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Instructive Nov les,

The sum of human knowledge now no
longer is contained
In volumes written by the learned few.
But in movies for a nickel is abundantly
explained
For those as ignoran, as and YOU.
Eugcnics and eupeptics and eucantlmas-
inewhat
Are the deeper things that they cxem-
pity,
Enightcning our progeny precisely how
they got
The ills that ultimately make them die.
They magnify the mcrobe to double jun.
bos size
And show you how he shufics of his
she'll
They also hand out miracles before your
very eyes
In manner that Is difIicuit 70 tell.
They show YOU a pedestrian a motor car
has hit
And reduced to an impalpable small pile,
When whit" wing with his broom oblig-
ingly attends TO II
And II rises and salutes you with a
smile.
The process of digestion they display upon
the screen
And If you have a stop watch you can
The period suf'icing for the cabbage or
the bean.
The orange or the lemon or the lime.
Then why should We our ignorance un.
ceasingly bemoan
When for nickels cost in every block
Such gobs of erudition as few have ever
known
Can be had in twenty minutes by the
clock2
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Privileged ChaIfYeurs.

To THE EptroR or THE SrN--Sr: Fire
Commissioner Adamson has taken a step
In the right direction by issuing an order
forbiddlng tile chauffeurs OF automobiles
belonging to the Fire Department. except
ing those actually engaged in the fight
Ing of fire, TO drive their cars at an ex-
c.ss.ve rate of speed through the streets.
cndangering the lives OF pedestrians. II
has been apparent 10 many persons FOR
4 long time that such an order was
urgently needed to put the ban on reck-
less Chauffeurs who imagined that their
come elton with the Fire Department was
sufficient license for them TO disregard
the speed laws and the traffic policemen
who appeared to be at loss AS to how
to handle the situation without bringing
about a CLASH between the Fire and Police
Commissioners.
Commissioner AdamSon could further
his good work by simplifying his order
10 bring within its scope another class
of Fire Department chauffeurs who feel
privileged TO operate their automobiles as
they please with no regard for the law.
have reference TO chauifeurs who drive
battalion chiefs. No fault can be found
with the chauffeurs who are driving their
superiors to fires. but there are times
when these chauffeurs. when there is no
occasion for speed. when their superiors
are not In the automobiles because they
are either at home or i'll restaurants en-
JoyinG their meals. persist In driving
through the streets at high speed.
Extreme caution is needed ON the part
of Fire Department chauffeurs, because
for some inexplicahle reason pedestrians
are more apt to got confused at the ap-
proach Of automobiles OF that department
than at automobiles belonging to any other
department. L.
NEW YORK. January ~.
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The Amenitic les Of lB,lS mess.

To THE EDITOR or THE SrN-Sir. Mr.
Howell crticises Mr.. Ford for taking his
10000 employees into the firm" because.
according to Mr.. Howell, the act is sure to
visit harassing labor troubles upon other
automobile manufacturers.
lie does not. of course. dispute that Mr.
Ford acted we'll within his rights or that
the results of the act are likely to be
highly beneficial to Mr. Ford
He would inject into the rough and tum-
bic OF tho business struggle between
manufacturers new canon of behavior !.
that no manufacturer shall do any act.
however beneficial IT may he to himself
and no matter II il is we'll within his
rights. which will tend to embarrass his
competitors. The polite conventions. or
"sittlchkcit," of the drawing room and
the links are To- soften the II ,rceness of
commercial conflict
Will Mr.. Howell be consistent and visit
equally severe condemnation upon that
other man who to benefit himself does a
strictly legal thing that nevertheless har-
asses his fellows and violates a polite
convention of his class--the "scab""
New York, January 10. A. &c
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THE MANNERLESS CROWD.
~ New York Concerts Loud Chattering |
browns the Music.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sf.
wonder whether the American press could
not do something to improve the bad
manners of New York concertgoers. The
way in which those members Of the public
who take a real interest In music and
want to hear 1t when II Is performed are
made to suffer by the mannerlcss crowd Is
beyond description.
One of the worst examples that have
ever had here was at the last Philhar-
monte concert, when the conductor. who
wanted to begin playing a Brahms sym
phony, had to wait fully ten minutes be-
fore ho could begin the work for though
he was standing at his desk, his arm
raised. the loud chattering did not cease
for moment.
The second outbreak Of bad manners
occurred after the soloist Of the evening
had finished his number. The public re-
called him about a dozen times and then
was not willing to stop. If a small.
selected crowd had shown any such almost
hysterical enthusiasm It might have been
understood partly. but In a hall in which
public is gathered 80 per cent. Of
which would, on hearing. not know the
Tschaikowsky from Beethoven concerto
such behavior Is only to be explained by
the Objectionable inclination Of making a
noise at all costs.
For thirty years I have been n visitor
Mt the concert halls OF the civilized world
but nowhere have I found anything that
approached the disgusting behavior Of
the New York public. and ] think 1t is
time that voice Is raised against IT,
SIEGFRIED JAcoBssoHN.
NEW YORK, January II.
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A Little Corruption and a Lot of
Waste,

