The evening world. Newspaper, February 4, 1921, Page 30

ee . ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. (Pwhlimed Dally Except Gunday by ‘The Press Publiching Company. Now. 63 to 63 Park fav, N ON THE FIRST BALLOT. BPRESSING indeed would have been the effect on this community if, on the evidence presented, a jury had failed to convict Brindell. Here was a man who perfected and practised a System of extortion that bled an industry and out- raged the good name of organized labor. His practices were laid bare. He was indicted. ‘He had a fair trial with able defense. The jury found him guilty on the first ballot. He cam be sentenced to fifteen years in jail. So be it ever with Brindellism. WHEN DEMAGOGUES CONFESS. dh any one can beat that for demagogy, let them go to it.” ‘So remarked Senator Asturst jn an audible aside to his colleagues after he had finished a speech in support of the Fordney Pake Tariff Bill. “The career of many a statesman has been ‘wrecked by a less serious indiscretion tHan the Sen- ator from Arizona was guilty of Wednesday. Ari- zora voters ought not to forget when Ashurst asks Te-election in 1922. ' A “demagegue,” as defined by the dictionary, is “an orator or leader who seeks to influence the fonfession ? it for all the shame it casts on Senator Ashurst, y onthe Sermte, on our whole system of govern- ' ‘aveht, and, infeed, on every citizen, tt is probably ‘well that the confession was made and overheard. For the last two years in particular, demagogy has been in the saddle in the Senate. With due re- gard for the demagogic abilities of the Senator from |Afizona, the fact remains that his demagogy ‘has {been surpassed by many Senators of late, whether ‘it ever will be surpassed again or not. ~ The confession should prove useful. It should a warning to Senators. It should be a restrain- ing influence. In future when a member of one ly makes an offensively demagogic utterance it will be so easy for an opponent to rise and recall ‘the remazk of the Senator from Arizona and in the \ repartee of the Senate suggest that the @peaker has “gone to it” and has succeeded in ‘wresting the laurel wreath to which Ashurst laid such a prospect carries no waming to Sena- itani:! demagogues, then they are indeed hoveless. —>—-———__—_. _ GETTING ROUND THE RENT LAWS. A’ INTERESTING personal experience vit i the way rent laws are circumvented by jsrsping landlords appears elsewhere on this page. ‘When a landlord wants a $10 raise he asks for 2 $20 increase, and then, in court, offers to cum- Promise. Mere publication of such an instance, whieh lias. occurred repeatedly, ought to be enough to put Every Judge and Justice on guard agains. such {Shrewd and calculating chicanery. " Success af such tactics can only result in popular of Judges and the courts of justice. The alone now have power to prevent such cases. should"do so, = The condition reported lends point to a recom- dation made in these columns inwnediately after re rent laws were enacted. To do justice to both landiord and tenant, it would be highly desirable to create an unofficial Mivisory board to investigate and report to the Jus- fices on the fairness of rent increases which are i A group of compeient experts could speedily work out a system of appraising proper rental values, and so aid the ends of justice. t “FREE” SEEDS. BROOKLYN correspondent whose letter ap- pears in another column is glad the House of Representalives approved the appropriation ot 000 for the distribution of “free” seeds. It does not matter to Mrs. Smith that the Depart- ment of Agriculture recommended the expenditure *\of only $239,000 and that the House voluntarily ed the appropriation for its own petty graft. What attracts Mrs. Smith is the word “free” in @ distribution. And there-she makes the same nistake that most voters have made in their de- ds on Congressmen. “Free” seeds attract Mrs. Smith. She imagines he is getting something for nothing. But such is not the case. Mrs. Smith and her lly amd her friends and her neighbors and their are paying for those seeds—and at a good Considering the waste in such a system of distribution—which sends seed for field corn fo the flat, dweller of Manhattan—the price is far the market. A fountain, when she buys articles at the drug store, she pays the part of Federal taxation which Med on indirectly in the form of higher prices for rent, clothes and other commodities. Catling something “free” from the Gov. is an attractive dream, rment But it can’t be done. RULE OR RIDDANCE? D 7ENDING municipal home rule at the Town Hall mecting Wednesday night, Borough