The evening world. Newspaper, March 30, 1920, Page 26

Rea ee ea pass: ree hs : ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER | Bublished Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing , Company, Nos. 63 to 03 Park Row, New York. HH PULITZER, President, 68 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 68 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, IJr., Secretary, 68 Park Row, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Associated ews despatches ‘alee the local news published WINTER DIES HARD. = total of death and destruction in tornado-swept | aie | But Zinovieff’s “mandates” should serve to open the | j¢yes of many who may have been in doubt as to the} sections of the Middle West and South con- tinues to rise. What the Weather Bureau experts describe as “ideal t6rnado conditions” combined to produce the most dis- astrous and widespread raging of spring storm re- corded in this country for many years. New York and New England lie outside the tornado belt, but are not immune to floods and freshets, The Connecticut River is rising toward its “highest” mark Massachusetts reports the Concord and Merrimac Rivers risen more than twelve inches in twenty-four hours. Vermont towns are menaced by floods and ice-jams. A hard winter is yielding with anything but. grace. So far, the most serious of the damage is in Michi- “gan; Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Wisconsin, Ala- hama and Georgia. Many small towns in these States have been hard hit, the death lists are growing and thonsands of persons are left homeless, ’ Whatever aid is needed should arrive as fast as (he rest of the country learns where and in what form it is needed. New York is ready with heart and hand. A PROFESSORS’ POLL. UR neighbor the Tribune reports “a poll of cof lege professors throughout the United*States on their preference for a Republican Presidential candi- date.” Gen. Wood leads by nearly 3 to 1. ' “Four hundred and twelve college professors ap- proached for an opinion either declined to vote or their ballots were scattering or were for Democratic candidates,” the Tribune mentions. : The name of Herbert Hoover does not appear in the list, although Senator Poindexter is credited with so few as three votes. ‘This is passing strange, considering the activity of the Hoover movement in colleges. ‘Nt would be interesting to know more of the-details ‘of the Tribune poll. Can it be that the Tribune may Press te exclusively entitied to the ase for repubtiention eredited to It OF not otherwise credited to this pager | herein. | round a forbidden meeting in a dingy’ cellar, with doors and windows barred, with propaganda dissemi- nated in whispers. Under such conditions the truth has small oppor- |tunity to get in and to disinfect the lies and misunder- | standings which agitators spread. When agitation is in the open it is under the con-} stant disadvantage of exposure. } Lusk, Stevenson, Sweet & Co. are thus revealed as | | playing into the hand of Zinovieff in driving propa-| | ganda to cover. They are helping the Internationale. | It is useless to hope that the reactionaries will learn 0. wisdam of repressive tactics. PASS THE RENT BILLS. HE imperative first duty of the New York Legis- now before it, a “printer’s error.” There should be no more such excuses for delay, Nobody pretends that the proposed rent bills cover the whole housing problem. Nobody pretends that they will build houses over night or faat, as soon as they become law, the public can sit back and let the housing situation take care of itself. What these bills will do is to put a prompt and ef- fectual check on landlords whose rent-raising policies have passed all bounds. They will furnish immediate protection for tenants who are being gouged and hounded to distraction by the type of landlord who is “out for all ‘ne can get while he can get it.” Other parts of the problem can be considered in their turn, Building can be stimulated by easing the burdens on realty or by direct State aid. A thorough study of tenement-house property now vacant in this city can show why it is not improved and way it fails to contribute toward the relief of the worst housing crisis New York has ever suffered. One of the puzzles of the present situation is that in a city where shortage of housing and unprecedented demand for homes have made possible an almost fabulous boost of rents, there should still be thousands have classed Mr. Hoover as a “Democratic candidate” as a matter of arbitrary editorial discretion? What was the form of the poll? How many professors favored Hoover? NOT ONE OF THE “POLICE BILLS.” HE EVENING WORLD prints in another column a letter which makes a strong plea