The evening world. Newspaper, October 6, 1920, Page 26

d Hi ‘OF THE ASSOCIATED Pnesa EHR ea ee es; * an rN COLLINS'S ordinance to exempt ‘es new building from taxation marks almost the © “first constructive effort to meet the housing famine, The Legislature authorized such an emergency measure, which in effect amounts to a subsidy large - enough to offset high material and construction costs and place new buildings on a par with those built when costs were lower. i It is altogether wise to insure rigid restriction of this subsidy. Aldermen and members of the ‘Board of Estimate should scrutinize every word and and make sure that the ordinance applies to none ‘but buildings essentially residential. But it is a grave question whether the ordinance as ihtroduced does not go to the other extreme. It 1s wise that the Board of Estimate should have . power of review over exemptions and that the Tene- ment House Commissioner or some other expert ' should investigate, report, and recommend applica- tions for tax exemption. t As introduced the, ordinance requires approval of such recommendations by wnanimous vote of the ‘Board of Estimate. 1s this wise? It might be, if the Board of Esti- mate had earned a reputation for calm and judicial action in all cases presented. Such a reputation it does not have, Unanimity in the Board is rare. Under the ordinance any member of the Board . couki block exemption for no other reason than personal or political spite. Any single member could stop any and all exemption, and so hamper new construction, Considesing the inierests involved and the temp- “tations to trickery and graft, is this not a dangerous power to.confer on the members of the Board? Is it not true that exemption would be suffi- ciently safeguarded by majority or two-thirds vote , of the Board? EVEN MUGWUMPS SHOULD REGISTER. EGISTRATION is as much a part of the duty, of a citizen as is voting. * The man or woman who fails to register and to vote has no reasonable ground for complaint if the her satisfaction, __» Registration is as imporiant'as the casting of the , ballot. This year it may be even more important. «There are many who profess such profound dis- } Satisfaction with the political situation that they if threaten to remain away from the polls on Election - Day. . _ These prospective “mugwumps” sHoulds register. If a considerable part of the registered vote absents + Itself from the polls, the political managers do not = disregard the fact. In the next election the de- feated party attempts to attract the stay-at-home voters by meeting their demands. Registration gives influence to the Silent vote. \ Each evening of this week and all day ‘Saturday the registration books are open. Early registration was heavy. Saturday registration is likely to be heavy. Electors may have to wait if they delay. The better plan is to register in the middle of the week and avoid the rush. Register to-night. 9 “WHAT'S IN A MOTTO? - -~* THE top @ its edjtorial column, our neigh- % bor the Tribune prints “First to Last—the ‘ Truth: "Jews—Editorials—Advertisements.” Then we read in its editorial column: On the Council of the League, if his (the | President's) plan were adopted, would sit the President's personal representative, not a representative of Congress, or of the Nation 45 4 whole. This agent would do what a President ordered, and the protection of the unanhmity rule of the Council would evapo- rate. Here is an echo of the speech which Henry Cabot Lodge made at Nahant last week. Henry Cabot Lodge was not telling the truth, nor is the Tribune. Members of the Senate were not voting on “the President's plan.” They were voting on the Cove- hant of the League of Nations, The Covenant of the League of Nations nowhere Provides that the “personal representative” of the President ofthe United States shall sit in the Coun- cil, The Covenant does not undertake to dictate in what manner the representative of the United States shall be chosen, That would be “super- government.” b. The truth—as distinguished from what the ‘Tribune says—is that Congress would ke the proper body to determine the method of choice of this _ Tepresentative, whether by general election, by Con- gressional selection, by executive appointment, or by executive appointment subject to :onfirngation by the Senate, as in the case of ambassadors, Congress would determine the procedure, unless it proved completely bankrupt. Congress might well have settled this before it balloted on the Cov- ¢nant in the first instance. Such a provision would _ make a proper “interpretation” in the ratifying reso- on, It would not make a proper “reseryation” processes of government do not function to his or | gress should deckle this point without let or hin- drance from any other power, Is the Tribune ignorant of these facts or has it forgotten “First to Last—the Truth?” TO WILLIAM H. TAFT, GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM AND HERBERT HOOVER: OU are eminent members of the Republican Party. You are also Americans whose opinions and ex- ample carry weight with your fellow-citizens irre. spective of party. You have each and all declared for the League of Nations. You have discussed it as an fssue transcending party politics, an issue in which national honor and the forward movement of civilization are Both in- volved, You, Mr, Taft, icans: “What I urge you to do is to purge your minds and souls from unworthy considerations in reference fo the