Judge WHITMAN thinks that the use
Of money in political campaigns is "one
Of the most serious evils in politics"
and he would have the State tell can
didates and parties what they may
spend money for and pay the bills for
them. We can see no reason why the
taxpayers should put UP the cash
let interested persons contribute what
they please. but make clear for what
and in what amounts II Is to he dis
bursed. Why should the owner Of a
factory be taxed to pay hall rent for a
Socialist. particularly when the Social
list party is entirely capable Of taking
care of itself?
As a matter Of fact the Socialists are
the only politicians Of whom we have
knowledge who run their politics as
a business. Your Socialistic neighbor
pays his dues or he has no voice In the
party management. The propaganda
Is conducted in the same way a patent
medicine vender introduces a new cure
all or sustains an old favorite. The
other parties waste their money. A
good part Of the corruption their man.
ayers have been guilty OF has been
bootless. They delight to buy men not
worth owning. and subsidize publica.
lions that have no influence. Much of
the cash that is supposed to buy votes
sticks TO the fingers of the agents who
are selected to do the dirty work. An
efficiency engineer turned loose in the
ordinary party headquarters would
either so mad or else build for him.
self an immortal name.
The saving quality OF the campaign
fund evil Is the extravaganza. reckless.
ness and utter stupidity with which
the money Is spent. Most of that
which il intended to corrupt the cleo.
torate never gets to the voters. Thus
virtue is buttressed and defended and
the elections are as clean as anything
human Is likely to be.
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Nothing but love Of excitement can
explain the resolution of Prince WILL
IAN OF Wied to be King of Albania. II
is said that he acts upon the advice of
his WIFE who desires to exchange the
title or princess for queen but no man
would enter lions den simply 10
crafty his wifc's social aspirations.
Prince WILLIAM wants adventure. and
he will get It, His choice OF Durazzo
as his capital is wise. for tho day may
come when he will have to ny before
EssAD Pasha or another rival. What
an opportunity King WILLIAM !. will
have to produce II best seller"
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GOrgas.

Colonel WILLIAM e. GoRGAs. nomi-
mated by the President to he Surgeon
General Of the Army. has the claim Of
seniority on the rank and grade. hut II
he were well down the list Of Colonels
no other name should be sent to the
Senate.
If Colonel COCKTAILS has built the
canal It is Colonel GoRGAs who made
its completion possible in five or six
years by his priceless services rs san.
itary engineer and medical officer.
More than that. he has shown the
world how to live and work in the trop
les as safely as in the temperate zone
Humanity's debt to him cannot be ex-
pressed in any terms Of value.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-18
The Rule OF Reason.

Dispatches from Washington yester.
day In some Of the morning papers, THE
Sun not among the number, announced,
as we believe enormously, that Repre-
sentative STANLEY was about to intro.
duce bill in Congress. with the appro-
val Of President WILSON, eliminating
the "rule Of reason" construction placed
upon the antitrust law by the Supreme
Court of the United States.
We can believe anything as purport-
ing to come from Representative STAN.
LEY. We do not believe for an instant
that President WILSON has assented to
any such proposition as is here described.
Nevertheless. for the benefit Of Repre-.
sentative STANLEY, possibly Of Presi-
dent WILSON. and certainly Of a large
number Of people Of the United States
who seem to be grossly ignorant Of the
truth. we respectfully refer all these
and other parties interested to that
clause Of the decision handed down by
the Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court
in the Standard Oil case in which the
Chief Justice. speaking with the unan-
imous voice Of the court, declared that
II a reasonable" Interpretation could
not be given to the prohibitions against
restraint Of trade contained In the
antitrust law then the court would be
compelled to declare the law unconstl-
tutiOnal.
The Constitution Of the United States
is still something more than an in.
formal understanding between friends,
and is no more to be made now, than at
any other time in our history, the sport
Of blathcrskitcs and demagogues.
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TAN on Sa,5OO ~ MONTH INtOut
Regulation Issued On Returns from
March to December. 1918.

