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The Flower Of Chivalry.

How thin and poor 1t seems in COM
parison to-day. that deed and saying
Of Sir PHILIP SIDNEY, that cup Of
water that was given first to the dying
soldier at Zutphen: Thy need IL great
er than NINE" The flower OF courtesy
complished gentleman Of his time,
showed. II the story Is true, merely a
difference 10 the weaker. He did not
die for or In consequence Of his polite
little altruism. He survived for nearly
q month.
That Is the chivalry that children
are or used 10 be taught to marvel at.
Compare with II FERDINAND KUHN
giving his life preserver and his life
to woman on the Monroe. No pose,
and no consciousness OF gallery OF
admirers, the tears Of patrician ladies'
praise by historians and sugared SON
neteers. He depreciates his services.
Oh. he could get another life preserver.
And 80. not even letting the woman
know that he is doing much OF any
thing for her or imperilling himself.
he goes to his death.
Chivalry lin its long annals back
to CIIARiEMAGNE" cannot show US q
Drawer man, nobler gentleman.
For those poor, kind. humble black
stewards and stewardesssss who. care
less of danger and having no thought for
themselves, helped the passengers and
lost their own lives or saved them, as
fate chose for them. what words OF
praise and honor are adequate? Dis
aster and death were part OF their
days work. They did not shun or
skimp it. This ready selfsacrifice,
this tranquil courage, might never
have been known but for those swift
Calamitous moments. All about us are
unsupported riches Of character, com.
mon" folks capable Of heroic virtues
and expecting no reward. The moral
stature of the world is added to; hui
man nature is justified in thinking
better Of itself when 1t hears Of these
obscure and glorious men and women
Of the Monroe.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02
Tho Negro and His schools.

Word comes from South Carolina
that the lower branch Of the General
Assembly has passed the Fortner bill
to prohibit white persons from teach.
ing In negro schools. At first blush
this Information sounds almost increi-
ible in the light Of this day and gen.
Grafton. And II IL not too strong to
say that II such barbarous legislation
becomes a law South Carolina will de.
serve the degradation that will inevi-
tably fall upon all of her people. for it
Is automatic that IA blight cannot fall
upon one section Of any community,
however large, without blight falling
upon the whole. 1t Is impossible to
brutalize an inferior without the bru-
talization Of the superior.
The proposition that white teachers
are prone to lead negro children ito
aspire to social equality and commin-
Cling" is not only preposterous but the
exact reverse Of the truth. Any one
who has lived In the South knows full
well that such puerlle arguments are
merely the last resort Of an inherent
mental obliQuity which comes uncon-
sciously into play the moment the race
question Is preached. The fact Is that
II there is any method on earth where
by negro children may learn the ele-
ments Of respect, discrimination and,
above all, a decent regard for law and
order. II Is to be through the medium
Of white teachers.
There Is one noteworthy CLEAN Of
ton. 1t Is that newspaper Of the
character and standing OF the Columbia
state has the sanity. the courage and
the humanity to speak out the truth
| shreds the unchristianlike substance Of
the bill. which II proves Ia be "inde-
feasible In morals and inexcusable as
a device Of eXpediency." the state
shows how this legislation will drive
negroes from South Carolina and thus
counteract "a law making the enticing
| Of negroes TO leave the State y Grim
inal act Since when have legislators
been noted for logic, reason and con
sistency?
But the note upon which we particu-
larly like to dwell Is contained in these
words:
| There will be men to say whenever a
newspaper cries Justice" for the negro
it Is negro loving. In their reekng
ignorance the poor blind fools are objects
Of pity. They shall not deter the state
from warning the people OF South Caro-
lima against entering upon a course at
war with the eternal laws OF light and
holiness"
When Journalism In the South can
rise to this breadth OF view and spirit
Of charity, legislation like the Former
bill will die nj birth In shame and
oblivion.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02

