The evening world. Newspaper, June 15, 1918, Page 12

ESTABLISHED a PubMshed Daly Brcept Sunday by th Proms Publidhing Company, Now u a flow, New York. PULITZER, President, Row. see BHA Saesiads BR how, / BY JOSEPH PULITZER, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ecole ST Se oetad lla SE ater a areas f WILL THE LANDLORD HELP? N MAKING its fight against the rent psofiteers now active in this) city, The Evening World has been accused by certain landlords, | who but helf grasp the purpose of its campaign, of having Ma to a great deal of pains to present only one side of the case.” The facts refute the charge. ; Not only has The Evening World opened its columns to landlords ae well as to tenants, printing many letters from the former, bat, more than that, in its discussion of the situation it has repeatedly amerted its belief that up to a certain point advances in New York rents at thie time may be economically justified. 3 What this newspaper urges in the interest of fenants—name!y that some effort be made toward establishing when and where the raising of rents ceases to be fair and becomes profiteering—may be equally well urged in the interest of the landlord who tries to desl equarely by his tenants. If he is forced to raise rents he should have some standard by) which the increase may be recognized as just. He should not be liable to misjudgment and condemnation because of the unrestricted greed of other landlords. The commonest landlord reply to any criticism of rent boosting! is the aggrieved question: Is not the landlord, then, entitled to a reasonable net percentage | on his money investment? Undoubtedly he is. But from the books and business methods of what sort of land- ford is such a percentage to be figured? Must incompetently, wastefully managed property be guaranteed the same return as property that is well handled? Is every speculator in real estate to have a hand in fixing i's proper yield? Is it to be the boldest rather than the most conscientious rent raiser who is permitted to set standards? A couple of weeks ago a big realty company which houses 15,009 wage earners issued its annual report, It had successfully met its dividend requirements and put aside monoy for its sinking fund. Yct it announced that it had increased its rents on an average only four per cent. and intended to make no further increase. Are business methods that will produce results like these in a tield of such importance to the public as housing to have no weight against the claims of landlords who assert that 30 and 40 per cent. advances of rent this season are an economic necessity? Communities have decided it shall be quite otherwise in the case of service no more necessary, to the public than housing. No street railway company could raise its fares one penny with- out opening its books and going into the fullest details of its man- agement and policy. No gas company hereabouts could decide that gas must cost con- sumers $1.25 hereafter. The bare suggestion would be followed by immediate demands for a thorough overhauling of the company’s methods. Sinee the nation’s entrance into the war it has been found nec: sary to place drastic restrictions upon the boosting of food prices. The first preliminary to such action was a thorough investigation of food prices and the practices of certain profiteering dealers, wholesate end retail. Federal authority now contemplates measures to check profitee:- ing in the price of clothing. furnish the facts. The clothing trade will itself have to If food and clothing, why not rents? Let real estate interests here in New York open their booke ard show exactly how much increased taxes, wages, cost of supplies, etc., figure in rent advances in the case of specific pieces of property emm- cerning which full information can be obtained and verified. Let the Board of Aldermen start an inquiry which shall go} confidence, Walon you ih ‘tin may ian either the mere annoyance of tenants confronted with deeper ¢! cent increases on the one hand, or the vague protests of landlords a» to diminishing percentages on the other, * Between landlord and tenant, under the exigencies of war time, there must be give and take. But if there is a point beyond which the landlord must not be expected to give, there must also be a point at which he is to stop | caused the most direful disasters, It taking. Where that point should be, only a careful, disinterested study! of ALL the facts and figures can determine, Will the landlord help? Hits From Sharp Wits If beards come back there will be) Keepin, use for vacuum cleaners. e Sedipnis Commercial Appeal eo , & faint beart anything —Binghamton Press ‘The man who itches for fame has to ratching to get there.