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TELEPHONE', BEEKMAN 2?00.
A Faise View.
Elsewhere on tills page is a letter
from a Republican whose opportunist
f lews may be shared by some other
pienaml women of the party, although
we doubt that their number Is large.
tlr. Wabrcn is of the opinion that
what we Republicans want Is some
Constructive work done In Congress
liat will give us laymen in the buck
ground some substantial thoughts to
fake Into the next Presidential enm-
nlgn to win the election with," but
see me to think that this might be
(accomplished through the acceptance
pf the Wilson covenant programme as
It stands, the Senate putting the re
aponslbillty upon the President.
A political party which would con
pent to such opportunism would be a
cowardly ostrfrti with Its head in
hallow sand. A Senator who would
(lodge the responsibility Imposed upon
him by the Constitution would violate
Ids oath of oftlce. What is winning
Ihe election of 1020, or any other
ejection, compared with the impor
tance of preserving the sovereignty of
(he United States, the status of the
lonroe Doctrine and the constitutional
tight of the Congress to declare war?
If the I'uited States should pass mi
ller the control of a superstate what
Would be this Presidency, about which
jour correspondent is concerned, as
compared with the Presidency as it
lias been?
"Let the Republican Senators keep
their skirts clean," says Mr. Warren,
"and the coming election will do the
rest" The way for a Republican Sen
ator, or any other Senator, to remain
;wlth white garments is to oppose the
purrander of the rights of the United
States. On the President falls the
responsibility for having put his name j
to an Instrument In which these rights
are bartered for the privilege of mem
bership in a Leugue of Nations whose
power for good Is doubtful and whose
power for evil Is great. But this bad
bargain can be closed ouly through
the consent of two-thirds of the Sen
ate, and every Senator who votes to
ratify the League coveuunt as It
glands will be us responsible for the
results, should ratification ensue, as
the President himself.
Our correspondent would hurry the
Senate to a cowardly assent "for the
business Interests of the nation." Does
he really mean thai, for the sake of
the money which American Industries
night make through a quick surren
der by the Senate to the President, a
Senator ought to forget his oath?
Does he so misread the American peo-
ple as to believe that for a few dollars
ihey would bo willing to abandon prin
ciples which have endured for more
than a century? We do not
"Trim the sails for the coming elec
tions," says this misguided partisan.
We have seen trimming enough of
aails by the head of the Democratic
party, and we saw at the last election
shat the people thought about It. We
have seen enough to satisfy the most
elfish politician. Rut the present Is
me goes beyond politicians and poli
tics. It is not an Issue within any one
party, even though It Is a great issue
for the Republican party.
No consideration of "business Inter
nets"! No trimming of sallsl No
anrrender to eijiediancy !
his view at Paris. The result was
that he employed his army In an at
tempt to defeat the award of Hun
garian territory made by the Confer
ence to Austria and Ceclio-Slovakls,
Md brought about the necessity of
sending allied forces Into central Eu
rope to carry out Its demands.
All authoritative reports that hnve
come out of Hungary agree that Bol
shevism has made little progress In
the country outside of Budapest and
one or two of the larger towns. The
Soviet Government has depended for
Its support largely upon Its army ;
but the use that should be made of
this Red force was a source of con
stant wrangling among the leaders.
The commander, General Boehm, op
poagd the conversion of the army Into
in '"i uuuM iu pun, mi miauviu ,
of the Bolshevist law, and under the
pleu of 111 health resigned. He and
his successor, General Lander, are,
according to report, now In control of
the Government. The Red army re
mains, however, a very uncertain
quantity. It Is poorly supplied with
food or munitions, and besides, while
It might be Induced to fight against
the Rumanians or ('.echo-Slovaks, it
is believed that It will not stand
against a Hungarian antl Soviet force.
As the loyal force, or the White army,
Is constantly Increasing In numbers
and Is supported by the peasants,
there seems reason for thi belief that
It will soon bring about the complete
collapse of the Soviet Government.
The failure of Bolshevism In Hun
gary seems now to be as complete "as
It was In Bnvarla. In both States It
failed from the lack of support by the
sturdy elements of the population.
The reestnbllshment of a stable gov
ernment, perhaps of the republic
which Bela Kun overthrew, either by
the Magyars themselves or by oll!ed
Intervention, would now seem a iossi
blliry In Hungary. The one evident
fact is thnt Bolshevism has failed to
make Its vaunted gain In western
Europe.
Bela Kun's Overthrow
The Hungarian Soviet leader, Bela
Ken, whose overthrow is reported to
Ihe Peace Oinferense from Vienna,
ems to have been a failure both as
Bolshevist and a dictator. At first
the Moscow Soviet acclaimed him the
leader of the advance guard of Bol
Btwvjsm In western Europe, and then
two weeis afterward declared he was
unequal to his job. lie was unable to
recon. -ili- the rival factions of Com
mnists and Socialists, untl to force
the Soviet rule upon Hungary further
than the territory occupied by his
I armies, or to win the much needed
Support of the peasants.
eo?- managed to develop, however.
Into a rather knotty problem for the
i Peace Conference. Such rule as he
exercised at Budapest was considered
' as representative of neither Hungary
nor the Hungarian people, and the
Conference refused to receive a dele-
' gatlon approved hy him or to give
him thai chance that he asked to air
The Bank of General.
The permanent rank of General,
which the President has asked on
gress to confer upon General Per-
shino and General March, has been
held by only three American soldiers ;
Grant. Sherman and Sheridan. It
has heen an honor Jealously guarded,
granted only In recognition of extraor
dinary services. Congress undoubt
edly intended to give the rank of
General to Washington, for It cre
ated the office of General of the
Armies in March, 1709, but the com
mission had not been issued when
Washington died nine months later.
