The evening world. Newspaper, August 23, 1921, Page 18

| i | i ESTABLISHED f Pudtished Dally Ex z pans. Ne RALPH P n J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasure: JOSEPH PULITAER Ir., Secr MEMMER OF TIF Assocs The Assoetated Prem le exclusteely encinca to the use for repy Of All news despatches eredited to It oF not otnerwise creaitea in toi¥ payer And lt the local news published herein, — GIVING AWAY SHIPS. HE country heard yesterday the news that the Shipping Board has sold 205 of its wooden vessels for a total of $430,500, or $2,100 per ship. The average cost of building these vessels was $700,000 each. For the whole 205 the Shipping Board is to get less than two-thirds of the cost ot building one! Such Government salesmanship is enough t 2 shudder down the spine of every American with a grain of business sense in his composition. Apparently the Shipping Board is ready to make its troubles an excuse for any sort of precipitate action—including giving away ships. Granted ihese vessels were built in something akin ‘0 send to a panic. | Is that a reason why they shoul! be sold ina panic? Either the Shipping Board has gone nvid made up its mind that, between the fore: and the tariff policy of the Harding Administr American commerce destined to become the most completely valueless or it has 1 policy is doomed and American ships | objects afloat. | The sending of a dreadnought load of American marines to Central America need cause no excitement. It is merely a little punctnation of Secretary Hughes's plainly ! worded notice to Panama thet the disputed Coto territory on the Pacific was long s!nce formally awarded io Costa Rica, and that con- sequently Panama troops have no business there. } IN JUSTICE TO THE POLICE. | LUBBER TIGHE of the police force was in- dicted yesterday. His trial should follow soon, The need for early disposition of this case and the Polo Grounds slugging is clearly indicated by an incident at Coney Island Sunday aftemoon Patrolman Mulverhill arrested an aged pretzel seller. The salesman fell down, and the crowd im- mediately assumed he was another victim of police bretality. Without waiting to find out the facts, the crowd began to riot, to throw stones and sand and to attempt a rescue of the prisoner. Such a riot would have been almost impossible if the ‘public had not been impressed by the recent clubbing incidents which aroused such indignation. To restore the standing of the force it is necessary that members charged with brutality should be promptly cleared or punished. At the same time the New York public should exercise every care to give patrolmen fair treatment. The average policeman can be trusted to do his duty and deserves public support. Crowds should be sue of their facts before showing resentment against amr officer. In case of doubt the better way is to take the num- ber of the policeman and report the incident to the District Attomey, to the Police Commissioner and to the newspapers. The peace treaty between the United States and Germany must apparently bear two stamps: Made-in-Germany and Made-in-the-Dark, : WHERE IS IT NOW? RUSTEES administering the wreck of the Ponzi get-rich-quick machine are suing the fortunate individuals who “got theirs while the getting was good. Legally, it may be that these fraudulent “divi- dends” are returnable. As a practical matter it is doubtful whether the trustees will be able to re- cover much of the “profits” realized by the early “get-rich-quick” investors, even though the trustees announce willingness to accept repayment on the instalment plan. Not even the threat of publicity will force a large Proportion of returns. For the sort of people who put their money into such swindles will be unable to see anything iniquitous in keeping any profits real- fzed. They will be quick to salve their consciences with the same sort of philosophy which justifies a gambler in keeping his winnings. “We were lucky, that’s all,” will be their attitude. Moreover, “get-rich-quick are the sort that spend their winnings or els? invest them in other risky ventures. Few of the Ponzi winners, we im- agine, put the money in savings links where it will be readily available for repayment “THE BREAKERS” BREAKS THE WAY. TT had to come sooner or later. “The Breakers” at Atlantic City has announced a sweeping reduction in hotel prices. It is going back to the prices prevailing before the profiteering craze hit the hotels. Its announced reduction from $6 to $2.50 per day sounds substantial. :Other