The evening world. Newspaper, September 28, 1920, Page 20

any, Nos. 33 to 63 RALPH PULITZER. Presa J. ANGUS SHAW. Treaew JOSEPH PuULATZ: STANDARDS NEEDED. VICTION and rent-raising cases have been so E numerous in recent months that most Justices have been in the habit of disposing of them in rapid- fire order by permitting a 25 per cent. increase and denying any increase in excess of 25 per cent. In, the amended laws the 25 per cent, provision is liminated and the amount of rent is left to the discretion of the Judge after the landlord has filed a bill of particulars to justify the rent he asks and after the tenant has had an.opportunity to examine and controvert the claims of the landlord, From now on the Justices must resume a judicial altitude and decide the cases on their merits. To insure uniform administration and fair treatment to both landlords and tenants, there is urgent need for some standard on which the Justices may base their decisions, a standard which all the Justices can accept and apply to the facts"which the testimony Of landlords and tenants wil_establish. Valuation, the owner's equity, rate of selurn, ex- pense of management and of ser { trolling factors in the determination of rent. Justices should seek expert advice in laying out standards of appraisal, of fair return, of reasonable allowance for management and service. Once these are established, all Justices should come to a work- ing’ compromisg as to what their discretionary powers include and so arrive at a reasonably uni- form code of procedure. Judicial standardization would go far to restore faith in the courts. We should hear less of “land- ford Justices” and “tenant Justices.” There would be less‘effort {o arrange hearings in favoring courts. And if both landlords and ténants realize that cases wilt be décided in accordance with general rules ‘and precedents they will be more likely to come to, agreement outside the court by checking up the facts with ‘the general-standard adopted Announcement of a general set of What might be deseribed as “standards of discretion” will do a great deal to sitnplify the problem of the use of the dis- cretion with which the Legislature has vested the Justices, and will tend to equalizé rents for equally Gesirable properties. FLEA-BITE FINES. : S THE World's Series appreaches, the annual ss A ticket speculation scandal casts its shadow before it. At the game in Brooklyn Jast Saturday we learn ~ that nine ticket speculators were arrested and later fined $5 each. It is easy to imagine the smiles which wreathed the faces of the speculators when they left the judicial presence. Had such smiles appeared in the court room the speculators might very properly have been adjudged in contempt of court. Five-dollar fines for ticket speculators! Such punishment is a joke. Wars is invitation to others to go and do likewise. A thrifty speculator could well afford to be fined every day, paying the fine as a minor cost of doing ; business. If the baseball management, the police and the Magistrates are serious in their annual threats to stop speculation in tickets, they must devise some- thing more effective than flea-bite fines. OCK COMMISSIONER HULBBRT has re- D turned from a survey of European port and dock development Mr, Hulbert expresses the opinion that the Staten | Island piers which the tity is building will be on a par with the best in Europe, and says “‘these piers will give the engineers .the fullest opportunity of judging the best improvement over the old system fn use along the North River front.” This is an encouraging angle of vision. cates a policy of progressive improvement. As the North River piers are reconstructed they should include the most complete equipment for the | expeditious and economical handling of cargo. But not even the best that now exists is good énough. If America is to compete on even terms with the other maritime nations, our port develop- ments must bi nerior to anything abroad American shipping has, and must continiie to nave, a handicap in the higher cost of manual labor. f the Port of New York is to compete with foreign | t t ¢ yet, it BEAT THE BEST. | It indi- | Sacchi ae base pdt sage % ports, it must be as the result of “Yankee ingenuity,” | a) + of superior development of power machinery to a supplant hand labor, of more economical handling 4 » - by higher priced labc e : “In this, experiment is essential, Inventors and 8 engineers must play an increasing part. The effort must always be to he man and a machine to do the work which r n do in foreign ports As Nadgth River piers are constructed, the) must not onl ude ‘y mechanical device which tas proved practic il and economical abroad but vevery improvement which American mechanical cil), and ingenuity