The evening world. Newspaper, July 6, 1918, Page 12

ee ein cs erie a re ep tie ete Sere 5 ee eee [End Published Daily Except sunady by the Press Publishing Company, Nos.’ 63 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Tow, J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasures, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Kow. MEMNER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, {The Amociated Prom |¢ exctueive (Wied to the use for fe: exebitad to it oe not otherwise credited iu this paper and also the lo NO. 20,77 PUBLICITY FOR RENT PROFITEERS. OLLOWING The Evening World's demand for a showdown of facts and figures to establish the point at which the raising of rents in this ci the Board of Aldermen this week unanimously adopted the fol Fesolution introduced by Vico Chairman Robert L. Moran at Evening World's request: Resolved, That the Police Department be requested to make a survey of unoccupied apartments in the City of New York and make a return by precincts of the facts disclosed + to the Board of Aldermen for the consideration of that body, | with a view to the full publication of such gathered informa- tion for the purpose of aiding persons affected by rent increases, As preliminary to an effective tackling of the rent problem in} New York such a survey should accomplish two thing. (1) By showing tenants the extent of the opportunities open to them to save money or better their housing conditions by moving, it should arouse among landlords a more strongly competitive epirit in| figuring rent 2) By revealing actual conditions of occupancy and vacancy in different sections of the city, it should throw light on the question how far the law of supply and demand really operates in the case of realty and rents, where private speculation is allowed full sway. | From whatever angle the rent problem is approached, the first essential, as The Evening World has all along insisted, is to get the! facts and figures into the open where they can be impartially ex amined and weighed. How much, indeed, publicity can do toward putting a stop to) profiteering in rents is shown by the experience of New London,! Conn.—a community largely made up of war workers—as reported by Chairman Frankfurter of the Federal War Labor Policies Board: | «4 The procedure adopted has beon roughly as follows: First a committee was formed of employees and representa- tives of the workers themselves, to which were added public spirited lawyers, real estate men and others of excellent repu- tation for fairness. This committee, wishing to divide its labors so that the burden would be heavy on no one, dele- gated to many sub-committees or adjustment boards of three selected from its membership the task of hearing the com- plaints of tenants who felt themselves the victims of extortion- ate rents and unfair practices. One of these adjustment boards holds a session almost } every day in the week. If the complaint brought appears to ' be just, the adjustment board requests the landlord to answer, preferably in person. | —_— If the landlord refuses to answer—for he is under no legal | compulsion—or if he refuses to adjust fairly a plain case of selfish and unpatriotic rent extortion or other hardship put upon the war worker, then the committee without comment | of any natare will publish the facts so that public opinion | itself may pass jadgment upon the house-owner, By this means, declares the report, “citizens of New rout | he Woman Who Stores have managed their own affairs. Rent profiteering is | vented and other housing evils have been avoided.” | The New York Evening *“9i) The City of New York is neither so different nor so big that its could not put up a similar protection against profiteering lnndlords—| with publicity the strongest part of the defense. | A Congressional measure under consideration to curb rent} d Adjustment Board ticular work was| only a kitchenette and little room only in being invested with more power, SS ets RES EPReeRe time} tO. SLObe: Ae ARNT e aos se rees In the mean time, be it noted, the City Commissioners of Newark, ates iin na re naRtw un last yeariaiora N. J., have instructed the City Counsel to propare a resolution asking aT y ceases to be fair and becomes profite “THERE CAN BE NO COMPROMISE” if Rs and more n ington. L visite! various de-| ing flelds, so that it behooves you partments engaged in war| and me, in July, to look to January. work. One of the Food authorities have urged me to most active is the |make an appeal for the preserving Food Department. | of foodstuffs. Perhaps you, who are ¥ SS ‘ me| young woman who, last year, in a conservation of | four-by-eight kitchenett for Federal legislation to prevent profiteering by landlords, the City! All ery of the