The evening world. Newspaper, November 3, 1921, Page 30

TABLISHED RY JOSEPH PULITZER, t Sunday by The Pree Publishing Park Row, New York. . President, 63 Park Row. 68 Park Row. Secretary, 63 Park Row ASSOCIATED PRESS, ted to the tise for repubiteation creuitea Io tom pape aud ato A NEW RENT DECISION. UDGE LEARNED HAND’S rent law: decision was doubly welcome because it sets a prece- dent in a Federal Court likely to influence the Ap- pellate Division when it comes to decide between “the conflicting findings of the Appellate Terms in Brooklyn and Manhattar The Brooklyn decision allowed 10 per cent. on the market value of the property. In Manhattan the return allowed under the rent laws was based on the equity. Judge Hand finds a fair return to be 8 per cent. on valuation—a material reduction from the Brook- lyn decision, and one which would approximate the Manhattan rule in many cases. The Federal decision makes it certain that we shall not have an epidemic of “bankruptcies” among the “leasters” in order to get Federal Court perr sion to raise rents in spite of State law. Senator Lockwood must get a lot of satisfaction from the way the courts have upheld the series of housing laws bearing his name. As he looks for- ward to election day he need only wonder whether voters will express their confidence and gratitude. . If the voters help him as he has helped the voters, his election is a foregone conclusion, even though the’ rent profiteers, out of revenge, support his apponents. MAKE IT SURE FOR JUDGE MULQUEEN, | San Nag cross that needs careful placing by voters of Manhattan and the Bronx on next Tuesday's ballot is the one they should mark to the left of the name of Judge Joseph F. Mulqueen, can- didate for election to the Court of General Sessions There are three General Sessions Judges to be elected out of mine candidates. Judge Mulqueen is the only one of these candi- dates who is on both the Tammany and Coalition tickets, The two chief parties nominated him. The Bar Association indorsed him. He has served on the General Sessions bench for thirteen years. Of his experience and fitness there is no question. Of the nine candidates for General Sessions the ffiree who receive the largest number of votes will _be elected. ‘Judge Mulqueen should be one of the-threé. To make it certain, look for his name—Joseph F. Mulqueen—in the General Sessions group on the ballot and be sure you have left a cross in front of ft. It has been some time since Tammany has felt the need of burning red fire torches in pre- election campaigns. The reason is simple. Tammany knows that Major Curran means ex actly what he says when he proposes to get rid of the Hylan incompetents: “T've got ‘em on my list. ‘They never will be missed.” CENTRALIZE LEADERSHIP. ORDELL HULL, the new Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, struck an excellent note when he proposed to ‘‘decentralize’” authority in the party. A companion policy should be to “centralize” leadership in Congress and in the party organiza- tion. Thus far it has seemed that the Democrats in Congress are only less disorganized than the Re- wiblicans because there are fewer of them. Decentralized authority is democratic. It is also Democralic. But there needs to be a focus for the power. The power should come up from the voters, but it should come up without fail. It hasn’t been doing so. Chairman Hull can help by finding out party opinion, dragging it out of the present unorganized every-man-for-himself tangle, fashioning it into a definite and concrete working programme which will command and deserve the united support of all the members of Congress who profess to be Democrats. Chairman Hull has the opportunity to lay on the party whip from the bottom up. He can make the minority a real fighting force for better govern- ment. We hope he will. “AMERICA'S MAKIN! HE “America’s Making” exposition seems to provide material for lively disputes, the most diverting of which has centred in the argument whether the Scotch-Irish are predominantly Scotch or Irish, This is representative of other moot ques- tlons which the cautious bystander will do well to avold, These disputes are only a healthy sign of pride fm America, If America’s “Makers” had not done & good joh, there would be no rival claims to racial kinship wfh the men on the honor rolls, The melting pot has always bubbled merrily, The aces have looked back to a divided past even when they have been most staunchly striding forward to @ united future, Whether the Scotch-Irlsh were Gootch or Irish Js immaterial, They furnished » | THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1921. host of the best Americans many other similar d One wrangle up 3 warrants criticism. One man denied that the names of Confederate veterans belonged on the honor rolls. He was mis- taken. The passions of the Civil War have died away. The meeting of the American Legion in Kansas City was not sectional, The Nation as a whole recognizes that the South was honestly and courageously mistaken. "The South was honorably wrong, and worthy of honor. The Southern leaders belong in the list of Amer- ica’s “Makers.” They played their parts. America would not have been the same to-day had it not been for the Civil War Some may say it would have been better, some r wrong, the men who fought for what they believed to ica, makers in the rs of what And so it wit go with iment Armory THE REAL ISSUE. of this milk drivers’ strike ON’T get