President Ourran of Marhattan put his plan for tackling the transit problem in this “nutshell”: “Create a new Public Service Commission who will get the facts and recommend the remedies, but whose recommendations as to a temporary or permanent increase in fares or | changes in contracts must be approved by | the Board of Estimate and Apportionment | before they can become effective.” | That is the plan this newspaper has advocated. | Facts first, a complete uncovering of the present transit situation down to its roots in pas! Jinance, and the will of the people of this city—expressed either by a referendum vote or through the Board of Fstimate—behind any new agreements made with the traction companies. Neither Goy. Miller nor anybody else has shown one iota of either injustice or mexpediency in such a method of procedure. Neither Gev. Miller nor anybody else has demon- strated wherein ii would be to the public advantage to vegin a recrganization of transit in Greater New York by ruling the city out of the settlement. Neither Goy. Miller nor anybody else has shown why antagonism should replace co-operation in the efforts of State and city io better traction conditions, The powers the State Government possesses were no! given it to be use! in shouldering Municipat Governntents aside where remedies are needed for local troubles. - Law or no law, it would be the worst sort of policy for Governor or Legislature ,to exercise au- thority ina way that must split the State and cause half the population to feel itself alienated from the other half. All that is good in the Governor's programme would have been equally good and better if he had presented it from an angle that included the city. For in that case discussion might be already con- centrated on the real difficully—the traction tangle —instead of diverted to the question of municipal home rule. f The City of New York has had much to stand from up-State. State taxes has neither gained it respect nor saved it from exploitation. Yet it has continued, in feeling as in fact; a part of the great Commonwealth of | New York. Would the rest of the State rather be rid of this cily than not rule it? ——_——_—— WHY ? HY are the various “daylight-saving” bills in- troduced at Albany referred to the Com- mittee on Agriculture? “Daylight saving” is a matter of importance to all the people cf the State. Just how important it is, we shall no! realize until we are forced to go back to short evenings and a long dark period be- fore bedtime. Some of the people of New York oppose day- light saving. More favor it. But when a bill af- fecting all the people is introduced, it goes to a com- mitice of the minority. It goes to a committee ad against the measure. Is there any explanation of such a procedure ex- cent in the political incoherenge of New York City ind the politicai ineptness of the city’s representa- tive CRACKER BARREL TRACTION CURE, (Spectal Correspondence of the Jimtown Bugle.) Ye Scribe stepped over to the County Seat one day last week {o gather in a bit of news about the | first meeting of Gov. Miller’s new Traction Board that is going to run the subways down to New York City, The city folks need not fear the board won't do a thorough job, Chairman Silas Corncob is an old subscriber of this paper and is known hereabouts to be nobody's fool. It was him got up the idea last election of copying (he poll lists off the tombstones, Well, when the meeting got to order a friendly kind of feller catne in and distributed around cigars I bet never cost less than 15 cents apiece, It was a real treat to Ye Scribe. This feller says his name was Mr. Guile and he used to work for the subway company and knows all about the business and will pe glad to give the Traction Board a pointer any time. Chairman Corncob says to him if his advice is as good as his cigars, both are welcome any time, Well, the first business was a complaint from New York City that the subway ain’t running enough cars after 10.30 at night. Member Joshua Spry says | it's nothing unusual for city folks to be kicking about something all the time, He had a couple of boarders up last summer and they kicked because he gave them condensed milk in their coffee, Member Spry said. Member Ebqnezer Woodlot says they are lucky to have any cars at all after’10.30 at night, Decent people ought to be abed by then, he says, and others are not entitled to any consideration. So they all talked some more to Mr, Guile and then adjourned until this week. Of which more here- Its payment of 70 per cent. of _ THE EVENinG WORLD, FRID AY, FEBRUARY 4, 1921. : A Separate State ? Copyriety, 1972, by The Pram Publishing 0 five New York Brening Work | Iv the Bilitor of The Byening World ; | Twelve are dead in the Hoboken fire.’ Thirteen were scorched here in an east side tenement fire, Both accounts appeared in one day's papers. My suggestion would be to employ doctors in fire houses as well as fire- | men, i A doctor at a fire is as essential | as a fireman, | In nine cases out of ten some one | falls a victim to the fire. Then what? | A call is sent in all over the city | for ambulances, and when they arrive it is too late, One or two doctors should accom- pany the fire apparatus at each and every fire. A’stitch in time saves nine. ‘Think of the fathers, mothers and children, JACK SMITH. | Coney’ Island, Feb, 2, 1921 | “Pree? Sees i | ‘To the Bator of The Bening Work | I for one want to express my thanks and appreciation to the House and Representative Langley | for obtaining free seeds for the peo- | I am sure many families will have nice little gardens who other- wise would © taken no interest. And it is to be hoped that our news- papers and schools will do all they; jean to encourage the boys and girls to have gardens such as they had |during the war. ple. MRS. J. SMITH. Brooklyn, Jan. &, 19 B. | Society im the Movies, | tor of The Kvening World | tly interested in the news |reports in ‘The Evening World per- |taining to th so-called “upheaval” in the motich picture industry and its resultant unemployment, There can be no doubt as to the cause of it. If those who are in need of employment in the movies, and who have had the necessary experi- jence, were allowed to follow their | customary occupation instead of hav- ing to stand aside and let ambitious (?) soviety matrons take their places, there Would be little or no unemploy+ ment. It is disgraceful that wealthy women should be allowed to appear when the parts they play could just as easily be given to trained motion | picture players. * ac | Now York, Feb. 1, 1921 Circumventing the Rent Laws. To the Kalitor of The Byening Work! ‘The framers of the new rent laws mean well (2), but the interpretation of these laws is a farce and an in- justice in our courts. ‘The tenant is suffering, mentally and helplessly. The landlord has now greater certainty of gain and profit than formerty, A tenant going into court is “sure to lose’-—elther by compromising at UPPER NEW YORK STATE From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is jine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. Isn't it the one ant was raised 26 per cent. Then he was raised 25 per cent. more. If he did not pay, holdover proceedings were brought and he was ousted. A new tenant was then charged 25 to 50 per cent. more, Under the new laws many land- is refused rent until a way was discovered to circumvent the law and some Columbus lawyer discovered the new passage around the law. With the help of newly elected Judges (safe in their jobs), the intel- ligent juries and political lawyers, the landlord proceeds thus: Having refused any rent since Oc- tober, action is now brought for an increased, abnormal rent, If it was | $50 last November, the suit ts begun for $90. The landlord cannot lose. The Judge will persuade the tenant to compromise for $70 or $7& The jury cuts the amount asked in half and “lets it go at that.” The tenant, if he is increased even $5, must pay the costs of the court and disbursements (jury fees, &c.) The landlord gets his increase, and it costs him nothing. He is sure to get some increase. There is a bill now In the House at Albany to limit the costs in ten- ant and occupancy cases to the dis- bursements only (jury fe@, $3). The Evening World should get behind it for the tenants’ sake and push it througl. A New York Assemblyman introduced it. All increased rents date from Oct. 1 of 1920, In my case, Judge Genung in May ruled that $45 was unjust, illegal and oppressive. In January, 1921, Judge Dayis and a jury allowed $50. E. J. QUIGLEY. New York, Feb, 1, 1921 To Keep = Job, To the Bititor of The Evening World The cause of crime is unemploy- ment. But why is there unempioy- ment? ‘The answer is plain. There should be careful guidance of youth to use- ful pursuits and elevating deportment instead of loafing in lax company. Any man—if a man he be—could secure honest work with established business concerns, farmers, contrac- tors, lvavbermen, miners, garages, et al, provided he can show proper testimonials, prove his worth and co- operate with loyalty and his fullest measure of helpfulness, ‘Then and then only could he become entitled to the time-honored title “citizen.” HUGHNE