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why Harvard 10 Beaten Continually IN
MoMtnK.

To THE EDITION or THE sUN-Sir: Had
Harvard won the varsity race at New london
this year the verdict won In spite of her
stroke" would have seemed q Just and true
one to many Harvard sympathizers AZ well
Ms TO rivnls.
With 4 lighter and much less powerful crew.
and. according TO newspaper accounts, rowing
ut times at least three strokes less TO the
minute. Yale held and led Harvard. What
Is the logical deductionY There seems hut
one. viz. q better application Of power and
fewer lettering faults In the stroke.
Harvard certainly rowed with trern endous
power: but what IL the impression created Z
That the stroke, carried very far back with q
hard heaVe at the finish. IL like the ceaseless,
relentless swing and beat Of the "metronome, ="
a stroke requiring giants 90 maintain IL for
four miles and sffordins no let up. In Eng
land rowing mon hive been gradually devel-
oped from early boyhood on lines fitting them
TO stand a long backward swing (which We do
not defendD. With us many crew men come
10 college compa ratively green in aquatic
matters. and although physically well devel-
oped In many ways. are not developed to
stand the intense strain which the present
Harvard stroke puts upon the abdominal
muscles.
To turn from the physical 20 the mocha meal
side Of the problem. IL IL a se~lf-evident fact
that the result from power applied Is greatest
when the oar is at a right angle TO the body
propelled. and that this result diminishes In
q effectiveness every foot the oar biuue moves
past TINT angle and toward the side of the
boat. The long rsnch forwa I'd Is not from a
mocha ntcal point of view open to the same
objection. for with the acquired momentum
Of the boat oounteracting the Application Of
propelling force, q crew cannot easily apply
it's power too quickly.
The hard ffnlsh Is physically a waste OF
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Rules for Both sides.

The demands of the striking drivers in
the Street Cleaning Department resolve
themselves into the proposition that their
employer must be bound 10 rigid obedi-
cnce TO the rules for their protection and
benefit, and that they shall be left free
10 do as they please so far as the rules
enacted for their government are con-
Cerned. II the cirv assents TO a COM
promise on this basis il might as well
turn the management Of the department
over to the men themselves, close up the
executive offices and surrender the entire
administrative work to the union which
called the strike.
This fundamental demand being under
stood. It is not surprising to find that the
strikers want the city officials To grant
several others which are clearly illegal.
Commissioner CRAVEN is told that unless
he consents & violate and nullify the
statute under which he holds Office the
men will % go back TO work. The atti-
tude Of the men is curiously mixed. Here
the city must enforce every legislative
enactment and department rule there it
must ignore the rules; in another place it
must break the law.
The city a yield to no such absurd
conditions. Fortunately it is in aposition
to fight. With the police and the Health
Department il can clean the streets. To
do 20 will cost money, but to give in to
the strikers on the basis of compromise"
proposed by them would be a far more
expensive thing to do.
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TOO WILD ron EASTERN GIRLS.
None VIII ne Sent In Oklahoma From tbc
Census Bureau 60 TabuIatc the CAusus.

