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A FIELD FOR THE P. R. T. PARK
THE transit company's promise of summer
opera at Its proposed new amusement
park at Sixty-third and Market streets sug
Bests a type of enterprise which already has
proved attractive lu several large cities.
Chicago in particular can boast of an up
rntlc season at Harinla Park that compnres
by no means unfavorably with the regular
subscription series In more formal plnj
houses.
Singers of distinction are conceivably not
rcrse to summer engagements for remunera
tion lower than that which figures in the
. Metropolitan, Chicago and Oallo companies'
payrolls. Stars of the tlrst magnitude lire
Hot invariably necessary to finished and
balanced representations, ns has been re
peatedly demonstrated abroad.
Vacation-time opera affords opportunity
for aspiring young singers sufficiently en
dowed with native gifts to respond to pro
fessional training in association with stand
ardized principals.
Objectors to the establishment of the pro
jected park have presented various argu
ments, including the somewhat amusing one
of Commissioner Medary, of llywood, "that
thoe who care for opera ore able to satisfy
their tastes by visiting the high -class artists
"in the grand opera In I'hi'adelphin." As
the Academy of Music is virtually sold out
for the winter season of only sixteen per
formances, it Is Interesting to wonder how
the imagined "visiting" is to be done.
What Is more to the point than com
plaints is insistence upon the fulfillment of
the rosy program outlined by the l It. T.
If a new park Is to be brought into being
at Sixty-third street It should be justified
by really worth-while offerings. Mere talk
along esthetic lines Is not enough. The way
for the park planners to win, if legal en
tanglements are overcome, is to broaden the
field of summer entertainment here. No
Increase of parks devoted chietiy to Coney
Island devices is needed.
A ONE-THEME TREATY
THE thirty-day recess of Congress which
began last night will enable the treaty
scrutinizers of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee to subject the new pact with
Germany to the most searching examination.
'The labor Involved is unlikely to mar a
more or less earned vacation. The new
document, like woman's and politicians' love.
Is brief, and is concerned chiefly with the
formal pronouncement of peace, which was
thought at one time to have been so au
thoritatively spoken by the Knox -Porter
resolution.
It is difficult to Imagine what reasonable
objection the opponents of the Versailles
Treaty can mnke to the separate pact, which
Is comparatively free from argument-provoking
details. With the Reichstag and the
Senate each doing business about a month
hence, it seems hardly too much to expect
that peace will be actuullv concluded liy
November 11, three years frSm the cessation
of hostilities.
The foreshadowed supplemental trentv
with Gennnnv. to be devoted to an adjust
ment of intricate financial matter-, will
doubtless furnish the Senate with some ma
terials for debate. The speechifying, how
Tcr, will not prolong the war statu a fact
which Secretary Hughes .-eeins to have
counted upon with a characteristic appre
ciation of realities.
The skll'fnlncss of Mr. Hughes' methods
is illustrated by the signing in Vienna of
the treaty of peace with Austria. The im
portance of that aireeiwur is largely tech
nical. The Austria which exists today Is
but a residue of the former empire with
which the I'nlted States was nt wnr.
Nevertheless, obstreperous spirits can take
little consolation from the fn t tliot they
knew nothing of the negotiations until the
first step was formally completed.
THE INTERNATIONAL WHIRLIGIG
THE evanescence of national animosities
is strikingly illustrated in the numerous
applications for enlistment in the current
wnr against the .Moors winch luue been
made at the Spanish Consulate in this city s
The appeal of romance ami adventure,
and perhaps also the prospect of steadv if
meagerlj paid employment, are doubtless tic
direct causes of tins enthusiasm for more
soldiering. Hut what hn become of the old
inhibitions, of the detestation of Spam as
a cruel and degenerate nation, upon which
the United States inlllctcd condign punish
ment? Twenty -three cars ago tin pics-nt
recruiting scenes would liinc been judg. d
utterlj unimaginable.
The temporary nature of international
passions suggests tlint affections as well
may be etpiulh fleeting. Considerations of
this kind iiniictiiiuably give point to the
traditional American mcrsion to foreign
alliances
It Is not altogether easy to determine
who will he our friends, who our foes, upon
this cham; ng earth u score of years from
any given date.
HE WOULD BE KING
'AS A man who would be K.ng. Prince
XX Feisal f.oiucrh of Arabia, takes dis
tinguished rank His invaluable aid to the
Allies in the Palestine i'uiiipaigis was origi
nally so rapturously icceixed by both the
"English and the Fieneli ihut the brilliant
young ciiieftiiiu, who claim-- descent from
Mohammed himself, was richly rewarded
With promises.
