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NOT TO TOICH SINKING FIND
GOV. .Iynn Makes the Assertion In
REGARD to surplus.

ALp>NY, Jan l.--Ciov. Glynn annouu''
tonight that he had reached "A solution
Of the problem presented by the sinN.n-
fund surplus. which has grown f,9uu,"
in excess of the needs of the fund a. ~"
present time The Governor made tins az
nouncement after conference W.
prominent bankers and other .arge hold
of state bonds,
mot dollar win be drawn from &
sinking fund" said the Governor toms
in explaining the system devised To .'
vent the abnormal growth OF these il.'..
mot n dollar in the sinking fund W. ''
used for the general support of gov.
mout Not "A single security in the .s'.'
ing fund viii he touched.
"rho contribution to the sinking 80.
this year will be slightly over $4,000
This means saving of over s2"'u'
as compared with the old system al l,'f
ing contributions to the sinking fund
"rhe sinking fund problem has been
source of agitation for some years
plan agreed upon should settle the p'''
lem for all time. The $1,000 ooo 'y'
has been accomplished by scienlih, -
arrangement OF the entire basis VI H''
nual sinking fund contributions BY c"r
representing the state and H.. lsrs' no..
ers OF state bonds.
1.-The method used "ontsmpl"''.
viding annually for each outstaru'n.
of state bonds an amount whi'l ..
to present sinking fund accumulau''-
retire the bonds at maturity
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-02
Intelle ctual Honesty.

Representative JOHN ]. wulTAcRE
Of Ohio says that Congress is no place
for him beca use he Ia honest intel
lectually. A despatch from Canton re-
ports him as saying that mo man who
wants to be intellectually honest has
any business in Congress" And he
enlarged upon himself In these words:
IT thought there might be a chance for
an honest, wide awake. frank and open
business man In Congress. but I was
quickly disillusioned."
Mr.. WHIrAcRE might have omitted
the word frank" lest he insult Amer
dean intelligence. Not Honest TON
LAWSON himself, another open bust
ness man." could do moro than COM
pete with the Hon. ]. J. VINTAGE on
franknes2
But what sort Of honesty IL intel
lectual honesty? We hear about it
nearly as much as We do about things
psychic. Who Is intellectually honest?
What does it all mean anyway? For
constant, incessant and perpetual word
Juggling this age OF ours stands alone.
Our words and expressions have be-
come so many counters which we give
and take with q facile glibness without
ever asking what they mean. what they
stand for or what they are worth.
People talk Of socialism. social Jus
tice, constructive liberalism, human In
terest, heart interest. the moral, the
immoral and the immoral. and saw
they favor every species Of hygiene.
mental. sexual and personal. and that
they alone are intellectually honest"
whereas SOCRATES with all his Ques-
tons could never pin them down as to
what they mean.
The truth is they don't know. Per.
haps that Is the reason why Congress
Is unable to be "honest, wide awake
frank. openly businesslike and intel.
lectually honest" 1t may be that Mr.
WHIrAcRE will explain the precise at.
tributes Of these virtues and analyze
his mental uprightness before he re-
tipoa
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Observation-Disclosures. 1913.

From the London spectator.
They have taken away my horse
They have taken away my knife,
They've taken my "forty.hve calibre' guns.
Since this Is q Mexican song
l reckon II no disgrace
with pedants to quarrel to work In my moral
In most unconventional place.
For those who walk wide o. the herd.
Their lot Ii uncommonly hot;
When gentle they're starved, and when hos
tile are carved
And their bellies are allied with shot.
The mode Of my falling was thus;
A patriot people would cry.
Don Fixes arribal Que viva! que viva"
so shouted viva" Tor "Y."
weli--"X" had to pack ~, and 80.
(The crowd Ia giraffe and oVeremph -
And I started vivas for 'Xed."
hut hadn't the price Of a feed.
s 30 wnss va srse %s@ e aS
Aud levied loan or two.
wherefore they gathered me in.
And here ] lie shacklsd and Jugged:
And the jefes all say at the spring o the day
IN be freely and frequently plugged.
Roll me q cigarette
Both "Y" and ! must go
! WAS always trihe ahead OF the herd
But the good Lord made me so.
l am a prophet OF parts
They have taken away my knife
They drove me to steal for the sake Of meal,
And they nsurs on taking my ne,
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GOOD MANNERS.
4 Little sermon ON the Sin o. Rufeness
and Value Of Courtesy.

