The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1921, Page 18

a 1s Th 18 ' Wye . The Cue World, DSTABLISHED HY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Dally Broept Sunday by The Press Pudit Company, Now. 63 to 63 Park Row, Now York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 68 Park Now. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. ae Row. JOSEed PULATBER Ir., ‘secretary, 68 Park Now. MEMPER OF THE AssoctATZD PRESS, ‘The Amoctsted Prem is axchurively entitied to the ust for republication Of al! news Genpatches credited to it or not otherwise credited Im this paper (wna also the Jocal news published herein. VIGILANT HEALTH COMMISSIONER. Dr. Copeland and his staff of examiners find 4 | “cootie carriers” among the incoming inwni- grants passed by, the Federal inspectors, he is abun- dantly justified in taking any measure to safeguard the city. His success Saturday is a serious reflection on the work of the immigration authorities. {t is unthinkable tht in such a matter there should be conflict between the Federal authorities . andi the focal inspectors. If Dr. Copeland can sug- gest any improvements on the Federal system of examination they should be accepted without ~ question. P, At a time when the typhus plague is known to be prevalent in European ports not a single potential carrier should be permitted [o slip through the Federal net. . Dr. Copeland is to be commended for his vigi- lance, but the burden of such work ought not to be » puton the city health authorities. It should be “ore by the Federal inspectors—and done thor- oughly and to the complete satisfaction of the city. Discovery of four immigrants infested with germ- carrying vermin puts the Immigration Service on the defensive in the controversy with Dr. Copeland. thes uve “AT THE PROPER TIME.” “At the proper time after tho Republican ‘**" National Convention meets, some fifteen me. “"") bleary-eyed with loss of sleep and perspiri)\; profusely with the excessive heat,’ will si: down in seclusion around a big table. 1 wil! be with them and will present the name of Senator Harding to them, and before we get through they will put him over.” This cynical forecast by Harry Daugherty, Sen- Gator Harding’s political manager, was a_ perfect prophecy of what happened when the Republican _ Convention approached a deadlock in Chicago last f June. : From all reports, Senator Harding has reached semething like a deadlock in the formation of his “sCabinet. But there is yet hope. Mr. Daugherty “and “some fifteen men” have gone or are going South. If Mr. Daugherty were to be so frank now was he was last spring, be might paraphrase last ‘Spring's statement something after this fashion: “We fifteen men will sit down in seclusion around 2 big table. I will be there. We will fight it out and decide the membership of the {) Cabinet, and when we get through I will go to Mr. Harding and put the slate over.” This represents the trend of the Harding Cabinet making. It is for politics only—Old Guard politics. Ability counts for nothing compared with political pull, That was the case at the Chicago Conven- {Mon last spring. The Américan’ people is getting precisely what it had every season to expect. ive te © "CONFIDENCE AND JUDGE LANDIS. i atl DIAL has raised a curious question in t his threat to institute impeachment proceedings | agginst Federal Judge Landis. ' “Senator Dial believes Judge Landis is “not worthy of public confidence.” Senator Dial’s cause for distrust is the report that Judge Landis blamed the directors of a bank be- cause they paid a salary of only $90 a month to 4 man in position to embezzle $96,000. This is by no means the first time Judge Landis has sheen criticised. There is abuntiance of evidence that Wis judicial decrees frequently clash with what sic ffave come to expect from the “judicial tem- » “BR when Senator Dial goes into the question of % confidence,” he opens up a big field. ' Wint is the foundation of public confidence? Does-Senator Dial know? Whatever it is, Judge Landis has it in superlative degree, far more than any court or any superior Judge whose name comes towthind. His selection’as “dictator” of baseball is progh positive. ' e Landis, in the language of the street, is believéd to be a “square guy,” a “regular fellow.” And that, we believe, is a fairly reliable foundation for public confidence, whether it satisfies Senator Dial or not. Judge Landis is intensely human. He is often impulsive. He dramatizes himself, and he may not _always have proper respect for the law as it is writ- ten. by Senator Dial and his fellow-legistators. Senator