The evening world. Newspaper, July 29, 1918, Page 10

eee We She ePenivg ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZE Published Daily Eacept Sunday by the Press Publehing Company, Nos. 63 t 63 Park Row, New York. PULITZER, 63. Park Tow. S SHAW , 63 Park I. i's orld, eS Te ee MPMMER OF TIT ‘The Amociated Prem is © ly entir redited to It of not ovlerwis ted in VOLUME 59. RECKONING ON NEW YORK. HY, with upward of 50,000 vacant apartments at more t ASSOCIATED PRESS. 4 to the nae for renblication of aT) news despatches: this paper aod ele the local news published berein, fiw ae ~NO. 90,196 an 19,000 addresses in New York City—as shown by the po report submitted to the Board of Aldermen last week are New Y levels know landlords raising apartment house rents to the highest nin the city’s history ? For one reason, because New York has peculiarities which ean de counted on to upset any general working of the law of supply and demand in the local real estate field. New York is forever possessed by the idea that it can only do business block. but the id What was comparatively a short time ago the most fashionable shopping district in town, Twenty-third Street and Sixth Avenue, has until re 1 on one The block changes frequently not ked year in and year out like a deserted village. For the past decade its boarded fronts and dusty window panes hav. been one of the curiosities of New York Why? and convenient sections of Manhattan unless every one else was th re. Secause nobody wanted to be in one of the most central Not only did the retail trade move out, but it took years of persuasion, and “zoning” talk to get the wholesale trade to move in. Yet this district is one of the best situated and most desirable of the city! That's New York. | Thousands of New Yorkers have similar ideas as to where they muet live. And the city has done nothing to offset the activities of real estate speculators who have been only too eager to narrow the demand for certain classes of housing to sections where, at one time or another, realty operation promised to be most profitable. There has been no attempt to assure attractive apartment house offerings at any pointe save where speculative enterprise chose to consider such offerings worth while, Speculative enterprise undoubtedly puts up buildings that bold tenants. But experience has not gone to show that a big city can ! forever content merely to sce that such buildings are safe and sanitary and let it zo at that. Tas any city grown great and sightly and’ become the home of millions of happy, comfortably housed people, by leaving all housing problems to private realty interests? ye -save those of safety and sanitation — Rents for the best living accommodations in New York, we are told, have increased more than 400 per cent. in the last three decsdes, This city’s $30,000 a year apartment suites—$1,400 a room to make London open its eyes in wonder. For New York to be proud of, no doubt. But what about the £2,000,000 and more the London County Council has invested in housing for workers—6,420 apartments and 3,402 cottages to May 31, 1915—no penny of which is charity, but which enables some 57,000 persons to live in clean, attractive sur roundings at low rents? Would New York be the worse for being like that alongside its $30,000 a year flat Another thing upon which New York landlords count: The highest spending power of the country gravitates-to this city. To a considerable extent New York lets that spending power measure ity prosperity and set its standards, are said le to boast something Americans, at the present time, divide into three classes or strat wher ver a vertical section is taken: are better off because of the war, At the top are employers who At the bottom are wage-earners who are better off because of the war, Between is a great body of salaried workers who are no better off because of the war, but who now find themselves forced to drop down! a plane or more in their standards of living because they cannot com- pete with the increased spending power below as well as above ther. | That spending power both the part which exists in and that which is attrac ed to New York—is what landlords rely upon to fill} up thousandy of