The evening world. Newspaper, June 1, 1918, Page 12

ESTABLISHED BY JOSKPH PULITZER, Published Dally Except Sunday, by the Press Pubdshing Company, Nos. 63 to Parl Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurt JOSEPH PULITZE! 3 Park Row. Ee Aspoctated, to it or not 1,’ Jr., Becretary, 63 Park Kow. EMAER OF THB ASSOCIATED PRESS, | ——————— anne VOLUME 58........ penne Je, exclusively entitled tothe se. tor remublication NO, 20,738 ise credited th this paper and ale te local news AS THE LANDLORD SHOULD SEE IT. N OPEN showdown of facts and figures bearing on renta, A taxes and realty conditions in this city is the first thing needed toward establishing when and where the raising of! rents ceases to be fair and equitable and becomes profiteering. : Nobody maintains that up to a certain point advances in New York rents are not justified. Heavier burdens have been put upon the landlord as upon every one else. So long as he only seeks to share such burdens with his © tenants on a justly worked out basis, he is in no sense a profiteer. [Unfortunately there is the other kind of landlord who has no ecruple in exacting FIVE dollars from his tenants for every ONE dollar by which his own expenses have increased. Extortion is made the easier for this type of landlord by the public’s general acceptance of the idea that rents must go up, while not one person in ten thousand can apply any economic measure to determine HOW MUCH they should go up. Furthermore, in a great congested centre like New York the profiteering landlord is shielded from the normal effects of compe- tition by: (1) A never satisfied demand for housing. (2) Spending power and impulse unevenly increased by war profits. (3) The high cost of moving. At a time like this, when most families need every penny they can save to be able to meet war demands, and when few families would willingly incur the added expense of moving, New York tenants are peculiarly at the mercy of rent profiteers—and must remain so unless 4 way is found to fix a fair standard by which the raising of rents can be regulated. On the other hand, until some such standard is- recognized, every landlord who raises rents is likely to be charged with justice of which he may not be guilty, because of the unrestricted | rapacity of some landlords. It is to the interest of landlords as well as tenants, therefore, to, arrive at an understanding as to what shall constitute a fair advance| of rent in each given case—an advance, that is, of which the tenant cannot reasonably complain. Obviously no such understanding can be reached without a full and frank discussion of the facts and figures involved. The measure by which Congress aims to “control and regulate rents of real estate in the District of Columbia” during war time— through a Rent Administrator and a Board of Rent Appeals—con- tains the following provisions: Bec. 10. That all persons letting real estate shall be re- quired to keep books of account, open at all times to the inspec- tion of the Rent Administrator or his authorized agents, show- ing the rents charged and paid, including the names of the ten- ants or rente: nd also an itemized statement of the taxes and assessments thereon, the cost of reasonable repairs and main- tenance, insurance, light, heat, water and elevator or other rvice where furnished, as wel! as a proper allowance for de- Preciation or non-occupancy. No {tem shall be considered by the Rent Administrator in fixing the rent of property which does not appear in such account, Bec. 11, That the said Rent Administrator and the Board of Rent Appeals are hereby empowered to summon witnesses and require the production of books, papers and accounts, and to administer oaths and affirmations to witnesses so summoned, and take testimony respecting the matters covered by this act. Similar testimony and itemized statements bearing upon the let- ting of real estate in New York are the only media through which to get at the factysby which the fairness of rental increases in this city must be judged? The Board of Aldermen will do well to recognize that, to be effective, rent regulation here ought to start on these same lines, Real estate interests engaged in the business of renting should be the first to welcome an opportunity to produce their * books and clear themselves once and for all of charges of profit- *ering such as are bound to be brought against them as a class so Jong as there is nothing to restrain certain landlords from raising rents on the principle of grabbing as much as there is any chance of getting. When the Government came to the rescue of consumers and kept food prices below the unreachable heights toward which profiteers were boosting them, honest food dealers benefited. It wilt be the same when a just gauge for rent increase is “provided: The landlord who is on the level will find his position a stronger and easier one when he has to announce a raise. ” Hlits from Sharp Wits a { Faint heart never gets mixed up| “It costs more to conserve,” re- Be ‘4n @ breach of promise sull—Chicago| marked the man on the car, “than ex News. | It Used to cost to eat."