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Help Disabled
\ do runs First,
Curran Urges
City - Wide Memoria!? to
Heroes Can Come Later,
Says Mayoralty Nominee
at Monument Ceremony
Spirit of Sacrifice Uves
Neighborhood Tribute? to
Fallen Sons Best, He
Declares in Brooklyn
Henry H. Curran. Repurdtean-eoall
tlon candidate for Mayor, spoke yester?
day afternoon at the ceremonies of
'aying the cornerstone of the replica
of a monument to be erected In Zion
Park, Pitkin Avenue and Grafton
>*reet, Brooklyn, as a memorial to the
soldiers and sailors who died In the
World \\ ht. The exercises were under
the auspices of the Citizens' Memorial
Committee, the Soldiers' and Sailors'
Memorial Committee of the American
Legii n, and trie Veterans of Foreign
Wars. Former A.dorm?n Alexander S.
Drescher was chairman. Mr, Curran
said in part:
"I want to congratulate you on what
you are doing, but more than that un
the spirit which prompts you to do it
'n tnis way. I never had any patience
with any of tiie projects for huge, ex?
pensive city-wide memorials. Perhaps
they will come later, but the time for
them is still far ?way. Wo can better
use the money tlvut would build them
for tne relief of our sick and wounded
-eterana.
First Duty to Disabled
"Our tirat duty la to the tick and
grounded of to-day. Later on, whan
:hl? wax has become a memory and
the gentle mantle of time has softened
the edge of its hurts and It? anguish,
we can build a great memorial that
will tower aloft through the genera?
tions as a living token of the tender?
ness of New York's regard for the
memory of her sons and daughters who
fell in this cause.
"In the mean time you are building in
Brownsville this mo?est monument to
the memory of your own intimate
friends and neighbors who fell in the
.ervice of our country.
"You are doing this with your own
funds, and it springs from a real and
intimate regard of what the war meant
:o yuu in your own homes. This is the
;ind of memorial that counts. This
is the kind that is real. We have mure
if tlum than you think.
"I have seen the little neighborhood
memorials in every part o? the city.
In my own aeighborhood a flagstaff in
Washington Square bears on its ped
estal, in graven letters, the names of
men who were my friends, who lie in
France to-day; and there, hard by the
Washington Arch, you will see the
colors floating from this memorial flag?
staff every day of :he ypar.
"In the Bronx the trees that line the
Concourse b.ar, ever, cne of them, a
bronze tablet upon which appears the
name of a Bronx man who did aot come
back.
Same Spirit Everywhere
"If you go beyond the boundaries of
our wondeiful city you will find in vil?
lage after village a memorial that has
sprung u; from the village green. We
have very few village gieens in New
York, but even in the brick and stone
that make up the outward, visible garb
of our city we find the same spirit be?
neath, and the little memorials are
springing up in one neighborhood af?
ter another. They take the form of
tablets on the wal s at times, and where
there is a monument on the ground
? th<-re is usually very little grass around
it. Some o* them may seem poor
things as you lo> k at them, but away
beyond and behind the ph, aicai dis
; ; iri which we live
in many parts of New York I know
tha mes the -spirit of service,
of patriotism and regard for those who
havi goi . es possible such
a ceremony as ' I
Curtan Speaks i uive
To-night in the liroax
Henry H. Curran, Republlcan
Coalltion candidate for Mayer,
will speak m the following places
to-night:
Hum's Point Palace, 163d
Strei-t and Southern Boulevard,
liie Bronx.
London Casino, 174th Street
und Claremunt Parkway, tne
Bronx.
1,268,364 in
City Register;
Blow to Hylan
ti
(C?ntlnu!>d from p?gr one)
boroughs wh'ch fell behind, were:
Manhattan. 47.022: the Rrony, 10,670;
Brooklyn. 42.0?2; Queens, 8,859.
The total registration by boroughs
with comparntive tables for the three
years preceeding follows;
"?iroiifirh 1921.
