The evening world. Newspaper, February 10, 1920, Page 21

Pox. ‘TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1920 Tenants Can Reduce Their Rents 25 to 50% By Leasing Houses Themselves; Each Pays $50 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 106, 192 Phone Service tery SOMEBODY Gets the Right Number—A Phone! ae “Se Th, (eS 7 men a fat RM APY el ieee gs Se eae Booth Is a Pleasant Place to Spend a Nickel and F Maurice G. Postley. | Copyrtent, 1920, : “ Ie Conpriant, ip i aa aang 0, fi edo Brenig World.) | Poor Little Incot I 1e! ete miata By Maurice Ketten ||| Afternoon—Central Will Cut You Off Quicker Thané j Fone of your neighbors were to approach you, Mr. and Mrs, Tenant, and aii ieetenenienicin tennant iio cast || Cason Uncle: With «@ Groen ask for @ Joan of about fifty dollars, with a promise that your rent By Neal R: 0’ Hara od Qe ‘would be reduced from twenty-five to fifty per cent, what would you ‘ Coprrigh:, 1830, abing Worl | iy. si @of Although it seems paradoxical, you can be your owm landlord and UTTLE IS‘ HE ABLE LOT of us inde tha ils rt a aie peta iy Hi sa \ : » erg reduce your own rent almost one-half, assuming, of course, that you are To RETAIN edi (te ba Ge ae ‘The phone company gives it to us, and we would like to stager saat dé it now takes less than six months’ service to make phism ” willing to part with a fifty spot! Not only are a number of prominent New York City men advocating the e-operation of tenants to lease the houses in which they live and lower their own rents, bul five of them have already purchased a vacant lot and tatend buliding a forty-family co-operative apartment house. 1} “Dispqesces the profteering landlord,” js the motto on the standard of | ig te advocates of co-operation to eliminate the profits of the owners of ~~ epartmat houses, ‘When the owner of a certain apartment honSe on West 146th Street Maneed the house to a certain business man for $3,000 the other day, accept- ‘© fag an initial deposit of $500, although the tenants did not know it, they had ~& opportunity to become their own landiords and reduce their own rents. | The families in this building, had they co-operated and Jeased the house ‘themselves, could have caused a reduction of ten dollars per month in the ‘peat of each family. A few facts and figures regarding his investment will substantiate the ANYTHING IN A | mad, nog oe A gent that's ever battled with Central deserves a The horrors of war can't compare with the horrors of the tpgRhenp Agr | j vice. When the war was going on, If you wanted to “seW’ qoA EPO could get him with a piece of stecl or a lead bullet. BatetrsviRyle | guy now—with a piece of change or @ lead nickel. We defnixes nosed | Phoning ts the greatest gamble on earth, even it it eply tenia & | nickel to call, A phone call is even worse than a lottery. dine SOMEBODY gets tho right number. There's only one thing fim tet say for the telephone—it’s a commodity that hasn't gone upyukoustle drop your nickel in the slot and get no answer. antsvoO fej} | A phone booth is # pleasant place to spend a nickel anditmotttembogm. | ee i - segcaak {lai oe wome seer who said that the proof of the pudding ds in the ‘The dimensions of a booth are about the same as a coffin, expenyro@ Me ©, digesting. @ ‘The total amoum of renis of the) Cane TREN fe re Sa stood on end. You step into a booth and you're dead to the wenldiser twepha | a.Apartment buliding on West 145th|Using it for habitation.” : service goes. sbo4 odtao | Sadiaat ia 94.900 iy. ‘The teavee |, ARother who commends the plan s | 24m |B. Walter Barnett, reat tate meichant who hal Yoanas6d Central is @ girl you know to speak to, but not by sight. pleats mlgirt estate merc) 0 a 50 j that's always plugging but never gets anything—net for subgepil |least. She'll cut you off quicker (han @ rich uncle with a grouchy; | keep you waiting longer than a wife that’s dolling up. And Cengral’ ¢ \Same as the rest of the girls—when she breaks off with you she ‘attention to the rings you give her. he Phone company