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naeee se eseo. THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, y by The Prom Publishing Company, Now. 53 to 68 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 68 Park Pow. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Perk Row + JOSEPH PULITZER Jr, etary, 65 Park Row Smicets of Tax assoctarcn Poess. he Associated Pres ts exclusively entitied to tho use for re ty all news Geapatehes credited to fhok lio ‘he local mews published WITH ITS DEADLIEST FOE. | NE‘ does not have to credit every report from j Russia to be convinced that counter-revolu- i tion against the Soviet regime is a real and growing | “thing. The counter-movement may have its ups and ‘downs, The actual facts of the situation may come ‘Phrough to the rest of the world only after conflict- ‘ing rumors and denials. There is scant room for doubt, however, that undemeath the battles and bombardings Lenine and Trotzky are at grips with the force that can most easily overthrow them—the force of popular will that has tried out their theories and found they make men wretched and despairing instead of happy ‘and confident. Hostile armies from without act as tonics on the Bolshevist power in Russia. But there is only certain death for that power when doubt and dis- Affection begin work from within. The Herald says: “Nobody doubts where _ | President Harding stands on the League of Nations.” Query: Who is “nobody”? Is it the Tribune, for instance? A MEASURE OF PROGRESS. EW things in our recent industrial history are more significant than Judge Gary’s announce- meat of the change in working hours for employees _ of the United States Steel Corporation. The seven-day week and the twenty-four-hour ‘work period at change of shifts have been abolished. » The twelve-hour day is to go. This policy is not a sudden burst of altruism, It fs’ more im the nature of wise and far-seeing pre- « Paredness in business policy, At the height of a period of intense reaction the of the Steel Corporation see that this reaction will not bead hanes Poteraton of Labor i for a campaign of orderly organiza- the steel industry against which no cry of ” Bolshevism” may be raised, as in Foster’s abortive effort in™1919. * They know the Interchurch World Movement re- sport was unanswerable and that, in case of another { strike, public opinion would be squarely against the ry se policy which the report exposed. “cS Saye gohan grants the eight-hour day to strengthen its record against the 'y again be forced before the bar war years America acquired a new social Setiamen. Americans never will permit a re- a to pre-war standards and customs in the ¥ 4 of industry. Small men with smal minds are grasping at op- : _ portunities for petty tyranny. Men of broader fore- || Sight are philosophically adjusting themselves to the tum im the tide of public opinion. THE ROUND TABLE. ODGE, Curtis, Penrose, Warren, Smoot, Mor: ; dell, Fordney, Longworth, Mann, Porter, ‘ie _ Kelly, Campbell, Anthony, Slemp and Fess were a jority of the twenty-two guesis at President Har- 's. first dinner party. low things have changed in the Republican Party! Ten years ago President Taft wouldn't have dared to assemble such a “roll call of reaction” dinner table. Ton years ago these gentle- were OM Guard. They were the arch reactionaries, the foes of the common people, not to mention the un- f printable descriptions which were voiced in Pro- aes sa Circles. r But times have changed, and the Republican Party has changed. Only the Old Guard remains the same. WHICH FIRST? FF revision and reform of taxation are two matters which will engage the early attention f the Sixty-seventh President Harding and the “best-mind” group in House “ip Senate have not yet decided whicit, rst. vé no trouble in reaching a decision. who fs struggling with the complexities income-tax blank and who is mulcted of his amusement, soft-drink and luxury taxes definite opinion, He knows that tax revisiun most important, with the tariff running second, if at all. But “best minds” do not run in the same chan- mels as ordinary minds Politics 's an intricate cotton otherwise credited (u this paper his task by writing to hrs Congressfman ind Sena- tors, telling them in plain language which should come first, the “best minds” would arrive at a con- clusion soon after March 15. THE RENT LAWS STAND. GREAT victory for the legislative treatment of a great emergency. The rent laws for which The Evening World fought its winning fight last fall in behalf of the threatened tenants of this city are upheld and de- clared constitutional in every respect by a 6 to 1 decision of the Court of Appeals. The opinion written by Judge Pound is a notably clear and forceful exposition of the power the State can exercise to meet pressing public need: “The legislative or police power ic a dynamic agency, vague and undefined in its scope, which takes private property or limits its use when great public needs require, uncontrolled by the constitutional requirements of due process.” The opinion of the court does more than uphold the right of the Legislature to determine whether or not such a public need and emergency in this case existed. The court itself reviews and implicitly indorses the finding of the Legislature as to the facts: “While in theory it may be said that the building of houses is not a monopolistic privi- lege; that houses are not public utilities like railroads and that if the landlord turng one off another may take him in; that rents are fixed by economic rules and the market value is the reasonable value; that people often move from one city to another to secure better ad- vantages; that no one is compelled to have a home in New York; that no