The evening world. Newspaper, May 27, 1918, Page 16

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A’ Real estate interests do not deny the justice of The Evening World's demand, even while they urge increased operating expenses and the heavy load of taxation which forces realty in this city to pay,! they claim, from 25 to 30 per cent. of its net income for taxes. | Investigation by this newspaper disclosed an interesting fact Outside the area of Manhattan known as the Grand Central Dis-| trict, the city’s valuation of real estate for taxation purposes has been in many cases reduced—and reduced to such an extent that, not-| withstanding an advance in the tax rate from $2.02 to $2.36, property| owners are actually paying less taxes under the higher rate than under the rate a year ago. Asa Tax Department official put it: Lowered valuations neutralize the effect of a higher tax rate. A property owner cannot conscientiously raise his rent more than five per cent. on the present valuations and tax rate. Evidence that rents are not being raised in New York by con-, ecientious figuring, but, on the contrary, are being boosted arbitrarily anywhere from 15 to 30 per cent. on any plea the landlord or agent thinks will serve, is what proves that New York tenants are in need of protection. The need is the greater because of signs that much of this rent-| raising proceeds from conditions not economic but speculative. | War profits are coming to New York to be apent. Next fall should) see a yet greater demand for hotel and apartment house accommo- dations. Property owners—and even more the middlemen in the realty world—are getting ready to grab their share of a good thing. How much are they to be allowed to exact at the expense of those to whom the war has brought no increase of income? If a study of the rent question in New York at this time points the way to a fairer adjustment of taxation as between realty and personal property, so much the better. Personal property has long been the champion tax evader. Realty hands on its tax loads in the shape of rent. If a rent inquiry leads to a broader interest in the general prob- lem of housing as this great community of 5,500,000 must deal with it, so much the better also. Other communities, other nations—before and since the war— have had to tackle these same problems, And the general conclusion h<s been that speculative brain and capital cannot be safely left to solve them. Discussing “The Housing Problem in War and in Peace,” in the Journal of the American Institute of Architects,'Frederick L. Acker- man points out that “since the demand for more adequate acocmmoda- tions and for more homes inevitably occurs at a time of prosperity and industrial expansion, it should be obvious that it is absolutely futile to rely even in a small degree upon speculative building Uncontrolled speculation in this field is 80 closely akin to exploitation that to propose it as a method of providing homes at a minimum of rent Is to propose that the workingman be exploited. . If landlords and the law of supply and demand are, between them, eternally sufficient to provide homes and fix rents in civil- ized communities, why has England more than £7,000,000 of public money invested in housing? Why has the Government of France made available 100,000,000 francs for the same purpose? Why had the General Savings Bank of Belgium up to 1913 ad- vanced 159,000,000 francs to build workmen's dwellings? Why had the German Government before the war devoted some $200,000,000 to systematic housing work? Thirteen years ago the New Zealand Minister of Labor, Mr. Beddon, thus described conditions in that young but flourishing: RENTS IN NEW YORK. | A TIME when workers of every class are expected to help | catry the multiplying burdens of war, equity and reason ah | regulate the raising of rents. | ‘ The chief devourer of the wages of the worker is rent, tm Wellington, and in Auckland too, rents have not only in- creaged during the last ten years, but they have done so in utter disproportion to earnings. This may be accepted as a general rule in the capital city, viz, one-third of the income goes to the landlord, ‘The following year the Legislature of New Zealand passed a hous: ing law under which the Government advanced money to workers to eid them in acquiring homes, and the colony’s subsequent legislation elong similar lines has served as a model for other countries, There is, in fact, nothing unprecedented or subversive of right and liberty in seeking to protect tenants from the effects of unrestricted speculation in realty or to guard them from a special raid of landlord profiteers. England and France had to take extra measures to that end after the beginning of the present war. Congress is ready to regulate rents in the District of Columbia. New York should recognize that the time has come to do the same here, A resolution is before the Board of Aldermen calling for inquiry into the present status of New York rents, It is for this city to handle the matter with courage, sense and thoroughness, to the end that whatever is gained for justice now may be retained and made permanent. —_———— eee Hits From Sharp Wits Don't call it Generosity until it Costs lt ou Something.