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A VISIT TO MOUNT VERNON.
Opinion Of an Unparalleled Citizen
on Transportation Facilities.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sjr:
Mount Vernon Is a nice place Its streets
are smoothly paved and well kept. Fine
shade trees border the thoroughfares in
front of beautiful homes.
But TO find the names of the streets
is another matter. II had possessed
a step ladder and a Photograph do not
believe that would have been able
to penetrate the Forum Corrosive" Of
those weather 5esten metal signs.
reached this beautiful little city
from Atlantic avenue, borough OF Brook
Ign, by way of the subway West Side
and Yonkers in exactly one hour and
twenty-five minutes. twenty-five miles,
which is going some.
In telling OF my trip to a liberal chap
in cafe he said he did not give a
rap for President Shonts or Hedley or
any OF them guys but declared that
when 1t came to splitting UP ten cents
for hauling an individual over three
times that distance. he considered it
rubbing 1t in.
The street car company here is try
ing TO Induce the City Council to coop
crate in getting a raise in the fare from
2i2d street to ten cents.
PERRY I.rKENs
MOUNT VERNON, November l6
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The Weather Seer.

The weather prophets long ago
In that old village near the sea-
No sign in heaven they did not know
How well they all come back 70 me.
Their faces bowed; their eyes 90 keen
iureh TO starboard--or TO port:
With listening youngsters round them
seen.
They daily had their little court.
For marvellous battles with harpoon;
For pirate ehasinsE; ghost ships passed .
For mystery isles with lone lagoon.
Their sea yarns could not be ou,ciasssd.
And living aimanaes were they.
Who knew each shape Of cloud. each
hue
Vow. what's to.morrows weather.
They said; and all their words cam.
true
But there was one--an elder seer
The weather pas tomorrow knew
From clouds through cloud riffs seen-a
sheer,
iAEht nlm Of cloud far up the blue!
That dean Of seers-I see him still,
With piercing glance that roved the
sky
To-morrow's mood predict who will.
4 farther vision nlled his eye,
Oh for = prophet such as he,
who could our troubled heaven. scan
And say what weather there shall be
Beyond the nearer morrows spaE!
EDITH N. THoMAs.I
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Grounds for Hope in Germany.

The element Of hopefulness in Ger
man conditions to-day Is the fact that
the Socialists who appear to be now
In power at Berlin are men who have
been accustomed to participate In
public affairs--as minority leaders
1t Is true, but nevertheless as leaders
Of recognized political party.
The Social Democratic party, which
cast 4,2J0,329 votes out Of a total Of
II, 206. SOS ut the German Parliamen-
tary elections in January, 1912, may
be regarded as a conservative or
ganizatlon compared to the so-called
Socialists who have brought disaster
and ruin to Russia. II Its leaders
can retain the power which they have
assumed since the inglorious depar-
ture Of the Kaiser, they will probably
be able to form q popular government
that well keep Its word to the Allies
and the United States.
At the Parliamentary election to
which We have referred the Social
Democrats elected 40 out of 897
members. The declaration of prin-
clples which they were pledged to
support was adopted at a national
convention held at Erfurt In 1891 and
has remained substantially unchanged
ever since. 1t demanded universal
suffrage by secret ballot for all men
and women over 20 years Of age
home rule for States, provinces and
municipalities; the election Of public
officers by the people; the substitution
Of a militia for permanent armies /;
the secularization OF the schools !;
the abolition of capital punishment /;
the right Of appeal In criminal cases /;
and the enactment Of various laws
for the protection of the working
classes, including the establishment
Of an eight hour day. AS to religion,
the Social Democrats would separate
1t wholly from the State and treat It
as a personal matter, for each indl-
vldual to decide.
OF course, all persons known to
entertain such views as these have
been officially ostracized under the
autocratic rule OF WILHELM IL.
In 1913, just before the war, ELMER
ROBERTS. the European correspondent
of the Associated Press, wrote:
mo one may hold any position in
the public service, not even that OF a
section hand on a railway. and admit
that he is a Socialist: nor may he teach
in any school or university"
In spite of this the vote Of the So
cial Democratic party has steadily
grown from 124,7OO in 1871 to 4,250,.
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SAVING FOOD FOR GERMANY.
The German Policy Has Always Been
TO Starve Beaten Nations.

