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UP GOES RENT
TDITOR THB TIMK3:
Dear Bir: Would My when I rented thla place It had beea va
*Mnt for 10 ini'iii'i
I Kuve him hl« [Hi. >■ and the ownor came to t>ee my wife after
Ye moved In and told her ho hoped we would stay. Bhe told him
V« would.
I rut the luwn and fixed up the place and cleaned It up In gen
eral and for my pay he rained Hie rent the first of March $3 a
Jll.MlHi I
I asked him to get no me nrreens for the windows last month. I
told him If he would (at the ■ n-.-u 1 would put It in tho frames, lie
tula no, not until 1 paid him more rent. So I am looking for anr
other raise.
I think It li aliout time nomothing wa« done. I hope you are
(ucoesHful. K. 11. RAHMO.
.1206 No. ITtfe St.
THEIR LANDLADY
KDITOIt TIIK TIMES:
I urn HlKiilim tliu pellllon to congress in your paper on the rent
Question.
I \v:is paying $18 a niouih un.l lr.id paid that ulnco my wife came
to the city April 17.
Juxt before our rent was duo, the landlady informed my wife
*he would be compelled to rinse the rent of our two light housekeep
ing roouiH $2, thereby maklu;; the rent |2i> for this, the third, month.
t<ext month the would add 11.51 more, making $22.50 a month.
So it was up to me to pay or niovo. I moved.
If surli rent M that i.' reiiKonahle I am mistaken.
We hail two-room apartment No. 7 in the Modern rooming
liniiHe, 1 !>(> l South Market. Yours truly,
4613 North Vischer St. JOHN R. CRAIO.
RENT EXPERIENCE
EDITOR THB TIMDB:
Ite^ardlriK the rent question. I wish to stato In my case that
two years, excepting one mouth, tho bWM had been without a ton
ftnt until I rented it.
I hud been in It four month.; when the rent was raised $2 from
tIS to $ .'(I. then two month:* Inter it was raised five more, making
the i-etit $2f>, and from what I hear it is likely to be raised five more
In the course of nnotlier two or three months.
If thut is not profiteering. I would liko to know what is. It
Booms to mo that the landlord is trying to make up for the time the
lion c h.nl i ,i lying idle, something similar to the raiding of tho
boat fare between Tacoma and Seattle.
To me it HHM not him; more nor less than fleecing the public
All the old shacks are up for tale at a price that is far more than
they are worth, iis you will have noticed there Ix practically no place
tor rent. The real rotate men have gone to the people who had
l'liir.w for rent and told thorn not to put them up for rent, as they
■would s*ill them nt a good profit, or course there was more In it
ftor Mr. fteal Kstate Man, and that i how there are so manjr old
tumlile *«w v placet for sale, as well as others.
I think you will find th.it is about the way the people are being
fleeced out of their money. 1 am yours very truly,
A. M'PHADEN.
.-.4 20 So. L St.
$10 TO $25
BOITOR THE TIMKS:
I am a roKulur reader ot The Time* and I ran prove to every
cuo that The Times is the bwt Tac.omu newspaper tor what it has
done for this city, and eipeetally for Its working class.
Everybody know* that The Times won ull the fights It undertook.
Thla time you undertako n fight nß.iiiri the land hogs; I feel very
■ tire you will win, and because I like that victory, I gladly sii;n the
I'rtiiiiiu to con^i i ,-s und Klvo you MM inform/tion regarding the
rent of our house, in which we liavo lioen living for more than four
years, paying for rent $10 monthly. That was plenty for that mis
erable house.
I think It was last October they told us that the rent would be
912. We did not say anything about it. After about three months
they said $16.
We complained. They tola us that was on account of the war.
Last month they said that the rent of that royal palace was 125.
At first I thought she was Joking, but, by gum, she woe meaning
It!
Well, what could we do? We did not find any better; we had
ti> |ii<v It. 1 am ufruid we'll have to work only ror those hogs.
Yours respectrully,
745 4 So. Tacoma aye. TDM KAItANAS.
DEFENDS WOMEN
EDITOR THK TI&1KR:
In replying to the plea from your reader, Win Swetland, to have
the women shoppers get home before the men are thru work, will
you kindly ask the gentleman how we nre going to do this when a
mother has the noon dinner to get for a family and finishes her dally
firind about 2 p. in . goes to the city to shop, buy a few freeh vege
tables or a pound of butter fin- 10 cents leas than one can get It over
liere. und then hurries to the corner or walks up to Bth or 9th eta.,
waits 40 miiiuir. to find the car loaded, the next 40 or 50 minutes
another car, same result.
What can the poor girl do? Take her chances, with the rest.
If some of these men would push their way to the front when
they get on a car and not block the entrance, making it almost Im
possible for a conductor to work, they would see more and stand a
irhance of getting a neat sooner.
They are afraid or missing something.
IMimso don't blame it on the poor women, whose work Is never
done.
We know you work long, hard bourn, and are more than anxious
to do our bit.
1 know a lady who worked and gave np her position on nreount
of the crush on that "Rooky rond to Dublin" we have to ride on.
I'll bet the city fathers who own these cars never ride on one.