WASHINGTON, June 3.-No girls from the
Census Bureau will be sent 20 Oklahoma
and Indian Territory to make calculations
OF the census TO he taken by order % the
President. When the President issped the
order for a census Of the proposed new
State there was a great scramble among
the clerks in the Washington bureau for
the jobs at field headquarters. They looked
upon the work in the Territories as Offering
a fine opportunity to take a jaunt n Gov
ernment expense. Now the Census Bures,
shelters many charming young women.
most OF whom may with propriety be called
girls: Like the men, the girls began 10 IIse
political influence 20 secure assisnments
for duty In Oklahoma and Indian Tsrritorv,
A Western Senator orally asked a bureau
official TO detail a girl from his State. now
employed in the bureau, TO the Guthrie
Office.
Il would be- glad 10 accommodate Won"
was the answer. but the fact il we will
send no women clerks 10 Oklahoma. That
IL a new country and too wild and wooiIy
for Washington girls"
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to the dealer, and thus prevent adulter-
visions are but palliatives, and do not
strike at the fundamental cause of the
h~ardships suffered by wine producers
In the disaffected departments. The
cause is the unwillingness of the agri-
culturists to devote a large part of the
soil hitherto used for vineyards to other
purposes. They persist in shutting their
eyes to the fact that the demand for
ordinary table wine has fallen of sig
nally in France. We learn that even in
the cities and large towns Of Languedoc
wine has been supplanted by beer as the
beverage usually sold in hotels and res
taurants. A clause of the new law which
is calculated to have a useful effect offers
to remit the land taxes in favor Of those
grape growers who substitute other crops
for vines.
The fact that the income tax bill will
not become a law during the present
session will encourage the large number
OF ~Frenchmen, including virtually all OF
them except the Socialists, in counting
upon the chapter of accidents to prevent
the enactment of the obnoxious measure.
II the attempt to overthrow CLEMEN-
EAU had succeeded and his Ministry
had been followed by one representing
the Moderates there is no doubt that the
plan to tax incomes would have been
renounced. As for the workmen's pen
sion bill, it is difficult IL not impossible
for a French Government to find the
money needed for the purpose, although
relatively poor Germany manages to
distribute scores of millions OF dollars
annually among workmen. Neverthe-
less the Socialists demand il, and soon
or late the Radical Socialist combina-
ton, at present dominant in the Chamber
of Deputies, will have to make an effort
to comply with their wishes.
For the summer at least the Clemen-
ceau Cabinet seems unshakable, and its
head, who formerly used TO be described
as powerful only for destructive pur-
poses, has already shown himself capable
of framing a more durable government
than was GAMBETTA.
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ment; but the cost wa no more than
commensurate with the magnitude Of
the problem, which was that Of the physi-
cal constitution Of the sun and its role
in the solar and stellar systems of the
visible universe.
Mount Wilson, in southern California,
5,ss6 feet high, attracted attention a few
years ago as offering remarkably favor
able conditions for astronomical work
because Of the great amount Of clear
weather and the low humidity and wind
movement. In the summer of 1904 1872
days out Of l3o were perfectly suitable
for observations. The Carnegie Insti-
tuition secured n lease Of this mountain
for ninety-nine years, and a number
Of buildings were erected for the staff
Of observers. II would not do TO trans
port delicate Instruments costing many
thousands Of dollars over the rough trail,
and so $4,000 was expended in building
a good road to the summit. Up to
September 30 last the SUI of $3.50 900
had been expended from the Institution
funds for the construction and main
tenanoe of the solar observatory. The
work is under the direction OF Professor
GEORGE +. HALE.
The attack on the solar problem is now
in full progress along three converging
lines. The sun is being studied as a typi-
cal star; the stars and nebul@ are being
Investigated, both TO learn more of them
and to ascertain their relationship TO the
sun and to one another: and interpreta-
'tions of both solar and stellar phenom-
ena are being sought through carefully
chosen laboratory experiments. The
probability has been emphasized that the
quantity Of radiant heat received from
the sun by the outer layer Of the earth's
atmosphere in a unit of time is not con-
slant. Last year the physical laboratory
was completed, and by its means many
phenomena observed in the sun may be
produced artificially and thus studied
deliberately and repeatedly.
The observatory il to have this year
great additions TO its apparatus. For
many months artificers have been en-
gagged in perfecting the mountings and
equipment of the sixty inch rejecting
telescope, which will greatly add to the
efficiency Of observation: and Mr.. JOHN
ID. HOOKER of Los Angeles has contrib
uted $i5 900 TO meet the cost Of a mirror
of fifty feet focal length and one hundred
inches aperture, which will collect 81
times as much light as the sixty inch
reflector and permit the work Of the
observatory TO be vastly extended. II
will be possible, for example, to photo
graph an immense number of nebule and
other objects 40 large and clearly that
they may be satisfactorily studied.
Probably no work in pure science is of
greater interest than that now in prog
ress at Mount Wilson. II will be a mile
stone in the advance of knowledge il the
human intellect may some day grasp the
full meaning Of the suns phenomena
and understand the laws that overn
them and the cause and meaning of their
vagaries. II is toward the solution of
the solar problem that this observatory
is striving; and its efforts may lead to far
clearer conceptions than we now possess
of how weather is made.
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Tribute to the Passing Boards.

