The evening world. Newspaper, May 22, 1918, Page 18

! | | ' ' 2 EDITORIAL PAGE Wednesday, May 22 BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Publisiod Lally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Com; , Nos. 63 to oy! pe Buta Park Row, New York. storblon RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row. ITZER.’ Jn. Secretary, 63 Park Row, - MEMBEL OF TAR ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Amteinied Prom ie ery powbietion of Af Jercatch wotited "Nee no onerwine credited 18 us yelper and ’aiso U5 Tora! ‘tems Geauaad hore NO, 20,728 “VOLUME 58... WRITE TO YOUR ALDERMAN. OLLOWING The Evening World's demand for official action to protect New York tenants from the kind of unrestricted rent boosting which quickly becomes profiteering, Alderman Robert L. Moran of the Bronx introduced in the Board of Aldermen yesterday the following resolution: Whereas, statements and complaints are being made to the effect that the rents of apartments and flats in this city are being unduly increased with a resulting hardship in many cases ‘o an already overburdened citizenship; Therefore be it resolved, That the Board of Aldermen here- by requests every member of this body to inquire into these con ditions in his respective district, and also calls upon the citi- zens of the city to communicate any information they may have concerning rent profiteering to the Aldefman of the district, to the end that this Board may be in a position to determine the necessity of an oficial investigation by the Board of Aldermen into this important subject. The Aldermen will vote on this resolution, it is expected, next ‘week. e Meanwhile tenants in all parts of the city have an opportunity to write to the Aldermen of their districts how far they feel the raising of rents in their individual cases to be fair, and how much of the increase is in their opinion unwarranted either by the additional expenses the landlord urges or by the service he is providing. The demand for housing in New York next fall will doubtless be very great. ' The number of persons whose incomes have been increased by the war and who would rather spend their money in New York than anywhere else grows larger. Others whose earnings have not been swelled by war and who nevertheless live and work in New York already find it hard to com- pete with the spending power of those whom war has favored. Are New York landlords to be permitted to take unlimited advantage of this situation and grab the biggest share of war Ppros- perity they can at the expense of the latter class as well as the former? New York tenants do not expect to be given something for nothing. All they ask, as The Evening World has insisted, is to be assured that rents will not be raised higher than can be shown consistent with fair economic return to the landlord and an equitable sharing of increased loads. If your rent has been put up more than seems just or reason- able, write to the Alderman of your district. —_-+-__ —_ Federal Director Genora! of Railroads McAdoo has relieved from active duty every railroad president in the United States, but may reappoint some of them Federal Directors of their own roads. This action, {f the signs are read aright. is the first step toward another elimination of the ornamental for the better utilization of the fit. Stockholders should find it to their profit to study the results. | +——__—______ PRIVATES JOHNSON AND ROBERTS, COLORED. as | y are very strong and stout-hearted—and very rash.” In a recent letter Col. William Hayward, commander of New| York’s colored regiment now fighting in France, spoke thus of his men. Since he wrote the words, two volunteers in that regiment, Pri- vate Henry Johnson and Private Needham Roberts, both colored, have distinguished themselves by putting to flight twenty-four Ger- mans who attacked a listening post held by the two Americans, AM very proud of them. They are clean, brave men, fearing nothing, daring everything. Gen. Foch says of them Gen. Pershing specially commended the bravery of Johnson andl}, ‘Roberts in his offigial report, French officers have warmly praised them, and both these colored men now wear the French War Cross— tag the golden palm as well for Johnson, who saved his comrade’s ‘life. Courage and self-sacrifice of the highest order were shown by these two American negroes. Every colored