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THIS IS OFFICIAL.
Rece MT Decisions OF the Board ON Geo.
graphic Names.

graphic Names.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 29.-Henry Gannett
of the United States Geological Survey,
chairman of the United States Board on
Geographic Names, submits for publication
the decisions made by the board at its last
meeting. held on Jan. 4:
Bergenneld boron Oh. post Office and rail-
road station. BERGEN county. \. j. tNot
Bergen fields nor Bergen Fields)
Btuster: town and post otiloe Oh me Collln-
bin river. Okanogan county. Wash NO.
CHniwist: creek. tributary from the north
west to okanogan River. okanogan county
Wash. tNot Chiliiwist. ChiiiN hist. Chilli
whist nor Chilowist)
Ecorse: river. township. post office and
railroad station. Weyne county, Mich. MOI
Esty: glen north OF Ithaca. y mot
Factory: creek in Wayne and Lawrence
False Bottom: creek in Lawrence and
Bpi5d Sap a4esk wayHe aad HS
tics. Tenn. tNot Reinness. Reinse's nor
Reinsesl
town. Seward Peninsula. Aldskg tNot hug'
ruk KooRrocK. KouErok. kuSrook no.
Kugruk: liver flowing into Kotzebue Sound,
just east OF Cape Deceit. Alaska. Got swan
KuRrupaRa: river. seward P'ninsula,
Alaska flowing into the Arctic ocean. N
longitude l6G' as. Not hugruk nor MOO
CROOK 80
Ioup Loup: creek, tributary 70 Okanosan
River near MAlott. OknnoRan county, Wash
tNot Loop Loop. Loop Loop nor Looploop g,
Palisades: township. Bergen county y D.
(Sot Palisade.) -
Rogers island in Hu ison River. Columbia
county, y Y Not RodRersl
wannacu: lake. 0kanogan county,. WASH
T SON. h e5E tNot Wsunakee. Wennarli.
WonAcot Wannacott. WRnicot. Wanacoti.
WanniCutt nor Wanniout)
Weatherford. creek Wayne county, Tenn.
mot Rutherford, Rutherford's nor Ruthtr'
fords1
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slanderlng New York.

Some of the volunteers who have
taken upon themselves the task of re-
organizing the Police Department of
New York have progressed to the point
where it becomes necessary for them to
exhume and put into circulation certain
familiar old ISLANDERS. Vice stalks un-
challenged; thugs prowl and rob I'M
interfered with; criminal bands and
gangs possess the streets and honest
citizens are constantly in danger
New York is given over to the law
less and the vicious Soon the COM
plete domination of "the powers that
prey" will be announced, and innocent
strangers viii learn that the town is for
saken by the decent. well behaved and
law abiding classes
Such untruths about the community
do no harm, or very little. They have
been used so often that they have lost
their power to impress the understand
ing or the imagination. carnival OF
crime" is now assessed at its true value.
Il means a robbery Of rather unusual
boidness 4 reign OF vice signifies
thaV one or two spectacularly immoral
incidents have come to public attention.
Beyond this they mean nothing.
The public at home and abroad is not
to be stirred up by false reports of New
York's wickedness and disorder. The
city is clean, safe and comfortable to live
in, inhabited by decent, moral people.
That is known to every one. And if any
political organization expects to rise TO
power by giving currency to maliciously
exaggerated reports Of the conditions
under which New Workers live, its man
ayers have misjudged sadly the intelli-
gence and temper of the great majority
of the voters of this city.
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To rHE HprroR OF THR SUS--sir, recent
editorial in THE sun quotes the Hon. =. F. Nixon,
Speaker OF the Assembly. as saying OF women as
voters that they are "conse rvatlve consoienuous
PATRIOTS and intelligent class. However true
this may be OF women AT large II Is notorious that
n does not truly describe the class OF women who
are brought INTO prominence By politics. In Colo
rndo the women politicians have been proven 90 be.
