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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1920
TWO CENTS
In Greater New York
Within 20O Mile?
More Britons
Idle; Strike
Truce Fails
Long Debate in Commons
Develops No Remedy;
Industrial Paralysis
Spreads Over Nation
Many Steamship
Lines Suspended
Lloyd George Shown to
Have Ample Support to |
Enforce His Policies I
By Arthur S. Draper
from The Tribun?'? European Bureau
Coprrleht. ?9:?' New Tork Tribune Inc.
LONDON', Oct. 19.?The miners'i
strike to-night is no nearer settlement'
than before, despite a day of parleying I
?nd discussion. In the House of Com-1
Bons the debate that began late this I
afternoon and continued far into the \
evening helped to clear the air, but
developed no plan of action. Premier,
Lloyd George took an active part in :
the discussions and members of all I
parties joined in the debate.
Many conferences were held in the !
course of the day, in the hope of find- I
ing a basis of settlement, but, al-j
though there was much talk of media- I
tion, few real signs of breaking the \
deadlock were apparent. The only sug- ?
gestion that gave hope of sending the
ni?era back to the pits?a proposal i
that labor leaders outside of the Min
ers* Federation persuade the strikers
to agree to some sort of compromise ?
which would meet the minimum of '
their demands?went on the rocks ]
when the leaders of the railway men !
and transport workers refused to take j
action beforp to-morrow's meeting of :
?Jie triple alliance.
Industrial Paralysis Spreads
Meanwhile the paralysis incident to
the strike was spreading over the coun?
try, v.ith railway and steamship serv?
ice being affected along with other in?
dustries. Unemployment has been sud?
denly and widely increased.
In the debate in the House of Com?
mons the government took the initia?
tive, with Sir Robert Home, president
of the Board of Trade, reviewing the
whole situation. He emphasized the
seriousness of a coal famine and its
effects on employment. He defended
the government's course in refusing
to grant the miners' demands in the
recent negotiations for an increase in
?kges of 2 shillings a day. He added
that the government was keeping the I
door of settlement open, but that the j
(??bor leaders were showing no inclina?
tion to compromiso.
From the opening of the questions
right through the debate the house
vas in ?i lively mood, and although the
government's supporters were in the
great majority the opposition was ex?
ceedingly active and hostile. The first
vote showed that the government had
s?: overwhelming majority.
Early in the session Lloyd George
?id that ?he coal strike had not only
added enormously to the numbers of
unemployed in the country, but had
lessened the government's power to
give effect to the schemes and plans
which had been worked out to aid in
reducing the unemployment.
The debate brought out that the cost
of living on October 1 was 164 per
cent higher than before the war, while
on September 1 it was 167 per cent
higher.
May Tie I p Debt Payments
The Chancellor of the Exchequer
announced that the strike might pr??
tent the paying off of the $350,000,00(1
lotting d'.-bt, as had been planned for
this year.
The debate reached no definite end.
??though it served to rive the country
is understanding of 'he whole situa?
tion. No settlement in the near future
Memed probable from the debate. With
MJnonstrations on ?he part of the un?
employed taking piare in different parts
? the city and with the Irish debate
due to open to-morrow in the House of
ommons, the government finds itself
? an unenviable position, but Lloyd
leorge is certain of commanding a
?rge parliamentary majority and of
??taming an indorsement for the steps
n? considers wises*.
Channel steamships stopped this
morning:, as ?ell as most of the lines
?fcnnn*i t0 north and south belaud,
??? Dublin line being the only one
25***?F" Thls means that almost, no
'?oas tuffs are ce-ming from Ireland,
?nich normally ships considerable cat
W, butter and eggs. A reduction of
Lain service will be made on Monday.
iftnft?rt,-v tnousand iron workers and
?VHJ0 shoemakers were paid off this
morning and 100,000 other workers
?m be thrown out of employment to
;trrow. Some of the miners' unions
'??ve small balances and consequently
}?y will pay the strikers for only a
"rtn:gnt at the most. Throughout the
"f'-kc area there is plenty of evidence
mat a lart'e minority would prefer to
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Radio Reports Greek King
*W; Athens Denies Tale
Conditionl>f Alexander Is Said\
To Be Unchanged; State of \
Droto?ines? Still a Symptom
StV p N' 0ct' 19- The Central
; J Koine correspondent savs to
pikT k ya that the (''ornRle d'ltalia
fru?? ik a rf'^ort obtained by wireless
J ' the Greek steamshin Rrindisithat
[?f Alexander of Greece is dead.
. '? last bulletin received by Reuter's
?nited from Athens, timed 11 o'clock
?.?. mofniri!r, said the King's condition
'** unchanged.
5,nA3ENS> 0ct- 19-?At 10 o'clock this
uaK the condition of King Alex
*WW showed little change. The con
; ?.on of the lungs persists; drowsi
ff," taking the form of coma. The
lo,?8 temnerature was. reported at
*?- P"l?e, 124; respiration, 34.