hotels at Atlantic City will have to follow @ult or watch “The Breakers” keep a full house while other hostelries divide overhead among a few guests | willing to pay exorbitant prices. | When generally “deflated” the pres vill extend to others. If vacationists and travellers can get more for their money at Atlantic City than elsewhere, then Atlantic City will gain in fuvor and patronage. Present hotel prices are exorbitant. Food, labor and other costs are declining toward pre-war levels, There is no excuse for the robber tariffs now exacted. “The Breakers” deserves a good word for breaking the way. sure RENT-BOOSTERS RESUME. : A OCTOBER 1 approaches, a new outburst of attempted rent profiteering on the part of nm classes Of landlords is in evidence. If rents were only being raised in the case of tenants whose longer leases at lower figures helped them through the rent-boosting orgies of recent sea- sons there might be less ground for complaint. As a matter of fact, however, these are by no means the only cases. The impulse to “try what the tenant will stand” has again seized many land- lords who have steadily raised rents in the past few years and who have no justification for a further | raise now that eosts of labor and supplies have taken i definile downward turn. landlords seem to be shutting their eyes to ‘To Let” signs are increasing in number over the city. Nor do some of them appear to realize that the emergency rent laws are in force for another year, . Moreover, if has hecome the regular practice of tin landlords, under the existing laws, to ask igger raises than they expect in the hope that tT by compromise or through the court they will get a substantial increase and still leave the tenani with the feeling that he has “won out.” All this undoubtedly means a heavy load of rent, cases on the courts this fall and will revive the de- mand for some arrangement by which Judges may S such cases to special boards constituted for the purpose. Whatever expedites the settlement of rent disputes will not only help tree the courts of a burden that seriously gets in the way of their regular work but will also discourage profiteering landlords and en- courage tenants by providing prompt and easy re- course to justice. al! The Senate yesterday passed Board deficiency priation’ of $48. the Shipping B tering. the Shipping eu whieh carries an appro- 00,000, ‘This should hearten hew feats of money seu A SLUMP IN THE KING BUSINESS. NTIL events prove the contrary there will be a general tendency to credit the Parisian rumor that Kiag Alexander of Jugo-Slavia is detained in the ench capital with an affection of the heart rather than of the appendix, and that he is likely to decline THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 19 Cag waters PPO NAL Sb Rp Es COTS ITE RE ERENT 21 Patchwork _ ais tng On, ening Wort). By John Cassel MV tmeae IP Preange . From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find the throne, to say much in few words. Take t ; Tt was at least an odd coincidence that the sudden The World War Medal. illness came at the particular time when his accession | 7° % Editor of The Evening World . . I am one of the A. E IT have to the UT ane wo id require his presence in the |sust received from the State of New troubled Balkan kingdom. York a “World War medal.” On one To Americans the idea that “two lovi + |side of it is Inscribed, “For Service, vallnee a sna A loving hearts IN }1917-1919, Representing the State of a cottage preferable to a throne and subjects in | New York.” On the margin of the our s merely orthodox. medal, the reverse side, are the names. Declination of so troubled a throne as that which has governed the Serbs is not even an indication of cowardice, although the job has proved dangerous. The fact is, that sort of job isn’t what it used to be. It isn't worth the while of a man with a serious pur- pose, still less of a man reported to have an inherited longing for Parisian pleasures. The “delicacy of the political situation” in Russia is given as the reason why the Ameri- can Relief Administration {s to suppress the American flag in distributing American food among starving Russians, Why not carry delicacy a step further and pretend that all the food is furnished by a super- competent and generous Soviet Government? TWICE OVERS. 66 Wwe KERS cannot understand how readjust- ment and reconstruction can mean only a reduction in their wages."’