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ee, a 5 & : ¢ Ce ina ah al TTPO ELT ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Pudiimied Dally Except Sunday by The Pres Publi¢hing Compeny, Nos, 53 to 68 Patk Row, New York RALPH PULITZER, Prosident, 63 Park Row, 3. ANGUS SHAW, Tresaurer. 63 Park Row. "1 PULITZER Jr, Secretary. 65 Park Row. ATED PRESS. ‘ The Avvootated Prene te exciusively enciues to the ure for republication of All mews despatches credited to It or not éunerwise qrewtea in tals DapaR ‘nd also the local news pubilstiea “hereia SHOUTING THEM DOWN? MMISSIONER OF ACCOUNTS HIRSH- FIELD was scheduled to begin yesterday an investigation of police interference with the birth control meeting at the Town Hall Nov. 13 last. Witnesses, including women who had been ar- rested at the Town Hall meeting, appeared yester- day morning before Commissioner Hirshfield ready for the inquiry. Mr. Hirshfield began by demand- ing the minutes of another birth control meeting held at the Park Theatre a week after the meeting in question. When these minutes were not forth- coming the Commissioner stormed at the lawyer who represented the three women who had been arrested and then summarily adjourned the inquiry. Is this Mr. Hirshfield’s idea of an investigation to get at the reason why the police interfered with the Town Hall meeting of Nov. 13—a perfectly spe- cific and definite occurrence, to be considered with- oil reference to any other occasion? Or is it Mr. Hirshfield’s idea that the best way the Hylan Administration can deal with those who protest in the name of free speech is to try to frighten them into silence with loud talk? ———_—_ ~ POISONING THE SOURCE. William H. Anderson, State Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, is sure the towns and villages of this Commonwealth would enjoy the sport of searching motorists and other travellers for concealed liquor. He ‘would have the Legislature pass a measure en- abling all communities in the State to take a hand at Prohibition enforcement, The towns and villages were formerly the wafailing springs of American liberty. Pro- hibition is now bent on teaching them tyranny. BREE eS WHAT SHOULD CERTAINLY FOLLOW. TTORNEY DE FORD'S criticism of the Transit Commission’s powers may, or may not, induce the Legislature to accept his ‘recom- mendations restricting the ultimate power of the commission to raise fares if necessary. One thing should follow, and without fail. Having accepted the De Ford report, the Mayor should immediately put to death the plan to ap- propriate $100,000 fér special counsel fees and ex- penses of an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. The spectacular business of hiring Hiram John- son and other expensive legal champions for a fight to the finish ought to be abandoned. Mr. Hearst’s own personal attorney advises Mayor Hylan to drop the fight on the Transit Bill as a whole and to confine opposition to particular features. The Mayor now has grounds for a graceful “change of front. An effort at co-operation might even induce the Transit Commissioners to join the city in asking for the change in powers Mr. De Ford recommends. “The United States should not play the role of Shylock in dealing with its allies,” Senator McCumber protested when speaking on the War Loan Refunding Bill. Only recently Senator McCumber favored using the interest (which couldn't be collected) to pay a soldier bonus. What sort of a role would the Senator have the United States play in dealing with the vet- erans? That of Artful Dodger? A WHALE OF A PLAN. } AMUEL UNTERMYER’S plan for housing nearly a quarter of a million persons in one great operation fairly staggers the imagination. Whether the details can be arranged, Mr. Unter- myer himself does not know. The margin in con- struction cost must be narrow to satisty his de- mands. z Men, money and materials are the essentials in home construction. / The offer by the men is unprecedented, One day’s work free or a cut of a dollar a day in wages on this job is an earnest of good disposition for the contractors and material men to emulate. Mr. Untermyer has been fighting material rings hent on boosting prices. If he can now organize a new ring bent on cutting prices to the limit, New York will sit up and rub its eyes. The offer of the building fund is conditional on legislative approval. It is at Albany that the fight of the landlords and “leasters” will be made. We may be sure their propaganda organizations got busy yesterday morning as soon as they recovered trom the