vacant apartments at high rentals if they—the landlords——held to their Ires Only 9 year ago a former President of the Real Estate Assocta tion of the State of New York and Chairman of its Executive Gom mittee was quoted as follows: Landlords must not base a raise of rents on war time increase prices of coal, materials or labor, pri marily because real estate investments are averaged in income over a long pericd of time, realty being a slow asset. The rent-paying masses are bearing their share of war burdens by paying inflated prices for all kinds of living necessities, and the realty owner must be ready to assume lilewise his share of the situation. Slow asset or not, a considerable number of New York roalty owners have gone directly contrary to the above and assumed thoir share of situatipn at the present moment to be the biggest rent advances they can exact from New York apartment house tenants. | Against 50,000 vacant apartments they stake their kn ro of New York and of its peculiar demands and ways, Hits From Sharp Wits Beauty is only ekin deep, Fre weupation for a pretty @re apt to be more genuine than! man but y mton ve blushes.—Philadetphia Record . . The we vid up with a prett x1 peaple who are obody but there no elm to do it net, 7 Letters From the People Wants Overseas Mall Dellyered, | slipshod mag! department loses Pe the Editor Prening W faila to use proper expeditt I am glad to see that there is one Something should be done pisats t newspaper in New York not afraid to, auc SOLDIE, BROTHER print complaints about the wretched mai! service to our saidiers, It might | be eawily understood that letters would go astray occasiqnally, but when thousands of hom have pot had letters in the Tam writing oye over there are mail, |a book about gypsies and tf tis t thing is pretty radically wrong. | was given Navarre popularly, bee have been encouraged to write|he is himself a gypsy, I would be to the soldiers. Pershing | much interested to know it, j that wo remember them often. | Bo ja the good of writing If a! co y of Jenn Navarre, Evening Worat you published about Alr mention is made © is known as Daredev t Adj 10 ® elory from Party SN AER I RESTRIC S Fp AACS I { | EDITORIAL PAGE | Monday, July 29, 1918 Conrrigt. 1918 by The Unwe [iblishing Co, (The New York Evening World) By J. H. Cassel 'Playing the Game By Helen Rowland N. B.—Solomon Was the First Great Optimist—He Married | Seven Hundred Times—Diogenes Was the First “ Radi- cal’’—-He Never Married, Never Worked, and Never Wanted to Do Anything, Except Loaf Around | All Day and Hate People. ET pessimists lve their tight little lives—what do YOU care? Solomon had a thousand wives—enough and to spare! But old Diogenes lived in a tub, Cynical, lazy, grouchy, old grub! He wouldn't shave, or work, or scrub— Or even cut his hair! “ He railed at the world, at people, at laws—‘cil life em- pired, And went around hunting for faults and flaws—with rancor fired. He scoffed and sneered from early ‘til late, At men and, women, and church and state. And all that he did was to loaf and HATE! Ob, wouldn't that make you tired? Give me Solomon—bdlessed old thing! Long live his fame! THERE was a man too good for a king! But, all the same, He loved his wives and his fellows, too, He wrote and labored, his whole life through, ! And did the best that a man can do— | He gallantly PLAYED THE GAM But Di was built on the “radical” plan—he loved his wrath! And vowed that never an honest man had crossed his path! And, once, when they offered him WORK—“Goodnight!” He cried, “Go away! Get out of my ligh He should have been caught in the “work-or-fight,’ And punished with a BATH! And, the pessimist still lives in a tub—on this fair Isle, And he still refuses to work or grub—YOU know his 8 And he still refuses to cut his hair— And rails at the country—but what do you care? The thing that is winning, “over there,” Is The Great American SMILE! + So, let the “radical” rant and groan—HIS be the shame! We'll grin and dear it—and “carry on,” in Freedom's name! And it isn’t our shells, alone, sball win, It's the spirit that flames and burns within, And the way that our soldiers fight and GRIN— And the way we play the game! Oh, this world {s full of wonderful things—and the best {s MAN! And we're getting rid of the czars and kings—as fast as we can! And women must work and men must fight, But our hearts are strong, and our hopes are bright, And everything's coming out ALL RIGHT According to God's own plan! + Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for exccution than r council, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.