--Toledo Blade, i “68 6 ie yah) folks are interested In| ne of their bual- ows, Lima Beane says a wrinky dimple that has quit smiling.“ Blade. many Wants Shipyard Slacking ony Ds the Editor of The Wrening World To Certainly we should do something {bout these shipyard workers who are © @barged with shirking their labor and The VProtiteering the Ealitor of The Evening World am glad to see some of your (ting after” the druggists exorbitant prices. for their urlem recently I had a pr * ‘@rawing unusual pay for no commen- | ) and when I asked: * marate effort. It is an excellent thing druggist said, “Just a dolla that some of your readers who are in| ‘ough he was making me a p y feeling that 1 ted him to charge per- 8 50 cents more. B position to kngw these things have brought them to light. 1 cannot seo! reason for the Government per ime I had the same p: ing these men—inost of whom are| scription put up a few blocks dis- to be foreigners und many pro-|tant. | was charged 65 cents, I told —to abuse the finest privileges {this latter druggist what I had paid | American citizenshi If they are! before, and he volun ed the infor- | Tot citizens, send them home, If they | mation that there was no expensive} citizens, make them work, Is| ingredient in the mixture—in fact, anything simpler than this? 1t| said that the principal ingredient was Bigh time that we ceased coddling | a syrup of sugar and water, rables and handled them by a| 1 have known the first druggist to od that they will understand.| charge just double for some article: 4s a time for all good Americans | which are being sold at the old price forward and save our free|in other drug stor We all learn ons if we do not expect to|after being swindled a few tim them overrun by a horde of for-|and no doubt there are customers ’, ~ Hate V | ut no one may infringe on anotber's By Sophie Sign on the Do ersus Love Loeb Irene Copreight, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), URING the week a woman in Wisconsin was convicted of murder ip the second degree. She killed the ts of t)) man she loved. Jealousy, and love strangely mingled in this story, where an Innocent woman was made a * tim. The suffer- ing that has been caused the families of all concerned is better imagined t> od. ‘That ts the trouble with such dread. ful things. The guilty perso” Is not the only one who bears the penalty. This is but another instance of the spirit of hate or jealousy. This ts only another inctdent to reflect upon— the fact that nobody ever got any- where in defying law a>* fer, id ttling the course of other lives as their own will dictates. While in this instance another crimina) case Is re- corded, yet in lesser ways the fright- ful fot fighting docrees and doc: trines is ever present. It 1s the acme of selfishness to think things mur’ * one's own way. The truth is you were born | siv a World lu which rules and reg- | hate are inter- ulations were made before you came. | It is well to try and mak m Lat ter, but deflance never did, If you want to be a part of the scheme you hiust play the game~-as it ts written, In a word, the people who think they | can live in @ world of thcir own | making usually end up in beseeching When two --ste me. , and make & mistake there are laws that will help rectify It, ‘That 1s the one honor- able and sensible course to pursue rights, and, in the ve: \cular, “get away with it.” Nemesis is always ou the job, One may not even hate an- other without that hate reflecting on themselves, Although this case !s an abnormal one, yet in minor degrees in every- day Ife people resort to .ralicious little actions against others whos places they covet or whom they other- wine dislike or hate, The green eyed monster is ever present, and revenge {s his partner, When she or he allows hate to enter into their make-up, the mean side shows Itself, While they may get @ momentary satisfaction in that very world to set them right. | themselves. thousands of ineidents. One feels I: Instinctively—this law of compensa- tion, It te just easy to cultivate @ spirit of love or at least @ spirit of tolerance, In the * vets you 8 much more, and is balm to one’s conscience. A long time ago I set forth in these columns my creed of “Some People.” It is: “I believe that some people add to cur joys while