crisis exists; that to call the legislation an exercise of the police power when it is plainly a taking of private property for private use and without compen- sation is a mere transfer of labels which does “Yet the Legislature has found that in prac- tice the state of demand and supply is at present abnormal; that no one builds, because it is unprofitable to build; that those who own seek the uttermost farthing from those who choose to live in New York and pay for the privilege rather than elsewhere; and that | profiteering and oppression have become gen- eral The opinion goes even further. It drives straight to the heart of the landiord-tenant problem at a time when economic disturbance and acute shortage of housing put the advantage heavily on the land- lord’s side: “Legitimate governmental rms, 8 to be able to protect unobjectionable \enants, ready and willing to pay reasonable rents, from wholesale evictions for the further enrich- ment of profiteers who have brought them- selves to the notice of the Legislature by their greed and extortion, without subjecting land- lords who have not offended and tenants who have no substantial grievance to a restraint that a class has invited by its conduct.” The objection that the rent laws impair the obli- | gation of contracts is disposed of thus: “No vital distinction may be drawn between the exercise in times of emergency of the police power upon the property right and upon the | contract obligation, for the protection of the public weal. The State in an emergency | not affect the nature of the legislation. | {quite agree with MARCH 9, rgd 1921, bby Tue Heme Pica (The ‘New York recta ora). What kind of a letter do you ft to say much in a few words, Take But Is It True? ‘To the Exivor of Tae Bvening World Perhaps some of your readers can answer a riddle that has been puzzling me for some time. Lately It has been said that the ed- ucated man is the one who wins. Few men are willing to take a college Sraduate into thelr employment un- Jess he has had experience, Is there any reason for this? AW. R. New York, March 7, 1921. The Remedy. | To the Editor of The Brening Word It ‘s about time that the people began to realize that they are being hoodwinked by a lot of politicians. 1 Henry Smythers that the whole bunch should be voted out. The stuff that they are getting caused by flood or fire, when multitudes are | homeless, might conceivably compel owners of | houses to take in undesired occupants in order | to shelter them from exposure to storm and cold, “Why then would the State have no power | reasonably to, regulate for a time the terms | upon which a landlord under such conditions may put his tenants out, so long as they Promptly pay a reasonable compensation for. the use of the property?” We have quoted at length from the opinion be- cause the opinion itself is a powerful editorial on the text this newspaper stuck to from the first; Housing shortage and rent profiteering combined seriously to menace public health and public well- being. The emergency transcended the constitu- tional claims of any one class. It was for the Legis- lature to provide relief by effective, if temporary, laws. The rent laws urged by The Evening World were passed. In the highest State court they have stood the TWICE OVERS. ti HAT is taken is the right to use one’s pro- perty oppressively.”—Judge Pound in the Rent Law Decision. Auer rd LACHES tests are made a large amount of that (liquor) now in the warehouses will prove to be water.”-—An Internal Revenue Official. as tae “ce HROW up your hands. We want all you've 60." —The Bandit Chorus, ; test. | 4 ae away with is certainly brutal. But it seems useless to kick or com- plain to anybody for fear of being Picked up as a Bolshevist or some other radical and to be told: “If you | don't like this country, go back where you came from.” What stupidity! It seems useless to talk to some people as they are never satisfied unless they are being fooled. Men and women should wake up to the fact that corrupt politics should be done away with, and the only way to do this is to vote properly on Election Day. B.N. ‘Mild Disapproval To the Editor of The lvewing World ; There was a time in the city of New York when the goat was quite a common animal. That was when there were squatters living in shan- ties on the vacant land above 69th Street. They had smali farms where cows and goats could have been seen grazing in the flelds, To-day, how- ever, these animals, the writer thought, had practically disappeared, but to his astonishment he finds that he is slightly mistaken, because the individual who signs himself.an “Op- timist” to u communication which appeared in The Kvening World aday, March 2, 1921, shows that He still possesses one, The goat when annoyed by any- thing, usually employs its*¥horns to protect itself from what it is pleased to think its enemy. Moreover, the human goat likes to “butt in” if somebody's views do not agree with his own. The sum total of knowledge or even good judgment does not rest in the craniim of the gentleman who signs himself an “Optimist.” He is not an oracle, although, perhaps, he “as- sumes that virtue, though he hath it not. The arrogance of the Optimist is only equal to the type which he rep- resents, Does he imagine that Con- gress will keep the Volstead Law or the Nation keep the Bighteenth Amendment because it pleases the views of the Optimist? Mr, Optimist, “can't you see what an ass you are making of yourself? Whom the gods | would destroy they first make mad.” New York is not the United States Whoever said it was? But, Mr, Op timist, you may rest assured that it is at least balf of it, This is shown by its wealth and = amount it turns ‘tate the tm the nature of