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The Rondholders, bureau.

The establishment of complaint
bureau by the Liberty Loan Commit
tee is a sensible step. 1t will be a
place where every bond buyer who
feels that something is wrong about
his payments, his interest or the is
sue Of the bond Itself may go and
find justice.
The chief grievance that has come
to the complaint bureau thus far has
been from some persons who bought
bonds on the instalment plan from
the corporations employing them.
They subscribed to the first Issue,
which bore the interest rate of 31a
per cent, but the bonds delivered to
them were of the 4 per cent. issue,
Looking at the Wall Street page, as
every New Yorker religiously does,
they see that the bonds for which
they subscribed are selling above par,
while the bonds that were delivered
to them sell at sc plus. If they
really wanted the G1as and their EN-.
ployers delivered Is, then the EN-.
ployers did a wrong thing though in
tending to do the right thing.
Yet, while it is true that bond
of the first issue will bring more in
the market than one Of the. later
issues, there is no profit for the small
holder in getting the first issue un
less he wishes to sell his bond-ant
that is something which the Govern
ment desires him not 10 do. AS OF
investment the 4 per cent. bond Il
better except when the holder is very
rich. OF course, with the market a
it is, there is the temptation to sci
the 3la per cent. bond ut q it'll,
above par and then buy in again
taking the 4 per cent. bond at abOu
9G and pocketing the profit-say s.
! on a hundred dollar bond.
The best thing for the citizen {,
do is to get the bond that he aske'
for, hang on to it and then prepar,
his financial system for more buyin;
Of bonds.
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LOUIS THE EPICIST.
At West Point He Justified the Poets
Existence.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir: Most
men show a somewhat siurring attitude
toward the poetic members OF humanity.
In 1890 visited West Point. While
watching a weekly drill ] happened to
stand alongside the Brigad!er-General.
told him that I was post and ex-
plained-well, the last part Of my som
net. written then, will show our sertI-
ments:
He asked me why dreamed and
dreamed 80.
what was good for when proud soidiery
Mocksd at the tenderness OF poetry.
"Ah." quoth I, when thou Hest in the
ground,
All after battles won through many years.
Thy deeds sing It'll they through tn
ages sound"
Then burst from both our eyes unwonted
tears.
also have done my share in cele-
bratlnS events Of our country's deeds.
Some OF the most important poems are
devoted to Admiral Dewsy's victory at
Manila Bay, to the memory OF Column
bus. to Admiral Porter. Paul Jones' &C.
In 1899 had outlined a cyclus Of five
dramas. each devoted to the momentous
periods Of our history These, however,
wers discontinued, in default Of proper
support: an audience.
Even Shelley gave up writing his
drama Charles H." for the same reason
All in all, we poets can congratulate
ourselves in the knowledge that the Gov
eminent at least deems our existence o!
value 70 unitS and TO the nation AT
large. LOUIS n. ErLsHEMrus,
Supreme Spirit OF the Spheres.
NEW YORK, September 81.
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The Exten. Of That Adjournment.