can devise. New York's Dock Department must make use of such experts as minions—Canada, chinery which the Steel Corporation uses in the Great Lakes ports. The work of the longshoremen must be mech- anizedAo a degree which no other nation can equal, to a degree which no other nation can afford, con- sidering the lower wage paid to hand labor. READ ALL THE WORDS. HE following letter received by The Evening World is typical of persistent misrepresenta- tion of Article X. of the League of Nations Cove- nant—misrepresentation either deliberate or due to careless reading: To the Wuitor of The Kventng World: HARDING OR COX—WHICHT ‘The time is fast approaching when Eng- land's great colonies, one after the other, will probably part company with their mother country and establish separate sovereign comanonwealths—which probable happening 1s foreseen by all England's statesmen, who are therefore laboring to find ways and means to preserve the territorial integrity of their country. During the peace negotiations in Versailles it occurred to the Dnglieh Government that a favorably constructed League of Nations would be highly instrumental in preserving ‘he British Empire inviolate. Wherefore President Wileon was enlisted as the cham- pion League advotate with Article X. in- serted in the Covenant as a means of securing Amorican support in any emergency, Surely Article X, is the “heart of the League of Nations” beckase this article contains the stimulant that was concdcted for the preser- vation and health of the British Empire—at American expense. Now the voters in this great republic are called upon to choose for the Presidency either Gov. Cox as the champion of the League of Nations in British interest or Sen- ator Harding as champion of true American constitutional liberty. ( May the voters study the situation fully and well, and may common sense guide their choice, FRITZ NORRBY. Morristown, N. J., Sept. 23, 1920 If the writer of this letter—and any one else who labors under the same delusion—will turn to Article X. of the Covenant he will find that it reads as follows : ‘ Article X.— The Members of the League undertake fo respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrtty and existing politigal inde- pendence of all Members of the League. In case of @.; such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression the Council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled. Nols that the Article specifically says against EXTERNAL aggression. The Covenant lays not the slightest obligation upon any League member either to assist or to in- erfere in the settlement of difficulties Ifvolving he INTERNAL political adj.stmefits of state or empire belonging to the League. On the contrary, the Covenant expressly pro- vides in Article XV.: If the dispute between the parties is claimed by one of them, and is found by the Council, to arise out of a matter which by international law is solely within the domestic jurisdiction of that party, the Council shall so report, and shall make no recommendation as fo ils settlement. Although the five chief British colonies, or do- Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and India—are individually members of the League of Nations, the Covemant nowhere implies that the British Empire has ceased to be, from the point of view of the League or of international law, a political entity On the contrary, among the high contracting par- ties represented in the signing of the Versailles Peace Treaty, which are, with the exception of Germany, the same high contracting parties whose states are entitled to be original members of the League of Nations, we find formally and fully designated: His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the seas, Emperor of India. Obviously, no attempt on the part of one of “England's great colonies” to establish “a separate sovereign commonwealth” would be construed by the League Council in the light of international law as anything but a domestic dispute or rebellion which would certainly not come under the head of external aggression as specified in Article x, Therefore the United States) as a ynember of the League, could not be used to keep /Great Britain's colonies bound to her. Therefore, to say that Article X. “contains the stimulant that was concocted for \the preservation and health of. the British Empire a American ex- pense,” is absurd Why not read the Covenant thrbugh ALL that focus ithe words \ The Evening Post follows the lead k World in printing the fulltext of the Covenant of the League of Nations arbd start!n venti a series of articles to explain the (provisions thereof, ‘There is no more needed educatibnal service in the present caripaign——as The Evening World was the firet to recognize. 