others add to our sor- rows. There are those who make or maf our every atoment and 80 in- fluence the hours, the days, months, years and in the end—our lifetime. To love those that love us Is natural. Te bear with thus ‘*at burt is bu- man. To forgive our enenies is the cultivation of big spirit; but to create ® sense of tolerance such that no man can make you hate him approaches the Divine and creates a creed of living that borders on infiaity. For if you can love, the possibilities of happiness are immeasurable, For love is the only key that has no duplt cate, Love is the one unfalling trav- eller that reaches the road of reform. Love is on the right end of the horse- shoe and draws the magnetism of joy. Love is the only lubricant tha: screeching, Love is a habit. Get it! Newest Things in Science A machine has been invented for |rapidly spraying varnish evenly on the inside of cannon shells before they are loaded. . Government, surveyors have found jrioh and continuous indications of gold, silver and iron along the west |coast of Bumatpa. ee Tiny tinted electric bulbs are mounted beneath a new aquarium for household use to make its occupants scintillate at night. 8 ‘The phonograph and telephone are jemployed in a South Carolina in ventor’s automatic fire alarm that calls up & central operator and tells ber just where a blaze is starting. eee Above and beneath the air chamber in an automobile tire of Frengh in- vention are sections filled with elastic while our own flesh and blood | missing from certain stores, ; A READER, } I doing some harmful thing to another, yet always, somewhere, it reacts on strips, which come together and sup- port the Ure when punctured. EDITORIAL PAGE Saturday, June 1, 1918 Line! Every day there arel¢¢ tuakes the marriage wheel go without} Coprright, 1918, by The Press Dubiiohing Co, (The New York Evening Wor! The Jar By Roy L. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Dvening World), | ILL you mall a letter for me?’ eaid Mrs. Jarr, as Mr. Jarr was making a | Sortie against the Home Invader Gen- jeral High Cost of Living. Mrs. Jarr was at ber desk and had the letter about half finished. That 1s, she had written on the first and then on the back and then on the two inside pages of the note paper. She ‘was now at the postacripts and the four written-on pages. “What was the Cackelberry gir mother’s street address?” Mrs. Jarr went on, “Oh, well, it doesn’t really matter. I suppose everybody in Phila- delphia knows them!" Mrs. Jarr was about to seal the let- ter when she remembered that she had intended to inclose a sample of the new washable satin dress she was having made for the summer. “Where did I put that sample of satin?” she asked, looking about, “I know I put it somewhere.” “It's fallen on the floor, Jarr, stooping to pick it up. ‘And, oh, dear! I forgot to mention I WAS getting a new dress!" said Mrs, Jarr. “I'll have to take another sheet of my engraved note paper and it's running low. I want to keep some in cane T have to write to any tm- portant strangers. I hate to waste it on the Cackelberrys, But I've started the letter on my engraved paper"— “Well, hurry and decide if you wish me to mall the letter,” remarked Mr, Jarr. “I've got to get down to the office and I'm late now!" “Yet if I put the sample in perhaps some dishonest person might think It is a banknote!” said Mrs. Jarr. “I re- member my mother sent a sample of black dress goods to her sister in Nevada when I was a little girl and the train was held up by robbers and ber sister never got the letter, and then we remembered that when we sent the letter the silk sample made as though a lot of money said Mr, “In that case you better not inclose the piece of satin or whatever it Is," advised Mr, Jarr. “For I suppose tt ts a VERY important letter." t most certainly is a very impor- tant letter!” sald Mrs. Jarr, “I'm writing to Irene and Gladys Cackel- berry about Ceci! Dedringham.” “Can't they see these actors in the movies in Philadelphia just as well?” growled Mr. Jarr, "Cecil Dedringham isn't @ moving picture actor, He's a young million- lines written along the edges of all| this summer with all the war work By J. H.Cassel ) | r Family | McCardell ada, where he is a etudent in the Aviation School, and I only thought if he fell in love with one of the Cackel- berry girls and married her tt would be a nice place for me to visit.” “Visit where? asked Mr. Jarr, “Why, at Newport, where his father’s summer estate 1s,” Mrs, Jarr explained. “At least the Cackelberry girls could do that much for me, be- cause I can't see any vacation for me T have ahead.” “But how do you know this young aviator student will marry Irene or Gladys Cackelberry?” inquired