The evening world. Newspaper, September 19, 1919, Page 26

! | ! Why My G ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Daily Except ones the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 Row, New York. ALS PULITZPR, President, 63 Park Row, |. ANGUS SHAW JOSEPH PULITZER, ri Row, ark Tow, MEMBER OF THR ASSOOTATED PRNSS, Prom te exctustve se for rab OTe nee Trl collie 1S" eet ad tase hal ‘nome VOLUME 60 21,213 MOST NUMEROUS AND WORST. HEN, a year ago last May, The Evening World started i Evening World said then: To permit unrestrained raising of rents is to encourage a ‘Rorde of realty speculators and middlemen to rush into the game and devise new cold-blooded schemes to make a good FP) | thing out of a class of ront-payers who are least able to protect ‘themselves. |» This type of landlord may not own a foot of the land or | ‘a stone in the buildings for which he fixes the rents. And b) _— the part of those rents that reaches the actual owner would in * ‘Many cases surprise the tenants who pay them. i _ Many New Yorkers will remember what a carnival of prof- | ‘iteering in east side property was started a decade ago by the fi ‘easters,” who were ready to get a client a $20,000 house any day for $500 and a mortgage and then show him how to boost ‘the rents of the bewildered tenants until they would yield no 7 ‘more, when he could pass it on to some one else to manipulate _. jim the same way. | The experience of the Mayor's committes in dealing wit! et out at a price based on the higher rental promise. Assistan n Clarence Y. Palitz. gates campaign—which later became a municipal movement— against profiteering in New York apartment house rents, it pointed at the outset to a kind of rent gouging for which the owners of rented property are only indirectly responsible. present-day rent boosters in New York has brought out the fact that worst post-war rent profiteering hereabout is done, not by real rs of property, but by irresponsible individuals or dummy com- who make a business of buying leases, boosting rents and then oration Counsel Walter S. Kennedy agrees that 90 per cent. of Some months ago an ordinance providing for the licensing of ment-house lessees was introduced in the Board of Aldermen by This ordinance, which the General Committee of the Board is expected to report next week, e other guarantees of good faith and responsibility. years from the date of revocation. Hd require every lessee of a tenement house to file a bond equal 10 per cent. of the assessed valuation of the property leased and Such e may be suspended or revoked and no lessee whose license has qi revoked is eligible to procure a new license for at least three ite handling of leases. ; | On the other hand, it would act as a distinct discouragement t "i : _ pealty speculators of the conscienceless type who look upon real field for exploitation. ita and the housing of millions in crowded New York as | _ Real estate firms of the reputable sort ought to be thankful for kind of regulation that would relieve them of the odium ani lerstanding to which they are exposed by the brazen rapacit; t fly-by-night lease jobbers and profiteers. then is most necded. if is too much at the mercy of those who deal in its necessities. | Of which necessities housing is the first. Letters From the People learn ret il kindly tn p The Evening World ed secretary will kindly troub) nderson Quotes Near Profanity in reply to Smith,” allow | i |camps and overseas, he will find M9 a0 4 lifelong resident of the TWen- | was just that vote that beat Whi It is difficult to see how such an ordinance could impose hand- or injustice upon any real estate operator engaged in the legiti- against professional rent gougers the Palitz ordinance seems - t@ put up the handiest and most practical protection where protec- Of all proposed plans to safeguard tenants in the City of New i It is also in line with that licensing policy which has been “more and more widely urged of late as the best means—local and even national—of protecting the public against profiteers wherever dier is not against Prohibition. If the | himself to look up the soldier vote at |the last gubernatorial election from EDITORIAL PAGE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1919 eda tii ho &."4 6 by The I (The Now ts h t By Sophie oO FEW days ago my attention was drawn to the story of a little boy who took a violent dislike to his nurse, who had attended him for & considerable pe- riod. He just wouldn't have anything to do with her, and the family had “WH considerable trou- 2. ble with the little Perieneed retiow. He gave no Teagon for not wanting to be with her. Finally. in a fit