The evening world. Newspaper, May 31, 1918, Page 20

: i | i ' é £ 4 oat | ED ITORI Wiorid, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Dally Except Sunday by the Frese Publishing Company, Nos 63 to PU Pres Row. PIOUS FLEW arcane oe Denke ee JOSPH PULITZER Jr Becrelfty, 63 Parke Tow. wisn ensalted OT oe th MEMBER OF THD ASSOCIATED PRI in their own plans and projects for the past few years as not to know that private speculative enterprise is no longer) regarded in all communities as the sole or even the best provider of housing. | Private epeculation has not been so successful in building) adequate numbers of homes and selling or renting them at fair figures} + that its exclusive right to furnish housing and fix rents is every- where recognized. On the contrary, in England, France, Germany, Belgium, New Zealand, governments have in the last decade or two decided that| private realty speculators are held to much safer standards when they are given a competitor in the shape of the State itself, That is why cach of these governments has advanced millions of, pounds, francs or marks of the public money for workingmen’s houses} and co-operative dwelling settlements—not in the least as charity,, but from the standpoint of a level-headed, though at the same time public-spirited, realty operator. A beginning of the same sort has been made in the United States since the war started. A year or two carlier tho Homestead Commission of the Common wealth of Massachusetts reported: There are not enough wholesome low-cost dwellings, There is no prospect that present methods will ever supply enough unless the State encourages their construction. Therefore the State should experiment to learn whether it ds possible to build wholesome dwellings within the means of low-paid workers, In 1915 the voters of Massachusetts ratified an amendment to their State Constitution providing that The General Court shall have power to authorize the Com- monwealth to take land and to hold, improve, subdivide, bulld upon, and sell the same, for the purpose of relieving con- gestion of population and providing homes for citizens; provided, however, that this amendment shall not be deemed to Rise interests in New York cannot have been so immersed Subsequently the Massachusetts Legislature granted the Home- stead Commission an appropriation of $50,000 with authority to buy land and build. A site was chosen at Lowell, Mass. Tho first houses farted last fall. More were begun early this year. An easy plan of monthly payments has been prepared for purchasers, The experiment is on. , New York realty interests may ask what the Massachusetts Homestead Commission and its houses at Lowell have to do with rents in New York City. They have this to do with it: They show that progressive American communities begin in their turn to doubt the fitness of private landlords and private realty speculators to perform all the public has a right to expect in the matter of providing homes and fixing prices and rents. Are New York landlords and real estate speculators anxious to confirm and strengthen that doubt? Are they longing to be pulled up to new standards set by the performances of a far more powerful competitor? If so, profiteering in rents is their best hope. Do they realize that Congress has already appropriated $50,000,- 000 for housing shipyard workers in war timo? Suppose it should turn out that these and others can be better and more cheaply housed when the Government acts as landlord; Suppose, out of the experience of war and the excitement of Government housing proposals on a larger and larger scale were to win the approval of the country; Wouldn’t private realty interests be fools to furnish addi- tional arguments against themselves in the shape of a war time record of ruthless rent boosting? ——— + Grticle I. of the new military treaty signed by Emperor * William end svb-Emperor Karl provides that “The allied nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary shall devote all their care to have their armies enter into an eventual future conflict fully prepared and at a max!