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INWooD'S PLEA GRANTED.
II WIN Have Its Post once, Though
the Site Is Criticised.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: The
plea Of the residents and business peo-
pie OF Inwood for a new post office IN
the Dyckman section has been heard by
the postal authorities in Washington,
and the announcement is made that the
property at the northeast corner OF
Tenth avenue and 20Sth street has been
leased for the erection OF a two story
post office building.
This concession is the result OF a
long and earnest fight made by the peo-
pie Of Inwood for better postal facili-
ties. Although Inwood Is a separate
and thriving community It has had to
depend on the branch post Office at
Amsterdam avenue and 1S6th street.
known as the Washington Bridge sta
ton. Another branch station is at
Broadway and 22sth street but this
serves the Kingsbridge section and Is
Of no practical advantage to Inwood.
While the people Of lnwood welcome
the announcement that the section will
soon have a post office OF It's own they
deplore the fact that a site could not
be found on 207th street. The latter Is
the principal street OF the section and
consequently is the logical place for a
post office. Moreover, Tenth avenue, the
site of the new post office. is removed
from the centre OF business activity.
Sherman avenue or Vermilyca avenue
would have been more appropriate.
New YORK, March 10. DYcKMAN.
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FEMININE OPINION.
A Plain Business Girl Sticks Up for
President Wilson.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir In
regard to the criticism of President Will
sons speech made by a woman who
signs herself M. NJ. S. published by
THE SUN, don't you think some one else
should give her opinion? or course there
are thousands of the same opinion, but
then there are thousands OF unheard
people.
AS for blaming the President for
things left undone, it is the opinion
OF those unheard that the Senators
should be given that credit. They act
like a lot OF jealous schoolboys. and
am heartily sorry that We the people OF
tho United States will in years to come
have TO stand the responsibility for their
actions. Was not the President elected
by the people, and were not the sena-
tors elected to help him along? Have
they done SO?
am also just a plain business girl,
and not a woman with time TO be a
suffragist. but I do believe In giving
the credit to whom II belongs.
These words have heard uttered by
a good many business men:
I'VE can be thankful that Woodrow
Wilson was President when war was
declared"
JUST 4 PLAIN BUSINESS GIRL.
New YORK. March 10.
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why Pork Il . LUXURY.

Three Of the Hoover lieutenants
are going to have a solemn confab in
New York to-day to consider the ris-
ing price of pork products. One Of
these members of the Government
Food Trust has urged the packers
to hold down hog prices" But It is
the Government Food Trust itself
which shoots pork, -four and all food
prices skyward.
Before the war America exported
usually less than a billion pounds Of
pork each year. Last year she sent
to Europe two and one-half billion
pounds. Pork products made up half
the total amount Of food forwarded
to our army. the Allies, the neutrals
and the relief organizations. For all
that, there are plenty Of hogs on the
hoof and huge supplies Of pork in
storage. There are more hogs on the
farms. in fact, and more hog prod
ucts in storage than the country ever
knew before. But all that Is Of no
avail against the lacked up Govern
ment grain prices.
Pork is high not because of the
great demand from abroad, but be-
cause wheat is high. Hogs are fat
tened on corn, and corn is UP when
wheat is up. When corn Is $1.60 n
bushel the farmer Is not going to
feed 1t to hogs unless he gets his
money back from the hog buyer.
Farmers have fed great quantities Of
grain, at double and triple prices, to
their hogs, and they demand double
and triple prices for pork.
When the Government removes the
false price of 1929 from wheat, of
which there is now in sight the larg-
est surplus that America, Europe, Ar
gentina and Australia have held in
years, and lets grain 60 to the people
at a normal price, then pork will fall
to where Americans can buy 1t. This
the Government could do by paying
the farmers the full amount Of their
guarantee and putting the wheat on
the market at normal prices.
But little confabs are vain. 1t
would be as useful to take q hog
aside and lecture him on economy in
assimilation.
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temperament Is there an artistic
prejudice against conventionality in
dress which can be overcome only by
gold7 We recall In many illustrations
Of recent fiction In which artists
Of various vocational activities ap-
pear, painters, poets, musicians, that
the writer's who created them in story
and the illustrators who interpreted
them with crayon, ink or brush made
them appear OF strictly formal eve
ming social affairs in street Jackets,
an insurgent emphasis being supplied
by flowing tie and hair. But this we
supposed to be merely artistic license,
the writer and illustrator collaborat-
ing for atmosphere rather than sem
blance to life.
But as he is most Familiarity OBJ
served the man of desh and blood and
affairs, not the creation Of art, shows a
strong preference for the dinner jacket,
even where authority, say a wife,
insists that evening dress should pre-
vail. We feel inclined to make the
statement without qualification that
many a dressing hour has been en-
livened by mans contention that the
occasion pending is just the kind when
fellow should be allowed to don the
easy and comfortable dinner jacket,
whereas the authority already sug-
gested holds. and VIGOROUSLY, of
course, that the steel pen or spike
tail variety must be worn.
So, what is involved here? A mu-
sician regularly employed we believe
to be a sensible fellow; a workman
trained In his calling; those, at least,
who play the heavier brass and
strings having bank accounts and sew
eral children. Such a man we con.
tend has as much sense Of comfort
and propriety as another. Therefore
We shall hold until convincing evil
dence to the contrary confronts us,
that, given his choice Of upper gar.
ment to wear while playing in the
orchestra, the player would prefer the
dinner jacket.
There lies the riddle. why should
a man who prefers to wear a dinner
jacket hold up his employer for 81 a
week for doing what he prefers to
do2 We suspect that Brother TAFT
and his adjustment committee will
find here matter Of real substance to
engage their activities.
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No League In the Treaty.

