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CLAUDE KITCHIN.
Is There = Dangerous influence Con-
trolling the House?

WASHINGTON. Dec. 11.-Representa-
tive Claude Kitchin, now serving his
eighth term in the House. has Unusual
Intellectual equipment. lie is an au-
thority on the history of American
legislation affecting many major sub
jects, notably banking and currency
and the tariff. He Is a likable man,
a personality which charms. just.
loyal. honest. When Oscar Under
wood rose in the House to deny
charges published against him by w.
J. Bryan he concluded by saying:
There are members on this floor who
can give testimony that what ! nave
said Is an accurate statement Of the
facts" 1t was Mr.. Kitchin. known
to be Bryans most powerful friend in
the House, who rose and said that the
circumstances out Of which came the
Bryan-Underwood controversy were
exactly as they had been related by
Mr.. Underwood. Other friends Of
Bryan in the House. as familiar with
the circumstances as was Kitchin.
refrained from speaking.
There In another side to Claude
Kitchin: his Intellectual development
has not been in the dimension OF
breadth. The vision Of his statesman
ship Is not wide. With a knowledge
of the detail OF tariff and banking and
currency legislation not exceeded. prob
ably. by any other member Of Con-
gress he Gems temperamentally in
capable Of applying that precise
knowledge. in his legislative work. TO
conditions not observable In North
Carolina.
Representative Kitchin was early
fascinated. II would seem, by Mr..
Bryan. and has never awakened from
the spell. Not that he Ia a fanatic
Bryanite; his refusal to bear. by
silence. false witness against Under
wood 50 testifes. Hut some of the
fundamental errors which were built
into the structure Of his political
philosophy when he fell under the
banetul influence Of Bryan are irre-
movable.
viii such a man. then. because OF
his loNable qualities. retain In his
hands the tremendous power welded
by the leader of the majority In the
House, In days like these
Under the rules adopted NY the
House In the Sixty-second Congress
power passed from the Speaker to the
majority leader. The leader is chair.
man of the committee which assigns
committee places. he II the man &c
whom members must appeal for In
fiuence TO get hearings before com
m!ttees. to get reports on bills from
committees. to help them into favor
able parliamentary trenches, to "ge'
time in debate, To permit them TO dc
this. do that, DO anything which VII
bring them into prominence 'hacl
home" No other man In the HOUSE
has a twentieth part of the influence
with members as has the leader.
Win such power ne allowed to re'
main with a man known to I've on
posed with almost a religious fervo,
to n programme of legislation who's
fulflment II dema nded by a great ma
jority Of patriotic Americans Of al
political parties?
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winter Conditions In Germany

Winter Begins in Germany with
widespread suffering among the teO-
i,l" Whom the newspapers are al
lowell to discuss the food shortage
OPENLY it seems 10 he idle for The Gov
trunlcui to repeat is assurance that
here nr" supplies available for n long
war. SUN III" condition of the EN-
tire il not that Of Paris when 1t was
invested 10y German armies in 1870
-. Paris was reduced to half rutiOns
and at last to no rations ut nIl. When
Inc people yer literally starving to
death the end rnmc quickly. 1t may
hc douhtcd whether the German peo-
pie can b" starved into submission hy
the enomy's control Of the sea. There
must b. wheat and potatoes for all
against the time when stores can he
.~eplenlshed from the harvests through
ont Germany. but how hong viii her
people stand the privations that arc
already gripping them7
The price OF meat Is almost prohib..
rive; lard aud butter and other food
stufrs ordinarily regarded as neccs,
ssrtes are becoming Injuries. 1--WE
mnss o~enfsss," says MAxIHIllAE HAs.
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"Buttlng In" In Mexico.

