The evening world. Newspaper, June 11, 1919, Page 20

gc msomnrapentans: 5 WEDNESDAY JUNE 11, 1919 Ninety-Four “Sergt. Yorks,” AO RON A SRM VA AGA AS OR ACN Be Hacked to Pieces, a Moan or Whimper. By Zoe N the end, with his They are having flict with the Bo especially to be overhauled by good going back home to their newly-fr forever after—let us hope. So much for the bare facts. But Czecho-Slovaks are facts plus something that makes them stand forth now among the picturebque and gallant figures of the war: Russia. the fellows you used to read about, in desperate con- thousands in Siberia. And they have been sent to this country by their government to be re-limbed, and All Czecho-Slovak Heroes, Here to Be ‘‘Rebuilt” Every One Maimed, and Each One a “Story” of Personal Heroism in Battle, They Lived Up to Czecho-Slovak Tradition That, Though His Body Beckley Copyright, 1919, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), INETY-FOUR war-scarred CzechoSlovaks, becrutched and empty- sleeved, some wearing eye-patches and some with lost voices, but every one of them happy. And every one of them a Sergeant York! ‘There id scarcely a whole man among them. Yet the smallest chap of the company—that one over there on the Czech Cannot Be Made other side of the table, third from arm in a sling and his left trouser- leg pinned to his hip—is more a man than your six: foot athlete who puts the job “up to the other fellow.” their daily one o'clock dinner at two long tables in Sokal Hall on Hast 7ist Street. They | arrived in New York last Sunda: via the Pacific to} country. They are} the west coast and thence cro Isheviks, who mowed them down by American dentists. Then they are ‘eed little country to live in peace grenade back from his trench into the enemy lines whence it came. I murmured some sympathy or other, but Kirutz stopped me with a stern, “Do not pity him. He not like He On With the Dance— But Shun the Shimmy (WO) WOYe) ‘ and Curb the Clinches We've Come to “Close Ups” from the “Distance’’ Views of Our Forefathers and Now Madam Grundy Is Saying, ‘Watch Your Step’’—She Has Visited Coney Island—Will She Drop In at Broadway Next? You Jusr SHimmy DOWN WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1919 Where Can | Live? A Question All the World Is Asking. The Housing Problem in Canada Under New Housing Law, Government Will Lend to | Provinces $25,000,000 at 5 Per Cent. Interest fa » Building Houses—Provinces Will Lend It to Tow | and Cities or, Under Certain Conditions, to Build | ing Asseciations, but First Province Must P pare a Scheme for Improving Housing Conditioi Within Its Area. FIFTH ARTICLE OF A SERIGS Written Especially for The Evening World. By’ Charles Harris Whitaker Editor Journal of the American Inst itute of Architects, Copsricht, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening W ANADA is a new country, much newer than the United States, ge c erally speaking, and yet it too has fallen heir to a housing probie} It is 80 vast a place, with such an enormous area of country bol undeveloped and largely unknown, that you wonder why it is that ther should be any difficulty about having decent houses there. And yet, 1913, the Governments of?the Provinces of Ontario and Quevec had take up the question, so bad had housing conditions gréwn in the dustrial centres. These Governments agreed to guarantee the capil stock of building associations, up to 85 per cent. of its par value, pre vided ‘that the association was net operated for a commercial or specul tive profit. That is, it must agree to limit its dividends to a definite per: centage (probably 5 or 6 per cent.), which thus provided that all 1) benefits from increased land values went not to make fat dividends bud to help reduce the cost of the houses, or the rentals to the workmen why lived in them. But Canada did not stop there. She | ~ Picturesque they certainly | are, created the Commission of Conserva-| and land acquired at @ fhir valvey trom the tops of thelr worn khak! | f7¢ evn ern) be paaitgl took!” Bes tion, and while it would generally be| thus eliminating the profits of the + caps, down their medalied Russ tu- mre tty vest dei: from supposed that such a commission | Speculator; to