The evening world. Newspaper, September 18, 1920, Page 10

JUSTICE LEVY of the Municipal Courts, who. ought to know if any one does, predicts that landlords will bring more summary proceedings against tenants in October than in the whole year of 1919, Justice Levy reminds us that the summary pro- ceedings in 1919 numbered more than 100,000, The reason is plain. Landlords hope to get old denants out and new tenants in and bound by new | leases before the Legislature provides adequate relief. "The warning to the Legislature should be plain » enough on the basis of the facts. Justice Levy, how- ~€ver, leaves no room for doubt of the imperative need for the passage of rent legislation immediately “before Oct. 1. The landlords’ lobby will make every effort to delay legislation if they see a chance for gain in | such action. Both the landlords and those agitators who hope that affairs will grow worse in order to i increase “proletarian unrest” will be on hand to defeat the rent bills. They will hope to divide sentiment among tenants and so win their way. In the emergency there is no place for. divided counsels among the tenants. ‘Tenants must place their faith in some one—in this case in Governor Smith—and give unanimous support to the pro- gramme he advocates, ; ¢ AT IT AGAIN. F i w BRORTS indicate that Speaker Sweet hopes to t , again oust the re-elected Socialist Assembly- men. There ts-small probability, however, that he will be able to engineer any stampede such as disgraced the first day of the regular session of the Legislature. If sound political sense prevails, the Socialists will be allowed to’ occupy their seats, where their politi- * gal power will register approximately zero. In the special elections Thursday the voters regis- tered their accumulated resentment against Speaker Sweet, The result was conclusive. The ousting «was disapproved with small regard to party lines, Many non-Socialists realized that the issue of representative government was paramount. Having ‘ registered this opinion and rebuked Speaker Sweet, ‘they feel they have done their duty. +. With the Socialists admitted, these non-Socialists “would naturally return to their normal party alle- _ figiance, Fusion candidates in the five districts would have an opportunity to fight Socialism as Socialism | without the handicap of contending against martyr “Opponents, On the other hand, if the issue is raised and the * Socialists are ousted again, all the resentment re- i maining from last winter would be intensified. The « dissatisfaction would spread to other districts. In } > the next Assembly the Socialists might possibly hold ||. a substantial minority, if ‘not a balance of power. Une x een: a ae we THE LESSON FOR NEW YORK. RIDGEPORT’S experience with jitneys and electric traction has been significant. For the first time a city of considerable importance “has endured a traction strike—for a strike by capital is what happened at Bridgeport—without serious inconvenience. The traction company has lost the " strike and is in the position of other strikers who if i ] il Bridgeport is not New York. Bridgepori's transit P problem is not comparable to New York's. Never- : theless New York cannot disregard the lesson which Bridgeport’s experience teaches, What have the jitneys accomplished in Bridge- port? e If we answer that they have solved the transit problem it Would be true, but of no great use to New York. If we make the answer more specific and say that the jitneys have supplanted the trolley car in Bridgeport we make the lesson of value to the metropolis. No one believes that the jitney can supplant or compete seriously with subway and elevated lines in. this city, But every extension and amplification of subway and elevated service makes possible the abolition of surface cars. Already many car lines have been discontinued in Manhattan for lack of patronage. In New York the surface cars are used principally for short haul traffic on routes no longer than some of the Bridgeport routes. In Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond this is not true, but it becomes more nearly true as rapidly as subway and elevated lines are extended. In the magnificent distances of the greater city, life is too short for surface car travel when rapid transit over and under the streets is available, To gain a proper appreciation of what the Bridge- port experience may mean for New York it is neces- sary