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EVENTS TO-DAY.

Meeting New York Legislative League
American National Exhibition.
Exhibition OF rare mosaics and painting,
all day.
International Conference of womss
Canadian Fur Company's annual eNhib.
banquet room, Waldorf. all day,
Sinking Fund. city Hall, 1880 a. NJ.
Meeting of the Chamber OF Commerce,
state Of New York. 65 Liberty street I,
Lecture "The Czecho- sIovaAs," West
s stree y mo M e 2 Al 'iS West Fii'y'svs''A
Luncheon and meeting of the Inter.
Church World Movement, Pennsy!vanA
Meeting Of the Krakauer Charity So
ciety, Pennsylvania Hotel, p NJ.
Meeting Lithuanian Catholic Truth b.
ciety, Pennsylvania Hotel, 7. NJ.
Luncheon Rotary Club. McAlpin Hotel
Meeting Young Folks League MoA'pn
Meeting church of silent Demand Nc.
s.cetlng Metaphysical Institute NJ.
Alpln Hotel afternoon and evening
Hotel, all day.
Meeting Daughters of Nebraska, Hotel
Meeting Of the Louis Mandel Campaign
Committee, Hotel Aston, 2 p NJ.
Lecture on French Civilization" b.
Prof. Gilbert Chinard OF Johns Hopkin'
University. Columbia University. T. NJ,
Joint meeting of camp and district Sec
retaries Of Y. NJ. c. A, to discuss eXpan.
sion Of work, s47 Madison avenue, llN
A. NJ.
Special sale of reclaimed cotton sooH
at cents a pair. from Quartermasten
stores Stores ~ s; Army 20 West NineteenA
Sale of 1000 600 pounds pork shoulder
and lolns from army stores, seYenty-h"
public schools and other designated places
10 A. NJ. to 4:i5 7. NJ.
The Increasing Sterilization OF Med'
cine" lecture by Sir Arthur Newsh0imt
N. D.. X. c. b. New York Academy
Meeting OF the Illuminating EugneN
Ing Society, 29 West Thirty-ninth sJrssL
p. NJ
Free view OF antique and modern APP
pointments OF Mrs. stephen Swete CUM
mlngs, ia East Sixty first street. s.H
A. NJ. to +. NJ.
Meeting OF the New York Committee "a
1920 census New York Academy of Ned'
cine, IT West Forty-third street, $3.50 VI
Meeting and luncheon National League
for Woman's Service, Hotel Biltmore, ll;'
A, NJ.
Memorial service in honor Of Capt
Charles Fryatt OF tho British merchant
marine, executed by the Germans July
~, 1915, auspices New York Port So
ciety, 100 Eleventh avenue. S:l5 T. VI
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Register to Defend the Indepen-
dence OF the judiciary.

This is an "off year" in New York
State politics. No issue is at stake
10 stir the common interest of the
electors Of the State. No Individual
candidacy unites the voters from Mon
tauk Point to Lake Erie. In such
years political 'manipusators try to
"slip something over" ON the citizens.
Their hope of success lies in general
apathy and light registrat;o on. The
voters who are controlled by petty
bosses will register and vote. That
is what they are paid to do-paid
with the public's money on the pub
lie pay roll.
In the First Judicial district, COM
posed of New York and Bronx coun-
ties, the Tammany oligarchs have
chosen this Off year to destroy the
independence Of the judiciary. They
have refused denomination to a good
Judge. They want his job for an
other. But they want more than his
Job. They want the power over the
judiciary which they will gain If the
voters allow them to throw good
Judge off the bench for no reason of
public policy. They want every judge
on the bench TO be told that his Office
Is held by tolerance of Tammany
They want every judge to feel that If
he offends Tammany, II he refuses to
IL rTo M ~ nx,'c hiddtuO 20 ho dooc :, "a
bow down before Tammany, he will
be put off the bench. They want the
people themselves to warn the judges
they must obey Tammany. They hope
to have that warning issued on No.
vember 4, and their hope Is based on
the belief that in an off year such as
this is only their followers will reg
lister in large proportion.
If there Is a heavy registration and
a heavy vote Tammany can't carry
out its plan to intimidate judges. If
there is a light registration and a
light vote Tammany will stand fair
chance of success in its plot.
Therefore the issue is not merely
whether NEwBURGER shall be reelected
or UNTERAfYER shall succeed him. The
issue is bigger than either of the can
dldates. 1t Is bigger than partisan
ship. 1t is as big as the impartiallty
and the independence Of the courts of
Justice, the tribunals on which every
man, woman and child relies and must
always rely for protection in property,
= liberty and life.
The first test Of strength in this con-
test comes next week, when the list
of voters will be made up. Next week
beginning on Monday the registration
places will be open every day from
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The Issue In the steel Strike.