?.J"-,vjdal, the French specialist, de
*??d for Paris to-day.
J1ARIS' Oct. 19.?A noted surgeon,
?iri ?ame nas not been disclosed, left
tain Athens to-night by special
?" !" answer to an urgent sum
EL ?W the b*dside of King Alex
?tu* > ls understood that he will
4?mpt a further operation on the
*J?**,e* OT ?apply ?nd Demand can
tyfi. lly ba 'raced to tho Help Wanted
**!55 ? ,c?n?uU The Tribune'? Help
Fires in King's Palace
Burn Low to Save Coal
LONDON, Oct. 19 (By The As?
sociated Press).?King George
has set an example for house?
holders throughout the country in
the saving of coal by ordering that
fires in the royal palaces shall be
lighted only when absolutely nec?
essary. Even then they are to
be kept as small as possible.
London Police
Kept Busy ^ith
Much Rioting
Sporadic Outbreaks in Many
Parts of Capital Form
Aftermath of IHsorders
Monday in Whitehall St.
All Parades Broken Up
Unemployed Assemble for
Raid on Bow St. Station,
but Are Quickly Dispersed
From The Tribune's European Bureau
Copyright, 1920, New York Tribun? Inc.
LONDON, Oct. 19,-Sporadic rioting
in widely separated parts of the city
to-day formed the aftermath of yes?
terday's disorders in Whitehall Street,
where the police clashed with a mob of
unemployed men and women. The coun- i
terpart of yesterday's demonstration
was seen on the crowded streets to?
day, with the jobless again making
their protests.
There was a sinister feeling of un?
rest in the air and the presence of
a large number of policemen in the
streets and around public buildings
added to the tension. Parliament will
debate the unemployment situation
Thursday.
Mounted Police Stoned
Although the parades of the unem?
ployed had no direct connnection with
the miners' strike, many of those in
the crowds in Downing Street and
around the houses of Parliament, which
were'kept moving by the police, were
men and women who had been forced
into idleness by the closing of fac?
tories because of the coal shortage.
The only demonstration near the House
of Parliament was the silent protest
made by pickets carrying banners in
behalf of Ireland.
This morning a crowd of Jews, said
to have been incensed by a suggestion
in a newspaper that they caused the
disorders yesterday, threw mud and
stones at the mounted police outside of
the Labor Exchange at Whitechape!, in
the East End. One man was arrested.
The crowd, swelled to a thousand, set
out to obtain the man's release, but
police reinforcements were called and
they dispersed.
Another procession of unemployed
and their followers formed in Trafalgar
Square this afternoon and started for
the Bow Street police station, where j
persons arrested in yesterday's out- ?
break in Whitehall Street were tried, i
The mob intended to raid the station,
but before it had gone more than half?
way from the square it was stopped by
a strong police force.
All afternoon theve were crowds in
Trafalgar Square. Many attempts were |
made to hold meetings, but all were
broken up by the police. It was eve?
ning before the police had succeeded
in clearing the square and the side
streets.
Riot at Hammersmith
A deputation representing the unem?
ployed was received this morning by !
the London County Council. The hc>ar- |
ing was interrupted by disorder in the ?
crowd in the galleries. The council i
promised to name a committee to con- j
sider Premier Lloyd George's sugges- |
tion that it cooperate in providing :
work.
The Premier made a long statement
in the House nf Commons late this af
ernoon, outlining the government's
program for aiding the unemployed
servicemen. He said that many could
be put at road making and that the
government had decided that large
numbers could be employed in the
building trades if the unions would al?
ter their rules.
Hammersmith was the scene of a
demonstration this morning by men
out of work. A delegation of them
called on the Mayor of the borough,
who told them that the Borough Coun?
cil was not able to relieve the distress
caused by unemployment.
The trial in Bow Street of the nine
men arrested in Whitehall Street yes?
terday resulted in the sending of one
man to prison for two months and tha
fiining and reprimanding of the others.
At the trials it was brought out that
150 windows had been broken in White?
hall Street alone and many others in
side streets.
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29 Restaurants Ready
To Cut Cost of Eating
Five Hotels Also Offer Help in
City Campaign by the De?
partment of Justice
Nineteen restaurants yesterday sig?
nified to the Department of Justice
their willingness to revise immediately
their menus and to reduce the prices
of sundry items.
These restaurants are numbered in
addition to ten others which stated
similar intentions on Monday. The
Schraft's stores are included. Five
hotels have offered their cooperation
to bring down the price of eating. Two
of them are the Latham and the Col
lingwood.