to visualize New York divided into a multitude of Bridgeports, all inter-connected by rapid transit lines. _ On Manhattan we have the Island below 59th Street, cast of Central Park, west of Central Park, es teen e = ern end of the island. With better crosstown ser- vice above the Park there would be complete inter- connection, In other boroughs the divisions ’re not ‘80 easily made because the rapid transit inter-con- nection is not so complete. Street traffic is a serious consideration. Would the jitneys overload the streets? An interesting and instructive comparison might be made of the number of persons in vehicles pass- ing a given point in trackless Fifth Avenue and in Seventh or Bighth Avenue in vehicles and street cars. Street cars would probably appear as actual ob- stacles to full use of the streets. ITS OWN BEST EXPONENT. Ts EVENING WORLD prints on another page of this issue the complete text of the Cove- nant of the League of Nations in a handy form whioh the reader may preserve and keep by him for reference. The Evening World does this in the befief that the Covenant is its own best exponent. Misunderstanding and misrepresentation of this im- | portant Instrument thrive chiefly among persons who | have never read and)appraised it for themselves. The Evening World is accused of having called by hard names those who differ with its views re- garding the Weague of Nations. The Evening World has had-no bard words for difference of opinion based on honest, first-hand study of the facts. But The Evening World HAS charaoterized in plain terms, and WILL CONTINUE to characterize in plain terms, those who CONDEMN THE COVE- NANT UNREAD or who contemptuously refuse to examine it on the ground that, as one such person wrote to this newspaper, “IT IS AN OBSCURE, UNINTERESTING DOCUMENT.” | No document which represents an ACTUIAL, EXISTING, FUNCTIONING PARTNERSHIP. FORMED BY THIRTY-SEVEN LEADING NaA- | TIONS OF THE EARTH.~TO REDUCE THE PROBABILITY OF WAR can be dismissed by any self-respecting American as “UNINTERESTING.” A man has a right to criticize it after he has given honest thought to it. Byt the man who kicks the Covenant aside with- out looking at it, because somebody tells him “it's no good,” deserves such names as can be found for him. Numerous inquiries and requests have convinced The Evening World that many citizens will be glad to have. the full text of the Covenant in convenient form that they may read and re-read it. Beginning next week this newspaper will print in instalments a Primer of the League of Nations, which will make clear the various provisions of the Covenant in simple language that any one can un- derstand, lf an ESTABLISHED, WORKING PRO- GRAMME FOR SAFEGUARDING THE WORLD'S PEACE cannot claim the present open- minded INTEREST of every American who calls himself civilized, WHAT CAN? BAD POLICY. | ABOR UNIONISTS in this city will make a serious mistake if they carry through the plan of raising a fund to enable employees of the B. R. T. who strud® to continue the strike. Strike was against the public. It was in violation of an agreement. It is a lost cause, From the standpoint both of right and of policy, unionists will do well to recognize that the Amalga- mated forfeited ils rights to speak for the men when it failed in its responsibility to the company and to the public. Because this is so, the sooner the unionists of New York recognize the facts in the case the better it will be for unionism, A strike fund which will help strikers fo turn a deaf ear to Receiver Garrison's invitation to return to work will only prolong the period of poor service and intensify public disapproval, If the refusal of Judge Mayer and Receiver Gar- rison to deal with the’ Amalgamated is not to have the appearance of an anti-union victory, the trade unionists had far better bend their efforts to the building up of a new and responsible union with which the company can feel safe in dealing, a7 T is my contention that the newspapers of the city of New York have been of great aid in the enforcement of prohibition.”