advertises that it's always trying to get operabdvR? © Subscribers are in the same fix, but they never advertise the inet. Cem HIS VITALITY IS Low. gu ST Li DOES HE ( COUGH ne; COUGH?) CP You CAN HAVE THIS ) PRESCRIPTION i FILLED AT ANY Post OFFICE ¢ Pak about $600 when he drew up bis ] eqreement with the owner, with @/ apartment houses for forty youre, | \momhly payment which owill ‘bring; “The average owner woul - . more than pleased to lease his house the total Co $3,000 for the year. There) +, the tenants in preference to a } “te ten families in the house, and at! private lessee,” was his opinion on ag wate of $6,900 per year, euch ¢am-|the subject recently, “for he would | ity pays approximately $690 yearly, or |e assured that the tenants, in order }ug $67 per month. ‘The Jessee in this } Post , / ( OFFICE? \ y SOUNDS to keep expenses down and thus ‘ keep their rents low, would returo (6) case, according té the provisions of t i 1 iration | . . | Ma tease, “will have to pay all ex: OF Uioclnnbe ficsah ROOATCORATIION ko tral {x expected to be intelligent, and maybe she tx. Maybe she can read sat Bin ie necessary to the management} ir not patter than when the lease be- and write, but she certainly can’t get numbers, Central ts always pleas came effective. ee oie a | “There can be no mistake about co- a operative leasing. It is no longer a theory but 4 practicable means of re- ducing rents “The title companies and banks, I am sure, would willingly lend money to such an enterprise. Neighborhoods would be very slow in deteriorating due to permanent occupancy, andthe dependability of the tenant is far greater than that of a ‘shoe-string’ investor."’ "The purchase of edifices by a co- | operative leasing orgunization would entail a comparatively large invest- ant too, Her inind may be cloudy and her yoice stormy, bat Central herself is always pleasant, Yes, indeed. It's “the voice with a smile™ ~ that mukes ’em that way—although you often wish the voice could be choked! ‘There's only one person that asks for your number mére | cheerfully than Central, and that's a traffle cop. | Wo know that operators are scarce, especially when you try tor get! ‘om, But it does aeem they could use us better, Just take the stock’ ex- | change for instance. There's an exchange that gives you serviceel« Av Wall Street operator gets your number right away. He's liable to nt you up any time and aek for another $10,000, please, for five minutes. et stock exchange can put you in the hands of a receiver quicker than You/ % Rs per vent. or more, adding somo $600 to the profit assured when he took over the lease. al Ad families be this house met for the purpose of organizing and obtaining 2 lease themse! ives, they would have discovered that | ; if each put u the rents could {ment on the part of the members Ss FR - can put @ receiver in your bands, Try It and see. ef Miccsareneat trees ovis suect | Soreot, and in addition would cause ye T R nee PLASTERING ‘Trouble with the Stock Exchange {s that dts service is too darn quick. | Heart in weet the and ofa | it would tke five years before tie LASTE M UR LITTLE It's so speedy you drop your money in the slot and before you know it! vidi pemeis pei Glebe sacouat Hie INCOME WITH you're saying bood-by—to your money. Ayd call money is more than | i estment, would powsession , Pah restaurant owner, George R. uell,| the sum invested in addition to nis! [REST TONIC THRIFT STAMPS é SACKS We ae ee Pea! G M. Anderson, John Lever and Will- | Sate of the property. FOR L AS THE Doctor SOMETHING ‘The number of every pay station is 5-10-25 and toll calls are even | iam E. Walling, an attorney of No. 26] Many real, eatate agree i ll li (TTLE PRESCRIBED | ) SOMETIME | | more than that. New toll rates cost three cents a mile in any direetton | eee ores is ake ea erent extent, dor it would militate §INCONE ED |) DADpy — | and @ guy with @ heavy voice pays for excess baggage. Toll calf édbts | agad business interests, Nu- $$. : . (a btaccua fancunte or ake tear caters |, 2 $1 down and 50 cents