At midnight last night the Railroad
Commission and the Lighting Commits
sion ceased to exist. The duties hitherto
put on them by law fall on the new Public
Utilities Commission. No m~ournful note
from the people marked the passing of
these agencies of government. Their
demise is accepted with the utmost equa-
nimity by the public they were instituted
to serve and protect.
Yet the members Of these boards have
not been more conspicuously inefficient
than some other Government employees.
Some of them have tried to do their
duties honestly and impartially. They
have failed, failed lamentably, 10 i'm
press themselves as useful officers on
the popular consciousness. What is the
reason for their failure?
II will be found in the fact that the
primary consideration for the appoint
ment of these disappearing placeholders
to office was partisan and political. They
were named not merely to serve the
public but TO cement a factional differ
ence, TO appease a clique, to pay a debt,
TO obtain support, to please ar organize
ton or to placate a a One of these
reasons. or one like them, was inspiration
for the selection Of each commissioner for
his job. This having been accomplished
each was at liberty to use his Office for
his own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, for the benefit
Of the community or for the good Of any
private interest hat might appeal to him.
The result Of the system was the loss Of
public confidence and the rise Of a gen.
eral feeling that nothing which the sue
cessors Of these men might do would put
the people into a worse position than that
in which they were.
The Public Utilities Commissioners
have an opportunity to learn, from the
records of the Railroad and Lighting
Commissioners, how not to do IL. When
in the evolution Of government the day
comes to wipe them of the official slate,
will their passing be regretted?
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To TIE EDITOR Or Tas suS-sT: The failure
OF the recent bond sale Of the city should open the
eyes Of the local authorities. and as A taxpayer I
hope that bankers win sostain from making bids
for a long while 20 come. The way the authorities
are spending money a. the present time Ia reckless.
They seem 10 be wanting 70 provide for city needs
for q hundred years to come.
Let the city pay the striking drivers rs cents .
day more 80 that we can have our ashes and gar
bage removed, and let them ave n at some other
place where II Ia wasted. ! have watched the IN
diytduaI members OF the street Cleaning Depart
ment, and I must say that they seem 10 he the only
city employees who are giving q days work for .
days pay.
Take the ferries TO Staten Island ana Thirty
ninth street. The boats have twice the crews that
the big boats OF the L~ackAwAnnA and Pennsyi-
vania have. ana they all have three eight hour
shirts. whether running or not. They seem to DO
falling over one another looking for work both At
the terminals and on the boats. I have been told
that the denctt this year on the ferry operation
will be- close TO u 900. 900. including interest.
NEW YORK., June -. A TAxPArpR.
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CIVIL SERVICE hoard STy,NG.
but Is Again Exercised Over Reports or
PerniciOus Activity In the south.

hut Us again Exercised Over Reports OF
Pern'cious Activity In the south.
WASHINGTON, June 30. Members of the
Clvil Service Commission are srain exer-
cised over reports coming from The South
concerning alleged pcrnicious political ac-
tlVlty on the part of Southern oficeholders
rms Is a sore spot with the commission
lts members are constantly directing the
attention OF department heads and bureau
ofncers to cases involving alleged violation
OF the rules prohibiting political activity
ny Federal officials in the field. A member
Of the commission called up n bureau chic I
the other day and a long conversation
ensued. the bureau chief showing signs Of
irritation when he laid down the RECEIVER
of his telephone.
NWhat's the trouble?" a caller asked
The Civi Service Commission charge
that one of our officers in the South voted
the straight Republican ticket at the la.r
election replied the chief facetiousIy
Inc poor old commission liz all worked In
about it," VI
A"plant" was laid for the commission M,
long ago. One Henry s. Wise of Grafton.
w. va, wrote charging that certain officials
In that State were connected with ali kind.
oi political organizations, that thev were
the rules and that their activi,ie.
mould be Investigated. This il n case
where the commission was badly "stunp -
an investigation was made forthwith.
inspecting officer found Grafton witb'
OUT any trouble: hut he reported that no
person as Henry =. Wise lived in tina,
city. West Virginia cases will he handlsJ
rather gingerly by the commission in the
""
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A PuxxltnG Indian Name.
Erosn lhr Washfn1f,n IsroIa