AsHISGToN, Jan. l,.--Thc Comm,
OF Internal Revenue ISSUED
tax regulation to-day requiring
divOdtlals whose net income from MAJ.
l to December 81. 1913, both dat,s .
elusive, was $500" to make retu.'s "..
annual net income for 1919. The l'r--
lation Is:
Section ., act OF October 3, 40 2.
provides that on or before tho tlr~t "..
of March. 1914, and the first de- al.
March in each year thereafter u i.-"
and accurate return under oath or ."".
nation shall be made to the c'tu"
Internal Revenue by each person of I"'
full age who may be subject to ~" '''
imposed by this section who has % ~
income OF $4,000 or over for the taA''.'
year.
1T IL further provided that t"I
year ending December al, 1918 tn i.N
shall be computed on the net iucom" .'
cruing from March to Decemhc'
1913. both dates inclusive after d'dl
ing nvc-sixths only of the spetl'1 ''-
emption and deduction allowable ior 49,
entire taxable year.
"Sincc the return OF annual ne J.
come for the year 1913 as applied 10 ~
calendar year. ana as the law proN'd'N
OF h,e-sixths OF the year, II IL held tNat
moro FOR the ten months constitutes i.'
turns OF annual net income in accord"','
with the general provisions Of the IA"
covering the 1918 taxable period
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-18
Our Tender Youth.

DIR. CHARLES l.. DANA. the neurolo-
gist. told the members of the School.
masters Association several cold, hard
facts at their dinner on Friday night.
DIR. DANA handled the American boy
without gloves and thereby exposed
vast amount Of pseudo medical hum
bug that this generation has been
taught about the delicate mental and
nervous organization of American
youth. OF these tender plants" DR..
DANA had this to say:
ut seems TO me that none OF the argu.
ments excuses the incompleteness OF the
education OF the American youth or Is
adequate to Justify It, We are too senti-
mental toward the child. and too much
stress is laid upon their caprices and
their alleged nervosities. I hope there
fore that you gentlemen who are shaping
our schoolboys' development at an es-
pecially important part OF life will re-
member that that tender plant. the Ameri-
can youth. has n brain that is not over
worked. and that It sadly needs the
influences OF a sympathetic and intelli-
gent but hard hard taskmastor"
Fortunately for our fathers and our
grandfathers their parents were totally
ignorant OF the contents Of our mod
ern storehouse of lay clinical knowl-
edge. that lumber room Of half baked
notions, hearsay pathology. newspaper
medicine and the what-not of our one
hundred and seven varieties Of hy-
giene. A boy was regarded as live
young animal who had to be broken
to harness the same as any other colt.
One can search the pages OF THACK.
EBAY. HENRY FIELDING or MARK TWAIN
and find small mention OF what DIR.
DANA APPLY and satirically terms ''al-
legged nervosities."
II boy showed marked symptoms
OF spoilt anger and selfshness 1t was
not called temperament Accord.
ingly. instead of protecting his 'indi-
viduality" ne was properly dealt with.
l.azlness and laxity of obedience were
not coddled under the guise of inner.
tied "sensibili,ies.' The result was
that boy OF ten had more fundamen-
tai education than lad OF fifteen to.
day. Perhaps he knew less biology
and botany. but on the whole he was
able TO do n certain amount of accu.
rate work with real concentration. and
above all he had due regard for ac.
tual application.
Board OF Education was able TO make
pointed reply 10y saying that the
physicians themselves were responsible
to-day for spreading 1.-THE belief that
there was danger Of breakdown by
intense work." Then the doctors Of
our fathers had happily discovered no
such disorders as psychic Indigestion"
whercwith to protect them from uncom
Portable oyerstudy.
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MANS store. While 40 working and 80 liv-
ing he took from his labors time to attend
the Oregon City Academy during the win
ter Of 1S5s-5s. In the fall, Of the latter
year he reentered Pacific University at
Forest Grove. and supporting himself by
alternating periods Of team driving. wood
cutting and school teaching during vaca-
lions and what we now call week ends.
he graduated in 1868, q FIRST graduate Of
the school,
More school teaching, more study Of
the law. supporting himself by the poor
wages Of librarian Of the then feeble
Portland Library; at q editor Of the
Oregonidn.
This man Of frontier education drank
in knowledge. VIRGIL, CATULLus. OVID.
SHAKESPEARE, paradise Lost" HOOKER,
GlBDoN, BURKE, BURNS, TENNYsoN,
THAcKERAY; these are a few Of the
favorites whom he knew Intimately
and could quote by the page. LOCKE,
BERKELEY and WILLIAM JAMES, As
syriology. Egyptology, Biblical criti-
cism; his reading was wide and vari-
Gus; he had even sort Of passion for
theology. and WHIrELAw REID has re-
corded remarkable discussion between
Archbishop CoRRIGAN and SCoTr at
New York dinner party. lie had an
ample library; but his best one was the
Bible and Shakespeare. The range Of
his studies showed in his writings.
SCorr's conception Of an editor or
publisher was one who was free from
all alliances. political and commercial.
that might trammel his service to the
public as purveyor Of intelligence. :"
a proper conception. which he lived up
to. President TAFT wanted TO make
him Amba ssa,ior to Mexico. Mr.. Scorr
did not wish to tangle his newspaper
with politics." Nor would he tangle
1t with any surrender Of convictions
for ambitions. He might have been a
Senator from Oregon II ne would have
approved the Oregon system Of direct
legislation and nomination.
One more quotation and we must
turn with regret from this salient fig-
ure. the most powerful citizen Of his
State:
1.-THE editor cannot afford to make up
a paper solely for his own reading or to
read In heaven"
Respectfully submitted to the seraphs
illuminate who hold otherwise.
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win Mr. EOrIi's scheme Be Great Cry,
Little NOOI"