hour, | Was the first time she had ever put : a ; With men at the | up a single Jar, profiteering, and a Tenants’ League of Greater New York is getting! front numbering more than a million| 4 ready to send a delegation to Washington to protest against the un-| every on n realize what it means) jt, for ghe had but two rooms be- ‘to send not only enough to them, but S this kitchenette, “Only two e: » real es i ests in New Y, ; Reputable real estate interests in New York should make up their| has been talked about—and talked | “and that was during the extreme minds to recognize openly the fact that rent profiteers ARE taicifg| *Pe¥t, What are you and I going to) weather last winter, when I had these THR ein have ce , : - va 0 have pared to the bone all their| the next day's meal, and there was screw extra turns for their own extra profit. It is to the interest of! resources, and who couldn't save an-| no kitchen fire, | put up 200 food—that is the | Jars of fruits and vegetables, That Council of Elizabeth, N. J., has started a special investigation of rent} were omer few days ago I asked her about limited boosting of rents as practiced y in t) ty ents « upon tenants s city, i ! in this city, \to help the Allies a well, All of this | jars spoiled from freezing," she sald, advantage of a general and justifiable advance in rents Pavets do about it? 1 know there women! two jars in the kitchen, ready for every landlord who is trying to deal fairly by his tenants to have these) ther cent to save their souls, 1 know | I found the coolest place in the profiteers exposed. } mothers who are struggiing to n flat to be in one of the cupboards, J tot pnds meet where the family is large. 2, s ublic _ atl ac Bias ; en n . and built a shelf there, where I put 0 far as publicity can supply a check to rent profitecring, let} and whose dolinr value has kept the jars, and, believe me, it was publicity do the work. Further multiplication of laws and extension |4¥indling and dwindling on account the best thing Lever did,” she said, of authority necd not be sought where public o ) ny ». of the soaring: prices. We naturally! enthusiastically, “What I actually ’ 5 Pubic opinion proves auffi-| ory against this condition, and are | ed made it possible for me to use honey found in this way for other . cient. trying to urge such authoritative con . +H Aplauegs ra ot a onto oy ‘ — nina }trol as will alleviate the growing dis- | things 1 wanted.” Its Sh W i tress, But in the mean time there is nis woman just followed direc- t rom arp ee mush to ba done tions, having recipes from the Agri- Ramorse would be useful if it could| Taking off our hats to the Star. Now that the Independence Day | cultural Department at Washington, ee sonra ae a een hiraties, apAner G6 an't any- | fostivities over the month nilar to those The Evening World x ee fecling inside af us~—Toledo lagen” | July looms large, Even though we how printing from time to time yell ce ry Bay gt geal! ad ei ee ae j heave suffered in the past from the | for canning and preserving, hamton Press H-) att ts sometimes easier to apologize | food prices, continied shortas she carried out all the instructions, Arr f 9 explain how you got that | if paecireirlat ent lcpi, pye.—Chicago Nows. Health makes wealth for some, but not for the physician and the under-| 1 Re: taker.~—-Chic News. ia @ has-bin and George, who thus became mys « wuppty| England's King and Queen) '" vedo Blade | heir presumptive to the throne, sought a Celebrate Silver Wedding {and won the hand of “Princesa May.’ Letters From the | G Meveremaentivinlmio: Aub met People, G ‘emeans ‘rin the democratic| First Atlas Printed in 1570 t of the hospital ideals of the people over whom HE first modern atlas was the i work of Abraham Ortelius, celebrate their silver wedding. It was Dutch geographer, who died in on July 6, 1893, that Princess Victoria | Antwerp, his native city, in 1598, His Mary of Teck became the bride of the | monumental work, entitled the “The- ture monarch of Great Britain, The|atrum Orbis Terrarum,” was first royal couple are much alike in tem-| published in Antwerp in 1870. Al- perament, finding their gr t ploas- | though this a! was o great achieve- ure in the quiet surroundings of home, | ment, yet a bright schoolboy of to-day and their 25 years of Ife her has | ¢ 4! been a perold of unbroken happiness. | a bet 4 contrast to the mat-| Iaven te Change Name of| wbout it on the p authorities, and if taere is-—-why? To the Editor of Th I certainly want to support that | Plan offered by a reader of yours to change the name of the German Hos- pital to the Edith Cavell Hospital see that some of your r It te time that we wiped out every-|casionaiiy muster. the ca thing German in thir country, and/ further ‘protest about certainly there could be no name,have protested so long more inappropri for such an in- | plished so little, that it seems scarce ¥ Mere mention of a hospi worth the time As for myself, I hay tal is suMcient jo recall that these | moved to the country and rented wens of mercy have b attacked little place which I can if out of number by the Germans. | and still be on the sate city | Thls.ts ip mar nd it is $0 offeaee to rer good rents Many others rimonial care American we should have an| But those who must live in New York | fo orges of th ove! Ametitution in this city which boldly| should form an ty , poi Saree He a9 ue ano reree ye 8 in the wor! 2 ims itself a German Hospital. | Assemblymen behind a bill, and then| 2"¢ Gemestic life of each of them, nln PATINOT. | he rules, and Queen Mary will to-day | k to Move Into y and aceom of EDITORIAL PAGO Saturday, July 6, 19198 By leona Cassel One || Threatens Whole ‘Colony. Garner's | some vengeful Indians. severely as an example to other savages. But the assassins could not be found. On the fiimsiest kind of testimony seven “Praying Indians” were rounded up and accused of the crime (perhaps because they were easier to catch than were their wilier heathen brethren) and were condemned to life imprisonment on Deer Island, One of the seven captives was Job Kattenanit. Major Gookin of the 3 Job volunteered. | But the Christian's God Tam a Christian.” And he went. Job had no trouble in finding the hidden camp where the bulk of King He had as little trouble in making them n escaped prisoner from Deer Island who nite men and sought to be revenged upon them for his unjust 6 Indians trustfully accepted him as a recruit to their ranks. gic had not long to wait for the information he sought. Presently the Philip's warriors were massed. believe his story that he wag a hated the wi captivity. Th — Indians Get Ready \to Attack. | A native sentinel gained on Job an ward on his face and lay moveless. ‘Then, satisfied that he was dead, they stom, and went back to camp. bart ne Job scrambled to his feet, unwounded, and white settlement. There he told his news. The town and village. ked Lancaster they found the place bristling who beat them off with terrific loss of life. | the dim light. as was their © As soon as they were fo! | raced on to the nearest | alarm went out to every When the Indians attac! with armed colonis ‘Stories of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune 1918, by The Prom Pub’ NO. 38—JOB KATTENANIT: America’s First Indian Spy. HE New England colonists called him “Job Kattenantt,” which was the nearest they could get to his unpro- nounceable native name. They also spoke of him as @ “Praying Indian,” which meant that he was one of the ‘ages whom the grim old seventeenth century New Englanders had succeeded in converting to Chris- ‘hing Co, (The New York Evening World.) When the first English colonists landed in Massa- chusetts, the Indians welcomed them cordially, giving them land and supplying them with much-needed furs and food and teaching them how to support life in the bleak New World. The white men repaid this kindness by cheating and oppressing the simple Indians and by robbing them of everything they could lay hands on. And, in a few years, the savages’ friendliness was changed to murderous hatred. The Indians of Massachusetts and Connecticut banded together, under | Chief Metacomet—known to history as “King Philip"—and declared a war of extermination against the colonists. They attacked one unprotected village after another, destroying it by | fire and slaughtering the inhabitants. So sudden were these attacks and delivered at so many widely different points that the little colonist military army had no chance to concentrate against the foc. Unless some way could be found to prepare for the assaults the whole colony might soon be wiped out. But who could be found to bring warning from the savages to the white men of mich raids? In their extremity the colonial officials turned to Job Kattenanit. Now, Job had suffered at other white men's hands more cruelty than had most of his red brethren. Karly in 1675 one or two settlers had been found murdered. It was evidently the crime of The authorities decided to punish the murderers asaachusett# militia went to Deer Island and promised freedom and reward for any prisoner who wort4 go to King Phil- | ip's camp and act as spy for the white men. The Major again promised him weh rewards. Job |impatiently interrupted the flow of promises by saying? I do not wish your reward. I go to | from death. The white man has been the enemy of me and of my people. ¢ we must return good for evil. I go because ve the white men made ready for a surprise attack on the prosperous town of