To THE EDITOR or THE SuN-Sir: As
We arc now being asked to conserve food
mora rigidly than ever In order to send
more abroad It Is proper for all OF us
to ask what proportion OF this food Is
to be used for Germany.
Without doubt we are glad to do our
utmost to supply the needs of our allies
who helped us win the war but It is
not conceivable tat We will volunta rily
undergo discomfort to feed Germans
Germany has always starved con-
quered countries without mercy. Now
she Is beaten. and true TO her character
she Is begging,
Let US not make the mistake Of drift
Ing into an orgy OF maudlln sympathy
and pity for Germany.
There IL no change of heart in the
Germans There has not been heard
and will not be heard from Germany
any expression OF repentance for the
horrors she has wrought.
The Germans to-day hate us and our
allies II possible more bitterly than ever
But they are whipped Tnd are willing
To crawl on their stomachs IL by so do
ing they can MI those stomachs.
No American should deprive his FAM
lily Of one ounce of food to feed the
lying, treacherous. brutal. cowardly.
whining German nation.
FREDERICK BURR OPPER
NEW ROCHELLE. November l6.
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Early Trench Journals.

From the Wtie World Hoodairs.
There 10 a very long list OF these early
trench journals, the majority of which
have been collected by Mr. Charles de La
Ronci.re. who has deposited them at the
Bibiiotheuue Rationale In Paris for the
beneht OF the future historians OF the war
They include lie Petit Echo du Use Regiment
dintonterie terrttoridie. which was very ar
tistically edited by Corporal Huhuet and
autographed In many colors; L'Bcho des
TranchtT the editor OF which was the
famous short story writer Paul Reboux,
and which contained articles and poems
by such writers as Poincare and Rostand
Theodore Botrel and Henri de Reguier:
and the Echo du Rduin. the organ of the
Forty-hrst Chasseurs, which boasted OF a
private wire connecting the once with
Abroad-the barbeI wire reaching right
up tho trenches of the Boches
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FROM ISAIAH.
The Prophecy Regarding Babylon APP
piled TO PrussIanism.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuH-Sr: What
of her glory. Germania has been recently
in Central Europe. What Babylonia is.
Germany may possibly become to a
greater or less extent. for the end is not
yet. and here is, II II applies to Ger
many. a partially unfulflled prophecy
Of the Lord:
And Babylon. the glory OF Kingdoms,
the beauty OF the Chaldees excellency,
shall be as when God overthrow Sodom
and Gomorrah. II shall never be inhab-
tied. neither shall II be dwelt In from
generation to generation: neither shall the
Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall
the shepherds make their fold there: but
Wild beasts of the desert shall lie there.
and their houses shall be full OF doieful
creatures and owls shall dwell there. and
satyrs shall dance there. And the wild
beasts of the islands shall cry in their
desolate houses. and dragons in their
pleasant palaces. and her time is near TO
come. and her days shall not be pro-
ionged.
How art thou fallen from heaven. o
Lucifer, son OF the morning! how art
thou cut down to the ground, which didst
weaken the nationsl For thou hast said
in thine heart. / will ascend Into heaven
I will exalt my throne above the stars
OF God; will sit also upon the
mount OF the congregation, in the sides
OF the north: will ascend above the
heights Of the clouds: will be like the
Most High. Yet thou shalt be brought
down to hell. to the sides Of the pit
They that see thee shall narrowly look
upon thee ana consider thee. saying. Is
this the man that made the earth to
bat -A,lr Ill 49,
made the world as a wilderness. and de-
stroyed the cities thereof; that opened
not the house OF his prisoners?
All the kings of tn" nations. even all OF
them, lie In glory. every one in his own
house: but thou art cast out OF thy grave
like an abomina5le branch and as the
rairent Of those that are slain thrust
through with q sword, that go down to
the stones OF the pit. as a carcass trod-
den under feet. Thou shalt not be Joined
with them in burial. because thou hast
destroyed thy land and slain thy people:
the seed OF evildoers shall never be re-
nowned. Prepare slaughter for his chill
dren for the iniuuity of their fathers
that they do not rise. nor POSSESS the
land. nor MI the face of the world with
cities. For l will rise up against them,
saith the Lord OF hosts and cut on from
Babylon the name. and remnant. and SON
and nephew, saith the Lord. will also
make IL . possession for the bittern, and
pools Of water: and I will sweep It with
the bosom OF destruction, saith the Lord
OF hosts. The Lord OF hosts hath sworn
saying. Surely as have thought so shall
It como TO pass: and as I have purposed.
% shall II stand.-Isaiah Kill. 1927; XIV
l2-2t.
EDWARD S. BEACH.
RIDGETlELD, Conn. November 16.
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who idly talk of forgetting ask them.