who voted for WILSON and MARSHALL
electors In 1912 know that he vas vot-
ing for Federal telephones and tele-
graphs, for the extension to them Of
Federal incfficiency and extravagance,
for this preposterous megalomania OF
triumphant bureaucracy?
The Baltimore convention favored
"the efficient supervision and rate regu-
lation Of telegraph and tel.
ephone lines engaged In Interstate com.
merce." and to that end the valuation
Of such lines by the Interstate Com.
merce Commission. 1t favored legisla-
ton to prevent such lines from en-
gaging in business which brings them
into competition with their shippers
or patrons" legislation to prevent
overissue Of their securities. legislation
to assure such reduction In rates as
conditions will permit" due care being
taken not to cause reduced wages in-
ferior service or do injustice to legiti-
mate investment" In short, telephones
and teegraphs were put in the same
box with railroads and express com
panies but Of buying or controlling
them there WIS no word.
The Socialist national convention.
which met at Indianapolis in May,
1912, and gave the Hon. EUGENE DEBs
his fourth nomination for President.
pledged itself to "the collective own.
ership and democratic management Of
railroads. wire and wireless tele.
graphs and telephones, express ser
vices, steamboat lines and all other
social means Of transportation and
communication and all large scale In
dustries."
Has Mr.. BrRLrsoN got the Socialist
platform mixed up with the Democratic
platform; Or does he merely borrow
without credit from the Debsian dcyo-
tees Of an all paternal Government?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02
NEW YORK STATE TAXATION.
Comment on Recent Criticisms ny the
Comm jssVouer Of COrpOrat ions.


To THE EDITOR or THE suN--Str: Mr..
Joseph Z. Davies. Commissioner OF Cor
porations. in . special report. part OF
which was published in THE SUN. critl.
cises certain features Of tho tax laws OF
New York. For example, he undertakes 70
prove that the mortgage tax law discrimi.
mates against real estate mortgages IN
favor Of corporation bonds. which are
taxed under the secured debt tax law.
The answer to this proposition IL plain
and easy Real estate mortgages are
held almost exclusively within the State
boundaries by savings banks. life insur-
anoe companies. trust estates ana pr.
vate owners, the amount held outside the
State being no more than . negligible
counter no other tax until they come
down to the death taxes, and incidentally
to the recently enacted Federal income
tax law whereas the bonds Of corpora
lions which pay . like tax to be there
after free In New York are distributed
throughout the civilised world. certainly
In every State. more or less freely. OF the
Union. Where they are liable to taxation
and often to multiple taxation, the very
bonds that have paid the New York tax
to be free there may upon sale ana trans
fer to a resident OF another State be taxed
again and so on ad inhnitum. according
to the varying phases OF ownership.
In practice, even In New York. no allow
ance on sale Is made for the previous
payment Of the State tax. and Of course
no account at all could be taken Of II In
any market outside OF New York State.
Moreover. Mr.. Davies's comparison Is
made on the theory that real estate mort
cages have a life OF approximately three
years while they are drawn usually for
terms Of five years. three years or even one
year. they are impressed commonly by
extension agreements or by tacit consent
with much longer life. Savings banks and
life insurance companies can show many
real estate mortgage venerable with
age: have experience with mortgages
which have run twenty years and may
run as many more. So II may be said
that the average life OF real estate mort
cages approximates the average term Of
life Of corporation bonds. Conservative
borrowers are prompted by the incidence
Of the tax. which is a registration tax. to
avoid II possible the issuing Of a new
mortgage.
Mr.. Davies's further suggestion that the
state may later wish 70 lay heavier bur-
dcns of taxation upon these forms Of
property. to which purpose tn. present
laws may prove a bar. will MI the minds
OF tax eaters with Joy and the minds Of
taxpayers with dismay. J. b. X.
Los ANGELES, Cal, January 26,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02
4 Constitutional Reminder.

