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New-York tribune., 1920-03-15
The Housing Problem
Socialist Aldermen Demand
q Public Hearing

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The criticism By one Of your
readers in to-day's paper of the Jesse
rent commission might apply to the
raft of rent legislation low pending in
the state and city legislatures. Not
only are the bills half baked" bit
they do not even attempt to offer
permanent solution to the disgracefal
housing situation now confronting US.
Any plan adopted by the State or the
City of New York should be q comprs-
hensive, practical plan, with view to-
ward offering a permanent remedy
On February II introduced in the
Board Of Aldermen an ordinance call.
ing upon the City of New York to es.
tablish in its Department OF Plant and
Structures municipal housing bureau,
with the power Of building model
apartments on land owned by the city,
these apartments to be rented to the
people at the cost OF construction,
maintenance, amortization, taxes, etc.
From reliable architects | have Sc
cured figures which would give 81 per
room as the rate at which apartments
could be rented. This includes cost Of
land. Architects who have been con-
suited by city officials in Newark,
Jersey City and Camden have given
$3.50 per room as their estimate
In this respect the United States Is
decades behind European cities.
Throughout England and the Continent
the various municipalities have taken
1t upon themselves to provide housing
accommodations for their inhabitants
The problem has been aggravated to
point where it is beyond the jurisdic-
ton Of private enterprise and initiative.
1t Is not only municipal but national in
its scope and should be tackled by the
municipality and the government
1t is for this reason that my Socialist
colleagues in the Board Of Aldermen
have asked for a public hearing on
the entire housing situation and It's
proposed remedies. The housing or
dinance which l introduced is now in
the Committee of General Welfare Of
the Board Of Aldermen, of which Will
lam 7. Collins is chairman. There are
various other housing measures in this
committee, all of them restrictive, ana
am certain that Mr. Collins would be
IN favor of granting a public hearing
II ne believed tne sentiments Of the
people were for such hearing
ALEXANDER BRAUNSrEIN.
Alderman 32d District, Bronx
New York. March TO- 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-03-15
The Beauties of Chuck

Attorney General Palmer, whose
speciality is laundering in indexes
has another idea. bright if not new
Housewives should bring down the
price of choice cuts by buying the
humble chuck roast.
There is no question that buy
ing cheap cuts ought to make a diff
ference in household bills. But
there is no question that it doesn't.
Even the soupbone is up more than
the porterhouse and liver more than
prime ribs. To board dog has be-
come an expensive luxury. Teeth
are put into tough flers to no avail.
Thelo was a time when meat prices
v>rs TO come down through the uni
ytrsal purchase Of fish but Glouces-
New-York tribune., 1920-03-15
Corky's Latest Somersault

Maxim Gorky, the Russian novel
ist' seems once more disillusioned
with Bolshevism. First he was
Bolshevist, then he became violently
anti-Bolshevist, as The Tribune
some time ago showed by reprints of
series of his editorials from his
paper, the Nopoya Zshisn. Then
again Gorky turned front, Joined
the Bolshevist government, and an
nounced at public meeting held
in Petrograd in honor of his
conversion, presided over by Zino-
vleff, that he was sorry the Bolshe-
vlst authorities had not suppressed
his paper a great deal sooner and
thus prevented it interfering with
the glorious experiments of soviet
ISM. And now Gorky is disap-
pointed again. According to his
latest utterance carried by the cable
ne oilnes in great sorrow that Boil
shevism has created no new moral
and social values, and that the re-
olution in general has been a moral
and spiritual failure.
Says Gorky:
THE revolution has not been fol-
lowed by any spiritual revival and
has proved itself unable to make men
more honest. Men in power now are
Just as brutal as those in authority
under the imperial regime, and send
New-York tribune., 1920-03-15
The Object Lesson