- mum of their strength. Only thus the future war shall be of brief duration; for, had the armies of both allies been im this condition in 1914 this war would have been ended It's out at last! unpreparednoss! The cause of all the carhage—Teutonio —_-+-__—. From this day forth, the State of New York requires that “every able-bodied male person between the ages of eighteen and fifty years, inclusive, shall be habitually and regularly engaged ~ in some lawful, useful and recognized business, profession, oc pation, trade or employment, until the termination of the war,” Loafers have thirty days to find jobs or register with the Bureau of Employment of the Department of Labor. The grace period ts liberal, but will not be extended. After us | | , New Yor | | EAS, ects etc" ber Ned Mis Soe tems ala bere OMUMM ER, S500 iseseUersvvsssessosssveneeseosNO, 9078? | RENT PROFITEERS SHORTSIGHTED. AL PAGE May 31 by The (Tus New York Exoning Coprriat, 1918, ‘Treas Tytaiabing Co jorid.) Chivalry in By Sophie FEW gays ago the highest court in the State rendered a de- cision that makes chivalry to- ward women rec- ognized by law. This court over- turned the de- cision of @ trial court in a. case where women wero trying to get on a crowded street car, ‘The incident occurred at a trolley ter- minal near Utica when a number of factory workers were struggling to secure places on the car. The inspector in charge urged that the women be allowed to board the car first, One man wedged his way through to the platform ahead of the others, The inspector kicked him off, and the man brought sult for assault, | The court held that the tnspector | jhad the right to make the regula tion that women enter first, and that they were naturally handicapped 1n | a group of men, | cision of the court one fundamental fect hes heen ' mined, and that is that no matter | how far we have gone on the} “equality” proposition of women and | men in the twentieth century, the courts still maintain that women are to be protected, ‘This ts a worth while decree, Mere man might well take cognizance of It, deter. thirty days it Is $100 fine, three months in the workhouse or both for all slackers. Do your job hunting early. ———- 4 -___. To all good America: Look up Cantigny on the map of France, see where it Mes, and get the name so it comes easy, There's a reason. ‘Letters From the People Would Make Shipyard Slackers Get) debate about this thing. What we Busy. ere is action—quick action To the Paitor of The Evening World | Let me say that I fully agree with’ several your readers who would make shipyard slackers work or get out. To read of the critical events in France on on page and of such con- ditions here at home on another is enough to make a true American je action? Can't the city of Neo want to take the law in his owni York, or thy State, or the United States hands, If our shipyards are filled|take som: ps that will make these 4 big pay and|men keep in boun I think tr isa jon when we are compelled CITIZEN ove To the Fa elt I see that the talk ot still runs high. profitacring but that nothing is done to make retail grocers maintain tal prices. Why so much talk and so ° manner of legitimate in- eollar and show th duo to the war, and then ¢ exit, Moreover, foreign: and unnecessary = increa: the rest charged by unscrupulous merchants. oft | Let us he some livht on thin subject JUSTION, |We are too prone to disregard con- sideration for our mother’s sex, es- pecially the truly weak ones. | There is something to be said about ‘the “madding throng” that js often found in places lke the subway; | |soinething to be sald about the rugh- | less disregard of humanity in genera! | Jand especially of women | Certainly one of the inalienable | privileges of man |s to show some | degree of courtesy and chivalry | toward women, | Certainly he would like other men to give that same consideration (o his nother, his wife, or his sister, It is} a comm cause-this matter of | courtesy to strangers, Many men in| a crowd go on the theory that be- cause they do not know the tndivid- uais about them they may resort to | brutish acts and "get away with it.” It is truly in a crowd of strangers that the individual shows himself for what he Js. Much eriticism bas come trom peo- pie who visit the wetropolis, Their! who makes \Newes eat Sag oz the Subway Irene Loeb Copyright, 1918, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Krening World), charge is that in the crowded sub- ways and street cars New Yorkers are selfish and self-centred and for- get the fundamental principles of decency and common courtesy, They tell about the person who occupies two seats by sitting sideways or reading & newspaper, opened wide, and when there js a scramble to get on or off int ‘usb hour only thinks of himself. They are often rude to the point of giving