leve $ of adequacy 'The rent may runs less regularly, the hot water is more than ever intermittent, lig in the halls is oftener forgotten and look of the premises appears to be considered of less and less importance. Old tenants are informed they must pay more next year, but the fan iiord will make no promises as to painting, repapering or repairs. Tn fact in ng heat and hot water mi next Winter by inserting a special clause e experiences of Ja and preparedness, seem to have left in many landlords only a sneak ing determination to shift definitely to the tenant all consequences of cold yi bl not coal famine hereafter. of all New York landlords, were some who furnished heat to their tenants straight last winter's cold spell. will be found ordering their next season’s coal supply} during Coal W éet for the six days from June 3 k, which the Federal Fuel Administration has now} to 8 | he other kind of landlord will get his coal, as he gets his other supplies, on the usual hand-to-mouth plan—while at the same time he} exacts higher rents from his tenants on the plea that he must “keep | them comfortable”! Also we shall hear not a few New York landlords claiming that} cellars are not big enough to hold even the sinallest reserves of coal, the In the ease of hundreds of apartment houses this is probably true. Nothing better illustrates the kind of realty development which, hy sacrificing everything else to rental space, hasty building and quick returns, is responsible for much of the injustice and discom- fort of which New York rent payers have to complain. The fact is, the speculative side of apartment house bi and renting in this city has had more attention than the service side. The f prope r ner has been studied and stimulated in the interest of ty owners and even more in the interest of the realty middle- of the s ! who The numerous enough anan, s one rpest and boldest of all speculators, service side concerns only the tenant. If the tenant is as he snerally is in New York—to keep the pres- éure of demand for iousing fairly constant, landlords and speculators in apartment house real estate do not worry as to whether he is get- fing all the service he pays for, nor do they sit up nights to devise means of making such service at once more economical and more R, President, 63 Park Row, | 20 per cent. there is scarcely a} five dollars a month higher, but the elevator} { ht} vy cases he even seeks to evadg responsibility for} winter, so far from suggesting foresight} | oT? \ The Children’s Hour) By Sophie Irene Loeb Covsriaht, 1918, by The Pres Publishing CO, (The ew York Evening World ate. It means the health and hapr ness of her household—the health of the baby, ‘The work has already bi gun in Washington and Chicago, The is to be regarded as the charge of the | community. | The children 4n our enemy country f [have been hard hit, Seemingly (he! entire country is to be awakened to efficient, | war has struck its severest nd ®ti hear the cry of the children—to | 1, Cl ton of children 4 | om every oppo! If the service they give begins to cost them more they cut it]the bales. Conservation of ¢ Com. | answer it in giving them every oppor- | _ is now tho cry of the moment. Com- | tunity and advantage. down, At the same time, they raise the tenants’ rent and ask him tn} munity TOMER 198 ue rele itateia cine uniaves ani vahould © ce believe they do so in order that he may be better cared for. [oe tittle -OnRe: “tay Peng sd aided on all sides, Instead of waiting GS every day until our infant mortality increases, | In any other kind of business this getting the customer both] irs, Finley Shepard has adopted t did in the enemy countries dur-| ‘ , three children and about to adopt a aia tian iP ol ways—charging him a higher price for a thing of leseened value—|‘hree children an siifford BR. Wilmot | (1% me tiret periods of the war, w we ‘i |the fourth, Mrs, Clifford are taking the ounce of prevention in| wouldn't work long. lof Greenwich, Conn. ie. meman, a definite preparedness plan for | 3 + | is waiting for the adoption papers of |). 