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By y J H. Cassel WHERE JUDGES MAY LEARN. | CONFERENCE between Municipal Justices _Sir Thomas Neptune! TURNING THE PAGES) 5 . ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Seladiv tt my j ‘. Jesstaaes Dally Sxcept Sunday by the Press Publishing and the Legislative Committees on Housing | neues Monona aa Pinder Dreataen, Sremecnt. "68 Sark, how. should prove profitable in suggesting ways to give Otis Peabody Swift soled AN. Sn Beorelates 68 Park: Row, greater effect.to the rent laws. oni 9m, Toe rm ae But isn't som@thihg more than such a conference | s MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS. va |. heeded? Advice on New York Town--- wr" aoon cbse te 8 os ont echtowien eeahee to lo gba? Y Don't forget to tip. PURIFYING ELECTIONS. N his general arraignment of the evils of money in politics, and in his criticism of the vagaries of the _ © primary Jaws, W. G. McAdoo was unquestionably she right in his speech before the Masonic Clubs. i mt} When he attempts to describe remedies he ven- tures On dangerous ground where many another critic has foundered. - * When Mr, McAdoo said, “There is no menace to the Republic so great as the improper use of money «, dn politics,” be was incontestably correct. the went on to say: “Wational elections in this country should ‘be paid for out of the National Treasury, If the Government would pay for the campaigns, mit the amounts and specify the uses of money, it would purify our national elections enormously and would also save the American people much money.” } Political theorists have advanced similar schemes before, but without working out practical applica- tions. Nor does Mr. McAdoo. Numerous objections present themselves, If the Government is to pay campaign expenses, who is to decide what candidates are entitled to enter the race? Present laws do not prevent Robert Ross, a Ne- ” Draska livery stable keeper, from filing for the nomi- nation in his own State. What rule can be devised that will preserve the democratic nature of our Government and exclude such impossibilities as this particular livery stable keeper. ei} Is there any possible way of determining the will 20 — of the people except by a Jong series of elimination “primaries which will gradually narrow the field until one candidate or another receives a majority of his party votes? the opposition party without disfranchisirlg the great and growing independent vote? These are only samples of a few of the more se- rious questions which must needs be met. There are “ » a score of other contingencies in which experience “fas shown that theory and practice do not go hand * in hand. } “I feel that we should consider and direct our thoughts to the need of a drastic change in the elec- tion laws,” said Mr. McAdoo. } Any one who can divert popular thought to that f A COOK IS A COOK.» N a roundabout manner we learn that Chicago | One Municipal Justice frankly admits that the main difficulty in administering the rent laws has been in their interpretation: “A great deal of misinformation has been spread about them, and some Judges have not understood them.” Either as they stand, or as the Legislature may amend them for greater clearness and scope, these rent laws constitute a section of the statutes that has profoundly important present bearing on the welfare of a great community, It is essential that Judges should interpret and ap- ply them with all the intelligence and uniformity that careful study of tie laws themselves can assure. It would be well worth while to establish a tem- porary school fer Municipal Justices—a night school might. be practicable—where Justices who are con- stantly called upon to decide rent cases could have the fullest opportunity for studying*the rent problem and the purpose and meaning of tht laws passed to help deal with that problem, Every Municipal Justice should feel a special obli- gation to inform himself thoroughly on a subject of such immediate and vital import. Rents are only one side of the housing question. But they are a side that counts heavily in the lives of hundreds of thousands of workers in the City of New York in whose close-figured family budgets the item of rent has increased fo almost impossible proportions Rent laws cannot build homes, But rerftt laws vigorously and uniformly administered can do much to keep down profiteering and avert another worse orgy of rent gouging next fall, where their thorough understanding of the rent laws is of first inyportance. The discretion they must inevitably use in decid- ing individual rent cases shoul be founded on knowledge of the law they are applying and sym- pathy with its purpose. If necessary, provide at once a school where Judges may learn all that can be taught about the rent laws. 