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-Sir: Rude
ness CRATES on US more than robbery. |
should say that three-quarters of all the
worlds troubles are due primarily to bad
manners. which rankle In every mans
soul and prompt reprisal where that is
possible.
II rudeness. III manners. could be abol-
ished It would transform the world. mako
life for all its inhabitants happier.
What ] would most desire would be to
have the spirit Of kindly courtesy actu-
ate us in our daily communications with
our fellow men. 1t Is easy to wound by
indifference or lack OF courtesy. easy to
wound deeply by rudensss, And not all
men are prompted to angry resentment .
there are those whose day might be made
miserable by a thoughtless speech, as II
might he made happy by ono of smiling
courtesy,
Courtesy costs nothing. but there are
many, many people who would prefer II
to a gift of money. and there Ii none but
knows when he Is treated with dis
courtesy. Universal courtesy would make
the whole world happy. The greatest
thing In all the world Is courtesy. good
manners. human kindness w. N. w.
BINGHAMroN, December 81.
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The "lpllftcrs."

To THE EDITOR or THE SuN-Sr;
Il threw that switch In the twiukling OF IA lil.
l killed forty people. but saved that kid"
That Is about the ratio of good ani
evil that the Mrs. Meanwells. assisted by
the mercenary exploiters, are doing with
their sex hygiene. eug7nlcs, single moral
code. white slave agitation, Sc.
How much longer are We to tolerate
this food Of fifth because IL is labelled
sociology" "upllft." knowledge" warn
ing? The study of disease and germs Is
worthy OF the greatest minds, but what
should We think OF a host who put bIc-
THEOLOGICAL specimens on his dining table
because every one should know abou,
these things? II IL well To warn all
against the dangers of drinking infected
water. but 1t IL not desirable to furnish "A
microscope with every meal.
CHARLES VEIN.
NEW YORK January I,
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JINGII\G JIMMY
rlainhcld's Ever Running Tribune Of
some People Thrown Into the senate.

To THE EptroR OF THE SuN-Sir.
Neighbor Jim MARITIME. a well to do agri-
culturist OF our town living mostly down
to Washington now. is great hand for
saying The people shall rule" He's al
ways downright set on II. Congress hav-
ing finished business. and the corn and
pumpkins being all in the barn and the
chores about all there is TO do on the
farm this time of year and things being
uncommon quiet over to Paterson Just
now Jim he's pitching In to see to 1t that
thinGs out Michigan way should be fixed
up 80 'the people shall rule But some
OF us farmers have been arguing round
the stove at the grocery store evenings
as to JUS, how Jim squares this theory OF
MS with his being down to Washington
nowadays representing old Jersey along
with Senator Hughes. II looks to us
good deal as II Jim favors the people
ruling way out to Michigan and Mexico
ana the Philippines considerable free but
when II comes right down to home IN his
own village and State he amt Just ex-
actly willing to live up to his beliefs
You see, it's just this way. Jim he's
been running for pretty nigh every Office
We have IN these parts for the last twenty
years and more, and the people haven't
ever seen lit 10 elect him to any office
scarcely 50 Jim went and got SCHOOL,
master Wilson. that used to teach over
10 princeton village, to get the bosses
down Ia the Trenton LEGISLATURE to make
him Senator To- Washington.
Now there's nothing personal in il at
all, but what We want To know down to
III. store is just this When the people
had been voting right along steady for
twenty-odd years that they didn't want
farmer jim MARITIME holding office, why in
tarnation didn't he let the people rule?
Joe JEER, of Jersey.
PLAiNFIELD, y. j.. January l..
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the TRANSVERSE ROAD.
Three Remedies for . Permanently I'm.
safe Condition,

