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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
The League
And the Taxpayers

Before the talking began he set me
straight on quotation which want
ed about Saxon and Norman and
Dane are We" and gave him Lincoln's
with malice toward none, with char
ity for ALL" for a text that he used
with splendid effect. But this, too. is
'mmaterial-merely a passing memory
which forced itself upon me when the
purpose seized me to write something
pertinent to the present about the
East and West matter.
That the East is East and the West
Is West is, no doubt, sound PROPOSE
ton from an astronomical point of
view, but even in this physical sense
the terms are not exact, but only COM
parative. In the popular mind, at
least, even the points Of the compass
are changeable, like the movable ieasts
OF the Church, which change their
dates in obedience to the moon. San
Francisco is west of New York. but
east OF Hong Kong, and East and West
may be conceived IS meeting at San
francisco or anywhere else on the
globe. Bless you, it all depends" as
Gilbert's Japanese schoolgirl sagely OBJ
serves. But, I take it, Kipling was not
speaking Of things geographical, but of
things racial, mental or morsl-of
something like that which the Germans
used to call Kultur-a word which is
now become hateful to tho decent
world, which might well wish it con-
signed to some place east Of the sun
and west of the moof, preferably to
hell.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
Russian Landlord and Renter Come Face to
Face Again in Brooklyn Suburb, and
Result L. Rent Strike

TO the mission couch, disgracing her on
the curbstone, after the manner Of
moved things that have . way Of put
ting their worst foot forward to our
undoing, even in the hands Of profess
sional movers. The orthodox Jews do
no cooking on Saturday, and little Mrs.
Stein found her holiday dinner in sad
intimacy with her clothes and bedding.
1t was, in fact, a scene Of such con-
fusion and distress that from this mo-
ment the entire affair lost its charac-
ter of simple lutte between Spain and
his tenants and became matter Of
public interest in the district, demand
ing partisanship from the courageous
and diplomacy from the timid. But be-
clouded as it has become by the riotous
gossip and by the personalities and
temperaments involved, it never FOR q
moment lost sight of the issue AZ TO
the right Of the landlord to raise the
rent under Whatsoever conditions he
wills.
There are-frst, the strikers; re-
spectacle men and women with fam
lilies, with good standards of living
not fiat entered but proved to be as
neat as a pin, whatever the hall-the
landlords province-might be. They
are industrious people; in Southern
parlance they "know how to do" bu.
are without inhuence and have FOX
friends others with NO more than
themselves.
Over against them are not only the
landlords, but now the police-big,
jolly Irishmen, full Of animal spirits
and perfectly incapable Of understand
ing what these small mental types Of
Russian Jews are made of; wishing
no man any more Ill than he brings
on himself by inviting their interfer-
ence, but still-with life job Of ar
resting people.
There are the tenants that stayed
| and paid the new rents. There are
the landlords with daughters and sis
ters-in-law. whose marriages have let
in small wedges of influence; land
lords, many of whom are merely the
leasers of fat buildings, making their
profits over and above the income the
owner would receive from the normal
rents; landlords who have banded To-
gether to strengthen their position
against the other side, though the last
thing they desire is solidarity for
anybody's benefit but their own. There
are the gossiping neighbors, partial to
the side they happen to be talking to.
And there is Leo Gitlin.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
East and West
Meeting in Music

Again the personal pronoun regret
FULLY comes into play. At intervals
during the last decade I have 1ectured
to Chinese and Japanese young
women at the Institute of Musical Art
in New York City. From some of them
! receive Christmas and New Years
cards even now. A young woman
from Japan, whose husband was a ma
tive musician, sent me photograph of
the opera house in which she was sing
ing, or which she had founded with
her husband, in Yokohama. Last win
ter received letter from a secre-
tary Of the United States Legation at
Toxic, introducing a Japanese must
clan who was composer of Occidental
music. In February last l, and doubt
less other American critics, received a
letter which is interesting enough to
print in full.
THE MUSICAL DEPARTMENT
Of
Nanki Bunko
IA, 8 chome Iiguramachi
Azabuku Tokyo
Dear Sir: "'
Allow me to write you without anv
introduction Ny mama ia Yaxisads
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
Orient and Occident
Long Fraternal

