The evening world. Newspaper, April 19, 1921, Page 26

Wy as — yn | eee 4 | ¢ } ’ 2A RNIN, sllatieices patriot, Simon Bolivar. ~ lumber for another and scarcer variety. ~ after B has revealed so much of his business. It va wouldn't be clubby. Bs Hf opemprice assodations are to continue to exist | THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1921. | be ESTABLISHED HY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pudiimhed Dally Kxcopt Sunday by The Prem Pubiishing 1 Company, Nos, 58 to 62 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 69 Park Row. a. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITAER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Now MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. fre Asccoisted Prem is exclusively entitled to the wee fer regubitcetton Cf All news Geapatches credited to ft or not otherwise credited im thie pages And also the local news published herein THE RENT LAWS UPHELD. AKING substantially the same ground as (he lower courts, a majority of the Supreme Court of the United States yesterday upheld the constitutionality of the New York Rent Laws. Other phases of the law may be argued before the court, but there is small reason to fear that the daws will be overturned. The Supreme Court recognized what The Eve- ning World contended when it first advocated these laws. An emergency existed. It exists to<lay. The police powers of the State are adequate to protect its citizens. The Evening World cannot agree with Justice McKenna, who fears this decision as the “doom of judicial judgment on legislative action.” Justice McKenna apparently takes the ground that emergency legisiation is no longer allowable be- “cause the war is over. War is not the only emer- gency. Fire, flood, famine, the forces of nature have repeatediy caused emergencies calling for the full exercise of the powers of the State. The shelter _ famine is no less an emergency than a food famine. These iaws are emergency laws, pure and simple. The date of expiration is a part of the law. They do not destroy property rights. They merely pre- vent abuse of property rights. The Supreme Court majority has remiered a wise decision. And now the city has to engage chemists for @ huge job of liquor testing. Thousands of dol- tars to settle with test tubes nice distinctions that many a well equipped volunteer could muke with his eyes shat! VENEZUELA'S GIFT. W YORK is glad to honor to-day the memory | of the great South American Liberator. | The equestrian statue of Simon Bolivar presented by the people of Venezuela to the people of this city will stand in Central Park as a lasting testi- mony to the spirit that for a century has been draw- ing the peoples on the two great continents of the Western Hemisphere ever closer together in under- standing and friendship. That spirit is the spirit of liberty which men like | ; Washington and Bolivar personified. | In the widened international relationships, which, | despite temporary checks, are bound to develop out | of the war and its lessons, the matural bonds be- | tween this Republic and the Latin Republics of South America should be among the first to tighten. It is a timely and graceful gift the people of Venezuela have made New York. | Young Americans of this city will learn on their | own playground to know and admire the great | “It is only a new way of keeping an old | secret,” said Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of the Binstein theory. From which, we take it, Dr. Butler is not one of the dozen members of the Order of Relativity-Comprehenders, Ltd. “OPEN PRICES.” “ PEN-PRICE ASSOCIATIONS” are one of the important factors in keeping up the cost of living, the Federal Trade Commission re- ports to the President. The ptwase “open price” is anything but an ade- quate description when used in this sense. When President Harding indicated that these associations are operating “within the law,” it seams | probable that he was thinking of the obvious im- Plications of the phrase, what it ought to mean, and not of the real operation in business. “Open” prices are open to the men in tie busi- Ress—not to the public. Open-price agreements seem to have developed as the formalized successors of the so-called “Gary dinners” im the steel industry, which were discon- | tinued for fear of Government intervention. John T. Hettrick’s “Code ot Practice” was a vari- | ation of the open-price policy in which contract Prices were open—to Mr. Hettrick. At the same time, these associations are not all had. Some have scientific and research staffs that perform valuable services to the Nation as well as