The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1920, Page 26

_ BsTapLisHE® wr sosReH ruLiTeRn. | Dalty MBcent Sunday by the Preas Publishing Jompany. Sos. 33 (0 83 Park Row, New York, it, GUS SHAW. Treasurer. 03 Park Row, osici’ PULMTZER. Jr., Secretary. OF Park Row, 5 “4 ‘ ” eniitied to the wm for fh tt OF wet otnerwise credited tm Ae the oad Bows published herein, ; DUPES. ‘OW many of the ninety Assemblymen who voted to oust the three Socialists realize— and blush with shame over the realization—that the "Socialists were too shrewd for them? , The five re-elected members of the Assembly *@angled a tempting bait. The Socialists “fisted for ‘suckérs” and caught a full creel of those who swal- owed “hook, line and sinker.” iy fst circles they are saying that “Barnum was right.” the lafiguage of the confidence man, the Socialists Found plenty of “come-ons.” _, When the Socialists rose in their seats and defied ~ the Assembly, they were working on the theory that “qthe majority would not “take a daft.” And the ma- arity, ran true to the Soctglist estimate. Like a lot ly, foolhardy small boys, these elected repre- ~ ? sentatives accepted the challenge and played the E of the Socialists. %& The fact that the ouster was what the Socialists > _ wanted does not\mitigate the offense of the ninety. a sin Was less against the Socialists than against “athe State. a * se In the next Legislature there should.be many new \ aces. New York can spare the dupes and “‘come- “Lag for less responsible duties, red : “HARD GOING FOR WADSWORTH. ‘wag HAT promises to be a rather formidable ‘ opposition to Senator Wadsworth. Is de- r veloping. : ) * The movement is hon-partisen ‘and it is by no ie exclusively feminine, Many a man will vote ; h his wife to defeat Senator Wadsworth simply. 1 solely because of the latter's record in office. Wadsworth has revealed himself as a° tive and a reactionary. Either of his y opponents, Mrs, Boole or Lieut. Gov. Walker, a eg be more representative and more progressive. _. In most Congressional elections this year the wet And dry issue will play an important part. It need ot Influence the Opposition to Senator Wadsworth, Any voter can register definite opinion in oppost- 6n to the Senator, Mrs, Boole is an ardent dry and Mr. Walker Is ed as favoring liberal interpretation of the ‘adsworth need take no definite stand, | for he has a rivat in either camp. fo PRACTICAL HINT TO TENANTS. YN DECIDING that landlords may not levy an 9 extra charge for, telephone extensions provided "Yor in the lease of an apartment, Judge Coleman t further than the case in point to show tenants tat a tease means what it says, and that,the land- , @ must live up tb the obligations he assumes in | providing light, heat and hot water. « Judge Coleman set a precedent for the collection damages by tenants from landlords who are dere- in living up to their obligations. To aid the enant in such cases Judge Coleman made simple ; which tenants may well clip and pre- ‘4 fe in case of need. | -@S In case of inadgquate heat, light, water or tele- service, Judge Coleman advises as follows: mas, Ne “Don't come into court with vague state- — ments About poor service in this respect. Have definite data in hand, } b nd “Have wn accurate thermometer tn your ? i - apartment and keep a written account of its “ 3 x Bee oo Tegistrations from day f) day to determine ar the adequacy of your heat. Don't go by guesswork—your liver might be out of order or your cirgulation night not be’good, “Do the same with hot water, Keep a writ- ten account of the day, month and time of day when there is no hot water or when the water is not hot enough, “Bring these records into court with you mS i end have your witness and present your va * ease properly.” ce » pM the landlord has evidence that the tenant knows _ | oils rights ‘and how to enforce them, the janitor may Be 1 »prove more amenable to reason without court action. PA “NOW IS THE TIME,”® N Henry Ford's announcement of & deep cut in the selling price of the automobiles he makes swe may find a clue to Ford success in the business world. In the past Mr. Ford has done what others have tried to do, but he has done it FIRST and so has “pre-empted the field. 