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IN THE NAME OF FAITH.
Even a bad Old Jest VIII Survive
Times Assaults.

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SUN-Sir: A
Brooklyn drug clerk declares that a per-
son who expects to keep off influenza
by carrying around chunk of camphor
In his or her Aothes is more or less
of an imbecile. This is indeed dreadful
news
Next some one will tell us that tot
ing around a horse chestnut in ones
trousers will not ward OFF rheumatism.
Faith. dear pill roller, is what We need
these days. Didst never hear of the
potency OF rabbits foot as a mascot
or good luck provider? Or OF the swastika
as IA charm against evil?
Let the great army OF toilers buy cam
phor, II they can. Old DIR. Abcrnathy's
advice was to keep your feet warm and
your head cool"
Apropos of camphor, a lad went into
a pharmacy recently:
II forgot what my mother wants"
said he.
was it a seidlitS POWDER" asked the
clerk.
The boy shook his head. Then the
druggist mentioned various things, but
not the right one. We'll" said he, go
home and tell your mother you forgot
what you came for"
That's it," yelled the KID. "Camphor.
I want ten cents worth" J. MEG.
BROOKLYN, October II.
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serious II the person suffering from
1t allows his fears to run away with
his judgment and permits himself
to become panic stricken. In every
instance in which epIdemlcs have
visited the country some persons
have worried themselves into illness,
and by their own terror opened the
way for disease to lay hold ON their
systems.
The regulations Of the Board Of
Health to suppress the influenza are
simple, few in number and easily
obeyed. In them the sensible pre-
cautions which occur to the mind of
every individual are officially pro-
mulgated. They entail 10 serious
hardships. Obedience to them should
be universal. In short, they impose
on us only the obligation to live
rieanly, sanely and comfortably, to
keep cool, and to consult q MUSICIAN
when we are Ill.
And the greatest of these is to
keep cool.
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Ostend.

The British navy reduced Ostepd
to uSelessness as a German subma-
rine base by as gallant an exploit as
the history of that great feet records.
Now the British navy has occupied
this pleasant Belgian seaport, and
four years after it's fall to the Ger
mans it is again in the hands Of
civilized men.
In March the Germans talked Of
smashing through to Calais; even this
week their heavy guns have once
more thrown shells into Dunkirk /;
but now their armies in the north of
Belgium are in precipitate retreat,
IL not in rout, and their hold on the
land they violated is being broken.
That ALBERT, the faithful King of
devoted Belgium, might have the
honor and the personal qualification
of being the first to enter each re-
deemed city in his land Is the natural
wish of all who do not forget the
picturesque in their contemplation of
the practical. But If he could not
lead the forces of salvation into Os.
tend. surely their vanguard couldihave
no more appropriate pioneers than
the officers and men Of the British
navy.
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THE WINTER CLOCK.
Of Keeping 1t Set an
Hour Ahead of the Sun.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir:
heartily indorse the views Of Arthur II.
Lea in Mondays SUN regarding day
light saving. I too believe that moth
Ing will be gained, but much may be
lost, by keeping the clocks one hour
ahead during the cold winter days.
There are many reasons why this would
be inadvisable, besides those mentioned
by Mr.. Lea, among them the health OF
the workers and the getting up SO long
before daylight, when the atmosphere
is at it's worst and the strength of the
workers at its weak point. Besides, the
saving I think Is in the imagination. for
It Is only changing the people who burn
gas, not reducing the amount OF gas
burned. Every worker will have higher
gas bills. and their number is legion.
] think II is not an efficient arithmeti-
clan who figures that there will be less
gas burned by changing 1t from the
business houses TO the millions of
homes was In favor of II last spring.
but for number of reasons have
changed my mind about its usefulness
and the saving of gas by this means.
But especially is 1t unwise to keep the
clocks ahead during the winter months.
A. ROBERTSON.
NEW YoRK, October II.
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TRADE BRIEFS.

