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AN Architects CRITICISM.
Mr.. Grams Changes OF the Original
Cathedra nj Design.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Str: When
Mr.. Cram. the present cathedral architect,
exploited In THE SUN some six months
ago the intended changes from the "origi-
nal design" l pointed out In a letter the
impossibility Of grating a willow on an
oak and still retaining the technical,
artistic and aesthetic homogeny OF the
original design by Helms and Lafarge.
write again to show that the proposed
needless and expensive changes do not in
any particular point, "us;ssing or balanc-
ing the architectural poise." enhance the
tranquility. beauty and lasting impress
siveness OF the round Gothic original con
ception. Without wishing to lay re the
habitual juggling Of Architectural per-
spectives' 30 as to make a favorable and
masterful impression on paper. n glance
at your publication OF the new design OF
this most unfortunate cathedral simply
shows no advancement whatsoever. There
are still to be seen the upside down
tables with the legs sticking in the air
browning the stumpy towers so well
marked In derision OF English Gothic by
the eminent Sir Gilbert Scott architect.
The sharp intertangled transept towers
possess not one movement OF original
thought and will In execution never attain
the nobility, simplicity, the perfect APP
propriateness and the originality OF the
first design. The pyramidal feeling
sought BY this whimsical change OF rear
Ing these plagiarized transept towers has
been most artisticaily emphasized in the
original design by Its central domical
spire. making every other substitute a
ridiculous playtbng of pointed Gothic APP
plication instead of an organic growth,
as all good architecture should be.
The gloomy and doleful square box OF
mason work rising over this crucial inter-
section with It's lnexpert table legs pierre
ing the sky. Is that supposed TO replace
the beautiful original conception which 30
happily and completely denotes the rise
of Christian faith7 Into what abyss are
these projectors drifting?
What IL there TO boast OF in the height
OF the nave or OF dimensions In general,
when a simple parish church in Tim. Ger
many built In 1917. Is 40 feet long,
eos feet wide? The nave Is &c feet h!gh
and 81 feet In width clear. The side
aiscs are II feet high, 80 feet wide, and
the choir Is 90 feet In clear height. The
vaulting or groining Is two or three inches
IN thickness. Wrought in sandstone the
great spire rises in the elaborate bloom
OF oeauteous Gothic perforated almost
into lacework. TO the height OF 62S feet
from the pavement. MAX ScHRoFF.
BROOKLYN, June "a
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Between the rates of payment for
carrying the mails by rail recommended
hy the Bourne committee and the sched.
nles proposed in the bill drawn IN the
Post Office Depa rtment and introduced
In the House by Representative Moon
there * this difference the first are
based on the theory thai the carriers
deserve fair remuneration for services
performed. while the second are de.
signed still further To increase the
losses 10 which the railroads are sub
iected under the law of 1873.
The Joint committee rates are the re
suit of careful inquiry proceeding on
the theory chat the lahorer is worthy
If his hire. The Department rates are
predlcated on the belief that there en-
SITS a prejudice throughout the com.
Try which will sustain any act or policy
through which injury to the railroads
will result
The Bourne hin differs from the
Moon bill in another detail. Its provi-
Sions are confined To one subject The
Noon bill not only trentS TINS subject,
but through a speclous provision osten-
sbly in harmony with the civil ser
vice law 1t also promises 10 furnish
fat Jobs for some hungry Democrats,
Thus the Moon bill appeals to the in
'erest and had will Of railroad baiters,
whose number is presumed to he suf,i-
ciently large TO insure for II popular
approval, while offering, In return for
their votes. to Representatives strug.
Cling for reelection an opportunity to
supply patronage to their workers
II Is the task Of Congress to choose
which course shall be followed fair
ness between Government and the mail
carriers or injustice to the tranSporta-
ton and further debauchery Of the
public service.
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MEDIATION.
Views OF an Ardent sympathi,er with
the Const iOnaiists.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sir. After
the sham battle OF the defence and the
taking OF the port Of Vera Cruz by the
American troops the representatives OF
Argentina. Brazil and Chile offered their
good services as mediators to solve the
international conflict that emerged be-
tween both countries In order to avoid a
war the Qualifications OF which could
never be found.