Comrade Krassin, the Soviet Com
missary of Ways and Communities
tions, who is now one of the trium-
virs ruling Soviet Russia, gives en-
phatic evidence against communism
and doctrinairc socialism so far as
it inculcates communism.
Krassin, according to documents
from Russia which have reached
Paris, whose contents are summa-
rized by the correspondent Of Tho
Neao York Sun, acknowledges that
the Bolshevist experiment is a fail
ure. Life. he says, has proved
stronger than communistic doc
trines; and until we recognize," he
continues, "as absolutely impossible
the establishment of economic life
under our regime as it exists at
present we can do nothing"
The Russian revolution as q
political upheaval has never been
difficult to understand. In it's de-
velopment it has shown a progress
not unusual. First there was an
overthrow Of a bad government by
intelligent liberals who hoped for
orderly and altogether benefcent
change. Then ignorant leaders ap-
peared who bitterly charged that the
fruits of the revolution were being
lost. These demagogues, coming to
power by force, developed a central
lied despotism which reestablished
the substance Of the original tyr
amy. Now the prospect is that
the country will revert to the busi-
ness of developing freedom normally.
The Russian upheaval, after the
first stage, challenged attention as
en- economic rather than as politi-
cal revolution. Society was to be
organized on a new industrial basis.
Socialism, for the first time in his
tory, was to have large-scale ap-
plication. 1t is the latter under
taking which now is practically at
an end. After the present personal
tyranny is overthrow the political
revolution will doubtless be recog-
nized as marking a great advance.
And the attempted economic revo-
luton, although the experience has
been hard on the Russians, will be to
the worlds advantage. 1t is not
likely that other peoples for long
time will be unmindful of the Rus
sian lesson.
Krassin estimates that Russian
production has decreased 70 per
cent; that is to say, the average
Russian gets out of life only 80 per
cent of the materialities that were
his under czarism. Nothing moro
need be said. To diminish the ration
of any people nearly IS per cent is
a frightful thing.
If dogmatic socialism ever gets on
its feet again it will need to revise
it's books. Hitherto the Marxite has
dwelt solely on the inequities Of dis
tribution. Hereafter he must, like
all other economic theorists, put pro-
duction first.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-15
The Sense of Hoover

F. P. A.: AS one who "plays politics
by ear only" you have always seemed
to me a predestined supporter. Of Mr..
Hoover. and l am glad to SEQ you are
swinging to him. While nothing could
induce me to refer to your, or his,
possession of that unmentionable thing,
an S. Of H., think you would have ap-
preciated his opening remark on the
night the Civic Forum presented him
with its Distinguished Service Medal
After he had suffered for hours under
avalanches Of praise the moment for
reply came, and he began:
'Friends: Some one this evening
has referred to my modcsty.
shall never be able to prove it,"
Which, to my mind, proved the truth
of one thing said of him: that he could
express more in fewer words than any
man the speaker knew. M. B. S.
Bryan on Way to Lead Revolving
Democrats.-Tribune.
The Tribune oughtn't to be so parti
san, thinks Helen, who says that Rcpub-
licans are often as revolving as Demo-
Gratis.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-15
The Dry urk

10 the Editor Of The Triblne.
Sir: Referring to your correspond
ent's remarks about prohibition among
the Turks, in the following abstTact o.
work entitled Touring in Europe ID
16oo," By Z. S Bates. chapter V, pages
l92 ana 1913, it is stated on the author
lty Of Fynes Morrison and Others that
Alore general are the references 70
the increase of wine drinking in dea'
ance OF the prohibition of it by their
religion; a habit which was bound 70
be noticed by the traveller, since inc
ambassadors houses were used for 'ns
purpose principally, at first solely.
"One old gentleman in Busbecq's 'im'
tried to evade his conscience, too w
gave great shout before each drinA'
TO warn his soul to stow itself away IL
some far corner of his body lest !"
should be defiled by the wine he ~a'
about to enjoy and have hereafter ~
answer for his SIM Toward the eha -
the next century concealment "a'
abandoned, and at a Greek village ou''
side Adrianople. whittier an Engiis''
man went during plague time ~
found the population living by the 's''
of wine to the Turks. who came =
troops to get drunk" ]. III
Mount Vernon. N. Y, March III -
New-York tribune., 1920-03-15
The Coming Towcr
Love Song


My love is like a habit-forming
drug
Like whisky, that heartens a man;
Like opium, that brings sweet
dreams;
Like small beer for an idle mo-
ment;
Like champagne at banquet;
Like Peruna on the deacon's shelf
Like bottle Of wine at picnic;
Like rum before the battle.
Ny love is like a habit-forming
drug;
The more one has, the more one
wants.
WILL Lou.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-15

ter heard the news, and up went fsh
prices.
The substitution method in tho
cost-of living campaign is a failure.
1t does not provide even an alibi for
Mr.. Palmer.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-15
Usual