Others who expressed willingness to
aid the Department of Justice were the
Z. & Z. restaurants, the Peerless Res?
taurant, at 159 West Thirty-third
Street; the Lafayette Restaurant, 3782
Broadway, and the Apollo Restaurant,
3872 Broadway.
Frank A. K. Boland. counsel for the
Hotel Men's Association, will confer to?
day with Armin W. Rilcy, Assistant
United States Attorney General, on
ways and means to bring about reduced
prices.
Certain hotels, like the Biltmore and
those in the Boomer organization,
among them the Claridge and the Mc
Alpin, do not see how they can reduce
prices on their menus. They say that
since prohibition went into effect they
have been making no money in their
dining rooms. In the price of their
food, they say, overhead charges form
la large percent?;.''', and that nowadays
one cannot get sen-ice for nothing.
However, Mr. Riley is confident that
many courses served in hotels can
stand a reduction in price without
great financial embarrassment to the
house.
Murder Must !
Stop in Erin, j
British Stand;
Bonar Law Gives Policy!
of Government in Reply
to Malone's Demand for
His Attitude on Reprisals
Mention of Issues
Stirs Commons
_
Two Brothers Executed by
Black and Tans in Tip
perary ; M'SwineyWorse
By Frank Getty
From The Tribune's European Bureau
Copyright, 1920. New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Oct. 19.?An inkling of
the storm which probably will break
in Parliament to-morrow when the gov?
ernment's Irish policy comes up for de?
bate was had this afternoon when j
Colonel Estrange Malone, a Liberal
from East Leyton and a prominent
supporter of the Bolsheviki, asked An- ?
drew Bonar Law, the spokesman for
Lloyd George, whether it was the in?
tention of the government to continue
its policy of murder and reprisal in
Ireland.
Conflicting cries of "Answer!" and
shouts of "Shame!" sent the House of
Commons into a temporary pandemo?
nium.
When the uproar had subsided Bonar ,
Law said that the government's policy
was to put down murder and to pro- ;
ceed with its Home Rule measure.
Two Brothers Executed
Sir Hamar Greenwood, the Irish Sec?
retary, reviewed the attacks made in
Ireland on the police and the military,
and said the government was seeking
to put down the disorders.
Whatever the government's policy as
outlined to-morrow proves to be, the
Black and Tans to-day continued to |
carry out the reprisals in Ireland. Two i
Sinn Feiners, brothers, sons of a i
County Tipperary farmer named j
O'Dwyer, were taken from their home .
at midnight last night and executed i
before the eyes of their mother and !
sisters. This apparently was in ful- I
fillment of the recent Black and Tans's
promise to kill two Sinn Feiners for
every policeman shot.
The Black and Tans in motoi>lorries
to-day descended on the town of Dro
gheda, tiring volleys through the streets
and into the houses, terrorizing the
inhabitants, but injuring no one except ?
one former policeman, who was killed. \
At Ballygar the police are alleged !
to have, called Patrick Doyle, a prom- !
ment Republican leader, to the door !
of his home and to have shot him dead, j
MacSwiney Much Worse
Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of
Cork, who to-day passed the sixty
eighth day of his hunger strike in
Brixton prison, has refused to drink
the fruit juices prescribed for him by
the prison physicians to check the
scurvy which it is believed he has con?
tracted. The prisoner was much worse
to-day.
LONDON, Oct. 19 (,By The Associated
Press).? Edward Shortt, Home Secre?
tary, when questioned in thp House of
Commons to-day with regard to the
possible release of Lord .Mayor Mac?
Swiney of Cork, declared the govern?
ment had not altered its policy that
convicted men, or those awaiting trial
for serious offenses, would not be re?
leased because of hunger strikes. All
the men now striking came within tins
category, the Homo Secretary de?
clared. Michael Fitzgerald, who died
in Cork jail, added Mr. Shortt, was
charged with murder and there was
decisive evidence against him.
The Home Secretary asserted that
none of the prison authorities had fed
Lord Mayor MacSwiney.
CORK, Oct. 19.?The condition of the
Irish hunger strikers in the Corle jail
has become worse on the whole as the
result of depression among the men
' caused by the death Sunday <>f Michael
Fitzgerald, first of the eleven to suc?
cumb. Joseph Murphy, who was very
low Monday, has rallied as the result
of medical treatment, but his case is
still regarded as the most critical.
Severe collapses were suffered by
two of the strikers, Donovan and Ken?
ny, early this morning. Sean Hcn
nessy, Reilly and Upton are also in a
critical state.
Funeral of Hunger Striker
To prevent Irish Volunteers march?
ing in the funeral procession of Fitz?
gerald when his body was removed this
afternoon from the church hero to
Fermoy, a large force of military sur?
rounded the church and six lorry loads
of soldiers and an armored cur fell in
behind the mourners' carriages follow?
ing the coffin.
In the business streets through which
the procesi?n passed great indignation
was expressed among the people at the
military display, feverish excitement
prevailing.
Volunteers in long rows, holding
hands, lined Patrick Street on both
sides to make a path for the funeral.
