The evening world. Newspaper, April 14, 1919, Page 20

| EDITORIAL PAGE | mUnSEY ol AHL 14, 1919 ESTALISHED BY JOSEPIt PULITZER, Published Dally Lxcept Sunday by the Ee os Do tid Company, Nos. 63 Park Row, New York. RAL rouirene, Presid at, 63 Park Row. 1 Treasurer, 63 Bark Row, jJisuin ccretary, 63 Park Row. ~ MAMIER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRIS, ; jated {a exclusively entitied to the ication of all newe dewpatchew eater oer not otterntee vrelitsd in is taper and i ‘news publistid herein VOLUME NO. 21,0 WHO HAS THE VISION? | HE housing and rent problem has overtaken this city with a vengeance—just as The Evening World a year ago predicted it would unless civic for id initiative were brought to bear upon the situation. War put a check upon new building operations. War suddenly inereased profits and wages in certain industries. War made New York a more than ever attractive place for people making or earning more money than they ever made or earned before. War produced examples of profitecring which landlords in this crowded city quick to follow. War raised the cost of labor and materials, thereby | furnishing plausible excuse for boostin, were g rents, But there was nothing to limit the extent to which the landlord might boost the rent over and above the actual increase in his expenses. No authority interposed to pre vet tenants from the rapacity of landlords and realty speculators who chose to take bolder and bolder advantage of conditions which favored them. al The results of all this the city is painfully aware of now. Tenants are being dispossessed without merey by landlords daz- | zled by the high rents they think they can get. In the Bronx one rental was juinped from $18 to $50 in the period of a few months. People are asking to live in churches and tents. Judge® are complain- ! ing of the powerlessness of the courts to aid tenants under the law. | Tegislators are proposing hasty, eleventh-hour measures of relief, ii Where is the vision that will grasp the actual nature of the] ¢, problem and attack it with a purpose Jarge enough to help solve it? | D4 Who will convince New York that the providing of adequate ; ite housing at reasonable rents is a matter of public concern to which the city should bring the best thought and expert knowledge it can| command ? It is to be hoped at last awaken hat its present housing and rent troubles may w York to the fact that older cities of the world have not only passed through similar experiences but have profited by them and now have something substantial to teach about remedying their causes, Landlords, speculative enterpris and the law of supply and jemand are NOT recognized everywhere as the sole factors that must de velied upon to provide homes and fix rents in civilized com- munities, babs they were so recognized, England would not have more than 7,000,000 pounds of public money invested in housing. ‘The vern- | | know, when you go to megs pf France would not have made available 100,000,000 francs for Th e a a r r Fan m l l y By Roy L. McCardell | H Ow t O cy e@ a B (Z t t er if S a 7 e s ru a n Wild Husbands I Have Met } By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1019, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) 7 No. 5—The Firebug Life With Him Is as Thrilling and Uncertain as Life in Petrograd OMEHOW S I have never been able to imagine any woman being happy with a) husband who never smokes, You see, f A man, like a baby, is always putting SOMETHING in his mouth, And, if it isn't a cigar, or a cigarette, or a pipe well \ If he isn't SMOKTNG, or eating, or drinking, hew swearing, or whistling, or kissing, or making love, or | grouching, or bragging, or criticising, or fibbing, or orating, or instructing—-oh, yes, you HAVE noticed itt And yet, most men who smoke are more equable and less voluble than women, q A pipe or a cigar is a “pacifier” which keeps him een Nowiane out of mischief and enables him to work off his st} perfluous energy and to send his grouches up in smoke—bless its gentle beart! Therefore, to My Lady Nicotine, let us kneel and bring trnt offerings® BUT— It is one