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The sun., 1918-09-13
In the Words OF Monte Cristo,
"ThPee-and the Last"

The defeat Of Senator HARDwIcK
in the Georgia primary ends the Sc
ries Of political contests in which the
President Of the United States had
expressed a personal interest. 1t was
HARDwIcK to whom the President re-
ferred, In a letter to CLARK HOWELL,
as "a constant and active opponent
Of my administration" Three candi.
dates for Democratic nominations for
Scholarships who were opposed by Mr..
WILSON have been beaten this waning
summer: VARDAMAN of Mississippi.
BLEAsE OF South Carolina, and HARD
WICK Of Georgia. All three contests
occurred in States where a Demo
cratic nominee Is as good as elected |;
| so these contests for nominations have
been practically elections
In Its jubilation over the defeat of
three men who not only do not rep
resent but have opposed American
traditions and spirit the public will
not begrudge the President whatever
satisfaction he may take in the over
throw Of opponents of his admins
tration." 1t may believe, a. THE Sun
does, that the candidates were beaten
because Of the peoples disgust at
their conduct toward America rather
than toward an administration. The
issue was not so much party politics
as national honor.
IfNARDAMAN, BLEAsE and HARDwICK
or any one Of them-had been victo-
rious the Onus would have rested upon
the State and not upon Mr.. WILSON
The Presidents daring venture" as
the World termed it in the Vaidaman
case, called for courage, but our
Deighbor was wrong IL 1t believed
that Mr.. WILSON hazarded his pres
tige as a world statesman"
4 hundred years from now nobody
will remember that the Presidents
opposition TO Political candidates in
1913 occurred after his announcement
that politics was adjourned. 1t will
even be forgotten that close upon the
end OF his primary victories-which
included the defeat of Representative
SLAYDEN Of Texas rs well as the Sen
atOrs we have named. and had no of
sets except the election of HUBBLE
sroN of Alabama and the failure of
Temporary Democrat FoRD-the Pres.
ident turned vlrtuously upon the par
tisan HAYS, ready to rebuke any in.
trusion Of politics into national af,
fairs. All this will he forgotten.
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in trust. 1t Is such money, along with
others, that must 60 into the war
loans If the Industrial, commercial
and financial structure of the nation
Is not to be disrupted as IL by an
earthquake. You cannot, rs we have
said on another occasion, throw bust.
ness blocks. as such. and factories. as
such, and bridges and farms, rs such,
into the war or into bonds. But the
millions and millions Of dollars which
every day come out of the nations
Industries in wages and other earn
ings as the share Of production Of
those engaged In them, you con put
into bonds and into the war. These
nre the great sums, the constant sums,
which, flowing every day Into savings
institutions, into insurance orggnlza-
lions, and the like, make a ceaseless
bidding and purchasing power In the
Liberty loan bond market-if Mr..
KITCHIN will let them.
There isn't an investor. big or lit
tie, who doesn't know this. There
isn't bank clerk, an insurance book
keeper, or a real estate salesman, who
doesn't know 1t. Everybody knows 1t
but KITcHIN. Nevertheless, 1t may be
that when he beholds the Secretary
Of the Treasury alarmed for what
must happen to Liberty loans when
the chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee drives AWAY from Govern
ment bonds those who should be sub
scriblng for them and would be II
they could, perhaps even his mind
will not prove to be utterly and for
ever impenetrable. .
1t may be that, with oil his violent
prejudices against saved wealth,
wherever 1t may be, with his Sec
tional jealousies and hatreds, KITcHIN
himself may yet comprehend that
what the Government wants to come
from revenue bill, what the nation
must have under penalty of a mill.
tary breakdown, Is revenue; not lam.
basting of wealth, strangling Of in
dustry, Furnishing Of communities
economic havoc.
The sun., 1918-09-13
LIMITS TO BRAVERY.
VIII Our Heroes From France Dare
Suggest That GIRLS Learn to Cooke