Among these was a vision of his nsccnt
ro a newly constituted thr-iie of Syria.
From that eminence, to uhuh lie bclicwd
himself entitled. Feisal wtis summarily
ejtsted by the French, with Itritam looking
OB without csnec nl disapproval
4The M'li of the old Shcreef of Mitch, imw
&? Klnt of the Hedjiu, prmed himself, v.
'& . JaVl til 11(1 ftlilittlU it trill In I uu u 4 I. ..
nsjfjrja iprvr, vj on menus
b 'X. I ' rt. He had nt
r'vl pnterenre und was
K '" H.Mff the Kurownn dl
r? j .. ( ; " nun ill l III
lie had intended the Puns Pence.
as not without knowledge
Ilplonuulo methods. Iln
,-m , mH bwa promised realm
AWicre was It?
Vii.
The answer Is furnished by Great Britain
In establishing Prince Feisal ns King of
Mesopotamia, or that portion of it called
Irak, for which the ltritish Government
holds a mandate tinder the League of Na
tions. Tho move Is undeniably shrewd.
It is In accord with the Moslem complexion
of the Mesopotamlnn region and will prob
ably exert n mollifying effect upon the
growing militancy of Mohammedan opinion
throughout the world.
Feisal is obviously not the type of man
who can Indefinitely be cheated successfully.
His occupancy of the throne at Ilagdnil not
only restores something of the prestige en
joyed by Hint nncient capital during tho
great days of the Caliphate, but it means n
powerful friend for Britain In one of tho
corners of the globe where she needs as
sistance most.
NEW ROADS ARE A GREAT AID
TO ALL CIVILIZED PROGRESS
The West Chester Pike and a View of
the Future Suggested by Its
Reopening Yesterday
ONE by one magnificent new concrete
roads of nn nlmost indestructible type
are beginning to run out from Philadelphia
over long distances like the spokes of a whftl.
The new West Chester highway, opened
formally yesterday, represents another step
forward In a road-building program which,
in the course of time, will affect the eco
nomic and social life of the State and the
Nation ns profoundly as the first great rail
way lines did.
Look at a rood engineer's map of the
country and you will see, jutting out like
extending tentacles from every great center
of population, the newly completed motor
highways of the modern type. These newer
traffic arteries arc projected over lines de
vised to link the great central roadways of
one State with those of all the others in a
vast network of smooth and durablo roads.
In this State the road-bulldlug and main
tenance svstem, to which motor owners now
are directly contributing 10.00(1,000 n year,
has been magnificently administered, Broadly
speaking, it is unaffected by politics or com
munity favoritism. The engineers have
plotted out their work with a view solely
to tho greatest good for the greatest number.
What might be called express motor routes
are being established year after year be
tween the more important cities and in ac
cordance with scientific plans devised to
extend the beneiits of good roads to the
farms. Year after year, as the number of
motorcars in use increases, money for such
work becomes more plentiful.
Current reports from the State Highway
Department show hat the 000.000th mark
has just been passed by the bureau which
issues licenses to passenger cars. This
means that Pennsylvania has more passen
ger automobiles than any other State ex
cept New York, and that ov-ers of such
vehicles pay nt least $8,000,000 a year in
special fees. That money, with the fees paid
by truck owners, must be used for rood
construction nnd repair. There is. besides,
the .?."(!. 000. (MX) State bond issue made avail
able by recent legislation for the improve
ment and extension of the general highway
system.
Within the last few years motor roads
of the most modern type hove been completed
or soon will be completed between this city
ond Koylestown, Bethlehem, Beading and
West Chester. The magnificent concrete
highway to Atlantic City and the other
South Jersey resorts has been virtually com
pleted.
In New Jersey the work of road -building
has been carried on with very large State
appropriations, nnd it is being pushed con
sistently. Within a few years it will be
possible to travel over solid concrete road
wajs from any central point in Pennsyl
vania to any point on the Jersey const.
Meanwhile, the neighboring States arc
hardly less energetic and lavish than Penn
sylvania and New Jersey in opening and
improving avenues for the new sort of
transport. It is predicted that within ten
years concrete roads will extend from coast
to coast.
The need for this gradual reconstruction
of the coun'ry's main highwajs becomes
apparent afur a glance at the statistics of
the State Highway Department at Harris
burg. On July 1. 1014. there were approxi
mately 7(5.000 motorcars of all types in use
in this State. In 101S there were approxi
mately ,rj.'..000.