After some hesitation the services OF
the medlators were accepted by Wilson
as well as by IIuerta. who under the
mask Of the Liberator has made himself
supreme bearer OF the national dignity
Since the beginning Of the conferences
at Niagara Falls most people prophesied
failure OF same. which seems to have been
checked for the moment at least last
Saturday.
on the other hand the mediators as
well as Government officials have made
very optimistic statements, but as the
people learn OF the discussion the sceptl-
cism grows and complete failure OF the
mediation can be seen not very far on
1t caused big surprise to everybody 20
see the light way in which the internal
affairs OF Mexico were included In the
mediators plan. problem which does
not concern any foreigner to solve and
much less without the Constitutionalisi
element which constitutes the real Mexi-
can people
Besides. 1t Is impossible In a months
time to resolve In satisfactory way
problem dating. we might say. from the
time OF the Conquest
The glorious revolution OF 1910. headed
by the martyr Francisco !. Madero. was n
model OF revolutions as well for its prin-
ciples as for the manner in which ii was
carried out. consoling and shaking hands
with the defeated.
Afterward those very same men who
were helped. and their properties NJ doubt
full origin respected. were the first to con-
spire and buy n traitor like Orozco.
The failure OF the revolution OF 1910
was caused by the treaty OF Cudad
Juarez. and that OF the present revolution
by the conferences OF Niagara Falls
RICARDO DANrAN
SoUTH NYAcK, June "a
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OBEDIENCE.
Many Adult Human Beings bound by the
Almost tnthink able Pledge.

To THE Enron OF tbs SuN-Sir. The
feminist doctor Of divinity. OF mature
years and presumably ripe experience,
who appears to regard obedience by
woman as an unmanly thing. seemingly
has failed to observe the manners and
customs OF the inferior sex with sum
cient interest and discrimination. Had
she considered the male OF our species
worthy OF more thoughtful study and per-
haps some small measure OF vindication.
she might not have committed us quite 80
irrevocably to the dogma that "thc pledge
OF obedience by any adult human being
10 another Is almost unthinkable."
Unfortunately. most OF US are com
PEELED not only to think IL but TO live up
TO II. In the army and navy obedience
must he absolute and unquestoning IN
the seafaring life IN general and In such
vacations as railroading the requirement
OF obedience is almost equally severe In
the many departments OF governmental
service. either Federal State or munich
pal. obedience IL a prime necessity and In
nearly all the remaining employments OF
mon who are not masters OF their own
vacations obedience commonly is the
price OF holding the Job. The obligation
that form OF obedience to an individual
personally which the feminists conceive
to he so unutterably degrading. and a
census OF the men so bound would in
clude an overwhelming majority OF our
male citizens Further. the penalty Of
the ordinary mans failure to obey is his
failure tn earn q living. and the duty OF
obedience may be said without exaggera-
ton to be an essential condition OF lib-
erty civilization and progress.
Tho reverend DOCTORS noble refusal to
be In any capacity a party to an ignoble
contract to obey is not only interesting
but instructive "a we'll She must be ac-
cepted as an exceptionally competent wit
ness with respect to the feminist point OF
view. The inference follows that even
the best qualified representatives Of
fcninism are somewhat hopClessly lack
ing in comprehension OF the obligations
and restrictions OF that masculine free
dom for which they thirst so intemper-
ately. FEED METCArF,
pLAtNFIELp. y. j. June 20
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Big ENGINE MAKER
JABS PSYCHOLOGY
Head Of Baldwin Locomotiv.
Works Says Force Has Droppcd
From 1000 to 5000
CHANCE FOR GOOD MrV
''Best Efficiency" he Saws. sis
to Encourage Men to Make
Maximum Wages"

PHILADELPHIA. June % do ,ot ,,...,
me to talk about psychological L,,........
conditions or otherwise >" asked Am, -
johnson. president Of thc Baldwin Io.o.
motive Works. when he took the s,,,,
before the United States Comrlss.c, nj.
Industrial Relations at it, hearing nova
this afternoon
Either way" replied Comm. s,to,.,
weinstock. with a smile.
Mr.. johnson. after this preliminary an
at President Wilson's explanation M t,
present status of business said tina. ,, .r,.
last year The number of men employed =,
tho Baldwin Locomotive Works has de-
creased from normal working force n,
between 1900 and $4,000 to s. ZOO Tia
was not asked to explain the cause or tina
decrease.
