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WILL HAIL RENT ~ DECISION AS FAIR “Unscrupulous Greed Brings Own Punishment,” Says Lawyer Who Argued Case. JUSTICES IN APPROVAL. Have Law and Order,” Says Robitzek. Jotios Henry Cohen of No, 111 ‘Broadway, who, with William D. Guthrie, argued the rent cases for the rate in the Court of Appeals, de- clared to-day that the Court of Ap- peals decision yesterday wpholding the constitutionality of the laws would be hailed as a victory by de- cont landlords as well as tenante, “The decision of the-Court of AD- peals is very salatary,” said Mr, Cohen. “It makes clear that prop- érty rights are subordimate to the larger interest of the community, and that where, as was shown here, the public welfare, the public health or th® public safety is involved the Legislature may exercise the police power 6f the State and curb the use of_arbitrary power. “Decent landlords will ultimately hail this as a victory for them. It will cut out the profiteer and the speculator and will bring into free play negotiation and fair dealing be- tween landlord and tenant. Un- scrupuions greed brings ite own pun- ishment im its train, and when it Goes decent men rejoice.” “The decision ts a complete and just vietory for the tenants,” declared Justice Morris Eder in the Seventh District Court, 125th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. ‘There never was any doubt in my mind as to the con- stitutionanty of the Housing Laws. It is now up to the landlords to re- lize their position is hopeless and accept conditions as they are.” Justice Edgar J. Lauer—‘Tenants have great cause to rejoice. If the decision had been adverse it would have caused untold suffering and hafdship. Congestion in the courts should be considerably relieved, as many eases have bean adjourned pending the restift of this decision.” “Tam very glad the matter hns been decided,” said Municipal Court Jus- tice Peter A. Sheil. “Now we know where we are at and cannot be charged with acting without power. ‘This decision is full and final.” “It ts ag it should be,” said Justice Michael Scanian, when informed by aff Evening World reporter of the decision, “Those laws were passed to relieve a very difficult situation. They have been properly admin- lstered, and 1 do not think any one was denied bis constitutional rights by the laws. Without those laws there would have been bloodshed and riot.” Justice Harry Robitzek said: “I have akidressed nearly a hundred meetings, landlords and tenants, in the past three months. I have told them all that it would be a calamity should the laws be interpreted any other way by the higher court. We would have chaos and revolution where we now have law and order. We needed such a decision. If we can now get some help in the way of emergency judges and clerical force, the Municipal Court problem will be- come trifling. We need this help, how- ever, for the best interests of all litle gation on the rent matters.” Municipal Court Justice William B. Morris said: “I am delighted, I eapected it. aended all along. The people were entitled to «il the protection the laws afforded, Landiords—that is, decent ones—were deprived of none of their rights. The tenants can thank The Evening World for much of the pro- tection they now enjoy, for by its great fight it lined up factions that might otherwise have remained pas- sive and inactive.” “It is a wonderful victory,” said Magistrate John E. McGeehan. ‘‘Won- dertul because it adsures the people of this city of protection from riot and disorder, We had reached a dan- gerous point before the laws were pissed. ‘The attitude of the people Was evident even in the court rooms, where they found they could not be protected trom unscrupulous mulcters profiteers, A great change came with the passing of the rent laws, for which The Evening World fougn. so gallantly, It would have been a serious mistake to defeat the will of the Legislature by upsetting them.” a BANDITS FIRE AT OFFICER, T Hammonton, N. J. Coma nke He Wounded One. Constable John W. Brenngn changed revolver shots last wight nix men, who approached Winslow monton, N. J. home of the wood Roberts, where he was on pecuuse of several visits of bur- guard b ate He believes he wounded one of the constable to ‘halt a ‘al bullets struck he returned the nen they approached, says, he called to them they opened fire. the portico. He fire and heard a man cry out as if hit, ‘The men are belleved to have gone toward Camden, Physicians have bean requested to be on watch for a wounded man, Staten Island Has Deputy Fire Commissioner, Btaten Island ite frst Specidl Deputy Fire Comnilasioner to-day in the person of Harry Rudolph of Staple- ton, who was appointed last night by Fire Commissioner Drennan. Mr. Ru- @oiph was the reciplent of a diamond- ‘studded fire badge. The office is an ee one and varries a your, “Would Have Revolution; Now, It is as I have con-| ‘it 'was ill of FAIL IN EFFORTS Foreigner Is Passed by the Senate. Exposure of Swindlers Fought at Albany, (Special From a ALBANY, March 9.