In many instances as Venhl. as self-secling, As
capable OF fraud "a nor In say OF the suffrage
states Is II apparent that they have Improved the
political situation morally. Even in MAssaohu-
sets home OF good morals the Atlantic horfhIy OF
April. ipoi In an article entitled Politics In the
Public Schools" says OF women voters
at cannot be conceded that womhns suffrage
has brought the homo into the management Of the
school or that woman has purined and ennobled
political activity. II is difficult TO SEQ that the
women who have, year after year. taken AN active
part In school Affairs move on plane any higher
than that along which male effort acts IS mem =
bers OF school boards they frequently illustrate
the will known Truth that Imaginative action is
womAn's literary stronghold. There is always an
exception On favor OF thomselves 10 all rules.
when their own desires involved their vision is
oblaue they seldom if,ever lmpeTsonAl"
To assume In the language OF the Hon. s, y.
Nixon that every community would be benefited
by the vote OF such women Is 70 iravesty common
sense. The politicians. male or female. who make
such assertions are simply trading tho good
name OF the overwhelming majority OF women
who do not wish 10 vote. CAROLINE ?. CoRBIR.
President OF the Illinois Association Opposed ito
the Extension OF Suffrage 10 Woman.
CHICAGO, Jan. n.
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chases; and thereafter their savings may
go to the liquidation of such mortgages
The titles to a large part of the tenement
house property in New York rest in
people of this kind.
All this is undoubtedly true. but in
making the comparison with the United
Kingdom we bore il in mind and referred
specifically TO the enormous sum of the
savings OF our people invested in homes,
in shares of building ard loan associa-
tions and in stock and bond securities.
This aggregate must be vastly greater
than the English savings. IT seems to be
demonstrated, however, that the Eng
lish system of post savings banks encour-
ages and facilitates small savings to
greater extent than prevails in this
country generally.
The point made by our correspondent
that the conditions in England are so diff
ferent from those here that a strictly
scientific comparison cannot be made
between the two countries If doubtless
sound. For example, in New York
and the six New England States the
number Of depositors in 1908 was about
five-sevenths of the whole number in
the United States and the aggregate OF
deposits more than two-thirds, though
in these States there was only about one
sixth OF the population Of the Union,
while the percentage in the West, and
more particularly at the South, was
arnall In Nav York the savings bank
depositors represented nearly one-third
of the population, in Massachusetts
more than one-half, and the aggregate
deposits in those two States alone were
much more than half the total for the
whole Union. Their population was
only about quarter of that of the United
Kingdom, yet their aggregate number oil
depositors was equal to nearly one-half
the number of depositors in the British
post Office savings banks and the de-
posts more than billion dollars greater,
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WAN on STANDARD on.
kansas Legislature TO Tackle The Bill,
Providing for n state Refinery.

TOPEKA, Kan. Jan. 29.-Beginuing to-
morrow, the battle between this State and
the Standard Oil Company will open in
the Kansas Legislature. Bills appropns.
ting $500. 900 to build State oil refinery in
consideration. The State ia aroused and
hundreds of letters are pouring in urging
action by the members.
The committee appointed by the Khnsas
oil producers to lobby for the State refinery
bill to-day issued a manifesto showing
that a refinery with 1000 barrels daily
capacity will net the State $4,000 profit
a year. based on present Standard oil prices
for crude and refined oils.
fair division OF this profit between the
crude oil producers and the consumer OF
refined oil, in the way Of lifting the prios
for crude oil and decreasing the price for
refined oil, would still leave the State
enough profit to pay for the refinery n a
year.
The committee runs up against the argu.
ment that If the State is going into tho
refinery business ii should also go into
the packing business. the milling business
and every other kind OF business. lts
reply TO this argument Is: State institutions
are wholly unnecessary TO the manufactufs
OF meat and to wheat production. because
there is no possibility of monopoly on those
things. The producers Of meat and wheat
can first eat what they wish before the pur-
ohasers get any Of it. This secures to the
producers OF meat and wheat their living,
None of these conditions exists with oil.
The whole product must be sold, not in the
markets. of fair competition, but TO mo-
nopoly that fixes, arbitrarily, the price il
viii pay for the crude article. az well as
the price it will charge for the manufact-
ured article. Competition is completely
ati0aJ
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lists. Mr.. ARTHUR, believer IN small
parks, ID a little unjust to the buryin'
ground
- cemetery is not the mostcheeriul plaee"o soe
before breakfast on a rainy morning As parks
will be close 10 the people cemeteries will he far
enough away from them TO make II possible for
the living and tho dead iostAy It were In dtilcr-
ent compartments"
Another plan OF his affects two dis
tinguished varieties OF specialism
Il have oren thought thai doctors and under
takers should be public ofaciA,s with no financial
interes, whatever In tho number of deaths"
A curiously acute man in many ways
is this architect OF tho model city, this
lover OF the metric system and reformed
spelling. For example, he says that
some OF tho civic rot that now afilicts
us Is hard on the nerves
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American and British Savings.