A dramatic scene was enacted in the
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! Man o' War Besieged by
I Women Souvenir Hunters
-
Police Scrpeant aiul Ten Men
Detailed to Protect Champion
RacehorseFrom Depredations
Special Bispatch to The Tribune.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 19.?A police
! sergeant and ten men have been de
i tailed by Director Cortclyou to pro
I tect Samuel D. Riddle's famous Man. o'
War from depredations of women
souvenir hunters, who in the past have
clipped hair from his tail and mane at
j the various race meets in which he has
j been entered.
The first time the guard will go on
! duty will be Wednesday afternoon at
i the Rose Tree Hunt meeting. The ap
; pointment of the special guard fol
' lowed a conference this morning be
j tween a representative of Mr. Riddle,
I Director Cortelvou and Superintendent
j Mills.
Mr. Riddle was moved by the general
? public appeal that Man o' War be put
on public exhibition, and decided that
, the best place would be at the Rose
Tree Hunt Club on tho opening day.
Jack Dempsey, who is boxing here to?
night, and Bill Tilden will make the
trip to Media to see the famous horse.
Arrangements have been made to have
the boxing and tennis champions pose
alongside of Man oT War for a photo
1 grapn.
Moscow and Petrograd j
Put Under Martial Law
PARIS, Oct. 19.?A dispatch
to the Havas Agency from Copen- i
hagen says a report has reached ;
the Danish capital that a state of |
siege (martial law) has been pro- I
claimed in twelve Russian depart?
ments, including Moscow and i
Petrograd.
Schloss Offers
Aid in Solving
Drewes Murder
New York Youth Tells
Detectives Slain Student
Visited Him Saturday;
Body Found Next Day
?.
Mystified by Tragedy
- j
Friend's Story That Victim
Planned to? Buy Automo?
bile Is Verified by Note
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 19.?Charles
Schloss, of New York, hitherto mystery!
man in the Elmer C. Drewes murder
case, arrived in Philadelphia early to
night and placed what information he '.
had about the dead Dartmouth College
student in the hands of Major S. O.
Wynnes head of the County Detective
Bureau.
Schloss came voluntarily and offered'
his aid in solving the case. He made a
statement to Major Wynne in which he
outlined the last interview he had with j
young Drewes on the afternoon preced?
ing the murder, and told of the stu- ?
dent's plans for that night.
In a public statement Schloss said !
that he had no knowledge of the actual '
slaying of Drewes. He maintains that :
he was in Atlantic City with friends !
Saturday night when Drewes was killed. !
With a bullet wound in his forehead
Drewes was found early Sunday morn- !
ing in a vacant lot in Philadelphia.
Schloss was not detained by the local
police, but he agreed to spend the night
in Philadelphia and appear at Major |
Wynne's office again early to-morrow
morning. Chief importance attached
to his story is laid on what he had to
say concerning Drewcs's plans for Sat?
urday night.
Harry Dickerson, county detective
who accompanied Schloss on his trip
from Nc>v York to Philadelphia, left
again for New York immediately after
Schloss had been questioned by Major
Wynne, William Belshaw, head of the
murder squad, and James Gay Gordon
jr.. Assistant District Attorney.
Coincident with the arrival of
Schloss came the statement of W. F.;
Vandergrift, who lives at 5711 Mascher
Street, hear the' spot where Drevves's
body was found. Vandergrift, who is
a typesetter on a morning newspaper,
says he arrived home late Saturday
| night. At about. 2:10 o'clock, while he
was still wide awake, he heard a re?
volver shot directly west of his house.
He immediately jumped to the win
' dow when he heard the shot, calling to
his wife, who had been awakened by
[ the noise. A few seconds later came
: two more shots, in quick succession.
Vandergrift is positive that the sounds
| came from a revolver. Hearing noth
l ing more, he went to bed. About twenty
j minutes later there was a shriek of
? brakes outside his house, but he did
not investigate the cause.
lie believes that it was. from a high
I powered car,- as he had not heard it
?drive up. Additional speculation is
added by the fact that the road in
i front of his home is an unfrequented
! one, but could be used by a car driv
| ing from the woods on Second Street
; to the spot where the body of Drewes
' was discovered early next morning by
a lamp lighter.
Schloss, who is a nephew of Mrs.
Daniel Guggenheim, was accompanied
from New York by his attorney. Her?
bert A. Cone. He last saw Drewes,
he said, in Atlantic City at about four
?o'clock Saturday afternoon.
"Drewes came to get back $100 which
1 owed him,' Schloss said. "At the
same time he asked if he could bor?
row $000 from me, as he wanted to buy
??n automobile in Philadelphia. As I
didn't have it I had to refuse his re?
quest. The last time I saw him he was
headed back to Philadelphia to pur
; chase this machine. So far as I know
\ Drewes was never in love, nor was he
mixed up with any girl. He was not
that kind. He was the finest sort of
a fellow and 1 am mighty sorry the
tragedy occurred."
