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Specimen Fruit From the GeOgraph-
teal Studies by Colonel House
and His Expensive Staf.

In the Presidents speech at In
dianapolis this statement will be found
near the beginning:
You will remember that a Prince
of the House of Austria was slain in
one of the cities of Serbia. Serbia
was one of the small kingdoms OF
Europe. She had no strength which
any of the great Powers needed to
fear"
A Prince of the House Of Austria
was slain in Sarajeyo, which Is moi
in Serbia but in Bosnia. Bosnia has
been under Austrian domination since
the Treaty Of Berlin in 1878, an6
since 1908 1t has been an integral
portion of the Austro- Hungarian mon
archy. Previously to 1878 Bosnia had
been under Turkish rule for centu
ries. Sarajevo cannot be described
as zone of the cities Of Serbia" II
1914 without a glaring misstatement
Of historical and geographical facts
generally known to intelligent people
throughout the world.
Perhaps the mlsinformation is I'M
important, but 1t Is amazing that 9
President of the United States, who
has undertaken on his own account
to rearrange the boundaries Of the big
and little nations Of Europe, does moi
know that Sarajevo Is In Bosnia anC
not In Serbia.
All the more surprising In view Of
the circumstance that Mr.. WILSON
has taken the good Lord knows how
many hundreds of thousands Of dol
lars out Of the emergency funds en-
trusted to him by Congress and ex
pended these many hundreds of thou
sands of dollars of the peoples money
| to enable Colonel e. NJ. HOUSE t
maintain one Of the most extensiv,
and costly establishments for hlstori
cal and geographical research In tn,
Balkans and elsewhere that the worlt
ever saw.
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BRITISH TOY MAKERS
IN FEAR OF GERMANS
Little Basis for Alarm Now,
Judging by Shipping Plans.
Special Gable Despatch to THE suN.
Copyright. 1918, all rtoAts reserved.

LONDON, Sept. 5.--A deputatlon Of
British toy makers visited Sir Auckland
Geddes this afternoon pleading for pro-
lection against German imports. but Il
is doubtful If their appeal will meet
with favor in view OF Sir Aucklands
recent advocacy of free trade.
There has been a tremendous fuss
raised In the British newspapers over
the competit on developed by the Ger
man toy makers. II has been stated
repeatedly that the British market would
be the dumping ground for these toyr,
but German trade paper concerned 10
this Industry takes a gloomy view OF the
future outlook, declaring that the Ger'
man production OF toys has dropped 50
per cent. owing TO strikes. and that com.
petition by the Allies is greatly feared.
Although the traders OF England are
asking protection against the German
product, they are losing no time In seek
Ing German markets for their goods,
Three British ships already have taken
cargoes to Germany, TO be pad for,
under the peace treaty conditions in
German gold. Next week commercial
traffic with Germany will be speeded up,
at the Governments request, in order
to relieve the docks from congestion.
In shipping circles there is decided
disbelief in an early flood of German
goods. The concerns which are sending
ships TO Hamburg cabled inquiries as
TO what cargoes could be Obtain for
the return voyage and we're informed
that no definite cargoes could be
promised
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A Railroad Bill Of Promise.

Senator CUMMINs's railroad bill,
as tentatively knocked together by a
special subcommittee of his Inter-
state Commerce Committee, has pretty
nearly fallen fiat. This is a way COM
promises, emerging from crucial situa-
tlons, have of doing. But suggested
compromise can look like poor enough
stuff at first sight and yet with time
and effort be shaped into something
sound and strong. The merits of this
national proposal, we suspect, will
grow upon the public as the further
legislative work on It proceeds inch
by inch.
Because the trial draft is nothing
like what the finished product is 20.
ing to be we need not, we cannot
pronounce judgment upon 1t now
But we can be sure about some OF
the things-some of the intellectually
important things-which this meas
ure means.
First of all-glory bei-lt means
that Government ownership is aban
doned by important political infiu
cnccs which have hankercd after 4
for years. 1t means that Government
operation as we'll Is sentenced to tn,
discard. 1t means that the rights o.
the public are recognized above tn,
claims of any single community Of
organization, any cult or class. I
means that the legislative represen
tatives Of the American people hay,
learned not merely to see their dut
to the whole nation but to be wlllln
70 try to do 1t.
When we find our Congress settin
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TRADE BRIEFS.