of crying, after he had been scolded for his lack of re- spect for the nurse, the truth came out, It seems she had told him a beau- tiful story about how fish are caught, as she wanted him to eat some fish which he didn’t like, The story went something about the fish loving little boys; that they died and became little angels, and were then placed on little boys’ pintes to eat. t seems soon after, on a holiday, the boy was taken with some friends on the boat, and he thought he was gcing to see Uttlo fish become angels, d y it v8 t+ | us the nurse had told him they came " fyesecond to say this article his Ce) mon but only because he was gad-|Up on men's fishing boats, the entire district into Just | sca with Prohibition. When. he saw actual fishing he was rit big faction. This year there will! sir, Anderson winds up his article | horribly disappointed. The mother DBS po Democrat, no Republican. It! with the remark, “As Prohibition 9 | Was astonished to hear him say in WHI be Oscar J. Smith, oenrnap od | here to stay,” &c. Doesn't the result | his fit of crying, “She's a liar, I eandidate of the Twenty-sccon! As- jof the last primary election speak | Buess the other stories she told me ) membly District, against Williaa 1H. |only too loudly? Every man who had | are lies too." tion was beaten, and beaten badly, Nay, nay, William H American — public, ing the assertion of Deets tt, the research secretary, that » the “French are too soaked in alcohol "$0 get jagged,” every nation would do well in future wars to souk her ar- Miles in alcohol if they fight as Dravely, as fiercely, as devotedly for pountry as did the French. er discovery of Secretary it's was that the American sol- — <s es always a alo’ up on its toes. This coming electio | Will hardly be over when every ma‘ the Eighteenth Amendment a No, William Anderson, quick repeal. JAMES G. WARNER lay look for anything at all to do with Pronbi- the great | starter, is now thoroughly awake and and female voter In the country will | be out with his or her coat off after Congressmen and Senators who made ‘This tocident certainly brings for- clbly to mind the great importance of telling children the truth, If it deemed wise to evade the truth, that {4 one thing; but to lle to children is one of the greatest fullactes, faith; they doubt everything and try ty find out things for themselves, and thus very often get into mischief, But if they continually find that you have told them the truth, they on le a Newest Notes of Science Bensitive automatic temperature jcation with the Netherlands humidity regulating apparatus | ludies, at a cost exceeding $2,000,000, claimed to reduce to a miniinum oe 8 losses from irregular drying in " & mew tumber kiln. 1 * Because so few typewriter Inks a indellible or unalterable the Ven zuelan Government has forbidden | Waris has placed an aeroplane ambu-| official registration of typeuithen Ree in wervice to curry accident vic- | documents, from outside the city to a cen- oer Jocated hospital. ee 2 a Bast : To eliminate, the glare from street will acept your statement, and per- haps save themselves from doing things which they should not do, 1 have heard of many cases where children having once begun to doubt thelr parents or guardians have ac- tually turned jncorrigible, This Is not unnatural, The being to whom they have looked for guidance has proved to be unrellable, Therefore they have sought to rely on thomselves for their own impressions and have found a’ a ey hey jose | ee cep oi ne a0. Don’t Lie to Your Children Irene Loeb to tell children lovely stories to brighten their moments, grave mis- takes have weer! 1. If the truia .. -. 7" one, it had better be told, and the vu... may be softened or the child strengthened for it; portant things is truly serious. Another mistake often made tn this connection by thoughtless parents is to break promises to children, There is nothing so loses the respect of lit- tle ones as to have them build up hopes on something you have prom- ised them and then have these hopes suddenly dashed to pieces by break- ing the promise, Of course it does not affect the | adult, but to the child it is often a thunderbolt and may affect his na- ture, Even with smallest things it pays to keep your word with children, | Not only will they rely on you but j they will by such teachings and ex- amples learn the importance of keep- ing thetr own promises, which is cer- tainly the foundation for all manhood and womanhood tn the years to come, The truth of the matter is that life itself is built on the promise of one person to another, Without the spoken or written contract, existence would be chaos, and the highest de- eree of honor is attained by him whose “word i# ay good as his bond.” There is nothing so demoralizing in the growth of children as to lose respect for elders because they have either lied to them or have'not kept faith with them, ae SPEED! OU Amer- ERT vou cove |] $F sedigys= 4 4 are parol on Ot | Vf J diers are f sure rapid,” said the Frenchman, "I knew one who was only over here six months and he married a French girl.” “Did he take her back home with him? asked the boy in khaki, "No; he got a divorce before he left."