TO THE EDITOR or THE SUN--Sir. The
public is aware of the dangers ever present
in tho transverse road in Central PARK
running from Eighty-fifth street on the
east side to EIghty-sixth street on the
west side. This road was projected when
the amount OF traffic could not have been
foreseen. 1t contains tho only street car
limo which runs ecross .he park; II Ii In
the heart Of tho residential district; the
business traffic seems to find 1t a conven-
tent outlet
Combine those three factors with n
roadway too narrow to permit a vehicle
passing between the car tracks ana the
sidewalks and filled with tortuous curves.
and you have a situation fraught with
the greatest danger to life and limb. Ac-
cldents happen there with startling regu-
larity. This morning an eastbound car
and westbound car collided with
heavy brewery truck; the windows In both
cars were smashed, the eastbOund car
was thrown from the track to the side
walk and one Of the motornen was 80
severely injured that he was lying UNI
conscious when last saw him. How much
longer are the pedestrians. the street car
passengers, the motormen and truckmen
to be exposed to these dangers2 Three
remedial courses are open:
The simplest and least expensive would
he by the exercise of the police power,
whereby the Eighty sixth street trans
verse road would be left for the use Of
pedestrians, and the street cars, pleasure
and business vehicles be compelled to
use either the Sixty-third street, Seventy
ninth street or Ninety street
transverse road. This would work no
serious hardship upon them. but some
doubt seems to exist In the minds OF the
police officials with whom I have dis
cussed the question as to their right to
take such action.
The second method would be to widen
the Eighty-siSth street road so that there
| would he sufficient room between the car
tracks and the sidewalk for vehicles to
pass. This would involve the removal of
the retaining walls and would be expen-
sivc.
The third course wo,'ld seem to he
feasible. inexpensive AMI easily adopted.
| Remove the sidewalks entirely and thus
| furnish vehicles with ample space to pass
tho cars rebuild the walk not on
| the level with the tracks, as ii IL at the
| present Time. but in liz. paih Itself ATOMS
| the upper edge of the present retaining
wall To do this would require the sacri-
| fice of a few trees, but the pedestrians
| could then travel in safety In q direct
| path, which Is the only advantage of the
| transverse over the present park walks.
| with much greater comfort than they
| now experience, for they would no longer
have to contend with the clouds OF dust
and dirt which are whirled through the
present transverse road
| New YORK. January !.
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More About the slaves.

Before the American Association for
Labor Legislation. which Is holding Its
meeting In Washington with the Amer
lean Political Science Association, DR..
BASIL NJ. MANLY declared that the
number OF men who work twelve hours
is enormous 1t was DR.. MANLY who
made an investigation not long ago OF
conditions Of employment In the iron
and steel industry for the Federal Blu
reau OF Labor. He said that the twelve
hour men work In the manufacture of
paper and pulp, beet sugar, coke, iron
and steel, glass bottles, gas, cement,
starch, in bakeries and chemical Indus
tries. A Washington despatch quotes
him thus:
these men are little better than slaves
, to the machines they operate. The twelve
hour worker has no time for recreation.
no time for friends. no time for his wife.
no time for his children. to whom he Is a
dull stranger who comes and goes and
whom they see less frequently and know
less Intimately than their school teach
ers."
II the distinguishing characteristics
of the twelve hour worker amount TO
the above enumeration of hardships
! then 1t must be admitted that a very
large proportion of the population Of
this town are "little better than
, slaves" AS a matter Of fact what per-
centage Of the commuters to New York
does DIR. MANLY suppose Is with their
; wives and children more than twelve
hours a day? And which Of them ha $
time for any recreation, save the hasty
exit from tube or ferryboat and the
car jolts to aid digestion?
! AS for the twelve hour workers be-
ing dull strangers to their children,
whom they know less intimately than
their school teachers, all this may be
sadly true. but does DIR. MANLY pretend
that 1t Is not general characteristic
Of our times and civilization? How
many Of us In this workaday world
feel like dancing a Jig or coIning Il pun
every evening for the benefit Of the
youngsters?
Once the president OF a New York
bank remarked that he never was able
TO see his little children except when
they were asleep. He too was 4 slave
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To THE EDITOR or THE SUN--Sir: In the prr,-
Ont day Il Is tho fashion for the young man to
wear his tall hat on the back OF his head wearIn g
II so he II supposed to look very debonair.
OF course II wouldn't be quite the thing for an
old man 10 carry his hat In that manner. though
sOme old men do.
But a. rule as mans years increase, that
backward, jaunty angle OF his high hat decreases
until there comes . time when he wears his tai
hat standing on his head squarely upright: and
then as he gets Older st!l! he can,s Il little angle
forward.
them but the top Of the head you could tel
pretty closely the age OF most men by the angle
~ which they wear their high hats CAPUr.
NEW YonK. January I.
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The Great Opportunity Of Mayor
g. Mitchell.