The Presidents latest outgiving
on Mexican affairs records his salts
faction with watchful waiting, which
has conferred on the Administration
responsibility for CARRANzA south Of
Texas, and perplexed every individual
outside the circle Of Mr.. WILSON'S
immediate association who has en-
deavored to fathom Its mysteries. In
peculiarly fe%licitous phrase Mr.. WI
son now that "the Mexi-
cans may not know what to do with
their Government, but that Is none Of
our business. and so long AZ I have
the power to prevent 1t nobody shall
butt in to alter II for them"
In this happy locution the stylist Of
the White House presents his opposi-
ton 10 any Intervention in the affairs
Of Mexico that may he suggested by
the excuses Of banditti. the raids Of
marauders or the %extortions Of poll
ticians. II may be accepted as an an
swer to the protests OF the churchmen
Of this country, whose disquiet
aroused by the treatment Of their re-
ligious brethren south Of the Rio
Grande has not been silenced by Mr..
TrMrLry's pen. II applies to every
American resident In Mexico, to every
American whose capital has been en-
listed to develop that rich land. II
locks the door against the introduc'
ton Of any palliative recommendation
that does not originate in the mental
ity Of those who devote themselves
to earning Executive favor. To aues'
ton the wisdom OF the programme
that has produced the Mexico Of to
day Ia to butt in; to plead for the
defence Of American citizens and
American property Is to butt in: tp
be lagcard In applause for the meth
DDS that for two years and more have
been in operation Is to butt In"
The Presidents language is appro
priate. 1t matches In dignity and
force the fruitful policy of watchfu'
waiting.
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Among the fallacious Ideas enter
tanned by the public 10 matters OF
sanitation, few have proved SO peril.
nacious as the idea that the air Is q
frequent agency In the transmission
of disease. A story Is told Of a sup
posedly intelligent gentleman whose
fear of hospital air so obsessed him
that when passing Il certain hospital
he suggested to his companion that
they should cross the street to avoid
infection. II is not II very long tim"
since physicians warned the public
against permitting sewer air to enter
their dwellings: night air also was
regarded rs inimical to health. One
by n these fallacies have heen re-
moved In the progress Of hygiene.
The discovery Of the role of micro
organisms In the transmission Of dis
ease says the journal Of the Ameri'
can Medical Association. "has largely
changed this attitude In the sewer
air. for instance, the proportion of
harmful micrO-Orgnnisms Is usually
less than In thar Of streets and houses,
because they are apt to he deposited
on moist surfaces. The gaseous COM
ponents Of the air are Of secondary
moment. There II n growing convic-
ton that in the majority Of cases Of
so-caIled "air horne" diseases infec-
ton Is due to suspended particles,
disseminated by tho act of coughing
ar sneezing.
The most recent observations have
established the transmission of many
I dangerous diseases by insects, which
! convey %infectivo materials from the
source of food, as Is done by flies In
typhoid fever. inoculnting the body
rs Is done by vcrmin In the produc'
iion of typhus fever or by mosquitoes
becoming the hosts Of mnlarlal para
sites, with which they vaccinate man
or by rats that are carriers Of bu
bonic plague, which they convey tc
man. The recognition Of these agen'
cies of transmission has resulted In
great diminution II not entire aboli
ton of some OF the highly fatal dis
cases. and has emancipated mankind
from the horrors of impending in
hictions Of unfathomable origin.
So little apprehension is enter
tanned by physicians with regard Il
the air itself transmitting disease tina
Diseases like measles arc no Longer
isolated by advanced members Of thu
medical profession. PrecautiOn, how
ever, Is demanded where large mum
hers are c~ongregated, ms In factories
schools, theatres, or other assemblies
which have been shown to contain
more bacteria than the mir Of tn,
public streets. Ventilation, therefore
remains one Of the most importan
hygienic measures.
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TRIPE.
Philosophical Dissertation on q Neg
lected But Admirable Food.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: The
head of "a housewives league IN the
middle West recommends tripe for low
ering the high cost of living. She
says tripe costs half as much as beef
for boiling. about one-third "a much as
lamb chops and a quarter as much as
porterhouse steak-after considering the
weight of the bone. She might have
gone further II said the price of tripe,
weight for weight. was less than one
fifteenth that Of quail. about one
twentieth that Of partridge and not FAR
from one-fortieth that of woodstock.
when these articles OF household sup
ply are In season, There Is no closed
season for tripe.
Tripe looks like a connecting Ink be-
tween an edible and a textile. Indeed,
while dn preparation for cooking Il
closely resembles an irregularly defined
section of a bath towel. Its appearance
guests also that a large piece of II
might be used as a vestibule rug in
snowy weather. Its preparation for the
kitchen range Is not unlike the early
stages of laundering. II is soaked
scrubbed. wrung II dried. Here the
parallel ends, for tripe Is not starched,
| sprinkled and ironcd.
Those who ave learned TO appreciate
the good qualities Of tripe as food hold
III IN nlSn esteem. " IL NUTRITIOUS anu
may he partaken of freely without foai
If injurious consequences. II Ia easily
prepared for the tahle-after II has beer
made ready for the range, II has NJ
bones. 50 greatly II Il valued by trlp'
lovers that they swear. siCredly anf
never profanoly. by II, AZ when thcN
give frrvid uttcrance to tho eNcl1md'
tiou "For the love OF tripe"
Tripc IL largely "a home dish. Chef
iusist on using elaborate formulas In IL
preparation. so that the partakcr useC
to good stewed tripc In ~ a loss to 10
eide what manner Of pudding j. set ~"
fore him. Again. tripe prepared 10y tn
highly professional Chef cannot com
pare IA a spectacular dish with ,
wildly scarlet lobster rmhHllished WHY
decorations of bright yellow aud green
Few patrons 81 the lobster palaces
order trir",
Truth there Is and there is good scns'
in all that the mIddl. West housewife
says about tripo. The recommendation
~ tn economy may increase the number
Of tripe caters, and many OF them ma!
become tripe lovers. The mlltitudci
who already knew tripc and gave NJ
thought to IT'S comparative chelpresl
would insist upon having II N whatev"
reasonable price, r, " NrNANr
BROOKLYN, December II
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Yuan shih.k'aI Emperor.