ccntribute th the gen- 4 * nics, to the toes of the stubby boots. || lana” Soet : would occupy itself with forests, fish,|¢ral health and wellbeing of the coms © -) As for grit and gallantry, well, 1) y ooked—and trled not to show water supply, minerals and ores, and|munity by encouraging suitable town seams to be of the ort that crashes | 10 role, such natural resources, this commis- | Planning and housing schemes.” Lcarpeeeeaftiedangy (tO ye yy oA bre le Jat h to consider| Under the terms of the act enc mat jsion had the g sense to ene. ~ > and then sings aloud as the surgeons PR pr pg te cated ae re oe that human beitks are worth con-|Province must prepare a scheme for, : G0 thelr grisly work bps N ne complaint. I still live. And I am e serving, Therefore it set about the} improving the housing condijions the numbing cold of Nort . . | Tied chiar ote s. , thetics In the numbing tocky, for 1 ‘euall ood my country By Will B. Johnstone | study of the housing question, which) within ils area, Not ulune for dvntnesy “Is it true,” I asked one Paul Ku- free, as we have struggled to make ri, Yas Wit |jed it into all sorts of fields and pro-| but also showing the arrangement of | ds of facts.| the town or village, what provision n* it for hundreds of years, I shall not vided it with all kin p rutz, who went from his “etth ges a eit 40: Wotlwda a itace ATCH your shoulders. ‘The Largely as @ result of this work, the will be made for parks, playgrounds, », Bohenectady at the beginning bre bg ec ik ak oid noche nai A Canadian Government has just|open spaces, and how the houses are war to take bis Austro-Hungarian ; perhape—bul moral wave that is sweep- ite “enwi. under |te‘be properly lighted and ve ‘id do- 86 long as we are free enacted a new Housing Law, un properly lighted and ventilated, fo Whack at Russia, “as I have heard, daitua dans? cudae haved Fader rat Ae he eee ene | which it will lend $25,000,000 at 5 per| This very much resembles the new Hibs, teat @ Cacch cannot be made to! 1 oo thing else matter!” eegalt sot only. tetorioaiisg ériaks cent. interest for the building of| English law, although it is not so ‘> Whimper or moan, though bis body and intoxicating songs (with two per .. be hacked to pieces?” The dig fellow amiled. “Czechs be human being,” he said briefiy, in his interrupted English, “Me no say they God. But they no That is how they all feel, Furthor along the table sat a chap with a row of medals on his breast, @ patch over one poor eye, and a cruteh at his side. Thoughts of Sergt. York and his notable exploits flashed cent. music and eighty per cent. lyrics), Shimmy (two per cent. dance and 88 | per cent. intoxicating eyes) THE “SHIMMY DANCE’, WHAT THE but aims to swamp the houses, The money will be lent by | the Government to the provinces, and | they in their turn will lend it to the | towns or cities which desire to build houses as a municipal undertaking; or to group? of men who may form strict; in England, if a town does not Provide decent housing for its work- ers the Government is empowered to go into the town, build enough houses to meet the needs and charge the town with the cost. ” If you have syncopating collar The Canadian ory muc! His jaw unconsciously rs DANCE CRATE an association for the building of law does not go quite so far, but such stiffened. “We not Uke Austro-| % mind, This man, perhaps, was the | pones or clicking ribs, don’t rattle the To. EVOLUTION ni papa Ge chat tetvided ia provision aio aitoraee suc Fs Huns,” he went on. “We KNOW| Serst, York of the Cxecho-Slovaks, 1] skeleton, because the police wif hale HAS LED Shiki baer LA athe eel vebtenred gece: 8 ty eee become neces= x 5 : the association lim! 8 ‘or all towns do not see th a WHAT WE FIGHT FOR! And we “se Paul Kuru oer hee 1] 7 wetore a Magistrate, A slight DANCE 6 oe cent; or money may be lent| wisdom of taking advantage of a per- i willing suffer all—all—so long as le? Oh, fine soldier! He got | knock in your shoulder blades will be : | got what we fight for, We have to go with Austro-Hungary first- But) after Brest-Litoysk we not. Then we| fight for OUR land, OUR people, OUR language. Ag owe fight like hell,! excuse me, lady’ Next to Paul was his ‘pal, Josef Koharn, both