1 © Many doubt the soundriess of Mr. Ford's political “tand economic views. No one can doubt that his ones tactics have been most profitable to him. <= » he is doing what others will be forced to doing It first. He says: “Now is the time to call a halt to war F — -‘methods, war prices and war greed.” - This would be a good motto to hang over the “desk of every business man in America. ‘ r “reduction salgs” of last summer were f were who gave little credit to ar | gi. Thé ninety were the dupes of the five, In Social. " republication thle paper the merchants for the good intentions they professed and explained the outs on the basis of supply and demand. Similar comments will be made on the Ford an- nouncement, although there is no evidence {o show that the Ford factorigs were forced to make thé cut. In any case, no one will deny the value of the good will amd advertising which Mr. Ford acquires by being the first in his line to make so spectacular a cut. “Now ts thetime,” Mr, Ferd says. Who in other lines will follow Henry Ford's example by being first in the field with a slashing reduction of prices? WHAT AILS AMERICA? HAT would American men and women— almost without exception—have felt and said ten years ago if an international tribunal had stopped two nations in the very act of going to war with each other and reasoned both into an attitude of friendly and cordial readiness to accept mediation? The whole United States would have risen as one man to cheer the event. / A short decade ago the people of this country would have hailed a ceremony like that of last Mon- day in Paris, when the Lithuanian delegates walked ove? to the Polish delegates and warmly shook Annds with them, as an historic landmark in the progress of civillzed peoples toward security and peace, If the United States had been an active and inter- ested member of a tribunal which did such a thing, Americans would have proudly rejoiced in the achievement of another step toward the realization of one of their cherished national ideals. The best minds in the country would have joined in billy this assocjation of nations and urging its actual Bxistence and accomplishment as overwhelnt- ing argument against any man who pooh-poohed it for its imperfections, * American intelligence and common sense would have made short work of fools who maintained that the successes of such a partnership Sf nations to safeguard peace must be reckoned as naught beside the circumstance that to some critics it appeared incapable of remaking human nature overnight and So guaranteeing that no drop of blood should ever be spilled again in war. The people of the United States would have known progress when they saw it. They would have wanted to be at the forefront of that progress. Nor had their desire changed three years ago when they said goodby to American boys going to fight and die in Europe in the faith that those they left behind would see to it their sacrifice made safer the peace of the world, What has come over the country? Where are its aims, its pledges, ils sacred #deals? A Presidential election has completely severed a Portion of the American people from principles they have at other times earnestly professed, “A party candidate can draw applause from a large body of citizens to-day, even when he attacks a thing so far transcending politics as a League of Nations affeady functioning to lessen the causes that produce war. Otherwise sane Americans will cheer a*candidate who tells them the League is dead, even when the events of the same day prove to them that he lies, yls a part of the country prepared to admit that at\the present moment it holds nothing on-earth peace, progress, truth, national consistency or na- tional honor—one-thousandth part as important as to elect a Republican President of the Uniled States? The greatest and most enlightened Republic un- able, at this momentous time, to keep the hope of humanity and the hard-won gain of incalculable de- votion and sacrifice from being kicked about like a football by a political party in a Presidential campaign! Wheat ails America? TWICE OVERS. GETTUE ouster of the Socialist members of the Assembly is an act of incredible folly and is in flagrant disregard of the fundamental principles of American institutions, | am absolutely opposed to Socialism, and it is because I wish to see our insti- tutions preserved that I think this action, which is of the essence of Sovietism, should be denounced.” — Charles E. Hughes, . . . 66] THINK the Governor is absolutely right when he recommends that the burden of proof be put upon the landlord.”