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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-08

baseball generally. 1t must be OH the
theory that baseball team going into
different States 10 play series of
league games is in the eye Of the
law an organization engaged In or
carrying on interstate commerce. We
imagine this view would amuse the
trainers of the Constitution.
They did not foresee, however, that
a man who stole a watermelon out of
a Georgia freight car at the Pennsyl-
yania Station in this city would be
triable for the offence not in a court
OF the State Of New York but In a
court established and maintained by
the national Government. So far have
we gone in extending the scope of
Federal power to the detriment Of the
jurisdiction of the several States.
The truth is that baseball will per-
sh from off the face Of the earth as
great national game If we are
forced TO rely upon acts Of Congress
or State legislation to purify 1t and
keep IL pure. That will have to be
done, If it is done at all, by the play
ers themselves and the organizations
which bring and keep them together
and provide the great arenas that are
necessary for the maintenance of the
game in its highest estate.
The people will not long continue 70
attend baseball games if they have
any doubt rs to the honesty of the
players. The vast sums of money
which they now contribute to the
maintenance of baseball will fade
away into nothing unless the owners
Of the clubs, with the cooperation of
the players take steps which they
alone can take to keep the conduct Of
the players above all suspicion Of
dishonesty
In the estimation of too many good
people the sovereign remedy for every
political or social evil seems to be to
pass a law What the community
really needs in regard to baseball and
anything else that happens to be tenn
porarily under suspicion is not new
law but old fashioned honesty.
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Register-and Enroll.

No matter what changes the Leg
islature of 1921 makes in the primary
and election laws, party management
will remain the privilege and the
only opportunity citizens of this city
will have to enroll will be when they
register this week.
Therefore. not only is the right Of
every individual to vote In the cleo
ton next month dependent on his or
her registration this week, but also
the privilege of taking part In the
preliminary campaign for Mayor,
Comptroller, President of the Board
Of Aldermen and other city officers
next year is conditioned on the same
political circumstance.
Those who register this week may
vote on November and may enroll
when they register and share in the
direction of party affairs next year.
Those who do not register this week
cannot vote this year or participate
in party management next year.
Thus the qualified men and women
who register and enroll this year will
be prepared to perform their civic du-
ties completely, while those who do
not go to the places of registration
will be mere spectators, without power
or authority in the determination of
governmental affairs Of supreme i'm
portance to them.
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w. MURRAY CRANE.
Fine Qualities Shown In Public Life
and Among His Friends.

To THE New YORK HERALD The well
deserved tributes paid former Senator
Crane will touch a responsive chord with
hosts of friends everywhere and with
all who knew his qualities of heart, mind
and purpose.
His kindly and transformations bearing.
with rare humanitarian sympathies en-
deared him TO his aeighbors, the people
OF Massachusetts and the nation His
exceptionally clear mind and superior
Judgment made his advice constantly
sought By those carrying. as did Mr.
Crane, large responsibilities.
To his old friend and associate the
late Theodore n. Vail he was a con-
tinual source of inspiration and conf
oence, both men being Possessed of SIM
liar traits of character and sympathetic
cooperation. This intimate association
calls to mind an incident referred to in
my appreciation OF Mr.. VAN published
in the magazine section of your paper
On May 2 last
About the time of the opening of the
San Diego and San Francisco EXPOSE
lions in 1915 / happened to meet the
two men, who were taking luncheon to-
gether. In referring to the remarkable
exhibit of the telephone company at San
Francisco, just then installed. l asked
Mr.. Vail II he intended attending the
exposition. With a twinkle in his eyS
and kindly smile he looked at Mr.. Crane
and replied Perhaps so if my boss gives
his consent" This humorous expression
indicated beneath the surface the cordial
feeling and true friendship between these
two great men.
Just few days prior to Mr.. Cranes
leaving New York to attend the Chi
cago convention in June in conversation
with me he expressed deep interest in
the result that would follow. and was
then hopeful that good would come out
of the convention. mentioning his own
preference for candidate who he
thought would bring order out of the
iumult and uncertainty regarding the
League of Nations.
Mr.. Cranes sudden and untimely loss
will be keenly felt by the whole coun-
try. FREDERICK w. KELSEY.
NEW YORK. October Z.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