Tin- police are also looking for the
author of a note found among Drewes's
? effects which deals with an automobile
i transaction. The man who sent the
' note is known, but so far he lias not
' been located. The police are also
; searching Reading for another man. be
! lieved to have been negotiating with
' Drewes for the sale of an automobile.
Connecticut
For Harding
By 50,000
Democrats Admit Forecast
of Party's State Chair-j
man Is Reasonable; Ma-j
jority May Be 100,0001
Most of 125,000
Women for Senator
Raking Up of Old Attacks
on Lincoln byNewspaper !
Stirs the Colored Voters
By Charles T. White
HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 19.?"Con?
necticut for Harding and Coolidge by
more than 50,000." That is the terse
summing up of the political situation
in the Nutmeg State by J. Henry Rora
back, chairman of the Republican State j
Committee.
A surprising thing about it is that ?
well informed Democrats around the |
state concede that Mr. Roraback's fore- ;
case is entirely reasonable.
William J. Bryan in one of his cam- i
paigns lost the state by more than 50,- '
000. With 125,000 women, a prepon- |
derating percentage of whom are be- '
lievod to be Republican, voting for the j
first time, the Republican managers are |
confident that the winning margin will ?
be nearer 100,000 than 50,000, but they
adhere to the lesser figure in order to
be conservative.
The real tight in the state is not so
much against Harding and Coolidge as
against United States Senator Frank B.
Brandegee, whose candidacy has
aroused the hostility of the extreme
suffragists. The Democrats and many
of the suffragists are supporting Rep?
resentative Augustine Lonergan, of
Hartford, who has represented the
Hartford district three successive
terms.
Humorous Features Developed
The battle betwaen Brandegee and
Lonergan has developed features both
intense and humorous. Never in the
history of Connecticut politics has
there been such a demonstration of the
truth of the old saying "Chickens come
home to roost."
The Hartford Times, the official Dem?
ocratic organ of the state, is owned or
controlled by Willie O. Burr. He is a
son of Alfred E. Burr, who published
the paper during the Civil War. Like
most of the Democratic papers of the
period, The Times in the campaigns of
18G0 and 1864 indulged in the coarsest
abuse of the Great Emancipator,' When
Senator Brandegee was renominated by
the Republicans this summer The
Times began abusing him. The Repub?
lican State Committee last week began
tunning full-page advertisements in
The Hartford Courant, reproducing the
editorial attacks on Lincoln in the I860
and 1864 campaigns, giving parallel col?
umns headed by pictures of Lincoln
and Brandegee, with The Times's at?
tacks, all under the. heading "Can the
Leopard Change His Spots?"
This is a sample of what the Demo?
cratic Times said on May 2\, 1860:
"The Courant says: 'The people will
hug honest Old Abe to their bosoms.'
What a hug! How gracefully he will
lie on their bosoms that awkward,
raw-boned, crooked, green-looking Old
Uncle Abe. Day loves him and don't
care for Bates. He's brimfull of nig?
ger, too. That improves him for a
'hug.' "
Attack on Brandegee
On the Brandegee side of the full
page advertisement is a quotation from
The Times attacking Brandegee.
"Brandcgee's whole record proves he
cannot be depended upon to represent
Connecticut's sentiment, with fidelity
on any question," says The Times.
Under the parallel column run three
lines of black type saying:
"Unfair and un-American methods
did not. deprive the Union of Lincoln's
serviros in 1860 and 1864. nor will such
methods affect Brandegee In 1920."
The result of the casting up is that
the whole, state is laughing over the
discomfiture of the Democrats, and
the attacks on Brandegee are discred?
ited. Chairman Roraback in order to
rub it. in to The Times sent, the full
page advertisements to The Times and
received assurance that they would ap?
pear in due course, as ordered. But
they did not appear. When the Demo?
crats read the text of the advertise?
ments they refused to handle them for
"obvious reasons," the publishers
said.
The raking up of the old attacks on
Lincoln has aroused the colored
voters of Connecticut. The colored
clergymen of the city and state have
(Continuad on pago tour)
Boy, 12, Sets New High Mark
In Columbia Entrance Tests
A rugged, manly little chap, twelve !
years old, walked into the dean's office
al Columbia University the other day
and said that he desired to become a
regular pupil of the institution and was
ready to start in immediately upon the
prescribed academic course. He was
told that the university undoubtedly !
would be glad to have him enrolled :
there, but added that he must grow up
first and when ready must take Colum?
bia's entrance examinations.
"I am Edward Rochie Hardy jr.," he
replied, "and I am ready to take the ex- .
animation now."
Members of the faculty remember
ing the boy prodigy William J. Sidis,
of Boston, who at the age of ten en?
tered Tufts College and later was
graduated with honors, were inclined
to allow Edward to try Columbia's
acid test. It could do no harm, they \
thought, and so Edward passed from
tl Mil's office into the room where
the entra?e., examinations were placed
i before him.