—Senator Co- tillo's ‘bill making it @ misdemeanor for a private banker to hold money given him for tranamission tor more than five days was pasned Senate to-day, This is one of the series of bills introduced by the Senator to protect the thousands of illiterate foreigners from the rapacious agents of steam- in the banking law, as it now stands, mérely tmpoges a fine of $100 on any ‘banker who fails to forward money intrusted to him within the pre- serfbed period, ‘The penalty for violation of the section, according ‘to the Cotillo mea- sure, would be fine .of $100, or a year's imprisonment, or both. Bribery and biackhahd methods have been employed to stop. Senator Cotfllo from pressing his bills to pro- tect trundreds of thousands of poor and illiterate foreigners from being robbed by thelr better educated couu- trymen of savings intended for their families abroad. He seys $50,000 was offered him to cease his activitios and that also his life was threatened. | Senator Cotillo intreduced his legis- lation following the exposures made by The Evening World, which showea that thousands of foreigners of al! countries were doing a banking busi- ness without the supervision of the Superintendent of Banks, and that thousands of the illiterate classes had paid over to them millions of dollars to ship across the seas for them, and that @ great part of the money had never reached its destination, | Last Sunday at noon Senator Co- tllo was called on the phone at his home, according to his statement to- gay, . * ‘I answered the phone,” hesald, “and a man using a Sicilian diaicct with which I am familiar said: ‘Hon- orable, you don't know me, but 1 know you. What do you intend do- | ing? Drive us fellows with education out of business? You know we cau not handle a pick and shovel. We must make money by our wits, Un- }less you cease your activities your | te will be worth nothing.’ “Before I could learn who the fellow was he had hung up. [I tried | to trace the call, but was unable to do so, . “At 6.30 o'clock that night the phone again rang and a voice in good Eng- lish said: ‘Hello, Senator Cotillo. This is a friend of a friend of yours.’ “I asked, ‘Who'? “And the answer came back, friend of a friend of yours. You a’ doing some work to curb the evil of private agencies, I see. I have nu- merous friends in that business’ Can't we sit down and talk together about itr’ “*Would $50,000 stop you?’ * Senator Cotillo said that in an e¢f- fort to trace the speaker and would- be briber he endeavored to arrange a | meeting with him at his office on Monday. The stranger agreed to be there but failed to appear, and the | Senator's efforts to trace him, as jin the case of the man who had threatened him, were unavailing. ‘A Court Attendants Bill Passes. | ALBANY, March 9.—The Assembly to-day passed the Ullman Bill designed to give powers of peace officers to the attendants of the Criminal Courts in New York City. SHIP PASSENGERS HELD UP BY TYPHUS Girl in Steerage on La Touraine } Affected With Disease—Taken to Hofman Island, * Seven ‘hundred and forty passen- gers, 356 of them in the first cabin of La Touraine, from Havre, are be- ing held aboard the vesse! in quar- antine. The Health Department in- yostigation revealed that a young woman in steerage, taken to Hoffman Island, has typhus. Her name is given as Miss Graubert, twenty-two, a Pole. She became ill several days ! None of the passengers will be permitted to land, it was Stated, for probably twelve days. | A campaign for cleanliness public school children will be made as & result of a report of the Public Health Committee of the New York ; Academy of Medicine, which says a | considerable proportion of the children ure pediculous, | The deaths from sleeping sickness jof Catherine Quinn, eighty-one, No. 188 Bast 64th Street; Sara Schott, fifty, No, 380 Osborne