The evening world. Newspaper, September 20, 1920, Page 18

SHE Legislature of the State of New York ~ meets at Albany this evening in a special ses- called by the Governor to pass laws dealing ~ with the housing situation. i Nobody in this city needs to be told how impera- is the need of housing relief. ‘The responsibitity which rests upon the Legisla- ture is one that recognizes neither political differ- It ts responsibility for the immediate and future ‘welfare of the largest community and most popu- Jous commonwealth in the Nation. If New York legislators fail to tackle the housing problem in the spirit of broad-minded non-partisan — @>operation which the mature of the crisis demands, they should be called to account by the voters of the 3 ‘The duty of the Legislature becomes the larger | by reason of the fact that no constructive help in "meeting the housing situation has been forthcoming ‘from a quarter which should have been the first to honish a, ~ ‘We mean the powerful real estate interests of New York City. |” The obstructive, reactionary attitude of New York realty interests toward attempts to relieve the crush- Ig injustice of rent extortion has been a shame and a disgrace, | = At the present moment what is the best that . short-sighted realty men can see their way to con- tribute toward the solution of the housing problem? A lynx-eyed lobby at Albany ready to fight every Proposal that tightens the law against profiteering ly to approve only measures that provide exemptions and subsidies for builders or that relax the Tenement House Law as applied to the conversion of old buildings! This real estate lobby has but two aims—to keep away from landlords and to boost legis- ation that promises favors‘ Sittce the beginning of the present housing crisis the organized realty interests of this city have never once thought of bringing to bear on the situation a constructive programme of their own, starting with a drastic curb on rent-gouging for the protection of their own good name and future credit. 1 On the contrary, their attitude has hardly changed since the shameless yell for unrestricted rent-boost- 4 ing sad “all the hicome we can get” was heard at a ‘meeting of the United Real Estate Owners’ Associa- tion at the Hotel Agfor last March. : Only a few are beginning to realize that greed * can -overstep Itself and dig a grave into which fair tA -¥ invited the State to take a serious part in providing relief and reMedy. Beset by a Real Estate Lobby solely interested in protecting landlords and a Bankers’ Lobby offering nothing but obstruction and objection in the name of capital, the Legislature that meets to-night must get about its work with courage, concentration and single-mindedness, Its first duty is to remember that rent legislation must-be passed BEFORE OCTOBER 4, unless tens of thousands of tenants are to be made victims AFTER OCTOBER 1. If the Legislature adjourns until Thursday only SEVEN DAYS will remain for the emergency part of its task, which is RENT RELIEP BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. ONE OF HARDING'S WORST. 'N his Saturday speech to foreign-born pilgrims to the shrine at Marion, Senator Harding made one of the extraordinary statements of an extraordinary campaign. Discussing his reasons for refusing ratification of the League Covenant the candidate said: “Tt ia not alone the menace which les in involvement abroad; it is the greater danger whicli ‘lies in conflict among adopted Amer- jeans.” Senator Harding disavows hyphenism, yet in these words he makes the supreme capitulation to the hyphen, The quotation is the absolute negation of the “America First” doctrine to which Senator Harding renders lip service. Either this is arrant demagogery or it is a confession of craven coward- ice, There is no third interpretation. Look back to the days of 1917 and assume that Senator Harding had been occupying the White House while holding such views. Woodrow Wil- son was brave enough to declare for the,right al- though he knew—and none better—that his declara- tion meant “conflict among adopted Americans.” If Harding spoke truly on Saturday, then he would have been paralyzed by the fear of the Ger- man-born in 1917. His whole war record in the Senate is a lie. If Harding spoke falsely on Satur- day then it was a demagogic appeal to the foreign- born to create the “conflict” which will paralyze America in future. What did Harding mean? Was the statement cowardice or falsehood? FOUR PRUNES FOR FIFTEEN CENTS. OSTONIANS are already experimenting with the “carry-your-lunch” idea which The Eve- ning World suggested last week as a last resort pro- test against profiteering in “unpopular priced” lunch rooms and restaurants. It is high time for the New York lunchroom men to prove thelr charges reasonable or prepare for a protest demonstration by New Yorkers who will re- fuse to buy at present prices. A correspondent of The Evening World, inspired by the comment made last week, reports that one of the best known chain lunch rooms in this city charged 35 cents for “four stewed prunes, a cup of coffee and two rolls.” He believes this an instance of profiteering. Until he has proof to the contrary he will adhere to the belief. The Department of Lagor on Saturday reported THE EVENING WORLD Mon | Let’s Study It! A Leawne of Americans. ‘To the Editor of The Brewing World: Noticing the