The Merchants Association will give q
luncheon In honor of representatives OF the
Association OF British Chambers of Com
merce, Hotel Aston, ~ 80 r. NJ.
James NJ Beck Will speak on 1.-The Issues
of Nineteen Twenty" before the Marquette
Club. Hotel Plaza, S:15 Z. NJ.
marlborough Association of Women Teach
ers. annual meeting, Manhattan Trade
School for Girls, Lexington avenue and
Twenty-second street. I. NJ.
J. ID. Flynn will speak Preparedness
After Peace" at n meeting of the Veteran
Association of Women War Workers, Hotel
Pennsylvania, 8 80 T. NJ
w. Bourke Cochran and Lieut.. Gov. Harry
9. Walker will speak at mass meeting In
Tammany Hall, +. NJ.
League of American Pen Women. dinner.
Hotel McAlpin, p. NJ.
Womens Democratic Club of New York.
meeting, Hotel Commodore, i. NJ.
Confect!oners and Ice Cream Manufacture
ers. meeting, Hotel Aston, +. NJ.
"Glimpses OF Peru and Its People," Illus
trated lecture by Charles Wellington Fur
long. Brooklyn Academy OF Music, Lafayette
avenue, Brooklyn. T. M
National Association OF Box Manufacture
ers, meeting. Hotel Commodore, all day.
Century Theatre Club. meeting, Hotel COM
modore, . p M
Meeting of the, Writers Club at Allaires.
143 East Seventeenth street. All New York
writers invited.
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SEAMEN TO BE SAILORS,
SAYS NEW u. S. ORDER
Men on Shore Duty Must Ga
AfIoot in Neuo Policy.

BosroN, Oct. THE Navy Depart
ment to-day ordered revision of forces
on shore duty to the end that non-rated
enlisted men have as much actual sea
service as possible.
Under the new plan all firemen. third
class, and seamen, second class must go
to sea, and district commanders are di-
rected also{to replace as rapidly as pos
sible men OF other enlisted grades who
have not served afloat with those who
already have their sea legs.
Petty officers also must have salt
water experience and those who have
been ashore for two years. or have never
been at sea, will be assigned to duty
with ships.
The order lays down new policy. two
years being set as the normal period for
shore duty, and men who have served
continuously at sea for six years or
more getting their choice of sea or shore
stations.
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A Tour Temerarious.

A candidate who bears n name
Held high throughout tho West
(Nvhere its dead owner won great fame,
And did Il with such zesD.
IL now about TO start tour
In hope 70 make election sure.
And aa he rises from his seat
A noble chest he'll throw.
Aud folks their horny hands will beat
The while their hearts will glow.
Anticipating heights OF speech
THAT one OF that name ought 20 reach.
And NJ they wait that well known thrill.
Eyes on his ornate front.
Their feelings VIII begin 20 chill.
md some old chaps VIII grunt.
As words and words pellucid drool
And wandering wits Just gather wool.
The bard Of Avon hit the white,
As he was wont 10 do.
when he had Romeo say one night
AZ he bcpan 20 WOO
whats IN a Manner" The West will break
Away and say. you said H. shakel"
MAURICE MoRRrs.
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SHARKS HELP US OUT.
They Can Be Cooked In Thirty Ways.
Besides Furnishing Leather.

To THE New York HERALD wish to
call attention TO the fact that our Gov
eminent has issued not less than thirty
recipes for the preparation of palatable
and delicious dishes of shark meat
Now the killing Off Of such wolves of
the deep means first an increased supply
of food; second, a supply OF valuable
leather. and third, more fertilizers for
the soil. besides increase In the numbers
of other smaller fish which now are de-
voured by the sharks.
Some of these sharks weigh over ton
each. and. besides giving direct food for
humans. furnish each 100 square feet Of
superior leather. 1000 pounds of the best
fertilizers and about thirty gallons Of oil.
worth between $50 and $50 a gallon.
Verify the world IL full Of wonders.
GUSTAV II. AMBER.
New York. October I.
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Borah's Sledge Hammer on the
Covenant Soph;stry.

