The evening world. Newspaper, September 9, 1918, Page 12

AAU Bord, PH PULITZER. ESTABLISHED BY JOSE Press Pub!.shing Company, Nos. 63 te , New York. ‘Pudiivhed Dally Except Sunday by the 3 Park Row RALPH PULIT: J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. — MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, eee I RLY SU ae PT Neos Balaban — a VOLUME 59.. ve NO, 20,838 WAR SAVING AND RENTS. ee W WOW FAR the law of supply and demand is potent to protect H tenants from profiteering landlords should—theoretically— a be demonstrated during the next few weeks. Thousands of apartment leases date from Oct. 1, which has come to be New York's busiest moving day. ‘That there has been for months past a large number of vacant partments in the city was established weeks ago by the police census Which followed The Evening World’s demand for action to curb rent iteers. It might be thought, therefore, that landlord profiteers are about te receive a salutary lesson through the natural movement of tenants oat of apartment houses where rents have been unduly raised. That is the theory. But how far does it work out in practice? Under present conditions, with a year ahead in which unprece- dented demands are to be made upon all incomes, how many tenants of modest means and fixed earning power will choose to move if they ean possibly escape the necessity ? At such a time as this how many would willingly meet the cost | of moving and settling in new quarters—even though the moving _ van men and the storage companies had not boosted their rates and _ thereby made prospective moving bills yet more formidable? | How many tenants have already made up their minds to submit to rent advances they know to be excessive rather than run the risk of possible increased expenses in new houses and new neighborhoods ata time when the needs of the nation are putting upon every man the obligation of personal sacrifice and retrenchment? Here is one point, at least, at which the law of supply and @emand is deprived this year of its supposed power against profiteer- ing Jandlords. And the landlords know it. | | That is one reason why tenants need in war time a surer pro-, tection. That is one reason why through city after city in the United States has spread the conviction that, as The Evening World urged - last spring, official action must be taken to prevent the arbitrary and unrestrained boosting of rents. ; Buch action is in every way as logical and as imperative as the | attempt to keep food prices from becoming means of unlimited _ exploitation and extortion in the hands of profiteers. ' For years domestic economy experts have assigned 20 per cent. of earnings as the maximum which should go for rent. The fact that many families in New York are finding the per-| centage of their earnings absorbed by rent forced up to 30 and even 40 per cent., although their standards of living are lower, is sufficient) indication that profiteering in rents is, if anything, ahead of profiteer- ~ dng in other necessities. : No one has maintained that an advance of rents based upon: Pecognized increases in the cost of fuel and labor may not be at tho, 9 present time reasonable and just. What we do maintain is that in} | the interest of tenants some gauge should be available to determine! | where the raise ceases to be fair and becomes mere profiteering on, the plea of war costs. Only last week the Federal Food Board brought out the fact that Childs restaurants were charging customers ten cents for a glass of milk that used to be sold for five, although the actual increase in the cost of milk to the Childs Company did not warrant anything like ‘8 doubling of the price. | ‘That is exactly what has been going on all along the line. The soaring prices of food, clothing and other necessities, like - boosted rents, have in too many instances meant a summary call on _ the consumer to pay not alone the actual added costs to retailer or landlord but substantial extra profits sneaked in by advancing price - and rent round numbers of cents or dollars. In many cases such ) extra profits have been exacted by a whole series of intermediary _ dealers and handlers. Exposure to extortion on all sides is poor encouragement for ‘American workers from whom extraordinary saving and self-denial are expected. | L; It is well enough to warn the people of the United States that they have a big task ahead to pay $8,000,000,000 of war taxes the coming year and that they should individually plan