The evening world. Newspaper, May 25, 1918, Page 10

i ' i | a 10 HOLDING THE RENTS DOWN ‘SHOW A TENANT DEMAND BY CUTTING REALTY TAXES THELANOLORS NOW THE PLAN OF EXPERTS Real Estate Advisory Council Doubts Wisdom of Legis- lative Regulation, MIGHT KILL CITY CRI IT Welcomes Evening World's Aid and Starts Work in Framing New Law. an tho city afford to regulate rents? Real estate leaders express much gratitude to The Evening World for Placing this issue squarely before the Aldermen and the people, They be- leve that a better understanding of the matter will result in great benefit both to the city and to its fundamen- tal source of revenue and credit—real estate, Business and civic organizations Generally are joining in the discus- sion, While economists recognize the folly and danger of an arbitrary in- terference with the working of the law of supply and demand which'es- tablishes the rent level, they believe that proper publicity may lead to remedial measures which were needed sorely everg before the war added im- measurably to public and private tax burdens. Financiers agree that a forced re- pression of the rental trend, would lower the market value of realty. The ¢ity's borrowing capacity and the limitation of its bond flotations are Tegulated through legislative enact- ment by the assessed market valua- tions of its total real estate. ‘There- fore, for the city to take action tend- ing to reduce the market value of its realty would lead logically to a re- duction in its own credit resources. And as municipal bonds have been floated to the full extent of its credit under the high valuations of the re-| cent past, any decrease in those valu- | ations would jeopardize the collateral | security underlying those bonds—in | fact, would place the municipality in the position of a corporation that had issued notes of indebtedness beyond its legal mit. TO HOLD RENTS DOWN BY CUT- TING TAX ON REALTY. But rv: ts can be held down without leading the city upon such dangerous ground, according to the Advisory Council of Real Kstate Interests and other bodies of experts who are study- ing the crisis, They say realty must be relieved by the production of other revenue sources, ‘They point t the heavy tax burden under which realty has been stagger: fng. It has been paying for man years from 26 to 30 per cent. of its net income for taxes, and now the tribute has been raised through war OLD AGE A CRIME! Some people are young at @0--red- ebeoked, ruddy and vigorous, Others are O14 at 40—Jointw beginning to stiffen up bit; step beginning to | prin ; gcensional touch: in the tired withéut ca Kidneys omptly doing thelr work o! tf the polsona that body. To ts a crime symptoms you can find in GOLD MPDAL Haariem Sapaules, For than 200 has been the Haarlem, Holland Do not take a wub Good blood makes firm tissue, strong nerves, steady eyes and clear brain, full of healthy, red corpuscles, and your liver active, by which will include a proper limita. | €xcessive Increases in rents, During tion of the tax rate on realty, b all the hardships of last winter when ing that the public interest will be| We were in the throes of a coal famine served thereby, Our law-making bode | the loud in protesting that they tes must have enough income to| Were unable to obtain coal, and that cover necessary expen: and pubtig| 4 building materials had gone up officers also must pe held to strict} considerably. Yet, in the face of all economy. Realty owners and lend-| this they Increased my rent one-sixth ers, both individuals and corpora. |on the plea of necessity, No attention tions, must take a new and deeper| Was pald to the fact that through interest in these questions of gov-|lack of steam heat, for which we ernment and public finance. Plece-| were paying, my gas bill in the |meal legislation can no longer be tol- | two months of coal shortage wae in- erated, Tho Advisory Council has| creased 250 per cent. It is indeed about undertaken to frame a revenue plan | time t something was done about which will be both reasonable, ade-|it, and I am confident you have the t uitible ax to all citizens | united support of all apartment dwe THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, YOUR BOOKS Families That Have to Pay | | Increased Rent Want | to Know Why. y YORK CITY, May 23. | exactions to between 40 and 60 por cent, Its grows income averages 10 per cent. on its market value, ‘The costs