The Department OF st&te announces that
the American consular agency at West
Hartispool. England. has been closed.
The telephone business OF Shanghai has
Increased 30 rapidly that 1t has been i'm
possible to connect any new lines since
December, 1918.
Paper pulp was imported into Japan
last year to the extent OF 2s.T42 tons. OF
which 1920 tons came from Canada and
5000 tons from the United States.
The war had a marked effect upon
Swedish customs receipts. In 1913 the
total receipts aggregated $4,000, 900 crowns
tS10, Gle, o0ol. whereas In 1918 they had
been reduced to $1,000. 900 crowns (sT.-
2So, o0o).
An opportunity II presented to American
life insurance companies. under the
changed conditions growing out of the
war. TO enter the field OF underwriting in
Switzerland upon q scale heretofore I'M
attempted. The sum total of annual life
insurance premiums paid by 1000, 900
Swiss people is about 100000 900 francs.
equivalent to sI9.8Oo.o0o.
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New York's Income Tax to Fall on
Baseball Heroes.

Many needless young men who have
not given a thought to the State In
come tax will have Its terrors brought
to them intimately by Comptroller
TRAvIs's announcement that the tax
will fall even upon ball players and
umpires Of the big leagues who play
in this State, whether they are resi-
dents or not. When the Hon. TY
CoBB comes from Detroit to catch
flies from Yankee bats at the Polo
Grounds this Georgian will have to
pay for 1t.
Assuming that CoBB's annual salary
is $4,000, it Is patent that one-half
Of 1t Is earned In games at Detroit
The other $500 is earned in the
seven other cities of the American
League. Therefore the Comptroller
will assume that TY earns $1,O7O In
this town, which is the only American
League city In this State. There is an
exemption, however, Of $1,000, so
CoBB's State tax would be only 1 per
cent. OF $40, or 40 cents.
The out of town stars of the Ma
tional League will not be so fortu-
nate, for they play in Brooklyn as
well as in Manhattan. The Giants
who hail from other States will have
to pay tax on all that large frac-
ton Of their salaries earned at the
Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field-about
81 per cent. of their total incomes.
In the case Of a ten thousand dollar
beauty this will amount to SAT, as
Stunning that he does not pay income
tax In his home State.
1t is rather pathetic to see umpires
taxed, but perhaps these patient, hum
BILE men do not get salaries big enough
to be hit hard. Has an umpire Il
home State?
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The Case In a Nutshell.

