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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01
The Quality Of the Catbird's Voice
Depends Upon the Season.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUN-Sir: I
make a solemn protest against the re-
fiections upon the song OF the catbird
contained in a poem recently published
by The SUN.
We have no catbirds in Texas. but as
one who has heard with delight the
exquisitely melodious mating song OF
the male catbird prefer those few
rich notes to all the medley of our
mockingbirds, which often suggest a
feathered photograph with a scratchy
needle.
Please turn your poet loose in the
woods where he can hear the rear cat
bird song. June is the time In your
latitude. The raucous cry your poet has
heard probably was last year after the
catbird had either been disappointed in
love or actually mated. Perhaps the
latter. since settling down to married
life frequently changes the point OF view
A. w. GRANT.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. June "a.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01
How Constantine Won the War.

The former King CONSTANTINE Of
Greece is reported in the Cri dc Parts
to have made the following statement
Of his policy during the war:
The Allies owe to me their VIC
tory. They ought to be grateful to
me: because II In December, 1915,
had attacked them. Field Marshal
MAoKENsEN with my aid would
have driven them out of Salonica.
Then the Entente army in the Orient
would have ceased to exist. Bulga-
ria would not have been defeated,
the crumbling of the southeastern
force would not have caused the COL
lapse OF tho western fronts and the
Germans would have been victo-
rious"
This 10 new light upon CoNsTAN-
TINES course and so directly at vari-
ance with his acts as to be of more
than ordinary interest as an after
war statement. After his departure
from Athens the correspondence ex-
changed between him and former EN-
peror WILLIAM disclosed that he had
telegraphed to Berlin all information
Of a diplomatic or military nature he
had received from Greek diplomats
accredited to the Entente Powers and
from Greek officers at Salonica. An
intercepted telegram received by Con-
sTANTINE upon his arrival in Switzer-
land quotes the German Emperor as
saying: "The mailed fist of Germany
with further aid from Almighty Cor
will restore you to your throne, of
which no man by right can rob you"
Since the abdication of his throne
In June, 1917, CONSTANTINE has been
making his home In Switzerland. A
recent despatch from Geneva reports
him In financial difficultie owing &c
the refusal OF the Greek Government;
to pay him n pension and to the cut
ting of of an allowance which he had
been receiving from the Hohenzollerr
treasury up to the time OF the arms
tlce. It was said too that he was
endeayoring to effect reconciliation
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01
Government BondhOlders Who VIII
Pay Themselves.

An Englishman, announcing that he
will buy 100000 of his country's new
war loan and then present 1t to the
Government for cancellation, Is I'M
doubtedly moved to that act by purest
patriotism. Without questioning his
lofty motive, however, we may remind
him and others who might follow his
example that IL he will be but patient
and keep his bonds he viii pay into
the Treasury, with tax instalments
on the amount subscribed, more, much
more, than the 5000, 900 which he now
offers to pay In all at once.
The plain truth is Of course that
TO pay the interest 10 the patriot on
his bonds, If he does keep them, his
Government will tax him much more
than It gives him in interest.
The plain truth is that to put into
the sinking fund periodic sums to re-
deem the patriots bonds at maturity
his Government will tax him much
more than the face Of the bonds which
It will ultimately redeem for him.
The plain truth Is that his Govern
'ment 10 a wiser political economist
and a sounder financler than he is,
In knowing that 1t will be better for
him, better for the Government. bet,
ter for industry, better for business
better for labor. better for everybody
In the country to have the big bond,
holders cancel their holdings piece
meal-cancel them with their own
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01
THAT LINE TO RIO.
A Suggestion That the Ships Stop at
Porto Rico for Passengers.