—Justice Aaron J, Leoy. * 8 e 66 T PREDICT the passage of a law which will do away with summary proceedings and per- mit only a suit for rental under hold-over proceed- ings. Justice Frederick Spiegelberg. { i own Him! WA sur bah oO aii pees, tse eenanes Reker Mtr hod IED TE pares ie GSR reece hah toe ee ce + i ee ae renee re naan What kind ofJetter do you And most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words, Take ‘ “Seant Ald From Realty." ‘To the Ralttor of Tue Ewwning World: May I be permitted to take excep- tion to your editorial under the above heading, so far aa the United Real Hathte Owners’ Association is con- cerned, For two years thin association has | taken the position that it was the | { duty of the State to keep housing tenants where they wero and pre- vent evictions a» long as they were willing to pay @ reasonable rent. It | has supported all legislation having! that as its object, Qn the other hand | ft has and will support all legisla- tion that will be the means of provid | ing new housing for the existing! shortage of 100,000 apartments, | The United is the only realty or- anization in Greater New York that| hoa taken this stand, While the ab is its position re- garding housing tenants, it is op. posed to all rent laws for business tenants. STEWART BROWNE, President. mney Onty,”* To the Balter of The brenine World I read in to-day's Evening World your editorial "For Emergency Onlg” and it is another good, constructive editorial along the lines of what we need mostly in real estate, The writer in a director of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- pany, as well as @ momber of its Real Bstate Committee, and that instit tion Is the only large insurance com- pany that is loaning money on real! estate just now, However, to secure the proper development of real estate| which the present quires millions any side,’ and what is | capital, to flow in for permanent tn- | veatment, and, of course, in attracting | this capital we have to look the mat- | ter (ull in the face and remember that Jinoney ted up in mortgages, which | y r is =cvnsidered = “non-iiquid,” have to compete with substantial “liquid,” so-called Wall Street securt- | fies, which are paying’? and 8 por cont, A good way to do it would be to exempt them from the income tax for a definite pertod, a our editorial eursests. Jos HOP. DAY, 67 Liberty Street, Sept. 21, 1920, would Employment ‘TD Ue Bitton of The Bs ie World: Under the caption “A Last Out- post,” a letter algned Edmond Hamtl- ton appeared in your issue of the Mth inst. ‘The writer virulently at- tucks all licensed and bonded employ - ment agencies, more especially those that supply hotel help. ‘The reason nelen Necensary. four years, I have been brought in touch with all kinds of half-baked reform. ors, |The Knights of Columbus have do: | ployment jof the A. B zy ise * | powness. time to be brief. notoriety seekers and | crank endid work securing lucrative em- © thousands of members F. T.ought to know, as 1 worked with them in France, ‘The opolitan Eniployment Agents’ As- ‘ation, Inc. advertised thelr ser- vices free of charge to all honorably arKed soldie: ament employment agencies had full swing during the ware They have now 4 to function, proving A complet re, Past Comentig- sloners of Li Robinson, Bell and Hogart einphatically declared that private employment agencies were a vublic necessity, being conducted by keen judges of human nature, placing square posts in square holes round posts In round holes, Mr, Hamilton may have some ul- ‘lor motive in vilifying a highly reputable class of business people. No “Industrial Engineer" Who has no private grouch to nurse will indorse Mr. Hamilton's abusive letter. Fate play, which Mr. Hamilton does not seem Lo possess, IX an American charactertitic. Before rushing into print again, 1 would advise Mr. Ham. iton to attend the next meeting of our association, whieh wil take place at Bloomingdale Hall, No. 170 Baw 60th Htreet, 8 o'clock P.M. Tiwtra- day, Oot, i4th CHARLES O'C. TRWIN, Secretary of The Metropolitan Kin- ployment Agents’ Assoetation, Inc. New York, Sept. 21, 1920, ne and To Carb the Gougers, To the Kditor of ‘The Evening Woe Permit me to offer the following suggestions against profiteering land- rdn: iret, Raine tho fee for a dis- Instead of $2 make it $10 or even more, Second, Why don't the Magistrates pontpone the cases as they come up! When a ¢ # Up for the first time let them postpone It for about two or three months or more, if pos- dL Ww, 40 cor New York, Sept, 21, 1920, published in your or, resultant from your editorial, “Puny Amoerl- cans," that you are accomplishing, to 4 certain gxtent, your purpose, the deluding of The ignorant Into favoring the L of Nations, is Recently a Mr, Allen displayed tgs. norance when he stated “Ex-United States Sallor’ might be named Schultz, in other words, making a he ives for his baseless eriticiarn jx because the mother of a chauffeur aks who io responsible for existing conditions in w York employment eres A* an cnployment agemt Gor thirty. twaste of time, as some Low }Peuton of him. Only Woe ignorant establish natton- aliti¢s by names in this country, The attempt to give your distorted view of ihe League of Nations is a people can UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright. 