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la banquet of business men to discover how general the hc ae iv Biorld. recognition of the names would be. | S) t u m b 1 e d ! ¥ “ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. [Pubiuaned Datiy except Sunday by the Press Publisving ot Company, Nos. to Park Row. New York. RALPH PULITZER, President. 65 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr.. Secretary. 63 Park Row. Our guess is that Susan B, Anthony would lead all {the rest, with Barbara Frietchie in second place. eee In both cases the recognition would depend more | on the action of others than on the one who bore the familiar name i Susan B, Anthony lives in the news of the day, BV is et wasse | Albert Payson Terhune Sore. Ya. Wine MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ‘The Avedeiated Pres te exclusively entitled to the use for republicatloe ‘ tees eller teat weve eae [rote Lopes eect | Barbara Frietchie as the heroine of a poem. | a Ee | | No. 68—GUY MANNERING. 1 HEAD. 7 | By Sir We 5 HE leg ich ialun ican boomers over | FIRST AND MOST OBVIOUS. oe iaubelena tee wa ve 5, JS IT a fact that there are in this city, at the present man, dabbled in astrology, for my the news from Michigan will be sobered down : his owas amusement. He ij 5 sadedivie oareaiies Ih moment, 30,000 vacant houses which could be chanced to be staying at the Scotcl j cn” the results of yesterday's pi improved, under a not too sweeping relaxation of the, mansion of the Bertram family New York, where Harry Bertram, heir to the family estates, was born. At the family’s request he cast tho child's horoscope, and found that a grave peril threatened Harry on the latter's fifth birthday, Sooft afterward Mannering went #9 India with his regiment and did not #eturn to Scotland for many years. In the meantime Harry was stolen by &@ gypsy woman, Meg Merrilies when he was five years old, and na trace of him could be found. Years later Mannering came back to Scotland to live. He was a widower and brought home with him his only daughter, Julia, whom he adored. One reason for his leaving the army. and coming to Scotland was that he might rid Julia of the attentions of « young officer named Brown, who had falien in love with the girl and whose love she returned. Brown was poor and without fam- ily, and Guy Mannering did not want his beloved daughter to marry such @ Penniless adventurer. But to his dis gust he found that Brown had followed Julia to Scotland, and was. seeking every opportunity of seeing her. The sister of the missing Harry Bertram was a delicate and, gentle girl, Lucy, who had been lonely ince her father’s death. Lucy and Sulla became dear friends, and Manner- ing invited the former to come and live at his house. Now the supposedly dead Marry Bertram was not dead. Meg Merrilies had kidnapped him, being bribed to do so by the unscrupulous agent of tho Bertram estate, who thought he himself might be able to seize the | Property some day if the rightful heir was no longer alive. In part, the agent's plans seemed destined to come to pass. For Geof- , trey Bertram, the lost child's father, had died of grief. And no heir to the Bertram estates was left, except Luey. With Lucy now under the protec+ tion of the powerful Col. Guy Man- nering, however, there seemed less chance than before that she might be gotten rid of. Meg Merrilies had not killed Harry, as the agent supposed, but had sent him far away to be brought up im ignorance of his own identity. And now she came forward with a strange confession. Meg proved that the missing Harry Bertram was one and the same man as |the young officer, Brown, who had \ followed the Mannerings to Scotland. Learning that Jufla’s sultor was his old friend's son and heir, Man- nering at once withdrew all opposi- tion to the match. | Tenement House Law, to provide additional homes? It ought to be possible to answer this question with fairly accurate figures. A census of such property| would seem to suggest itself as one of the earliest | steps in studying the housing problem. Yet there is wide disagreement as to how many | empty houses in New York are at this moment actually or potentially available for quick conversion into dwell- | ing places, As to habitable apartments, the recent report of the | Housing Committee of the State Reconstruction Com-| mission has this to say: It is apparent from the statistics of vacant apartments compiled by the Tenement House Department each year after a thorough census of all apartments in the City of New York, that | in March, 1916, 5.6 per cent., or 53,541 of the apartments in New York City were vacant. This gave the tenant arf opportunity to move if he did not receive satisfactory treatment from | his landlord, It gave hifn some