To THE EDITOR or THE sUN-Str: 1
have read In THE Sun the very welcome
news that the United states Shipping
Board expects to run six passenger
steamships to Rio de Janeiro, making
the trip IN ten days The time cor
stunned makes me think that there will be
no stopovers en- route. and hope tho
suggestion OF man who travels more
than $4,000 miles year may be taken,
as intended, with only the best wishes.
I respectfully suggest that these
steamships should stop at Porto Rico
to pick up passengers for Brazil. II
you will study shipping routes you will
be surprised to discover that there are
many commercial travellers who would
like to 20 to Brasil or Argentina from
the West Indies or even from Southern
points OF tho United States and who
either must 20 to New York or by a
very roundabout way go to Barbados
to connect there for South America.
This stop would be a great help to our
exporting firms representatives.
1t might be we'll also to consider
stopping at Pernambuco (Recife), as I
venture to predict that millions Of dol
lars in business could be brought to
United States manufacturers from that
district u quick. direct service could
be had.
Before the war the English steamships
very often stopped at Pernambuco, and
I saw many English commercial repre-
sentatives go ashore. II the English
thought It profitable to stop their pala-
tial Royal Mail steamships at that port
It is a safe argument that It would pay
the United States to cultivate the ac-
0uaintanos Of that region.
e c. DE ViLLAvERDE.
INTERLAKBN, N. j., June so.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01

A despatch from Brussels a few
days ago announced that CHARLOTTE
the widow Of Emperor MAxIMnIAN OF
Mexico. was living In the Chateau de
Bouchout near Antwerp. She has
reached the age Of 70, and remains
a link with an Interesting failure OF
an imperial adventure in the New
World" 1t was this failure and the
death Of her husband that led to her
being one OF the worlds women OF
sorrows." She was. says the despatch
In complete ignorance Of the happen
ings Of the last FIVE years. after all
a kindly dispensation of Providence
which spared her the added sorrow in
her old age of seeing the devastation
'of her own native Belgium and the
passing Of her husbands once great
house of Hapsburg.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01
MRS. MURPHY"
The Bronx Zoo Disclaims . Lady
Hippo Of That Name.

To THE EDIroR OF THE suN-str: Now
just see what last Sundays Sun has
done to the New York Geological Park
and its devoted director! Read the
enclosed letter signed AN Irishman."
who is 30 excited that he omitted to
prefix his address and annex his true
name Please seek him out. with some
kind Of publication. and assure him that
we have at the New York Geological
Park no animal, hideous looking or
otherwise, named Mira Murphy" We
enter a plea Of not guilty and we can
prove an alibi.
Kindly restore in the mind OF IAN
Irishman' his former opinion OF my in
telligence before he was 30 surprised by
the picture Of Mrs. Murphy" which
was not taken at the geological park and
concerning which we know nothing.
The only animal at the park that has
been named in honor of n parsonage 10
a particularly vicious Burmese macaque
monkey which lie known as "Hinden-
burg" WILLIAM T. HoRNApAr.
New York BIOLOGICAL PARK, June 2s.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01
Why Won't the World Reform

Within forty-eight hours after the
signing Of the peace treaty we have
been grieved to observe In the news
that the conscience Of the world" is
not reacting in a proper way.
Twenty-one American soldiers were
killed by Bolshevists.
A plot to asssssinate the Regent of
Serbia was discovered.
Two persons were killed in a riot
between French and American SOL
diers In Brest.
Serbian and Italian troops have
clashed.
1t is all very wicked, and human.
Where is the great tide" that was
running in the hearts Of mem?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01
Bishop Browns sectarIanism.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-str: 1
am calling your attention to an article
headed Rand School May Lose Its
Charter In THE SUN OF June %, in
which you feature several times the
fact that a Methodist Bishop is accused
Of having connections with the school
and leaning toward Bolshevism.
The Bishop mentioned in the body Of
the letter. as very clearly shown, 10 not
Methodist Episcopal Bishop at all
being known as Bishop Brown OF the
Episcopal Church. Whether or not he
has any connection with the Rand
School I have no knowledge. but would
appreciate the fact that you correct this
impression as conveyed.
ROBERT w. McMuLLEN.
BRooKLrN, June 80.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01

There must be a feeling OF relief
that the earthquake in central Italy
has not brought to Florence the evil
that at times in the war It was feared
would follow in the train OF the Aus
TRAN invasion. This beautiful city OF
the Arno and its priceless treasures
Of art in the great Uffizi and Pitt
galleries escaped apparently with
out any serious damage. The loss
seems to have been suffered principally
by the little village Of vicchio, the
birthplace OF the painter Fra AN
dELIco. of whose work San Marco al
Florence has some Of the finest exam.
pies. Little Vicchio in its last years
has taken on an air OF modern imam.
cial prosperity and has few reminders
to show OF It's most renowned son.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01

with Greece. According 10 other re-
ports he Is the centre Of a very active
loyalist plot to restore him to the
Greek throne.
The remarkable things about the
valuable service which, according to
his statement, he rendered the En-
tente Powers are that 1t was not dis
covered until after the war and that
the Greek people and Premier VENr-
zELos, whose Greek patriotism and
loyalty to the allied cause were never
questioned, should have entirely failed
to recognize It
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01
The Greater Issue.