the iss: blurred. u all one side and all the wrong on the other. D The question j not hether right is on Mhat is almost never the case in such a dispute The question is whether men who were getting average pay of $43 per week and in some cases as high as $65 per week were justified in shutting off | the food of hungry babies in order to enforce de- mands which could and should have been settled by arbitration. ‘ When they called this strike the milk drivers were not starving. They were not even suffering. They were drawing wages that wduld look like riches to millions of men now out of work in the United States, But these $43-a-week were per- fectly willing that helpless children should starve or suffer as an incident in the fight with the milk milk drivers distributers, The question is whether this can happen now and happen again, while a great community dependent upon its milk supply remains powerless. Milk is a public utility. €an the City of New York atford to have the food of babies at the mercy of men who on $43 a week would rather strike than trust to conference and publicity to adjust their claims? That is the real issue of this milk strike and no new twist can distort it. A soldier bonus paid from a tax on light wines and beer would be a Wonus to others than the ex-service men. BOBBING UP. B' J3BED HAIR has been the subject of innumer- able opinions, polite. and otherwise, oral, written and by gesture. The “bobs” score their latest advance in Hartford by being made the subject of a legal opinion by the Attorney General of the State of Connecticut. It was in Hartford that the “bobs” came in for a tongue-lashing by a bald-headed insurance man who ordered them not to apply for work in his office. Now they have been vindicated. The Connecticut Attorney General is of the opinion that applicants for barbers’ licenses should know the art of “bob- bing” hair, that “bobbing” is a proper qualification for {onsorial .artists, as they sometimes call themselves. He further asserts that quacks and charlatans have not the right to engage in the business of “bobbing” and that the State of Connecticut has power to get after unlicensed practitioners. All of which may lead the reader to believe that the sbusiness of “bobbing” is picking up and that the Hartford insurance man didn’t scare the “bobs” out of a year’s growth or anything like it. For that matter, no one expected he would. The hold-up of Babe Ruth's share World Series money is warning that Commissioner Landis business in en- forcing discipline. New York fans are hoping he will make the punishment in the form of a fine rather than in a suspension which would Punish the club owners and the fans as much as It would the “Babe.” of the Baseball means TWICE OVERS. ne HE old adage ‘in time of peace prepare for = war’ should be changed to ‘in time of peace prepare to keep peace.’ Major Gen, O' Ryan. ce O-DAY., according to figures of the Hylan Board of Education, there are 197,000 children who go to school gn the Hearst-Hylan-Gary double session plan.” — Henry H. Curran. » 8 8 ©67'D fight for him (Foch) myself. What a soldier! He has the confident carriage of a Grant and the gentle manner of a Lee.’ ~ J. D. Hicks of the G. ALR ce O previous Mayor has had the audecity to drag his partisanship into the conduct of our —Emest F. Eilert. remnant enna TURN IN CIRCULAR MoTioN FROM herr TO RIGHT AND SEE HOW THE Mayor's YRACTION PLAN WORKS What kind of letter do you find 1 say much in few words. Take time 1 know from rellable information that the brickyard at Haverstraw has | been for the past few months work-| 4. ing only three days a week. And now a morning paper states that there is not a brick in any supply yard In) | ew York City, The job Iam on has To wage got anything to do with ths? Why abvays pick on the dricis- layer? He has not the best job in the world, with rain in suuaner ond in winter, Does Poorman know tha he works on the half hour and that and from that we know what TLL DO in the four years to come The above statement is true to the word, and because It is true means) that ‘John Faithful will move from the City Hall next year. se The Hearst paper even might have added, “We know what Hylan said he WOULD DO when he sought our Did he? Some of the things we know Mayor Hygn HAS DONE are: ‘Treated us to an unheard-of epidemic of crime, while his Police Commis- sioner is busy cleaning up—on stock market | We know he HAS GIVEN us in- creased taxes, We. not only has not kept the 5 put he has given us 10 a fares. We know that the v | ve to nt fare 1 15 cen ansit eer- Know that abominable hn ly be tO car rful scheme of | ) and operation transit | systems | Perhaps he would keep a 6 at cent fare of the subways and ele- an roads, tlw how mush yen tied up for the past week f , May I have ¢ brick, Have the unions anything to! valuable coi do with this? a ae u My rent has been raised from $22.07) * Aa r Ernest & to $48.00 in a house that has been | “dig built ten years. Has the presen Mr. the] same nost readable? to be briet. From Evening World Readers By John Cassel | ann i Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to The Bricklayer And Rents. | higher'he would jump taxes to make To the Editor of ‘The Brening World. Jup the difference In reply to a letter appearing in| If the city owned and ran the sys- The Ev Yorld 0. 