The evening world. Newspaper, April 28, 1919, Page 18

: ' MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1919 The Problems of Reconstruction, Housing and Employment of Labor Right Here in New York City A By Frederick Lawrence RIVATE building operations are at a standstill in Greater New Yor! end up-State, The cost of building matertals is too high to warrant immctin Seam=ption of activity in that ficld. whe cosy, Of lador is very high, and dsturded conditions exist in the Gageniced building trades. Paere has been a steady although gradwal decline in volume of manu » \ Saering output among the industries, Roattroad extensions, hetterments, and new construction have come to a fall stop. a Btate, cownty and city building plans have been postponed, and highway @eastraction delayed ‘These points are emphasized as contributory to the prevailing bu faees instability in New York State by the State Reconstruction Com- @ilesion in its report to Governor Smith, Remedies suggested by the Commission are: Provide auficient occan tonnage for the importation of materials and a@geipment essential to the manufacturing industries; Btadiliee prices of materials and cost of labor; Begin immediately highway improvements and public building opera- Pane already authorized by law; Proceed immediately with railroad improvement and maintenance work ; Hasten a return to conditions that will justify the banks in removing | Me difficuttics now existing in obtaining credits on mortgages. A close analysis of the report of the | —_—_ eemmission, which is based on a four | Commission reports gtarAatill, and business in general re-| Remedies for the building stagna- fects uncertainty and lack of confi-| tion are recommended by the Com. dance, There is doubt as to the effect | misnton the Treaty of Peace will have on “Tt seems dear,” the report reads, world trade, especially in the export | "that what Ix needed to promote a fel, and as to the changes that will | speedy resumption of normal building gesalt from the Federal Government's | and construction activities is elther evelution from a war to a peace basis.| the stabilization of present prices of ‘Wate the future can be foreseen with| materials by the Federal Government more clarity there wil! be reluctance | or such stimulation of competition as m the part of the consumer an the| will break up the present market manufacturer to buy in excess of im-| which reflects past rather than cur- Mediate needa, because of their antic-| rent conditions and produce a read- dpation of @ possible decline in prices. | justment of material price levels. Of 1,650 manufacturing plants em-| “Could the Railroad Administration Bloying 575,000 persons, or more thun| Proceed immediately ~ith needed im- @me-third of the State's factory work- | provement and maintenance work, the qm it is reported that the decline in| beneficial effect upon the entire bust- fhe total number of persons em-| ess situation would be great, Price ployed, as against the previous month, | levels for basic materials and labor wes 9 per cent. in December, 1918; 6} would soon be established, which pereent. in January, 1919; 1 per cent.| furnish @ basis of calculation for all fm February, 1 per cent. in March—a private and public building and con- fetal decline from November to March | *truction operations; and the stima- \, @€ 8 percent. These figures take no | lating effect of the actual purchases qccount of the elimination of over-| ade and the employment directly time or a retum to part time, Also | Pened up would be felt throughout the figures have reference solely to | the Industrial organization.” feetory workers. In the State, countiea, cities and The stoppage of private building {Federal Government prograinmes of qperations during the war has caused |/™Provements in New York State @ @hortage of building accommoda- work to the amount of $193,343,206 tens, and the removal of war time |as8 been legislated, of which sum ts hag caused no large scate | $15,063,094 has been appropriated and jon of activity in this field.|!* available, ‘This includes $4,000,000 Fhe seriousnens of the lack of hous- | for Hast River improvements, $200,000 fg accommodations caused by the} for New York Harbor, and $500,000 for @eeline in new building operations is |Mver and harbor improvéments up- Gedicated by the fact that in 1916, the State, The commission deems tt high- year before the United States entered |!