for a bill now before the State Legislature providing for the per- manent establishment of the New York Police Reserve, Public support should not shy at this measure under the misapprehension that it is one of the so-called “Enright Police Bills.” The Police Reserve did not grow out of the Police Department. It grew out of patriotic citizenship ready to meet the special needs which arose before and during the period this country was at war. Loyal citizenship should remain the motive of its continuance. The weakest spot in the measure now proposed is the provision that members of the Police Reserve may claim exemption from jury duty. That many present members would waive such ex- emption is no doubt true. But future membership in the Police Reserve should not present itself as an easy means of evading a civic obligation. BEWARE THE UNDERGROUND. ETERMINED and thick-headed reactionaries prob- ably will get no little inspiration from the re- ports of the “mandates” from Zinovieff to American Communists and 1. W. W. taken from a Bolshevik emissary in Latvia. It is not difficult to imagine gentlemen in the Union League Club and in the Albany Assembly Chamber growing apoplectic as they scanned the columns of The World yesterday morning. Zinovieff furnished texts for a multitude of anti- Bolshevik orations in which speakers would souml “solemn warning if this thing is’ not stopped.” If read aright, the Zinovieff “mandates” are dis- tinetly encouraging. He is reported to have written that “urless ‘he workers of other countries rise in revolt the Russian révolution cannot last.” He hopes for “decisive bat- tles” in the United States. Actually his “mandates” are cries of despair. The Russian revolution—in its present form—is doomed if it depends on revolution in America. America is not going to revolt. , Zinovieff's “mandate,” if genuine, contains one text which the Union Leaguers, the blind patriots and their It bears a lesson eutenants should ponder with care. if they will but read and understand, Zinovieff is reported to recommend the “establish- ment of underground organizations, even though it may be possible to function legally.” Can and will the reactionaries read the lesson? _ Zinovieff, as a practical and highly successful revo- of empty tenements and hundreds of ‘houses that could be converted into tenements by making the changes which would bring them within the provisions of the Tenement House Law. This is another side of the problem. To deal with it does not require that tenants shall be left indefinitely at the mercy of landlords who are shamelessly ready to prolong the present orgy of rent profiteering. First stop the rent gouging. Pass the bills which put a check on landlord greed and limit injustice which has become intolerable. That is the first business of legislators at Albany. They should not linger over it one needless hour, SHOE PROFITS. WOLLEN profits of the Brown Shoe Company, Inc, as repotted yesterday by The Evening World, indicate the need of “a campaign of education” as recommended by the Allied Council of the Shoe ind Leather Industry and Trades at its meeting in New York last week, Such a record will require considerable explanation before the public will be fully convinced that there has been ao profiteering. As a practical affair, the Allied Council, &e., might first find it easier to instruct the Brown Company, the Endicott-Johnson Corporation and.a few other shoe profiteers in the principles of moderation, We venture the opinion that it would be vastly simpler and more effective to inaugurate this sort of a campaign, where the learners would number only a few thousand at most, than to endeavor to instruct a round 100,000,000 who ‘have already arrived at rather {efin‘ie conclusions. BOY IDLERS. HI MAGISTRATE M'ADOO is right in his = denunciation of the boy er end street-corner loafer as the embryo gangster and criminal. would be well imbued with rowdy ideas, Wher tion would furnish the constituents of social dynamite, The “toughness” municated to the best, ago? It is open to doubt. panding. The Boy Scout rarely becomes a gangster. have proved effective in many cities. In general, constructive correction will prove more efficacious than anything savoring of punishment. Hopver for President and Edwards for Vice Mutionary agitator, recognizes the high value of under- realizes the element of 2!- Pres@ent would provide the country with an food and Drink platform, lature is to pass the anti-rent profiteering bills Tine has already been lost by what is explained as | Whether a big custodial institution in which these young incorrigibles could be congregated and forced to do manual labor is the remedy is open to question. Before it would be proper to commit a boy, he thrown together with others of the type the aggrega- of the worst of them would be com- Are boys to-day worse than those of a generation Meantime, the Boy Scouts are flourishing and ex- The “Big-Brother” movement and the parole system Waiting, Albany! 