To THE EDITOR or THE SuN-Sir: I,
seems to me and other business men with
whom have discussed the matter that
Mr.. Ford has fired his gun prematurely.
IL went off half cooked.
The opinion seems TO he quite general
that Mr.. Ford should have gone about
his profit sharing scheme In more mod
est. quiet way, minus the hlare of trum-
pets and beating OF drums.
Would II not have looked better 10 do
1t first and then talk about Il?
He seems to be counting his chickens
before they are Matched. Suppose he
doesn't make the s2o.oo0,0 600 profits this
year?
At the same time he has PLAYED his
trump card into the hands OF Gompers
Mitchell. Meyer and the like. i he not
sowing the wind. later to reap the vhirl-
wind? ! venture the assertion that he
has already seen his mistake.
w. : JoSEs
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, January l6
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a Great Oregon Editor.

A number Of the Quarterly Of the
oregon Historical Society Ia devoted to
HARVEY W. Scorr, for forty.five years
the editor, and for some thirty.odd
years part owner Of the Portland Ore
CONAN, known In every newspaper Office
as an able. earnest and powerful jour
nal. Mr.. SCOTr's name may now be
little remembered in the East. In Ore.
gon 1t Is Justly great. He was of the
founders and leaders Of n State become
an experiment station of ideas: which,
however fantastical some Of its polit-
ical notions may seem to many, Is per-
haps as eager student Of government.
as open minded a community as deeply
concerned In politics regarded from an
intellectual. philosophical or theological
point Of view, as bravely hospitable to
innovation as any other, even Wiscon-
sin included.
HARVEY SCOTT. an old man mt the tri-
umph Of the new school, opposed some
of its doctrines, direct primaries. the
initiative and referendum, but in his
force. his positiveness. his serious pur-
pose. his independence, his occasional
whimsicalties the younger Oregon
seems prefgured. He whacked passion
ately heads and decisions, or what he
believed decisions. He battered Green
backism and the free coinage Of silver,
though the latter was favored by prob
ably majority OF Oregonians from the
time Of the Bland act to some years
after the passage Of the Sherman sill
yer act. He lost subscribers, but in
1896 the State, contrary to general
expectation, voted against BRYAN. He
was so unsparlng an opponent that It
used to he said that not few people
waited TO see him declare himself on
any question and then pumped to the
other side.
HARVEY ScorT was brought up in the
stern and noble traditions of the pio.
neers. Born in Illinois in 1885, ut "A
he with his fathers family crossed the
plains to Oregon City; thence at 10 to
Puget Sound. At II he was a yolun-
teer In the Indian war. With n feel.
ing Of reverence for the heroes who
snatched an education from the most
mcagre opportunities, Of shame for this
generation to which so much IL given
and which benefits so little thereby. this
record Of his young manhood is tran.
scribed:
"In 1856. at the age Of 10. We md Mr.
SCOTT a laborer for wages In the VILLA
mette Valley. dividing his small earnings
between contributions In aid Of his family
and small hoard for purposes Of educa-
ton. lie entered Pacific University at
Forest Grove, a small pioneer institution
for all its resounding name. in December.
| 1856, but was compelled under necessi-
ties domestic and individual to abandon
It's classes four months later to become
again a manual laborer From tho late
THOMAS CHAIRMAN Of Oregon City, In
| April. 1S57---at that time just 10 years
OF agc--he bought an axe ON credit, and
part OF the time alone and part in asso-
| citation with tho late DAVID p. THOMPSON
no worked as a woodcutter. living mean
while In shack of boughs and finding
I his own food. supplied only with a sack
Of -four and side Of bacon from CxAa.
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An Alarming Appointment.

