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New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
Bainbrid &c Colby
Assails Untermyer
On Draft Evasion
Saws Candidate Has Made
"'Sort of Denial Appar-
emily Best He Can Make;
Soldiers Ask Explanation

Bainbridge Colby, at the Newburger-
Smith meeting at the public school at
Hudson Avenue and 177th Street, last
night, sharply attacked Irwin Inter
myer, Democratic candidate for the
Supreme Court, for maintaining 81
lence with reference to the recurring
reports that he sought to evade mill
tary service during the war.
when the charge was first made,
Untermyer made sort Of denial of
it, said Mr.. Colby. Il thought it
would be followed by more explicit
denial. but am mistaken. Apparently
this lame denial is the best that he
can make.
"Untermyer doesn't want the rec
ords published. They are private and
confidential, and the government will
not exhibit them without the consent
of the person involved. Untermyer
will not give his consent. Untermyer
says he did not seek to evade his draft
duty.
"As a lawyer Mr.. Untermyer knows
that is merely a conclusion, and as
the matter stands now it is merely
his own conclusion. He sought a de-
ferred classification because he owned
a farm in Warren County. To put it
a little more plainly, did the candi
date, a lawyer practicing in New York
urge his ownership of farm in Warren
County as showing that he was en-
gagged in agricultural pursuits, vital
to the life of the nation? The voters
prefer that Mr.. Untermyer should say
a good deal more on the subject. Does
it not show him up as lacking the
qualities essential to Judge? Does
he propose to go to the jury in this
great election on a garbled record
and with facts suppressed which the
people may deem material to their
choice?
Il do not intend TO dwell upon the
question as to whether Mr. Untermyer
sought to evade his duty as a soldier
| Will not taunt man with cowardice
unless the subject possesses compelling
relevancy.
rs it not apparent that he is afraid
that the charge of draft evasion will
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31

ments are carried out. If the land
lords object no rents will be paid.
There will be no dispossession and no
raising of rents.
Very Well, Tenants Will Strike
eve expect to reduce rents, to bring
them down to where they ought to
be. The landlords will object Very
we'll. The tenants will strike. We
will have 100000 families organized
IN league covering the city, and ]
would like to see any government, city,
state or federal, that would dare to
undertake to dispossess or coerce $780,
900 families in this city"
The District Attorneys Office agrees
with Beckerman.
at would be impossible" says the
District Attorneys Office.
What you expect to have" was re-
marked to Beck;erman, "is Soviet gov
ernment, for all practical purposes, as
far as real property is concerned ?"
"People in this country don't under
stand the word Soviet" he replied.
Nevertheless, that is what you ex-
pect to have?"
Beckerman grinned.
"And if your plan works for rents,
you can put the same organization and
the same pressure behind anything else
you want tC undertake %
"If it would work for one thing, it
would work for another" Beckerman
said, "once We got our league organ
lied and showed what we could do with
rents"
$50 you would control New York;"
owe Socialists obey the law said
Beckerman. Eve work through the
ballot box"
"But you think you would have a
vote that would give you the govern
ment?
of we can handle the rent situa-
ton" he replied, sit is only natural
to expect that the people we helped
would vote with us. We don't take
only Socialists into our tenants
leagu ). We take anybody, and we
don't expect all the Democrats and Re
publicans to vote with us because we
bring their rents down, but gratitude
ought to give US enough of their votes
to win the election
Gisnet looks beyond the city to the
state. What | want" he says, SIS to
get one million families organized. I
want a million families behind me.
We have got the most popular issue
there is--the rent issue-and | believe
we can do it.
"Men go to Albany now and say to
the Legislature, 4 represent men who
own S5,O00,OOO or $10,O00,OOO or $2O,-
100000, or whatever the sum may. be.
worth Of property in New York And
they get pretty near anything they
want from the Legislature.
81 want to go up there and say, I've
got 100000 families in New York be-
hind me, and I'd like to see that Leg
islature refuse what ! asked. They
wouldn't dare do it,
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
Radicals Use Rent Problem
To Make Socialist Voters