selves whether Lille will forget
What France Is doing in this case
should and, We believe, will be the
procedure In all the German crimes
France has a great score to pay, but
Belglum's Is even greater. There the
murder lust OF the invader was set
free first and most horribly. To men
ton Liege, Louvain, Aerschot and Ma
lines Is to recall the Bryce report and
Its appalling chronicle Of frightfulness
some Official, some individual, but
all growing out of the black heart Of
Prussianism. Not all Of the flends
can be brought to Justice, but there
should be the same effort made to
punish the violators Of Belgium that
France Is making to bring to book the
German officers who were responsible
for the outrages at Lille.
OF course France and Belgium are
not the only sufferers. The German
brutalities toward allied prisoners,
the starvation by the Turks Of their
British captives, must be avenged.
Somewhere one individual or one
group of men is responsible for every
crime against humanity. We had our
own Andersonville, and HENRY wIRz
was executed for Its villainies. Let
every German, Austrian and Turkish
beast who tortured prisoners be tried,
as WIRE was tried, and hanged as
high as he was hanged.
There should be O trial Of the men
guilty Of that most colossal massacre
Of non-combatapts committed In all
the war--the almost complete exter-
mination Of the Armenian race by the
Turks. The murder of these millions
surely can be traced to the door OF
some one man or set of men, German
or Turk, There should be a trial Of
the man or set OF men responsible for
the murders committed by the Ger
man submarines. It Is ridiculous to
concentrate rage upon the commander
Of the U-boat which sank the Lusi-
tanla. Doubtless he is dead and In
his particular corner of hell, but he
did not put to sea on his own account
Some one higher up is the real crimi-
nal, and whether he be VoN TIurrz
or HoHENzoILERS or some creature
unidentified, 1t Is for him to be tried
and punished.
But let 1t all be in order. just as
France is proceeding in the case Of
the Lille slave drivers. What the
victors In this war have been fighting
for Is justice and order. These go
together, putting aside false mercy
and insane fury. And while the
course Of Justice proceeds in Its or
derby way. let there be no confusion
in any mind between letting food go
TO those guilty only OF venial sins and
forgiving those whose offences are
beyond earthly pardon.
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He Can't Escape.

1t is nonsense to suppose that Gen
eral PEEsHING is afraid to come home
because Of what his fellow citizens
here intend to do to him on his ar
rival. He may be little bit nervous
about his reception, and he may medi-
tate surreptitious entrance into the
country. But this will not be per-
mitted. The immigratio service has
already been instructed to keep a
close watch for him and disclose his
whereabouts at whatever port he
chooses to land.
Nobody need fear that JOHN ]. PER
SIZING Is going to escape the treat
ment he deserves: and. II he hopes to,
he might as well make up his mind
now that he must face the music.
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The Troubles In Holland.

How firmly WnHELMINA OF the
Netherlands Is seated on her throne
events may presently disclose. To
many she Is still the girl Queen,
though her portraits betray a matron-
ly Dutch sovereign. Somehow the
romance Of her life suffered obscura-
tion when she took for her consort q
German princeling. HENRY. Of Meek
lenburg- Schwerln. Yet nothing that
occurs In Holland can he without in
terest to this Dutch town. and here
are stanch republicans who hope
WILHnMINA may avoid the traps that
lie on every side Of royalty to-day.
Our colors are the Dutch coiors. and
New York still has stoops, Bowling
Green, He'll Gate and Harlem.
The report that wrLHrLMISA's i'm
pulse was to welcome the bandit of
Berlin to her land and was restrained
only by the representation OF her
Ministers created an unpleasant i'm
preston here. Holland and the Dutch
We have thought Of as surely sound
beneath the traders skin, awed by
the enginery of war. but for all that
ready to pierce the bikes and die for
their country. Perhaps they are, and
their sovereign Ill represented them.
RAEMAEKERs would not have coun-
selled a cordial reception to the mon
ster he has 80 often depicted.
1t may be that the Dutch crown is
to fall along with other crowns. Con-
ceivably, scared WILHELM's choice of
refuge may cost WnHEI.MINA her
title. as his choice Of courses has cost
other rulers their stations.
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800 in 1912. MIR. BopEnrs In his little