Chairman GARY of the United
States Steel Corporations board of di.
rectors testified yesterday before the
Senate committee investigating the
steel strike as to the wages paid to
Its employees by the corporation, as
to the willingness Of the corporations
= officers to treat with representatives
of its own workers, and as to the
purpose of the corporation in refus-
ing to treat with the outside leaders
of labor who sought conference with
its officers.
The men are well paid. Wages
ranging from SAB to $50 a day are
good wages. The company officers
will treat with its own men on any
grievance at any time. The purpose
of the corporation In refusing to deal
with outsiders is to maintain the open
shop. "The question" said Judge
GARY, "ls the open shop"
Judge GARY's testimony is to the
same effect as that given by the union
leaders who have appeared before the
committee. The matters of wages, of
working conditions, were subordlnated
in their statements to the matter of
recognition of the outside union or
ganizers who attempted to confer with
the corporation management The
outside union leaders said the strike
was caused by the refusal of the cor
poration officers to enter a conference
with outside union leaders because
the result of such meeting would
be to destroy the open shop.
Thus the issue is clear. 1t. is ad-
mitted by the outside union labor lead
ers. 1t is declared by Judge GARY
for the corporation. And on that is
sue the American people, in THE
Suns judgment. have decided against
the outside union labor leaders, and
are to-day rendering their adverse
verdict.
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A pRoLETARIAT OF STRAW.
Set Up by Agitators in the Absence
Of Real Glass Distinction.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUE--Sir: Often
in discussions straw men are built SO
that with their destruction the point
which their creator wishes proved seems
to be supported. 1t is a poor method Of
logic and often is hard to distinguish
from real reasoning.
This system is now being used by agi-
tators. There is no class distinction in
this country. so they seek to create false
boundaries between rich and poor How
can they harangue the proletariat when
one does not exist? Their first task is
to create downtrodden populace.
A realization of this condition will
make for better handling OF the sltua-
ton. GILBERT MORGAN.
CLEVELAND, October 1.
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The Specialist and the Patient.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Sir: What
would one think Of group OF special
iEts who, called to the bedside Of a
gravely stricken patient, would devote
most of the time in their consultations
not to speedily extricating the patient
from his present danger but TO trying to
settle upon II regimen that would prevent
the recurrence IN the future of a similar
aggravation?
The complications of misery from
which poor stricken Europe In now suf-
ferlng and from which she may perhaps
never fully recover are due to such por-
verse and inane courses-thanks to Mr..
Wilson. q. w.
New YORK, October I.
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ria. Certainly they are not there to
be logged by Cossacks or by any
body else.
II this brutal treatment of an
American soldier stirs Congress to
expose the whole Siberian situation
the victim, Corporal BENJAMIN SPER-
LING Of the Thirty-first Regiment, will
not have suffered in vain. The re-
voting fact that an American soldier
has been beaten by the soldiers Of a
foreign army will not lose its force
on public opinion, although apology
be offered for the insult.
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After their grinding experience with
higher passenger fares and traffic rates
to take care Of increased wages and
other operating costs of the railroads
the American people have no doubt as
to who 1t Is that foots the bills. They
know to their sorrow that hundreds
Of millions of dollars of wage in
creases paid directly to railway work
ers, with hundreds of millions of dol
lars of wage Increases paid to the
workers who mine the coal burned by
the railroads, the workers who make
the steel used by the railroads, the
workers who make all the other sup
plies consumed by the railroads, all
go into the cost of the food eaten by
the American people, the clothes on
their backs, the shoes on their feet,
the roofs over their heads.
So the American people, thus foot
ing all the bills of higher wages and
higher prices, will be interested to
know how the demands of the soft
coal miners for a work day Of six
hours, Eve days week, and increased
pay of 60 per cent, will hit the pub
lies pocket in a single item--allway
coal bills. ...
1t is estimated that the scale de
manded by the soft coal miners would
increase the cost of producing bitumi-
nous coal $150 a ton. This would
mean to the railroads alone an in
creased coal cost between $200,000,-
600 and $3.50, 100000 a year. Forget
what 1t would cost the mills and fac
tories that make the clothing and
shoes of the public. Forget what II
would cost the companies that supply
the gas and electric light to the pub
lie. Forget what 1t would cost the
street railways that carry the public
back and forth between home and
work places. Forget the dozen and
one things into which this increased
cost of soft coal would go only to
come out on the monthly bills of the
American consumers. Think only of
the increased coal bills Of the rail-
ways-a quarter Of a billion Of dol
lars a year!
Already the railway deficit is so
huge, although hundreds and hundreds
of millions of additional charges have
been piled on the back OF the public,
that almost daily hints are coming
from Washington that the public must
prepare itself for further traffic rate
increases to cover this deficit. Nobody
suggests that 1t will take less than
half billion dollars year more to
make up the existing deficit. Some
careful estimates refuse to put the
amount at less than three-quarters OF
Il billion of dollars. So why not add
another quarter Of billion Of dollars
for the coal costs of the railroads and
let the fresh bill against the public go
in at a round billion Of dollars year
"A billion of dollars year more on
top of the railway burden the public
already has shouldered.
It's n great business, as one labor
union leader has neatly put 1t, passing
the buck to the public. It's an easy
business-until the public gets It's
back up against the wall, squares its
jaw and says mo more"l
The sun., 1919-10-02
Profit Fixing In Ontario.