control over | rentals. i By March, 1919, the percentage of vacancies had fallen to 21,482, or 2.18 per cent.; in the new law houses there were 2,732, or .06 per cent, of vacancies. At the present time, it is safe to say that there are practically no vacancies in the new law houses, In the old law houses, that is to say, those that were erected before the Tene- ment House Law of 1901 was passed, there were 3.25 per cent. of vacancies. The census for this year has not yet been made by the Tenement House Department, but it ig safe to say that a great part of the 21,482 apartments that were vacant in March, 1919, are now occupied. We know, from a thorough survey that was made last year, that in March, 1919, there were practically no unoccupied apartments that were fit for human habitation, 7 Obviously, in a housing crisis like the present in| crowded New York, no property that has not de-| teriorated to a point where it is fit only for demolition should be standing empty. The reasons why such property is not improved | ought to be studied and every effort made to remove | or modify the causes of the waste, * . Im not one of the twelve city Congressional Dis- tricts in which Jonnson figured as a contestant were Johnson delegates elected. The Republican State Convention declared for the _ sending of an uninstructed delegation to the Repub- | _ fican National Convention at Chicago. The Repub- b lican organization set to work on*that programme. The result of yesterday’s vote shows the Republican q machine in New York to be in fair working order. ; ‘On the other hand, in the one Congressional Dis- trict where voters had a chance to register their prefer- | ence for Herbert Hoover, the Hoover delegates polled | | | 4,621 votes against 11,075 for the organization | f deestes. | Here is significant proof of what the Hoover candi- dagy can do without the support of-a party machine and with only such spontaneous backing as it ‘as so far received. i ‘Votes cast at the primaries still belong in the main to the well-trained vote which the party organization can always bring out when and where it is needed. ‘The contest in the 17th District challenged the Re- publican managers to extra efforts to demonstrate the / regularity and faithfulness of the Republican primary vote. _ Yet the utmost they could do failed to prevent a fourth and more of that vote from going to Hoover. To base sweeping predictions on returns from primaries would be foolish. ! But enough has happened to show that party ma- chines this year are in for some racking tests. og hi CONVICTING THEMSELVES. ROFITS of the Borden. Company in 1919 , amounted to $17.81 per $100 share of com- mon stock. Inasmuch as the Borden Company undersold the Sheffield Farms concern, this record on its face is not so disgraceful as the 511% per cent. earnings of the Sheffield Company in 1918. Assistant Corporation Counsel Mayer has been in But it is bad enough. + | Albany this week urging legislation aiming to suspend It indicates the grip in which the milk disiributers| the operation of the Tenement House Law sufficiently hold the city. to encourage the quick conversion of some of these Such records are almost incomprehensible, They |old-type vacant houses into habitable dwellings. | seem to be no less than open bids for a drastic regu-| Within limits that do not stretch the Tenement | latory programme by the State which will climinate| House Law too far for the maintenance of permanent the greedy middlemen who take their heavy toll on| standards of health and sanitation, such encourage- this prime necessity. ment should be given. During most of the period-in which such huge} The report of the Reconstruction Commission notes: UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920.) HARNESS YOUR TEMPER TO YOUR JOB. | Men harness rivers and make them work. Some day 4p h e W or 1 d they will continue the experiments begun by Benjamin § |) —————————— Franklin and harness lightning itself. They have already 3 | a hitched electricity, in another form, to most of the wagons 3 | ies eis ee What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of i hundred? | There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. News Flashes From Around A Bonus That Would Be One. | CAuse his capital is not sufficient? ‘To the Eaitor of The Evening World : We are hearing much of soidiers’ In a recent editorial you spoke none | ¥0nuS ideas. After fully providing 4 page ‘ r se ii profits were-being piled up a vigorous movement has In spite of the fact that the Tenement Law in _| 00 strongly und certainly to the point) Sarai dependents of boys gone) $ of peUery? enteciieaicisct rage ful.) Uneon- | 2ite# contained the following been under way to put milk in the public utility class, New York