the industry. The Lumber Association, for ex- ample, has made valuable studies in the preserva- tion of timber and the substitution of one sort of Some associations have done excellent work in policing their own ranks, abolishing fraud and strengthening the ethics of the industry, | As regards prices, the record is not so good, There mray be no formal agreement on prices, no definite division of territory, nor formal pooling of output or profits, but the “club” feeling seems in- | evitable. Mr. A hasn't the heart to cut into Mr. B there must be reform from within or from without, voluntarily or by Federal compuision. Prices should be “open” in fact as well as name—open to non-members of the association, to the press and to the Government as well as to association members. THE LARGER BEARING. URTHER insight into the controversy over the Island of Yap reveals more than the determi- nation of Japan to stick to what it holds to have been the decision of the Supreme Council of the League of Nations, The dispute throws into new and unpleasant re- lief the false position in which the United States is placed in relation to adjustments under a peace treaty it helped to negotiate but to which it has re- fused to become a parly. Instead of asserting itself and using its great in- fluence as a partner in the peace under which other great powers are acting, the United States is forced to watch from a corner, acquiescing wherever the Treaty of Versailles seems to be to American ad- vantage and making an oulcry whenever and wher- ever it does not. The United States protests against the Japanese attitude on the ground that it did not, through its representatives in the Supreme Council, assent to a mandate purporting to embrace the Island of Yap. Yet the United States has no present standing in the Supreme Council, it is still outside the peace treaty, and the present Administration in Washing- ton has declared for scrapping the League of Na- tions—Supreme Council and all—and if possible, giving the treaty itself a drastic overhauling. Small wonder if Japan adopts a slightly sarcastic tone towand an “Associated” |‘ower that seems to think it can have a peace all alone and at the same time claim full right to speak on occasion as an associate. One minute this Nation asserts its right as an isolated power. The next minute it claims the benefits of a treaty it has so far rejected. That is a situation that cannot endure if the United States is ever again to occupy an honorable and unequivocal positions from which it can con- sistently maintain its point against Japan or any other nation. Minister Gil-Borges of Venezvela yesterday bestowed on the City of New York the ‘Order of the Liberator.” Coming the day after the adjournment of ‘he Legislature, it ought to give Mather Knickerbocker something (o think about. It is an unusual Liberator who does not begin the job of liberating at home. JUDGE, GARY ON UNIONS. Bee his labor policy to stockholders of the United States Steel Corporation, Judge Gary added little or nothing new and re- iterated much that is so old as to be obsolete, The same “viewing with alann,” the same de- nials that “union labor leaders represent ‘Labor,’ ” the fear of political activity by unionists, the same “secret persistent movements” have characterized the opposition to labor unionism ever since workers first hegan to organize. Most of what the anti-unionists have feared has never happened. To-day abuses of unionism are being effectively checked by taw and by the courts. if other abuses develop they too will be checked. Judge Gary admits that in the long past, when workmen were not treated fairly, labor unions may have been justified, How long ago, may we ask, was the indefensible twenty-four-hour shift abolished in the steel industry? And. why? Does any reasonable man doubi for a moment that the twenty-four-hour shift went because Judge Gary needed to quiet public opposition which would sympathize with the workers when they agai at- temped to organize the steel workers and compel Judge Gary to bargain collectively | Judge Gary now favors Government regulation of both capital and labor, he says. But has Juxtge Gary forgotten that when President Wilson called | an industrial conference a. vear ago, it was none other than Judge Gary who stood out most de- | terminedly against the best opinion of equally able leaders of the Nation’s business? | Undoubtedly we shall ‘have a reply from union | sources to this statement by the President of the Steel Corporation, Let us hope that the reply will be more consistent, more logical and more human in its tone. TWICE OVERS. Uo bill we (the Consercatice Party) not taken in Mr. Lloyd George? * * * Or has he taken us in?