The evening world. Newspaper, June 3, 1918, Page 14

ST ES” eee ee ‘ee ten nen vee _ extent for which grasping landlords, speculator landlords or land- the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 te Row, New York. : 2 Park Row, 63 Park Row, PULITZER jecrotary. 63 Park Row, MEMPEL OF THE ABSOCIATED PRES, att READY TO THINK ABOUT IT. URTHER PROOF of the timeliness and justice of the campaign begun by The Evening World last month against rent profit- eering in this city appeared in resultant extended discussions of housing and rent problems in the columns of yesterday’s New York newspapers. In strong support of The Evening World’s contention that many landlords are not sharing their admittedly increased burdens on a basis of fairness and equity was the following from the annual report of President Allan Robinson of the City and Suburban Homes Com- pany, which houses 15,000 wage earners: | it or not “For the landlord as well as the tenant the past year was one of anxiety, The cost of labor and material rose to unprece- dented heights. Many mortgages were called by timid mort- gagees, coal not only soared in price but was unobtainable In the coldest weather, and taxes increased to the point where land ownership became a liability instead of an asset. ‘ “Rents were raised through the city from 10 to 80 per cent., but many cases this represented what the landlords could get rather than what they really needed to meet their heavier expenses, “The City and Suburban Homes Company increased {ts rent on an average of 4 per cent., but does not Intend to make any further Increase.” This, be it noted, is the rent policy of a realty company which is not in business either for its health or for charity, but which is, on the contrary, successfully meeting its dividend requirements and in- creasing its reserves, Its President's ideas as to landlords’ responsi-| bilities are thus stated: “The recognition of the duties of land ownership has not kept pace with the recognition of duties in certain other flelds | of industry, and if our ‘service’ is paternalistic we are quite | willing to pursue the even tenor of our way, entirely confident that in the not far distant future the path this company has blazed will be followed by landlords generally whether they want to follow It or not. “It is inevitable that with the awakening of public con- Oclousness to the vital importance of decent housing accom- Modations the trust which soctety permits the owners of land f© administer will be continued {n such owners only so long @s it {s administered for the public benefit at reasonable rates for the use of capital invested.” The Evening World called the attention of landlords here to the Significance of what has happened in England, France, Germany, Bel- gium and New Zealand, where governments have invested mil- lions of dollars of public money in realty and housing operations, because long experience finally convinced these countries that private speculation could not be relied upon to provide adequate! housing at fair pri and rents. The Evening World further pointed out for the benefit of New York landlords that these “new-fangled” notions about realty are no} longer foreign or remote, being operative, indeed, no farther off than! in Massachusetts, which recently amended its Constitution to permit the State to buy land and build dwellings for citizens—as the Home stead Commission, by the authority of the Commonwealth, is now| doing at Lowell, Ma Moreover, this newspaper strongly urged private realty interests| to ponder the possible lessons American communities may learn from Government housing of shipyard workers—for which Congress has already appropriated $50,000,000—and from similar great housing undertakings into which the Government is certain to be drawn in other directions by the urgent needs of large-scale war industries, The extent of these possibilities is recognized by President) Charles O'Connor Hennessy of the Franklin Society for Home Build- ing and Savings, as quoted in an interview in The World yesterday: Uncle Sam has gone Into housing as a war measure. He doesn't dream where {t will eventually lead him. He belleves that with the return of peace these emergency measures can be dropped. But experience in England indicates that peace, far from making Government housing unnecessary, will simply give it