Manha'n 455 90S
''ronx . . 181 7r..1
H'klyn.. 45? 884
Querns. 136 430
Klchm'4 84,399
Totals.1.268.364 1.015.899 1,079,426 1.373.873 j
Totals by Assembly Dlstri ts
The total registration by Assembly I
districts this and the three preceding j
years shows:
MANHATTAN
A. D. 1921 1918. 191?. 1930. '
1.., 17.973 15542 18.801 18 fi?3
J. 14.166 10323 11,933 14,550
S_.... 23.238 19,120 20.012 24 908
4. 12.795 9,117 9.922 12,398
6. ?2.880 19.462 19,862 24.801
8. 14,031 10454 11,610 14.04 6
T_....21,982 17.754 18.605 26.676
8. 13,165 10.296 11,626 14.000
9. 23,567 18.675 19,922 27,616
10. 19,864 17.224 17,841 24,179
11. 20 673 18.139 18.63S 86.561
12. 25,452 16.850 21.260 25,753
18. 20.614 16.691 16.890 23,366
14. 21.819 17.083 18.896 22,938
II........ 23.834 18.369 19.46S 26.709
.?. 24.321 19,949 21.313 20,609
'7. 16.603 12704 14,162 18.241
18. 19,668 18,229 16,845 19,652
18. 18.2D9 16,477 16.266 22,250
;0. 14.030 10.039 11.569 14,192
21. 17.247 14,388 14.727 22,203
23........ 21,011 17.785 17,623 24,279
23. 26,668 21.677 21,815 81.201
Total*..456,908 364.441 386.601 (03,831
THE BRONX
a. a, 1821.
1. 26,743
2_....... 31,341
3..,... 19.101
*. 18.425
5. 20.771
fl. 20.125
7. 20,643
6 .. 81,404
Total?..,...188,763 140,479 150,636 199,43:1
BROOKLYN.
A.D. 1921 11)18. 1819. 1020. ;
1........... 17,184 18,045 16,010 18.543
2-. 22,394 16,239 17,623 23,715
8.. 11,930 9,568 10,579 12,000
4. 18,105 15,369 16,801 18,904
5. 22,70-8 20,039 21.020 2,',, 018
8. 17,845 15,604 16.2.M 18,824
7. 15,787 13.481 14,521 17,472
8. 18,670 12.097 13,527 14,460
9. 23,106 17,443 19,201 25,339
10. 22,071 10,21u 20,880 24,094
11. 25,780 22,788 24,308 20,544
12. 24,519 21,379 22,575 20.872
13. 12,238 10.304 11,076 12.664
14. 12,691 9,389 11,298 13,247
15. 15,401 13,1*00 14,917 16,299
16.. 21,761 15,996 17,570 22,735
17. 22,247 19,248 20,514 25,143
18.A. 24,511 20,891 21,226 26,969
19. 12.694 10,44? 11.239 13,783
120. 28,883 27.045 26,588 81,788 1
?21. 28,252 24.012 23,928 32.IU?3
22.. ......... 26,307 23,762 23,873 29,804
23. 13,740 11,498 12,409 14,806
I Trrt?! ....452.884 883,846 407,129 494,928
3 QUEENS
?* Tx Silt.
: 1. SO.864
: 3. 19,286
8. ..._ 21.864
: 4. 25,156
5. 37.210
: 6. 23.609
Totals. 1S6.480 105.180 110,460 145,339
RICHMOND
A. D. 1931. 1818. 1919. 19?0.
1. 18,769 12,687 13.808 16.460
2. 15,630 9,766 10,734 13,838
Total*. 84,399 22.468 24.600 30,35?
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Hoppe in Billiard Exhibition
Willie Hoppe, world's champion balk
line bllliardist, and Charles Peterson,
the fancy shot expert of St. I/ouis, will
begin a week-long exhibition at 18.2
balkline billiards at the Ambassador
Academy, Forty-ninth Street and
Broadway, to-day. They will play 300
point games every afternoon and even
THE STORY OF REVILLON F?R8
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it>
In bnfldmg hts Igloo th? Eskimo
from the Inside as Jong as possible. Th?
soft ?now blocks are cat and squared
with great fiat snow knives which are
important articles of commerce in th?