¥ desirable that this work should be- Geo war, the official estimated cost of | FM Immediately, not alone because tt pew buildings in all boroughs of /Would stabilize material prices but Greater New York was $191,071,024, | #180 because it would provide employ- eo against $24,696,544 in, 1918, For |ment for many thousands of men, Yanoary, February and Mareh, 1919, 2 x plane have deen fled for new building | Foreign Lands Ask Aid construction at a cost estimated to be $16,659,718, which ratio, if continu @uring the balance of the year, would | Pa LoOOp-STRICKEN China wants Gmeent to only $58,638,872, or $182,- seeds from the United Stags, 432,182 below the pre-war year. for an active policy of reforest®- Bven these figures, discouraging 88) tion has beon started, With this in they are, probably do not reveal the | view, it is anxious to start a system real extent of the building stagnation, | (6 seoq exchange with the United because while plans have been Mod | crates, Request for co-operation has @uring the first three months of 1919 1.0 received by the American For- for $14,659,718 worth of new bullding®, | oo11y, Aynociation from Forsythe She # te not Ukely that construction has | /o.6, Adviser in Forestry of the Min- actually begun on them owing to (he | sry of Agriculture and Commerce, ame gem 6¢ materiale and jabor, The Peking. This work is to be inaugu- aeeney werenced, com, of peers rated along the line of the Peking- a,” petted ETI a Hankow Railway New York City, per pound, 1916, $.0818; 1919, $.0272. . Brick, Hudson River common, tide- water New York City, per 1,000, 1916, $9; 1919, $15. Cement, Portland domestic, 800 bar. rel lots alongside, per barre}, 1916, $1.65; 1919, $3.80. Lime, Kastern comm Darrels, 1916, $1.58; 19 Crushed stone, 1')-inch, 09 cubl ae ves ene par oublo yard No finer memoria ean be ere: Mame, 660 cublo yard lots alongside, |sopo ee pee Doople,” be maid per cubic yard, 1916, $.55; 1919, $1.2 for those which are needed there, Plans for the help which ts to be Italy by the American Forestry Asso: n, 200-pound | areas, are now under way. Se ly or partly manufac Mlevator constructors, 1916, 1919, $6.80, In 1914, the last nor Crear Netther do the months’ study of conditions, leads to| wage figures take into consideration these conclusions: |the high rates, overtime and piece Many kinds of business are at a| work pald on war construction work.” 1| to Restore Their Forests P, & Ridsdale, Secretary of the American Forestry Association, has been notified by Sherfesee of the kinds of seed China has to exchange rendered to France, Belgium and \ ciation in reforesting their devastated tary has recently returned from a An large tracts of forest in Europe the place of those which finity baths. indicated by these figures of the daily | Par Inquirie nd offers of co- wage in the different trades: | operation are coming in from all over Bricklayers, 1916, $0; 1919, $7 te country, About one and one-hait| ine, Carpenters, 1916, $5; 1919 nillion acres of forest in France have { Plumbers, b troyed by shell fire or used | rae Bteamfitters, 5 ; y DitHORAR, ANd prectl: <i erty is th Plasterers, 191 nber value were cut down by the _ Painters, 19 1919, nuns. Fully 450,000 acres of Great Tinsmiths, 1916, 1919, $5.60. had? of hor tcial ‘Baby’ Pilesetters, 1916, $5.50; 1919, § aie Cement masons, 1916, $5; 19) Wa wore | Metallic lathers, 1915, $5.59; | INCREASE IN EXPORTS. | From Acro Btructura! iron workers, s per cent. of the more ULLY 1919, $7. 1 ars’ worth ol picture Waterproof workers, 1916, the fiscal year} ® 1919, $5. | 1] feature During the 4 he war, fifty-nine per! more > “A reduction of wages in the near jcent. of our exports was manufac. [4% fmture |s not to be expected,” the tured goods. et * ” V. Y. Hotel With Cut Rates for Homeless! Peooms 25 Cents—No Tips—Free Entertainment— !t Will Lend You Money or Get You a Job “°T YOU HAVE TO BE IN UNIFORM TO BE A GUEST) ABE PRUCE RAINBOW GuesTS “ANDREW PARSONS By Will B. Johnstone S Eo Roy Smiry, HI8 story ts lize flat-less New Yorkers, hotel leas visitors or house-less com- who inhabit these environs, Knickerbocker capacity” in this overloaded cit as every house hunter knows, and you have to hock your gold fillings in order to get accommodations that are most unaccommodating. ‘Therefore it should be soothlag to some citizens who has had to engage in the park to he about a hotel that the New York War Camp Community Service conducts at 27th Street for enlisted men. The hotel was formerly “The a sizable hostelry apper- taining to the estate from which “Af- sensational farne, financed his affinities, If you are still homeless you might outfit the family khaki and apply for shelter. getting a room for 25 cents a night. You don't have to pay $8 for a room that you don't get. You don't have to pay 40¢. a cup for coffee “with cream.” You can snooze with your feet ov the lobby couches all afternoon for nothing. You don't have to pay for billiards or pool. M You don’t have to page a dellhop| If a guest is looking for a Job, all want him, or tip ransom to get rid of him when you don't want him, You don't have to flag an elevator with a roll of Jack before it will stop. You don’t have to pay for shower not written to tanta TRANSIENT muters, Father you counsel, advice and in particular of the guests yesterday. first time I ever he service, the exposure, the wld take this hote lobby and was not as- fi a suite of bench want to, and you're not distinguished Fort Slocum, cians and Sol Fred gy¥p some pals at n the towels." ved by a barber if you desire, and you DO NOT TO TIP HIM for trrita grown hairs You do not have io pay the price of pair of shoes to se Schmidt, society dan tainment is free. You can read all the best sellers of 1826, if you can find all the reading room ed in dissust He was intre who directed No. 65 West duced to Mr, Karleton, listen to a jazz orchestra. band jazz is Jj to or- with /It is the women like ourselves who| ¥man must choose between having hotel has been running | have been the idlers—w | increasing ow, I'll tell the The Magic White Veil For the Spring Bride \°°.