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o AMERICANS.
The High Duty Of Patriotic Citizens
In These DISCOUNTED Times.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Why
make President Wilson do all the work?
Though perhaps a superman, he * in
tensely human, and isn't 1t up TO every
citizen of the United States to do his
part. with moderation. toward solving
the problems Involved in the controversy
with Germany? Tho more Influential the
citizen the more should be expected from
him in sane counsel and praiseworthy
example!
We do not need volunteers. contrihu-
tons or cartridges ar this stage OF the
proceedings. but We do need to show
our Baltic brethren that We are "A
united nation in the cause OF humanity
and for the protection Of our citizens
on tho high seas as elsewhere.
Why shouldn't the newspapers Of the
country, with their vast influence, set
the pattern for patriotism by helping our
earnest. hard working and universally
respected President to make II plain 10
the Berlin Government. beyond bubble
or question. during the progress OF this
state correspondence. that We stand to-
gcther with one mind and one pur-
pose in our demand for justice
No more potent influence in this di-
rection could be exertcd than for the
prominent dailies to follow the initiative
Of the Atlanta Constitution in its han
ding Of the word %plethoras Of the late
lamented s, q. :, Such purely per-
sonal paragraphs" in fairness to both
newspapers and readers. should not be
published as news. but. IL published at
all, as advertising ut FUN rates sor
space. j. c. ANDREWS.
P~HuAnErPHIA. July 20.
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write what you write. CARLYLp's

brain wrote the "%Sartor." his mi.
crobes wrote the 'Revolutlon." Eye
strain has long been held to account
for nlctzschean Irregularities in
FRIEDRICH the Freak and his kindred
lightning bugs of literature" An.
thprshlp and criticism have both I'M
dergone timc-sea change since the
days of English bards and Scotch re-
viewers: criticism is houeStcr, the
bookmakers have artificial heads.
What has the apostle of the Square
Deal and Golden Rule in criticism
tc say? The author has n right TO
his own viewpoint" and the critic
has NJ right to any other. Book re-
viewers are creatures OF frivolous
Responsibility" or ex cathcdra gra-
tuitous tutors in construction, or
combatlve commentators. The critic
must have neither temper nor ITEM
permanent" ideas nor ideals of his
own. Above all, he must visualize
with an ap%preclative minds eye the
authors weeks and months of toll"
"the burning glow of inspiration and
the high desire to achieve; he must
"sympathize" with the author who
has east himself body and soul into
the crucible of his lahors. struggling
with every ounce of power that was
In him to express his vision, to voice
his feeling. to make known his con
viction" to thousands Of readers"
who will find in the book help.
pleasure. inspiration" This Is the
drooling stage Of bookmaniac intoxi-
cation. fit for n day when authors
measure their 'power" by ounces"
The thousands of readers" are as
much a myth as the authors Gin
spiration." Is toll noble when fruit
less? Is the immolatlon Of body and
soul" heroic when the "cruciblc's"
base metals are TRANSMITTED TO no
golden glory? Proprietors Of "con-
victlons" should be made convicts In
a ~penitentlary for the embezzlers and
forgers Of thought.
There are reviewers and reviewers.
Some copy the publishers vapid pufrs
from the wrappers. tome pass
through the fire 10 the Moloch Of Adj
vertising. The dull and the dlshon.
est. the incompetent and the invertc-
brate. the contumelious and the
Commercial" the mocker and the
mime. are as negligible as a score.
tary Of state In Ch%autauqua
Newspaper book reviews have no
business to wear the label of Glitter
airy criticism they are editorials
on a particular department Of news.
The authors unlimited. persistent IN.
vasion OF public attention Is news:
too prevailingly, dull news.
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WHEELING DRY.
West Virginia Prohibition Accused of
Killing the Town.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sir: |
have at hand IA letter from "A woman
friend, a native of Wheeling, w. Va. In
part she says:
II know you have not been to Wheel
ing since the ~prohibitory law tool ef-
feet, hut | am sure YOU would not know
the place, The old town is dead. Here
tofore Wheeling, as you know, was "A
mecca for drummers and others who
had money to spend, This. class of
spenders shun the old place.
There are restaurants galore and the
pool rooms flourish az never before.
You can guess Of course what goes on
in these places. Boys of tender years
who would not dare enter the open sa-
loon are frequent and welcome visitors
at the pool rooms
The Wheeling situation is nauscating
to a great many citizens who did not
believe that such conditions could OH
tain under prohibition, | and others are
ready to confess hat Wheeling cannot
20 on this way much longer. Something
has got to be done.
IL used to believe in prohibition, but
II Is simply n subterfuge for the prac-
Using of hidden immoralitics. If the
people OF Wheeling were to votc again
on this question l am sure It would go
wet 2 TO l."
I submit this letter to those who
believe that prohibition is Il pauacoa
for the evils Of drink.
OSCAR 7. BOWERS.
NEWARK. N. j.. July 20.
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The death OF EDITH LoNGFELLow
DANA, daughter of the poet and wife
OF RICHARD HENRY DANA. the grandson
OF a poet, has brought to many minds
the stanZa from The Children's Hour"
at Craigie House. Cambridge:
From my study ! see in the lamplight
Descending the broad hall stair.
Grave ALICE and laughing ALLEGRA.
And EDITH with golden hair
Miss ALICE L~oNGrELLow IS still in
the famous old house. Laughing
TANNIEl ALLEGRA became Mrs. THORPE.
Forty years & the poet and his
daughters We're familiar figures in the
streets OF Cambridge: and what a
lifting of hats there was when they
appeared at "A bah game on Jarvis
Field. The Children's Hour first APP
peared in the volume containing the
first series OF Tales OF q w side
Inn" lh63). In the Cambridge edi-
ton 1t Is the first poem in BIRDS Of
Passage. Flight the Second" In what
year was 1t written?
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Financing American Trade.