'O further improve the Constitution of the Uhited States by an amendment making divorce im- possible the purpose of a newly formed organiza- tion which calls itself the Society for the Upholding There is fine mental é@rercise a to say much ina few words. Ta 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 hundred? nd a lot of satisfaction in trying time to be brief. By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) THE Ds ER OF DEPENDENCY, be Tip early and tip often. This is where they raise tire palms for Palm Beach. Don't block the sidewalk, New Yorkers will gather in crowds to eee @ young lady demonstrate a new. razor in a shop window or a safe going up the side of a building. Ignore such gatherings; show our ox-hicks that you come from a teal town, Don't cross the street in the middie of @ block. In Paris they arrest you for doing that, in New York they simply run you down.—From “Vaien= tine’s City of New Y " by Henry Collins Brown see Why Howells Will Liv “When Mr. Howells died we whe have been his readers might have said that we had lost a friend and entertainer never to be replaced,” says E. 8. Martin inthe July Hare per's, “But we en't lost hum, He has merely stopped work, We have what he did in wonderful measure If he had been a lawyer, a doctor, teacher, a man of business, even o clergyman, there would be left his reputation, his descendants, his ao- cumulated property, if there was any, and his touch upon the lives he in+ fluenced and helped, but the great body of his daily achievement would be gone. But because he was a writer the Important' mass of his work lives on, accessible and consol- ing, @ long row of books—seventy- five, or thereabouts—on library shelves all over the land and beyond the sea, and his spirit, his mind, the sound of his voice, the play of his thoughts and fancy in every one of them,” Coy Ie An Esperanto Translation--- Mabel Wagnall's sto Bush of a Thousand Years’ been translated into Hsperar ‘ote Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson -- “The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Ste~ Th: venson by Nellie Van De Grit is wi Munici ic i Sanchez,” Charles Scribver's Sons, Is there any way of protecting the primary from at is where the Municipal Justices come in, and Noo Terk, Pubiahera: Side by side with the strong artist soul of Robert Louis Stevenson was a soul as fine and strong as bis own, that of Fanny, Van De Grift, his wife. Her lite story is a romance as thrill- ing as is his, a story of struggle and success, of high idealism and high art. Born of Dutch blood in the then frontier village of Indianapolis, she was married at the age of seventeen to Samuel Osborne, a wealthy young Kentuckian, They lived together in California, and there their three chil- question form! dren were born, but their marricd : ' i PR BOT life was not a happy one, aml they as ie atte ‘ana is = Shier ee separated in 1875, the young moth suggestion miay not be feasible. going to France, where, with her chil- dren, she studied art. It wus here that she met Stevenson, who love with her at sight. When sl turned to America he followed Jand after a divorce had been nted her they were married in 1880 in San ii ‘ ih Bd A of the Sanctity of Marriage. If you are dependent on any one man or corporation Exanciana, aR peepee Lene We i housewives are advertising in Vienna newspa- ‘The idea is first to get all clergymen to declare aes tal Cuaiy “am Wabesiia. loss to understand. Certainly a meet- for your job, you are in danger. Dependence is never saf in England, and later, when his ee pers for 2,000 cooks, Aeatiat th eeiaue err awercad a‘ To the Euitor of The Brening World ing devoted te Ameri No one knows what may happen to a source of incom broken health forced hin to seek tbe 2 Naturally, Chicago did not tell’ New York of this 8 1 Tan : lage of divorced persons and then Last week it rained considerably, traditions should not be If you do not know where to find another, and that immedi- South Seas she lef io Wvilleation Bes ae Ys 4 to jam an anti-divorce amendment into the Federal | Which necessitated the carrying of a Pact ete by Tah symp: mile iaseete, hind |b ‘0 Ba effort to circumvent the High Cost of Servants. | Constitution by processes already employed with |'#™&* number of umbrellas. Ever no-one into declarations “favoring Irish No competent man is dependent. If something hap- Behind the spirit of every sreag a * Chi turally was suspicious that New York . ¢ ° tice