—Francis fo Bacon, New York Girl Types You K now | The Jarr_ Family By Roy L. McCardell dlers to tight she puts on her big | market place,” said Mr. Jarr. No. VII.—-THE CABARET GIRL | feel the same way about it!” |66T ¥ GOLLIps!” remarked Gus; he Dutpine in it and| "Gus’s vite te strong enough for : 5 "But Calais belongs to France— | “I see the vimmin of this | hat mit the longest hi I bet she's anything,” said Elmer. “She could By Nixola Greele y-Smith | arnuene antisec Bes tamted Ca /IeDY,| country is getting up a Regi- |! ain't seen her fie Rayne eee ey ene ¢ ) and, ce ry Va y s . ined w he army, Ut . LL sorts of girl to cabarcts,} “Why 1 | {What difference does that make2”| ment of Death, TES ee eee sai t a letter from a lady what | wher 4L, sorts of girls go to cabar.ts, ny don’t you come to the Red) sne asked with impatienc “Eng- | vimmin did.” by fe A ting me because| “Vell, I am for Var for Vimmen,” but only one sort Is the Caba- | Cross auxiliary?” I asked @ young] land always gets anything she wants.| “Funny how the womon fight each signs if ‘Frieda’ roasting me Beri) te a stoutly, MARwayS ret Girl, | matron I met the other day driving tote anele yee haven't an interna-| other,” said Mr, Rangle reflectively, I let Gus's wife poke me n . a elt am for Var for Vimmen, and whedl e en mg a c y road jong ms : ' id Elmer, ender. “She si +. At the present along a country road. |"“On'the whole, I think the cabaret| “Funny how they fight the men!” sald Eimer, the bartedesl. | Cet Oty oy tut parade of the vimmen s0l- moment she is in) yh, I'm too busy," she replied) matron was less trying when she | said Mr. Jarr in a subdued tone. I should not teh cris her do it diers from the emberlance on Chuly fullest. flower in| hurriedly. talked about her real’ interests—| His had not been a happy home Mme one. But I didn dit be- | 4th I hollered and waved a flag.” the alcoholic fast-| “Busy? I repeated, “With what?” clothes, Jewels, motors and “MW | pcontiy, because Gus lr bering ere ing, «Will you march mit them mens nesses of Long {an 1 knew her to be childless and to/ PR" | ttunny a queried Gus, “Do you cause I'm a Rood-hearted feller 408 woe vives, who are soldiers, make Beach listening, | have few household cares much to, the. cabaret girl, “The | call it funny? No, I says, let ‘am|T don't want to kee Gul EOl Tt | them march?” asked Gus in astonish perhaps, to a lit-| “Well” she replied confidentially,| thought that she would grow out of| fight mit each other, You bet I told) Pushes in his fave. Alte NUN Lt mone, tl monolomue on} *1'il tell you my real reason. Ara.| it contributed to this tolerance, but |my Lena about It. My Lena she Is eee Le eee cosets she likes,"{ “Sure!” said Mr. Slavinsky. “T © high price o pot. Jone! clas r st cabaret matron spoiled every- » aineal wana anding wollops eople she “ih P “ A the High albot Jones got the class up, and 1/ {he firs cabaret matron spol evamnt|4 fighter, Dy Chorge! When T told) handing Wwollops te Peete veky, who/aent Adollar to that Mrs, Spank Bhballs, from a! go with the Spencer Joneses, and they | hecome. her the vimmin was going to be sol- | “Do hirsch in London to let the good work man who knows | ; ; i © ad was also practising at the bar. “Do a Goes {are not very friendly with the Talbot | ——————_____ —_— ——- : sage ite for wimmen soldiers go along. SABRESREEEMS just what tiat| Joneses, even if they are brothors A |you think you could lick Gus's vife/" | 1 sent regarded this statement soaring commodity costs, anywheré| so £ can't go." | A \in a boxing fight?" an Seen Surorias, Mi. Bie from Hroadway to the Moulin Rouge, | One wonders what a wounded sol- | amous ovie ctresses : | Mins ‘boxing: Aeht: Tcowld do: it” Menmaryrrtie Phe een Hi RRATAEA Lich teas (a the . | said #1 stolidiy, “because in a, YIM i ani whos oe