The evening world. Newspaper, April 10, 1920, Page 8

7 WE Gt nowy dercatcines credited to It or net otherwise credited in this paper ‘steo the local mews published herein, orld, 9 Preas Publishing New Yorks EVENING crime. The profiteer in essentials is the game for Mr. Riley. We hope his bag will bulge. | Burns Brothers, who have doubled their net profit jon each ton of coal handled, even though this amounts to only 20 cents a ton, are guiltier than all the fash- ionable hotel keepers in the city who may charge one dollar or five dollars for a drink of lemonade, if they can attract society women foolish enough to pay the price, | PPTHE strike of railroad workers tas spread to this RELIEF IN THE RENT LAWS. “impeded. asl a is, in the main, on the above lines. ¥ hard-won power and prestige. city. The movement of freight is seriously Food shortage seems imminent. is the moving force behind the present ership. © "The cleavage ts not perfectly defined, but division ~~ If the rifts become much wider, organized labor is ‘In for internal struggle that will cost it dear in boss of It will not be only the public that suffers. FAR-REACHING and highly significant interpre- tation of the new law restraining rent increases was made yesterday by Justice Davies in the 7th Dis- Is it only ‘a wave of the unrest that often seizes trict Municipal Court. “Tabor in the spring? Or is it the deliberate work of >< powers ihat keep themselves in the background? Two contributing causes seem fairly clear: (1) Yardmen are aggressively impatient because, ‘as they claim, trainmen get the lion's share of wage advances, etc., secured by the railroad brotherhoods. (2) Rebeltious young blood is asserting railroad labor against what it cafls the slow- “ness and okl-fogyism of present brotherhood tead- Justice Davies held that it makes no difference how long a tenant has occupied the landlord’s premises, or who was occupying them and paying, the rent in April, 1919. 2 + a The present tenant is entitled to the protection of the itself in|"¢w law, which says that a rent increase of mare than 25 per cent. over the rent paid for the premises in April, 1919, cam only be justified by requiring a heavy burden of proof from the landlord. " In other words, the court holds that the rent goes with the premises and not with the person who, on a given date, is or was the tenant. “The new laws were drawn,” Justice Davies de- clares, “for the benefit of all tenants, whether they fave lived in one apartment for years or only weeks. In fixing rentals, the law provides that the rate of ash ve i PES sh | ms wae “WORLD, SATURD Makin’ ‘Em Work in Russia ay, v mii KPRIL TO, Co. York’), By J. H. Cassel Has Science Solved Secret Of Lost Atlantis? Explorer of Museum of Nat- ural History Finds Traces of Great Submerged Continent —West Indies Were Perhaps at One Time Joined in Vast Island. AS “The Lost Atlantis,” the great continent supposed to have been swallowed up by the ocean centuries ago, been found at last, miles below the waters of the Caribbean Gea? The story of Atlantis is lost in the beginnings of history. It is first mer« tioned by Plato in the Timaeus as located west of the Pillars of Her- cules, the portals of Gtbraltar. Later it was thought that Atlantis might be off the coast of Brazil or North America. It is supposed to have been a great island empire, a prosperous thriving country with highly developed culture, wide commerce and beautiful cities. ‘Then, according to the legend, it vun- Ished utterly, the entire continent hav- ing dropped into the sea. | Now scientists tell us that there is strong evidence that at one time euch a continent existed in the region of |the Antilles, the islands that fringe the Caribbean Sea. These islands of te-day ere the mountain tops of that continent, and far below on the eea i THE LITERACY TEST. April, 1919, shall be the basis, regardless of who the Ls icting immigration into the United bejeapeey have been.” i courts are crowded with landlords who States are samen g glad imperfect. if seek to oust their tenants, thinking that once But the relaxal literacy restriction recom- they get them out they will be allowed to charge mended by the Inter-Racial Council and other inter- what they please in renting to new occupants. ests deserves scant attention. Such landlords are going to be badly fooled if rgument repeal rests they succeed in their eviction. They will get gag prea eats octal a larger * no additional rent by ousting a tenant, and they Ly yi scohonary certain might as well retain the present occupants.” aga admitted that the Weracy test frequently works Here is strong promise of protection against land- ~ hardship and injustice. It does not exclude revolu- lords who figure rent not as adhering to the premises “fionists and agitators, It may exclude persons who but as a variable and unlimited quantity to be ex- ~yare potential good citizens. tracted from the pockets of successive persons who a ..