Dial may have good reasons for moy- ing the impeachment of Judge Landis. But we would suggest that he might better find some grouna _ other than “worthy of public confidence.” _ BOOTLEGGER GRAFT AND MURDER PY AST week New York’s murder industry seemea ty to centre on leaders of bootlegging cliques. ‘ Walsh and Alterio were appare killed for reasons very similar to those that led to the murder hing | mer. Efforts are under way to connect these boot- legging cliques with the automobile-stealing industry alleged to have flourished with the connivance of the Aulomobile Squad of the police force. This week Mr. Whitman is expected to investigate the rumor that a member of the uniformed po! | force gave the signal for the shooting of Alterio soon after he left Police Headquarters. As yet there is little definile information. But the Becker trial and all the incidents connected with it are not such ancient history but that New Yorkers will find it easy to trace an analogy between the murder of Rosenthal and the killings of Bekert, Walsh and Alterio. | Rumors, investigation, “squeals,” murder, police crookedness and an indefinite feeling that something was wrong somewhere preceded the sensational d@¢ velopments which led to the conviction of Becker and a general salutary shake-up in the Police De- partment. Mr. Whitman’s participation in the is of course only a coincidence. A BETTER APPROACH. T is quite plain Gov. Miller tas conte to see that | his first method of attack on New York City’s | traction problem was ill-advised. | Between the lines of his letter to Gen. Bridgman may be read an admission that the matter could have been more tactfully approached than by first | shouldering the city out of the settlement, | In the Bridgman letter the Governor leaves no | doubt as to his low opinion of the present Board of Estimate as a “competent tribunal to Study® the whole transit problem.” But he also carefully states that his programme | will provide “for the participation of the city both in the formulation of the plan and in the negotia- tions to put it into effect.” He thinks the proposed new State commission must have final say in the settlement, but he pro- poses that the city shall have “proper representation” on a Board of Control that would have the powers of the present Transit Construction Commission. All this is tentative, Nevertheless, the Governor is obviously feeling | his way toward larger concessions on the home tule issue. | It will be time enough to apfraise his modified | plan when it takes definite shape in a concrete legis- lative proposal, | _ It ought to be possible to reconcile the permanent | principle of municipal home rule with the admitted | fact that the city’s present municipal Administration under Mayor Hylan has shown itself incapable of dealing with the transit prdblem. } The city concedes its present handicap. | It is not willmg to surrender the larger permanen: principle. On the basis of how fairly both these factors in the situation are considered, the Governor's traction measure in its final form will be judged. NO UNIFORMITY. jh UNICIPAL Court Justice has denied through the columns of the Times that he was pub- licly criticised and accused of being favorably in- clined toward landlords. He declared that “it is a gross insult for a Judge to be called a ‘landiord Judge’ or a ‘tenant Judge.’” Whether it be insult or not, the charge is fre- quently made. The Evening World has received many complaints of this sort, both from tenants and landlords. One faci is indisputable. At present there is little uniformity in procedure among Justices when | dealing with rent cases. Under the circumstances, this is inevitable. When the rent laws were passed The Evening World suggested the advisability of some fornnal or informal board of experts to advise the Justices, investigate cases and establish precedents of pro- cedure. If the courts are to command the respect they should, it is mecessary that justice should b= uniform. Until the Justices can agree on some uniform basis of settlement in rent cases, there will continue | to be complaints of “landlord Judges” and “tenant | Judges.” | | | | | \ “But I am also this year my wife's valentine, and it will cost me £5.”-——Pepy’s Diary, Feb, 14, 1667. | | | “This Nation should maintain a navy al ieast equal to that of any other power,” says the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, The same process of reasoning must also | force the Military Affairs Committee to speed the fortification of our iong Canadien boundary and the creation of a powerful fleet on Great Lakes, | 66 | UR experience is that Americans have u spe- cial method of their own to import whisky.” A London Liquor Dealer. O one know: t'e future.” Vilhelm Hohen- sollern. se | i ) | | | | | | | To the Kaitor of Tho THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 © . 