of whose hands were ~ shot away when he tried to hurl a at eS “GREY FRINGE” FAD OF LONDON WOMEN FOR 1919 COSTUMES shite wounds when we go up into Russia. We have one rifle to ten men, This man he go.after the Russians with- out gun. He get hurt. We all get hurt. But no more one brave than other. We all do BEST WE CAN.” Nevertheless, I still sought my “Sergeant York.” There must be some one special hero, some out- standing giant of bravery, So I asked Anthony W. Chez, born Iowan of Czech parentage, who was a fa- mous athlete and football coach when he decided that the most important business in the world was ‘tother side the ocean.’ So he went over three years ago as a “Y" secretary, and served as hut manager, medical of- ficer, nurse, interpreter, guide, phil- osopher, friend, brother and general aide, specializing in Siberia, where your ruination, shake shake ders.” alarm” the waits, the first of the con- tact dances, ing?” they exclaimed, “It is indecent for a man to touch the hem of a six- foot hoopskirt and actually come within three feet of his dancing part- ner when endeavoring to encircle her waise Se rageous'| cup, but he had some sense, He knew that once an American gets a new idea, development follows, You can shake hands, you can your head, but you cannot your shoulders! “Them's or- Our forefathers “viewed with “Whither are we drift- missive law. The provinces must repay , the loans to the Federal Government in’ twenty years, but the period of re- payment by workmen may be ex-, tended to thirty years, But the cru- cial part of the whole Canadian pro- gramme is found in the clause en- titled “Acquisition of Sites,” and that" clause is worth quoting in full, It reads as follows: “The success the housing movement depends upon the acquirement of suitable land at directly to an individual who owns land and wishes to build a house for | himself. The Housing Act distinctly states that the Gove®nment is providing | this money ‘to promote the erection of dwelling houses of modern charac- ter to relieve congestion of popula- tion in cities and towns; to put with- in the reach of all workingmen, par- \ticularly returned soldiers, the op- | portunity of acquiring thelr own |homes at actual cost of the building with his finger tips. Forefather might have used an egg- DAN ‘The precedent of “contact dancing” Ignorant Essays its fair value, and at a cost whicl workingmen can afford to pay. It i essential, therefore, that statutor provision shall be made by the prov. inces for a cheap and speedy metho of compulsory taking of the land re. quired for housing purposes. To fa cilitate proper planning and to secur CING By J. P. McEvoy Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). ANCING is wrestling set to music. As in wrestling, the first re- quirement is learning the holds. The rest is easy, because you merely hold on and keep on moving. It doesn’t make much difference what you move 6o long as you move and that you pay no at- tention to the music except to applaud when it stops. You applaud when it stops because that is the best part of it. Fashions in dancing change almost as fast as feminine waistlines and in about the same manner, for, like waistlines, dancing has been revised upward. For instance, it used to be that we danced with our feet. Then along came “Ballin’ the Jack” and we danocéd with our knees. The waistline was about there then, too, The Hulu Hulu babies, all dressed up in necklaces and syncopated shredded wheat, then introduced the gluteal gambol aud the waistline rose accordingly. And now we have the Shimmy, which is danced with the sifoulders, Next year we shall have the Head Hop, Those who master it will be known as Hop Heads and a dance will be billed as a Bean Ball. For a time the new dances were named after the animals, such as the Grizzly Bear, the Giraffe Gallop, the Pelican Prance, &., but this work was hardest and helpers few- {was established, and see what hap- est, until the present consignment] pened. The waltz was a three step. of Czech heroes was shipped to Amer- | Hoopskirt distance between the danc- ica for repairs. ers, After a few seasons of this the Chez is a huge person with a rug-| women changed the cut of their gedness of face and figure that dis- | dresses, eliminating the hoop in front. tinguish him from the others, He| They got it out of the way by hang- says bis tunic had to be cut by a/| ing the excess draperies over a bustie tent-maker, and I believe it. Ches|in the rear. This excess bagwage dis- never found anything that could get|appeared just before the Midway the better of him in bis life until he/ Plaisance drew thousands of shocked ate seventeen versts of “‘kolbasa,”| visitors into the Streets of Cairo to which is @ breed of Rusisan sausage.