From the Hamilton (0nt) Spectator.
The board of commerce intends to set q
fixed legal standard for prohts on tho ne
cesslties OF life. This policy Will bo car
ried out in conjunction with the suthorI-
ties In the United States. II is believed
that prices will be brought down as a con-
sequence. and in any case they will be
on the basis of cost plus a fair profit"
Tho marvel is that such an expodent was
not adopted long ago 1t has of course
been urged over and over again: but al
ways came the old cry as to Its impractl-
eabIlity aac lneffectiveneEs. What has oo-
Cured to change the Views Of the authori-
ties It is hard to say. That which is con-
sdered feasible now should have been
equally so all along. and one cannot but
deplore the gross miapractiees which this
Hardness has accustomed.
The sun., 1919-10-02
SCHOOL CHILDREN
TO HONOR ROOSEVELT
Pupils All OUer u. S. to Aid
Memorial Campaign.

School children all over the county
will take an active part in the Theodore
Roosevelt memorial campaiuu "u''
viii he held October 20 to q. Under
the auspices OF the Roosevelt Memorial
Association commemorative ,Nrrnls"
are to be held In schools IN .. mo
States, in several OF which Or'. !"
has already been named by tID .au"
tlonal authorities as Roosevelt NHt
The American flag, which W
borne through New York Srr' 1na.
the auspices OF the Roosevelt a'.'""'D
Association, with the help u' N.. d'
End school boy runners Wiz rpu.. man,
haitian on October %, The ling WIZ
ind it's final resting place nt oyster
Bay. on September 3 the 'as WIZ
out stars, was started on lbs fgFi i'W
Buffalo At each town where u"
progress Of the flag has been Nalei,
star has been sewn on. ON. iis 'lII.N
in Manhattan the flag will bear forU'
five stars.
The sun., 1919-10-02
Where Natural Time Would Lead.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: You
published a letter from lady in New
port. r. l., which speaks of Gods time,
very common error.
The measuring of time is distinctly an
invention of mans. Gods time" sc
called. makes year about s65N day s.
and for this reason we have leap year
every four years and omit it every hun
dredth year 20 keep ourselves straight
II we followed natural time" we would
have Christmas In the hot weather after
a while. A L HsBELs.
NEW York, October 1.
The sun., 1919-10-02
The Modern Child.


From the Great Bend (kdnD Tribune.
Recently a little child Ave or six years
old was seen walking back and forth in
the corridor OF the court house rubbing his
hands and with a look OF great consterna-
tion on his face. The building was crowded
with people. The ohilds attitude at
traoted the attention of two ladies, who
went to him and sympathetically asked,
What's the matter. little boy. are you
lostG" No" answered the child with
much concern. ''but my mamma Is"
The sun., 1919-10-02

The Canadian Government is re-
ported to have set aside the very lib
eral sum of $6O,0O0,00O for the con-
struction of a highway from Winni-
peg to Banff and thence across the
border, there to connect with a road
on the United States side Of the line,
which in turn connects with a road
TO Spokane, a link in a chain OF roads
which extend to San Diego in Cali
fornia. The latter State has already
built a great part of the imposing sys-
TEN which runs through its territory.
roads as smooth as Fifth avenue, ac-
cording to the testimony of AUTOMOBILE
lists who have used them. Oregon is
spending $4,000, 900 in constructing it's
portion of the system, and Washington
Is active in the work The complete
highway will enable Sltomobilists to
ride in comfort and at any speed from
San Diegos ever green orange groves
to Banff's everlasting glaciers, with
opportunities for side trips to many
OF our national parks and Canadas
great Fairgrounds. There. surely
will be compelling lure to see Amer
lea first, and we hasten to hint that
relays OF sightseeing cars would have
a large patronage of tourists who have
overlooked the plan of buying private
cars for the trip.
The sun., 1919-10-02