°"...0.%~ . ——| “The rich women—many of them You can write letters on a banquet table from Castle Gould that groaned feasts served company that watered the Erie in the With all these advantages there 1s that no other jhotel in town feature when you » do is to apply to Man- ager Henry TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM By Herman J. Stich The Easy Chair ULL PURSES never lack friends, and there'll be plenty of flies, You'll miss the fruit if you piuck the Hower. SAVE OR SU Any muttonhead can squander income on “outgo.” backbone to order your umbrella for the inevitable black sky the sky's blue, Money, like grain, grows by sowing. Those half-crazy alchemists, bent upon transmuting the bascr metals into gold, were on the wrong track, There is no alchemy like thrift. Old bees yield little hon: you won't spend when you're old of water when the well’s run dry hay while the sun shines love to store much of the stuff, Life is inexorable in {ts compensations, forty and youth sire Daub yourself with syrup Empty purses fill Pandora's boxes. F If you don't spare when you’ It's too late but it's the work of wisdom ar Mit the high spots before you'll grovel on a low level after fifty. Spendthrift, reckless @ poor sort if you fail to s if you refuse to fit and fortify wintry blasts of sixty, driblets that will keep you comfortably dry when it's pouring without it isn't half as inconvenient as peddli yourself and yours against the bleal pencils or lengthening a bread takes beartless toll on extravagant youth it of neglect or thoughtlessness, Pathetic pov- { Prudence and common sense tax heyday plenty to sustain latter day need. Every consideration of faith, self-pre ervation and duty urges you to “plant your plunks s Victory Note They're the easy chair of old age the Water. n mad THE BECOMING STYLE PICTURED ABOVE THE RUFF FITS x ca LY | LY TO THE BACK OF THE HEAD AND THE VEIL FLOAMS, the value of x, or the monkéy’s age,! bined with some other AND LIGHT, TO THE LEFT, roz cord-breaking ooid' has increased more than 48 per con MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1919 “Waster Wife’ of 1917 — Now Worker of 1919, Awake to Her Real Job “And She Will Never Go Back to’ Former Orna- | mental Boredom,” Declares Grace Sartwell Mason, Author of “His Wife's Job’’—-‘‘Man- | | aging a Job and a Home Is Merely a Matter of Skillful Adjustment -The Job of Being a Wife and Mother Is a Rather Soggy Thing If It Is Not Combined With Some Other Interest.”” | By Marguerite Mooers Marshall i Copyright, 1919, by the I Publishing Co, (The New York Ki 1 World.) Biv the war perhaps the commonest thing in New York was tne Waster Wife—the woman without children, or a job, or even the | responsibilities of great wealth and sociai position, the woman who meen the sidewalks of Fifth Avenue and who made the teadances | go ‘round, the pretty, charming but altogether useless wife who wasted money and who wasted time. “All over the country writes ace Sartwell Mason, in her new, true and brilliant novel, “ilies Wife's Jo! here were hundreds, yes thousands, like her, wives of high-salaried young men, who were neither of the overworked laboring class nor of the equally overworked moneyed world. They were born and spent all their days in the temperate zone of humin [ < 7 ‘gmmae endeavor, They went from a father's providing hand : mavens to a husband's protection. And all good things they took for granted. “In return for the beneficence of their circumstances they told a com Petent cook what to have for dinner; Ki =a = did a bit of darning; telephoned a| man's support in only two instances woman friend or two; reminded the |—If she is taking care of a number janitor that the steam heat was not|of children or if she is engaged im having as it should; lunched; slept ne non-wae-paying but con- half an hour; made a careful toilet, | structive social activity. and then, groomed sleexly, went| “During the war many a married forth to a matinee, or a tea-room, or | Woman has been thrown partially or to have their nails done, or to play| Wholly on her own resources, and bridge, or to listen politely to a|has found that without help she We have had nothing but the Baroness raising money for the Rus-|could not even obey Nature's first of stables on the sian ambulance, or to a thinly clad | law of self-preservation, so little did » with hot and cold running | person wailing East Indian love|she know about earning a@ living. |sones for Serbian Relief. She has had to learn, and it has beem a gob from the Utah, “They got home in time for dinner,|4 Most beneficial thing, in my opin- “The fleet! smiled brightly at husband, inquired|!on. I think that women have hurt , “wish We amiably if he had had a good day—|themselves by thetr unproductive- n along.