President WILSON flicks a dialectiC
rapier, Senator BoRAH swings sledgt
hammer. BoRAH'S too Is sledgt
hammer of morals as well as foo
pounds, of honesty as well as dynam
les. Let him be for or let him bt
against AR. WILSON'S Covenant, wht
has said anything straighter, truel
and stronger than these words OF
BoRAH's at New Haven on Wednes
day evening:
THE Presidents last letter to the
public informs us that Article X does
not interfere with the right OF Con-
gress to declare war or not to de-
clare war. I can conceive of but one
way that Congress could get out of
declaring war in case of the invasion
OF territory of a member of the
League. and that would be to violate
and wholly disregard the plain terms
of the treaty and to rend in pieces
the League Covenant itself.
THE President has said heretofore.
upon a very solemn occasion, that
Article X. constitutes a supreme
moral obligation upon the part of our
nation, which moral obligation he
declared to be more binding than an
obligation of law or contract.
Congress is but an agent of the
nation. and in refusing to carry out
n solemn promise would brand our
whole people with dishonor and moral
turpltude. Are we about TO enter
into some kind OF monstrous combi-
nation In which supreme moral obli-
cations are to be disregarded when
the exlgency arises? Are we about
to enter into scheme which we are
either to carry out at great untold
sacrifice to our people. or refuse to
carry out at the cost of national
honor and national decency?
IF we go into this scheme and the
hour comes when the United States
must choose between the faithful exc
cution of its treaty or It's shameless
violation our people will choose the
path OF honor. and execute II even at
the cost Of treasure and blood"
And. unbendlng in his rugged sens,
OF our solemn obligations under tn,
compact once we have made Ii, wht
has described with a more vivid an,
startling picture It's consequences thar
BoRAH has In these words:
by Congress the President under the
League pact could send 1000 Amer
lean boys to Siberia or Russia--not
TO make war but to police the coun-
try. and the boy who goes to bed a
policeman wakes up to find himself
soldier And the President could
do that without consulting Congress
for a moment.
your boy might be ready to die
for Justice, he might be willing TO die
In the cause OF another people Tight
ing for liberty. but under the COM
pact you tie him down to die for a
piece OF real estate"
II Is with nothing less than a flash
Of genius that Senator BoRAH expose.
the pretence and trickery OF the VII
son political sophistIy while under
his thunderous blows the Covenant
itself is pulverized
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THE RENT LAWS.
Justice Kelby's Decision In May Cited
to Uphold Their Constituti0nality.

To THE New YORK HERALD: The edi-
torial article entitled THE Constitu-
tionality OF the Rent Laws Is very dis
quieting TO thousands of individuals in
the city. many OF whom are financially
unable to pay increased rents or to liti-
gate questions concerning their right to
hold over in premises occupied by them
up to October I.
The real estate owners are thoroughly
we'll organized and are in position TO
avail themselves of the ablest legal tall
emit in the city. To that extent they are
in a much more favorable position than
the individual tenant. Your suggestion
that 'the most serious doubt which We
have seen suggested as to the validity
OF the rent laws enacted at the recent
special session relates to their effect as
an impairment of the obligations Of pre-
existing contracts has been fully an
swered by the courts of this State.
Mr.. Justice Kelby discussed this ques-
ton exclusively in the case of Kuenzli
VS.. Stone. reported in 112 Misc, 1875, in
an opinion handed down In May last.
The court had under consideration the
laws passed last winter. which had for
their purpose meeting the requirements
of the housing situation.
Judge Kelby points out that the leg
islation Is a proper exercise of the police
power of the State; that its purpose is
to promote the welfare of the more
thickly populated sections of the State
by reason of a shortage in the supply
of housing facilities that the purpose
sought to be accomplished was within
the power of the Legislature to consider.
and that the law as passed was consti-
tutional.
The legislative act under review. as
the court said, having been passed I'M
der the circumstances above noted, 1t
must be held to be valid exercise OF
power. and. for that reason, 1t cannot be
said that the law is void by reason OF
impairing the obligation of contracts
The more recent action of the Legisla-
ture in this State falls within the above
description and has for its purpose the
same character of relief as was offered
in the legislation passed In the early
part of the year. ORMsBY McHARG.
NEW YORK. October Z.
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LEGION IS ACTIVE FOR
BOND ISSUE FOR BONUS
State to Vote in November on
S45, O00,0 Fund.
spec,ar Despatch to THE HERALD.

