The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1921, Page 3

“Make the would safe for child- hood. No country can rise above what it makes of its children.” “Ninety per cont. of public in- stitations would be eliminated it the Government got solldly be- hind the child” SS “The Widows’ Pension or Moth- ers’ Compensation Law has made for more democracy than the entire World War.” “There is no investment for the Government like that of promot- ing ‘safety first’ for the children.” “New York City has the best Welfare Department in the It ought to be further de- WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1921. A ‘agente a oe t “Every child must have indi- “It will be a crime against childhood If the State permits « child to suifer because of pov- Pel ioe Sees vidaal interest in a private home ax against collective care in an institution.” erty or ignorance,” a = ag: z rr “Children should be taught not : in the iow Restrains International From| ‘Interfering With Rival Long- | shoremen’s Association. Justice MceAvey in Supreme Conrt to-day signed an order re ng the International Loengsho Asso ciation from int noany wes | with the newly organized union of | longshoremen, Known as the United Cargo Workers’ Affiliation of Greater New Yo ‘The new union ts an outgrowth of the longshoremep’s | strike of a year or so ago. After the settlement of the strike the old unian refuged to allow the members who left the union to work along the waterfront with the resul that the new o} on long- shoremen was 1is, of nurse, bro continual trouble, and Iter Carroll low of No, ifth Avenne an action was brought by the new union to restrain the International from in fering with its members and their work on the city’s docks In rende his decision against the Intern al, Justice MeAvoy ex- pressed amazement in the ominous} note sent from the President of the! International to the head of the new| union, in which he said: ‘It ts the intention of this office not to permit any one to work on the waterfront] unless he na fide vur organization.” “The forces of tyranny could re mo furthe says Justice MvoAvo “The purport of the noice needs no construction, It boldly announces a policy which if allowed to persist would spell destruction to individual- istic rightand condemn every one ¢n- gaged in the calling involved to an Unwilling servitude to a labor syndi- vallsm quite os abhorrent as an oli- garchic capitalism. The fettering and compuision of the individual grasped at here is glar- ingly at variance with freedom in the pursuit of happiness guaranteed to all by the fundamental law of State and Nation. “The defendant's contract with a number of steamship companies and is member ch controlling stevedores by which preference in hiring is given its members affords no ground for di- rectly or indirectly resorting to p ical force for the purpose of enfor ing its alleged rights. The fact that it is employing force and intimida- tiow elsewhere than at such com- panies piers’ must be found from ¢ proofs. ‘The threatened intimida- tion, the assaults, the duress em- ployed to induce abandonment of the seeking for work will be enjoined.” ee BROOKLYN IS AGAIN A DEMOCRATIC CITY UNION TRANNY SLAYER OF MOLLAR SCORED BY UOGE NPE OSPUTE [5 IDENTIFIED FOR ANOTHER SHOOTING Victim of Attempted Robber: in Winfield Picks Westling as His Assailant. Arlic Westling, the lone hand bur- glar of prosperous antecedents who shot and killed Ca Mollar, Bronx jeweller, and shot Mrs, Mollar so that e may die, was iden- tifled to-d is the man who shot Fred Gale, at his garage in Winfield, on the outskirts of Long Island City, Dec, 15 in a vain attempt at a jewel athe announcement of the discovery that the Mollar shooting was not Westling’s first attempt at robbery violence ¥ made by Detective Capt. Wines after the Bronx Grand Jury, especially summoned, had in- dicted Westling for murder and Jus- tice Martin in the Bronx County Su- preme Court had ordered his a ign- ment to-morrow Saturday by the ving. ‘This was almost exactly the course Westling took in the Mol- lav shooting, and Capt. Wines sent for Gale, who had recovered from his wound, Gale, who had already dese Westling acurately instantly p the prisoner out of a line of fourteen men in the reception room of the Bronx Jail, It was recalled that Westling, after his arrest, boasted to the detectives that it was useless to seek to identify him by finger prints or information from other thieves because he was a ian who “always played a lone hand and divided with no one.