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vow TIRPITz'S WHISPERS.
Their Sudden Removal Causes o Critic
10 Score Against "The Sun"

To THE EDITOR OF The suN--sir: For
years It has been one Of my pastimes
to discover discrepancies or contradic-
tions between the news columns and the
editorial columns OF newspapers. My
record, running back to 1901. shows THE
Sun to have been remarkably free from
such faults. for in that time have
spotted only seven such faults In THE
Sun, as compared with seventy-three in
the Tribune and 1871 in the Times.
was almost amazed. therefore. to dis
cover that you had Enned most IA
granty In your issue Of November 81.
In closing your editorial article en-
titled ~ Poem From the Past you say.
I'm a perfect picture the verses would
be recited by vow TRIPLE through his
whiskers."
On the first page OF the same issue
part Of your headlines read Admiral
Slaves or Whlskers Before Taking
Flight to Switzerland"
Your editorial writer should be more
careful in following the days cable news.
II he had been he would have known
that the sort of tonsorial visitation pic
tured by him was as impossible as the
Huns capture of Paris.
Regretting that your score 10 now 8.
l am. WINTHROP THAYER ARNOLD.
ROCHESTER,, November "a.
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Taxation by the Outs.

Disappearing the making of taxes
~ the present Congress for two years
instead Of one and protesting at the
same time against the Republican OBJ
jectiOns to that programme our
neighhor the World says:
The Democratic majority Of this
Congress cannot bind the Republican
majority Of the next Congress on a tax
measure or anything else. Taxes en-
acted at this session OF the present
Congress for the next fiscal year can
be strapped in a moment By the follow
ing Congress"
But can such taxes be despatched
go neatly and swiftly to the scrap
heap? The next Congress will be
Republican, but all through Its term
the gentleman sitting In the White
House will be Democrat. The next
Republican Congress might make q
new revenue bill, it might make fifty
new revenue bills. but the veto of
Mr.. WILSON could stop every one Of
them from going into operation. That
10 wherein the White House, not
Congress-the scrapping of taxes
would be done.
If Mr.. WILSON gets out OF this
Congress the taxes he wants for the
next fiscal year, ending June 80, 1920,
as well as for this fiscal year, tax
measures passed by the Republican
Congress will not be worth the paper
they are written on. That's the very
idea of Mr.. WILSON'S legislative Gov
eminent In making the taxes now
namely. to have, although the Repub-
lican Congress Is in. taxation by the
outs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-26
A Word to Christmas Shoppers and
to the Stops.

The war over, men coming home
from the camps every day by the
thousands, thousands more on their
way back across the sea, still other
thousands to follow In ship after
ship, there never was any doubt that
the American people as whole would
make Of this the most Joyous Christ
mas Of their lives.
There never was any doubt that
after restricting the clothes they
wore and the food they ate as their
part of helping to win the war the
American people this year would
yield themselves to a great, big burst
of Christmas giving, which always
means Christmas shopping. Now that
the Government has taken Off the lid,
giving free rein to Industrial, whole
sale and retail interests for holiday
trade. there Isn't any doubt that
many of the shops are going to be
swamped under the Christmas shop
ping. Our people feel that they will
be justified In buying this year some
what in the enthusiastic manner they
bought savings stamps and bonds ;
and they will be. They have learned
TO borrow money to buy Liberty
bonds. They have learned to go into
debt to pay their income taxes. They
will be justified. at this time, II ever,
even in going into debt to do their
Christmas giving.
So In this matter Of Christmas
shopping there must be double pre-
paredness. The shops must have the
articles for their Christmas business
and they must have the labor to
handle it. The public must begin
earlier than ever before TO do their
buying. Let both sides go to III
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-26
Two Thoughts OF n Great Moral
PhllosOp her.