Writing at the Presidents request
to citizen Of New Jersey who asked
the Administrations opinion Of Re
publican candidate for United States
Senator, the ingenious and lucid Mr..
TUNuLTy remarks:
We all have a high opinion Of him,
but it would be highly improper for tho
President to interfere In the selection
OF Senator in the Republican prima-
ries."
Why say "in,erfere," o TUNULTY,
when Intervene is so much more
delicate and respectful a word?
Little by little, and thanks mostly
TO Mr.. TUNtULTY, the all-useful, we
are ascertaining just to what extent
and in what quarters politics Is really
adjourned.
This is the chart Of adjournment
according to latest advices:
AS between Democrat and Demo.
crat in the primaries, politics is in
session every time;
AS between Democrat and Repub
lican in the contest for office, politics
Is doing business as usual;
AS between Republican and Repub
lican in the Republican primaries
there will be no interference-we
really prefer the more graceful WORD
intervention-except in the most in
direct and tactful manner.
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THE UHREDEEMED CREEKS
Mr.. vassilakakFs Comments on Mr..
ChernAame's Letter.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sh: A
letter from Mr.. Andre Cheradsme pub
lished to-day In your columns attracted
my attention.
Mr.. Cheradame says that tho op-
pressed nationaiities OF Central Europe
have tho absolute right to a complete
liberty, because the war would end In
the most horrible defeat for democracy
Rumanians and the Jugo-Slavs In
slavery.
appreciate very much the theory OF
Mr.. Cheradane, and wish to consratu-
late him on his efforts In behalf Of
this cause.
But allow me to say that Mr.. Chera-
dame should study little more deeply
the whole European question arising
from the eternal struggle over there Of
the two conceptions, democracy and alb
solutlsm.
Everybody knows that the Oriental
question is the main question which
has produced the most terrible wars in
history.
Everybody knows that the Balkan
peninsula with Asia Minor has always
been the most important stage Of every
European struggle. and that the Greek
was always the first to shed his blood
| for liberty and democracy against ar
| barbarians.
Everybody knows that II there are
| any nations not only politically OPP
pressed, but really prosecuted and en-
shaved, they are the Greeks under tbs
heel Of Turks and Buigarians in Thrace
and Asia Minor and the Armeniani
in Turkey.
came here with my colleague. Mr.
Kyriakides, Just on account of this ques-
ton. We are convinced that We shall
be able to prove to the American people
that the settlement OF the whole Eu
ropean question according to tho prin
ciple Of nationslties is impossible 81
far as the Oriental question Is con
cerned. CHRISTIE vAssn.AKAKI,
| Greek Congressman and Delegate o.
| the Committee Of Unredeemet
| IIellens.
Nrw York, September 20.
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Representative WALSH OF Massachu-
sets. whose agile mind invented the
now famous paraphrase Of a line OF
a popular song. did not allow even
poetic license to cover tho whole field
he adorned all too briefly with the
touching refrain:
every little bureau has II bulletin of
its own"
But the melodious chanter OF Cape
Cod. turning with reluctant voice from
poetry to prose, showed how indie
fensibly he would have had to extend
his verse had he included all the Gov
ernment machinery whose accomplish
ments bulge and boil over into print
The habit, or as the poet remarked
possibly moro properly the disease.
OF breaking out into ink spots affiicts
Government boards, branches. bu-
! reaus. commissions. committees. de-
partments, divisions, groups. sections
and other component parts Of oui
Government machinery" All literally
fabricated by taxes.
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of, failed to return until the middle
Of the week, when their money was
gone. There was q double tragedy.
They had not only slowed down war
work, but they had dlssipated money
which they might have saved for
bonds or put in the banks-money
that they will sorely need after the
war, when normal conditions debate
the wage balloon.
This, we say, Is a human weakness,
but 1t is not easily pardonable. These
men are getting wages in advance Of
most Of the men In professions. They
are not asked to do tho impossible,
but only to labor as hard and as
steadily rs men work when there is
competition for Jobs. In return for
this they have received wages so high
that the average doctor or lawyer
has been led to regret his choice Of
vocation. Some Of the workmen have
taken advantage Of the opportunity.
They have done their very best for
their country and their employers,
and they have laid by good share
OF. the easiest money that labor ever
made. Nobody begrudges this type
Of workman. But the other fellow
the man who works when he feels
like It, quits when he has enough for
a spree or a vacation-heedless of
the fact that the overhead expenses
Of the Government or the private en-
ployer 60 on MS usual-he Is the
Stacker. He is the man that CRowpEE
must take by the back Of the necl,
and send to the training camp. His
place on the payroll must be taken
by a man who will work.
Real labor, the kind that America
depends on in peace ard in war, will
have no sympathy for the loafer who
with yellow heart and a spaghetti
spine, has cut in two the production
Of ships at Hog Island. Real labor
prides itself upon being constituted
Of men who are willing to work day
and night for the success Of Amer
ica's programme: to work for the
welfare of the men who are fighting
and dying in France, and who ARK
getting as monthly salary about a.
much as the slackers' Of Hog Islant
have been making for two days o.
voorhees, work.
Go to 1t, General CRowpER, an(
comb every industry for slackers
Get the pay hogs out Of Hog Islant
and out Of every factory where the.
are stencil to genuine labor. One
half the vigor that was misappliet
to some 10000 innocent citizens fl
the region Of New York a couple O
weeks ago should clean the ways o
these obstructionlsts.
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The Proven Superiority OF the Amer
lean Education.

