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Ono week after WoopRow VII soN.
addressing the League to Enforce
Peace. proposed that the United
States should Join an international
alliance o prescribe the government
tai systems and delimit the bound
aries Of nll the nations of the earth.
THOMAS II. MARSHALL uttered this
thought in Newark:
Never In all history was GEORGE
WAsHiNGroN so much alive as he Is Mt
this moment. And never was there SO
great a need for the American people
TO remember. as to remember now, his
final advice TO have friendly relations
with all people and %cntangling alliances
with zone"
Mr.. WILSON spoke on May - as
President OF the United States. Mr..
MARSHALL prefaced his remarks by
declaring that he appeared Mt Newark
In his individual capacity, and not
as Vice-President. MIR. MARSHALL Is
not always .judicious In his words /;
his mental processes sometimes battle
US but with respect Of GEORGE WASH
INGToN's advice he Is %eternally right.
and those who hold opposite opln-
ions. whether they call the alliances
they project e%ntangling or disentan.
Cling. are eternally wrong.
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land Islands with five COMPANIONS to
seek relief for the rest of the crew
left on Elephant Island.
The Aurora, moving In the last six
months Of her wanderings only one
and n third miles n day, was about
n year In tho pack. What must have
been the feelings Of those on board
when they meditated upon the fate
Of the southern sledging parties"
which were to establish depots for
SHACKLEroN's march across the pole
tn the Great Ice Barrier on Ross Sea.
The last word had come from them
on March II, 1915.
England now confronts the prob-
lem Of resculng fragments Of SHACK
iEToN's expedition scattered on both
sides Of the Antarctic Continent. And
II was the best equipped expedition
that ever left her shores. Another
winter like that Of 10I5.16 and the
case of the men landed on the shores
Of Ross Sen would he indescrIbnbly
desperate. More inhospitnble still Is
Weddell Sen. and there can he no
assurance that the survivors Of the
Endurance left on Elephant Island
can be reached before their provisions
give out.
The rlgors Of the Antarctic are
more devitalizing and wasting than
those Of the Arctic, and the leo ron.
ditions seem TO no more battling.
Never was there n polar enterprise
81 fraught with difficulty and perils
ms that Of Sir ERNEST SHAcxLrroS.
u Is now seen TO have been n crazy
adventure.
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ON n LAST LAP.
| where Are the Favorite Sons In the
Public Estimation?

To THE EDITOR or tn SuN-Str: In
addressing the Young Mems Lyceum at
Springfield January 81. 1887. Abraham
Lincoln said
Ia II unreasonable then TO expect that
some Man possessed Of the Hottest genius,
coupled with ambition suhhcient TO push
II 20 It's utmost stretch. will at some time
spring up among us? Distinc-
tion will be his paramount object. and al
thous he would as willingly. perhaps
more 20. acquire II by doing good as harm.
yet. that opportunity being past and moth
ing left to be done In the way OF build
ting up. he would set boldiy to the task
OF pulling down.
Col. Roosevelt has the genius. the am
billion ard the desire for the spotlight OF
distinction. IL II not also true that his
opportunity has passed and that no is
now in the last phase. "A wreckcr?
In 1912 he pulled down the Republican
party he endeavored to pull down the
judiciary by the Introduction OF the re-
call Of judicial decisions. and now by his
genius he is. under the guise of pre-
paredness. preaching mili,arism.
The man OF genius. of unboundcd am
bition. who demands distinction oy fair
means or foul. rs forcseen by Lincoln
seems to have arrived.
Jupp STEWART.
P%LAiNriELp. n. j.. June 3.
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by Berlin aud by Bcrlin's ardent
sympathizcrs In this country the
world Is informed that Great Brit.
aims mastery of the sen has been
broken. The Kaiser is hailed ms "Ad.
miral Of the Atlantic" The German
navy Is proclaimed ruler Of the deep
waters.
1f these boasts arc well founded
that fact will he presently disclosed.
With Germany in command Of the
sea, md Britain deprived Of her SUI
premncy. Teutonic commerce VIII re-
sumo It's nntc.bcllum freedom. The
merchant ships tied up In neutral
ports will load and sail the vessels
Idle In their home harbors will set
forth on their accustomed oyngc
In the resumption NJ interrupted
trading. not in lists of warships sunk
and sailors killed. will he the proof
Of the German contention. Until II
Is accomplished. the rulership Of the
oceans cannot he said Ia have shifted
from the Island Kingdom to the Cen.
trnl Powers.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir. No
one who wants President Wilson re-
elected desires tho nomination Of Colo
mel Roosevelt by the Republicans, II we
do not nominate the Colonel we might as
we'll concede the election OF Wilson.
am a Republican. but | am for my
country first. my party second. Regard
less Of party utilization and acting In
what l believe to be the best interests
OF the country. I am for Theodore Roose-
welt on any ticket. II he Is not on any
ticket I propose to do one OF two things (:
write his name on the ballot In casting
my vote. or vote for President Wilson :
and ! think I am one OF many thou
sands whose votes Mr.. Roosevelt cannot
control except for himself who will vote
for him as the man tho country needs.
and not even for any one he names or
II instrumental in naming as the candi-
date Of the Republican party.
The most foolish thing this country
could do at this critical period would be
to place nm inexperienced and untried
mar In tho White House.
am. therefore. for Roosevelt first be-
cause ] am for my country first for
Wilson second because am for my
country first. and for the Republican
party third In this campaign because l
am for my country first.
JOHN F, FRAZER.
BALTIMORE. Nd. June 8.
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Freighting Across Jersey by water.