Despite his frequent assertions that
he would not head n new monarchlcal
dynasty YUAN SHIH-x'AI has accepted
the throne Of China, rendered to him
by the Council Of State.
The substitution Of a monarchy for
the republic has been agltated for the
past two years, and the elections held
in different parts Of the country indi-
Gated from the first that a change IN
the form Of government would be
demanded.
The question Of providing for the
Presidential succession and the recent
experience with the japanese were
the principal factors In the situation.
The Chinese felt that they were being
Inundated by the japanese and they
sought power centralized in nm eff.
cient government strong enough 90
protect their interests.
The change would indicate that the
republican form Of government was
not the panacea for Chinese ills that
reformers had anticipated. In reality,
however. the republic existed only in
name. the real Government was mn
autocracy. of which YUAN was the
head. He IL. no doubt, the man hes,
fitted for carrying ont the ideals
sought by the electorate: he Is known
and trusted outside Of his own coun.
try as "the n strong man Of China
and able, II any M IL. to strengthen
and unity the great unwieldy nation
and to protect 1t from the ever pres
ent menace Of foreign aggressions.
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forty Nassovians gave favorable
witness Of conversion"

forty N~assovians gave favorable
witness Of conversion"
This echo from a year in whose
ninety-third successor we now are d.
reefs attention to the present genera
ton Of collegians. Are the students
Of 1915 pious7 The compulsory re-
ligious exercises Of an earlier day
are not In fashion now, required
chapel Is but a memory. Sunday
services, we imagine. are pretty pop.
ular whether the more for spiritual
or social reasons, who knows7 But
college morals are cleaner than they
were nine decades ago; college work
is more %exacting, there is less time
for tomfoolery and revealing. The
college senior Of to-day IL a serious,
businesslike person : reverend as much
as reverent: austere. august and el-
derby as time itself.
Nowadays It Is not profitable for
youth to be wild.
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Radical chan ges are to be made In
Columbia's rowing system, A icy
office Of graduate manager Of rowing
has been created. During the past
lew years Columbia's rowing policy
has caused dissatisfaction among the
oarsmen. the students and the grad
yates. The situation became 80 criti-
cal this fall that 1t WAS doubtful
whether Columbia would he repre-
seuted by IA rev at Poughkeepsio
next spring. Under the direction of
MALCOLM NJ, Roy, graduate manager.
who plans to encourage every one who
can 10 take up rowing and to hold in
ten'lsss, intcrdormitory and intorfra.
ternity races, the new policy should bt
successful.
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oar SOr,austa on War.