to make the neces- sary sacrifices. Tt would be better still to assure them that while they are making ‘the sacrifices they shall be protected from profiteers and exploiters 4m order that their toil and self-denial may be 100 per cent. effective for the task on hand. | y i One means toward assuring thousands of Americans in war titne the full product of their energies is to safeguard them against rent profiteers. To this end publicity, the forming of local rent commissions, the refusal of loans for purely speculative apartment house building, increase of tax valuation on all property the rentals of which have = been excessively advanced and the prompt exercise of legislative authority in specific regulations should be at once directed, Letters From the People A New Way of Collecting Income Tax.| Eliminate all taxes on the neces To the Editar of The Krening World tles and comforts of life, tax » Your editorial “Protect the Con-| Somes Ss thelr source. Provide : 2 per cent. of each person’ eis admirable. Taxes are con-| withheld by the ete, as part of the cost of doing] day, said employer i sa deputy , and profits are on the tax| Federal tax Those who cost of an article. This tax, Sar nies ape me schedules eed OO OF 0 uct as have the profit on the tax, is carri ae been paid at the source of in d from the manufacturer to] come that part of the tax paid on Wholesaler and he passes it on to} cess of $1,000 or $2,000. retailer, who in turn passes it on | ans the Government would receive the revenue needed, the the consumer, who pays the com-| consumer know exactly what he pays ded profits on the tax, which as|and eliminate the sermes of oom state frequently equal or exceed | Pounded tax profits, which the con amount of the original finer paye when almost everything into the Federal Tr beetle des theory of income tax that ex- A Draft Suggestion, incomes of $1,000 and 000 for| To the Falitor of The Brening World and married persons, re-| Why draft the young men under ly, is ideal, Yet when the|twenty-one until we have taken all ities and comforts of life are|the available men between twenty- , such as boxing is reduced to @ far greater instructors and movie actors? tocomes rere t . ©. EDITORIAL PAGE Monday, September cD) wy 4 New York Girl Types By Nixola Greeley-Smith Copyright, 1918, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) No. XIX.—THE AVE you ever met a “girl au-! thor?” Of course. you have} read about her. For her pub- Ushers see to that. But — encountering her in the all-too- solid flesh is quite different. “I've a treat for you,"” some hostess gurgles joyously. “Dear Dorothy) Dimples, author of | ¥ _ ‘Namby-Pamby,’ ts | SEALE going to be here yes—really—and I think TI can persuade her to read some selections from the book. She's such a simple, natural little thing—and so terribly young—you know she was not quite! eighteen when "Namby-Pamby" was finished.” | So you walt breathlessly til Dor- othy Dimples comes in, wondering | whether she will enter skipping the rope, carrying her favorite Teddy bear or enjoying an “all day sucker.” Suddenly.with a skip and a hop and a i> merry laugh, the star of the occa- sion appears. She has grown to be quite a big girl since “Namby Pamby"” was written--quite too bix for the nursery curtacy She ducks you by way of establishing her juve nilty, should her fi or figure lead you to doubt it. While she reads a prectatively chapter after chapter from her favorite work of art, the women in her audience say to them elves or to each other "Why did she dye her hair? It looks las if it came out of a mattross—dyed hair always does—-why will she use so much rouge? It makes her ap- pear older! When did ‘Namby- Pamby’ come out? Two years ago and she was eighteen the She'll never see thirty-five again. Poor Dorothy Dimples cannot help any of the things she does to appear young. For n women writers, once gloriously exempt from all obl gation to be charming, have been obliged to yield to the universal “ohicken craze.” How many of us dare to be as old as we are? Look us up in “Who's Who tn America” and note how few venture to give | birth-dates! Masami de Stael wished for a "gl rious mortality of twenty-five.” But no girl author would dare to gr old, People would say she was blase and cynical and disillusioned, and they Vwonta n: hor books. w GIRL AUTHOR to petrify her body and mind In a re- morseless juvenility that must weigh on her far more than age burdens its victims, She must keep on eating