bodily injury. This is not true with men only, since women often take advantage; yet in the main when it comes to pushing and crowding certainly the fine example can bo set by the man for woman, It is a joy indeed to-find in a large gathering the man who forgets him- self for the moment in order to help somebody er do a kind act by mak- jing way rather than obstructing or otherwise acting on the theory that “might makes right.” True, everybody should have equal opportunity of securing proper ser- vice in the course of travelling. But alas! it is not always so. Circum- stances make congested conditions. At such times the real man will show of ng well as the real woman, She who is strong and is able tu bear with things will make way for her weak sister or even for an elderly man, The big thing is to do the chival- rous thing at the time it is needed most, It has a way of making one feel good regardless of whether tt is noticed or not, cee alae t Things in Science An olectric lamp, provided with shield and reflector, has been de signed for mounting on the breast | band of horses’ harness as a sort of headlight. oo. By the liniting of the railways of Siam and the Vederated Malay States through rail service between Bangkok and Singapore has been made pos sible. see A Pennsylvania agriculturist has succeeded in grafting tomato and potato plants together and making them produce both vegetables at the same time, 28 Diamonds found in t ids in what was German te n Africa are & and mor ins: parent than those trom neighboring British mica By Roy L. Copyright, 1915, by Th» Press Publisb!n4 “ec TELL you what, I'm sore at ' the world!” grumbled Mr. | John W. Rangle morosely, as jhe draped himself in a patriotic osture, in that it was apread-eagle, ip front of Gus's bar. This may ¥¢| |explained by saying that Mr. Rrogle |rested with his back to the bar rail, supported on his elbows, It 1s an Attitude that is a vacation in itself for the tired business man, And 1s thenics, or cafe | setting-up exercises. But, although he was physically at | his ease, it can be gleaned from Mr, | Ran, remarks that he was in a pessimistic mood, | “What's the matter with you?” jasked Mr. Jarr, “Do you miss the | sustaining excitement of the recent | Red Cross driv | “Maybe I di growled Mr. Rangle, |"and maybe I don't, But I want to | be of some service to my l service. T want to fight, vt 1 get a commission?" country, Why Have the new regulations of ‘Work !' got you upset?” asked Mr, “You want to fight, you say.! t you want to work?” to work, but aeroplanes or want “y | bulla ships, or work tn I want to| drive rivets In foundry making owled Mr. Rang in whole- | "t any any | | Cheer up,” advised Mr, Jarr, “Did you hear the latest joke about the rearult when the examining surgeon heavy “What woolens anon," § good am I dol when the business wholesale woolea asked him if he had any scars and the recruit sald, ‘No; but I've got somo cigarettes In my coat pocket over there!” | “But why should he jive the stur Jaeon any cigars?” asked Gus, who had been listening to the argument between the two old friends with a grudge | d like to see @ good baseball | game once in a while,” growled Mr I Rangle, paying no need to My, Jarr's \jest or Gus's inquiry. “And yet, all the baseball players will be drafted and T wouldn't be interested in them playing if they were a to go to }war” | «and bartenders is to be drafted too,” said Gus. “Weil mer wen Jand tried to wet listed fo: hike a |yegular feller for the regular army But he was dejected bec he's go! flat feet, Why Is that his fee t Mat how could he walk on], McCardell ‘ # Co, (The New York Evening World), seemed to worry that bartenders were | so frightened at the thought of it-— to be drafted, or that Elmer had flat fect, for Mr. Jarr commenced quote: “They are all gone, the old, familiar faces!” “e°7 only younger and my eyesight was good, and if I didn't get dizey at heights, I'd be an aviator and volunteer for work," remarked Mr. Rangle, “If you are bumming, how could you do plain work?" asked Gus, “Gus, describing you mentally as well ax physically, I should say you are about a yard thic Mr. Ranglo sarcastically. “We were to ful thing in the world—— bombing plane le Marriage — The Mirac By Helen Rowland | | Copyright, 1918, by ‘The Prose Publishing Oo, (The New Sai Srening Weekly | No Matter How Young and Foolish You ay No ae How Old and Wise You Are, the Marriage Tie the Stars in the Heavens Are Two Things