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THE HEATLESS LEASE.
1t Saves Money for the Landlord at
the Tenants Expense.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: j
am familiar with the obnoxious heatless
clause in apartment leases because it
had been pointed out to me various
times by friends. It is obvious that the
landlord is ever ready to advance rents
but never willing to give the tenant just
treatment.
When a tenant pays high rents for
heat and hot water he is entitled to such
heat and hot water. If the landlord has
not an ample supply OF coal that b
clearly not the fault of the tenant. l
know personally OF several cases last
winter where the landlord was to blame
for the scarcity of heat He made no
effort TO put in a proper supply of coal
during the summer or fall. lie was too
mean or too indifferent. There was
practically no coal available when the
intensely cold weather arrived. The poor
tenants had to freeze or get little heat
by other means. Despite the fact that
many landlords had no coal for more
than a week last winter and thereby
made money, they nevertheless were
brutal enough to refuse to reimburse
the tenant the money spent for extra
gas or other fuel to keep from freezing.
I am surprised that laws have not been
enacted to protect the tenant. e. Z.
New York; September %.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Sn': About
year ago Nassau street was made Il
one way street, all southbound traffic
being permitted to use it. The change,
while welcome one. did not entirely
relieve the congested conditions, al
though II improved matters considerably.
But what 1t did do. apparently, was to
convince the traffic authorities that as
long as northbound traffic could get
along without the use of the street the
southbound traffic could do likewise. 1t
was this that finally decided them TO
close the street altogether to vehicular
traffic, except vehicles having business
on 1t. But it will exclude the pleasure
automobiles which were so numerous in
the morning. Hereafter IL their owners
desire TO ride downtown they will have
TO use Broadway. Pedestrians will have
full sway on Nassau street There will
be less crowding, less confusion and less
anxiety for those who used to take to
the gutter at the risk OF their lives.
AS long as the authorities have de-
cided that Nassau street shall be used
exclusively by pedestrians with the ex-
ception mentioned, the police should be
instructed to drive the takers away.
Then everything would be salubrious.
EXPERIENCED.
New YORK, September -.
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When Uskub VIII BE Skoplje.

Uskub, which the Allied forces in
Macedonia have encircled and which
reports from the front indicate the
Bulgars will be forced to evacuate, is
one Of the strongest strategic points
OF the Balkans. 1t Is the gateway of
the road westward through the noun
tains to Albania and the Adriatic, to
the highway northward from the Var
dar valley to Austria and the head of
the valleys south to Salonica and
Greece and eastward to Bulgaria and
Constantlnople. Every claimant of
Macedonia has struggled for Its pos
session and every Balkan Car or
King has won and lost It.
The piers of the fine old bridge over
the Vardar at Uskub were built by the
Romans, the superstructure by the
ancient Serbs. the plank roadway and
the wooden railing by the Turks.
Thus briefly Is told the history of an
Client Scupi, medieval Skoplje and
modern Uskub. To complete the de-
| tails are mosques and baths of which
the domes are overgrowp with grass
! and weeds, and minarets from which
the woodwork tunlbled half century
ago into decay. There Is a great
caravansary with walls thick enough
to repel armed attacks, with a gate
way bearing Venetian inscriptions and
courtyard In the centre of which Is
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Any person can thoroughly under
stand how annoyed General LuDEN-
DoRrF must be by the insistence Of the
Allies upon the use OF tanks. In an
order which fell into the hands OF the
French he says:
1T Is absolutely inadmissible that
tanks. after penetrating the advanced
lines, should be permitted to push alons
the roads or beside them for miles"
The tank is something that Prus-
sian militarism did not foresee. 1t
has dropped into German war plans
like monkey wrench into a we'll oiled
piece Of machinery. Even after the
English had thought OF II first and
General BrNo had tried II out the
Germans failed to build a successful
imitation. Their efficiency is better
displayed in bomb carrying Zeppelns
and poisonous gas. But the idea Of
one OF these great numbering tanks
being permitted to push along the
roads or beside them" is preposterous.
1t should be verboten.
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which complete victory in tho s.ld a I