mlsslons paid TO organizers. The Dis
trict Attorneys Office is interested in
what has become of this money, and is
making an investigation to find out ex-
actly how much has been collected
and what has been done with it.
What They Look Forward TO
At present Morris Gisnet, Socialist,
lawyer for the Greater New York
Tenants League. with Offices near the
161st Street 81" station, in TKe Bronx,
one Of the leaders in the movement,
estimates that there are 100000 fami-
lies organized in the league. Becker
man prophesies 250,000 families by
spring. Gisnet seeks an ultimate total
Of $1,000, 10000 families in greater New
York" while tenants leagues are to be
organized all over the country. affiliated
with the central organization in this
city.
The movement began less than year
ago in The Bronx with the incorpora-
ton, December 18, 1918. of the Greater
New York Tenants League, with a
charter from the state. The incor-
porators were. Mary Mardfn. 1920
Washington Avenue; August Hoeber-
mann, 995 Boston Road; Robert l..
Noah. 200 West Ninety Fourth Street
Bernard J. Blickman, 902 Eagle Avenue,
and Philip De Voc, 1856 West 1S1st
Street.
at is the Socialists who have pushed
the movement. The Socialist party
and the Socialist Consumers League
have organized the tenants leagues"
says Beckerman "Those two have ap-
pointed committees which have organ
lied the tenants leagues, and in almost
every case the headquarters of the ten
ants leagues are in the headquarters
Of the Socialist party. Where the
headquarters are not in the same
building they are close neighbors. In
the case of the East Side Tenants
League the Socialist party pays the
rent of the headquarters"
Growth of First League
After a short existence and rapid
growth, the Greater New York Tenants
League pushed down from The Bronx
to Harlem and organized the East Har-
lem Tenants League as branch The
branch soon demanded autonomy, and
there are now in existence, besides the
parent organization in The Bronx, the
East HarleHa Tenants League, with two
branches; the West Harlem Tenants
League. the Yorkville Tenants League,
Williamsburg Tenants League, the
Brownsville Tenants League and the
Brooklyn Tenants Union, with two
branches.
The leaders Of the movement to-day
are, Samuel Orr, Socialist candidate
for the Assembly in The Bronx; Charles
Solomon. Socialist member of the As
sembly and candidate for reelection;
Abraham Beckerman, Socialist member
of the Board Of Aldermen, and candi-
date for reelection; Alexander Shipla-
cof. Socialist candidate for the Board
of Aldermen; Morris Gisnet. Socialist
lawyer, and Morris Jaffe, Socialist.
The method by which the leagues
propagate has been varied up to the
present. but it is soon to be regular
ICED. in some cases at present the
leagues depend on spontaneous growth.
That is. the Socialist party will lay the
foundation of a league in a particular
section, such as Yorkvile or the East
Side, by forming a committee and list
ing the tenants Of one or two apart
ment houses a. members of the league.
Gossip Helps 1t Along
Neighborhood gossip will make
known the existence of the league, and
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
Complaints About
Hudson Co. Jobs
Aired by Bugbee
Candidate Receives Lei
ters Charging Misconduct;
Says Payroll Exceeds That
of State of New Jersey

State Comptroller Newton A. K
Bugbee, Republican candidate for Gov
ernor Of New Jersey, told an audience
yesterday in Jersey City, the home of
Senator Edward l. Edwards, his Demo
cratic opponent. and of Mayor Frank
Hague, the Democratic boss of Hudson
County, that he had received more
than fifty letters from business men
Of Hudson County requesting him, in
case he is elected, to order a Supreme
Court investigation Of the affairs of
Hudson County
Scores of instances of misconduct in
Office on the part of Hudson County Of
fcials and of inefficient administration
were set forth in the letters received
by him, Mr.. Bugbee declared The
principal cause for complaint is tht
promiscuous employment of hundreds
of the cohorts of Hague, who do not
perform a real days work from one end
of the month to another and who draw
generous salaries. The result is that
exceeding that of the entire state. He
promised attention to these complaints
if elected.
The Republican nominee spent the
morning and afternoon visiting large
manufacturing plants, conferred with
Prosecutor Pierre Garvin, Republican
leader in the county, and was given as
surance that the normally large Demo
cratic majority would be materially re-
duced this year.
Senator Edwards invaded Mercer
County, the home Of Mr. Bugbee
He spoke at Princeton and Trenton at
night.
Among his advocates at the Prince
ton meeting was James A. O'Gor-
man, jr., son of former United States
Senator O'Gorman, of New York a
junior at Princeton, young O'Gorman.
who is president of the Political Study
Club in the university, mounted a
truck in front of the Nassau Inn and
urged the students to vote for Ed
wards
Mayor Donnelly, Of Trenton, who ac-
companied Senator Edwards on the
tour declared Mr.. Bugbee had padded
the states payrolls in the Cornptrol-
ler's office with "lame ducks" who had
been dismissed from sinecurcs in Tren-
ton by the City Commission, of which
he is the head
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31

