The evening world. Newspaper, July 8, 1919, Page 16

Se 28 ee ee ee ea een? aa" coger erraemmememaser ie Seite | Written Especially for * Editor of the Journal ef the A calamities we shall prevent "At the present moment New York It is short of houses, ex- ‘a small supply of tenoments unfit for habitation. It also thousands of tenements that be scrapped without further No project for housing in New ‘City which does not make pro- for scrapping all the slums will im real project. i can the problem be solved? , only by building more Not private houses, of course, guch things are no longer built ‘York City, An 1900 one family tht owned its own home; in 1910 one family in nine owned its ‘The number of rented homes much faster than the of owned homes, and the of owned homes is increasing the mortgaged homes, not the free homes.* The in- homes are increasing at ‘expense of the free homes, whose are either mortgaging thom orc them and joining the tenant ‘The owners of mortgaged re not paying them off. A Hen is contracted for every liquidated on an owned Only @ moiety of the equity in any now home pur- i For every home in which a Gi equity is acquired, another home , are full of significance. & city of absentee land- at an alarming rate. Does any- ) to-diy believe in absentee land- ? But how are you going to it? What can you do? And @ question is not just absentee lant but decent homes in which How can they be had? Who d them? Where can they be {is a big problem. Far too big a for @ short articly. There is temporary emergency, and there permanent programme for get- York City out of the hole. gould be worked together, if the of New York City had the and could be given the legis- rat, the City of New York should a to buy all the vacant land §, and be permttted to take it at ,.and not at an inflated n. Then it can control the and as the use value of ‘ on account of its house- saliding operations, the profits from use value will come back to the - ‘Phen it can keop the value of for apartments at a reasonable and make profits out of the and” for business purposes fe no other possible way in ich it can permanently solve the i ~ If the city cannot J this itself, then tts, financial in- on, carrying it at a, small m has stood so long. we They will not stand it, ered project for demvlish Paned and the sites used for ere Samre. within vench: of and. MITUESDAY, JULY 8, 191 1219, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World: Uf City of'New York has « serious housing problem on its hands. It is not a result of the war, although many people think so, It was bound to come eventdally, war or no war, for our system of city makes it impossible to avoid such a calamity. Realty values rise Place and fall in another. There is neither system nor justification that goes on. Some day we shall learn better and instead of ought to buy and hold the for the city, as a matter of self- ‘of interest, and allowing the from ‘the added use valué of fexid to go to tne community, It Matie-{oo bold to be mentioned, pos- Sibut dnly boldness will now save én which has long been dealt ii so weakly that itiis a wonder portant building enterprises need to relieve the housing in New York City, and no 6f controlling land values ac- them, then there will soon ce of the same problem, Process will continue until the| Wipe it out altogethe gystem crashes to the ground. beings cannot stand the pres- Where Can I Live? A Question All the World ‘Is Asking. New York City. 1m of Housing in Metropolis Calls for Building Homes and the Scrapping of Slums—Con- Not Caused by the War nor Is It a Sign of Phe Evening World. By Charles. Harris Whitaker. merican Institute of Architects. them. ‘The housing problem in New York City is éaused primarily by a degree Hon which ought not to be permitted. The congestion is not alone slum areas, but is creeping up and down the island and into the out- Doroughs, Many people think that it spells prosperity. Wait and see! City has an urgent temporary problem saddle the cost on the whole city, But if-a well-considered scheme were posible on a large scale, with a proj- ect for building up communities all city grow into one vast unwieldy agglomeration, then it would be pos- sible to make these undertakings pay for themselves by arranging to make some of the land earn a profit from stores and shops. It must be consid- ered as a very broad problem and not Patchwork done a&an eleventh hour attempt. " The whole project is one primarily of finance, with jand control a full and equal partner. ‘Then the problem can be considered as a whole, The outlying districts can be developed in harmony, with changes such as will be made within the city, in those areas now given over to slums, or else lying neglected and undeveloped because business has shifted its quar- ters and left the buildings idle, All of these areas represent large annual losses in revenue to the city, and yet} no step is taken to chéck these dis- asters, More