There seems to be limit to the law
making power even In these days Of the
cxaltation Of Government at the ex-
pense Of the liberties Of the citizen.
While the country Is hurting itself
unanimously forward into the spa
cious areas Of the new atmosphere
Earring note comes from the skies In
the direction Of Michigan. The Federal
Eastern District Court In the old Badg-
er State has had the temerity to ind
that the Michigan blue sky law is an
unconstitutional exercise Of the legis-
lative prerogative.
Decision was rendered In test case
brought by the Investment Bankers
Association Of America. The Michigan
law was sweeping. Among other
things 1t conferred on the State Sc
curities Commission power TO hold up
sales of bonds for month, and also
authorized 1t TO examine the books
Of banking houses dealing In securities
rather than the accounts Of the issu-
ing corporation. The act was alto
gether an extreme expression OF the
contemporary delusion that 1t Is the
duty and function of Government to
eliminate hazard from economic en-
deavor and to insure citizens against
anything resembling a business risk or
the vicssltudes of industrial occu-
patton.
The blue sky law craze which has
been sweeping over the land Is a wide
departure from the sane idea Of Its
origin, which was simply to prevent,
so far as State could do So, the
swindling operations Of promoters OF
corporations which never had any
value or even the most speculative
prospect of value. Other State laws
of recent enactment are strikingly like
the Michigan law, which, according to
the admission Of the Michigan Attor-
ncy.General in open court, would have
made ii practically impossible to have
financed through the sale of securities
such business venture as that Of the
Ford Automobile Company. The Ford
project, however profitable 1t has be-
como, did at its inception involve a
vast element of chance. The blue sky
theory Of the matter Is that II runs
against sound public policy TO allow
such chances to he offered or taken
no matter how honest II proposition
ana MS proponents may he.
Inc fsicral court ,lpci.ion noun ran
asred has an effectuul application to
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02
Did Mr.. BurlesOn Read the Wrong
Platform?

Where does Postmaster General
BuRLEsoN get his Democratic mandate
and authority for the proposition now
put forth again in the shape Of re-
port from certain subordinates OF his
that Congress declare public mOnop-
oily over all telegraph, telephone and
radio communication" and begin the
new instalment Of Jeffersonian democ-
racy and economy by buying the CON-
merclal telephone system? Did anybody
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02
He objects to o Literary villa,

To THE EDITOR OF THE SrS-Sir. This Is
too much. They have trotted out that I'M
speakable villa In an olive tinted khaki
uniform and pictured him reading a little
book. procured from United States army
officers, called The Ethics Of International
Warfare" Whereupon villa IL made to an
nounce that hereafter civilized warfare would
be adopted by the rebels" OF course the
book idea was intended to Impress our
scholarly President. although we arc not
told who the author OF tho quaint volume Is
or that villa cannot read a word IN Span
ish. let alone English. FRANZ Guard.
NEW YORK, January 81
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02
Soaking Time

To TINS EDITOR or Tue SuN--Str: a CORE
spondent writes to THE Sun about the clean
ing OF clock. can give him a good rem
edy which tried on an old eight day alarm
clock that refused 20 go. got a deep pan.
filled Il with kerosene oil, removed the case.
dropped the works into the oil 80 that they
were completely covered with II. I let tho
works soak for three days, then let them
dry and put them back In the case The
clock Is now going well as when It was
new. RnApER
PORTLAND, Ore, January rs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02

Win the poet who sent us these
touching lines marked Monday In Bos-
ton City Hall" not 'rcveal his Identity?
Genius should scorn the masque:
ITO THE EDITOR or THE SuN-SN:
I'm deep distress dear Boston sits,
Lamenting of her Honey FITS.
Foreseeing days OF hurlyburly
Beneath the sway OF Trim jim CURLEY.
TAVERN CLUB"
"BosroN, January al"
The worst II not 80 long az We can
say this Is the worst.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02
Make the Pennies Servants Polite.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Now
that the people have succeeded in knock
ing politcn.ss and courtesy into the en-
ployees of public service corporations like
express companies, railroads, telegraph
companies SC. let them continue the good
work and knock polteness into the heads
Of our public servants. Federal, State
and municipal, by insisting upon courteous
treatment from them. HoHoKus.
IioHokUs, y. j., January 81.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02
ASK 500 .OOO ron tITO M '7H
Case Of Harry NJ. Hayes h''"
Against TorcstburY to Come tp'

