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New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
Urges Boys of City
Be Taught Ideals
As Check on Crime
Justice Cropsey Tells Club
There Must Be Personal
Contact Between Men and
Youths, Not Institutions

Taking the boys of New York in hand
and teaching them ideals that will pre-
vent them from going wrong was ad-
vocated by Supreme Court Justice
Cropsey a 8 necessary step in freeing
the city from crime in the future at
dinner given by the City Club last
night to discuss Problems of Crime, "
and incidentally to celebrate the clubs
thirtieth anniversary.
"The people committing crimes are
mostly young men, of all those con-
victed of serious crimes recently one
third have been under twenty-one, and
Commissioner Enright says that IS per
cent of them have been under twenty
fve." declared Justice Cropsey. "And
the great majority of criminals are
not foreign-born, though their parents
may have been, but are born in this
country.
This condition requires action on
our part to try and prevent these boys
from becoming criminals. We need
agencies to look after the boys, hun
dreds Of thousands of whom, between
the ages of twelve and sixteen, have
no one to guide them, and the agencies
existing for this purpose must have
the support of the citizens There
must be personal contact between the
men of New York and this young ele-
ment, and not merely institutions"
Justice Cropsey said that he believed
that the publicity given to crime by
the newspapers was bad thing. 'If
you placard the commission of a Grim,
in the center of the city it makes the
other fellow think that it is an easy
thing to do," he said. "This matter ia
up to the people, however, who control
the news the papers publish, and 80
per cent of the persons I've consulted
on the question have told me that they
read all the accounts of crime
printed"
An archaic criminal procedure, and
the Sinking of jury duty by the sub
stantial citizens of New York, we're
named as two of the chief difficulties
in the prosecution of crime here by
District Attorney Joab Fl. Banton. He
suggested as a remedy that the various
courts should be unified
Raymond B. Fosdick urged the i'm :
portance Of proper statistics of crime
and thorough investigation in New
York along the lines Of the one re-
Gently completed in Cleveland Nelson
S. Spencer, president of the City Club,
presided.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16

told me to mind my own business and
not NEEDLE with his. or something
that meant the same thing"
Old Mr.. Toad chuckled. "That
sounds like him." said he.
Sounds like whom % demanded
Peter.
cousin spadefoot, of course" re-
torted Old Mr.. Toad. Whom else
could it mean"
"But who is Spadefoot ?" Peter
asked eagerly.
Why the one you've just been
telling me about" replied Mr.. Toad
most provokingly.
Peter made up funny little face
which Old Mr.. Toad couldn't see. 81
didn't know you had cousin called
Spadefoot." said he. as he a really.
truly Toad?"
Gust as much a Toad as am.
replied Old Mr.. Toad. ~ haven't .een
him for long time. 1 didn't know
what had become of him. He must he
on his way here Was it verv far
from here that you saw him ?"
"Not so very far" replied Peter
He was headed in this direction.
Old Mr.. Toad nodded. "He,s on his
way here then" said he. He'll come
down here and sing for day or per-
haps two Then he'll disappear and
no one will know what has become of
him. A queer fellow is Spadefoot. a
very queer fellow"
copyright. 1922, BY r. w. Burgess,
The next story: More About
SDadefnof !"
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
Beaten, Starved
In Insane w ard,
Says Politician
William Leeger Tells Jersey
Board Attendants Kicked
Him Into Insensibility in
Morris Plains Hospital
No Care From Physicians
Baths Forbidden, Food Vile,
Cruelty Toward Patients
I Is General, He Tcstifics