Unless our history Is at fault, Mr..
JOHN PURRoy mitchell is the youngest
man who has been Mayor Of New York.
JOHN r. HOFFMAN. whose career was
continued and ended not gloriously at
Albany, was Mayor at 81. Mr.. MIT-
CHEL has three years the start.
1t is not to bring against Mr.. Mir
CHEI "the atrocious crime Of being a
young man" that his age Is mentioned,
nor Is it to make an obvious cOmpll-
ment to his early success.
Here Is a man who rules In sense
Il territory poor enough in area but diff
ficult beyond all example In the matter
If economical and intelligent admin
istration. He who can preside with
competence over Greater New York de-
serves to rank above Lord CRoMER and
Lord KITCHENER, and the great Indian
yiceroys. and CAMERON FORBES In the
Philippines.
We put such a Mayor with great
colonial administrators because his
task Is harder and because neither
fellahecn nor ryot have been piled as
the taxpayers Of New York.
If among all the generous or wild
philanthropies and improvements that
will be thrust upon him, Mayor Nit
CHEL. full of generous hope and ambi-
ton. will. so far as his influence, his
personal force and his vote In the
Board of Estimate go, remember the
crushed taxpayers of this town; II he
will enforce economy, II he will de-
plete, 81 far as he can. the monstrous
budget and the Incredible debt OF a
city which pays more and gets less
for II than any other district OF this
oblate spheroid; II he will let perse,
cuted real estate rest and walt little
If before all projects Of uplifters and
costly toys Of amateurs he will try &c
have New York run as a business
and not as municipal "spender" and
''juy rider" he will make his term OF
Office useful and memorable. and thu
City Hall no "grayeyard,' but a pOwel
station of honorable ambition.
More power to his elbow; and may
lie keep his thinking cap on!
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MEN or coon M mon.
Next Ia Abundant Work Ing Capital the
Hest Thing 10 Have Around.

To THE EprroR OF THE SrN-Sfr. A
Joker in a business office is "A nuisance :
but good humorcd. constitutionally
cheerful man is IL blessing.
some years ago my Office force WAS the
most solemn bunch of men | ever saw :
lot of owls. They dragged through
their work and went home at night tired
and they began tired In the morning. We
got so used To this that we never thought
anything about II. though I am sure we
all felt II.
Then We sent one OF our bookkeepers
out on the road There was sometbipp
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-02
The End OF the Mary Celeste.

Everybody has heard Of the mystery
Of the Mary Celeste, the derellct picked
,,p in the Atlantic surges forty years
ago with sails set but no sign Of life
on board. Few have heard of the end
Of the weird brlgantine several years
later. an end that no honest ship
should come to. Mr.. KINGMAN y. PUT
NAM of this city tells the sequel In the
Nautical Gazette.
After her salvage the mystery ship
was restored to the carrying trade
and bore a decent reputation until
word came from Hayti that the Mary
Celeste had been wrecked on n reef
near the coast. 1t seems she had been
chartered at Boston to sail for Port
au.Prince with cargo OF general
merchandise" insured for $4,000. In
examining the bills OF ladlng insur-
ance agents found that In n cOnslgn-
ment Of ale there was an unusual num-
her OF bottles listed per barrel. This
was little queer, and when claims
of the shippers began TO come In the
underwriters decided to send Mr.. PUT
NAM down to investigate. He took
with him some claims" presented to
the insurance companies. The Mary
Ccleste's cargo was under suspicion.
An unpleasant fact came out early
in the investigation, and that was that
the captain Of the ship, one PARKER
had sold the entire cargo for 5000 Ia
the United States Consul at Miragoane,
at which port the captain and crew
We're landed. Arriving at Port-au-
Prince, Mr., PUTNAM took to horseback
to reach Mlragoane, which Is on the
north coast OF the Sud peninsula and
about seventy miles from the capital
The ride through the wild country
must have been an adventure In itself
for a stranger who was charged ia
solve the second mystery of the Mary
Celeste, and therefore would not be
q welcome visitor at Miragoane. Fortu
nately perhaps for Mr.. PUTNAM, his
,nlsslon was not known. lie reached
Mlragoane safely. and went to work
M once on what remained of the cargo
in boxes On the wharf. In one pack
ing case supposed to contain $l,ON
worth of cutlery Mr.. PUTNAM found
dog collars which he valued at $50
In snother case were shOddy rubbers
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The Buckeye Bryant.