| move in. ai agp parprnine higare Big mae Laat Bas outcry may be expected from the landlords that “ diecticn’ te tenet but It appears to this is the last straw and the deatitbtow to hopes that Coy nF -arti-ready, cal and effective means capital will see stronger inducement in building of excluding a certain proportion of immigrants with- gid 4 patil hie lucie Because, since housing is at last beginning to be The a {hit certain ‘tadust heed. these recognized as a matter closely related to public wel- rough 1 te will not appeal to the country as a fare, reasonable and profitable return on housing in- “whole. The I of the coal and stéel strikes in vestment becomes a matter of public interest? Ach the employers cried “Bolshevism” are fresh in Because an attempt is made ta establish some stand- AY the public mind. i ard for determining where a rent in a given instance The phain fact ebaatad by these strikes was that ceases to be just and becomes extortion? © there were lumps of dross in the melting pot Surely such a standard will prove greatly to the ad- "Unrestricted. immigratign addition 1 the vantage of the honest landlord, who is entitled to raise od aameted wxvAmertcant ae without being denounced and resisted as a erops 4 profiteer. i oo, pager © ig lah oar peaaind When the realty speculators’ revilings of the new a bas proved most ory rent laws have somewhat subsided, the realty investor igre PT Cave en. hy Ba oor, may begin to discover much good in these laws as a i Restrict immi saul the dross Is i means toward stabilizing Tentals and realty values on ” The Eveni evar Aver gareresnes the fiterac bases that will endure to his advantage long after 1922, Rast but co ire diaeanic reetiohion pail ge cH present emergency rent legislation ceases to Bay Sets ative, ‘ oe a ccttecudsl bets, Protecting tenants against overgrasping landlords Americani fi ‘vottom may be traced the courses of the old prehistoric rivers that oneé drained those mountains. ‘ Capt. H. E. Anthony, a New York explorer and Assistant Curator of the Department of Mammals of the American Museum of Natural His- tory, believes that this is true He has just returned from a four months’ trip of exploration through the islands, and traces the strong analogy between the mammal types of the islands and the mainland, Of the as- ' gemblages of fossil mammals found in Cuba and Porto Rico he says: “These fossols are of ancient types and strange ancestry. They strongly suggest, if not the existence of some mainland connection far back in the geological age, at least the union at some time of most of the Greater Antilles into a lange Antillean con- tinent. This continent, if it existed, must have lain in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, with tho longer axis east and west, and must have been an important land ,mass with large rivers an@ mighty moun- tain ranges rising, perhaps, as high -|as 20,000 feet or more above sea level.” Asked as to the probable extent of the continent, Capt. Anthony said: “To the eastward it took in the re- cently acquired Danish West Indies, while to the westward its limits must have taken in part of what is now Central America, Because of the strategic position of Jamaica in its relation to the Central American mainland and to such a hypothetical Antillean continent, it was highly important that the fossil fauna of Jamaica be explored.” He was successful in cohducting such an exploration, and was able to verify in a most satisfactory manner his belief that the island would be found to have a fossil fauna, He se- cured several fossil mammals new to science, which, found in Pleistocene formations, must date back upproxi- ~ at * 4 ae teen sae __FROM EVENING WORLD READERS What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of @ thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying | to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. | not in any way, directly or indirectly, interested in the liquor traffic, and in fact have always been exceedingly temperate in my personal habits, 1 do not believe it right to dictate to my neighbor what he shall drink, and I trust that eventually all right think- ing, patriotic Americans will apply the rule of reason to their moral cop- victions with similar conclusions. “ee UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyright, 1920.) DO THE HARD JOB FIRST. Divide your day's work into what you like to do and what you hate to do, If it is anything like the average day's work it will be composed of