—Binghamton Press, ey also serve who oni t eg knock—Los Angeles Times, 4 #4 A good slogan for housewives this s 6 « summer would be “can food and pre-| | What drives many men jnto uni serve your self-respect."—Philadel-|form is the look in a woman's vee phia Inquirer. when they light on a nice yes In some instances of which we wot, Are fellow In kbuk!,—Columbla (Ss Gy People like to talk about their re- | State, t for law and the rights of otlers. * ee verthelens it is necessary to retain a For every One who can fin | officer at every busy corner,— ie & Bana. edy there are Thousands who Fault.—Binghamton Press)“ "nd | Monday, EDITORIAL PAGE May 27 ey a ng, O8, few York Brenine World.) My Matrimonial Chances Recording the Experiences in Pursuit of Love of a Young Girl of Thirty. By Wilma Pollock Covrriaht, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (Th A Little Dovecot LTHOUGH Gor- don Grant, the wealthy —stock- broker, had al- ways been very wonderful to me, he had told me in almost so many words that his devotion was an expression of friendship and not love. But I adored him any- way, for no other man I had ever known was as worth while as Gordon. One evening, when we were dining together, I was overjoyed to learn that, after all, Gor- don intended to marry me, For he sald; “Constance, if you were mar- ried, how would you like living in the country?” With alacrity I replied: “I should love it dearly.” Gordon immediate asked if I would motor up with him on the fol- lowing Saturday to hunt for @ “little ranoh,” e We found a charming old farm- house, nestling in an apple orchard, The place had ten acres of ground, with beautiful old trees and a mag- niflcent view of hills and country. My enthusiasm amused Gordon, who said: ‘Well, Constance, as long as you are satisfied we'll buy It, And you are to design every inch to sult yourself.” Here was the very spot T had al- ways dreamed of, and I explained to Gordon how a wing could be added at each end of the original homestead, which was so perfect that it must re- main intact. The house was to be painted a snowy white with turquoise shutters and @ roof of weather-beaten shingles. There were to be window boxes filled with pink geraniums and somewhere there had to be great quantities of blue hydrangeas, It was all to be very simple and cheerful “How happy we wi ” thought I. | We discussed every detail and Gor- gon said, “Constance, you are a won- Toledo Blade, eee eee Love maketh a light heart and @| Some people seem to re, ark parlor —Philadelphia Record. children as circumstances over which they have no confrol.—Puiladelphia Happy 1s the rled to | Record. ee. who at the Ne a ‘man who fs mar AOt take ner cooking o 9 8 0 ews. Love is what makbs you like to bear yw York Evening World), e Built for Two. draperies, china and linens, It 1n- volved weeks of incessant labor, ev-| ery moment of which I enjoyed. For what woman would grudge time) and effort given to the building of a) nest for herself and the man she loved? And as our home neared completion Gordon fell more deeply in love with me. At last the carpenters, plumbers | and painters departed. Flowers and shrubs were planted. Gordon en-| gaged caretakers, The furnishings | were sent up and I placed the things. Love radiated from every nook and| corner of our dovecote, | “Gordon will propose, and we will| be married at once, now that our] task is finished,” I told myself. | The day on which I had given the | final touches, Gordon and I were hav- ing tea under the apple trees, Ir marked in my happiness that it was all too ideal. “T am sure !f you approve,” sald Gordon, “Evelyn will also, Not such | a bad wedding present for a big} brother to surprise his little sister with, eh, Const I wish you would let me buy you a spring suit or something to repay you for all your kindness.” Newest Things| in Science The National Depart t of Health | [bas refused to permit telephone oper- ators in Argentina to work one hour daily more than their regular time. Less expensive than the usual wax| figures on which women's attire ts | displayed 18 a recently patented fig- | lure made of heavy cardboard, suit. | \ably colored and with jointed limbs. (Wee eer) ‘To prevent spontaneous combustion in large coal piles British scientists have found that iron or earthenware pipes should be inserted to afford ¢en- |tilatton as the coal Is piled, hcat Yee | box I should have to keep them in!” By J. H. Cassel | The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright. 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (Ths “ ED CROSS subscriptions I R got, and Thrift Stamps 1 got and Liberty Bonds I got, and n I got an afferdavit against me remarked Gus proudly. “By gollies! Mit all them important docterments, it is a safely depositing old fell He handed over what he termed “the afferdavit,” and Mr. Jarr saw it Was a summons to court. dus, you are like the laughing hyena, in that I don't know what you have to laugh about in this docu- ment,” remarked Mr, Jarr, “Ha, ain't I been worrying for weeks and weeks that I am going to get it? And now I got it and 1 don't have to worry any more, do I?” asked Gus. “Ha, I could laugh my eyes out now!" “As I said, IT don't see anything laughable in it,” persisted Mr. Jarr, “Oh, you don't, hey?” replied Gus “Vell, why should you? It ain't