issue, Take it upon its merits. If, because you do not like Mr. Wilson, or don’t like that Admin- istration, or donttrlike the Democratic Party—any more than I do—and think it may redound to the credit of that party and s0 oppose the League, then you are acting from unworthy Motices, irrelecant and incompetent to any such issue.” Last year, when \he League wreckers in the United States Senate were at their work, you, Mr. Wickersham, wrote: “ATTENTION, REPUBLICANS?” “The question before the Republican Party to-day és whether it shall allow a feo Senators, blinded by . passion and resentmerit at the President and his Administration, to commil the party of great national and international ideals to the reversal of its prin- ciples, the abandonment of its high mission and a position of opposition to the only practicable, atl ain- able plan before the world to avert from posterity the recurrence of the horror, the misery and the tr of further wors.” ‘ YOO, Mr. Hoover, have said: , “To form a League of Nations for this purpose has been proposed by the leaders of both our great parties lime and again. It has been proposed by leading spirits in all civilized nations. It bel ongs fo no one man. It comes from the heart and mind of the world. “The hope which I, as an independent obsercer, have placed in the League is that it will foreoer re lieve the United States of the necessity to again send a single soldier outside of our boundaries.” _These were your principles, Are they your principlgs still? The candidate nominated by the dominant faction in. your party declares that he is against going into the League of Nations, “ He puts ‘the seab of “his approval upon the speeches of a Republican Senator who is a rabid and avowed League hater, “opposed to any associ- ation, combination, society or League of Nations.” Can a candidate with this attitude toward the League of Nations haye your conscientious support either during the campaign or at thé polls? Has Senator Harding satisfied you, Mr. Taft, that he has “purged his mind and soul from unworthy considerations in reference to the issue”? Do you hold his motives to be worthy, relevant and com- petent? Are you now content, Mr. Wickersham, to let the Republican candidate “commit the party of great natiqnal and international ideals to the reversal of its principles”? Does your newly adopted Republicanism recon- cile you, Mr. Hoover, to seeing the great purpose— which you have said “comes from the heart and mind of the world'’—spurned by the United States? If you repudiate your earlier professions, if you contend now that to elect a Republican President is amore important than to join in the peace pro- gramme you once rated so high, you are not as big Americans as you were a year ago, On the other hand, if you were to reaffirm your principles and uphold earlier Republican ideais against the influences which,control the Republican candidate, you would be an example and an inspira- tion to a country in sore need of both, History will have a high place for the kind of Republicanism it is now in your power to proclaim. have said to your fellow-Amer- AS USUAL, , AS usual, at the first game of the World's Geries the ticket speculators were ont to make hay. As usual, the protestations of the man- agement and the police did not hamper the clever gentlemen who always manage to get tickets and sell them at enormous advances, ‘To make @ showing, the police made a few minor arrests, but tne boys with.the tickets were the boys who got the money—as usual, Some time @ political gentleman with an eye to votes may draw an effective law against ticket speculation, Some time the police may enforce that law, Some timo the Magistrates may impose penalties which will discourage the speculators, Some time-—perhaps, But not this year, THE EVENIN @ wort 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? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to aay much in a few words, Take time to be brief. An a Mai of Conscience. during the six years | was in this Ts the DAitor of Toe Breaing Workd: position I did not receive dollars Recognizing the following extracts,' in tips, Those who have ed “high “3 part of our Saviors teachings, Bonen educat y ." “Thou Shalt Not Kill," “Peace | "Bring Your bomen on Earth, Good Will to Men,” it ts| difficult to understand how any per- oon parading themself as a Christian, can possibly go to the polla on Elec- tion Day and register his vote for A candidate opposed to the League ot Nations, M, MACK. New York Oot. 4, 1920, | rt M. ¢ New York, Oct. 4, 1920, The Darkest Page, ‘To the Editor of The Evening Workd “A 6 the people. To the mai Treaing World; ee ee He retticd “The! The mulsrepresentation of facts (or, | rae S ~ ‘Detter still, deliberate lies), the de- | Jester was a corker, Unless Senator nunciation of the League of Nations Harding, stops filmflamming the/ and of everything that is League and other {ideals this great nation fought for, it will eventually cost him the Presidency, In my opinion he's more of a joke than a| ‘date, coupled with the Brooklyn, Oct. 2, 1920, Abraham 1 on Housing. To the Hsitor of The Bvening World: I quote the following from Abraham Lincoln: “Property is the fruit of labor; Property is desirable, is a positive | good in the world, That some should be rich shows that others may come rich, and hence is just encour- agement to industry and enterprine. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him_work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that hig own shall be safe from vio- jlence when bullt.” G. RANDOLPH, 1920. history. My deep resentment of the remainder of my days. the soul—I am no@ a Democrat. +2 JOHN H. HULA, Jr. Brooklyn, Oct. 4, 1920. A In Correct. , To The Kititor of The Rveoing V Will you kindly Inform following: A. nose was ringed. B saya—"1 nose was rung. New York, Sopt. & Carry Your Lunch. Ty the Baltor of The Brewing World I hope your paper will continue to do the yeoman work started by focus- ing the attention of the unthinking public on these chain store restau- | rants, One of the officials of Childs’ res- tauranta, according to an announc ment in the papers, stated that “margin” of 200 per cent. profit was necessary to meet the expenses and to inmure the necessary return on the in- vestment, The “Carry-Your-Lunch Campaign,” @ strongly urged by your paper, is the remedy for prices that are mall- clously prohibitive, Added to prohibitive prices, we have the tips, This ls & custom that should be eliminated. Those who frequent these restaurants are not the well-to- do, and in many cases the salary plus the tips given to those who eerve you er exceed the weekly atipend of the ver, I served, gratultiously, a high clases \olientele, and, were I permitted to ex- aot & charge for minor repairs and work that ono ordinarily muat pay for, 1 would have collected q nice sum for, the concern | am employed by, ‘The point I want to pring ‘Ty the Buiter of The in your paper of Sept, 29, roborute his statements, ing the time the Ell was landing immigrants, you’ $6 to go there. they can get by what they pity the Poll take note of thi elot*es man coul have on enterin, of theso mon over, point, J, BINCLALI, out is a Now York, Och 4, 1020, - ———— EE ae Clase clientele” will understand this your campaign of | JM. C. Tn all past elections, Presidential and otherwise, I have always tried jto size up the chndidate without re- jward to party and vote for the man who stood for ti@ best interests of Dem- coratic (or what they call Wilsonism) by the present leaders of the Repub- Nean Party and the Presidential can- Jester. I ahalt vote for Cox and the| merit of the Peet ts Ht at I * 5 z hea: in Pee, fey eran® Up by Our great) ir Varding and tor Gov. Com Y Lorn, |. It _my mind the present policy of the Republican Party will constitute just about the darkest page of our these things and my high regard gfor the present Administration will, [ belleve, keep me on the Democratfe side for An honest confession Is good for World: me through your columns which is correct in the A vays—"I wonder why that pig's ‘onder why that pig's x. Y¥.4 In reference to Taxt Owner's letter I would | Ike to make a few remarks to cor- On several occasions I had to be on business at the Barge Offe dur- Island boat And I have distinctly heard these tax! drivers say to their intended vietima it will cost And also that their clocks were not working. They do not work by the clock, but whut term “shaking down the passengers,” It is apartment does not q# Iam sure a plain What a feeling a stranger must our gates tho frst r id by this bunch Sond a reporter down Tha majority, you will find, have the ap- warance of gunmen and dope flenta. iis lolter might appear lo be stron, but, belleye me, it Ls true and to the TEA, By John Cassel UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) HARVEST THE RECORD CROP. Don't believe anybody who tells you that the day of op- portunity is passed, Don’t put any faith in the. stories that business is now so organized that employees are merely cogs in the machine —doing one thing and nothing else. The more organized, the more extended business is, the more opportunities there are for those who engage in it. To-day young men wno some ‘time will be the new bosses of the Standard Oil, the United States Steel Corpora- tion, the American Woolen Company—as well as Presidents of the United States—are pluggiAg determinedly at small jobs. They themselves may not suspect what future is in store for them, but they have made up their minds to have worth-while futures and they are working to that purpose, The year 1920 will produce the biggest opportunity crop on record, There must be executives to run the big businesses that are developing. There must be statesmen to get the country out of its future troubles. There must be engineers to har- ness the water powers now going to waste all over the world, There must be leaders in all lines of industry and trade. And every one of these leaderships is an opportunity for some young man, now in obscurity, to seize. The greater a country, the greater the opportunities for its citizens. The United States was never so great as it is to-day. Opportunities were never so plentiful. It is easy enough to say that men are held down by their environment, but men arg rising out of their environ- ments every day and making or finding new opportunities, Most all the masters of the Standard Oil Company be- gan life in poverty, So did Charles M. Schwab, So did F. W. Woolworth. So did both the candidates for the Presi- dency in the present campaign, Opportunities are on every hand, The people are ready to reward men who can do big things for them. Bigger salaries than ever await men who can earn them, This will be a banner opportunity crop. And if you keep your eyes open and your mind at work you will get your opportunity out of it. HELP OPPORTUNITY Farl Perey, Washington