publication of the in-| tention of the German Alliance to at- homme the formation of a League of German Voters to defeat tne Demo-) cratic Party in the coming election, | uj Cher GO you Ang most readable! lent & tie une Aas gives you the worth of o thousand words in a couple of hundred? There t@ Ane mental ewercws und o lot of eutisfuciion im trying to say much in © few words, Take time to be brief. — or rather the policies of our Presi. | {,, owe of your head for a little while, use your own common sense, don’t let those mollycodies in Wash- ington (the Lodge kind), give you a political league, They don't give @ bang if we go back and fight, as long as their party la victorious, that’s the only reason the Republicans want t tHled, because a Democrat pro- rm Cpr are ae - eae AY, SUPTEMBER Be ee, ewe KEEP UP WITH the past falls behind, the procession, Tt is well enough to say that the old ways were the be well enough for mossbacked wrecks who really think so But it is not the truth. You are living in the present. _ By John Cassel “*That’s a Fact By Albert P. Southwick ~ ; Mighing Co. i_ wand.) —__} n ANSWERS TO QUERICS. (3) How aid the Remon Marcu Aurelius, de? was the Wyoming Mave ' What Indien chief was } & wid & by an Amartean off SCROTT (1) Oa Bept. Marcus = Aurel died, art it has baen in atated that wae ax Admire) fortis Jowrntn tration, he wae @ nat and enteemed oy ote of the eting a combine Indian for © in the fields, but at t < ¥orty } ene of butol eWhite mm Dumbors of women rished in their fig: on the Pocono details are too ot King panos, ymouth paid thirty sh for Philip's head—-the regu! vled price, One of hands Was civen to the shot bir. oe How { that there ar black, ye ae Adam u only one race Ethnologist | race. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Cogrriaist, 1920, ty John Blake.) THE The world changes every day. Invention, thought, development, all keep the world sweeping ahead. You must keep up with PROCESSION, The man who lives in You have got to know one tyme t ple of w brown, binok or copper color with tiationn of these typex been placed in the globe os th In Genesia of another peopl it ts stated that Cain went iy Land of Nod and took unto bir Newspaper are two, t ning except Sunday, with # ¢ tation of 1,800, and the Kevtew lished every What day of the | 18, 19007 A READER, AG. N From. 1960 to 1920 | ring. profits will also tumble, ‘When Gov. Lowden of Illinois was asked to call a special session of the Illinois Legislature to deal ‘with the housing problem he said: “The only thing I see now is that you real estate men ebould round up and discipline rent bogs. It te to your interest more than any- more about the present than you do about the past. You must read the papers and the magazines to know what people are doing and what they are thinking, You must interest yourself in every phase of human activity, politics, science, government, even’war,. If you cannot talk intelligently on what is going on in the world NOW you will get few listeners. | The word up-to-date is so much used that it is tiresome. But it is nevertheless useful, The man who is not up to date dent, and secure @ veparate peace with Germany, it seems to me that now is the time to form a League of Americans to carry out for the honor of, our country the policies which most of the nations of the world have ‘approved, and which means to try and securg for the world peace and prosperity, Why is our friend the Fx-U. 8. an average decrease of more than 412 per cent. in RA ee tile oe pally Pt at the wholesale prices of food during August. Restau- rants buy at wholesale. But there has been no re- flection of this drop in the prices charged by the “unpopular priced” restaurants, ——— ybe he-wants to spend another Yecation on the high seas very soon, Let'a hope he jan’t tired of The Eve-~ ning World yet—he ought to read thin, Keep up the good work, Editor. | CHARLES H. KOEBLER, Cedarhurst, L. 1, ae} pt. If into ty with 3 s d by t was decreased a “and What we need is less politics made general WHY NOT THE WHOLE TRUTH? more patriction.. We Americans are rushed forth at the head of his be ou "| one elav's, If eome correction of the evil doos Brom the Ie York Temes.) ‘ oe S90 isarven, winaten and racial Wag #2 the amieraee’ sire ta) vit where he is, while the procession leaves him and and yes ies by thre v come soon mean thet ‘coups Who join together to | p . : ‘ aot & wil you will ea Why did Mr. Charles E. Hughes, in his speech at | iret ine Conutitution of our country |it om account of high wages and good | Add to your reading of history and to your knowledge tied pa a oy de fe «| -FOUr property impressed ae a public utility, Trenton yesterday, deoote some 1,800 words to the and who have no regard for eur laws.