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New-York tribune., 1922-01-12
The Housing Emergency
Argument for State and Municipal
Aid to Building

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | was rather pleased to note
the heading Of your editorial Of jan
uary 6, entitled: "The Housing Emer-
gency' But the statistics given seem
TO indicate that the Legislature has
treated the problem in an ineffective
manner. 1t is quite apparent that the
effect, high rentals, is being stined.
rather than an attempt made to remove
the cause.
The inevitable law Of supply and
demand will not stand any interven-
ton. The problem is, as YOU have
stated, housing problem and not
rent problem. Until more roofs can be
made to cover the population the rent
problem will remain, irrespective OF
what police measures are taken to
curb it.
You state that up to 1917 $4,000
apartments were constructed each year;
in 1917 the building fell to 14.241. in
1918 to 2,7O6 and in 1919 to 1924. Tho
low records Of the latter two years arc
doubtless due to the diversion of labor
and capital into war channels: 1920,
however, showed only 1892 apartments
completed and 1921 approximately
5000
There is evidently something radi-
cally wrong that building should be
only about % per cent Of normal. Al
lowing for a hve-year Increase in the
bu'tdng program, construction in 1921
represented only 20 per cent of what
should normally be built, not to speak
of the great shortage which should be
overcome
1t must be made profitable for capital
TO invest in such enterprises. 1t there
we're as much money to be made in
residential real estate as is imagined
we would not gee one million share
days on the New York Stock Exchange,
nor would we see bonds jumping 20
points In as many weeks.
First Of all, therefore, state and
municipal aid must be given to build
ing. Next, the labor problem must be
attacked. II carpenters continue to
receive $40 to $50 Il week and other
building labor proportionate sums, the
public must eventually foot the bill.
Third, the materials entering into
building construction must be kept
within reason. Fortunately, this has
already received attention.
There are many other points which
might be brought out, but simply
want to state general principle,
which, trust, the Legislature will
take into consideration.
J. M. HILBORN.
New York, Jan. 8, 1922.
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Ro1pc BY
1OO1Ao Percy Hammond

as his own, we're thrust frankly out
! toward the fireplace" Poor Fanny.
She was rather pathetic that evening.
when, fearing that Lee might, as other
men, be tempted to infdelity, she put
on her pearls and diamonds and en-
deavored gauntly to vamp him in the
lncthclcnt manner Of a good woman.
X * X
Random did do one thing, upon learn
ing Of which you may elevate your eye
brows. Obsessed by his hunger for
"that something" he was attracted one
day by doll in . confectioners win
dow on Fifth Avenue-a beautiful doll
IN whose still face there was willful
charm and cnigmatic fascination. Its
eyes we're long and half closed under
finely arched brows, and its mouth was
pale scarlet and smiling. Never in his
life. he told himself, had he seen
woman with such a magnetic and dis
turbing charm. He bought the doll
somewhat furtively, and taking it home
established it in a shrine above a man
telpiece. There he worshpped it alb
stractedly, and he christened it "Cy
therea" for the Cytherean Venus, "the
mysterious goddess Of love, Of the
principle, the passion Of life stirring
in plants and men," He did this. Mr..
Hergesheimer says, without knowing
the secret Of her fascination, Of what
she really represented.
X y n
Tho results Of that plant-like stir
ring in Randon's soul are less interest
ing to this reader than Is the stirring
itself. After Random visited New York
and became involved with the similarly
disposed Mrs. Savina Grove at her
homo in East Sixty-sixth Street, his
material adventures, though agitating
and excessive, seemed not so important
as were their preliminaries. Among
them, however, was q frenzied scene.
wherein the aroused Fanny damned
him in violent accents, slashed him
with a paper knife and otherwise in
dicated that she had emotional possi-
bilities not developed by her husband.
The story Is told in Mr.. Hergesheimer's
skillful and authoritative way. He re-
cords the polite debauches of the small
city as minutely as Mr.. Rupert Hughes
does those of the large one, and he is
as good at setting forth tho details Of
formal life among the rich Of New
York as is Mr.. Chambers.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12
Merely Joking

What's afoot in "the modern At
kins," as it was "denomyunated" by
Artemus Ward? Well, for one thing.
this sign has been posted on one Of
the famous passageways, lineally de-
scended from cowpaths, of St. 3D.
tolph's town:
"All persons are hereby warned
that it is the intention to prevent
any persons from occupying any
right of way or easement in Williams
Court"
The law will have its little lest.
Williams Court, indeed. It's Pi
Alley or Pie Alley-heres one name
that offers the linotype an option
according as your taste runs to
newspapers or quick-lunch counters.
And the warning doesn't bite. 1t
shows its teeth for forty-eight hours
once in every twenty years. It's the
playful means employed by one Of
those impalpable entities embodied
in a name. called corporations, to in
form the bean-ea ters that the alley
doesn't really belong to them. They
are not much annoyed at being re-
minded Of that five times in a CEN
tury.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12
Fundamentals