4 4 (THE EVENING WORLD, TUE | _How the League Handicaps Him! | FROM EVENING © What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't # the one that gives you the worth of a thow There is fine mental exercise to say much in a few words. Fight Them as Soci Them as Repres ‘To the Maitor of The Drening World port policy in upholding the Socialist Party in their so-called fight for representa- tive government, I cannot see for the life of me how you can stand in the company with these Socialists, the real deadly enemies to our form of government; they who are in most cuses the riffraft of Burope and Asia, who emigrate to this country of ours and settle by the thousands in dif- ferent parts of the country, and there, through our too free form of a gov- ernment, elect men of their calibre, who care no more for our country and flag, or the oath of allegiance they took, than the “Kaiser doe ir Wilson.” "Now, what chance has any unadulterated 100 per cent, American got of being elected in thowe infested districts? Perhaps you will not or publish this because ¢ or because it comes from a real un- adulterated foolproof of 100 cent native American of Angio bis gin». descended from the of our country. However, whetver you publis or not, 1 will always continue t * your ssteemer and POOmTTLARD OTIS. ALL 1920, h ‘0 rend IER Bept. 24, What's To Be Do To the Bitter af The Breaing World Please let me ask one question. | the landlord wants the premises fo bis own use and it \s Every flat you look at ts $50, tha was from $10 to $16 a year ago. Wha lis a/working man going to 4 ‘Yor Emergency Only” ts very good Take time to be brief. Just a few lines in reference to your| somment on}my style of painting. ita strength, |eschewed the monotony of realism; this ublication. | think, impossible to WOP"™D READERS | sand words in a couple of hundred? and a tot of satisfaction in trying ) Mziness of some public officials. CUP | the tax eater TAXASPERATION. Brooklyn, Sept. 22, A Modest Painter. To the Bilitor of Tie Rreeing World In yesterday's issue of The Evening | World your art critic, reviewing my paintings now shown at the Societe Anonyme, made several grievous mis- takes as tolmy status in the art world j here in New York. First, from 1888 to 1892 the National Academy yearly recognized me by exhibiting two paintings at every ex | jury | hibition. In fact, twice they placed one “on the line." As soon the Academy instituted a thirty-man system my contributions were jected, for no other reason than that my offerings were too good. ‘This fact will place me more satisfactorily before the eyes of your many read Second, ten years. ago I chan T intentionally instead, I imbued my work with poetry, myatery and imagination, lities that @ realist can never ac- Soul-paintings in art rank higher than mere nature and objecta | we see in the commonplace world. | Realism does got make the beholder | Soul-pictures gain in interest | fter bestowing thought to fully enjoy | them. Third, your critic haying never | jstudted’ paintings outaide of the academic (of which I was a master flat twenty-two) naturally cannot renter into the viewpoint of my, new way of art, ‘Therefore all the defects he thinks he sees in the paintings he a i} find anything in the time snowee, reviewed are triumphs, After learn- what are you going to do? T am ot) in. my intentions of treating my of many f know, I was g' rom’ | works in my logical way he will eriti- the 27th of July until th cise them an they fully deserve. Beptember, I tried but ¢ namely: Every work shows master- | nothing. I was then given | {ul achievement in composition, dif- days. I am sick and geady for a it lighting, new coloring and, the hoapital—a nervous wrec Wil you) most difficult accomplishment,’ the | tell me what I am going to do’ representation of interesting ideas t and subject matter no artist among the overrated academicians has pro- duced, | 1 am willing to pay $35, but can ge LOUIS M. EILSHEMTUS, nothing. FLAT HUNTER. | Supreme Spirit of thé Spheres. New York, Sept 1920, | No. 58 West 67th Street, New York, = Sept. 21, 1920. Coupes Clippers and Tax Haters: To Start Men in Business To the Bitter dP Tbe Bresing ' 1. Yes. | 7. Raitor of "The Drening Workt ee World editorial | Since and during the war in speak- | terda p ing with my comrades I have noticed | 1, |. decided trend toward the desire of but the writer claims also an ex- h individual to own his busi- ‘on for a certain class of coupon In fact, several of t lows ys, those whose inoome is mod datarminad upon ner! who Hive exclusively on it be es in which they | Joause of physical handicap render after the war, and ng them totally incapable of earning 1 upon their plan of 1 deceat_w The writer is one of lish this