William Leeger, real estate broker
and Republican leader, of 22o Dodd
Street, Weehawken, appeared yesterday
before Burdette c. Lewis. Commissioners
of the State Department of 1nstitu-
tions and Agencies. at Kearny, N. j., as
complainant against the State Hospital
for Insane at Morris Plains. There will
b. an immediate investigation of his
charges.
Leeger asked the commission to meet
and cams before it by his own arrange
ment. He said that in February, 1921,
Berkshire Mountains and suffered a
nervous breakdown, rs result of
which he entered the hospital as pay
ing patient.
Lists Cruelties He Suffered
He charges that:
Orderlies kicked and beat him
Bathing facilities were denied
The place swarred with vermin, in
cludiAC kitchen and dining hall.
saoitation did not exist.
The vocabulary of attendants con-
sisted largely of oaths.
On one occasion, Leeger told the
commission. he was placed in solitary
confinement in cell known as the
strong room" This apartment, he
said. was only five by seven feet.
While confined there he was not per-
mitted to take exercise or to obtain
fresh air. When he complained at
tendants "kicked him into insensibil-
jty," afterwards dragging him about
the floor. He added in a written state
ment:
"The food was vile. There were two
slices of bread per person, two slices
Of meat and a can of weak tea. This
constituted meal.
Ignored by Physicians
"The doctors gave patients no care.
They would pass through the wards,
glance around and leave. They called
this their medical examination. All
the medical attention | ever had was a
blood test made when was admit
ted" ar
Leeger said he wrote letters to his
relatives which were never mailed.
When he complained to one of the ply
.icians he was laughed at. In his
statement Leeger mentioned several
doctors and thirteen orderlies. He
charges that the treatment he de-
.cribes is that suffered by all patients.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
Humidity
Barometer Readings
e93 n. m PASS n.
General Weather Conditions


WASHINGTON, May 15.--Prcssure con-
tinued high to day over the Canadian
Maritime Provinces, along the Atlantic ana
Gulf coasts and the far Southwest, and it
was falling rapidly tonight over the far
Northwest, while high pressure prevailed
over the plains states and the Rocky
Mountain region and along the north Pa
cfc coast. There have been local show
ers within the last twnty-four hours In
the middle Atlantic states, portions OF t1.,.
upper lake region, the upper Mississippi
and Missouri valleys the plains states,
the Rocky Mountain region and the west
Gulf tates The weather became cooler
to-day in the southern Rocky Mountain
region, the southern plains states and the
west Gulf states. while there was n reac-
ton to higher temperature throughout the
Northwest,
The indications are for consldera BILE
cioudiness with scattered thunder showers
Valley. Tennessee and the East Gulf states
while mostly fair weather will prevail In
the middle and north Atlantic states The
temperature will not change materially
during the next two days.
Forecast by Districts.-Eaeern New
York. southern New England, eastern
Pennsylva MIA, New Jersey and Delaware-.-
Generally fair to-day and to morrow little
change in temperature.
Maryland fair to-day; to-
morrow cloudy; little change in tempera.
Western Pennsylvania and Western New
lork-Fair to-day; tomorrow partly
cloudy. probably scattered thunder show
ersi little change in temperature.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
Boys Wash Suits,
Wanamaker made

Chosen for the current
season, and produced in a
choice of three materials,
with all the finish, fine
workmanship and atten-
tion to detail that you
would expect in a Wana
maker made garment.
Of crash linen, blue linen,
and white linen, with red and
blue trimmings and embroidery
Some white suits have blue
collars and cuffs. All have the
smart broad-fall trousers.
Blue linen, SO. Tan, white
and crash linen, SO. Blue
serge, $3.50. Sizes 3 to 10.
Street floor, New Building
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
State May Pennlise Men Who
Struck IN Face of Forest Fire
Blaze, Well Under Control When Fighters Walked
Out for Higher Pay, Now Threatens Jersey Set
Elements; Citizens Rally to Check Confagration

TRENTON, N. j., May 15.-C. P. will
bur, State Fire Warden, said to-day
there would be an investigation of the
strike of fire fighters ia the vicinity of
Woodbine whose withdrawal has per-
mitted forest fires to spread until
many dwellings are imperiled and only
heavy rains can put an end to the
menace.
Moses Goodman, fire warden in Wood
bine, should, in Mr.. Wilbur's opinion,
have invoked the law to compel men
whom he drafted for fire fighting to
stick to their tasks. The fire warden is
empowered to cali upon any able bodied
person to fight forest fires, said Mr..
Wilbur, and the pay is fixed by law.
The legal rate of pay is 81 for the
first two hours and 40 cents an hour
thereafter. The men who quit in the
face of the fire demanded rs cents an
hour and refused to work except at
that rate.
The fires they were fighting started
Tuesday, in most cases, and on Sat-
urday. when the men quit, still were
localized and burning in confined
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
Ioday's Radiophone
Program

(b' W z. Wapelcngth 800 meter,)
lao and $40 - Brief Am
pico Recital.
2.4O-Program by Hackel-
Berge Instrumental Trio.
4.40-Timely Hints-s.Fash-
ion and Pleasures of New
York from Vanity Fair Mag
azine; also "The Use of Mir
n rors in Decoration" - Supres-
tions by House and Garden
Magazine by courtesy Of the
Mast Publication.
1890 P. M.-Radio Concert
BY Miss Gladys Weller,
soprano. Joseph Goldwater,
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
Dark oak and walnut