Mr.. WILSON places his particular
league before the peace treaty-be-
fore everything. The United States
Senate does not; it will not. Under
whatever pretext and by whatever
means Mr.. WILSON may lead the
Paris Conference to Join the peace
treaty and his particular league to-
gether as single, inseparable docu-
ment, he cannot jam 1t down the
throat Of the United States Senate.
Senator LENRoor is no implacable
enemy Of any kind or description of
league. On the contrary, he wants a
league Of nations. He favors, in
fact, the general plan Of the present
league. But, so far as his vote Is
concerned, he will not have Mr.. Wn-
soN's project forced through the SEN
ate as part and parcel Of the peace
treaty. He will not listen to the
cSercive proposal that unless Mr..
WIsoN's league is accepted the ex-
isting technical state of war must
81 on.
Mr.. LENRoor makes it clear that
the Senate can kill the league project
aid the peace treaty both and yet a
resolution of Congress can declare
the war at an end. But whether this
were 20 or not, 1t still would be the
duty of Congress to kill the peace
treaty II there were no other way to
kill Mr.. WILSON'S particular league.
The Senate may strive to cut out the
league If it Is imbedded in the very
heart Of the treaty. 1t may be able
to do this without destroying the
whole. But II to remove the league
cancer 1t is necessary to destroy the
treaty the Senate cannot falter In
Its duty.
There is no doubt about the deter
mination of the United States Senate
to save this nation from the conse-
quences that would follow the adop-
ton of Mr.. WILSON'S league as surely
as the night follows the day. There
is no doubt that when the Senate has
performed that duty the American
people will stand behind it as against
Mr.. WILSON and the whole world.
II Mr.. WILSON'S League Of Ma
tions ever does come over here for
presentation to the Senate, as an ulti.
mate actuality rather than as a pres
emit threat, intertwined among the
very vitals Of the peace treaty, it will
not be greeted merely with American
protest; 1t Will be struck by an Amer,
lean thunderbOlt.
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PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT,


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a course Of lectures on Tho Turko-
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T. $. Il, Forty-seveuth street west OF
Eis 9'dh., sy y,'mnn,. Motion pictures
cas-, Of Third avenue, stefeoptioon views.
." NfT SSa stree. Ss Frank sna l.
Nicholas avenue Stereopticon views
.'shakespeare--Part l.. tho Man (nr,t
Modern Lterature'D, by william ]. pu-
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The Department of Charities" by tn.
Charities. 7. s. 81, Hester. Essex and
Norfolk streets. Motion pictures.
Government Based on tho Equality Of
All Mankind" (nrst of a course Of lee
lures on America and the American Peo-
PPle9' by Mrs WA Mary O, EliasSeh Lease.
disbursement Of Electricity" by Prof.
J, I.orins Arnold. PHI. u, OF New York
ner OF Fourteenth, street and Second ave-
nuc. Illustrated by experiments.
- Special health lecture, The Abnormal
c, Martin. acting chief. division OF tuoer-
eulosis, bureau OF Preventabls Diseases,
Hunter coliese. Lexington avenue and
eighth street, at 4:l5 z. NJ, (clin!o dat.
Music !. Italy T To-day by eigseEp.
brew Association, 81 West lloth street.
THE BRONX.
English Masters" Zone of a eours. Of
lectures on Paintings in the Metropolitan
Museum " Art"D, by Louis Weinberg OF
c. G. y. Y, Morris High School, lssth
street and Boston road. Stereopticon
views.
Bulgin. y. S rs, 16Sth street Find,sy
and Teller avenues. Stereop,icon Views.
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BEFORE THE DRY DAYS.
In the Remote Past Washington Pro
vided Liquor for His Men.