of operation take half of this, or possibly 40 par cent., leaving between 7, ‘he Editor of The Eventing World: 50 and U0 per cent. of gross income for 1 fully agree with The Rvening net and taxes. ; ate h Hach above Sper Sonte an’ marker World that the landlords are taking value, or 20 per cent. of gross income, | Undue advantage of the tenants. the net income becomes only 30 to 40 ‘Take for instance the case of the per cent. of the grows, or 3 to 4 per w, Cent. on the market value, Out of thin Weiter. the owner must pay his 2 per cent. Federal Income tax. In the mean time practically all other forme of in- vestment are returning larger incomes and the interest rates on money itself are higher as the result of war in-| flation, To rectify this situation, the Com a four-room apartment with a leave to October at $32 per month, On April 22 received a now lease from the agent to which was at- tached the following letter: | “Due to the increase in taxes and the price of coal, material, &c, the elites, of Wasation of the Adviser? | sent or wome necvemony tater eine Council began an exhaustive investi. | Pent of your apartment to forty (940) gation to-day, Its Chairman is Albert ollars per month from October, 19 G. Milbank. ‘On it are President Al- | It is also imperative that you sign the Fr Marling of the Chamber of | inclosed leases If you desire to remain c of the Coun- | cll, who was also Chairman of the, ® tenant in the building. The term of Mayor's Committee on Taxation in, the lease is until Sept, 30, 1919, whioh 1916; President John J. Pulleyn of the will protect you from any further in- | Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank,! crease of rent for that period.” President Robert E. Simon of Honey | "ye Ad pa rik lod. Morgenthau. Company, Robert _ W. lize full we the cost of cou! has udvanced, also that taxes have counsel of been raiscd, but surely not such that will justify an increase such as mon- | Uoned above, of $5, or 26 per cent. | The ave rentals in the house are $8 4 room, three, four and five room Apartments, and the agents have in- creased onthe entire building wt the above rate or making it a rise of $8 on! four and $10 on five room apartinents. Figured that we were due for an in- crease of about $2 oF perhaps $3, which the writer was willing to pay, on ap- proaching the owner on the’ subject with a view of accepting lease for one or two yearé on a basls of $35 for COMES AND OCCUPATION, __| the apartment, he flatly refused to con- “Amide from real estate tuxation,”| Sider It, and stated that he was losing isd Gnaiieian Seas Pr | Money on the property and unless he paikaa eae ath wate ore tte ett: | could get the above rate he would be Goelet and Walter Lindner, the Title Guarantee and Trust Co “If the city wants to kill the foore that lays its golden eggs, all It has to do is to hold down the rental Income | of realty and continue to increase the tax drain,” said Secretary Leo Day Woodworth. "The Council {x confi- dent that new sources of public reve- nue can be developed ao that realty may be protected and there need be no necessity for higher renta to re- imburee owners for their rising out- FAVOR STATE LEVY ON IN- aur ; | better off to invest in Liberty bonds. road peepee mite teens ck, BAG | All the tefants who have'no lenses poccalled abilition tax Mixpesienta | Were raised beginning June 1, and to here and elsewhere ner day 1 know of six families having Mey ad gisewtere has shown the fu- | noved, and understand vy the lat of tility of a personal property tax. It| has so many dixadvantages that the | June ipa heehee A add ste 2 Legislature could not be induced to! ,, Surely there Is no legitimate reason adopt it. A State income tax on for this rn enee 1 On general lines indicated in the bil pre- | whortf that ihe aeonts ee leeane pared by Senator Ogden Mills would | - tl reach personal prope should be made to show their books fairer way, Taearint cules jaueh land be allowed only a reasonable income tax Is based on the idew that | false to cover thelr increased cost No State should Interfere with the | % "wPkeep of the property. Federal Government's dependence on We are required by the Government thin source of revenue. But in view |' buy bonds, subscribe to the Red of the relation of real property to|CTo84 and pay about 26 to 60 per city credit and the fact that the con- | Ceht. More for everything In the way