Ambassador Bryce Is not the only famous man
who has frsternized with Qusnsh Parker. chief OF
thu Comsnchcs. although not oil Of the Indians
prominent visitors have smoked the pipe OF peace
With him, a. the dispatches cay King Edwards
Ambassador did. Parker has Amsssed much
wealth. and he lives comfortably and happily on his
ranch In western Oklahoma, He was one ~ the
admitting throng which Greeted President Roose
welt when, two years ago, the Chief Executive
went wolf hunting with Cecil A. Lyon and Sloan
Simpson in Burke Burnetts Big Pasture" which
Is In Okiahorma, just above the Red River. A. Fred
erick. where Mr. Roosevelt and his party left the
train and mounted horses for the ride 20 the pasture
some mites distant. q stand had bcen erected In the
main street Of the village. and OF course the presi
dent had to make . speech. Parker WIS presented
before the President assembled tfe pissforrn, but his
name did not impress itself on Mr.. hsoeeveIt's mind,
In the course OF ms brief address the President,
referring 70 the progrese OF me Territory, spoke
of what the Indians had done.
. "rh~ir achte vements have been remarkable. "
ne said. Now. there n my friend ever there,
chief $3.50, Chief -, we'll, I won't attempt 10 pro.
notnce hts name"
Tue crowd laughed. and EVEN the unemotionsl
Parker. Nwho sal On hs horsc cioss TO the stand
permitted h,e vtoin requires to relax into q grin
The President assurncd that the name was typi.
caIiy Indisn, and therefore, diihcuit a pronuncia.
zion. whereas. ~ 4 rnstver Of fact. n has cunsidera.
bly, morc OF sne hsvor Of Anvrcfsm. and IN spoken
with greater ease. than the Presidents own.
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LTTTLEFIELD HAS NOT RETIRED
Maine congressman Says III VIII Re q
candidate for Another Term.

RocKL.Np, Me, June 3O.-Congre.smsp
Littlefeld and family. who were member
Of the Congressional party visiting the
Hawaiian Islands. arrived home yesterday.
Mr.. Littlefeld's attention was called 10 a
newspaper statement which treated n,
his probable retirement from Congress Ar
the expiration Of his present term. He
said
This is the first intimation | have had 80
Withdrawing. So far as I am able 10 say
now. shall be n candidate for reelection
n rumor Of INV retirement in one that
gets into the press annually and with no
authority from me" y"
Although somewhat out OF touch with
national politics, as the result Of his twn
months absence. Mr.. Littlefield has not seen
nj TO alter the opinion he expressed on ,ba
eve OF his departure, that there wa. n far
show that President Roosevelt might be
He thinks il altogether too
early 10 prophesy and believes thai /, ~
out OF the range of probabilities mai ths
future candidate has mot yet been named.
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Two Voices and an Unusual silence,

The Hon. ANDREW CARNEGIE, the emf
e author and philanthropist, who has
just given a Pennsylvania town a site
for a madhouse, informs the world that
in his opinion, il the country calls for
another term of Mr.. ROOSEVELT Mr..
ROOSEVELT will obey.
Another distinguished publicist, the
Hon. SLOAN SIMPSON of Dallas, has an
even more authoritative title IA a politi-
cal diagnost than Mr.. CARNEGIE. Mr..
SIMPSON, who is described as n Rough
Rider who has been called a trump" by
the greatest of Rough Riders, expresses
these views:
The trend OF events now seems to point to the
selection Of Mr.. ROOSEVELT as the candidate OF the
Republican party. He was thoroughly sincere IN
his statement that he would not agsin run for Presi
dent. and now does not want 10 he a candidate.
However. I believe that he will he nominate ed against
his will. and the PRESSURE Of the rank and ale OF the
party VIII be so strong that he cannot decline"
Evidently Mr.. ROOSEVELT must be
taken. as the present CHARLES FRANCIS
ADAMS said Of his father, by right Of
eminent domain. Possibly there would
be a strike Of the voters if any other can-
didate were named, and Mr.. RoosEvELT's
success in settling strikes relating to a
necessity Of life has been memorable.
At any rate, Mr.. ROOSEVELT has high
matters to ponder besides the expansion
Of the Constitution. The Oyster Bay
people have no cause to murmur because
he chooses to keep quiet on the Fourth
If .InlN
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Attitude 81 q view Msxlce Csmme rcasl club
on TIE Question.