--Yonke: THE WAY IT'S DO nh HAT ah ally we dcfS to remedy the}} high cost of liv- | ing?” “Dl see if | I can't get a job to assist in inves: tigating it, May: be the salary Darra 1919, Tiastaning Oo, York Rveniag Wortd.¥ but to lie to children about im-| The Jar Mr. Jarr Bets on a Sure T “e HIS is strange weather for this time of year,” growled Mr. Jarr. | Mrs, Jarr, “it would have been dif- ferent from this.” “Woman, do you mean to tell mo ; would have had better weather?’ ‘asked Mr. Jarr savagely. “Who sald anything about the | weather?” retorted Mrs, Jarr. “What |L was saying, if you'd give a person |@ chance to get in a word edgeway: was that if you had taken my advice ten years ago, when I wanted you to take that nice place in the suburbs— let me e, it was in Winchester County"—— “Westchester County,” interrupted Mr. Jar “Weil, it's all the same; all those places are out somewhere whero everybody tells you it is lovely, that they wouldnt live anywhere else, and are go eager to sell you their place. {€ you had listened to me we would have our own home now and the mortgage would have paid the rent,’ “What?” gasped Mr, Jarr, “Isn't it the mortgage that pays the rent, or is it the rent pays the | mortgage, or is it the taxes or assess~ ments or something of that sort? I only know you sign a lot of papers, and everything is in your own name then, and you can pay for the repairs, and it is healthy for the children in spite of that, although it first began when people in bad health did it summer and winter and the neigh- bors thought they were insane; still, if you have netting and bambvo blinds and canvas to roll down from the top if it rains, although you have to undress in your rooms and slip to bed in the dark and get up before daylight and pull down the blinds or the neighbors will be looking over and" —— “Great Scott, woman!” interrupted Mr. Jarr, looking at her in amaze- ment, “What in the name of good- ness are you talking about?” “I'm talking about open-air sleep- ing rooms,” said Mrs, Jarr, “I'm eure I made it plain enough. I know some lovely people who live in the sub- urbe who have open-air sleeping rooms, and they are just lovely, up on top of the porch, only the dust came in terrible from the roads when the automobiles went by, and they olled the road yo stop the dust, and oll smelled so terrible they erie in the open-air place; then ie eee, By By Roy L. Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, “If you had taken my advice,” sald” that if I had taken your advice we! . H. re a 88 e1| r Family McCardell (Tho New York Evening World). hing With Same Old Result “I should say It was," said Mr, Jarr. “IT was going to say, when you interrupted me by raving violently, that I hope this weather changes.” “Oh, it’s sure to rain,” said Mrs, Jarr, “I read in the papers that » man in Chicago has bet $50,000 that it wonld rain 60 much on such and eh a day—I forget what day it was —dut Isn't it, wonderful how men will make such wagers?” “It certatnly js," sald Mr. Jarr. “Only I'd like to know the name and tddress of the mysterious unknowns who bet with them. You hear of tramps walking from Seattle to San- dusky for a wager of $10,000, and of men who start out wrappad in news- paper from Chillicothe or Penn Yan | who have bet a house and Wt and! $30,000 in cash that they'll carry a| message to Trotzky in Moscow, arriv- ing in full evening dress and a gold watch and chain, But whom do they | bet with?" “Well, 'm sure I read somewhero that a newly rich millionaire bet $1,000,000 while riding in a Pullman | car that his drop of rain would run | down the pane quicker than another drop of rain; so there, now!" replied Mrs, Jarr. > | Maxims of a Modern Maid By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1919, by The Preas Publishing Co. (The New York Evenine World). flirting with anybody under twenty or over fifty. If all the blue laws aro revived, breaking them will add a lot of new thrills to life. But speaking of blue laws, would it be a real deprivation to most married men if they were forbidden to kiss their wives on Sunday—or any other day? The fool