There is now shaping In the minds
Of the people a greater issue even
than that of the surrender Of part
Of our American independence and
our national sovereignty by the &C.
ceptance Of the Wilson covenant in
its existing form as the price Of peace
with Germany.
This covenant and this League of
Peace and this defiant attempt to
force the covenant and the League Of
Peace upon the ultimate treaty max
ing power by a skilful application Of
the weaver's art are but incidents Of
an insidious process which has been
and Is progressive. 1t began before
President WILSON had taken over TO
himself, for his own ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
the intellectual and political property
Of Mr.. TAFT and DR.. LOWELL and
their associates in the League to En-
force Peace. 1t bids fair to persist
rs long as the present occupant Of the
Presidential office abides.
We are speaking, of course, of that
steady concentration Of governmental
power in the Executive, that gradual
atrophy of organic functions properly
belonging to the coordinate depart.
ments, that substitution of individual
VIII for the republican methods Or
dAined by the Constitution. which
will constitute, II unchecked, a revo-
hutton in the American system--a dis
astrous, destructive, fatal revolution !;
the things Of which President WILSON
Of Princeton University said prophet
ically twelve years ago in his Colum-
bia lectures:
"Such things are not only deeply
ihSS AiO uSoeiuStNS VI
tire Understandings of constitutional
government, and, therefore, of con-
stitutional government itself They
are sure, moreover. in a country OF
s free public opinion. to bring their
own punishment to destroy both the
! fame and the power of the man who
dares to practise them.
Nothing In a system like ours can
be constitutional which Is immoral
or which touches the good faith of
those who have sworn to obey the
fundamental law. The reprobation OF
all good men will always overwhelm
such influences with shame and
failure"
THE Sun believes It, from the bot
tom of its American heart! The
greater issue is that between funda-
mental law and individual govern
ment, between democracy and autoc-
racy, not In the wide world but in the
United States of America.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01

In Elyslum at midnight, as the
echoes Of innumerable reluctant fare
wells to John Barleycorn reached the
abode Of the blessed, NEAL Dow
clasped FRANCES Z. WILLARD's hand
in congratulatlon, and JOHN B. COUCH
embraced FRANCIS MURPHY jovially.
Father MATHEW, somewhat doubtful,
gazed with nquiring eyes at CARRIE
NATION, while JOHN DARE and WILL
IAN CoLLINs--ToM Of that ilk was
absent--watched with pleasure the
smile on JOHN WEsLEY's face. NEAL
Dow's right foot rested on the origi-
nal Original Package.
Others not less notable stood about
them; men and women Of all ages,
climes and races. That eminent CHI
nese Emperor who in the eleventh
century B. G. ordered all wines IN
Cathay to be destroyed; the prestS
Of India and Persia the Carthaginians
who forbade wine In their military
camps and to their magistrates hold
ing public, Office; the priests Of
Buddha; st. GILDAs, who punished
churchmen guilty of drunkenness +;
King EDGAR ana DuNsTAN, who be-
tween them reduced the number OF
drinking places In England and the
/ amount Of intoxicants that might law
fully be sold; fine company Of the
good and the great, who In the days
Of their mundane existences fought
King Alcohol as they thought he
should be fought.
Background to these, their loyal
followers made an imposing array,
They came from all ranks, and Amer
lea was not unrepresented among
them. There stood the faithful forty
three who at Moreau, in Saratoga
county, formed temperance society
in 1908 whose members were to drink
mo rum. gin, whiskey or distilled
spirits -. excepting at public
dinners; the members of the Ameri.
can Temperance Society founded in
Boston in 1925. Of the New York TEN.
perance Society founded three years
later, the statesmen who in 1888
formed the Congressional Temper.
ance Society. DANIEL WEBSTER did
not attend.
There, too, we're Sons Of Temper.
ance, Good Templars, Blue Ribboners
representatives Of the Help Myself So
ciety, the Help One Another Society
and the Cold Water Army. The Con
necticut legislators who in 1880 en-
acted the first American local option
law looked with a little dubiety al
eminent Prohibitionists, who smiled
broadly. The South Carolina State
Dispensary was not spoken Of with
respect; no words concerning the
Speak Easy and the Blind Tiger.
! Decorously the throng celebrated
the latest victory over the common
enemy. COUGH would have uttered
once more his imprisoned periods
but Miss WILLARD repressed him
Perhaps" she said, at may be fitting
for you to speak next January. JOHN
but not now" SO the ceremonies
went forward without interruption
and ISRAEL PUTNAM and GEORGE
WASHINGTON and THOMAS JEFFERSON
with party Of their friends did not
even send regrets.
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---
EVENTS TO-DAY.