defeat him, but not, apparently. sensi-
Bile lest it may besmirch him? If he
Will juggle with facts to promote his
ambition may ne not juggle with facts
IN his charges to Jurles and in his rul-
ings on evidence?"
Another demand was made YESTERDAY
upon Mr, Untermyer to state why he
was not actively in the war. 1t came
in the form Of an open letter signed hv
Andrew sheehsn. army clerk IN the
A. f. f.; ". J. Young. 23d Engineers
a. E. f: J. A. McPike, first lieutenant
Q. NJ. c., A. f. f., and Alexander r
Muir. headquarters detachment. United
States Marines, Paris Island. The let
ter follows:
"This letter is sent 10 you TO tell YOU
frankly that We service men y no syn
our names hereto. and our families and
friends, cannot vote for YOU unless You
satisfactorily tell the public why YOU
were not actively in the war.
"One thing is plain, you were not in
the war, and your story does no.
agree with the newspaper stories a.
to why you didn't go. The papers say
that you refused TO permit your dra r,
questionnaire to be opened so that tho
truth might be learned
why don't you do the manly thing
and permit the newspapers TO sec your
questionnaire 90
1--WE make no charges against YOU
We only want the facts. We are ready
to vote for an honest and courageous
young man, but are not willing TO sup
port q man who is d coward or who
will not acknowledge the truth
"One other question we would like
publicly answered. You sind IN the
papers last week that if the war had
not stopped you would soon have been
privileged to serve the country. Did
you not have that privilege Tor two
years, almost, before the war stopped ."
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
Political Notes

The Womcn's Democratic County Com
mittee Of Bronx County will give a tea at
Pythian Hall i9th Street and Walton Ave-
nue., tomorrow afternoon, at which Gov
ernor Smith will speak
Choose between the Democratic party
with Wilson and the Republican party with
D Annunzio.' says the Italian-American
State Executive Republican Committee of
New Jersey. This is the slogan which is
being used all the state in districts
where Americans of Italian lineage are get
ting ready for the ballot Tuesday.
Fl Snowden Marshall former United
States Attorney, yesterday in discussing the
fusion judiciary nominees, said: justices
Newburger and Smith have been vigorous
prompt. eminently fair and. in short most
efficient and satisfactory Judges. | strongly
believe in the enforcement of the principle
which brought together the committee which
was formed last summer to promote the re-
nomination by both parties Of these two
justices
Abram l. Eltus. Alfred j. Tallev. Miss
Elisabeth Marbury and DR.. w. j. O'Sullivan
VIII be the speakers at mass meeting to-
morrow afternoon to be held under the
auspices of the women's committee that is
working in the interest of Robert l.. Moran
Democratic candidate for Pres ident of the
Board of Aldermen in the west ballroom of
the Commodore. Mrs. George w. Childs will
preside.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
More Than 100000 Fami-
lies Are Now Organized
Into Tenants Leagues, and
the Work Is Being Pushed
Committees To Be Soviets
They Hope to Have 100000
Members by Spring, Then
to Name Their OwnTerms

