The evening world. Newspaper, November 22, 1919, Page 3

TO BILLS AGAINST ANARCHY ~ INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS, BUT NONE OF THEM IS PASSED No Response to Appeals of |ttre hed Government Officials for Stringent Laws. HANDS OF U. not been called to it.” And of course Judge Hazel w: right, for no statute of that charac- ter does exist, but Congress since has been requested repeatedly by the Department of Justice to enact one. All doubt of the constitution- ality of statutes to curb radicalism or revolutionary doctrine, and the power of Congress to make laws lim. iting the rights of free speech and free press in order to protect the United States Government and the people ‘of America from revolution bas been swept away now by de- cisions just handed down Within the last fortnight by the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Holmes, while delivering a dissenting opin: ion in the case of a particular de- fendant charged with a violation of Congress, resolufions of inquiry are|thé Espionage Act in circulating a proposed and a general hullabaloo | leaflet of disloyalty during wartime, ensues designed to convince the peo- ered Listed thes sete pea Sea age wwle that their representatives in the) 1 go not doubt for a moment that House and Senate are on the joband|by the same reasoning that would that every little thing will be at- justify punishing persuasion to tended to just as soon as the mere|™urder, the United States constitu ° tionally may punish speech that pro-, mechanics of drafting @ law and) dices or is intended to produce a presenting it to’ the two Houses of! clear and imminent danger that it) Congress can be conveniently accom-| will bring about forthwith certain plished. substantive evils that’ the United Not many days ago a tragedy oc- curred in Centralia, Wash., and the State constitutionally may seek to prevent. The power undoubtedly is, attention of the country was focused om the activities of the I. W. W.’s. greater in time of war than in time of peace, because war opens dan- \gers that do not exist at other Not many weeks before that | times.” bombs were thrown and the life ot |\WHERE SENATE AND HOUSE the Attorney General himself was NEGLECTED DUTY. threatened. Yet since the subject; Justice Holmes went on to say was broached in Congress on June that publishing of opinions for the ver; jurpose of obstructing the 14 last, although seventy bills have eed ie id processes of Government would con- been introduced to deal with radi-! stitute an attempt to create danger * calism, not one was placed on the for the Government. Indeed, any statute books—and Congress se-| effort to change tho mind of the! renely adjourned this week without | country by means of constitutional | S. TIED. Unable to Check Even Open Appeals for a Revolt of the Reds. By David Lawrence. | (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (Copy- ight, 1919)—Every now and then something lawless and terrible hap- pens to shock the American people, whereupon speeches are made in so much as a public statement of amendment or political processes is | its intentions or the reasons for its | defensible and outside of the juris- failure to act upon a danger to the | diction of Congress, but any attempt public welfare. For the fact is,'that. includes “physical force and upon the authority of the Attorney violence as means of changing the General himself, that there are to- mind of the country constitutes sedi- day no laws which make it a crime tion, in the judgment of the Depart- to preach Anarchy or sedition. ment of Justice and some of the | ADVISING DEFIANCE OF LAW best authorities on law in the| NOT A CRIME. United States. Moreover, those who have at- SO while it was evident that Con- tempted to bring about the forcible sress had full power to deal with overthrow of the Government of the Tadicalism, both in the press and in | United States have committed no Public meeting, and that revolution- crime unless their acts amount to 4ry preachment and writings having treason, rebellion or seditious con- in mind the use of physical ‘force spiracy. To prove conspiracy, the could clearly be punished, both the acts of two persons acting in collu- Senate and the House have neg: | sion must be clearly unlawful. Indi- lected to do anything at all about it vidually, therefore, a person may go in the several months in which Con- the limit at present and cannot be &Tess has just been in session. punished unless some one else co- Soon the Esplonagé Law, which | operates with him or her in the Was enacted for war time only and planping of the crime. Further- whose usefulness has been gravely more, “rebellion” and “treason” have doubted since the armistice, will be been defined as levying war or giv- Tepealed, and unless Congress-acts ing aid and comfort to the enemies to retain that section of tt which of the United States, But the ad- refers to search warrants, the vising of deflance of the law is not a United States will be without a Fed- crime under the general criminal ¢ral law to make searches