That night he passed tests,, said
I this year to be the stiffest in a
, decade, and not only had he passed
i them, but with a percentage rating
higher than ever before recorded. Yes
terday he amazed upper classmen by '
passing their seng and verse tests and
i was promptly handed the freshman
| cap with a white button and tag.
Inquiry into his earlier training dis- ,
I closed that his father is Edward Rochie
1 Hardy, a professor in New York Uni
jversity, who live3 at 418 West 118th
Street. His mother is a college gradu?
ate and has taken three degrees.
He conies of New England stock,
with a college president, a Governor
and members of royalty in his lineage.
He entered school in a kindergarten
when three years old. . One year later
he had passed through all of the
classes, a course that usually takes
three years, and was graduated. Five
years later he was graduated from
grammar school and entered high
school. These courses he mastered in
three years, and when eleven was
graduated from the high school as
valedictorian of his class. At that time
he could speak several languages and
lecture concisely on advanced mathe?
matics.
The fourth dimension, that hazy sub?
ject, vaguely known but never demon?
strated, held no terror for Edward, and
he amazed learned professors with his
clear conceptions of the subject.
Of his personal life much was un
fc'Jed to Columbia professors. Instead
ot possessing the usual bulging brow
of overdeveloped youngsters, he has a
small, receding brow. He is a large,
wholesome American boy, with an in?
tense love for outdoor sports. He is a
swimmer and likewise plays baseball
with an enthusiasm that has earned
him the sobriquet of "wizard."
After his successful entry into Co?
lumbia it became known that Harvard
University had bid for him. It had
even granted him a freshman's cer?
tificate. Asked about this, he explained
that his father had hoped he would go
to Harvard and his mother had picked
New York University, but to please
both he had chosen Columbia.
Root Asserts Harding's
Election Is Only Way
To a World Association
Article X an Alliance to Enforce
Wilson's Decisions, Root Asserts
In his speech at Carnegie Hall last night former Senator Root
thus defined tlie much debated Article X of the league covenant:
"Article X is inconsistent with the purpose and spirit of the
league. Article X is an attempt to carry over and continue for
all time, as a part of the organization to preserve peace, the exer?
cise of power by the conqueror nations in closing the war. It is
an alliance to enforce perpetually through the operations of the
league the decisions of Mr. Wilson and his associates in the year
1919. It is a throw-back to the old discredited alliances of the
past. It speaks a language of power, and not the spirit of progress.
It is an attempt to do what the Holy Alliance sought one hundred
years ago (with just as noble expressions of purpose)?to impose
by force the judgment of the rulers of the present generation upon
all future generations.
"The conception which would make the alliance of Article X
the heart of a league to promote the peace of the world is a nega?
tion of the opinion held by the wisest, most experienced and most
devoted men who have labored in all civilized countries for genera?
tions to advance the cause of peace. It is a negation of the
opinions held without exception by the rulers and statesmen who
have led the policies of the United States for generations. It is a
mistaken conception, and it ought to be repudiated by the American
people not merely for their own interest, but in the interest of the
peace of the world."
Court Decrees
New Rent Laws
Constitutional
Justice Finch Holds State
Has Kight to Protect
Homes of the People in
Case of Emergency
Landlords Lose Again
Precedent ?ound to Con?
fine Suits to District in
Which the Tenant Lives
The new rent laws were declared con?
stitutional in a decision handed down
yesterday by Justice Edward R. Finch
in the Supreme Court in the Bronx. In
his decision Justice Finch also said the
Legislature had the right to safeguard
the. state's police power and that the
protection of homes in case of emer?
gency was within that power.
During the day Justice Aaron J. Levy,
president-justice of the Municipal
Court, issued a statement which showed
the Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court had agreed to the rule adopted
by the Board of Mjnicipal Court Jus?
tices whereby a landlord is compelled
to bring action against a tenant in the
district in which the tenant lives. This
prevents a landlord from compelling a
tenant to go from one part of the city
to another in rent cases.
Emergency Existed
In the action decided by Justice.
Finch, Jacob L. Guttag, owner of an
apartment house at 1955 Crotona Park?
way, .-ought to eject Henry Schatzkin,
a tenant, occupying a five-room apart?
ment, whose lease expired on Septem?
ber 30. Bernard S. Deutsch, counsel
for the landlord, attacked the consti?
tutionality of the new rent laws and
contended they restricted the powers
of the Supreme Court.
Justice Finch, after asserting that
;he only question raised by counsel
was the constitutional one, said: "Pro?
tection of homes and housing is cer?
tainly within the police powers of the
state, provided a public emergency ex
sits which threatens the same. In
enacting the statute in question the
Legislature has declared in its best
terms that such a public emergency
existed, and it is within its province
so to determine.