—Samuel Gompers. * + & ‘ ‘T HE moment is desperate. The life of a great people (the Russians) is in the balance. Fridtjof Nansen to the Pope. * 8 8 “ce HE present (Shipping) Board has been in existence about sixty days, but in that time it has employed twenty or twenty-one attorneys at sal- aries ranging from $5,000 to $35,000." —Senator Borah. . * * S67 T is amusing to a newcomer to see the whole day (in the Senate) taken up debating whether the pot is blacker than the kettle.’ —Senator Watson. . * “ THERE was a lime when you could not say too much or too ill about President Wilson. Now you make him the standard by which to judge the present occupant of the White House."’-—Senator Stanley. ee HE question now presented is whether the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution shall be nullified by statute in so far as a statute can work that outrageous end." —Senator Reed. aia, F out? Italy, Belgium, Siberia, Germany, Rus- | nee, What is the significance | of these names put on and otuers left If it was for the want of room, why not put on the pripcipal comba- | tants? Why is Great Britain left ou! and Germany put in and the belligerents left out entire! perplexes me is why Germany is put in among the victor ous nations and England left out, Ls this oeglhigene or oversight or done designedly; anJ if so, why? I hope you can explain, as 1 would like to know what | am wearing. — | BUGENE GEORGE STEVENS (Editor's Note—The obvious ex- planation Is that the countries named are those in which American soldiets Saw action, and not the ames of the combatant nations, whether vic. torious or conquered.) A Land ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: 1 was forced to move the first of June, as my landlord swore under oath ‘on the stand that he needed the pre.n- ises for his own use and would move in, in good faith, He rentea the epart- ment on Aug. 1 for more rent. Not being able to find a place, Tw compelled to move my furniture tnt storage and take furnished room te ting my meals out. It cost me 814 vw move in storage and $7 per mont) while there, and will probably cost me $20 to move out, It has cost me thout $40 per month more to live than befure 1 moved. Not having any money to fignt ¢ gouging landlord, 1 am coinpeile sit back and suffer, although t is decidedly on my side, as committed perjury. Can any one . vise me where I can bring this matter to the attention of the court without It costing me a pile of money? Brooklyn, Aug. 17. V.LR 1 is From Mr. Browne, To the Fatitor of The Evening World There have appeared several letters from your readers in answer to my letter regarding rents, and I am also in receipt of anonymous couched in the most violent and scurrilous terms. If the writers of the latter will sign their names and they have a grievance tenants, } shall be glad to help rectify it, If advocating 12% per cent. net in- come for landlords !s advocating profiteering, then Lam. 1 am the originator of “no evictions und square deal rents.” letters most readable Isn’ it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying ime to be brief. It depends upon the facts of The increase may mean net income of 5 per cent. or of 5! per cent. An increase of rent from $41.66 to $120 may be quite fair, bu’ the chances are it is not 1 p | state fact that rents of from $2,000 to $30,000 per annum are mir down is no reason why hy one should assume, as one of yy ur expondents does, that “I expect a to $50 per week clerk to keep bis wife and children in bathing suits or fced them on bread and water.” \ehat's the connection, anyway? My experience with both landlords and tenants is that there ts some ching wrong with the majority of their mental make-ups. ‘They have no sense of proportion. They have *men- ub kinks.” If any tenant considers he ts un- fairly treated by his landlord aad will send me the particulars 1 will be glad to help rectify it. If any \indlord thinks he is unfairly treated by his tenants or the courts 1 will be glad to help rectify it. f im neither pro-landiord nor pro-ten int, but want to see a square deal be- | ween the two. | STEWART BROWNE, President United Real Estate Own- ers’ Association 260 Broudway, Aug. 16, fair. th 1921. The Need of Compantonship. ‘To the Etitor of The Evening World An article in The Evening World of Aug, 15 on “Insufferable Lonesome- ness" would apply to hundreds of people in New York City alone from age of twenty-five years up- ward, Personally, I know of young | men and women who are really ill from being aldne toe much. The young people of to-day have not money enough