The use of the motorcar has so inerensed
in Pennsylvania that the total number of
passenger cars now on the State roads is
twice as great as the number of machines
of all tjpes operated in the State two and
n half years ago. And like all things in
America, the automobile has many new tri
umphs ahead of it.
In recent years farmers have come fully
to appreciate the utility of good roads.
They have ceaed to object to the expendi
ture of large sums of public money for the
improvement of old highways and the build
ing of new ones.
The motorcar hus given the farmer a
new sort of life. Farms ore no longer
isolated. Good roads and automobiles may
vet sohc the momentous problem created by
nn earlier drift of the younger generation
from the agricultural areas to the cities.
The farm on which there is a motorcar
is no longer cut off from the advantages and
diversions of the cities. It offers, rather,
the combined advantages of city ond Country
life that people are accustomed to seek in
the suburbs.
A "MYSTERY" UNCOVERED
THE mystery behind President Wilson's
Panama tolls address to Congress is
uneowred in the second installment of the
letters of Walter II in us Page which up
peart. in the current World's Work.
It will be recalled that the President con
cluded Ills address by a request for u repeal
of the Free Tolls Act "in support of the
foreign policy of the Administration." He
said further: "I shall not know how to
deal with other matters of even greater
delifiicv and nearer consequences if you do
not grant it to me in ungrudging measure. "
As the Mexican situation was acute, at
the time, there was an immediate Inference
t lint the tolls repeal was asked In order to
appease Great Britain, which was supposed
to be demanding tlint the t'nited States
cither do something to compel the Mexicans
to respect the rights of foreigners or permit
the British to intervene
Hut the Page letters do not support this
view Thev indicate that early in lUVi the
President had nssured the Ilritisli that he
would seek to bring about the repeal os soon
as possible, for be believed that the law
was passed in violation of treaty pledges.
Tlieie are frequent references to the mutter
in the letters which Ambassador Page wrote,
nnd th-y all indicnte that the sole purpose
of the repeal was to remove grounds of
friction between the I'nlted States and
Great Britain.
'llie Ilritisli had protested against the
passage of the act and had insisted that it
violated the canal treaty, and when the act
was repealed they were gratified.
The editor of the Page letters suggests
that the question of "greater delicacy" to
which the President referred "was not un
related to the colossal tragedy which was
at that moment overhanging Europe and
the world."
As It was in March 1014. tlint the Presi
dent made his plea for repeal, more than
three monthw before the assasslnntlon in
Sarajevo, and when virtually every one
was confident that a great war was im
possible, It Is crediting th President with
keener foresight than any other statesman
to ussitmc that he had In mind in March
the prevention of any such thing as hap
pened at the end of July.
ANOTHER QUEEN'S END
mllE end of the ZIt-tt must be regarded as
n major catastrophe involving an In
calculable number of minor tragedies. The
Americans aboard the big dirigible met death
in a singularly terrible form.
Among them were some of the best men
of tho naval aviation service. With them
perished some of the bravest and most ar
dent pioneers of British aviation.
And it is probable that among the build
ers and designers of the ZIt-2 were men
who, reading of the disaster at Hull, wished
bitterly In their despair that they had been
aboard their Queen of the Air to perish
with her and her helpless passengers.
For upon the performance of this super
Zeppelin depended the hopes of those fliers
and builders who believed that dirigibles
would supplant the plane in the war and
commerce of the air.
A long time probably will be required to
fix responsibility for the disaster. It was
freely rumored that the big vessel was not
so safo as she should hnve been. The United
Stotes had contracted to pay $2,000,000 for
the dirigible. The loss will fall, of course,
upon the builders, who were staking their
reputations as well as their money on the
success of the trial flights.
The exact cause of tho explosion may
never be known. Scientific men may argue
over it for years. To the laymen It will
nppcar Inevitably as if unknown forces
played in thjs Instance against the mind of
man as If there were here a suggestion that
the audacious of the earth are a little too
eager, a llttlo too ardent and swift and
reckless in their attempts to complete the
couquest of the air. For the strangest co
incidence revealed in the disaster of the
ZK-2 was not mentioned in the cables.
The Zeppelin after which the British
builders and engineers designed their biggest
dirigible came to an end similar to that
which befell the ZR-2. She fell in flames
and every man aboard of her died In the nlr.
Again yesterday It was demonstrated that
an immense reservoir of highly inflammable
gas, burdened with big gas engines nnd
nrtlllcry, can hardly be reckoned a safe
Instrument of war.