Slowly the pressure of events is
pushing the world toward real meas
arcs for world peace and reconstruct
tor. or long time it seemed as if
common sense was to be denied
hearing; but now it makes its way
Witness the fact that Europe is now
considering practical measures to in
sure the safety of France, and there
by the safety of all.
What are the fundamentals of
peace so far as governments can give
them? They are security for France,
retention Of eponderating power
by nations whose conduct shows
hem worthy Of trust, and close and
- sympathetic cooperation by these
nations. These are, perhaps, the
mos. important vital things.
Almost equal in rank is the one
That those who brought on the war,
. rather than their victims, shall pay
70 their full ability for the work of
restoration. A record is wanted
shat shall say that war making as
national industry is not profitable
Hence all pleas to let Germany off,
81 arguments which assume that a
country whose wealth is Sl50,000,-
900 900 can't pay 10 per cent Of this
amount arc evil.
~sse Another Fundamental Is the max
ing of such specific agreements for
limiting ornaments, for removing
possible causes Of dispute and for
broadening international law as
the Washington conference is per-
Nctine.
wi inally, on the economic side,
sHnblo money conditions arc indls-
Nt' sable in countries which have
E$itted vast quantities Of paper cur
aHS1cy. and necessarily destructive of
%sade and industry. To this last
problem tho world has not yet scri-
ously addressed itself, but in the end
=. must.
When TIE armistice was signed.
Under faulty leadership, a program
s0as pursued, or halfway pursued.
ahat was bad in principle and fatal
j. method. The victor nations were
sold that they could not be trusted.
3he poison Of the Manchester speech
spread everywhere. Heavy has been
he cost.
: At Washington and at Cannes that
8 being done which should have been
3one at Paris. And at Genoa, let US
8 Sopo, the work will continue-with
4ill perception that economic law
cannot be disregarded and that only
u good conduct can trust be estab-
ished. Then individual men and
tomen viii he free oncc more to do
Ser work in the world and Will do it.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12
Equal Before the Law

BY issuing a permanent order
against .the violation of a labor
contract by the garment manufac-
turers Justice Wagner denies that
there is in this state one law for en-
ployers and another for employees.
His injunction directs the garment
makers to live up to an agreement
as to wages, hours and conditions Of
work made by them, presumably
with their eyes wide open, May 20,
1919, which was to continue opera
tive up to June / 1922.
On October 25, 1921, the employ
ers promulgated an order binding
upon every member of their asso-
citation providing for q return to the
system of wages and hours opera
tive before the contract Of May,
1919, had been signed. From that
time forward employees who would
not accept .te new conditions were
refused work.
The employees through their or
ganization sought redress in the
courts, holding that they had not
violated their contract with the en-
ployers and that therefore the en-
ployers were without legal power to
violate it. The injunction they
sought has now been made pcrma-
nent by Justice Wagner,
In his decision he says:
at is elementary and yet sometimes
requires emphasis that the door of
court OF equity is open to employer
and employee alike. 1t is no rcspcctcr
of persons. 1t is keen to protect the
rights of all. Heretofore the en-
ploycr alone has prayed the protec
tion of the courts against threatened
illegal acts Of the employee. But
mutuality Of obligations compes
mutually OF remedy The fact that
the employees have entered equitys
threshold by q hitherto untraveled
path does not lessen their rights to
the courts dccrees."
From the beginning the garment
workers have had the sympathy of
the public in their strike because Of
very general belief that they had
not been treated fairly They made
their bargain in good faith and lived
up to it. When changed conditions
made the terms of the contract in
convenient the employers arbitrarily
ended it.
Injunction, the weapon they had
often employed against striking
workmcn, was turned against them,
and effectively. Justice Wagner
greatly assists the establishment
Of industrial peace. incidentally he
deprives the Socialist and the Boil
shevik of the outcry that the work
ihgman has no chance before the
rcourta in this country.
The courts are for the purpose of
maintaining justice and, with here
and there lapse, are successfully
fulfilling that purpose.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12