Especially good for a mans
room are day beds in dark, beau
tifully toned woods. Empire,
Queen Anne and William and
Mary are some of the periods
drawn upon for the designs
Copies Of old Italian and Por-
tuguese beds are most interest
ing.
s75 to 1920.
In pair, these make attractive fuin
beds, for they have far more ehoroc-
ter than the more usual single bed.
Fourth Gallery, New Building
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
Store Used Oriental Ruo. J. !.
fraction Of their former n,;,.'
Wide range Of sizes---from 5x3h &.
at :. Ninth Stree.
Store Hours. 9 -

Oriental rugs, from own fine stocks whit
used for store decoration, in BELMAISON or ra
niture rooms, and other places. They have sr s mode
purpose given convenience to our customers adses.n p
SO out they go, at fractional prices. ~ mo se
The rugs now being cleaned Some arc .Gc..,
Most Of them are in good condition Statesmen vn w
defects They will all be on the floor this rnorn nm pons
served. First come first served 80 sohs
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
$50 different models IN
GARDEN FURNITURE
The largest and most varied stock at the
most reasonable prices In New York City

Our shopper-who is severe
enough with US, as a rule-is
all smiles when it comes to
our garden furniture this year,
for she has seen what is dis
played by other stores and
finds ours the best, both in the
reasonableness of price and in
the variety and size of stock.
Lamp posts for the private dripepop.
pedestals, benches pith and pithout
backs, foucr- boxes. foper-pot, bird
baths. footed urns. fountains. fern-dishes,
arc but a fen of the many handsome
things to be had. so that the garden phieh
buys its stone furniture here could no,
possibly lack anything.
X
From SIS for a footed con-
crete fern dish to $500 for a
very large fountain with fig
ure of boy with dolphin.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
For the Aid Of
Crippled Children

Don't miss the Street Fair
on Park Avenue, between 46th
and 50th Streets. 1t opens
today and will continue to-
morrow and Thursday, with
something to interest and
amuse everybody.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
Women's S Coats
now $48

Fleecy cloths or tweedsL
earlier much more
Smart coats for sports
or travel-straight, belted
models. Perfection of cut
and quality and color of
materials give them that
air of distinction which is
rare in coats at this low
price.
Herringbone w yes,
tan or gray.
Fleecy cloths in the soft
tan for which they are
noted.
Tweed mixtures, tans,
grays.
Women's Fashion Salons,
Second floor, Old Building
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
This Day Bed
in gold and green

Gold swans which, after
all, are merely frames for
golden Tyres, are both the
decorative and essentially
practical motifs at the head
and foot of an Empire day
bed. BY them, the slender
frame Of pale, green wood
is held together to make a
charming piece for a room
whose mood is distinctly
feminine. $16O.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16

Highest. % degrees tat 4 p. M lowest
56 cat a. M average 64; average same
date last year. 6S; average same date for
thirty y-three years 50.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
Weather Report

Moon rises II 40 p m. Moon sets. 9:S5 a. m.
Local Forecast.--Generally fair to-day
and to morrow; little change in tempera-
ture; moderate winds. mostly northwest
Official Rccord.-The following official
record from the Weather Bureau shows
tempera lures during the last twenty-f four
hours. in comparison with the correspond
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
In Grisaille
or gayer colors

Day beds in the Directoire or
the Adam period or with simple
frames of solid wood, painted
in delightful ways in cream
color, pale pink or grisaille, are
also for feminine rooms.
1920 To S33O.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16

The next story: "More About
Spadefoot."
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16

40 Antique and modern Mosou Rugs at $3.50
s47.5O $3.50 grades Slightly worn Average aze s4
x 3.6 #. ~ "
Is SmaH and medium size rugs at SIS to$A
Kazak, Mosoul, Daghestan Chinese to s10o grades
fair condition Sizes from f. 81 #. 94 #.
IL Persian Mahal Rugs at SITS
$3.50 grades. Slightly worn. Averaging 9x12 #.
IL Chinese Rugs at SIS to S135
SITS to 1926 grades Good condition. Averaging sxlat
Is Chinese Rugs at $50
$500 grade. Good condition Averaging 9x2 #
Third Gallery, New Building
The labor world., 1922-09-02
AUSTRIAN PEASANTS DEMANDING
EXTENSION OF TELEPHONE LINES
High Cost Of All Material Used, However, Acts as Strong
Deterrent TO Increase IN Wire Facilities