COMMUNISM ON ITS LAST LEGS
WHAT purports to bo n confession of
failure by Lcnine has been published
in Paris. It is in tho form of a letter
to a friend whom ho knew when he was in
exile. The confession may or may not be
authentic, but it contains what any intelli
gent observer of the Russian situation knows
to be true. There is no reason save one of
political expediency which should prevent
Leniue from making the ndmisslons witt
which he is credited. He has already made
them in part by his concessions to the desire
of the peasants to own their land and by
his modification of the communistic theory
in tho management of industry.
Lcnine is represented ns saying that tho
Hussion workers nnd "peasants have betrayed
their own interests. He gambled on the
collective instinct which he thought ought
to hold the people and the members of the
Communist Party together, but he found
that the collective Instinct was weaker than
the individual instinct to possess nnd to re
tain that which was acquired. In other
words, he gambled on the weakness of a
human qunlity which has been responsible
for the organization of what he is pleased
to call the capitalistic Governments.
It is a matter of history that Govern
ments have been organized to protect the
property as well as the life of the people.
The right to .private property has been re
garded as sacred. The hope of accumulating
it lins been responsible for the material de
velopment of the world. It has driven men
from the older countries to the new. where
they have endured hardship and privation for
jears that they might ultimately profit by
the possession of land and its fruits of nil
kinds. There has been no mass action in
this. The individuals with sufficient initia
tive to go forth and tame the waste places
of the earth have been responsible for what
has happened.
What is called the collective Instinct has
been born in men who have wished to profit
by the labors of the Individuals without
enduring the hardships which the individuals
havo suffered. They have insisted that the
world belongs to the people who inhabit it,
nnd that they and those who agree with
them are the people.
"For a long time past I have realized
the imminence of compromise and conces
sions on our side," the alleged confession
goes on, "which would draw to our party
new forces nnd increase the little band of
weary and rcallysdevoted workers. Without
that we cannot go on."
But nn outhentic message from Lcnine
to the German Communists indicates that
he has not lost faith In his theories. He
tells the Germans that it is necessary to,
choose the time when the masses, driven by
the capitalist class to defend themselves, will
unconsciously make common cause with the
Communists, nnd that the whole tactics and
strategy of the party's propaganda must be
directed toward that end.
The Russian lenders must hnve lost hope
for the expected world-wide industrial revo
lution with which they began their experi
ment. And they must know, too, thnt no
Communist State can live among States
organized on the old system. If the Rus
sians aro to deal with the rest of the world
ond there can be no recovery from the
present industrial depression unless they
have such dealings it must be possible for
foreign business men to deal with Russian
business men with some guarantee that the
Russians will keep their contracts ns Indi
viduals. It begins to look vpry much ns if the end
of communism is in sight.
A Ilagerstown, Md.,
Story Lacks Frills correspondent says
lightning struck a
pear tree and ran nlong a fence until It
struck a hen's nest, where it left the skel
eton of the chicken clean ns a bone ond
made a hole In each eg! and emptied It.
Rut he failed to add that the boneless chicken
cooked to a turn and garnished with ome
lets and sliced pears was found on n
section of fence puling ot the farmhouse
dining mom door. Wo jes' nachally 'spise
an Inartistic liar.
Expert says that
Take It In Reverse American women are
toller than they were
forty years ngo and that athletics Is re
sponsible. But only n small proportion of
the women of the country Indulge In ath
letics. It would be just ns easy to prove
thut the Incrense In height Is due to' less
exercise than formerly. Surely the broom
nnd tile washtub nre as effective muscle pro
ducers as the golf stick and tennis racquet,
nnd the modern housekeeper does not ns a
Ttile have to work as hard as did her mother
and grandmother
Australia Is sure she has oil somewhere
nhout the house, but for the life of her she
can't find the kernseno can. The man who
finds it may hnve tio oil nnd $175,000 of
Government money Into the bargain. Tho
derrick-building business ought soon to bo
A .l.l.ta In ell fYflall
Iiuuriauiuii u - a i .
AN ODD COINCIDENCE
How Horace Q. Knowlet, a Delawaro
Diplomatist, Brought King Peter of
Serbia to Terma Thirteen Yeara
Ago An Unwritten 8tory
of the Balkan
By GEORGE NOX McOAIN
A
N ODD coincidence appeared in the
newsnaners of t ha country the other
tioy. i
In ono column was the announcement
of tho death of King Peter of Serbia.
In nnother column an Associated Press
dispatch from Washington announced that
Horace O. Knowlcs, legal adviser to the
Haitian Commission, had filed a protest
with the Government against further mili
tary occupation of Haiti by United States
Marines.