greater magnitude. Uncle Sam has gone into this field as a war-time builder and landlord, If he lives up to the full possibilities of wovern- ment for service, the contrast between great public housing Projects both local and national, carried out as a war measure, and the housing that we have been content with in the past will be so great that we shall not want to go back to the olé order, The American people, as Mr. Hennessy’s interygewer, Mr. James ¥, Collins, says, are becoming familiar with a word “which has meant| much in England and Europe generally the past two generations, but} seldom has been heard in this country”—the word “housing.” | This familiarity means that Améri | an communities are ready to! study the providing of wholesome, well-built homes at reasonable| prices and rents as a broad and serious problem, They can no longer unquestioningly accept both statement and solution of that problem from private realty interests. When one representative of such interests in New York City attempts to justify 20 to 30 per cent. rent boosts in war time on the Ground that “before the war rents were abnogmally low,” while the head of another prosperous realty organization announces the same day that 4 per cent. is all his company finds I necessary to advance Fente, the time has come when the public is obviously entitled to a More uniform and just standard by which rents shall be figured. Nor can Secretary Leo D. Woodworth of the Advisory Council @f Real Estate Interests find a smoke screen for the situation in the @ld phrase about “hardships being hound to occur whenever there is @M economic readjustment of any kind.” There is no reason why New York tenants should continue to be afflicted with extra and increasing hardship owing to the fact that, while in some cases rents in this city are advanced by careful ‘and equitable calculation, inyothers they can be boosted to any who are perennial failures in the business may find a plea, LH EAS TNS CAL ohn Ww The M By the Rev. Th Copyright, 1918, by THe Press Publish! HILE the echoes of our celebra- tion of “Mother's Day” are still sounding In our ears it may not be an unwise thing to recall to ourselves the debt that we owe (but wil never be able, in full, to pay) to the mother of Washington. If the greatness of \he Giver Is to be measured by the greatness of the Gift, it In pretty certain that in all the annals of the race It would be dificult to find a greater than the mother of Washington. Quite overshadowed by the mighty renown of her illustrious son, Mary Washington has never come in for her full share of the world's gratitude and homage. Modest, unassuming,-retired from the world's gaze, absorbed in the | discharge of her domestic duties, she made her surpassing gift to mankind and sed off the stage as quietly as she lived and labored, Mary Washington was in every es- sential sense of the word a great woman. She was not brilliant like De Stael, or fascinating like Reca- mier, but, better than all that sort of thing, she possessed, in full measure, | the soundest common sense and judg- ment, and was in moral calibre the equal of any woman In all the tide of time. In the character of Mary Wash- ington there was no tendency to lev- ity or trifing, She was a serious minded woman, not morose or mel- ancholy, but always desperately in earnest, ever going about her work | as if directly under the “Great Task- master's Bye.” And she brought up her son to look at life as she looked at It, She taught him to be in earnest, to take hold of the hand of life with a deep and genuine seriousness, (he serious- ness that is born of devotion to high and uncompromising principle, Mary Washington, as revealed by the light of the latest and fullest in- formation concerning her, possessed an extraordinary amount of self-re- Bance, To the end of her days she persisted in keeping up a separate es- tablishment, When repeatedly urged by her son to make her home with him ther invariable answer was, “I thank you for your dutiful and Kindly offer, but my wants are fow, and I fee] perfectly competent to take care of myself.” When her son-in-law offered to a sume the direction of her affairs she said to him: “Keep my books in or- der, for your eyes are better than EDITORIAL PAGE Monday, June 3%, 1918 other of Washington “ omas B. Gregory ing Oo, (The New York Evening