Thanks to the star chamber process
adopted by the Senate Banking and
Currency Committee In its inquiry into
the nomination of JOHN SHELTON WILL
JAMS for Comptroller Of the Currency.
not much of the evidence adduced has
been publicly divulged. Thanks also
to the cowcd attitude OF bankers who
have felt or fear the heavy hand OF
authority welded by Mr.. WILLIAMS as
Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury or
as potential Comptroller. there was a
lack Of witnesses before the committee.
However. enough is known of the tes-
timony elected to show the uniitness Of
Mr.. WILLIAMS for the Comptrollers
office and the menace which his ap-
pointment holds out.
THE Sun disavows any interest in
the controversial aspects Of this up
pointmcnt so far as regards any banker
or institution. We have been moved
to protest against Mr.. WILLIAMs's NOM
ination because 1t Is Incompatible with
the powers conferred on the Comptrol
Ter Of the Currency by the Federal Re
serve act and with the powers conferred
by the act on the Federal Reserve
Board. of which the Comptroller Of the
Currency is OK otiicio a member. We
are especially moved to protest out Of
concern for the condition of terrorism
into which the national banks Of the
country have already been thrown by
the administration of the law in recent
months and by tho tremendous power
Of prescription which IL contained In
the new law to which they will be sub
jccted.
Not much courage Is being shown
to-day in circumstances which call for
q display Of courage. So fur as we
can see the only man who has come
out Of the Williams inquiry by the
Senate committee with credit to him
self Is Mr.. MILTON L. ALLIES. a WASH
ington banker. 1t was Mr.. allies who
brought out the facts which reveal the
danger OF the Williams nomination.
We do not know what will happen to
him for his exhibition, but he is GER
talnly a man Of courage.
II was disclosed In the examination
OF Mr.. AILts that Assistant Secretary
WILLIAMS had abused his power In
sending national bank examiner TO
national banks in Richmond and Chat
tanooga to obtain correspondence be-
tween those banks and bank in this
city. The national bank examiners
are under the control OF the ComptrOl-
Ter OF the Currency, who has been un-
DER the law an officer independent of
the Secretary Of the Treasury. 1t
makes no difference II the functions of
that Office have been discharged by an
acting Comptroller for months past.
Moreover. IT, mission Oh which the
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The Security Of Submarine Crews.


The loss OF the British submarine
AT with her eleven officers and men
In Whitesand Bay near Plymouth would
he n minor incident il England were at
war with another naval Power, but as
the disaster occurred In practice ma
n9uvres 1t Is a natural inquiry. and
one that public opinion will demand an
answer to. whether invention is not
equal to protecting the crews Of sub
marines from such a fate.
The airlocks and safety helmets with
which At was equipped are effective
only when the vessel resting on the
bottom IL raised within a few hours.
These devices compared with the most
recent provision for the release of
crews imprisoned In foundered boat
are crude. The French seem to have
solved the problem In the submarine
Gustave Zede. She Is one of the larg-
est In commission. having a speed of
twenty knots on the surface and twelve
under water. and being fitted with
eight torpedo launching tubes and four
quick firing guns. In the front part
Of the boat is a life saving cabin. to
which, in case she goes 70 the bottom
to stay there. the crew can retreat.