800 In 1912. MIR. RoBEnTs In his little
book on "Monarchical Socialism in
Germany" showing how the Kaiser
has tried to appropriate socialistic
ideas for his own benefit, Is authority
for the statement that In 1913 the
Social Democrats owned seventy-six
daily newspapers, fifty-seven publish
Ing houses and two hundred central
circulating libraries with three hun
dred and seventy-seven branches.
They cultivated q special literature
designed to detract from the rever-
ence and respect for the Emperor
taught In the schools" the books Of
propaganda being "wrltten boldly,
yet with caution suficient to keep
them within the laws against lesc
majestic and sedition."
The leaders of party organized
and administered on such n thought
full basis must realize that anything
like lawlessness predominant will be
fatal TO their hopes and ambition.
Nobody Is more deeply interested In
overcoming the forces Of anarchy
than they are; aud 1t is upon their
vital interest in THIS that we are in
cllned to rely for n satisfactory out
come Of present conditions.
The future OF the German nation
depends most Of all upon the ability
Of Its new democratic rulers to main
tain law and order and demonstrate
to the rest of the world that they
can be trusted to fulfil promises.
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TRADE BRIEFS.

There 10 a sufficient supply Of rapeseed
raised in Japan for oil for purely domestic
consumption, but since the expectation of
the oil has Increased tho large power mills
have found It necessary TO import the
greater part Of their supplies
Among the new Industries In the Not
tinsham district, England, Is a pencil
factory, which has recently been estab-
lished at Stapleford.
Imports OF cottonseed oil from August
! TO September 80 amounted to 1927, 764
pounds. Exports OF eottonseed products
we're 5,e70.5+ pounds of oil. g. $50 tons Of
cake and meal and soe62 running bales
OF iinters.
japanese business men have been or
EAniEing the nota,ion OF a company, in
conjunction with Russian capital. to ex-
pioit tho natural resources OF Siberia and
North Nanchuria. II has been decided
to establish an Oriental Industrial Com.
pany with a capital OF about s.. oOo. 900.
to he subscribed equally by Japanese and
Russian capitalists, The head once Is TO
be established at Hardin. and II is under
stood that tho company will undertake
a great variety of enterprises.
The total area under hay In Ireland was
2bSa, I23 acres as compared with 24Os 24T
acres In 1915. an increase OF l20,47O
acres or 81 per cent
Broom millet and honey have been
added to the list OF articles that may not
be exported from Australia without license
from the Minister OF state for Trade and
Customs by two procIamations OF Sep
tember =. 1918.
A new bank called Bondernes tFarm-
ers) Bank has been organized In Chris
tiAnia BY combination Of savings banks
cooperative associations and farmers Tn.
authorized capital stock Is 5000. 900 and
It begins business with %. $50, 900
The vegetable oil mills in the Kobs
consular district have producing capacities
varying from 10000 TO SEQ. 900 gallons a
month. These mills are nearly all situ-
ated on tine bay shore or on inls,L
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France Shows the Way to Punish
the War Monsters.