1. a inlepant Of enilaeal But th s always a demand for apartments, nobody knows the! ‘* ® Un, r the parents in the interest of children ing and outs of any one apartment house until he has lived in it, and,| once 1, the cost and inconvenience of moving tend to make t tenant submissive and to fayor the landlord against the normal effects Some apartment house landlords in New York regard service to tenants as an essential part of their business—not as a trouble- old, rhe poor baby girl three month Such is the spirit of the tm In this great city ther of children single hundreds block ina There greatest oporlunily for tts great work to be done, Let New| |iwm in offered the women of this coun-| yor toad, as it should, And the on try to-d If you want to do the | iy it can lead is by an open-hearte greatest work of all in winning the Wooing investigution in which the war be responsible for a little child. | oo authorities, the mother and the » the day when 1 should like to 5 there would not be child must all join t a single child 1M) yet not the children’s hour go by : jan institution The United States It can never be regained some adjunct. |has more Institutions and less family i life for the child than any other coun . : When it comes to raising rents, ALL should be compelled toe or ie’ world, ‘This te the con G@allentchatinad Croan reckon such | service solely on the basis of value rendered. eye s From the People Deflating Value of Liberty Bond 4 flve-cent purchase and put up Wo the Kalter of The Evening World 50 Liberty Rond he should be able 1am the proprietor of a store iN \ty get $49.95 in change Jersey City, an AYnerican-born cit-| an American should yays be an zen and owner of Secor nd Third’ American—but when he engages in a 1 bonds, 1 wish to ay a word) geal to lower Liberty Hond values avout the stock marke quot in an attempt to lower for Third Loan wonds, They were | our country LM listed at $9 hould Pot be Whinks Servanta Should Ge to tolerated, ‘The matter should ve Work, looked into once so that the people to ek wy of The b a World of the United States be protected in| Uncle Sam needs men not only for the matter of having their bonds| the army and navy Lut many useful maintained at 100 per cent, market| Industries, Is It proper in these times | value. I think the United 8 r> |fnutlers and valet, witerao tatak seal ernment should look into the matter.| work to be done Let Liberty Bonds be accepted at| Avenue hundreds of such men may ’ be se » Wearing fancy unifor banks like money; pass the bonds as g fancy rms and strutting about with no © do. real money, As for myself, I think Beret oe percine te ac Isn't it about time we found a job for if @ man came into my siore and| them? 84 Any day on Fifth a \ dition I found on a tour of the coun On the battlefields of Flanders tries of Kurope Our brave boys now fight for you, We have seemingly adop' ed the And the Teuton ga blind them eastest way to dispose of our public “Ang the bullets pierce them through Jcharges—bullding one dnstitution | sightless, bruised and bleeding heroes nother, ‘Th only way for a! Writhing on their beds of hild to be properly reared Is in the| Cry for help across the home of a good family, It then be-| Must their pleadings be tn vain? comes @ part of the family and is ab ter \\ waters— Homeless, hungry, naked ¢ sorbed in the population, lone With no place to lay thelr head. the atlgma of the asylum Daily throng the Ked Cross stations, | As compared with the other coun-| Begging for a crust of bread tries of the world We have been short- Can you scan their withered features sighted. We have falled to give the! Can you see thelr teardrops fall care and attention that we could give) Can You hear thelr piteous wailings to the children—the future citizens of | And wot heed the orphans’ call? the country Since ourselves we cannot Journey But we are now about to begin ina) Over the ocean's vast expanse, big way. The Raby Drive ordered |!