"It remains for the court to consider
whether the means adopted by the
Legislature are reasonably adapted to
the end sought. Until the expiration
of a two-year period the Legislature
has prohibited the ousting of a ten?
ant except in certain prescribed in?
stances.
Federal Case Postponed
"It would appear that the means
which the Legislature has adopted are
appropriate to the end sought. The
court may take judicial notice of the
cause of the existing emergency?
namely, a world war, during which
new building was halted for several
years while a large, portion of the en?
tire population was taken from its ac?
customed tasks and turned to war
work."
The attack on the new rent laws
which has been instituted in the Ped
, eral courts and was to have been tried
1 in a special court of equity before
i Federal Judges Julian W. Mack, Mar?
tin Mant?n and A. N". Hand yester
; day, was put over until next Tuesday,
. upon agreement of both sides. This
: is the case brought by the Marcus
; Brown Holding Company against Ar
| nold Pollak, a tenant at 215 West
Ninety-first Street. Pollak's leate
expired October 1. He had been pay?
ing $1,600 a year and the owner
leased the apartment to another ten
| ant at $2,300. The company also is
| suing to be permitted to shut off ele?
vator service and heat without incur?
ring punishment.
MondelFs Leg Broken
RIVERTON, Wyo., Oct. ' 10. -Frank
I W. Mondell, Republican leader in the
House of Representatives, suffered a
broken leg to-day in a fall on the Sho
shone Reservation, near here.
Mr. Mondell was with a party of local
men on a trip of inspection to the Sho
{ shone reclamation project when a "drag
; line" of a steam shovel on which he
! stepped, broke, causing him to fall. The
rope was only a few inches off the
ground. He was taken to a hospital in
Lander, Wyo.
Mr. Mondell had been touring the
state, speaking fox the Republican party.
28 Arrested in
Raid on Newark
Whisky Curb
Men Caught in So-Called
Haven of Bootleggers
Offer No Resistance; 25
Are Released on Bail
Others Held for Inquiry
Police Believe District Is
Crime Center Where
Hold-Ups Are Planned
Newark's so-called whisky curb was
'raided by the police yesterday and
twenty-eight men arrested on the
charge of loitering. They were locked
up in police headquarters pending
arrangements for bail. This was the
first big effort to break up the al
' Icged curb, which is in Halsey Street.
'? between Branford Place and Maiden
Lane.
It has been commonly reported that
whisky was bought and sold on the
curb and h?ld-ups of whisky truck:
were planned there. All the men nr
i rested in connection with a whisk>
hold-up last week were found to have
been frequenters of the curb. Half ?
dozen of them were arrested there
Many complaints have been receiver
by the police. Captain Thomas W
Daly finally went to Chief of Polici
! Michael T. Long and asked for specia
I assistance to clean up. He was sup
j plied with twenty men of the vie
squad and from the 4th, 5th and 6tl
i precincts. Th.'se men, wearing civiliai
| clothes and carrying nightsticks, go
' into three patrol wagons. One spe<
I ir.to Halsey Street from William Ave
; r.ue, another from Branford Place an
| the third from Maiden Lane. Thi
; ciosed all the outlets.
One .Man Show? Fight
j Tho policemen jumped from th
, patrol wagons swinging their stick:
? but found the entire crowd docile ey
I cept one man, who was subdued quiet
ly. Several men, when they saw th
police coming, stepped into motor cat
and were moving away when the p<
licemen reached them. This protee'e
them from arrest under the loiterin
i ordinance, and they were not moleste
All the men were to be question?;
I about the alleged operations of ti
j whisky curb, but the police had litt
! prospect of getting any valuable ii
1 formation.
j Lieutenant Harris found one n:T
I among the prisoners for whom he hi
? a warrant from West New York, N.
Later twenty-five of the men we;
freed after depositing $25 bail f
their appearance in court this morrin
Jury Exonerates Official Diners
The dinner at Villepigue's In
i Sheepshead Bay, October 3, which w;
; attended by Mayor Hylan and oth
! notables, was not wet the Feder
j grand jury in Brooklyn decided ye
i terday after deliberating less th;
two minutes. The evidence justifi
| no indictment, it was reported, and t
??case was closed.
The grand jury's investigation
(Continued on pig? ???venteen)
U. S. to Collect S1?000
Tax From Dry Violatoi
Revenue Department to Invol
Old Law and Add Levy to
Court Penalties
WASHINGTON. Oct. 19.?Pers<
who violate state prohibition laws
manufacturing or selling either f
I mented or distilled intoxicating liqu
I are liable upon conviction not only
the tine and penalty levied by
j court, but also must pay the Fede
! government ?1.000 as a special tax.
Internal Revenue Commissio
Williams instructed prohibition age
and internal revenue collectors to-ni
that a provision of the revenue law:
1918 imposing the tax was still
effect and directed them to carry
out.
