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Show j High RenU j! OAP1DLY mounting rents are driving writers and artists out of their colony, Greenwich Village in New York. A small room, formerly a horse stable, Is turned into a studio at $200 a month rent This is said to be a typical case. Such a sum, obviously, is beyond the means of ihe artist or writer struggling for recognition. Why don't the artists and writers move to the cftuntry, you ask? They say they have to be near their market to get orders for their work. A great fuss Is being made over the situation by the Authors' League of America. The fuss will help advertise Greenwich Village and attract more tourists to its carefully staged tearooms, cabarets and other points of commercialized Bohemianism. This will bring more money to the village. Then the rents will go up again. Too bad, of course, that rents are hijrh for the temperamental residents of Greenwich Village. They will not attract much sympathy, however, because nearly every one In New York and other big cities Is aUo In the clutches of high rents. The bigger and more congested our cities grow the more it becomes obvious that the real problem of city life is rent. It is rent that has compelled the use of elevators, tall buildings, small rooms, and the vanishing of the big yard that should be around every home. |