* The Grand Jury also indicted Joseph Oats, the acknowledged com- panion of Nelson Levy, killed by De- tectives McCarthy and Connell while robbing a United Cigar store at No. 788 Tremont Avenue, r burglary, assault and grand larcen: District Attorney Glennon duced to the arine O'Reilly, nineteen years old, a public school teacher of No. 177 Bast 129tm treet, as the person whose coolnees and quick wit was respon- sible for the discovery of the cigar store robbers at work. In contradiction to the report that the detectives on @ general hunt for intro- nroll 190,000 Votes. Republican 89,000 n a Democrati Brooklyn ia com munity on the basis of unofficial figures for the 1922 enrollment obtained to-day However both parties suffered to the total enrollment for 1922 being; 497,009 as compared with 489,000 for 1921, The Democratic enrollment for 1922 ig 217,000 as compared with 280,000 for this year, while the Republican enroil- ment fell from 259,000 for 1921 to 190,000 for 1922 n the view of some of the F rs this loss represents the the division between Livingston Qaider factions which resulted in phelving of the former as Kings Cou leader, SS es FELD FOR WORTHLESS CHECK. Mark V. Reilly a “freigth contractor,” ot No, 11 Broadway, was held in $5,000 hall to-day on a charge of grand larceny preferred against him by Louls B Marlatt, credit manager of the Swine- hart Tire & Rubber Co.. of No. 631 We: iTth Street. ed aay pilemed tat the company delivered tir to Ny for igpert to San Juan, Porto: Rico, and received in payment a bad check for $2.96, District Attorney Wilson said this was only one of several complaints against Reilly, thieves had found the robbers while Jon a casual visit to the cigar store, \Mr. Glennon said Miss O'Reilly had |sized up the situation In the store n she went in to buy @ box of cigars for a relative ang had run Jout and telephoned the cal! which |took the detectives to the store while he robbers were still at work. The nd Jury rose and stood as a com- pliment to Miss O'Reilly when she left the room after giving her testi- |mony. en \BOY ON ROLLERS LEADS CHASE AFTER BANDITS Skating Past Store, He Follows Till e | Péliceman Catches One. ¥| A boy on roller skates led a bandit chase through 129th 6treet to Fifth Avenue this morning and never gave up until the police relieved him of the Job. ‘The negroes entered the dry«oods store of Tobias Aaron at No. 374 Lenox Avenue while he was alone, He yelled on the head. suffer- y Ip wounds. The rob $25 and jewelry worth ab Then they fled and the boy. who bers got S150, was skating past, followed, shouting. Patrolman John’ J, McLaughlin caught lone who said he was Willlam Harris, No. 7 West 134th Street. He waa hi in ‘$i in Washington Heigl Grand Jury Miss Kath- |. ‘World Safe for Childhood’ Is Judge Lindsey’s Slogan | | |Famous Originator of the Juvenile Court Praises | New York’s Widows’ Pension Law for the Good It Has Accomplished and Advocates the Passage of a Maternity Law. | By Sophie Irene Loeb. | sation . Novhing could be more timely the coming new year than to give ear to the words of’ Judge Ben B, Lindsey who established the Juvenile Court land for twenty years has made his- i last week when the mother raised the question that she did not wish ‘charity.’ I had to explain to her at great length that it was on the same basis as the public schools, mind that she was accepting ‘char- ity!’ fory in the development of humani-| tarian principles tn preventive and! remedial measures jof the so-cailed child criminal, While he 1s in New York for the holidays I besought him “to tell The World” what ought to be done for the ‘ehildren, for after all we are both on the same wire, as it were, on this vital subject, since he exempli- fies so strongly my slogan for child welfare—not charity, but a ohance, for which ‘The Evening World has paigned constantly in this city. | hope to overcome this State in this work. “From the children of m institutions, tums have already gone out “Thes families th under the care of the sion are ties t you Departinent and can Gale was shot by a caller who gave Welfare, which administers the A h ame of “Davidson” and in- Widows’ Pension Law, are practi-| F es aN Ne ae Bs 2 rand 18s “What the country needs to-day| cally unknown any more in the Chil-| HELD AS THIEF oe Bn tte ta Nae ®)/more than anything,” he began right|dren's Court, the Society for the)... aenennaai . Wu leeGalenuad ecyextved tor sale.lfron. the shoulder, “is to make the| Prevention of Cruelty to Children| Convicted Burglar, Free, Arrested When Gale produced the ring, thel wong safe for childhood, The rest} @7d the Pollce Department. | on Charge of Stealing an caller shot him but, frightened by 4 “| “What petter demonstration can you | s the sound of footstens ofa taan whol rare ae reece, auey [Nave Inivourvown city than thia--ot Automobile. 18¢ . p Be are the criminals of to-morrow. They |:;e Government property functioning | p iad heard the shot, ran away without | Michael MeMahon of No. 245 Fork are also the careless class; they are| hehind the child? also the good citizens. {you will find in all the other States. “The country 1s made by children, and no country can rise above what it makes of its childwn. “The Widows’ Pension made for more democracy World War, “E am sick to deatn of hearing the would-be réformers talk ‘paterna!