both these things. What you like to do is comparatively easy. At least it is enjoyable. What you hate to do may be merely tedious and dull; it may be very difficult, Usually men dislike most to do things they are the least competent to do, When you have made your division tackle the hard job first. You may have to grit your teeth and shut your pies Fi Prohibition That Inn‘ Yo the Editor of ‘The Dvening World; It makes one smile to read about “A& Confirmed Drunkard’s" "reforma- tion. We have had albout three months of Prohibition and what is the result? I can go out any time and get my fill of any kind of strong ‘A, MEETING of churchwomen thas been called to consider permanent substitutes for the saloon. Three Doctors of Divinity are scheduled to address May we suggest to the programme committee that the arrangement seems a trifle one sided? To balance the D. D,’s it might be well to include somz B. B.'s, Bachelors of Beer, the most disreputably ragged specinens of the genus “hobo” whici the among New York realty interests that it fails to get aboard instead of in the way of the new movement? tive by which the New York Post-Graduate School and Hospital is known, is an addition to the list of educational institutions which have found ‘t necessary to undertake to raise an endowment fund. The sum needed, $2,000,000, is to be raised by pub- | comparison between the Department jof Justice employees and Post Office A law which the people have no scruples in breaking 1s a bad law. done. Bowery affords. Be “poor man’s clubs.” tion has caused some previous “substitutes” to prove u i There are hundreds of young fel-| {Toe wo resigned so that what now|@nd_8 at night, During the “sub-|‘by which men could learn to te /08 Hrorouetly gerd bf A coms. almost as popular as warfime substitutes for white | Post-Graduate and have applied the added skill and |{ows, in my district who had never | romain in the Department of Justice | PINE” Bel | Sebfemumolent end ikuah at the gare One Oe tre at ae BORD a Ae j i ‘i otic i hy kK are one and two year employees, and nk werkern a ‘ ps La aol SRR BD public, The ‘benefits of research have been made} week. Bring back the good old beer— i wae copone® ema FY sickness, death, or any reason a for instruction in the art of clean- |is Biel: see the Munters al i 7 that's what we want—and whiskey be ip coll po sel Aap ; no thirty day annual leave. I ha ing, sewing on buttons and pressing | tha’ e dog ‘has secured his Dp PROFITEERS AND PROFITEERS. pena 1 Ae alge iatanesl Mic!"| the atance new ones. ‘They enjoy a come ta work mm the morking and | mon's outer garments. tee Gee etatent ay ita Gu aoe a ‘ost-Graduate diffe y-day 4 a c to worry about. y With all respect to the pastors, it is highly probable even thougn they may be almost as poverty stricken as some of the more or less recent members of the To be effective in their search for substitutes the churchwomen must find out what WILL serve and ROFITEERING is not a tumorous subject, but even profiteering has its humorous side. Consider the letter received by Profiteer Hunter b-Profileering? Of course it is, but not for Mr. Riley | Profiteering, but such as Mrs. Society Woman has | require siudy and research lic subscription from the medical professivn andi from | the public. loyalty of alumni who have benefited from the in-| struction and associations provided, The public as a whole thas been the beneficiary of fhe work done at Post-Graduate. The part which Post-Graduate has played in lengthening the average these the most able and progressive, have studied at from other schools in that it did not depend on either public grants or gifts in its infancy. The faculty carried it until it was a success, jates come here instead of going abroad, has more than doubled. Enrolment New problems arise which Every one knows, if they are honest enough to admit it, that nine out of ten persons will not hesitate to ve some claret | 1 occasionally | . Ove evening, at just beforh dinner, the missed having a his meals. Where- | out off in, the Post Office Department. I am a former employee of both of these Government departments, and I woulda like to point out that when drawing a comparison beween two de- paruinents he take two which have drink at my fathe: remarked t glass of beer w upon T volunte of the good old U. bottle of claret for able to think that iby bottle of cla sd to break the law | $ and procure @ | jaugh- | his ‘ of two quainted with is not for the retigpn of whiskey as a drink but for tamper- ance and the legalizing of the sale of light wines and bee \ A‘TEMPERATH AMERICAN. New York, April 8 1920, Overloaded With Whiskey. To the Kaltor of The Hvening World: it whiskey, but I think it is gasoline. New York, April 8, 1920, Not Yet Published. To the Faitor of The Rrening World: Some time ago your columns in- formed tho readers of the What Do these «ich publication, Will you kindty ed- vise me whom to apply to to obtain & copy of such publication? 