While the Morris Canal in New
Jersey Is sadly fallen from It's former
estate as n waterway carrying n
valuable in coal and lum-
her, and incidentally as n highway
for lovers of inland pleasure naviga-
ton. the Delaware and Raritan Canal
Is about to experience n revival Of Its
former usefulness. with the installn-
tion of a power barge service between
New York and Philadelphia. While
the project is inspired by immediate
pressure due to extraordinary trafic
conditions, we are confident II Will
he found that railroad transportation
has moi entirely cancelled the useful
potentInlitics Of this waterway.
The Delaware and Raritnn Canal Ia
n channel of sufficient depth to en-
title II TO description rs n ship canal.
Bnrges of considerable draught and
carrying capacity pass through II
easily. though the wear of the wash
on the prism limits speed. With New
York and Philadelphia as termini.
Trenton and New Brunswick In be-
tween. there is business enough in the
movement of freights not %pcrishable
TO keep the waterway ms well as the
parallel railroads busy. The enter
prise must prove profitable To its pro.
moters and beneficial to shippers.
A less immediate but not less desir-
able effect will he to drive out the idea
that traffic can keep up with business
only when It moves on wheels.
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The Greatest Antarctic Failure.

When the news reached London
that disaster had befallen the Endur-
ance as well as the Aurora Of the
Shackleton Antarctic expedition there
was one authority in England who
could not have been surprised. In an
article in the Geographical journal
for May reviewing the incidents OF
the Aurora failure and specializing
upon Sir ERNEST SHACKLEroN's nd
ventures, Mr.. HC0H RoBERr Hill
wrote:
I'VE should be less surprised to hnd
Sir ERNEST SHAcKLEroN returning in
the Endurance than to hnd that he had
succeeded in landing his party and
stores in time to leave for his projected
transcontinental Journey al he hoped TO
do toward the end OF 1915"
The expedition, said Mr.. HILL. was
Of "pxtraordinary b~oldness." and he
would have considered II Trash In the
extreme" II any man less experienced
than the old lieutenant Of the Ia
mented SCoTr was to command. Only
four times had the Weddell Sea,
which SHACKLEroN was to take the
Endurance through, been navigated to
a high latitude, by WEDDELL (1823),
Ross lS43), BRUCE (10O4) and
FncHNER G912) and 1t had been
found that the ice conditions differed
greatly on each OCCASION"
Ross Sea, through which MACKIN-
TosH was to drive the Aurora from
New Zealand In cooperation with
SHAcKLEToN's expedition on the other
side of the Antarctic Continent, did
not present so difficult m Ice prob.
lem yet the Aurora, after landing
parties Mt Hut Point and Cape Evans,
wns caught In the pack below the
Great Barrier while blizzard after
blizzard ragged, was held imprisoned
for months, and had to abandon the
landing parties, narrowly escaping de.
structiOn on many occasions.
The story of the AurOra's "return
to civilization" Is only less harrow
ing than SHACKIEToN's recital of the
laundering of the Endurance In Ant
arctic foes and bergs; the long, pain
full march Of his o over the leo
with their boats; the terrible nights
passed In water which the pnck was
constantly closing; and the daring
voyage to South Georgia and the Falk.
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who wants Preparedness?