1921, * br es Ret Piolo co (Due New York Brening Worja), that gives you the worth of a thous te say much in a few words. Take Getting Round the Rent Lawa, ‘ing World. Your editorial “Getting Round the| Rent Laws," which, no doubt, was in- spired by the letter on the same page signed by greatly protests an increase of $5 per month, and in which he condemns the Justice in the Municipal Courts, is not doing justice to thousands of small property owners who are oniy too glad and anxious to have their tenants pay the rents and avoid going to court. I had the opportunity a few weeks ago to be in a Municipal Court. 1 witnessed the hearing of over thirty, cases, and most of the cases were ‘|those in which the tenant refused to pay rent at all, waiting for the land- lord ‘to bring ‘him to ‘court, and of course he (the tenant) knew that there was not even “standing room in the Municipal Court room,” and that his case could not be reached for trial for several weeks, and in the meanwhile he could go without paying his rent When his case finally was reached for he (the tenant), having no de- fense, dug into his pocket and told the Court that he was willing to pay the Court the back rent, but the learned Justice wisely remarked to the ten- ant, “Iam not the landlord of your property, and in the future please see that you pay your rent to the land- lord.” In this manner case after case was disposed of, ‘The worst profiteering case that | morning was one in which the land- lord, due to increased taxes and over, head expenses. tried to increase the rent of his tenant $2 per month. I have no sympathy for the “profit- eering landiord,” but in the name ot justice and fair play stop spreading propaganda in the papers advising ten- ants not to pay rent and wait until they are taken to court before they make such payment. Such articles are driving thousands of investors away from tenement house property. You qill never solve the-“housing short- age" in thie avay, Exemption of taxes on new houses ix economically un- sound and unfair to the rest of the taxpayers and wil] not solve the prob- tem. SAMUEL DEITCH. The Successfal Ones. ‘Yo the Halter of The Brening World: | In his letter published Feb, 8 George W. Schopenhauer takes ex- ception to Mr. Blake’s reference to Lioyd George as an example of suc- | cessful ambition, on the ground that unprineipled — poll- is the it the latter is an tician, He assumes that this general opinion. J think it is not, moot question his, however, is a t question in the slamors for answer ambition, hard work ganda, lead?” The writer saye, in ot, that it leads to “the few g ng rich a. the expense of the many, to the er » of “unprini of “u; upulous creatures.” |. Mr, Sehopentinuer Coos not’ realize that bs whe follows Joba Blakes ade From Evening World Readers ‘ ; What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one There is finé*mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying | J, Quigley, in whieh he | ~|dict in favor of landlords, and words in a couple of hundred? time to be brief. | vice is benefiting the world tar more | than himself, however great his re- ward. An inventor, «# ‘captain of industry,” a “steel king,” may do more to increase procuction than mil- lions of other men. Are they not ¢ titled to greater rewards? It is pri duction that increases prosperity and raises living standards, and the “end jand atm” of our economic system is |to secure this by giving the greatest |rewards to the greatest producers, | Who but the lazy want It otherwise? Ag to this system's creating un- scrupulous men, first it must be con- sidered that scruples are for the most part inborn; and second, since it is the size of service o others that de- termines the size of the reward—and [ firnfly believe this to be tht rule the successful man is likely to be ex- ceptbona!ly conscientious. A. GOLDBERG, New York, Feb. 9 1921, ; A Widow's Mite. ‘Yothe af The Brening Word: | T am theewidow of a fireman and} Jreceive a pension of $300 per.year, I! have received my check at home, hav- | ing to work to keep my family, With my last check I received @ notice from the Fire Department that they will not send my check unless I send them a postage stamp to cover post- age. ‘his is, I think, rather small. If the Mayor wants to economize I think he! should start some other way. The trouble is if 1 should forget