any Of the enterprises consolidated
herewith" Rather sweeping lib
erty. it would seem, for Tammany
officers who would be liberal with
their contracting friends.
With transit, electric lighting and
telephones the charter is more spe-
citic. Under its provisions MIR. Hy-
Ian could Immediately establish bus
line after bus line, and when the
city was surfeited with bus lines
take over the entire transit system
to supplement them and vindicate
his claim that all they need is a fair
trial.
The direction of the various activ-
tiles in which the city authorities
viii be permitted to engage is vested
in the Mayor, the presidents of the
various boroughs and the officers of
TIE several departments. If they re-
quire any backing they will have to
get it from the Municipal Assembly,
formerly the Board Of Aldermen.
The Mayor has, however, the right
to veto any act Of the Municipal AS
sembly. So he ought, if he is encr-
getic, to keep that body pretty we'll
under his thumb.
Taken all in all, the charter is
what fctionist would call an allur-
ing human document. Mr.. Craig
must have spent at least two hours
writing it, glancing up now and then
for a nod of approval from the In
dian guide who looked stolidly over
his shoulder as his pencil few over
the birch bark.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12
No Pistols for Two

The former Prime Minister of
Hungary, Count Stephen Bethlen,
has refused to fight duel with
Count Sigray, one of the most pow
erful supporters Of the Emperor
Charles. He states in explanation
that the "insult" for which Count
Sigray challenged him-namely, that
he had charged the Count with trea-
sor--was not the act of an individ-
ual, but of the head of the state, and
that the head Of the state as such did
not fight duels. The matter was one
to be decided by the courts instead of
by ordering coffee and pistols for
two.
So another tradition goes over
board On the Continent the duel has
been the recognized method of set
Ting disputes involving individual
or family honor until comparatively
recently. In America its popularity
waned much earlier. The death of
Alexander Hamilton at the hands of
Aaron Burr in 1904 virtually put an
end to duelling in America, there
being only a few notorious affairs in
the succeeding years. Although the
practice of settling personal differ
ences in the West by direct action
survived the duel by generations, it
cannot be said to have been a con-
of the duel proper.
In Europe, however, the duel sur
vived. Before the war, for example,
it would have been difficult for
Count Bethlen to have refused the
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12

things we do but by somebody's suf-
ferancc. But, after all. the check
rein is not often felt. The assertion
Of private property rights in evil
liams Court" is as harmless in effect
as thousand and one other prohib-
tions that might but do not interfere
with daily habits. If the corporation
had real mind to bar Pie Alley to
the people Of Boston there might be
Boston Pie Party. Nobody dreams
that it has that notion.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12
The Birch Bark Charter

Comptroller Craig has published
and submitted to public considera-
ton the charter he promised to write
On scrap of birch bark while rest
ing from the fatiguing pursuit of
savage beasts in the wilds of
Canada.
1t is a pious and withal solemn
document. 1t begins by expressing
the gratitude to Providence of the
people of the State of New York for
their freedom. A poll OF the people
Of the State Of New York in this
day Of sumptuary legislation might
reveal considerable doubt about
their freedom and q shocking lack
Of gratitude for it. However. that,
1rrhaps. would be changed by the
Iiaarter.
49, Mr.. Craig had evidently been
loading the Declaration Of Inde-
p:ndence on his way up to Canada,
fer he speaks much of inalienable
rights. One of these is the inalien-
able right of the city to pay the
Mayor and the Comptroller each
salary of $4,000 a year. This is
possibly intended to attract the sane
ton Of Nj, Hylan, but we doubt if
Mat gentleman Will not think he is
.nt.t'el to an edge on the Comp
.fo!ler in the salary matter.
= Furthermore, Mr.. Craig runs
ing chance of the disapproval of
bis superior by devoting a single
fage to the duties-and, of course,
inalienable rights-of the executive,
Ghile to The duties and the inalien-
xblc rights of the Comptroller he de-
Notes four pages.
-. Conspicuous among the powers he
would confer on the city is that Of
engaging "in any business or enter
ise in the City of New York which
Eay be engaged in by any person,
,6rm or corporation by virtue of any
franchise heretofore granted by or
Under the authoritN of the State of
New York, the City Of New York or
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12
From Dr.. Rainsford