Albany, Oct 1.-THE American Le-
glon is actively working for adoption
of the proposition that the State issue
s45. 100000 in bonds for bonuses for
New York State men and women who
served in the world war. which ts one
of the two questions to be submitted to
a vote of the people at the coming olec-
ton. The bonus referendum Is author
lied by a bill introduced In the Assem-
bly, by Miss Marguerite l.. Smith OF New
York at the regular session.
II adopted. all men and women In the
army, navy. marine or Red Cross service
between the time this country entered
the world war and the arfnistice Will be
entitled to n bonus OF $40 for each
month Of service. the minimum allotment
TO be $50 and the maximum $3.50. Con-
scicntious directors and those dishon-
orably discharged will not benefit by
the bonus. 1t also does not apply to
officers in the army with the rank of
Captain or higher or In the navy with
the rank of Senior Lieutenant or higher.
The immediate relatives of those who
died or were killed in the service will
get their share.
A commission 10 be created by the
next Legislature, IL the bonus bond issue
is adopted. VIII administer the s45,-
OO0 900 fund. as well as provide for a
disability fund for permanently disabled
soldiers Any money not accepted by
men or women entitled to II will go into
this fund II ls expected that many
wealthy ex-servlce men will turn their
bonus back TO the commission. The sol
der bonus bonds will pay 5 per cent.
interest. and their duration will be
twenty-five years.
TIE second proposition 10 be voted
for IL constitutional amendment max
ing technical changes in the manner OF
handling the States finances.
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The Action OF Some Tenants In SELF.
ing Other Peoples Property.

To THE NEW York HERALD: When 7
read of DR.. s9nborn and wife being
held prisoners In their own home by
a tenant whose lease had expired. but
who under the claim Of protection by
the laws enacted by our legislators ut
Albany refused TO vacate, and Of the
twentr tenants who, as stated by your
correspondent m. NJ. r." repudiated
their leases and now defy the owner. 7
venture to suggest that all Socialists
have not been expelled from the Leg
Islature. TAXPAYER.
New YORK, October Z.
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narding with Cummins In Iowa.

With his homespun devotion to
American traditions and his manly
practice of American principles, it
could not fail to give WARREN G.. HAIR
DING satisfaction to go into Iowa,
where temporary illness debars Sena-
tor CUMMINs from making an active
personal canvass for reelection And
TO have had Mr.. HARDING go there
could only rejoice the heart of indie
pendent. self-reliant American citizen
ship.
Senator CUMMINs is now the OH
jet of repulsively un-American as
saultS because in the matter of rail
way legislation he refused to do the
bidding of public ownership marplots
and labor union bosses No member
of the Senate had given deeper
study TO the railway problem. No
member of Congress in either branch
had acquired a more thorough under
standing of the pressing dangers Of
the transportation system and the i'm
perative needs Of the country for bet
ter carrying facilities and sounder
railroad foundations. But his great
for him the bitter hatred OF special
classes.
Senator CUMMINS long had favored
public regulation of rates. At one
period he inclined strongly TO a control
which savored of State management.
But from his very mastery of the
railway problem he came to full
understanding of the hopelessness Of
q solution through Government own
ership or operation. From his grasp
of the rock bottom details of the
plight of the roads and of the needs
of the country he gathered a clear
realization Of the fact that If the
railroads were starved by the rate
making power the public could not be
served by the railroads. From his
out this vast national problem he
reached the conclusion that the roads
not only must be restored from the
Government touch Of death to the
live, active, ambitious handling of
private management but must be pro-
tected, to the extent that such pro-
lection was possible and practicable,
from wanton strikes as disastrous to
the nation as to the roads.
1t was then that the Government
ownership browbeaters and labor
union blackjackers threatened to drag
him out of the United States Senate
II he dared TO serve the American
public instead of obeylng their COM
mand. And 1t was when he dcfed
them and at the impairment of his
health performed his heavy labors to
save the railroads for the good of the
country that they blatantly pro-
claimed that he had forfeited his
political life.
Since that hour the brOwbeaters
and blackjackers have been conduct.
ing against Senator CUMnNs a cam
palgn of unmitigated political lnfamy.
The stalwart and rugged manhood ~
Iowa knew how to meet such gentry
In the primaries when Senator CUM
MINIS, up for denomination, was over
whelmlngly named. The same sta,-
wart and rugged manhood of Iowa
knows how to meet such gentry now
when Senator CUAfMINs is up for re-
election. But the country can take ana
does take pride In seeing Senator HAIR
DING. In his simple, unaffected way Of
doing the right thing, stand up in
Iowa by the side of the faithful. the
stanch and the well deserving CUM
MINIS.
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FRIDAY. OCTOBER s. 1920.
Governor Cox Views the Horizon.