mush with sugar, otherwise she might not be able to write it. And yet age is the greatest of al! woman's emancipations, When shai! we learn to go forth to meet it with eager feet? For with age comes free- dom—freedom from diets and dress- makers, beauty specialists and hair dressers, and, best of all, freedom froin love, its tremors and terrors, its fond hopes and foolish despairs, I say this despite the fact that several women in the fifties have assured me that they now love really for the first time Age gives women time to think and live for themselves, Their youth is largely devoted to children, husbands and ho: and they do not get a vacation till they reach middle life. The fact that heaven permits them to live and enjoy this vacation hag al- ways seemed to me a refutation of es, You Know . Martin Luther’s pleasant doctrine that woman was made to bear and bear though she die bearing. Sometimes I hope to live long enough to make age fashionable, even among girl authors, Several women of reputation in various fields have done valiant work in this direction. Take Mrs, John Astor, for years the reigning beauty of New York and Lon- don, who showed us that a woman's crown of glory is her snow-white hair, Mrs, August Belmont wears a similar diadem, But there are no more silver locks among the girl authors than there are among the women of the stage. I have met golden-haired sexagenarians in both circles, and I'm sure they all yearn to grow up, but they don't dare, Who will be the Joan of Arc to lead them out of their fearful bondage and ket them to wear sensible shoes and comfortable corsets and to tell their real ages? I found three gray hairs the other day, and by thus proclaiming them publicly perhaps I may qualify. Come, girl authors, on to Orlean: Let's be as old as we are! Who Regard Marriage as a peace’ him. the other. Proof burst upog her, saying: “Go to, woman! ARRIVED! Yet thou runnest not ligated up for my coming! Verily, “Yeppy!” would not be comforted! for dinner if she would but dry her “Shush! Corps. What meanest thou? Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1¥18, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Drening World.) All Monarchs Are Men—and All Men Are Potential Monarchs, “ Dictatorship,” Until a Wife Taketh the Offensive, and Setteth Up a Democracy. ONSIDPR, my Daughter, the way of a man with a woman: for a Mtfle 2 Bolshevist is not more autocratic when he getteth the opportunity, nor meeker when he is properly put down. Now, there dwelt in Babylon a young wife, and all the burden of her song wi was “As JOHN says!” 1a, ner Beloved selected her hats and her news- paper and her politics for her, and chose the brand ef her tea and her religion. And thus, for an whole year of wedded life they throve and were contented. For, when her Beloved said, “I am going to the club,” she answered sweetly, “Thou hast spoken.” And when he argued that the world was flat em@ the moon but a slice of yellow cheese, clapped her hands together and cried “how wonderful!” For, like every other bride, she almed to PLEASE, and to “keep the he would have admitted ANYTHING. And it came to pass that the husband grew puffed up with pride of power and dizzy with his own consequence, and there was NO satisfying ‘Yes, dear,” and her life-mette nd that pacifists were “people,” sha Then the woman saw her mistake and arose from her attitude of adoration and brushed tae dust of humility from her garments. And upon a day the husband returned from his labors and found his spouse reclining at her ease, with a novel in one hand and a bon-bon in And when he had recovered his breath ie let the storm of his ree For lo! I, thy lord, have to greet me, and the dinner is NOT waiting, nor my slippers laid out, nor my bath prepared, nor the house verily, do mine EYDS see aright?” And the woman yawned, and answered: And when he protested she wept and raged and tore her hair and And lo! he rushed for her smelling salts, and ordered @ taxicab, and offered to take her forth unto a GOOD restaurant tears and STOP raving. And thereafter she kept ner foot upon his neck, and pooh-poohed his opinions, and laughed at his “dignity,” and sent him upon her errands, and kept him waiting at all times, and covered him with wrath and scorn when he so much as dared offer an objection. And behold, in his astonishment ae became meeker than a woolly lamb and more devoted than a poodle. And when her friends inquired concerning the miracle which she had wrought, the woman answered them, saying: For I, waose motto was once “Aim to pleas: quired a NEW philosophy concerning husbands. ‘or verily, verily, all monarchs are men, and all men are potenttal monarchs, who regard marriage as a ‘Dictatorship’ until a wife taketh the OFFENSIVE and establisheth a democracy! “And the slogan of my New Philosophy {s the slogan of the ‘Tank have a+ “Which is ‘TREAT "EM ROUGH!’ “For, strange as it may be, they seem to LIKE it!” Selah. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) ‘~ would appear that Mr. Slavinsky, | the glazier, was out on a job when the local band of young land marines—first to fight—of the neighborhood descended upon his shop. The bell over the door jangied its dissonant warning as they flocked in the dusty, littered shop, with crates of glass, bits of glass, plain and ornamental, scattered around, ind here and there an unframed sec- Hon of mirror glass standing in a reflective attitude with its back igainst the wall. “Who is it?” bawled Mrs, Slavin- sky from the top of the stairs that led up to the Slavinsky living ipartments. “Is it Izzy?” Master Slavinsky bawled back that t was. “Don't break no glass by the store,” called down the cautious mother, who heard the voices of the other boys.” “How often I told you to be careful and not break any glass of your Popper's? Break glass trom Making th A Series of Plain By Ray ©. Beery, A, B., M. A., Pr Shall We Tell Our Chitdren Fairy Tales? know arrives-it an artist neler, He mus the vision be Fairy tales feed the imagination. stories that might be will have a tendency to make chil And when th in such st : rie matters | took place, is wrong not whether he be or a fi-| y t| But the wrong lies in the introduc- | and what is more true could be made just as interesting as the stories that are out of all reason and which dren superstitious after they grow up? find there is nothing as that about Santa oot think thos wit turn e Most of Ou Talks to Parents e sident of the Parents’ Association jon Christianity and say, ‘I wonder !f lit is like the fairy stories I used to |hear? I don't believe there ever was KE the value of fmagina- | such a person as Jesus.’ ” | W tion to the child, and to the| There is just one big point to be To tell a child j that there is a Santa Claus, who comes down the chimney, is wrong. -| tion to the story and not in the story | fore he can achieve. | itself. 1| Ido not fully agree that true stories Jare just as interesting as fairy tales to children, ‘There is a certain pleas- they are imaginary and impossible but to the fact that they are not properly labelled by the parent. Par- -Jents should make clear to their chil- dren what a fairy tale is. This will not make the tale any less delightful to the child, r Children Famil: winders outside and run away quick and come and tell Popper; but don't break none in the store!” said Master Slavinsky, turning to Master Jarr and the rest of his boyish companions. “now, here Pulling out the brads what holds the glass in before he putties.” Saying which, he produced from the paternal workbench a formidable pair of rusty old pliers, “Ah, I betcher Willle Jarr’s afraid to let us pull his old tooth!” taunted Master Johnny Rangle, as a pallor spread over the countenance of Mas- ter Jarr, “No, I ain't. Go ahead and pull the old tooth, and \e'll keep the dol- lar my maw gimme to go to the den- tist!" And he seated himself on a box marked ‘10x12 Lights" and bared the tooth for the sacrifice, “I'm bossing the job, gimme the | dollar!” said Master Slavinsky, “Naw, don't let him have it! keep it!” little boys, Here a wrangle burst forth in all the ferocity of boyhood's playful clamor, And the voice of Mrs. Sla- vinsky was heard declaring that if He'li chorused the other dear perhaps an occasional reminder by) they didn’t shut up she'd come down the parent that the story is a fairy tale, there is no more harm in letting | the child enjoy his imzges than in letting two boys play that chairs are Master Jarr, Charley Muller and| is he and every normal child 8, such way as this. A little girl six y: asked ars old one bound to use his imagination in some | with the whip to them, It was finally decided, in repressed recrimination, that Johnny Rangle, Master Slavinsky should each hold a corner of the dollar bill, originally | intended to compensate the neighbor- \nep mother in my presence whether extraction, which was now being op- man, It is the great saver as|tmade in regard to fairy