But are the civilizations Of the East
and the West really condemned to non
jpactiQn till the Day Of Judgment !,
Or, IT 70, may We not now be at high
noon Of dies ire7 Orient snd Oec:dsnt
hsys leng fraternised, stealing and
giving edor" in science. philosophy,
literature, religion and the plastic arts.
Only In music hare they remaiasd seq
rsgatsd since civilization and tho inter
eommunton Of man began; and even in
music We may, il We wish, see an ap-
proachment. in spite Of tho divergent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
In Brownsville
You Will Find This

If you go to Brownsville looking io'
the story you will hnd prosperous 1925.
ing landlords who will tell you tns'
New York has no idea Of what's goins
on in Brownsville. We'd be astounas'
at conditions over there; that 2 NAV
can't rent his fats without asking y
people-and "such people"--whst sns',
will Is In the matter. You VIII nss
landlords who rent to the very pea
who are extremely lenient ana oos
raise their rents at all.
You will fnd neighbors Of the sb'.
ers, some sympathetic, who viii "
you that they were not allowed y q
at their doorsteps. while the ssue'
was going on; how one man IRON IS 4.
other street, having no connection
the strikers, was arrested for ssePes,ss
to speak to one of them; how su'a
boys were frightened by the pS'ss
into tearing out the strike siSns
their fathers windows; and sns
stories of the policies efforts "
timidate them; others quite ang.
thetic, who are usually expesans
thing from the landlords. =.
There are tho tenants wno -"
money to pay and SHOULD worfs - 81
those that hadp'ta and so sssyse' 81
the tenants who had the money ~ I.
worry about those that hadn"
left.
Find a policeman. Thsy n
quent, snd any one Of them ...
you that the strike wac over 800
ago." "All over and everspous HI
now.p sand Leo Gitlinr "os ~
Helshsviki oh, he's juss : y . sI
with long hair that makes Z I
Of going around getting up
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
Orient and Occident
Long Have Frater-
nized-Contrasts in
Japanese and Ger
man Kultur
By H. E. Krehbiel
6(THE East is East and the West
is West, and never the twain

ME East is East and the West
is West, and never the twain
shall meet, till"-something
or another happens before "God's
great judgment seat" l am not sure
OF the exactness of the quotation, but
the sentiment is that of Rudyard Kip
ling, whom l once conveyed to Europe
on German liner. 1t was in several
things a memorable trip, and i was
trencherman at table to the poet for
that he was afflicted with writer's par
alysis and could not bear down with
his right hand. The incidents of the
voyage are Of no public Importance,
but they are associated with pleasant
memories. taught him the game Of
studhorse poker, which, he told me
years afterward, he introduced in New
Zealand or Australia, where it became
known as Kipling poker, but that, too,
is OF no consequence, unless the Antip-
odes perverted the game and applied
1t TO gambling purposes, in which case
it might be brought up against me on
the Day OF Judgment. More interest
ing than our card playing was the
Fourth Of July celebration which we
arranged at the request Of committee
Of tho ships company, 1t which he
responded TO . toast to Queen Victoria
and I, out Of courtesy to the captain
OF the ship on which We were sailing
and to rsbuke the South Carplins Con-
grsssman whom we had honored with
the privilege Of speaking to "The Presi-
dent Of the United States" and who
had used Ais opportunity TO spssk dip
PANTY Of BENJAMIN Harrison, Pro-
posed the health Of the German EN-
peror md the North German Lloyd.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
Wagner-'Im deutschen lugt ma,
wenn man h1flich ist."