In his "Put up or shut up" challenge
to the American Senators to draft a
better peace than that which the
treaty with the covenant would give
US President WILSON is defying the
other part Of the treaty making power
to do exactly that thing which 1t is
endeavoring, to the best of its Ameri-
can ability, to do for the country.
The Treaty of Versailles, qualified
and interpreted by the four reserva-
lions adopted by the Senate. Commit
tee on Foreign Relations, and with
these reservations forming an insep-
arabic part Of the international CON-
pact, as in the case Of the conventions
Of The Hague and in the Algeciras
convention, will give the country q
vastly better peace than that on which
Mr.. WILSON Is voclferously insisting
on the stump; an immeasurably better
peace than that which he originally
projected and which he went abroad
ON his own hook to accomplish.
This Is the right sort of "inter-
weaving; the only sort of interweav-
ing which the American people, to the
best of our knowledge and belief, are
now prepared to tolerate.
There has been no finer instance of
true Amerlcanism overriding the at
tempt at partisan and Presidential
dictation than is afforded by the senior
Senator from Tennessee, the Hon.
JOHN K. SHIELDS of Knoxville, for.
merly Chief Justice of his State, in
his vote in committee for three of the
four essential reservations, and his
announcement of entire sympathy
with the purpose and spirit of the
fourth, while preferring different
form of expression.
All honor to the Senators, both Re
publicans and Democrats, who have
resisted from the first the projected
surrender of American sovereignty
and independence All honor to them
for continuing to resist this waning
enterprise Of stubborn individualism
and self-determined autocracy until
it shall have been brought within the
bounds of national common sense and
safety for the sake of the Republics
precious future
They are not going to shut up
and they are putting up" for a bet.
ter peace for America-putting up, a.
Mr.. WILSON violently demands.
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tachments or false heads OF columns.
Seeing the van Of these imaginary
regiments, the British on tho fronts
halted until the main bodies came ND.
They thought that WAsHrNeToN's
whole army was facing them. 4.
With General Pooh at the head and
himself in the rear, the post Of great
est danger, LAFAYETTE made a mas
terly retreat that was a real victory,
that heartened the country and the
Continentals and depressed the Brit.
lsh and the Germans. Under STEuBEN
the winter months had been 30 we'll
utilized in drill and formations that
never again were the troops of this
virtually new army beaten In battle
by the same number Of opponents.
The tide of the Revolution turned
at Barren Hill. The next year WASH
INGToN, with but fifteen thousand
men all told, kept forty thousand Brit
ish troops shut up on Manhattan and
In Rhode Island, and the path south
ward to Yorktown was opened.
On this pivot day Of freedoms war
fare LAFAYETTE snatched victory out
Of the very jaws of defeat. One OF
his cannon. was disabled by a British
round shot which knocked Its axle to
flinders. What commander likes to
lose a gun? Could or would LAFAY.
ErTE after such loss face WASHING.
TON, who from a height across the
river was looking on and firing min
ute guns to warn his suborJlinates
MOI he would not.
Unhitchlng the traces of the bat
terry horses from the timber and
broken axle. he had the animals
driven into the barnyard Of JOHN
HARDY, a farmer living near by.
Then, Harvesting them to q wagon,
the gun was dashed by the breech to
the hind axle and the horses were
whipped into racers as the cannon
was dragged over miles Of rocky
ground. At Matson's ford there was
a lively skirmish. The British rushed
the Continentals, hoping to capture
the wagon and gun; but our men,
though they lost nine Of their number
saved the piece.
Two little girls, daughters Of JOHN
HARRY, saw the wagon thus COM
Wandered, and as grandparents often
told their story to men and women
still living-so near are the events
that link LAFAYETTE's career to our
larger life of to-day. The war over
their father went to Philadelphia
when 1t was the national capital to
keep a hotel. He had not only mem
bers of Congress but also French
emigres, or refugees, as his guests.
These latter the grown up girls, now
young ladies, took to the first Preei-
dents receptions In his house on Arch
street. Nothing did these merry
maids love better than to get WASH
rNeroN OF in a corner, tell him stories
and make him laugh.
1t Is wholesome and refreshing to
have heard, from actual witnesses,
that the Father of His Country was
not always as solemn as eternity, nor
always apparently sitting for a post.
age stamp portrait; but that both he
and LAFAYETTE, like all truly great
men, were human.
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ARE NEW LAWS NEEDED,
Democratic Campaign Boasts That
the Consumer Was Protected.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Str: Pres
ident Wilson in his address on the high
cost Of living said existing law IL In
adequate" May / not" call attention
TO his speech Of acceptance Of Septem-
Der 2. 1916, where he says;
We have put all kinds OF unfair COM
petition under tho ban and penalty OF
the law. We have barred monopoly.
He further says:
The laws against trusts have been
clarified By definition. with a view TO
making It plain that they are not d.
rected against big business. but only
against unfair business and the pre-
tence OF competition where there was
none.
Martin II. Giynn has been appointed
By Governor Smith to assist in the pres
ent crisis. Mr.. Glynn was temporary
chairman of the Democratic national
convention in 1916, when President VIII
son was renominated. In Mr.. Glynn'f
keynote speech he said:
Il 1.-THE Democratic Administrator
has given a new meaning and new
force to the laws restraining big busi-
ness from sitting competition.
The Underwood tariff guarantees
fair profit to the producer, fair wage
to the toiler and a fair price to the
consumer.
Tho consumers OF the nation-and
this means every man, woman and
child within It's borders-nave been
freed from a unique and oppressive sys-
tenn which enriched the few at the ex-
pense OF the many.
At the same convention William Jen'
nings Bryan, and every little counts
said:
II 1.-THE Democratic party1 has taken
away the power OF trusts TO exploit
the American people. 1t has done jus
tice to the consumers Of the country
without doing injustice to any of the
producers.
And he inquired why the Republican
party did not go before the country ant
point out defects Of these antitrust laws
The platform adopted by the conven
ton says:
We have created q Federal Trade
Commission TO accommodate the per-
picking questions arising under the anti
trust laws SO that monopoly may be
strangied at its birth and legitimate
Industry encouraged
Fair competition in business is now
assured. We have effected an adjust
ment of the tariff adequate for rev.
enus under peace conditions and fair
TO the consumer and producer.
Were these assertions mere 'voice'
In the air" or visions" or is the pres
ent high cost of living due to failure
or the mart Of the Administration tC
enforce the laws 1t claimed to have en-
acted? LAFAYETTE b. GLEASON
NEW YORK, September 8.
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MASS FOR FATHER SIMMONS.
The Rev. Thomas r. Burke VIII
Omciate at Service.