—James Sheolin, Federal Superoising Prohibition Agent. of BELIEVE that some of the men will be back to work to-morrow and practically all mines will be operated at least by Monday.” Kennedy of the Anthracite Miners. Chairman Thomas * + + ‘e W E are forced to conclude that the explosive cial purpose,” —Fire Commissioner Drennan. TWICE OVERS, wes nol intended for any legitimate commer- aS ea "SEPTEMBER 18, 1920. ‘There t# fine mentul exercise a Ia The Evening Wo To the Editor of The Rrening World: ‘Can you help many of your women readers out by giving us some infor- mation concerning the League of Na- tions? T hope to take advantage of the next election of my privilege to vote, Tt seeme that the League of Nations is one of the big tasues at stake In order to vote intelligently I must know what the League of Nations means. Thus far i do not know. Can you ei me where I can secure a co) the League sof * BH. BURDETTE. Fort Lee, N. J., Sept. 16, 1920, Te-Day. “Correctly Applied.” | As an interested reader of your paper end a sftill more interested on- looker of the ague of Nations situ. ation, permit me to reply to the letter of “Ex-United states Sallor, U. 8. N,," dated Sept. &, 1020, From a chance perusal of bis letter) one would infer that our friend, “Ex- | United States Sailor,” is the type of gentleman who easily flies off the handlé without giving the subject suf- fictent thought. To imagine an ant hill] tobe a mountain Is easy enough, when one keeps the mental conclusion to} self. But coming forth in bold Hien and white to condemn the League, the Democratic Party, The Bvening World and the world at large shows the work of a great, elastic and hysterical Imagination. ‘The average reader's conclusion of the writer of this missive is that “Ex- United States Satior” likes to work himaelf into a frenay and then gaze in a mirror to notice and admire the effect. My advice to would be to “cut out, frame and post conspicuously” the letter published in your paper, In order that he might gaze at It from time to time and when the question of the League of Nations and the famous Article X. ts rottled it might possibly dawn that the term “slacker” your editorial was correctly app! M. PETER COLUCCI, 1736 Cropsey Avenue, Brooklyn, Sept 3. 1920, our sailor friend Bt | Firat to Fight, | 1% be Raitor of The Brening Workt your paper gives the 27th York f% ers to go to war, In speak- ing of tne reunion of the 27th Divi vion you my, ‘t ts the first reunion of firat New York fightera who went to the ble war.” Although the 27th was in training months before us, we were over in France and under fire before the 27th landed in France, “Credit where credit ia due.” R. BR. B Wx-Sergeant 808th Infantry, 77th Division (New York City’s Division), National Anny. Brooklyn, Sept, 13, 1920 Question for Gov, Cox. tile credit for being the first New| What kind of letter do you And most readable? Isn't it the one Bhat gives you the worth of a thousand words in @ couple of hundred? ind a lot of satisfaction in trying 0 aay much in a few words. Take time to de brief, G. O. P. 9 to be legally and safely ‘ebursed, and what proportion of | It ls intended for the press, ularly the periodical prees—inc ing the Saturday Evenng Post. tungtble advertising space seems offer safest and best attractions to | any party bent upon “buying oul the country.” T. B. ELKER New York, Sept. 13, 1920 | “A Place to Live.” ‘To the Dtttor of The Preniius World | T read in your valuable paper some time ago about the housing problem and the prize given for remodelling tenement houses. I took pains one day to walkeup 1th Avenue from 42d Street to 59th Street and found some land that has not been oceupied for years. I have seen the Neighbor- hood House at 534 Street, which is‘ six stories high and has a roof gar-! den for the families. 1 wonder why houses could not be built so asx to! give places for people to live in. This enue is “very healthy and has a large playground for the children, | A READER OF THE BEST EVE | { NING PAPBR. Sept. 13, 1920, of Womer.” To the Faitor ing World | You are getting Just what was com- | ing you, in te editorial “Puny ! Americans,” especially trom real mon, | such as “Ex-United States Sailor,” George V. Bryant, &c. In The Evening World of even date, In same column, you print a letter from a Margnret Mo- Govern, saying some people could read the League over many times and stil] notgpinderstand It Is the lady, speaking of herself, uA as conversant with the Monroe Doctrine, the great est in the world? it up and she If not, let her look will find the League already now that Prohibition Is making you @ nation of women you are crying for a Leagu of Nations, Oh, for a Teddy Roose velt! SERVICE STAR New York, Sept. 13, 1920, T read in several Sunday ept. 