To THE EprroR OF THE suN-sh: tn,
following quotation appears to me o
rather moro than academic interest. /
10 from ANNALS Of the American Revo
luton" compiled by Jedediah Morse
d. D.. published in Hartford, 1924:
April 10. 17ss-Ths Commander in
Chief General George wsshingtonl
thus addressed the army on the ces-
sation of hostiIittes:
The glorious task for which
We nrst few to arms. being thus sc-
complished, nothing now re-
mains but for the actors of this mighty
scene to preserve . perfect. unvary-
ing consistency. Of character through
the very last act; to close the drama
with applause, and to retire from the
military theatre with the same appro-
baton OF angels and men, which have
crowned all their former virtuous ao-
tiohis.
The Adjutant- General will have such
working parties detailed to assist in
making the preparation for . general
rejoicing as the chief engineer Of the
army shall call for, and the Quarter
master-Gsnerai will also furnish such
materials a. he may want. =.
An extra ration of liquor to be Issued
TO every man Tomorrow TO d,iak PERFECT
val peace. Independence and happiness 10
fhs Uaffsd Sfdtes Of America.
o tempora, o mores!
G. c. GARprm.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, March 10.
F. S.-The italics are not mine The.
appear in the Rev. Mr.. Morse's text. ant
1 should be glad to know II they ar
used in General washington's original
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General O'Rysn's Error.

We are indebted to the news col
umns Of our neighbor the World for
an interesting statement by Major
General O'RYAN, commander Of the
Twenty-seventh Division:
its all very nice to talk about the
forces of right having triumphsd over
the forces OF might when we are dis
cussing the way in which tho Amert-
can armies won their battles in Elan
ders and Belgium. but there 10 this
to keep IN mind: Tho forces of right,
ultimate victory because We were
mightier in physical strength, in cour-
age and in resource than the so-called
forces Of might of the German EN-
pire We went against the best they
had, the Prussian Guards. and beat
them. We were the 'mishtisr than
might outfit"
This, Of course, IL the view Of a
man who was too close to the war and
who did not return from France in
time to hear, either in Boston or In
the Metropolitan Opera House, the
true reasons for the fine showing OF
the American soldiers.
If Major General O'RYAN had been
in the Metropolitan Opera House on
the evening Of March 4 he would have
learned all about Irresistible spirit.
ual force" and about "these young.
sters who went over there not to
glorify America but to serve theiI
fellow men" If he had been In Bos
ton on the evening Of February "a he
would have known that "our men
had a vision, they had a dream. and
they were fighting in that dream.
Yea, he would have been set right
by this one sentence:
II have uttered as the objects Of
this great war ideals. and nothing
but ideals. and the war has been won
by that Inspiration"
Major O'RYAS should gel
the back files and set himself right
about what he and his men were think
ing of in the war and what really
won the war. Otherwise he may be
court-martialled and sentenced to read
THE New Freedom or to wear Sam
Browne belt in a theatre.
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posed constitution docs not fully
meet Mr.. TAFT's ideals" and he would
be glad to see various changes in It.
II the League to Enforce Peace has
succeeded in saying what 1t meant to
say 1t opposes any amendment to the
covenant as the Paris Conference may
see At to fashion 1t; and II 1t has
failed to say what 1t means, its latest
outgiving, like so many others from
advocates Of surrender of our indie
pendence, only darkens the situation
it is ostensibly designed to clarity.
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No Foreign Entanglements, No For.
elgn Devices on Stamps.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUN-SI: As
an American born citizen. who is I'M
alterably opposed to all foreign entan-
clements. I would like to encourage you
to continue your campaign against this
foolish and un-American scheme of the
League of Nations until 1t can never
again become a threat to our national
integrity.
l also wish to voice my protest against
the adoption of the design on the new
issue of the three cent postage stamp.
which is not only an incorrect convey
ance of public sentiment in this country
but downright acknowledgment Of
foreign interference in our affairs, and
I, for one, will refuse to paste such
a stamp on any OF my mail
HUGO HANsER
BROOKLYN, March 10.
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The dictionary defines the word in
toxicating as exciting to enthusiasm
and madness" In this impending test
case, then, 2.75 per cent beer may be
intoxicating in one sense and not in
another. The effect of alcohol con-
tanned in the beverage may not cause
inebriety, but rather the possible
failure or success of the trial itself
can easily excite the witnesses, who
will drink the liquor to be tested, to
enthusiasm and madness" To con-
clude that a man is intoxicated and
prove the cause thereof may require
a more delicate instrument than the
scales OF Justice.
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It Is told of SOLOMON BULKLEY
griffin that in his earlier youth he
made up his mind to be managing
editor Of the Springfield Repu blicdn
and never quit striving for that hon
orable and arduous Job until in 1878
he got it. The story may not be true
but It fits Mr.. griffin. who IL level
headed and has never been afraid OF
hard work. How much hard work he
has done in the forty-one years that
measure his service in the managing
editorship OF the Republican only
those who understand the intricacies
Of newspaper production will realize
but the weight OF his labors has
meant nothing to him, and the
Republican and its readers have been
mighty fortunate in having him take
a major part in it's production. He
has given up this task now to attend
to his private affairs. and not only
in Massachusetts, but all over the
country, newspapers recognize the fact
that his retirement from the profess
sion is a serious loss to 1t and to the
public it serves.
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Does the League to Enforce Peace
Mean What 1t Says?