which a complete victory In the field
shall Impose. It is to be a dictated
peace, so far as the Central Powers
are concerned, not negotiated peace
In the sense in which the German
and Austrian statesmen now in power
understand the word negotiation.
The Presidents words In the Metro
politan Opera House last night leave
not millimeter Of margin for doubt
as to this. 1--WE cannot come to terms
with them" he says. "They have
convinced us that they are without
honor and do not intend justice.
They observe no covenants. We cam
not come to terms with them. They
have made 1t impossible. We do not
think the same thoughts or speak the
same language of agreement"
1t Is, indeed, welcome sign OF
the confidence of the leader of the
American people in the certainty Of
n victory not far distant that he
comes before the nation now with
programme for the peace of the
future rather than with d formal
appeal for support in the mighty
struggle Of the present. He is al.
ready preparing for that council table
at which the criminal offenders Of the
great war shall not sit as equal con-
ferees. In what is perhaps the most
, important of the long series Of his
messages of definition and stimulus
he describes in beautifully clear
terms the objective which occupies his
mind, a world federation for lasting
peace and for the vigorous enforce
ment. by po,cer, Of the laws Of i'm
partial justice. And he invites the
leaders Of the Governments with
which we are associated in the fight
to say whether he Is right or wrong
in his understanding of the meaning
/, Of this war Of civilization against
autocracy, and in his conception of
the singleness and unselflshness OF
the common purpose.
There could not be a nobler con-
ception, loftier Interpretation Of
current events. There could not be
more puissant incentive to that
outpouring Of the American Repub-
lies resources, to the very limit,
which the nation and the world are
now about to witness.
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or all the endearing charms Of our
price fxers continually admired by
millions mono will be more renowned
for tactfulness and sound economics
than their activities in matters Of per-
sonal preference. Take shoes, for ex-
ample-if you have the price. Some
ons in Washington having fixed the
prize II shoes finishes the job nicely
by ordering that mo high shoes can
be made Of white kid. patent leather.
satin or any two tones; no Louis heels
shall be put on high shoes" &c. This
will not only tickle to death those who
for the first time have the price for
and have longed to wear Louis heeled
shoes. but will also have a tendency
to starve to death elderly artisans who
have numbered the earth only because
they were expert makers OF now for
hidden shoes and no other kind.
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Reasons for Prompt Subscription,