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Can
Il be possible that Mrs. N A. Wilcox
has forgotten that the American man
these past few years has Seen educated
to a higher plane Of thought and ap-
probation Of woman than to consider
her from the point OF view Of a cook
and washwoman?
This was mans idea OF wife dur
ing the dark ages. before the awakening
OF reform and before woman elevated
him above his sordid habits Of dining
and fitted him to appreciate her learned
discourses on calories and how scientists
had discovered that the French people
were suffering from malnutrition, as
she prepared a nutritive dinner from a
can.
When our boys come back from
France they will probably be brave
enough to dispute our scientists about
the malnutrition OF people whose
prowess, persistency and individuality
have won the admiration Of all and
which will he written in history ash a
marvel of the age. They might even
dare to suggest that some OF the same
malnutrition that the French people
have suffered from would benefit other
peoples, as President Lincoln was re-
ported to have said that he would like
to send some OF his other Generals the
same kind OF whiskey General Grant
used
But our boys from France will never
be brave enough to even hint to our
girls that II they wish to find husbands
they learn to cook.
JAMES d. DEwELI, Jr.
ATLANTIC CITY, y. j., September ~.
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nal cost. The landlords Of the sa-
looms will expect the brewers who
Endorsed the saloon keepers leases
to keep on paying the rent and sa-
loon rent Is high rent for the reason
that the presence OF n saloon in n
building depreciates the value Of the
remainder Of the property. THE
brewers will hunt for reliable gro
GERS, butchers. stationers and drug
gists, or. IL the neighborhood needs
do not call for these, there is the
chance of turning the saloon space
into living quarters. New York rents,
with no construction going on, are
at the top of the peak.
What must mock the unhappy but
not despairing brewer is the fact that
1t was not his product that directly
brought about the fall Of the saloon.
1t has been the growing popular ami
mostly toward whiskey and gin that
has brought nationwide prohibition
so near. The brewer never made
money directly out Of the hard stuff.
yet 1t was his capital that made pos
slble the multifarious places where
strong alcoholic drinks were to be
had. He set the saloon keeper up in
business, and the saloon keeper 10y
ally sold his benefactor's beer but
moaned the while because the profits
In 1t were not nearly so large as in
whiskey. The brewer built nest
and the cuckoo distiller laid his eggs
in it. The brewer had n large, loose
business, while the distiller's was
safe and compact. The brewer sold
, to the frequently unbusinesslike So.
loon keeper while the distiller ex.
tended credit only to the conserva'
tive jobber.
With, or through, all of that, the
brewer has become a keen business
man, and he is likely to make more
profitable use Of the properties left
on his hands than the lucky distiller
would be able to make. If the brewer
decided that there was money in cot.
fee houses We should see them spring
up, and they might be more likely
to do better, In the hands of these
energetic men. than they have done
when run by the merely philan
thropic.! SO far the coffee house
while in theory the perfect and vir
tuous substitute for the saloon as a
poor mans club, has been successful
only in those parts of New Yorl
where the taste for public coffee
drinking is imported-the East Side
cafes patronized by people from the
| south of Europe.
The sun., 1918-09-13
OUT COMES THE WHEEL.
An Advocate Of Bicycling Sees Signs
of Its Renaissance,

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir.
read with pleasure the letters from
over Forty-fve" and Manuel Margolln
which were printed in last Sundays
Sun in response to my Bring Out the
Bike" letter. and 1t is indeed gratifying
to see others who share my belief in the
merits Of the bicycle give voice to- their
sentiments. Motorless Sundays will
most assuredly bring cycling as a rec
reation and means OF economical trans
portation into greater prominence, and
will prove a blessing in disguise to the
confirmed motorist. whose muscles have
become soft and fiabby through disuse,
II he can only be induced to mount the
simple two wheeler and thus obtain
some real, health building exercise.
l have already noticed a tendency in
this direction. Last Sunday saw
man who owns four cars contentedly
pedalling "a bike, and apparently en-
joying it, ! know OF a motorist out in
Illinois who found that it was costing
him pretty penny every time he
turned over his big motor for trivial
errands. He is now using a wheel for
these short trips. saving money for him
self and gas for Uncle Sam. AS the
necessity for conserving fuels grows
more acute We must turn to other
ways OF getting about. In England and
France pleasure motoring has been en-
tirely prohibited for the past three
years. and men and women from every
walk of life who formerly rode in
motors are now pedalling the democratic
bike. and better fitting themselves for
war time living conditions.
Since he "who saves serves" then the
100000 cyclists-estimated- the
United States are unquestionsbly doing
their bit. More power to their knees.
w. T. FARwELL, Jr.
KEW GARDrNs Sentemhar 20
The sun., 1918-09-13
The Brewer Among the Ruins.