who “didn’t know it was loaded” is a Solomon compared with the man who deliberately touches a match to a woman's jealousy. Why is it that almost all male authors never grow beyond the ideals of seventeen in depicting their heroines? A cynic is simply a sentimentalist in wolves’ clothing. The unmarried woman used to be an object of universal pity. Nowa- days it is she who keenly sympathizes with most of the wives she knows. The modern woman always tells her age; then sits back and purrs while every one assures her, “You don't look it, my dear.” Old love is sometimes as precious as old wine or old books—and sometimes as banal as old jokes, The index of a woman's attraction under twenty is how she looks; be- tween twenty and thirty, how she dresses; over thirty, how she thinks. Keeping a man’s love is like writing poetry— one per cent. insptra- tion and ninety-nine per cent. sheer toil. Save a Baby! By Charlotte C. West, M. D. Copyright. 1 |. by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Dvenine World). The Will to “Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me” HE babies of the rich seldom die | will be eager to act upon it! No eb= because they are prov.ded with] jection can be raised that will not every care and attention before| immediately be met and cast aside. birth, being ushered into this world | Studies in heredity are teaching us in ag healthy a state as is consistent | that we ure more the product of en- with prenatal conditions from which | Virenment than of heredity. they sprang. How many affluent wo-| Almost all foundlings are Illegiti- men are childless! There is scarcely | mate, and it is from foundling asy- a day in which my mail does not con-|lums that children are adopted—as a tain one or more appeals from wo-| rule. The most vital objection would men longing for motherhood, and| probably ve the unknown antecedents from whom it is, for one reason or|of the child. With some persons this another, withheld. But is it? Every|has no weight, they preferring to true woman has created children,| “let the dead past bury its dead,” fancy or real. Every true woman is| with others the objection is well-nigh a mother, the mother of her race.|insurmountable. When taken from The actual child which she may hold | foundling asylums it is often impos- in her arms is not as real as the | sible to trace a child's antecedents, image she carries in her heart. It|yet some notable figures in history is sald that mothers are blind to the| have been waifs, castaways In the faults of their children; this is be-|cases of war eweethearts—not made cause those faults are hidden be-| brides and therefore not taken care neath that perfection which is solely | Of—it would have been comparatively her own creation and with which she|casy to learn all that was necessary clothes the fruits of her union with|Tesarding the two burning hearts the man she loves or has children. that had pledged their eternal love, For this reason mother love burns| and then were torn asunder upon the with a sacred white flame, unsullied altar of duty. | T "sinine ta covvocy ene romance, absolutely non-intoxicating— and undefiled by extraneous matters. It is this longing to hold in her arms a tangible expression of that great mother-hunger, tugging eternally at her heart, which enables her to in- vest the children of their father, often so pitifully lacking, with a love that passeth understanding, Longfellow thought of mothers when he sald: Something the heart must bave to cherish, or in Methinks these and all children, whether born “in secret, in silence and in tears," or in Joyous wedlock, sre very well worth saving and cher- ishing. What vistas for good and for genuine philanthropy—not charity —are thus opened to women of afflu- ence or in comfortable circumstances, who feel themselves personally un- able or unfit to care for children, yet iF itnelf to ashes burn, | who will «rasp at an opportunity to During the war there was, of/Save a baby, not necessarily by. course, a marked increase in iMegiti- | adoption, but with the caré money mate births. Most of these bables| ca" purchase! died, Suppose at the birth of one of! Every one is acquainted with the these the child could have been| manifold philanthropies of the former placed in the arms of a woman) tIfelen Gould, of her great love for yearning for motherhood, whose! children, of her untold beneficence in heart-hunger enabled her to encom-| their behalf, and finally of her mar- pass the child with all the beauty and| riage when past middle life and her qualities she was waiting to bestow|adoption then of several delightful upon her own. Could she fail to