Lancaster. It was to be an assault in full force, with the object of burn- ing the town Au Under cover of night Job crept out of the Indian camp to bear his tidings to the white men. gave the alarm. A band of warriors gave chase, They da filght of arrows whizzed about him. He plunged for- d killing every one in it. The pursuers looked down at him in t him lying there, By Sophie Irene Loeb being PFC-) Cooyrieht 1918 by The Pow Pub'iwding Co | be expected in the future, with more|especially as to proper sterilization. The Jarr Family there are so many plays and pictures being produced that are not moral, 5 to the papers. Tha hd pe ee then Gertrude said she | call of war wrk and the stage, then? liked us and felt so bad for mo not/|asked Mr. Jarr, having a good girl that abe deter-/ “Well, mined to stay with me ani 1918 by The Prom Publianine Oo, (The New York Evening Wort) HAT are you so busy for?” asked Mr, Jarr, day or go you have been| constantly sweeping, scrubbing and en going to the front|She put the Jars into the boxes in URING the week ] was in Wash- | and many taken out of food produc-| which they came, Li tuhed labelled them on the owtside, and there they were on the shelf ready for use, thrifty women have As I have stated in these columns, I also in a very small kitchen put up a considerable num- | I know that every house- keeper can do It if she will onty make done the same. jomobody has to do it,” said Mrs. “Gertrude never seems to get out of the kitchen when she's here, and goodness knows what she does in it, for after she left it on her afternoon out it was a sight!” “Well, Gertrude will be back; you need not worry about that,” said Mr. Jarr quietly. “Phat’s all right,” \Jarr, “but why do her work for her? “Well, I wanted to have the house | ventured Mr, Jarr. clean for her,” to encourage Gertrude If she went to work on the|“Fvery time Ge age or in munitions or as a conduc- torette no one would give her @| has to go out in the air, little money saved up, having to use most of their allowances for the week's necessities, | need only preserve two or three Jars at a time, as their allowance permits. | If they will search in the many prod- uce places they can find fresh food- stuffs when they are plentiful put them up for the time when they d, and when prices are high, | I wish you wouldn't say rtrude may hear you, and she’s | Besides, if she did burn the dinner a few times, it was be- she was so nervous, she was so anxious to please, told me so herself.” “pold you so herself?" asked Mr.) Mr. Jarr. | “well, she seems to appreciate her “Yes, she says she really doesn’t) place now, and this morning when yourself and your family independent |have to go out in service; she could| she was getting ready to go out she of buying at a time when food is|go on the stage. But on account of | was real sympathetic, and she said: | searce and {s more greatly needed jher family she wouldn't care to go on | ‘You mustn't work so hard, Mrs, Jarr; stage or in the movies, because | it so sensitive. jertrude h It is surprising how much you can | " suggested do with little if you will only take a bit of time and trouble. greater patriotism than this, making | There ts no | pally pains me to see you do } cile the Waitress By Bide Dudley. IN’T it funny how some men | \, | shoot corn I just dodge, | he finds out he can swaller ang does [he asks. Then he says: i} m You ought to wear a bustle’ Pretty soon | women how dress?” asked Lucile, the Waitress, of | 1. riendly Patron as he dug into/y foie after that onslow, Oh, but it) her? ‘makes me peevish, Queen Anne 3 in your mind how his grapefruit * he replied. she went on n think they know the female styles better than us women do, No Lam willing to testify that a man's ot a right to think what he likes, | just so he don't get gabby about it hurt nobody But spill ‘em, and they begin to spread trouble worse'n a Lewis gun spits bullets. Now that) 1 got you fully philossified I'm going to tell you a happenstance that was portrayed In here yesterday. “A fellow comes in and orders corn on the cob and Java, and It seems as lk corn makes him think he's gone out Every time he Well, what's Simply this— “You said it, 4 Maximum silencer, ing a lady she ought to wear What's become of the, prizes for her style anners you never had?" “‘T never meant to rough you up.’ ‘I was just telling you| You're too straight “t or I'll get |uncomplainingly. nge your map, Wall, sir, that man shut up like to talk, chan, the female style. but the thinker, up and down.’ makes a bum out of it without even | hinting anything about women's styles imagine him saying such a thing to being a gentleman, least when you're ober, mad I could bit a hunk out I bring them, one of our apple pies, Pg all I dt the taste of the “Looks as though he had a method |a good reference uld draw maps from memory with in his madness,” suggested the Friend. approximation of correctness, ‘ngland and Scotland appear 3 of his ancestors, the|in this pioneer volume with amazing t astiine, and many “Say, listen, Si,’ I says, ‘T wisht this wasn't a public poison joint, it wasn’t I'd tell you where to dis- embark for, and you'd never kick at the landlord about not having enough ure bur au. wants to talk, the result, 1 ask you! he shoots corn berries all over me But he was a t He'd just as soon give you a penny as he would his right lamp.” It sure does, bear only a ce to those of to-day, ‘We have no room for anything but) perhaps some results may be had, | {fom George 1, Elector of Hanover,| The name of * with the stigma and erect a monu-|of merely protesting just tickles tl ment to that immortal Eng! wom- | landlords and gives them something to not seem to me whould be any question ' with 4 mouse, SUBURBANITE, brother, but that Prince died suddenly contury. like hall bouncing off a poor outcast widow woman's bean. used to that. Ain't hardly a day goes by but what I get popped in the nose by some dean-eater’s outburst of merriment, So when be begins to “It's the truth," concluded Lucile “Say, he hasn't got @ bustle in his I had to pay $7 for he sold me. But he can't tell Cy Ma) get away with tlas," derived from ican hospital: Let us do away | That will be the only way. This thing Who became King of England, to| that Greek god condemned to bear jeorge 1V., was far from happy. | 9 Rip maouidere She YSIS OF BABY OR: was first given to a collec ‘who fell before her country’s bar- | laugh over. It is a good deal like the @veea Mary was betrothed to the} ))" Girard Mercator, another dia- foes. It does pleasure that a cat gets from playing Duke of Clarence, George's elder} tinguished Dutch geographher of the heat. So, I'm straight up and down, am I? Well, you be less conserva- tory with your eyes, old kid, and the you'll be much more conducive to| me However, I'm shop under $6. By Roy L. McCardell So that shows that Gertrude ts. con- siderate.” You think she'll stay despite the said Mrs. Jarr, “I thought A not even|I'd help a bit so as to keep her con- be a munition worker or a conduc-|tented. You know Gertrude comes from an excellent family, she says, and never had to cook.” “You never-had to cook cither,"y -y “Well, it's different with me, Pm to|not so sensitive," said Mrs, Jarr. trude thinks of her family she gets a nervous spell and "Yes, nd in Gus's side dour,” si “Do domestic workers appreciate |Mr. Jarr quietly. that?” asked Mr. Jarr. “No, they generally do not,” ad-|she is too refined, mitted Mrs, Jarr. ‘been with us a long time. “Intermittently, though,’ “I cannot believe that of Gertrude, sald Mrs, Jarr. ‘Tho first thing she asked me when she took the place was if there was a good manicuress in the neighborhood, and, as I had no rubber gloves, she couldn't bring herself to do the scrub- bing and wouldn't wash the dishes, because she says the young man she is engaged to thinks she has beautiful hands and she couldn't spoil her matrimonial chances by putting her jhands tn hot water.” | “Why don't you pay her so much @ ek and let her hire you to do the |work?" asked Mr. Jarr. “What's the use of getting sore?| “Now, don't you interfere," said ‘I know you want to look|Mrs. Jarr, "I hav was Just telling you|Gertrude; she's the only girl that ever buaye, [left that came back to the place of great hopes of wore ohe, 90 what's the|her own free will. If I don't com- with you being stylfsh like |Plain, why should you?" “It's mighty strange,” said Mr, Jarr. “"L never met your friend, Queen |"If you women have no girl you com- nd you,’ I says, ‘ought to wear) Anne,’ I says, “but I'll bet you six | What right you! she never shot biscuits in a pls If she did she bits |Plain the wi is killing you, and Hk nll Jet everything go til! you get any one. When you have a servant you'll got do all your own work and hers, too, Weren't you fixing |up her room this mornin; s said Mrs, Jarr, Gertrude 1 have so much better taste than and | 8 she Just then the telephone bell rang, find |Mr. Jarr answered it, He Listened a a card by his plate that says he's a/moment and then said: women’s clothes seller over on Sixth| “It's ¢ Now whaddye rtrude, She's been offered of another position and asks if you please won't send her her wages and PLANTS TRAVEL BY AIR. N Porto Rico, where the atmos- I phere is moist and balmy, air plants often lodge in the most unusual places and produce some weird effects while growing, Fre quently they establish themselves on telephone and telegraph wires. The ingulation rots in places and the plants take rdot, grow and thrive,