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The Size OF the American Navy.

The insistence of Secretary DANIELS
that the United States must have "in.
comparably the greatest navy in the
world unless the Peace Conference
puts an end to naval building on the
part of all the nations" is foolish and
inconsistent with the anticipation of a
long period Of profound peace. 1t
would be interesting to know whether
the views thus expressed by his Sec
rotary of the Navy are sanctioned by
the President.
or course, this country needs and
should have navy sufficiently power
full to protect 1t and Its possessions
against any attack reasonably TO he
apprehended In the future. Some
things, however, may be taken for
granted with perfect confidence. One
Of them Is that. under no circum.
stances, will any controversy ever
arise between the United States and
Great Britain which cannot be settled
without resort to the arbitrament of
war. The same IS true of the United
States and the French Republic. In
any enlargement of our navy. there
fore, no account need be tnken of liz
size relative to the British or the
French navy. To build dreadnoughts
simply to outnumber or outclass those
flying the British or the French nag
will waste the peoples money.
II we are wrong In this, then the
belief which millions of Americans
so fondly entertain that the war has
made us friends forever with the peo-
pie of Great Britain and France is a
delusion and snare.
We think that the size of the Amerl.
can navy may safely be fixed on the
assumption that it will never be
called upon to contend with the forces
of our British or French friends
across the water.
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UPPER BROADWAY CARS.
Poor Trolley Service Given North Of
Dyckman Street

To THE EDITOR or THE SuN--Sr: On
upper Broadway, north of 1S1st street.
the street car service furnished by the
Third Avenue Railroad Company Is de-
plorable. 1t 10 the greatest drawback
to that section, and Is one Of the reasons
why It Is not more popular as a resi-
Dental section. A walt OF half an hour
for q car on that system Is nothing. l
have more than once been forced to
wait for an hour. and only last sum-
mer returned to my home after walt
Ing moro than an hour without having
the satisfaction OF even seeing a
crowded car 80 past,
Even when the sea son at Interstate
Park Is at It's height and hundreds OF
persons come across the Dyckman ferry
to broadway to take southbound Broad
way cars the Third Avenue Railroad
Company apparently makes no effort to
increase the number of cars and furnish
decent service. 1t IL not unusual to see
crowds OF twenty-five to nifty persons
waiting At Dycknan street and Broad
way for n car. And they certainly have
to walt But after waiting for half an
hour they arc lucky II they can get on
car for the reason that others who
came across tho Hudson in earlier boats
may have walked northward for three
or four blocks and boarded the car,
having anticipated the crush at Dyck-
man street. EXPERIENCED.
NEW YORK, December 81.
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The Americans New Year

1t Is we'll enough to say. at the be-
ginning Of year so promising, thar
the hearts and hopes of Americans are
centred upon new and better world.
1t is true enough, too, if we limit the
period of applied altruistic thought to
few minutes of the several hundred
that make up the day; but it Is best
for man to be frank enough to con-
fess that most of his thinking today
Is devoted to his own little world: his
family and his fortune; his mistakes,
advances and ambitions.
Each of us in happy America goes
pretty we'll about his own business.
When the American steps out of his
course. whether 1t be to pay poor
neighbours rent or TO break salient
In France, it is really something only
incidental to his individual career. A
young New Yorker at Chateau
Thierry had in his head no map Of
Europe, but rather memory of n
fractional part of Tenth avenue. His
object was not to assist the national
aspirations of Lithuania, but to do
his own particular job and go back :"
Tenth avenue-or on 10 the stars. Ii
he and his millions of fellows had
spent their lives incoming over world
theories and international brother
hood there would have been no Amer
lea to come 10 the worlds rescue.
Was there not idealism? Yes, the
best that ever was; but 1t was the
idealsm of old poetry and not of fac
tidous prose. The men who won the
war knew JULIA WARD HowE'S hymn,
but probably not n single solemn line
from the Nelc Republic.
1t is fine year that the American
individualist has TO look back upon.
His sacrifice, whether abroad or ar
home, whether in doing or going with.
out, put victory In FoCH's hands. He
was the armorer and the almoner OF
civilization. For the sake of the side
with which he had sympathlzed from
the beginning, but which C!rCum'
stance (what a number of DISCUSSES
she has , prevented him from joining
until a late day, he submitted 10 being
regulated. even by amateurs. He tenn
porarily surrendered his individual
ism whenever and wherever necessary
in order that indiyiduallsm's worst
enemy might be beaten.
Now, at the beginning of yea
free from the eXactions Of war, the
iadividuallst halls with pleasure 10.
lease from bureaucracy and return
to American freedom. He wants TO
enjoy the things that have made
American life what it is; that have
made this country world power
without the aid Of Metternlch, n
Disraell or Bismarck. He wants his
own country and his part in ruling 1t;
and no part in the ruling of any other
land with which We are a peace.
That is what ne wants in this New
Year and the other happy years thai
should follow. and he has a trick OF
getting what he wants.
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To Be Read Next June or There.
about.