how many people know how to freedom, despite the fact that. those! man there will be found the spirit o' e eee ere cae eugpearus GE NEW 30 success. carry in umbrella—proparly? Some | present almost to a man sympathize, ¢ PeNs to the job he holds, he can get another. Able services } | great woman, his mother or his se might want to share in the supply. It was a foregone conclusion that the truniph of [carry them under their arms; others deeply with that marty ed country. are always in-demand. wie Neve Veo Ue arly Oe # , spec. F . a heavy waik-|,, 7% who want to see Ireland gain Wh y 7) sister of } Ge We do-not know what arrangements the prospec- | jhe anti-Saloon League in abolishing personal liberty Stan wetsee erga tia tn endence should go about it in hen Theodore Roosevelt went out of the White House 3 |piography told the story of a woman '»-. tive Chicago employers have made for getting these In all probability these 2,000 cooks will enter at the Port of New York. If so, the Chicago women to protect their treasures. Otherwise, New ‘York ‘A cook is a cook these days. {be well worth a strenuous effort. And 2,000 would CHEAPER GOLF IN THE WEST. IHE TIMES takes exception to Gov. Cox's asser- tion, that golf is not exclusively a rich man’s game. It points out the expense of clubs, balls, cad- dies, entrance fees and dues of clubs and the time consumed, The Times is looking at golf from the angle of the metropolis, Gov. Cox from a Middle Western viewpoint. | Granting that golf is a rich man’s game in ‘the ast, it has in recent years attained a different status farther West. Many substantial cities in the Mississippi Valley | maintain municipal golf courses that rival those of * exctusive Eastern links. Clubs may be rented, Players caddy for them- selves. The fee for a round of golf approximates the admission fee at the movies, Daylight saving links. {.. Golf for the masses never will be possible in New | Nork, Golf links are too valuable as building sites, The few links in the vicinity are overcrowded. by constitutional amendment would prove an invi- late the lives of their fellow-beings. Here they come. The Constitution is defenseless, people misused it, why not abolish all marriages be- cause some turn out badly? . Marriage is responsible for divorce, Amend the Constitution to prohibit both. THIEVES’ THRIFT. ILK thieving long since attained the status of an organized industry, The police have been alfle to harass the gangs but cannot break 4hem. “Silk looters have a complicated system for dispos- ing of their spoil. spinners, weavers, dyers, manufacture: ers and retailers. of “underground” transportation, They are in league with crooked wholesal- They have a complicated system They are able to steal silk in any stage and turn it into finished prod- uct before it leaves their hands, All the stages after the first theft are carried on with the aid of men who are ostensibly in legitimate business and so can account for goods found in, their hands, After stolen silk has passed through a proc- ess of manufacture, it is virtually impossible to iden- not convict, may be responsible for the daring theft of a huge quantity of dyes from a local warehouse. What would be more natural than such an exten- sion of activ ity? Why, the silk thief would argue, o both ends can be used end of a rain-stick in the han@s of pIf-conscious subway traveller, Recently [ nearly lost my right eye The solution is simple—grasi New York, July 8, 1920. An Up-State View. ‘To the Kétor of The Brening World So “Chauffeur” would like to hear what car owners think of his case, 1 think he 1s squealing like a stuck pig. If he ever drove a car behind a truck without a mirror for four or five miles on & narrow road and wanted to pass, I guess he would think ‘so too. As for the apple-knocker State Troopers, if they would collar a few more such drivers a car owner in this part of the State would not have to notify his undertaker every time he wanted to go for a ride. Get busy, State Troopers! A. SEANK, Sloatsburg, N. Y., July 6, 1920. “A Word to the Wine.” Brening World , duly 5, while meeting in attending honor and in a patriotic celebration of the 144th anniversary of American independence, 1 was shocked to find scattered throughout the au- dience Irish sympathizers who, during the course of sevewal of the speech arose and shouted out questions re! tive to Ireland and Irish independence. heckle went so far as vonducting the exercises “and cowards for not turn- hypocrite ing an American patriotic meeting into Irish freedom declared its reading nothing but British propaganda, ‘Such tactics are certainly not go- ing