stitutional Hmit on real estate taxes | Of living expenses. will be reachc! shortly, and further | [have two brothers in the service that the income tux bate undue tke {and my wife also two, and it may Mills pian im so low as to beveimest {De ecessary for us both to help our negligible as contrasted with Fedecat| people at home to meet their bills, rates, it would aeom as if this ides | Why should not the landlord also be should be considered favorably. made to share with us the coat of “As to tho abilition tax, It was ape winning the wart BHL proved tentatively on che basis outs ‘ fined in the report of the Marine cou { Ome Tenant Who Didn't Get What ed to conditions existing In New York | T %¢ Editor of The Erening World: a I wish to add my testimony to that of those who have suffered unjust and “We hope to evolve a programme inte “WASH, MAKE YOU GLEAN,” IS TEXT FOR TO-MORROW Commissioner Copeland Asks lers, and | am equally confident of your ultimate success. It has been characteristic of The Evening World to champion the people's cause at times. It therefore does not surp me to see the paper stand solidly be- hind this movement. This Owner Moved Becn Own Rents Were T very i Sigh NEW YORK, May From Disease, I am a rent payer on University : Avenue, The apartment house in ae the test week Hoalth Commiss| Which [ live is owned by a woman} sioner Copeland has had the best theo- | Who heretofore has been very reason- Joglans In the Health Departinent seek- | apie and attentive, but the property; ing Wu appropriate text for the preachers; hay been put into the hands of an} throughout the city to use in to-mor-| agent, The owner is moving and the row's sermons, | yesterday, It is in the eixteenth verse of the first chapter of Isaiah, and reads: The text was found| agent has given me notice that my apartment will be $7 more per month from Oct, 1, Other tenants who have more desirable apartments than mine 4 have been notified that they will have ‘Wash you, make you clea: to pay $10 more per month on renewal As the Commisstoner wants it applied, | of thelr louses. it will mean washing everything, from the streets to the innermost crevices of the refrigerator, for to-morrow is the beginning of Clean-Up Week and the ministers have been asked to lend « hand by telling their congregations that u i lo make New York keep it 40. The church ight as well recox- nize," said Commissioner Copeland lust night, "that If of our doctors more than ever nitary measures to ee from disease. So weht to Join with us in Jeanlinesi No wonder the owner moves. She can find more reasonable quarters | olsewhere, but, unfortunately, I don’t know where she Ie going, H. F. Paying Rent for Rooms They Can't | Une. ‘To the Baitor of The Prening Wor! 1 think my case !s a very good one. I have been a tenant on Lenox! Avenue, New York City, for the past |five years, When we first moved 11 | these apartments we leased the same for three years at a rental of $55 from the owner. After our lease was up, the owner sublet the bulld- ings. In the winter of 1917 the lessee raised our rent $2.50, making the apartment at $7.60. He said coal and help were dear. We did not receive more than one week's heat the whole of last winter, and three of my fam- We musi rid of rubbish and of all the un y places that are breeders of di Red Cross Collie Take In Many Dollars for Fund, | MAY and His Mistress “~~. NA AND » MRS RENA ADAMS, SR apams heat for threo weeks during the winte: | CALLS REV. SILVER HERE. Hope that your campaign will lead | ea Bath to laws and regulations that will| West Point Chaplain Accepts Ca “pinch the pinchers.” | ff Church of the Incarnation. Our agent says that your campalgn| The Rev. H. Percy Silver, chaplain will not lead to anything, because you jof the United es Military Acad- are really looking for advertisements | emy at West Point, has accepted a from landlords and real estate axents.