Scott, the hero of the Mexican
War, had to be content with the bre
vet rank of Lieutenant-General. Good
soldiers, like Schofield, Miles. Cn.tr
kee nnd Go RBI IV, were made LieUten-ant-Generals
by Congress after they
had reached the position of Chief of
Staff or commanding General.
It would be natural for General
Pershing, as commander of the ex
peditlonory armies and as the fore
most American figure In the field of
war, to receive this rank. While his
tory may not group him with Wash
ington or Grant as a soldier, and
while mllltory men may not see in
him the genius of either Sherman or
Sheridan,, he Is the outstanding Amer
ican of the war. the officer whose re
sponsibility for the campaigns of the
United States armies abroad has been
undivided.
Peyton C. March Is a good sol
dier ; he proved It in Cuba and in the
Philippines. His country's debt to
him for his services ns Chief of Staff
in the great war should be rewarded.
The permanent rank of Lleutenant
General would surely be none too
much for a man who capably carried
on the henvy work In the War De
partment nt Washington. Yet many
will wonder whether the rank of Gen
eral should fall to any but a great
field commander. It Is the hero
crown, the grand decoration.
If Congress should give to both
Perhhino and March the rank of
General we should have, for the first
time, two full Generals In active ser
vice. Sherman was not made a Gen
eral until March 4, ISfiO, the day
when Grant assumed the higher office
of the Presidency. It Is true that
Siifridan was made a General while
Sherman was still alive, but this was
done because Sheridan was a dying
man and President Cleveland wished
to make his last days happy. He
lived only two months after his ele
vation to the highest military rank
in our army. Three years later Sher
man Joined the others of the trium
virate, and since his death In 1891
there has been no General.
houses of Congress from meeting there
is provided for In Section 84 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States,
thus :
"Whenever Congress Is about to
convene) and from prevalence) of con
tagious sickness or the existence of
other circumstance It would, In the
opinion of the President, be haz
ardous to the lives and health of tho
members to meet at the seat of Gov
ernment, the President Is authorised
by proclamation to convene Congress
at such other placo as he may judge
proper."
It will be seen that this statutory
provision hardly supports the state
ment that the President has the power
to convoke the Senate at any place
he pleases and that the Senate Is
bound to go to that place. Senator
Lodge's authority for this view seems
to be Rule XXXVI. of the Standing
Rules of the Senate, In which we find
these words:
"When the President of the United
States shall meet the Senate In the
Senate chamber for the conatderatlon
of executive business, ho shall have
a seat on the right of the Presiding
Officer. When the Senate shall be
convened by tho President of the
United States to any other place, the
Presiding Officer of the Senate and
tho Senatora shall attend at tho place
appointed with the necessary officers
of the Senate."
It would seem that the phrase "to
any other place" In this rule does not
mean any other place than the Dis
trict of Columbia, but any other place
than the Senate chamber the meet
ing place referred to In the first sen
tence of the rule.
Rule XXXVI., however, does fully
confirm Senator Lodge's statement
that the Senate rules provide for the
Prasldent coming and sitting with the
Senate In executive session. The
same rule further provides that all
treaties which may be laid before the
Senate and all remarks, votes and
proceedings thereon shall be kept se
cret until the Senate shall by resolu
tlou take off the Injunction of secrecy
or re.olve to couslder the same In
open executive session.
Nothing is said in these Standing
Rules of the Senate as to who hall
lake any steps In the first instance
for the attendance of the President
upon an executive session ut which a
treaty is to he considered. It would
teem, however, that the expression of
a desire on the part of the President
.i to attend or the expression of a
wish on the part of the Senate as a
body for his presence would he propei
methods of procedure. In the Inter
est of the people of the United States
some way ought certainly to be con
trived whereby the President should
communicate to the Senate all that lie
knows about the discussions leudlng
up to the signing of the treaty of
Versailles.
requirements to drive a golf ball far
and true. Or Is the plaguy sport
wholly a matter of mind and nerves?
Who'll tell?
On the list of prominent national
characteristics, such as British dogged
ncss, French amiability and German
"efficiency," must now be Included,
since It Is the first nation to accept the
Invitation to Join the league, Argen
tinian optimism.
Justices of the Court of Special Ses
sions stumbled upon a fact which de
serves notation In the records of the
finest. Their Honors were hearing a
charge against a barkeeper of selling
a flask of something which wag passed
over the bar as whiskey. But was it
whiskey? Tho accused, understand
ably, would not say. Tho clerk of the
court sniffed, but was not sure; the
prosecuting attorney politely refused
to tasto and his sniff was productive
only of doubt. So the learned Judges
ordered the buyer, who was the com
plaining witness, to sample the goods
by taste and smell and determine If it
were whiskey. Pre-cllmax : he had
never tasted whiskey In his life. Cli
max: he Is a New York pollcs officer.
Post -climax : there are a lot more
policemen like him!
A FALSE VIEW.
RAILROAD TROUBLES DUE
TO POLITICS.
The Mendacious Old "Congressional
Record."
(representative Goldfogle of this
city culled to the1 attention of the
House a email trick sometimes re
sorted to by members to escape
printed proof of wilful misstatements.
Mr. Tincheb of Kansas In the course
of debate asserted that there were
Congress districts In New York with
less than 100,000 population. Mr.
Goi.DyooLE promptly challenged the
statement, responding that there was
not a New York district with less
than 200,000 population.
In the Itexrd the statement of Mr.
Tincher was omitted, making Mr.
Goldvogi.e'r Interruption, which wus
printed, meaningless. At the request
of the New York member the Record
wag corrected to correspond to the
notes of the official report. As a mai
ler of fact, many of New York's forty
three districts are above the average
of the country in population, only
two, even under the 1010 census, be
ing credited with less than 200,000;
the Fifth, in Kings county, which had
197.844 in 1910, and probably has
many more now, and the Thirtieth,
up State, with 194,000 Iri 1910. The
others hnve from 204,000 to 300,000
the latter largely excessive number
living In the Twenty-third. Manhat
tan, district
Mr. Tincher, not knowing that,
should have known that It was well
known to Mr. Oompoai.E.