Wagner-"lm deutschen lugt man
wenn man h6flich ist."
("I fear, my FRIEND" says Mephis-
topheles, "you do not realize how rude
you are" And the pert pedant: 1--WE
lie when we are polite in Germany
Goethe knew his people, and he put
the matter in q nutshell German
politeness, what little there is of it,
is lie. No man who has rubbed
elbows with the race but might have
known it ever since the Roman warned
his soldiers to make no treaties with
the German barbarian, but we too often
accepted the German explanation,
which Is that the rudeness or blunt
ness (Grobheit), which is in fact only
q symbol Of racial arrogance, is an
expression Of native honesty, frank
ness and hatred of deception. This
much in the field Of morals.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
Taxpayers Present
An Obdurate Front

Leo Gitlin, all the time working on
the case, tried to call an arbitration
meeting between the Taxpayers Asso-
citation and the tenants. but the tax
payers. finding after so many cases
won in court that the law was in their
favor, replied, s'You use your influence;
We'll use ours, and Well see who wins"
Gitlin is said to have incurred police
enmity in no small degree. The league
has been forbidden by Captain Frank,
the police captain of the district, to
hold open air meetings, and Gitlin him
self, while picketing, was arrested and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23

Tokugawa, and I'm SO interested in
music. My father the Marquis Toku-
gawa had public library called "Nan-
XII Bunko' which was opened for pub
lie in 1902 in this town. And / am
going to establish the musical depart
ment, and this kind of works is the
first attempt in this part Of the world.
AT present our department has about
2 thousand scores and FIVE hundred in
books on music, and they are increas-
ing; also we are going to have
concert hall which will have 500 peo-
Pile. If you would kindly give us some
help or suggestions, we shall be very
much obliged to you. Herewith we
send you the catalogue of our musical
department.
Hoping you will find it interesting,
Yours truly,
YORISADA TOKUGAWA,
The catalogue is q pamphlet of SO
pages, and a predatory note speaks of
it's contents thus:
This booklet comprices the Musical
Scores which collected by Hon. Yo-
risada, Son and Heir of Marquis Toku-
gawa, during his stay in Europe and
It arranged in alphabetical order by
NSAHooE1Ss
The Scores in this booklet are kept
in the Library of Nanki Music Room
and separated from the book of the
main library.
Readers shall be considered to be
assent to the Rules and Regulations of
the Music Room.
October, 1917.
A hurried glance through the pamphlet
discovers some interesting features.
1t is not plain when it refers to scores
whether orchestral scores or piano
forte arrangements are meant; but
under the circumstances transcript
tions would serve a better purpose
than the full orchestral settings, and
this is probably what they are. Hon.
Yorisada, Son and Heir Of the Mar
quis, has, however, provided much
material calculated to develop taste
fox the best of Occidental music among
his countrymen. We note, for exam
pie, eight titles under the name Of
Bach. including the Mass in B minor
and the Passions According to St. John
and st. Matthew; all of Beethoven's
symphonies and string quartets;
Brahms's "German Requiem" and vio-
lin concerto; many of Chopin's works,
including the tyo Aencertos; Debusays
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
Dispossessing Was
Part Of Days Work

Dispossessing a tenant became par,
Of the days work in Brownsville; AZ.
rests, too. In the matter Of picketing
the method of getting picketers ar
rested Is always the same. Jostle them
hustle them, tread on their feet, harasi
them till you make yourself unendura-
BILE; then, when they show their aggra-
walton, into the patrol wagon with
them; then six or eight hours in a
cell. up to the magistrate and dis
missed. But what about the six OF
eight hours in a cell, when the matter
is just question of hot water on wash
day?
The police became SO free with their
arrests that it became evident to the
strikers that nothing could be gained
by holding out against them with the
picketing. Mrs. Stein said she was
threatened by one policeman that if
she passed by the house at 1886 again
on her way to market she would be ar.
rested. Other strikers were arrested
for interfering with the business of
the landlord" for using threatening
language, witnesses for the accused in
these cases being discredited as per-
sons dispossessed for non-payment of
rent, and for other offences declared
by the strikers to be "frame-ups," evic-
tions going on merrily the while.
The people held we'll together. 1t is
not so easy in Brownsville to rent an
apartment from which has been evicted
a peaceable, long-standing tenant. The
van drivers are with the strikers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23

several parties. In the matter of Lib
erty bonds it has gone ahead of its
rival. the Taxpayers Association.
Rent has been on its programme only
for the last six months, when the pres
emit trouble began. Buying up farm
products and selling them direct to the
consumer is its chief line, but it's
activity in the potato and onion
strike" of last yea and It's present con-
nection with the rent strike are all the
local policeman needs to dub them
professional strikers"
The League
And the Taxpayers
When the Consumers and Working
mems League stepped into the breach
between the landlords and tenants they
did so as the only influence the tenants
had at their disposal, the only adviser
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
There Are Complaints, Evictions, Arrests. and
Leo Gitlin Creating Unrest
Over Five Months