The great world war is testing
theories as well as regulations, and
systems as well as individuals One
reason why this is so Is because mod
ern warfare has, in sense, replaced
architecture, which was once reck-
oned as the mother of arts and inven-
tons. So far from a twentieth cen
fury army being composed Of fighters
only, it is made up Of men acquainted
with every science and expert in all
arts and trades. The necessities of
warfare, in the three elements Of air,
land and water, rs conducted at the
present day, make this a necessity.
No line Of discovery, no method of
application, no occupation seems I'M
necessary or worthless. The army and
navy and the forces of supply seem to
require all. Moreover, for a century,
the United States has led the world
In educating women, that is, Of de-
veloplng TO the full extent one-half
Of their human resources.
Our Government, seeing this real
situation and Its demands, has de-
termined to assist, more or less di-
rectly, every youth Of the land to get
a good education. This is in order
that the country may ever have ready
q proper supply and full quota OF
trained hands and minds for the pres
ervatlon Of the nation.
This world process has brought
sharply in contrast, and even to the
touchstone, the relative value OF the
German and the American systems OF
education. For several generations
we have been prodded by our critics
ana almost surfeited with praise OF
the merits Of Teutonlc pedagogy. Our
educators by thousands have been OBJ.
sessed with the idea that only in Ger.
many could exact knowledge be OBJ
tanned, or youth properly trained
for LIES service. Acting on thi,
theory, thousands Of parents have sen,
their children across the sea for long
years and even In their tender years
often to their dena tionallzation.
But the larger experience Of trans
porting million or Tore young mer
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dative case, or the philosophy Of
HEoEL; but he lie likely to be an all
around man, -four square to all the
winds that blow" Yet long before
KANEKo's deliverance In 1914 one
could read the judgment in 1890 Of
DR.. NrToBE, easily Japan's most &C
complisbed educator-as much at
home in agriculture as in FIcHTE or
EMERsoN He was a student for
three years In Germany, wrote a book
in the German language on "Agrar
Politik" in 1902, when we had not
yet one professorshlp Of agronomy,
though with a score or more to-day.
He declared that the moral influence
Of German academic life, when
weighed in the balance, was found
wanting" He condemned German
education as lacking practical
value" He even bravely denounced
the movement which, from 1890 to
1900, threatened to make Japan IN
intellectual appanage Of Germany
declaring In public print that "the
recent reactionary so-called national
ideas are to a great extent babblina
echo Of German Chauvinism." There
was q reason why, even before the
war, the tide Of japanese students
set steadily and progressively from
Europe to the United States.
A survey Of the educational situa
ton In America and Europe in Sep
TENDER, 1918, as our schools and col
leges open, explains two things fairly
well: First, why there are at thi!
moment In our highest schools sever
thousand students from a hundred
nations, Of whom over two Thousand
are japanese; and secondly, not Incl
dentally but directly, why Genera
PERsHING Is so proud Of his army ant
Americans do not blush at reading
the cabled news. If Waterloo was, a
the Duke Of WELLINGTON declared
won In the public schools of Eng
land-then, in 1916, open chiefly t
rich mems sons-it maybe that tn
final, sure victory over German bar
barism will have come from our fire.
schools, which are open to all.
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POEMS WORTH READING.


Seisns q the Towsrs.
tThs m DON by dsyiislt--iowsr Manhattan.)
o wanderer from the night-throush noon
astray.
with silver front Of Age. and very frsil.
As though light air might wait thee far
Till, drif,ed out. thou m,shtt seem but
sail
On yondsr sea iine--why, through long.
bright hours,
So wistf,Iliy assarch aboVs these towerv
From old thou lowest moun.sinsi 30,
perchance.
These heaven daring ciins Of buildsd
stone
TAKE mountain shape. beneath thy yearn-
ing glance
with many q winding cleft, untracksd,
Ana many a deep ana many i. lofty cave
Round which the wind oft draws In EDDY.
ing wave!
But never heedsst thou the ceaseisss hum
or human toil--borne UP from cleft and
steep?
Thou art seif-oharmsdi Hencs. all tnes'
tumults come
To thee as In aichemio dreams OF sleep
Where change meiodioCs wofks on every
.ouna
A'
Than ar,fts,,. arss ming. midst thy IA,
d,nr.a e,.s
e.,.n. ,o.r vounr--tut u,sk.d bv cid
| a bel,eve that. in ,f,ess c,ifyy spires
Ana r,-d.d walls nv steel ribbed shat
rnh.,h
m, ,h.. .notb.- Ia.n,o, doth arise.
uh.r. rn.z.a .,d ,os, thin. ovrn Endv
r,Ion It's,
Or else SONS later iovec A shepherd. too
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SPANISH INFLUENZA.
A Preventive Which Some May Prefer
to the Disease,

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SuN-Sir. As
an effective preventive Of Spanish influ-
enza people should reduce their meat
diet to a minimum and drink one to
three glasses Of klabber milk daily. To
prepare klabber allow a bottle OF milk
from which the cream has been poured
to stand in a warm place until soured
to thickness, then cool to taste. beat up
thoroughly and it is ready 70. use. The
Tactic acid in the milk Is effective in de-
stroying the bacill.
Or. DELMEn z. Croft
NEW HAVEN, Conn. September II.
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A Stream Particularly Adapted Il
Decentralization.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir:: Some
years ago during the uIpleasantness in
South Africa a New York newspaper
printed a report that the Beers had
taken Umbrase. Was that place by any
chance situated near the Periphery
River mentioned in Thursdays Sun In
General Won Ardenne's explanation" Of
the 81. Mlhiel "wlthdrawar? That
river must run in a direction due souse'
souse-east. and some Of the German,
probably escaped on the good ship Wab
BILE, G. F. X.
New YORK, September II.
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George washinston's Motto.