scribers gave up their telephones,
but the majority of these found
themselves obliged for business rea--
sons to keep them after all. Vienna
has some $4,000 telephones, which is
just about half the total in all Aus
tria.
This number could be increased
enormously if it were possible to lay
new cables and put in new equip
ment. Some $4,000 telephone appli-
cants are now waiting in Vienna and
are likely to wait long time. It will
be years before the new telephone
system is completed.
At present, the telephone service
in Vienna-in peace times very good
is now indescribably bad. The
technical equipment is old, defective
and worn-out, and there is no money
available for it's replacement. Many
complaints are heard Of the ineffi-
cheney Of the telephone girls, but
they are not altogether responsible
for the poor service. The apparatus
is out Of date and each operator has
more calls than she can attend to
properly.
Recently, the government has lost
millions of crowns through the
thefts Of telegraph and telephone
wires in the neighborhood of Vienna
and other Industrial centers. Organ
lied bands of robbers carry off i'm
mense quantities Of costly wire and
in some cases have taken the entire
contents of storerooms and work.
shops.
The construction of all these pro-
jected telegraph and telephone lines
will give work to thousands of un-
employed. and it is hoped that the
government will raise the necessary
funds as speedily as possible.
The labor world., 1922-09-02
DEEP WATERWAY MEANS
GREATER OPPORTUNITY
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When the price of wheat on the
farm is worth SC a bushel more, and
that goes for all farm products,
thousands and thousands of acres
that are now wild land will! be put
under cultivation. It opens opportun-
ity for men to go on the land, it
opens opportunity for men in the
cities to manufacture for wider
market, it means more building,
more roads, more telephones, more
clothing, more automobiles-more
everything, About the best piece of
news that could be told to any group
of workers in Duluth, would be that
there were ten thousand more farm
ers building their homes~and piow-
ing their fields in any one Of the
states west of us. The increased
prosperity of this western country
means more profitable employment
for all parts of the United States.
The labor world., 1922-09-02

Vienna-Much to the surprise Of
the Austrian post office, numerous
demands have come, and still are
coming from country villages for tel
ephone and telegraph installations
since in former times the peasants
in Austria never thought of such
things. kilograms were almost un-
known to them, while they were
quite ignorant of the use Of the tele-
phone.
But conditions have changed The
peasants have become the richest
class in the community. They flock
into the cities and spend their money
on fine clothes, jewels and pianos.
They are learning to speculate on the
Bourse, and this is one reason for
their demands for telegraph and
telephone facilities. Several villages
have offered to pay a large part Of
the cost of connecting them with
Vienna or the nearest large town.
But the construction Of these lines
is attended with many difficulties.
One now in course Of construction,
between Vienna and Innsbruck, re-
quires $50 miles Of heavy copper
wire, one-fifth Of an inch in thick
ness, having total weight Of near
ly 100 tons. Such q wire alone costs
100000 crowns. 10 this must be
added the cost of poles, cross brac-
kets, insulators and the wages of
electricians, mechanics and laborers.
although the volume of telegraph
And telephone business in Austria
has decreased lately, on account of
the increased charges, as we'll as of
trade depression, the extension Of
the system has become absolutely
necessary. More lines of commune
cation with Germany and the West
ern countries are needed to meet the
demands Of banking and commercial
circles, whose business is largely
with western markets. Two new lines
are to be laid between Vienna and
Berlin, through Passau; another to
Dresden, and fourth to Hamburg.
Several new lines will be built short
ly in the province, joining up VIII
lagos with one another, or connect
ing them with town centers. One
will run from Innsbruck through the
Ziller valley, and over a range of
mountains 5000 feet high, to Lienz.
New telegraph and telephone lines
also will be laid along the electric
railway now being constructed from
Innsbruck to Voralberg
With an increase of 2O0 nor cent
in telephone rates, a number of SUBJ
The labor world., 1922-09-02