Our bankers are reaching out in
the right direction for realization of
the commercial opportunity of the
war. In all likelihood the loan just
negotiated for the Canadian Govern
ment, in which is involved $4,000, 600,
and starting with one and two year
notes which may be converted into
twenty year bonds, is but the begin
ming of extensions of large credits to
foreign countries. Operations of this
sort have been going on for about
half a year to IN aggregate of
$500, ZOO, more or less, preliminary
to the real work of coOrdinatlng our
finance and commerce in such Il way
that the unprecedented international
trade in which we have been engaged
can he promoted and maintained.
The new Canadian loan illustrates
standpoint is the standpoint of the
alien propagandiSts whom VT have
too much tolerated. They will assert
that American money is to finance
the war, thus clearly demonstrating
that their reasoning Is controlled by
foreign sympathies exclusively. The
Canadian loan Is not at all a contrl-
button to the financing Of the war. 1t
Is simply a transaction for the fur
tharnupp Of our own pXnnrt truIn ouI
but n small instalmcnt Of the iinanc.
ing which we must do to keep our
trade going and growing in these
times when ours is the only country
that has surplus goods to sell abroad,
the means to produce them, and the
capital to enable other nations to
patronize u markets during the
strain of the war.
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T FOR JEWS.
Texas Indorses a Philanthr0pic Plan
Attributed to New York.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Ru-
NOR which IS well founded informs us
that a society Of rhilanthropic men
has been started in New York city for
the purpose OF procuring justice and
fair play 10 our Jewish brothers.
Honor TO your city. 1t is a great.
generous work, Agitate this question
strongly make such "A loud noise that II
may reach California.
The silent, long prosecuted Jew should
be relieved by the hands Of those who
claim to be followers of the worlds
Redeemer,
10 we nor owe nearly all We have to
this prosecuted race The Bible was
entirely written by Jews. Jesus Christ,
His beloved Mother, the Apostles, We're
all Jews. Let US become conscious Of
our duty to his noble race and make
amends for past wrongs
II a strong public opinion IS formed
here in America In favor OF the jew,
Europe will have to listen. Now is the
propitious time TO press the question
strongly. RAYMOND NERNlM"NT'
Catholic Priest.
DENTON, TEX, July u.
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''fnr SAnlIN."

From me Bsrkshve Er,HiH0 Edgic.
when the Richmond 7tmcS-DiSpdtch
says that TUE SCN stands for sanity.
for good descriptive writing. for an es-
p~ecially attractive method In the pres
entation Of news" II speaks the truth.
THE SrS is not tolerant OF bad work
or Of Indifferent and half hearted
methods aWpu- those who constitute its
STAFF. Reporters whose chief ambition is
20 live until Saturday Aisht steer clear
OF TUE SJN.
kind words can never de-" quotes
TUE a. IN appreciation II the tributes
that are coming In now that the news
paper has forsakcu the old landmark
whore THE SvN boys used to assemble in
the one big room for the more preten-
tlous building on the corner of Nassau
and Spruce streets.
t. he a consistent reader Of THE SUN
Is to get the most there is out Of news
paper lie. After a ~perusil OF r. pages
the reader lays his paper aside with thu
assurance that he has learned all there
!S 10 know SINCE he rcsortcd to IL last.
THE ScH shines for all-even W. j.
BRYAN.
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THE SUM-"
Friendly Words From Some OF Its
Contemporaries.