'From Tho Philadelphia Inquirer,
operators state there may be a big
increase in coal prices in April instead
OF the usual spring reduction"
!, AS we recall It. the usual spring re-
'dtction didn't occur last year. either.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-15
Cuba Libre

tFrem Tho St. Paul Daily Ne,os)
The modern conception Of Cuba Is a
mahogany island surrounded by brass
footrail.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-15
By
Hcywood Broun

compelling us to live in Brooklyn. we
hasten to add that we are drawing UP
TO general indictment against America
We are only contending that the proper
province of a satirist is attack and not
defense. There are faults in America,
and it seems to US that for the most
Fart AIDE lets them alone. A little
more beauty might serve to thicken
American life, we think, and yet in no
table which we can remember is AIDE
found taxing any American community
on the barrenness of its life. Quite the
contrary, he is always ready with his
Jlbe for the long haired poet, or the
artist, Or the Chatauqua lecturer. We
are not contending that these folk are
not vulnerable to attack. They are
only too easy. They are sitting birds
and short Holsters. They are preserved
pheasants and tame deer But our OBJ
jectlon lies not only because Ade goes
after such easy game with both bar
rels, but because he is essentially on
the wrong side. After all, there is
something pftiful and little fine in the
crudest attempt of an individual or a
community to reach out and get lit
tie color.
Another American satirist. Don Mar
quis, has succeeded in maxine the
phrase "a little group of serious
thinkers" reproach To be sure
there are plenty of posers who are
fairly hit by him, and yet isn't it true
that the grave defect of America is not
that we think too sententiously, but
that we think too carelessly; not that
we gather in little self appointed. high
ana mighty groups, but that we line
up IN mobs and masses which move of
their own momentum without thinkino
at all?
Anybody who accepts the facts act
forth in Edward Carpenters "Pagan
and Christian Creeds" (Harcourt
Brace & Howe) will find it hard to
reconcile orthodox Christianity TO
them. Mr.. Carpenter finds striking
similarity in the life of Christ and in
the lives of such pre- Christian deities
as Mlthra, Apollo, Attis, Isis, Horus,
baal, Astarte and others.
In almost every case there is the
belief of a miraculous birth. tom
porary defeat by the powers of dark
ness and resurrection from the dead.
Though, as we have said, it is no easv
task to fit this in with dogma, still
there may be something left for these
religionistss who find inspiration in .
common religious formula on the
ground that where there's so much
hoping there must be some fire.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-15
No more payments till June is.

And, Dulcy, won't the time fy7
b. p. A.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-15

You can't trust that German gov
ernment out Of your sight, can you ?
New-York tribune., 1920-03-15

There is illumination and pathos
despite unconscious humor-in the
following brief letter of a corre-
spondcnt in The NeqU Republic:
New-York tribune., 1920-03-15

The personnel of the Florodora soy
tette changed, we have heard, frequent
ly. The program Of the opening per-
1ormance is not in our possession, but
in May, 1901, the girls were Marjorie
Relyea, Challis Wyntcr, Daisy Green,
Catharine Sears, Alice Toland, and
Susan Drake.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-15

Calligraphers might enjoy drawing
checks to the order of The Hudson
County Boulevard Motorcycle Police
Benevolent Association.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-05-13
PARAGRAPHS
"A LITTLE NONSENSE NOW
AND THEN is RELISHED BY
THE BEST OF MEN.

Adown the stream of life. they said
Together peacefully they'd float;
But just as soon as they were wed
They both began to rock the boat.
A pistol is twice as dangerous when
the owner is loaded.
ftf
Nothing that does not come from
the heart can go to the heart.
TT
People buy Unfortunately on
credit and trust to the Lord to show
them a way to pay.
Some parts of church services are
much like reading the proceedings of
the previous meeting.
ftf
Conditions are now perfectly nor
NAL in Turkey, as the Turks are mas
sacring Armenians again.
ttf
If a nan knows how to make money
the world doesn't care much il he
doesn't know anything else.
TT
The reason stand before
the glass while dressing is because
they like to see what's going on.
ftf
A successful mar is not n who
has good luck, but one who inteili-
gently fought bad luck and won.
ftf
Prominent among the requisite gar
den tools is a plentiful supply of
rocks to throw at your neighbours
hens.
When an argument goes in n
ear and out of the other, maybe 1t
is just because there is nothing 10
stop its progress.
TT
We have no objection to trying a
limited quantity of provisions on
those B~olshevists, but not unless
there is to be a big stick follow-up if
the goulash fails to help.
TT
A paroled convict went back to
prison to complete his term because
the cost of living wa too high. 1t
will be an awful thing if the prof.
teers ultimatly drive all la%w-abiding
people to Jail to get food.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-05-13
PEACE Is
WARM STUFF