| working conditions the company waa|} of what has been done in the past a good, useful store of ence ta to the Greek. ¥ } In a survey of the housing shortage from the | atlempl to prove that under Article X. of the League | swarm” and make this country a6 |e nen. serground spy aystem|} Knowledge about what is being done to-day, See ee * standpoint of its effect on the city’s health, Health Covenant “we are bound to go to war, if necessary, in | {0% Americans, « country of liberty! which ls used in the power plants and Talk to people—listen to them. Find out what they ate but not of loense. system through which the conversa- tion and actions of the mon are re- ported—is this helpful in making con- tented employ ots? If you worked seven days a week eight to ten hours a day, would you or any workingman feel contented? Why did 11,000 men risk their all, which in mom cases was their jobs? Was it because they wanted some- NTINENTAL. conT: thinking. Learn about modern business methods, and why New York, Sept. 14, 1920. i they are better than the methods of the past, Observe tne progress that has been made in transporta- tion, in housing, in sanitation, in everything Read about the important men of to-day—what they are doing and how they are doing it. That is the only way you can keep up. You don’t need to get excited or lose your breath in the endeavor to stay in the procession, All knowledge comes slowly. But by keeping your eyes and ears open and your mind at work you can belong to the present—with those who are abreast of the times and able to keep up their gait—and expect to gain the goal that we all seek, which is success in some form order to preserve as against external aggression the territorial possession of a member of the League,” while saying not one solitary word about the ten other guar- anlees of peace provided by the Covenant, every one of which would come into operation before resort was had to Article X.2 Mr. Hughes is a distinguished jurist. He must have read, we have no doubt he has written, many decisions of the court in which the familiar principle was laid down that contracts, statutes and covenants must be considered as a whole, nol piecemeal. Then why, we repeat the question, for it is of vital interest in York City, derive its name? What Itatian princess way killed with Marte Antoinetts? | P. V. WILMOUS1 | Landen Avenue, Brooklyn. | A. The family mansion of the Kips, a strong house built of | Imported from Holland, fn 1641, t | Samuel Kip, remained near corner of Second Avenue and Htreet (and that is where the © brasure of East River has the na: of Kip's Bay) till July, 1850, when was taken down. A pear tree on tho 00, bore truit Conunissioner Copeland reminds the legislators at Albany: : “Every other country in the world bac been forced to admit that housing is « public health “pwblem and kas delegated or has instructed the public health authorities to deal with it exactly as any other health duty {s per formed.” More than two years ago when the rent profiteers first began to take advantage of the housing short- Mink It Ont, Yourself, ‘Te the BAitor of The Drening World: ‘This s to the U. 8, Sailor that sald "I'm cured,” and was “off The Eve- ing World for life, just my luck! Ten to one he's going to read the Journal rv better? and miss this—the truth kind of| . R. T. can miford §7 a day hurts this tar,’ doesn't itt Well, if!and feed strikebreakers on chicken it does, can't blame him, the truth) soup, bacon and eer, and get noth- always hurts. L congratulate you, Edi-|Ing in return for it, why can it nov *9! tor, on your editorial “Puny Amer-| something for those who went out na icana.” That's how I like to hear you|are asking for less? express your opinion, right from the} Same old story, shoulders, The trouble is, Editor, we |iabor. soe hs grounds, planted in for 160 years. B. On Sept. % 1792, Marie Theres capital cainat age to mulct tenants in this city, The Evening World reviewed the progress of publi¢ housing programmes in other countries and warned the real estate inter- ests of New York that if the rent-gouging continued, progressive American communities would begin to doubt in their turn the fitness of private landlords and private realty speculators to perform all the public has a right to expect in the matter of provid- ing homes and fixing rents, As the New York Legislature meets to-day, hous- ing is very near indeed to entering the public utility Class in the view of this city and State, If the treatment of housing as a public utigity ar tives in a shape which seems to realty men a serious _ ‘menace to their interests, they will have only them- _ selves to blame, longer they refused to put a check on rapacity those of their own business, the more they aa obi 2."¢ ‘ The more they fought it, the more they forced it, this campaign, does ex-Justice Hughes follow the deplorable example long ago set by the opponents of the League in his party in putting Article X. in the very Sorefront of discussion, as if that were the whole League, as if by joining the League we should find ourseloes com- pelled to send our soldiers to war without antecedent re course to any other means of preventing war? TWICE OVERS. “ ILSON had firmly made up his mind, in case Mr. Hughes was elected, to appoint him Secretary of State immediately, and, after Hughes had informed Kimself on the political position in this ‘office, to hand over the Presidency and himself retire, Mr. Wilson considered it impossible to leave the country without firm leadership at such a dangerous moment.” ' —My Three Years in America, by Count Bernstorff. . ¢6°T EXTILES exported in the fiscal year 1920, aggregated $485,000,000, against $328,000,000 in 1919, and $81,000,000 in the year preceeding the war.” — City Bank, love to be deoled. How many of us Americans think for ourselves? Very few, How can we? We are too busy} making moncy, We let other people tell us about the League of Nations and jet It go at thet. Here's one to prove It: | asked a friend of