In the collection of aphoristfc and
ethical precepts which our President
WILSON has contributed to the com
mon stock through his writings and
addresses there are two which stand
forth with peculiar distinctness at
this time.
The first was uttered in Jersey
CITY on May ., 1918:
There Is very great popularity
about every partnership. There Is al
ways a talkative member and a silent
member. and the talkative member Ii
generally very much In evidence and the
silent member generally takes the con-
sequences and pays the bills"
The second was contained in the
Presidents Fourth Of July speech In
Washington two years ago:
"a man who works in order that he
may be distinguished is sooner or later
going to do some selfish thing that will
disgrace him because his object is him.
salt and not the ideals which he serves"
How true. and how uncommonly
well expressed
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never declared themselves to be in
favor Of entering a league OF nations,
either through their representatives
In Congress or Mt general election
where the question was IN issue of
the campaign.
In President WILSON'S programme
Of the worlds peace" presented to
Congress on January s, 1918, the only
one Of his fourteen propositions which
pointed toward any sort Of league
Of nations was the fourteenth and
last. These were his words:
XIV. A general association Of ma
tons must be formed under specific COW
enants for the purpose OF aftordIng mu-
tuai guarantees OF political Independents
and territorial integrity 70 great and
small states alike"
Such compact would be a very
simple matter; but II would be very
far from the federation Of the
world" which some political idealists
evidently have In mind.
1t might as we'll be understood
here and now that the people Of the
United States will never consent to
join league Of nations that pos.
sesses the power by majority vote
to determine what any other member
Of the league ought or ought not to
do. They intend to retain the power
to decide for themselves the questions
that affect their national interests
or honor.
This country would agree that It
should be compelled by a league Of
nations to keep Its word. as pledged
in Its solemn treaties voluntarily
made from time to time with other
countries. We have no intention Of
treating such engagements as scraps
of paper and would therefore have
nothing to fear from league OF ma.
lions formed merely to enforce the
performance Of international agree
ments. We are not prepared. how
ever, to 60 further than this, and
submit our conduct as nation to
the supervision and control Of other
nationalities, no matter how numer-
Gus or wise they may be.
The people Of the United States
propose to retain national home rule;
and anybody who attempts to bind
them to commit their affairs to the
Judgment and decision Of other ma
lions will make the gravest kind of
a mistake.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-26
URGES TRADE WITH ITALY.
Ambassador Speaks 10 Exporter.
OF New Opportunities.

American manufacturers and ex-
portcrs were urged yesterday to give
special heed TO the opportunities for
trade with Italy In u speech by Count
Macchi dI Cellero. the Italian Ambas.
SAILOR. at luncheon given at the
Hotel McAlpin by the American
manufacturers Export Association in
his honor.
with the advent OF peace" said
Count di Ce!lere, II anticipate an era
OF intense economic activity in nv
country, due TO the TRANQUILITY on1
security which has become hers
through the acquisition OF her natural
frontier We will need, together win
such staple products as cotton, coal
mineral oil and tobacco, n considera bic
quantity OF outside manufactures.
In the past many OF the other Medi-
terranean countries have had Uttla
chance to develop their resources bi.
now they win offer important fields TO
commerce under their new politicni
regimes"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-26
A Farmers Wife Says There Are
Two Such Versions.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: DR..
BurrelHs desire for bible In the YER
nacular." mentioned in your editorial
article OF November II. rather surprises
me. as two such versions already exist.
cannot give very precise data, because
although I have seen copies OF both I
do not possess one One is by an Eng
l!shman. perhaps both are. and both are
easily purchasable In this country, and
are a distinct boon to the man In the
street" Personally I delight In the
beautiful English OF the Authorized YER
sion. but can easily sense how ex-
tremely dIfficult It would be for the
casual reader to get anything out of
II. ! am not In the least a follower Of
the Rev. Billy Sunday. but there can be
no doubt OF the fact that his extremely
picturesque version OF the setto between
David and Goliath would be understood
by nine hundred and ninety-nine to
whom the concise and complete pic
ture" given in the Authorized Version
would remain respected enigma.
ny all means lot us have the two YER
slons on sale, side by side. the one in
the vernacular-aud that does not mean
Billy Sundays slahg-for the 800, and
the beautiful Authorized Version for the
I,000th reader. who loves good English.
The Bible IL primarily a book to live
by. not literary monument. and you
can't live by a set OF rules you don't
understand. FARMERS WIFE
Greenwood. Va. November 22.
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TRADE BRIEFS.