Arctic? Though soft when laid a short
exposure to the frosty air freezes th?m
into a structure of solid ice which is waav
ranted to last until spring
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Q?muon fr?res
Fifth Avenue at 53rd Street
CilizciAs Union
Urges Defeat
Of Soldier Act
Veterans' Preference Would
Work Injustice to Many
n nd Undermine Civil
Service. Says Statement
Higher Voting Test Asked
Amendment* for Increasing
ArtHcmhly Pay and Sim?
plifying Courts Favored
Anide from the Interest of the voters
being centered upon the election of
candidate? ut the November city elec?
tion, there are severa) important con?
stitutional amendments to be voted
on. The Citizens Union called atten
tion to this fact yesterday and issued
& statement advising the votera how
to vote on the amendments, ace H'd tip,
to the union's opinion of their merit.-..
There are seven amendments in a 1.
The voters are Btrongly advised by the i
union to support the amendments pro?
viding lor higher literacy require' :
menta for voting, extending the v ,
ity and simplifying the procedure in the I
children's and domestic relational
courts, increasing the salaries of ? i na
tors and Assemblymen in the Legisla?
ture and the county government
amendments to provide new forms of
government for We?tchester a.d Nas?
sau counties. The union disapproves
of the veterana' preference amend?
ment, giving preference tu ex-service
men in both appointments and pr mio
tioris in the civil service in state, city
and village ?nices declaring it to be '
"the most vicious proposal that has
been submitted to a vote for many
years."
"One of the rm>6t iniquitous and
dangerous proposals ever serioualy
contemplated to be incorporated In the
constitution is that contained in the
so-called veterans' preference amend
ment," the statement says, "which, hav?
ing twice been approved by the Legis?
lature, is to be submitted to a vote of
the electors this fall.
Declares it !t> Destructive
"The proposal would amend Section
9 of Article V of the constitution by
providing that both appointments and
promotions in the state civil service
and in the civil service in all Its civil
divisions, including cities and villages,
shall hereafter be made according to
merit and fitness with this important
exception: that honorably discharged
soldiers, sailors and marines who shall
have served in the army, navy or Ma?
rine Corps in war time shall be entitled
to a preference not only in app dnt
rnents but in promotions after they are
once in the civil service, without re?
gard to their standing on any list,
without regard to their qualifications
and without consideration of any spe?
cial fitness to do the work imposed on
them.
"This amendment, if adopted, would
cieate an absolute preference in ap?
pointments and promotions in thecivP
service that would tend to destroy the
basic principle of the merit system
which holds that public office is a pub?
lic trust awarded on the basis of proved,
capacity. It would impair the effi
of the civil service by forcing
lut? the ervice a 'ar??e clement of men
unequipped to du the work required,
. ti -? mitant loas In efficiency and
nendous increase In *.ho cost of,
stration
"It will in the futur? prove a seri?
ous discrin ination against the coming
generation who were loo . uung to en?
list in the war against Germany, but
upon whom we must depend in the fu?
tur* for the vigor and effectiveness of
our civil service. The law at piesent
piovides for a recognition of the value
of experience in the army and navy
in a gr at many civil service positions
iinci credit should be and is, allowed to
vtterans for such experience. Oppor?
tunity should be made in t h^ civil
ce for veterans who were dis?
abled in the service who may be quali?
fied ti fill certiip kind? of positions
Bui ''::: ami ndment does not take into
ra.ioi the special need of men
y.ho wen ib ed."
Would Require Literacy
Th?> literacy test amendment pro
i ? ? ion ai'ter Januar;.
;;.? von rs to be able to
writ rhi amendment doe?
not affect the qualifications ot these
who are ni ready citizens but only of
tl who become citizens hereafter.
The union advises a vote for this
amendment, because it believes it will
I to raise the love! of intelligence
. ? ? ? electorate w 11 be an added in
:' to foreign-born citizens to
rea ! and write English, and will fro far
to i lim ite one possibility of fraudu?
lent vot ng.
The nmendment relating to the Chil
dien'i and Domestic Relations courts
is an enabling act, giving the Legisla?
ture direct authority over these courts,
so thai legislation may be ?ssed which
is di i med necess iry to .l?tate the
pr i ?dura and functioning of these
c< ui ts,
The present salary of Senators and
Assemblymen ia $1,500 a year. The
union points out that this will hardly
pay tin hotel and traveling expenses of
the leg slators and ia entirely inade?
quate. The amendment has been thrice
defeated within the Lst ten years, due
to a feeling in the rural districts that
tin- present salary is ?ufiicient.