— do @ lot of Chicago N: ‘ of the brave.—Toledo Blade, eee Suspension of baseball would bring er wins a fair lady everlastingly at it 6 succes, but whether the success fe She swraener'e or the bugy depends whic! eeps ever: Milwaukee ee, amine ah it pu Ba they ever did have forgotten eee Honeyed words Press. war nearer home and convince the 6, & fone that the umpire te not ‘® «greatest enemy. — Toledo Blade the News, ‘ “It is my opinion,” remarked Man on the Car, “that middle-aged men who claim they feel as age | as ow young the: ae That MoAdeo patch—iong may it|Blade, 8” “4 '° feel”—Toledo ve a new pair of pants in the home are also useful catching human pt per Ra il ba T's unfair to judge some frames by the pictures they inclose.—Chicago one course, EDITO RIAL P Saturday, June 15, 1 AGE An Afterthou 7 ae Copyright 1918,» ty The Pree Prbitabing Co, be New York ening World.) By J. H. Cassel | By Sophie Places or before from any remarks of a nature to weaken patriotic energy and conf | dence in our leaders and in our Allies, or from statements regarding the num-~- ber of movements of our troops. the work of munjtion plants, etc. Infor- mation overheard may be reported where it can give aid or comfort to our enemies.” This is the “on-your-tuant” card being sent broadcast by the Fifth Ave- nue Association in co-operation with the Wasitington guthoritics. At the same time Frank L. Dowling, President of Manhattan Horough, 18 posting similar injunctions in all public buildings, and makes the significant statement; “Remember the enemy may not only be at our door but at our elbow.” As you read the words of caution think it over, Tell your family, Teil everybody, You can’t tell it too often. Hundreds of officers are in the city, Many of them come from abroad. Do not urge them to give you “inside facts” If they are your friends, ‘They may unconsciously and unir- jtentionaily tell something to you, :n “6 Piece refrain, when in public thougbtlessly repeat. Verhaps you will repeat it in (ie subway riding home with another friend. An enemy spy may be sitting right next to you. He only needs a little que, Off be goes to tell it to his |ehief, His chief bas ways and moans lof plecing hints together and ascer- | taining important details. ‘The most harmless conversation has | is quid on good authority that the network of enemy spies is of vast proportion. They are trere when you least expect them~in every walk of lite, | A tow days ago I was seated with an officer and some friends in a smal) restaurant. Some one began discus- sing the number of troops and men leaving our shores. Immediately the officer cautioned us to ve still, He then told us that at the tables all around us there might |e spies; also among the employees and attendants, Qertainly Bo American employer wants to engage workers who are spies, Dut they creep in. It is one of the big assets of the enemy—the spy system. They have unlimited energy and |wesources, We cannot conceive of their methods. Therefore there is but strangers, | sale patron Your Conversation in Public Irene Loeb Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). spoken word is like a bullet. ‘The minute It is uttered it goes forth and you do not know where it may land. But when you do not say it you can Cause no concern to yourself or your country, As I look back on it, many times, in travelling about on street cars and in public places I have overheard con- versations on war matters, It was impossible not to hear them, They were 80 free and open that all around could hear. Some of them were very interesting. You, too, have doubtless heard such talks on the war. It is the one un- failing subjegt of speech, That is all the more reason why great care should be taken by the individual. Unnecessary alarm is also often sounded by the discussion of hypo- thetical questions—if this, that or the other thing should happen, No greater work can be accom- plished by people in public pjaces than to control their conversation. The wise ones will exclude war talk as far as possible. It were much bet- ter to wait until you are in. the privacy of. your own home to mention any matters of importance pertain- ing’to the great struggle or any fact which you may have gleaned, It is better to be on the safe side. Talk is cheap, but sometimes it brings heavy costs. Newest T hinds In Science Tiny depressions in a recently in- vented frying pan distribute the grease evenly and prevent contents of | the utenail from burning. Paraguay produces about 70 per cent. of