thing to be married to a normal smoker And quite another to put your fate in the hands of a FIREBUG! He may be tender as the flowers in May and chivalrous as Sir Walter life with him is as perilous, as exciting and as uncertain as life tm Petrograd! You are continually teetering on the brink of Fternit; night, whether you wi ven! an old curiosity shop or the Argonne Forest \fter the marines went through it. Rugs are turned this way and that to “hide the burned places,” Curtains are pinned in queer folds to conceal little round black holes, rap-baskets are camouflaged with ribbons on their charred sides. The marble ledge around the bathroom is covered wit) strange browm spots and you never wake up In New York-—or in He Your house resemb Which mark the graves of defunct cigaretter, 37:9 Yetlo Ives burn: out unnoticed while you slept serenely a And HES | rs of the roor the vases, the fern dishes, the window boxen, Na stand, bathtub, the umbi ALL bear w You cannot ¢ ness to the secret work of the Fireby ract a pin from a pin tray without wuy to China through the ashes, Vesuvius is clean and dainty beside your little Home In all that remains undefiled, unt right, smiling, whole and guiltless of ashes, Is the ASH RECEIVER! He will nonchalantly fling live matches into the waste paper basket. Ife will blithely toss lighted cigars on the awnings of the apartment h you | will leaye a hot pipe on a piece of priceless mahogany He will thoughtlessly press mst your t »8 you to his bosom rowing half» house, the only thin, shed, owing cigar ck hair is he cla But he would as soon think of desecrating his grandmother's grave As of dropping his stubs and ashes into an ASIP RECEIV And yet—life with the Firebug is never dull 1 is as piquant and thrilling and exciting a As life with a Bolshevist with-a-bomb-and-a-grievance! And SO uncertain! 1 t the same purpose. ‘The General Savings Bank of Belgium would not git onlay ded Hoong tomeary gh actild tee cusesion my malt” rejoined Mrs a a E a Bi g ig r y | have advanced, up to 1913, 159,000,000 francs to build work Ball Mrs. Jarr Speaks by the Card in the Matter Jarr with some asperity. “I do not n ig n l ée if a } » , 159,000, s to b vorkmen’s ° get letters or post cards from per- | ter aren | tomer P to anoth 5 — { > another depart t dwellings. The German Government of before the w war would not m har femlle. a ad Abeent Pvanis oa ey tha ee I must pretend ignorance o | By Ro sf Griffit h | t, some ¢ sales person would P the family breakfast ta ome? Here, or the Retreat for the | nor do T receive communications out- | 5 1 a cus to . | have spent some $200,000,000 on systematic housing work. Mrs, Jarr, with the morning] leeble Minded?” asked Mr, Jarr. [ide of my home that 1 have to de- The Evening World's Authority on Successful Salesmanship. | ment ‘ TOUR ta ‘ H Up to May 31, 1915, the 1, ar) 4 dere y| paper under her arm so Mr. It's obvious," was the Delphic re- | stroy, 1¢ 1 did, you'd——" ,, Comsriaht, 1919, by the Press Mr Oluhing Co, (The New York Evening ’ ; | ie ae ( { P 915, the London County Council had invested | Nave qilpiit not ini dla cates ee ucla linly [iN y saulanilitretartoarate gars Mr. Grifjsth’s Salesmanship Column is published daily. Heatruere | ahs a inal_proposition upward of 2,000,000 pounds in housing for workers. This money |4t breakfast while reading it, was jee whiz! There you go!” cried angrily, “I'd know you couldn't pre-| @fticles like to-day's alternate with an answer to questions column. He | ou ue x us °. sks you, ( I care} y co + throu! e morn- r 7 >: P| P, i ¥ % r o ee ni f this news- here nd so-and-so?” jn. built 6,420 i q : : _ [earefully combing through the morn-|Mr. Jarr in an exasperated tone,|yent peregrinating {diota from send.| Will be glad to answer questions addressed to him care o oe Ang n peng fe cara and 3,402 cottages. Not a Penny of it was| ing mail to seo if there way anytl throwing his napkin down in a bru-| ing you their mysterious pestiferous| paper, and only correspondents’ initials will be used. | fas ie Saal, morely with the e ut thanks to its investment in this form some 57,000 persons | for Mr. Jarr that was suspicious ial manner, “How can [ help getting | picture post tard : é ee , | floor and general location, you might metho ie vate en ine S100) PervOns regarded a ost enrd very. closely. | picture pontal cans trom pernicious|” st dome kites ea one who woua |2ecreasing Sales at Retail.