The speed with which one brewery
called upon the Tenement House De-
.partment for advice as to the best
manner Of turning the fifty.seven sa-
looms controlled by 1t into dwelling
places Is an indication of the man
ner in which the beer makers keep
up with the times. Theirs has been
life of manPuvre for several years.
They knew, long before it dawned
upon the general public, that Rum
was on it's last legs. Nearly ten
years ago their allies, the bar fixture
manufacturers, began to turn their
hands to billiard tables and other
innocent bits of furniture. A little
later the breweries themselves set
their chemists at the job of discov-
ering temperance drinks that would
look like and taste like beer.
The Executive ban on beer is, OF
course, a more sudden blow than the
brewers expected. 1t is for them
quickly TO determine not only the
fate of their breweries, but the fu-
ture Of many buildings in which sa-
looms have been kept. The brewer
has been to great extent the father
of the saloon. Some years ago n
census taken by the Pittsburg Ga
sette-Times showed that the saloons
Of that city owed the brewers, in
mortgages and judgments, more than
S5,OOO,O00. In nearly every Ameri.
can city man who had the willing
ness and the ability-temperamen
perhaps, would be better-to run a
saloon could usually find brewer
who would guarantee his lease, find
him credit for fixtures, and let him
have all the beer he could sell. The
consideration was the exclusive use
Of the brewers product In the new
saloon.
Now the brewer will have to exer-
else all his business ingenuity and
his financial resources to pick his
way out Of the ruin which, accord
ing to the brewers figures, Is about
to fall upon 10000 saloons In this
city alone. The saloon fixtures win
not bring 10 per cent. Of their origI.
The sun., 1918-09-13

gro republic on the west coast Of
Africa i've degrees north Of the equa-
tor, and little smaller than the
State Of New York. In the first
holf of the nineteenth century. under
the auspices Of the American Coloni-
zatlon Society, II was colonized by
free negroes from the United States,
who set up a government which was
recognized by the principal European
Powers In 1S40, but on account of
the pro-slavery influences prevailing
here did not obtain recognition by
this country until ABRAHAM LINCOLN
became President. In 1900 President
ROOSEVELT sent commission to Ii
IBERIA to investigate the condition of
the country, and since then its
finances have been supervised by OH.
GERS of the United States.
1t Is difficult to perceive how such
a country as Liberia can possess any
more potency as a war power than
the republic Of San Marine in Italy
or Andorra in Spain. 1t has neither
soldiers nor ships. The dense for
ests Of Liberia, however, produce rub.
Der Of good quality, which would
seem to be the only product of the
country having any distinctive war
value; and 1t may be that the pur.
pose of the Administration in max.
ing this loan of 100000 is to pro.
cure an increased quantity of Libe.
rian rubber for military uses.
There IL little doubt that Liberia
is a country in which $5,OOO,OOO may
be expended with ADVANTAGE the
Liberians-if one happens to have
that amount Of money to spare.
The sun., 1918-09-13
The Cost Of Sending n Soldier to Camp
and Back Home.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Su: Ten
days ago a Brooklyn boy, having been
duly passed by his local board, left for
Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga.
That young man Is now back in
Brooklyn, having been rejected by the
camp authorities owing 10 his being
slightly under the minimum weight and
somewhat small in chest measurement
on arrival at Camp Gordon this
Brooklyn boy was assigned to a COM
pany made up Of twenty-eight squads
OF eight men each. or these 224 men,
thirty-six were sent home, chiefly for
physical reasons. and the return ticket
of each one of them to New York city
cost the Government $2s.45, or. includ-
ing seven days pay, 1915.
All of these men returned were not
from New York city. some being from
as far up the State as Rochester, but the
Brooklyn local board, first referred to.
had six Of the thirty-six.
This waste of public money should
be remedied, II it is possible in one
company from one camp. what Is the
result when multiplied by the many
companies in the many camps scattered
from coast to coast?
Another phase OF the situation is de-
serving Of attention. Here were thirty
six men taken from their regular en-
ployment, and, ten days after. thrown
hack again, without positions in many
ca es. and even though their employers
might be willing to reempoy them,
they were unable to do so owing to the
fact that the local boards, | am in
formed, frequently send them off Ia
ether camps, only TO he returned again.
Some one Is responsible for this lack
OF coordination. and that some one
should take prompt action to remedy It.
NEW YORK, September IL. Agra.
The sun., 1918-09-13
LOUIS THE REVIEWER.
Author Of Myriad Books, He Tells
How TO Write EN- Up.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Why
does a book reviewer these days in
variably give a sort Of synopsis of the
story, novel or other fiction? Thirty
years ago IL was not customary. Why
does he spoil a buyers curiosity by
quoting long passages from . new
book?
By so doing a real book lover will
not feel inclined to wish to buy and
read 1t. For instance. in last Sundays
review of THE Ghost Garden" THE Sum
reviewer recapitulates almost every
item of interest in the letters; then
chooses an excerpt that tells us most
of the authors incentive to produce
the work.
Now, am surely not willing to
waste a dollar to purchase It. sipce /
know what it's all about. The main
facts of the book he has already stated
then what do I care about how the
writer has enlarged and embellished
each item? This method is self-de-
structive; at once II defeats any large
sales and the publisher suffers there
from.
As to poetry books. It is all very
show the quality OF the poets diction.
But pray. stop here; do not cautiously
point out one wrong rhyme. &C.. that
appears in one volume. Why. our best
poets born In Boston. &c., made the
same mistakes-yet no one censures
the sextet.
My new method would find favor
with the book buying public:
State the title Of the book. Then
make a short comment on the style OF
the writer; and end by saying that It
is either good or mediocre. The title
is a sufficient index as to the contents
Of the work Now. II the reviewer
Graves to show his powers OF writing,
let him give short biography OF the
author. This will be more OF interest
to the bibliophile than a teview OF the
book. I am sure more books will be
sold this way. my man, curiosity is
more powerful than FORGIVEN knowl-
edge" said the Duke of Wisdom at a
summers banquet.
Two days ago an artist friend gave
me a French book TO read. He did
not say a word about its contents.
was all expectancy. I started reading
as a hunter enters a dark forest After
the first page I felt compelled toeread
on. The story grew complcated-a
hint TO unravel the plot. I was chained
to the chair At one sitting l had
read the short story.
Now. had 7 read a review the story
would have fallen fiat-very fiat.
LOUIS NJ EILsHEMIvs.
Supreme Spirit OF the Spheres.
NEW YORK. September H.
The sun., 1918-09-13
Tempo di Marcia for the National
Anthem.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: "The
Star Spangled Banner IL almost al
ways played in a STOW. dragging, dreary
way which makes II appear like a fu-
neral march. 1t is remarkable what an
Improvement there Is In it II 1t is played
and sung In much faster time than is
generally the case. II puts snap and
life in 1t which II is impossible to give
to 1t when played in the ordinary sad
slow way. Let some conductor speed
it up just once an a trial and the diff
ference for the better will be 50 marked
that he will think he ia playing some
thing new. and he will never return to
the old funeral march time. A.C.
New YORK, September ~.
The sun., 1918-09-13
Our West African Ally.