"This tax should not be confu
j with the liability incurred for vi
! tion of the national prohibition a
j the statement said, further. "The
imposed is in addition to all other t?
and penalties, and should be prom;
assessed and collected."
Issue Is Whether Paet
Shall Be Modified to
Meet U. S. Objections,
Former Senator Asserts
Scores Article X as
Alliance of Force
Tells Carnegie Hall Audi?
ence Covenant Speaks
Power and Not Progress
Former Senator Elihu Root, in
an address before more than 3,500
persons in Carnegie Hall Jast night,
plead for the election of Senator
Harding to the Presidency of the
United States as the only prac?
ticable means of insuring the esta: -
, lishment of an organization of na?
tions to prevent future wars.
Mr. Root asserted that the elec?
tion of Senator Harding would n
imply the rejection of the presen"
covenant of the league, but only
those features of it which Mr. Root
'characterized as objectionable, un
I desirable and fraught with danger
; and injustice.
Among the features included in the
latter category by Mr. Root was Art
ele X of the covenant, the efficacy of
which to preserve the peace of the
world Mr. Root assailed as being con?
trary to the opinion of the best friends
I of peace in this country and abroad.
| The adoption of the covenant of th*
j League of Nations as at present con
I stituted, and as urged by Governor
I Cox, Mr. Root said, would obligate the
I United States to ?ro to war in the
! event of an attack upon any member
of the League of Nations, "such as
the invasion of Poland by the Rus?
sians, and, apparently, the invasion o:
Ukrainia by the Poles."
Says Wilson Blocked Treaty
"It is this article, above all others,"
I said Mr. Root, "that Mr. Cox will be
i bound to insist upon if he is elected,
j and it is this article above all others
i which Mr. Harding will be bound to
| reject if he be elected.''
Mr. Root blamed the failure of the
| Senate to ratify the peace treaty upon
| the stubbornness of President Wilson
in insisting that the treaty be ratified
without, any changes, and averred thai
the election of Governor Cox would
only serve to prolong the stalemate
and would lead to no constructive re?
sults.
"The issue is not between a League
of Nations or no League of Nations,"
said Mr. Root. "The question is
whether the agreement creating the
league shall be accepted absolutely ui
changed or shall be modified to meet,
the American objections. If Mr. <
should be elected he would be bound
to continue the old struggle to force
the Senate to accept the league cove
nant without, change, which has k> pt
America from ratifying the pear?-,
treaty for more than a year. It' Mr.
Harding is elected he will be bound
to say to the foreign governments ?
are already in the league: 'Here are
certain objections to certain pro\
in the league covenant, which
the way of America's entering ?
league. I would be glad to ha
provisions of the agreemenl changed
so as to obviate thesi
would follow an ordinary
sense negotiation as I > thi b< I v
to obviate the objecth
"There is nothing unusual i
tressing about, negotiating I
! sary changes. If tiie other parties
j willing as they seem to be .' will be
j a simple matter. Several European na
? tions already have given notice
| f. dozen changes in the covenant wh
i they propose to urge at a meeting of
i the assembly of the league, next month.
The only reason why the changes nec?
essary to meet American objections
have not already been considered is
j that Mr. Wilson simply would not ne
i gotiate for them."
Supporting the contention of Senator
j Spencer that President Wilson prom
; :sed American military and naval aid
i to Rumania and Serbia in the event of
j the invasion of their territory, Mr.
. Root read from the official version of
the President's remarks on the <~r
| sion in question, and that given out re
I cently at the White House, and
Guaranty of Sovereignty
"Upon both of these reports r i
' perfectly plain that the consideration
; upon which Rumania and Si rbia were
urged to consent to a limitation
?their sovereignty was a guara I
?that sovereignty by the ', tes(|
'with the justified understanding *
the guaranty i if m?<d :>?
made good by sending armies ?
: across the sea. That guaranty was c
? tained in Article X, and that is what
1 Article X means."
"I think it most objectionable," said
the former Senator and Secretary of
State, "that the American people shall
er.ter into a solemn and positive agree?
ment to maintain by force of arms ( r
all time the dispositions of territory
and sovereignty which these four men
, (the big fourj made in the year V
That is a pare of what Article X under?
takes to do. It is a practical certainty
that if the American governs
enters into the obligations of Articl?
X the time will presently come when
the United States will be called upon
to make good its guaranties by fo
and when the people of the l"i:
States will be unwilling to make the
sacrifice of life and treasure t>? carry
ot: war in a distant land for a caus<
which they know little and for which
; they care less. The presence of such
| a stipulation in the leagne covenar
an element of structural weakness."
The main objection to I mt
as at present constituted is that *
?Oased upon force, Mr. Roo said, ar.d
one of the principal changes for which
the United States should contend, h?
' maintained, is that it be based upon
the exercise of moral power as ex?
pressed in an international court ot