and seiz~ laws, whether the same be done by | Ures. This would play into the printing and circulating literature hands of the radicals and Anarch- ‘or by the spoken word. Nor is it a ‘sts, who know full well their rights, crime to advise and openly advo- and who could not be raided as cate the unlawful obstruction of tn- | heretofore and their effects exam- dustry and the unlawful and violent | !ned if the Espionage Law passes destruction of property. out of existence, this character, but my atten- | NO LAWS TO STOP BLATANT ANARCHISTIC PREACHMENT. To test existing statutes, the De- partment of Justice has brought va- rious suits with the same result, Indeed, an Anarchistic organization in operation in Buffalo, N, Y., circu- lated a manifesto appealing to the proletariat to arise and destroy the Government of the United States and substitute Bolshevism. After advocating the assassination of pub- Uc officials, the document declared: “Make way for Bolshevism for the Department of Labor, mines, rail ways, fields, factories and shops, Let the Soviets be organized promptly.” It openly advocated rebellion thus: “proclaim yourself openly an An- archist, Let the revolution come, Hail to the immaculate and redeem- ing Anarchy!" Yet what happened in that case? Judge Hazel of the Western District of New York dismissed the case and discharged the defendant, Here is what he said and why he did it; “I do not think that Congress when it enacted this law (the con- spiracy statutes) had in mind such a situation as this—had in mind the circulation of literature such as this, 1 do not think, giving the pro- | visions a fair interpretation, that it! embraces any such offense at all, | There may be a statute which makes %& a crime for any person to con- ” for the circulation of litera- But if Congress is careless itself about the matter of radicalism, de- spite the high sounding speeches that have been made py the politi- cians, the States of the Union are not so backward, though only eight of them have good laws to protect themselves against Anarchy and radicalism, Good State laws are to be found in California, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Penn- ginia, but these must be supple- mented by Federal statutes to gather in all the Anarchists and revolutionists in the country. Inci- | dentally, it is upon the States that | the Federal Government relies chiefly for detection of crime, New York City alone has 12,000 police: men, all of whom are charged with the duty of investigation, while in the Department of Justice, under an appropriation: granied by Congress, the maximum number of men en- gaged in investigating the viola- tions of all the lews of the United States is limited to about 500 for the entire country, “ Everybody knows that the treaty of peace could have been debated and voted upon jn half the time that was devoted to that subject in the sylvania, Washington and West Vir- |* THE EVENING WORLD, SATU Find Refuge in Island Fairyland of Pacific| SIDETRACKEDBY | EDUCATION BOARD Mayor Hylan Says It Held Up Fund Request Until Too Late —Way to Raise Money. As a result of The Evening the penny lunches, which had previously been served to poor children in eighteen schools, were served jn The Evening raised funds for milk for necetsitous children in a‘number of schools. e The Evening World brought the ay subject before the Board of Al- dermen more than a year ago appropriated. Not expended for the purpose named, the whole matter rd of Now the board seeks to stop the great work. . Fpl ean Jordan L, Mott Ill. and Comic: Opera Singer for Whom He Gave up Mil- | lions Now Earn Living as | Captain and “Crew” of Tourist Boat Off Catalina. The photograph illustrating this article, of Jordan Lawrence Mott II, and Mrs. Frances Hewitt Bowne, with whom he eloped in 1912, taken a few days ago on Catalina Island, off the coast of Southern California, shows that both Mott and the actress, for whose sake he sacrificed millions of dollars of the estate of his grand- father, have aged considerably in seven years. Mott might return to New York to-day and invade all his old haunts in the White Light Dis- trict, where he was known as “thc millionaire reporter," without danger of being recugnized—although he was recognized recently at Catalina by an old New York associate, probably by reason of the fact that he is living under his own nume, His fico shows the action of the burning sun of the Kar East, where he and Mrs. Bowne led an adventur- ous career after they had definitely decided to severé all ties that bound them to the United States, To-day Mott is a Catalina boatman, taking out parties of fishermen for hire, and Mrs. Bowne aids him in >perating the boat, the Mamie F, which he owns, Mott says he is supremely happy. He has been making a living as a writer since his sensational elope- ment from New York and professes to be gathering material for a series of short stories founded on life on and about Catalina Island. The couple occupy, with Mrs. Bowne's mother, one of the prettiest cottages at Avaion, on Catalina Island, which