Rata are increasing all over England.
both in the cities and rural districts. The
present Is a most opportune time for the
sale OF good rat destroyers and American
Arms desiring to enter tho British market
would do we'll to work through some big
house In London or some such firms as
have retail shops in every important city
IN Great Britain.
Artificial rubber has been made IN an
experimental way for many years. but 81 Is
now reported that II has become prac-
tical success. and that the great dye and
color works at E!berfeld, Germany. are
erecting q large factory for the production
OF synthetic rubber on a large scale.
The Swedish Industrial Committees Blu
reau for Fats has organized the gathering
OF refuse fats for making soap. Hospi-
tails, barracks and prisons make their own
soap, while tho rest OF the fats are sent
to the soap factories for treatment.
A Russian Arm Is in the market for
complete machinery and equipment for a
sulphate celluose mill. combined with a
paper factory; also railways, ropewsyS
elevators. repair shop machinery and e!ec-
trio motors.
II is thought that the high prices ruling
for galvanized iron IN South Africa have
led to the supplauting ~ the iron roof by
one OF asbestos tiles, such t.lcs being made
in South Africa on a large scale.
A new steel Industrial concern has teen
formed in Bergen, Norway. This enter
prise will be especially useful for furnish
ing the iron which Will be used so much
for reerectiug the office buildings destroyed
ny the great FIRE. The new buildings will!
be mainly OF iron. glass and concrete.
The total value OF all the minerals pro-
duced in the Union OF South Africa dur
ing July amounted TO fl7, 1al .282, a de-
crease OF Sl53,723 as compared with the
value OF the output in June
A number OF merchants have complained
according 10 Consul Arthur Mclean Of the
Dominican Republic, that American px-
porters frequently neglect to send shipping
documents by the steamer carrying the
merchandise.
There Is japanese patent medicine
advertised throughout China as being a
perfect digestive and aniidotal medicine
that has secured an enormous sale among
the Chinese; It is said that in some locali-
ties 60 per cent. OF the population use IT,
According to the Official figures Of the
Department OF Mines and Industries the
total diamond production OF South Africa
for the hrst six months OF 1918 amounted
to l,4lOs30 carats valued at sI9,OSG Oa2
OF the total output l,3s5.59s carats were
sold for $ls,l62425.
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THE PRESIDENTS DUTIES.
Has Mr.. Wilson Admitted He Cannot
Reform Them Abroad

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUH-Sir: II
appears that Presidents may come and
Presidents may go. but some OF US be-
leve that the Constitution should go on
forever. In Article H., section !. sixth
paragraph, we read:
In case Of the removal of the President
efrom ONCE or OF his death, resignation or
inability to discharge the powers and du-
ties OF the said ONCE. the same shall de-
volve on the Vice-President. and the Con-
gress may by law provide for the case OF
removal. death, resignation or inability.
both Of the President and Vice-Presideni.
declaring what officer shall then act as
President. and such ofIicer shall act &C
cordingly until the disability be removed
or a President shall be elected.
Congress has so provided.
Now We learn from the daily papers
that the President is going to France
to attend the peace conference; that he
expects to be absent weeks or months,
and that he has entered into an agree
ment with the vice-Pres!dent, as Presi-
dent OF the Senate. and the Speaker OF
the House to withhold until his return
all bills that Congress may pass.
II this report Ia correct II Is plain
as daylight that Mr.. Wilson thereby
confesses and announces his disability
TO discharge the duties of the Presiden-
tial ONCE during his absence from the
country. Clearly here Is the exact con-
tingency provided for by the Constitu-
ton, and II will devolve upon Mr.. Mar
shall TO assume the Office Of President
during the interregnum-in this case
that appears to be n more appropriate
term than ad interim--and discharge
its duties, one OF the most important of
which ia the signing OF bills. II he.
through modesty or otherwise. should
decline. the next in succession is Secre-
tary Of State Lansing. But 1t Is under
stood that he also will be in France.
Then II would come to the Secretary
OF the Treasury Next in succession
is Secretary of War Baker, but there
is a possibility that he also would be
looking over the shoulders Of those who
sit at the council table, And next after
him in the order OF succession Is
Attorney General Gregory What he
would do we have no. means Of guess
Ing. Altogether It is as puzzling as a
circulating decimal
RossIrER JOHNSON.
New YoRK, November IS.
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A THIRD SON OF THE REVo-
LUTON.
At 80 Hc Is q Busy Lawyer in Madi-
son, Wis.