- ism’ or ‘subsidizing’ or any other ‘ism’ or ‘izing’ when the Government 1s about to make a p-ogressive move in aid of childhood. “The fact is there is no invest- ment for the Government li that of promoting ‘safety first’ far the children. The truth is that when it fails to do the things for the children it ought to do , the Government pays anyhow. It pays in public prisons, in public hospitals, in public charities and in publio asylums. “And nearly all of it—yes, 90 per cent, of these public institu- tions could be eliminated if the Government got more solidly be- hind the child. And this is aory that will not down, “A remarkable stride In this direction has been made in the so-called Widows’ Pension or Mothers’ Compensation Law, guet plain common sense, It is tak- {nto live homes, keeping these Law bas than the and letting the homes go wherever the winds of lums, prisons, &c. “Every effort should be made con- te home of the child at when it is needed most, when srowing pains. “The day will come wh present public charges will treated as real human being: thi in natural environment, which fate home where love the child natu- jorbed into the t prison or any othor present-day method of giving him collective care instead of individual ca “after its birth the State the victim of poverty, misfortune of iis parents. ditions over which it has no contro! iteclf is to blame. | In National Welfare Work and that in sending her children to school the thought did not enter her It seems to me, however, that the trouble is largely in education and a better un- derstanding of the purposes of the the latest reports in New York you have practically eliminated | widowed mothers ‘A couple of orphan of have idows’ Pen- iminated from the Charl- your children, under the care of the Board of Child And similar facts “The reason of it is because it is} ng Government money and putting it homes tepether instead of breaking them up members of these chance carry them—to charities, asy- stantly to amend this law, the prime principle of which is to give relief in the time the child of poverty is going through his must guarantee that the child shall not be ignorance or The chila must no longer be the victim of con. but for which society and the State tages. rnourished children are more dan us to the State than undereduc! children. insibility, which h much upon charit ‘pend upon justi aowledged responsi of the State for the child. “If it calls on these children, it hae on millions of them, to protect it with their lives, why not this now a very good to be egually loyal to the child when it is inn pecially dur- ing the tender years of its life, when neglect and economic con- fusions and difficulti hi ly responsible for the youthful lefec' and the criminal that are now crowding upon us for | care and tion that will cost } more in the end? | “It is not the purpose of the Par- enthood of the State to usurp the function of the home or to permit} the natural parent to shirk, but rather to see that the home per- forms its functions where it is care- less, and to see that no child suffers because of poverty where the home is helpless. “The State must preserve the home for the child, Institutionalism is the curse of childhood and the success of the Parenthood of the State will be mensured largely by the depletion of institutionalism and the strengthen- ing of ‘homeism. very child needs a natural or fostcr mother, and a greater respect jfor the rights of the child to real motherhood, to health and a better chance in the struggle for existence is the purpose of the Parenthood of the State.” | MAN ON PAROLE ————— | | Washington Avenue, who stated, ac- | cording to the police, he was now on} parole after a conviction of burglary, was arraigned in Washington Heights | Court, charged with stealing the! touring car of Samuel Abelowitz of No. 1853 St. Nicholas Avenue. He was held in $3,000 bail. Policeman Jones encountered Me- Mahon at Audubon Avenue and 18Ist Street early to-day in a car without lights and stepped out to halt him. McMahon ran away, but stopped when Jones fired two shots at him. eee ACTOR FALLS DEAD. Henry Duggan, an actor and an active member of the Lambs, dropped dead yesterday afternoon in front of admitting air. They were taken to Lincoln Hospital by Dr. Levine, Walsh to be treated for injuries to hie body and McGraw for avrious burns on his fac | pe ee REDUCTION IN FOREIGN PST AGE, © Friars, No. 110 West 48th Street, from heart disease. He is survived by his wife,.Anna Bates, an actress, 1 “When the State is {mperilled it Forty-one States aiready have {calls the child of eighteen to defend acknowledged in practice the great |4t with its life. When the child ts wisdom of this measure. | have | {mperilied it has a right to call on its| 4) been in close touch with what overparent, the State, to protect It) with its wealth, “The time will come regarded as a crime a if the State permits has been done in your own city, and you have here one of the finest developments | have ever that dren and 7,000 mothers is the finest thing done in any State so far under this sort of legislation, and | shall watch with interest