| see the World's Fair dancers, Most ‘The seventeenth link gave him pto-| of these indignant visitors never did maine poison, but couldn't keep him | cet to see the Transportation Build- down long at that, Ches says, and | ing. he knows, that Pau} Kuruts is right] This touch of the East had its about there being no special “Ser-| effect on the dance, We went from geant York.” the three step to the two step. We “They are all Sergeant Yorks,” he | became reckless and there were mere- corrected. “After three years of war,|ly puff sleeves between the dances, perhaps you don’t see special acts) ‘Then the women took all the full- stand out from the rest like you do} ness out of their dresses and the slit when you first begin. Things all) skirts permitted only the one step in- merge together into one awful busi-| stead of the old two step, You see economy in connection with housin schemes, comparatively large citie should, as a rule, be chosen so as t permit of comprehensive treatmen Such sites should be conveniently cessible to places of employmen’ means of transportation, water ply, sewers, and other public atil ities.’ Then there is one other claw: which shows that Canada has learne wisely from the experiences of older countries, In the Government statement explaining the bill, ther is a clause entitled “Planning thi Sites," which is as follows: “Wher housing schemes are proposed, sites, as well as the buildings, shoul be properly planned so as to secu: sanitary conditions, wholesome vironment, and the utmost econom The land should be sold under re strictions that will insure its use fo) residential purposes only, and should it theréafter be desired to utilize ap my, and the Broadway taxis shimmy | their facea against each other while all over the avenue and every addi-|dancing. There are enough flat noses tional wiggle shimmies up the meter. | already. ‘The dancers stand so close’ Maybe they'll be pinched too. together, their faces naturally get in And suppose that some French offi- |the way, and to hold them at angles cers visiting town should get into an |puts a crick in the back of the neck, argument over who won the war, A|hence the cheek vs, cheek atrocity. Frenchman always talks straight |It ought to be stopped. It makes a from the shoulder, winding up his|mess of a girl's complexion, Let us arms like pin wheels, When a French- | get back to the beautiful and graceful man ts tongue-tied, it means he's old minuet, which was conducted with muscle bound in his biceps. |the gallant and courteous formality of The copa are also going to make|the duel of that day—partners at couples stop the practice of leaning | twenty paces, The First Family Hotel nens of combat, and you lose the high|ihe progression. ‘Three step—two ‘Cromwell’ counoll held sessions in| cruel practice was stopped by the &, P.C. A. The poor animals wére | °f the lots #o sold for stores or othetaay lights, PE pap Ra gS Se HE Gret “family” or “temper-|sne bullding, it is said, and it was the ; sir Spa business purposes, the increased “But I'l say that I never saw such} wny, we gradually reduced the anos’! hotel, In London, the f0re-| sosus ot many other notewortty eathe| ene , 4 Fah value for such business sites should game fellows as these men are. In It is very easy to dance, especially for the men, for they have not be made available for public purposes runner of tens of thousands of| orings before it was converted into a movement of the feet until the one | the fighte with the Bolsheviks, when | "ten pave way to the half-ore such hosteiries in all parts of the| nostelry, only the floor to dance upon, but their partners’ feet as well. And, inci- |!" connection with such