New-York tribune., 1921-11-05
City Warned OF
8-Cent Fare
/, If Hylan Wins
Samuel Untermyer Predicts
T. Rise Within Two Years
!. Unless Curran, With Real
Policy, Is Given Office
Points TO Host of Blunders
Man Now In Mavor's Chair
a Many-Sided Fakcr, Says
Attorney in the Bronx

Samuel Untermyer gave painstak-
S,nr summary of the instances in which
sohn F. Hylan has revealed himself
shouelessly unfit for the Office of Mayor
IN an address last night at Morris High
School. I66th Street and Boston Post
Road, the Bronx He branded the
ysrely scored him for his association
with Goslin. IIettrick and Solovei; for
his failure to prevent increases in gas
sslectric light and telephone rates. an6
.o- his failure TO offer any sort al
solutien for the settlement of transit
eproblens
.eHow many kinds of faker is John
Faker Hylan ?'' asked Mr.. untermycr.
He then proceeded to answer his
F. Il. La Guardia, President of
the Board OF Aldermen, who is vigor-
S''eusly supporting the coalition forces
spoke st The Morris High School and
st Public School No. 25. 1s9th Street
End Hoffman Avenue, the Bronx. where
Mr.. Untermyer delivered another
address
"One must have great faith in popu-
lar government, as ! have" said Mr.
Urtermyer, ''to withstand an experience
such as that through which we are
passing at the moment / refer to the
apparent unwillingness or inability of
. the masses TO understand this fve-cent
fare issue
Issue Taken Up Late
~ "perhaps it IS due to the comoiexities
of the question and the fact that it's
real discussion has been under way for
less than 8 week, when it should have
been discr ssed for weeks before the
election. The hollowness and hypocrisy
o. the Mayors att tude could have been
so completely punctured and exposed
+ that there would have been nothing
Ief. of him.
81 think it can even yet be done be-
fore election If the people will serious
~ apply themselves to a few hours
study OF the subject. In it's final
analysis it is, after all, simple. The
Mayor has done nothing with the prob
lem. 1t IS growing worse day by day.
The Mayc- offers no relief; his al
versary presents you with plan for
relief a-.d makes uuequivccai pledges
to protect The city against increasing
the fare ard 10 secure universal free
transfers.
"If, in the face OF the exposures Of
this rany-sided faker, that is the kind
of faker you want for your. Mayor.
sou ought TO have him and you are well
come TO him. but it is none the less a
tragedy for the city. Those of us who
have uvch to lose from the misgovern
rent NJ this city will have to grin and
pear 1t, but we will at least have done
: our duty. now serve q fair warning
: of wnat is going TO happen to you peo-
8 pie who are interested in restoring
and maintaining the scent fare with
free transfers. | predict that within
. Fwo years you will rave an Scent fare
Or higher if Hylan is your Mayor"
Continuing. FIR. Untermyer said
Nothing could better illustrate the il
sincerity and intellectual dishonesty Of
this N Il than his statement night af-
Ter night to the effect that am at
tached to or in sympathy with the
traction interests. Nobody kno'ss how
utterly false that is better than he
does. The correspondence between ms
Tor almost three years past shows il
IN every line These men have been
nv bitter enemies ard ! have been
Hghting them all nv life, as am fight
ing them now, to restore and maintain
the tive-cent fare with free transfers
against their efforts for q higher fare. -
Mr.. La Guardia, in his address, CEN
-ered his attack on the office of Comp
troller, urging the support cf Senator
Charles c. Lockwood, coalition candi-
date for that Office He said that when
the Meyer committee resumes its ses-
sions and takes up the operations of
the Ccmptroller's department it will
give the city some startling reve.a-
tons
Comptroller Craig. ne declared, by a
policy of obstruction has been able to
delay every step that has had for its
purpose the improvement OF the city's
school system.