On Friday we referred to the interest
ing circumstance that the number Of
depositors in the post Office savings banks
OF the United Kingdom OF Great Britain
exceeds the number of savings bank de-
positors in this country by about ? 200 900
in population only about half as large as
our own. The average amount OF the
deposit, however, in 1903. the year used
for the comparison, was less than $50
In the English post Office savings banks,
while in our American savings banks it
was more than s4oO.
A trustee of one Of the largest savings
banks in New York writes to us contend
ing that the Lesser number of depositors
in this country does not indicate any less
disposition to saving. The conditions
here, as he points out, are so different
from those of the United Kingdom that
fair comparison cannot be made with
out taking them into consideration. 1t
must be remembered that not all OF our
States have savings bank laws. In Ohio,
for example, building loan associa-
tions have largely taken the place of the
private savings banks, and the number
of depositors in these banks is relatively
small All Of the States having no savings
bank laws, with their population, he
would withdraw from any such compari-
son. Moreover, in 1903 the aggregate OF
depositors and the average OF deposits
we're very small in the Southern States.
Another important condition to be
considered is the class OF labor which
chiefly makes use Of these institutions
In the United States the agricultural
class is still by far the most numerous Of
those engaged in gainful occupations.
Distance from business centres and the
methods OF business Of the farmer make
the use OF savings banks less convenient
for him than for the inhabitant of bust
ness centre who receives his pay at
stated periods. The savings of the
American farmers, too, go in great part
to the increase and improvement of their
property.
A comparison with Great Britain, TO DO
fair and intelligent, our correspondent
contends, should be made by taking
only New York and the Eastern States
as having similar conditions.
The population Of New York and the
six New England States in 1903, accord
ing 10 the careful estimate Of the Census
Bureau, aggregated less than a third OF
the total population of the United King
dom. yet the number of savings bank
depositors in them was more than half
as many as in the post banks of the Brit
ish Islands, and probably about half as
many as the British depositors in savings
institutions Of all kinds.
This savings bank trustee refers to an
other matter Of Importance, in many
respects distinctive Of this country. Ii
Ia that here, much more than in England
the people to whom the savings bank
appeals are interested in various kind
Of property or put their savings as CAPT
tai in their business. For example, many
Of our savings bank depositors, after &C
cumulating a certain amount Of money
on one or more accounts, withdraw it in
order TO buy real estate, taking mort
cages, largely from these same banks, il
the sums are not sufficient for the pur.
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come measure in considerate way, and
the friends Of Catholicism got a little
comfort from tho relatively mild way
in which NJ. RouvIRR announced his pur-
pose. He also left them a ray oil nope
that something might turn up 70 the,r
advantage by declaring that the aooh-
ton Of the Concordat would not De
pressed until the income tax should
have become Nlaw. As the latter meas
ure is certain 20 be discussed at great
length and With much heat in the senate
as well as the Chamber OF Deputies
faithful Catholics will recognize that the
evil hour is at least deferred.
Not only is the new Ministry mere
replica of its predecessor as regards
internal reforms or changes. but owing
to the retention OF NJ DELcAssE in the
Foreign Office there will be no modifioa-
ton of the exterior relations OF the
French Republic. How important SUCH
consistency may prove was shown when
NJ. DELCAssE protested earnestly against
the demonstration made by group OF
Socialist Deputies, who shouted Down
with the Czarl' However keenly French
Republicans may sympathize with the
victims OF Romanof autocraoy, they
should not, as patriots, forget that the
cornerstone of their national security
and dignity is the treaty OF alliance with
Russia. France cannot afford to revile
the bridge that has carried her over an
abyss of isolation and impotence that at
one time threatened to engulf her. 1t ID
true that nothing could be more incon-
gruous than the existing league between
a democracy and despotism, but in
congruity has not prevented it from
being the salvation OF France.
The most remarkable thing about the
new French Cabinet is the fact that M.