10 THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Siy. Mr..
Charles NJ. Morris OF Milwaukee, Wis.
writes me that his father. Mr.. William
A. p. Morris OF Madison. Wis. lis tho
only eurviving child OF the late General
Jacob Morris. an officer in the Revolu-
tionary army, who died at Butternuts,
otsego county, ". Y, in 1874. My
father. although past So years Of age,
Ia an attorney at law In active and
busy practice"
General Jacob Morris, son OF Lewis
Morris. the signer G726-17sS. was
born In Morrisania December 2s, 1856 /;
died in Butternuts, Otsego county. MY,
June 10, 1894; was educated for mer-
chants career, but yielding to patriotic
impulses, offered his services to Con-
gress, and was appointed aide de camp
to General Charles Lee. with whom he
went to the South and served with credit
at Fort Moultrie and in many other en-
fragments. He also was attached to
the stan of General Nathaniel Greene.
On the declaration OF peace he returned
to New York city. and was subsequently
elected to both the lower and upper
houses Of the Legislature. In 1897 he
removed to Butternuts. otsego county.
n. Y" Appleton's Cyclopedla OF Amer
lean Biography. Volume ~. page 4l6.
1t appears that there are at least three
living sons OF soldiers of the Revolu-
ton. viz. Mr.. Norris. Francis Marion
Lennon (see THE SUN OF November /.
1919 and Percy Wheeler (see THE
SUN OF November Q, 1919.
WILLIAM NJ. swEENT.
ASTORIA, November 25.
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A Beautiful Memorial for Heroes.