The President's Attendance Brfore
the Seuate.
The statement by Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts, published yesterday
to the effect that no committee of
Congress has any right to summon
the President of the United States
before It Is accompanied by a dec
laration that the President has the
power to convoke the Senate at any
place he pleases and that the Senate
Is bound to go to that place and hear
any communication he desires to
make. Mr. Lodge said :
"Our rule also provide for the
President's coming and sitting with
the Senate In executive session."
The Constitution of the I'nlted
States contains no express provision
fixing the place at which the houses
of Congress shall hold their sessions;
hut the grant to Congress of the
power to exercise exclusive legislation
over such district as might become
the sent of the Government of the
I'nlted Stales carries with it the Im
pllcstion that Congress shall hold Its
regular sessions, nt least, In the Dis
trict of Columbia. The possibility ot
emergencies which vatgbt preclude the
Sir Edward Carson must now feel
that he is wholly blest. For years he has
failed In what has seemed to be his de
termined purpose, to offend every party
and faction of every party In his coun
try. If, as the cable news asserts, he is
now assailed as vigorously by Ulster
Volunteers as by the Sinn Fein, by
Liberals as by Tories, by London as by
Dublin, It may be that he will be con
tent for a whllo to forego his role of
enfant terrible in British politics and
behave himself.
Broadway is beginning to notice that
the woman and song members of the
famous bacchanalian trinity are pining
for the deceased.
On the Columbia Country Club links
where the President plays golf there'll
bo soon almost any fine day a smiling
boyish looking little chap who Is the
despair of tall golfers, muscular golf
ers, players who come from college
crews, diamonds, football teams and
big golfers various whose broad shoul
ders, bulging biceps, thick wrists and
visellKs hands convince them that they
should be able to drive tho little golf
ball a mil and with swashing niblick
dig It out of the deepest sand pit, the
most reluctant grass. The Columbia
Country Club professional, the Hon.
FasDuia McLbod, Is a wisp of a laddie
who'd make up bonnlly as a girl In a
college play. Yet he first amaxed the
golfing world by winning the open
championship and then, to prove that
his winning was not a hit of luck, went
on to establish the probably unique
record of "being In the money" in every
one of the last ten open championship
tournaments. Surely it is time for some
one to discover for the benefit of pus
sled thousands what are the physical
A Plea to Replace the Interstate Com
merce Comnls$lon by a Body Which
Mm 1 1 Be Independent of Outside
Influences and Rave More Power.
To the Editor or Tki Sun 81c There
Is no desire to criticise personally any
member of the Interstate Commerce
pommlsslon. past or present. Most of
Ha members since Its organization, a
third of a century ago, have been hard
working and sealous men, and not the
least Interesting fact In that diiing all
that time tho personal integrity of no
member of the commission has been pri
vately or publicly assailed.
At times throughout the country the
commission has been criticised as In
competent, as Individually and collec
tively Inefficient, and its methods and
means of handling the great railroad
problems have been denounced by com
mercial bodies as tardy In the extreme,
with business Injured by the neglect of
the commission to render decisions with
in anything like a reasonable period.
The commission has been subjected
to drastic, comments on the part of rail
road executives, railroad employees,
bankers, shippers, security holders and
by all sorts and conditions of men hav
ing direct, Indirect and even remote
connections with railroad matters.
in many quarters me commission ma
. ) osen c.nargi n explicitly wnn naving
An Opportunist BepnbUoan Womld , atrangIKl and ,tarved the ,reat railroad
Harry the Senate. systems of tho United States, collectively
To ths EDlToa or TBS Sun Sir: I j the greatest1 railroad system In tho world,
think that we Republicans all agree that I The present and the past reduced carn
the League of Nation-, as exhibited by ! 'n of the railroads, the plight In which
Wllsonlan ons track mind. Is sort of , nearly a million security holders ot the
visionary, and under Its workings all railroads find thamselves through se
sorts of unfortunate things might hsp- vr'' reduced dividends, the unconsclon
pen which would Involve the United able, distressing service In many parts
Htatcs In aerlous wrangles, but amid all I of the country anything, everything
the confusion where are we at, anyway? lnat Decn na w,ln r""'
W hat we Uenubllcan want la some I roods nas Deen largely puea. snumea
constructive work done In Congress that ; pitched upon the commission ; this
will give us laymen In the background ' D""rl' """ TV?, I
which time the responsibility for this
dreadful state of affairs has been about
equally divided.
It may be set down as a copper riv
eted fact, however, that all the troubles
of the railroads of the country coming
thrrugh the administration of the In-
lt Wilson have his way and finish v " "" wswwiaaawaa rw w
nnur ui ivs incfjiHvn 10 inc prwwvni wv
mrnt have heen due to the fact that
Home nuhhtant.nl thoughts to take into
the next Presidential campa-Kn to win
the electron with. The war as far as
this country is concerned has been under
Democratic management. Signing the
peace treaty and restoring peace la
moftly their work.
the job He and not the Senate made
tho Tirncp nrA t hr In nallv notlilnaT
much more than a lot of MflMlMl talk j th mmlwion is nothing more than a
political body, enveloped by a political
syptm, and it Is this system which has
to do about It. Te sooner ttv Sonati?
nmnUraa It Tltt Is. i . '.- tHs. Hrtr It wilt
I .1 a- I .1,., .HIaUha.. n tha nomm 1 si
If for ths business Intereeta of the """"'"f .-, Ui -
nation.
' slon. which in turn has acted so dlsas-
Let the Republican Senators keep their
trously upon the railroads of the coun-
skirts clean and the coming election of lr added also that no mem-
DT nt tnia cominiaaiun uaa uccu i
pointed since Its organisation except to
represent a political obligation or hope.