9 % J ‘ar 4 Sa 4 Copyright 1020, by Tie Pre Publishing Oe, (ine New York Evening Wort.) JohnD. Marvels at Our H.C. of L. Argentine Financier Is in New York for First Time Since War Ended and Prices Here Astound Him Country Needs a Busi- ness President Like Hoover to Straighten Things Out. sive!” “N Thus Mr. Carlos Tornquist,. Argentine banker and financier, who has been called “the Rockefller of South Americ summed up the dominant impreesion of his first day in New York since the pre-war period, He has just arrived in this country on a business tour on which, with his | prettY and vivacious wife, he has visited London, Paris, Brussels, Zurich and Berlin, all in the past three months. New York, says Mr. Tornquist, has the finest and best de- veloped. High Cost of Living he has yet seen. A big man, with a vig voice and a big jolly laugh, ho stopped business conferences for a moment in his sulte at the Ritz Carlton to-day to tell all about what ha thought of the city. ‘We of Argéntine like New York better than any other city,” he con- tinued. “It is exciting, gay, the real high life. We would like to come here, but we cannot afford it. Wo have to go to Paris instead, Onty ono | thing in New York is bad, this awful | dryness. I do not drink myself, but formerly my friends came here for |the champagne, the wines, the cock- jtails—ah, but those are forgotten words, you do not understand them now, I suppose. It is very sad. “To the American who would wish to live cheaply I should say ‘Go to Germany.’ I was in Berlin a month ago. You can live there for almost nothing. It ts, of course, the ex change. I lived at the best hotels for two weeks, renting a motor car by the day, and paying for meals and accommodations for all my family and servants—all for $200. That Is, of course, about 15,000 marks, Here is a leather pocketbook [ bought for 43 marks—about 50 cents American, It is worth about $35 here. If you want to Bave money, and don't ‘© about isking your life, go to Germany. Conditions there are very bad. Almost every one profiteers, To stop the profiteering landlords they have d a law in Berlin that every EW YORK—it is so expen- The N. ¥. Police Reserve, To the Kditor of The Evening World: There is a bill now before the Cities Committee of the New York State Senate, introduced by Senator Lock- wood, entitled “An act to amend the Greater New York Charter in relation to the establishment of a Police Re- serve.” It was drafted by and introduced at tho request of the Officers’ Associa- tion of the “few York Police Reserv: consisting of approximately 250 busi- ness and professional men, represent- ing the entire Police Reserve organi- zation of about 8,000 members, It is not one of the regular “Police Bills" recently introduced and to which there seems to be serious ob- Jection from many quarters, Therefore I would respectfully call your attention and the attention of your readers to the following strong and vital reasons for the continua: of this effic! Reserves), stands ever ready as Anarchis triker, the instigat of violence, the rioter, the lawbrea and the vicious. When in extreme emergency our oth police of the regular force) are en- gaged -otherwhere ,and untrained Citizens who might be called upon in those emergencies would he powerless and therefore less of help than the: already instructed and trained men, who in the troublous days of the past showed their worth as true policemen when they were called upon to guard and otherwise serve our city in the peril of war days, when ghe regular police were being decimated in their ranks by enlistments in the army of our country and detailed to Govern- ment duty, And I respectfully ur f the bill and the approval aders on the th "st—The necessity for such a vol- r force. cond—The fact cost the city a cent. Third—The efficiency of the as repeatedly demonstrated a evidencs ndations of the ) Commissioner. 