The county government amendment
provides new forms of government for
Nassau and Westchester counties, sub?
ject to the approval of voters in each
county by a referendum vote at a gen?
eral election in an odd-numbered year.
The Intent of this piuposal is to make
it posa ble to make improvements in
county governments in the direction of
simplification and the fixing of author?
ity and responsibility. The defeated
constitution of 1915 contained a pro?
posal of a s milar sort. Tho amend?
ment was first introduced to apply to
the entire state, but In the form ap?
proved by the last two legislatures it
applies only to Westchester and Nas?
sau counties.
The other two amendments deal with
the right of the slate t.o dispose oi
certain parcels of canal lands adiacenl
to the Erie Canal in the Mohawk Val?
ley. They sect merely to remove con?
stitutional restrictions, and the Citi?
zens Union sees no reason why th?
authority asked should not be granted
Accidentally Kill* Brother
Rubin Scrota, three years old, of 415
Cherry Street, was fatally wounded Ir
his home yesterday when his eighteen
year-old brother, Harry, playfullj
pointed a revolver at him and pullec
the trigger. He says he thought thr
revolver was empty. After running tc
Gouverneur Hospital, n short distanc?
away, and reporting the occurrence th<
older brother fled. The baby died afte:
reaching the hospital.
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C?ark Charges
Crime Wave to
Swanirs Office
Declare* Motto of District
Attorney's Force I* ^Inlict
and Forget,' anJ Cites
Laxity in Prosecutions
John Klrklsnd Ciark, coalition eandt
date for Di.-trtct Attorney of New York
Courv.y, yesterday at his headquarters,
1572 Broadway, charged the District
Atti rney's office with direct responsi?
bility fur the crime conditions which
prevail in this city. After citing spe?
cific instances which, in his onin:on as
ar; experienced prosecutor, demon-trate
dereliction in the office of winch hit
Tammany opponent, Joab H. Bariton,
now is chief of staff, he outlined his
measure for ending the present crime
will i- Hnd for futuro abatement of
crime.
"The greatest opportunity for civic
safety and public economy Ues with the
Dis!, ict Attorney," said Mr Clark, "As
the people's lawyer, he ia the one point
of c ntact between the public and the
criminal. His activity pru^t-ci the
public and punishes the criminal. If lie
ii remiss in his duty the criminal
thrives and the public suffers.
''During the years that Tammany
Hall has maintained its grip on the
District Attorney's, office there bus been
:-i constant ?ncre s- o( ? ii
has kept direct pace with the con
st.in..ly aerea, mg .axity in the proper
prosecution of offences. The resuit is
that this city to-day not only is the
haven for criminals from all over' the
country, but international crooks have
been attracted to this city of relaxed
prosecution. The motto of the office
? to-day Is 'indict and forget.'
"The preparation of cases by the
| present staff of the District Attorney
is inefficient and careless. No reports
of the office have been printed or been
mad? pub.ic for the last three year?,
and, while ?here ???
for this silence, one is led to believ?
that a potent cause is that the reports
would show a big decie^s in t?
centage of convictions. The dereliction
In office has covered practically every
phase of crime. No matter how vigi
: tant are the police, in the final analysis
the District Attorney's office has tha
i real power to curb crime."
Mr. Clark cited numerous cases In
the prosecution of which, or lack of
! prosecution, he charged the District
Attorney's office had been derelict. In
the event of his election, of which hy
declared he was confident, ho pledged
himself to the following:
"To conduct the District Attorney's
office as the largest law office in the j
world would be without fear or favor
and without oppression?v gorous pros- ?
ecution, but no persecution.
"To obtain indictments only when the |
evidence justifies t is action and
solely for purposes of pro iecution 1 in
ti t.o to seek indictments only as s pre- '
Lminary to convict ons My motto will
not be 'indict and forg< t.'