Taking issue with Prof Scott Nearing,
testimony that the majority Of wage
earners must always remain wage ca-n.
ers because there is little room AT the ion
under the present economic system Mr.
johnson said there was more opportunity
TO advance to-day than ever before In
the history OF the world.
Large industries are hard pressed To
find men capable of taking responsible.
positions" he said. 81 know OF half A
dozen businesses to-day that would be
glad to pay $4,000 a year to capable
men. ] myself have walked up and down
in my office trying to decide which man
II would he safe to promote to a POSI-
ton OF responsibility"
MIR. Johnson said II was not "a fact
that $40 men are being replaced by S.
men and IS men by 50 men. have
more So and So men employed IN my
plant to-day than ever before" he said
Hr. Johnson favored the enactment nf
an effective workingmens compensa on
act. lie said he didn't believe IN bonus
systems or efficiency systems.
The best efficiency" he said is TO
encourage men to make maximum wages"
He had experimental with welfare
work. he said. and had abandoned II rs
a failure. He said that labor unions ds.
stroyed ambition and initiative In work.
crs and that there was more opportunity
for efficiency in non-union than In union
shops
As TO the cause OF the widespread m.
rest Mr.. johnson said he believed ~.
premature desire of inefficient men a
forge ahead and get what they had no.
earned was one OF the chief factors "a
n remedy he suggested that workers 70.
turn to the old fashioned ideas ~ thr \
and saving.
Mr.. johnson had this to say Of "soc nj
betterment." I'VE have tried experimcr' :
which have been failures. Once VA
started n restaurant whore the men were
supplied with meals at little less M \
cost W. also equipped reading rooms
for the workers. II was very unsatisfa'-
tory. Workers OF the better class refused
10 patron!ze the restaurant II soon bee
came n nuisance and at the suggestion .
a committee OF foremen who tried 10 rui
II We closed the place up"
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4RT AND IMITATION.
Genius Is Power Accompanied with the
Critical Faculty.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sr: The
Illuminating editorial article entitled The
Right Remedy in last Sundays Sun has
suggested 10 me the following thoughts:
only in the greatest artists IL the mind
fully conscious OF the work IL has In
hand Only the all round minds work
with a full consciousness OF power COM
bined with a sense OF discrimination in
detail.
Most writers fail. not from lack OF
power but from lack OF "A critical faculty
to guide them. They mistake powerful
presentation for other attributes mitch
more vital, the attributes which stand to
the brain as sentinels warning Off In
truders. which make OF the literary artist
his own seyerest censor always on the
watch for errors of style and blunders Of
judgment.
All the so-calied realists from Zola
down TO the present have lacked the
sense OF art fitness. the sense OF Rhythmic
power and magic. The realist works with
one set OF his faculties while the rest OF
his brain remains dormana When he
achieves a tine sentence or fine page IL
II as II he had written the words me-
chanically. wholly unconscious ~ their
value, There is such thing as auto
matte thinking. and this Is an age OF
crticise while II creates Therefore the
true creative faculty Is not autO-mechani-
cal but self-consclous. Only discrminat-
ing genius Is certain OF what IL Is doing
As FOR the mere power OF realism II is the
power welded by the slcdge hammer 1t
requires no skin TO knock man down
with blunt instrument. but the finished
duellist IL "a rard avis even ia France. the
land of duels
What passes for realism is only re-
lated 20 art In the same way that brick
laying Is related TO architecture. The will
10 achieve the writing OF poem or
book Is 40 sign OF fitness for "A real
achievement Of art. vet thousands persist
IN installing the will for the deed The
auto-suggestive knack Of imitation is be-
coming more common owing to false
system OF education which teaches that
art II simple, only needing practice to
make IL perfect. Facility Is one OF the
signs OF ephemeral work. and men so
great as Goethe. Hugo and Balzac were
often fooled by that Illusion, since they
wrote many scores OF books that no one
reads Energy Is another term which has
been tackled onto genius without qualifica-
ton. Energy by Itself sustains no par-
ticular relation to creative work. The
hasty realist is certain to possess an
overflow OF energy, which means power
but not necessarily a durable piece OF
work, since energy has to be directed by
the ever alert eye OF reason and judgment
before II becomes effective. AS for teach
ing the novice how to write, IT IL easy
enough to teach any one how to describe
a human being. But to try to teach any
one how to create the psychic atmosphere
In which n human being lives and moves
IL to attempt the impossible. To revel in
this atmosphere we have to seek the ex-
elusive genius OF a Flaubert, Poe or a
Lafcado Hearn
As for imitation. "A writer OF talent may
successfully initiate another writer OF
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SEES 100000 PUPILS IN PERIL.