You Cannot Get Away From.” ‘And the great matrimonial drive has begun! And everybody 1s rushing around, wishing th happiness”—(knowing full well that such thing!). ‘i sé aieali ot And everywhere the str heard above the strains of the other “battle hymas" And brave men are facing tho fire of & ash our. rious eyes for the sake of their fair women, ‘And falteringly repeating the old, sweet vows! And !f you are a WOMAN A wedding !s always sacred, and #0) ful and thrilling to you~ — ‘ Yet you can’t help wondering Sa As $0 sit there under the spell of the muslo, im the wet-scented church, with the smiling, whispering throng about you If anybody there—even the radiant pair at the chancel—~ Knows what a MIRACLE 1s happening! The marriage tle! What a BOND it is! The menial, most inexplicable, unfathomable, immutable, incomprér hensible, adamantine bond in the world! No matter how young and foolish you are—no matter how olf ang wise you are, | No macter how worldly and cynical you are, | No matter whether you come from New England or Greenwich Villagq, or Broadway, or Fifth Avenue, or Third Avenue, The marriage tle and the stars in heaven are two things which you cannot change, nor get over, or around, or beyond, or away from! | You may call yourself “advanced,” | And vow that, to you, the wedding ceremony {s merely a conventional {hocus-pocus, for the benefit of society, And that YOUR marriage shall be a “TRUS marriage,” which shall last only so long a3 love lasts, ‘ | And ten years later you will find yourselves clinging together ove; | the grave of a dead love, and a thousand dead iIlusfons, | Smilingly denying your misery to the world. | You may discover, a week after the wedding, that you Lave not OND ' | congenial point in common, | Yet you will go on for the rest of your lives trying hopefully to adjust | | ip June again! ¢ combatants “eternal there ISN'T any. “Lohengrin” can de lemn and beautl< | flo yourselves to one another, Each of you doing a thousand distasteful little things a day, claring loudly and vociferously that you are “perfectly happy.” | Down in the slums a husband and wifo may live as peacefully together |as a pair of strange leopards, I Yet the charitable friend who attempts to interrupt their fights will be turned upon and torn limb from limb—— | And they will Join hands in mutual glee over his defeat. i | In more cultured circles, a married pair may quarrel over every mortal | ‘thing from the temperature of the coffee to the existence of the soul after‘ | ‘death, | Yet they will go miles out of their way to prove to a doubting friend that they are “Ideally mated!” Even when two people come to the point of divorcing each other, ; | ‘They, somehow, cannot forget the “BOND"~— id dex lawyers are paid and they are hundreds of miles apart, or | Each will worry about the other, and wonder if he—or she—fs happy. * | And it isn’t the law, and it isn’t the state, and it isn’t the church, or | society, or duty, or conscience, or even children, that holds them together | In this bond that {is stronger than the bond between sister and, | brother or father and daughter or mother and gon, or even between lovers: It is something far deeper and more mysterious and more powerful ‘than any or all of these—something on which, biologists and sociologists and anthropologists will tell you, all human society {s founded. | Yet not one of them can tell you what {t IS! | And I don’t wonder, after all, that bachelors and bachelor maids are. For it {s the strangest and most astounding and wonderful and beautt+ \ ‘This Miracle of MARRIAGE! ‘Who Is Your Namesake? | Famous Characters in History and Fiction Who Hace Borne the Same Given Name as Yours. | By Mary Ethel McAuley | Soovrtaht, 1918, by The Prews Publishing Co, (The New York Eves! SAMUEL. AMUBL WHITD made a fortune making false teeth, and Samuel ing World), \clghteen months passed away’ ahd only three appeared. Indeed, his ape pearance wa And when the obsequies are over and the hatchet {s buried and the | winter"— talking about aeroplane navigating— driving a flying machine." “I used to think they were bum- hugs-I mean humbugs—but, by golly, I've seen them myself. Why don't they take Elmer, my bartender, for them flying machines? If he ts woiking on one of them up in the sky what doc. .: matter bow flat bis feet is?” “Abi” cried M.. Jarr. “That's what I'd like to be! A war eagle! ‘The free winds blowing tn my face’——| diary was begun Jan, 1, 1660, and It “That isn’t @ war eagle,” tnter.