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Your
editorial articles OF September ~ ana
26 dealing with the vagaries OF KEEP
resentative Kitchin as to the prospec-
tive tax law will receive. 1 think. the
approval OF all business people.
We may hope. as you suggest, that
the Senate will correct some Of the IN
Justices and blunders to be found in
the draft OF the House bill. This. how
ever, will take time. and the draft OF
the Senate bill cannot be completed IN
time to have any special effect on the
subscriptions to the Liberty loan now
being offered to the public. Previous
loan drives have been extended over
several weeks Of time. with the ostensi-
he idea Of educating tho public and
showing 1t the advantages of subscrio-
irg to the bonds. Much OF this educa-
tional work has already been done, and
It would seem that subscriptions ought
now to come in much faster than they
have in the past. That the Government
expects this TO happen Is shown by the
shorter time during which subscriptions
are to be received.
Human beings arc everywhere much
alike. We are all disposed to postpone
subscribing until the last minute. with
the somewhat vague idea that the
longer we hold on to our money or our
pledge the better off we are. Would it
not be better II tho public were to rush
in at the beginning and start the loan
of at once with very large subscrip-
tons?
Is it not likely that il this were done
more enthusiasm would be aroused, and
other people would hurry to the front
to follow the example OF the first sub
scribers? 1t appears to me that 1t
would be patriotic and a profitable
thing TO take advantage of the well
known tendency among all people to
follow the crowd. and that a rush by
small subscribers could be encouraged
IL the larger subscribers would announce
on tho very first days Of the drive the
amount of bonds that they purpose to
take. Well to do people who make their
subscriptions through bankers, brokers.
banks and trust companies, by suhscrib-
ing early would put these firms and cor
porations in. position to announce sub
scriptions at once, and these announce
ments should encourage prompt sub
scriptions by other people here, and
perhaps all over the country.
II the newspapers believe and will
take up this idea they may perform a
valuable public service. l. personally,
intend to act on this on the first day of
the drive. j. HoLpEIN SMITH.
NEW YORK. September 81.
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a fountain ornamented with the lions
Of st. Mark. There are ruins Of Turk
ish villas with latticed windows along
the river bank, wide street where
the tradesmen speak French, and n
dark bazaar quarter Of narrow alleys
that once swarmed with Serbs, Bul-
CARS, Greeks, Spanish Jews, Turks
and Albanians.
Uskub in the fifteenth century was
called city Of marble 80 beautiful
1t was" said the Austrian comman-
der who destroyed 1t. that hated
to burn It," According to Mace
DOMAIN legend it could never be re-
stored TO its former beauty because 1t
was always "city Of tragedy" The
hillside at the foot of the towering
Shar Dagh Is vast cemetery. and
here are buried thousands Of victims
Of racial strife. Turk, Serb, Bulgar
and Albanian met in Uskub in almost
equal numbers and struggled for mas
terry; personal differences increased
Oy those OF politics ana race led 10
turmoils in which death reaped heav-
lily to fill hillside graves.
But to the Serb Uskub Is the fair
city of his dreams and ambitions. In
the great castle on the rocky peak
dominating the town his ancestors
held sway for century. At Uskub
DUsHAS. his great Gar. was crowned
and drew up the magma charta Of
the Serb people; and here was
the ancient capital of the Serb race.
In all this he finds inspiration to
fight for its recovery. Once within
its walls 1t will not be the Bulgar
or Turkish Uskub, but the Serb
Skoplje.
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THE INFLUENZA.
Comments on<Certain "Don'ts"-And
Don't Forget the Family Doctor.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: l
trust that Or. Copeland will be able 10
cope with this Spanish Influenza" with
out landing us all in hospitals and Gre
sting another mischievous and costly
epidemic" scare.
There would seem to be something
grimly humorous in the lists OF "don'ts'
he has put forth. the first of which
tells us not
To sneeze or cough or spit In public places
But use q handkerchief in all these cases
There Is rhyme here. but is there rea-
son? One might be able to restrain ex-
pectoration until he had extracted a
handkerchief from his coat or trousers
pocket. but the sneezing and coughing
impulses are involuntary and too sudden
to allow one even to put his hand to
his face.
recall the advice given TO me years
ago by prominent physician, that II
out OF doors I had occasion to expec-
torate not to use my handkerchief but
to spit in the gutter. whore the expecto-
rated matter would be less harmful than
would be germ laden handkerchief
used in church. theatre. restaurant or
street car.
After all, may not this influenza or
grippe be effectively treated by simple
means? l awoke this morning with
chill. a headache and pains throughout
my entire system. and during a walk
of only four blocks sneezed and
coughed at least a dozen times-all
symptoms OF influenza; but ! was very
much relieved this afternoon, and expect
to be entirely cured tomorrow by the
application to my nostrils OF a mentho-
line ointment prescribed by physician.
NEW YORK, September 81. L. s. 5.
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LOUIS THE LIBERAL.
He Would Have the Government Sup.
port Poets Of Genius.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--ST.. Most
admirable as your editorial In last Sun
days SUN undoubtedly is. at the same
time sympathlzing with the lonesome
poet, a few ideas of mine in addition
will presumably help to inculcate in
the minds OF future legislators the need
to regard the worthy poet as an honor
able member of society.
AS he is considered to-day, our friend
Mecenas would blush. He. the patron
OF Virgil. must have felt in his very
fibre the absolute inability of the vo-
tary of Poesie to enter any occupation
destructive to creating immortal metri-
cal works He knew that leisure, free
dom from material worries and special
studies are requisite to allow the poet
to build a poem that will resound glo-
riously through the ages
Really great works have never been
written by men who were obliged to
be clerks or chained TO occupations
far removed from literature. Cosmlc
laws do not permit 1t. Each talent
must have congenial surroundings,
every creator IN the three arts must
have leisure to produce. II not, the re-
win the battle now cannot pay Ad-
metus by being clerks in commercial
pursuits.
You mention Mil.on-he was free
from financial worries when he wrote
his master works at Sc. Morris was
boss OF his art store. consequently found
leisure TO write at any time an inspira-
ton appeared Besides, he had ample
funds TO keep him independent What
Rossetti did was in his sphere--a painter
poet. So you see that they could de-
vote most of their time to poetry. Ten
nyson was given a pension. Browning
was a wealthy man. Victor Hugo the
same. How could Shelley and Keats
have written diyinely and incomparably
II they had to bother about lecturing
and reviewing books? Impossible.
AS TO the fate Of those poets, like
Francis Thompson, who are ruthlessly
neglected by their wealthy fellow men,
I must say that It was not their fault
Intense spirits cannot earn living !:
just as supernal race horses cannot be
made to pull a draycart. The latter
are well taken care of-sums spent for
their every want-then why do not the
civic powers spend a respectable sum,
say $4,000 or more, for the humane
support OF each poet OF transcendent
gifts. so they are insured a small In
come from that sum In order that they
can live decent life while in our
midst? Surely. as so few rare geniuses
arise during one generation, hardly
twenty, the Government can well ap-
propriate such trife, besides proving
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What Is Lancashire for Buy n Liberty
Bond,"s