The commission. In a word, has been
and Is dominated by politics, not by
1 fundamental economic railroad prlnci
! pies
j There Is plenty of comment to demon
j strnte that the members of the commls
the aion have not been free agents, but have
been fearful of offending a political
1920 will do the rest
Ix;t a quit the foolishness and trim
the sails fnr the cominir elections.
E. E WAJtKr.v
N" AllRAGA N SBTT PlEB, It. I . July 15.
IS IT A TREATY?
The Senate's Power to Pass oa
I a.-'ic Covenant Questioned.
,, . power or powers How often Is It heard
To the IlntTOR or Ths Sun .S'tr; Sec-1 , .. . . . ..
i In Wajshlntrton and how fiften haft the
lion 2 of Article It. of the Constitution I . .. r . . - . ,
.... . , . . testimony oern gaveii uejurr jkhiib .hvi
mains the provision under which the ' . " ,fc ,h mml,
1'iesld. nt is given power to negotiate : . . . . . , . ,
'treaties" by and with the advice and " " " . .. . . .
. ' been lectured, even threatened, by mem-
t nsent of the Senate. I. . , , . . ,
T . . . i bers or the House and by members of
Is It not a question whether the i ,..
Ka Q.nn,. with an I n v-n ml ru t Inn nf tta
League of Nations covenant Is properly . . . ... ,
I npti Anil Bill ut n n.-s. threats
i treaty ' under the meaning and Intent ,rt., ... .imn.. everv decision
oi that section? I . . , . . . ,-
now as baton, and all that was neeaa
eary wae to return tham to their own
era wlthost any loglalatlon Thla lg
norea abeolutalr tha faot that tha dol
lar la worth only about 0 seats and
we have to pay our bills an tba baala
of aha depreciated dollar. It alao lc
nores tha fact that taere la aome Ave
or all hundred mltllone more of In
veatmant upon which Intereat muat be
earned.
Mr. B. C. Forbes In the Forbt Unaa
sins recently said :
To put the railroad a(aln under tha
thumb of the Interatata Commerce
Commlaaion, which did Ita boat to
wreck them before, would lead the
country nowhere except probably to
renewed chaoa by and by.
Scores of plans, systems, schemes
have been suggested b which the com
mission should be shorn of Its powers
at d relegated to the scrap heap, b'jt th
commission is still hers It is still do
in business at the old stand In Wash
ington. Meantime there is no relief
for the railroads In sight. There will be
no relief for the railroads until the law
providing for the Interstate Commerce
Commission la rescinded and a naw body
with potent oowers and with more en
lightened and quickened methods shall
taks Its place.
This country Is a commercial coun
try, nothing more, nothing less. Its rail
roads should be t.eated as going busi
ness concerns, nothing more, nothing
leas. The Interstate Commerce Com
mission should be dons away with root,
branch and leaf. In Its place should
be a supreme transportation body of
competent cltiiens of the highest typo
of efficiency and Integrity, at liberal sal
aries, and thla transportation body
should be sppqjnted by the President
and confirmed by ths Senate, and the
terms of the members of this transpor
tation body should be for life or pend
ing good behavior, except that Its meni-
l.crM should be retired at thi ac Of
9, Such a body would not be subject
to political Influences.
In addition to this supreme transpor
tation body, say of from five to seven
members, there should be minor re
gional transportation bodies, appointed
like the supreme body, from whose
decision there could be appeals made
to the supreme transportation body of
the United States at Washington. Inas
much ns under the Constitution there
arc three branches of the Oovernment,
xecutlve. Judicial and leglslstlve, the
supreme transportation department at
Washington could, under a new law. do
mnrte an annex of the 8upreme Court
of the United States and the minor re
gional departments of transportation
could he made adjuncts of tho Federal
Circuit and District courta
The railroad men. the bankers, the
shippers, labor organisations, security
holders should all make up their minds
to one fact, that neither the railroads
nor persons having business with the
Interstate Commerce. Commission can
ever get what Is known In eommon par
lance as "a square dear' until the
commission Is taken out of politics, until
that body is supplanted by one that has
a free hand, a broad conception of the
growing needs of the country-, whose
embers are not dependent upon the
beck and nod or frown of a member of
the House of Representatives or of a
United States Senator. Harh pan.
New York, July IS.
HUGO TURNS MOTOR
LAW JUDGE TO-DAY
Stato Socfetary First to Pill
Place Caused by Vehicle
Violations.
WILL REVOKE LICENSES
The preamble to the first ten amend
ments to the Constitution recites that
"further declaratory and restrlctlvs
clauses" are necessary "to prevent abuse
of Its powers'' conferred under the Con-
aroused the shippers and other constit
uents of members of the House of Rep
rostntatlvea and the United States Sen
ate to complain of and to resent the
advanced rates and to declare that their
stltutlon. and therefore these ten amend- ; repre!K.nUltv shou,d , , it that the
ments constitute the limitations on ths
Unteratate Commerce Commission should
power of the Senate, Congress and tho j , . .
ZJ ' I not grant further advances
' , . ., . No matter about the financial condl-
If the League of Nations Is more than ,. nt ,h rallron, no m.tter how
a "treaty" under the meaning and In- , neceHnry the8e advance. wer.. no mat-
oi oeve.u,. t. Li. iu P how the service of the public suf
of the powers given in that section It for ack of th(,m , and
must be disposed of under the Tenth h ,.on,,lluents wcre utterly opposed
Amenoment to tne uonatitution. wnica
reserves "to the States or to the people"
all powers not delegated by the Constitution.
The rules for construing statutes. If
applied, certainly bring this ratification
of the covenant of the League under the
Tenth Amendment, and the rule that dis
puted or amblgtieus statutes should be
construed according to the Intent of tho
legislators also applies.
Nbwark RBAnKR.