«t us help the Red Cross ani from Washington will begin in a fow | (10 maintain their work days It will be conducted by Dr. c ho ake: th ROURKE Josephine Baker, Chairman of the! qs ye do. it Health ¢ ittes of the Mavor's| edo | Committee of Wongo op National WAL CG, BARNES. erm rai EDITORIAL PAGE oC “ : : ee Tuesda ETWEDN the dark of war and the | Defense, Every baby in the city is to ]66 OME," remarked Dr. Gilbert | Why, L care so little what may befall | Once upon a time an old bachelor would sit by the B daylight of peace comes the) be weighed and measured and othe: Gumm sentimentally, “home | thin that 1 wouldn't even worry if fire and muse upon the girls be bad loved and lost: children’s hour, ‘The world !8/ facts about it recorded for the pre- is where the heart is | vou married: oham: BotBi (Hebe turn nowadays he sits there and muses upon the motor cars awakening to the | vention of disease and the proper) Mr. Jarr regarded the rising young | to a amore pleasant subject. What, in| Seine loved Abd exchanned. wails of the wee| rearing of the Infant Jdentist coldly. “Why is it, then," | your opinion, really started this war | ones, Comes the - 5 eskident Teal |he asked, “that so many men haven't) that is devastating humanity?” Y E = j eee more will be eye obj Uiestone the heart to go home “Bad teeth,” replied the young den-| ~ The difference between spinsterhood and marriage *eF-"and instruction in the care o heir) *! >» gO hor | ¥ 2 i , many that com- | ¢hildren, A. house-to-house canvass| “Bad teeth,” replied the dentist | tist promptly, “bad teeth i is merely the difference between never having anything pulsory marriage | ) be made, and every child will be| Promptly, “bad teeth, A husband has| “Did having bad teeth prompt that ae interesting to do and never having the time to do any- and punishment | Known to the army of women workers | 2@4 teeth, say, and the result is dys- | young assassin to shoot the Austrian fm somme thing interesting. for childless! wr to make an inspection—-a con-|PePsia. ‘The result of dyspepsia 1s a| Grand Duke, thus precipitating the | = couples ts being | struc healthful inspection of | Such. ‘The result of a grouch is | Serbian crisis which finally brought | Every time a man falls from grace, one of a woman's illusions takes th : . The 4 irl "asked 3 r considered by the | every neighborhood. |e rsh words, ‘The result of harsh |cn this world war?” asked Mr Jarr. | 4 tumble along with him, Government, In| fi Fan ene rye ner. | Wore are tears, heartaches, The re- replied De. Gilbert Mee Russia the oblld! overly mmerner 18 Urees i sult of all this is as Shakespeare and, more than Posalbly, | That, getting wider, stops the tovt!’" | became an anarchist. As an anarchist | Jeft-overs “Hey, there!” cried Mr. Jarr. “Easy | he committed the rash and dreadful | nm |with the quotes, Doctor; you're off | act that brought the world about our | May 21 By J. H. Cassel f Spice By Albert Payson Terhune ; Covyriebt, 1918, by The I'ress Publishing Co, (The New York Eveaing World), ‘ | NO. 25--ABRAHAM MELKOVITCH: the “Fixed Post” Spy. P, BRAHAM MELKOVITCH was what is slangily knowo in Secret Service parlance as a “fixed post” spy. These “fixed post” spies are assigned to some elty or village or district, npt merely to gléan some espe cial information and then move on to some other field of activity, They are ordered to become perma nent residents of the section assigned to them, to make {t their home and to engage in business there. ‘Thus, they become looked upon as respected and ’ old time residents, to whom no suspicion can cling a8 it might to a temporary sojourner. The advantages of the “fixed post” system are many, and such sples easily win the confidence of those around them. Germany established hundreds of them »* throughout the United States,years before the war began. Abraham Melkovitch was @ spy of the Wilhelmstrasse at Berlin. He had learned his filthy trade under the crafticst teachers, And he had learned it well. So well had he learned it that he was chosen as one of the “fixed post” agents to be sent to Paris. Melkovitch settled in a Paris suburb and became a citizen of Franoe, [He went into business and soon became a part of the suburb's humdrum daily life, He was quiet and unassuming and good natured. bo a Russian, and as Russia was France's stan As he pretended to shest ally, he even gained & measure of popularity with his neighbors, { Meanwhile, in a minor way, he was serving | | Orr } The German Spy is Welcomed. errr Germany by doing such odd jobs us were assigned to him by the Wilhelmstrasse, and by ? such slight information as came his way The only fault his superiors could find with Melkovitch was that a fit of unconquerable homesickness every few months would drive