City has been admirably and equi- aga inst those hack politicians a@t)any degree either from wounds troll d teen i con! nd e foe eaetiy iat y useful. | item relating to the success of 4 bly administered by able officials, the inflexi-’ Washington who, dilly-dallying, are|®4s, then, if an honest consideration rolled it is tremendously destructive. British commerci x é Possessed as they are of a “good thing,” it would Lagan nprht Lag 9) ot not measuring up to the standard ex-| Will be given those desiring farms, Temper is highly concentrated energy. Allowed to mercial aviation: : ble character of the law has tended to discour- ° no one will say a word against their me During the last seven months commercial aviation has been carried on with converted mili- | tary machines, but the firm of Handley Page (Ltd.) has now "seem no more than reasonable that the milk distribu- ters should moderate their greed, “be good” for al ys time and so establish some sort of a counter claim to combat a State programme, pected of them. I refer to your article dealing with Mr, Davis's letter, which stated the result of the recent drawings for Gov- efment land in Wyoming. accepting such a form of bonus which would operate as a credit against which they could borrow without in- terest through the nearest Federal Reserve Bank for the purchase of & farm near their home or in familiar take its own course, it is capable of doing infinite damage. Controlled, kept in check and directed in useful chan nels, it is an asset that can be turned into ready money. If you have a high temper it is proof that you have age invention and progress, Our method of de- veloping and administering restrictive housing legislation, particularly the New York Tenement House Law, should be, given immediate consid- 7 energy. Lazy, languid men never get angry or excited. ‘i ' . * 5 eration by the proposed State and local (hous- More than a year ago, while in the | Country. t * ter ¥ ° re : built an airplane capable of , Butno! The Borden and Sheffield Companies seem ing) bureaus, They should consider the advis- original Army of Oocupation at Cob-| j,tould sucha bonus be one? Most re dbbirons, Hurorieneen) voueslorions of temper, are carrying @ large number of anxious to prove the statements which investigators ability of giving the Tenement House Commie- lenz, Germany, about one-eighth of] Thank you for your consideration! Ws oi laa an Re decade Thay pee vwoun indie passengers and heavy loads of B: have made. Their effort is successful. sion certain discretionary powers similar to our company read With deep inter- at fon Wace ae, zen euay, 80 te wenn oT Pas va! ;: y 3 sues cargo. They bring you consequences which you cannot fore- see and from which you may never recover. Harness your temper as men harness the energy that is stored in mountain torrents. Employ the ‘‘pep” that now est and greater anticipation of Sec- retary Lane's project, which we un- dersood was tentatively put before us so that by the time he had the Are the milk distributers so sure that the Legislature will not act, or is it merely that greed has overcome common business prudence? that vested in the Superintendent of Buildings, with appeal to a board of appeals, One thing is sure: At a time ‘Tike this, housing main here, A CONSTANT READER. Brooktyn, April 5, 1920. It Is to Langh. | i | The machine includes a saloon, which is entirely free from brac- ing wires, stays, or struts, and @ "4 " 4 . which is 4 They should recall that “We want all we can get” | Space in New York ought not to govunufilized for lack ape Se ees bls ataed Ay ie ies es World: Bost tig when you fly off your handle in attacking Sree ae ee biel aves y ee ; Ae ; i. ual ceed, e@ prize joke of 1950, that the your job. : ‘ | was: the cry that unified legislative opinion on the |! Systematic effort to secure its utilization, once from Germany, once from the| people will laugh over, will be the| If you have got to get excited, get excited over your Passengers — electric lamps, ~ Rent Bills. | Some way should be found to make it profitable} boat on which 1 was returning, and | fact that folks of 1920 tried to grab|$ work. If you are bound to get mad, get mad at yourself for Slocke, wirrords: wirslent, arpa: = jt convert old houses, without tearing up the Tene-| stance giving my home address, Sev- an hour of daylight by setting the! $ not accomplishing more than you are accomplishing. | aaa DRONES: Oe Javalerias. Y Ss, ivit CI {ter m:; 9c re- J i Fy rm =i . i if arm- Pees “The Senate can count ona Presidential yeto, | Ment House Law and giving the really speculator free fe ghee ae mneree to! , if 1 Put a figure 2 over the 1 on a! Nothing important is ever done without energy. And dollar ‘bill will I have two dollars? designate