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New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
The Rent Laws Upheld

The constitutionality of the new
rent laws has just been sustained in
decision given by the Supreme
Court Of the I'd District. This de-
cision goes to the root Of the matter.
for it deals with the question of a
possible conflict between the state
police power and the obligation of
contracts.
A landlord sought in the Munich
pal Court to dispossess a Jamaica
tenant on the ground that the lat
ter's lease had expired on April /
last. The municipal justice granted
stay of dispossession until October
1. The landlord appealed to the
Supreme Court, claiming that the
rent laws, as construed by the
municipal justice, operated to i'm
pair the validity Of a contract, and
were thus denial of the guarantees
of the Federal Constitution.
The rent laws were passed as
emergency measures. They were
expressly justified in a preamble as
resort to the states police power.
In his decision Justice Kelly empha-
sized that fact. He wrote:
Chapter 1877 of the Laws of 1920
was clearly enacted in the exercise
OF the police power of the state. Its
purpose was to promote the welfare
of the more thickly populated sec
tions of the state by reason of a
shortage of housing facilities. The
prohibition in the Federal Constitu-
ton that no state Legislature shall
pass any law impairing the obliga-
tion of contracts does not restrict
the power of the state to protect the
public health, public morals or public
safety, in SO far as the one or the
other may be involved in the execu-
tion Of such contracts.
"The legislative act under review
having been passed under the cir
cumstances noted, it must be held to
have been valid exercise of power,
and for that reason it cannot be said
that the law is void by reason of i'm
pairing the obligation of contracts. ="
This is sweeping assertion of the
states competency to deal with the
housing situation, to. any extent to
which the latter affects public
health, morals or safety. The rent
laws passed last spring are moder-
ate in scope. They merely protect
tenants against dispossession, be-
cause dispossessions on large scale
would probably lead to great public
suffering and disorder. They defend
the public interest. It would show
good judgment on the part of the
landlords to accept them as a neces-
sary and useful employment Of the
police power.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
Weekend Cheer
From The Los Angeles T,me,>

From The Los Angeles T,mes>
The announcement OF Attorney Gen
eral Palmer that prices are about to
como down Is usually made on Sat-
urday. 1t gives golden glow to
the departing week. People take their
baths Saturday night without \ mur-
mur and enter heartily into Sunday
worship. But on Monday morning the
trend is upward and everything is
gloom until the next Saturday, when
Palmer again comes TO the front with
his roseate promise
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
The Last Salute

prom, The AnoIo-Frsnch Rerfeto)
WE PASS and leave you lying. M
need for rhetoric, for funeral
music, for melancholy bugle-calls. M
need for tears now, no need for regret.
We took our risk with you; you died
and we live. We take your noble gift,
salute for the last time those lines Of
pitiabIe crosses, those solitary mounds.
those unknown graves, and turn to live
our lives out as we may.
Which of US were the fortunate-who
can tell? For you there is silence and
the cold twilight dropping in awful. DESC
lation over those motionless lands. For
us sunlight and the sound of women's
voices, song and hope and laughter, de-
spair, gayety, love-life.
Lost silent terrible comrades, we, who
might have died, salute you.
RICHARD ALDINGToN.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
Bryn Mawr Over the Ton