No more appropriate, beautiful or
sensible memorial to the men who
have fallen in the war could be de-
vised than the plantations of trees
which have been set out in some
towns, and which all communities
are urged to adopt as the enduring
symbols of their gratitude.
Some of the monuments raised to
soldiers In the United States are
splendid In conception and execution.
Others are pitifully inappropriate and
would not he tolerated for a moment
were 1t not for the sentiment they
represent. Most OF them are merely
commonplace, failing to do justice to
the thought that inspired them or to
the martyrs whose fame they are de-
signed to perpetuate.
A grove of trees can never be any.
thing but beautiful. No matter what
design Is followed in planting them,
they will be dlgnifed, interesting and
Increasingly worthy Of their purpose.
Their care would enlist the thoughts
Of succeeding generations; the re-
placement of those which fell victims
TO accident or disease might well be
the occasion Of memorial services at
which the glorIes Of the men in
whose honor they were set out could
NE recalled. The plantations re-
ssrved for them would naturally be-
come the scenes Of patriotic gather
ings at which tribute would be paid
IN succeeding generations to those
who in the great war gave their lives
for their country.
This suggested scheme OF memorial
decoration can be adapted to the
natural requirements OF any town.
Nothing Is nobler than n splendid
boulevard lined with trees; nothInR
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-26
A VERNAcULAR BIBLE.
Suggestions From an Admirer Of the
Books Literary Qualities.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sr. May
! suggest to the reverend gentleman you
mention in your editorial article on "a
Bible in the Vernacular" that In pre-
pairing his practical Bible In the YER
nacular he confene his transcripts from
the Old Testament TO such portions as
arc included In the dictionary OF the
Episcopal Church-the Psalms OF David,
the Proverbs and the Book of Job7 It
Is had to see what OF edifcation or Of
instruction can be conveyed to a reader
whether he has enjoyed the discipline
OF fourteen years in Sing Sing or any
other reformatory institutSon) from
those portions OF the Old Testament that
It's enemies are wont to marshal when
las they sometimes do even yeti they
attempt purposely TO derogate from its
wisdom. elegance and power!
Those chapters OF Levt!cus OF four
or five thousand years obsolete clinical
instruction (Which might be termed
sort of contag ious diseases act) and the
minute directions for sacrificing beasts
and BIRDS that II attempted TO be fol-
lowed to-day would create a shambles
TO- say an abbatolr) that no board Of
health would license. can hardly be
necessary to make good citizens! And
have known eminent professors OF re-
ltgion who claim that Old Testament
prophecies are mostly OF temporal good
and MISREPRESENTATION of good har-
vests or plentiful rains or, per contra ;,
fam'nes o. pestilences in other words
rewards and punishments entirely I'M
connected with such blessings as i'm
mortality or promises OF a heaven here
after for the good and n place OF tor
ment for the bad
Except for the pious 1sraelite the en-
tire ceremonial law OF the Old Tesla
ment Is merely curiosity And how
or why or when a piece OF literature like
the Song OF Solomon should have ever
been selected as Holy Writ suppose
no one has ever risen to conjecture.
But OF what is left, how any one who
can spell can fail to get the beauty or
escape the majesty OF Holy Writ espe-
cially OF the New Testament. It is
equally impossible TO conceive.
Is there In all literature 20 concise.
cugent. consecutive and absorbing n mar
ratlve of events from cause 10 effect and
from effect TO cause as The Acts OF The
Apostles? Can any one who will read
that Book consecut!vely--at one sitting
If possible-fail to believe that Il Is a
true narrative? That story OF Pauls
voyage think Captain Goldman has
somewhere rewritten in modern nauti-
cal language and found not only that the
Pauline mariners navigated their craft
exactly as modern mariner would
have been obliged to do but that much
OF the very technology they employed in
telling the story needed no revers!oning
into modern "dlpsy" natter.
When we possess such n wonderful
book as our Bible why dilute II and
run the fisk of destroying its solemn!,y,
It's eloquence and its power Of touching
the human heart by retaining obsolete
and meaningless matter that even the
most orthodox and punctilious OF relly-
ious bodies deliberately discard in their
dictionaries? b. FRANK CARPENTER.
NEW York, November 25.
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Discrepancies Of the sort noted by Mr..
Arnold are always distressing to a
newspaper. especially when the matter
In point Is 80 important as the hirsute
frame OF a notorious face. When the
editorial mention Of Won Tirpitz's Won
derful exhibit of posonotrophy was
written the cables had not brought the
news that the old wretch had elimi-
mated the only handsome thing he ever
presented TO the gaze Of the world.
The chances that the pirate would
shave of those whiskers on the day
OF THE SUNS reference TO them, or
on any other day for that matter.
we're as is to the ninth power II 8.
Tirpitz deserved to have his whiskers
cut Off. but not by his own hand, and
the best way to have removed them
would have been q method entailing
also the loss Of his head.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-26
THAT RUDE MERCURY.
He Soon VIII Begin Showing the
Earth Out Of Its Place in the Sun.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: The
little red planet Mercury, now seen In
the southwestern sky just above the
sunset. IL coming this way. At mid
night November 20, 1918. It begins to
move in a curve toward the earth, and
will force the earth outward a little
from the sun and cause colder weather,
which will be cold wave In many To-
callties by December /.
In this race OF planets around the sun
Saturn Is in the lead Just now. Neptune
next. then Jupiter. then the earth, and
coming between the sun and earth Is
Mercury. which will coon catch up with
the earth and afterward II will pass all
the rest. Therefore. as Mercury begins
to force, or repel, the earth out from the
sun the last day OF November, the earth
will bump against the repelling force Of
Jupiter. Neptune and Saturn, as they
nre ahead of the earth. This humping,
commonly called friction, or warmth,
will prevent the earth's temperature
falling as much as 1t would II Jupiter.
Neptune and Saturn were not In the
earth's way when Mercury begins to
force the earth outward In some posi-
tons OF other planets our cold wave
caused by Mercury's approaching is
counteracted but the three big planets
are not now in positions TO prevent
Mercury's cold wave by December I.
Mercury forces the earth out from the
sun in this manner about four times
a year. causing cool spells and rains in
summer and cold spells and SHOWS in
winter. When there are no planets i'm
mediately ahead OF the earth in winter
the earth can be freely forced out from
the sun without encounterlng resistance
Of planets, therefore the temperature
goes far below zero In this latitude.
The problem in arithmetic Is: How
much friction. or warmth. will Jupiter,
Neptune and Saturn cause in their pres
ent positions when Mercury forces us
against them when II causes the cold
wave due by December !? It is a sim
pie problem. but takes lots OF figures.
Look out for the cold wave.
D. A. n. GROVER
KANSAS CRIT, Mo-. November 20.