1920. by John Blake.) MOST KNOWLEDGE IS SECOND HAND. There are more things to learn about this world than any one man could learn were his life protracted to a million years, Practically everything you learn has been learned by other people who have passed’ it along for centuries till it has finally been taught to you. . Do not distress yourself at your inability to gain much wisdom first hand, But be extremely careful where you go to get knowledge, for life is too short to fill your mind with things that are not so. Fortunately mach of what our forefatners have learned has been stored in books. And through years of test and trial the good and wise books have survived. From them, and from men who are familiar with them, you must gain the knowledge that will be your equipment for the fight you must make. : Pick out good books and wise men to learn from, can easily discover what the good books are. easily learn who tne wise men are. * Waste no time pursuing theories that have not been proved, Do not worry that though you spend a lifetime at study you can lean so little, Pick out some one branch of knowledge and specialize in it. You cannot learn all@here is to know about that, probably, but you can learn a great deal more about it than most people know. And it-is quite possible that after you have learned what others can teach you, you will be able by independent thinking to learn something new about it ~something that has never been known before, Franklin did tant with clectricity. Newton did it about the law of gravitation. Men are constantly adding some- thing to the sum of human knowledge. Learn all you can about some one thing, especially your own business, and a little about many things, Then you will be better informed thai most of your neighbors, and because you are better informed you will have a better chance of succeeding than they have, You You. can e j read the English language and form nh opinions. ties you are employing are tal to both your paper and ratic Party. | Tam a thoroughly reformed Demo- erat, Son of American Revolution and | Veteran of World War. JORN C. MOORE. New York City, Sept. 21, 1920, — | An Idea Revived, Baiter of Th mm Workt eague of Nations ia not an| . > | since been renovated. 1d@ born 1h the mind of Woodrow | oiine and fame throughout the world Wileon, but an old one, whieh has) eo an been tried and always has failed. | intquity in President Wilson ts trying to revive! 0" YON it, | F. D. Roosevelt aid in one of his] speeches that an idea never dies.| What did he study, thé fabulous tales of the Orient—only? 1 will be always your reader if you| incorporated, and since then mission “That’s a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick eight the Press Publishing Co. ‘ork Evening World) | w al ourly efforts were made neighborhood. and as doseribed 1830, A mission was oper Four years later, there in accept my letter, evén if it is an ine |chapel, parsonage, schoul house, sane letter, JOHN BRO e ~ © of New York , at the meeting place of Baxter, orth, Park, North and Little Water Streets, once so infamous, has long It bore an evil J into ita deng of its futile to regenerate this 1 The Five Points House of Industry” was p| regard | | meeting of the | things, Primer of the League of Nations merrier Richard Linthfeuid u. This inatalment, the second, deals with member a oe withdrawals from the nationa that are eligible to members ships the conditions of adinission * and withdrawal, and the creation of the legislative, executive and administrative Bodies of the League, Questiony-What are tha prow | visions concerning membership im “the League? Answer—Membership and with- drawal from membership are provided for \n Article 1 of the Covenant, The origifal members were named in an’ annex to the Covenant at the time it! was made, They include those nations which signed the Treaty of Peace and the principal neutral nations, which were inylted to accede to the Cove- nant. Provision was made for the latter to become members by a decla~ ration deposited within two months of the coming Into force of the Cove- nant. Q.