4 'nc present moment the sub
ialu"l article in the constitution OF
W ~S"rialis, party has n peculiar
sut"rr".'
ANY member Of the socialist party.
cc'eI 70 an office. who shall in M
way vote TO appropriate moneys for
ni!tLsy or naval purposes, or q shall
he expelled from the party"
Representative MEYER LONDON Of
The Twelfth New York district is
me only Socialist In the Sixty fourth
Congress. 1t Is not TO be expected
that his attitude will seriously affect
The progress Of the programme of
preparedness. but the circumstances
under which this section of the party
law was adopted inspire curiosity. 1t
was submitted, In the form Of n pro-
posed amendment, to the enrolled
members Of the organization. and
after . campaign Of about three
months was accepted by them by a
vote OF 11,O41 In the affirmative ia
$50 In the negative.
At the moment this action was
being taken by the active Socialists
here the great majority Of the So
ctalists IN every warning nation OF
Europe wer performing their mill
tary service, If not joyfully al least
"a q manner reassuring to the re-
Aponsible authorities, Their ante
hellum theories and protestations hat
not been sustained by the ultimnt.
dtsobedience they implied. and to-day
certainly In Germany, their politica
convictions have moi led them 10 tina
opposition tn thc Governments polio,
which would hc given by determine,
advocates Of peace at any price.
Should the question Of war I'm thl'
country become acute, and the nun
her of Socialists in office he suficien
10 constitute m important factor
would they obey their pnrty consti
tuition or follow tho course Of thei
brofhorS in other lands?
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The Courter-JoprraI, in view OF what
he has already done. has insisted that
tho only man who can prevent Woop-
ROW WILSON succeeding himself In the
White House is WOODROW WILSON. Per-
haps this might he revised by the ad-
dition OF "or hts Secretary Of the Treas
ury." Blu that revision would be one
more OF form than OF substance, for Mr..
WILSON will ave himself 10 blame II he
allows Mr.. McApoo to lure him into the
swamps into which nc Democratic path
way ever Yet led.-LouiSu 4iLs Courier
journal
The mysterious depths of n e dark
jungle still ominously await his explo-
ration, hut the President revised his
views ~ 20 the academic nature of
preparedness. and 1t is by no means
beyond possibility that the will o. the
wisp may fail to lure him again into
the Dismal Swamp of Government
owned merchant shipping.
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Cornell, Columbia and Penn obiec, TO
regatta of 1851 because 1t will inter
ferc with final OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
notrs.
Mollycoddles' In heavens name, is
it not enough that in the present sad
misunderstanding Of the tru mission
of education the college faculty heads
Insist that during vacation mouths
conditions" he worked off" thereby
spelling entire days which the UNDER
graduate should be devoting to the
remunerative profession OF playing
Summer BASEBALL on a seashore or
mountain ball club; that entrance ex-
aminations In the late summe or
early fall distract his mind from the
ethics. theory and practice Of prelimi-
nary football, that lectures, rccita-
tons and laboratory work in minor
subjects throughout the winter and
spring combine TO drag basketball,
hockey and even varsity baseball
almost down to u minor subject level
In the name Of Professor CHARLES Il.
COURTNEY Of Corncll's chair Of Theo-
retical and Applied Aquatics. Is It not
going a bit too far when mere aca-
Gemic incidents such ~ final cxamina-
tons are permitted to interfere with
the cIowning glory Of a year OF "col-
lcge education?
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The year 1922 was normal, ms to rc-
ligious interest; the Great Awakening
engineered by JONATHAN EDWARDS be-
gan in 1894. the "rrviyal" season of
lS59-6O was more than n quarter OF II
century removed in the dark forward
and nbySm of time, At Princeton,
which does no appear In this report,
the Rev. l|r. AsHnEL GREEN heing
president, there had been In lSl1 n
revival among the students. Nassau
was always religious in her governors,
but her students had been INDUCING
In sOphistry md morals patterned
after those of France. and, surfPited
perhaps with tn" indulgence, expert.
cnced the ccstnSirs Of reaction, D..
GREEN records II IN the stilted Ian.
guagc Of the pulpit Of his day: Like
the silent dew Of Heaven the infu-
ence divine descended" and some
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all the ambitions that have possessed
him since he undertook the difficult
work he Is about to quit. Many Of
these ambitions, we venture to say,
were for changes that would have
proved Of comparatively little value /;
some, It is probable, for alterations
that might have proved unsuccessful
or even detrimental; but 1t Is the
opinion Of many citizens that the
most difficult problem in the educa-
tional system is not to get a specific
thing done but to get anything done
with the public schools.
Mr.. CHURcHnL should possess an
extensive knowledge Of the hardships
springing from the present arrange.
ment. with a store of Incidents illus.
trative Of them. The setting forth OF
these would he Of the highest value
In the conduct Of the changes that
must be undertaken in public school
management. They would be worth
far more in the business department
Of the establishment than the tech.
nical opinions Of educators imported
from abroad; they would illuminate
many phases Of the subject that now
sorely puzzle the taxpayer.
We wish Mr.. CHURCHILL would con.
clude his labors In his present Office
not with a perfunctory valedictory
hut with a thorough exposition Of the
! faults and weaknesses Of the machine
he has sought to guide.
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lPlety In College.