| call trom the Episcopal Church of the 6 GM. | Incarna corner of Madison Ave- oa nue and t Thirty-fifth Street, and will bee © @ rector there on 1 Dat How About Increases of From 10 to 25 Per Cent.t New York City, May %& To the Editor of The Brening World: Your article in yesterday's Issuv entitled “Rent Boosts Not Justified by Increase in Valuations, New York Tax Figures Show,” is a very mis- leading one, Why you should take the valuation into consideration seems to be camoufinge to support your campaign against an increase in Tents, whether the increases are Jus- fled or not. Without going any further back, the valuations in all the boroughs of the City of New York have increased since 1915, except in Manhattan, where they have gradually declined, except for a slight increase in 1918 over 1917. It is the tax rat that you should take Into consi ton in deciding whether the increased rents are jus- tified, and if you would present that side of the question and be only fair to the landlord you would be per- forming a less biased service than by prejudicing the minds of tenants ou the valuation basis. Certainly, ten- ants cannot expect the landlords te increased prices for everything nd at the same time not increase the ents, Unfortunately, there is no law to prevent rent profiteering, and it t* wrong that such a practice should be indulged in by one landlord to the detriment of the one who ts justified in raising his rents to meet increase! coats. The following table, which can be checked up with the tax records, spenks for itself, and proves that tre landlord 1s justified in raising rents based on the Increased taxes alone, not to mention the other increased conta: B-148.003.405 8] NT S128 80,80 r ROM aS 4 191 04, 08,25 This table shows that the landlord has been obliged to pay $18,500,000 more taxes In 1918 t 18 per cent. Increase an in 1917, or an and $25,000,000 more taxes than in 1915, or an in- crease of 26 per cent. In view of this, where does the tenant come in to make a howl? Where the landlord tn- creases rents from 5 to 10 per cent. he as entirely justifi n fact, he is bearing the burden ¢ increase. This 1s a business prop ion, and if tenants cannot afford to pay at least this increase they vuld move to quarters more in Keeping with their fina.ces, In order to be fair on this propos!- ition, permit me to suggest that you have an article headed Justified By York Tax Figures Show." A LANDLORD AND TENANT. Food Ministry for Italy, “Rent Boosts ily were laid tip with the grip, costing quite a sum of money, but we never | made a complaint, Now, this year, he tells us help is dearer and coal and taxes are higher, and serves us with notice that our rent will be raised $5 more per month, I would not mind the raine, only that during the winter the three front rooms cannot be uti- Mzed at all, owing to the poor steam pipes and radiators. Therefore, actu- ally during the winter we are paying Keep your blood pure and using Beecham’s Pills, which remove poiscnous matters from the system, assist the stomach to assimilate its $62.50 for three rooms to live in, This | is the Gospel truth. | A TENANT, LENOX AVENUE. food, and the food to nourish the body. A world- famous remedy to strengthen the vital organsand help to Make Pure Bloo Directions of Spectal Value to Women are with Every Box. Sold by druggists throughout the world. Im boxes, 10c., 28¢, This Agent Gives Tenants Some isinformation. New York, May 2 ‘To the Editor of The Evening World 1 am @ resident of Wost 180th Street and have an apartment for which from the first of next October I will be obliged to pay $42, an in- crease of $6, notwithstanding that 1 was raieod $9 fast year and got na| ROME, Italy, May A Food Ministry is created under a decree promulgated — to-da Dr. Silvio Crespi, who has been Food Control- ler, received the new portfollo, and Signor Nunzlate was appointed Un- der Secretary. Signor Reggior, Un- der Secretary for Marine Transporta- tion, has resigned, Salvatore Ore lando has been appointed to succeed him, —_—_—__ Lesion of Star Is Given to Lieut. Villelum PARIS, May %.-—-Premier Clemen- cean to-day handed the five double- pointed star of the Legion of Honor te Lieut, Villelume, who recently escaped trom Germany after killing three Ger- man goldiers who tried to stop him He had previously assisted the esc; of a well known French aviator whose freedom he considered more valuable to Brana than bis owa. Increase in Taxes, New | | ed to-day, Francis L. rr warden of the church, just received a letter from Mr. er accepting the rectorship. He succeed the Rev. Dr. Howard andler Robbins, who resigned a year ago to accept the dean- of the Cathedral of St, John the ne r. Silver was appointed chaplain West Point in Sept, 1913, by Pres- ident, Wilson. had served as chap- lain in the United States Army from 1901 to 1910, being stationed part of the time at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. tw