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Thank you and the writer of tho
fine "leadcr" in The Tribune January 6.
How we poor blind mortals persist in
misreading our prophets while they
live before US and for us! Your car
toonist has given the spiritual quality
to his work that We who loved and
knew Roosevelt saw. 1t is great and
worthy picture. am so glad you re-
produced it,
You may remember that even Hay
wrote the day after the Gettysburg
speech, saying "Everett's Grafton was
fine and the President did his little bit
we'll" W. S. RA1NSFORD,
Camden, S. c., Jan. Z, 1922.
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lreland's British Market
To the Editor Of The Tr;hun.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Do the die-hard supporter, of
the Irish republic in the United States
and ireland ever give thought to the
fact that Great Britain is practically
ehe only customer Ireland has for her
surplus agricultural products7 Where
would she find another market? Not
in the United States, for we have sur-
plus enough for Ireland and Great
Britain and then some to spare. If
Ireland attempted to exnort +o
america We would raise an import tax
barrier. A DAvYv nu.
Fort Richmond, S. l., Jan. 10. 1922
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12
If Debts Are Canc.l.l

10 the Editor Of The Tribune
o'f: Assuming that the West is. az
a whole opposed to any remission Of
~, ,"e oeoe due US on account of tho
word War, is it not somewhat stand
ing in its own light?
0reat Britain will cancel if We do.
"ou'o not such joint action do much
~ restore the purchasing power of
europe? If We export again largely.
VINO gets most of the benefit? Is it
not the West?
Erie, Pa, Jan. 10. 1922
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challenge of Count Sigray without
incurring the charge Of cowardice.
But the fact that he has had the
courage to refuse will help destroy
the tradition. Another remnant of
the old system is apparently doomed,
and to the courts will be left the
duty Of deciding questions of honor.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12
More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montagu.
A Dreadful Error
according 10 The lost ccnsu, there o.
over 800 tocis in Indiana.

In Indiana, favored cline.
Where rolls the whipping
Wabash River.
Each minute Middle Weston
Time)
A poet passes in his f1ivver.
You'll find a bard on every farm,
Engaged in epics and in tillage:
A hundred lend classic charm
To every Indiana village.
Since simple rustic songs were
made
Some n;Is years ago, by Ole jim
That prince of bards-the pee.
trade
Has been esteemed around
there highly.
George .Ade has verv lately sworn
(And wants, he says, the world
TO know itf
That he's the only Hoosier born
Who isn't-more or less-a
poet.
At night these songsters write
their rhymes
On watermarked domestic We
lum;
And even in the worst of times
They truck 'em into town ana
sell 'em.
A child that cannot pen an ode.
When three or four, to Pan or
Cupid.
Is, in the Indiana code.
Regarded as extremely stupid.
The hired girls and hired men.
In time not needed for their
slumbers.
Are always handy with the pen.
and turn out smooth and
rhythmic numbers.
And when the census men declare
That poets total but three hun
dred
In Indiana, we will swear.
And loudly, that they've badly
blundered,
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12
Where 1t Doesn't t Work

You can't expect so many laws to
pass If you install bloc system in
Congress.
(Copyrisht by James J. Montagu>,
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12
The Point Of View

An Eastcrner who lately saw tho
Yellowstone geysers observed that
somebody had been putting too many
raisins in them.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12
No Longer an Issue

Now that Debs is out Of Jail re I,
bound to lose caste with the Social
lists.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12
The Tower
THE lMPECUNIOUs BARD

The morning sun has warmed the spirc
That lately stood austerc and cold;
A prodigal, it spends its fire
To patne all the signs with god.
Too full Of light the street it fills;
1t turns to pearl the jets of steam.
The puddle at its brillinncc thrills;
1t jewels windows with its beam.
While dcplore the lots and lots
Of wholly wasted kilowatts
The Hudson River scaward goes,
Pulled onward by the tuggng tide.
And on its breast the sulen foes
OF broken ice together ride.
The water takes the hue of jade.
'Tis twilight and the wind is keen;
The sunset on the pack has laid
An opalcscent savage sheen.
1t stirs mo not. | mourn the price
III pay next spring for just such ice
Somewhere the lately mento.cd sun
In all its unsoiled glory lies
On mountain peaks that one by one
Build up their ladder to the skies.
Imperial arc their f1awless SHOWS
In spotlcss crmine are they clad;
And sweet the steady breeze that blows
TO bid the wintry world be glad.
Nino dollars is the railroad fee
70 get from here to Already.
Ne toonder i Philadelphia ,coud
sacap Magistrato Scott, tho cnptov Of
Boddy for q Police Commissioner aud q
couple Of inspectors in fair condition?
AT all events, according to H. H. S.,
Boddy's case should be warning to
other crooks not to antagonize the
Police Department.
This here League Of Nations con-
ference" says Uncle Abimelcch Bogar.
dus. Of Prcakncss, n. j., may be able
to do some business with Ms TELLER
Lenine if they only remember to feed
him fust."
All that is now necessary to make
the city water popular IS for some one
to discover a relationship between
synur9 and vitamines.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12
The Hopeful Soviet