The League to Enforce Peace, of
which ex-President TAFT is conspic-
uous member, has issued on official
statement in which it says:
Neither Mr.. TAFT nor the League.
however. favors amendments after
the treaty is finally adopted in Paris.
an amendment would then probably
mean defeat of the League"
OF this extraordinary subordina-
ton of possible interests of the United
States to the terms Of whatever cove
nant may eventually be adopted at
Paris 1t Is only necessary to say that
the pra2S ID conSS luton made pub
lie in Paris on February IA and
printed in the newspapers here on
February 10 expressly provides in
Article XXVI. for amendments in
these words:
Amendments to this covenant will
take effect when ratified by the
states whose representatives COM
pose the executive council and by
three-fourths of the states whose
representatives compose the body of
delegates"
One of the grave difficulties en-.
countered in discussing the proposed
constitution Of the League of Nations
results from the fact that its advo.
Gates frequently do not say what they
mean or mean what they say. Per
haps in the sentence we have quoted
the League to Enforce Peace has not
said what It meant to say. for 1t as.
serts that its position Is exactly the
position taken by WASHINGTON re-
garding the adoption of the Constitu-
ton unchanged" and then proceeds
to quote WASHINGTON, who pointed
out specifically that "a constitutional
door" had been "OpeDed for future
alteration and amendment" But tho
League to Enforce Peace declares that
1t and Mr.. TAFT are opposed to
amendments after the treaty Is finally
alaptad In Paris" although the pro-
The sun., 1919-03-20
Another Attempt to Open Uncle
Sans Treasury for Colon bia.

To have the United States lease
from the Republic of Colombia two
worthless islands for the term of
ninety-nine years at cost Of $4O,-
100000 on the plea that they are nee
essary for defence Of the Panama
Canal is the latest project put for
ward to transfer money from the
pockets of the taxpayers of this coun-
try to the treasury Of Colombia as
salve for the wounds inflicted when
Panama seeded and we got chance
to build the Panama Canal.
We bought the Danish West Indies,
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IN GODS ACRE.
Unhappy Effects Of . Metropolitan
Testimony Of Enthusiasm.

Testimony Of Enthusiasm.
To THE EDITOR OF TIE suN-strs In
England they often speak OF church
yards as Gods Acre" In France they
are called ''Cimetieres," AZ often with
US. but lie Jour des Morris of the
French IL far more solemn and rover
ent event than our Decoration Day. in
Italy such places are revered az is
shown by their name, Campo Santo. the
only exception We noted being Juliets
Tomb, in Verona, which was practically
filled with visiting cards--so per cent.
American.
In the South such sacred enclosures
give rise to hallowed memories. even II
only some long forgotten slave lies
buried there. In California those pic
turesque old Missions and the graves
clustered around them are considered
to them. Even in China We road of the
natives flghting to the death before al
lowing their beloved dead to be dis
turbed.
But in Old Trinity Churchyard in this
city I could scarcely believe my eyes.
Nothing but scraps of paper DESTROYED
the last resting place Of so many Of
your illustrious dead. Upon inquiry, II
seems to be the custom in those tall,
adjoining buildings to empty the waste
paper baskets out Of tho windows when
ever even so few as two soldiers come
up or down Broadway.
It Is undoubtedly only q thoushtless
action, but to tho caretakers Of that
sacred ground It entails an enormous
amount Of work. for they are conscion-
tious. And precious graves must not be
desecrated for long.
Let the Joyous denizens Of those
superb skyscrapers remember that two
men have to pick up those scraps OF
paper one by one. for on that old
churchyard there can be now neither
ralting nor undertaking.
Perhaps, after all, those self-sarne
white scraps OF paper lying there 'thick
as leaves in vallombrosa" are only
marking the graves Of some-'to for
tune and to fame unknown"-sone long,
long ago to their eternal homo.
A VIRoIr1AN.
NEW YORK, March 10.
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Art and the Dinner Jacket.