YOUNG. New York, Feb, 2, 1921 ‘The Moterman’s Side, ‘To the Hxtitor of The Bron ing World: In answer to “Subwayer’s” recent letter: ‘The employees of the I. R. T. have been under the impression that the fare increase has been a sort of a private fight between the company and the public: but I see “Subwayer” the request of the Judge or by the decixion of the jury as now consti. der the 3 per cent law the ten- is making ita regular fight with the employees also, Dees this gentleman know t loaf of bread GREATER. NEW YoRK, STATE UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blaka) LEARN YOUR LIMITATIONS—AND BREAK THEM. HOW them save to examine them, aminations are seldom possible. is the only way success can be achieved. of honesty and a budding ambition. his Gettysburg address. By John Cassel ro The man who tells you that he knows his limitations is usually wrong. Few men have any conception of their lim- itations, for there is uo possible way that they can know And so few men ever come within sighting distance of their limitations that such ex- It is the man who doesn’t know his limitations, and knows that he doesn’t, who usually finds out what they are. And as soon as he finds out he begins to break them, for that In the days of his youth Abraham Lincoln’s limitations were those of a country lawyer with a wide sympathy, a soul He could not in those days have written one sentence of He could not have lasted six weeks as President of the United States in the crisis of which he was the centre. ° But Lincoln did not know his limitations. He knew that all about him was room for growth‘and expansion, even for a boy with no money and only the education that he had dug out of the few books in his possession. So he set about increasing the limitations that were his. And when he entered into the famous debate with Stephen A. Douglas the limitations that had circumscribed him a little earlier fell away and the young lawyer was in a greater and a wider intellectual world than he had ever dreamed of. Lincoln’s limitations broadened till the day of his death, He never knew what they were. He knew only that what- ever they were they could not confine him to a country law practice or the life of a backwoods politician, Learn your present limitations if you can, but you will very likely find them retreating before you as does the horizon when you approach it. Man was not meant to be circumscribed by environment or confined by the narrow neighborhood in which he hap- pens to be born. He will expand as his mind expands, and his mind will expand with what it feeds on, There is plenty of room for all of us to grow in, but nature will be of little help to us there. bodies for us. we spend on their cultivation, < he pays for itt Why does he advo- cate a reduction of wages? During the war these men stuok to their jobs at the old salary, not- withstanding the fact that they could ‘have made more money elsewhere, }and the cast af living mounted up for them as well as for every one | else, ‘The company is asking for an mn- creased fare, If that fare is 8c, It ts only an tncrease of 60 per cent. There are very few corporations that have been satisfied with 60 per cent. increase, Most all have had at least 100 cent. Regarding the Ll’ R. T, employees, | 1 must gay that you cannot find a and working try. and pay? earned your day's pay. on time, snace wae ta) RS ie She will grow our Our minds we must grow ourselves, and their growth will be in proportion to the labor and thought a Do you know that one minute late means the loss of a day’s work Place yourself on the front end of a | train and cover 100 miles, then let's know tf you don’t think you have| spon the dice, which is to throw You say the public would be in accord with a reduction of wages. can't say that I agree with you, as the majority appreciate our efforts to get them to work and home again It is bad poltey, Mr. “Subwayer,” to grind a fellow workingman under your heel. Would be delighted to know what do for @ living and tf you have Sa " Sow eon eee, | Poets of the Bible By Rev. Thomas B, Gregory.