There Is a good market In British Ma
laya for the sale Of American made dyes.
reports Consul General Edwin y. Gun
sauus
To insure smoking tobacco for the
French aud Allied armies the planters of
smoking tobacco in Algeria will be ro-
quirod 10 deliver to the authorities 60 per
cent. of their harvesta
During 1861 there were approximately
$500 acres OF cotton under cultivation In
South Africa. II Is estimated that the
19lI-ls crop will probably cover an acre
ago Of 10000 acres, with an estimated
Yield. under favorable circumst ances. OF
5000, 900 pounds OF seed cotton.
BY a decree Just issued Venezuela es-
tablished two new departments in the
Ministerio de Fomento--a Department of
Mines and a Department OF Common
Lands, Industries and Commerce.
A stronger development OF the Swedish
business organization In Russia IL marked
by the forming OF = trade council OF
swedish business men IN Moscow to work
with the swedish Consul General In Mos
COW, the Swedish Trade Committee In
Petrograd and the Exporters Association
to take care OF the swedish Interests con-
nected with the trade In Russia.
There 10 a marked decrease IN the .x.
portation OF Valencia oranges from Spain.
The annual export before tho war OF
nearly 5000. 900 casos has dropped to less
than sns.ssvsath Of that amount,
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Our Judgment Day.

II shall come--the great glad day of
Peace;
To the burst OF martial strain,
Our men who have fought tho bitter strife.
Shall come to their own again.
We shall hear the tramp OF their march
ing feet
As they come from Calvary,
In their hearts. white scared with tho
battles heat.
= They shall Judge Of you and me.
Though their tongues be mute they shall
challenge US.
They shall search our souls. though
blind.
And their charge shall be; How have
you kept faith?
You. you who have stayed behind!
when the call came Serve did you do
your share
That your country's Cause might liver
At the cry for Help did you stint your
selves.
DID you sacrifice 70 giver
.'or did you stay IN your sheitering homo
Did you hear and give no sign.
while you said to yourselves. Let others
give.
For the Cause Is theirs. not mins'?"
We shall hear the tramp OF their march
Ing feet
As they come from Calvary.
IN their hearts, white scared with the
battles heat,
They shall Judge OF you and me.
LouISn PANE BnNyAMIA
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INFLUENZA REPORTS.
Can II Be That Some Doctors Pad
Their Lists?

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir:
feel impelled to counsel DIR. Copeland
not to allow himself to be driven from
his present conservative course by any
thing DR.. Goldwater has said or may
saw. DR.. Copeland may rest assured
that private physicians report every
probable and possible case OF influenza
coming under their observation. IN
deed, friends OF mine fancy that some
physicians. to enhance their own I'M
portance, elaborate their lists of pa
tents by Including imaginary cases. II
DIR. Goldwater has insnuated that the
reports Of these physicians are incom-
plete It must be because he does not
thoroughly understand human nature or
Is lacking in a sense of humor.
DR.. COPELAND is acting very prudently
In his efforts to safeguard the citys
health without unnecessarily alarming
the public. To aliay further the fears
OF the public ! suggest that besides pub
fishing the number of influenza cases he
make note of the number OF recoveries.
or the large number OF patients ad-
mitted TO the hospitals a considerable
proportion must be from time to time
discharged as cured: and private physi-
clans ought to effect many cures. espe-
clally of patients with no more serious
ailment than a cold In the head. which
passes away in a couple OF days BY
thus striking a balance between the still
ailing and the cured We would know
each day Just how many existing cases
there are. As to those that have been
we need not feel concerned. l.. V. {.
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alliance Of the Imperial German Gov
eminent, the Austro- Hungarian mon
archy and the Turkish Empire has
seemed somewhat improbable to OBJ
servers less well informed than Baron
BURIAN, but 1t appears to have en-
listed the enthusiasm Of all Teuton-
dom. Thus the Tribune de Genepe
announced yesterday that In conse-
quence Of revolutionary outbreak In
Constantinople "the Germans have
rushed twenty warships from the
Black Sea" to protect the adherents of
the pro-German ENvER Pasha, and 1t
Is generally understood that Berlin,
determined to hold the Turks In al
lance, Is ready to lombard Constan-
tlnople II necessary to halt any move
against Germany"
Thus Turkey, in the words Of Baron
BURIAN, continues to keep her en-
gagement with the alliance" the
faithful German ally" holding the
pistol ut Turkeys heart. At what
particular vital spot in Austria Hun
gary does the faithful German ally"
level convincing weapon to retain
the support Of that Power?
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d The Flight.