Lets «an n, sen un h will | bi 1918. RED CROSS ACTS TO STOP WORK OF FAKE COLLECTORS Grafiers Found to Have Been Getting Funds in Streets and Subway: Information that unauthorized per- sons had been collecting money on streets and tn subway and elevated trains in the name of the Red Cross, caused J. W. Murray, representing recognition of authorized collectors, “The only official collection box, sald Mr. Murray, “is a white box about mix inches square and six inches deep. It is sealed and has on it a |number of smali red crosses. Each person is provided with an identifi- cation card and wears a round cel- luloid button with a red cross in the centre and @ number corresponding to the number on the card, We want No one on the street who is not pro- vided with one of these boxes, and will see that sufficient are provided | for those officially designated.” The matter was brought to Mr. Stabler'’s attention, Mr, Murray found a number of boxes and cans of different varieties had been dis- carded in elevated and subway sta- tions, minus the contents. One tin box was found in Grand Central Sta- tion with 20 cents in it. District Attorney Swann also sent out detectives, who questioned more than forty girls on Broadway and Fifth Avenue who were seeking funds] to-day, received postal cards from | but were not able to produce creden-|him announcing his safe arrival. | tials. Because the city is divided| Major Hallahan, who came to Camp into many districts, with several cap-| Wadsworth as commanding officer of tains in each district who have au-|the 102d Field Signal Battalion, left | thority to send out collectors, it was| for foreign service several weeks ago. |impossible to learn whether those} — semeeagem samiate questioned were merely careless vol- unteers or frauds. The detectives rounded up a young national guardsman from Corona, L. L, who had been collecting in uni- {form with a card issued by his |mother, a Corona Captain, bearing heard of this he sent Mr. Murray to order them back to their own terri- tory. Mr, Murray was met at Grand Central Station by M. J. Howe, who |has charge of the Corona forces, |Howe questioned the Manhattan man’s authority and finally had him arrested, Hy the time the East 5ist Street Station was reached, Mr, Swann had|perative that some ordinance be |been notified and had told Police | passed requiring solicitors for charity | Capt. Duggan to let Murtay go. Bot | to registered in some central Red Cross men went to see the Dis- trict Attorney and Howe said a Walter I, Stabler, h of the House | one year at hard labor on a charge of to House Canvass Committee, to| being absent without leave. He was jissue instructions to-day for the|tried several weeks ago in Camp an incorrect name. Mr, Swann took|to stop the collecting of Red Cross| |the young man’s Red Cross cre-| money by national guardsmen in| dentials away and told him to gol|uniform. He called up theatre men| back to Corona and stay there. who sald they had been using the Incidentally it developed that sev-| soldiers as collectors with the per- eral Corona’ women were collecting | mission of the Adjutant General. in the subway. When Mr. Stabler | They told Mr. Swann that the guards- WADSWORTH MEN GETPRISON TERMS FORLEAVING CAMP Major Hallahan Advises Spar- tanburg Friends He’s Safe in France, (Rpectal to The Er World.) SPARTANBURG, 8. C., May 25.— Private James Macchio of Company | 1, 58d Ploneer, formerly the 47th New York, has been sentenced to serve Wadsworth and the sentence of the court was reviewed and approved by Brig. Gen, Carleton, who ordered that the sentence be executed at the sta- tion of the prisoner's command. Mac- chio pleaded guilty. On a similar charge Private Dennis F. McLaughlin of the 66th Pioneer Infantry, formerly the 4th New York, was sentenced to serve sixty days at hard labor by a general court martial. McLaughlin was charged | with being absent without leave while the regiment was on guard duty in Buffalo, He was also tried on a charge of losing Government prop- erty, but was acquitted on that tharge. Capt. Harlo M, Provenmire of the 2d Pioneer Infantry has been trans- ferred to the 51st Pioneer Infantry, Major William 1. Hallahan ‘of Manhattan, chief signal officer of the 27th Division, has safely arrived in Europe, Several friends of the Major, who are now in Camp Wadsworth wrong telephone number had led him to conclude that Murray might be an impost —this despite the fact that Murray bore a letter of identifi- cation, ‘The District Attorney then set out! men were bringing in lots of money and that they saw no reason for dis- continuing their services, w. c Breed, head of the New York cam- paign, likewise saw no reason for taking the action Mr, Swann sug- gested. Mr. Swann said the appearante of unauthorized collectors m i bureau which would have power to require an accounting. PRESIENT PRAISES OUR FOREIGN BORN IN LY 4 CAL Urges Entire Nation to Join Them in Celebrating In- dependence Day. WASHINGTON, May 2%.