12. ativut the disband ¢ Police Rewerves, The nent was made that we e “equipped.” The only things we «et that we do not have to pay for our uniform and bi | We must buy ¢ volver | ridges, pocket’ sticks, nippe gloves, and oven have to pay posit on our shields, We also hi to pay carfare when on duty. T also noticed that great stress is laid that the reserves of Brooklyn lrendered great service during the | strike troub How about the Re- serves in New York City? We are jout almost every night pounding the | pavements for four hours after a hard | day's work, and stil we are not men To the Editor of ‘he Wrening Workd You are 90 close to Gov, Cox, you wight ask him how, in lis opinion, that fifteen milion slush fund of the tioned. 1 think We deserve some rec- ognition, ML. PLBISCHAUBR, | 212 West 2th Street, N. ¥., Sept. 48, 1920, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyrtant, 1920, by John s)ak LEARN Talk is effective, Standing HOW The good talker gets the good job. The only way you can impress a man is by talking to him. a distance and glancing at him with intellige ice written on your features will not get you anywhere. TO LISTEN modern employer caa't read that kind of writing. But alway talk intellig When inforn supply will v you don’t know. remember that you will never be able to ly till you have Iéarned to listen intelligently jon is all guing out aad nothing coming in the 'y soon be exhausted, Almost everybody you meet can tell you gomething that Muen of what they tell you is interesting. A certain perceatage of it will be valuable. Listen hard while you are listening, and think about Listen especially to men who you know are intelligent, who have done thiags in the what you hear. people cannot do, Sav you k. raise in salary Good lis' ers are rare. ing something. The man who sits and listens to’clever men talk may never be as clever as they are, but he will absorb sane of The man who insists 09 breaking into every conversation to air his own views will be so busy thinking up things to say that his brain will have no chance their cleverness. to gather impressions, Some people are educated in schools, some dig their But all get an important part of their education from the words of other i »motive fireman can educate you in a branch of knowledge that may prove useful to you in your ow busi- though that may be far removed from keeping up So can « plimber or a blacksmith or a education out of books. Al ness steam in a boiler. chauffeur, your efforts to impress other people with what ow till the time when you are looking for a job or a And they are always popular, Not only that, but they are always at scnool, always learn- nen, The world that other “| for something, namely, So can almost anybody, if you will listen to him care fully, and with your mind on what he is telling you. When you have listened int able to talk intel lige you will be used alway mission to th have to make your way. in modes business of the wo ity. alway eld, w By Albert P. Southwick ‘There was not any chureh in (Brooklyn, N. Yo in Domine Selyns: wi “We ch in a barn.” A church was , six years later, and Is de- scribed as square with thick stone walls and steep. ed roof sur- mounted by a sr whieh hung tho bell which had H a gift he West India Ci | | | a) mpany. | This church stood in the middle or a road (now Fulton Street) « mile '|*That’s aFact”’)| from the 1810, against the this purpose, called banbar! overran China. . Rowling Green, its and , wa ferry B.C. v an a sand tho e- New ate imm ligently for a few years And intelligent talk, our ticket of ad- n is where you will ARS RRA AAD and was used Ul © Wall, the largest in completed by the or of the Tain dynasty, protection It failed in er, us the #o- Mongols York City, surroundings fact and tra. necessar entire work like that of Trask. And it in to by that New York ‘a dopolitan beyond of the world. TURNING THE PAGES —BY— €. W. Osborn. You are a sunrise, If @ star shalt rise instead of the sun. \ You are @ moonrise, If a atar should come in the pleoe of the moon, You are the Spring, If a face should bloom instead of an apple bough. You are my love, If your heart is as kind Aé your young eyes now. / These lines were written by Vaohel | Lindsay {To @ Golden-Haired Girt i ja Louisiana Town,” We copy them from a fresh anthology (Harcourt, of American Poetry, 1920." All but seven of the pinety-four numbers i= this book are new to print. Of