Mr. Jarr, “I didn't say he was sure to,” re- plied Mrs, Jarr, “But stranger things than that have happened. Besides, I'd like to have the girls visit us avain, It's 60 nice to have sweet young girls ground—f those two only wouldn't fight so! But that erally the way with siste: “Where did you cross the path of this desirable party for the dear girls?” asked Mr, Jarr, ; “Why, at Clara Mudridge-Smith's Red Cross auction bridge tea the other afternoon,” said Mrs, Jarr, “He's only twenty-one and you should hear him talk about his work at/the ation schoo! “Well, give Mr. Jarr, “I didn't put a stamp on it.” said | Mrs, Jarr, "Get @ postage stamp at| | the office, I am saving all my pen-| nies for Thrift Stamps. | “Say," said: Mr. Jarr as he bore| | away the missive, “do you think the | Cackelberry girls are any kin to Gen. | von Hindenburg? They want to rap. | ture everything.” | Saimin The Unvarnished Truth. N unpopular officer in the Brit- ish Army one night slipped into some deep water and a private who happened to see the ac- cident pulled him out. The officer was very profuse in his thanks and asked his rescuer how he could re- ward him. “The very best way you can reward me,” replied the private, “is to say nothing about it.” “Why, my good fellow,” asked the astonished superior, “do you really mean that you wish me to say noth. ing about it?” me the letter,” said | |own sex. Stories o By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Worlt), pies NO. 28.—MATA HARI; German Spy in the Present War. squad of French She was glorl @ panthér, dusky Her name—or th Hart, said, was killed yer and fled from home. Next, she chanced to meet Sir officer. Mat ESS than a year ago a woman stood with her back to @ prison wall, facing the levelled rifle barrels of « firing soldiers. ; ously beautiful; lithe and graceful as , of complexion and nearly six feet tall, , o name ghe chose to go by—was Mate Mata was a half-caste Javanese, her father detng @ Dutch planter and her mother a native woman. It fe sald she began life in Java under the less Oriental name of Margaret Zell. ‘ In mere girlhood (so she used to claim) she married and had one child whom she adored. The child, she by a native servant. Campbell McLeod, a gallant Scoteh ensnared him and induced him to throw away his bright army career and ruin himself for her sake, By this time she had won a more dancing—at the Java Temples, she than local repute as a siren and heartt- | breaker; the type of, woman whom few men could resist. She had studied . sald—and had acquired a grace of motion that made most other professional dancers look ugly and awkward | ‘by contrast. Deserting poor McLeod, the girl went to Paris, where she won plaudits by her beauty and by her exquisite dancing. Incidentally she won hearts as well Girl Boon Captivates All of Paris. ° She took by storm the theatrical world of Paris and London and Berlin. admirers by the hundred. Mata by that time had gained the trust and the affections of more than one man high in Freneh military and political lif She numbered her Then came the war, @md these men seem to have talked to her, with perilous freedom, of state matters which should have been guarded as life and death secrets. If any of her Gallic admirers ha Ma’ d cared to hire detectives to look up Hart's past (as later was done) they would have learned that this | olive-skinned heartbreaker had lost her own heart a few years before. She had fallen hopelessly in love with a German nobleman who hadbeen living at that time in Pari: Though this German was not known to be plied funds which kept Mata in almos' ecially rich, yet he stp- it regal luxury, The money came from Berlin's Wilhelmstrasse Secret Service Bureau. Mata presently acquired a habit from Paris. paying unheralded visits to Berlin, w living. It was learned that during these periods of of disappearing every now and then sence she was here her German sweetheart was now After these disappearances #he would always come back to Paris or to London, there to lure talkative officials into revealing state secrets, ' do these men justice, none of them had any idea > annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn® Charmer of Hearts Always Busy. she was a 1917, Mata French police had gradually made out a complete case against her, highly paid agent of Proved she w: German spy. To them Mata was merely a beautiful and charming woman who , showed a keenly intelligent interest in their pro- fessional duties and in politics. In February, was arrested in Parts, The ‘They Wilhelmstrasse and that she was Hari constantly sending French and English war Information to Berlin, Among ‘the secrets she had betrayed to the Germans was a detailed account