man and woman in the United States of what two colored fighters have done in the service 0 which has given them much but which guarantees of justice, There is just one way can be proad f the country still owes their race gurer the American people as a whole could recognize the valor of Privates Johnson and Roberts, colored, in a manner worthy of the nation: ; To resolve that so long as negro fighte thereafter so long as the Republic they dures, throughout the length and breadth of the United States, | publie condemnation and swift punishment for the guilty pee bine to make the lynching of a negro an abho: , eeceecsermeeeie heen AGAIN—A LITTLE DEEP rs face the enemy and have helped to defend en- hall com- rred and obsolete crime R—FOR DIG CROSS! : . Letters From the Saye Shipyard! Werkere Are Labor! need of our army for troops and sup. ae . Ply ships, thie is a conditi ; To the Faitor of The Evening World certainly far from right. he ate May I be permitted to invite at-|/" & Petty officer in the navy, who pI ‘ar an time 1% nothing more or less than| pre: . ; a of i} sent receiving only a lt outricht treason? in all ship-| month than he did in a weae facre s Yards doing navy repair work and tn lite ae s0' Oly je Navy Yard Itself are thousands! We are expecte: of workmen getting paid at a rote far| homes and at we In excess of anything they received THE RED People to lve up our hold doar, and | many of us our lives, for $30 e Before or will get again, for less than| a month, while men Whe sterar ect” One-ha'f of the work they should do.| earning thr sas much or four time oh It is a common sigh n ime of| a i t # as much mon sight at any time of| are deliberately making it harder and the day to sce scattered throughout | more uncomt t} more uncomfortable for us, and the ships lange numbers of men kill- | out a doubt cauaiuy tha wee a ing time by the hour. In view of the| prolonged and adding to the casual: |marrying Lemuel. A PDB LA BO YERENCH WAR \eRos3 \ ] My Matrimonial Chances Recording the Experiences in Pursuit of Love of a Young Girl of Thirty By Wilma Pollock Covrriabt, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Eveaing World), Story of the Young Author and the Great Novel HEN Lemueilreading and revising Leslie's master- Harvey's chidren|picce until late at night. By this refused to accept | time Lesile and I were madly in love. me as their future] He called me his soul mate and asked stepmother I] me to marry him. could not endure} But teaching kindergarten, collab- seeing anybody | rating with Leslie and listening to cA before whom 1|%!8 compositions for hours at @ was forced” tof #tetch was w xreat strain, and when he came one evening to show some important. changes I was so sleepy I could hardly concentrate, I grew drowsler and drowsier and at last tactlessly fell asleep, I was awakened by the banging of a door, Leslie had gone without say- ing good night! And I had a premo- nition of calamity, The next day Eva said he had come home, packed his bag and rushed for the midnight train to Boston. After my rude and linconsiderate behavior how could 1 jexpect Leslie to forgive me? me wear a perpetual smile in order to disguise my secret sorrow. ‘Therefore It was a great relief for sva Fleming, who ine to be with Ev Eve ch. had tried to arrange the mate understood how deeply 1 bad suffered, but said that if I were patient my Ellabelle Mae Doolittle By Bide Dudley Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), HO wrote the lines: League of Delhi, read a poem, The W Dear suinmer qomee A aad noted girl was applauded when sbe By lther one. you can get. Stine arose to do her part of the entertain- oe eB een. eee ment. She was gowned in an alapacka Ellabelle Mae Doolittle, the noted suweese, pestered with pink rosettes and rope draping, hung in a ham- strung manner, Noticing that the ap- plause was becoming spasmodic, she held up one hand, poetess of Delhi, claims she is the author of them, She says they form a part of her poem on summer entitled, “Hip, Hip, Hooray for Sum- mer.” Her contention is disputed by] ,, er 7 Volvalina Esther Kerbang of Grand Pirccrsaehe shel baeaan 3 ice 700 Saline. Miss Kerbang asserts she ubjects far re- moved from poetry, so to add diver- sity to the meeting I intend to read you an original rhyme on ‘Summer.'" “Lovely, Billie!’ said Promptress Pertle, who was presiding. “It is one of my best,” returned Miss Doolittle. And then, as all the ladies eyed her eagerly, she read the following poem: Dear Summer comes to With all ite lore a wrote the lines two years ago under the title of “Summer Is So Deceitful, Yet Pleasant,” and that the poem was printed in the Grand Saline Argus and very favorably commented on by her particular friend, T. Hurlbut Mc- Grain, director of the Grand Saline fiver Cornet Band. The controversy arose last week when Miss Doolittle, honored speaker at a meeting of the Anti-Whiskey Section of the Women's Betterment us By exher rc euher poe vou tay Ret pe ‘You're not’ careful please My sister's child, Teeney Ricketta, Tea very ‘pretty Little kid, in, wish of making some man happy for lfe would bo gratified. Rodger Fleming's brother Lesllo was a writer and lived in Boston. “Leslie is entirely absorbed in bis work and has er taken the | it interest in girls," sald Eva, when she saw that I had lost the chance of “But,” she prom- txed, “I'l get him to come to New| York and you can try your luck with | him, Constance." I had dinner with the Flemings| the night Leslie arrived, and as soon Famous Characters in History the Sam» Given ARY is the most famous of all names for women, and th most famous Mary {s the Vir mother of Christ. | as I suw him I was determined to Many Queens marry him, He was not more than| have been called thirty-two and tall and slim, His Mary, One of England's most Y noted Queens was Mary 1, daughter of Henry VILL, and Catharine of Ara- Her child- hood was a very troubled one, for besides father Jand mother being divorced, she was long black hair was brushed smoothly | back from his forehead. | During the greater part of the meal Leslie hardly talked. But when Rodger asked him what writing he had been doing lately he brightened up and sald, “I am working on the biggest thing I have ever done on a novel of | M the slums.” “How thrilling!” sald I. won, Who Is Your Namesake? By Mary Ethel McAuley Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), gin Mary, the|daughter M nave Put ial eae besos eM Portume “I wish to explain," sald Miss Doo- little, as she concluded, “that I use the words ‘bust’ and ‘lid’ purely in the spirit of jollity. I thank you," Naturally, the Delhi Bazoo was eager to publish the poem. Miss Doo- ittle gave her permission and the and Fiction Who Have Borne Name as Yours. f the first Suffragists, and she| Paper featured it on the back page wrote a book called “The Rights|‘*Wediately next to its big patent of Women.” She died when her| Medicine advertisement. A copy of y was born, Mary|t®@ sheet reached Grand Saline and Lamb was the sister of Charles Lamb | th® trouble broke out at once, end the constant companion of her| “I see,” wrote Miss Kerbang, “that brother, Ellabelle Mae Doolittle, so-called poet- \plany famous actresses have been | ess of Delhl, has stolen a poem of mice, the most popular. She was born in| or *t least half a poem. I insist that the first verse of the poem she read to that Betterment bunch belongs in my ia, and appeared in countless 1890 she married a Mr. Na- of a wealthy Spaniard, from the stage. Mary another popular Mary, and Mary Pickford and Mary Fuller are famous moving picture stars, 1 Pleasant” Delhi cannot steal trom Grand Saline and get away with it.” Her letter was addressed to the eal. “Are you really intereste asked me. Leslie/the object of Anne Loleyn's great | hatred, and it was only after Anne's “Tremendously,” I assured him,|death that she was received by her And I believe Leslie fell in love with | father with favor, With the people me the moment I said it ‘of England she was very popular and Nobody can conceive of my delight) 48 considered the rightful heir to when Lesile offered to read his novel) the throne, and it to me. “Of course,” suid he, “you| Would have gladly spared tho life of will have to make allowances, for it| dy Jane Grey if tt had been pos- is not in final shape yet." jsible for her to have done so, Leslie took me home and asked if} Mary Queen of Scots tho ho might cull the next evening, He! most famous of all Queen Marys, and |came so early the next evening that her life, her unlucky love affairs, and mother and I had not finished dinner, | her death ure known to all, The pres We spent every afternoon and eve-|ent Queen of England 1s called Mary, | was emely high pay they receive, and| ties suffered “oy. Seat) 4 more Unportant, the utmost! ED a ereg ning of the next two weeks either| Mary Wollstonceraft, the mother of twamping the slums for local color or| the wifo of the poet Shelley, was one is said that she! Olay Taker Bidy was the founder] tor of the Argus ad he printed tt o stha ce, Mury Mapes i Dodge is a well known writer, and | M!8% Doolitde answered in a very few was the editor of St. Nicholas’ | Words azine, wd Mary Cassatt is ene] "This woman,” she said to a repie- our best known painters. Dr.