One thousand sailors from the ships of
the Atlantic and Pacific fleets now in the
Coney Island all day
Presentation OF Distinguished Service
Cross to Brig.-Gen. George II. McManus
by Mator-Gen. Thomas Barry. Governors
Island. P. NJ.
Convention and dinner. Montefore Home,
Hotel Pennsylvania, Z. p. NJ.
Ukraini Commission. meeting. Hotel
Pennsylvania, p. NJ.
Laying of the cornerstone OF the new
United ST. tics Assay Ofico at 80 Wall
street, IL o'clock
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01
Omar ExpurGatpd.

When Omar penned his famous screed
He little thought HIS lines
Would md admirers In q land
Destined to taboo wines;
But since. behold the cards are stacked
In favor OF the drys.
The bibulous old Persian We
Must certainly revise.
So when we take our Omar up
BY mountain stream or sea
Well change his celebrated verse
To run quite hsrmlessly:
"a loaf OF bread, a pitcher full
OF lemonade. and thou"
win be the way we'll have to read
The Persian poet now.
NINA IRyINa
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01
OLD CITY HALL PARK.
Its Handsome Iron Fence and the
Mysterious Cannon Balls.

10 THE EDITOR OF IhE SVN-bW. MT.
Ftndlay Sackett 10 correct In his recol-
lection OF the iron fence which was in
| It's day considered q desirable surround
ing for tho New York CRY Hall Park.
! It did antedate the board fence. In
fact there never was q board fence sur
rounding the whole park. But the iron
| fence was a thing OF beauty. about
| eight feet high, as I recall It,, with an
| imposing gateway at the southern end
| of the park. The gates we're tall and
| massive. and the two gate posts were
| topped with cannon balls that we're said
| to have historic interest Somebody
please rise up and tell what that was.
never knew.
Nobody, so far as I ever heard. knew
what became OF those two cannon balls.
More than likely Marty Reese, II he
were still with us, might give q shrewd
guess. There was very little about the
| City Hall or the park that he didn't
know, but it he knew that he never
told.
! What Mr.. Sackett remembers as a
board fence was probably the outside o.
the temporary barracks erected In 81
for the accommodation of troops pass
ing through the city on the way to the
seat of war. as Mr.. II. A. Wilkins re-
calls. The barracks were iamentably
insecure, and very many rascals found
it easy to escape, despite the guards
and regardless of the stigma Of deser-
ton which they incurred. The Govern
ment was paying a bounty OF $500 to
each enlisted man. and there were other
bounties to be had by those who looked
| for them as a reason for entering the
service, though there were many patriots
who refused to accept bounty money.
| Among those who took 1t. however
there were some who priced II highly
| enough to enlist over and over again
taking the chance Of being shot for de.
sertion from the ranks, and though the
records were never published It wal
common knowledge that many Of thes,
assertions were from the City Hall Parl
barracks.
Ny own recollection Is not clear. but
believe those barracks we're removed
after q short time.
The little park has been the scene o.
many memorable occurrences. but two
utterly dissimilAr ones are the mos
prominent In my own mind. The firs'
| OF these was the gathering OF q moi
in 1853. and the speech Of Governor
Seymour. in which he called the mot
MY friends" There have been denials
and there have been attempts made t
gloss over the inference that was drawn
from his utterance, but there is M
doubt that he used the words and tina
great part of the community accepted
them as evidence Of his "copperhead
ism"
The other occasion was that on which
the remains OF the great martyr Presi
dent lay In state and many thousand
OF mourners filed past his casket II
silent sorrow. was not the only young
ster who stood in line all night in thu
park waiting my turn for a last look a
his face. DAVID A. CURTIS.
SpAFoRp. June 80,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01
Capt. McKeown Is Retired.