This eloquent but apparently not
entirely original figure of speech
shapes the concluding paragraph of
an article on campaign issues pre-
pared by Governor JAMES NJ. Cox and
printed in the american Legion Weekly
of October /
"A new vision unfolds itself as we
stand viewing the horizon. May we
keep our faces turned toward 20
morrow. Let those who prefer the
darkness look fondly on the deepen
ing twilight of reaction"
Reaction Reaction from what is
apprehended by the Coxian seer of
horizontal visions?
The answer is ready ut the tip of
the tongue and at the nib of the pen.
Reaction not from American princi-
pies or American progress or Ameri-
can interests; only from self-deter-
mined and self-established autocracy
in the Executive. from fatal submer-
gence in n Enthusiastically conceived in
ternational upergovernment. from Il
course pointing straight TO a revolu-
ton as destructive in It's way as revo-
luton by Soviet.
In other words. reaction from viii
sonism. In other words. again, the
reaction Of returning national health
and restored political sanity. COP
speed that sort Of reaction!
IT IS personally characteristic of the
loose mouthed candidate who sees in
the coming doom of wisconsin moth
ing but the deepening twilight of
reaction" that he should not be salts
fed TO allow the question of Ameri-
cas- tomorrow TO rest upon this su-
preme and clearly defined issue. That
would not he Coxian. SO in this re-
markabe addition through the Ameri-
can Legion Weekly to his previous
and politically valuable essays at self
revelation, Governor Cox has the eff
frontery TO recur TO "the huge cam
paign fund which has been raised for
sinister and evil purposes" Hear him,
not on August !, or on September l..
but actually on October l.
1T was an hour al sad and de-
pressing to me as TO any citizen Of
this Republic when I was directed by
conscience to present the evidence to
the people Of the United States.
The Presidency was to be sold
use their term-and selling implies
a barter and an exchange. I
would that the issues might have
been discussed on other lines, but
pledge you that while this campaign
lasts this subject will be kept before
the American people. The tohole
story shan be knoton ir all It's de-
tdus. We SHAH expose the cancer"
All! There you are, Old False.
penny Still promising!
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AMERICA SAVES 100000 LIVES.
Near Enst Relief Secretary Tells
of Work Done.

At least half n million persons are
living to-day In the Near East who
would have persisted had IL not been for
relief sent from America, Charles V.
Viclrey, general secretary of the Near
East Relief, told the executive commit
tee of that organization yesterday. He
recently returned from an extensive in
spection trip through Armenia and other
countries OF the Caucasus, where the
Near East Relief operates.
Although, he said. the Armenian peo-
Die were rapidly recuperating from the
paralysis caused by the war he declared
thousands would die of starvation this
winter unless further aid is given from
America. Summarizing the financial
operations OF the organization. Mr.. Viclt-
rey reported SAL 900 900 had been col
lected and administered. and the contri-
buttons Of flour by the United States
Grain Corporation, he said. brought tho
total to considerably in excess VI
$50, 900 900"
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A Florida Warning.

Fort Mccoy correspondence ocdic Borner.
Tho subject Of Hell Bound Church Mem
her. was ably discussed last night at the
BalIier series Of meetings by the Rev. G. ".
Reeb. II was very convincing that tho
devil with his long handle shovel OF decen-
lion "a shoveiiing mortal souls into outer
darkness by the million. Everybody stop
and think.
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Perhaps the District Attorneys Office
insists there is a master mind In the
baseball scandal because NIcKY Arm
STEIN. the alleged master mind of Wall
Street bond thefts. was obliging enough
to surrender to the authorities.