Vhy not have them take a trip on some of tho summer cars they have
r.ilit .| away over In the car trams and see the conditions? No danger.
They don't have to ride In them. I doubt If they ever saw the road.
They claim shortage of help, conductors, for Instance. Why do
(hey not put on women conductors, as other cities have done?
The city of Manila. P. 1., and also Havana, Cuba, have transpor
tntlon facilities that would put them to shame, but why go there?
Go to Seattle, the only city la the west that can't t>e beat ror
progress. % A SO. TACOMA WOMAN.
/^2s>L~t^fc" ThlS °Mice °!<CrS
\Tnl MkUmSV^Sm* Tli«t leavex nothing to be
■JkMH B^[L Ufwlrcd. ll I- urll equipped.
/^L^VB BnflUU^H^T '"•'er*l''* u«wl *r* of th«
k> Vim r'»•■**< quulit). our <lnnti«U
VHiUD^^flk nro Illi^il) qU(Uiri«(l and are
Vfl rjMnVi HinnMißliljf tnpdrlcinrrd.
II^S <\>nm« in and li>t iu> ctrnton
■A\^C "jd4§\ "lnll<> ollr P»ml<^» <lrnt»l
VjKf/IVr^TV^ * moUi<«l» to j«.n We K"«r
•fci^^ta^^^^ »nt«e oar work 10 jfif
Our n«U Makinc UrfMrimt«t I* Urn iMrfmt o» Paolfle Onant
DR. AUSTIN Dentists DR. BURNS
IS Ymra at the Oomer of t»tli sad BrtMKlw«jr.
I R**d \h% Olaaalfied Ada Op Pay 7. f
DOINGS OF THE DUFFS
SQUIRREL FOOD.
CITY ORDINANCE
MAY KILL HOG
By J. H. Duckworth 1
Special Staff Dmpiitch.
1 ' ■
nAI.TIMOKK, June 19. — To
such a scandalous point has rent
1 11.>r11.•.• 1111 l\ in Baltimore reached
that City Solicitor Kleld makes the
slurtlin-g ivjfcestiofl that police
power be used" to rurb the granp-
Mi!- landlord.
Vitully i:> i ;mt war work,
from tlie making ot munitions to
shipping them aboard, Is being
Mlioualy hampered In Baltimore
by thn upiMiv of the owners of
property.
Much-needed workers are being
driven from the city and others
di i ■'in -h^im! from entering It.
From an inivestisution of 4 4
cases. Field finds that rents
have been raised since the United
Stales entered the war anywhere
from 6 to 122 per cent!
Publlo IHsiiiilmsl
"At tills time," says Field,
"when there are such great de
inunds for labor in the production
of things necessary for the prose
cution of the war, it would be lit
tle, short of crime for landlords to
be pormlttpd by unreasonable de
mands to enforce In :iny whole
sale way the removal of any por
tion uf the coinmuulty with the
attendant expense and labor Inci
dental to such ri'imn.il.
"Moreover, the public mind Is In
a Btato of excitement at this time
because of the war, and the un
reasonable demands or landlords
(end to provike hot blood and to
endanger the public peace.
<■!(>■ Might Art
"The court of appeals has de
cided that the city council may
legislate on a subject within the
police power where the state has
already legislated. If landlords
•re unreasonable in their rents
the city council can act by virtue
of its police power.
"The council could pass an or
dinance which would be legal and
vulld along the following lines:
"First: Setting a limit cither In
the way of percentage lncreaxo
over the pre-existing rent or a per
centage of return on the marke:
value of the property or the as
m- ■. i-ii value of the property.
< •■■!■* to Board
"Second: Creating a board to
hear controversies between land
lord and tenant as to what was
reasonable rent, with a right or
appeal to the city court, and a
Jury trial.
"Third: Providing that upon
the payment or tender of such
rent as the ordinance declares to
be prlma facia reasonable, the
tenants should have the right to
continue in possession of the
premises pending any hearing be
fore the board, or the final dispo
sition of the question upon appeal
to the city court, and during that
time the power of any jus'ice of
the peoples court to pass any or
ders evicting the tenants be sus
pended."
ließinlaUre Precedent
Field thinks the action of
the Maryland legislature In sus
pending for a limited time the
right to proceed In court for the
collection of debts as a measure
. _
vJWBIII^
Wednesday, Jane 19,1918. -THE TACOMA TIMES— Page Two.
of public welfnre, Is a sufficient
precedent for action of tbe city
council in suspending for the time
the right of a landlord to recover
pMMtriN of premises, condition
al upon the ten:int paying during
that timo a reasonable rent.
I'nlesu faderal government ac
tion to curb rent profiteering Is
obtained, ItaHiiuore may try to
stop the practice under thin act
of the Maryland legislature.
DROP 24 TONS
OF EXPLOSIVE
<l nliril l'rru ■ i-iiki-iI Wire.)
I/ONDON, June 18.—British
naval aviators dropped 24 tons of
bombs on. Zeebmgge, Ostend and
Bruges, "with good results," be
tween June 13 and 16, the admir
alty announced today. One Brit
ish plane failed to return.