|simoiy wns: 1¢ y u have 100 custom |say something like this: “On the ive in clean, attractive dwellings at reasonable rents, | “Here's a picture post card for you,"| places? How can anybody help it? | dare send me cards in such a familiar | MPLOY| of salespeople in Maes SWEET Wat CAREC | A Hebi side, Just Suppose the City of New York could point to som thing like | She sald. “Everybody is getting them, — At/ way!" said Mrs. Jarr. j all lines have given much has been $1. ‘Thin holds true, aa tail iene bad that. Mr. Jare knew better than to reach | least we did before the war—and now Dh, you don’t, don't you!" replied thought and study to the prods ee ee eee ee how email i Q for it. cr again as one of the( Mr, Jarr, taking the card and ex- of properly rewarding selling] ine ou walew have been esy and, at ine aan SS Woxldn’t is be as well wo oas a skya ‘ “Iva a picture of the Retreat for] first hor of peace!” cried Mr. amining it. “Weil, if you would have | effort. Commission and bonus plans oe big ayaa eer a h boasting about as skyscrapers or y , i ho th ; 1 Now e you wait on fifty cus doing a good turn to your . Feeble Minded, Mill Mountain, Minn, | !arr » never know who they | looked close you would have seen it's | have been worked out, regular sched- | Ne ou wait ty cus c $50,000-a-year “flats-de-luxe” ? Where's Minn. Who's Minn. asked [come nat Wappingers | addre “The laws of supply and demand are not adequate in house build-| MP Jarr. "The writing on it says,|Malls: This is the life, D. 1 ‘Sane | at . ra ou ough: to be here! Who's that /dow, Near Sandusky Springs: You'd “Oh, its from Cora Hickett. She's | been done and is being done to reward ing either to erect a sufficient number of houses or to keep rents | trom?" love this pla B ‘Picturesque | out there visiting & rich feeble minded | ‘he sales person fairly in proportion down to a reasonable figure,” declares Dr. Frederic C. Howe in his} “!’m sure! Pittsburgh y vs on oe ways | syne sweat does she say? ‘You]to. the amount of sales, E Bh i an arry. ersailles, | ought to bes he! book “The Modern City and Its Problems.” a Sed : The City of New York has made a fetich of priv sed to ‘Mrs, Edward Jarr,’ not | ules of sal ave cpa -everything possible inereases Jon't know. Let me see t know the writing,” said] Let us have peace, W. W.'| sweet of Cora to think of me when|in which promotions and salary. in- Whirlpool, Niagara: Drop in| she's having such a good time, isn't | creases ure handled in ww ny larg | Now that's real] ‘This may be illustrated by the way ‘9 in a woman's handwriting. ate speculative enterprise in the realty field. [SBA SARE ed Ane: Sian 9 ta vNe ET Neate gine ania MER Lo eee dis eas deta a gee oe When speculative enterprise produces stupendous office buildings| “What woman would I know who Ree isa ey san pou ot" ae PM RSET Nd as (eet Eee sa eae enna or vast hotels the city gapes in wonder and pride, Mee rae ties atr ns meron ata “They came to the office, or cards M retary of the Hairdresser's >a Bee BER: ‘ ee ee | When speculative enterprise results in cheaply constructed apart-| “That's the place she'd be to write aN pila ets a a Union, Is responsible for the | matter which consecutive six months following: reall your} During the recent strike (he says) ‘aid I will|/a man came into our Archer Street the eity “Ah, it's a Joh "ventured Mr, Jarr. sniffed Mrs, J éstablishment to be sha 1, and, be- “You must be on ¥ familiar yh, come now,” Mr, Jarr expostu- |ing presumably somewhat wear 5 4 terms with whoever it is if she jokes | lated, “You shouldn't talk that way, | fell asleep soon after tuking his seat The realty speculator must, under no circumstances, be disturbed | with you, at your own ene I don’t question your mail, where eeuilin the chair, or discouraged, toc torted Mrs r severely get it, or who it's from,’ For some minutes the barber made What do you mean, my own! "You are perfectly welcome to | valiant attempts to proceed, but fin- rent ally he paused, and gently shook his in the hope that it m serious problem, it is urged from some quarters that the only wy ay out | Women vm ee as Wa Workers Super, ere ee eat | Oe ae ee is to let rents go as 0 would you mind coming out of your | make more money. 