The advantages Of boxing as a bull
wark OF judgment are either misap-
pretended or disdained in Mexico. A
referee in a ring contest in Mexico
city in which JACK JOHNSON was
obliging. unable to agree with a deci-
sion rendered by one Of the judges Of
the bout, drew his revolver and
speeded a censorious missile into the
judges midst. 1t may be that the
naughty referee felt that 1t would be a
revolving Yankee innovation to have
swung by way OF a retort judicial a
right or left on the judges waist line
But what, we ask. must the Judge
have felt to find his opinion dissented
from with such impromptu painful
ness? Mr.. JOHNSON, who is engaged
in a pugilistic propaganda in Mexico,
must insist in his future ring engage
ments in that impulsive country that
ringside officials be armed only with
machetes as being more suited to de-
liberation in judgment and less dan
gerous to those engaged in the gentle
sport Of prizefighting.
The sun., 1919-10-02
The late PATRICK EoAN was the ad

The late PATRICK EoAN was the ad-
dressee of the forged letter which
caused the exposure of PIGoTT and the
downfall of the London Times's cam
paign against PARNEIL. This letter.
which purported to have been sent by
PARNELL to EoAN apologized for PAR
NELL's denunciation OF the Phoenix
Park murders. Its publication in the
Times on April IS, 1887. ELECTED PAR
NELLs declaration that 1t was for
gerry; and the subsequent investiga-
ton resulted in the breakdown of
PIooTT under the cross-examination Of
Sir CHARLES RUSSELL, the flight and
suicide Of the forger. the humiliation
of the Thunderer and the temporary
exaltation Of PARNE1L. Few Of the
chief actors in that stirring phase Of
the Irish tragedy are now alive; and
the Times is fighting for Home Rule!
The sun., 1919-10-02
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT,

Nations and the Present Situation 10
Europe" by Prof. william r. ia hrt
p. s. So. broadway and Academy streets
Inwood
"T~avista." by Clement r. Shaw, P.
81, Hester and Essex streets.
History OF the Flag" by cant. Tslau
l0sth street, near broadway ILLUSTRATED
General Inorganic Chemistry .y i'm
William L. Estabrooke, Labor Temps
Fourteenth street and Second avenue
Illustrated by experiments.
victories Of Peace" by william carter
Morris IL. s.. l6Gth street and boston 'a@
The sun., 1919-10-02

Put not thy faith in pitchers. Prov
idence is with the heavier batters.
Decimals do not win baseball games.
The sad admirer Of the White sox was
saying these things to himself last
night. But the race is not always to
the swift. and there are several more
chances, eight perhaps, for the turbu-
lent Reds to be overcome.
The sun., 1919-10-02

Highest temperature, 5S, at 1901 A. II
Lowest temperature, AS, at 1880 a. Nj
Averatge temperature, SO.
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STATE FUND PAID
DOCTOR $4,000
He Maintained Dressing Sta
tions and Split Fees With
Physicians He Employed.
GRAFT REQUEST CHARGED
Industrial Commission Work
er Is Said to Have Asked for
$3.50 for Aiding Victim.

Tho sum of $4,000 was paid to DR..
Meyer wolff of 81 Second avenue by
the State Insurance Fund during the
eighteen months ended. in June for ser
vices rendered by himself and assistants
at dressing stations maintained by him
for injured worlVmen sent to him by the
State fund. This was revealed yester-
day at the investigation OF the State In
dustrial Commission before jeremiah f.
Connor. Commissioner. at City Hail.
In addition to the money received from
the State fund DR.. woln also collected
tidy sums from insurance companies
who sent to him injured worlSmen Of
companies insured with them under the
state worlmen's compensation act.
Testimony adduced by Miles NJ. Daw-
son, counsel, yesterday afternoon showed
that DR.. wolff's system was to hire ply"
sicians. some of them young men but re-
Gently graduated from medical colleges,
to take charge OF the various dressing
stations in the city. Laborers sent by
the state Insurance Fund were treated
there. The sum of 81 q dressing or 81
a visit 10 the home of the workman was
charged the fund, and this fee was split
on a fifty-fifty basis by the doctor and
DR.. wolff.
r. Spencer Baldwin, manager OF the
State fund, defended the use of the
Wolff system and claimed that economy
resulted
The sun., 1919-10-02

AS regards the leagues. the fans Of
Cincinnati and Chicago are finding it
more difficult than the Senators are
to make their reservationB-for seats!
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LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS.