King Peter and Horace G. Knowles thir
tceu years ago were the two angles of a
diplomatic triangle of which I unwittingly
happened to be the third.
My part in the episode was Innocent and
wholly unpremeditated. And yet It como
very near producing n serious diplomatic
rumpus between the two countries.
King Peter of Serbia, a grouchy, self
important nnd sullen old monarch, was, at
that period of his career, as touchy as an
exposed nervo In a decayed tooth.
HORACE O. KNOWLES Is a Dela
wnrcan. He Is a member of tho bar
In Wilmington. He still holds it as his
legal residence.
For a dozen years or more he was In tho
diplomatic service of the Government.
In 1003 he was Minister to Rumania.
His official headquarters were in Bucha
rest, Rumania, though he was also ac
credited to Serbia and Bulgaria.
Five years previous King Alexander and
Queen Droga of Serbia had been brutally
assassinated and their bodies flung from tho
windows of the old palnco In Belgrade.
When Peter came to the throne ho not
only admitted the murderers to his councils,
but even permitted them to wenr tho whlto
cross displayed ns evidence of their par
ticipation In the assassination.
I; or this reason, for some years after
reaching the throne, he wus ostracized by
the Governments of Europe.
It was n case of Carranza and Mexico in
the Balkans.
"If, in your travels, you ever get over
my way be sure to drop in on me." said
Horace G. Knowles one night In 1007 in
Wilmington at the close of a lecture.
We had known each other for yenrs.
He had called to inform me of his selec
tion as "Minister to Rumanin ; to sny
good-by, too, for our paths were ns widely
divergent as our wanderings.
TIHE summer of 1003, oddly enough, found
(5 me with three members of my family
in Belgrade, capital of Serbia.
We had toured the Western Balkans nnd
were on our way to Bulgaria.
Max K. Moorehend. of Pittsburgh, was
American Consul in Belgrade.'
I telegraphed Minister Knowlcs In
Bucharest of our arrival in Belgrade. I
inquired If he expected to bo in Belgrade
within the ensuing few weeks.
He replied thnt he intended leaving Buch
arest within ten dns for the Serbian capital
nnd would meet us there.
I announced this fact to Consul Moorehend
nnd his wife at lunch the following day
ot the consulate.
It was Minister Knowlcs' first appearance
In Belgrade. Of course, his presentation to
King Peter would undoubtedly bo part of
his visit.
Consul Moorehcad informally communi
cated the contents of my telc2rnm to tho
palace officials. It was not nn official com
munication. King Peter, eager to receive
the recognition of the American Minister,
Instantly fixed n date for his reception.
Meantime I proceeded on to Bulgaria.
In Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, I re
ceived a telegram from Minister Knowlcs
saying thnt his visit to Belgrade would havo
to be delayed for a week and for mo not to
hurry back to Belgrade,
Having completed our Bulgnrian tour we
returned to Belgrade to find a beautiful
diplomatic mess sinuucrlug In the big grny
stono palace.
CONSUL MAX MOOREHEAD mean
time had received an officlnl telcgrnm
from the Anicrlcnn Minister announcing his
intention to visit Belgrade.
This was n week later than the dnto he
named In his private telegram to me.
The coming of the American Minister was
n ray of sunlight in the gloom that over
hung the ostracized Serbian court.
King Peter had, metaphorically, been
booted out of European royal circles. S'ow
the United Stntes was to recognize him and
it was a big red fenther lu his chapcau.
When ( onsul Moorehend, therefore, car
ried the official news that Minister Knowles
would arrive n week later than expected,
officialdom in the gray palace turned a flip
flop. There was no occasion for any demonstra
tion. The telegram to Consul Moorehcad was
officlnl. The first telegram to me was per
sonal. Its contents sliuuld not hnve been
used ns n basis for any official action.
KING PETER flew Into a rage. Within
twenty-four hours Consul Moorehend
wus Informed thnt the reeentlon to the
American Minister wus postponed Indefi
nitely. It wns hinted that a date for his presenta
tion had been fixed in accordance with the
previous notification.
Now that the Minister had found it con
venient to disregard the etiquette of the
court and postpone his coming his Mnjestv
found it Impossible to fix any definite date
upon which to meet the American Minister.
Thnt was the fact, though it was not
expressed in such nn undiplomatic way.
Consul Moorehcad communicated the facts
to Bucharest. Minister Knowles had, how
ever, started for Belgrade.
The night of his arrlvul in the Serbian
capital Consul and Mrs. Moorehcad, with
the members of my party, had arranged n
rcsention and dinner nt the Grand Hotel.