JUNK --MTII
MELBOURNE
Starting Today
"The
Golden
Goal"
with
Harry
Morey
A smashing feature
with a Punch in
every foot, present
ing Harry Morey in
the best role of his
career.
■
On the Same Bill
Travelogue and
"A MIX UP IN
AFFINITIES"
Keystone Comedy
Nothing Slow About Her Neighbor.
Benny Let the Can Squeak for Itself.
Accuse Officer of Graft
(I'niled Tress Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, June 18.—An army officer was ar
rested here today in connection with the nation wide
search for graft in the probe of war contracts.
Papers from man than .">0 firms working on con
tracts were seized during raids and have been for
warded to Washington.. Dummy firms, it v.as shown,
have been used to get contracts for army goods.
19 Years for Grace Lusk
(United Press leaned Wire.)
WAUKESHA, Wis., June 18. —Grace Lusk this afternoon was
sentenced to 19 years in the state penitentiary at Waupiiu for the
murder of Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts, June 21, 1917. She fainted
but rallied quickly.
She was found sane !>y Judge Martin Lueck this afternoon and,
two motions for a new trial interposed by the defense were over-;
ruled and denied.
Profiteering Is Charged
(United rrem Leased Wire.)
PHILADELPHIA, June 18. —Government officers here have
seized papers in 15 business houses, the heads of which arc under
Investigation on charges of profiteering in connection with war con
tracts.
Claim 30,000 Captured
(United Pits* i.rniwl Wlre.i
VIENNA, via London, June 18.—Thirty thousand prisoners have
been taken in the Austrian offensive against Italy, the war office
announced today.
The Austrian south wing has reached the Fossetta canal.
Violence of Attack Dies
{©«lt«Ml Prr*" l.'\i«eiT \\ ire. >
HOME, June 18.—"The violence of the battle has decreased
along tii.' mountain front and increased along the Piave," the Ital
ian war office announced today.
Flying Man Killed
(United Pre«s Leased Wire.)
FORT WORTH, Tex., June 18.—Lieut. Rose, flying instructor
»( Barron Field, was killed In an airplane fall today.
Gen. Morrison
Now In Charge
(I alinl I'mi !,«••»« Wire.)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18. —
j Major General John F. Morr!sou
t .day took charge of the western
.l'-jiartment headquarters, succeed
■ll? Brig, der.rral Chafes U.
Treat, who *oes to Italy as head
t '' the V. S. military mission.
Gen. Morrison, until yesterday
commander of the eighth division
lat Camp Fremonth, is succeeded
; there by Brig. Gen. Jos. D. Leitch,
commander of the lath infantry
brigade.
$180 MISSING
Kmil Johnson. 4944 North Vas
sault street, hung his vest up in
a building of the Tacoma Ship
building company's plant Monday
afternoon and two minutes later
when he returned for it he found |
that $180 In bills had been ex
tricated from the pocket. He told
police about it and sleuths are in
vestigating.
Forgery Charge
Km I B«nilnber. a Swiss milk
man of Pierce county, was arrest
ed Monday on the charge of forg
ing a chfck for $20 La the name
of Jolyi Batschl.
JEWS ERECT
NEW BUILDING
There will be a new building at
Camp Lewis (or the headquarters
of the Jewish Welfare work. It
will cost about $5,000, according
to E. 14. Wit-nir, departing secre
tary, who has been transferred' to
Camp Kearney, Cal., to organize
the relief work at that camp.
A large part of the equipment
and furnishings for the new build
ing trill be donated by the Jewish
people of Tacoma, Seattle and
Portland, and from any other
western cities which wish to con
tribute.
Raise Veterans
War Pensions
\ The new pension bill recently
parted by congress which gives
I an increase of $10 a month to all
men now receiving war pensions
affects about 300 veterans In
this state.
The increase, which raises: the
checks from the government from
$30 to $40 a month, will be ef
fective in August.
Given Divorce
Edgar Harrington was granted
a divorce from Reva Harrington
by Judge Easter day Tuesday
BY AT.T.M^K
morning on the grounds of infi
delity on the part of his wife.
Tho original divorce Buit was
filed by Mrs. Harrington, who aft-
I Why
I Swift & Company
I Has Grown
P The fact that a busi
ly ness organization has
Id grown steadily for forty
I] years proves that it has
n>|'|
I kept continually meet
|| ing a vital business
|| demand.
I It must have kept "fit"
H or it could not have
II stood the strain of ever
li shifting conditions.
P Swift & Company has
I ■ been trained in the school
ij of experience.
H Every day.of its forty
|| years of service has solved
II some new problem of
H value to its customers.
11 Every year has proved
II its ability to learn by
H experience, and to use
|J this knowledge for the
H benefit of those with
P whom it deals.
! Year Book of interesting and
; instructive facts Rent on r«qu«at.
Address Swift ft Company
4 Union Stock Yards,Chteago.lllinois
L Swift & Company,U.S.ll^l1 *
Local Branch, 1718 Pacific Aye.,
Tacoma, Waah.
BY AHERN
prwarda withdrew It, but lior liub-
Sand insisted that tho suit be car
ried thru, and was granted a de
cree.