Doctor Tells OF 900 900 Ia s"h"ois
with Tubrrcuiosi>.

ATLANTIC CITY. y. j., June - Speak
ing before the American McdicN Nssn-
citation at its congress here pr. MARY T.
Latham of North Carolina sIld ih1t
generally speaking every child 10 inc
United States by the time u reaches
maturity is infected with tuhercle bt-
GILL and is possible candidate ''.
tuberculosis. OF the 10000 00o school
children in this country 100000 have
tuberculosis the doctor said.
Among the recommendations hy s'eaH'
ers Mt the congress was that Of STATE
supervision of all eating places ana
monthly physical examinations ~ cook
walters and dishwashers IN hotels ara
dining cars.
DIR. Victor G. Vaughan, president "' P. =
association. said that typhoid germs ~
not feed on the human cells, but '''''
ferment I'm the blood
DIR. AXel Wereius of Chicago s."-r
on surgery, saying that modern n'." ~
have So improved that no injury even
to the heart should be considered '"..'
less
Dir. Joseph G. Bloodgood ~ HN..
said that the appalling mortality
cancer was due chiefly To igUo'1',. u
fear of operation.
one OF the speakers recomacu"' ."
as a food for babies.
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INFANT SWIMMERS.
wherein the Hoy or Yesterycar Pronted
Through Play Ing Hockey.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sfr: To-
day | took census among some classes
about to be graduated and | found that
but 10 per cent, were able to swim "a
little very few can float Now, what
in thunderation is the use OF having these
same children bring home to their parents
letters from several boards lnstructlng
the said parents how to raise their babies?
What economic value Is there in feeding
and teaching these babies until they reach
the graduating age and then sending
them forth unable to observe the first law
of nature, unable to swim?
We read that the mortality among
babies last year was $4,000. Suppose we
had been able to save these, under our
system OF education 90 per cent would be
exposed, not to smallpox, but to death
by drowning.
The remedy is at hand. Instead of hav-
ing the graduating classes spend most OF
June rehearsing for graduation exercises
to the greater honor and glory of some
perspiring principal let the children be
taken to swimming pools and instructed
superintendent could certify 10 results
and withhold diplomas from those def-
cient.
In former days the truant provided for
what the schools failed to give him
Mayor Mitchell Let's have Swimming
Week" c. j. LANE
New York, June "a.
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EDUCATION or Immigrants.
should Be Given 70 the Parents as Well
as the Children.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir. /
have read with great interest the editorial
article on THE Education of the Immi-
grant" having been the one, l believe.
who introduced at the recent conference
OF the Industrial League the suggestion.
so ably supported by practical worker
In the field. In regard to the moral or
social aspect OF educating immigrant chill
dren beyond the reach of their parents.
This can be avoided only by tho educa
ton OF the adult immigrants also.
The article says:
1t Is well understood that one Of the
handicaps OF the first generation born here
IL the linguistic and consequent discipi-
nary and sentimental separation from the
parents, &c
This matter does not touch the first
generation born here so closely as It does
the young children who accompany their
parents TO this country. These can speak
their own language. and with the facility
of youth can more readily than their
parents acquire the new language and
adapt themselves to the new environment.
They thus early become the Intermediates
between their parents and the strange
world with which the latter in some in
stances never grow quite familiar.
To the natural quickness of youth to
learn from its environment the inestimable
privileges of the public schools are added
dren soon outstrip their parents in actual
knowledge, and necessarily become aware
OF the fact This superiority. which is "a
source OF great modification to the older
people, is rulnous to the children re-
leasing them as II does from all parental
restraint. The breach Is never healed,
and the result Is excessive liberty among
the immature. II Is not just TO lay the
blame OF this state of affairs upon either
the parents or the children Il belongs to
existing conditions.