8 as high as they will and thereby te mpt the realty NGLISIL women e definite-) war has shown that “in light, semi-| trance for a while; I find it impos First of ‘ou should get it firmly } speculators to build! ly won a place for themselves! skilled work her value is frequently |Site to shave you while you are at oC all you Ic sleep fixed in your mind t : - in industry as a result of their] equal, ¢ ere operatio: asleep i ) The kind of enterprise New York wants in the oS eau Shale | eau and where operations call! "impossible to shave me while T|merchant—a retailer e really field will! showing during the war, according | for fineness of touch and deftness of am aslecp!” responded the ¢ pa exlonl to which wonts (10 report issued by the Home| handing, women are preferable to| Wonderingly, “Why 1s it impossivie?” | Problems f } O WHICH TODS | Hera aenit “Because,” explained the barber as ly the me ma: ve Taised, “ 80) a possible, “whe: a chandising y | ‘They made in @ majority| In trades in which they were en. | Softly 8 possible, when you fall | chandising into slumber your mouth opens Svan an ee of the industries in which they sub sed in repetition work by machin- | wide that I ot find your face i stituted for the men, ys } aployers found the women took | Pearson's W ts of modest,) worms So, advancement of Jon the volume of s' period, you pick ow »eople is bas to you,’ sald Mrs | Just the san office, That's wh mall goes that you are afi rr neldly 8 very cheeky But " ment houses, rundown and overcrowded tenements or a rent-raising campaign that turns hundreds of families into the takes it for granted that such things must be since tr jes during a six months’ Since volume of s is the basis for determining increases in salary, they are, it is vital that retail study ways and means of increasin their To-day's article 1 to tl retail sales pe ales persons daily sale Even at the present moment on | help him or | and thereby | » When exorbitant rents are a most in nL you are a he merchant's your problems, 1 t vital pi m in mer- | that of increasing the »b: never be killed by imposing just limits upon the Nor will it be killed by competition in the shape of a pu ) What is meant by “average sale’? housing plan whereby the city furnishes new - stunda n must hereafter be consid. | ore Kindly to the work than men. well-built dwellings for workers at reasonable rent, ered u permanent factor In the Kng-| Many shops actually effected an ine ee [ian tnbor situation reased output axa rewult of tbe] = AN rere That Broadway Loves at this pro-| tpaustries in which women had the | Yvstitution of women, 1 hae first machine for manufac-|of 1,600 competitors for the priz»,{out complete dul hatisfactority POWERFUL CANADIAN ELECTRIC |! Nas born in Delaware, O., thirty jot Proident McKinley at the White turing postage stanps was the] which was awanted him for hin a many of the more skilled processes WATER PLANT, yearn ago, for ancestors were | House, and the martyred President {pvention of James Bogardus,| vice. Before that he had invented | hitherto rescrved for mon One of the new Canadian hydro. | Lusileh. Bootch-irish and German. | was so impressed with her ability as Who was born at Catskill, N. ¥,, 19/ New kind of clock, a “ring-flier™ tot | ‘The Home moe Pita. eu at {electric plants at Niagara Walla wiy | She had attained the age of three|a mimic that he suggested a vaude- Years ago. When the British Govern-| °°tton spinning, ais vocentric mill tne Horne. Deion pala SUE UA ee ine comer fom Gui iting | Ben she began to startle the neigh-| ville career for her, This advice was ment advertised for a postage stamp | Wateh dal, ad's machine Tob RR Re eta ee le some 805 feet of the 800 fect difference bee |SOpS With her clever imitations, | followed, and when she was claven was one! ing bank notes, © for print. | y Fucen, the levels of Lake Ontario and wich were not always appreciated.