*—The Earl of Derby. oe vee 667M just a political gardener, watering flowers whereoer I think it will do the mosi good.” — W. J. Bryan. * * ce W* cannot offord to have these perpetually recurring industrial crises.” —Lord Robert Cecil. iF at eye THINK workmen were not always treated justly.” — Judge Gary. 2 ubeus |= ~Mortimer | is lan | New ~The End of His Rope! - be say much in a few words. Take ‘Talk From the Court. ning World the 13th inst. 1 “Renter’s’ Municipal Judges their courts every morning. It is a splendid suggestion. Landlords soon would stop their greediness and impositions. C. R. In your issue o read with much p idea of how the should address To Make Them Stop. ‘Te the EaBtar of The Evening World: In reply to the letter signed “ate make-up does not make one less re- spectable if one is maue up respect- | ably. But the way some girls make | up would disgrace a black-faced comedian, The only way the ladies will improve in facial make-up and | the proper use of paint and powdcr, will be to include the teaching of make-up in the public schools. can't start too young, Then, as they Will be required to do make-up, they won’ ROGER DOLAN. The Supplanted Male. To the Iwtitar of The Evening World If the modern young Americaa man has contempt for the present type of men and young mea—it ly the fault of the American newspitpers, and particularly of the metropolitan press, The average York newspaper “plays up” women and girls in the news and “plays down" men. In the evening papers special writers are employed whose chief duty seems to be in pen- | ning articles calculated to foster sox antagonism, articles showing the vic- tue of woman and the corresponding vices of man. Therefore is it very surprising that the impressionable young woman of this ¢ ty should so keenly fee] her superiority and frown down on the opposite sex? The greatest difficulty in the rela- tionship of the sexes here is that in New York the young women are the positive quantity and the young men | e the negative. ‘This is a city which | offers to young women of its best, and the best type of young women come here from all sections of the country because they can follow Careers to best advantage and are ale lowed more freedom in their actions and activities than in smaller com- munities, On the other hand the American type of boy is a rarity in New York, It is a fact that the West offers him the most opportunities while the great urban centers of the Kast afford the largest advantages to ‘American giri. "Sale te caused by the difference in the activities of the two sexes, In Now York we may expect to see the gradual extinction of the male clerk, secretary, stenographer, etc, and at that time the young ' man’ will be forced out of the field here and the economic rivalry—a necessary econ- omic rivalry caused by the entrance of women into the business world— between the sexes will cease, At that time the problem of the surplus woman will be approaching settle. ent. But, in the meantime, it seems to me that the papers here might bett € E have gone probation mad.” L, Schiff. employ their space in promuun amity between the two sexes in wien They | time to be brief. antagonisin., 1 think articies rts to secure justice for who fought in the be finer reading s denouncing presen ng which so many of men writers glory In. “ Many of these returned boys are job- less because wom their |places (I'm not b |they have to live, too). M boys returned to find th |girls they loved married to homes. ‘And all of these poye have {where man as a sex takes pride in is manhood and where home is a | word with its old-fashioned meaning. | VINCENT APPLETON New York City, April 15. Senne and the Censor. ‘To the Falitor of The Bvening World: Censorship of motion unnecessary. It is a days, It smacks of th | Censorship is a blow | stitutions. It pictures is Inquisition. at free in- is autocratic. It ele- From Evening World Readers | What kind of a letter de you find most readable? isn’t it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental ezercis. and a lot of satisfaction in trying tractive,” I would like to say that | but recently returned from a country | | | | | ic of medieval | vates a few to season the film tastes | of millions. pulse If motion pictures are to be shack Hed by the whims of demigods, the |newspaper and the pulpit will be the |next for the “Main Street” mind to blue pencil. Blue notes will be the rule in mu- sic Imagery and fire will be gone ‘trom poetry. Life will be doled out \ by the shears ,« rdstick ‘The sensible censor