to send ‘he stamp I would have. to lose a day's work and probably lose my | position, A WIDOW. New York, Feb, 9, 1921, Landlord Justices, ‘To the Editor of The Brenimg World; The public is undoubtedly grateful | to you for your support of measures which are designed to relieve them from oppression, no matter from what source it may originate. | Your editorial “Getting Around the | Rent Laws" contains « suggestion which, if applied, would certainly remedy the evils mentioned by B. J. | Quigley. Every statement made by | Mr, Quigley is true, and can be veri- fied Tronw court records. Having had occasion to be in court on many days when iandiord-tenant cases were tried, I was amazed with the attitude of certain Judges towani tenants. If they displayed any sym- pathy at all it was for the landtords. And their decisions prove ¢t. . | Wrethout «a jury a tenant cannot | possibly get ‘a Square deal before them. When @ jury is im the case |they generally do their utmost to " vhe landiord’s case a more Otten they direct a ve’ and very ismiss the jury and give often they UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) DO YOU WORK AS HARD AS YOU PLAY? If a carefully planned vacation falls in a rainy fortnight you are bitterly disappointed. You meant to make every day of that vacation count. It was all to be spent in the open air. Every morning, every afternoon was to be filled with some pleasant occupation, And your soul is filled with bitterness when you discover that the rain has ruined it all. If you arrange for a fishing trip, or an afternoon at the baseball grounds, or if you are among the growing throng that looks forward all the week to a Saturday golf game, the weather again has power to blast your hopes and sadden your heart. All of which ought to convince you that you think very seriously about your play—that you plan for it, and look forward to it, and consider it a very important part of your life. That is natural and does no harm, provided you think a little bit more earnestly about your work and plan for it just as carefully, But very few people are seriously disappointed if the rain interferes with their occupation, or if anything else— such as a bank holiday, or a snow storm, or a breakdown in transit facilities—-does away with the necessity of a day’s work, Yet work is the important business of life—the ,only thing that makes life supportable—while play is merely the relief that enables you to be in good shape for your work. If you are sufficiently interested in what you are do- ing to regard any interruption of your efforts as a serious annoyance, it is a pretty sure sign that you are going to do ‘something worth while in life, If you keep an eye on the clock, not to note how the hours drag but how they fly, you can set yourself down as one gf those who is going ahead. It will be well worth your while to examine your inter- ests now and then pretty carefully. If they are more bound up in the fun you intend to have than in the things you mean to do with your life, you are not destined to fill a very im- portant place in the world. Play is enjoyable and useful, but when your mind is set so firmly on it that you work only to gain time to play, you are slipping. And you can’t slip without going back- ward. | pounds, ehillings and pence, is from | the Latin denarius, a “penny.” ° “ rye From the Latin are derived the fe- male names, Alma, meaning “benig- nant"; Beatrice, “making Grace, “tavor"; "Mabel, “lovely” “lovaile,” and Prudence, “discretion. Cee hes The word February is from the} A Baochante was a priestess of Latin ‘Februarius” the month of | Bacchus, the god of wine. purification; on the 15th day of this| “That's a Fact "i | By Albert P. Southwick {| : Press Publishing Co. Correia is Poet ineatng Werth | torches over the bier of Attila had | sputtered into darkness, duplicated ‘his | Hunnish ‘predecessor's Get-Rich-Quick | adventure, Only he looted and de- | stroyed more thoroughly than Attila | had seen fit to loot and destroy. | loud voice to his high cheekboned soldiers: “The hay is mown; feed your lorses!"” |markhand had been picked clean. Puich bis devastating hordea passed. ‘| has this to say in commenting on the of The Ages By Svetozar Tonjorof. Sri Re Prag Werth VIL—GENGHIS KHAN, Genghis Khan, raising nis, Mongo- lian standards to a war of world- conquest seven centuries after the Genghis Khan, however, never per-' etrated into West@ Burope. Per- haps there woukd be too much op- timism in the assumption that West- ern Europe had learned its lesson, for a few centuries later the western ma- tions waited with foldéd arms while 