first shock of the Untermyer bombshell. Will public opinion countenance obstruction, however plausible it may be? We do not be- lieve so. TONIC AMERICA, This less sombre type of thought is more common in the United States than in Europe. for the people not only feel in their veins the pulse of youthful strength, but remember the magnitude of the evils they have vanquished, and see that they have already achieved many things for which the Old World has longed in vain. And by so much as the people of the United States are more hopeful, by that much ave they more healthy. hey do not, like their forefathers, expect to attain their ideals either easily or soon; but they say it with a note of confidence in the voice which rings in the ear of the Buropean visitor and fills bim with something their own sanguine spirit —Bryce's “American Commonwealth.” THE FARM BLOC. . HEN the Farm Conference which met yes- terday was first projected, President Har- ding was credited with the plan of using it to un- dermine the power of the Agricultural bloc, Since then considerable water has gone over the dam. ‘President Harding has “compromised” with the bloc on more than one important measure, giv- ing the bloc all it wanted, if not all it asked, Yesterday the President did more than compro- mise. He surrendered. He came close to an offi- cial recognition of a fact accomplished, a Congres sional leadership transferred to the members of the bloc, The time has come when the bloc is In com- manding position. The conference will not dispos- sess it. Either the bloc and the backers of the bloc will dominate the conference, or the conference will not amount to enough to bother the members of the bloc. If President Harding gets a workable programme from the conference, it is likely to bear the trade mark of the Farm Bureau movement and so of the bloc. The President has virtually accepted in ad- vance. If President Harding confirms this acceptance he can strengthen his titular leadership, but it will be leadership of a party radically different from the G. O. P. of the Old Guard. The President will have to dispose of Mark Hanna’s mantle for good and all. It has become the custom in some quarters to attack the’ Agricultural bloc. Choleric bankers and business men grow apoplectic over the “menace.” Anger doesn’t help the situation. Straight think- ing and independent thinking would. If the bloc comes to dominate one party, it can be driven out of the other. The bloc programme provides a defi- nite line for party differentiation. The bloc could write a consistent party platform for one party, not for two. Those opposed to the bloc could take to the polls an intelligible programme of opposition. The stronger the bloc grows, the better the pros- pect for regrouping voters in parties that stand for something more than thirst for office. Whether the bloc is right or wrong, this new political development will be helpful if it ends in restoring to party organizations a salutary respect for principles on which men can unite and differ with other men of other principles. Spokesmen for the Farm Bureau recognize the limitations of conditions. This will tend to make them moderate. It will be a check on those who hope for a wide programme of class legislation. In a recent exposition of the political development of the Farm Bureau movement O. M. Kile pointed out that organized farmers could hope to control the Senate. He recognized a different condition in the House, where delegations are more nearly in proportion to population. The last census showed that the tum had come and that the majority in the United States is now urban. That, in the last analysis, provides a needed check on a bloc which might be tempted to exercise arrogant powers. Labor's response t@ Samuel Untermyer’s building programme fs a tribute to his organ- izing ability. He carries a club in one hand and a sweetmeat In the other—and Wses either at discretion of ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. As the days grow longer The cold grows stronger, And the coal grows shorter, Which it hadn't orter! * ee Synthetic gold is said to be even more expensive than the natural article, What's the use! se © Now comes Will Hays To wash the faces Of the movie plays! vee The bankers say we should lend Europe money so she can buy things of us. Sounds good. We know a case where it would work well at home. #8 When Horace wrote Of wine and song He did not know He waa doing wrong! se 6 What is wanted is more right-angled pie. 8 8 ‘The cleaner the street cleaner The