A solemn high mass of requiem will
be offered at 10 o'clock this morning IN
the Roman Catholic Church OF ST. Paul
the Apostle. Columbus avenue and Six.
tieth street. for the repose Of the soul OF
the Rev. Gilbert Simmons. c. S. p,
we'll known member of the Paulst CONF
munity, whose death occurred last Tues
day in the Homeopathic Hospital IL
Yonkers, after o long Illness
The Rev. Thomas II. Burke. new SUI
perior-general of the Paulist Fathers
will officiate. Other members Of the or.
der will assist Father Burke and a ft'
ting eulogy of the dead priest will be de-
lIvered by a Paulist Father.
Father Simmons was a convert, -
years old. who had spent all the years or
his priesthood In New York except for
short etay at the Paulist establishment
In Washington. where he was master %
novlces. Before Joining the Paulist or.
der he studied at Oxford University ana
became a deacon OF the Anglican Church
He entered the Catholic Church In Can'
ada about thirty years ago. Later 10
studied for tho priesthood and was or
dained. He wrote on current topics for
the Catholic World, a magazine pup
lished by the Paulist Fathers.
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Lafayette and the Marne.

That day upon the Marine. did you not
come,
o valiant one, back for little space,
And Join the conflicts mad delirium
With tina old ardor shining on your
face?
Did not your soul. returning from far
ways.
Inspire ths spirit OF the auSattisd line
As In those distant. In those desperate
days
At Yorktown and at bloody Brandy
wine?
We love to think Of you as standing
there,
stemming the furious onset of the
Hun,
With all your virlle. all your valorou,
air.
Friend OF America and Of washing
CLINTON SCOTLAND.
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Worth while repeating on this fifth
anniversary of the most decisive bat
tie Of the great war is a little ditty
born in the trenches behind the River
Marine the second time the course of
the struggle crossed that stream. II
is not the epic of a Tennyson COM
memorating a Balaklava nor the i'm
mortal tribute Of a Byron to a Water
loo. but It is good characterization
of the spirit that triumphed:
I'VE beat them at the Marne,
we beat them at the Aisne,
We gave them hell
At Neuve Chapelle,
And here we are again.
That last line, then an expression
of grim determination. is now the key
sentence to a glorious page in his
tory, annals In which America can
be proud she wrote SO many brilliant
lines.
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COPS GET EIGHT HOUR DAY.
Jersey City Policemen to Work in
Three Shifts.

A system OF eight hour shifts for the
patrolmen Of Jersey City will be adopted
as a result Of vote taken yesterday
by members of the Patrolmen's Benevo-
lent Association, at 642 Newark avenue
The reserve system now In use will be
discontinued, according to announce
ment made by Police Chief Richard t.
Battersby. after the meeting, and patrol
men will have thirty-two hours Off after
every six days of duty. The meeting
was held with the sanction of the City
Commissioners.
Unionism OF police was attacked by
Harry Gurley, president OF the associa-
ton, and Harry Hammond. vice-presi-
dent Both said that a policeman could
not fulfil his duties IL afflliated with
the American Federation of Labor.
About per cent of the Jersey City
force are said to belong TO a union which
secretly was organized six months ago.
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Lafayette at Barren Hill.

Nothing is too small for great
man." This Is the proverb written in
the hut at Zaandam. To lift up a
nation PETER the Great became a ship
carpenter.
So with the young nobleman, La
FAYETTE, whose birthday we celebrate
nationally to-day, September 6. He
was as magnauimous in humble cir
cumstances as In great affairs. That in
fallible reader Of souls, GEORGE WASH
INGToS, read him through at a glance
because of this trait. Among a score
of foreigners who offered their
swords-with desired high rank and
large pay-the American commander
gave to the young Frenchman only
his full confidence. Among our an
cestors, the ragged Continentals, often
shoeless, coatless and in patched gar
ments, LAFAYETTE showed himself as
considerable a gentleman as when
among titled officers. He honored the
men who, as ANTHONY WAYNE wrote
at Stony Point, were determined to
be free"
One minor incident of ITS not re-
corded in the books illumined as a
headlight his future path, confirming
WASHINGTON judgment. At Valley
Forge, with but ten thousand effec-
tive men, the American Fabius held
in check thrice that number of well
fed, clothed and equipped British and
Hessians. When the flower burst into
bloom there was on May IL, ITS,
much needed powder burned in joy
over the French alliance.
At once the American commander
resolved upon a reconnaissance. Would
the British evacuate Philadelphia ?
Too true had been BEN FRANKLIN's
prediction that they would not take
the city so much as the city would
take them. There was dramatic con-
trast between the bleak hills, with
rags and semi-starvation, at Valley
Forge and the ease, luxury and
warmth of the well housed army I'M
der General HOWE.
On May IS, after the feasting, rev.
elry, pomp and pageant Of the Mesch-
ianza, three British brigades under
Generals GREY, GRANT and ERsKINE
began their march to Barren Hill,
half way between Philadelphia and
WAsHINGToN's camp, where LAFAY-
FTTE was stationed. In this, LAFAY-
ETTE's first independent command,
WASHINGTON had actually entrusted
the young Frenchman with one-third
of his effective force, that Is, 2,10O
men, with five pieces of artillery.
HOWE had nicely planned that LA
FAYETTE should be completely envel-
oped, and that at the two ~fords OF
the Schuylkill, Matson's and the
Swede's, his retreat should be cut off.
There was nothing mean about HOWE
For the dinner that evening he In
vited several ladies to furnish wit
and beauty for LAFAYETTE, who was
| to be both prisoner and guest OF
honor. His brother, the Admiral
kept a ship waiting in the Delaware
River, ready to transport the illustri
GUS prize to Europe, where further
royal honors, in imagination at least
awaited the two brothers.
But mice and men have this il
common; they are often found in tn,
same boat of experience when theil
best laid plans gang agley. WheI
LAFAYETTE caught sight Of the from
files of the red coats and Hesslans ht
! took in the whole situation at once
; First occupying the strongest posi-
ltions, he sent out across the road
! and in favorable positions small de
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EVENTS TO-DAY.
1.atayette.Marn. ,,,rc,.,, c,,v u,n