1he outlook for the higher educa-
ton begins to brighten. The chorus
of appeals in behalf Of the under
paid college teacher has had it's ef-
feet. Several of the colleges that
have been making fund campaigns
are drawing near their goals, and
now Bryn Mawr, first of them all
has announced that her two-million
dollar fund is actually completed.
This means that there will be a
general increase Of so per cent in
the salaries of Bryn Mawr profess
sors - not enough, Of course, to
match the increase of prices that has
taken place in these last six years,
but still sufficient to enable the col
lege to hold it's footing and escape
disaster.
All the women's colleges may take
pride and encouragement from Bryn
Mawr's quick success. Two millions
looks like a small sum to aim at,
but it was large sum for the two
thousand alumna to raise. The
quota for each graduate was, in
fact, four times that of the Harvard
drive. Smith and Mount Holyoke
being aided, as WAS Bryn Mawr, by
gifts of s50O,O00 from the General
Education Board, will doubtless
soon secure the somewhat larger en-
dowment for which they are asking.
But the money actually raised in
these drives is not the only gain.
The campaign Of propaganda is
sure to have farreaching results.
In crying up college education for
the sake of impressing potential
donors college graduates have Incl
dentally cried it up so as to impress
potential students and fathers and
mothers of students.
Women's learning, especially, will
have new significance in the ewes
Of those men Of wealth who have
been induced to contribute toward it.
Not more than twenty years ago
the college woman was regarded as
something Of curiosity; pretty
soon the lack Of college degree
for a girl who could have afforded
to go to college may seem an
anomaly.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
Our New Poor
Fatheadedness Is Charged
Against White Collared

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: A recent letter to The Tribune
point out the deplorable lack of fel-
lowship among the members of the
White Collar Brigade, class which is
attracting increasing attention among
US and which England calls her new
poor" The extreme selfish individual
ism which characterizes the Office clerk
is unusual in this day of craft solidarity
in the world of labor.
l use that word ''labor" with malice
aforethought. The red flag is sooth-
ing syrup to the angry bull compared to
the effect on the average Office worker
Of including him in the class properly
designed by the cartoonists as Labor"
Miss Steno and Mr.. Ledgerman frown
heavily upon such plebeian organiza-
tions as trade unions; which would be
laughable if it were not so pathetic.
There is a reason for this attitude,
this feud, it might be called, between
the White Collar Brigade and the Over
all Division. 1t is simply that the pro-
letarian world is divided into those who
admit it and those who don't, the re-
signed and the still hopeful, the mem
bers of labor unions and those who re-
fuse membership for fear it might pre-
judice their case later.
The Office workers are the most solidly
conservative force in America to-day.
Although they suffer moro than any
other class under our present industrial
system, they are the most violently op-
posed to changing it. The rage of the
capitalist against the labor union is as
nothing compared to the utter scorn
of the poorly paid clerk. For, be it
known, every stool polisher in the Office
is convinced in his heart that some day
he will be able to lord it over other
stool polishers, who will envy him in
his wealth and position even as he en-
vies his present employer. This is not
Americanism; it is not even commend
able ambition; it is merely fatheaded-
ness.
A member of the bricklayers' union
has sense enough to know that it is
extremely unlikely that he personally
will ever set the contracting and build
ing business on fire through sheer per
sonal brilliancy. He recognizes that it
is more probable that he would bereft
by an advantage accruing to his whole
craft. The Office worker, on the other
hand is sure that he is a Rockefeller
or Schwab in embryo.
1t is for this reason that Office labor
is averse to any change in the rules
of the game. 1t dislikes to see the CAPT
talist curbed and the power of money
limited, because it expects one day to
enjoy that power itself. This may be
creditable or not, just as you look at it,
but it certainly is not wise.
A. J. E
New York. June 10, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