| sentative of the “ 4 \Mary Walker dresses like a man, and|°. f the Basco, “les Who ty {Mary Firth, better known she—what 1s she—why 1s she? Good. «9 Moll jCut-Purse, was tho first’ European | Might!" woman who formed the habit of| The Women's Betterment League ing tobacco, She was born in| met last night to take action in the * a “high | matter, Miss Doolitue was present, “I suggest,” she said, when called to ly yours old and left her fortune spent at merry-imuking at her eighty to be \ funeral | Mary is a famous name tn poetry, you invite this Volvalina Kerbang thing to come to Delh! and face you and me. poem, ‘Summer Ig So Deceitful, Yet! on for her side of the affair, “that| 1 will show her that she is world of Hate! Over in Russi With the money that you give to her you are buying HUMAN LIVES! and in Flanders, too, Every Woman’s War-Cross By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Eveni “This Is the Fight of the Red Cross Against the Iron Cross—Which Is Your Cross?” World), O the man in the street ! She is merely a pretty girl in a fascinating costume, with a re@ cross on her forehead and another on her sleeve— A stunning “poster-girl!” ' ‘To the man “over there” she is his mother’s spirit, holding out tender arms, healing his hurts with strong, gentle hands, easing his pain— ‘ A delivering angel, bringing him back to LIFH, and hope and comfort and joy and home—and YOU! She is the Miracle Worker—the Red Cross Nurse, Who turns aside the scythe of the Great Reaper and snatches his harvest from him! She is the Spirit of Divine Love, shining over @ al There are fields of little white crosses, planted there at the beginning of the great War, Hundreds of which need NEVER have been there If SHE had but possessed sixty cents worth of ANTITOXIN at the vital moment! Think of it! Iron Cross! Which is YOUR cross? For now the time hi cross and bear it. There is no middle ground! One dollar may buy a whole life! Think of it! What an investment! SAVING lives! “Conscientious scruples, Enlist now, Under your FAVORITE CROSS! oe Coprriaht, R. BOANES, the osteopatn, gazed after the retreating form of Dr. Gilbert Gumm, the popular jyoung dentist of the neighborhood, and his lips curled with a smile of tolerant cynicism. “Our young tooth tinker doesn't seem anxious to argue with me again,” remarked the osteo- path to Mr. Jarr, “It is very queer how the exponents of worn out fal- lacies cannot bear to be enlightened. They wish to hug thelr hidebound and outworn tradition: “Oh, you and Dr. Gumm have had arguments, have you?” said Mr. Jarr. “Yes,” replied Dr. Boanes. “It was ‘about the causes that led up to the war. I held that it was because the ignorant masses of Europe had never been enlightened as to osteopathy The thing 1s simple. As Shakespeare says, ‘Ring out the thousand wars of old’ °=— “pennyson, Tennyson!” interrupted Mr, Jarr. “When I was young I was addicted to poetry, and I might have been a poet myself only I soon per- ceived that it was a thankless task. No matter how many deathless lines I might indite, in time they would ‘all be credited to Shakespeare or tue Bible.” “No matter, no matter,” remarked pr. Boanes suavely. “Poetry has been written for ages, but what has It done to alleviate the ills that man- kind 1s heir to? What has it done ve suffe:'..g humanity? Noth- “gome poetry comes under the head of soothing syrup,” Mr. Jarr insisted. hen my nerves are a little 1. ged, It does me good to lay off on the old sofa, getting my clothes all and reading Tennyson, or Swinburne. Now there is a soothing poy, that Swinburne! Did you ever read Swinburne's ‘The Gardens of Pprosperine’? which begins: “Here where the world 1s quiet, Here \/here all trouble seems Dead winds and spent waves riot In doubtful dreams of dreams; 1 watch the green fields growing For reaping folk and sowing, For