The cafe was brilliant with lights, and
the varied nnd picturesque uniforms of
Serbian officers nnd the gleaming shoulders
of the rather daring decollettc of Serbian
ladles of the upper class.
A Hungarian gipsy orchestra crashed out
jerkv jazz-liko music.
None of our party was in evening dress.
We occupied n table at the fnr end of the
cafe. I had posted the head waiter nnd the
instant Mr. Knowles appeared nt the en
trance with his wife our party rose to it's
feet.
There was a vast craning of necks nnd
quiet i hntter as the Minister .followed the
obsequious lackey down the wide aisle, and
shook hands heartily with nil of us.
I fancy American stock fell a good man)
points In those few moments,
The Idea of nn Ambassador or a Minister
nppenring in a traveling costume of gray
tweed.
The eight Amerirnns nt the table there,
the only representatives of the United Stntes
In Serbia thnt night outside the mission
aries, had a mighty good time for strangers
in a strange land despite the comment und
curious inspection.
KING PETER was stiff-necked nnd re
fused to receive the American Minister.
His dignity had been hurt. He fancied, I
think, that the Amerlcnn Minister had pur
posely slighted him, just as nil Europo had
done.
The incident assumed a serious nir at last.
Mr Knowles was nmpclled to make repie
sentatlons to Washington on the subject.
Then, nnd not till then, wns the situation
clarified.
I left Serbia within n few days nnd the
Intlmnte detolls of the luter incidents were
lost to me for a time.
I do know that shortly nfter the episode
the irksnmeness of Belgrade began tn pnll
upon Consul Moorehend. He applied for and
was appointed to another more congenial
consular station.
In the end old King Peter got down ofj
his I' teh horse. He was compelled to receive
the Minister Mr, Knowles' (net In flint
affair won him advancement in the diplo
matic service.
Hence tho coincidence of the nnmes of
Tvlnir Peter nnd liftmen G TCnnivlou n .
news columns at the same time. t
THE PICTURES OP THIS FIGHT PROBABLY WILL BE WIDELY SHOWN
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NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
Daily Talks With
Thinking Philadelphians
Knmv Best
ALBERT M. GREENFIELD
On the Realty Situation
PHILADELPHIA real estate prices and
values nre tending toward a new nor
mnl, according to Albert M. Greenfield, n
prominent renl estate man of this city. This
means, said Mr. Greenfield, that the values
nnd rentals of dwelling houses hnve come
to or aro near n permanent basis that will
mark something more than n half-way point
between pre-war prices and the peak prices
following the nrnilstico, A slight drop both
in prices of construction and rcutnlfi is been
bv him early In the year, probably in the
spring.
On the other hand, central realty will not
only hold Its present vnlucs, but must in
evitably ndvancc, he says.
"To get tlie proper psychology of the
situation," said Mr. Greenfield, "it must be
understood that this city was hefore the war
lu the unique situation of being below nor
mal in prices of dwellings. There wns at
that time a surplus of houses of about 110.000
over the normal demand. From 10,000 to
l.'.OOO houses yearh were being constructed,
and ns the Increase In population did not
keep pace with this progress, prices natu
rally fell below normal.
"The owner consequently found himself
compelled to sell often at a loss, nnd as it
wns difficult to sell he hud to n nt for what
ever rent he could get. It was an economy
to rent n house below the rute that It should
bring rather than leave It vacant exposed to
the ravages of weather, the vandalism of
small hoys and other forms of deterioration
that go with vncant properties.
Got Used to Old Rentals
"So people got used to these rentuls, which
meant a loss to the owner, und iu time
came to'regard them ns normal.
"Then cnnie the win- with consequent
shortage of production. Men and materials
were iu demand, as was also money. It
did not take long for the building business
to slump. This, together with a great influx
of outsiders, took up the shortage und finally
reversed the condition until we hud 30,000
fewer houses than were needed to house our
population.
"With the Inexorable law of supply and
demand nt work, prices natiirulh went up.
The cost of lnbor and materials went up nnd
up. nnd Inter assessments nnd taxes, to
gether with water rents and nil other carry
ing charges, advanced. Taxes, in fact, have
practically doubled since the war period.
"While the prices of other things thnt the
householder had to buy udvance-' several
times their pre-war rates tlint of realty
went up to ns high ns l.'.O per cent over
that time. But in most cases the ndvances
on other goods In dollars and cents wns a
compaintlvely small item: that of rental
represented the largest single item in his
budget. ( onseouentU, he fi It it heavily and
the cry of profiteering went up.
