Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 260, 12 September 1921 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY, SEPT. 12, 1921.

UNION ONLY COUNTY IN STATE WITHOUT ATTENDANCE OFFICER

LIBERTY, Ind., Sept- 12. Taking the stand that the law does not con- . template that a unit the size of Union county shall have an attendance offic?r the county cduncil has refused to make an appropriation for this purpose. The ection has been the cause of considerable comment.

Mrs. F. L. Mitchell, of Liberty, recently was named attendance officer, as provided by the new law, but there

is no money available to pay her. Burris Gives Opinion. Benjamin J. Burris, assistant state superintendent, was In Liberty a few days ago to attend the teachers institute and when asked concerning the action by the county council stated that he was at a loss to explain the tituation. . . He said, however, that Union county was the only one in the state that had balked on carrying out the provisions of the new attendance law and voiced the opinion that the local board had misconstrued the statute, for he said it unmistakably provides for an attendance officer and a salary.

He assured local school officials of

his co-operation ' in all school matters

and said that he believed that the county council would take favorable

action, when the meaning of the law is fully comprehended.

At the same time, the county coun

cil also refused to appropriate the $300

traveling expense money for the coun

1y superintendent, as provided by the

law. They reduced the amount to $100. No reason was advanced for the action in both cases, and the vote in each instance was unanimous.

The Ball Rent Law By FREDERIC J. HASKIN

WASHINGTON, D. C. Sept. 12 The life of the famous Ball rent law, enacted by congress for regulating rentals in the District of Columbia, has been extended by another act of

congress until next May, and well informed persons assert that its life will have to be prolonged again, for at least two years more In all. The Ball rent law is of wide interest for several reasons. In the first place, of all the rent laws passed during the war, this one alone represents the wisdom of our national congress and not merely that of some local legislature. In the second place, it is an

excellent example of the sort oi( emergency legislation the war brought ,

Into being. Theoretically an oi mis

emergency legislation was io

soon after the war was over, a guuu deal of it has expired or has been killed, but a good deal of it also sur

vives, of which this law is a sampie. Of course, it is anticipated that all

of this legislation will eventually per-

ish. In theory we go bacK to practice, obviously, we never can. The "little fellow" who has been rescued from a profiteering landlord by the rent commission, will not forget the fact, any more than a dog will forget the hand that fed him. This man has gained a new conception of government as a thing which can step In and save him in spite of the constitution th law of suddIv and demand.

the rights of eminent domain and private property, and all the other gods of his fathers, in the names of which

he has long been fieecea wuuoui

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it were upheld, all hi calculations were upset Finally, after the war was over, when the emergency in housing was beginning to subside, when all imaginable cruelties and injustices had been suffered, the supreme court in its in

finite majesty and incredible slowness, handed down a decision. Five to four

k upneia the law.

wny couldnt the supreme court course.

FORCIBLE FOOD LEVIES CAUSE INSURRECTIONS

(By Associated Press) LONDON, Sept. .12. White Russia is the scene of an insurrection against the Soviet authorities, says a Warsaw dispatch to the Daily Mail. The trouble began, it is said, as a result of forcible food levies by the Bolshevikl. The inhabitants of this section of Russia have fought to protect their supplies, and the insurrection '. flared to be spreading. Bolshevik commissionars are beins murdered constantly, the dispatch dorlares, and the soviet authorities are fighting the insurrection by all possible mean.", there being a number of mass executions reported.

CIVILIZATION FAILS WITHOUT CHRIST, RAE

The true danger to the United

States today is contempt of the law,

declared Rev. J. J. Rae, addressing members of the First Presbyterian church congregation Sunday morning. Rev. Rae laid emphasis on the violation of the eighteenth amendment. "The question today is not whether or not we can purchase liquor in this or that city, but whether we will obey the constitution and remain loyal to the flag," he said. The civilization of Greece failed because of a lack of Christianity, and civilization of today will fail if that lack is not remedied, according to the speaker. "People are farther away from Cod than ever before," he said. "Everywhere men are discussing present day problems."

ii.hfmnor in a word, a aemanu

such legislation has been created, and the pillars of conservatism will have to shout "Bolshevism" with all their lungs to keep it down. The Ball rent act, in brief, appointed a commission which was empowered to hear disputes between landlords and tenants, and to determine, with the help of the tax assessor, what was a reasonable rent. An appeal from its decision may be taken

to the court oi appeals, dui me -uu.. can modify the decisions of the commission only for error in law. The act further prohibits the eviction of a tenant, even though his lease has expired, provided he pays the usual rent nr th rpnt fixed by the commission.