is public ion. It has v Tt is a dy force. Here cracy speaking. Here is the voice that surges up from the hearts of free people, Its verdict jhas no appeal. ists, who would judge others with a |"gild and lily” attitude? | If the photoplay is to reveal life, to probe the heart, to exalt the feel. ings, to lift the moral sense, to spark the imagination, to vivify the spirit, then the cineraa must be unfettered. Censorship is anti-art. If censors had Divine right, some- jone would have censored ‘Adam's | apple. | ‘To-day our greembacks are being censored by the income tax collector Ought not some one censor the yel- |1ow backs of our censors? Let's safeguard our birthright! VICTOR M. SHAPIRO. New York, Apri 165. Apprentices and Batlding. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World Those inquiring into the building graft business should, if convenient, turn their attention to the question of apprentices. The biggest contri going is only allowed to take on a certain number of apprentices, be they bricklayers, plaster other branch, and the smallest tractor can t prentices equal to the tractor. Sounds funny Here we are in the Ty t con t of Christendom daily urprises that - |firop up. IRBERT JUN NINGS. —diew Yor! he Cl, April 16, Why the need of high-priced pur- | It kills the creative im- | on a number of ap-! larg Words From the Wise mo Bee Bree Bitte sina W on.) UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1951, by Jotm Bian) YOU MAKING AN ATTIC OF YOUR MIND? Years ago, when Congress still tried to keep up with its work, the fear that records and correspondence of no apparent value might some day be useful Gaused the creation ot the Senate Committee on the Disposition of Useless Papers. These useless papers, stored by tons in the vaults under the Capitol, occupied room needed for really valuable docu- ments, and the Committee on the Disposition of Useless Papers was charged with the duty of inspecting them from time to time and destroying those which had utterly no value. But it was hard for a Senator to decide that any docu- ment was useless. So the accumulations increased and the committee became inoperative. And only at the present ses- sion has it been determined to get rid of it altogether. Meanwhile useless papers continue to pile up in the lumber rooms, and until somebody has the sense to get rid of such lumber as soon as it has been used they will cumber space that is needed for really important material. We speak of this matter because most of us need a really active and intelligent Committee on the Disposition of Use- less Knowledge to tell us what to remember snd what to forget For things remembered clutter up the brain, which can only hold just so much, and very often leave no room for things that ought to be learned. Most of us, consciously or unconsciously, are forever loading up our minds with facts and figures and experiences that would be better forgotten, Things that can be found in reference books have no place in the mind, unless they are things that we ought to have at our tongue’s end, Commonplace experiences, which take tedious hours in the telling, would better be blotted out by the committee. Filling our minds with fresh information and making an effort to remember only things that are important will do much to leave them free for action when action is called for. Overloading with endless details and insisting that these shall be remembered will make a lumber room of the best mind that was ever created. Most of us have met once, and avoided ever after, the nan who remembers too well—who can tell us just who was Fanny Davenport's leading man when she played Cleopatra thirty years ago, and who will enumerate the whole cast and what the critics said on the opening night if we will let him, And those of us who do know this man know tbat his mind is only useful for this sort of trashy statistics, and that most of his statistics are wrong. Keep your mind alive and moving and keep in it matters of importance, Begin to overload it and it will soon be smothered and you will be a pest to all mankind. ARE 2) cal independence. Race is the principle of physical analogy We must laugh before we are Disracli. happy, or else we may die before | raw ig not taw if it violates the principles of eternal justice, —Lydia M. Child, we ever laugh at all. -La Bruyere, There iv w great difference ber | a suit of clothes; tween nationality une vace, “pa | but nature must Phere a man. tonality is the miracle of mei —Hume. ‘Women of The | Bible, Thomas B. Gregory | + Ur Te Prom Pebtisting Ce, York trening Wer No. 1. HANNAH, MOTHER OF SAMUELS Hannab, in her