determina- fixed moderate incomes |tjon, But to this day not one of these t hit by the H./ individuals has reached hia goal, in| as by depreciation In] spi porsiste ance jon and public utilities K-to why? cs arious | getting the more d und a few | nee bigger | hundred dollars he fel- Ke Y their own Dusiner " | who works hard despises ler who has a# fat job and is g little for much, chiefly for talkin | tor taxes, Writ i plenty of chauces ln observing tig io underwrite and finance, after care- ws had or egitimately ace’ Now Lh ¢ could nressive neen able to x if there the pro- ricans an ne ne | An with powers ad patriotic orpor ociation | | SP | the business COUM sand upon its own Damn right, 1920, ty The Pree Sy Co, ths Now ron Brening John 'Casse UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copsright, 1990, by John Bieke.) PICK YOUR PACEMAKERS. If yow travel with laggards, you will lag. If you are likely to do something worth while yourself. can flock by itself and produce great results. is so scarce as torbe negligible. You need pacemakers. intelligent and purposeful company. ainters could peshaps learn as much painting im America as in Paris. oundreds of And it is their inspiration the world for the young student of art If you want to write, cultiy. t writers. Try to interest them and so much with advice, perhaps, as b. If you want to be an engineer, gineers gather and talk about their Make your chief business doing well the things that you wan You will have some trouble that, of course, ate the acquaintan they will help you y example. work, t to do well, the greatest men in the world have in their young do. College of course surrounds a boy with pacemak never do soat all, But most boys do not go to college. their own college of books and associates, not.make the right sort they “will finish about where started in the game of life. : | They must One You will be welcome in any society that you fit yourself for. Get into good company— ration from what others are doing. But in Paris they find other painters who are eager and ambitious. that makes Paris the best place in go to places where en- jociates people who are’ getting into society like But many a boy with only ambition as a passport has gained the incentive to do important work,' To succeed without the help of others is impossible— even to genius.’ Study biography and you will find that flocked with people who did work that they were trying to and if he cannot succeed with a college training he will And if they do > keep the company of men who are doing things worth while, you A man is vastly influenced by his surroundings. Genius But genius about ce of —not days ers— make they ful investigation ¢ the merits, just such proposed Vutnexs undertaking» of enterprising ah {udustrious young It could Dearranged that, such wociation ed have a voice in the management gti} guch a time as talnly will devot association - though financially: if some one with the ball rolling. STARS AND eet. 1 know Thm are many really fi STRIPES 3 fair-spirited biitiey men who would} FLAG. ye hee look upon thi position tavorably { — and would be not orily to sub- “Eight Months tn the Linew scribe to its SUBD yery liberally, but| 7 the Diitor of The Breuiug World would also be to serve on in-] In reference to the statement made veatigation ¢ es, or even as dl-| by ¢ N. Koebler of ( vesuuation Gammon: OF, 6V0 03. > y Charie N % ns r bt edarhurst, representative Ba the management of | * * spent eight-months in the business. the line while “over there” 1 woutd | How can ae association be o t0 know how s that way.” atarted? 1 am@ascy the strong be-|,-1 served with th Division, which lievers in the t that there is} Ok part in as much fighting, if not vevone thing PMtteads true Amer.|more, than some of the other die Do oan mMoreMade ran for the in-| Visions, and the longest stretch we had In the line at one ti teen days, an® then we day ‘rest, dividual to 0} be in busine! more a youn ward such a there for B all of the o we now 80 Ts there ts.own home and to himse And the uu jy encouraged to- e leas chance 1s , Socialism and and isms which had so I would like What outfit he was attached, be E) no is willing to Company F. 23d Ing 1 mgt cer- Brooklyn, Sept. 28, 1920, » considerable of my time and effort to helping form the cannot ean consult will make known through tls column his willingness to start © Was six to what Charlie was doing during eight solid months in the line, and also’ to DOUGHBOY; help whom I | 1 a six.) know Banker Iscariot, the er. The name Judas, or Judah, means “one who is the subject of praise.” Never did name so utterly belie fteelf, for upon no human head since timé bégan has euch a cloud of infamy. descended as has fallen ypon that of Judas.Iscariot, There