The New York herald., 1921-09-22
recklessness.
Keen After Com binations.

recklessness.
Keen After Combinations.
"It may. accordingly. be necessary for
me To confine nay activities this fall to
a Statewide campaign TO offset this
propaganda directed against those can,
didates for the Legislature, IRRESPECTIVE
of party, who refuse TO commit them
selves to our programme of legislation
IAN election for Mayor is OF course an
important event in the affairs of the
city, and particularly at this time when
the city Is in deplorable financial condi-
ton. But that is, after all, Il local mat
ter as compared with the nationwide
Importance of the problems of the Lock
wood committee. Mayors may come and
mayors may go without creating rip
pie upon the surface of our national
existence, while, on the other hand, the
very life blood of the country is bound
up in the suppression ot the criminal
combinations that are still infesting our
industries and that are artificially keep
ing up the cost of living in times OF
unprecedented growing distress, breed
ing social discomfort
This condition is further aggravated
by the diversion of the savings OF the
people which are held in the life and
fire insurance companies and banks
from the legitimate channels where they
belong into Wall Street and other spec
ulative securities.
1--WE have destroyed and punished the
local blackmailing labor leaders, but we
have not yet quite broken up that nest
of criminal conspirators in Thirty-thrd
street that is still nesting under the
protecting wing Of the Building Trades
Employers Association nor have we
progressed as far as I would have liked
on the herculean task of falling the men
connected with the industrial combina-
tions with which the entire country is
honeycombed in well nigh every line Of
industry. These are tasks that may well
defect ono from a very keen interest in
a local campaign.
1T is a source OF regret to me that
Senator Lockwood accepted the nomina-
ton for Comptroller. His present work
is so much more important. He has
been veritable tower of strength, and
II is going to be difficult to get along
without him. especially when 1t comes
to putting through our legislation in
the Senate. There Is not any too much
progressiveness in that body as now
constituted. Senator Lockwood has
splendid integrity and the courage to do
the right thing at all costs. In this
business l have seen him go up against
influences that threatened his political
made of the stuff of which there is SO
much need and so little to be found in
our public life
Looked Into Zion Movement.
Il shall go carefully over the situation
and shall then determine on my course"
Mr.. Untermyer, who was accompanied
abroad by Mrs. Untermyer. visited each
of the principal countries of Europe and
talked with the leaders of the Zionist
movement. He would not discuss the
recent aspects of the movement in adj
vance of a conference with his associates
in the United States, but added that he
probably would have a statement to
make in few days. Mr. Untermyer re-
asserted his position in the current con-
troversy by declaring that. while he was
in favor of national home in Pales-
tine, he was not a nationalist in the
sense that he believed Jewry shoald
segregate itself and establish an in
dependent or supergovernment in any
country.
Opinion in England, Mr.. Untermyer
said, looked for a settlement of the
Irish question that would be satisfactory
to both sides.
Beyond admitting that he had acted
for Geraldine Farrar In legal capac-
/
Quoted and investigation of the career
of Lou Tellegen, Miss Farrar's actor
husband. Mr.. Untermyer would not dis
cuss the case. He said he would have
nothing to say until after he had con-
ference with Miss Farrar, on her return
from the Pacific coast Mr.. Untermyer
declined also to discuss the reports that
he would act for Alexander Smith Coch-
ran in divorce proceedings that II was
said would be instituted by his wife.
the former Nine. Gamma Walska, Polish
prima donna. whose operate aspirations
in America have been disappointment
to her friends.
Mr.. Unternyer admitted that he re-
presented Mr.. Cochran and that he ex-
pected to receive a number OF cables
when he reaches his Office to-day. Until
he had gone over these, he said. he
would have nothing to say, although he
did let it be known inferentially that
an action of some sort was pending, by
the announcement that Dudley Field
Malone, who Is a passenger on the La
| fayette, would represent Mrs. Cochran.
The Lafayette is due from france to-
morrow.