of the “tanks” which the English were privately constructing for use against the enemy. Mata's guilt was established beyond all doubt. She rvas tried, convicted and sentenced to be shot. Germany the firing squad, and she paid with her life for hcr spy exploits. did not lift a finger to save her from | A Woman's Judgment of Own. Sex Excels That of Man But the Statement by a Woman That They Make Poor‘ . Soldiers Seems Questionable to Writer Who ! Tells Why They Are Brave. By Nixola Greeley-Smith Coprright, 1918. by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Drening Worl), HE woman leader of the Battal- jon of Death, the group of wom- en who, some people believe, at some time did some fighting in Russia, has an- nounced that women do ‘not make good sol- diers, that they wij not hang to- wether and that even members of her own band showed thé white feather in battle. Even {f true, this is not important, because no nation not bent upon committing suicide would send its women into battle, The proper busl- ness of woman Is conserving, not destroying life. But I doubt very much if it 1s true, Certainly the ac- cusation that women cannot hang to- gether is disproved at once by count- less Instances of sustained collective feminine action. Witness the Young Women’s Christian Association, the Federation of Women's Clubs, the various suf-rage bodies and the many special organizations which the war has created. It is superfluous to discuss whether the mothers of the race have physical courage, If they had not the race would have no mothers. I have quoted the arraignment of women by the Russtan leader because it is typical of a fast diminishing group of women who take pleasure in reviling their For I have never known a woman who railed against the “shal- lowness,” “folly,” “treachery,” &c., of other women who did not carry the explanation of her rancor in her own person, When men grow a little wiser 7 | their matrimonial choice no man will be willing to marry any save a wom- an's woman, No man may pride nim- self upon entertaining a just estimate of any woman. And should he find what he considers the embodiment of his earthly ideal let him lead her for judgment before any woman between thirty and eighty, not his mother, be- fore he proposes. I believe so profoundly in the super- lor judgment of women where other women are concerned that I shall seek to be tried by a woman jury if I ever have the mischance to break the law. “Ay! If the other fellows knew T pulled you out they’d chuck me in!” was the frank response,—Harper's aire, back on @ furlough from Can- Magazing, A man may be kind, chivalrous, generous, all the fine things you please, to a woman, but he can never be simply just. Verhaps no man since }a cool woman as she was, He has exalted or under-estimated her, according to the degree of her appeal to him, It may be—of course, it must bem | that women take the same astigmatic view of men. But we see each other with crystal clearness, only occasiom~ | inbumanity to woman, appraisal which no woman need fear. The woman who dislikes her sex is the woman who has who has faced guilty. it and been “Be honest" est and don't make womanhood diculous.” than men resent similar among their kind, because a man's | folly or knavery casts no shadow on: all men. But no woman is untouched in the public mind by the act of amy’ other woman. we resent beauty in each other, believe that women are much more’ |wenerally appreciative of i: :uttful : women than men are, All @ woman asks of another is that she be fairly | honest and self respecting, the sort of person one can leave alone with one’s silver spoons or one’s husband without taking out burglar insurance, Women dislike other women who are |careless of thelr appearance becaune | | that too brings discredit upon the sex, ' Yet the contempt of women rarely equals that of men for the sloven, A man often likes a ithout approving of him, geste proval must go before her liking. can’t hate the sin and love the sinner, at least not when the sinner wearp skirts, A really honest and af woman is liked by both sexes, but gor 4 woman it is just as much more important to be liked by women it ls more desirable for a man to be liked by men. ‘To be described woman's woman is just as much of & compliment as to be called a mane man’s woman" a 4re equal terms of op. y probrium, There is no man wi the courage the Ruselan leader of t eath has assailed wo: is there is no sex in earn 4 p rag who would solidarity of men as he Battal men, 4 more than there nd to-day men a: through elf-eacritice, harness is incrime, #* SS the world began has seen a single patriotic dedication t war clvillzation, are putting tlt crdiee 8 ! shame, ‘ 4 € “