Everything is quiet now and no.
body is fighting except the Bolshevi2i,
Firms, Let's, Croatians, Italians, Ju-
go-Slavs, Czecho-Slavs, Gerrnan-Aus-
TRANS. Poles, Bavarian Soviets, Hun
garian revolutionists, Siberians, Lii
thuanians, Ukrainians and Mexicans.
We thought that everything had
been settled and that the sea had
been made safe for Annette Keller
mann and her mermaid movies, and
low every shipyard on earth is turn
ing out battleships, cruisers, scouts
and d~estroyers twenty-four hours Il
day, and the gun factories which were
going to begin making typewriters
and carpet sweepers with the first
sign of peace have increased the ca
pacity for guns. Battleships are be-
ing launched that have guns capable
of lying off San Francisco and knoci-
ing the dome off the courthouse in
Denver, Colo.
All of which shows that peace is
like mushrooms. 1t is hard to tell
at first glance whether it is the real
thing.
Peace is strong medicine. People
have to learn how to take it.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-05-13
| ANGELS
In DISGUISE

We have often heard of angels in
disguise. but never happened to run
into any of them until a day or so
ago, when the ear book of the Swift
Packing Company dropped upon our
rosewood CD roll top. Now we savvy
the whole business. We have been
using up all the bits of language that
we know anything about, and some
only guess at, hunting for new
names to hurl at the packing trust,
but we can see now that it is all
wrong. After a casual perusal of tie
Swift booklet it is apparent that they
belong in the class of the angels in
disguise.
1t is positively proven in the book
let that this outfit is doing business
solely for philanthrophy's sake, and
not for profit at all, for they are not
making profit. In fact. judging by the
magazine, they are losing a wad of
money big enough to choke a COW
every fifteen minutes.
1t is perfectly wonderful how a
fellow will get mistaken once in a
while, just by judging by what every
body else has to say. After reading
the pamphlet we are satisfied that
the people are all wrong and the meat
packers all right. After reading the
booklet there is no other conclusion
to arrive at.
The only thing that still puzzles US,
and is not cleared away, is the stub
born fact that before a fellow nego-
tiates for a T-bone steak he has first
70 negotiate with the local banker.
How can this be, when it is clearly
proven by the packers year book that
ley r losing money so fast that
unless something is done for them
they are going to fetch up in the
poorhouse. And in the meantime the
rest of us are trying to fight shy of
the bughouse.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-05-13
THE STARVING
OF MINISTER'S

In every normal person there is a
soul which hungers after righteous
ness. Neither the individual nor the
community life is complete without
stimulus of it's moral energies.
The trolley car would not run IL the
power houses were shut down or the
communications broken. The church
is the power house and religion the
motive power of moral progress.
Today our country is confronted
with a slowing down and may have
to face the shutting off of much of It's
religious power. The church, through
it's ministry, is being starved out.
REIMBURSEMENT of incomes to meet
abnormal costs has gone far, but IT
has not yet reached the bulk of the
clergy. Never well paid, these SER
wants of humanity are just now I'M
dergoing economic cruciixion.
Practically every other group has
organized to exact a living wage.
Preachers as a class are meek. They
suffer and are silent. But many are
being forced into other lines of WORK,
and their going leaves a gap in So
ciety's equipment for the future.
This, of course, is not a new story.
1t has been told before. Rut it is
our duty to understand what 1t means
1t means moral decay unless soon
remedied. And moral decay is not
something that good Americans want
to have happen in this dear land of
ours.
This newspaper believes it is in
cumbent upon everybody who values
morals to lend a hand to strengthen
the institutions of religious training.
The first step necessary is to make
the ministry attractive to men with
a capacity for moral leadership.
That cannot be done on a basis of
starvation pay.-[San Francisco Ex-
aminer.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-05-13
THE GUM
SHOE CAMPAIGN