a week till you get your party, Rates have been | Street subway station, and are draw- , to build an up-to-date iag Up gee reduced by making a 6 look like a 9. Phone service is so cheap these apartment house. ‘Fort families, each investing their days we'll bet J. P. Morgan's on a party line. ” Yup, there’s no such thing as a fair exchange in the dear old tele phone biz. They’re all terrible. Jnst one way you can get even and that’s this: ae When the bill comes in the first of the month tear it up and ten+ ‘em you don't answer. When the second bill comes tell ‘em to try you again. When the collection department calls you up, ask ‘em to please excuse it, Then order ‘em (to take out yout phoue and send ‘em a check by the very next mail. When the guy comes to tear out your telephone just tell him he was called by mistake, Maybe you can drive THEM erry. ” aie agent's office would be eliminated if the public took action in the co-oper- ative move. In a recent statement shortly be- fore he resigned as Chairman of the | Mayor’s Rent Profiteering Committee, | Capt, Charles 8. Goldsmith placed the diame of high rents in New York on the shoulder of the “shoestring” in- | vestor. He expressed the opinion! that over 80 per cent. of the exorbi- tant rentals in this city can be traced to the lessees who have no interest in the duiiding other than what it can éc for them from a pecuniary view- point. | ; 4 be all of whom tive in apartments (erick the rents have been boosted sky high, have already obtained the tromise ‘of a number of families. Plans for the construction are well under way. »UOARer the participants and members of the oo-operrtive or- ganization have paid their initial investments, their rents will be $7 per room per month, according to computations of and each tenant } 1 Gears | Lhe Jarr Family || TalKs ON HEALTH AND BEAUTY || Lucile the Waitress ise nuatens: | per cent. annually. Each apart- . McCardell. | #?| " ‘Sure!’ he tells me. Then he sélbe- inet well ats vs PRY ores ction dltleentoct By veulios Berens |{She Admires Tenderloin, the Poet Who Wrote} | B2 | as why do you ask that?’ | “‘Honey Bunch, ‘I says joe 1 ‘I don't dare toll you. Now whats P| You going to eat or did you comp 1 to play athletics? rooms, with all modern conven- F \the arms and, as they are the all im- portant ones in lifting and pushing, Compright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World.) Boudoir Exercises. On a Question of Health Uncle Henry Comes to Town. “The Beautiful Snow Storm.” Tences. it je roughly einai that the Steric Bois, of tho 224 | mnutlaing jes A. Du Bois, eT ae ‘a. prominent | 1920, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (Tho New York Evening World.) Regi Engineers, man read any exercises which tend to " Teer eotker who has handied many Coprvight, 1920, ty The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World.) O many of eny readers write @Pd|itrengthen them sould be regularly blizzard wo've been) “‘How about a board vill’ I ask,| “Mo orders beans and goes to sae apartment houses on upper Man-| ¢¢ 'Y nose just itches and itches,” | and forks continually, and men come Tra ete ae ne eee, | eae , eh?” said Lucile the |Just to sort o° be kittenish in my old | Te's quiet a while and then he gg, chattan, is among those who have ee ere te ta tee ee ams, where they may have th¢|" stand several feet from » wall, reach Pegg yin pay ed eh the oonvareanion Itch Gace ieee their approval of the co- , ereRneye ‘ use of various kinds of apparatus, 1/ over and catch the sides of the seat | 5, ec ipsa pligerad + hatte anoctltacee it axel eneae vain ny mo- operative plan. Another who favors these days of oulja board |femarked Mr. Jurr. “So I can't 8€€/naye peen moved to write an article|of the chair with both hands, which | Patron parked ibis cigar on the ' he sl a baci i" in to him . the inception of an ongan-|messages from the departed and| Why you should think the itching of suggesting a few thi i ne hi . position throws the weight of the|of the lunch counter, Ways pay for what