is ghe of the fairy spots of the world. oung Mott ‘was a spectacular figure In the life of New York toward tht close of the first decade of th century, He cared little for the busi- ness of the Jordan L. Mott Iron Works, founded by his grandfather and of which his fathe 0 lives at a titz-Cariton, is the resident. WHEN HE LEFT WIFE AND FAMILY FOR A SINGER. Bohemian in his tastes and assoct- ates, Mott chose to be a writer, and reporters and editors who worked with him agree that he was a pretty good writer When he felt like work. ing, which was not often. He “cov * his assignments from the city editor of a daily newspaper in a big automobile, and had a fad of taking reporters and detectives on joy rides in and around the © He was living a refree life on a fae York Elopers, A fter7 Years’ Wandering, allowance from his parents | about 1910, he met Frances Hewitt Bowne, a comic opera star and the wife of Walter Bowne, a wealthy resident of Millington, N. J. Moit was married and lived with his wi and children 4p to a short time be he made himself a leading figure in the news of the world. Letters found after Mott and Mrs. Bowne disappeared showed that they were in correspondence for a liberay wh long | time before they concluded to elope. Mrs. Bowne had left her husband and took was living at Flushing, that conclusion was mut But Mott's infetuation for the actress | had alarmed his family and-he was | closely watched, Nevertheless, he managed to slip| away with Mrs, Bowne, and for some time no trace of them could be found, Then it was learned that Mott, under an assumed name, had shipped as purser aboard the Indradeo, an Eng- | lish tramp with a Chinese crew bound | from New York to Hong Kong, and that Mrs, Bowne. under an assumed name, was on board the e ship, working her way as a stewardess. Bo it brought upon the family and tried in ev children and parents, news came out that Mott and Mrs, dra York on a mysterious trip to China. RDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1919 —— | How “Millionaire Reporter” | and Mrs, Bowne Eluded Friends and Families and Eloped. as Workers on Boat for Far East—Claim to Have Found Happiness, had been given a big letter of credit by the parents of young Mott with instructions to head off the eloper and bring him home, Fuller has since denied that he went on that mission, but It is an incontrovertible fact that he tratied Mott and Mrs. Bowne all the way to China without catching and that he did finally see them at Hong Kong, and after an interview returned without delay to the United States, He had long been a close friend of Mott, The Indradeo's route to China war by way of Gibraltar, the Mediter- ranean, the Suez Canali and the Indian Ocean to the long reach up the China coast. At various pointe the steward and stewardess of the tramp went ashore in evening dress and dined ag j the most expensive hotels and res- taurants, Fuller followed the same route, but he went to Gibraltar by way of the Mauretania to Liverpool {and acro ‘ope by rail, only to | find at Gibraltar that the }ndradeo was on her way. |COUPLE HAD NO REGR' SAtD. In letters to friends in New York Mott and Mrs, Bowne declared they had no regrets for the step they had taken. Mott did some newspaper work in Hong Kot and Shanghai and then drifted to Japan, where. in the course of time, he became the editor of @ magazine called The Searchlight, which was devoted to promoting’ the cause of temperance. This move, in the minds of Mot New York friends, was almost as sen- sational as his elopement, for he had been utterly indifferent to \per- ance {n any form in his youth in this city. by reason of Bowne's divorce sult against his wife, which he (sub- | sequently marrying again in Philadel- |phia), and a separation suit against Mrote' filed by his wite, the slopers came occasionally into public notice. But for almost three years only their most intimate friends had knowledge of thelr whereabouts. The despatches trom California do not state how long Mott has been running a boating business for aporta- men visiting Catalina Island for the fishing. The poy shows that he ig still well set up and vigorous. His appearance denotes prosperity and although his face Is deeply lined, those lines were not necessarily pro- THEY WINE ry way to head him off and per- te him to return to his wife and It so happened that soon after the o»wne had sailed away on the In- adeo Hector Fuller, a newspaper suddenly left New was stated at the time that Fuller JERSEY FIREMEN REPUDATE UN, BACK UP MAYOR Leader Says Organization De-| stroys Efficienncy and Men Won't Join Another, City have of-| ficially repudiated their union affil-! Firemen of Jersey jation, of the sociation, attended by representa- At a meeting late yesterday | Firemen's Mutual Benevolent tives of every company but one, it) was unanimously voted to withdraw from the Uniformed Firemen's Asso- clation, No. 72, of the American Fed- | eration of Labor, In a statement forwarded to Com- missioner of Public Safety Charles F, X. O'Brien, President Joseph Walsh of the