7 an offshoot of Genghis Khan's race marched up to the wails of Vienna ov! their prospective’ way to the Rhine, But, in any event, the successor of Attila in the large-scale looting busi- ness was discreet enough to confine his Get-Rich-Quick operations to the cast. On }ig9 march over the great wall of China, through China, and thence over westward, ull the way to the Dnieper, in Russia, Genghis Khan destroyed everything that be could not carry. His performance at Sam- arkhand is typical of his entire con- ception of the ethics of war., Having entered the rich Turkoman city, Genghis Khan climbed up the mosque to the platform where the muezzin was wont to cal] the faitb- fut 40 prayer, And announced in a ‘The best evidence available tends is * show that the Mongol anny waited for no second invitation, Before nightfall on that day of wrath Sa« These tactics tie bloodthiraty and {reasure-hungry Mongo! repeated in every city and every country through {{ f J The doings of Attila are deeply im- proased upon the Inner consslousness of Europe, but in remote carnars of Fastarn Europe to this day mothe: are want to coerce troublesomé clil!- dren with the warning: “Genghis Khan will get you if you don’t fish np." A chronicler of the Mongol scourge’ disappearance of his great empire: “The only memorial of Genghis Khan now known to exist ts a granite tablet with a Mengal inscription ds- ciphered by Schmidt of St, Poters- burg discovered among the ruing of Nertchinsl.” This statement falls far short of the facts. Numerous memerifis to Genghis Khan and his army are to ‘be seen in the high cheekoones, sti black hair and Mongoloid cast of mil- lions of Buropeans in the east. It is to Genghis Khan, following! up the work which Attila begun, that the world owes the vast movement of Asiatic tribes into Hurope that have disturbed the political surface of the earth and have kept it crack- ing here and there for centuries. One ‘of the tribes that was up» rooted from Asia by the Genghis Khan concussions were the Turanians, oF modern Turks. ‘To the disturbances) created by the Turkish invasion Europe, and the subsequent effo of the Near Fastern peoples to read- just their relations after the retire \ ment of the Turks to Asia, the worla * owes the most grievous calamity yet recorded in its blackest annals, Genghis Khun left much more as a memoria] than the granite tablet dix- covered in the ruins of Nertchinek. Tw his effort to loot the world he cre- ated @ world problem which is as far from being solved in 1921 as it was Are You Observant? WHAT PLACE IN NEW \ YORK CITY 18 THIS? Read the Answer in the Next Series. NO. 1, The elevated swings around ani rumbles far overhead. It is almost dike distant thunder as it roars away: The buses pass beneath and turn off. ‘There is no cry of “Low Bridge” on the buses. The elevated ts far too high for that precaution. Looking from the elevated cars there ie & view of grass and trees in summer, and the snow covered rocks in most ({ | winters, In the distance a small | Jake refiects the sun like a diamond. ') Jt is hard to realize that only a few { minutes before you were down town. | ‘Then it is over and the elevated train is again between stone and bricks, in one of the canyons, termed avenues, You get a glimpse of the fire escapes and clothes lines. Thousands pass the place every day. Few take a eec- ond@ look at one of the sights of the city, to a stranger. <enee aeeeeomeees CHEER UP! We all have our little ups and downs Delaware derives its name from month the Feast of Expiation was idea de ia Ware, ee held. A Oregon, in the Indian language, means, “great river of the west.” (foie ie ‘te nan Dr. Samuel Johnson applied him- | self to the Dutch language but afew judgment in favor of the landtord! | years before bis death. Ludovico Something wrong here requiring in-|Monaldesco, at the great age of 115, Maing, until a century igo, was a tigation and improvement. Thou-|ywrote the memoirs of bis own |part of Mussachusetts, being admitted ands of families have to suffer these | times. as @ State in 1820, the twenty-third jpjustices. OLIVER GOODELL. , HOD hed (ia the,Union, Missouri came im the “Bnowa, Feb. & 122i, Toe 4” uscd i the phrase, | next sean Aah When things go ill and fortune frowns— Z But the sun will shine and the raw will fall, The rivers roll and the trees grow tall, And luck will turn as the tide comes back, When the wheels get on to a level track. If the foad is rough, wear makes it smooth | And—toell—twho wants to live in @ | groove? \ I's better to have alt the ups and “~~ | downs | When fortune smiles and when ¢ lo + frownet |