New York marched for preparedness
on Mny IL. But New York Is not
America. cried the pacIfsts; and be-
sides, the marchcrs were "coerced."
Boston has marched for preparedness
since; So have other towns: Chicago,
Providence. st. Louis. Hartford. Nash
vile. New Orleans. the SprIngfelds Of
Ohio and Illinois, Linn. Salt Lake.
These are n few Of the settlements In
which the demand for adequate army
md navy has been expressed by thou.
sands Of paraders. More names will
he added to the list next week. and
tho week nfter. Even MS II stands to.
day, no man nj say II Is not Amer
icn; no man can charge that the
grave and sober citizens who tramp
the streets to display their convic-
tion are ''cocrced."
In Chicago at was different from
any other parade ever held in that
II was n deadly earnest appearing
turnout. There were no fonts, M
automobiles. no fncetious slogans on
bnnncrS-hst II horde Of earnest
citizens seeking To drive home the
lesson of preparedness by sheer force
Of massed numbers" Thus all the
pnrndcs are characterized the men
in line are not out for a lark. they
do not seek a holiday outing. they
are inspired by deep feeling and
moved by reasoned conviction.
New York Is not America Boston
Is not America Salt Lake City Is
not America New Orleans Is not
America. No one city. no one State
is America hut the sum total Of all
Of them is America. and from their
restrained and dignifed demonstra-
tions the spirit Of America can he
learned. II Is America that wants
preparedness. anil never has n people
made it's want known more plainly
than have the citizens Of the United
States in the year 1916.
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Preparing for the Conventional
"DemOnstPStiOns."

Were we less well acquainted with
the minds Of the political geniuses
who rule the great and patriotic or
g%anizations that GOVERN this fair
land, We should indulge the hope that
Mt none of the nominating onven
lions this month would an effort he
made 10 beat the cheering record"
Whnt mark that precious fraud has
attained VIC do not remember, and
We shall not thank the mar who tells
us; the pumped up demonstration on
which such store Is set means less
than nothing, and has got to be an
unmitigated bore.
Undoubtedly the. "little slip OF n
woman" with her historic flag from
somewhere or other Is even now on
her way to Chicago, TO lean over the
rail and wave herself into n purple
hue. We ran only wish for her that
she Is sufficiently rewarded for her
exercise. The man who Is to take
his coat of-having carefully removed
everything from the pOckets-and
transform 1t into n. banner has had
his instructions. and awaits the
handkerchief signal OF his employer.
The patriots who load themselves
with cowbells, megaphones. watch.
mems rattles and other instruments
Of torture have stocked their arse
nails. All will be on hand, not only
at Chicago but at st. Louis. prepared
TO he spontaneous whenever their
leaders tell them the time has come.
Tho bandmasters are now getting
their final instructions; 1t Is fashion.
able. in an age OF electricity. to fire
them to unprecedented harmony by
means Of an electric buzzer.
The best argument Of the advo-
Gates Of the direct nomination Of ram
didates for President lies in the fact
that their system would suppress the
convention demonstration" II they
urge this In behalf Of their reform,
they may stand a chance Of imposing
II on the nation.
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EDUCATION BOARDS AWARDS.
az $3.50. $50 Voted &2SO,OOO Goes
to Washington U~niversity.

Tile General Education hoard az.
bounced yesterday that at It's anuus
spring meeting II voted s7S9,9SO for -
help Of various educational Institute
throughout the country, To the med ica'
department OF Washington tniversl'"
-. Louis. s25O,000 was appropriate
Other appropriations were
Cocker College, Hartsville. :. G.. s5o.oHn
Colby College. Waterville. Me, $4,000
Rockford College. Rockford. Ill, s7S.onH
further prosecution Of educational re-
searches. $4,000 Spellman seminar
Atlanta. Ga. 100000 Hampton Inst
tute. $4,000: Tuskecee lns'.'u''
$4,000; M~orehouse College, Atlanta
$4,000: Fisk University. Nash'tNs
$4,000 M~ayesville Industrial Schoo
M~ayesville. s. C.. $1,000 cnutpmeu' "
normal, schools for negroes IN No''h
Carolina. $4,000: equipment OF county
training schools for negroes. $4,000
support Of professors Of secondary '1A
cation, s34.l30: State agents FOR whit.
rural schools. s3o.soo State agents f'
negro schools. s34,5oo; educational re-
search In New Hampshire. $500; Farm
demonstration work in Maine and Nc~
Hampshire. $500.
Including the foregoing, the board Vas
since its incorporation. appropriate
slS.3Ss. o6S. 80. This amount was e''ho'
appropriated outright or toward FH"7'
to be raised amounting TO $6t,903,o"'
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and to all practical intents the mails
which the railways carry arc only n
highly specialized form of freight. II
would o TO he quite within the
province of the Interstate Commerce
Commission to nrbitratc rs between
the Post Office department and the
railroads and embody Its conclusions
IN the form of recommendations which
Congress could enact into Inv. More
over, the Government should not be
above taking advantage Of m oppor.
tunity to demonstrate its confidence
In the impartial ability Of the regu-
lators Of the railroads to hold the
scales Of justice even.
II Is difficult TO understand why
Mr.. BrMLEsoS objects.
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The Colonel's liking for a Warwick
is no greater apparently than his con-
tempt for a Pickwick.
Reliability Of the MsiIs.