1t is not easy to understand the
psychology which determines that an
orchestra performer must be paid So
additional wages week IL he he
required to wear while professionally
engaged a dinner jacket, or, as the
inviting garment is sometimes called,
q Tuxedo.
Has this to do with the artistic
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THE WEATHER.
MINIATURE ALMANAC.
standard Tine.
Sun rises. 80. :oz A N Sun ssts. s:W r ~
Moon rises. 10 ~ p N

For Eastern New York--Partly c,cudS
to-day. preceded by rain on the coast1
tomorrow fair, with rising tempersture1
strong north winds.
For New Jersey-r.Threat.ning. VIII
probably rain to-dayi Tomorrow fair Win
For nertSsrn New Sasissd@cioudy =.
DAY: probably preceded Sy r ,s1, on On. ms
perature; northwest winds,
rain teddy: to-morrow fair Win risnS
For western New York--Fair and
warmer to-day; tomorrow cloudy.
WASHINGTON, March 1s.-Hlsh vrses
s..ipD DTf Hi1.r Sus !: T.l.vsly y low on
middle Atlantic coast. The pressure alsc
IL high over the Northwestern States ana
south plateau regions and over the upper
Mississippi Valley. During the last TWEEN
ty-four hours there were general rains in
States ana in the PSeiso states, and local
SHOWS over the Northwest. Utah and Ne
ysds. There ha. been . E.nsrsi rise .;,.H In
and che region Of the great lakes; a de-
sidsd fall ever ths north pisln ,Sa, stats ts.
States and New England the weather will
be threatening with probably rain Thurs
the south Atlantic and east Gulf States
Tennessee and Kentucky the weather will
be generally fair and moderately warm
Valley and the lower lake region the
weather will be fair ana warmer Thurs
gay and partly cloudy With ,, mode rat
region the weather will become unsettled
Thursday and be followed by rain or
snow and colder Thursday night or Friday
Storm warnings are displayed on the At
lantio coast at and between Sandy HOOK
and Boston.
Observations at United States weather Bu-
Gtailnna ~ 4 p
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HIGH COURT ADMITS PALMER,
Chief Justice White Welcomes At
torney-GeneraI.

wAsHrNGToS. March 10. - Attorney
General Palmer was formally admitted
10 practice in the Supreme Court to-
day upon the motion Of Solicitor General
King. who later presented the new At.or-
ncy Generals credentials to the court
chief Justice White in a brief snec,I,
welcomed the Attorney General on behals
OF himself and his assistantA
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..Naturailr.s" Bird in Cuckoo Clock.
From Popuiar Mechanics Magazine.

Cuckoo clocks. once so popular. were
for the most part made In Germany" SO
a jewelier In an Indiana town decided that
It was time that the bird In his clock
should be 'naturalized." when he had
finished alterations the bird came forth
and whistled Bob White" like a native
American.
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When Winter should be packing his
trunks preparatory to his departure
tomorrow, he seems to have deter
mined to answer Spring when she
calls upon him to vacate, in the words
Of JOHN PAUL JONES: II have just
begun to fight"
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International peace may be fully
realized, but peace between the
freshman and sophomore classes Of
Columbia, recently embroiled in open
warfare in Columbus Circle, is beyond
even the dreams OF the most ardent
pacifist or optimistic policeman.
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LOCAL WEATHER REPORTS.

Highest temperature. As at 6:l5 p. II,
Lowest temperature, Sc at 8 a. y,
Average temperature, Il.
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An improvement.

Knleker-smith didn't mind finding a
woman on his job?
Bocker-No. YOU see his wife used to
make him wash the dIshe6
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Well Equipped.

The SMALL think would make nns
Peace Commissioner because l take my
executive mansion on my travels
The sun., 1919-03-20

In the contest for front page honors
the leaders are WILSON, WILKINS and
WAssAIL.
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For Mr.. WILSON it has come to this
It's crawl or a disaster.
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ALBANY, March 10.
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BROOKLYN, March 10.