lafayette Marne exercises, City Hal, II
A. Nj; Lafayette Monument, Union
Square, p. II.
Dinner IN celebration of the Victory
OF the first battle of the Marne BY the
Federation Of French War Veterans, Eth
The Community Councils OF National
Defence. conference, at the home Of Mrs
Henry p. Dawson. Locust Valley. l. l.,
! +. NJ.
Free exhibit OF living, aquarium fish
under the auspices OF the Brooklyn Aqua
day.
Telephone triangle picnic under ths
auspices OF the Telephone Society, Ulmsr
Park, Bath Beach, afternoon.
Dinner to Ambassador Jusserand by the
French Colony and friends OF France IN
the United States. Hotel Plaza. 9 80 Z. NJ
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Welshmans Reef in western Aus
tralia is reported by lucky prospectors
to have yielded ten tons of ore milling
1913 ounces of gold. This is at the
rate Of about 5000 ton, which is also
about what the ore of the great Com
stock bonanza yielded. If the Austria
Ian deposit is as large that fortunate
country's Mob Hill is doomed to be
decorated with amazing palaces of
bonanza kings who will live happily
elsewhere.
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Another Definition Of Happiness.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Str: Hap
piness is the inner state OF soul life
which only too often when translated
inwardly out may be mistaken for the
reverse. III. b. SoNNEBoRN.
NEW YoRK, September 5.
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A Paris rumor has 1t that the Ru-
manian situation is complicated by
powerful oil interests which are said
TO be playing a part" and Mr.. LA Fol-
LErrE's horrid suspicion that power
full oil interests" are back of the land
leasing bill so complicated his intel
lectuals that he talked thirty hours
to untangle his thoughts. Therefore 1t
follows inevitably that Saint SwITHIN
had nothing to do with our weary
weeks Of darkness and rain: Powerful
oil interests were the flood devils.
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The Costly Cadaver.

..The peace mission took S1,b7b, 600 and
Lhs Prss.dent asks 1929, 600 more s.
correspondence.
NO man." he declared
As no set sail for Havre,
would DO this TO bring
Back q useless cadaver"
But like salome
with Johns head on a salver,
He came back at last.
And he brought the cadaver
To galvanizs now
This lamented cadavsr,
He's touring the land
with his endless palaver.
0RANTHm 0AHEN.
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Peach and Honey Days of Georgia.

From tao AfIantG Constitution.
John e. Finch, the Richmond philoso-
pher, asks: what has become of the old
time gentleman OF sixty years ago that
kept a decanter full Of peach brandy on
his sideboafd all the year round. with
honey and mint to TX It up with2 All
visitors were welcome TO all they wanted
to drink. Everybody was sociable."
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Two distinguished italian scientists,
DR.. MARcEILo BoLDIMI and DR.. DELLA
REVERB. have announced as a result
of long research that children born
in the first three months of the year
are likely to be of superior intelli-
gence. This will please those whose
birthdays come in those months, but
with no discount on good looks and
agility noted against those born in
other months there will be many who
will be merry. smile and not worry.
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Berlin Tax Ala. search Homes

BERLIN. Sept. 4 delayed The Mih,
lister OF Finance has empowered Sh
sleuths TO enter private premises y,
search them from cellar TO garret a,D
force strong boxes in the general rounoi,,
up OF eligible Taxpayers. Protests "
Is understood. will be unavailing -
the Ministry has wide powers.