To THE EpIToR OF THE SuN--ST: That
was an interesting letter in THE Sun
about the loss OF George Washingtons
signet ring and Its subsequent recovery
but why does not NJ. Il Chaplin give the
English Of the Washington motto?
Many millions Of people are not Latin,
lists as presumably Mr.. Chaplin Is. xxi.
tus acta probat" means 'the event jus
tifies the deed" p. B. VALENTINE.
New YORK, September Fl.
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What VIII the Kaiser Think'

You Democrats are trying 20 i'ig
the country into the belief thar me
Kaiser win think tho election Of re
publican House will indicate th"' ."
nation is hal: hearted about the wa,
Do you think the Kaiser Is as lgnoi'''
as that? Does ho not knox that Il h3'
been the Republican party and II" 10
publican leaders who have been w"''
earnest for preparation and naroi =.
defence? Will he think il is iavor"p'e
for him II the next House - contr'.."'
by the party OF Roosevelt ANA W""a " .''
Gardner by the party OF La Gu1.".'
and Heintz and johnson, who lr'i We.
seats here to try to put bullets INTO
well protected SONS?
"Wili he expect less hostile ana '"'
tive legislation under ieEu"''''
Speaker and Republican leader OF go
majority and q Republican chsrn'" ''
the Military Committee? There Is
other reason why the next Hous" S"''
be Republican The next Congress
though elected this November. does '
regularly begin its work until the '.''
Monday of December. 1919, Refora 20"
we all hope that the war viii b" eil''
Then this country will face rr"o.e'
quite as difficult as have ever 'oniro.'
IT, The industrial upheaVal winch
war has caused must be EraHh
turned again into the permanent gro -
| OF peace.
THE next Congress must copo =
! these problems Which party can Ne ~,
| trusted? The great industrial "c"''
| like the great bulk OF populate"
north Of Mason and Dxon's line, AN"
| IL there In a Democratic major.*
chairman OF every important comm -
| without exception. all the men Of GRE
est influence in legislation, VIII
south OF Mason and pixons Inc
under the caucus System "hLn -
Democratic party has and ruih'a'.
enforced any stray Democrats IRON -"
North are bound helplessly TO ass's,
carrying ont the decision Of mo INV
| iority,"
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Those old New Workers. who lived
in this city as far back as May 16.
1917 hail with Joy the appearance Of
hands on the City Hall clock. 1t is
evidence that the most useful dials in
town will soon be marking the hours
again. They were marking some hours
yesterday. but they were not genuine
the south face standing at G:02 while
the east dial said 3;i3. The restora-
ton OF the City Hall cupola and clock
is the most noticeable work OF ths
present administration, II the Dor.
ough President will kindly refrain
from having the Hall sandblasted al
will be we'll with our handsomest build.
ing-at least on the outside.
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A Proud Singer.

"A little Fountain, singing by itself"
Withdrawn = little from the common
path:
To him who dreams 4. sings OF fsun and
elf
And xiveta all 10 hath.
A fountain OF the water OF pure lie,
s!nEing in shadow Of tho things Of old
DistinnR from the mystery OF much strife
It's Dans shower OF gold.
A ~onurous Fountain, singing In tho n!gat.
whoss voice 10 drssmers shall forever
more
Flow with the old sweet magic, in the
light
ot'stsrs ana fairy lore,
n. r.. BuHLu.
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OyERHEARDATT HESENIORS
GOLF TOURNAMENT.

Two members meet whose ratings
show their years TO be between sixty
and slxty-five: college mates, but NEE,
now only at the annual tournaments.
After hearty handshaltings and back
slappings:
well Tom, you old thief Of the
world, what handicap did you steal
this year?'
Thirty"
Thirty? Thirty. That's not a
handicap: that's your room number"
Two in one Of the shower rooms.
towelling vigorously:
Listen. Jack; you know that tenth
hole?"
II do. and loathe IL"
We'll, honest to injun, / drove two
hundred yards there this morning"
Pooh! drove further than that
this morning-in my filvver."
At a cafe table:
BILLY. that's true they used to say
that Larry Jerome said
"If it's long save II for evening"
Short. A turkey is an inconve-
nient bird for dinner; too much for
two, too little for three. Phil and Red
and tried 1t last night. It's true"
"And you expect to walk away with
prize after that sort Of stuffing?"
NO. Fly away with it,
A pair of opponents walking away
from the eighteenth green:
well. Chappie. after that little hike
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What the Acid Test showed.