|Miss Janis made her bow to Brofa- of the heavier manual trades, the|J.ake Later, while living in Colymbus,,| way, which has loved her ever since. | custome | But it DO tomers a day for six months. That is | Miss ——-. When she directa 156 working days, In the six months “My ene to your department, she will you have waited on 7,800 customers, “8k the customer to see you pers ‘) sonally, Suppose you ’ 50 h one of these its’ worth of addi- Any business organization is a mus tional merchandise, You would in- | tual benefit socic You desire to » your business by $3,900 In the| Make money, So does your em. six months, or $7,800 for the year. |Ployer. So docs your neighbor in the | » in your particular depart- jnext © If employees would just \ 1d been figured it would be |#*t the spirit of helping each other possible to pay you @ salary based |! Make sales, everybody would ben. | on 4 per of your sales, If you | *fit sold each customer 50 cents’ worth| Your store ts not getting of additional merchandise, you would | Near the amount of business it mig be entitled to an extra $312 for the | get If every employee thought of mer. | year, or $20 a month increase, Is that|chandise in groups, suggested the | clear? of other items to every cus. tomer, and co-operated with ovher for muty are not mak anywhere | ndise falls naturally into As a working rule, it may ud that no single article of mer uch as you might if yc ; chandise stands aione by itself. 1 ‘ - you gave lous . nought to matter of incre sale of a shirt suggests the pos Laat nereasing sule of collars and ties, and vice ~~ versa, Shoe polish, shoe stringy, &e., ce ao Neem ee) eh Twenty Me tarug. Ke ofa rus. Hvervitiog vo) Capntureda Hundred those articles | EN. JOHN BROWN KERR 0 with" euch Who was born j 7 Ordinar of merchandise wh Kentucky other ar 1 in t me depart seventy-two <n ment in a store. Ocea lly they | the hero of what th. Gen, Mia are not. Learn to think of merchan- | de¢lired to be the m daring ex. dise in group Find those things | Piolt in the history of Indian “war. which “go with’ cach other, Then, | fre. In 1841 Ker head of a when a customer buys some one arti. | Prive band of twenty men, found cle, suggest the purch of the other ; himself surrounded by more than 109 South Dakota Sioux Indians, Outs thing 3 As tal » see Jame: el, the 7 : hatisae Ea peal lines ed five to one pe pitious time to start New York on a progre ssive hou ° Pachea taniiite ca anhanaa, loth. | The report mentions that in certain L8Sm JANIS Hi Bow] , | she was taken to see Jiunes O'Niel, th Suppose tho: things which go] MUM vit ; Me, Kerr and hig j saratoga aati i \ousing programme ? | ™ oOnsp she WOEP PIONS |i a dee ihe women hive en a known to stage fame as Elsie actor, and was so impressed that! win merchandise you sell ar hen fousht so valiantly and handle? - a ing and boot and shoe manufactures, BrTeaMincusceagalys crlacan pesidel| Janis, and who only recently|he offered her a place in his com-|goid in some other department, You | te! S With such effect that many lines in which they had already been PPO") returned from France, where stie|pany, In 1899, when she was ten| might “It wouldn't do MB any|°! the braves were kitted and the ne Manufacture of P. lemployed to a limited extent, Hdre| ‘U0! of the mea, \ i any | ane braves he re fe) Bia tamps byes Heh eptiweer tare iri wena re an lpia Played to the soldiers almost under | years old, Miss Janis was the guest good to su: them to a customor,”| Minder surrendered 3 do you good, every single employee in a TUBERCULOSIS INFECTIOUS, it a rule to suggest the purchase of} After long inve other merchandise to customers and| ecient told them exactly in which depurt-| iosis can bo transmitte c db: ment to find the articles suggested,| spiration of a person Mrtfen cin Woudn't you get your share of the| the with disease s increased business? Wor every cus-! through the ‘pores, the germs watieg gation a F h declared that tuberey.