younger days, wah fated to go along the darkest Vik Dolorosa that a woman's feet ever called upon to travel, Dee down within her heart she yearneg for the joys of moth@rhood, but “ah ing her in the face was the cruel fal that a mother she could not be.» In the pathetic words of the Bible (L Samuel, 1), “Elkanah had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the othor Peninnah; and Peninnah had chile dren, but Hannah had no children.” Hikanah was a deeply religious man, and “when the day came that he sacrificed, he gave to Peninnal, his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, portions; but unto Han nah he gave a double portion, for be loved Hannah"--loved her doubly op account of the mighty grief thes tugged away at her heart because of her barrenness. Penninah, a sballow, superficie’ creature, mocked her vival in het sorrows, “poked fun at her,” as we say nowadays, but in genuine symm pathy her husband said to her, “Han- hah, why weepest thou? and wh¥ eatest thou not? and why is thy jhoart grieved? Am not I better to \thee than TEN sons?" With ali his sympathy and other fine qualities, Hikanah was blissfully ignorant of the deepest instinct af woman's nature; and thanking her | husband for his fine sympathy and all-round chivairous ntion, Ham |nah repaired to the House of God t joffer her prayer and make her vow. She asked God to give her a son, | promising that if a son was given te |should be dedicated to Him from his | birth. I do not belleve that in the whote vange of literature, sacred fane, there is to be found a |s0 beautifully pathetic as jt. Samoel, that ip 4, 12-14: “And it came pase, as «he continued praying ue- ‘fore the Lord, that Eli (the priest) |noticed her mouth. Now Hannai |SPAKE IN HER HEART; ONLY HER LIPS MOVED, BUT HER VOICE WAS NOT HEARD; there |fore Hi thought she was drunken.” And drunken she was—with the delirium of her soul's supreme desire —a yearning too deep for speech, that |cowld tremble and iver upon the lips, but that could 1 be put into words. Hannab’s prayer was answered. The silent but terrible prayer stormed Heaven and she was given a son—Samuel (“the name of God”) Samuel, the great Priest-Governor at Israel for many years, upon whose record there was not a blot, aga.nst whose rock-ribbed manhvod no enemy could breathe a word. A perfect mother—finding her supreme joy and glory in \i¢ son who responded to her pure and never- failing love. Such was the crown \that came to Hannah the wife of Elkanah. ‘| Ten-Minute Studies | ‘|| of New York City | || Government _ omnis GLb Wea By Willis Brooke Hawkins. This is the sixrty-sicth article of a series defining the dutics of the administrative and legislative | officers and boards of the New | York ity Government. FIRE DEPARTMENT. | ‘This department is under the con- | (rol of a Commissioner, appointed-by \the Mayor, at a salary of $7,600 year, The chief functions of the de- partment aro fire extinguishment, fire prevention and the investigation, of the origin of fires The Burean of Fire Fextingwish ment compris the well known uni ormed fire-fighting force. It main | tains a fire college for the instruction lof officers ta fire-fighting and an ‘automobile sehool tor chauffeurs. A | specially organized resoue squad i | equipped with the most modern ap | pagatue for coping with fires where ,eavy smoke or fumes from ehem- icals render it dangerous for other | firemen to enter a building. | ‘The Bureau of Fire Prevention, ie charged with the daty of making |imiidings as safe as possible against |fire. Its inspectors investigs | dangerous conditions and ord their | correction through the instailation of fire alarm systems, when necessary, in factories, hotels, stores, lodging houses, &e.; the roinoval of elec- ltrical hazards in buildings; the pro- ‘vision of proper exits; the tnstalbe- | tion of necessary fire appliances; the establishment of fire drills in tee. public schools, department tores and elsewhere, The Diviston sf Public Assembly of this burean ilso inspects places of public assem. |biy, such as theatres, picture showa, |ciubs, &c. The Division of, Combus- tibles is charged with the duty of Secale the regulations governing Jexplosives and hazardous trades, ta- ‘suing permits for the aale, trans- | portation, storage and uso of ail ex. | tra-tnflammable substances, The Bureau of Fire Investigation looks into the causes of all fires tn the city, espectatly those in whica tories, The Bureau of IMre Alarm Tals apn maintains and operates th. iegraphic system of locating fires pascal tncendiariam {s suspected, ° | woleatag from street boxes and “ alana” copeutod. be Lead {