scheme,” | the Cea sore trying Yo wet Careweh | rat, LS eA gel ggg and world, wee epensd in Covent Garden| T, eee dentally, it 48 in the dance that many a husband gets even with bis |, 1s, mATks ® lone fee aaleieas in October and November, 1918, whole | °! te tet stopped and the shoulders) Aan inn for the more or less per- rans-Atlantic Records. | wite tor dragging him out of his easy chair that night—he walks all |to talk such sound sense as that to lines of them were cut down, most of besapthg cae cerenie St be 1088 (mu- manent accommodation of families, | 7m ares sisamshio to oroee the] over her feet. 4 |its people, and it undoubtedly marks, . ing e " antic in less time than x ‘ as well, the beginning of a movemen ~ jae ip my erie nd hoofing from the feet to the shoulders fie ee pee AS DES Pe days and ten hours, which had Married couples cannot dance well together, except when they are |aisca upon the diffusion of pried) | men out theré4n cold such as you might be easier on the shoes now that | tne project to scorn, Despite their de- | been the record for several years, was not married to each other. | acts among the people, when specud | can't dream of, with no anaesthetics, | eY cost more than the talcum pow- | rision, the scheme was successful, and| tHe Cunarder Umbria, whieh arrived Modern dance music is very fascinating. it is called Jazz and is |lators and land owners will be actu | And never a squeal or a howl, der that 1s dislodged by the shoulder |made a snug fortune for Its founder, | Of Sandy Mook thirty-two years ago.) yoauceg ag follows: Five fellows who cannot read music are given | *!!¥ prevented from wrecking am “In Russia they had almost no , at the | navid Low. London now has hundreds | Bly six dys and three hours out of | ruining our towns and cities, and oul Vegetables to eat, only meat, Seurey | Stimmy 4s not dancing, The Taran- | of family and temperance hotels, and| Queenstown, It did not long hold the} Sve different pieces to play at once. They are equipped with a Razz00, | Countryside as well. ‘The Cenadia HE above photograph shows | threatened. And they are practically | W* a!an't bite tn the vicinity of the | nefore long the United States wili|Peeord, for the following year the| Bazzoo, a Blam Blam, a Wahoo and a Wheezer. They are then filled , law does not provide for cay mean “ the “Grey Fringe Cos | ah in need of medical ald, But we've| Vaccination marks, Anyway, your |nave thousands of them, Etruria made the trip tn a little less] with jamaica ginger, barbed wire, sough-on-rats, rock salt and T.N.T,' |of preventing those things; It simply x tume” a0 evident among | had cne complete cure uircadn a |Rext step wit be the look atap if you| #tne edifice In which Low startea| than six days and two hours. The first 7 i |points out that the provinces should London's better dreased women | chap whose voca corde were para. |Persist in the shimmitication of Terp-| nig hotel is still standing, and is now| Vessel to cross the Atlantic in less] end turned loose, The noise that results is Jazz, When people hear it | iat they are prevented, but that this season, The ‘picture was lyaed by Sua shock euddeniy recov. siohore’s art, used for the boxing matches of the|than #ix days was the Majestic, which} they say “they could Just die dancing.” Many of them do. will not he such au easy. mith they Ba feel FM, pe Naar Ro Srervenio’s cone may not stop at |famous National Sporting Club. The Se Wh Ja ered oe Sime No Srp dare Fifty years ago the waltz was something awful. If our dear old Owners of land are seldom willing to Park i creny shane pay ot eg nal Secor agal PUILAE. won rected party, 18. shel Beas Lusitania ‘phn in r five| ‘forefathers could only see us do the Shimmy! |Sive up the fat profits that they can Central ey're having, the time seventeenth century, and was origin- ives!" yin, 8 _leldere certataty stewulave the shima~ ally the home of Gir Kenelm Digby. od of a RE aaa” Pies ; ROE) BPR, 2 s iatinanetiow res at nearest os ‘suck from a community which needs " e Jang om which to eww, days, her time for the trip being four ag a rah. Bed. aE 1 2 so ae Re alias. mame ata mesure tans inaenenssesnennse ess ssrensnersvunsintir ase nsieiiiesnre ray onsen