Niwajik, N. J.. July IS.
WHEN A MAN'S DRUNK.
Expert Opinion Ulven to a Long Isl
and Magistrate.
To thi Editor or Ths Sun Sir: Some
time In the '80a when I was a commit
ting magistrate, a well known character
about the town was brought before me
to paying anything like an adequate sum
for adequate service, and the poUtlclans
took up the cudgels asainst the commis
sion. Indeed, in the case of the 6 per
cent, rate advance several years ago
Senator Newlands. then the head of the
Interstate Commerce Committee of the
Senate, was practically swamped with
letters and telegrams from his constit
uents protesting agulnst the action of
the commission, and to the last day of
his life he told of the abuse showered
upon him for that advance. The same
rtory could be told of scores morn of
the members of the House of Repre
sentatives and the United States Senat".
At this very moment members of the
House and members of the Senate are
beseeching the Interstate Commerce
Commission to reduce freight and pas
senger rates which were decreed as ab
solutely essential by former IMrector-
General McAdoo and which have been
sustained by Director-General Hlnea The
by an officer, who charged him with
being intoxicated In a public place. It ' politicians are always at the commission
was self-evident that the man was drunk. 1 n an effort to beat dewn rates so that
but he denied It, and uddresed mo as they can tell their constituents of the
follows: "Judge, I am not drunk, lou! great work the did for them in ush
are supposed to know when a man la ington, caring little or nothing how the
really drunk, but you don't I'll tell
you. Judge, when a man Is really drunk.
It Is when he has to lie down flat on
Ms stomach and hold tight to the grass
with his Angers and toes to keep from
floating up into the air; then he Is
drunk."
1 had gained some information, so I
discharged him. I wonder how much
2.7a per cent, beer it would take to put
a man In that condition. I may add that
the man referred to Is still alive and well
preserved In alcohol.
Arinoton H. Carman.
Patchoour, July 18.
This Is Not Promised In the Covenant
To thi Editor or Tin Sun Sir: I
noticed that The PH seemed perturbed
over the safekeeping of the originals of
the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution of the United States. They
undoubtedly will be weU cared for ufter
Woodrow I. gets his world empire
smoothly running under his League of
Nations pretext He will probably send
them to the British Museum, as that In
stitution la noted for Its careful guar
dianship of quaint documents.
Karl F. Wirt.
B10OMSBUBO, Pa, July 18.
If you are a lover of tha Maine coast
and don't know about the naw nattuaal
park there an article by Wllhem P l)r. la
ma a In afuaaer'a 3apartne for Auguat will
Intereat you. Other timely arttrlea are
"The ureal Oil Boom," by Judaon C.
Wtlllvar; "Tha Epic of tha Mlaaiaalppl," by
Kayraond 8. Spears, akatohea of National
Chalrmea Kays and Cummlnga by J.
Churchill Williams, and "What a Blind
Man Can IM," the atory of Dr Harry 8.
Will of tha University of Toledo. A naw
aerial, "Bob of Arue," by Maryland Allan,
bealna In thla taaua, while "Beau Revel,"
"Rmkere la Adventure" and "The 9ea
Brule' are continued The ahorl atoiiea,
all llluetrated, are by Max Brand. Wake
lelgh Rhodes, Clarence Melly. Kay Cleaver
strahan, Jim Egen, John t. Hwaln and
Robert haaaaa.
railroads come out of this system of
erosion : thla In ths face of the fact that
many of the railroads are not earning
their operating expenses, lot alone tho
Intereat on their debts while the trans
nortatlon service grows worse and
worse.
The railroads of the country will
never be adequately nourished nor tho
security holders protected nor the pub
lie needs served so long as railroad nr
fairs arc in the handn of a commission
that had Its Inception In oolltlcs, is dom
inated by politics and will continue to
be dominated b politics
President Ripley of the AtchlBon, To-
peka and Santa Fe Railroad, probably
one of the most outspoken railroad ex
ecutives, speaking of the conunlaslon.
said the other day:
Tha Interatata Commerce Commla
aion ha been In exlalence about thirty
two yeara, and during that time haa
hal many able inembcre. It haa alo
had many not ao able and many who
era appointed be.auae of political ac
tlvltlea or who had made the railroad
bualneaa their objective In the way of
critlclam. It la a alngular thing, hoa -ever,
that In all of lta thlrt-two yeara
of exta'ance It haa never had aa a
member either a railroad man or a
bualnaaa man or a ahlpper or a farmer.
There waa appointed on It a railroad
conductor who had no pravloua ktiuwl
dga of the railroad bualneaa except aa
a conductor He haa made one of tha
beat Commleelonere thay have had ba
cauaa he haa done aa veil aa ha could
with the education that he had. There
have been other membera who have
been partially eduoatad at our expenaa.
They were abaolutely without experi
ence. Many of them have learned that
there are two aldea to a queetlnn and
have proved valuable to the commla
aion There are atlll othera who have
not seen the light. They are atlll atand
Ing In tha way of a comprmlae or of
a fair way out of thla muddle. It la only
ten daya ago that one of tha membere
of tha oommiaalon aald he did not think
any remedial maaaurea ware naceaaary,
the roada were earning aa muck money
Reckless Automobile Driving
Getting to Be Great Men
aee, He Says.
THE COST OF UNIFORMS.
An Allowance Made to Marine Corps
Officers Recently Graduated.
Tn thi Euitok or TBI St'N Sir. In
Thi Sun recently there appeared a let
ter dated New York. July 10. and signeu
"Sailor Man." In which it was stated that
i30 marines had been graduated from
the officers' training school at Quan
tlco. Va., and that they had been put
tn an average exoenae of at least JSflO
for uniforms, although the appointing
authorities knew that the graduates were
to be immediately put upon an Inactive
status, without pay.