MIppLrrowN. " Y, feh l-N .
term OF tho Supreme Court Whiri
convene In Goshen tomorrow sur
he tried IN which the heirs Of liar
HAYES seek 10 recover 100000 from '
town OF Forestburg, sullivan county ''
the death OF Mr.. Hayes.
Hayes was killed on the mountain
an automobile accident over Nto aF
He was vice-president Of the l'"'
Hinchman Tanning Company Of TINS '.''
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02

HUERTA is, all In all. the man whom
Mexico needs and must have II sho IL
not to be swallowed up by the United
States. Let us hope, therefore. that
HUERrA will sustain himself and things
take such a course that no German blood
need be spilled on behalf Of German In.
terests.--Colo0ne Gazette.
Here Ia curious inversion Of an
idea. Mexico needs HUERTA. but the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02
Sport in the Hall Of Fame.

To THE EDITOR oy THE SrS--Sir: Tn. Part
ridge and the Peacocke who have been APP
pointed Commissioners Of Deeds may be some
what alarmed on LEARNING that a Fox has
entered their preserves but I am sure they
will he protected by Commissioner Shotwell.
NEW YORK. January 81. GAME WARpxs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02

To THE EpiroR OF THE SCS--Sr; "Arith-
metic' Is wrong when he says that since
MIR. Stover's fifteen minutes became sixty
days. In tho same proportion his two days
should become three years and four months"
lie ought to go one step higher In his
mathematics and then he would lind that
Mr.. Stovers present absence should last
only for one year and $40 days ALGEBRA.
NEW York. February l.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02

Dr. FIELD states that as cents worth Of
mussels will furnish sufficient food for
meal for ten persons. from
Worcester, Mass.
How soon may we expect to learn that
owing to the storms the supply Of
mussels has been almost exhausted and
that therefore they are to be more ex-
pensive than caviar, Just laid eggs and
radium?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02
Saul Of knitAlflelda.

From the London STANDARD.
Carter street. whitechapel Is to be re-
named saul street There was at ono time
weaver In spitainelds named Saul con-
corning whom a gravestons In st. Dunstsn's
churchyard was inscribed:
Here Ives the Body Of Daniel Saul.
Spitalnslds Weaver. and that's ALL"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02
Mercury Killed - In Wear.

Tweuty-one deaths were caused ''
chloride Of mercury 10 were suicide "..l
6 accidental Forty-five persons "''"
killed by elevators. Deaths by ft..- e 70
stairs roofs and windows numbered .''.
4 total OF 1875 deaths We're caused 't 7'-
cidental inhalation of gas,
The number OF unknown" mon H.
women taken to the morgucs was ago
which 296 were identified.
There were 453 suicides. ~ Nh.'. ''
were by shooting, 26 by cutr' =, d..
gas. ~ by leaping from Windows, '"
bridges. &c. by jumping 10 i'r'
trains. A. by hanging, by drowi.r- ' 3
IS by poison. \ total OF az deaf N
accidental, We're by shooting. o. rs
poison and by cutting.
or H. who met death by ia'.nt To-
windows ~ were children uHl.'
Thirty-four children under II We.
by tumbling of ire escapes.
Thirty-two men We're killed Dos p
articles while at work in the l'\
avenue subway and the aqucdu-'
The report shows that 10 tie Is
of Manhattan l76 persons we've ,.
automobiles, which Is an uyt,laD
per cent. In the last two years
1.-THE police order No. 70. issued
10, 1910. not to arrest ChiuNt.'.
running over and killing hunl''
the report says, should u.
manded. 1t Is the belief OF TINS o'
II the person driving the aut'u
the time the accident occurred "~
rested tho same rs any other Y" .'
the law instead OF the present ,}..'
summoning him TO appear IN '.t
would he the means Of making "N'
automobiles and chaufeurs more carer
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02