cleaner the street— Thus on our thoroughfares Do extremes meet! 7 8 @ ‘They are always breaking China. se 6 Why should we tease The Jappyknees? * 8 @ Nothing like the inside of @ jail to ..ckea 4 profiteer, *\ Such is the Interborough’s policy. Conyright, 1922 (tne, New Yor byenine Worl) By Press Publishing Co, | From Evening that gives the worth of a thousand eay much in few words. “Unconscious.” To the Liitor of The Ev ie Work! | | Recently it was my fate to travel on | the west side subway. At 110th Street jand Lenox Avenue (one of those old-fashioned island platforms which. are found only on the old subway lines), a young girl (I believe she was ja high school girl, as she was carry ing her books) fell in between the car platform and the station plat form, Had not passengers pulled her out, the guard would have shut the doors and the train would have rolled On as merrily as ever, crushing thegvictim to death. | Neither the train nor the station men noticed anything, which was prim- arlly due toygpe Interborough’s care- | lessness to have only two ticket choppers on a station two blocks long| (no platform men, mind you) and 4 guard on every second car, Had the | Passengers been too cowardly to pick ithe young girl from beneath the train, | as they very often are, she wotld| have been crushed between the train} | and platform. i some ‘Too few employees to look after the safety of the passengers and tho| gross lack of safety devices, I sec |no reason why the | space be- \tween the train and station platform | (caused by the curvature of the plat- form) could not be remedied by a moving railing such as is now In use at the 14th Street station on the east side ine. Probably carelessness, fool- }ish thrift, or both. Then they Install urnstiles to take away the few gate- en they now have on the stations, Well, New Yorkers stand for everything. Philadelphia may be asleep, but New York |s unconscious. H. SWARTZ, New York, Jan. 20, 1922 “piscretion Is Anarchy." ‘To the Kaltor of The Evening World Mr. Untermyer is to be congratulat- ed on his efforts to expose profiteering \iandlords, But when he says that courts are being “hoodwinked”? by | take sales, I don't believe it. ‘Hood- winked” Is a new nume for the exer- lcise of court discretion in jandlord and tenant cases. | Let Mr. Untermyer publish the names of the ‘hoodwinked’ Justices, aiso the s1ames of tenants that have been sued month after month for the “me rent because they knew the landlords would have to pay lawyers’ fees exceeding the amount sued for For two years I have been pounding the legislators, the Lockwood Com- mitté and the newspapers that court | ion means an 3 per vent decent landlord s und 34 per diser net on equitic equities. od just For (yo yeare J tive said that To | some World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ien’t it the one | words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te Take time to be brief. per. cent. of rent suit cases can be eliminated by the simple method of writing tnto the law either of two basic methods for court adjudication. That a tenant cannot have ‘‘an un- reasonable rent defense’’ where Q) | the net income on value of property does not exceed 10 per cent. Mr. Un- termyer says eithot 7 per cent. or 8 per cenj. net. (2) Where the gross rental on value of property does not exceed u fixed varying percentage | running from 16 per cent. to 21 per cent. on six specific classes of hous: ing. Make the basis for value the 192) or 1921 assessed valuations and giv the courts discretion on evidence sub. | mitted to add or deduct therefrom maximum pereentage, any- where from 10 per cent. to 20 per ent. The present court discretion 1s| anarchy. Why can't the newspapers | see the truth and help me to get square deal justice for both tenant, and langlord? It is a crying shame that the only organization which stood for rent laws can’t get its views accepted as to the present outrageous meting { out of justice, for there is no jus- | tice to-day for the decent tenant| and landlord, but only for the shyster, | STEWART BROWNR, President United Res] Estate Owners’ Association, New York, Jan. 21, 1922 Move Forward To the Editor of The Erening Worl T have never braved the jungle, Where the wild beasts tear ant rower; | i} have never fought a lion | Nor yet a savage boar | have never met a tiger in a hand-to-hand conflict; have never, that I know of, By a vicious mule been kicked, | | have never had a battle | With an angry grizzly bear; | have never, at my vitals Felt a wild cat claw and tear