| going on before he could answer to/ nes®. We are coming to measure French tastr talk about something else: and in a4 @verything nowadays by a money evening took him to the Bridge Crab,{ Standard. The woman who acquirce or to somebody's Little Dancing Ciub,|®" economic value raises herself by or to a Symphony Concert, which|JUSt so much in the genefit estima- | bored him sadly.” ton.” This} Mrs. Mason's heroine, Anne, puts| Then T spoke to Mrs. Mason of on you don't have to| the case against herself and her kind| "teresting discussion I had te We bring |even more forcibly, when—after her| ther day with Rose Wilder Lane, our own jazz in our own horns, and|own reform—ghe declares to another|% Slever young novelist. In her re- WHanroauleae coo | Waster wites centty published book, “Diverging “We tall about the idle rich, but| Reads," Miss Lane argues that a who are|4M economic value and a domertic neither poor nor rich, We waste our-| Value: that she cannot be both a ves, our time—we waste our men, | Wife and a wae-earner becawse her husband won't Nke her in the duat role, work as hard as a man, There's one| TO! I met. She owns a block of houses| “D0 yea think the modern agen and she's having them made over|®° Marrow minded? I aeked Mr: into model tenements. She's on the\ Mason. “For I don’t.” rv-| “Uthink he may have been tke that don't know how many|® few years ago,” replied the author haritable organizations, She's doing | of “His Wife's Job." “But the world something to pay for being in the has been moving quickly, and men world, And the poor women—they With it. I think the man who has dreadfully, withsohildren and been overseas, who has been up And the women on farms—| against the ste@i#st realities and has Pay, too. | been jolted out his rut will be ready “It Is we who get something for to let his wife or his wife-to-be keep nothing. We take and take—and give | on with work for which she has dem- back just as little as we can, We) onstrated her fitness, if she shows a Ret out of everything we can—work | little tact and if she can give him with our hands or our brains—chil-! some rea! reasons for her course. dren—responsibility. We sag down! “One of the obvious, practical rea« on the shoulders of Roger and Sam|sons ts the improvement in the eco. and Henry." |nomte situation of any home main- And Roger the husband, in a mo- | tained by two salartes instead of one ment of bitterness, says to this type| “As my heroine tells her husband, of waster, “I think as @ wife you've | ‘I've learned to appreciate the valus dalleh Gawa on your job, that's what|of a margin. That's one reason 1 ink.’ | want to go begu Because I agree with Roger, and | we can eae TOD naa Dee ee 28 because I suspeoted Mrs. Mason of| it 1 don't earn @ cent, but we'll be agreeing with both of us, I asked her | abie to save only a little, and you" it the Waster Wife will continue to| have to work just am hare vow ard as you dit dominate our social scene, if it 45 | pefore, It will mean that {£0 chy a |to ber that the American soldier !8 | s1ou14 come along f im smance coming back. | business for yourself oF to maken | “War,” said Mrs. Mason, earnest- | Pood Invesinedt Soro |ty, “has transformed man¥ a Waster | nai the best of iy eens be able to Wite snto a Worker With T¢bitet| yo saa go ece tes en net me bet believe she will want to go back to| baits are hefore, Zou'll \graamental boredom, 1 sengider .|D® SS round and round in ¢he woman 4s justified in accepting a| STuitFel cage Just the same as you meen n®_© | have. done singe we were married.’ 2 | y with a professio: u EVENING WORLD jnot mean a husband without « hove PUZZLES Women love a home even beiter | than men, and will make every sacri By Sam Loyd |Nce to Keep it, Managing a job and Fencing in a Puzzle ja home is merely a matter of sk tify jadjustment, and wil be p 8 the story goes, a Tex - Sd ects | man, who owns a v 1 us time goes on by new inventions tenb of land, boasted that in one jee ace valle eae, | ‘ 6 right sort of man will bo square field, which was inclosed by a 1 fifty-fifty partner fa hor | three-rail tence,| 41 sa y cpariner: ip the home, thei tua ust as his wife is his fifty-fitty part- there ‘were Ju ner outside, When the maid has many acres in the lier, and you aro tired ig feld as It took lan. im tho omce Seip Sihee th | rails to BUrfOUNA Se une aishes “weno ne and will therefore, that the Rue nd A i re He F mort of i }rails were just 12 Ou are @ wae earner you will feet long (no allowance being re leona 3 nents cur quired for lapping), and the fence). S00 oO .'! abi was three rails high, how many acres! 0) : anu ; home and would there be if there were just as ee n along to many acre 15 ere were ra ? » cit 1 |ANSWER TO A MATHEMATICAL Then Mrs M \ MONKEY, en retlea mat DL hard From the talking monkey's state- dare repeat mu fifeee nt it is cle that the three wer hie We ‘ Jof the same age. Calling the. g@ Of great di pes oar. f ae | one x, we deduce the AUBs | io 40, Be etter i ‘tion: 8-4 of x multip! 1-33 of |*" > OF m gi wife and a ism. Simple reduction proves mother, but 4sn't it—if it is mot come oe we be ls rather soggy thing?” FA na > eo