than that, there must be a velopment outside of the ulty limits. There must be a greater metropolitan hat New You City in| wren, Where Now: York can grow, and indicate lew City is) the plans for this growth ought ~-w to be studied and perfected, Other- wise thote will be further chaos, con- gestion, street obstructions, trame dislocation, and all the evils with science of planning must be called in gnd cc Way of producing order, Surely York City has had enough of disorder, housing problem, Philanthropist and commissions may toy with their fancy ramedies and peddle their fake cures. They may spend thousands in investigations and reports, which will be filed away in some forgotten gar- ret, What the City of New York needs is boldness, courage, energy—the skill of a Foch in finance, the brains of a Goethals in planning, the wizardry of 4 Clemenceau in execution. And why not? Is New York a real city, with @ real mission and a real future, or is it just a huge top-heavy aggloMer- ation, without direction and without any truly democratic purpose? its future is locked up in its sclentife and eMcient use of land, and on that problem it can well afford to spond whatever it costs to find out how land and 40 business on it, Most of the other problems with which it wrestles and fights, will have lot of other problems that have their tenements, vile streets, viler alley subways (which might have been might have been worth a prince's fansom, if she had only known!) and have to fight the battle of life, come u city indeed, “Journal of the American Institute of York ty Herbert 8. Bngligh and Scottish cities| Min! addition 1g building houses on} ctdetanels pwed land there must be a|A CEMENT FOR MENDING VALU. a ABLE CHINA DISHES, qwhole slum area and rebuyid-| Valuable china may be mended London, Liverpool, Glasgow | With the following mixture, and when fy am it “ Smocks and Blouses for Summer Girl Three Modish Costumes, Smart and Comfortable, Are Realized in Dainty Materials and Gay Colors [ it a business haired sisterhood. lot of experience with girls—“a blonde-haired girl doesn’t seem satisfied unless she is moving around all the {———————— a time. I believe blondes are fickle by | unfairly, he goes to work and con-, nature.” demns every wond woman for the sins over New York, instead of letting the “Danger—keep off” signal on Miss] “As a matter of fact, blondes ares Goldilocks? Does the harmless,| especially desired by us in certait® necessary blonde get a square deal in| departments. In the hat department, our business world, or has it at-|for example, blondes are particularly + tained to Chicago's pitch of eynicism| efficient in trying on models andre regarding her? making sales of theu far as I could Jearn yesterday, is|ried? Are they more attractive to just as a hand-to-mouth pieco of as much esteemed ds the business}™en? That's a question it doesn't brunette seem diplomatic to answer, But Tean™ quickly debonair ¢ of a Thirty-fourth Street ¢ store. nounced such a policy as that of rée- ‘Some of our best clerks are} fusing to hire blondes would get itself blondes—and some are brunettes.” into @ peck of trouble!” deciared with: No Ban on Blondes Here, With Brunettes Preferred, In Workaday Walk of Life* ) Unlike Chicago Business Man, New York Employers y. Do Not Draw the Color Line on Miss Goldilocks— 4 “It’s What’s in Her Head, Not Outside It, That» Counts,” Is View of One Expert. : ’ ¥ By Marguerite Mooers Marshall pe Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) jet or a busines# handicap to be a blonde? History would seem to prove that the superwoman is usually a blonde woman. Golden Helen of Troy, red-haired Cleopatra, Queem » Blizabeth of England—a true strawberry blonde—are the first three truly notable women who come to my mind, and all three were blondes. That life's prizes go ‘” to them must be the popular conviction—else why do™” 80 many young women not born to blondeness achieve it? Yet a big business establishment in Chicago has just» » drawn the color line on the girl with the golden locks, to natural or peroxide, An electrical manufacturing gon- cern, advertising for girl machinists, warns that “ogly brunettes need applf.” i “Why?” demanded indignant champions of the fair. “Because,” said the manager—who rashly admitted he had had @ tw Do New York employers hang the | of the few, Are blondeayry id get mar~ In this city the business blonde, so] More likely to leave “We would hire a blonde just as|@S8ure you that they stand just es a brunette,” declareg the|™uch chance of being *hired by Gs 4 aploymemt superintendent | 48 if they were dark-haired.” rtment| “Any store in New York that an- ‘Then he smiled quizzically, “How,"|®@!truistic indignation the attractive, SUIT OF ROYAL GRAY plan for providing a harmonious dé-| CLOTH HEAVILY A PEANUT STRAW HAT UNED WITH BLUE GEORGETTE. OF WHITE CREPE EM- BROIDERED WITH BLUE. SKIRT OF VEL-* VET WITH CIRCULAR STRIPES OF BLUE AND which our cities are