1 wish to take this opportunity of expres#ing my torial attivude World nvening dmiration of the ed!-| Th employees. Believing that some of your readers may receive @ wrong clerks in the Department of Justice | who received $100 per month were cut | to $90 to make possible the $240 bonus. | He also states that the bonus was not clerks in the Department of Justice receiving $90 a month, ‘The place is full just now with $1,400 and $1,500 clerks who are not worth half that amount. ‘They are products of the way ‘The Government at present abounds with employees who could not pass the éxamination that was neces- result that when opportunity presented thirty-day sick leave—which privilege is well taken advantage of. Another thing: A great majority of Department of Justice clerks are law students, filling in neccessary law clerk time. A checking over of resig- life position—in which light it is re- garded by postal employees, of whom there are many in the service now over forty years, Taking up the Post Office Depart- }ment, | would point out that it is Once it is out of the way the decks will be cleared for the congenial task, which is the one that will count in the end, for no one ever made a success or a reputation doing _ the meeting on the question, which is one of serious HELP THE POST-GRADUATE HOSPITAL. the Prohibition law, as they | ™pression, I would dike to submit anything he didn’t like to do. one which has few adherents amows is tas rat Fal) consider it a breach of their lawful | the following: Ww, 3 § recent day xoologists) is that importance. 66D OST-GRADUATE,” the affectionate diminu- ‘ak Z, A” vetaie & the tack that Work ought never to be easy, but it should always be § | Jamaica was isolated from all other enjoyable. Herbert Spencer did the work of twenty men in gathering material for his great system of philosophy. It was hard work; much of it was wearisome. But he did it cheerfully and conscientiously. The work that he en- joyed was setting the results of his mental labors down on paper, and it was because he put enjoyment into the work that readers throughout the ages will get enjoyment out of it. because you are not certain Tackle if and find out. eS ” hony, in describing the blocks I ibecamo a law ‘breaker and | Some common ground. ‘These two There are dull details to all tasks, but they must be Captain Ant Fi . Mie rT ~ ” . . a ‘ arres' > - § te A rar 4 7 methods of hunting the Indian coney, that their opinions are formed at second hand. They| “Post-Graduate” has an unusually ‘valid claim on | wos lable to arrest if « ye tho {departments aro as unlike as the attended to. If it is possible, attend to them first. Never $|said: “In order to get this animal personally have mo need for a substitute for the saloon| the public. Other schools have relied primarily on the| sentiment of the people I am ac-/P* ine first place, there are few follow the line of least resistance. Do not shy at a job 3) when 1? tec ectore went tp. tato whether you can do it or not. And when you are done with the details and the dif- ficulty you will have more time for the pleasant part of labor, and all labor that means your progress and the world’s progress is sure to b be pleasant, more pleasant, in ‘g fe to speatla “ sary before the war. he older em- truth, than any recreation you can ever find. ter at once and come to not what OUGHT to serve, span of human life is immeasurable, witli, backs the beer and. light) dloyecs, myself as example, were Te- ‘ , i E]eripe with its prey, but’ more. often f . : ‘, Py ° edici ceiving the same salarie: the A eee > y rowks? anc Failure to take the human equation into considera-| Nearly: 10 per cent. of the Doctors of Medicine, and|overioaded with whiskey. ‘They call| ony Me ginmotent war-product, with te | wo toe NE $0 WOR RWRY Fae Rae was not able to put in over two hours -for that day I received one-fourth of a day’s pay. My salary as a reg- ular was $800 to start—after five years, To sum it all up—why doesn't this Tell Post Office employees there is an opening to transfer into the De- partment of Justice—you would be overwhelmed with applicants, EX-GOVERNMENT CLERK, Business requires not only a letter of recommendation but also a neat, well-groomed appearance. One of the ways to maintain such a per- sonal appearance is to have the clothes one is possessed of, no mat- ‘ ry ” Y Know?" questions that Department of Justice clerk transfer # e ee . 