The Allied armies are rolling back
the German curtain from occupied
Belgium Cities that have been In
slavery for four years IRE being set
free ut last. While at the south of
the line PERsHING and his Americans
engage the enemy In close fighting
at the northwest the French and the
British aid the Belgians to recover
their lost homes. Lille, the most
important city In northern France,
Is won back to Its owners; Ostend Is
seized from the one side by the Brit
isAp navy and from the other by King
ALBERT's army.
1t may not be German rout. but
only German military art saves it
from being one. 1t is flight, de-
terminedly In the direction of the
German frontier. The Prussians who
year ago saw success only In the
capture Of Paris or the Channel ports
now see glory in reaching home with
complete hides. Their vastest tri-
umph now lies in having fled so rap
idly as to dlstapce the Allied infan-
try. In March the cleaning sword Of
WILHELM was to force the world to
its knees; In October the German
legions are in GREATNESS retreat.
Whether the allies of civilization
overtake and capture or kill them,
or whether the Germans scurry with
some safety out of the land they vio-
lated, the result will be the same.
The broken Germans are running
home to Il broken Germany. All the
dreams, Including dinner In Paris and
the wonderful Mitteleuropa. are van
ished. The German myth of military
invincibility is dissolved. the German
boast of fighting it out to the death
Is heard no more. True. some of the
Germans are kept behind to stay the
rushing Yankees. and these are being
mopped up. If there Is no hopping
along the line near the North Sea 1t
is because the ,vermin move faster
than the mop.
What n wealth of subjects Is ut
the disposal of the Reichstag when 1t
meets to-day! 1t might appoint n
committee of welcome to go to the
frontier to meet the glorious retreat.
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WHY THE BUDGET IS HIGH.
Emergency Expenses That the City
Cannot Avoid.

To THE Fn,roR OF THE SuN-Sir: In
regard 20 your editorial article on the
CITY budget. have not been a very
s,ror. .,unorter n, tho nresent admin
istratlon. hut 7 mus. give the members
q, The Hoard of Estimate credit for a
s,ncsr. and Intelligent effort to keep
down c,tv exnenses
We ars IN the midst Of an extraordl-
vary situation There ia an average In
oroa. az IN che cost NJ living of s5 per
80,
v,o., hays Increased so that I'M
sh,l,ed labor commands A minimum wage
., a, 40 Tor eight hours while skilled
I. hor ia Maid from fs. 60 IN for the same
,I,,o n,,,h oxtra nav for overtime.
p,,,,ic on,nion. generously stimulated
nv Tur sun. forced increases in the pay
~ Tho no,ice and FIRE departments. Every
c,.rL In tho c,tv an,pIov receiving under
q, con ,,oar,,, ,,,,,s, no Maid more To en-
~. -, - ,,,. nronorly upder changed
.o,,,,,on,
Chor,,ah,. institutions found IL i'm
..,hi. 90 r..n civ aenandents for AZ
49,, ia. .nd ,h. rate has had to
:. -, S,,r,,,,as FOR all c,tv depart-
..o,,,,,,,s ,n,no,+sn, Items Hich
80, ,,,u,har asn,,alt tar and oil.
$3.50, l., -
I,,a. ,,oro ,,.s 90 EMO ooo under the
roun H., ,o. ,,,,,ch the cItv receiyed
..ia. 90 ,no ooo for excsss cost
% -, ro,,oyo,. 90 moo oOo for the
Vi s"ow ,,ars hr,does
- -, Isl, ,roner,v and 80 70o.-
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ITALIAN BOND BUYERS.
Another Exempliacation Of Their Zeal
for the Cause.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: I
feel 1t my duty TO thank you for
printing my letter of October 1 in THE
SUN OF Sunday regarding the poor result
of subscribing the Fourth Liberty Loan
by Italian Americans at Carnegie Hall
on October 3.
Lest Sunday at the banquet OF the
Italians, under the auspices OF the
Italian Chamber of Commerce, in honor
OF the Italian soldiers. at the Aston
House. among about 1000 Italians was
collected nearly 100000 OF Liberty
Loan bonds in less than fifteen minutes.
Not one OF tho leading newspapers of
this city mentioned this fact which
proves tho true patriotism Of the
Italians. GUsTAvE ToLENTINo
NEW YORK, October IT.
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Senator Lewia's Remarkable Lurch
Toward AutOcracy.