| c 1921, by The Prem Pubtiobing oe New Yiet Kveolng Wore e NO. 4—THE SONG OF MIRIAM, What is poetry? To this question there are scores of technical answers; but, not bothering ourselves with technical answers, we will conten ourselves with saying that podtry ia the more or less rhythmical language which expresses the deeper thoughb and passion of the human soul Judged by this test, the Song of Moses and Miriam (Hxodus, 16) is entitled to rank among Lae master= pieces of poetry. Yor the punpose for which it was designed—as an awakener and arouser —it has no equal, certainly no sus perior, in the waoole range of litera- ture, In imagination throw yourselves back to the Ume of Israel's bondage in Egypt, when, under the cruel, in- solent tuskmasters, a proud people coaied, and bit their lips, und suf- fered in deepest humiliation. Then—suddenly as the glorious sun, full-onbed, breaks through the storm- cloud—comes their deliverance! Led on by the great captain, they marcia across the sea which had for 90 so between them and freedom, ti humiliation is over. Following the... in hot haste come the hosts af their enslavers, But lo! in a twink ling the pursuing multitude is swal- lowed up by the avenging waters and Israel is safe! Safe and free! ‘Then Moses and Miriam—Miriam that wonderful woman, tender as the vine, yet strong as the oak—stard the chant of their people's deliverance, beginning: “{ will sing anto the Lord, for he bath triumphed gloriously: “The horse and his rider hath ba thrown into the sea.” We see it all—the chariots and the horsemen going down “imto the deptha ike a stone.” Flashing across the heavens we see Jehovah's hand, stronger than the combined might of a thousand tem~ pests, smiting the hosts of Pharaoly smashing their chariots of iron, pul- verizing their brazen armor, and finally sinking the debris “as lead in the mighty waters!” We catch the divine enthusiasm of Moses and Miriam and the host of | redeemed Israel, and find ourselves |shouting with them, “By the great- ness of thine arm they are as still 4s a stone!—those proud, tyrannical Pgyptians who would take us back to slavery.” | ‘Then, catching our breath, we see, | off yonder on the other side of Jordan, the “Mountain of inheritance,” the place where Israel ts to dwell with Sehovah, free, happy, with none to molest them or make them afraid, and | while we look, Miriam, with a timbril in her hand, and joined by all tho women with timbriis, close the chant with the repetition of the opening words: “Sing ye to the Lord, for he hati triumphed gloriously: | "The horse and his rider hath bo thrown into the sea.” | Ten-Minute Studies ||| of New York City Government Oop zt, Prem Putting | By Willis Brooks Hawkins. | This te the fifty-sicth article of @ series defining the duties of the administrative an. legislate offi- and boards ef the New York City Government. OEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, City College. ‘The Coflege of the City of Now York is governed by a Board of Trustees consisting of nine residents of the city | appointed by the Mayor, and the Presi- dent of the Board of Extucation, ex- officio, afl without salary, The | President of the college is its chief executive officer, His salary is $8,250 a year, This college, estatfished 1 1848, ie maintained by the city as part of its free educational system. The day session offers to male residents of the city courses leading to B, A. and B. 8. degrees. Requirements for entrance are those common to colleges of high standard. Evening sessions are con- ducted for qualified students who are employed during the day. | Special courses for mature gtu- dents, male and femaie, af vocationa! and civic administration are given during the late afternoon and even- ing hours, Fees. may be charged for these special courses. Hixtension courses in profasstonai and cultural subjects for teachers, male and female, are offered, and the City Superintendent of Schools giwes credit for work done here. In Townsend Harris Hell a pre- paratory schoo! gives students an op- portunity to complete their prepara- tion for college in a minimum of three years. Social services af an educationa! and recreational character are con- ducted in the stadium and gym- jum, and public organ recitals are given on Sunday and Wednesday after- noons in the Great Hall. The college co-operates with sev- eral branches of the City Governmen! For example, psychological clinics tewt children for the Attendance Bureau of the Department of Educa tion; the chemistry department co operates with the Central Testing Laboratory, and the biology depart- ment with the Department of Health. Fh it | Words From the Wise Hypocrites put on the appear- ance of virtue to hide their vices.—Abu Yusuf, Disoppointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.—Eliza Tabor. There is but one good throw them away.—Chatfield. 1| A College education shows o man ~how little other people know and how much more he has to learn.—Louis M. Notkin, “Ignorance,” says Ajex, ‘4s @ painless evil,’ so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry . faces that go along 1— dab