TO THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sir. "W.
II. W. has done ma service in re-
minding me tNst do not know Ianca-
shire dialect" and for indicating tina, IN.
sentence which ! quoted would he mora
nearly correct" II l had said soma,hIrv
else. II wv II. W" cares to pursue tho
subject further let him consult j. Baron,s
"BlegOurn D!ckshonary' Os v. "addIed")
revised edition, published In Blackburr
Lancashire. in 1891, where he viii ord
mo very sentence cited by me. This /, n
glossary Of middle Lancashire dial.ct
with which w. H. W" may pass many
an interesting moment ~ he be so in
cllned. FRANK H. VIzprr,t,
New YORK. September -.
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SPECIMEN SENTIMENTS ON
THE THEME OF THE DAY.
Passaea Money to Berlin.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuE-SF; we
could not match tho splendid deeds OF
our brave and victorious troops over
there were we to oversubscribe the
Fourth Liberty Loan on the opening day
OF the drive, but let US approximate 1t
by having our money pay their safe and
speedy passage to Berlin.
JAMES j. MOORE.
NEW YORK, 9eptember 81.
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THE SHUTTLE.
BY Not Using 1t the Traveller Reduces
Weight and Purse.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: The
Public Service Commission advises all
those who have not found it a hardship
to do so to continue to walk across
Forty-second street to relieve the con-
gestion at the stations between which
it has shut off the shuttle service, even
after it is resumed
The commission is no doubt aware
Of the shakedown that has accompan MED
the shutdown. 1t Is now necessary, in
addition to walking from Times Square
to the Grand Central station. to pay an
extra five cents when you get there IL
you want to go over the Greensboro
Bridge, which you could do before for
4 single fare. JAY PEE DEE.
NEW York, September -.
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The French Government has Off
cially taken up baseball; cadets have
already played n Ave inning game
without fatalities; Minister of War
CorrEz is now looking for American
coaches: Second Baseman JOHNNY
EvERs is all to and fro over there with
professional excitement and the Y. NJ
c. a. is distributing translated rules
OF the game. All, the French fans,
Alta garcon. Glissez. CASTOR. glis-
SEE! Conspuez lie comprehensive. A
mort rarbitre, a mort.
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The lobster In South African waters
is fellow to the California lobster; II
Is crayfsh. But out Of its shell even
Broadway would unsuspiciously pay
lobster prices for crayfsh meat in
salads. devilled, in chatting dish "spe-
cialties." So 1t is reassuring to learn
that South Africa is shipping an
ually millions OF pounds OF canned
crayish- Thus Broadway's lobster
palaces may survive although Penob-
scot Bay be trapped to its very last
cecapod crustacean.
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The Garrett Where Clemcnceau VS.
tied Marshall

To THE EDITOR OF THE Sun Sir: Some
time ago. think the date was July 25.
you published letter signed A. u. Rob-
ertson in which it was stated that NJ.
Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France.
once visited the portrait painter and
engraver William Edgar Marshall in his
garnet studio at III Broadway. Can
You give me any further information
concerning that visit? Possibly pub
fishing this letter would help to find
Mr.. Robertson whose name has eluded
the telephone book and the city direc-
tory ALICE LAwroN.
NEW YORK, September ~.
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100000 Of such small subscribers
cleaned M the third loan.