benevolent association said: “The reason for taking this action by the firemen of Jersey City is that they find that a unionized fire de- partment destroys the efficiency and | discipline of the department and is also a detriment to organized labor, inasmuch as they cannot be true to their oath to the union and serve the city of Jersey City in the protectoin of life and property. “Any agitation or proposition ad- vanced by any other organization will be vigorously opposed by this asso- elation,” feanization, True and False.” He caid, in part: “Tho first truth to be borne in mind| | with respect to AmeYicanization ts that! the foreigner must not be viewed nor designated as a problem. Before the American hyphenism among the foreign-born was not only lauded The mother of young Mott was: SAYS FOREIGNER MUST NOT _ BE VIEWED AS A PROBLEM First Truth to Be Borne in Mind With Respect to Americaniza- tion Declares Dr. Wise. The Rey, Dr. Stephen S. Wis dressed the League for Political E tion at Carnegie Hall to-day on “Amer- ad- as a virtue but urged as a loyalty, upon ded spiritually from the life of our bile. “It is easy to define what American- lzation Is not. Americanization ts not |! regularization, Ar zation Is Chrstian ————_——- SUGAR AT 12 GENTS, p IS PLAN OF PALMER H Absolute Control of Pro- as frantic over the disgrace he had JUDGE LEVY SEES Presiding Magistrate at Inquiry cota 1, Altman & Cn.) day all foreign-born, 1 for my part have,| of through my Ife, been opposed to the hyphens and the hypheniations. “L would have Americi either, shut foreigners out or take them in—not | }é leave them dangling in spirit at our] o¢ doors, physically admitted, to be ex- thought tha |xovernment, was to deport them, To- day should get the noose. dias ae |The League, with headquarters at | ny A | No, 106 Avenue C, was pictured by Attorney General Begins Plans fot | Assistant | duced by hardships. request came plained. Mayor PENNY LUNGH PLAN’ World’ fighting, ninety schools. World for three years ing held up by the Education. Mayor Hylan to-day accused the school authorities of holding up the request for public school penny lunch funds until It waa too late to embody the amount in the 1920 budget. The eral days after Oct. 20, the time limit set by law for in- creasing the budget, the Mayor ex- Had the school lunch fund been included in the new budget when the appropriation was asked for, the the Estimate Board would have been guilty of a violation of the law. He added that the mem- bers of the Board of Education re- sponsible for holding back the esti- mated cost of carrying out the hunch plan must have known that the Es- timate Board was powerless to act after Oct. 20, “Although the cost of putting the school lunch plan into operation can- E not be placed in the 1920 budget,” |oners sald they were John Chickerelia, — said Mayor Hylan, “it Is still possl-|No, 622 Lorimer Street; John Delio, Ma.” 32 Frost Street; John Bullato, i hid I think | Richardson. Btreet, sng 3 special revenue bonds might be is-|joney, alias “Pussy” Mullane, sued for the amount. ready $50,000 on hand for lunches and the Board of Education can now sald, raise the money. There is al- Miss Sophie Irene Loeb of — Evening World staff, who of years ago made a tl . vestigation and learned that lunches were vitally clared to-day that a woman a ber of the Board of Education i sponsible for delaying the car out of the penny-lunch plan. “This woman is cause she has deliberately held report placed in her hands,’ Miss Loeb. “She has held the for months longer than was essary. But the enemies of splendid, up to date schente of ing well nourished, happy men women of our coming’ gen wit be beaten, for the simple that they are chronic i It's strange that New York shown by the rest of th before it adopte a child saving tem that is almost as olds as the hills in London and in parts of this” country. te “Mayor Hylan, who ts willing help a cause he believes in, ought to know that one woman In the Board of ” Education Is against one of the wisest — measures that has ever been sit duced in this city. I charge that se >) has deliberately withheld a report om school lunches. It wouldn't be @ idea for the Mayor to request this woman be questioned.” —_——_—_—_ DETECTIVE HIDES ON SEIZES 4 FOR Officer Rides Behind and Over hears Talk of Dividing : the Spoils. an Detective Charles Battellora, & several other detectives sent out ? night to round up robbers in the Wille fa district, following « series hold-ups, was standing at Jackson Av= — enue and Humboldt Street when an au tomobile containing four men paaged, — Battellora’s suspicion was aroused and — after a short run he leaped on the Back = of the machine, ‘The detective said he heard = convers — ation about dividing spoils of robberies, When the auto slowed up he jumped to |) the running board and with drawn’ re- volver arrested the four men. The prie- rf} Froat’ Street, The four were identified by several robberies, were the Bridge Plaxa Court yy in RED PROPAGANDA INTENANT LEAGUE. | Charges Underlying Plan “There was a