The radicals have found q new handle
for propaganda the tenants leagues
that have sprung up throughout the
city. Taking advantage of the dis
content over the rise in rents, they
are counting on much greater political
power.
Socialists have been the leaders and
organizers Of these leagues from the
start No mention is made of the
Socialist party at the time of organiza-
ton. and thus thousands of families
are becoming members of the Socialist
organization without realizing that
they are joining political party.
But as Alderman Abraham Beckerman,
president of the East Side Tenants
League, with headquarters in the So
cialist rooms at 106 Avenue c, smil~
ingly admits
"The Socialist party, the Socialis.
Consumers League and the Tenanta'
League are blood relatives"
Reckerman also admits that the
Tenants League movement is in the
hands of the radical Socialists.
mere IS no more LeII w tHS W tHe
Socialist party he says The former
Left Wingers are now the Communists
and the Communist Labor party, but
we are the left of the old Right Wing.
We are the radicals of the present So
cialst party
As Rose Schneiderman Sees 1t
Rose SCI neiderman agrees with
Rcckerman as to who is at the head
of the Tenants League movement.
"The Tenants League started out all
tight" she says at was always a
Socialist movement. but it was intended
Mt first to keep down rents and help the
tenants. 1t has got now. however, INTO
the hands of the radicals, and they
are using it for political purposes
Moreover it is charged that much
OF the money collected as dues for
membership in the various ten
ants leagues goes directly into
the Socialist campaign fund. Ger
tain it is that the Tenants
League meetings are being used at the
present time as Socialist campaign
meetings. Rents are used as the eX-
cuse for expoundng the reforms that
will follow the election of Socialist
candidates to office.
There are other questions that arise
as to the use of the funds collected
as dues from members of the leagues.
If the leaders of the movement are
right in their estlmte of the number or
members, more than $4,000 has been
turned in 10 the treasures of the va
rious leagues, exclusive of the com
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
Public Service Loses Appeal
Must Continue Zone System or
AdOpt Lower Fare

NEWARK, N. j., Oct. 3o.-The ap-
peal of the Public Service Railway
Company for release from the zone
system of fare collection imposed upon
it by the Board Of Public Utility Com
missioners was turned down for Sec
ond time at full meeting of the board
here to-day.
The body denied the application of
Thomas H. McCarter, president of the
company, for abolition of the zone
system and his accompanying plea for
the establishment of a fat seven-cent
fare, and repeated its suggestion that
the company agree to a rate of five
cents for the first two miles and a
charge of one cent for each additional
mile.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
S'No Off Year in Politics.
Union League Club Urges EIec-
ton of Republican LEGISLATURE

"For good Americans there should
be no off year in politics This is
especially true just now, when what
may seem a minor campaign Of 1919
bears direct and important relation
ship to the great contest Of 1920" says
the campaign committee of the Union
League Club in a letter asking for
subscriptions from its members Will
liam D: Murphy is chairman of the
committee.
"a Republican Legislature in the
state, weakening of the Tammany
hold on the city and the election Of
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31

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reproach IN appearance-are neatly addressed-
are accurately stamped-are surely mailed
Call on any member of the Circular Letter Pro-
ducers' Association for help at any time.
The Emblem of the Association shown at the
lett is The Sign of a Reliable Letter Shop
1T represents a group of quality letter shops.
brought together through mutual ideals of honor
and service-ideals of producing the very best
circular letters at the lowest possible cost in the
quickest possible time. with the least annoyance
to yOu
Unless you are absolutely certain that you are
now getting the very best circular letter work
possible 1t would pay you to consult the nearest
member OF the Circular Letter Producers Asso-
ciation
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31

fit judges to the bench are aims for
which we may we'll strive
Among the members of the commit
tee are George B. Agnew, George F.
Baker, Francis S. Bangs, George 7.
Benja Cornelius N. Bliss, jr.,
Henry Clews, George B. Cortelyou,
Samuel W. Fairchild, A. Barton Hep
burn, Alfred E. Marling. Benjamin B.
Odell. J. Van Necaten Olcott, George
". Perkins, Ruel ". Poor. Ogden
Mills Reid, Charles H. Sabln, Frank A:
Nanderlip, Albert II. Wiggin and
George T. Wilson.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31