May the poetry crop Of 1914 equal
that Of 1913: more and better 1t can.
not do. And this reminds us Of duty
and delight. somewhat nippingly set
before us by a member Of the Buckeye
Brotherhood who loves THE Sun but
prefers the shade for himself:
ITO THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Be-
hold . satisfying feast of genuine Buck
eye poetry to tho accompaniment Of harp
ing on the harp OF the sweet singer of
Hog Creek. now glorined as the Ottawa
River! Mr.. BAssINoER Is the Walt Whit
man Of these parts. Note his artistic
scheduling and cataioguins OF the works
Of nature. r. WiLpER WILEY.
lima, Ohio. December 80"
Kindly throw JAMES BYRON GILMORE
OF his feet and let HAYES Of Acushnet
stand on his head In the cranberry bog.
"Lawk. sirs. we keeps a poick."
ALCEUs WORDSWORTH BAssINGER.
better known as the Buckeye Bryant.
deserves the Nobel prize for literature.
He sees outdoors steadily and sees 1t
whole, and writes steadily whole links
OF song, strung sausages OF delicate oh.
servation and fancy. He muses. nv the
sedgy banks Of promoted Hog Creek.
views "its past, present aud future. "
He evokes the copper colored brother
and sister:
Away back In the long, long ago
Whtla hA
Along the banks OF the beautiful ottawa.
The mighty warrior and his squaw.
"Along tho banks Of this river there stood
The walnut the oak. the ash, cottonwood,
And from It's waters. 30 pure and clear,
There came to drink the bear and deer"
The bear and the deer Of Hog Creel,
were Of hiDpOpotamic habit. They
lived in the water aud the mud. Yet
In their artless sylvan way they came
ashore to drink. The paleface came
along. The copper colored brother
came to drink firewater. The bear and
deer were shot. SO, afterward, the
paleface's riverine cottage rose:
so by and by the white man came
/ To fell the forest as well as tho game.
And make a home In the forest so wild.
For mother. himself and their little child
Their first cabin was built by tho hands
OF papa
On the banks Of the then beautiful OF.
| tawa,
And by It they loved TO sit AZ the even,
tide
/ And watch It's waters so deep and wide.
Papa and family watching the i'm
measurable width Of Hog Creek a
eventide is as pure and high work OF
Imagination as a speech on prosperit,
by the Hon. CHAMP CLARK, the Pike
county Bassinger. The little child wa.
no romantic. II he watched. twas fol
muskrats. But like this Western ANA
zOn we must hurry. We can't stop Il
analyze "the mighty perfume" that Hol
Greek emits; but it runs with bettel
than water:
"He worked on so faithful there was lief
scarcely a log
And the once beautiful river was mucl
on the hog
While men coming near II would sool
take y sneak.
And some wag appropriately named
Hog Creek
l"Its waters no longer run dsep and wide
With nice shady hooks on either side,
But by tho hands OF industry and toll
Its little channel Ii now filled with OIL"
Not Standard, we hope, but the poe
IL. LET art and nature go hand Il
hand" he desires. in beautifying Ho
Greek, but may 1t never be "Ottaw,
River"
1t was ALcKUs WORDSWORTH BIAS
sINGEs who induced the Hon. ArLEl
PoMERENE to admit that American
Poetry ought to be protected.
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How do ,ou know the We, Noon,

TO THE f.piroR or TIVE SuN.-Sr: one
man tells me that when the new moon
appears lying on its back. with both
horns up, II means a Wet moon because
IN that position II can hold water.
Another man tells me that Il means a
wet moon when you see II standing up
right, with the tips of the horns one
above the other that in that position the
moon cant hold water. but spills 1t on
us.
which of these Is right, II ether
RHINEBEcK, January |, LuSAR,
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Jury Reform.

To THE EpIToR or THE SuN--SW, The
jury system OF this country ought to be
changed so that nine members of Il jury
could decide II case. II would he more
difficult for a lawyer who was getting on.
and before he got honest, to buy three
men than II now IL to buy one There
are specialists In this business OF "hang-
ing up juries," need not explain to YOU
how II Is done. JoHN BEATTiE.
FALL RIVER. Mass. December 81
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could not afford to employ in q fac
tory men who are half sick, who come to
work after having had bad breakfasts,
who are partly poisoned they would be
economically Improbable. And yet Ia
tigue IL part poison.--Seeretdvv RrpFrELD.
Turn on the green lights! At last
under a new freedom the country no
longer has "A Cossack at the head Of the
Department Of Commerce. but one who
frankly tells the people that he is hui
manitar1an. and that no could not work
the sick. the hungry and the poisoned.
Already the rays Of the millennium
shine in the gallery. II fatigue IL part
poison, the other part is . compound Of
maple sugar and wax.
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at Can't Be Done"


The man who misses all the fun
" he who says 1T can't be donel"
In solemn pride he stands aloot
And greets each venture with reproof
Had he the power, he'd etace
The history OF the human race
We'd have no steam nor trolley cars,
No streets 1T by electric stars;
No telegraph nor telephone.
We'd l!nger IN the sSe or stone.
Where when some keen harhtrir brain
OF life's conditions dared complain,
And planned a wheel on which to roll
The load hlH arms could not control,
Sneers rose from all the mighty crew
THAT ever scous at what 10 new,
The world would sleep II things were run
BY men who cay II cant DO DONE