World), mine; but leave the management of things to me. ‘ “The same sublime self-reliance | she instilled into the soul of her boy, and as a consequence Washington was able, in the dark days of the| Revolution, to find within himself the inspiration and strength he could) have found nowhere else. When the war for independence came to its successful close and a grateful people made Washington thelr first President, his mother, the same level-headed, clear-eyed woman that she had ever been, showed no} |she said tu those who were unduly ‘praising him, “George appears to have deserved well of his country, | but, my dear sirs, we are having too {much flattery. Still, George will not | forget the lessons I have taught bim. | He will not forget himself, though he bo subject to a:! this praise.” She knew that she had done her work well, and she had no fear re- | garding the harvest of her sowing. | Great in her unerring common sense, great in her unconquerable self-rellance, great in the integrity whic was to her nelther bribed nor frightened from the plain way of! duty, what an ‘ng on was for the son who was, In the fulness of time, to shoul- der such solemn responsbilities! | lets sum it all up like this: Washington! The United States of America! The World War! The great victory whieh the United States lis going to Ip the Allies to win! |The triur,’. of, civilization over sav- jagery and ' ® force, and the glori- | ous time to follow! Put all these things together, and then try to figure out what the world owes the mother of Washington, <> | REPRISALS, 66 PPRISALS in kind, that is R the remedy Indicated for the German baby murderers | trom the air, ho speaker was Gen, Ellison P, Gore of Chicago, He went on: “This remedy will be as effectual as Blank’s, Blank’s wife got the Spiritualism craze and went off to seances, at $5 a seance, every second or third night, “Did Blank put a stop to that? did, and promptly, How? Why Jiminy, he took to accompanying Blank and getting from his first Press. He by tender messages wite.” — Detroit Pree © r 918, ! Wy, EE ltiiog oy B (The New York Evening World.) signs of mental dizziness, Of her son |* ideal mother Mary | ¢ H. Cassel Cs ’ By Roy L. “ec U want to look out for this Y Cecil Dedringham, the boy aviator gink!" growled Mr. arr. “How do you know who he is?” “He was introduced to the Cackel- | berry girls by Clara Mudridge Smith, said Mrs. Jarr. “And furthermore, when I want to be advised on so- cial matters by you, I shall come to you. If I thought it worth while to warn you against those YOU meet and are hail-fellow with, I would have @ sore throat from talking so much. Cecil Pedringham has lovely manners, and he has plenty of money, there!" “That's the trouble,” returned Mr. Jarr. “There always is too much ‘vo there!’ about folks with money. If there was cnly a little ‘come here’ about it, maybe some would fall Into my mitt.” “As you will see very little of Cect! Dedringham, you need not worry, for I'm golng to have the Cackelberry girls meet him just to worry Clara Mudridge-Smith, Now that she's mar- ried herself Clara just seems to hate to let any eligible young man out of her clutches. It's very dull for the Catckelberry girls at home anyway.” | Mr, Jarr did not get @ glimpse at the | new social meteor, the boy aviator, | cil Dedringham, that evening, but | he did have to go down to tho depot | and bring the jubilant Miss Cackel- berrys up in a taxicab, Mrs, Jarr | had suggested this, adding that it either of the girls married the young The Jarr Family McCardell Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), osity and present her with a limou- sine more costly than Clara Mud- ridge-Smith's. Only, as Mrs, Jarr ad- | mitted, she didn't see how she could keep an automobile when they lived on the third floor of an apartment | house, but that was always the way! Even if she could have something she felt she couldn’t have it! | “Oh, hov sweet of you to come to meet us at the depot.” cried Miss Gladys Cackelberry, the eldest. Irene was flirting on the train with an awful impudent fellow. he bad followed us and murdered us?" “I didn't flirt with him, you did! And I'll slap you 1f you say I did!” | retorted the sweet sister, “You saw him by the water cooler and let your | individual drinking cup"-— But she ZA By Helen Coprright, 19 Which He Treasureth, derful thing! V are many others For lo, 1 kno mal hour, or to call! Yet, he will may plead with bi him upon my bended knees. I am aware that, should I ask It, happiness, I most desire. Yet he will not so much as mo’ hold an umbrella over my dearest ha’ demand. I know that he would tear, limb dared to speak slightingly of me. human-joke-about-the-house. 