your afferdavit. But you aln't been wor- rying like I have ever since I heard Meyer Hylan said the ld was going to be on Sundays. But now T get the Jarr, he's a never have to treat. don't pay for it. and sings and hollers he’ Dugan, the cop, wouldn't have come | in and give me the afferdavit if that} “How can I keep him out 19 New York Evening World), body inside because he 1s afraid he'll Then when he gets in alone he orders a pint of wine and| ‘And then he dances | @ wildcat ler hadn't been so noisy. “What do you let a stingy old pest like that in for, then?” asked Mr. rich old feller? pays you when He's got @ miliion, and he hangs you up and But you got to let them wiolate the law with you, be- cause they have so much influence with them law enforcing societies that they get you in trouble if you don't let them come in and wiolate the exercise regulations. “Well, 1f you knew you were going to get into trouble on account of a man like that, and as you seem to be perfectly satisfied now you have got into trouble, I don't see where called on to sympathize with you, remarked Mr, Jarr, “I don't want you to sympathize ——— ‘What Every Woman Thinks By Helen Rowland Covyriaht, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ‘A Husband Around the House Is a Kindergarten and @ Menagerie and an Orphan Asylum and a Contin- uous Vaudeville—All in One” OW strange and desolate and lonely the house seems! H It 1s as though some one had died— Except that there are no flowers, For HE has gone back to the office to-day, After a whole week's vacation! ‘The cook 1s in bed with a sick headache, the house looks as though the Germans had just passed through St, the cat has come out from under the divan for the first time in days, ° And 1 am sitting here amid the wreoka, Mournfully mending bis smoking jacket—end actually MISSING bim! y Dear boy! It seems SO strange not to hear Bie 1 OA voice Demanding “something to EAT’—— Not to have him pawing around the icebox and upsetting the cream, Or digging through all the old trunks in the attto in search of some thing that has not been seen around the house for years, Or insisting on “fixing somethin, And scattering tools and paint and sawdust all over the rugs, And hammering his thumb and having to be bandaged and soothed and nursed back to life, | Or burning holes in the curtains, or turning over the tabourette, er looking for something that he has “lost,” Or “instructing” the cook and “advistn; | In what he calls “the useless effort to establish some SYSTEM in the | way this joint fs run.” Or treading on the cat's tail, Or standing cheerfully in the exact spot where you want to sweep, Or taking the clock or the ice-cream freezer to pieces, ! And putting it together again—so that it won't run! It seems SO strange, I For @ baby around the house MAY be put to sleep occasionally, And a pet poodle around the house may amuse itself for hours without, having to be watched, | But a HUSBAND around the house for a whole week Is a kindergarten and a menagerie and an orphan asylum and @ com- i) What would “home” BE without him? ‘With nobody around to upset things, or lose things, or blame for things, With nobody to consult, or argue with, or worry over, or brag about, | With nobody to open a refractory window, or paint the piazza, or mend j the garden hose, or track mud through the halls, | | | And yet, | | With nobody to kiss, or to scold, or to fuss over? Ab me! I don't suppose there 1s any use Trying to find that PERFECT, happy medium between a riot and @ mausoleum, Between a storm and a dead calm, In this world of matrimony—and compromises! Do you? Who Is Your Namesake? Famous Characters in History and Fiction Who Have Borne the Same Given Name as Yours. By Mary Ethel McAuley Copyright. 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), JANE. others were executed, and although HE most famous Jane in the his- | "@r youth and Innocence protected the - tory of the world is Lady Jane|!ne-day Queen for the moment, some Grey, and ler story 1s very sad,|C!amored for her death, and she was being all the more| fought to the scaffold. She was pathetic because] Seventeen years old, her hard fatecame| Jane Seymour was the third wife of through no fault| Henry VILL, whom he married on the of her own, but|44y after Anne Boleyn was executed. through the faults| Jane Shore was the favorite of King and ambitions of| Edward Iv, but that was not theéé others, The great|"@Markable part of her career, which ambition of the| began after Edward died. ‘Two plays ‘uke of Northum-| have been written from the life of erland was to} Jane Shore, ralge Hie cwnceaine Jane Austen was born in Hampshire fly to the throne ny Abs Her best known works are “Pride and Prejudice" * and Sensibility.” “i Jane Austin Goodwin Is an Amer- ican writer, and has been called the Story-teller of the Pilgrims, for most of her stories are about the Pilgrim Fathers, of whom she isa 4 Jane Porter, the author of “Scottish Chiefs” and “Thaddeus of Warsaw,” came of @ very talented family, Her sister was the first to publish a book culled “Artless Tales," followed by many cthers, end her brother Robert gained much fame as a painter, Jane never married, bu: traveled extem- elvely, Jane Addams ts one most noted philanthropt Cowl 1s @ popular actri