—What other nations may pes come membera? A—Any Gilly self-goveraing State, Dominion or Colony. The British Dominions of Austral South Africa, Canada, New Zeal and the British Colony of India, hay~ ing fought in the war against the Central Powers, were signatories tof the Treaty and included as members in the annex to the Covenant. Aa it is the expressed intenttom of the League to admit all self-govern~ ing peéples, the four dominions would have been eligible onder that clayse, « as they control their Governments through their own Parliaments and have all the actual powers of self-_ governing nations, The Colony of Ih- dia has no representation In the Brit. ish Parliament, nor any Parliament of its own, It is an anomaly in the League except for the fact that no to China it is the most populous coun-+ try on earth and contributed a million men in the world war. (This subject will be dealt with in detail in the next instalment under the voting power im the League.) Q.—What are the conditions of membership for a new member? A—Admission must be agreed to by two-thirds of the Assembly and the applicant must give effective guarantees of its sincere intention to observe ite international obligations and must accept such regulations as may be prescribed by the League in to its military and na forces and armaments, (The mann of making and imposing these regula~ tions will be explained under the articles which provide for them.) Q.-What nations have appited under this provision? A—San Marino, Luxembourg, Ice+ land, Georgia (in Transcaucasia), They will be proposed first 1S, 1920, Q.--How may a member with draw from the League? A.—By giving two years’ notice of te intention to ¢ provided that all of its international obligations and all of tta obligations assumed under the Covennnt shall have been fulfilled At the time of withdrawal. No reason for withdrawal in required. Q--Who would te whether to with. ations? A.—Any court of arbitration agreed artes to the dispute or any treaty existing be. 8 provided for in Artiole® 13, whic ares that disputes as to the existence of any fact which If established would constitute a breach of any international obligation, are juaticlable matters (matters proger to be examined by a gourt of justice). Ih the plan for a Permanent Court of International Justice, provided for by Article 14 of the Covenant, the text « of which has recently been submitted « to thd Council of the League by the committee of jurists which drafted it, Arucle 34 provides, among other that the court shall have jurisdiction as to “(o) the existence of any fact which If estabfished wogld constitute a breach of an international obligation.” the exact wording «ft Article 14 of the Covenant. Therefora, if this plan shall be adopted disputes | of this nature would be determined at the Assembly, Nov. jby the Permanent Court of Inter) national Justice. What are the Assembly and the Council? . A.—They are the legislative and ex~ | ecutive bodlew of the League created by Article 2 of the Cc nt, which also provides for a permanent Secre~ tariat, In some respects the Assem- bly and the Council are like the lower and upper houses of Congress, but, strictly speaking, the Assembly (body of delegates) is & parliamentary body | op/legisiature and the Council more Uk: responsible Cabinet with lim. Sted eteouttve 5 Secr | ia the adminia similar to the departments of our Government, like the Pat OMbe Dew partment, the Department of the Ine teripr, &6 (The nert instalment wilt ev. plain how the Assembly and tha Council are constituted and thelr voting power.) ¥ of Paradige Park helped largely ta the solution. . On Washington's birthplace, George Washington Parke Custis, a gratndaon, of Mrs. Washington, placed a plece of freestone in 1816, with the simple inseription: ———— rd “Hero « on the 11th of February, 173%, GEORG WASHINGTON was born,” The stone has been in fragments for many years and is overgrown with brambles, ’ oo. . Only his infant years were passed where Washington first saw the light, for fite destroyed the Douse and his father remuved to an estate in State NX, | have completed the destruction of tho mony oriminas rewors, The creation, ford County, near Fredericksburg, Ye. gad await ina Plain mansion, ‘pleasantly situated near the bank of thu Rappahannoak ~-