There Is undoubtedly in some quar-
tiers an unfortunate and mistaken i'm.
preston that In listening to the cry
OF the new German Government for
food the vlctors Of the war have Sig
nined a willingness to forget the
crimes committed by Germans and
German allies In the four hideous
years when Germany had the upper
hand. Those Americans who labor
under the Misrepresentation seem to
overlook the fact that Belgium and
France are still thinking of their peo-
pies wrongs; that the memory of the
atrocities perpetrated by the invaders
IL ineffaceable; and that the criminal
must and will pay the penalty. As
an example Of the manner In which
the wronged nations will go about
the business Of Justice, we have the
news from Paris that as result Of
Investigations made in the region Of
Lille "preclse charges have been
made out against German officers
guilty of having ordered or committed
shocking crimes"
1t was in April of 1916 that the
Germans, returning from their defeat
at Verdun, seized In Lille, Roubaix
and Turcoing $1,000 women, girls and
men and drove them into slavery,
the men to work on the roads asno In
the munition factories, the women to
cook and wash for the soldiers and to
share whatever fate German brutality
designed for them. The French Gov
eminent challenged Germany 10 per-
init neutral investigators to inquire
into this wholesale horror, and Ger
many refused. Now the day of
France comes, and the evidence that
!, has been gathered relative to this one
OF many great crimes Is to be used
! IN the criminal prosecution OF the
Individual Germans who were to
blame for the acts Of the demons.
{ Whether the German Government Is
Sle or not to turn the criminals over
: their French judges, sentence will
be passed on the guilty and the vic.
tors Will liant them down. Let those
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THE COST OF LOCAL DRAFT
BOARDS.
An Argument Against Continuing
Them as Employment Bureaus.


To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Str: ]
understand that 1t is proposed to con-
tinue the local draft boards In order
to carry out employment problems. de-
mobilization and general welfare work.
A good reason why this should not be
so follows:
There are, believe, more than 5000
local boards in the United States, with
a total registration OF approximately
20, 900. oo0-1o,oOo,o 900 of the class OF
1917 and 100000 Of the September
IL, 1918, class.
Thus we find each local board with
an average registration OF about 1000
and as each local board member is now
being paid at the rate OF $50 a month
for each 1000 registrants in his dis
trict, we find the average compensa-
ton of board members to be $3.50 a
month. or $1,000 a board of three men,
bers With 5000 boards at S1,050 each
the monthly expenditure amounts to
s3.15o.oOo.
The employment phase OF the situa-
ton can be adequately handled by the
Department of Labor.
Rehabilitation is strictly a military
function, and the men can be mustered
out al the various environments to which
they return and given transportation to
their homes.
Welfare work, worthy of the name,
has always found sufficient public spir-
tied citizens In every community to take
care OF It. These citizens do not have
to walt for the stress OF war time, the
blare OF n brass band or the lure OF a
Treasury voucher to make their efforts
count, but look on virtue as its own
reward.
Now Is the time for the powers that
be to save this money and not wait for
the incoming Congress to show the way
NEW YORK. November 10 y.
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from the search Of HERoD to the last

from the search Of HERoD to the last
hour Of Golgotha.
II 1t is the vernacular that is so
much needed why Is not the sub
merged tenth attracted TO the Scrip
lures by the innumerable Bible stories
that are in print? These might be
expected to arouse On interest In The
Old Testament, a work which the
reader finds absorbing because OF
qualities that are human rather than
religious. 1t is, incidentally, the
refuge of those who are weary Of he
vernacular. 1t Is the anchor Of the
English language.
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THE SOLID SOUTH.
One Of Its Defenders on Its Services
10 the Nation.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--sr: Re-
ferring to your editorial article Of No
vember IL entitled AS the Solid South
Cost the Democratic Party the Legis-
lative, 1t Must Cost II the Admlnistra-
tive Government" II appears that we
Southerners are an exceedingly bad set
OF people. incompetent TO administer the
Government of the United states and
ought to be destroyed as the SOLID
South" politically.
In the three great periods OF this
country which have made worldwide
impress upon humanity and liberty a
the people to their high destination
Washington, the Virginian Lincoln. the
Kentuckian; Wilson. the Virsinian.
Let the critics and vilfiers OF the
South pause and ponder these illustrious
names and the commissions that brought
them into Leadership. Was It the chance
Of politics or was 1t the hand Of God?
am a Presbyterian and believe that
God has a distinct purpose for every
human being.
Cardinal Gibbons said at Camp Meade
the other day I'VE have conquered be-
cause we had faith in God" While the
official acts of the Southern Democrats
IN public life have displeased our Re
publican friends. yet think they can
not but acknowledge that there must be
something inherently great in people
who can produce such men as WASH
ington, Lincoln and Wilson.
Il. +. BROWN,
A survivor OF the Army OF Northern Vir-
ginia and a holder Of the Appopat-
tox parole.
AUGUSTA. Ga, November 10.