tales. To well as the great sweetener of life, Itis! tell a child a fairy tale as if it were because of imagination that a manja true story of events which actually| there was ‘Atter the proper introduction and (Copyright |This was any Santa Claus. know exactly what to say. § there is a Santa Claus, Didn't he put eandy absolutely wrong. Her mother showed plainly she did not} e hesi- tated and then said, “Why, of course tooth with the pliers, in your stocking last week?" ‘ing dental surgeon for the proposed | erated under an ur rules, Gussie Bepler, being the strongest, was delegated to pull Master Jarr's He offered to do it with one hand and hold the up- | per middle of the dollar between the The | finger and thumb of the other hand. question was asked in a confidential! ‘This proposition was received with way and the mother’s answer was 4! much contempt, it being apparent that falsehood, don't we?" If this methoa had beer used, the Httle girl's faith in her) yun get hit @ kick mother would have incraased and she | would have had just as much fun| about Santa Claus in the future as if! she had never been in doubt about his realit When the giri is told by Master Bepler, although the strongest of the party and the largest, was r | garded as a big booby, and, after do- ing all the work, might consider him- self lucky if he shared ever so slightly “Aw, gwan and pull de toot'!” cried Master Slavinsky in a domineering tone to the overgrown and sapheaded ust thing yuh know important, perhaps, from the parents'| ure which children get out of fairy|ner schoolmates and others a little point of view, children love them and| tales and “air-castles” which they |jater that Santa Claus is a myth, the we long to give them what they love.|do not get from actual history./child will naturally tend to lose But parents object to fairy | There are very few adulls who enjoy) faith in her mother, tales, For example, one father writes | fairy tales, but practically all chil-| ‘The mother should have smiled and | in the spoils, to me; dren do. As already suggested, the | said, “No, daughter, there is no Bane] “Don't you think that true stories | harm which comes in connection with| ta Claus, but we all have lots of fun that are not overdrawn or at least | fairy tales is due not to the fact that| paying there is at Christmas time, n| Bepler boy. | “Aw, whatcher let Gussie Bepler In de gang at all fer?” asked Master Rangle, “I b'long to the gang. Don't I lick 18, ‘The Perewte’ Association, Ine) the fellors of the Av'noo crowd for is the pincers what my father uses | By Roy L. McCardell yuh?" expostulated Master Bepler im a pleading tone. “Aw, shut up!" chorused the rest, and Master Jarr was heard to say If the tooth wasn't extracted right away he'd go to the dentist with the dollar. “Stop!” cried Master Rangle, “some- pin should be put on it to kill the pain This was a poser and it halted the proceedings. “I know,” said Master Muller, “rub’ kerosene on it. Old Mrs. Dusenberry put kerosene on red flannel and wrapped it around my throat when it was sore, an’ old Mrs, Dusenberry je a doctor lady.” Master Slavinsky found some kero- sene in a can under the work bench and promptly rubbed it on Master Jarr’s aching molar. “Ow!" bawled Master Jarr. Ow! How {t burns!"* “But ain't {t killin’ the pain? asked Master Slavinsky. “Say, I ought to git half the dollar jest for that” “No, me!" cried Master Muller, “I told yer about it!” “Gwan! Pull de toot’! said Masa ter Rangle sharply. It wasn't his tooth, and the delay began to pall upon him. Master Jarr opened his mouth wide. Master Bepler grasped a tooth with the pliers, closed his eyes and yanked. |Out came the tooth, and back went |Master Jarr off the box of “10x13 Lights” and down went Master Bep- ler on top of Master Slavinsky, in the other direction “Now, just for that you don't get nawthin’ from the dollar!” declared | Master vinsky, appointing him~ |self master of the revels. “Let's see |de toot’! Gee, it's a big one!™ For one brief moment they crowds ed around and admired the extracted grinder, Then, frowning upon Master Slaw Insky'’s suggestion that the open space it had left should be plugged with putty, they departed, whooping, to search for a military store to eee if a second-hand machine gun eould be purchased for the dollar pow in their local military company’s war chest, through the personal saertfice and suffering of Gen, Willie Jarr, AN OLD TRADE. 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