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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-29
SYCV6 STER METHOD
OF R6S USCITATION

school to escape the evils of blind a.
ley occupations-tha is, such work
as gives the boy a mere wage for the
moment, but leaves him stranded with
out any trade or handicraft to pursue
when he is a man, and SO sends him
as a recruit 10 the great army of un-
employed, and, what is worse. the un-
employable. Doing is learning and
when a scout in the formative stage of
his life has this lesson thoroughly I'M
pressed upon his mind, he has learned
TO be resourceful. The simple, help
yourself experience which a scout re-
ceives in his impressionable years pre-
pares him to meet emergencies cover
ing the entire range of existence which
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-29
The Glamour of the Circus

ZINE persons out of every ter
~ have only been DETECTED
from a circus career by the
drab intentions of unambitious pa
rents, who by their respectable schenl-
ing have bound childish muscles and
curbed youthful spirits until it is too
late to Go anything but sit in stolid
black rows. watching with cleaning.
envious eyes those whose good for
tune is just another Of those roseate
glimpses of a life that might have
been. says the New York Evening Post.
And its no good trying TO cure old
regrets by peeping behind the scenes
that is usually counted on 10 cure
many such lOngings. AS for the cir
Gus. it detracts not a jot from its
charm as a vocation TO have seen il
from the wings at Madison Square
Garden and the opening performance
If there is any order in that apparent
disorder, it is only discoverable by
reading in the paper afterward that
the performance went of without a
hitch. How they know where they are
at" in the performance is past com
prehension. The heat in the close
quarters, the band blaring immediate
" overhead, the crowding. the shut
ding Of nen, horses, elephants, camels
what it IS on a July afternoon
passes the imagination.
For half an hour before opening time
almost the entire personnel Of the cir
Gus is crowded behind that entrance
curtain waiting TO 90 on. On the drst
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-29
They Proved Their Value Dur
ing World Conflict, Boosting
Every 'Win the War" Move
ment-No Less Necessary In
Peace Times Is This Nation
Wide Organization.

~ de
working ultimate result
the responded with greater
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-29

a peep into the wardrobe room
shows that there is no picking up TO
do after the men. Every spear, cap,
banner, costume, wig AID cue has been
put into place, 50 that no work has
been made for anyone there to waste
time doing.
Almost as brilliant a picture IS tho
ring itself is the large dressing room
at the circus. where the performers
get into the tinsel. A circus ladys
dressing room is really her trunk. It
is fitted up with a mirror and a tray
like a dressing table. That trunk is
al that is really necessary 70 her
comfort and appearance all summer
There are rows and VOWS OF them in
the large rooms. but stars reai
"swells' Of the circus world-have
private dressing rooms.
How circus people Ike each other
how much goodwill they have for
each other. makes up even more OF
the charm of circus life than its ro-
nance does. Whoever heard OF any
Cne's leaving a housekeeping tha.
Polly" who, after all. was only
tale that is told? And we know now
a little gray saIeswoman at the notion
counter IN one OF these big depart
ment stores hereabOuts who cOnfdec
in US one day that every first Of May b
is her habit TO cast OF this life OF
saleslady and 90 on the road as ticket
seller with a circus. And. Oh. what
a life" she says. and me sittin al
winter long in this dull hole!-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-29

day the time passes quickly enough
greeting old friends. exchanging COS
sip, and watching your step. The
prospect Of a hot summer is the chief
topic Of conversation. From the palan-
quin atop the elephant comes a PLAN
tive Amt We ever goin TO start, Je-
rome?' And Jerome, who is for the
moment something between a Pierrot
and a Gloomy Gus. gets down from his
mule, which he rides backward, takes
a peep through the curtain and re-
spends with a "Waitin for the folks
10 get in. I reckon"
At last the mysterious whistle
sounds from somewhere. the doors fly
open. and all march out, hundreds Of
laundering hoofs drowning the music
Everything, even the ladies smiles and
the horses prance. seems to creak a
bit after the long wait
But no sooner have the elephants
and camels in harness been maneuv-
cred amazingly out one door at the
tai OF the procession than the man
darins come flying in at the other. at
a stroke divest themselves of their
costumes and banners, and appear in
their true character OF hands. They
are the army Of workers that rush in
10 the arena between acts and per
form feats OF dexterity and strength
that We admire only as amusing team
work. So it appears that every indi-
vidual in the circus gets a taste Of the
limelight when he is pressed into serv-
ice to swell the parade.