the world’s supply of petit- grein, an essential oil extracted from the leaves of the sour orange. SS Two strips of strap iron and a sheet iron disk, which can be clamped over @ gas burner, form a cooking stove patented by @ New Jersey man. > 6 6 Electric ranwe finding apparatas has been invented for the United States Navy that uses microphones to tell the distance between shipa or the height of aeroplanes by the sound of their propellers. ire ‘To prevent death by poison tablets taken in mistake an inventor has orought out tablets coated with rub- ber, which are said to resist the stom- ach acids Jong enough for a tablet Keep your counsel in publi, A to pass out of the system, > The By Roy L. Copyright, 1918, AVING heard from a friend that the new sensational States rights seven reel superfeature “The Soul of a Serpent,” with Vashti Varvasour, supervampire in the superleading role, was “some- thing grand,” Mrs. Jarr informed her friend Mrs, Rangle, and the two de- termined “to see something worth seeing once in awhile, at least, and not be kept indoors till one gets hotise nerves!” Whoever invented the phrase “house nerves” certainly vouchsafed @ boon to womankind desirous of an exeuse to be abroad. It is a phrase that wa&rks as hard for a living as “the psychological moment.” So it was at the psychological mo- ment that Mrs, Jarr and Mrs, Rangle were avoiding house nerves by start- ing to the moving picture matinee | that they encountered Mortimer, 1o- leally known as Mike, the janitor, en route to Gus's oasis, | “Why didn’t you call up this morn- ing for the rubbish?” asked Mrs. Jarr, “I was too busy this morning; I'm getting the cellar fixed up in case of air raids, as the tenants have been | asking me to,” explained the janitor as he hurried on to Gus's, “Janitors are getting worse than ever, {f that were pomible,” re- marked Mrs. Rangle. “Since there's | so much talk of air raids they think | they belong to the Hfe-saving ser- vice and the signal corps both to- | gether.” “Yes, the landlord was talking of | getting a woman janitor, but all the) women are in munition factories, and janitors would be too, only they would have to really work in muni- | tion factories,” replied Mra, Jarr, “Well, to change the subject, I am | glad we are going to see this moving picture” said Mrs. Rangle. “Really, | in these times when there is #0 much « worry about, one needs some en- tertainment, some enjoyment to keep | off house nerves.” | “I am told this ts & grand picture | to take one’s mind off such things,” | replied Mra, Jarr, “There's a lot of| murders in it, and they say the way the little heroine is persecuted by ‘the Woman With the Soul of a Snake,’ who comes and lives at the heiress's mansion and awes the women and lures the men, and scornfully refuses to leave when asked to do s0, just breaks one’s heart. Tho Siren With the Serpent Soul strangies the Duke, her accomplice, and has a trap door put in the millionain’s mansion ge. eretly, where she casts those she oo, Jarr Family by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) McCardell | hates down into a nest of cobras that! she charms and pets. Miss Birdseye, who told me to go to see It, says it makes your blood run cold “Of course, I don’t cvuntenance such pictures for young pecyle,”” remarked Mrs, Rangle, “But 1 think every married woman should go to see them so they can combat the wiles of these luxuriant adventuregses, who would lure one's husband.” “I believe it is some women's fault that they lose their husbands’ affec- tio id Mrs. Jarr, “They get 0 careless and untidy and let their looks go, and then one of those crea- tures come along with diamonds and sables”’ "d like to see Rangle look at one ot them,” remarked Mrs. Rangle, “I had a cousin who married a man who kept the fashionable livery stable in Sandusky, 0, and a blond demon- strator for a hair restorer came along and tried to lure Ned Bascom—that | was his name—and Nettle—that’s my cousin—horsewhipped the creature, and it caused a sensation in fashion- able circles at the time—this was years ago—and a picture of the affair was published on the front page of the Police Gazette, “Cousin Nettle was pictured hold- . By Albert Pa Coprright. 