George T. LcBrun. secretary u' the poe
Gently organized Association for the Ere
vention of Reckless Driving, with head
quarters at 20 West Thirty-niuth street.
submitted report to the effect thei On"
organization has n record OF q r''s''s
killed by automobiles. by trolley cos
and by wagons during the past mouth
Mr.. LeBrun says these figures indicate no
decrease In the slaughter OF human bangs
by the reckless operation of automobiles.
The association IL having motor
vehicle law drafted providing for tn A-
censlng OF all operators Of cars, oN''rs
and chauneurs and the revocation "r S's-
pension of licenses for cause.
The report of the chief clerk "f me
Board OF Coroners for the i'or'ush "'
Manhattan during the year 1913 SHOWS
that a total Of $40 deaths were .nN'-i-
gated. as against 5.69I in l9l?. ot THESE
209+ were due to natural causes, leaving
2S56 which We're caused by Niol nee, '.-
cidents and suicides.
There were III homicidos during '''
year. as compared with ia the Prev
year.
The Coroners' physicians performed z y
aufnpsies
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02

Montclair school authorities have issued
orders prohibiting the teaching OF sex
hygiene in the public schools OF the town.
Despatch from Montclatr.
Is this the first backward step toward
the common sense Of the past?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02

London once. Eningham House. I Arundel
street. Strand.
Paris ONCE. q Rue de Ia Michcdiere. Oh Rue du
ouatrc Septembre.
Washing once, Hibbs Building
Brooklyn once. 100 fivn eston suees.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02

To THE EDITOR OF THA SuN-SU. have
often heard It said--but Is II really true. p
that fat men make good dancers.
And why should theyf TANGO.
NEW YoRK. February l
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02

From the London Euenin0 Standard.
Mrs Fowler, widow of the Rev. y. "
Fowler. formerly vicar OF Ulting Essex. who
has died at Witham. had ten brothers, ali
OF whom were over six feet high, and her
father used to boast Of his sixty feet of
sons"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02

n the Hon. HARRY LANE OF Oregon will
consult his natural history he will find
that It is not the Wolf but the Hyena
that attacks the dead.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02

A new type Of public servant has de-
veloped. men whose sole aim Ia the better
ment OF all the people.--Er- Governor FORT
OF NeW Jersey.
Doubtless ABRAHAM LINCOLN would
not know what to make Of such pub
lie servant.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02

Mexican people are not to decide
whether he shall continue 20 rule;
HuERrA, II he Ia the stun Of which die
tators are made. is to decide the ques-
ton for them.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02

n our friends uho faro, US sctth mdnuserpfs and
Illustrations for publication ussh 10 have rsteeied
articles returned they must IN all cases send stamps
for that purpose.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02
What Houses Are For.

The House That Jack Built was COM
plcted.
"Now to mortgage 1t for a car" he cried.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02

Published daily. including Sunday. by the Sun
Printing and Publishing Association at no Nassau
street. in the Borough OF Manhattan. New York
President and Treasurer. William c. Reck. 10
Nassau street; Wee President Edward y. MITCHELL
40 Nassau street. Secretary. c. Il. Luxton. ITO
Nassau street
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All checks. money orders. &c. to be made pay
able To The StN.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-02
Many Guilty Ones Escape.

In regard Ia automobile fatalities re-
Gently followed by the escape Of the death
dealing car. the report points out TIA;
there were 9s such accidents IN the state
during 1913, and ninety-two In New Jrr-
sey. Few OF the culprits were caught
This Is felony under the State Law.
the report says. yet in the few ca IS
where the driver was subsequently caught
there is no record Of subsequent conv.e-
ton"
New Jerseys deaths by vehicles for
1913 was as follows: Automobiles. l24. as
against ~ IN 1912. trolleys Is, as against
~ ~ 1917. ana wagons. 20. as against -
in 1912. The total number of persons
killed or injured by automobiles In New
Jersey last year was 1872.
Nine per cent. of the New York auto
drivers figurng in accidents ran away
compared with ! per cent. in New Jers.t.
The proportion OF accidents In which
the owner was driving was one In I've
about the same for New York as for Ncw
Jersey
Ten women automobile drivers had &C
c!dents In New York city, IA in New York
state and l3 in New Jersey during the
wear.