The temperature in this city yesterday
Us recorded by the official thermometer,
shown in the annexed table:
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Calls Plan Economical.

Did it not seem to you that this
would result in a system of medical prof
iteering and that it was an exploitation
OF the medical profession?" Mr.. Dawson
asked.
In his reply Mr.. Baldwin pointed OUT
that DIR. Wolff was entitled to some
compensation" Cor his work in. organic
ing and maintaining the stations anc
also for his cooperation with the fund.
Did Dr. Woltf explain to you at the
time you entered into this arrangement
with him that the physician who ac-
tually treated the patient got only one
half the fer
IT made no inquiry about the pay
ment to his employees" Mr.. Baldwin
replied.
Walter A. Hagerty. manager of the
Shad Bolt Manufacturing Company.
testified that his company was insured
with the State Insurance Fund for one
year. but that the company cancelled
Its policy.
what was the reason for this can
collation."
"Well, the principal reason was the
neglect of the medical attendance given
to the men when they were injured, and
also the hardness in paying the allot.
ments that were supposed to be paid II
the men"
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Does Not Remember.

Mr.. Baldwin testified concerning this
incident that he did not remember that
money was mentioned by Kahn in re-
porting the case, He told Kahn to make
no concessions, He added that a reduce
ton OF rates TO the company was made
later by the assistant manager of the
fund without his knowledge. but that the
reduction was Justified The hearing will
be continued tomorrow at 10: 80 A. NJ.
Abraham Bernstein, chief accountant
of the state Insurance Fund. who was
arrested Tuesday night following his
indictment on charge Of bribery, con-
ferred with Assistant District Attorney
Theodore L. Waugh, but was sent bacl,
to the Tombs without bail being ar
ranged. MIR. Waugh stated that others
who have been mentioned in the inquiry
before Commissioner Conner had come
to him, but before seeing one of these
he intended to warn him that anything
he said would be used against him.
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Used own Doctors.


Mr.. HaSer.y testified that he sent No
men to the Meyer Wolff system, pre- .
ferring to use his own doctors. He
added that in one case when one of
these private physicians rendered a bill
for gauZe and splints costing $3.75 the
State Insurance Fund refused TO pay
more than So.
Another who testified concerning the
medical service furnished by the STATE
was John Cornelius Wander Poll, en-
ployment manager OF the American Hard
Rubber Company. This company was
also insured with the State fund, but
cancelled its policy.
What experience did you have in
regard to the medical service?" Mr.
Dawson asked.
Our doctors, we felt, were treated
unjustly in the matter of payment of
their bills"
Were you requested to use the Never
Woln dressing stations?"
Il do not remember that that was the
name, but we were asked to send our
employees to a doctor the State fund
recommended"
and did you investigate this doctor
as to who he was?"
Il did. We were not particularly i'm
pressed with his ability"
you did not think he was a suitable
physician to take care of your en-
ployeesr'
we preferred not to employ him."
Further testimony showed that the
physician in question was a young man
who had graduated from a medical COL
lege In 1915 and served two years ms
inferno in hospital He was one Of
those employed by DR.. Wolff on the fifty
fifty basis.
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Ill w OH.
DR.. Norman Clyde Marvel testified
that FOR time he was in charge OF the
medical work in a clinic at st. Marks
Hospital established by the State insur-
ance fund. but that later the number of
patients dwindled, and finally all were
sent to Meyer Wolff dressing stations
What opinion did you form concern
ing the scheme of medical service?''
II had the opinion that the entire pro-
cedure was method by which all the
work would eventually be transferred TO
81 Second avenue (Dr. Wolfrs ofIice) or
the clinics connected with it,"
Rocco Timponi, superintendent of the
Empire Carting Company. pointed ONT
an employee OF the State Insurance Fund
whose name he said was John Genovese
as the man who came to him and de-
manded half of $500 settlement which
was awarded to him after he was in
jured. Timponi had testified that he
had agreed % pay $3.50 of the sum to an
other employee OF the fund, w. A. Her
man. and that Genovese came to him as
Herman's agent
Testimony was also given by Herman
b. Kahn; fcrmerly an auditor OF tho
State Insurance Fund. that he audited
the payroll OF the William II. Kennedy
Company, shipwrights of sig Wes,
Twenty second street and that n man
named Joe Miller, whom he had seen at
the Kennedy office, offered him $500
later to cut down the pay rolls. Kahn
refused. and reported the matter to Mr.
Baldwin, who was much perturbed" hut
took no action.