now beset, ‘The! sulted. There is no other} w| These are the salient factors in the’ PiGLURE S&S AWAT OF SHELL-BLUE PRINTED CHIFFON, THE SMOCK BROIDERED IN WOOL. Westera Compare he asked, “can any distinction be based on the color of the hair? There ave so few natural blondes, And if a girl who is a bronette puts peroxide on her hair, she still has the brunette disposition, intelligence and efficiency with which she was born, She cannot jaye them. “I do think @ blonde is more fickle, harder to please, than a brunette. That probably is because the former is scarcer. A real blonde is a rare article, and on tha@ account probably marties more quickly than the dark beauty. Although I can’t remember that any of our blondes has married off re ntly, there are a good many of them in the store!” Agd wouldn't the attractiveness arity of the blonde make he ficient as a saleswoman?” Jand popt west t would be likely to do so,” he lagreed. “Nor is she necessarily more |ttivolous und idle than the brunette. One of the best workers we have, a girl who is always on time, alWays on the job, is a blonde. “In hiring women [ judge a great deal by looks, by the general physi- ognomy, Beauty is not essential, but I have found that the eyes, the fore- head and the shape of the nose show intell honesty, reliability—or ne! brunette young woman, who is chief assistant to the employment manager of a big shop in Greeley Square. “What we want is girls with am- ‘bition, with a desire to advance them- selves and a willingness to work hard. Mf course we consider neatness and Attractive personality, but we would never even stop to think whether an applicant for a position was biondé ov brunette, There are just as many frivolous, idle, fickle girls with dark hair as with light hair, and just as’? many efficient blondes as there are brunettes, I never heard of any~ thing 80 eilly a8 a taboo on blondes? Why punish a girl for the way nature made her?” “I throw up my hands!” laughingty |declared the Qlack-haired employ- |ment superintendent of another |Greetey Square store, “I am a benevoe lent neutral for the best of reasons, he added, glancing significantly about his office, where sat, on the right, « charming auburn-haired stenographer , and, on the left, an equally charming brown-baired bookkeeper, Then he continued more seriously, “Everything absurd comes out of Chicago, doesn't it? Of course we never think of hiring a woman ae- cording to the color of her hain And we d®n't take any stock in Dr, The World eliminated simply by what their faces} blondes and brunettes, tell, But not the color of the hair— there’s no color line here!” °s First “Blimp ”* Stowaway Dreamed Dreams | Of Wealth in a Magic Land and Then ‘‘Found a Way”, By Zoe Beckley. ERE is a boy, William Ballan | tyne of Newcastle, who had not only his dréam of worlds to conquer but nerve enough to risk his skin for its realization, if we know it," admitted the employ ment superintendent in a Fifth Ave- nue department store. “But,” he add- ed with a smile, on American thought maybe—oh, well—I had -the | bad luck to get sick with the fever, | the gas and all, they hauled me, “As soon as got to work. was well ugain And I did work ‘ard, should be used for the benefit-of those, who live on it, play on it, work on it| Jan. expert to decide whether &lwe are pretty particular. But woman's hair is naturally or artifl-| paven't reached the point of Penal cially yellow? ing . think of anything, of me mind I kept saying over and ‘America’s the place where they pay a chap $100,000 for a ring bout!’ i But in the back | When ‘it bas learned that Probiem | tory, William the conquerot of an| adverse fate which * ordered him to be left behind, smiles come to an end, Its housing problem | will have disappeared along with a! find @ way origin in slums, sweat shops, indecent It cannot be ascertained how long young Ballantyne will be permitted | to “stop” in the land of his dreams, fact, it is a hard matter to get any one connected with the R-34 to speak of William at all, the impression he is an embarrass- is minimized filthy back yards and areas, jhhuman! and says human, and out of which New York! I'm just a working lad that wants a chance in America, I built all me ‘opes on coming over in the blimp, Me mother was expecting me to. And all the And I'd ‘eard all me life how America gave and better money and a@ better cli- So when ‘the Captain had me stay behind, why, blimey, f just couldn't stand it, I found a way, YEE we atone, Beene Orne in New | that’s all.” . “But you knew,” said J as» severely as possible to this lad who found 4 way, “that they’d send you back~- that you couldn't realize your dreams of work and fortune; that you'd be dry \t will resist hot water and ordi+ | court martialed and punished, didn’t The slums must be con-|24ry Usage. Mix a teaspoonful of alum and ‘a tablespoonful of water. structures where families Piace in a hot oven,’ says Popular light and air, privacy