"If they were condolences they are
not dlscreditable to the Ecpuhllca
party"
The acid test applied hy the NJ
tional Security League showed more pun"
gold BY far in the Republican ranh. an
a good deal of dross in the Democrat
In Congress the Republican leader Te"'
to show.
Tho National Security League" 70
said, "a non-partisan patr.otic o-gaaiTs
ton. selected eight votes In Coz eress
which it considered were vital t. {"
war Seven men voted wrong On a
eight measures. Six were Demo'rs'
and one Republican. F'nrty-sever mo-
voted right on all: four We're nemocrat g
and forty-three Republicans"
Mr.. Gillett then took tho arguue-'
made by Representative Ferris that 10y
atty to the country made Il esseutis
that Democrats be returned 10 Congress
ripped il to pieces and demonstrates n
, the House just what a real comparison
Of marty records meant.
( Put what tho country wants now -
. the earnest ard successful prosecute
| Of the war" he said. regardless or pas
records. That same zeal which distir.
guished the Republican party in urging
preparation has animated Il since tAa
war began. And yet the argument -
advanced; Elect n Democrat Congress
! in order that the war may be prose
cuted.'
| "But would the support Of tho va
have been any less vigorous II kepJ''
I lican had been Speaker instead Of our
I respected Champ Clark, who opposed re
declaration of war and went gu; Of rs
way to defeat the draft2 Would tie
sinews Of war have been ans less amr,g
, or more sectionally provided II Re
publican had been at the head ~ the
! Ways and Means Committee instead o.
Mr.. kitchin, who also voted against the
! war and against the draft?
Would the necessary war 'ss.s,a'''
/, have been retarded any more II ~ 'ha'
momentous junctnre a Republican ha
! been chairman OF the Military COMMIT
tee instead OF Or. Dent, from Who's
hands tho Administration programme d.
/ tho draft had TO be taken by = Ecra'
lican?
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ments in the Balkans is now beyond
dispute; the significance OF the Bull
garian army having grasped the great
military secret OF fast and unobserved
withdrawal cannot be otherwise in
terpreted.
The sun., 1918-09-22

One need not be pbysiognomist
to discover those who have answered
their questionnaires.
The sun., 1918-09-22

Would that a kindred genius to the
inventor Of the safety razor might Gre
ate an automatic hair cutter!
The sun., 1918-09-22
The Change in Sun Cholera Mixture.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SCN-Sir: For
the information OF Mr.. 4. ". Col!ing-
wood, whose letter concerning tho Sun
Cholera Mixture appeared in your col
umns, let mo state that the mixture is
still among the Unofficial Preparations
of tho National Formulary' under the
title Of Mist. Ehe, ct opl Comp" This
formula calls for 200 parts Of t!ncture
of opium In a 1000 part quantity. thus
bringing the preparation under the re-
strict!on o: the Harrison anti-narcotic
law. so that it cannot be sold promiscu-
ously. All competent pharmacists are
familiar with sun Chol. Mkt" Just
as they were in the old days, and any
one can obtain it on prescription.
GpoE0E l.. SMITH.
EAST ORANGE ~ J., September 81.
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EAST ORANGE, y. j., September 81.

To THE EDrroR,oP THE SUN-Sir: Fiji
teen drops of your good old Sun Choi-
tea Mixture Is represented In n tea
spoonful of the following mixture, which
any druggist can legally make and sell :
Spirits of csmphor. ono part: tincture
OF opium. one part; tincturo OF capsi-
cum, one part t!ncture OF rhubarb. one
part; essence OF peppermint eighteen
parts.
Dose-Onc-half to two tcaspoonfuls
every fifteen 10 thirty minutes, taken In
a little swectened water.
This mixture gives moro essence OF
peppermint per dose than the old for
mula, but this does not hamper the use.
fu.ness Of 1t in any way.
Dr.. DAWN Is right. Decent. we'll dis
posed people are deprived of tho benefit
OF this and other well known useful
and harmless preparations because OF
few relatively, imbeciles and crimi
nails. w. f. s.
PAssAIC, n. j., September 81.
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Swift.

Knieksr-Did she reject yoyf
Bocksr-Like an Austrian note,
The sun., 1918-09-22

Everybody can share in the mort
gsging OF Germany by purchasing VIC
tory bonds.