Street, Brook- lyn, and Ignatz Kales of No, 254 Car- roll Street, Brooklyn, were reported to-day since report 1 among Jan, 1 ed, raising the total of caves that Mrs, Lavtie No. 184 Ridge Street us was found incorrect Departunent. report Woraccek of iby ahe TO SUPRESS BL Cotillo’s Measure to Protect PENALTY OF ONE YEAR. Bill Due to Evening World's Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ship and express companies. The} making seventy-seven deaths | Three new cases were) T HE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1021, Floriculture Display Worth $16,000 to Be Exhibited at Grand Central Palace. Many novelties in floriculture—and their nature ts still a secret known only to a few—are promised in con- nection with the International Flower Show at the Grand Central Palace from Mareh 14 to 20. The tea garden on the mezzanine floor will be, as usual, the chief social feature. The proceeds will be de- voted to the Social Service work of Bellevue Hospital —_ convalescent, wards, Mrs. Joseph R. Truesdale is’ Chairman of the committee and ts ‘assisted by Mrs. William T. Carring- ton, Mrs. Clarence M. Wooley, Mrs. Courtlandt Nicoll, Mrs, Linzee Blag- den, Mre. William F. Sheehan, Mrs. Halstead Freeman, Mrs. Framk L. Polk and Mrs. Charles Sabin, Mrs. James Gerard, Miss Mary Hoyt Wiborg and Mrs, Howard Cushing are among the patronesses, The wail- resses, always chosen among the pret- tiest society girls, will include Miss | Ruth Manierre, ‘Miss Symphorosa Bristed and Miss Carmen M. Whit- man, The flower display will cover 80,000 ELLIS ISLAND PASS COST HIM 75 CENTS But It was a Fake and Buffalo Man Caused Arrést of Clerk With Bundle of ’Em. Nathan Bluman of Buffalo went to the “Barge Office to-day to visit a rela tive who has just arrived from Europe and is on Ellis Island. He was ap- proached by a well dressed young man, who asked him if he was going to Ellis Island. Bluman said yes. “You'll have to have a pass,” said the stranger, “I have one I will sell you for 75 cents.” Bluman paid him 75 cents and took what purported to be a pass to visit Ellis [sland issued by the Cunard Steamship Company. The pass was refused when Biuman tried to board the boat. He then told his troubles to Patrolman Peokin, who arrested the young man ‘busily engaged in trying to sell hig passes, He described himself as Joseph Ran- dall of No. 126 Forsyth Street, and J claimed to be a postal clerk. Bundles of blanks supposed to be passes to aixit Bilis Island and various piers issued by the Cunard White Star and Red S| Unes were found on him. Peckin says the steamship companies have pro- nounced these blanks forgeries. Ran dall was held for examination. The policeman said he has been taking in mbout $30 a day at the Barge Office with fake passes. A pass to visit Ellis Island can be had for the asking from the immigration authorities. 6,000 MORE STRIKE FOR CLOSED SHOP Dress Workers Declare Manufac- turers Dissolved Their Organiza- tion tg Void Contract With Union. Six thousand workers on women's and hildren's dresses and petticoats went on strike to-day for # minimum wage of $25 for @ 44-hour week. According to Abraham Baroff, of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, the strike affected 225 clothing shops and 100 petticoat shops. ‘The workers charge the Dress Manufacturers’ Association, Which the union had an agreement solved, ending the agreement and’ the succeeding employers’ organization, the Women’s Wear League is seeking to cs- tublish an open vhop system, Mr. Baroff said there were now 36,009 persons om strike in the needle trad Of the 35,000 waist workers, wao struck Feb. 9, he said all but 500 have gone back to work under the terms they asked. The Amalgamated Clothing Worker making men’s clothing, reported to-da. the defense fund to carry on their strik Children’s with dis now in its fourteenth week, had coi- leted $690,134, Last weeks’ receipts, ho said, were $142,174 ‘The feather boa industry, it wax an- nounced, also was tied up by a strike of 1,200 members of the Feather Boa Makers’ Union. The workers demand a “anton ship’ and @ forty-four hour week —~_ —-- rns. 3 Girl Prodaces Pawn Ticket for Pin When Arrested. Miss Louise Cabaup of No. 47 West AOist Street, an eighteen-year-old girl who is a seamstress by day and a dancer by night, was held in $500 bail for trial on a charge of grand larceny to-day by Magistrate Corri- te Stachelberg, a dressmaker of 447 West Fitty-fifth Street, who emplo iss