—Native Americans have been called upon byyS President Wilson to-day to join with the foreign born of the United States in celebrating on the Fourth of July this year the birth of a new and great. er spirit of democracy. Committees representing national organizations of nearly every element of the foreign-born citizenship re+ cently sent the President a petition announcing plans for a great demon- stration on the Fourth of loyalty to the United States and the cause for which it is fighting, and asking the entire country to join with them. The President to-night made pubdlie , this reply, addressed to “our citizens of foreign extraction’: “I have read with great sympathy the petition addressed to me by your representative bodies regarding your Proposed celebration of Independence , Day, and I wish to convey to you, in reply, my heartfelt appreciation for tts expressions of loyalty and good will, Nothing in this war has been more gratifying than the manner ing) which our foreign born fellow citt- zens, and the sons and daughters of the foreign born, have risen to this” greatest of all national emergencies, “You have shown where you stand not only by ‘your frequent professions. of loyalty to the cause for which we /* fight, but by your eager response to" calls for patriotic service, including °# the supreme service of offering life Itself in battle for justice, freedom and democracy. Before such devotion as you have shown, all distinctions of race vanish, and we feel ourselves it~“ izens in a republic of free spirits, ¢ “I therefore take pleasure in call- Ing your petition, with my hearty commendation, to the attention of ail my fellow countrymen, and I asl thi they unite with you in making th Independence Day of this the year when all the principles to which we stand pledged are on trial the most sigpificant in our national history. “As July 4, 1776, was the dawn of democracy for this Nation, let us on July 4, 1918, celebrate the birth of a new and greater spirit of democracy, by whose influence we tope and be- lieve what the signers of the Decla- ration of Independence dreamed of for themselves and their fellow country- men shall be fulfilled for all mankind. “I have asked the Committee on | Public Informadon to co-operate with you !n any arrangements you mayf wish to make for this celebration.” i) J % WOMEN ENROLL TO-DAY. Women who wish to vote in the privfiries next September must enrolt ‘o-day. Enrolment boot WAGMiWeHORIM) oo oe ee Cut Out and Save These Magazine Pages and Make a Complete Kiddie Klub Year Book KIDDIE KLUB MAGAZINE: * €dited by Cousin ELEANOR: Interesting Contr ibation From Our Own Kiddie Kiab Members” | Volume L- {LETTER tROM FRANCE My Dear Cousins: ia a few words 1 want to thank you for your kind letter, I will be your cousin and a member ot your Kidd Klub with great pleas- ure, I thank you also for the money order which the Kiddie Klub mombers sp generously sent me. I enclose my photograph, since I cannot hav: the pleasure of seeing you,all. But |this will give you an Idea of what 1 No. XVIL. a am like. I aim almost seven and a oh”, York City, Valuation, Total Tax Terr, | naif years old. I go to school every ie Pb tt inh Soo.) day and learn to read and write, so While the Manhattan valuations! To ive with my mother, who works show de jes in certain districts, |eyery day to asuure my suppor ths following table shows the Man-|"'Sty joor father was wounded hattan valuations and how the taxes rat time in the head, on Sept have jumped, nothwitshstanding the — reduced valuation: |ONE OF OUR FRENCH ORPHAN tion, Mate, Total Tax, | COUSINS. MAXINE RENE GAGNEROT, Gi- ronde, France, by a fragment of a shell, at the attack upon Craonne on the French front, After five montns or treatment in hospitals he was sent with an ex- 114, pedition to the Dardanelles to fight