to live in hotels when they have not their own homes. in hotels they could enjoy the music and | divert their minds from their lone- liness, ‘They have no way of meeting respectable girls. A certain class of young women demand so much en- tertainment that the young men’s finances won't permit them to take | these girls out to theatres, &. The young people miss the companions of | their own age. Older people do also. Many elderly women have brought up a family; the husband has been dead some years; perhaps the children are all maeried nd have their own homes and pleas- The time comes when that mother of father needs a companion Chey still have their little trials ot joys—and sucia comfort to have sonic ho interested enough o listen, You can't expect your ehidren ¢ =i children to have the same | gr erest | There is no doubt that some ten- yne of their own age. I y | ants are “rent gouged" and some] feel tha V. Warding bas | landierds are fi) downtrod wd ri hits convictions | a den. One of yrrespondents nd think jf will start something for aska, “Je it (air to ask a rent to -reat many of us Whe are in the sam, crease of 33 per cent, to 50 per cents?” Te may be falr or most un- ¢ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) YOU ARE YOU—MAKE THE BEST OF IT. If you could inherit Caruso’s voice you could succeed to his place in the musical world and gain a great fortune in a very short time. If you had Rockefeller’s type of brain you could organ- ize business combinations and be a king of finance. If you had the mind of J. M. Barrie you could write wonderful plays and draw tremendous royalties from them. If you had the personality and the athletic ability of Douglas Fairbanks or the comic face and gestures of Charlie Chaplin ‘you could make many times a hundred thousand dollars a year as a movic star, In fact there is nothing you could not be if you had only been born with the gifts that other people were given al birth, But you are none of these people. You are you. It will do you no good to envy them. It will do you nu good to think thatnature was unfair in her distribution and that you were cut off with a very moderate equipment. That moderate equipment is all you have. You can make it better by practice. You may even make it pay you a for- tune. ' Of the men who live in handsome houses, own automo- biles, belong to expensive clubs and are generally known as rich men, few came into the world with more than mediocre ability. It was not genius that made them successful. It-was not even talent. It was merely thrift and intelligent industry, Unless you are mentally deficient you have a good chance of making far more than average success. But you can't do it by wishing you were somebody clse or by envying the talent that others possess, , : As u matter of fact even those who bring their talent into the world with them must develop it by hard work before they can make it pay: Even the great Caruso had to work extremely hard be- fore he could gain recognition, and his life was never a life of ease. Continual work, continual practice, kept his voice in the condition that made it worth many thousands of dollars tu him You may not have such a voice. But you have a body and a soul and a mind, and by using all three you can amount to something if you are only willing to try hard enough. pe APP RPP PPPS RR RRR DROP PODDDD AN 5) boat. 1 attended @ large affals jast week (i SSS ella iif it Goy. Edwards's home, a card noon of pleasure for these women, party for the benefit of Spring Lake| You often hear of women and mon Hospital, Near me sat some very) getting married at fifty years and young girls One remarked, “No fun|over, [t would be silly to quote love Look at ali th. old dowagers ~ ns tHe point, It is merely the com- no men” Til venture to say)pantonsnlp. If all of us would atart and human feeling than the| fe%éw men, how much ha charming young miss, and the play-| would all be! ing of cards was only one little Geagirt, N. J. Avg 16, 1931, dowagers had more in-|a chain of human kindncea to our ior We ‘| deni was followed b The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff uverig, 1921. by The Prem Fuflianing Oo. Cine New York Brecing World) XL—THE MAN WHO FIRST EXE- CUTED A KING BY LAW. Many of the counts in the indict- jment which history has brought against Oliver Cromweil have been sustained by the conscience of the | world But his [ron hand wrote chapter into history. ‘T | might be suitably entitled Divine Right of Kings.” More than three centurles