Cubaup, missed neekla pin valued at $100, an jlust night went to an Bigoth Avenue jeafe to look for Mb Cabaup. Bhe sald whe found the ¢ ering the necklace, and called # de who arrested Miss Cabaup, Mins UabMUD Admitted taking the ry necklace, ne po ice say, and produced 4 pawn ti for the ptm. Square feet and the value of the prizes will approximate $16,000. Among the exhibitors will be Mrs, F. A, Consta- ble, Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, W. R. e, Daniel Guggenheim, Adolph Lewisohn, W. B. Thompson, Payne | yhitney, George D. Widener, Percy | ubb and B. H. Borden. IST LANDL PIDE | ‘|Patronesses at Tea Garden of Annual Flower Show ORDS BRE AND THREAT For Benefit of Social Service at Bellevue Hospital ( Miss SYmmuy: 2 *BRAre —— Some Will Contain Two Tick- ets to Easter Sunday Show at the Hotel Astor—To Be Dropped from Airplanes En- circling the City—Appeal Made for Clothes for Our Wounded Soldiers, | By Lilian Bell. | Monday I sent out an 5, O. S. to pay my rent on the Bennington Camp—$1 a year for two years—and Monday night about 11 o'clock my telephone rang and a voice said: “I'm going to pay your rent for five years!" It was Samue] Moskowitz of Har- jem Post, American Legion~the first man of the first American Legion to write me to be his and its guest. So it is Citting that he should con- tinue to be the first to help me out of a serious dilemma. I tell you frankly I did not know where to turn for that rent money! Now further to put Mr, Markowitz on the job of being first at every- thing I want done, 1 am going to ask him to inquire of each American Legion post how many tickets for our March ster Sunday night—en- tertaipm at it will be responsible for There will be $10 worth of joy at our party in the Hotel Astor ballroom, but we are going to be generous and only charge $3 per ticket, $10 a couple. our Service House. You don't ha to come if you don’t Want to. Stay at home and miss the whole show if you haven't $10 to spend on a Service House for your wounded. I shall simply pity you—that's all, for | am getting up this show, and if you don't like it, and think I have not given’ you your money's worth, it | will only serve to show me that. you | can't appresiate real talent, I was right about Major Christie. 1 got him on the wire yesterday and asked him if he were the young Lieu- tenant I had invited to my midnight supper im 1916 and who was ordered to Washington an hour before that time All profits go to and couldn't come. He said there was nothing famous about him, but that he was the man, But here js what he did | Gen. Pershing's headquarters were at Colonnia Dublan, He wanted to send despatches to Columbus, N. M., after It had been raided by Mexi- cans. Gen, Pershing sent Lieut. Chris- tie by airplane and he flew the dis- tance in sixty-six minutes, establish- ing a record for that time. WILL ARRANGE FOR FLIGHT OF ARMY AIRPLANES, ow, I am going over to see Major Christie at Mitchel Field and a ngs to have a filght of army airplanes which will drop bombs containing our | iterature, The American Legion Post | in each town will be notified by tele- phone if the flight can be made, a»| atmospheric conditions must be taken into consideration daily. Bombs will also mark the airpath of the flight, and in certain of these bombs will be two tickets to our Kas- ter Sunday show My aMllation with the American Legion grows more wonderful to me each day and the more I learn about | shese fine young Americans, the very | |flower of sturdy American manhood, | |100 per cent. patriotic and 100 p cent. fearless, the more flattered that they have adopted n 1 ermitted me the honor f worktr j with them. For, mark you, their posts are al! you. all poor, ail struggling ‘ Americanization problems which cul for money. Well, I can raise money and I propose, with God's help, Bombs from Air Planned To Advertise Show for Service House Benefit raise money for the work of the American Legion as long as | have strength and as long us any patri- otic newspaper having the honor of our country at heart will give me the Use of its columns. Because with all my heart and soul I believe in the purity of purpose of the American Legion. They are not afraid of the President or the Senate or Congress or the War Department or the Treas- ury Department or Red Cross or any other tremendous governmental power Neither ity. unpopula careers The American Legion has a billion eyes and a million ears, No sneaking