The great evil wrought by these In not
only the irretrievable injury to the rising
generation. but through IL the danger to
all society In the tendency TO socialism
and anarchy. We see the effects OF this
lack OF parental restraint every day in
the III manners of the children In the
street. IN the immortality among young
people. and in the rufianism and Wanted
equality with all others OF the young
hoodlums. male and female. on the ele-
waited and In the subways, who have no
respect for age. sex or condition in a
country which they consider with too
wide an Interpretation the land of the
free"
\ tremendous check to the increase OF
this state of affairs would be- as the In
dustrial League advocates. the education
OF all adult immigrants
VI T. BUTLER
NEW YoRK, June -.
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DR. CORUIN'S WORN.
An tncompieicd Task He ndertooh for
the state Of New York.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS--Sir. In
the death OF tn Rev. Edward Tanjorc
Corwin the ministry lost a gentle. schol-
ary soul and the State OF New York one
OF the most conscientious and valuable
servants I'm its history.
DIR. Corwn prepared under the name Of
the Ecclesiastical Records OF the State OF
New York a work that has been praised
and admired by prelates, irrespective of
denomination, i'm America and Europe.
thorough Dutch scholar, DR.. Corwin
while studying the ancient documents
at The Hague discovered mass OF
church records that were supposed to
have been destroyed In 1919. With all
the enthusiasm of youth he brought
translatious to America, but the Dutch
Synod was unable to raise funds TO print
them.
He submitted them to the State au-
thorities at Albany and after careful in
vestigatlon recommendation for an APP
preparation was made to the Legislature.
For some reason never explained the
appropriation OF $1,000 voted for an index
for this Invaluable work under the
auspices OF the one man, Or. Corwin,
competent to make It, was permitted to
revert into the treasury.
These words are written in Justice to
the memory OF deserving and high
prncipled man who served the State
faithfully and well. HUGH HASTINGS.
New YORK. June "a.
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OLD TABLETS ALL BLAME NOAH.
I. of q. Has the Records written
:,5OO Wears Ago of the Fall of Man.

PHILADELPHIA. June 2i.-Onicials Of ITO
University Of Pennsylvania museum COM
iirmed to-day the announcement by pI1N
stephen Langdon, tn London yesterday
that Noah, and not Adam, was responsible
for the fall OF man. as shown in his ne d.
lngs of Babylonian tablets unearthet Il
Nippur
DIR. Langdon. who Is an American
visited the museum here last year md
made copies OF about fifty IT the Nppur
tablets. His translation tallies exactly Wit
those made here by Or. Arno Pochc' ~
Johns Hopkins University from other tab
lets.
The new account Is not. like Other yrr-
sions, written In the Semitic Babyln-
Man language, but in Sumerian the oldr'
tongue of the non-Semitic race. which n
the early days OF history held sway over
Babylon. The tablet from which d.. Lang
don made his translation probably vas
written about $500 Il. c, making H. if .-
said, the oldest record known of the Greg
ton. the fan Of man and the deluxe.
Examination shows that the fragment
OF the tablet translated by Or. Ldugdn1
and the tablet translated by Or Pn'h''
were separate and that with other tablets
they contained the fun story ot the oe-
ginning OF the world
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In the whole gallery Of political vlr-
tue. no deed more elevating, no example
more inspiring. can be found than the
stern rebuke administered by HERBERT
PARSONS Of this fortunate State to the
wicked and abandoned BoIFs PENRosE
II Pennsylvania.
Himself the product of purity In
politics that dazzles with its Wilderness,
The practitioner of partisanship i'm
maculate in its idealism, the supporter
~ factlonalism lrreproachahle in its
methods, Mr.. PARSONS finds the narrow
iclds Of the Empire State too small to
contain his natural and carefully cul.
tlvated superior Righteousness
How heartening to the Hon. GIrtoRn
pINcHoT must he the knowledge that
he commands and receives the unquali.
fed Endorsement of Mr. PARSONS; how
rushed must Mr. PENRosE be to learn
that he is not fit for the chaste society
Of this phenomenon of New York!