RoUyIER should head it. Unquestion-
ably, the French parliament has never
had since NJ. LEON SAY, a more skilled
financier and the present Premier has
had an extensive Parliamentary ex-
perence, having been several times a
Minister and having once before formed
a Cabinet. The fact remains that he
was seriously implicated in the Panama
scandal, which was exposed upward OF
dozen years ago, and it was assumed at
the time that, like NJ. CLEMENcEAU. he
was doomed to Punishment from public
life. Frenchmen. however, seem to have
forgiven him. and ne now has a great
opportunity for Standardization.
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Especial Influence"

Congress has under consideration n
bill providing for the erection OF monu-
men. in Arlington Cemetery TO mark
the grave OF the late CHARLES VERNON
GR1pLBY, Who as Captain in the navy,
commanded the cruiser Olympia, Adj
miral DBwEY's flagship, in the battle
OF Manila Bay. Capt. GRIDIEY was i'll
when the attack upon the Spanish ships
was made, but he commanded his ship
in person. After the engagement he
obtained leave OF absence and started
to return to this country. be died on
the way at Kobe Japan.
Many matters OF greater popular i'm
portance than the erection Of monuments
have occupied the attention OF Repre-
sentatives and Senators since Congress
met, and the bill for monument TO
GRIpLEY has not made progress toward
enactment. There is one resident OF
Washington who has watched eagerly
for the passage Of thia measure, however,
and last week Senator ALGER presented
to his colleagues copy Of letter which
Was received early in the month by
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. President of the
United States. The letter was in these
words:
MT DEAR,SIA presume you are aware that
there b bill before Congress for the erection OF
monument In Arlington In memory OF my good son,
Capt. CHAhLRs vEhxos GRIDLEr, who commanded
the olympia admiral DKwKY's nAgship) at Manila,
his death being due 10 services thereon during the
battle.
Thoru Appears to be need of special influence
be disposed TO lend seems rtght To you. as II is
my earnest prayer that may live to this monu-
meni erected. trust you vii appreciate mothers
keen interest In tho perpetuAton OF the memory OF
her brave son. Then, too. his son Tiny only grand
son> Was killed the u ~ s. Missouri and the
monument could answer for both father and son.
Il feel that am not asking TOO much, for both
died for their country Neither would ask 1t II
I had the means 70 cree, this monument myself,
but am present. At tho age OF nearly 50. clerk
in one OF your Departments working for my living.
Our Michigan friends would rejoice II should
be successful. as that was our home and the other
States would be glad Most respectfully yours
ANN r. GapLKY~
II special influence is needed for the
appropriation OF a sum Of money TO pay
for a monument for this father and son,
this letter from ASS f. GRIDLEY ought
to go long way toward supplying 1t.
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The Invention of an Enemy.

Who is saying that the Administration
will fail to submit 10 the Senate at the
present session treaty embodying the
new Santo Domingo policy, on the
ground that thern is hot sufficient time
before March for the careful prepara-
ton of such an instrument
This must be the suggestion OF some
malciously disposed person hostile to
Mr.. ROOSEVELT, for IA pretext for
delay it is nonsensical.
The terms Of the compact between the
United States and Santo Domingo have
already been expressed in document
variously styled n contract, a protocol,
and a memorandum of agreement
This form of proposed agreement must
have been prepared with unusual care,
for it concerns most momentous I'M
dertaking
Why not send the protocol to the
Senate with such trifing verbal changes
as are needed to give it the appearance
Of full fedged treaty?
The substance and not the literary
form Of the international contract is the
important thing. Half a days work by
any intelligent clerk in the State Depart
ment could transform the protocol into
as elegant and regular treaty as ever
went to the Senate for ratification.
Indeed, the Constitution says nothing
about the form in which treaty shall
be submitted 10 the Senate. Any sort
Of agreement made by the Executive
would be valid provided he asks the adj
vice and consent of the Senate and two
thirds Of the Senator'S present concur.
What the Constitution does insist on,
however. is that every treaty shall be
made with the advice and consent Of the
Senate, two-thirds of the Senators pres
ent concurring
The Presidents attention has been
directed to the plain requirement Of the
second clause of the second section OF
Article H. of the Constitution. We
credit Mr.. ROOSEVELT with an honest
desire to obey the fundamental law.