slacker or German propagandist can escape those eyes, while no cry for help from their wounded buddies is too faint to be heard by those ears. AMERICAN LEGION CAUTIOUS IN {Ts INDORSEMENTS. They are cautious too, whom they tre they afrald of unpopu- | great patriots have faced ty at certain crises of thelr indorse. [ know that my war record was carefully examined into—prob- ably by the Army Intélligence, before got that letter from State Com- nander Blakeslee, and anyone whom they distrust or the purity of whose patriotism they suspect may be in- vestigated in ways the object of their interest little imagines, If the American Legion indorses or backs a person or project, there will always be evidence in writing to that effect In like manner no one is privileged to raixe money for ‘The Evening World's Service House who cannot show a letter from me to that effect If any one has contributed to such solicitors, he has done so at bis own risk 1 authorize precious fow. T can tell you that. ‘The Evening World ts the most careful and partioular newspaper for which I ever con- ducted a campaign. And when f remind you that [ orginated the Christmas ships in 1914 for which wes raised $2,000,000 in ten weeks, which made possible the sending of 7,000,000 Christmas «presents to the war orphans in December 1914—6,000,- 000 articles of clothing and 1,000,000 toys—1,000 newspapers carrying out my plits and ideas, you will see 1 experience. 1 the story for the City York and practically evel nd town of any im- contributed through its pe leading newspaper, The Queen of Belguim told me that all the Christmas the war orphans had in 1914 was due to me, ‘Which made me very humbly grateful for the privilege of having thought of the place and of having done the work. +She made that statement when she and King and the Crown Prince shook hands at the Waldorf with fifty of my blesseds from Fox Hills, One soldier on two crutches, jas we stood there waiting, whispered to me that he was willing to walt an hour to see them Oh, ‘the spiri, of these wounded! That boy was in constant pain as we stood there, but he grinned and joked and tried to amu me. Did he succeed? I tell you solemnly, I never spent five minutes with the humblest of God's wounded that I did not ke praising Him for the privi- I spent all day yesterday try- ng to get clothes for them, They are all penniless Won't you dealers in men’s wear do this for your boys? Give me orders for five or ten new suits each, Send me word that [ may send you @ boy a day for ten days, with a letter from me tolling you of his need. And give yourself the privilege of fitting him out in new, clean clothes, making him feel like a man again, Then when you have done this, be- fore you tuek your fountain pen away, write me a check for our ice House, which American wegion is going to run will take the wounded off the give them a home Make your check to Eve. ning World Service Fund or bring the money to me at Room Ne 135° World Building, and let's acquainted. L might need check book again, Who can tell? a WOMEN SMOKERS USE 20,000,000,000 CIGARETTES A YEAR Credited With 66 Per Cent, of Increase in Consumption Last Year. WASHINGTON, March 9. MBPRICAN women are con- suming nearly 20,000,000, 000 cigarettes a year is the inference drawn from the tax re- cole at the Interna! Revenue, Bureau. More thas 50,000,000,000 ciga- rettes were bought in the fiscal year just ended, In the previous year cigarette consumption was only 30,000,000,000. This shows increase of 20,000,000,000 in the iwelveemonth period, Women are credited with consuming 66 per cent. of this increase, This added to their former consumption mikes up the total of 20,000,000,000, Women, it is said, began to take up the cigarette habit in earnest in the United States carly in 1919, probably as a result of the war influence. During 1920 the Government re- c4eived $11,000,000 in cigarette taxes. This shows an increase of nearly $61,000,000 over 1919. The tax on cigarettes is $3 per 1,000 tubes. TRUST'S PROFITS NEW LIQUOR RU IN SUCARROPPE 62% LAST YEA But American Refining Co.’s Supplies on Hand Are $30,- 372,000 More Than in 1919, Owing largely to the collapse in sugar prices during the last five Months of 1920, profits of the Ameri- can Sugar Refining Company for that year amounted to only $1,803,437, ac- cording to the annual report to stook- holders, issued to-day. This repre- sents a decrease of more than 82 per cent. from the profita