The resolution offered in the Sen
ate yesterday by the indomitable
JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS of Illinois
is doubtless suggested with the most
patriotic intentions, but it must be
considerably embarrassing to Presl-
dent WILSON just the same. 1t may
even seem to him an untimely ex-
hibition of damfoollshness.
Mr.. LEWIS invites the Senate to
renounce one of the most important
of its Constitutional functions. He
asks its abdicatiOn as a part of the
treaty making power OF the United
States Government. The Constitu-
ton empowers the President to make
treaties only with the advice and
consent of the Senate. two-thirds Of the
Senators present concurring. Peace,
when made, must be made by treaty.
The Lewis resolution seeks to COM
NIT the Senate in advance to ap-
proval of whatever course may be
taken by the President of the United
States in the matter of his dealings
with the enemy Governments. 1t in
dorses in advance and without limit
"whatever methods he may employ to
achieve the result of victorious peace
and the establishment of the princi-
pies for which the United States en-
tered the war"
IF this highly estimable and highly
vermilion statesman merely intended
to secure from the Senate a compli-
mentary expression of confidence in
the discretion, judgment and patriot
ism Of President WILSON, he went
about 1t in n manner to make the
angels of democracy weep. For the
singular feature of his resolution,
when closely studied and correctly
apprehended, is that it proposes a
radical change in the peace making
machinery of the United States Gov
eminent, in the direction of autoc-
racy, at the very moment when Ger
many Is undertaking to modify its
peace making machinery in the d.
rection of democracy, and this In or
der to meet or to seem to meet the
conditions imposed by President VIII
SON himself.
Note the coincidence:
On Thursday, October II, a Copen-
hagen despatch informs us that In
Berlin the Federal Council Of the
German Government has accepted the
proposed amendment OF Article 2 of
the German Constitution which makes
the Reichstag's consent necessary to
the conclusion Of a treaty Of peace.
This treaty making power has been
| exercised solely by the Kaiser, or by
the Kaiser with the consent OF the
Federal Council, which practically
amounts to the same thing. The re-
quiremcnt Of the consent of the Ger
man representative legislature, II eff.
fected in good faith and prominence,
would be a notable move away from
autocracy toward democracy.
1 On the same day Thursday. Octo.
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THE USELESS.
Why Tolerate the PedIer OF None"
sential TrinkPts!

To THE EDITOR OF THE SrS-Sr'
'rritated me when crossing NnSS'.
street to-day TO see Vendor cHs7Seo
IN selling a pair OF dice and a cartridge
for ten cents. This tdler appeared %
be In good health and well under for''
FIVE years OF age. Where are the MO-"
OF fight regulations? The G"verHn1r'
needs every available man and ever.
available dollar.
A man who purchases Fn.h 'a''
Is. likewise. not fulfilling his di'y -
his country. Ten cents IS A. P.r .'...
OF the price needed to purchase .1.'
stamp.
Public humiliation should be 'rl''eu
on such slackers and II this docs ','
suffice the offender should be given ~
months at hard labor in III" sac
penitcntiary. TREAT EN- ls's'h'
NEW YORK. October l..
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ON THE HONOR ROLL.
An American FamlIy's Contribute"
to the Great Cause.

To THE EpIroR OF TIE Su%--''..
noticed in TIE SuH recently state
ment that a widow in some WcS', 'h CO..
had given six sons 10 the service ~ "'.
country. for which she should have or
commentator and honor. and truly h.
should which reminds me OF the t'o1
that nearer home. in fact only 'N
miles out In New Jersey, Nu'N',
gave up his home for the base hoNI','
at Camp Merritt, where he had lN'n '''
forty years. and OF his ten children 80,
four boys and two girls. Noiun'"'r'' a.
onco to serve their country, ana "'
now represented by them IN the "r".
navy. aviation corps ana the He'd cross
in France. ~ T. W.
NEW York, October II.
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Novel in its purpose and execution
Is the method of the Western Union
Telegraph Company to stimulate bond
purchases. The company distributed
printed cablegrams from General PER-
sHINo, urging the buying of bonds, and
with a blank for subscription on the
reverse side. which in turn will be
transmitted to the American comman-
der. Have you sent your message
to PERsHINo yet?
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The Faithful Ally with the Horse
Pistol.