have never known the horrors Of a python's dread embrace; vith no hoard of howling redsiius Have I ever run @ race. { have never shot the rapids Braved Niagara’s awful crush, hut I boarded, once, the subway, In the hour known us "rush!" | BERT ADAIR SEELHOFY, Bellerose, N. Y., Jan 1991 Will Bear, ing World tells us in Ws All the Traff! Editor of Tho nt vid that te » Evening the st worth seme renmeration w by sew & always en the de- pockal Son PR nm NN Sin I EB SR, A eT AE A TTT ont ae nee’ Wate pee ca OE Ne FERS em ee Sener ' UNCOMMON SENSE By Joh (Copyright, 1922, n Blake by John Blake.) STICK THEM OUT. Some of the resolutions you made a few weeks ago are becoming troublesome. After all, you think, what There is but one life to things you enjoyed? Why make the rest of the was the sense in them? live. Why deny yourself the year arid and uncomfortable? You ran along the same old easy way in 1921; and nothing much happencd. keeping all those resolutions? The good of keeping the that comes of keeping any sor Perhaps you do not notic What, therefore, is the good of resolutions is the same good t of promise. : e any immediate benefit. But stick them out and the benefits will be apparent at the end of the year. The resolutions were a promise to yourself that you were going to make certain sacrifices and put forth certain extra efforts, The fact that you put them off to the end of the year shows how difficult it was to get yourself into a frame of mind where you could make them at all. But make them you did. And if you ever expect to be any more than you are now, if you ever hope to gain real confidence in yourself, Eve The strongest cl ter. you will have to keep them. broken resolution means a weakening of charac- acter will not endure many such weakenings without breaking altogether. If you have kept your r keep them through the term fc esolutions so far, continue to or which they were made. If you do that the next set will be far easier to keep. And perhaps by and by you w habits that you will not have te In any event, don't weake the cye before the mirror you went clear through, at le even though no penalty was at ill have formed so many good » make any resolutions at all. n. Be able to look yourself in t the end of the year and say that st for one year, with a contract, tached to its violation. Sometime or other you must make a beginning if you want to move up. were a beginning. Resolutions made the first of the year Keep them and it will not be necessary to make the beginning all over again next year. fensive against such ‘enemies’ as tenants, reformers, philanthropists and newspapers. Is “Ex-Landlord”’ jesting or delib- crately falsifying facts? ‘The very fact that landlords receive such condemnation (criticism is too imild a term) is proof sufficient that there 1s something radically unjust in their methods. Even conceding that taxes doubled, plumbers’ bills higher, coal costs higher than’ in ante~bellum ys, it is a fact that rentals have In creased not in proportion to economic jaws but as much as the traffie will bear. Personally, I think the rent la are and spite of some good they have accom plished for the relief of tenan \wainst the depredations of usurers ne yotioners, commonly ter a are humbug, and here my Just is Government ly in the had delegating to it abnormal powers and veme war emergeney legisiation passed thel in some cases assumed powers which the emergency required, so In the present housing emergency, the Gov- ernment should exercise its power and seize the properties, operating them at a reasonabl» profit. Private property is Mviolate as long as its possession does not inconvenjence the rights and liberties of others, but as the rights and liberties of the public are trampled underfoot by extortion- ers and usurers (commonly termed landlords) the Government should in tervene. The present emergency war: rants drastic action, History proves that oppressors can't be curbed by courts, juries, District attorneys, indictments, &c. The power of the Government can clip | their wings, however: | Usurers and extortioners in ents, {especially the alien type, despite their {naturalization papers — should have the full weight of the Jaw on their eck, Legislation involves to» many technicalities which often operate wgainst justice and reason SIDNEY SAPERSTON New York, Jan. 21, 1923, Liberators Ireland - By Bartlett Draper Covyriat. 