1} Fourth—The fact that it is a det rent, and a stone wall in these troub- lous’ times against the forces of an- archy and disorder. Fifth—That {t is made up of men who, although exempt from Federal draft, by reason either of age or family responsibilities, are wilting that it does not in 8 rt of law and order. ‘Sixth-Tho fact that the best men in the regular police force are in hearty sympathy with the reserve, and that it is opposed only by the police striker, or malcontent, who realizes that the reserve is ready for +} duty ¢ other emerge develop and the town helpless and in peril Seventh—The fact that if such a force had existed in Boston at th time of the police strike, the strike never would have happened. Highth—While the dill leave has been raised [the reserve are ready to waive suc exemption entirely. | Rxemption fom juy duly & ERE rome aR NR nee ceata tenance 8 a rg er eaarmemartse/mrma W | where trees have been planted and |sive beautiful shade in t | Would it cost the city very much to \tify the smaller and peorer classes of @ voluntary stone wall against the | r| 29, 1920. er | guardians (the | e your ap- | f | following | * to do without compensation any duty t all times should a strike or | carries clause providing for exemption from jury duty, to which clause objection UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copgrisht, 1980.) DON'T SNEAK AWAY FROM TEMPTATION. ‘The man who bas never been tempted knows nothing about himself. He may be strong as a lion; he may be weak as a rabbit. But until he finds out whether or not he can meet and beat temptation he is unfit for battling with the world. Treat temptation like any other enemy. fight it, and go into the fight. _ Sneaking away from it will avail you nothing. pursue and overtake you sooner or later: Laziness, which ‘starts more trouble than any other single human failing, is a temptation, and a dangerous one. It presents itself to everybody, in alluring guises. Meet it, and defeat it. Victory will be easy if you begin when you begin the game, It will be well nigh impossible by and by. : Go among men and observe what “gets” them. Learn to t the temptations for which they fall. : Keep your wits about you the while, for temptations are often crafty. It is difficult to recognize them at first. It is easy to persuadg yourself that they are not temptations, |3 but engaging friends. | But when you have watched their effects on others, you |} will be able to call them by their right names, | Your resistance to temptation is like immunity from dis- , which is the resistance of the ante-bodies in your »m to the poison of infection, he It is your strongest resource mighty small item in the lives of these citizens, who for years have been mak- ing such repeated rifices of time and energy in the line of duty and risk- 1 while ing theli on oklyn Streets, To the kditor of The Evening World Would it cost the city much to Plant trees along the poorer strects of Brooklyn? I live on one street n the water front, A few biocks away so-called “high tone Prepare to It will street summer. plant trees like these on the rich Leople's street on the blocks of Colum- bia Place, Willow Place and other streets that have none? 1 am only a boy of twelve years and am a Boy Scout of Troop 106. I like trees. On a block near my home there used to be trees, but improper care killed them. Couldn't you do something to beau- resi streets in Brooklyn? | WDWIN PAYNTER. | 4 Columbia Placa, Brooklyn, March | A Question for “014 Timers.” Kaitor of ‘rue Brening World: ‘ould you inform me whether there ever existed in this town of ours— “dear old New York"-—-a ferry owned by one T. D. Mills and called the Wash- ington Street Gap Fer; I have come into pi jon of two old tickets for that ferry. I found them in an old building being demol- hed in Manhattan. They show a picture of a man row- To t Try it as you would try a new machine, Learn to employ it at the right time. But always fight in the open and without self deception, cowardice, Running away from temptation means certain calamity by and by, when Running away from any battle i @ as there are rooms. pi house must have as many people in it 1 had a friend, one child. He had a house. The Govera- n go out and pick out a banker, with big ten-room nient made cight other e to come and live in his mansion with him. “But we are the same In South Americ Every where—profiteers, high prices, servant problem, landlord prob- jem—every th ig but “that Prohibition problem, Shoes ve gone up 60 per cent, clothing per cent, servants 100 per,cent, Sugar sold recently for 0a pound. We are trying to pass laws for an export embargo on neces- 8 and also for government price produce vast supplies of . yet the price of save money by buying our clothes in Paris and getting the benefit of the exchange. We impart our servants from Spain, yet ag soon ax they get over they find out about the high. prices an&&demand wa 4 twice as large. : 1 am glad to see the friendship grow between North and South America, | Do you know that we buy the greatest [percentage of our goods from tho | United States now? “Before the war \it was England first, then Germany, then the United States, Now ft is the United first, then Englani, Brazil