The sun., 1919-07-25
LAWYERS ADVICE
i STIRS GOLDSMITH
Sydney S. Levine Thinks He
May Ask $4,000 for Epithet
at Rent Hearing.
KEPT HIS CLIENT SILENT
Contends Subpenas Issued for
Mayors Committee Are
Not Legal.
KEPT HIS CLIENT SILENT

In the opinion of Sydney S. Levine OF
the law firm OF Aronstein & Levine, s12
Brook avenue. The Bronx. Il shout cost
Capt. Charles A. Goldsmith. agent of
the Mayors Committee on Rent Profit
sering just $4,000 even for calling him
n shyster yesterday
The fireworks all started when Mr.
Levine contended that the subpunas is
sued by the Corporation Counsers Office
with the backing OF Justice Robert L.
Luce of the Supreme Court. were not
legal. He advised his clients, Rapport
and Burland. 42s East 1S1st street.
landlords summoned for rent raising in
Vestigation, not to answer the questions
put to them by Capt. Goldsmith.
The Mayors Committee agent told Mr.
Levine that he was the only lawyer who
had questioned the legality OF the sub
poenas in the thousands of disputes
which have been settled. Again Levine
advised Burland not to answer questions
and the landlord took his advice
1t was then, in talking to Rurland that
the expensive epithet Is alleged to have
emanated from the lips of Capt Gold
smith. Mr.. Goldsmith said that this was
the second time that Mr.. Levine had ad-
v!sed landlords not to be examined by
the committee.
You don't have to go out Of this
country TO import Bolshevism." Capt
Goldsmith said. "A certain type Of land
lord in this country Is manufacturing
Bolshevism right here"
Capt. Goldsmith said he thought that
the courts would decide that he had not
DETAINED the character of any one
Tho question OF whether child Is an
ipse facto barrier to right to live in
a Brooklyn tenement or apartment house
was put UP to the Mayors COMMITTEES
during the day by Miss Anna Koran,
1855 Sixty-flrst street, Brooklyn. She
said the house she now lived in had been
sold. and she had to leave II. Because
of the fact that she had a boy of II
md girl somewhat younger she could
find no landlord who would take her
in, she said. Adults only was the
motto which had barred her from many
places, she said.
The Reconstruction Commission of the
State of New York yesterday received
from Miss Rosalie Manning. president
of the Lower Yorkville Community Coun.
ell, with headquarters at the Lenox Hill
Settlement, word that resolutions had
been passed urging Gov. Smith to take
measures to relieve the present strained
housing situation.
The resolutions requested the with
drawing from speculation of vacant land
suitable for housing, the use of money
in banks on long term mortgages for
building homes, the RENTING by the State
of vacant tenements unfit for use. and
the prevention OF rent raises by land
lords who have not improved their prop
erty or those whose taxes have not been
raised.
Children, Miss Manning declared, are
being forced into the least desirable and
into unsanitary dwellings because land
lords of better places will not take
families with boys and girls in.
THE East Side was so magnificent
during the war that 1t is heart breaking
TO see its condition now" Miss Manning
said. THE people who gave up every
thing they had in the world for the sal
walton of American democracy had high
hopes of the ideals for which they made
sacrifices, and now they find that this
ideal American democracy is willing to
throw them into the Jaws OF poverty
and famine and Illness in order that
those with more money may profit at
their expense"