brary Association has adopted its an.
peal, which points to the time when
books will be easily available to every
man, woman and child in the United
States. With such facilities opened, the
list of the self-made successful persons
in another generation will be greatly
increased
indicative Of the growing desire TO,
self education on the part of the pres
ent and coming generation is the re.
port from librarians throughout the
nation. that children form nearly one
half of the number of patrons of the
pubic libraries. A large portion OF
these, too, are sons and daughters OF
parents born in foreign lands, who
have come to America to make thei,
homes.
In this young patronage of the
library are many potential business
professional and industrial leaders OF
the next twenty or thirty years. Their
early training and reading will stand
them in good stand when they embark
on the sea of selfsupport and will
inspire them to ambitious heights.
4 Three-Year Program
Encouragement of this form of self
education is fostered by the American
Library Association as part of its
Books for Everybody" movement. To
carry out this and other provisions
Of the program for the next three
years fund of $2,0OO0OO is being
raised without resort to an intensive
drive or campaign, The fund is being
obtained through the individual efforts
of librarians, library trustees and
friends of libraries. New York's quota
is S260000, which will be used to con-
tinue the library service now being
furnished by the association to the
rapidly growing American Merchant
Marine, the Coast Guard stations and
lighthouses and to ex-service men who
are patients in hospitals of the United
States Public Health Service The
rest will be devoted to the great pro-
gram of extended library service
throughout the country, not by pur-
chasing books, but by promoting, in
cooperation with libraries and existing
library agencies. the manifold pro-
visions of the enlarged program
+ Some of these provisions are:
Striving for better citizenship
through the use of good books about
America, its history, traditions and
ideals; working for the extension of
the county library system so that good
books may be available to all the
people; aiding in the establishment of
more technical and business libraries
in industrial plants; assisting in the
maintenance of European headquarters
for the international exchange of IL
brary information, and carrying on a
sustained program of education that
will result in increased recognition of
the value of library service in adult
and juvenile education and make the
library a more potent factor in every
cOmmunity
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
a Week of Verse


tFrops The Dian
i IGHT your cigarette, then, in th,.
shadow.
And talk to her, your arm engaged with
hers,
Heavily over your heads the eaten
maple
In the dead air of August strains and
stirs.
Her stone-waitc face. in the lampbrhs.
turns toward you;
Darkly, with time-dark eyes, she euess
tons you
Whether this universe is what she think.
Simple and passionate and profound and
true
Or whether, as with sound of dim dis
aster.
A plaintive music brought TO a huddlea
fall,
Some ancient treachery slides through
the heart of things
The last star falling, seen from the ut
most wall
And you-what sinister, far, reserves
of laughter
What understandings. remote, per-
picked, remain
unguessed forever by her who is yonr
victim
Victim, of whom you too are victim
again?
Come! let us dance once more
on the ancient asphalt:
Seeing. beneath its strange and recen.
shape,
The eternal horror of rock, from which.
forever,
We toss our tortured hands, TO re
escape.
CONRAD AIKEN.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

ladder of success and is trying to get
there. If the stuff is in him he will
evidently get there. Here's hoping he
does, but he will have to work for it and
produce the goods" that the big boss
wants nowadays.
Do not think that I am a pessinist
on luck; l only don't believe there is
such thing outside the dictionary; but
/ am a firm believer in getting down
to hard work if you want anything that
is worth while having. Recall the old
saying, "All men are born equai.' Well
that's right where equality endA The
man who is born without fortune and
bewails his loss can never get any OF
the fine things in life If he does not
go out and get them.
My own life was case Of bug being
left at the bottom Of tho wheel, as
was taken out of school at an early
age and deprived Of an education. But
the one have 1 got myself, and I an
not merely satisfied with earning m,
living. have a good position through
hard work, and am working and study
ing for a better. and know I am going
to get it. want to be on the top the
next time the wheel stops.
When you finish reading this. IL yor
are one of those bewailers Of good ant
bad luck, and fate, get the idea out OF
YOUR head and knuckle down to good
hard work. That's the only way to ge,
to the top. OMAR HANSEN.
Allsntown. Pa. June &. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
Dawn in a Garden

lFrom Reedy's MIRROR
I'HE border of my garden shows
Glorious with lilies tall and white,
And that dark beauty of rose,
Red-with hint of night.
And as watch their buds unclose
Touched by the magic of the light,
Lo! suddenly my garden grows
To far horizons out of sight;
Tumults invade its still repose.
Here, side by side, sworn comrades fight
Who fought of old as foes.
French feur-de-lys and English Rose.
Those ancient banners sway and gleam;
The Maid of France before them goes.
Mailed knights and bowmen pass be-
tween.
This morning from my garden close
Dead armies marching have I seen.
HERBERT HARPER.
Midsummer, 1917.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
Slow Torture

tFrc,n The Los Angeles Tiresl
The haggard expression shown on the
face Of President Wilson when he re-
turns from his auto ride is possibly
due 20 the fact that there is taxim-
eter on the machine. We have seen
stronger men than he show signs Of
distress.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
In the Distant Future