1 Wort) | VI—PATRICK SARSFIELD. | Patrick S:tefleld 1s a name to con- jure with in the long history of the struggle of the Irish people to main- tain their national entity, Some in- dication of his military genius is tar- nished by the fact that he died a Marshal of France, In the seventeenth century the Cathoile majority of the Irish people had thrown in their lot with King James in his futile struggle with William of Orange. William had won the battle of “Boyne water” on July 1, 1690, and was fast gaining the up- per hand of the Jacobites. Sarsfleld revealed his military tal- ents by repulsing $Villiam’s assault on the line of the River Shannon at Atiilone. Then, dissenting from the decision of a council of war that Lim- erick was indefensible, he shut him- self up in Limerick with 25,000 men. Here he performed the remankable exploit of seizing one of William's convoys from Dublin, destroying his siege guns and blowing up his powder. The dramatic event of the siege was an attempt by William to penetrate into Limerick with 500 grenadiers and 10,000 foot soldiers, After entering the city and even taking the famous ‘Black Battery’ in a bloody fight, the besiegers met with a rain of bullets and cannonballs that sent them reeling back through the breach, leaving 2,000 dead inside the walls. Sarsfield proved to William of Or- ange that despite a shortage of sup- plies Limerick was not to be taken ina hurry, So he went back to Eng- land in disgust, leaving the conduct of the war in the hands of his Gen- erals, including the foreigners Ginkel and Solmes. In May, 1691, a French fleet arrived at Limerick with supplies for the Irish under the command of Gen. St Ruth, The ally made the mistake of declining to avail himself of the ex- perience of Patrick Sarsfield. St. Ruth's chief act of indiscretion was his neglect to guard adequately & ford by which 2,000 of Ginkel's men crossed under a withering fire from the fort, and the 500 survivors of the garrison of Athlone surren- dered. | At Aughrtm, in another attempt to close Ginkel's road into Galway, Sars- field was in command of the cavalry under the French General. Here, on July 12, 1691, the Irish performed | prodigies of valor in repulsing suc- cessive attempts by King William's forces. The Irish were steadily uining when St. Ruth was killed as he was about to achieve a great victory with a cavalry charge. Sarsfleld, who had (been kept in ignorance of his su- | perior’s plans, was unable to check a \fresh assault by Ginkel, and the in- |tantry, fighting to the last, were sur- rounded by the entire English Army. Limerick now remained as the only important stronghold in Jacobite hands. In sole command at this much-tried town, Sarsfield was con- fronted with forces of such Incontest- jable supertority that after a month's fighting Limerick asked for a truce. But during the operations since the lattle of the Boyne, Limerick under |Sarcfleld had proved its mettle so un- \questionably that Willam thought it best to sign the treaty of Limerick,, which restored some of the religion (libertics of which Treland had been deprived The treaty was violated hy the English almost as soon as it had been ‘signed, but it established a precedent jthat exerted a powerful effect upon | the destinics of Ireland under succced~ jing reigns. | WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 128.—BARBARIAN, The Russians, and other Slane neighbors of the Teutonte race, use the word “Niemetz” to designate a German. = ‘'Niemetz’? means literally a ‘Dumb Man."’ ‘The Russians called the Germans ‘‘Niemtzi’? (plural of “Niemetz”) because they could not understand their language, A similar process of primitive reasoning probably underlies oyr use bf the words “Barbarian or “Barbarous.” The ancient Greela applied the designation “Barbaros’ to foreigners whose language they could not understand and whose talk sounded to them like a repetition of the syllable “Bar-bar-bar” (some~ thing like our imported “bla-bla”), Thus is it true that, throughout history, difference of language has acted as a mighty barrier to an un- derstanding between nations and From the Wise A woman's heart is just like a lithographer’s stone; what is once written upon it can not be rubbed out,—-Thackeray, The only secret that has been kept is—well, that's a secret.—B, P. Day. I have nothing—I! owe much rest I leave to the world, —Rabelais. Pain addeth zest unto pleasure. and teacheth the lurury of health. " Tupper. | Knowledye, when wisdom is too | weak to guide her, ig like @ head- strong horse that throws the rider, —Quarles. There are only two ways of ris- ing in the world, either by one'a own industry or by the weaknese of others.—La Bruyere. the