From the Amsterdam Erenin0 Recorder.
The removal of THE SuN to its new
quarters is an event which calls toi
more than a passing notice. II occupied
the old building for nearly half n cen
fury and shonc with steadily increasing
hrilliancy for that long period. There
are newspapers and ncwspapers Some
are dull, which Tia Sun emphatically
never Is some are s%prightly, which THE
SrN always is some are inclined to he
canting in tone. which Is as far removed
as possible from the principles and prac-
ticc of THE SUN. Passing all the news
papers of the day in review. conserVa-
tive, radical, Republican, Democratic
Independent, Progressive, Socialist, there
Is not one which has the peculiar, pun
gent, indchnable lavor of the journal
for which Charles a. Dana won country
wide recognition.
We feel Ike swearing at THE SUN
sometimes. We differ with ii often, but
we always read IL. and expect to con-
tinue to read IT faithfully in the years
that are to come. The gems we md
In its columns are innumerable. They
are bits Of life. II pictures the worlds
happenings, day by day, with accuracy,
with sympathy, and the laughter be-
hind which tears Turk. 1t is an In
tcnsely human newspaper everything In
ii is written by real men for real men ;
II hates "A prig or "A humbug 1t Is the
kind of newspaper that a man VINO
thinks and feels and has "A love OF his
kind and a sense of humor and one OF
proportion cannot help liking.
More power to your elbow, esteemed
and luminous contemporary. in your
new home
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An Educational Lunch Room.

In our recent comments upon low
cost Of living we endeayored to di-
minish the j|ustifiable dislike of the
average lay reader for technical dis
cussions by scientific dletitians who
insist on teaching us all about calory
values, protein and yitamins and car
bOhydrates and hydrocarbons, when
all that we really want to know Is
whether certain foods of daily on
sumption are wholesome and how we
may avoid wasting money for foods
we do not need. Examples We're given
Of the cost to the housekeeper. in meal
value as compared with their cost at
0 popular restaurant.
Following up this mode Of demon
strating the existence Of IA low cost
Of living it Is gratifying to note
that DR.. BoLDuAN, the able chief of
the recently established educational
branch of the Health Department of
this city, has organized n lunch room
In which the employees of this depart
ment upon whom devolyes the educa-
ton Of the public in health matters
may learn by personal experience how
TO overcome the faulty methods of the
average individual who despite his In
telligence pays for food that is worse
than useless, handicapping his body
by filing his furnace, as it were, with
poor coal, diminishing the draft by OBJ
structing the smokeStack with debris.
On application DR.. HoLDCAN furnishes
q two page folder in which the actual
cost OF each menu and each constitu-
ent Of the menu Is correctly estimated
with regard to its potential food value,
and in great variety, combining flavor
and nu'rltiye value. The price ranges
from % cents to 40 cents u meal, en-
lbling the householder to provide the
Isl satisfactory food at any cost con-
istent with his purse, If it be studied
With half the attention devoted to
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-24
On the Cardinals Birthday.

JAMES Cardinal GIBBONS at 81
surveys the world from his tower Of
years with charity, insight and good
will. He has seen much. thought
much, understood much. His judg'
ments on men and events are sought
and respected. Far beyond the
bounds of his faith the ripe wisdom
that inspires his words carries his
messages Of admonition. advice and
encouragement.
A sage who quickly distinguishes the
true from the false, the trivial fromthe
important. mere noise strives in vain
for the dignity of his recognition,
while the lightest knocking of merit
springs wide the door to his inter
ested cooperation. For frauds and
charlatans his Eminence has no time:
only pity, for they have missed the
good things that lie at the hand of
sound purpose and honest endeavor.
Yet that instructive pity has not
dulled the steel of his duty or par
nlyzed the hand that welds the whip
Of Just punishment.
The Cardinal has wit and humor.
without them he could not have lived
30 usefully SO long. THE Sun felici-
tates itself this morning on conveying
to him the good wishes of its readers
and itSplf. We know n man whom We
see him.
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DOES SUFFRAGE PROGRESS:
Further Suspension Of Judgment on
"The Cause" Is Urged.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuH-Sir: Is
suffrage for women a progressive move.
mcnt? Upon the existing evidence,
which Is limited to successes AMI fail
urcs of no such moment as to be con-
sidered weighty experience, are we able
to take sides on the question. either as
~pro-suffrage or anti-suffrage?
To penetrate the cause, find an ad-
vancemcnt in so unselfish a cOndescen-
sion on the part of the American women,
Is absolutely beyond my reason and COM
prehension,
SO II IL exists as a progressive move
ment at all It has not AS yet fallen
within sufficient human experience for
me to affirm or deny anything in regard
to il.
That oma suffrage does or does not
move toward better government is, of
course, unknowahle Tell me, ought W.
not suspend our judgment appertaining
TO The Cause? j. II. MCLEAN.
YORK, Pa, July 20.
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From the LousH courier Ciuzen