tenants who had put up the signs. An
evicted tenant has the right to appeal
to the courts. These appealed, and the
Judge held that picketing was not IN
lawful, that tenants have q right to
strike and tried to bring about An
understanding out Of court between
Spain and his tenants, inviting them
to meet in his Offices and arbitrate.
Judge Finds
Spain Unbending
Again all went smoothly, as at the
meeting in SPANS house, until the
moment came for Spain to sign, when
he got up and delivered himself of the
statement that his word was as good
as his bond, and that all could be left
now to his sense Of justice. No srgu-
ment from the judge could move him
to sign, and at last the judge tore up
the agreement, pronounced Spain the
most unreasonable man he had ever
dealt with and dismissed the meeting.
Of course by this time feeling be-
tween landlord and tenant was running
high. Every tenant was q malcontent;
the landiord-not the real owner, by
the way, but the agent, the property
being In his wife's name-had worked
himself into frame Of mind"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
By F. H. Barley

T ANDLORD and tenant laws are
up for judgment. We are going
to be instructed in the matter
before long by visits Of committees
from the tenants to the District Attor-
nay, com mittees from the tenants to the
Mayor, asking, for new deal in the
matter CT tenants rights. There will
be no landlords committees, for under
existing laws they get protection from
the courts. Petitions to Congress are
on the carpet, too, and IL any one
wants to know why, let MIN 60 to
Brownsville
Park Row, with the salt tang of an
Gent fish in the air, Yiddish in the
ears, and memories Of Dvinsk and
Pinsk in the heart.
Why Brownsville should have to take
the centre of the stage to present to
New York the question of how far the
people have a right to control the rents
is simply because New York is New
York and Brownsville is intrinsically
Russia. capable of seething and FUN
ing in the manner Of Young Russia
over the problem that we are too busy
and too experienced to attempt to set
tie to our own satisfaction. Ard ne
cause landlord and tenant, after travel
ling thousands Of miles TO get away
from each other, find themselves face
TO face again in Brownsville.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-05

optimism, of hope, and of faith to be the mask of mind so small as that of a tumble-bug.
 Do, for Heavens sake, quit tum- e-bugging.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-05
TUMBLE PLUGGING

Our neighbor at Fairbanks, the News-Miner, has seen fit to waste two columns of more or less valuable space in abuse of Mir. Frederick D. Browne, engineer in charge of the Alaskan Engineering Commission at Nenana
 The burden of it plaint is that Mir Browne has had the temerity to suggest the possibility of pro- curing government aid for the es- tablishment of shelter at Nenana. Boiled down, the News-Miner's at tack comes to this "Nenana has no need for a shelter because it has no ores to smelt, and even if it had it would be cheaper to send the ores Outside than to smelt them in Alaska"
 That local jealousy could so blind a newspaper writer to the effect of such statements as the News Miner article contains is one of the evi- dences of the perversity of human judgment.
 What Thompson says about Ne mana, if true, would be doubly true about any other Interior point in Alaska. The article while directed at Nenana is in reality directed at the very foundation of the future of Alaska. It is an arraignment of Alaska-not of Nenana If there is any foundation for the basic argu- ment of the News Miners attack it must apply with greater force to every other spotai in the territory.
 Now if the News Miner had said: : "a government owned and operated smelter would be good thing for the territory. but the logical place for 1t is Fairbanks. because here We have the ores to smelt", then there void have been some sense in the screed. If Thompson, instead of damning the whole project as inn possible, mpracticable, unprofitable. had said Look here. Fairbanks, get busy and go after this s,aelter thing for our own home town don't let Nenana beat us to it. Wake up, you fellows ef the Fair banks Commercial club; go after this good thing and get it before Nenana wakes up." then he wo. ;, have done his town and his people a good turn ...~.".:..~ ..:..
 But because the idea origina, with practical man of good iuj.s- ment and sound common sense. hap- penng to have his lot cast with Nenana, the News-Miner. hoping to Kill off the movement at its irceD- ton, has no scruples in damn;r. the future of the whole of the in- terior of Alaska in order to deor;,e Nenana of possible new resource.
 Heaithful rivalry and competitor. never hurt any community. If tvo towns, each seeking precedence over the other, strive earnestly each for Its own improvement and better ment, the inevitable result is and must be that both wiu be benefited. One is certain to best t..e other in the race. The one that wins is that which is strongest in point of y.o graphical situation and in the spirit of its people. But if TWO towns in their rivalry are misied t.s make vicious attacks one upon s.:. other. each denying that the other has any available resources. each ac- cusing the other of "3ull;ng Them Along" with fake prowiss.s and ialse pretenses, neither wilt succeed and the whole community will suffer.
 As we see it here in Nersra, Fairbanks has need for {. .melter. for cheap methods for the ~e ,ucticn of her ores and the recovery of the urdoubted values they contain.
 If we can beat Fairbanks to it in
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-05