Police Captain john J. McKeown OF
the Glendale precinct was retired yes
terday after thirty years service in the
department. He will receive a pension
OF $3.50 a year for life.
Capt, McKeown was appointed a pa
trolman on March IS. 1889. He was
made sergeant In 1886 and became a
lieutenant seven years later. He reached
his present grade in 1912 and leaves the
department with an excellent police
record.
Capt NclIeown is a widower and lives
at 303s cambridge avenue, The Bonx.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01

THE WEATHER.
MINIATURE ALMANAC.
Standard Time.


Sun rises. ;. .5:27AM Sun sets.....S ~ p N
Moon sets. 10 "a Il III
For eastern New York-Fsir and
warmer to-day; tomorrow fair gentle
to moderate south winds.
For New Jersey-Fair and warmer to-
day; tomorrow fart gentle to moderate
southeast to south winds.
For northern New England-Fair to-day
and tomorrow; moderate south and south
east winds
For southern New England--Fair to-day;
warmer In the Interior; tomorrow fair;
moderate south winds.
For western New York-Falr and warmer
to-day: tomorrow fair.
WASHINGTON, June so.-Pressure re-
mains high east OF the plains states and
showers in Florida with a twenty-tour hour
rainfall of 7.s0 inches at Jacksonville and
light local showers In the our states;
West and North Dakota, Montana and
northern wyoming Elsewhere the weather
was fair. Temperatures have risen over
the central and north portions OF the
country and are now generally above tho
lantic and Gulf States. Showers Will con
tinue Tuesday and probably "Wednesday IN
Florida and extreme southern Georgia, but
elsewhere east of the Mississippi River the
weather will be generally fair. 1t. Will be
warmer Tuesday and continue warm
Wednesday except along the Atlantic
coast and over the section where showers
are indicated.
Observations at United States Weather Blu
reau stations taken at p. M. yesterday,
seventy. 18th meridian time.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01
Evidence From One Who Saw It Sew.
enty Years Ago.

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-Sir: The
iron fence around the park was there
In 1S4S. II cost. have heard, about
$4,000 The fountain basin was about
seventy-hve feet in diameter. the foun-
tain threw stream about seventy feet
high. on the Chambers street side was
brownstone building called the new
City Hall or old Almshouse. A. T, +.
BROOKLYN, June so.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01
THE PROTEST.

Mr.. W. T. Hornaday, Director Geological
Gardens, Nep York:
DEAR Shin the illustrated supple
ment Of last Sundays SUN I noticed n
picture Of some hideous looking animal
al the Zoo labelled Mrs. Murphy"
q thought this sort Of thing had
stopped. 1t IL certainly unworthy Of
Americans and I am greatly surprised
that a man Of your well known intelli-
eence tolerates It. Even the English,
with all their prejudice against the Irish.
do not descend to It. 1t really only re-
fleets on those who do. AN IR1sHMAN.
NEW YORK, June rs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01
Introducing q New STANDARD Of Measure
ment.

From the CIarkssvtIIs Bonner. Sentinel
A. II. Dudley says that last week while
he was driving with three other statesmen
between Prairie Hill and Moberly they
followed a hailstorm a mile wide and
twenty miles long which was severe
that tho car was hub deep In stones and
In tho fields they were nvs to eight inches
deep, stripping trees OF foliage and ruin
ing wheat nelds, The hAilstones were
about the size OF a quarter and eere
piled in ravines two and . half feet.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01

II Mr.. Hornaday's correspondent
had read The Sun carefully he would
have observed that the pictures. in
one Of which the hippo appeared. were
taken at tho Central Park Zoo. which
Is managed by the Department Of
Parks and not by the New York Zoo
logical Society. Anyway. we are glad to
know about the Burmese Hindenburg.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01

A physician is permitted to prescribe
a quart at a time II the patient is
under his personal supervision, but
few can afford to keep a doctor.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01

An aviator is arrested for landing in
a New York park to save his life. but
the operator OF a blackjack lands 1t
where he will, to take a life. and he
escapes.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01
BAvARIAN PRINCE A MONK.
George, Eldest Son OF Louis, in
Cloister Mt Innsbruck.

MUNICH, June S0.-Prince George, cid.
est son OF Prince Louis of Bavaria. has
entered Jesuit monastery at Inns.
bruck. according to newspapers here.