From Evening World Readers. that gives you the toorth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ia fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying a gROFiTEERING pAND™ Ff pord £ ind most readable? isn’t it the one time to be brief. revenue. ‘That is more than any other State in the Union by a long shot, Optimist seems to imagine that all good citizens must follow his ideas. | Of course he must admit that there are other good citizens in the United |States even among those who do not indorse his ‘unreasoning views on Prohibition. Mr, Optimist, be careful that the | exaggerated ego about which you} speak does not eventually destroy yourself. AS far as the prestige of The Eve- ning World is concerned, kindly do not let this worry you. The other readers of this pleasing paper cer- tainly outnumber you, even though you seem to be a disturber. The editor, however, knew how to take care of your “mild disapproval.” Look at your last paragraph and pee how you stand. While your word- weaving was warm throughout your communication, the substance of it was without senee. JOHN LYNCH. Brooklyn, N. Y., March 5, 1921, An Appreciation. ‘To the Editor of The Drening World May I submit the following verses of appreciation? Woodrow Wilson. Great chief of men, you've wisely led The Right to victory And now still keep the faith you've had In world fraternity. They lie, these men who say you lost And won not liberty, For they, not you, have double- crossed A world democracy. You stood for right, alone sometimes, ‘Mid doubt and hate and scorn; And some were glad and others mad And some by envy torn. But millions live who understand Your faith and course and aim And reverence the brain and hand That built your lasting fame. HUGH RUSSELL FRASER JR. New York, March 7, 1921. Really Optimistic. To the Editor of The Brening World Optimist surely is optimistic if he imagines that the Volstead Act in its present form has come to stay. He must be a member of some won sewing circle if he fails to the sentiment inst thie measure and weeks to reprimand you for taking a just stand for the interests of at {east 75 per cent, of the pooole who are unalterably op- posed to it. Contrary to the opinion of “Optim- tat," T admire and respect your atti- tude in this matter, It requires con- siderable courage to take up # cause of this nature for the people's benefit, when other papers, fearing a loss of patronage, fear lo express an honest opinion, Keep up the fight for an honest showdown, and if your influence can be brought to bear so this gupstion can be brought to vote to fain one way or another, we will e UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1931, by John Blake) YOU HELP YOURSELF WHEN YOU HELP OTHERS. If you do not know how to help yourself you will never be able to help other people. It is for helping others that you draw your pay, no matter what your business. The lawyer earns his fee sometimes by getting people out of trouble, more often by keeping them out of trouble. In either case he is helping them. The doctor helps you over an illness, or possibly helps You to avoid an illness. You help your employer do his work, and the more ef- ficiently you help him the faster you will get along—pro- vided your employer is a man of intelligence—and you ought not to work for the other kind. Nobody would ever call on you for help if you were the helpless kind yourself. And just as your work in helping your employer, or your business partner, or your client exercises your powers, so helping the unfortunate helps you to help yourself. The attention you give to their problems is just as good mental exercise as if it were expended in your own behalf. Sometimes it is better, for often in helping others you meet with problems that would never come to you in the line of your own business. That gives you new interests and new ideas, both of which are broadening and which will strengthen your abilities. Don't be afraid to help others if they really need it. It is better to show them a way out of their difficulties than to lift them out with a gift of money. If you get them out they will fall in again, and be as helpless as before. If you show them how to get out they will be able to take care of themselves in the-event of another accident. Much of the world’s trouble is unavoidable. Widows are left with no means of support—men, through injury, are de- prived of their livelihood. / All these you can help, if you are strong and self-de- pendent. You will lose nothing by helping them. On the con- trary, you will be a better citizen, a stronger man, and a better provider for your own family if now and then you give aid to those who need it. ‘Poets of The Bible} By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory } cor, ue tee ||, THE APOCALYPSE. Thousands of pedple have gone mad inthe effort to decipher the meaning of>the Apocalypse, the closing book of the New Testament, senerall¥ called “The Revelation of St, John the Divine.” The Book is more dangerous thas “| dynamite to those who do not know how to use it, but beautiful, benign and uplifting to such as understand its character and purport. To begin with, the Book ts net @ history, or even a prophecy in the staid sense of the term, but a POEM, and not only a poem but a RHAP- SODY—“a fusion of all literary forms together, now one form pre- dominating, now another.” Seals, trumpets, beasts, angels, cities, continents, seas, times and eternities are all thrown together and fused in the grand eestatic vision seven visions in one, all culminating \ in victory for the “Lamb” and Hie bride—Christ and His Church. ‘The theme of the writer is a nage one, the largest that can possibly em gage the attention of the human mind—the