star, One of Shelley’ inv tation to Jane*— Lady Jane Grey. As a part of his scheme he married his son to Lady Jane Grey, of England. an attractive, accomplished young girl, and a grand niece of Henry VIIL, and he persuaded Edward, the King, who was rapidly failing !n health, to name Jane as his successor in prefer- ence to Princesses Mary and Eliza- beth. Immediately on the King’s death Mary and Elizabeth escaped, atthioch ? mh land tried to se- cure them, Jane had heard nothing of the scheme to make her Queen, ana when it was revealed to her she was filled with grief and dismay, and she entreated that Mary and Elizabeth should not be deprived of thetr birth- right. But the shrinking girl could do nothing against so many and she | was crowned Queen, Jane wore the a of America's ists, and Jan |-rho best ain’t yet to come | afferdavit to go to court and pay @/ mit afferdavits besides. |fine for wiolating the Exercise Law them signs they put on the subway afferdavit on account of Meyer Hy-| With me. I want it you should en- Taner |choy how my wife Lena !s going to eraser Mr, | fee! when she roasts me so I will give ace her money for a new dress and a “Bure,” said Gua, “but when I am new hat 0 the peace In the fambly called oan say, the word (Maver) won't © disturbed. And then I can T got to say the word ‘Meyer, be-|tell her T got a fine to pay and cause I got a brother named Meyer. | °#N't lend her any money. And now I got it I am a heppy tel- | Please excuse me from participat- reel ing in your family affairs, even to “ " ‘i a | the extent of belng informed of your Fre sit pete mes ma aie ane wife's chagrin,” replied Mr. Jarr, ike @ lot of other peop | "She won't grin,” sald Gus. “You before the thing to Worry you Occurs. | ,eean't worry that she'll grin! When atter troub! J | news? “Yes, and there is a good joke in It,! Mr. Jarr saw it was useless to ex- too,” replied Gua, Us going to cost plain, so ho simply remarked that he me money for a lawyer, and T got the| didn't see what Gus had to laugh money and told my wife Lena she| apout, could have it, and forse want ect) “T got it a Joke to laugh about,” re- it, I'll wait till sho ts roasting me| marked Gus. “I know now how I about something, and then I'll say: /can keep that rich, stingy, old feller ‘Ha! Don't enchoy yourself so much. | out of my place on Sunday without I got an \nsulting him and getting tn a jam You know Hylan,” corrected tor selling on Sunday, Now laug' cars sometimes, ‘Side Doors Not ‘The capacity of a flat top office desk recently patented can be increased by raising @ set of pigeon holes at the der, What would I do without you?" Many men w wanted things done to pl elves, but not Gordon, Who believed the home| should be planned py the woman, orion and Thad innumerable back, the attachment being lowered | for security when not in use, ke | n semi-officlal ff. A that en in tho United King! ure’ | hich uth were “you didn't have to let people | yworking’?” in your place on Sunday, you know," Mr. Jarr nodded, | said Mr. Jarr, “Well,” said Gus, “watch me get 5 % ooth-shaven, “I she sald, “1° gey 7 . pli cs and bang it out next Sunday!” The second was smoo Jright down s for ti 5 a jae a kas wv Papiied Gua | Mput | one oo | uscter have a beard like that till Tsawlto think of n Into battenwty md maeit } tne sear Y\ FIRST LAKE STEAMBOAT, ; jqnesome in a liquor store on Sun- day. And, all the same, I don't go| ‘aut and ask people to come in. But! 1 did let in that old feller what lives wn on the avenue in the swell bie! HB first steamboat gn Lake Erle, I the “Walk in the Wa lannohed at Rack! toe distance below Buffalo, i, : 100 ene crown for nine days, but the people rallied around Mary and proclaimed her the Queen, Northumberland and “Best and Brightest, come ; Fairer far than this fair dayne Which, like thee, to those in ‘sorrow Comes to bid a sweet 00d-morrow,” O son, bet!" a auburn. years” he returned conan. fades Good War Stories of the Day THOUGHT TOO HIGHLY OF BOTH. N a road in Belgium a German officer met a boy leading @ Jack ass, and addressed him in heavy, jovial fashion as follows: “That's a fine jackass you have, my | before going off duty What do you call it? King.” The German scowled and returned: “] nope you don't dare to call it Wiu- 1am.” “Oh, no, officer. of my jackass."—Paris Liberte. officer,” “| think too highly of my! Albert, 1 the boy replied I think too highly _ TIT FOR TAT. gently une HE first Tommy was ruddy of | countenance, with a huge beard of the hue politely known as| | meself in the glass, Then 1 cut it off, But the bearded man was not dis- was mayed. w It in the lass useter have a the NOT HER Jos, © was @ young subaltern, One evening the sister in the hose plial had just finishea making {him comfortable for the night, and asked: “Is there anythin, thing that 1 can do f you before I leave? sis Dear little two stars replios yes, I should | “Well, very much to be to the door. ve orderly,” she the rough work | "London Opinion, _ — TERROR IN HIS VOICE, R son had enlisted, ang Was @ proud old woman as she harangued a knot of friends village street, on the eis duty by me, 8 doin’ "Is duty b nd country ‘ta rifle 1 nd and ‘it’ “ perary’ on ‘ts lips’ Longy, | nang, indeed!” oxelat udience, —"Bity'e. wakteh i q you aven't ‘eard ¢