I eut. I'm an ice 1 got a sleigh up on the furm zation of tenants to lease. thelr} everybody crazy about spiritualism, 1| Your nose could be a portent of dis- | “esesuns 4 few things in the home| oody upon the arms. Let the Lody| “Yes,” ‘he replied. “It's got to be| skater, toot’ wh T live, he says house, is Reginald Pethara Rtattars wonder what an itching Me | autor.” raul erate the purpose just fe Ghat tours ce of {Rel pretty bad when it ean tie up all the! “I'm getting bored with that guy.) ‘'l thought wo,’ I says bo author of several wor! nose jad i as well. First in importance of these,| head about touches the top o ie cA Ginaat eae . . ae ae i Whi au y bk And historienl research. sign of? Let mo sco—what IS it a|, “Well, you'll sce; something willl, Ty ‘ining, is the ordinary atraign; |CMuit: Continue to raise and lower th. | *¥tface street car | Uuaton, Mister, ‘I cays, ‘did you ever) i at made you think 1 hadi @ “The adoption of a plan of ©°-| sen of? When your hand itches it's | UAlPeM." Mrs. Jarr rejoined; “and as : : SI I times, keeping the knees| “You epoke wome remark, friend!"}have any falls while ice skating? | eT ey tos nim: operative leasing by tenants would I said to you before, ‘troubles never bedroom chair, which if not too heavy,! rigid and breathing deeply and evenly | came from Lucile. “Those absent | “‘Oh, gure!’ he says. ‘Some hard|tived on a farm, 1 onan @ sign you are going to get money"— “That I'm going to get money?” asked Mr. Jarr in some surprise. come singly.’ Mind what I say: “Troubles never come singly.” “You don't expect your Uncle meanwhile, ‘This is a very strenuous exercise | and must not be overdone at the start may be easily handled by most auy woman in ordinary health. im at factor in effectively lower- wre rents,” ie the terse opinion of Major Du Rpis. street cars caused @ lot of discom- modity among the people, but I was ones." Ever light on your head?’ i 4 " In many other articles 1 have de- lad they 7 : = f eof apartment houses |”. . | Henry and your Aunt Hetty to visit and it is advisable to discontinue it be- | #1ad they were tied up = een it * aces Oe the mortwage on thelr You know what x meen, that I'm So 70 nukes Mr. son. en scribed the valuable cles raising ex-|fore you feel even the slightest fatigue, | Why? Old-Timer, [ wisht you cam Pay OF thee prota ney re-| going to get money,” replied Mra 0; Unele Henry writes Aunt|}ercise for developing thin neck and] otherwise serious strain on the inurel “Well, that old flat-wheeled one seen him’ freeze up, ‘He Hetty isn't feeling well, and 80 he may | arms and J have always done this with|may be noticeable several hours late: | never spo! Newest Notes in cetve in rents,” added Mr. Bolton.| Jarr. “But how can I get money un- «| aidn'e Meaeh aie baka Maat aigtie, oie ” the rents are 2 come up to the city so Aunt Hetty can| my bedroom chair, though 1 have ad-| Readers shoul derstanc he » another word to me untit eo ihe (O pey for the| 10s You get it frat? And tf you do| get out into the fresh air looking after | vised readers to practise it from the | further ean the ey iy teat cee | lek enany oven ins @tickia, To hin 35 ~ 3 i betas eee ‘Chan? 8nd shemae in_adaition to paying _for/ set any money you'll have to give me |tho stock, especially as the hired man | wall, because this metnod is preteranle| placed the grealer Will he the strait | how fratless a Mat wheel would be’ | Fields of Science “But here," Lael * onal aside eee has left to come up to the city to bel for beginners. However if poe an ‘ be a a ald be : er wucile continued, “1 ee ten dollars, because you borrowed two n i sinni . if you start/on the muscles and the more etrenu-|in a9 adiige tole fe been telling You's loner tee dollars trom me yesterday. But r! unemployed, Uncle Henry writes, the chest ralsing exercise by lowering |ous the exercise snow storm he car couldn't | | Been telling you n lot of hodge-sgdae i | Do don't nencntes ee nee : io px eat tere 8 eee Of ems, [only to the top of the back of the| Raising and lowertng the