the completion or perfection of your legislation along this vine. am it will be, as it ha been, a great example for all of u: “t greatly appreciate the ianova- tions and improvements in your laws, After all, these matters are sugKes- tive of growth both -n law and a@ ministration, “We fecl so keenly the dea that you express of reli@ing this work of the taint of ‘charity’ that we have been inserting a clause in our laws to the effect that it is not to be con- sidered as charity, but as a purt of the duty of the State under certain of its functions and precisely as that in maintaining public schools, to which, I think, this work is more akin. “I just granted a mother's compen- jts duty to feed the child. “The time to save many bandit is in and the nine months after his bir We mist have maternity laws. W must have laws to see that the ch to perform that function, and if they that it is performed. “We hay in every wealthy family for has paid over $25, education and the poor widow who need to be fed more than they need to be educ whoin nen it will be ainst childhood child to n. suffer from undernourishment, due She. great reeard (4h: either to poverty or ignorance. Since have : abl bed fae anoo ohite it is the accepted duty of the State to educate the child, It Is far more, a boy the nine months before | does not suffer for the lack of proper | nourishment {f the parents are unable | are able to perform it, to see to it the common experience | city of five children of a! the State | 000 for their free} nive children of a ven ted and for whom the expense of educa- | tion is wasted because of this neg-| lected condition. which makes them incapable of receiving its full advan- Winter Harts for 24 FIFTYSBV EN TOSTREET WEST Final Clearance Sale MILLINERY Comprising our entire collection of cluding our most recent models. POLICEMAN SAVES Flapjacks Halt — “Expedition’’ to —~¢-— 2 MENINFLAMES; and There'll Be No Mining in Philadelphi Flapjacks wader the belt or dia Smothers Fire With Overcoat | mons in the wilde of Philadelph | This was the problem that face After Explosion of Fuel William. MeNamee and Edward Tam in Wood Factory. | blyn, fourteen years each, of Yon memepeiataal ker and they deelded like practiea Policeman Clare of the Alexander| men, not poets, Avenue Station, running toward ths} They embarked from Yonkers yer sound of an explosion in the plant] terday with a $10 bill and a compas of the New York Carved Wood ara |£0r we In the Philadelphia diamon Moulding Cempany factory, No. 48) But over in Seventh Avenue nea Fast 129th Street, this morning, was] the Pennsylvania Station was a pres- met at the door by Peter Walsh of | Hdigitator tossing flapjacks. By th No, 107 Hast 49th Street, the fireman, | ime Be had tired his wrist to satint Diamond Fields Station | thelr appetites, there wasn't enoug> | money left for the rest of the Jounney. » Cop came along. Back to Yonkais pretty soon with a parental thygph and finger nipping an ear of each ¢x- plow ‘- ? M’GRAW’S NAME AGAIN FIGURES IN COURT CASE. The wame of John J. McGraw, man- ager of the New York Giants, appéedied to-day in a check transaction whieh jJeaused the arraignment of William Welas, broker in metals, of Noy 4a? West 70th Street. ° -] According to William Rothstein, of No. 144 Avenue D, a metal dealer, he © Mr. Weiss a check, Fev. 8, 1¥%, for $493 to buy metals, He got no mefklh, ho said, and could never sontri#ety receting with Mr, Weiss, but the check came back as having been cashed iy " d Mr. MeGraw for “John Horne: r| whom it had been made payable, Mr, Rothatelp sew Mr, Wel ne Bowery last night and Herbert of the Citafon tui whose clothing was in flames. ‘fhe policeman threw him to the sidewalk. stripped off his own overcoat ant smothered the flames, As he rose from the task, John C MoGraw of N 107 st 129th Street the engineer of the plant, also in flames, came out, and the policeman repeated the rescue work By this time smoke w curling Just off |trom the door in increasing: volume. ]| 26 West 39th St. ess. 21 West 38th St. The fire alarm box was frozen shut Entrance on 39th St. Coreenient for Automobiles and the calling of firemen was « | layed becwuse the polleeman had (9 break it open with his stick and sawdust spr inflammable finished mate ad the fire from } to bottom of the build: Ther no windows in the front and the fire- [9] men had to cut # hole in the roof ana |}! through the front wall to get water|H} on the flames. ‘The firemen and engineer, who were alone in the building, said thuct banked sawdust and refuse, used as fuel, had generated a quantity of un- burned gas which exploded when Walsh opened the door of the fire box tive WASHINGTON, Woe, 28.—Btfe Jan, 1, 1922, the domestic rate df two cents an ounce, or friction thereof, will apply to letters mailed in the United States destined for Argentine, Brazil, Costa Ric cuador, Jamaica and Mar tinique, the Postoffi hounced to-day, artment an- and warmly interlined. 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