which type of reclamation ne Lord placed the sun in thi - I preferred, and a circular letter tell- ment to measuce tam nt wan came t me to write to the land agent of al the Great Northern Railroad at Du- | {nf with his brain and thought to chairs, with receptacles for maps, books and papers, and a spacious luggage compartment is provided rein. Among the means of meeting the unprecedented de- It has become a habit,” remarks the publicity sheet of the Republican National Committee apropos of nothing. if your energy is allowed to run away, as does the uncon- trolled stream, you will have none left with which to do th great things which you have planned to do. | APY AP Stir c'miklsr ce Goahi as bib mand for housing in this city, the first and most ob-]11h, Soe Niier answer to my in-| “ea! time by putting the nena ote Temper, kept within bounds, properly directed, will 3} fener ie saloon and the a ald wemher of ¥ But the habit? vious is to increase the supply by hastening to make|quiry. I had particularly asked for | Jaugh, Cw.F. carry a man far on his way to success and happiness. RHOES cochRt, etoes, ie habit? Is A lands in our great Northwest terri- |“ Suffern, N.Y * ; “ Lure fy i ‘ oe 2 the Senate trying to break it by refusing to pass habitable as many as practicable of houses already|tory. These agents, by the way, al- oe Permitted to “blow up,” it will keep him in continual Tourists in Kill any legislation on which the President may ex- standing. though dressed differently, “being | A “No-Buy” Movement. trouble and land him in the poorhouse if he is fortunate 3 | ours is arnoy. Government. agents under the Rall- | T the Editor of The rening World road Act.” were the same “old” agents | FTH = \ind doing business in the same “o + AVENUE, WEEK, |About this time the Agricultural embodying this project as a 1. The tourist resorts of Ireland | cthe Lakes of Killarney and Glengarriff—have suffered great- ly during the war and the re ercise? ‘The record indicates as much. enough to eseape In re the H. C, of L., we have been slinging talk galore, but very few of us have lifted a finger to change con- | — iia ditions. If all of us “white collar” WHAT IS FAME? 77 HAT is “fame”? The famous have striven for but, without agreement. _ Alexander Smith proclaimed it the “next grandest word to God!” Ouida exclaimed, “Fame! it is the flower of a Way that dies when the next sun rises.” ; Neither definition is fair. A hundred others are available in any good collection of quotations, a definition, The question rises anew with the announcement ot | nominations for ihe Hall of Fame at New York Uni- versity. Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Barbara Pristchi - , George Innes, Homer D. Mar. tin, Alexander H. Wyant, Henry Bergh, Dr. Titus M Coan, Dr. John Murray Carnochian, Dr. Lewis Henry Morgan and Dr, William Shippen jr. are among the Mominations announced for early action. It would be interesting to poll a class of high schoo! students, a university gathasing, a woman's club and ‘D | Jing spectacle for Fifth Avenue Week, | 1 {week is Fifth Avenue Week. No longer Avenue” scarce inisses them, pressive as always. and Commerce. It is similar to the annual observance | ber. of wedding anniversaries in the home. sional notice of the fact. Such little attentions help to jbonds. i ner itlinlmemncstrtnen cen rst ae SPITE inauspicious weather on the opening | pill days, Fitth Avenue presents a colorfully pleas- It seems superfluous to pick out any particular week | and so discriminate against the other fifty-one, Every |at once to Montana. vearing ils wartime decorations, “The |! saw ar Avenue of avenues—in a word, Fifth Avenue. A Fifth Avenue merchant felicitously says that the cial effort this week celebrates the nuptials of Art|erpment grants in all respects Fifth Avenue’s beauty and its commerce are no more | nor less wedded this week than any other, but, as in the home circle, it is a pleasant custom to take oeea-| strengthen marital “rider” had been defeated. There was much ado about it and it began to }look like it would go througi ut last on its own legs. So that | would be in on the ground floor when it passed Congress, | went There they had ecutive year of \had their third cor exodus from there t minded me very much of the At re- rench It is beautiful and im-| peasants fleeing before the Germans | Price of articles How beautiful and impressive few of us realize until we happen to view it with visitors Then we realize that it is the street ot streets, the | Colorado and Western Kansas, \ Did I file in these recent openings? {trom that area that made the Ch teau-'Thierry bulge. Before returning Kast I was able to look over much of that part of our country including 1 did not! There was an element of justice