"But while there were isolated cases of
profit erlng unions landlords, for the most
pnrt it was more nppnient than reul. The
tenant wns renllv puylng but little more
than the normal rates should havo been ull
along.
Salaried Man Suffers
"The man with the fixed salary, who has
perhaps leieivcd a cut in ncent months, has
suffered. Ho cannot make ends meet nnd
naturally these hlh prices seem unjust. Ho
will not renllv he able to como Into his own
until the adjustment is (ompleted nnd nil
the factors that went to raise his costs have
been brought hack to normal. When thev
nre. in a few yenrs ho muy see n rensonuble
reduction in costs.
"Naturally the builder will shortly make
mi effort, to relieve the congestion and will
doubtless make up tho shortage in houses
But at thnt prices will never descend to the
ore-war level nnd he will never mmi,, .,..-
mlt n surplusage of buildings to exist such
as nrniigiii mm iienvy losses in the curlier
dnjs,
"One important factor that nffects adjust
ment of this situation is the condition of the
money miuket and the attitude of our hanks
and other tlniiiicial agencies. Money is In
demand und when jou consider Ihut hanks
are tilde to realize 7, 71,! nnd 8 per cent
bv Investing in other securities, they nro
not willing to Invest In mortgages thnt bring
them about (1 per cent.
"As public Institutions handling the pub
lic's money, thev should havo enough in
terest in the public welfare to make some
iirovlsion for future hiilldlnp. even nt n bus,
It should nlso be remembered that renl estate
is not the fluctuating Investment that securi
ties nre und a loss in principul often wipes
out gains in Interest,
"A great deal of tnonev. too, Is tied up
for mnny years in Liberty Bonds, nnd it
will take considerable time for this money
gone out of the market to be restored. All
of these conditions tend to mako new build-
l., illffleiilt.
it inus moo oo consiaerea mat, while
JL lliJli IN Hi A 1 VyAlVlJTAllxll
on Subjects They
materials havo decreased in price and some
lnbor hns been cut. bn'lding labor is
tho highest paid in tiie market today. It
will have to come down to n rcnsonnblc
normal hefore there will be any real In
centive for the builder to construct on any
large scale.
"At that, I look to see n decrease iu prices
of houses, thnt is, u slight decrease by
spring, nnd with it n corresponding reduc
tion In rentals.
"Ccntrnl renltv is. however, a different
proposition. This city has less space nnd
greater demnnd fnr this section thnn nnv
other city in the Union. For yenrs it has
been the case, and will continue tn be. that
ccntrnl rcnlty must inevitably advance in
value. There is, In fact, nn advance of
from II to 10 per cent annually. The ex
traordinary conditions of recent venrs have
boomed it tremendously and this ndvonco
will not recede.
"On our princlpnl central thoroughfares,
for instance, nt the present time, it is Im
possible to rent space. High-class retailers
enn only get space in this section bv pur
chasing n lease from somebody who holds
one, generally nt a handi-nmo figure.
Business Sections Will Grow
f7!' 1"a,,irn1l Bwwth of the city will nlso
tend to keep these figures growing. In the
Hn 'Vn? .'"'"'n, ."wtlnns the same condi
tion on degree will hold ,:,. Kn,)i(l transit,
which s growing, enhances these vnlucs.
lie future transit improvements will de-
c ilv will f ' . rl,,fc: S ,nn1y vlsitors to fl,c
city, will develop Mill another business sec
grow in'vnlue. 1,rI,cr,J' ,,nd '" t to
ct',' U i,,n'v nnlurnl to look for n con
stant growth real estate values , T the e
sections-, uj.leh , , U ' "" p
nn,;X!,",mI0c'1'-nre
U'veif-Hr
dependable nud s,mml ,,, J", nhlj'.
An Unenviable Position
From the iNifruru-h rjatt-Tlm...
reTurnor;1 1 "''-"'".-"
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
'Vrrrn f ' Serbs.
Jarth-,h0 estlnmtcu Population of the
DytnVeh,btn,.U"n"Sta';,5ro '1 In
"Xau .n'XVe!'1 Wh"" h.r
What Is tho longest-llverl of birds?
Uhen was gold discovered i California?