This letter waa brought to my atten
tion by civilians, who asked me to In
vestigate and find out If the statements
contained In it were true. I assured
th.m that such a procedure was en
tirely at variance with the normal atti
tude and policy of the headquarters or
the Marine Corps and I took It upon
myaelf to have the matter Investigated
at Washington, with the result that I
have been informed officially that 233
candidates were graduated on June 16
and were commissioned Second Lieuten
ants In the Marine Corps Reserve ; thnt
they were all advised before graduation
that they could not be retained on nn
active status for any length of time;
that on account of the sweeping reduc
tions made by Congress In the strength
of the Marine Corps and he lack of
appropriations resulting therefrom they
would all be put on an inactive status
after the first of July 1 that these young
men were placed on an active status for
a short period In June, and that under
existing law when so placed they re
vived a uniform gratuity of 8150, and
that It waa unnecessary for any of them
to expend more than 1100 for uniforms
As "tailor Man's" letter 'gives a very
wrong impression of the treatment ac
corded these officers and Is decldedly
Inaccurate In its statement of alleged
facts 1 would deem It a favor If you
will give this letter the same publicity
which you gave to the on- atgnetl ".Sailor
Man" 11 H Kn"p-
Lieutenant-Colonel United States Ma
rine Corps
New York, Ju'y 18.
When the court crier In Special Ses
sions gets on the Job at 10 A. M. to-day
and booms his call against the tall walls
of that dingy temple of Justice there will
bo a new Judge on the bench, uhe new
est thing In Judges, as a matter of fact
For the first tlmo In tho history of ths
State the Secretary of State will sit as a
Magistrate, clothed by the Legislature
with a full suit of Judicial power. Only
one variety of case falls within Ills Juris
diction, however, and this varloty has to
do with Infractions of the motor vehicle
law. The lost Legislature acted on the
principle that If the Secretary of State
haa Uhe right to give McenKes to motor
car drivers he ought to have the right to
rescind licenses for cause. Therefore
thet made the Hon. Francis M. Hugo
the Ann Motor Law Judge
The Secretary came to New York from
Albany yesterday and put up nt the
Hotel Commodore, wtiere he tulked
about the purpose and spirit of the new
law and about how he expects It will
work for ths public good. The new law
provides that wherever the operator of a
motor car is convicted a tlilrd time for
violating the speed limit, or for driving
a ear while drunk, or for negllgcnco In
Injuring a person or for fleeing without
giving nanii'. address or car number, thcr
the Secretary of State shall have power,
arter reviewing the circumstances, to re
voke the operator's license. The cases
that will go before tiltn arc fresh from
the police Magistrates' courts, cases In
which convictions were found for
various offences. Rut the Magistrates
have not the power enjoyed by the Sec
retary of State of revoking licenses and
Mr. Hugo's mission as a Motor Law
Judge is to see to it that grave offences
are adequately punished.
Seeks to Protect Life?.
"Matters have got to such a pass." said
Mr. Hugo yesterday, "that responsible
officials must do something to protect
human life. In this State in the last
year 1,260 persona were slain by motor
cars, half of the number being killed
In New Y'ork city. Moat of these cases
were due to reckless driving or intoxi
cation. It is a sttameful and shocking
record and It must not be repeated.
'There are two ways by which a re
form can be brought about. One is edu
cational. We must appeal to the good
sense and solrlt of fair play that is
strong In most men. We must do a lot
of publicity work among drivers ; as
suring them that their rights will be
protected as long as they show a de
cent regard for the rights of pedestrians
and the public generally. The educa
tional campaign Is the more important
of the two methods because It will reach
and Influence a larger number of people
than will the other method.
"Hut, unfortunately, there are many
drivers who cannot be reach"d by ap
peal and argument. This Is especially
true In Uhe big cities, where some pretty
hard cases have gone into the trade of
professional chauffeur. These fellows
need curbing and taming. They need
something more than an occasional lec
ture from a Magistrate or a small fine.
They need the definite and certain pun
ishment of losing their right to drive a
car. And that's what I'm going to do
to them.
IllBh Time for Action,
"Of course l cannot prejudgti cases,
but It is proper for me to state in a
general way that 1 will use to the limit
the power the Legislature has given me
to discipline and punlah dangerous oper
ators of motor cars. Men with a con
sistently bad record need expect no
mercy In my belief the sooner they
are kicked out of the business the bet
ter It will be all around. I'm going to
get action. It's high time."
Tho new court will open thla morning
with alnnii ten cases on the docket, most
of them. Mr Hugo said, being cases of
arrests for Intoxication w-hlle driving a
car. The Secretary of State as Judge
Hugo will review the stenographic record
of the case, will question the culprits
and hear testimony In the usual manner.
Then he will take time to form a de
cision and announce whether the ac
cused persons shall bo permitted to drive
any more.
Chief Justice Kemochatl of the Court
of Special Sesslona pleased Mr. Hugo
very much yesterday when he tendered
the Special Sessions Court room for the
use of the Secretary In trying his batch
of cases.
The Sun Calendar
THL WEATHEK.
MIMATL'HK ALMANAC
Standard Time
)un Heft i A M Sun aeta IM P at
Moon riaea 11 :ti P M
For Eastern New York Partly cloudy
In north, showers tn south portion to-day
and probably to-morrow; moderate tem
perature , moderate south winds.
Kor MOW Jersey Showera to-day and
probably to-morrow; moderate tempera
ture, gentle aoutherly wlnda.
Kor northern New Eng land Partly
cloudy to-day and to-morrow, not much
change In temperature; gentle to mod
erate, auuth and aoulhwtat wlnda.
sor southern New Knglund She a era
to-day and prottabiy to-ruorruw; moderate
aouth wlads
Por wraiern Now York Pair to-day .
partly oloudy tovnoirow, not much change
In temperature, gentle variable wlnda.