harvest time and mowing, ‘A sleepy World of streams’ “Oh, yes, Swinburne, I've read about him,” interrupted the osteo- |path, “He was @ man of very dell- cate constitution, And why, sir, was he a man of delicate constitution? Because, sir, he had no beneficial op- portunity to secure osteopath treatment. Had his bones been flexed, | had osteopathy worked its wonders of | healing upon him, this shy scholar of ‘delicate constitution might have en- joyed rosy, robust health!” “But he might not have written persisted Mr, Jarr, burne might have been a football ‘and hardly a poet but has written jsome kind of « sonnet to Mary, In| @ mere fool and a faker, I wrote the the Mother ( » rhymes it is a very | poem, Delhi's honor shall be upheld." such good poetry popular na He aan we, have As the noted girl retired, bowing|"If he had bad good health Swin- \ Mary, € ‘ontrary, and | Had‘ Little Lamb,” which ts per-|22¢ bumping into chairs, the ladies applauded with great gusio, ‘AU were pleased, dah | ee ne OEE r ‘ |haps the best aown child verse in j ‘bq English language, player or an all round amateur ath- ete or rowed om the varalty elght, excess oll wiped come when you and I must One dollar may buy enough anaesthetic to ease week, or to save his nervous system for life. And with American blood worth American lives worth all the world to you and me! Human lives—at sixty cents apiece! ‘What an investment for you and me! Over there there are hundreds of French and Belgian babies playing in the sunlight—babies who would NOT be playing in the sunlight If SHE had not been there with milk and food and clothing For their tender, war-worn little bodie: This is the fight of the Red Cross inst the white cross—and the bh TAKE UP his If you do not enlist under the Red Cross then you silently but auto+ matically enlist under the white cross. a soldier's pain for @ a dollar a drop, and If you are a business man, remember that by saving the soldier you are saving your dollars and protecting your business interests. If you are a woman, remember that you are saving husbands, sony fathers and brothers—for other women. If you are—why, even if you are a pacifist, surely, you cannot object to “religious objections,” excuses, explanations, weak eyes and flat feet mean nothing to the Mother who asks, “What have YOU done to save MY BOY ‘There are no “exemptions” from service under the Cross of Love! Do not wait for a “selective draft” on your pocket-book! The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), and have had no time or inclination to gladden the world with deathless song!” “But he could have gladdened him- self with health and high spirits had he known of osteopathy,” replied Dr. Boanes. “And by the way, I hear this young dentist, Gilbert Gumm, is to recelve a commission and join the Army Dental Corps at the base hospl+ tals in France. I am going to Washs ington and apply for a commisston myself.” “Bully for you, Doc!” erled Mr. Jarre “I wish the American Army needed men of my age in my line. I'd apply for a commision too!” “It I could only get to Germany," said Dr. Boanes gloomily, “I could stop the war, but he would only have American dentists, and all the good they have don ho would only dentists? have Amertean I don't get you," remarked Mr. Jarr, “Why, the Kaiser." replied Dr, Boanes. “He always had an Amert- can dentist. His last one has but recently returned and told us how the Kaiser boasted he would have the whole world at bis mercy with bis submarines and aeroplanes. “He would not have needed a den« tist if he had tried osteopathy, Os- teopathy keeps the general health so good that the teeth do not decay. ‘The Kaiser 1s a sick man. As a sick man his mind is perverted and he hates humanity, Had his bones and ligaments been flexed he would have | been in good health and good spirits, He would have been a genial, kinds hearted man. He would not h given up all the years of his rel to prepare to devastate the world.” “But suppose you were treating him and found it was to late, that you could not unflex him from his inflexta ble resolves?” asked Mr, Jarr, “L would be twisting his neck, you know,” said tho patriotic osteopath, “And while I was at it I'd twist bis darn head off. I wonder if I could get Into Germany “I'll see if 1 can't get you passe ports.” replied Mr, Jarr. 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