To THE EDITOR or THH suN-Sr: want
to say a good word for our postal service.
Every week I receive upward OF $50 letters
from various places In Greater New York
and Its environs. Also. once q Month I
receive nearly 400 letters from towns In the
country. from coast to coast and from
Canada to the Gulf. Many of them come
from Canada.
Through a system I have Installed for
tho checking up Of these letters I am able
to tell when any Of them fails to appear.
Yet In over ten years so few Of these
letters have failed to show up that tho
number lost 10 Insignificant; and often I
have found that the trouble has been with
the person who was supposed to send them.
They haven't sent them.
II occurred TO me that II might be we'll
10 mako this record public as proof that
the postal service II on tho Job from the
postmaster down TO the carrier. Certainly
I an convinced that no better service
could he asked In the delivery Of letters.
NBw YolK. June 9. SAyIsy,sp.
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Another Cabinet Mystery.

Some of President WILSON'S Cabi-
net officers are extraordinarily tena-
cious Of their odd propositions. Post
master-G General BURLEsoN is now wag-
ing a stiff fight to keep the Govern
ment from paying the railroads as
much money as the carriers assert
they should have In compensation for
Transporting the mails.
Mr.. BURLEsoN's %endeavors are Pc
culiarly interesting because Of cir
cumstances which may and properly
should involve the Interstate Com
merce Commission against the Post
master-General's objections. The Post
Office Department Is up In arms In
behalf of the bill passed by the House
of Representatives providing for rail-
way mail pny on a space basis instead
of on Il weight basis. The railroads
have submitted impressive evidence
going to show that the remuneration.
already insufficient, for carrying the
mails will he anything but adequate
according To the new method, II 1t Is
adopted. The Senate manifests a dis
position I o refer the matter to the
Interstate Commerce Commission for
investigation, with directions to re-
port its findings as to n fair payment
for railway mail service.
No better adjustment Of the contro-
versy could be suggested. The Inter.
ernte Commerce Commission Is to-day
about our most expert Government
body performing an administrative
function. The railroads and private
shippers are nike compelled to how
to It's determinations In the field OF
transportation charges. 1t has nc,
Quired n wealth Of valuable expprl,
ence In the regulation Of freight rates
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Is the North Sea Battle to Be Judged
by TOnnagesc