cheat to|"¥9: And another thing—tho old’ 4 large part of one of Fimlund’s ore! don't know and Rave, clean Zonet ' et any money, ployment among farm hands in the| chair, you. wit Ny become | the top of the baok of the chair is | milkman and his jangling cans didn’t |gelds lies under the seu Our. atlarolene iM eo | ou go I can't get any money from you, |Breat cities these days,” sald Mr. uarn stronger and n to pra toed in the mane maanet, aid lal ucther env elinmmers nalte Wasn't eerie <4 - tert? ‘We got apple ie eit rae ca for my hand didn't itch —although|,, Just then the impatient ringing of) it on the front This method|a comparatively easy exercise, bene-| i, oA e Kitchen dishes made of glass rejn- | ding but I sus the exes ; Ow, the bell at the hall door announced | develops the muscles at the backs of! ficial for beginners. i n who wrote | sada | f se: me they say if your ears burn some-/the advent of a visitor. “There, I od BERS, SAP ORY Me 1 ; Wet, | forced With wire have been invented, | SAddle a slice the ple onto you Coprght, 120, by Tus Pres Publishing Co.| body's talking aibout you, And a knife | know that’s him now!" Mrs, Jarr re- ——* | : i | you got a strong digestion Pye ‘s now!" Mrs, Jai A " ay otr If I've got ew mechanical blotter for boo! i (Tee New York Heong Werid) | fell at tho tabloythis morning, and |™arked wearily. | “He never will ring Maxims of a By Marguerite ng in the we (nel pater ates crtet tate nena ADVERT. Se: given to the main : the letter-hox be! e : ein t cept 0 copies entries in books 1sem | 1 What name is given that was a sign that a man was com-| always goes in by the janitors en- ~ = Mo. sc w storm. Oh. vely,| tor comparison pa ORM ENT ue tent in a circus? ing to the house, and sure enough | trance in the basement and comes ° | but it sure his caused a lot of un-| — When A Woman’s Te th « 2 What Is the ceatiende. of | be two bill collectors were here, for, as |Tight upstairs.” Mo de rn Ma id Mier il l oademeey ceawaneuaten Holiand’s new salt mines already! a ee boundary between Washingt Talay trovbiow never come finaly. | h Boral Health Gesker, | Marsha | “A white ago a guy comes in here|@Fe meoting about one-eighth of th Are Most in Danger ' "Who was responsible for the|On, dear.” Uncle Henry entered as Mr. Jarr we a Se ig eee exit ait nest to whore yon, {country's demand, The quality of the saliva has mach Beene the Pure Food Law? 7 7 opened the door for him, but he was/| Copyright, 1936, by Tho Frees Publishing Co. (The New York Rrening World.) = unary res you're | itil to do with the condition of the teeth. | 4 What is the name of George ‘Now, looky here, you mustn't be/not in a pleasant mood. MAN is an Indlan glver with his heart—he always reserves the right | (VP "'" a tn miles at! syria, a only country, cul- Before the baby comes, and immedi. | ington’s home? superstitious, my deur,” remarked) “Hello, Nevvy Ed!" he growled. to take it back, me a ating pistachio uts, produces! ately thereafter, it ; Rn ee aoe were the North: f nye . 1|"This is a town of #windlers. I been ane th haat 1 love this snow. Wonder whore rut 500,000 pounds a yea ° it undergoes a } ray ni who stirred up trouble |r, Jef commorting. “You see, Li nine to hire @ hired man, but they When mother and the children a vote for the sume new car - jchange, and often the mother finds } eenara knowi WhO u eita tmylaine’ Rad ane ciael tan e " ’ J ' F the a C48.) 1 could get a couple of sk stenera like those on gloves|herself with sensitive gums hd with the negroes after the Civil War? if : are all Bullshevicks these days and father had better yield at once to the Soviet In the home. (eweieroc cunts ans Wits Snap fasteners like those on gloves | Nerse ro j “PWhe wrote “Tam O'Shanter?” | you said. s won't work for less than $2.4 day and | 161; edhe! Ce DE eae al yt steer you right,’ £) have been invented to hold rugw on | loosening teeth ; 3 Vhat is the unit of weight of a board. Well, all I got to say is that | Nothing equals the fine spontaneity with which a man ‘crabs the stuff” of a| says, ‘mut Pro! closed all the; oors or tapest on walls his condition emporary, end 4. What te s Omen of Two Men. Ll ced) @amont? d .