to do the cause of Ireland any good in this country. ‘Those who favor frish independence are not. goin to force their beliefs down the throats of @ habit of thinking for| at meetings where a proper and orderly manner; they to browbeat’ liberty-loving Amert into declarations of support specially | ca, and not| ways been and want to continue to be} Lexington Avenue, Back to Private Lifet To the Editor of The Brening World, There has come to my notice to- day euch a good example of how our energetic and patriotic Attorney General has reduced profiteering in our fair country that I must needs pass the word on to the rest of our population, , I went into a well known down- town electrical supply store to buy an electric fan, I chose a certain size and make and was told the price was $87.50. I showed the clerk 9 billhead from a dealer, and the price was reduced to $29.30, ‘This means that the dealer is per- mitted to ma’ a@ his profit. Now it stands to r son that distributor consi entitled to just as much profit retailer. Add anoher $8 or $9. public is therefore asked to p $17 as middiemen’s profits on a $3 rucle.. This exclud the manufac turer's profits, . When wo buy an artich like from the distributor his gone it from the latter, asked to pay July 6, 1920, this he. pockets both fits and those that would have to a retailer had purchased We are therefor this one concern $37.50 just grievances soon enough, but do you pay any attentidh to profiteer- ing millionaires? Yes, you do not. ‘What have your spectacular and noisy roundup equads done? Caused lot of confusion among innocent and when all the noise had people, subsided prices’ were higher and are plrations of the Irish ce vr ae Lancome ¢ orks July 7, 18204 he had no need to worry, even if his private means had not Roosevelt's is, of course, an extreme case. But no man who has made his way toward the top of any business or cure-the services of men who know how to do things well. him another. The bookkeeper who is just an average bookkeeper, the clerk who is nothing but a clerk gal Nii men are about as dependent on their employers as one human being can be on another in a free country. Take stock of yourself and your position, Determine your degree of dependence. If it is absolute, look out. You cannot afford to have your living taken away by a sudden accident to the firm whieh employs you, Specialize in something or other and learn to do it so well that you will attract outside attention, if a crash comes you will be able to survive it. Save enough money so that in event of the loss of your job you will have time to find one that is as good or better, Beware of being thrust into the first position that offers by the demands of hunger. You canrfot help being dependent to some extent, even if you own your own business, But don’t be any more de- pendent than you need to be. And above all don't bank your whole personal fortunes on the success or failure of ‘one employer, Then ie UNCOMMON SENSE sta aon or pega rd that Aaron Burr shot Alexander | Hamilton in a duel beneath the ‘Palisades, just south of Weehaw- in 1678, 384 houses standing, and in at new buildings amounting to 0 ‘On July 10, 1834, there were abpli- tion riots in New York City. “ee King’s (now Coluinbia) ‘The real beginning of the Englieh city of New York was effected by In 1164, College was founded in New York died, in 983; Pope Benedict VIII. in Na K 7 waa on Sumdex, ate ra) 1,000 inhabitants in New York City who was as great as the man she . B sia loved, Fanny Van De Grift Stevenq | oe a Like a double-edged #0uld not alienate the sym been ample. The ability that got him the Presidency couldy deine inepivetion of her husd |Sms Workers into the country. Nor does it seem prob- -| tation to other zealous groups whose aim is to regu. |#word. Asvan eye-tickler a lady's | {hove who bel lieve fm the just ot HO Nike cucH HekcaBT Oe ce Cne netic. som gan the inmbration others “** able that any precautions will avail them greatly. hatpin is not in it with the ground by E in long years of sickness and despair, and time and again brought hing back from the peril of death to cone »rofession is dependent on the particular employ in which tim years of happiness in his works i “ 4y fhe ee - b ouser leg, Ireland is the count } I I ploy te ey ivid picturd Pd Marshal the forces, organize the lobbies and make | 4nd the cuff of my left, trouser Bs ; he hi : Dlography gives 6 via ‘ . ried owing that -they-are Hable to get. T have talked on seve; he happens to be. There will always be competition to se- evel t Vailima,y © had best arrange for armed guards and special trains | way for more Nation-wide regulation, you anywhere from top to bottom, |in favor of Irish freedom. 