4 Riley from a “well known society woman, Post-Graduate must have more money now quostiona and answers woukt tbe pub: nations, will mubstantiate this. rere into the Post Office Department? to. ate olmay, ber looking, eat uch Tight on Went indian’ netral . i a ie Hehed in book or pamphlet form at|fore, clerking in that depargment| ‘There are plenty of openings, Ex- | Oi! 3 5 ; ¥ ] ‘ She complains that a hotel charged her a dollar for! New York has become the centre of the medical| some Inter date, Pee) Fe nave been|would seem to be regarded ‘ae aj aminations De held very often, nome- weap and greta MC. A. Rint gaantieee teh iu iee ae q sh ma ie ” i} n . " an es x le of es " ‘oul . . C. A, or by - e ie _ & glass of lemonade “and very weak at that, workd and has surpassed Berlin and America, Gradu-| Watching for an announcement of] means toward an end end not as al times a couple of times & mont ne some of the vocational schools give |courses of instruction in this, It would not hurt the garment workers and manufacturers and I doubt if it | would take any trade away from |the shops that now do this service, “eee < AP i CRRA 1 Haak 4 =} some © ye wre Would Leara Self Valeting. | Men who would attend such a course | interested co-operatio 4 4 meets 506 can drive down Coe price by) | Post-Graduate deserves wall of al America and of toon raueue, ica arot pleasure |i apps, ara meters, yan |, Tian ne ane TE’ | probably Go net now paironive nub: let the pearle of ‘amalca, avery where ’ ny 4 ne work, Particularly it deserves well of New York! to. ine Pa ‘courageous de-| salary, Dufing that five years “aub- 0 Heeint What Can|li¢ valets. Neither would it offset | meeting With ready assistance and , amas ‘ ee ge bse wort eer its nk bet New A Th) to ine to reed iderwon and aj! he| bing” period Ms salary amounts to A Fringe alah poor ge AN) privato schools, because it is the | unfailing courtesy. All the more Im- Le is a sin, Profiteering| because of its free clinic and dispensary and its home} represents, It Ix My bumble opinion| what he can make, In my own case “0 " NI a iey understanding that cutting | portant areas of the island were visit. Vorid been is treat: t k the t side. that the Bigbteenth Amendment] it amounted at times to $1 a day— While L do not believe there Is schools do not teach the au jects re-jed with the idea of making the col- . ‘has exposing is a] treatment fyork on the east side, ae eed. Although 1 an idsting from 6 in the morning to 7 demand for short courses in talloring "red to. EM. 1, RB, |fection as complete as posstble, “retain this safeguard of citizenship. is pretty certain to develop new views of the relation |arink if 1 have the price, but I can't C WH eyes when you go atit, but go at it just the same. maior 10.0 TE diet were lO a : which will result in surer, steadier returns to the prop-| Pus. & decent Blass of arm eee Toor | Somerville, N. J. April 5, 1920, Do it in the morning, when you are fresh and when 3 | found. tit : erty owner. Havite ibcioerance: WhioK TE Mallhys | ae Mees rates brain has been put in good repair by a long night's $|,,~ ee ee cis Cc eunhen ne ss A with a great many others is the most | 79 the Editor of The Evening Worl sicep. the failure to find any mammals CALL IN BETTER JUDGES. Where is the Intelligence of the better clement | desiraple condition, wo have Probitl-| “4 recent letter by M. V. A. drew & Whether it is tedious or difficult, go at it and get it }|closely related to those found ether on Cuba or Porto Rico, This suggests the possibility that Jamaica may not have formed part of the old Antil~ lean continent, but may have existed as an eastern peninsula jutting out from Honduras, A second theory (but land and received its mammal deni zens as waifs on life rafts, floating masses of vegetation swept down the large continental rivers, In addition to its success in collect ing fossil fauna, the expedition ob- tained a large collection of the living anima! forms. Only one land mammal is living on Jamaica to-day, the Indian coney, and even that ‘had been thought to be practically extinct. the high mountains amd lived with the natives hunting the coney in the primitive fashion with smal dogs ‘The dogs tracked the mammal to its hole in the rocks or under some large tree, and there, amidst great excite- ment, the quarry was dug out. If the hole is a fairly large one, the enlarge the hole, ‘The natives get hind leg and take the coney from ‘him, Captain Anthony brought back with him more than 700 specimens of bats, #1 well as collections of reptiles and birds, This material, when proveniy away gations in that recion. Ag the prophi- ecies concerning Jamaica have borne such gratifying fruit, natural history exploration on the islands will re ceive great stimulus. The expedition encountered a very