The old-time "gum-shoe' campaign
was a great game. 1t would be run
ming along without manifestation o.
popular interest. All the prophets
would be forecastfng a tight vote. Il
would be considered that the appar-
emily leading candidate was so much
superior to his competitor, that he
could hardly fail for election.
Yet when election day came, the
solid candidate of the ~respectablcs
would be buried, and the supposed:
helpless representative of the gum
shters was triumphantly elected
uoralists would utter piteous walls
about the decline of popular intelli-
gence.
There was no mystery about thai
campaign. The trouble with the re
spe ctable candidate was that he hat
no organization. No one was inter.
ested to work for him. There was
such general confidence, that a larg.
body of his supporters did no bother
to vote.
Meanwhile, all through the cam
paign, and for many weeks previous
the gum-shoers had been at work
Quietly the word had been Slipped
around among the boys" that then
man was the real thing and prepared
to come across" 1t is ASTONISHING
how far and how Thoroughly such in.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-05-13
TWO SPOTS
AND H ANSWER

Many farm workers going to the
city, because there is more excite
ment" there. Yes, they will find ii
highly exciting trying to raise enough
money to pay the profiteering lanG-
lords.
About now it is time for our dear
erlonds. the city folks, to come out in
the country and harness up the Old
nag with the crupper in his mouth.
The sidewalks of a town are tine
great democratic leveller. open to all.
inviting all to come in and trade.
When you improve the walks of Win
nemucca you make the town more
attractive to every element of peo-
pie.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-05-13

Cheerfulness, kindness, gracious
ness and tenderness are the rubber
tires which lessen the jolt when lifes
vehicle strikes the rough places.
The old hen with a lot of feathers
on her legs doubtless thinks the
Young chickens are immodest to ex-
pose their u~nfeathered drumsticks.
TT
New York has opened up a club
for widowers. That is well enough
as far as it goes, but won't somebody
kindly do something for we poor hus-
bands?
The improvident who spent money
faster than he could make it was re-
garded as a ne'er-do-well, but Uncle
Sam spends it faster than he can
borrow it.
A Scottish soldier who had a leg
shot away said ne would not have
minded it so much, only three shil-
lings in the pants pocket of that leg
got blown away, also.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-05-13
IDEAS TERSELY PUT

\. Talk about the weather; you
4. probably know something about
Q il.
Z. Hon. J. w. Gerard still thinks
. he is running for President.
I. Most of the signed columns
. in the dailies are sheer punk.
A fellow feels sort of run down
/. when hit by an auto.
/. Don't dress so loud, you give
/. everybody else earache.
. In spite of the patent medi-
. cine ads the doctors thrive.
o Unless times have changed
o well all lose everything, except
o the mortgage.
o ouija and hash are both full
. of mystery.
o At twenty-one we knew every
. thing, but out grew it.
9 The Turk Sultan asks for JUS
o tice. He ought to get it-double
. strength.
. Europe, having burned up Its
9 wealth. now asks us for ours.
q There are two sides TO a
o problem-our side and the wrong
o side.
o Capital and labor both suffer
o from the Red element.
o o 90
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-05-13

formation can carry, and how large
a vote can be brought out, without the
knowledge of the so-called respect
able" element. All kinds of preju-
dices and a%ntagonisms and personal
and selfish appeals are worked under
the surface.
In these days of publicity, success
full campaigns of tbs type are more
difficult. Yet this game is constantly
being pulled off, and always will be,
as long as men are selfish and in
different to vicic duty.-[Elko Free
Press.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-05-13
FIVE YEARS AGO

A meeting of the local C~hautuaqua
will he held this evening at which
time Ernest J.. Sias, business agent
for Ellison-White, will answer all
ouestions of a business nature that
may be propounded.
Professor J.. G.. Scrugham OF the
university and r. A. Allen arrived IN
his city Yesterday to gather data on
pumping and irrigation in this vlcin-
ity
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-05-13
In Years Gone By
TAKEN FROM THE FILES
OF THE SILVER STATE
Z YEARS AGO

Drilling has been resumed by the
G. O. d. oil company at Sulphur, after
an extended lay-off caused by iach
of casing.
w. G. Adamson has returned from
a trim to the East where he arranged
for the financing of the lntermoun-
tain Metals Mining Company.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-05-13

One thing we can do to Germany
maybe when the treaty is revised is
to wish our wooden ships on her.