him away from his “fixed post" for a week or so, while he returned to Germany for a short visit to his former home, just across the French frontier. i But this was a petty defect of character, and in ev ry other way he was a useful fellow, So, beyond a careless word of rebuke now and then, the Wilhelmstrasse did not interfere with his occasional home jaurtts, Then along the German side of the Irench frontier a mystery arose, livery time the Germans would bulld some secret frontier fortification or jsun emplacement the French would do the same thing just across the | boundary line, ery private frontier move of Germany would at once be checkmated or duplicated or made valueless by France. Very evidently there was a leak |somewhere, The German secret service set out to find that leak. | They soon located Melkovitch's periodical fits of homesickness were expluined, Whenever the “fixed post” spy went to visit his relatives on the lother side of the frontier he brought back a brainful of profitable news, which he sold to the French Government, Receiving pay from both France and Germany, he was thriftily doing spy work for each of them. | If this sort of thing were not discouraged at once by a terrible object jlesson in the fruits of treachery the whole Wilhelmstrasse might be dis- anized, ‘Lhe heads of the German police system prepared to punish the tor. ‘ ‘They sent to Paris one of their most unscrupulous women spies, Ada P 4g Oneken. Ada thet Melkovitch by chance, lured a aa © Nim nto Wi 6 into the Bois de Boulogne with } Vengeance Sworn } her one eveni® at dusk, and sat down beside him | by Germany. on a bench that was hidden by shrubbery, i eeaeaamanaaananaaanl AS Melkovitch sat there talking to her the woman rose, stepped behind him and twisted around his neck a thin copper wire. There were handles on each end of the wire. Gaining a leverage, Ada tugged with all her might at the handles, The sharp wire nearly severed Melkovitct | without being able to make a sound, The Paris pol hour later. By that time his murderess had got away The fearsome sanctity of the Wilhelmstrasse’s spy system had been up- And all German spies received from Abraham Melkovitch'’s fate « t warning to play fair with their masters, gleaning r} head from his body. He died found him thus an unsuspected, Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Eve F marriage were only based upon the “selective draft,” instead of upon i| blind chance, perhaps most husbands and wives would not appear as sadly mismated as the coats and trousers one sees on some of the sol- diers nowadays, The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell 18, by The Press Publishing Co, TThe New York Evening World ng Worl Coprriaht probabi Having bad teeth, young man was ir says: “The little rift within the flute, the | These are bitter days for the bachelor who respects his digestion but edi irritated, he | ts invited out five nights a week by frugal housewives to help eat up “the A “radical” never becomes absolutely despondent until things begim , to look so hopeful for his country that he can't find anything to object to, h complain about or rave against. the key and out of tune! It wasn't Shakespe@te said that; it was Ten- nyson, and he said it something like thi “*Tha little rift within the lute, But it was not one individual's teeth that plunged tl n woe. It was the bad te of all the illiterate and povert stricken peasantry of middle Europe. alone When a pacifist sighs that “war turns men into brutes” he merely That ae Widening, makes the} Did their poverty cause their bad | means that it turns mollycoddies into men and brutes into heroes, music mute.” h or their bad teeth their pover- pea “It is of little consequenc re-|ty? Who can tell? But we can real ; plied the young dentist, oth | ize this indisputable fact, that, having ‘The boys “over there” will have something more thrilling and glorious Shakespeare and Tennyson, brainy as bad teeth, they suffered and in suf-| to brag about in their old age than their speed records and golf scoresy | they were, bad no such opportunity | fering they hated, and in hating they! thank goodness! of having their teeth looked after ex-| fought. Had the statesmen of Eu = . pertly as you have, Before I close! rope