To TIL EDITOR or THE SUN-Sir: The
article I'm TINE Sun Of JUNE IS headed lie,
Them Blaze Away at Denver gives an
erroneous impression to your many read.
ers. This meeting In OF vital Importance "a
eastern New Mexico. We hRv here about
I 900. 400 acres of land as fertile M the valley
Of the Nile, and on u we have plenty. OF water
FOR irrigation. This water comes from the
artesian wells and streams which flow ont oi
the mountains west. OF us. A great deal OF
this land has been withdrawn from entry. OF
proof OF ownership held up for several years
which IL n detriment to the community and
prevents a great many intending legitimate
homeseekers from improving their lands.
West of us all OF the valleys near the noun
tatns have been placed In the forest reserve
These are also very nne farm lands, Will
While the majority of the members Of this
organization are Republicans and admirers
Of our President. still we do not concur in his
for settlement from entry and in placing
restrictions upon that which has been already
taken up, which make IL very difficult for tho
legitimate homeseeker to make his final proof
As far as the meeting in Denver being held
in the interests of land grabbers and indb
v.idual sclf-seekers. such Ia not the case witt
the majority OF the members. as Eastern pedr
with local conditions In the West. L.
The object of this commercial or ganizatioP'
and OF all others that we know OF throughoi 4
this part OF the country, is the legitimgje
interests OF cattlemen and sheepmen. as ulS q
suppose. The membership OF this chbIen
nearly two hundred. with less than one doIitf
Sns sacs snd rstn,e men n among : rs @embers Frs
ment have made II well nigh IMPOSSIBLE, u
my private irrigation project to be ca1,el
ROSWELL Commercial CluBI u
IA. GRAHAM. SEGREGATION
ROSWELL. y. NJ. June %. lie,
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Studying the sur at Mount wilson.

The other day DR.. OTTO kLoTZ of the
Government scientific staff in Canada.
speaking a. our remarkable spring, with
It's heavy snowfall early in May and some
SNOW late in the month, explained the
ordinary weather phenomena and told
how il is that the weather bureaus can
predict from what has begun 10 happen
what is going TO happen. He referred
10 the area Of high barometer, or high
atmospheric pressure, that was persistent
in the Northwest last spring as a place
where the heavy air was piled up like
mountain ranges and kept pouring down
the slope toward the valley Of light air
or low pressure, bringing with it the
cold air of the upper regions, which was
distributed far and wide over the CONT
nent: but he added that We do not know
why this air persisted in piling itself
up skyhigh in the Northwest. Weather
science has gone just 40 far that we know
fairly we'll what the weather will be to-
morrow, but why it is not the same rs
last year We do not know.
The mystery is involved in the work
ings of the great furnace. the sun; and
DR.. KLoTz said that until We understand
its inner operations we cannot hope TO
give a satisfactory explanation as to the
why" of weather. The trouble is that
though we know much about the sun
there is a great deal more We do not
know. The furnace does not seem to be
fed regularly. We do not know how it
is run or what kind Of heating material
is used; and we are not yet able to meas
ure the amount Of heat poured out on a
given area.
These ARE among the problems Of solar
physics that are now being vigorously
attacked; and the most promising and
comprehensive investigation is that in
progress at Mount Wilson, Cal, under
the auspices Of the Carnegie Institution.
In his report for 1905 President WooD-
WARD said that among all the projects
OF the institution the solar observatory IL
was establishing at Mount Wilson ranked
first in cost Of construction and equip
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NOTHING WRONG IN THE ARMY.
sec'y Tart Explains Zen. Bells Remark 4,
the Graduates OF the Army Scho,,.

wv httus NtVUOI.
WASHINGTON. June 70. Secretary Taft
said to-day that he thought he could ex
plain the remark attributed to Maior-Gcn
j. Franklin Bell. Chief Of STAFF Of the army
who in a speech at Fort L~eavcnwortb
yesterday to graduates OF the Infantry and
Cavalry School is reported to have said.
There is som ething wrong in the army
II is known in Washington and an effort will
be made to correct it,"
Commenting upon the newspaper repor,
OF Gen. Bells speech. Secretary Taft said
There liz nothing wrong in the army "a
FAR As the officers Of the War Depsrtmcn,
are aware, While not informed as TO The
meaning Of the remarks attributed 10 Gen
Bell. ! have no doubt the EXPLANATION ;s
simple and relates to an increase in The
army Az a conscientious Chief of stan
Zen. Bell favOrs a larger army. and his
enthusiasm probably led him to make the
statement quoted. Having had numerous
conferences with him on army matters.
am aware OF his sentiments in this direc-
ton. This IL the only Interpretation I can
put upon the remarks Of Gen. Bell, in whom
the War Department has the greatest con-
fldence." WA