New-York tribune., 1921-11-01
Untermyer Is
Out Flatly
For Curran

CONTINUED hsm psas sns)
docks and markets are pawns in a
political game. do not believe that
the people will support this bumptious
vulgarian for another four years.
Addresses were also made by Senator
Lockwood, f. H. La Guardia, DR.. Henry
Moskowitz and Mae NJ. Goodwin.
Mr.. Untermyer opened his speech
with a reference to remarks made nS
the Mayor to Jewish audience IN a
synagogue chat had honored Prof fessor g 9.
Albert Einstein, the noted sclent's''
and Dr.. Chain Wcizmann, on thctr re-
cent visit to this city. Mr.. Unternyer
characterized the action as vulgar
lid for votes of those OF the Jewish
! faith
He then took up the Hcttrick price
G.ing scheme and told no" the Lock
wood committee found "a mass OF COM
promising correspondence between the
Mayor and Hettrick, the man whom the
| Mavor had solemnly swore he did not
know. although they had been intimates
| FOR years. from their police court days,
and although the letters repeatedly re-
ferrcd to meetings between them"
Mr.. Untermyer said that large
eroup of the business men involved IN
| these price fixing operations had de-
| cided to oppose the election Of Senator
Lockwood he insisted that "the man
who shielded you" be protected at the
polls on Election Day.
He then tore to shreds the Mayor $
claim that the credit for the improve
ment in the housing situation belonged
TO him and his administration. he de-
clared that the law against rent prof
itecrng was prepared by the Lockwood
committee without the assistance OF
the Mayor or any one connected with
his administration and that the tax ex-
cmption law likewise was recommended
by the Lockwood committee, while the
resolution putting the law into effecs
was the work of Mr.. Curran. Tenants
were represented in the courts by
Messrs. Guthrie, Cohen, Sammls and
Hershkopf, he said, and Che Mayor and
his "co-operating counsel" had nothing
TO do with these cases.
Claim "Une1ampled Impudence'
"Words simply fail one in the effort
to adequately characterize this unex-
ampled piece Of impudence," comment
ed Mr.. Untermycr.
Mr.. Untermycr then went into the
transit situation. He said there were
many things which right-thinking
Mayor might do for the maintenance
of the five-cent fare against all odds,
and added:
eve will employ experienced law
yers of ability to test the constitutions
ality of the law If the city fails on
that issue we will appeal to the Legs
lature for such notifications in the law
as will. at least in measure, protect
the city, which is made absolutely help
less and defenseless under the present
law. all of which Major Curran now
pledges himself to do as part of his
campaign against the commission plan.
There are all sorts of expedients to de-
feat this plan still open to the man
with brains who knows how to use his
weapons. just as there were many ways
of avoiding our present predicament II
for the last three years and ten months 5
we had had that kind of man in
Office.
"And so it is that I have until now
refused to take part in this Mayoralty
contest and have confined my support
to Senator Lockwood (who has demon
strated by his record that he is devoted
to the Scent fare and determined to
restore and maintain it) until Major
Curran this morning declared himself
in way that leaves no room for doubs
as to where he stands.
And now again l asS has the Mayor
plan? If so, what is it? And in
what respects does it differ from the
admirable plan outlined by Major Cur
ran? VIII he give the voters this
answer, to which they are entitled, or
will he be satisfied to continue shout
ing about the interests?
"This camoui1aged shout for five
cent fare means nothing. In order to
succeed you mus. have a plan in op-
position to the commission plan. The
Mayor has had three years and ten
months to present such plan. He
has done nothing. 1t was his failure
to act that gave Governor Miller and
the traction interests their opportunity
to foist upon us this carpet-bag COM
(! mission with its barometer fare, that if
enacted would sound the death knell
Of the fve-cent fare and would mean
more; who knows? | cannot forgive
Governor Miller and the Legislature
that outrage upon the principle of
home rule. But the initial responsible
ity is with the Mayor for having made
such situation possible.
81 find Major Curran's plan most in
teiligent and we'll considered in all the
fundamentals that are necessary to
restore the five-cent fare with un:ver-
sal free transfers, although it is lacking
in details that | would like to see there.
His unalterablc antagonism to the
sliding scale feature which is the KEY
stone to the arch of the commission
plan is particularly gratifying. Ii
after this any voter can be fooled into
believing that we are as likely to have
five-cent fare with free transfers
restored and maintained with Hylan
in the Mayors chair as with Curran
there, it is either because he won't use
his reason or cannot see straight.
~ predict for you now that if Mayor
Hylaa Is reelected you viii nave foist-
ed upon you within two years there
after that sliding scale fare scheme
that will ALWAYS slide upward on Won