of 1919, which amounted to $10,283,082. “The latter year was the most prosperous In the company’s history, Total net income of the company for 1920 is shown by the report to have been $4,822,001, This figure ts arrived at by including interest on loans and deposits, income from investments and also by including “excess reserva- tions in former years.” It Is shown by the report that in order to take care of depreciation charges, dividends, &c,, for the year it was necessary for the company to dip into the acoumulated surplus earnings of former years to the extent of $10,- 686,280. Accumulated surplus at the close of 1920 stood at $12,465,858, com- pared with $28,152,138 at the close of 1918, ‘The total gross business of the com. pany for the r was over $350,000,- 000. But \ta#explained by President Babst the high prices which prevailed and not increased yolume of opera- tions were responsible for this large total. It is further stated by President Babst the operating profit of tie company equalled a return of about a half a cent on each dollar of sales, or less than one-tenth of @ cent on each pound of su, sold. This op- erating profit was arrived at, how~- ever, after adjustment to market prices prevailing at the end of the year of the unsold sugar held by the company, much of which is known to have been purchased at bigh ricen. Phe balance sheet as of Dec. 1 last shows current labilities of 5 587,000, including more than $27,000,- 000 of hotes payatble. As against this the company had $35,764.8% of cur- rent or liquid assets, inoludi 371,000 the year were val at $45.408, Chmpared with $15,033,000 nt the clove KEN? The big freight steamship Wandby of 1m8, —_—_——— Four Ki in if Giant Alrptane, UDINE, ttaly, March 9.—Four men wore killed in the fall of @ giant Ca- om Algiers for roni plane on its test fitght hy Fe go at ate yeuterday,. The, mac felt 500 Point off thia port in a heavy fog to-|(eet. Commander Caproni has been day. She had apparentiy mistaken |working at the Campo Farmio Field hee poaition on hin hundred: passenger tri-plane. Brooklyn—Fulton Street, je Lined with Silks and Peau de Cygne—in desirable Springtime shades—finished in a manner worthy of higher pri Folo Cloths ) the new sport plaid effects. THE VALUES ARE MOST EXTRAORDINARY t West Thirty-Fourth Street—New York \Newark—Broad Street & West Bale at All Three Stores near Hoyt { Special Pre-Easter Opportunity! Sale Spring Polo Cloth Coats New Modes in Coats, Capes and Wraps ae: Desirable Silk Lined Productions . Faultlessly tailored productions—an assortment of styles, materials and colors completely beyond anything antictpated at this low price. ices. Including 4 Styles for women and misses —beceming and graceful inline. Youthful belted effects, - notched and mannish collars, tailor-stiteh- ing, new pockets, Sports and motor ~ HALT SH ON FORGED PE Multiple Order System Inaugue rated Throughout Country Following ‘Exposures Here, A now procedure for withdrawal of grain alcohol, whiskey and other liquore from bonded warehouses went into effect to-day by Charles Ry O'Connor, Director of Prohibition fir Now York State announced, Thy @- Ject is to stop withdrawala, or transportation of liquor om or altered permits. The new rules, ordered from Washington, affect the whole country. Mr. O'Connor said to-day several forgeries were still being uncovered here every week, but no iiquor obtained on them as warehouses & distMleries were obliged to recall telegraphic-contirmation from the dt rector before filling the orders. estimated $100,000,000 worth of had been withdrawn on forged mite before she recent expose in office resulted in the indictment several employees, Since Jan, % all withdrawals liquor other than grain aloghol amd drnggists’ permits have been stopped. Mr. O'Connor said he did not know. when they would be resumed. Py Formerly @ person who possensed basic permit to withdraw liquors uly mitted three applications for permits to purchase, and in case transports ton was involved, one or two addin tional, Undegyth Mal number of the parmit. rector’s copy" ia printed on paper, the “carrker’s copy” on the “vendes's copy”.on salmom the “collectors copy” on pink. ‘The director then mails to dor the ortginal and ell copies permit except the which the dtrector i BH i vendor be authoriwed to until he has the complete Possession. All shipments it is provided, be direct from the premioes the vendor's pe! covered hy the § & ak é i | i g 2 ” *