why are you so eXasperated at
your late unclei' asked the disinter-
csted bystander of the mourner emery.
ing in manifest indignation from the
decorous family gathering soon after
the funeral.
Because he promised to remember
me in his will If I would do SO and
so for him."
And didn't hef"
"Oh, yes, he remembered me, he
did! When the lawyer read the
damned document to the family, after
getting through with the other be-
quests he wiped his eyeglasses and
then continued reading, In loud.
clear voice: And now to my beloved
nephew, JOHN SMITH, / distinctly
wish. TO be remembered.
II is an old story, hut ever new.
We wonder whether Point Fourteen,
concerning the League of All Nations,
will get about that amount OF tesla
mentary recognition when the decI-
sions of the Peace Conference are com.
muniCatcd.
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rectiiicatlon of her boundaries and
the restoration of independence.
The sympathies of the young Shah
and of such government as existed at
Teherpn were with the Allies Their
country, nevertheless, was the centre
Of strong German propaganda, which
was directed primarily to securing the
aid of the Mohammedans Of central
Asia and India for Turkey and Ger
many. The unsettled conditions Of
Persia made 1t impossible for Persia
to suppress this Teutonic activity I'M
til assistance was received from the
British after their successes IN the
Mesopotamian valley.
On account of the position which
she occupied parts of Persia became
battle-ground for different factions
and she suffered from the war more
severely than was generally believed.
Her northern provinceS especially
Azerbaijan, Of which Tabriz Is the
capital, was fought over for three
years. Azerbaijan had been practi-
caly absorbed by Russia when the
war began, and the efforts OF Turkey
to gain hold in the province brought
on struggle In which there was
mixed not only Russian and Turk,
but German, Kurd. Caucasian noun
talneer, Armenian refugee and Per.
sian insurgent and Persian tribes
man. The whole country was as
completely devastated as was Belgium
or Serbia.
The geographical position of Per
STA, between the Caspian Sea and the
indian Ocean, and at the narrow por-
ton Of the western Asiatic continent,
gives her a position Of unusual COM
mercial aad- political Importance in
the Near East. With the binding con-
ditions Of former treaties ended and
the pressure Of Russia on the north
and Turkey on the west removed,
Persia would be restored to her for
mer Independence.
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A SOAP BOX PARADISE.
Scheme for the Segregation Of thu
BlAtherskite Brotherhood.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN---Str:
offer q suggestion which II carried out
will soive the problem Of free speech so
vociferouely demanded by certain Gle
ments Of our population. Lot a space
be set apart by tho authorities In some
park where hare Drained blatherslites
pin headed cranks, anarchists, Sim
Feiners, !. ". VS. and German proy,e-
gandists may assemble and shoot of
their mouths without any interference
whatever by the authorities. Tho space
so chosen should be under the care of
a custodian. who could keep In stock
an assortment Of soap boxes to be rented
to the orators at 20 much an hour. one
half of such rentals to be retained by
the custodian and half given TO the
Board Of Health to defray tho expenses
Of fumigaung the region as often as
necessary. No flag OF any nation or
cult should be permitted to be displayed,
least Of all the American nag. for that
would be desc ration.
This space might be called 'Hell's
Half Acre" JOHN HANDY.
TAPPAN, December 81.
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justified by conditions in Great Brit
ain and Ireland. Here, however, 1t has
been found that women seldom vote
for candidates merely because those
candidates are women. On the con-
trary. the appeal to sex against sex
has seldom been made, and never
with conspicuous success so far as
we are aware.
In the United States the votes Of
women are divided about as mems
are They are Influenced by princi-
pie, prejudice or personality. 10 far
in American experience there has
been nothing to indicate particular
political bias among women voters
for women candidates or against men
candidates, n fact which has brought
comfort to many persons who before
women were enfranchised were fright
ened out Of their boots by the posi-.
bility Of nation politically sundered.
with all the men on one side and all
the women on the other.
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TRADE BRIEFS.