No one but an enemy will attribute to
him the purpose to evade or postpone
the performance Of plain duty, least
OF all on so fimsy a pretext as that which
we have here considered.
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rom The Washington Pc,

From NE HdShinOo1 Posi-.
Representative Pare Of Biscoe. N. C., In plight
such as comes rarely to Members OF Congress He
ia the treasurer and chief owner OF the Asheboro
and Aberdeen Railroad, some eighty miles long.
There was wreck on tina, road the other evening
In which the Rev. G. 4. oglesby. pastor Of neigh
boring church. killed. II tho INST time
any one vas ever killed on the road. Mr.. Page was
douby grieved over the occurrence. because It was
unfortunate for his road and also because the victim
vss his warm personal friend
But. TO add To his troubles, Mr. Page learns that
the dying rcquest Of the Rev. Mr.. ogesby was that
the Member ofCongress should be the administrator
of hb estate As the estate will naturally claim
damages, Mr.. Page feels tina, II would put him in a
delicate position 70 have 10 sue his own road Al
the time he does not IKE 10 refuse compliance
with . dying friends request
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A report recently issued shows the de-
velopment Of Canadian railways during the
fiscal year 10000 The report states that
5si miles Of new line were constructed.
bringing the total mileage Of the Dominion
m To 10 eli miles. or a little less than one
tenth that OF the United States. The paid
up capital is given as sl.ise 54o,s ls, an in
crease OF $4,000, 900 over the preceding
year. or the total mileage. all but $50
miles ia in operation
Tho gross earnings were siOo,2ie, 43e,
a gain of 81 .l54 900 Gross earnings per
mile were IS. no. as compared with 1901
in the United States. Operating expenses
were 81. 5es. 1872. an increase of s7,Osl $50.
Net earnings were SOS $3.50, PA, falling of
Of 81 1927 ,72s; 23,640 7o5 passengers and
4s,o97 $40 tons Of freight were carried both
items showing a small increase.
The Dominion has 7e7 miles Of electric
line. with capital Of $50, $4,000, the net
earnings for the year being s3,l25O9a.
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tradition and Formal HI,tory.

To THE EDITOR or THR SuN-Sfr, Your occa
sona editorials and frequently published letters
on the subject OF religion are Intensely interesting
although OF course at times they appear TO excite
those at variance with your editorial Views or With
those OF your correspondents
have before me COPY OF the Open CouT
containing an article entitled. Is the Bible In
Danger" In which the subject of tradition In
commented on In a manner that leads me 10 sus
gcst that the real value OF tradition is not apprc
cAted by those VINO have never lived In the orient
and are therefore unfamiliar With tho verbal ac-
curaoy Of the story teller We might call him, the
custodian OF tradition
have frequently been al an Arab wedding or
other gathering where the story teller IA the usual.
II not Indispensable entertainer He tells the same
old stories. His auditors understand perfectly
whether he Is dealing with a historical tradition or
an imaginative tale. The young and old listen 70
him with absolute effectiveness. and Il he varies
b. word. advcrhiAl substantive IN his aoooun !,
he is promptly corrected BY the older auditors and
the verbal Identity Is mus preserved from change
II will bs readily pcrcslvet therefore that prior
TO the Introduction OF thu newspaper with It's
chameleonlo change OF color, when news and ira .
dtlon were transmitted By word OF mouth. this
habit which Is more than local And more than racial,
and In tlci Is a Photographic development OF the
impression on the mind. must have been OF Immense
value and Consequently an "unohalienged tradl-
ton" handed down from one professional narrator
to another whose performances are constant and
public and always subject TO correction. has a
greater value than the Occidental critic Is At hrst
blush Inclined to concedc.
1t Nigh, be extreme 20 urge thntit hasa greater
value than is secured BY publications In cold
type yet every new edition OF an old work even Of
III, plays Of IN, Immortal VIII" arc pun forth with
sucl em3nIAuDnS and corrections. and arc sub
jcct to the called "vahorum." that INC writer 10
almost tempted to say that In respect OF the skele
ton facts OF any Oriental tradition, historical or
pure story. may be satisfied that At the end OF
any generation the story Is stlll repeated In fpns
ptrbts, as at the beginning, HENRY W. JEssuP.
~ LIZ.