From the IOUsW courier Citzen.
New York newspapers which have
moved In recent years have gone up
town, and the Herald n Times have
squares named in their honor. THE Sun
has also moved, but II has gone the
other way, only a block or two further
south. however. II Is now at Nassau
and Spruce, Instead of Nassau and
Frankfort. where II made its home for
forty-scvcn years. moving thithcr when
Charles \. DIna became identified with
the paper OF which h. was subsequently,
supposed to write every line. at least on
the editorial pag 1t was always a
mystery to passersby in Nassau street
that such a sheet AS TuE Sun could be
produced I'm that d1mpy red brick bulld
,ng on the corner once across from
French's Hotel Finally it became inn
possible 10 make such production in COM
fort, and in ouscqucnce THE sun do
movc."
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Becker.

A. the Becker case in its latest dc
yclopment has once more gained the
immunity enjoyed by causes civil and
criminal sub judlce, THE Sun Is con.
strained to withheld from publication
the thoughts this unexpected incident
In It's prosecution Of its principal nat
urally inspires. 1t may, however, be
said without ~dlsrcSpect to the bench
or any of its eminent occupants that
the administration of the criminal
law in this jurisdiction, because Of In
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SSO,OOO,OOOSAVING
IN STATE BOND PLAN
Serial Issues to Take Place ~
Sinking Funds if Idea
Is Adopted.
DEBT NOW 600 goo

ALBANY, July ga saviue u. $780,.
100000 will be effected through t ..y
state bond plan which Henry +. ~,.u.
son, chairman of the committee ...
finances, reported to-day go 'lo r..
stitutional convention. This sn.ns
be accomplished through thu i.-.r
serial instead of fifty year term Nl.a.
for the highway and canal hurl, .o.
manning unissued and for cN.n
$ rial bonds for the silS.o0o.u uu ...I
and highway fifty year bonds ur..,.I.
ing.
Chairman Stimson points out That IN
ten years the State debt has iu.ieI-ad
from $1,000. 900 to s145.o0o 600. tie
gross debt now being siS6.0 600, 1000, wi e
further bonds have been author zod
which would bring the total debt 10
1921 900, 600.
while the credit Of the state Is stl
very high says the report, this gc,l,
Increase in Indebtedness has been no-
tictd and commented upon In the B,
vestment market and there Is 400 ~.
cressing tendency on the part OF invest.
ors to scrutinize our securities and to
demand an Improvement in our financial
methods OF mourning and securing
debt"
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The New York automobilist who
found it a pleasure" to be arrested by
a New York policeman for speeding
is probably "A lonely example Of the
devilwagoneer conquered by the cour-
tesy of his capturer. An instant re-
sentiment resting on the unsuitable
conviction that he was O going too
fast is the feeling Of the motorist
stopped and taken in" by the god Of
the motorcycle.
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To the Eplr0R Of TUE SCS-Si,, In TIM
Sun you quote what Is reported 10 he the
longest address In the world. Well, you
run 1t pretty close, but | think the follow
ing, also ~ a British soldier, Is well In
the running;
Private A. Iithgow
C7SGi>.
u Company,
No, 10 Platoon,
"a Dorset Battalion,
Dorset Regiment
"a Wcssex Division,
G. z. 0, Bombay.
india.
NRw YoRg, July 20. HENRY G. Watts.
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Some interrupters of q socialist
meeting held in London to insist hat
the Government should not make a
premature peace were punched and
kicked out of the hall. Evidently the
lot of the premature pacifst may be
as hard as that of the indiscreet Cop
perhead during the civil war.
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The report points out th.' oyer
coo. 600 bonds have been .SsI' 20
struct surfaces Of highways w...
have to be replaced ten 'Ilu.- % .
the bonds are paid, to that ,At.rt %
a tax on future generations t.t" a.
they get no benefit, and go go.
shows that the contributors 90 ''
existing sinking funds up 20 date '
been 500 goo. 600 IN excess q. a.. .N.
dccreed by good banking. iu a. =' '
make each generation pay for Us ..
Improvements the cumm.t'." I"
mcuds a provision that all $3.50 ...
shall be made fully payable Mt.a o..
life of the Improvement.
The present sinking funds ar" me-
lie disturbed. but the CoNti. .E' OTIS
these funds in tho future W. b..
culated afresh by the State Cour,ro
50 that the contributions ,t.t
Will not exceed those require hg s'
ard amortization plans. Tile '.n.
tee makes the Constitution l'.
10 highway Improvement J..t can ID
made In the future without - N.'c ..
people.
Fully realizing the imn,'1r.e
there should be no m.~Ju r-'t'
in the creation OF a new Constitute. '
to the intention AID r'I...' a.
state to stand behind Is a -,as d .'
with the utmost good tl,h, tic ''u"
tee has inserted IN tie proposed .
Constitution an express as-I.f q ?
tina; effect. y houdlg.lor Is s'..
constitutional right t. rVt -
machinery for the collection o.
bonded debt and the expire ili D.
maudamus tho Comptrui..r s.... '
rasion arise where this Waa .' "a 7
slry.
senator Wagner, Who .r a'-' a '. .
hcr OF the committee on (" Hn..- %
hitting a minority rtuu.' t.
agaius; tho decision of '.o
not II use the exc - IN Tie s.'.
said
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Instalment mcnts Sim plcst.