1 know that he thinketh me the Mant woman tn all the world. Yet in his simplicity he still th cloves and peppermint because he lik: last crust of bread, his family, his ambition, and even bis Rowland by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The Now York Evening World). “1 Know That My Beloved Would Die Without Question for My Sake—Yet He Will Not Sacrifice the Old Pipe Though It Ruineth My Curtains and Harroweth My Soul.”’ ERILY, verily, my Daughter, the love of a man is a strange and won- Behold, thy Father, Solomon, {s a Perfect Husband, and there lke unte him. w in my heart that he, my Beloved, would do ANYTHING on earth for me, his Wife—save, possibly, to be on time for dinner or to retire at @ nore arise in the morning at the FIRST Yea, I know {n my inmost soul that he would go to the ends of the world for me! not go to a pink tea to please me, neithes to the shop for a spool of thread, howsoever | 1 know that my Beloved would DIE, without question, for my sake! Yet he will not so much as use an ash-tray when he smoketh, neither will he so much as stoop to pick up his cast-off garments or lift up one ot the newspapers which he hath scattered upon the floor, though I implore . he would sacrifice his last cent., his deals, for my Yet he will NOT sacrifice the old pipe which he treasureth, though it rulneth my curtains and harroweth my soul. I know that he would move heaven and earth to get for me that whivh ve a finger to clean bis own safety: razor, nor to take his lighted cigarettes from off my mahogany, nor to t. 1 know that he would change all his ways and modes of life at my Yet he will not so much as change from his old suit to his drese clothes, for my comfort and delight, when we go forth to public places. from limb, any man or woman whoso Yet he doth not hesitate to mock at me and speak Impudently of my nose, and my ways, and my garments, nor to regard me openly as the canniest and cleverest and most brik inketh that I believe that he eateth eth the TASTE thereof. 1 know that he admireth me beyond all women, and extolleth my beauty above all others. Yet he cannot resist looking at any pretty damsel who passeth, nor desist from staring at @ pretty foot, wheresoever he seeth It. I know that, when Lam away from him, he ts a ship without a rud- der, a barge without a tug-boat, a left-hand glove without a mate! i Yet, when I am about him, he treated me asa pleasing little ADJUNCT, te od 9 part of the drawing-room furniture, and amused! a Persian kitten to be fed and petted Nay, verily, I do NOT flatter myself. I KNOW that my Beloved {s a Perfect Husband! Which {s to say that he fs exac bands—a human PARADOX! Selah. tly ke unto all OTHER Good Hus The Offi ce Force By Bide Dudley Coprriaht. ISS PRIMM, Private Secretary to the Boss, lowered her news- paper and addressed Popple, | the Shipping Clerk “I see by this paper there's a cat out in California who can teil time,” she sald. “How does she do it? he asked. “She goes ‘meow’ for 1 o'clock; ‘meow-meow' for 2, and so on.” “What did you say?” asked Bobbie, ‘the Omce Boy, grinning. “You heard me. I wasn't address- ‘or | ing you.” “I thought you accented that final Suppose | ‘meow’ too much, but maybe not. You do that cat stuff very well. Comes natural, 1 suppose.” “What do you mean to, insinuate— that I am a cat?” demanded Miss Primm. “Oh, no," replied Bobbie. “I never insinuate. By the way, can anybody cut short when her sister gave her a| tell me how many parents a kitten vicious dir in the ribs. | Mr. Jarr paid little or no attention, | has?” “Two, of course, you chump!” said but hau he been listening when the| Miss Tillie, the Blond Stenographer two sisters were alone together bo! would have heard Irene bitterly as- “One Ma and one Pa.” “I knew it had one mother,” sald sail Gladys for speaking of the water! Bobble, “but I thought it had four ler, What will the Jarrs think of us travelling in the day coach to save Pullman tickets?” asked ‘the younger Miss Cackelberry. They'll despise us for being so cheap! Still, we can say it was war-t'n1e economy, and Direc- tor General McAdoo makes eve; body ride In day coaches anyway. But Mr. Jarr bad been so worried paws. “I presume you think that’s a joke,” snapped Miss Primm, “Well, permit ime to say you're Just a fool.” “Now, now!" said Spooner, the mild | ‘ttle Bookkeeper. “Why fight Jess Willard says,” Popple responded, “He's out there on his Kansas City ranch branding coyotes and refuses to consider the “That's what Watching the taximeter spin around | "!"