Baron BURIAN. Minister Of Foreign
Affairs OF the Austro-Hungarian mon
archy, addressed the Foreign Affairs
Committee of the Hungarian delega.
ton recently, and in the course of his
remarks said:
I'VE shall enter upon the tpeaosJ ne
gotiations closely united with our faith
fui German ally and with Turkey. which
continues TO keep her engagement to-
ward the alliance. Notwithstanding the
difficuit situation in which she Is placed
by the disappearance of Bulgaria"
The long continued endurance of the
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The First Line OF Defence Against
Influenza.

II cannot be impressed too fire.
quently or too strongly on the minds
of the residents of sections in which
the influenza has appeared that the
hrst defence against this disease. as
against all other epidemic diseases,
is calmness and confidence.
Not everybody Is going to have the
disease; not everybody who contracts
1t Is going to be dangerously sick.
Not every cold, or every headache.
or every fever, or attack OF indiges-
ton, Is symptomatic of the influenza !:
but every minor ailment may be made
The sun., 1918-10-18

woman's hand mirror was the
means OF saving fifty persons from the
torpedoed liner Galway Castle. Among the
survivors on a raft was woman who
took from her handbag a small mirror
and suggested one OF the sailors use II
for making photographic signals. The
attempt was made and the signals
brought up a destroyer at full speed
which took of the survivors from the
raft, as well as number OF sailors
clinging to wreckage.-Dcspotch from
London.
The vindication OF the vanity case!
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Asked II he still retained faith in
the motto Colt nit uns," a German
prisoner replied. Yes, but you French
men have the Americans with you"
II Is difficult, from this information,
to ascertain whether the German Colt
is depreciating in value in the German
military theology.
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Varying opinions have been ventured
as to where influenza originated, but,
the disease having ravaged all Europe
and now North America, there have
been no predictions as to just where
1t will stop.
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We have compared the above with
a menu of a restaurant of the first
class, but not notably fashionable or
expensive, aud find that similar
meal therein would require the pay
ment of u dinner check of $2.s5, not
including the walters tip nor the hat
brigands unholy loot.
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There are few men who do not in
sure their lives; there should be no
one who does not insure his liberty.
The sun., 1918-10-18

The truce will end Saturday night art
there is every indication here Of new
move coming in the Democratic cam
paign with the idea EMPHASIZED that
Democratic defeat would be pleasing n
the Kaiser in that II would be apparently
4 reputation of the President TIE
Republican reply to this argument viii
be the party records since the war re-
gan. showing that far greater per-
centage of the Republican party than
of the Democratic party in Congress
has consistently supported war measures
and that some OF thcm--notab'y 'As
selecti"e draft act-were made possible
only when the Republicans took il upon
themselves to pass them.
They will stress the fact that Ec7-e.
sentative Eitchin IN O., the Nono.
cratic leader in the House. and Repre-.
eentPtIve Dent thla). chairman Of tho
Military Committee. whilo they ha''
been in positions OF the creates: rospor'
sbliity have not by any means sup
ported the President.
The Republicans feel that FOR Ire
President 10 write letter or take some
other means OF showing he desires
Democratic Congress would be an ahso-
lutte reputation OF his statement that
''nolitics is adjourned THIS settlement
was made in the Presidents address 70
Congress on Nav 81 when he urged Tie
massage of n revenue hill.
on the other hand the Democrats a'"
"rena~'n" ~ insist that this remark ~
the President ITaN been entirely r'
construed and that ~ referred mere
70 the revenue measure under n'S'''t'
sion. They will insist that the Pcs
dent as the leader of his party h''
every RIGHT to eNpect and even ask ma
'he people show their supuort Of lin ny
returning his party to power.
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Director. General MeAdoO's Little
Masterplece.

Many and allurlng are the accom-
pllshments Of General Of
Railroads McADoo, a very Leonardo
da Vinci of finance, transportation,
commerce and catering, artist In all !
General MCADoo has just now COM
posed bill of fare for meals to be
served to officers and privates In din
ing cars and railroad station res
taursnts at the price of IS cents a
meal, each item In the bill in weight
to equal or exceed the army and
navy rations." Here Is the card:
DINNER.
Soup.
Relish.
Roast, Stew or Boiled Meat.
Two vegetables potatoes and one other).
Bread and Butter.
Tea, Coffee or Milk.
Dessert.
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Self determination" was the popu-
lar phrase last year: ito prevent fur
Their bloodshed" seems to be fashion
able now.