__ |the honest farmers, who is the back-| woman successful in his own profession if wround here oe snacnine| 2ett Hot be mistaken for the onset B. What space is generally used) “mut Te not superstitions, I'm lone of the land, le going to rige next |1t ts exceedingly fortunate that a woman's passionate love for her husband| ‘'t don't mean whiskey, he aays.| epitty activ and. crooked. remmunts| cabo at te Hiss Della Spellmady af between words | 001 ? | not a bit superstitious, and you know a e they like ; Spee ae he pss ce p 4 ee Ar Min Aliee eee A e State Hospital, we 9. In what month will the intorna-|i¢ ‘atog, Tarr declared, “But wher |{rults and weretables they perduce by | doesn't last—since what he wants 1s some one to buy new tablecloths and |‘! mean skis to make me slip over the jot wood into even sized kindlings. | York, with years of experience, ade { tional yacht races be held off Sandy the sweat of their brows!” snaried| sheets, count the laundry and use secret diplomacy on the maid. | snow sat aie ™ | Vises the gentle use of the toothbrush ; Hook? signs and omens are happening and a/ Uncle Henry. ropes fu ; A | “Well, won't whiskeys make you! s:Come, Ste ,canniers which can Belivice « day with & preparetioncl } 10, What centennial was celebrated | lot of them come true, why, it Is nol “Say, what did you come to town in| “7 H0 typical New Yorker,” @ clever one said to me, “is the man who walka! (0 ’ NOU Missile take youlatiached to a car without tools are] sor it tating drug mod een ial 4 by tho St. Louis Exposition? wonder if I say, ‘if 1 wi this weather for? You know you| up an escalator instead of riding on it.” jute he snow asked, demure. | mew in the automobile accessory Ine, | Irom “ppt che vecommanatee ; 11. What famous church stands on | ‘ ae SUpOE- | can't hire any farm hands in the city,” like, mind you - suge by finger. She recommends \Al- 1 Macadwne chepalte Wall mureatt stitious I could believe in such|Ssmarked Mr. Sarr testily, '¥*" | How fortunate that the persons to whom we talk about our wonderful sal-| aves bodon’ Dental Cream knowing ite is 4 12. Who is Speaker of the Assembly | things!’ But I am not ono bit super-| “Wal,” replied Uncle Henry, ‘I way| Ties never see our income tax returns! whis nker. $k piel’ and safe and fully meets _ j of New York State’, stitious, yot when I let my fork fall| feeling a touch of the influensy and J | In modern matrimon in the old-fashioned square dance, every so often | your Fre HTeCIeate Of WOMany COE } i reas n ie papers i erfesser | hi a the nand: "C e pi and al! hands arounc ” Gren, my ANAWENS TO YESTERDAY ® tiie mormon Fwd. to Garda word of Columbia enya the cliy IB] wena ane ee cnane POT Ane a) Tees AICO . ror teats tance ¥| A tube holding 85 brushfuls cad be | uy » ‘There's @ man coming. Mark my |more healthy than the farm communi- | Na cian wil sts i SY HOF RAGA PGNORESD ‘If T rido on tutn as tt le stecred, | QOURME guaranteed at any drug store, |) L Dendrigiier Gwe & Roper Will: words!’ And two bill collectors did ee te=rend I thought I'd come on a} estiag ne A si be dc Gat on thar | a CS ts steered, | Ainodon is calcium \ams; +4 3 6, visit to you and see whether It was sc be good, be clever, a : t 1g | fled c 4, Halt Moon; 7, Republican; 8, Bibert |COm* #0 that’s why I say we nover/ ot yt tee ee roe nll prescrip. | Some buy gold bricks, some invest in a plant to extra 4 from seaw He jaughs and says 4 to be| About one-third of the world's gold | fel and mixed: w Hubbard; 9, Gregorian; 10, Hickory: | know what's going to happen.” tions for old fashioned bitters—te | nd some pin their faith to the oulja board. i mes from a strip of land. in the | antiseptic oils of cloves, cinnam i, Cleveland; 12, ‘Tuberculosis, “But the children drop their knives | prevent sickness?” re | rhe heart of a man is past hotel, part mortuary, oi sis jong and which authorities women and y | eucalypt _ lis best ih