ed facility, both towns will be the gainer by it. Nenana will get some share of the very plentiful sulply of good things that Fairhanxs has and so we are going to t}y to get
 that shelter going here as soon as possible.
 1 We want to carry our coal up to Fairbanks so as to reopen her quartz mines that are closed for lack of i fuel and we want to haul our coal cars back here loaded with gold, silver and tungsten ores for our smelter. We want to do this for Alaska's sake first, second for Ne nana's sake, and third for Fairbanks sake.
 If Fairbanks can beat us to it and get the shelter located at Fair banks, all right. It's a clear field and no favor. It will deprive the government railroad of the short haul on ore from Fairbanks to Ne mana for our smelter if Fairbanks wins the shelter; but we won't com plain if only someone gets the smelter somewhere. so that it will serve the Fairbanks interest and the interest of the whole of the Interior of Alaska. We can conceive of no Alaskan. ; In his right mind. opposing the idea of government-aided smelter for the Interior of Alaska or even in tlmatlng that it would better be located Outside, as the News-Miner does.
 Such government-owned and operated shelter would be better , than a gold bonus for Fairbanks mining interests A government owned smelter would not be run for profit, but solely in the interest of the development of Alaskan re- sources
 Of course we can undestand why an employe of the Shelter trust would oppose a government shelter just as the Radium trust opposed
 tand almost defeated) the reduction works established by the Bureau of Mines to recover radium from Colorado's carnotite ores.
 But no one in Colorado having the interest of his state at heart ever opposed Secretary Lanes pro- ject by which the cost of radium was reduced -- If you want to know something about that, Friend Thompson, go and inquire at your local branch of the Bureau of Miyes and get the man who installed that plant to tell yor all about it. He's right there in Fairbanks now. Go and call on him. lie can put you straight about whether the government can or can not go into the shelter business.
 If Alaska has failed to develop as it ought to have developed in the last 20 years, it is because of the short-sightedness of her leaders.
 Time, valuable time, has been consumed in unseemly and scandal ous quarrels, shocking the whole nation with their dirtyness and viciousness.
 Outside, because two or three vitriol-tongued orators of Alaska have made a loud outcry of Stop Thief"' and Liar" "Perjurerw "Bribe Taker!, the world has come to believe us just what we have called one another.
 Small minds absorbed in their own petty tasks grasp small things quickly, but large things not at all.
 The vision is too limited to per cleve and comprehend the, larger view.
 The tumble-bug rolling his ball along the dusty road imagines no doubt that the globe he is rolling is the earth and he the power that
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-05
causes it to revolve.

causes it to revolve.
 The tumble-bug, absorbed in his petty task can not see the big wagon run!bling down the highway. "her another tumble-bug jealous of the first, hoists his hind legs up on tke other side of the ball and begins % push in the opposite direction arG both exhaust their energy pushing one against the other
 Now if both would only get OF the same side of the ball and push the ball would eventually land where it would do one or the other and perhaps both of them some good. >
 But you couldn't make the tum- ble-bug believe that No indeed. Each is afraid the other may get the ball for himself, and so while they are absorbed in their task of opposing one another the wagon. comes along and crushes the ball the bugs and all
 The News-Miner is giving us an able imitation of the tumble bug.