WASHINGTON, July II High prreaure
peralata off the Atlantic coaat and pre
auro la low In the eat Canadian provinces
and the Soulhweaurn Htatea. There haa
be-n a further fell In temperature In the
pla na Hlatia and the Kocky Mountain
region and tempcraturea are now below
normal In these diatrlcta. In other parta
of the country temperature changes were
unimportant and readlnga remained near
the normal. Jn thi laat twenty-four houra
general ralna oecurrred in the Atlantic
and Gulf stuu-a. lbs eouthei n Hoeky Muun
tain and aouth plateau region. North Pa
kola and southern Montana. Heavy ralna
fell In Maryland, aoutheastern Pennsyl
vania, Dlatrlet of Columbia, Virginia. South
Carolina, tleorgla, northern Ple.rlda. eoulh
eaat Ixtulalana, north Texaa and western
Oklahoma. The outlook la for continued
ahowery weather with moderate tempera
ture Saturday and Sunday throughout the
Atlantic and cant liulf States and Ten
nesaec. In the Ohio Valley and Ihe region
of Ihe great lakea the weather will be gen
erally fair Saturday and Sunday except
that thunder ahowcra are probable In tha
upper lake region.
Observation at P
rean Ptahniia taken
nty nfth meridian t
A Bugler for the Mayor.
To ths EnrroR or Ths Bun Str. You
recommend a blimp service for our
Mayor. Why not come down to earth T
Let our Mayor have on the front seat
of his car a bugler Lei our Board of
i Aldermen fix IHe n,neB t,u bugler is to
bugle. Then when the public hears the
signal from the Mayor's bugle let ail
traffic stop. I? this scheme doesn't work
let the Mayor stay home
David Lambkrtson.
Matawan. July IS
We Are lMlghted to Pralae Ihe President
When lie I ItlgM.
To thi Bonoa or Tut Its-Str: Why do
you not dofand on your editorial page the
action of the Prealdent In vetoing the del -light
aavtng repeal? I am a dull) reader
of Ths Sls and cannot underetamt jour
4 I MmiUK Lis
rtocsi nut., n J . July is.
The Sln comm. id. d Mr. Wilson for
his veto on the morning after he wrote lt-
Melleence.
From Me WaiMnalon Star
"Id like u g..e a 'rlend advlre. '
gg 1 heaeklah Binge.
"I've even irled It once or twlca.
A allghl rraull H brlnga
With oaae I though' frlenda might be
turne 1
To elmple wave anew.
It seemed mu 'h harrier ahn I learned
Each peraenal polm of view.
"Kor each muat :ead hie little Ufa
in hla appointed way.
And be a hero In the atrlfa
Or falter In tha fray .
I d rather land a helping hand
Than waata line worda on thing"
Thai maybe I dor. t underatand."
Station
Ahilene .
Albany
Atlantic city
Baltimore ...
Illamarck ....
Boston
Purralo
Charleston ..
Chicago
Cincinnati ..
Cleveland ...
Denver
Detroit
iinlveaton
Helens
JpcasnnvlIJe
hnneaa titr
I ."i Angelea.
Milwaukee . .
New- Orleana. ... Kk
Oklahoma City. . 4
Philadelphia .... 7
tt'iirr t?
Portland. Me. .. M
I'crtlann. Ore... 0
Salt Lake Ctr . . 82
flan Antonio M
i I ranclivi, S2
San Illego 72
St Ixula Ml
Washington . . . . 7
SMITH ACTS IN ROME STRIKE.
Governor I'rgea Mannfaetorera to
I ..tier with Men.
.vpeviil leaporcA to Tar. Si v.
ALBANY, July 18. OoV, Smith to-day
after a conference with Mrs. Prancei
Perkins, member of the State Industrial
Commission, Issued a formal request
asking the manvefacturers involved in
the strike nl Home. N. Y., tn confer
with representatives of the strikers and
trv to reach an agreement. The strike
among copper mil workers at Homo has
lasted a eonsKleral.;e period ami on Mnti
day found its climax In riots, during
which three were killed and many
Injured, and was slopped only by the In
terference of Flate police.
Mrs. Perkins has made an Investiga
tion of the situation at Home Hiid haa
found that the employers heretofore re
fused to meet representatives of the
men and that much of the ill reeling was
due to this attitude. The State Indus
trial Commission through Its bureau of
mediation and with the solid backing
of rjov, Smith wii; make every effort to
effect h settlement between the warring
factions
nltril
at a
me :
Temlw
High.
aa
Slates Weather flu-
P. M. yesterday, aev-
halnfall
Bar- Iaki 24
. lira. Weather.
. . Cloudy
ranire.
Lew ometer
0 2t.72
71) 80 10 pt CM
7". jo 12 oa n. t idy
7J S0.10 1 CO nam
M tS.M o Clear
7J 10.12 .21 Clnu.lr
70 VlM Pt. ridy
o HOIaJ .40 CloudT
7J SO 05 . Clear
M 2P..H . Pt. I 'My
sa so 02 pt cidy
M 22 .01 it, m
71 .mm Clear
: y.i.t .M pt. cidy
M 2P.M . Clear
74 MM .14 Onulv
W ISM . Clear'
se 211 a .. Clear
M 2 M t lear
7 .M .14 pt. ride
M a M (11 Pt CldT
70 SO U 1 .M naln
M an no . rt cnty
SO OS . . Cloiily
54 80 (as . . Clear
A fa 14 Clear
74 J . . Clear
S3 a . Clear
TO !K1 T.R Pt Cidy
W a 91 . Clear
73 soon naln
3" 21
9
K.
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tin In
B7
LOCAL WEATHER RRTORDS
I A. M. 8PM
tvnrnm-ter 3019
Humidity f
Wind direction 8 E.
Wind - velocity 6
Weather Cloud-.
Precipitation None
The temperature In thla cllv veaterdav.
aa recorded by the official thermometer, la
ehnun in the annexed table!