against the Turks, In the attack on Sed-ul-Babr May 2, 1916, my father was killed. h r since that day I have been in great trouble and have missed the love of a good father, I from the General Com- r of the Army a medal for the | magnifie ‘attitude of my father in the presence of the enemy and also a Cross of War. In the hope of receiving good news from you, T am, your voted ¢ sin, Maxine Rene Gagnerot, Pes la Gare a Macaw, Gironde France How I Can N these critical times the word ] patriot means one who does something to help our country. Patriotiem ts to do al! I can to help my parents and also my coun- try in every way possible By so doing I help our soldiers and sailors on land and sea, Those who go to fight our battles show their patriotism. by taking their life in their while we may stay at home with our Parents, unmolested, I should en- deavor to do everything in my power to help my country and its Allies that they may win this great and righteous fight for cannot show my patriotism by join- The Statue of Justic 'N the city of Paris, years ago, there liv mansion. she became the ses low servants, One day her mist lost @ pearl necklace, She called her servants together and asked them who had taken it, as she could not find it. All promptly said that they had not seen it, and all hinted that it might be the poor orphan girl. her head She was very poor, and so and blame was placed on at the foot of statue of Justice. On the eve of the execution a te wible tempest apose and much damage} 24 City Hall Place, hands, | democracy, 1 | 4a poor orphan girl who had | arose the orphan was dragged to the been taken as @ servant in a rich goat of her fel- Be a Patriot {| |ing the army or navy, but I can knit |warm garments for the heroes that jr ave gone, I can also save my pen- | ntes and buy Thrift Stamps and War! avings mps. I can help buy Lib-| lerty bonds, I can also join the Red Cross and help in its work, Among other ways in which I can show my loyalty to my country is to grow a war garden and by conserv- | ing food and wheat, especially for our | | Allies, I shall endeavor to do all | these things so that my country may remain the free and beautiful coun- | try which it is now, Written by GRACE LEWIS, No, |101 Willow Street, Jamaica, » and the Poor Orphan ®;was done in the city. When the sun statue of Justice "to be burned, All i | tO OOOO Oe errr PATRIOTIC POEMS MARY'S PIN, Mary has a little pin, And it is made of silver, Everywhere that Mary goes ‘The pin is always with her, Why does Mary take this pin Wherever she does go? Because it represents her Klu Which she {8 proud of so. And to what Klub does she belong ‘That Mary holds it dear? It 1s the wonderful Kiddie Klub, So let's give three big cheers, Now let us look upon this pin That's made of silver bright, And lo! we see our Liberty Which stands for Freedom! Jus- tice! Right! So may this little astlver pin Be the emblem of the world, And every nation's banner For Liberty be unfurled. Written by BEATRICE LEE, No. 160 Hoyt Street, Brooklyn, OUR BRAVE Boys. . Our brave boys are across the sea, Fighting to save us Crom tyranny; Giving their precious lives for us, Fighting for our cause so just. Many are dving and many ere dead Many are wounded whose only bed Is the cold, cold ground, all stained with blood, Their only Cover @ swamp of mud. Yet they bear tt bravely without @ fear, Thinking and dreaming of loved ones so dear, ‘To United States they'll e’er remain true, Fighting for the Red White and Blue, Written by WINIFRED STURGIS, aged 125° State Street, Perth THOUGHTS OF THE PRESENT, I love the Kiddie Klub, And I know my cousins do, But I hope you all remember Our soldier boys too, So let's all pray for victory and Ere we sleep in our beds to-night, And let's all knit for our Red Cross To help our soldier boys who fight. By HILDA FRYETT, aged fourteen, Ne 28 Ellsworth Street, An »| the people followed with wood to place about her feet. When the peo- | ple reached the statue of Justice} The she was condemned to die at the stake they found the scales of Justice had | fallen from the hands of the statug. | They picked up the scales and found | a bird's nest th Entwined in the nest were the famous pearls which | the orphan had been accused of Then the truth came out. A swal-| liow bad taken the peurls to muke his | nest Fr LOUISE m MOLINELLI, No.|. Drawn by JAY STEMMERMANM, “ No, 125 North Sixth Street, t