Discussing the advantage OF issuing
serial bonds the report says:
THE most certain. simple and cheap
way to amortize a debt Is to pay d ~
in annual i'stalments. The uuDcr'a.H-
ties of calculation which have 80 Dn.
fortunately affected our sinking funds ~
the past are at once eliminated There
is no large fund left In the hands 81
public officials ia he cared Cur ami IN
vested and reinvested for fifty years,
with all the attendant risk t,u.,a.
ton. and the danger that this power W
investment In various local so'Irt..s
may be perverted into a political power
is entirely removed. Furthermore, 'Hs
fact that the same administration tfit
incurs a debt must begin at once, W.'nu
one year, to make provisions for Us zoe
tirement. necessarily and strongly t"-fs
toward responsibility and prudence .a
t,le contraction OF debt.
Finally. the serial method produces
an immense saving in the amounts "h.H
the state must eventually pay @ r,tr4
its debt. If our present canal t'h'
Of S1lS. 000.0O had been composed -
serial bonds finally maturing IN t".
years instead of the present s'ra 49,.
term sinking fund nifty year bond, 'Ha
state would have saved SiG,G7I,5t6 .r
the total cost of retiring IN" debit, cy'n
If We assume that the sinking iI'l
was able to earn continually I i'r '..i
on it's investment. After careful .nt'.-
tigation your committee is OF 81" U'." '
shat serial bonds are quite As r.l',..
able as sinking ful1 bonds
In order to make il it,rac'.ya u 'r
investor TO exchange for serial h
the outstanding fifty ear bon s.. ST..
bYar An nNpraGp rate uf int rus %
~ per cent. it is proposed O. 49,"
the interest on the latter a.. i'r .'H'
Even with this increased interest '
change In the class of ha.d 80
mean a saving to the StA.s o. .'
IN fAt
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According to Mrs. CRYSTAL BENEDICT
EASTMAN, two of the greatest factors
In producing a permanent worlds
peace are the student body and the
organized women" We don't know
about the organized wlmen. but we
fancy that the student body will be
about rs influential in pacihcation as
are the college Mems Leagues" which
every campaign begets in politics.
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London ONCE. bingham House. 1 Arun-
del street, Strand.
Paris Office. 6 Rue de la Michodiere, OH
Rue du Quatre Septembre.
Washington Office, Hibbs Building
Brooklyn oflce, 100 Livingston street
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The National Guard regiments in n
sham battle were defeated by the
regulars; and it is regulars that
! 900, 900 sunset volunteers would have
TO face.
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Efficiency,

The dial had Just been invented.
Gee" remarked the sun. ITS tough
that | should have TO punch a time clock
all day long"
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The Hon. WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON,
Mayor of Chicago. who is willing to
he the Republican candidate for
President in 1916 "if the younger ele-
ment of the Republican party wills it,"
might study for his reproof and admo-
niti,n the history of the Hon. CARTER
HARRISON. long Mayor of Chicago.