From Tbs Atlaxto Coxstituttox)
Rightly translated. the message Of
Lenine and Trotzky to the people is
Cheer up, tho worst is yet to come"
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12

fsu csn pUreha'e msrchandise Advertised In ThE
7Hi6DNt Vita sasotuts safety-fer II dlssat'sfae-
iia0 rrsuits IN The TRIBUNE puAran-
tsts 10 pay ycsr -ersy back upon request No r>d
TAP No oohbiiro Ws make good promptly II
ne a5.ertissr does not.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12
vr,.RrR OF THE ASSOCIATED rRrs.

NFNNfK Of TIE ASSOCIATED FRESs
-, =, Associated rrsss Is exclusively emitted TO
t.c f1r republication Of al tapatches
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r.... go aso the local ue~s Of Spontaneous
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~ 'lsi;. 0, republication Of al ether matter
kAss.a reserved
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12

BAC ClEHIOLOClCAL OUE
Oh nlicroscopicdl synura,
Polluter Of our aqua purG'
Restrain your father and your mother,
Your slater and your algS brother.
Your son-in ld,V, your aunt, pour
daughter,
From. bathing in our drinking tuater.
0 heortless, horrid protozoan,
Why do you make US bibbers roone
Beconac Of uou 700 place bar
On what they send from Ashoka,L
That taste, the taste Of row cucumber.
Hdunts US owuke and in our slunber.
0 bug, DO gone from hensico,
And let US haze straight H,O!
LESTER Markell,
All this talk Of himsy cars and kin
dred perils Of elevated travel are
rapidly reducing US to the state where
we'd willingly pay two fares and walk
half mile rather than ride around the
ll0th Street curve on the Sixth and
ANIUtu avenue lines again,
Worthy Of little, our highest indorse-
ment,
Yet We shall sing Of "A Bill of Divorcs-
mcnt":
Wishing IN vain that this meter might
tell
Half we admired in the fervcnt acting
of Miss Katharine Cornell,
Who much harder boiled critic might
move
Almost TO tears with her: "Give her
my love-"
There are moments in the play when
we forgot entirely that the fire which
should have been in the CRATE was be-
hind it and to the left.
With prizef9ht seats at their present
height it looks os though sce'd have to
6e content toith going to tho opera this
vinter. -
And We can say this much for the
latter institution: the seats are wider.
We've always wondered whether Mr..
Rickard, In instructing his interior
decorator, didn't absent-mindcdly pick
up leftover throne from the Barnum
freak show as a model.
Most Of the amphitheaters Of pugilism
in New York, our experience las taught
us, ought to display permanently the
sign:
STANDING ROOM ONLY.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12
Natural Depravity

Natural Depravity
Observe the wicked mackerel's shame:
In cans Of tin hos housed:
And labels on his homo proclaim
The doleful verdict: "Soused"
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12

And thus relieved, we have no de-
sire to quarrel with D. when he, or she.
insists that the present day liquor pur-
vcyor should call his fortune a boot
legacy.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12

With wood in the rum and bugs in
the water, it's certainly a relief to
read that the milk strike has been
ended again.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12

THE RISE OF LORD BEAvERBRoor
His Lordship was tho head of tho British
Department OF Propaganda during tho war.
although tho son OF n Presbyterian clerxy
man.-The Moil.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12

According to Comptroller Craip's
charter, if Ireland can do it there's no
reason New York can't.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12

Owed ~ New York Ts,rune tnc. = New To,s
cs-rnTs' 81 Published caiiy. Ogden Reid. Presi-
g. = vc-rc- Rose-s ,ics President. Helen
E~~~r~ REID Seo-e.srv. II r Ma1red. Treasurer
ki'~e*s T-Nlr~ BeilairS i5f Nassau Street. New
York Ttic7hen~ pe-fnsa scoc.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12

AS for the English-1rish treaty, It
may not be regarded as scrap of
paper, but Mars himself would admit
that it's qualified already as
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PAGE HISTORIAN H1RSHF1E1

FACE HISTORIAN HIRSHFIELD
Hytan, Crai9 ond Hubert,
Out for a raise in pay;
toould like to have them tell u.
Hoto they get that pay.
BILL NETCH.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-12

AT all events, according to H. II. S.,
Boddy's case should be warning to
other crooks not to antngonize the
Police Department.