time,” Presideft Levy i the Roard of Municipal Judges to- told Justice Kernochan, sitting | Thirty-fourth Street a Committing Magistrate in the } il shn Doe inquiry into the activities the ‘Tenants’ the best who, League, to: do with living amongst us, seek verthrow the American form of “when 1 thing 1am frank to say I think they | Magistrate Levy and Magistrate arry Robitzek, of the Second Bronx called to help Justice 1} ernochan with their «warding Tenants’ La ‘impressions | ague activities. the District Attorney Waugh | propagandist of a movement | The Store is closed at 5 P.M. daily i MADISON AVENUE - FIFTH AVENU! | The Great Annual Sale of a | Fur Coats & Smaller Furs | — will take place on Monday “leading to acts of violence with the duction and Sale. : on |ultimate object of overthrowing or- WASHINGTON, N ~Attorney | ganized government.” General Palmer to-da gan wetting | wane Saye 3 up machinery for absolute control of |, “When 1 entered court Nov. 8 to| The statement expresses the hope that this action will restore to th Fire Department the “confiden friendly relations of the pu the Board of Commissioners,” and rts that the firemen now reali “the position taken by the May by you as Di or of Public is the right for the t of the citize : Three additional n: Ms to Commissionér O'Brien transfe night, and one of the | transferred men, who is said to have | been active in union agitation, as suspended by Fire Chief Roger Boyle. | ic that | fle was Martin Duffy sos cutie Sun SS PRISON FIRE INQUIRY ON. | | Superiniendent Sees No of Sing Sing P' Warden Edward V. Brophy of Sing} Sing Prison began an Investigation to-day of the fire which early yester- | day destroyed three Sing Sing| Prison workshops and a large quan- | tity of cotton, wool, leather, paper and other raw’ materials, Charles F, Rattigan, State Superin- tendent of Prisons, went to Sing Sing wood, | last session of Congress, yet vital matters, such as the domestic safety, | were calmly ignored by the Repub- | ican majority, which controlled ! both Houses and compelled ad-| journment, (| from New York last night to conduct the Investigation into the cause of yesterday's fire, He said that after Questioning several officers he had found no evidence of a plot among the convicts to destroy the prison, but had not concluded his investigation. Most of the prison officers believe that the ire yesterday was incendiary. EE ee egg nt ie sugar production and sale und p | take up landlord-and-tenant cases,” authority of the Food Administration | Magistrate Levy said, “there was a nferred on him by President Wil-|mob there, I noticed that the clerk, son. d of calling individual tenants, Mr. Palmer hopes t provide! was calling them by units—all the| ‘plenty of price.” ter nts of a given bouse in apparent concert against the landlord, “The first group was represented This i pound one ce ve cents a of approximately for beet sugar « as fair The | by Herman W. Berger, who described \enore request |himgelf as counsel for the Tenants’ fiftecn cents, it Was stated at his of- | League, I found by inquiry that Ber ser had not been retained by all the | n| tenants and many of them had pro- | tested against his appear | | “L have been able to adjust ami- | |cably all the Jandlord-and-tenant cases in my court and I have found that many of those assuming to ap- pear for the Tenants’ League are not} lawyers, und: Administrat SIK PERSONS ARE INJURED IN HEAD-ON AUTO CRASH issued by the nce. “It is my Impression there {s more Five persons were painfully bruised) pehind these cases than has ap- nde sixth suffered & dislocated peared in the court room. I have tn an automobile collision at Jerome] tit, and 1 feel now, that there is a Avenue and Street about mid- bight last night, Charice J, Benjamin, {Carefully prepared plan rot so much! |to do violence to landlords as to ere- late a vehicle with which to reach out |for something larger, the overthrow a druggist, No, 32 North nth Str Mount Vernon, and his wife and daugh- ter were in one machine, going nort ward, In the other were Hugo Classen, | of government. | an electrician, No, 1333 Boscobel Ave- | have deen told that men claim- nue; Rober! mer, No, 53 {hing to represent this league have told | Street d et Boyd ps4 - i Policeman Stickenback renorted that | has been skilfully conducted.” Classen was driving on the wrong alc - _ - ‘The machines bit hea were overturned, ‘All tt taken to Fordham Hospi- | mination and it was found that Summer was injured so ould not go home. Classen rested Warged with reckless | Kilauen Volenno oly Active, HILO, T. H., Nov, 22 (By the Asso- ciated I’ress).—-Kilauea, said to be the ost constantly active yoleano in the World, is showing the greatest go- ten yours, os November 24th \ q in the Madison Avenue section of the a Third Floor An Important Special Sale of Women’s Marvex Cloves (glacé kidskin; short length) will also take place on Monday, on Complete details of both of these Sales will be published in the New York papers To-morrow (Sunday) oa » NEW YORK Thirty-fifth Street the First Floor