1918, by The Press Fublishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) No. 32—KARL LODY, Who Spied Upon England's Fleet. OR the first time in nearly two centuries a man fi death by execution within the historic walls of (me Tower of London. For many a decade the been merely one Pository for the enacted there in coolness, Lody was a country. He even acquired a strong Great Britain. ‘Code Telegrams Used by Spy. raed careful note of the prej wrote to Bourkhart: ‘They smell a spy in every stranger.” the copies to the Government. Admits Spying on Frieak. spying. dare posing as an American civilian while up to be shot, but lolled ddly back in America, where he married an Omaha girl, who divorced him. ‘Then he became a railroad man aad a tourist guide in He went from one British port to another, studying naval conditiemay Marbor defenses, &c. and making regular reports to Berlin. not smuggle information direct to Germany he sent it by means of codé teleer ’ &rams to a Wilheimstrasse agent in Stockholm—a tia named Bourkhart. One of these cipher despatches rea@if “Mifst cancel. Shafi leave shortly.” _ . It was an innocent-looking telegram, but not the German agents who had the key to the cipher. Posing as a Yankee tourist, Lody would stop at various British cities near, the coast and make bicycle trips to the ports within reach. - Presently he came to London, where—still as an idle tourist—he buildings and of the steps taken to guard against Zeppelin raids. - Reports of ail this defensive work were sent to Berlin by other agents or via Bourkhart in Stockholm. But England was already? having experience with German emissaries, Travellers were apt to findw themselves on the suspected list, no matter how well vouched for they And the attention of Scotland Yard began slowly to focus upon Lody. Hey The prosecutor did not agree with Dimself, but declared the man was an enemy alien ee * Stories of Spies yson Terhune of London's “show places” and @ te? crown jewels. It remained Tor ‘the present war to bring back the memory of grim scenes olden days. On Nov. 10, 1914, the Tower became once more: Place of execution, when a file of eight soldiers em tied eight cartridges into a man who was carelessly, leaning back in a chair, awaiting death with stele". Ee. The man was Karl Hans Lody, German spy! !* Prussian naval officer. He wi American accent. When the war began he secured a United States passport, made out ti the name of “Charles A. Inglis of Now York.” This passport entitled. the | bearer to travel in Burope, and Lody proceeded to travel there, especialipam, |! + ew When’ he cout» Johnson yery ill last foursdaymee “ “Several persons have approached me in a most disagreeable manneg.’ “ ‘The letter went on, in a veiled way, to describe the location and 4 ment of certain British warships. Cleverly camouflaged as this and other, letters prere, they lost the spy his Hfe. opened them, made copies, resealed them and sent them dn, turning For the British postal authori In September, 1914, he was arrested. Confronted by the copied letters / and telegrams he had sent, he admitted he had tes ceived orders to keep track of the movement of the > British fleet, &c., but denied that this was an act of Lody’s idea « sending information to Germany. He was, thus, the prosecutor summed up: “One wpon whom the international law against spies should be imposed.™, He was tried by court-martial before nine military judges. Soldiers® with fixed bayonets guarded him throughout the hearings. When the sen- tence of death was pronounced Lody was the coolest man in the courtrooms He made no appeal to the protection of the United States, nor did be, press his former claim of being an American citizen. n " ‘Summoned for execution in the gray November dawn, he did not stand, a chair, crossing his legs, folding Big, aims and looking contemptuously into the faces of the firing squad, ‘His body was buried in the Tower's inclosure. Famous Characters in History the Same Given BEATRICE. EATRICE {s a name that 1s as90~ B ciated with tragedy and hope- less love. Think of Dante! He first met Beatrice Potinar! at her father’s house on @ evelyn Sg although he only saw pa ee afterward, his passion for her continued until the day of his death. She married another, but his love only became stronger because of the remoteness of its object. ‘There was never a greater tragedy than the Iife of Beatrice Cenci. she was the daughter of a Roman gentle- man notorious for his wealth, talents, depravity of character and boundless passion. He was brutal to his chil- dren, and once when Beatrice was only fourteen, he shut her up in a room and beat and abused her, When Beatrice grew a little older a Cardinal Guerra, the handsomest man in Rome, fell in love with her and hé visited her when- ever her father left the palace. Cencl's treatment of his family each day grew more unbearable, until Beatrice and her mother secured the aid of Guerra to help murder the father, Guerra fled from Rome disguised as a charcoal burner, but