Chairman KIrcHIN, with his Sec
tional war taxes-worse still, with
his fanatic way of using taxes as
n bludgeon to pulverlze industry and
business--may have made 1t impos-
sible for interests and individuals OF
big incomes to take any considerable
share of this fourth loan. Surely II
they are able to do so 1t will be no
fault OF his. Yet IL they cannot, and
even IL farmers and planters who
are not In the land Of kltchin taxes
shouldn't feel like doing all they can
do, those workers In the land Of
Kitchin taxes will feel like 1t as they
felt like 1t before. AS they did 1t be-
fore they will do 1t again.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-28

The daily edition OF THE Sun was
ordinarily a four page paper from
September .. 1888. until September 20,
1887. when six pages were printed.
The next day, September 81. the size
was four pages. but on September 20
and thereafter. until further enlarge
ments were made, the size of THE Sun
was six pages. On November 20. 1887.
the size Of the Sunday paper was in
creased to sixteen pages.
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The Size Of "The Sun"

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: A
man in Michigan advertises for a thirty
year old four page copy OF THE SUN
and offers IS for the same, For what
purpose? To bring back old days or to
copy 1t in issuing a paper OF his own ?
When was THE Sun enlarged from four
pages? ]. r.. S.
JERSEY CITY, n. j.. September ~.
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Addicts Of the Thrift Habit.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: /
have on many occasions been told by
persons in moderate circumstances that
they were surprised at the amount OF
money they had saved by the war saw
ings or thrift stamp method. and inva-
riably the persons said they hope 1t will
continue after the war.
c. II. CRowErL.
BROOKLYN, September &c.
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COALITION CABINET FOR JAPAN
Emperor Asks Count Snionji 10
Form New Ministry.

LONDON, Sept. 27--NarQus j.
SaionJi, formerly Premier ana i''- ''
Of the Constitutional,s party N. .'.'
commanded by Emperor NNs
form a japanese CABINET ia
to that headed by Field Mas los 'n
Terauchi. recently resIguod.
10 a Toxic despatch torwa
Tlcntsin TO the ExCNangc '.'
Company.
II is probable. the d,.U.
Count Saionji Will organic , 90
Ministry,
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Plea Made for Vote,

In the meanwhile the suggestion VA,
lhterposed by Senator Borab ,rdaFo,
that he would like to have tho volta
postponed. Said he: II have engage.
ments to speak for the Liberty Loan In
virginia tomorrow which will uoress..
tate my absence from the CITY. and ?
VIII be in North Carolina the following
DAY. and / would like to have tho how
Tor vote set over until Monday"
i regret that I cannot acccda 10 ths
senator's suggestion" replied Jones
Well.' replied Senator Rorah. ,l
,hink snail go anyhow. for do not
believe there will be vote"
Senator Martin followed with his s1r.
gestion that he would like TO have the
senate adjourn over until noon Mordar
He said that If the request was rarnsed
ne would have another statcmeu. 10
make.
Senator Jones elaborated the cxp,ar,.
ton he had made TO Senator Borah AND
'hen Senator Martin. white with anger
and standing in the middle aisle a. n
his fists clenched. replied:
Inc statement / have to make is N
The Senator from New Mexico =
charge OF this resolution has refused A
request which is made with View 10
permitting certain Senators to absent
themselves from this chamber for -.
purpose OF participating in the inlu=n.
ration of the campaign to make r ss,.
cess of the sale of Liberty bonds. In Z
critical time the Senator from N.v
Mexico and his following seem - he >
the opinion that this measure transcend.
IN Importance the patriotic movement
10 make the great loan n success and 10
desire to bubble here through t'-ro--
VNw 1T T.
tell you now l give you fun MOTTO.
there VIII be no vote on the suffrage
amendment to-morrow-thcre viii be 70
vote"