at that time had crossed the Hudson and was then at Fort Lee, ‘The most interesting and compre- hensive account of this affair ts given by Capt. Alexander Graydon “That's a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick ——w=" | Life chiefly passed in Pennsylvania The eventful day in,the his- within the last sixty years, with tory a tee Roeser Morris House wae | Occasional Remarks upon the Gen- on Nov. 16, 1774, when 14,000 Brit- | ¢Pa! Ovcurences, Character and ish and Hessian troops assatied and i ° : captured the Heights, including | SUthor was a captain in Col. Cad~ Fort Washington and its garrison dt | W#lader# Pennsylvania Regiment nearly 8,000 men,, The ck was | “2d was captured close to the Mor- made by that force which tad been | "8 Bonne and haneen the frst night a of his Bapuvity in the lott of Col. lelsurely falling back from the bat | Et aren The book wou tle of Whito Plaine and by the | printed by John Wyeth of Hartise troops trom the city. neow, under Pa., in ULL as » . ' -| of tho League it would be auljec t. in his book entitled, "Memoirs of a | Spirit of that Bventfihi Period.” ‘The | 8 inga inconsistent with ¢} | nant of the Leaguad ne ee vad 590 * antieet yur." This instalment, the treats athe {nternational and disputes petween non-neemnl nations, iw a. jueation—What Action ta aovinet @ member of she ich resorts to war? ois Te Answer—A nation that war in disregard of its under Articles 3: 43 or 15 vidin, ceful wettleme: puter) shall be deemed to hi n act of war against & f the League, whic! take immedintely to sever or financial relations, tg probl inteccourse between their and the nationals of (the breaking nation and to pre’ financial, commercial or perso! tercourse between the nationgise covenant breaking nation “and the nationals of any other nation, whether Q& member of the League @OFARO). (Article 16.) ot | ‘his action ie known as t - national boycott, and the eff . operation would be that the which violated its covenant wi Completely cut off and tsolat .[@very other nation in the worlde sit could not borrow money or buy amis or nrunitions or fuel or food orselath~ ng, without which no nati long wage War and few could even ‘0 ship could enter or ports, no person cou a It could . ors or t tea or leave ita territory send nor receive le veyond tts borde! Q.—How is the inter bi yoott put into effect? A—The Council of tie recommends to the several @ {ments concerned what effect! tary or naval forces the men the League shall contribut forces ‘to be used to protect | nants of the League. Q.—Would these forces 6 | tute @ permanent military 0 force? A—No. They would be wi in the case at issue. Q.—After the Council mended what forces showll used, who would decide wi d not the quotas should be Time i ° nished? 3 A.—The several member nation bt) JB) the Les gue themselves. Q.—How would the in carrying out the League, | nant be paide é A—The members of the agree that they will mutually support one another tn the financial and @co- nomic measures which are taken and will mutually support one anther in resisting any especial measures aimed at one of their number by the cov nt breaking gtate and will give 4 | h their territory to the. . | of any of the members of ths { League which are o6-operaaaa | | protect the covenants of the leqgye } | (Article 16.) pate’ QI! the United Btate; called upon to furnish @ mi or naval quota under this and to pay its share of the would it nut be obligated to A.—The United States asmacal same obligations that are ass very other nation member League—no more, no less, | covenant or agreement sign | nation creates a moral obligation | full it, In this case, the rep: ve of the United States on the Cou: | Would first have to join In f, |fecommendation of the Couns at ii | would then be up to gress oO db- 4 termine our duty In the mat< ir i" | ail actions of members of the | must be tn conformity with the stitutions and laws of thelr sever | governm Q.—What other action be taken against a member of the! — league which has gone to wearin © violation of its covenants? : Ht, ? | A * to A—-Any member of the League which violates any covenant of the! | League may be declared to -ber no |lcnger a member | Counes!, concurred |sontatives of all the other |of the League represented (Article 16.) Q.—What is the attitude of | Leaque toward the diaputeyy wl | ef nod rand a member of the or oetween non-members, the @ohy | member or non-members are ip vited to accept the, obliga tnembenwhip for the purposes of angi dispute upon such conditions. Council may deem just. It ovpt they are subject to the aa visions as member nations | modificat! as. the. Co ak + deem necessary, The Coun as the invitation is give: inquiry for the purpose of recommendations, = mae If a state refuses tb accept niéifiber. ~ ship for the purposes of the dispute and resorts to war again’t a mem| | to the international boycot If both parties to the dispute re to accept membership for the pur ot the dispute the Council such measures and make such tegome | mendations as will prevent hostilii jand It in the bettlemen egy 17.) en wide | | fettle disputes between non nations, but in all articles | covenant it 19 provided that af ful means shall first be reso: if The economic boyeett for & | ber nation, or a nation going: with @ member natlop & os het | Tesort DUT & vast reser. ai (The hext inatalment with the abolition of seer. tt the revision of former tdbation the abrogation of all unders}