in Secretary Lane's project, |ut these last were ‘regulation Gov- I lost time from May till Novem- I lost not less than $500, You pay for Government maps showing locations, in fact from the time you enter a land office till some thereafter if you manage to uneart: a tract, Enough! tried: The anxious to have farms of their own. Should an Bastern man who is ‘ditions be drought and were more than destitute. | time | their Therefore | would humbly suggest that something like the following be are a certain number of men not! stout leather and wide enough to ac- familiar with the arid Western Con- compelled to go there be- boys, of whom J am one, would get to- gether and act as I have been acting | for years there would soon be a down- |ward trend of prices or a few of the jbusiness sharks would go broke for want of trade, What we want to do Is to give the retailers the absent treatment, or, bet - |ter still, visit them often to ask che and walk out with jsome such remark as “too high.” Get the retailers uneasy @ind they will raise a howl that will soon bring the brokers and manufacturers to their knees, The person who gives $3 for a $1 tie, 85 cents for a 15-cent collar or cents for a penny apple is simply dig- ging his own financial grave, I'll tell the inhabitants of our United States, if they will pause in their mad career long enough to listen, that they can live on half of what it cost them in pre-war times if they will exercise Ingenuity, Take ihe itein of shoes, for instance, In 19141 spent $6 for shoes, but now they cost me only $3 a year, including seif-administered shines, Original cost $5, and $2 a year the following two years for new soles | and heels, making $9, divided by three. | But to do this the shoes must be of commopdate the feet in their natural width, if the shoes are tight every step strains the seams and spoils them for resoling, and also makes the corns to tingle. Enough said. Let's ade. My idea is to start a no-buy move- ment along the lines of shoes, cloth- ing, fruit and candy and keep it up until the retailers beg us to take the stuff at a regular price, and by the results show the food manipulators what the common people can do when they get started J.A, SIBLEY, Port Chester, N. ¥., April 3, 1920. Opposes Land Renta, To the Haitor of The Evening World: The housing and rent situation will be a problem until we recognize the folly of permitting a comparative- ly few individuals to monopolize land, irrespective of the needs and rights of others; until the demand for it be- comes so insistent they can rob the prospective home owner for the right to a piece of lund the Creator hag given all equal rights to The right thing to do is to free the land by imposing such a tax us to make it unprofitable to hold it out of use. The furnishing of homes for the people must in future be done entirely by the municipality or the National Government, M certainly can Bes Jonger be left in the hands of thos A alin cennte more interested in swindling than in| serving the community. | The workers in every community should build and own their homes, and work for themselves instead of for the landlord. Our country needs freedom from ‘the land-owners to | make and keep it safe for democracy. sumption of normal conditions, with freedom of travel for pleasure, will be required to bring back their old-time pros. perity. So Queenstown, and, to @ smaller degree, the City of LEXANDER LAW, Seeretary ‘Tenants’ Union of New | York, Inc. | New York, April 2, 1920. Credit Is Dae. Vo the Editor of "The ening Work ‘This is in reference to “Pro Bono| Publigo’s" (accent on the bone) etter} in your admirable paper ,on Friday, | April 2. Old man, it's too darned bad about| you, Let us suppose your mother or wife was crossing Wifth Avenue. Would you not like fo have the police offer all the aid and protection in tics aside, give a little credit to the finest body of men of their kind in the world. Let me say I am not connected with them in any way, but like to see every one get a square| deal, 1 hope this Is printed | W. D. HOLLAND | a 170 Woodward Ave., Brooklyn, Apri 4, 1920, Cork, have been affected by the entire cessation of the extensive passenger trafic to and from the United States through this port. Queenstown was the principal port for Irish emigration to the United States, and ti hange in that respect is highly significant There are more young men in Ireland to-day than there were for very many years before the war, Emigration, which for the 10 years ending March $1, 1911. averaged 88,808 from all Ireland fell in 1917 to 2,111 and in 1918. to 980 natives of Ireland. Em. barkation of emigrants and others from this port. whion amounted to 20,883 in 1913 and 21,480 in 1914, stopped altogether in November, 1914. so