and | Science Monthly, until it is quite ‘Ie it lw necessary to write transparent. Wash the broken pieces | ‘ost of the land in order to|!" hot water, dry and put them tmto ‘ B _|the oven until they are warm, and Tentaleiof thesede -tapart-|oniie still warm coat the broken with the mixture thinly and gettin’ o er. aticks instantly, ibe found till we landed, And once J shipped, lidy; an ever-increasing pressure on the! men, women and children who there’ Sn gy a I expected to find him in durance in trying to salvage her human wreckage, If she will set about a real cure for the housing problem she will reduce that salvage, perhaps oven| least in the The popular young prisoner is very much at large, So much, indeed, that after hunting him in the Garden City airdrome for several hours he was with difficulty located im the middle of @ far behind where the giant gray dirigibie ‘and thus be- mate, and all. miralty officers, dragged to No, 9 Barracks, temporary guest quarters for where half a score camera men and than one journalette the R-34's crew, and cocked an honest blue eye spec: w: 3 BALEN TYNE ANP vworsyy blushed ruddily asked it “the morning newspaper his bride or bis sw STOW Nay “T suppose so,” he said luconically.| He is a good-natured lad, lithe and ‘But some'ow I didn't think that far, a nice smile, mised at the bridge his tan when that flops picturesquely over his |punches from opponents o' s tremendously surprised that he such a row over,” and He has the nose of the sem|-profes- c gional ying athictor-just a hint com- lis “being tof boxing on the side. I like the|t could get @ chance in Amerioa!™ ring. But I wouldn't want to make | t It too bad that there are court an out-and-out profession of it, I/martials and all sorts of martinet nt to work on a railroad some- | formalities in this world to interfore Where here in America, And I could,|With the fine brave dreams of lade where Tt could only 7 who w unt “to give the mother a Hft?* Aten) bart of Ii the| And when wi wi is wince, and he picked up Wopay, | perhaps didn't know h » the little striped cat which|4 dream to pieces, gave that erlat shared Ballantyne'’s honors as air-|command to “lighten the crew. by route stowaway, snuggled it into ‘his|three," that boy, having set his ver heck and whispered a word or two|soul ‘into that dream, just couldn’g, that the friendly kit seemed to und@- jand wouldn't let it go. tand as from one venturous pal to| We all have dreams. But what.we ees don't all have is the nerve to MAKB ‘Around Ballantyne's neck, as|them come true, We don't all “fing vround Wopsy’s, 18 hung a tiny metal/a way.” And when William Ballata® \ Paadigert Ag Bay jtyne gets buck to Newcastle, I hape “is a good luck thing,” explained |his mothey won't scold—or the court Mantyne, “We've all got them. It's| martial punish him hard. It's good to” i sort of Billikin catled ‘Thumbs Up, | have dreams, and go after them, sw and-a@ fim io England gave. thom matter what, tare the r Many incompetents are| Katherine Blackford’s theories about q take BOTH blondes and tronetens ! a we can get of the bes hed blondes—| type. Appearance, porecalieg nee {ng must count a great deal in ge. lecting our employees, and just now, with more candidates trom which to” make selections than during the war, We do not hire bli yho can qualify as a woman or ass : ‘It looks to me as if the manager} ficiency because Raivitngecn. . of that Chicago firm who is down on| hair, It's what's in her beag her blondes were seeking safety frst.| outside it, that counts.” ad, not Probably the bleached blonde is fldkle] So—and’at that, I think yo and doesn't pay attention to business, |nave-guessed it—in New 5 ee ne and prooably the Chicago manager|is no ban on blondes, s had that fact unpleasantly| ever know good monstrated to him, Then, most! saw it? Did Chicago ’ thing when a © Giris are |’round. here here's no girls in my life But I call is tough luck to be4 and have to turn right * . i ‘round || {aan and go back, without chance, hese,” he went on as I pointes some medals on his , tas never been any * I'm not aiming to be. Me all the girl I've got or eve And | souvenirs of fights say—I would like Mother| body, do you, a lift, { would, She's brought up nine /out against any featherweight of us—five brothers, three girls and|class? I've had more than Pode = myself, The Dad's’ caretaker in 4|vietories, not that I'm boasting. Bye" commercial firm at Newcastle, And, I do wish I could stay here a while the ‘little cottage’ they talk about 18|/Of course, 1 understand ast. “Ohm just || Don't know anys that wants to try me just that—a very small house that’s|court martial—I've gos to go beak oa Awful full of u take me medicine. But | wish—ohy “I've earned me living s 1 was| Well, wot's the us { had me tey, ” about ten seen a handy boy, a|Tll try again some time, But I do mechanic, worked on the railroad, | Wish learned balloon piloting—and done a| Always that same note—“I do whe } /