world, with its sin and sorrow; the gospel of Jesus Christ, with the question, “Shall it triumph over the forces of the dark and make Jl creation bright and beautiful?” From his lonely vigil in Patmos, @ @mall, desolate island in the Aegean, the author envisages the mighty drama, as, scene by scene, it unfolds itself before his rapt vision. He beholds the battling of the ‘beasts; listens to the braying of the trumpets; watches the coming and going of the avenging angels; wtt- nesses the dread conflict over conti- nent and sea; hears the praycrs of the saints and the cursings of the wicked; hangs, rapt and expectant, upon the issue of the battle-clash be- tween the forces of evil and the forces of good; and finally: “L saw a, new heaven and a new |earth, for the first heaven and the | firet earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. And I saw the Holy | City, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready |@s a bride adorned for her husband. | And I hearda. = voice out of the | throne saying, ‘Behold, the reer of God is with men, and he s dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be j with them, and be their God; and he sha wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourn- ing, nor crying, nor pain, any more; the former things are passed away. And he that sitteth on the throne | said, Behold, I make ali things new.’” The New Jerusalem, with jasper walls and habitations of gold, silver and precious stones, comes down, lighted with the glory of God, and in the City Beautiful only righteous- ness and joy abide. All ends well. The “one far-off | divine event to which the whole creation moves” is an accomplished ‘fact. God and the good are vie- | torious, and the world was not made in vain. Men Who Made NewYork By Irwin Thomas. Copyright, 1921, by The Press Publishing itt Now York Evening Workt) No. 4—FREDERICK PHILIPSE. | Frederick Philtpse wag the wealth- test man of his time tn New York, emf was 60 considered for a quarter of a, century, He was the first man te demonstrate that a man could start with nothing in New York and make @ fortune. So far as money-making was concerned, he was the example to hold up to the young man. Philipse was born in Friesland, He was of high birth, extraordinary tact, and had a wonderful capacity for bus- iness, He started as @ carpenter and was employed by the Dutch Church. It is said the pulpit was built by 4rfm by hand. Early he entered trade end did @ flourishing business with the Indians. Knowing the wants of the colonists, he imported those things for whieh they would pay. His ships went to the East and West Indies, Labor was hard to get and slaves were remu- nerative cargo. He imported many ef them, It was whispered the ships of Philipse were not above doing « little Dusiness with the pirates who had a cargo they desired to transfer of the high sea, Philipse was'one of the first men to see that New York was going to grow to the north. His real estate invest- ments were made with that idea in view, He bought from the Indians all the land lying along the Hudson | fiom Spuyten Duyvil to the Croton River. It was a strip about three miles wide, He added to his fortuns by two | marriages. The first with the widow | of Peter Rudolphus De Vries, and Lhe second with Catherine, the daughter of Orloff S. Van Cortlandt. She too was a widow and had inherited from satisfied by whatever result may be arrived at. We know what that out- come would be. The dry forces as a result would set them to digging holes and pulling them in upon them. selves, New York, March 3, 1921. Required. ‘Three 6 ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: I hope to receive my citizen papers in a few weeks. My two sons on arrival in this country were aged eoven twenty, respectively. They |. are now twenty-one and thirty-four. Will it be necessary for them to take out separate papers now, or will my papers cover the whole three of us! J. H. A, He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his rea- son permits is a coward; he who ventures further than he intend ed to go is a slave.—Heine. Life ts @ fragment, a moment between two eternities, influ- enced by all that has preceded, and to influence all that fol- lows. The only way to illumine it is by extent of view. William Channing. Talking and eloquence are not the same; o speak and to speuk well are two things. A fool may tulk, but @ wise man speaks, matetealanians,., “OR Jonson, New York City, March 3, 1921. Pe as [Bditor's note.Sons under twenty- one become citizens upon naturaliza- tion of the father. Sons over twenty~ one when the father completes nat- uralization must take out separate papere) ere me ree: veneer) Words From the Wise both her husband and her father. The Van Cortlandt estate was thus linked } with the great property Philipse had obtained, and which was known as | Philipse Manor. Personally Philipse was something cf a trimmer politically. It ts eaid he could balance himself two fives with less difficulty than any man in history. His plan wes never to meddle in the strenuous politics of the day, but to wait and see which side was going to win and then help it. ‘The associate and council adviser of several Governors, the merchant prince of his time, he did much to build up the commerce of New York, | more perhaps than any man of his | period, His method of piling up wealth might not be considered just right or |moral now, but in 1650 and later the | slave trade was considered legitimate and privateering a legalized piracy. Starting as a carpenter, working with his hands, Philipse became the counsellor of Governors, the John D. Rockefeller of his time, He was @ |S io Po date e mie, | SRE US HOT 7 RRR ROH 2S PYRE LDN CRIN ETO $“_aj~==—= =