Lord Reading says it is difficult to
do anything toward solving the Irish
question until everybody can agree on
program. which means that for \
long time it's going to be dihicult to
do anything toward solving the Irish
question
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
The Day
tFro@n Reedv's Mirror>

nOES God ever see the clock -
We hurry, hurry, hurry,
As though life were not
Measureless itself.
Threescore and ten
So that older men
Count their years
Like plunder;
SO that younger men, who die.
Having lived a whole lifetime,
Feel cheated.
Day comes here,
AS though there were not time enough
for another dawn
We seize it.
1t Is broken up into hours
As a city is broken up into streets.
And we travel YEARLY to the end Of
AS between narrow house-walIs.
III
It starts with an alarm clock.
How can there be greatness in day
That is led IN by bellwether,
A meek, Gods beast, to the charnel
house,
1t is weighed on the clocks ard appor-
toned:
Light, the tender white meat Of the day,
to the masters;
The black meat, the gall and the entrails
So is the day slaughtered.
So there shall be a time when the day
shall be like a meadow,
Open and free, with time like a bound
less sky,
And the pleasures growing like wild
flowers;
When life-spans shall be forgotten,
Where death shall be ford across a
river,
When shall not be crowded IN between
two hours,
When my sitting down shall not have
hanging over me the shadow OF
my getting up.
For this it is worth laying waste citiee,
And forgetting a civilization.
ISIDOR SCHNEIDER
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
Books as Stepping Stones
By Raymond B. Fosdick
Chairman of the Greater Mem York Committee "Books fol
Everybody Movement

Through the years since first the
printed page came into being books
have been praised without stint as most
effective stepping stones to success.
Even in the days Of the cave dwellers
the pictured story on cavern wall told
Of achievements to be emulated and
acted as stimuli to those whose for
tunes were less than those whose deeds
were roughly scratched on stone.
In the history of the United States,
in fact, in the history of the wor.i
many names stand out in high RELIEF,
the men who bore and bear them hav.
ing achieved through their own, un-
aided efforts that peak of success
which placed them on an eminence for
others to initiate. OF the men who
have attained these lofty SUBMITS
many are known as "self-made" and
Of these the great majority have at
I'trlbuted their success to the knowl-
edge they obtained from books. Self
schooled, they have overcome all OBJ
stacles and have won the battles of
life with the ammunition of informa-
ton they have obtained through the
printed page.
In the current issue Of who's Who
in America" are the names Of seventy
seven Americans who have won the
right to be included in that compen-
dunn Of the nations foremost citizens
and who have reached that eminence
through self-education There are
many others whose schooling has been
limited and who have supplemented it
by self-study. How large the number
of men in the world who have achieved
through their own efforts cannot be
estimated
Selt.Made Men
The vast opportunities in books we're
seized by such men as Thomas A. Edi-
son, andrew carnegie, James r. Hill,
railway king, and others of equal note.
What the study Of books did for Abra-
ham Lincoln is too we'll known to call
for mention. Each of these men was
or is self-made and each owes much
of his fame to the printed page They
are but few of the list that might
be complied.
With the great increase in the num-
ber of patrons of public libraries re-
ported from all sections of the United
States and with the expansion of the
library system as promoted by the
American Library Association and the
hmm Migrant Publication Society Books
for Everybody" movement, the path
way to self education for all people is
flung wide open. There are to-day in
the nation sixty million persons who
have limited or no library service and
who therefore are handicapped in OBJ
tanning the knowledge that good books
provide To reach this more than half
of the population. the American Ii.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

Yes ean purchase msrch sndlse ADVERTISED H. the
1heuAe wt'. aosote.o ssIsy.ies " aIssAtisfac-
- pas your money back request. No rsd tape.
We su!etns. VS. make GOOD sremetb II the
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
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The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-05-07
VIII Mexico Stabilize?