®” millionaire aviator she might re- |that he never sensed the travelling member Mrs, Jarr's taxicab gener- economies of bis guests. ee Cheap teaspoons are being made from compressed cotton fibre, | A lubricant made from beet sugar | molasses has been invented in Lu- rope, The handle of a new pocket knife] can be unfolded to form a six-inch rule, hoe Only about | per cent. of the area of Ireland contains marketable tim- ber. hear veers In twenty-eight days from hatehe ing a silkworm increases 14,000 times its orizinal size, | ° | 4 greater percent. | every year than any . age of sunshine other nation, ee Wivetricwlly heated rollegs have Newest Things in Science | | of all forms of speecb is being made | on 4 new oll stove. . 8 | por industrial purpot | cs Invented for drying towels used by . . | A collection of phonograph records by @ Patis scientist, . 8 A detachable glass reservoir serves | in place of the usual form of fuel tank | Burma is one of the very few lands in which fat is not used for lighting New York {s estimated to have 2,800 commercial electric vehicles, Chicago 1,060 and Philadelphia 160, . Th proportion to Bopulations Aus- irla-Hungary has the least telephone | Rusted “Well I never,” said Miss Tillle, dis- is? Haven't you ever been up at the oo?" Have you?” asked Bobbie, “Do you know what a coyote | 1918, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World), “That'll be about all from you, kid!" snapped the Stenographer. “A coyote is a small wolf that roams the Prairies and feeds on little goate when the mother sheep aren't watchs ful enough.” “Tt seeems to me," said Spooner, “that you people are getting all mixed. up. Kansas City hasn't any ranches, people don't brand coyotes and goats aren't sheep.” “Of course not!" said Bobble. “Oh, what do you know about any« thing?” demanded Miss Primm, “What you don't know would al, a book,” said Miss Tillle to the boy, “Like that little red book you got full of telephone numbers,” suggested Bobble “I'll have you know T don't keep telephone addresses,” the Stenogra- pher replied “Oh, for the land's sake!” Miss Primm, Svein Mr. Snooks, the Boss, came out of his private office just then. “Misa Tillie,” he said, “I want to call up Hector Waddington and I haven't got his private telephi iva 01 number, eo You know him, don't you’ “I think I've me? the gentleman,” “Well, see if you can get ‘Central’ to give you the number.” Mies Tillie tumbled in her desk « moment and went into the telephone h he Mr ie tired to bis of. jee, Soon the Stenographer emery jand looked in on the Boss, sin “It's Sheridan 6574," she sald, Miss Tillle resumed ber seat end there silence for a mo oment, Bobbie spoke up Th “The telephone company always re. fuses to give out private num he said quietly Miss Tillie turned on him flercel sho said, “you hang “sure!” How did you get out?” LEASANT diversion can be ob- P tained by making a cross, all of whose erms form squares and are of the same size, and attempting with two straight cuts of the shears to cut the cross into parts that can be rearranged to form larger square, A similar puzzle consists in taking a piece of paper two squares wide and three squares long, with one end square removed, and by mak Ing two straight cuts obtain parts that can be formed into a square, The accompanying diagrams a service of any European country, c 8 8 An lilinofs inventor's combination cout and ves: hag the usual fronts for those garments but only one back. bow, by cutting the cross twice, parts | trates a variation of printed from Popular Mochante: show how the desired results obtained, can be The upper diagram shows Two Puzzles’ That Require Only off the candy | |*Just for that,” have after. Get ine?” ‘By desk, her Paper and Shears | » obtained toma The ped lower © lap diagram {nee We same pumale, square, Sayings of Mrs. Solomon