la ne Beach to them | dier would think of her reason! t oopitteeay aa sey Leavers them @% @ liberal contributor until now. all because it takes most money | «me cabaret girl is invariably idle, II Ab j boxing (pei ° Ld ‘bt Slavinsky, Iam ashamed mit you. att tea The eabsret tl a inv e out Themselves) 22 str ites "on “at “courant! “Savinnky, me Male, Cee an OR mi a Weseatchitenaninl ch shaven! Only that you owe me’—here Gus rates Mire: ane atl t} inefficient as the old clinging vine looked at the slate—"a dollar ninety= girls le D ork, natives as Theoretically, the cabaret 5 t irk | without the vine's softness and gen- | | Well as the eager, curious visitors) tieness, Sometimes, not often, she frets out of town, who make the! dances well, Sometimes, not often, OW did I get into the movies? “ as 4 anes aba rate bt Bae sho has the saving grace of beauty Well, although I hate to admit able and celebrated from Octorara, y ; ee yea eect But what is she good for? What It, I reaMy did nothing more or hing of value can she do? Most of} |less than follow Norma in, and that's ahould have disappeared from the #0-| tore mmecenatul ineabande, ‘outa be) (ne, eruth-but it tn algo the truth that lal map when the United Siates|herg cut te it to find any ®|1 stopped following her as soon as 1 went into the war. A fow of her did,| vara. Dut to It to find any sort Of} wag in and had a chance to look But any one who takes the trouble they ake i ve is urtdee men] about a bit for myseM to look must realige that she gti| {Mey make the victims of their dis-| Won 1 was fourteen years old, HoUHabeD Ti tance crates ene alll satisfaction=-a, dlasatistaction WhICh| acrme nad a job wilh cue of the mo known to pr static twenty-nine long | last bh bad been crow cabaret girl who sees another to | ‘bp peated at the next table. her favorite lair happens to be, It is all very well to say that she sheuld be rolling ba & for t Red Cros volunteering to drive motor, or run an elevator, or work on a farm, Hut it takes brains to co] , [these things. A. certain amount youn I he of re that marvelously | without taking the German colon after their so good that he can give happir omes from the poverty of their own tlon ouls, not from outside circumstances to used and picture companies, and I go te the studio with her or there ix no man so rich, 80 Wis’)! nang around until the directors were 88 to | Ra GARan lth At Gahe abut so used to seeing me that they really Abe Geel sist nace andra ah thought that [ belonged there. ‘Then She doex not need more dresses, jone da § alkod ght in front monde or dancing, as she believes, | 2P° day 3 Just watkod right io fron #, mor of the camera and no one thought to poses, more ‘fermentation must go on in the skul has but one iden to| ut me out, And once really in 1} even while you are hulling blackber ? wouldn't go, 80 here I am! di money, one fecling, envy, when} - . ries or shelling peas, And te caba-| Nother woman has xpent more When Norma went to the Coast I ret girl bas nothing in her skull, i , went too, for mother didn't Hke to which is the only perfect vacuym| Before the war came she read two} jet her go alone or to leave Natalie known ¢ lence things only—the society news in the} and me her It was like the old | may be sixicen or sixty, | Papers and Town Topics, which Was} puasle vf the man crossing the pond 1 en both these ages repre-| her Bible, To-day she is compelled | and taking over, one at a time, the sented in cabarets. by social pressure at least to pre-|fox, the goose and the bag of grain; But the cabaret ‘a favorite age| 'end to read the war news, weird| which two could he leave behind? 