to give this part Of the country a
mileage equal to that Of the eastern
states. Why haven't they got it? Is
it because of 'repressive legislation?
Don't you believe It! It is because the
country is so far from its water base
that the railroads couldn't afford to
build any more. You couldn't devise
any system of rates that would en-
able the railroads to carry the prod
ucts Of the continent more than 1000
miles across country; either the rates
would be so low that it, wouldn't
pay. or they would be so high that
the traffic wouldn't move. Bring the
water base 1000 miles inland, and
that will put the railroads back into
business quicker than anything else.
They can build the net work, then,
that the country needs. They can
carry, then, to all palt is of this coun-
try west Of us the transportation
facilities that bring opportunity, the
opportunity of the average man.
Pioneering Days Over.
This country has done with pion-
eering. 1t has got down to a busi-
mess basis. The pioneer was a glori-
Gus fellow, but unless he struck it
rich in gold mine or. something
like that. there wasn't much in it for
him in the way Of material pros
perity. He was always playing hide
and-seek with opportunity. What
ever the advantages or dfsadvant-
ages were Of that pioneer stage, this
western country has >;ot beyond that
now. We are done with the pioneer
ing Of the former generation. Oppor-
tunity now is on business basis,
or it isn't much of an opportunity.
On business basis transporter
ton is one of the essentials. The man
who wants to do business must have
not merely some road to market, but
the best possible road to market. He
must not only have some means of
transportation, he must have cheap
transportation.
Cheap transportation with a long
haul a thousand miles or more, is
not to be had. Cheap transportation
calls for a relatively short haul to
the water base, and then carriage in
fairly big vessel without breaking
bulk, to the distributing point on the
sea board or the other side Of the
ocean.
The labor world., 1922-09-02

drawn up, the International Joint
commission, representing the two
countries. g has made a report, Presi-
dent Harding has decl.red for the
project, a program, II; is hoped, will
be drawn up in the next few months
upon which congress may act next
winter. If the members of congress
understand that the people want it,
there is no doubt of the result. To
the average man it means. that his
wages will bring him more, and it
means that this country west of us
will once more be the land of op-
portunity, of richer. opportunity, of
more abundant opportunity, of op-
portunity for all.
The labor world., 1922-09-02
PR0GRESSIVES TO SWEEP
WASHINGTON next fall

The state of Washington will be
swept from end to end by wave Of
progressivism at the fall elections,
declared President Short, in his
opening address to the state fedora
ton Of labor convention.
In warning the labor movement
to carefully map out its policies to
meet present conditions, the trade
unionist declared that the people
have neglected their rights and lib
critics, with the result that ultra-re-
dictionaries are in the saddle, to the
detriment of labor and other pro-
gressive citizens.
The labor world., 1922-09-02
BRITISH LABOR PARTY Z. :.
T0<PRoBE: L0Wl)GiTERESTS

The British labor party voted. at
its Edinburgh conference that it's
officials inquire into the question of
lower rates Of interest to government
bondholders. The resolution declared
that "the human needs Of the work.
ers of this country, and of their
wives and children, should be sat-
isfied in priority to the claims of
the fundholders."
In answer to the claim that the
resolution involved a breach of con-
tract, the reply was made: "Was
there any contract made with tho
workers during the war that has
been kept?" -.
The labor world., 1922-09-02

To revive opportunity in what was
once the land Of opportunity, and
which will again be sthe land OF op-
portunity, the one thing that is
needed more than anything else is
transportation, cheap transportation.
a short rail haul to the water base,
and vessel carriage in unbroken car
goes to destination.
There is just one way to get that
result. God planned it. It is the re-
moval of the barriers in the natural
outlet by way of tn Great Lakes
and the st. Lawrence. The need is
known, the case is proved, the feasi-
bility of the undertaking is beyond
question, all it needs now is the de-
termination to make it go through.
It so happens that part of this
work is in the international boun-
dary, part Of it lies in Canada. and
so it is necessary that the United
States and Canada shall either do
the job together or agree as to what
each country shall do. The handiest
way is to make one job it. The
United States and Canada are, as
close together as any two countries
In the world. They are used to work.
ing together. The United States
wants this Improvement, Canada
wants this Improvement. It isn't
likely they will be very long finding
out the best way to do it together.
The labor world., 1922-09-02

West Needs Railroads.
This country west of us is still un-
developed. It wants railroads. It
would take $4,000 miles of railroad
in the Northwest and Middle West
The labor world., 1922-09-02

MILL WORKERS UNITE.
Cereal and flour: mill workers in
Seattle have reorganized.
The labor world., 1922-09-02

Many States Back 1t.
Eighteen states in tie territory
served by the lakes have declared
for this improvement. Under their
urging. engineering plans have been