The landlord can evict the tenant only

it ne wisnes io uve m m v ..u , himself or to raze the building. Wait a Year Soon after this law had been passed one of the incredible absurdities of government was illustrated. Was the law constitutional or was It not? That was a matter for the courts to decide. But the courts move slowly. A test case was brought and the lower court held the act unconstitutional in January 1920. An appeal was taken to the' supreme court. The question then was whether the supreme court would uphold the lower court or reverse it. If it upheld the lower court the law was dead as a doornail. It it did not, the law was effective. For over a year until April, 1921 this state of suspense continued. Renters and landlords alike were in a state

nr nnnfnsion which greatly compli

cated the emergency that the law was created to meet. Some tenants, gambling the law would be held valid, refused to move when . the landlord raised the rent, or to pay the advanced rent. Landlords made petty warfare in some cases, cutting off gas and water and otherwise seeking to make the tenant miserable. Nobody knew what was going to happen next. Nobody could know except the supreme rmirt. nnd it wouldn't tell. The tenant

who took his stand upon the law was uneasy in his boots. If it were not upheld he could be thrown out in the street and sued for back rent. The landlord, betting the law would not be upheld, was equally uncomfortable. If

pass on tne constitutionality of the

law before it was put into effect?" asked some incredibly Ignorant person. He was laughed at. Thines

simply aren't done that -way. The method of government is to take the

longest road and go to sleep on the way. You can't blame the justices of the supreme court. They are among the hardest working men In the country. The system which provides that a law may be put into effect before it has been decided whether it is valid or not, is to blame. The five justices who uDhpM th

rent act undoubtedly did as much as it was possible to do at that late date toward relieving an almost intolerable condition. Over 4,000 cases have been filed with the rent commission. Over 3.000 of them have been disposed of. In nearly a thousand cases rents have been reduced. In over 500 cases adjustments have been reached by simply bringing the parties together and making them talk it over. The

Luiuiuission nas not runctioned perfectly, of course. - In some cases landlords have succeeded in collecting from the tenant more rent than the commission allowed. By the terms of the renewed act the commission is provided with a special atorney to prosecute such cases. If the upholding judges saved the day for many a tenant, the dissenting

judges undoubtedly made tne oest

argument on the constitution. .They had simply to point out that the con

stitution provides that you cannot take life, liberty or property without-due process of law, and that property cannot be taken even for public use without compensation. This act, in effect, took a man's property out of his hands for private use -without due process of law.

The justices who upheld the law took their stand chiefly on two

ground. In the first place they said:

"This is an emergency measure. Of

you can justify nearly any

thing on that ground after a fashion. The war had created a rent emergency all over the country, and a national rent commission would have been the logical thing. It had created an equally grave emergency with regard to food, clothing, and every other necessity of life. Why not emergency pricefixing commissions to regulate the distribution of all these things?

In the second place the justices held that if a man can be prohibited by law from building a house above a certain height on his property, there is no reason why he should not be

prohibited from charging more than a certain rent. If he cannot raise the roof too high, why let him raise the rent too high? The analogy is more ingenious than sound. The rights involved are altogether different. One thing which our constitution makes clear above all others is that the men

who wrote it intended that private property should be forever sacred in the United States. They meant that a man should have the right to do what he pleased with his own possessions, and that he should be allowed to sell them and rent them for as much as he could get. If the tenant didn't like it, let him go somewhere else. George Washington himself was a landlord on a large scale. He charged as much as he could get and made the tenant pay it. If he could hear of this rent commission operating in the town of his

name, he would kick the lid on nis coffin. '

But what, after all, is a constitution among emergencies? Whyorry about a constitution -which contains both Patrick Henry's bill of rights and Mr. Wheeler's famous eighteenth amendment? That is the practical question, never stated, which lies back of many laws. The enemies of the rent law

call it paternalism and state socialism. It is. It is just as paternalistic as the corn laws of the Gracci were. It is just as much state socialism as a municipal dining hall would be, and as our free lunches for school children

are. Nevertheless, it is iuu per cent American, because it is a practical makeshift with which to meet an emergency. It is by makeshifts and compromises that we keep the creaking machinery of our government going. We have never faced the logic of economic and political ' principle. Politicians get themselves elected by talking about the principles of the

fathers and hold their Jobs and keep the government g6ing by breaking them. The Ball act is a characteristic fracture.

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EATON, O., Sept 12 Upon grounds of extreme cruelty, Martha Mae Harris was divorced from Alva N. Harris and her maiden name of Giles restored. Judge A. C. Risinger granted

the decree in common pleas court.

Alimony was adjusted out of court They had been married six years.

Suit to recover $700, alleged to be

owing on the purchase price of an automobile, Eli and Amanda. Donthier

have filed Buit against Leonard G lander in common pleas court to recover the amount.

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