8 twentyen She likes twenty-nine | {nd Wonderful are the ideas she} so we all went along, and I did a so much that she is rarely willing to} bring back from a ind half- | jitele work here and there, but noth- part with H. Its price is beyond even | hearted look at the s paper. ling very much, until D, W, Griffith the diamond bar pin with whieh,! phe Germans are making a new|started to make “Intolerance.” He to police reguletiony she ts| © drive." one caborst matron} wanted some one for the part of the to keep body and soul to-{contided to me recently, “My hus-|mountain girl, and at last he chose Some cabaret girls have been! band says England won't make peace| me, telling mo that I was to be “sort of a lioness girl who wasn't afraid of anything.” | had to drive a chariot, and while | wasn't afraid to do It, 1 had to learn how, and Norma can tell s this. morning the satisfied with Calais there was a Queen I told him sh will be at 4 somowhe |than she can pretend to be, is only|of England who wanted Calais so|you that every night I came home /° lies unhappy than when a woman|much she said it# name would be} from practising bruised and black Hed by his messmates, ac-| With better clothes or more diamonds| found written on her heart when she| and blue. died, and I know King Geonge must After this success I began to dreain CONSTANCE TALMADGE. of something besl little sister name all for myself two sisters play on the stage or the sereen there known, For obscurity behind the title of go's litt!e sister.” My debut was presented in C “Scandal,” and this was my greatest success, 1 foneymoon, historically ara Falls, and a series of pictures which les Stockings,” a hitherto unoccupied field of high dra. comedy: “Vot, YOU vip my vife Lena?" cried Gus with a sarcastic sneer; “you can't even vip me! Any time you think you fight my vife Lena I bet five, I would order you out of my liquor store. As soon you pay that you can’t come in any more.” ; “Vot T care!" retorted Slavinsky you & veok's wages you can't, hotly. “All the cafes will be closed “Oh, I wouldn't bet on it,” said) 4. Lefore the war is over, anyhow." Eimer, taken back, | “L don’t believe it. You're kidding "IT guess not!" sald jus. “But, u said Mr, Bepler. anyhow, I would sooner as my vite Lena give me all the short-arm shabs she wants to rather than she should baw! me out.” “Ol, of, ol!" ered Mr, Slavinsky. | No, I ain't,” sald Mr. Slavinsky, | "And, besides, if the wimmen go in the war to fight, nobody won't need cafes to Ko into.” And he stalked out. | "Buch a bawling out as my wife can| Mir Jarr followed him. f give me, too! But anyhow Iam for) «are you really in favor of women - Var for Wimmen," added Mr. Slavin-| in the trenches?” 6 «¢ sky. “Sure!” said Mr, Slavinsky, “But “Vot!" growled Gus. “Ain't it bad| fat ones can't get into them trenches, enough now? Ain't it that the and my wife will get in the War should be von place the vimmen|Ofice, where, maybe, she will have iM can't come to? Who will be safe to jt to buy glass for winders for the enlist in the army if the wimmen ia and tell your wife army camps.” going to be sold And the glazier winked his off eye@ every time you play pinochle on Knowingly and went upon his way, ) jduty?” | Bh MS Re caneTAnce “No, sir!" said Bepler, the buteher,|, NEWEST THINGS IN SCIENCE. TALMADGE who came in at this point and over-| Italian canners utillze the skins and heard Gus “My wife has my ust ness in her name, She sits at th cash desk and takes In the money. And only when she goes upstairs to her dinner do I get a chance to swipe ° e the price of a glass of beer. If she! Long life is the chief advantage joes in the army she'll take my busi- | claimed for a recently patented spring ness with her.” | elothee pin that is made of metal in- “Women is the weaker sex,” said! stead of wood. | | seeds of tomatoos the former for stock feed and the latter for vi!, useful in Its crude state for soap and illumination, and when refined, for table purposes, . »s being Norma’s| ular job, with al for usually when a re is just one who becomes the other there is pisin| ‘So-and- as a star came when I ._|Mr. Rangle, “Let us drink a toast at hee | smo Hamilton's to Lovely Women, formerly our Su- To aid the carver a Denver man periors, now our Equals.” has invented a clamp which holds a But nobody drank to this, not even| roast of meat firmly and permite it Mr. Rangle, to be turned over easily, “Yes, but now they think a wom- G2 an's place is in the army, They are also showing they are strong enough fo fight the battles of life in the followed this by “The timed in part on that joneymooned spot, Niag- to a "Pair of Silk Argentina has spiders which spin which took me into tele; webs on telephone and wires heavy enough, when dew, to cause short circuits, ie