ideal- | kiddies, ize this baby and give it the same | One need not have Mrs. Finley loving care as though it were in very| Shepard's wealth to save one baby. truth the fruit of her bearing? Then| Indeed, nothing is required but the what a wonderful work and what|will to “suffer little children to come beautiful love await the woman to| unto Me, and forbid them not, for of whom this suggestion is new and who! such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” - The Romance of Words .By James C. Young How Everyday Expressions Had Their Origin SW things are more familiar to| lin, Resentment over his plight, and Americans than “Uncle Sam," as | realization of the ease with which applied to that lanky person who | persons powerful at court duped the is accepted as the personification of | rublic, is said to have led the dean to the naticn, The question often is|#pply the satirical John Bull to the asked how such an appropriate name | whole English people, as being large came to be used in this way, A/ef girth and overly easy to impose chance remark was the foundation | upon. for a popular character which now Several men by the name of John iy known the world ‘round, Bull have attained eminence in During the War of 1812 Samuel Wil- | 2ngland, the greatest being the mu- lets, a meat inspector of Troy, N. Y.,|#ician of that name, He was born “Yes, so there, now!" repeated Mr. Jarr, “But, again, the fatal question, Whom did he bet with? Well, rl) tell you, all these freak plungers bet with themselves. They bet against the million they haven't in one pocket against the million they haven't in another pocket. No one ever bet $1,000,000 in his life on any one thing. | I'll bet $10 on it, and my $10 Is real) | Il, you needn't get mad at me) about it,” said Mrs, Jarr, “I'm not responsible, But people do bet on| all sorts of things. I bet you a dollar you are just sitting there growling at me so as to pick a fuss to give you! an excuse to rush out and leave me | here all alone.” “rll bet you a dollar I'll be sitting here till bed-time taking to you,| reading to you, being nice to you 'n| everything,” said Mr, Jarr, “No, I'll! bet you five dollars, and here it ist"* "Then give it to me, for Iam going to run out @ few minutes to Mrs, | Rangle—so you'll be sitting here alone,” said Mrs, Jarr, And she took the stakes, A BUTTERFLY FARM, has a farm devoted Behe aisin Eng! sivel: al Ob as | soca Mt spread elsewhere, Before the |}, gencrally called Uncle Sam, served as|!n 1563 and died in 1622, Tho Brit~ purchasing agent for the Government, |'8h national anthem, “God Save the On ench side of beef or barrel of pork | King,” has been attributed to him, which he accepted were marked the|*/thoush it is sald that the alr two letters U. 8, indicating that they ie Rupod of OAriiar pom pom! Hone had been approved by the United) pgm for the nation nae while tp States Government. A foreign visitor|\s less familiar than either of the to the inspection depot inquired what other two, but often used in France, , | What Uncle Sam is to America and the two letters meant, and one of! Jo )4° quill to the Engilsh, Jacques Willets's workmen _facetiously| Copeau is to the French, He alway, answered, “Uncle Sam." Other men|is represented as a workingman or p x asant, typlfying the great middle n the depot took up the joke and DS oménn natin. eeches and sh end of the war Uncle Sam was in| the stock in trad e vommon use as personifying the! fooniat us our own Uncle United States. sartoons Just as Uncle Sam is the popu'ar symbol for the United States, so John Bull bears the same relation to Eng- land, ‘The origin of this name and its usage in this way has been a subject of long dispute, There 1s evidence to indicate that the nickname first be-| came popular in 1713, following publi- His sabots, wide t F Sam of the OUISE DE LA RAMEE, best known by her pen name of Ouida, was born in England in cation of Pr. Arbuthnot’s satirical] 140, She wrote many romances of novel, “John Bull.” Other invest!-| great ang varying power. Among her gators assert that Dean Swift was| earlier and melodramatic ones are the first to use the name, but ascribe nae tamae ann aa “Under the same year, 1718, to his introduc-|Two Flags, t alia.” ers tion of John Bull in its famous appli- feng mith Pose, ame, were cation to the English people. The|"Wanda.” She devoted much atten great dean had satirized « number of poe se Pumasiarien Work, eupeaial rid nfluential men and women, and for| to the prevention of cruelty ] dren and to lower animals, bis sins he was, in that year, exiled|) or romances have iy dramatized, ry of Bt. Patrick's, Dub- peta a al i aie WAS TEI NCR ne en ii