1 have al-{ tf P of the death of Stevenson his estate in Samoa, where he. was ity : : The Anti-Divorce League should try to be logical | rriend umbrella by the neck of the|a believer in their just cause. Such} It is the average worker who is in danger, the man § apparently better health than he ‘ in housewives are apt to storm Ellis Island and capture as well as bold handle #0 that he doesn’t quite reach | tactic hy however, do not tend to|/$ Who can do nothing any better than hundreds of other men “On the afternoon of Dec. 3, 1894, abe ny ‘ ‘i a S s . the ground, and swing him along at| strengthen their cause; rather they}? can d. ing to their custom, he took xen re oy hegce onda Mik defiance both | Why not an amendment abolishing marriage? your , fas ike a pail a apne: tend to weeked it ee uf 1 loses his job, only a lucky accide nt will papers wake nee foe out c . " : rey Than ou! . Ss. ME Bs CITIZEN, cide; secure ick! e! ini OF LBD Ne ATMA ON Service, If we had to abolish alcoholic drink because some New. ceitietae, ene tee. are in this, which neither dreamed to be the last work of his pen, genius had risen to its highest lev and she poured out her praise, in way that was unusual with her, I¢ was almost with her words of come mendation ringing in his cara that ha passed to the Great Beyond. In letter addressed to his friends shortl; wa: ,|afterward Loyd Osbourne (Stevens n's ste) n) says: reat sunset he came downstal rallied his wife, talked of a lectu tour to America he was eager ta make, “as he was now so well,” and played a game of cards with hery .» He said he was hungi begged her assistance to make paind for. the evening meal, and brought up a bottle of old Burtundy from the cellar. He was helping hit wife on the verandah, and talking gayly, when suddenly’ he put both hands to his head and cried o1 “What's that?" ‘Then he ask quickly, “Do I look strange?” Even as he did so he fell on his knees bee side her, » » '» He died that sam@ night.’ ” * ee Nannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnninnannnnnnanas | resent Day Germany--+ “Germany After the Armistice’ tg Maurice Berger, Lieutenant in the Belgian Army, is @ book of both prese ent,and permanent value and interes est, M. Berger, a Belgian engineerg history, William L. McPherson hag translated the book, which is a Put nam publication, 4 . ce e It's Homan Nature-. ‘ Why is it folks are anokisg morg. Since Prohibition than before? i those who hay | olng higher than befor i . Governor's Co of ‘The reasons easy to perceive, golf as a sport is one of the penalties the | should he be compelled to pay for dyes to prevent |themsclven. Phe Atnerican public will| Si" yume: tae Wee over on. the} City, and the Arse regular theatre | the Geer ae ee He Tune | the same old Bnake that tempted Eve, man must if he lives in New York, Bi identificati ilk it i i be coerced into demanding Irish establis! barter,” ‘018 | with the Forbidden Fruit to play poor pay in. New York, But | identification of silk when it is possible to steal the |POt pe einough undoubtedly a large| "Sur political life is over. Me. Bt oe fparies Wwioh the goo again to-day, n rest of the country golf is becoming | dyes and so make his criminal industry even more jority of theni are in entire sym-| palmer. You have falled. ‘Back, | OP this day, Pape Benedict VIL. #. Ss: 12 And pious folk who never took | 08 ° 7 y ti ¥ ‘with the ‘back to private life for yours ana the While William Merritt was Mayor | 4 drop in all their lives now jooig Jess-and: less a rich | profitable by cutting a production cost to next to | Pa ner the better. 1024: : of New York City, In 1696, “wwing, | Upon the wine when It ts reg. é i 4 N motive who at. |” M. SCHAFFER, ar) p running at large,” were orde Because it ts prohibited? Trane: Kee ‘ ’ . : ; : ken, N, J, where a point the first Allied milltary man gives an opportunity for many workers to enjoy the | tify the goods. avineeting in favor of Irish indepen-| for an article that cost them approsi- By Albert P. aract extends info the Hudson, “84 | t8 ‘Bertin. ‘Thus he gained inters } } Muley 1 ca [dence i hae . = fews with many of the f j } game Links are full on Saturdays and Sundays. | Perhaps one of these thoroughly organized silk |°"Rfie ine Destaralon ot tadepen-| "da thin probteering, Mr. Palmer? | Hon, i, yn, ase Co ve views vith many of, former” wa Many, 2 club golfer is developing on these popular | gangs, which police and detectives know of but cane |@enc® Was read one of these friends of ut do nn ip, We, there were 220 houses and |