To TIE EDITOR OF THE SrN-Str: BY
what process of calculation IL the North
Sea engagement considered a German
victory? Before the fight the total ef-
fective %tonnages OF the British and
German navies were respectively, say,
two to one In favor OF the former. As
Stunning that the proportion OF tonnage
loss In the North Sea battle Is divided
to represent 65 per cent. and IS per cent.
respectively. In such event how can II
be ~truthfully asserted that victory Ia to
the country that has remaining the
lower relative percentage In effective
tonnage after tho engagement?
1t looks to me as though the Wanted
German victory Ii a draw, n not a de-
feat. The German ships engaged did
not continue the fight. but fed to their
base or q foreign port of refuge.
RICHARD COLLIER.
New YoRK. juno 3.
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To THE EDITOR OF II SuN-Sir. May
l ask Mr.. Rossiter johnson n question
or two which his amusing philippe IN
Colonel Roosevelt suggests lie writes {:
And now. forsoo,h. these Taft Repubii-
cans' wish TO put this man into tho
Presidency II they had lived during our
struggle for Independence. would they
have striyen to put Benedict Arnold into
the place OF George Washington
Is it possible that Mr.. Rossitcr John
son. or any other enlightened man. can
see no difference between so-called
treachery TO a political machine and
treason TO ones country?
Does Mr.. I.ossitcr Johnson really
mean, as lie certainly implies, that he
accuses the Colonel OF lack of patriot
ism and loyalty to his country" II so
Mr.. Johnson is q brave man. for the
Colonel's record OF some forty years OF
public life speaks for itself A vast ma
iority of men. his political enemies. ad-
init his stanc Amer!canism. because
there Is no denying 1t.
AS for the merits OF the bolt In
1912. 1t was a much needed rebuke to
bossism. The Colonel felt that the
wishes 81 the people should be consulted
rather than those OF the machine. and
he had the courage and the confidence
to put his case and theirs before the
voters or the country. Ley NE, Johnson
look up the election returns for Novem-
her. 1912. Let him ask himself whether
Mr.. Taft or any other man in the Re-
publican party could have polled "A vote
equal to that given Roosevelt. had Taft
or any other Republican bolted. To me
the 1912 returns prove that the Colonel
WA the peoples choice and that his
boiling showed up the q. o. J.. machine
pitilessly. Thank God for a man with
the courage 10 stand up FOR the peoples
and his rights,
As for what Roosevelt owed the Re
publican party II owed him at least
as much as he owed II. Wasn't he
'shelved" IN 1900" Yet who polled the
biggest Presidential vote In the history
of the country IN 1904?
| am n Republican. but only ms long
as the party has ideals and lives up 10
them. The country comes first. Is II
not true that only the power of the vast
army of voters who can see further than
a party name forces the parties to make
good" as much as they do? What would
become OF our republic II one party
could be sure OF repeated victory AZ the
polls no matter what II did or curse
there are men who belong to one party
because their fathers and grandfathers
belonged to II. and there are also those
myriads with axes TO grind, but we are
a great nation to-day because the intelli-
gent. patriotic voters hold the balance
OF power. L. II then good politics to
assail n rival candidate with cries Of
Traitor" benedict Arnold" when
such accusations are utterly false
DAVID ApEEI-
C~oILyvILLH, Pa. June 3.
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Something Secretary Lansing Ought
to Know.

Secretary LANSING In his speech
to the jefferson County Bar Asso-
c%intion, reported In yesterdays news.
papers. properly declared that "a
Government which places life and
property on nm equality would he
generally condemned and justly con
demncd"; but, he added:
This seems to he automatic. and yet.
cans who do not recognize this differ
ence.
How many take this Wow II Ia I'M
possible to say. but the number Ia
large. Judging by the letters and tele-
grams received In Washington.
Indeed. II Is held by some who sit in
the halls Of Congress.
These people openly complain that
the Government does not exert as much
pressure to protect American property
az II does to protect American lives
property which can he restored to the
owners or an indemnity paid lives
which can never he restored or ade-
quately Unidentified.
This mental attitude makes one won
der II the scnsibilities OF the American
people have become 40 blunted by ma
terialism that they think as much of
the loss OF their property as they do
OF the loss OF the lives OF their fellow
countrymcn.
such IN idea Ia rcpugnant to a
liberty loving American: IL Ia utterly
wanting in the nobler impulses OF a
great people 1t is hostile TO the spirit
Of true Americanlsm
Yet It exists and is widespread, and
must be reckoned with"
That there are some Americans who
do refuse to acknowledge the differ
ence between murder and interruption
Of trade may he true; we know none.
but Mr.. LANSING may. That they
are numerous. and that their per-
verted notion should he reckOned
| with, we do not believe. Mr.. LAM
SING appears To put considerable con-
fidence in the letters and kilograms
received In Washington. In which a
bale Of cotton depresses the scale
| when II Is weighed against a baby's
life. We do not think his evidence
is worth considering.
Does he not know that n persistent,
carefully organized propaganda Of
correspondence by letter and tele-
gram Is and has been for months
carried on in this country, with the
! purpose of ~befogging the merits Of
our international transactions and
creating n false impression as to pub
lie opinion with respect Of the public
feeling on the relative importance of
trade disputes and disputes growing
out of the assassination Of American
citizens? He should know Of this
pernicious enterprise; the Secretary
Of State has peculiar opportunities tn
understand its qualifications; and II
he Is In ignorance Of its existence,
THE Sun takes pleasure in warning
him against 1t and urging him TO In.
quire carefully as to its inspiration,
management and methods.