devoted the revenues of the va- You can't argue, frighten or nag a man into loving you just because my practice, and enter my country’s | rious nations to encouraging dentist-| ye “ought to"—because, dearie, love fs not exactly a ian's feeling for a service as a Lieutenant in Dental |r to endowing medical thought-censor, a creditor or a critic-on-the-hearth, Corps-and 1 am expecting my com- | subsidizing young dentists just start ~ mission every day--I um making free, ing into ce, the teeth of the = : Aa pee ae 1 i . - Any girl who fails to give an officer in a brand new uniform at least examinations, and am giving special peasantry and working classes of Eu i War-time reductions in crown and | rope would have been in good condi-, one glance of the ardent admiration which he expects as he passes ia bridge work, Come to sce me." And/ tion, their health would have been, guilty of criminal neglect of her patriotic duty pressed a halt dozen of his busi- | better, their dispositions happier, and — een —— s cards into Mr. Jarr's reluctant | they could not have been led to slay | N Thi : Sci Im es," repeated Dr, Gilbert! men of their neighbor nations by an ewest Ings In clence Gumm, “come to see me; bring your) ambition-maddened military ‘ sen (rainee. hak “heen com: \inseninare: ipsuen. hice ap Mie | Wites Oring the children, X will sil) racy [bined with spectacles by an Inventor |its rear wheely re y 7 e Se! | “get ied Mr. Jarr. “Here comes . their teeth at special rates 0%" replied Mr. Jarr, "Here comes| rt, 4 mounted n tuke corminating| . As Mr. Jarr had been filling young | Dr. Boans, the osteopath; let's asic |) "0 Uae monn le If | An arrow to be mounted on top of Dr. Gumm's teeth at his table, ao to | him." | a kaa an automobile and operated by tte speak, wéthout charge and on many) “Excuse me, I'll duck!" replied Dr Some Buropean electricians have | driver is a St. Louls inventor's {dea occasions, he regarded tho business | Gilbert Gumm. “Boans always talks | found that snow never collects on|for a signal to show which way the rds somewhat coldly. "What did | see” And he beat a retreat, psmission lines that carry 190,000 | car is about to t fi . Jyou mean by that crack about home >_— more volts even when they are not Re Piers the heart is?” he asked iz here ed Soundproof telephone boo-hs of Jeans AR s | Bottle of Hot Water Removes ¢!"* ran \Buropean invention are built of five “P was thinking that being ee | sear puller is provided with | layers of thin wood, the g bei lor and living in a boarding housc Splinter From Hand. ew gear pul provided with 1a) the grain being | . i mechanism by ch its jaws are {crossed each tne before layers are and thus having no home, was the 1 remove a splinter from the 4 Nut Gie tation | SiMe Taga tat eason | have no heart,” replied Dr. | Sha; ANG widermouthad but | outer : Ally aciuates h rs Se Gilbert Gumm, “Tam a dentist, Mr tle nearly full of hot water, | “4°% ; ; Ldeanhelaeraeth aces ) automatic electric heater, to he Jarr, | am going off to the war, and ‘opular Mechanics, Thrust the! MOVe4 from suania, © connected to a lighting circuit, fea- i }, though a dentist, can never fll an ad t over the mouth and! Because telephone transmitter mi- tures a new dough raising caoinet aching void in a maiden's fond affec it slightiy. ‘The flesh will be! cropho: become more sensitive in| intended by its inventor to save tions!” drawn down and shortly the splinter rarefled alr European electricians are housewives much trouble “Are you spilling that chatter about | will be exposed under the action of! trying to make practical uxe of the rt oe , at (abla rast the Cackleverry girls who are visiting |the steam, ‘This method is far better| yhenomenon United States patents have jiny hou Mr. Jarr inquired If! than the common and dangerous >,ae- | . 86 been granted fo the Japanese inven- so, chop it! So faras Tam concerned | tice of pricking the flesh with a pin| patent has been Issued for a tor of a non Live ble substitute those strident flappers from Philadel-|or knife point, ‘The usual antiseptic Platform upon which an automobile celluloid for Which many indgpe | ppia are human parsuipa to wy taste, |eoiution should be applies may be rua to tansmit power to any ial uscs have been found, \ , \ ™