mine his opinion of the League He said. "Weil, my father sald a good friend of bis) told him it was dangerous, so he ad- | vised me to help kill it, that's why I'm against it.” Now, isn't that the truth? Not ten of one hundred Americans | vse their own judgmemt on the League of Nations, not even on some of our great national problems, Now going back to our Bx-U. 8. "Sea tubber.” I enlisted in the Regular Army a month after war was declared and fought elght solid months on the line, Now honest to goodness, Editor, you may have told the people here that war was hell, but you, and they, don't know the haif of it. ‘Then why don't they let the million men that saw ac- tual fighting or the other boys behind the lines vote for the league dlone and see how many would vole against it, Are we not entitled to it? Wo have to fight the wars, If not us, our children, If the American people are fcoly enough to back out of a league that means peace and favored by cur “doughboys,” then our fallen com- rades have diea in vain, Open your eyes, Americans! Take the dollar If you are playin the newspaper game fair, then publisim this Ietter where it can be read by he Evening Work? readers, of whom I am one. JUSTICH, ‘The Teachers’ Side. "Do the Editor of The Breaing Works ‘Taxpayer, of Rosebank, 3. 1, exe pects the high cost of living to come} down and asks that the city em-| ployees’ salaries be reduced in the game ratio. He also asks “what valid reagon can be given for an increase in city employees’ salartes—policemen, firemen, teachers, &0.?" | Boing a teacher, 1 will try to mive “valid reason: for their recent in-| orease to a long deserved living wage, A girl becomes @ teacher only after fourteen or sixteen years’ study and training—eight years in grade school, four years in high achool and two or four years in Normal or college, In my case, after such preparation, I ob- the magnificent salary of 575 a year, which is $14.37 1-2 a week, as there are forty weeks in a school year, Only after the teachers-to-be de- serted the profession for the more remunerative ones of file clerks, ste- noxraphors, &c., did the teachers get | an increase worth mentioning. ‘On the other hand, a mechanie or business girl cam go to Work when ~ or another. enn they complote the fifth grade in school and their salaries commence then. Wherever Taxpayer gets bis nation that “buainess decides & mechanic le worth no more tha cents an hour,” 1 do not know. Granted that they are not worth inore than that, they certainty receive much more. A certain carpenter draws an average salary of $70 a week, painters 8 and $10 a day, and it is much choaper to call a doctor than a plumber, Then, too, isn't a teacher's work just .« litte more important than a mechanic's, as education is the foundation of a country? Now, if the authorities would take ‘Taxpayer's advice and reduce the city emplayees’ salaries to the old time be Jow the living wage Iam afraid payer would be the firnt to yell be- cause bis children, if he has any, were i without teachers and proper instruc- tained a position three years ago at) ¢ jon. A TEACHER, New York City, Sept. 10, 1920, Olympian Complaints, To the Editor of The Breaing Workt: The second column of the firt page of Bunday's World was devoted to our athletes from the Olympic touin, pauning the committee on tne treatment they received going and returning from the games, This panning for mistreatment may be justified in many ways, but | it appears to me to be very small In- deed, when they complain about having to go on the same ship with 768 dead American soldiers. They most certainly take away the feeling that we had in store for them on thelr victories, Their victory in winning a set of frames is very small indeed In com- parison with the victory that was accomplished by these 763 dead | soldiers. How could one feel more honored than being allowed to escort | home the bodies of American sol- diers? What is the noise of the winches loading these dead bodies at St. Nazaire, that so disturbed our inictes sleep compared with the noise that these soldiers (when liv- \2) had to endure when they were engaged in tattle, before they suc rificed themselves for perhaps some of these nervous athletes, or the sleeping a deck or 40 away from these boys, when they for days fought and slept beside dead bodies of both comrades uno pnenves bo. | fore they made the supreme sacrt-| on? ¥ Now York, Gept 10, 1840, ‘ 5 re 2 | . . . A. How does Kip's Ray, N * de Lamballe, Ttallan princess, was Killed by a mob in Paria, She had escaped from the French capital at the same time as the royal family, but by another mad, and safe! reached England. On hearing of the e of her friend, the queen, Marie notte, she hurried back to offey , Dut Was yelzed by the mob, whe were in murderous mood, and the same day enact®d what ls known as the "Great Massacre.” . ee How did Irving Place, New York City, obtain its name? MARIAN W, Stamford, Conn, We do not find any explanation in any bistorical work but, probably tt was name! efter Washington Irving, who lived at what ts now 17th Street and Irving Place, —>——- JOURNEYINGS, (Behors trom the Passing Throng.) Where are you going, stranger You who step forth so biithetye “To sow wild oats!” And you who follows “To get something for nothing!” And you who come after? “To find the pot of gold at the Poot of the rainbows" DUN 0, BBITE, a