As result OF the recent wage agitation
at Stoks-on- Trent. England. the manutsc-
| ;ursrs in the earthenwars and china trades,
| as well as MAKERS OF Jet and rockingha am
wares, have given 20 their work people the
| largest advance yet known 70 have been
! made at one time In the history OF the
| tradeA
Ar opportunity to study commerce In
foreign countries at frst hand Is offered
| 10 ambitious young men who succeed In
! passing civil service examination tor
| clerks to commercial attaches to bo held
! January IA, 1919.
Consul General Ha!stead has cAbled from
| stockholm ths; after January /. 1919. no
commercial preparation containing more
than 81 per cent. OF potable alcohol can
be sold In Sweden.
stockholm coal importers say there Is an
unusual market for American coal In that
city and that permanency OF trade 10
promised.
Although the consumption OF tea in
spain IL not as grea, as IN some other
countries, yet the normal demand 4, quite
large. During the war II has been found
d!nicult to supply this demand and stocks
have been dwind.ing rapidly until IN some
places 1t Ia now almost impossible to OBJ
tain even tea OF poor quality.
4 list Of cotton goods importers In B-,s
bane. Australis, may he obtained from the
bureau OF foreign and domestic com
merce or It's district or cooperative Offices
by referring 70 File l07o4oa
Before the the German merchants
gained r great advantage in the Danish
market by Offering long credits The small
amount 81 capita! on which the average
Danish merchant diI business made these
terms Of sale very attractive to him.
our Consul at Saigon. French Indo-C China,
wants for Immediate usa catalogues Of
machinery for treating fish products such
as condensing machinery for reducing .x-
trac'. for the manufacture Of fish oils and
fa'', N. nanuiactur" Of fish pastes and
gelsru's and tho manufacture OF Gsh
guauo.
ChnNs shipping is SIN largely owned
and controlled 10y tarc!Gu interests In
1917 there wrr" elshty-scvpn steamshipa
engaged IN chinese coastwlse trade on,y
twenty seven Of which were chinese ownc
and in March Of the same year 1877 ves-
sells of all types, assregating 7d.425 tons,
we're plying on inland waters only one.
nth Of which were owned by Chinese
Tho River Plate Countries. Argentina
Uruguay and Paraguay. present one II the
best markets IN Latin America for sodium
produS;s.
Alarmed 10y thP srsrC!'v ~ raust!c soda
tho Brazilian Government is now encour.
aging its 'oral production. J; h.s c!assci
Il, aong with cool and iron mining. as a
key irirqtry and IS offering To loan up
to - per cent. Of the cost Of conatruc,!on
amount not TO exceed $500. 900 TO each OF
tho hrst three factories established with
a minimum production Of 500 tons a year
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use as n substitute for hops In the
making of beer IL a possibility that
OF course no longer interests Ameri-
cans. Nevertheless, the lay and tax
paying population regarded with re-
greet this destruction OF potentially
useful substances.
This feeling Of regret was intensi.
fed when, in the newspapers of yes.
terday morning. the taxpayers read
the news that:
THE transport Cartago from Dor.
deaux. owing to the great amount OF
explosives aboard, had to anchor In
Gravesend Bay and send the rsturnins
soldiers TO Hoboken aboard transport
service tugs"
The newspapers gave no clue to the
kind Of explosives carried by the Car.
tago. It may be that they are OF d
different nature from those which are
being dumped overheard or Scotland
Neck liEhtship. The one may be sta.
BILE, the other subject to deterioration
and hence dangerous to store, or use
less to keep. But mere taxpayert
would like to know, II publication OF
the information endangers no military
secret, whether the Government Is en-.
couraging, permitting or compelling
the destruction of valuable property
through the Railroad Administration,
while spending good cargo space and
coal to lug the same kind of property
across the Atlantic Ocean under the
auspices Of the War Department.
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Where Are the Calendars:

Did MARS tie the hands of the cal.
endar manufa cturers last year, or has
the American appetite for the hang.
ers that mark the flying months weak.
ened? Whatever the reason, scarcity
Of paper or lack OF curiosity rs to
when the moon will be full, calen-
dars are seen, at this most seasonable
time, about as often as periscopes In
Montana.
or course We do not refer to the
art confections that may be had in
the stationery stores for the buying,
but to the free calendars that once
were looked upon by Youth as The
principal product Of the fire insurance
companies. Thirty years ago the
small boy Of the city or village did
not consider his Christmas holidays
we'll spent unless he had made the
rounds of the fire insurance Offices
collecting calendars that were his for
the mere asking, as blotters were also
In those golden days.
Maybe the practice is still pursued
somewhere west of Hoboken and the
boys have already figured out the ex-
act Saturday upon which school will
close and have wondered, observing
that Decoration Day falls upon Fri.
day. whether school will take the
trouble to reopen the next day. II
school is held in their part Of the
country on Saturday. or whether
there will not be joyous three day
vacation. The boys fathers have
noted this, too, with thoughts of
three days after trout at the end of
May and three days after bass in
July; for the Fourth Of July always
falls upon the same day of the week
as Decoration Day.
Without his trusty calendar. how is
the Wall Street man to know we'll In
advance that WASHINGTON Birthday
will come on a Saturday, assuring an
opportunity for two days at Atlantic
City. and that LINCoLS's Day is a
Wednesday, with no chance of steal
Ing an extra day on either side Of 1t?
Fie upon control Of the pulp indus
try that has robbed US of our means
Of knowing the pleasures of ant!cipa-
ton! Hooray for the free and un-
limited coinage of calendars!
What poor places the farmhouses
must be II they have Jared as badly
in the matter Of big. brilliant date
pads as this metropolis fares. In
olden times there was calendar for
every room, and the kitchen some
times had two, not to mention the
more intellectual almanacs that hung
not far from the water dipper. There
were the Old Farmers Almanac and
Whosthis's Bitters Almanac and
Whatshisnams's SarsaparIlla Alma
nae and you could get. among them,
any sort OF weather you wanted for
any season. But the calendar was
more important for every day use,
particularly II the white space around
each date was large enough to mark
down the number Of eggs the hens
laid that day,
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How Women Vote.

English political observers record
their conclusion that in the general
election which resulted In an over
whelming victory for Premier LLOYD
GEORGE the women candidates Jared
badly, partly because they repre-
scented the militant sufl'rngettes, but
mainly because there had not been
time enough to organize the women's
vote and get the proper women can
dldateS."
The assumption that ii was because
there WAS not time Ia organize the
women voters women candidates
failed to get the woman vote may be
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THOSE SERVICE cHEVRoNs.
A Blue striper Replies to Critics o.
Army Badges Of Service.

To THE EpIroR OF THE suN-Sir: Your
editorial article THE Silver Chevron''
Indicates that you are mislnformed az
regards service stripes.
You refer to IA gold chevron for over
seas service" which Is only partly cor
rect II should be "a gold chevron for
six months overseas service; under sir
months overseas service o blue stripe.
have Just arrived back In this coun-
try after three months overseas servios
am entitled TO a blue stripe. Why
should the fellows who didn't 70 asrosi
resent the fact that they are onsJ al
lowed to wear q silver stripe and are
not allowed q gold stripe?
You say some Of these have said
they will face a court-martih rather
than adopt the silver chevTon."
As for those gentry. can say In
behalf Of my comrades that arc allowed
only q blue stripe that thsy are not
compelled TO wear any stripes what
soevsr Why don't they leave them
OF altogether \
Tho DIRECTORS also say that men who
managed to get into noncombatsnt
branches Of the service In Europa. the
ofilcers and men who had swivel chair
Jobs" ir Paris. or who we're never nearer
the battle front than q training camp
In England are entitled to gold
chevron.
They are laboring under the mis-
apprehension that the fellows who went
across and didn't get into the actual
fighting were on q picnic or q vacation
trip.
These directors are without doubt
fellows who were kept over here and
have done perhaps three or four hours
drilling and guard duty occasionally
and therefore think that they are en-
titled to a gold chevron. while fellows
who went across and were not In the
actual lighting and were not across for
at least elk months are entitled to only
q blue stripe
The blue stripe boys had hardships
to contend with that the silver stripe
boys should consider themselves lucky
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WORK FOR ALL AMERICANS.
Not for Returned Soldiers Merely
Should Jobs BE Open.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuH-sir: Miss
Maroury. speaking OF girls " no will lose
their Jobs 10 make places for returned
soldiers. says. Let them marry the
soldiers" Her remark amounts simply
TO let them get out.
Army of''cers and others say all re-
turned soldiers should have their old
Jobs back, but have yet to hear from
single one who says all Americans
who need work should have work
say not only the returned soldiers should
have work, but every American boy and
giri OF workable age. and every Ameri-
can man and woman who needs work
should have II, and have an opportun-
ity TO earn an honest and decent living.
II this country can take In a million
foreigners annually. why cannot II find
work for all natives?
T. L. MURPHY.
FALL RIVER, Mass. December 81.
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More Mad Mathematics.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUM-. In
regard 10 your editorial article ~ the
eleven -eleven-eleven' memory system
for the date OF the wars end, why not
fix the year In this way?
Our era began with the birth Of Jesus
Christ. but that IL wrongly stated. as
may be seen In the encyclopedias. The
date of his birth should be b. C..
This makes 1913 properly 1922.
Nov make the date Of the end OF the
war eleventh hour, eleventh day. eleventh
month, eleventh year after IL Cor 1911
plus II equals 1929, the proper dating OF
1879. Perfectly simple.
In the same way the war began not
in 1914. but in 1918. OF course. which is
"l9ll. come seven" or cum seven. 50 to
speak. T ].
BRoSxvlLI.E, December 81.
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ARMY AIR FLIGHT RENEWED.
Squadron IA" IN
Washington on Friday.