Are college students Indifferent to
religion? Not any more so, not any
less so, we imagine. than any other
set OF healthy, normal young men.
In the LtcinO Church We find, copied
from a number Of the Waterman, a
Baptist periodical publication, In 1892.
statistics Of collegiate piety In that
year Of grace. Our great grandfath-
ers. 1t appears. for the students Of
1922 were presumably born almost
cOntempOraneously with the nine
teenth century. were not extrava-
gantly plous.
What may have been the standard
of piety. by what system Of mcnsura-
tion II was gagged. %deponent sayeth
not, hut as presumably all were
measured with the same yard>tick Of
reverence the report exhibits fairl,
the relative degrees of religious de-
vOtion In the various institutions Of
learning. Yale. with 1913 students,
had rs youngsters who earned the
epithet 'pious"; Harvard. with an
enrolment Of 3O2. had exactly one
dozen who fell within that category.
B%eniChted Cambridge, One wonders
how the census was taken: perhaps
the Cantabrigians suffered from ex-
cessive modesty, perhaps they We're
not l.-. v;a,,, lat ,,N,A "A,
Self-eXaminers than their Nntmegian
fellow students. Or possibly their
Puritan standards we're unattainably
high, and n reasonable approximation
70 them n more credltable achieve
ment than fun realization of the
Yalensinn ideal.
Union College carried IN Its rolls
234 undergraduate names, and had 80
professors Of religion. or 1853 Bru-
nonlans "%thirty-eight or forty" are set
down rs piOus: evidently some were
doubtful, In n twilight one. At Dart
mouth "a in 1913 were pious; AZ Bow
doin. 10 or 90 out Of 100: at Hamll-
ton. ~ or 80 out of l07. Williams
College introduces IA new element,
with 81 pious. probably" in n stu
den, community of ~. At Franklin,
Georgia. among 100 academic youths
eight were Hopefully pious."
Fourteen colleges are included in
the examination by the Waterman
The total enrolment was 2.1l3 The
aggregate of piety, In tn" waving de
greps. Is tG, If our mathematics Is
dependable this reduces to a pcrcen
iage Of 21.5. Less than o%ne.quart"r
barely more than oncfifth. Of the
young men me- the unStatcd require
ment. That the philosophers of sta
tistic and analysts of social phenom
ena may deduce what their genius
may lead TO Of climatic and other in
hurncrs on the spiritual life we tab
ulate the census for those institutions
which are not mentioned above;
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WORK ON THE STATE CANAL.
The state Engineers Account Of Work
Yet 10 Re Done on the Ditch.


FROM '"e 6o,0e oa"". """e'" ..,
Inc eastern hait OF tne Etc chi'ai s
the Chainpiain cahai nave each d s.pele
unnilished ana una"ardeo con.'a
winch mas Dcen tne chict oos.acle
entire complexion or It's respect,ve ~
by iettins these contracts. Nos. 80
ana f3-A' tosether win one w
bridge contracts, py push'us VIZ
on them on the lew o.ner co"'ras
when are unaer AWARD cu. y. luz
completed, II Is eNFected 'ia' NV
son : TIM VIII DE All una ID nseu.u ~
finish the Champiain canai anu !" :"
channel IRON the Tucson 10 ,|ane III
tario ny way OF the Erie anu oe"0s
D~rahches. -
Inc Ere canai west OF VIZ Os~S
Junction contains several uncodnp'o'e
portions. here iegal comp''ca'lons
largely Responsible Tor the unI.I
CONDITION. Tnere are huI'erous ," ~
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IF"
4 simple and Economical Plan for he.
fensi,e Preparedness.

To rUL EprroR or TuE SuN-Sir. There
- more virtue than YOU suspect in the
"if' Of NJ, IHikens. provided the right
81 IS chosen.
"ll tn" country had beer prepared
fur war the iusitanIa would q
have hecu sunk
"If Roosevelt had been Iresident' tn,
Idisltauia would yrv'r have heen sunk
Tor Teddy "Nyould have shown his teeth
and frightened Wilhelm.
Lets make. - wise and economics,
choico, Hlre Teddy and his teeth !nsteat
of spending enormous Gums ON arrna
m"nt.
Ties deuts assureut Ia psix."
> \EW NOnK. December II TNMoH.
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From the Neubcrry Observer

IT" TFWTFTTV VVNfTT
Next I" the OLD belled buEzdrl is q
nuzyari with a trap hanging to his foot.
Now this Is not that buzAard dyins vst n
Il dog sitting on his tail. Tom narrel,
say .t-tne Same Tom saw trio rat Twin.
with the kittens. He says W A. wherry
saw 1t, as no was passing with his mail
Tuesday, Some OF the negro hands saw
It first, and from the rafting thought II
was the belled buzzard. They told Mr.,
harrell. who went out and saw It nying
near the ground. A small steel tran W.,
dangling from "a foot OF the huzzard. Mr.
Harrcll called Mr. Wherry's attention TO IL