2 ea | {€MS, we could take our choice, a The Evening World Oct. 2 elgmed| higher fare or increased tax ‘0. Poorman, I wish to state for his bene-| we would get stung either way. fit and others that I know whatlam| The American says Mayo: Hylan talking about when I say that labor} a8 kept public affairs free from is @ small item compared to materiai|8Taft. To an intelligent person this for the enormous rents we are pay- | tatement ts ridiculou 1 am ngt in ing. 1 position to state whether or not , Below you can judge for yourscii| /4ylan ha@ done away with police pro- ty: lected gambling houses, I know, how- vver, that the number of’ gambling Bricklayers .$10.00 per day] "uses is larger than ever, whethe Brick S00 por thousans | ‘hey are under police protection or Cement . + $5.50 bbl Why doesn't he wipe some of OM hem out? Because they aren't under Bricklayers i $5.60 per day | POlce protection doesn’t make them Brick . $5.50 per thousani “ly more desirable. | Cement . .96 cents bbl. Let's hope that some day Hearst and his papers will know enough to stop trying to bulldoze the public JAMES A. M'CALL Brooklyn, Oct. 31, 1 ugh President. yening World; enough tel Filert tor B the Editor of The Eliert elghis he has hool." A. New York, Oct. 81, 1921. a1 in your Mowhy J am lert, Coalition or Borough President? Mr, Hilert is for the schools, and| that means for the children, and that's | why | favor his candidacy. Ever since moved to been giving, twic every year to the graduates of ¢ Washington | public schools o1 J elgh gold | $10.00" per day sometimes means | Pi tee eaea ponelasanie Petes $10.00 or less per week. . duct. Nearly 800 of these medals FRIEND OF A BRICKLAYER: | have veen awardgd wast ue Mas Done | Many of the winners of these med- r i" oBe. a who have ed the voting Allow me to reply to an editorial in| Mr, Bilert graduate of Public the American of Oct. 31 | School No, 18, on East Houston § t The edito is headed “The One| He was on a local schoo! board for Big Argument,” and says “We 4all|ten years and on the Board of Edu know Hylan and we know what hie n for six years. He knows the HAS DONE in the four years pa chools. As my boy says: “Dad, you vote for Eilert and I'll get a seat at 8o I'm for Eilert ENNINGS Preference for Veterans. ‘To the Ealtor of The Erening World: It appears to me that a letter pub- to} with pteran. That ken from all any holding positio: ability. bef mination (whether ligent as the that is absolutely false, nform him that the non-veter who live in Brooklyn know he} have no monopoly on inteiligence, ie cause the World Wat walks of vete it lished in The Evening World from a votes in 1917." We do know that Hylan did not do the things he said| reader who is opposed to the vet he would do, but he did do a lot of|erans’ preference contains a number things he did not dare suggest in his| of statements which are misleading. last c! 2 He said he WOULD) The writer conveys the impression GIVE every childa seat in the schools.| that the vetefans a8 a class are not Veteran de- rvice exam- mpete on the of the non I destre 2s for en trance or promotion in the Civll Ser- i. be UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright. 1921,° by John Blake.) {HE ART OF HABIT CHOOSING. Twenty years xgo most of the policemen in New York were fat and unhealthy and useles: They were a detriment to the city instead of a help Then came a Commissioner with military training. He got rid of all the fat and unhealthy policemen as fast as possible, He put lean and muscular and healthy po- licemen in their place. . _ Within a few years the force became one of the best in the world. Your habits are your working forces. They are on the job while you are inattentive. They work almost automatically. If they are the right sort you get along. If they are the wrong sort you don't. _ You can reorganize your habit forces as the Commis- sioner reorganized his police force. You can get rid of alt the old bad habits and put new and good ones in their piace. ‘This will require a long time and a great deal of will power. All important reorganization requires time and will power. But you will soon begin to see the advantage of the change and ycu will be glad you made it. For example, if you have taken on the habit of putting everything off to the last minute you are throwing away time and opportunity, While you are waiting for the last minute you are prob ably doing nothing, or surely nothing worth doing. Your mind is idle. Your hands are idle. All the time you are getting less and less fit, by reason of mental and physica! stagnation, to tackle the job when the last minute co ues and it must be done. Get rid of that habit and put its stead the habit of doing everything when its turn tcomes along and sticking o it till it is firisked. Remember about sticking to it. Don’t let your brain sag in the middle of a job. It works better if it works steadily. It loses power when it slows down, just as & locomotive loses power when it slows down. Your train of thought will be just as hard for you to start a second time as a train of freight cars is to the locomotive. ‘That habit of doing things promptly will be just as de pendable and just as certain as the procrastination habit, It will cost not as much for its upkeep and do a great deal better work, You will profit immensely by the substitution, Remember that your habits are always at work, alway on the job. j You can’t afford to have the wrong kind Men succeed through their habits as much as in ‘any other way. 7 Reorganize your whole habit system. When you get a reliable force“of habits