W.sEINGTo$, ne". Sl.--Tlc squad !
Of four army airplnnps on trana'o-"-
mental flight "a Washington will MOI tr'
rive here tomorrow rs expected .-'
'RUse cn-iue trouble forced land =
nea~ TillWan. :, G. \ message .-.n
the co1'mauder 20 the War Deuar-'"'r:
to-day reported that the tignt had t.'7
resumed and tina, the squadron prob. f
would re1ch here Friday
After repairs had been mad" 80 ''
crippled ,u@'ro Il was found trat e
field was $50 small The machines yrGi
no, set ava, from IT. so they were - ''r
10 pieces and carted 10 a large \
aud rca-s,'ubird.
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The One Neutral at the Peace Con.
ference.

Tie request of Persia for repreSen-
tation at the peace conference has
been granted, according TO inforna-
ton received ut Washington, 10 the
extent of participation in the tie
Iiberarione Of the conference upon
matters concerning persia's interests.
Persia. of which comparatively little
las been heard during the war and
which Is one of the more remote neu-
trail nations, Is thus the only one
among them so fur to be admitted TO
the peace table.
The exception in favor Of Persia
Is largely due. It Is snid. to Great
Britain and the United States. Great
Britain il now the nation most In
tnrcs cd in the settlement Of the Per-
sian question She desires a stable
government for the country on ac-
count Of its proximity 10 her Indian
dependencies and owing to her IMAM
cIal and commercial interests IN
southern Persia. The United States
has a purely sympathetic interest in
Persia, which has been shown in the
recommendation by President TAFT
Of WILLIAM MURGAN SHUSTEE aS the
Treasurcr-Gcnoral Of the country, rs
well as by various helpful diplomatic
favors. \ mark of Persian apprccia-
ton Of this cOuntry's frlendllncss was
the subscription last May by the
young Shah, AHMED MIRA, for 500
900 in Liberty bonds.
What Persia particularly desires is
The removal Of the evidences Of the
Russian domination OF the past, the
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The COntractor-IDig.

The Oid Year was a soldier brav.
In grimy khaki drest,
\ victory wreath was on his brow.
4 medal on hls breast
When all the bells on earth announced
The stroke OF twelve at night,
lie climbed Into an ambulance
and rumbled out OF sight.
The New Year has a dinner pail
As into view he swings.
His pockets bulge with hammers, nails.
And other useful things
His face is puckereI in gg!n,
Ii.s eyes with pleasure dance.
lif has contract In his p.ouse
To reconstruct all France.
NINA InviSa
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OIL OUTPUT INCREASES.
Total Marketed In 1915 Amount'
to 345.SOO, 900 barrels.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 3l-Prelin'irar"
r'tinates Of the geological survey. ~ Ia
public to-day. Indicate that the auaut,'Y
OF petroleum marketed from oil wells
and field storage tanks in the United
States this year amounted to more than
345. 500 900 barrels. an apparent gan NJ
per cent. over the record OUTPUT q
335,3l5, SOL barrels IN 1917
The surface reserve of crude oil lfj
by producers and pipe line companies gt
the end 90 this year was estimated a.
l23,"0o,000 barrels, compared wifi l'o-
oo' nu1 harrcls at the end Of 1871
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New Year. What DO You Bring.

New Year, what do you bring 10 me
As, passing, the Old year dies
10, the Pres"nt. the tine OF times,
give In my bounty wise"
New Year, what do you bring 10 me.
For To-day | cannot prize"
'l.n. the future. the time a. come;
Still closer to YOU Il lies"
Sew Year, nothing y'u hF.nS - me-,
No, nothing beneath your skies:
/ UTavr the Past you bring not back
And a 'sd with laughing eyea,r
NcLANpBURGT Wusos