course, Mr. Lindsay will never ¢latm that his sweetheart similes are origt- nal with his pen as they fall aingty. Possibly they are in corsbinatlon unique, But our poet, having been born in Iiinols and having t | through most of the other States, | might well have been less keen im the sectional pointing of his pretty phrases What we wish to murmor in that New York, too, has its golden- hajred girls, ite sun, moon and stars, {and some idea of apple blomoma | From Pinnacle to Front Poreh- «+ | ‘The only real fire-spitting fervor | struck out In thin country since the armistice has been in defense of | our right to let Europe stew in her own Juice, and our privilege to tell reneral principles to go hang. And this is an emotion almost too nar- row to be attributed, even by ‘the generous minded, to Idealism, One answers, of course, that such & decline from overheated virtue into indifferentism ts only human nature at its olf tricks, the col- Inpae after the New Year's resolu- tion, the weariness of being too good, aymptoms, in xbort, of con: tent with having “ticked the Hun”* and a desire to get back to ‘These pithy paragraphs we borrew from “Everyday Americanism” (Cen- tury Company), a book of things as they appear to Henry Seidel Canby. In them we read by inference of the | surpassing ease of a national descemt from a Pinnacle to a Front Perch, | ieee The Plain Case of the Tax++- | Whgn you are boying © hat you | pay great attention to two pointe: | @) the quatity of the hat and a the price you are asked to pay for it. You want the quailty to be as high and the price as low na poe sible. Foolish people eomethnes talk as if you were acting tmprop- erly when you do this, but you know that If you do not do It for yourself nobody in in the least lkkely to do it for you. / In precisely the same’ way « tax should be regarded as the price the ner vendered by the Government. Ye cannot do without thase services a to yourself. Again and you had to spend » good portion of pour thne oe arcliny Roods alrendy. poaseagol Instead. at work producing ntore? “Ten Minute Talke (Doubleday, Page & of the tax is stated, It be & plain case when it fs ed with political abuses and the & of great interests, ‘Thenext best thing to no tax at all, our ten minute talker doubtless would tell wa, would be a tax confined to those first principles on which alone it can be based justly. eo - Youth's Dream of the Futnre @ Pose--- “To my mind,” observes W. Ts George in the current Harper's, “one begins to grow old when one begins to consider the future.” Whereby be runs against a very deluge of oi4 saws and of reminders from the lives of great men about youth as it if aware that T ms prepare envalry or | Aasort that | youth ddes not dwell on the futui | Fora few moments it may dre | | ‘am of caresra and weddings, and then, presto! entors the thing that will appen — to-day—the » the finues , the flirtntion—and "away, \ttle dream, to the future where you belong. Or youth will stand on the hearth-rug and dilate on (Tone whinge It 46 woing to, do—et east that's whar it thims tt does: dn reality, when youth doveribes the future, Ht merely asserts |ts prea personality, It exhibits iteel enjoys the’ result Presio! away goes the story of millionaire who saved his first jar with an eye gilttering for the odd to come; of the bobbin- went through pale nights that he might rise to adorn t. However, vo far as thet support Mr. George, we sup- the « pose that Abraham Lincoln, in his youth, had no day-dreams of the |White House. “8 Improving the Shorter Working Day-- In the first place the worker must have thme to atudy, and In the second manual jabor carried “he- yond certain point limite the power to use one's brain, ‘The nic | mine balance of work for body and the tnbor movements of the future will recognize as a matter of highest aby concern. TO secure & hg day at the tathe and ute Won on the oricket field of baseball dinmond may leave the thinking 4 broken down affair, And we need Any camo it 18 neces nual worker bly’ brain ity he ix to co bleaviuga, interest and enjoyment in'the work by which he earns hia living. % in “Woman's Point of (Woman's Press, New York), t Stanton Blatch ventures the that all play and no out of factor ours, boy whose getting-ahoad Mra, Blateh writes of “some ftoad ie Peace,” and a broad way she jn- jeates runs through a studio dustriallem. vi 3] | Brace & Howe) called “A Miscellamy § ~ |