There is a feeling Of doubt among
publicists as 20 the ability Of the
Obregon peop's TO establish and
maintain * stable government in
Mexico. Carranza has been a fail
ure His foreign polity estranged
every other nation except Germany.
and his domestic policy was resented
by his own people Mexican people
are FESTIVE. They have been accus-
toned 10 dictators and oyerlords and
the common people have an inherent
suspicion OF and antipathy toward
the ruling power Obregon possibly
has executive ability. but with the
unorganized conditions and the popu-
lar ignorance OF MeXicans as 20 gov
eminent. IL will take time TO work
out a system OF progress and stabil-
ity. In the meantime jealousies will
spring up. more untutored and un-
reasoning elements will demand BEN
efits and promoters will project
schemes and will incite disloyalty
and dissatisfaction in the outlying
districts and possibly before the
authorities know IL. there may be a
new revolution hatched another
lease OF life taken on disorder
With sane foreign policy and an
active effort to give justice to the
native citizenship. and establish a
system OF education. there will be a
self-governing and prosperous peo-
pie In Mexico.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-05-07


Some time ago the children or the
late Rev. ID. II. Burt presented to
Rev. L. S. Knight. their fathers gold
headed cane. The two old ministers
were associated in their labors for
many years and were very close
friends.
Bro. knight appreciates the gift
to him of his friends cane and cx-
presses his feelings In the following
article:
An Appreciation
Very often in the lives OF men
there come occasions OF great joy
and appreciation, but many OF these
occasions are greater than others;
especially is this true in he life Of
the preacher. These words are in
expression OF a very great appre-
citation made possible by Mrs. Abbott
daughter OF my esteemed brother
and co-laborer, Rev. d. II. Burt, who
some months ago fell on sleep, and
her children. also Dan Burt. Mrs.
Della Brewer and Mrs j. II. c.
Burt. All who knew Bro. Burt
know that his last years were years
of physical weakness and suffering:
and during these years It was neces-
sary for him To lean on. his staff. a
beautiful gold-headed one. and of no
mean intrinsic value.
Recently this staff has been given
me by Mrs Abbott and her children,
ana these words are IN -Vpression of
the gratitude OF my heart for this
gifts so greatly priced. Il prize IT,
not so much for its intrinsic value.
but for the precious memory OF him
who so many times leaned upon il
himself. Then, too, prize It be-
cause ii comes to me at a time when
! specially need IL, for. like its for
mer owner, / have come TO days OF
physical weakness, and need its sup
port. Bro. Burt can never need It
again. but il still serves its useful
purpose and upon 1t am glad to
lean.
appreciate II more than can
say because OF the pleasant associa-
tion and fellowship which it was
mine to have with Bro. Burt for so
many years l appreciate it also be-
cause OF the spirit in which II was
given, and shall ever prize it among
. the highest OF my earthly goods
May heavens richest blessings rest
upon the precious memory OF the one
who laid It aside. and upon those
who so kindly gave II to me.
l.. S. Knight.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-05-07
We're Going to show Them

DR.. Lloyd and w. X Whipp,e OF
the West Texas Chamber OF Com
merce we're here this week to inter
est the people in the matter OF adver-
Using West Texas throughout the
Eastern and Northern States. EN-
hibits will be carried into those cour-
tries and airplanes will scout along
the way and those people up there
will learn some things about West
Texasthat they never knew before
They are looking for a train load
of sand storms, rattle snakes and
vinegar rones, but Wen show them
beautiful, balmy weather. fine viii e
face cattle. fat hogs. fast horses, fine
chickens, a bale OF cotton to the
acre. big bank balances carried by
farmers. tradesmen, merchants. hon
est men, elegant women. intelligent
children and democrats enough TO
swing Texas for Woodrow Wilson.
Good schools and a greater percen =
re OF Christian folks than anywhere
in the east and land as rich as any
and at about one-iourth the price OF
farm land in Illinois. Come to West
Texas.