before Ithe time of Charles L, the English barons, with the supnort of the poo- n indelible chapter “On the | ple, had Imposed the Magna Charta las a limitation npon the “divine | right.” Charles I. had forgotten all about Mhe Magna Charta, The royal atti-+ tude outside of England on the prin- | ciple enunciated in Magna Charta was faithfully reflected by a contem- rles L, Louis XLV, of France, who said: “1 am the state,” What England necded—and what the world needed—was the power to insert the enacting clause In Magna Charta and to make it applicable to fall Kings. oT at power Cromwell took with the mated fist. It w: a hand-picked Parliament that made it possible for lhim to execute Charles Stuart. But he set an important precedent, Within a half c porary of C French Revolution. Louis XVL. fell. anc guiflotine on Jan. sevved grim notice n all rulers, crowned and wncrowned, that the ‘divine right" of Kings was subject to strict censorship by the people. ble to deplore the aarsh knife of tha 93, mankind It is po retribution imposed upon Charles T. There are many 5 ns in England who hold that the execution of the death sentence upon the deposed Stuart was a crime, It is possible also to shudder at the savage XVI. Lous to the that Antoinetie at resentment and Marie nd of Charles T+ red with blood as of Louls XVI. and soaked with tea ‘The Stuart, like the have been the victim vengefulness of a cold and i Rut hack of the pass |dovbtedly influenced Ol historic act mingled with At purpose of Purpose was the affirmation of ne of the ultimate respon~ y of Kines to their subjects. That doctrine had often been asserted by word Bovrbon, may Mosale object partial justice. on that un- or Cromwell's ceifish motives—lay ory. yf mouth and at least once by document ae of the "divine right,” + lay at the root of the mona itution. The progres. quired atous fallacy ng upon the lives of all peo- ples. It was Cromwell who poss hand strong enoug! to uproot it. sed & This is the Lord Protector's fina} plea before the tribunal of history, a ART MASTERPIECES IN AMERICA By Maubert St. Georges. Copyri rat ewe Lnblishing Oo, 2h Peer evening World, BARTHOLDI'S LIBERTY EN LIGHTENING THE WORLD. Americans have become so accus- tomed to the Statue of Liberty that they sometimes forget that it Is a masterpiec te erty En- lightening the Worll” stands as an expression of the friendship existing betwecn two nations. Grave, stern and serene in power and confidence, her message is the most wonderful ever brought to mankind, and Bar- tholdi evoived a figure entirely worthy of the duty of delivering It The idea of presenting a statue to America on th lebration of the hundredth anniv of ber Dece laration of was pro- posed by the pment ip 1875. The 0,000, was quickly raised by but ten years passed bi possible to complete, tr erect the colossal statue. Some idea of the gigantic size of this work may be gained by the fol- lowing figures: It is three tmes the size of the famous Colossus of Rhodes. It weixhs about 450,000 pounds. One of its fingers is 8 feet is 306 feet. tong. Its totai length Few people know that Eiffel, builder of the famous Eiffel Tower, erected the Interior framework of this statue. But the wonderful thing about the work is not so much ir Che fact that it is the largest piece of statuary in the world but that its largeness ts in keeping with the grandiose con- ception it materializes, biishing Co, | | By Albert P. Southwick | Henry (Hendrick) Hudson arrived in the vicinity of what is now At+ bany, N. Y., on Sept. 21, 160%. By sending a boat seven or cight miles further up the Hudeon, he satisfied himself he had reached the head of navigable waters on that river. Thomas Campbe English poet, author of “Pleasures of Hope.” ded at Boulogne, France, in a state of imbecility on June 15, 1844, at the age of sixty-soven ae The first Yankee ship in the China trade was the Empress of China, which sailed to Shanghat in 1784 with a cargo of lumber, rum and ginseng, returning with a cargo of tea and allk, an example that was quickly followed by many others. In 1787 the increas- ing volume and importance of the China trade led to the appointment of Major Samuel Shaw of Boston aa the firet United States Consul to China, ° |. David Pleterzen de Vries, so well known later in the annals of Staten Island, planted a colony in Delaware, |on Dee, 12, 1630, but upon returning jthere, about two years later (D 1632), found the ground sivowed eit the skul's and bones of his murdered countrymen, es eee