'"To g . ? sp edy trials to all accused
and ah lis i t ?? dangerous and .v - i
: ; delays that now v.btai."., Imme a'..
tria! o prison cases and prompt clear
?ng up of th" bail calend .r
"To co-operate in the assignment of ;
counsel to needy defendants Ac? ne
;.-: the organ; :ers of the Voluntary De?
fenders I know how necessary this is
fo r justice and m i cy
"To Wv/i'k for personal und property
safety, so that insurance protection
' ? s ly be r educed.
"To .:;:i down automobile kill->?>??( by
active ? ' ggressive prosecution of
reckless dri\ ers.
"To work as isslduously for the pre?
vi nti n ' f ." me s for it; prosecution.
"To reduce as far ...
.e delinquents. Tbeso
run to about 5,00 i a year now.
"To ptir up community effort in be?
half of crime prevention.
T jive a m >n hlj account! :g to the
whole public of the conduct of the
Disti ict Attorney ? office.
i j di police powers of
the District Attorney's office for the
efficient ?? ?ction of murders an.! other
mysterii is crimes ? ? that 'here shall
he eliminated auch failures as that
in the Liwell case.
"To fight a?ainst profiteering in
rents, food, clothing and other uece?
Bities of life.
"To prosee i '? all persons who mulct
the fooi foreign-born residents.
"To kill the drug traffic.
"Ti establish In various centers spe?
cial complaint bureaus to hear at night
the evidence of those who cannot sac?
rifice their means of livelihood by at?
tendance by day.
"To urge the establishment of a
night court for the trial >f summons
cases, which new demand from the poor
time that cannot be spared.
"To keep the criminal courts In full
operation during the summer months
I until the clogged calendars are cleared."
Textile Workers Open Annual
Convention in Heethoven Hull
The opening session of the third an?
nual convention of the Amalgamated
Textile Workers of America pas held
yesterday at Beethoven Hall, 210 Fifth
Avenue. Among the resolutions
adopted were ones favoring the pay
, ment of textile worker? by weekly
wages in-tead of by piecework rates,
objecting to the increase of looms in
I each worker's hands atld asking the
i immediate release of Eugene V. Deba,
j Socialist leader, from the Federal
, prison at Atlanta.
Regret that the clothing and tex?
tile unions were not brougnt together
under one head in the beginning of the
I unionization work was expressed in
another resolution which was adopted.
Hylan Dwells on
Politics at Laying
Of Cornerstones
Mayor Hylan put tn u busy Sunday,
mak nn three speec- es two of u po?
litical davor- at Jewish and Catholic
cornerstone la Ings Hnd at the celehrn
ti.-n of the tenth anniversary of the
I'niversal Rebtkah Lodge, 473, !. 0.
0. F.
Addressing an audience composed
litige y of women in the east ballroom
of tue Hotel Astor, where the lodge
celebration was held, the Mayor read
a short prepared speech and then spoke
impromptu of his early struggles for an
..!.., tite Gai > .-.. su,.; and the
? Rockefeller propagandists" ii
schools, t:i!' "traction tru&t" and gam?
blers and the underworld as they ci n
cerned the Poiice Den rtni
The Mayor said tie was c- nvinced
the pa -as-you-go law was put on the
statute books t > stop the building of
schools, but that he and his adminis?
tration was going to o\t rcome its effect
if given time Me remarked that it
would takt a loi ?, time to clear up the
defic . eft four or five previous
administrations.
introduced by Register Edward
Polak as "a plain man of the pe iple,"
Mayor Hylan was roundly applauded at
the laying of the cornerstone of the
Concourse Center of Israel, 2323 Grand
t. oncourse, the Bronx, when i ? iid
that the success of any governm? nt
Federal, sti te .?;? city depended upi n
"the homely attributes i-x morality,
honesty and regard for the welfare of
a com mon brotherhood."
County Judge Cuis D Glbbs, the
Rev. Dr. Judah L. Magnes . nd Harry
Robitzek, u justice of the municipal
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China ami the United States wui
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interpreting ihe Disarmai lent
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Oal today?all nr*i".-Mt?>ti(i? 35 ?-?>nta
court, were present i?t the laying uf
tins cornerstone.
Later the Mayor atten?rJ : e
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