8 A. M ... 68 J P. M . . . "0
It A. M ... To il P. M ... 71
3 P M
4 P. M
5 P. M
1818.
1(1 A. M
11AM
12 M. ..
9 A M.
ISM..
3 P M
. .71
. .71
. .73
1919.
.71
.70
.70
.73
.71
74
81
Hlgheet temperature
i.nw.-at temperature
Average temperature, 68.
IP M
" P. M
P Mi
i . M
11 P. M
1919
P. M 70
9 P M 9
12 Mid 68
72. at 12 noon
65. at 5 A. M
. .
. .at
.69
. .89
. .
1918.
80
T4
71
EVENTS TO-DAY.
Memorial aervlce for Dr. Theodore Merat.
founder of the Zionist Movement, Coop
t'nlon. 8 P. M.
Excuralon to Weal Point, Columbia Vnl
veralty Summer aVhoOl.
Police game,. Speedway Park. Sheeps
head Bay
Ieeture on "Roee Gardena." G. V. Naah.
New York Uotanlcal Oardrna
Pageant and entertainment at NC-4 In
Central Park. War Camp Community Ser
vice. 7 P. M.
$613,000,000 SUNDRY
BILL PASSES SENATE
Vetoed Measure Carries More
Funds for Soldiers.
Washington, July 18. Carrying In
creased appropriations for the rehabilita
tion and education of disabled soldiers,
sailors and marines, the $813, 000, 000
sundry civil appropriation bill was
passed to-day by the Senate. The Presi
dent vetoed tho original bill because it
limited funds for training wounded
service men.
The bill was sent to the President upon
its Signature bV tha Vlc-President ,,,!
Speaker.
Senator Mviim , Mon 1 n . . .
cessful offorts to add amendments appro
priating 160.600. 000 mid $6,000,000 re
spectively for reclamation projects and to
aid farmers affected by drought In tils
west.
Senator Smoot (Utah) criticising the
salary provisions of the amendment,
insert,.,) after President Wilson's veto,
said much of the funds would be apant
for teachers' salaries.
"If reports are true," he aald, "It Is
a bill for flr.aial rehabilitation of pro
fessors from n:ie end of the country to
the other."
Senator Smoot detailed charges made
by Joseph U. Branch, president of tho
Branch School of Knglneerlng at Chl
cago that four thousand disabled
soldiers w, r sent to Ihe Iiunwoodie In
stitute In Minnesota, with which Charles
A Prosier, director of the Federal Board
for Vocational Brlueetlon, is connected,
and nune assigned to the Branch school,
although It had offered to teach the men
for $15 a month each, compared with $.'0
charged at iJunwoodie.
Senator Ksnyon (low,) said Investi
gation showed ui soldiers w,rc sent to
IJunwoodie before Dr. Proaser became
director of the board ; that only forty
four were there now and that tiie insti
tute did not charge $60 a month for
teaching them.
Pais Heaekiah Blngs
wt
miunmi Joaxaoa.
PARCEL POST RATE RESTORED.
Parkagr, May lie Sent lo liermnny
for 111 I'enta a Poo ml
Wash inutos, July 18. The pre-war
rale of twelve cents a pound on parcel
pi.st packages to Oermany was reestab
lished to-day by tha Post Oftlce Depart
nient. The limit of weight on such pack
ages is eleven pounds.
Announcement alao was muoe thai the
domestic tetter rste of two cents an
ounce In effect when mail wont directly
from one country to the other would bo
r- es'abliatied ns sonn as direct steamship
lints htd been restored.
FxchHiigc nf money orders with tier
many will not be resumed pending 'he
negotiation of a new treaty, which olH
rials said was made necessary by the
decline In the value of the Herman
mark
Deatroyer Mrer I. snitched.
QlI Ml T Mass. July is The de
stroyer Meyer, named in memory of for
mer Se'-retary of the Navy 1 leorge von
1.. Meyer, waa launched to-day at the
Pore Mver yards of the Bethkh.ni
Shipbuilding Corporation. Mr.a Alice
Rodgers of Chevy iigse. Md , axdaugh
ter of Mr. MeyV sponsor.,
SIX AMERICAN CHEVALIERS.
K. of C. and Y. M. 1. A. -Workers
Are Anioag Heclplenta.
Pais. July 18 -C'apt- Andre Tarrlleu,
head of the tleneral Commission for
Franco- American Affaire, to-day pre
sented on behalf of the French Qevern,
nient the i.'rots of ihe legion of Honor
to Kdwaii I, li.arr,, geneeal cc.mmla
sionor for Europe of the Knights of Col
unilus; Secretar) ft. C Carter of tha
V M. 1' A. in France, ami Inrector
iovi. r.r ,o . . ,., . .
' ", e 1 .1 , jorn
l.-...r.,- ,.,o..M .- . . ,
""' emi,., UI loe 8 l.icr 1 CiUl fCtl CM
commission: Hurtle (imp. of ths
American Treasury Department and fi
nance controller of the American Armv
In Europe, and M Vlbbert, secretary of
the American L'nlon in Paris.
in making tin preatnttMlon t'apt Tar
dietl recalled the services rendered by me
re. . pi, ins of the honor, and said thai tl a
decoration! had been awarded by the
French lioi t rr.meiu as a tribute of gra-.-tudi
.
ii, ,1.11., i .-,oiuiera .stud.
Casees In tonography, Kngliai, and
Spanish, history, civics and inf
have been started at Qensral Hi lfal
No 1. Hun Hill road. The Bronx for
convalescent soldiers. iMtrtlOtorfl from
Columbia University and Hunter College
have been ilcaineii through in Amer
can Red i 'ross. und art eg tension of ths
cou-so to Include a number Of other vo
cational studies ia planned. There tre
now c;,n men and sO offlcera under care
at the hospital.