is no man w ;44 #0 scorched and blasted by the maledictions and curses of mankind: And yet, this man was selected by | Jesus as a member of His band of » | disciples, and not only sg, but he was | Assigned to the most important omen =| in the Cabinet—that of ae Did Jesus knowingly and del ately select a scoundrel to be one of His official family, and did the Master, with full knowledge and deliberation. “ppoint @ ‘rattle-headed and unstable fool to look after the finances ‘of the. Propaganda that was so dear to Hint? Unless we are prepared to com-— Promise Jesus by answering these Questions in the agirmative, we arp obliged sto belleve that, in Jesus's opin | fon at least, Judas was a man of good! character and all around trustworth ness—at the time of his appointm fo the office of Disciple and Treasur And if such wag really the how can we account for the sul quent action of Judas? Did he his Master in the true sense of ti word, and ‘did he do thia out of the spirit of avarice, for the Bake of the, thirty pleces of Miver?” 4 Before attempting to answer these questions, let it be observed™sghat Judas was intensely patriotic. Hel loved hie people with a whole heart and hated the Romans with the Venom of thousand Hannibals com dined. he thought of that Roman ‘ nation there in the city of his tatty ¢ maddened’ him, and to end tite abomination was his suprem |< absorbing ambition, Mapa ee Remember, also, that he waa a firm believer in Jesus's Messiahship, Hye had ‘not a doubt that Jesus was “He| ho was to come,” predicted by 1 all No. 11—Judas Bank prophets as the “Mighty One" Whd should break the Koman rule and set Israel f; Not for one moment did Judas Jesus's power to smash the Roman domination whem- ever He might be ready to do #0, And why did He not do tt quickly’ Why the long waiting? Why net do it mow? The impulsive Judas resolved to precipitate matters, He knew that the Temple authorities were eager to get hold of Jesus, and to get hold of Him through one of His own band and he resotved to place Him in their hands, pitmly convinced | that He wou en be obliged to draw wpen His Divine power, “ond. ta pri annihilate at one feli/swoop both i | Personal enemies and the conquerors of Jerusalem. Put to the test, the project failed Jesus could not, or at any rate did not, use the power upon which Judas based his caloulations, but quietly, |submitted to His enemies and was’ crucified, and Judas, feeling the full | force of his terrible mistake, and dis- tracted by his grief over the lament- able sequel, died from heart failure. or the burs''ng of a blood-vessel, or maybe fro: Hielde If Judas had been the cold-blooded scoundrel he | 1# generally believed to have been—mean and little enough |to sell his Master for two or thre |dollars, he would not have died of remorse or grief. Had been his object ‘he |would not have stopped with the | paltry sum mentioned, when he knew that, had he demanded it, he couldge |have received a thousand times that amount. The money feature was cieely a bling to hoodwink the ab - norities while he was getting Jequs where he hoped and ‘believed ‘ne would be obliged to at once vindi- cate his Messiahehip and overturn the rule of the Roman. By Albert P. Southwick Or ta ew York ersing Word ™* In 1804, on Aug. 28, Marga; the widow of Benedict Arnold, ‘died in London, England, at the age of forty-four, She was the daughter of Edward Shippen of Philadel- phia, Possessed of a superior mind, with polished and fascinating manners, she converted @very ac- quaintance into ® friend. oo. Tt was on’ Aug. 28, 1792, that Dumourter, during the French Revolution, at the head of 20,000 men, undisciplined and unorgan- ized, arrested the progress of 80,- 000 Prussians and Hessians and forced them to retreat with the lows of half their army eed we { The criminals of New York were frat lodged in, the City Hall, th standing at corner of Wall eek Nesrau Streets, But, by 1724, thee inypossibility of safely confining; malefactory there was plainly apt parent, and, in 1727, four men were appointed "to watch it w prevent escapes.” In 1740, complaints were made that even the walls and the wa ers, together, did not suffice to ree strain the prisoners and, in 1758, an Act .of Arsembly was passed, enabling the corporation to pros vide means for the erection of @ jail with solid wally ns The site chosen for the jail was “The Fields” in mon” (as it w afterward call now sur-. vivink in the present City Halt Park, and plan called for @ g two sto: build ries in height and about fifty feet square Fee vik While in process of const the addition ¢ Ird stor cupola — (Ww be famous outl or fires) w and, in th the New as it th eatter galled, came into m use by 1764 t & smalt much ntry, tvied by the itgpen,”