|runs for nine years, As a picture of rupted Gus, “that’s from my new |the Court of Charles IT, it 18 invalu- electric fan, Ain't it a chim dandy? , for the: events; the chareoters; You can’t hear it, and it blows on my oan ant Ane tellin Ais eke aid spot and I get a bad cold in my head all the time from it, and that Makey me think it ts cold Weather in | S Pepys made himself famous by the dlary he loft, When Samuel wrote this diary he never dreamed of having it published, and he never knew that it was published, for it came out after lhe died. Pepys was a citizen of Lon- jdon and a good statesman, He was |twice imprisoned for treason, but this jdid not worry him very much, for |both times he got out, and was in as good standing as ever, His famous the the ag Dickens's Samuel Pickwick was a funny, little, lovable, naive man of the |world, but Samuel Welle, his servant, “What’ Rangle, the use?” murmured Mr, What's the use! I said a yard thick, but he's four yardy, cubic measurement, solid concrete, “Well,” said Mr, Jarr, “Gus can't help It, and while I'd likéto be an American Ace, too, still, why worry? iwas not naive, Samuel Rogers was a \queer Sam that really lived, He was |called “Memory Rogers,” and for fifty years he was the most celebrated en- \tertainer of celebrities In London, The book most read and praised at lthe court of Charles IT. was a satiri. We did our duty, we worked for | cal poem called “Hudibras,” by Sam- Liberty Bond gales, and we helped | uel Butler. The object of the work n the Red Cross Drive, and we gave | was to satirize the cant and excesses of Puritanism, just as the Don Quixote | of Cervantes burlesques tho extrava- ‘ gances and follies of chivalry, int got any |, Toray in the old Cheshire-Cheese Ou are acing [429 In London there ts shown to the Solag | amiring tourists the grease-spot on broke, |e wall where the head of Samuel | Johnston rested ag he leaned back in UNL it tingled, L won't say ‘ached,’ broke, but 1am not worrying, 1 am broke and 1 am worry. ng," remarked Rangle And ne ou rm ither Us what 5 bled Gus, his chair. In the history of English ower Le | \iterature there was never a greater gave him] Reif nd walhed out aug /nor a more Unique figure than this and left him, tt Johnston, One of the funniest events > U. S. FILMS FOR ENGLAND, ry cent, of the moving who had children aa old as him- if, and in spite of their quarrels paton continued to be under the la 6 ny AoW shown in . h cities are Ameri. | iiiusions of the wedding day until the a mad he American sevial fea. | Iddy ded aged sixty-four years, Arter ure play is constantly growing myze he & ied he opened a school, poyular with Brush movie fang y of his life Was his marriage with al | famous Aud aiinvugo be advertised for pupua!ieeuid,—Boaton Glebe, strange and bis tem- nt that his eehoot room must have resembled an ogrete | den, nor was the tawdry painted grandmother whom he had marrie@: / qualified to make tfings comfortable.» for young gentlemen, David Garrick. Was one of the three pupils, and years afterward he threw the best com: in London into fits of Inughtet as he mimicked the endearments of thts extraordinary patr, Sam and his Tily, 4 Tt was his dictionary that first raised ' ber was so y him to fame, Samuel Adams, Samuel Huntings ton and Samuel Chase were signers of the Declaration of Independence: | Samuel Champlain founded Quebee: Samuel Morse invented the telee graph; Samuel Drake was an antle quary and the author of many hige torical books; Samuet Foote was # fi English actor of 17905 Samuel Coleridge was the great post who wrote “The Ancient Mariner? and “Christobel”; Samuel Colt ine vented the revolver that bears nie name; Samuel Lover, the Irishman, wrote “Handy Andy"; Captain Sam, uel Brady was a famous scout; Same uel Gompers is the labor leader: pers then we have Samuel McClure, Sam, uel Pare, Samuel Crom § " Tucker, Samuel Tilden, tamtel fo tee ible, a moans, "Uncie’ gam,t°t east by any 3 ——e COMFORTS THEN AND Now BOPLE who complain because they are unable to get some little luxuries should 2 reme! that our forefathers thee live od sugar till the ihirteanttl one without coal till the fourteenth, withs out butter till the fifteenth, without” tobacco and potatoes till the pix. teenth, without tea, coffee and soap till the seventeenth, without tm. brellas and lamps tli! the elghteenth, and without trains, telegraphs, telee phone, gas and matches til) the nines