Answers to Yesterday'a Qui
Spain has been ofllclillv r,..... .,
Intel ests ' tho IJn ,,,1 , ?eMt n ,1,
many sin" 0 seVn.,,cl,eH,l".fJ'r
matlc relations In 1917 f U1"10-
ea.ugua, os,.lSX0rnd'n,1-' N1'
When Venus Is tho mornin,, ''"''
sometimes ealled Lucifer K ,nr U '
Rinderpest Is cuttle-plague '
UllSwer1,l,,mmoo,lhu'1llame,,tof
A protoplasm Is n. semi.flui,! ... i .
transparent sub-tafu"' con'sis n.r-lcss;
oxygon, hydiOKcii. caibon '"Ki. '
gen, the basis of life ,? .S" "'lro:
uiilmals. ' '" I'lants and
Tho word mezzanlno s from th itnii,.
"mzzun no," dlmlmitK,, i 5 'tallan
half, uiiiiiimmo of "mezzo,"
Alexander Ornham Hell t,fi i.....
the telephone, is "' ,' ?vnV?" '"r,"'
buigh, .Scotland. llVe of ''-'"'l-
The Katmai region of Alaska hn i.
the scene of the most "a" ?lV ?i(.bcc."
dlstu. Lance of the last decade 1CU"lu
Tho Hadducees were members of a Jew.
Ish sect or party at the tint Xr m..i !
that denied1 the "-esurrec on of 'the
arof4,r,oifii"iV
?tUC&7i&ft-Z
SHORT CUTS
Add Powerful Legends Penrose.
"Longchntnps reports even shorter
skirts." Is It possible?
May nil the expenses of the hat business
be considered as overhead V
Though Russia Is starving today, she Is
all fed up on unbalanced rations.
Senutor Rccd is now in a position to
appreciate tho weakness of over-statement.
Whnt chance will there be for the
strong arm If the Mayor puts his foot on It?
Argument with a slum landlord Is al
ways a waste of time, lie Is never right In
his premises.
Whnt knavery can't hope to gnin still
foolishness supplies. When the wise man
fulls to register he really isn't wise.
Unless our citizens wake up and use
their heads und legs, the iishcnrt guug will
rule the roust as sure as yeggs uie jeggs.
In justice to the big rnllrouds it must be
remembered thut what llenry Ford did witli
his ruilt'oud wus dune without Government
"regulation."
"Director, muy I go out to swim?"
"Why, jts, 1 think jou oughter," sa.s Dr,
Fuibush List to him! "but lie sure and
boll the water."
In order to delay hardening of the at
tcrles, says u French physician, eat garlic.
It may not win out, but It will at leuot put
up n strong argument.
Word comes from Snult Stc. Murle that
a former Governor of Michigan has killed I
hear with his bare lunula, No ordluary
story this. It's a bear.
"Do you Intend to violute tho Fourth
Amendment iu order to enforce the Eight
eenth?" demands the Semite. "1'ou caa
search mo!" replies the House.
French doctors say that the use of
alcohol and cigarettes is causing the growth
of whiskers on women's faces. This ma
cause some feminists to lcpent prohibition.
An Atlantic City woman hns been di
vorced from her husbaud because he refused
to live otherwhere tlmn on n inolorboiit. m
the matrimonial nmrket he prefers a put-put
to a cull-call.
Militarists are secretly hoping that
Greut Britain's four new battle cruisers,
this (ountry's six new Lexingtons und tM
warships under construction in .lupun l"i
combined, be able to shoot the Disarmament
Conference full of holes.
From Spnrtnnsburg. S, C , comes tl
store of a bloodhound tlint broke all l'l'CCi
th
cee-
dent bv failing to lose the scent le
Negro being chased waited for it to cutcn
up, then tied It to u tree nnd continued Ml
journey.
The
When Hooch Is hero of a talc thnt
full of dening do his henchmen, '" may
well believe, tire utter revenue. And bj
that self-suhie token strong at certain tline
nnd place the "revenue" getb ufter them (
witness local cabe).
INVOCATION
AWAKE, thou slumberer fair!
Peans of joy on incense-laden wins'
Attend thy pleasure: '
In sylvan glades where first tho south-blown
nlr . ,.
Incites thy drowning soul with fervw
whisperings
There bhull uwult tlieo flowers and fcstooni
ruro
In lavish measure ;
And, redolent, a robe of living green .
To drupe thy dryad charms with scraps
bheen !
Spirit of Spring, awake! ,,
At thy advent a million throats shall "ii
In ruptured trilling, , ,,
The night of winter's sullen wnnd to breax.
And the gray shudows of thy musing dream
illsoel
With passion thrilling: ,,
Soft winds shall fan and fitful showers nttenu
And joyous sunshine change thy tears w
nilrtli, , .
Tho moon by night her sllv'ry torch ew
To join In hymning thy renascent birth 1
Alice Kathryn Gould In the Montreal Vi
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