"A credit of $5,OOO,OOO," says a
despatch from Washington, twas es-
tablished to-day by the Treasury for
the Republic Of Liberia, which has
declared war against Germany. This
adds ninth nation to the list of
Allies borrowing from the United
States"
No doubt there are good reasons
for this loan, but 1t would be interest
Ing to know what they are.
Liberia Is an English speaking ne
The sun., 1918-09-13
The American Girl.

To THE ErIToR OF THE SuN-Sir.
Hurrah for the Bachelor" who ad-
mlres the American girl--cook or no
cook. He has the right spirit, and
knows II he. can win an honorab BILE
American girl sine will do everything
in her power to make him happy, even
TO learning TO cook: and she needn't be
afraid Of the French girl. either, as long
as she seasons with coquetry. which
makes women attractive to men.
One girl ! know is losing offers OF
marriage right along because she is too
positive in her manner to men The.I
are afraid of her, although she IL really
charming to live with.
VIRGINIA NANE.
MoHrcLAiR, y. j.. September ~.
The sun., 1918-09-13

Lacking any other grounds OF attack
on Mr.. SMITHS record and character,
Republican newspapers have started in
opposing him as a "Tammany man"
They are asserting that when he fills
the chair the boss OF Tammany Hall
will be the real Governor !-Bu1alo
Courier
And is not that a sufficient reason
for declining to vote for even so good
man as ALFRED f. SMITH?
The sun., 1918-09-13
Aviator Hitchcock as n Liberty Loan
Feature.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sr: The
remarkable escape OF Thomas Hitch
cock. Jr., has made US all feel as
though we knew him personally. and
take the liberty Of suggesting that
the Liberty Loan committee utilize him
as a campaigner for the Liberty Loan.
The War Department surely would loan
him to the committee for these pur-
poses w. f. WINKELMAN.
NEW YORK, September ~.
The sun., 1918-09-13
"Clear and Unambig Gus ;"