Beatrice, her mother, brothers and sisters were sent to the scaffold, ing up her skirts with one hand and wielding the whip with the other, and| the artist had her wearing striped | stockings, which she never wore at| all; and her husband was shown | standing by sneering, wearing a silk | hat and evening dress, and Ned Bas- com never wore a silk hat except at funerals, and nd man had a dress suit in Sandusky in those days. | “It didn't look like any of the par- ties, but there were their names un- | der the pictures and it made Ned) Bascom and my cousin Nettle s0| -oicnea the uprising of the Arabs | conceited that they always kept hav- ing their pictares printed in the newspapers after that, recommending patent medicines, and, in Nettie's case especially, making the most con- fidential statements as to their phys- ical condition.” Then the two ladies went in to see “The Woman With the Serpent's Soul” ee ieee came VANISHING CUSTOM. “ HAT'S going on here?” W “Two Southern Colonels are drinking mint juleps on the veranda of an ante-bellum home.” “But why the photographer?” t's a moving picture man, He's taking @ reel to preserve as a historic record of a social observ- ance in the South that is doomed to extinction,” — Birmingham Age- Herald fh’ June, 1475, in the palace of a'Este, a girl was born, but she re- ceived a cold welcome into the world, By Mary Ethel M Copyright, 1918, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The 3 Who Is Your Namesakes} and Fiction Who Have Borne . Name as Yours, 4 cAuley York Evening World.) for a male heir was desired. she‘ was christened Beatrice after beg’ aunt the Queen of Hungary. At the, to the wealthy and handsome Dum of Bart, then aged twenty-nine yearmc When Beatrice was ten years old ale! took the title of Duchess of Barty Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Barly: was one of the most magni . princes of the Rennaissance, and typhy cal of its day with all its vices am@ virtues. He was appointed regeut-of, Milan, and he did not trouble bi about his betrothal, but devoted self to a Cecilia Galleranl, He vevem saw his bride until the wedding day but he was very much pleased wit her, At first the little bride wag) very happy, and then she commenced to hear rumors of Cecilia. She called! her husband to her, and told htm to! make his choice between them. The! result was that Cecilia was loaded with presents and married off to @ count, but In @ short time another favorite, Lucretia Crivelli, sprang wp. One day, Beatrice, then twenty-two years old, went to church to pragy when suddenly she was taken il], and a son was born to her dead. ‘Them Beatrice breathed her last. Beatrice Campbell and Beatrice Torbes-Robertson age actresse: Beatrice is the heroine of “Much Ad@ About Nothing.” —- The Conqueror A M¢ the British commanders mR have been waging war on the empire's enemies in | out-of-the-way corners of the globe, none have been more successful than Gen, William Eliot Peyton, who in Western Egypt, The Bedouins, inspired by Turkish and German Pngtand’s enemies, threatened Keypt for a time, until Peyton led a whirl- wind campaign through the barren land and quickly reduced them to submission. Gen, Peyton has just passed the half-century mark, and has deen én the army for over thir- ty years. ‘The greater part of this has been spent in Africa, and he won high honors in the Dongola expeditionary force, the Sudan campaigns and the Gouth African War, In the Sudan conflict of 1897 he had a narrow es- cape from death, his horse having been speared and he himself danger- ously wounded, \ agents and provided with arms by }\ of rng Bedouins ; Bedouins he completely broke the power of the German and Turkish agents over the tribésmen, "The ex- pedition against the Arabs come pletely successful as it was, brought many hardships to the troops, Fer time they marched through a \country deluged by a cold rain and + | transformed into a sea of mud, only to emerge upon sandy, dun-score! deserts, over which they tramped for, days with only scant supplies of | water, ° —-.>———- 1 Fruit Jar Funnel Made From a Milk Bottle. FUNNEL that has a wid range of application about household, and especially . im food-canning season, may be mad@ by cutting the body off an ordinary’ milk bottle, says Popular Mechanica ‘The bottle is trimmed at the dest point by tying an alcohol-saturat iy his swift, hard, smoothed off on an emery wheel amd unrelenting campaign ageinst the the funnel is ready for use, cord around it and applying @ ma) The glass will break evenly at point. After breaking, the edge 4 t _~ age of five, the child was betrothed, | {