and Japan. Japan, which formerly did no business, is expanding diy in South America. buy Ame n food stuffs e lie Chaplin and beautiful Mi ford, Four years ago they used French films, American pictures were not known at all, Now the people will have no other kind, There is one bad thing—the ship- ping, There are only two boats from here to carry all the South American passenger trade, It 1s easier to como to New York by way of London, froin Buenos Aires, than to wait for these © rank and file of A f i boats, That, of course, is somethin, (as four poe aS rise | temptation catches up. Sen the business man, And we need re aa re | business men. We need very badly [ort eerie wiolt «tarry. ver young American business men who peey beh ype mara know Spanish, Such a young man at Aah ROW TRADE FORET Rigas j Ai was getting $25 a week in New York, ainvanad ahane anole and levied, not on the buying| a book of nmon His knowledge of Spanish made him cases een te yn 6; | on the selling price? John Blak pu worth $100 a week when he was bired cont faded a trifle, probably from o ‘There > law on the se CAL |by a South American firm, sive asi . <NOWLES State or Nation prohibiting t ail of the articles 6 need business men. ere in Ww ILLIAM J. KNOWLES JR. |, realty for all the money th (a few I have od, unfortunately) you need such business March 25, 1920 fellow will pay, nor ta there any 1 I find them very i Hoover for President. He be son why land) is should not get arc p beat to me, Elght Per Cent the money they can when they it 5 ica, it is wondertal—but ‘To the Batitor of The Evening World sell and invest the m thus ac them it is So expensive! Perhaps a busle From the article published March in shares of som’ ie ness man can sett : a “ manufacturing concern pay-|No. 44 — on Rent Gouging, readers may be TONY | * ar cent et instead of the & Maret led to believe that It is a crime in| pee cont on real estate. | rh Vanilla in West Indies, the same categdry as piracy and mur- CURIOUS. Water. Palle Harvesting of the vanilla crop der Do any of you readers of this! Bayonne, N, J., March 25, 120. To the Bi Krening World: was expected to begin in Janu- article remember the time we were nee W. F'n letfor In all probability thi f ‘ ‘ : 8 or in| ary. In all probability this crop adviaed to buy “ootton,” at 10 conte! A Tuesda would like to ask| will not be so large as that pre- per pound, as a business venture and ‘ as ‘ as a help financially to our Southern been following with g him it he er struck fo! black-| dicted in former reports, since brothers? Do you know that the] istaction youn fight on the gouging| Smith (h a she carried eat many beans have falt price of cotton this woek is forty-| "00h 4 hii ke a ¢|S8hanks in a foundry (poured melted A dlasps ae prone hate igien three (49) conte per pound, an ad-|iandion. May I take up some of} 0. & 8 TosGry , ed} from the vines. It is thought vance of 330 per cent yey reason for| your valuable.timo in stating what is] iron into ee vate a Z ae that a small insect which has mentioning this is to show the incon-| happening to me? @ nice boss encouraging him s novere sistency, when we all know that the! Up till Feb, 15 I've been paying $13] 810ng. Doesn't he know that the] been discovered on the planta same people who suffer the most in-| oP 1 * sth of March 1| More water aman drinks under those| may have undermined thetr convenience from *rent-GOUgINE” are! Noccived me my rent |and similar conditions, the weaker he| strength, and active steps are the very same who ear voto! 3 i H goods, not being financially able to| Will be $18, due on the 15th of becomes? [.and thousands of othe deing taken to combat the rav- \Duy #ilk or wool. There has been no BO 0 ap 4 ped nicttig hyS fey do from experience. Yes, W. F.| ages of the pest. Vice Consut real live kick published” against the | notice ad by " doctors recommend lots of water to , price of cotton or cotton goods, Why?| another §: Is thero any redre . ater tol Lough reports that an American House building will be discouraged | {° be had from this champi: mn, blaod- | men waren means one ities xempt] pgnilla firm has recently estad- if tho 8 per cent, net profit for land- | SUC ce M. 1.) them from manual labor and - shad ouviere lords becomes a law and is enforced,| Brooklyn, March 25, 1920, quently get lazy livers, but, my deac| [led quarters in Guadeloupe # Why not give him at least a “square | ee co. OW, BF, the ordinary workman| oder to buy green vanilla ané Approves John Blake, doesn't possess such a luxury. prepare it for the American luation as set by (ux To the Ealitor of The Evening A GREENPOINTER, ‘boxes are com- May I inquire if you know Brooklyn, Maroh #4, 1920, market, “ gts -