Time flies fast in war. and there
may be some who wonder, when they
read this remarkable sentence from
the German Emperor's speech to the
Krupp workers. whether their memo
ries have not played them false:
an December. 1916. I presented the
enemy public with a clear and unam-
biguous offer Of peace In the name Of
the German Empire and my allies.
Jeers. mockery and contempt were the
answer"
What really happened in December,
1916, was that on the 18th of that
month the Central Powers, undoubt-
edly for the purpose Of soothing the
Socialist paclfists of Germany and
the murmuring people Of Austria
Hungary. sent notes to Spain, Swift
erland, the United States and other
neutral Governments. and also to the
Vatican, proposing ito enter forth
with into peace negotiations" Moth
ing more concrete was offered than
an invitation to discuss IAN appro-
PIRATE basis for the establishment of
lasting peace"
This bait, set out so soon after
BETHMANN-HoLIwEG had declared
that IL the Allies persisted in shut
ting their eyes to the war map" Ger
many would fight on to Final vic
tory did not catch any of the En-
tente Allies. ManifestIy it was Ger
many's intention to make peace, II
peace could be made, on the basis
of the war map; and Germany was
sprawled over Belgium. France and
Russia. The trap was too obvious.
In fact, 1t is unlikely that Germany
expected any reply TO the clear and
unambiguOus offer of peace" as VIII
HELM now calls it, except defiance.
That in itself would be welcome, for
it would silence for q while the So
clalists and the Hungarians. who were
crying for peace. II the Entente Al
lies had taken the bait Germany's
| next move would have been to de-
mand to know their terms. and she
would have expected the terms that
usually come from q land still occu-
pied by an unbeaten invader.
As it happened, the terms Of the
Allies were made known to Germany.
They were embodied In the historic
sentence Of LLOYD GEORGE: Com
plete restitution. full reparatiOn and
effectual guarantees" The Allies
have never receded from this laconic
summary of the only possible basis
for peace. Even when the President
of the then technically neutral United
States requested, in that same De-
cember of 1916, the belligerent ma
tons to avOw "the precise objects
which would, If attained, satisfy
! them and their people that the war
had been fought out" and added his
impression that "the objects which
the statesmen of the belligerents on
both sides have in mind in this war
are virtually the same, as stated in
general terms to their own people
and TO the wOrld"-even then there
was no result. The Germans Of
course refused to make known their
| objects; the Allies declined to as
sumo the posture of the defeated.
That, briefly, Is the history of the
Kaiser's "clear and unambiguous Of
fer of peace" That he lies about it
IL the expected and unlmportant.
After nearly two years the American
mind has the pleasure of fixing itself
on other matters: the clear and I'M
ambiguous purpose Of FocH, the clear
and unambiguOus advance of Per.
sHING's first army.
The sun., 1918-09-13

Out at the old country church the mG
and buggy has been knocked higher tN"n
a kite by tho automobile because auto
mobiles don't break loose like the mn'-
did. nor do they gnaw the shade r9e'
in the churchyard.
The sun., 1918-09-13

We violate no confidence when we
express the positive opinion that the
next American Ambassador near the
Court Of st. James's will be neither
THEODORE ROOSEVELT nor ELIHu RooT,
nor again WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT or
HENRY CABOT LODGE.
The sun., 1918-09-13

1t is a coincidence worth noting
that on the Same day that the United
States registered the man power for
the largest armed force in history the
first great American army opened a
great offensive.
The sun., 1918-09-13

Written for q lady OF France. Her re
quest as remember T.: I'VE French
cannot English our feel. Land of free
home OF brave. Happy land. Your father,
brave-make free. SO you free--brave
Mothers good. you good. Say 1t English
for me-"
America. the joyland.
Your sons are brave and gay,
Your daughters sweet as rose blooms
And fairer than the day.
Beneath your starry nag
The men of races old
Who dared the western seas
To found the land OF gold.
Have given boys their courage
And siris their mothers grace.
And thus Americans became
A generous, gallant race.
AposTRorHs.
We love you for your courage.
For your help In time OF need,
Too big for hate. yet merciless
To Nth and crime and greed.
But most OF all we love you
Because, like Him we trust,
'You. prove by deeds. a. He did.
(. You First loved US"
The sun., 1918-09-13

PERsHING surprised the Germans,
who had been informed by the General
Staff that it was the invariable Ameri-
can custom to move on October 1.
The sun., 1918-09-13

From the Panama canal Record
No change Is apparent IN tho hos ''"
situation. tho last house from Nh'ch in'
CommisSary Purchasing Agent ATTEMPTED
TO obtain samples advising that they Unu :
be unable TO book any new business Tor
at least ten months,
The sun., 1918-09-13

When WILHELM declared that he
had left no stone unturned to shorten
the war" he probably was thinking OF
some cathedrals.