you will be able to use your brain te better advantage for original thought. The habits will attend to the drudgery and make a good job of it. vice), and then his name is preferred only reasonable that panish and ey: ‘on to that World War veterans should be given ; i: nay happen | the same benefits. fore, by ¥ Amer nt No. hat privilege JOHN A. MULCAHEY. New York, Oot. #1, 1921 b oting l we w Yes Nl give them ence by the Gtate Constitution, and it is | Foreign-Born Builders ~of— America By Svetozar Tonjoroff Copyright, 1921, by The Press Ishing Co males ak ee IL—KOSCIUBZKO The earileat conspicuous contribu- tion to American clvilization made by the Polish raco was Tadew | (Thaddeus) Kosciuszko, In the foot- |steps of the Lithuanian noble who }fought thromgh the Revolutionary | War, many thousands of his country- |men have followed in the intervening | generations, it was a shattered romaneo that | brought dXosciuszko to America in when the issues that the Revo- jjutlonary War were destined to settle were taking form and tnalstently pressing for action, KXoscluszko had studied at the milt- tary academy in Warsaw, compicted his studies in France and reached the rank of Captain in the Polish army when an unrequited love for the daughter of the Duke of Lithuania sent him in voluntary expatriation to the American colonies. At the outbreak of the war he of- fered his services to Washington. But Washington already was embarrassed by the proffered help of too many vuxillary officers of various national!- ties who could not speak the English language. So, although Kosciusske presented a letter from Benjamin Franklin, Washington eyed him askance, The gallant Pole, on being asked his busines, announced quite simply: “T came to fight as a volunteer for American independence.” “What can you do?” asked the Father of His Country sceptically, “Try me," was the Pole's laconia answer In the first year of the war Kosci- uszko obtained his commission as Colonel of Engineers. Assigned to duty under Gates, he quickly showed what he could do by planning the en- campment and post of Gates’s army at Bemia Helghts, near Saratoga. | ‘The task proved so well done that | Burgoyne, In two vigorous attacks | with superior forces, failed to budge Gates's forces from the positions pre- |pared by the Polish volunteer, Having proved what he could do, | Kosciuszko was afterward assigned as Chief Engineer to the fortification of West Point, one of the most im- | portant parts of the Continental linea. Washington was so thoroughly oon- vinced of the loyalty as well as the | technical capacity of the Polish of- |Cer that he made him one of his ad- jutants. His participation, under N. | thanael Greene, in the herotc but un- |succesful siege of Ninety-Six, Is @ | part of the history of the Revolution- ary War. One of the last offictal acts of th Commander-in-Chief was to induce ‘Congress to recognize the services of (the Polish auxiliary. On October 18, | 1783, Kosctuszko received a vote of thanks from Congress and the brevet of Brigadier General. ‘There are memorials of gratitude to Koseluszko both in America and in Poland—at last free and reunited. But the real recognition by the American people of their debt to Po- ljand for the gallant soldier whom she contributed to the attainment of their national destiny was the aid, mount- ing high into the millions, which they offered to the Polish people in their jown time of dire need during ond | since the great wer. | WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 94—PICAYUNE, | In the word “picayune” 1s con- cealed an interesting page of Ameri- lean history. The word came from |the Caribbean Indians. It first be- came known in these latitudes as the | name of a Spanish coin—a half ‘real’ —used in Florida, Louisiana and other ich spheres of influence. n the word was borrowed to j@esignate an American cotn of the hea of 6% cents. Spa: PP Although the American ooin called |a “picayune” is no longer in circu lation, the word has survived as ex pressing something of little value; 8 hing petty and contemptible. n expression, “I don’t has a shorter and quivalent: “I don't ne Americ’ a picayune, Her English | care a tuppence, Hibernia, the ancient Roman name for Iréland, now used generally only in a poetic sense, although there Irish societies of Hibernians. e island was known to the Greek | geographers as Ierne, o 2 8 the struggle over the ad- of Kansas into the Union | (1854-'60), Henry Ward Beecher de- |clared that, for the slaveholder of that State, the Sharpe rifle would be potent moral influence than le. In consequenve of this Sharpe's rifles ewere fre- quently called “Beecher’s Bibles.” oe During mission | A palimpsest is a parchment hav- ing the original writing erased and a | new writing substituted. | * + e | ir John Barleycorn” ts a person- tion of malt liquor whether in the 1 of ale or beer. This expression is common In both England and Scot- land, The name is the subject of an ‘ld ballad aserihed to Robert Burne, the Scofch poet, although all he did was to alter, slightly, parts of it, * + 6 | 70 finish Aladdin's window” means trying to complete another's work, According to the story, Aladdin's pal. » was perfect except for one win- jow, left for the Sultan to finish but treasury did not have enough money for to do 80. Carer Semiramis, the Assyrian Quee: flourished 1250 B. C., Balt Babylon and greatly increased her dom! In her attempts at conqu vaded India, but was ts