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The sun., 1919-11-02
WASHINGTON. November /.
YELLOW FOR AUCTIONS.
II the Red Vendue Flag Must Go An.
other Color Must Be Found.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Red
going. going gone
out of the West, the land of immod-
Grafton and in an age of the immod-
crate. well shown by absolute prohibit
tion, comes another call for a reform
this time more finicky than fanatical.
The wicked auctioneer has been using
n red background on his flag, and
what was formerly capital means of
attracting attention is now almost a
capital crime. But change is the order
of the day--except small change
Let us offer suggestions, therefore, for
q new auctioneers' flag, though they are
generally an unnagging lot.
First let Us look for something pretty
oh, yes. lavender or heiotrope or
robins egg blue. But as the business
Is rather merciessly mercenary and con-
sequently intensely practical we must
have some more startling means of dis
play.
Why not yellow for the fellow who
bargains doth below? Magnficently
attractive and not overworked and
slightly suggestive of the fact that at
times the philanthropic auctioneer sells
us a--lemon O. Il. PRELLwIT2
New YORK. November l.
The sun., 1919-11-02
The Sun Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For eastern New York and southern
New England-Rain and cooler to-day
tomorrow fair: fresh northwest winds.
For New Jersey-Rair and cooler today;
tomorrow fair; moderate northwest winds
For northern Sew England--Rain ana
cooler To-day; tomorrow probably fairi
moderate shifting winds
For western New York-Cloudy to-day,
fair. anu ''''0' !" east pO''''"' '
WASHINGTON, Nov. IA disturbance
that developed during Friday night over
west Tennessee has moved to east Penn
intensity, but with only light to moderate
east Of the Mississippi River. with result.
ing general and substantial rains over the
entire area except i'm Florida and the W.
per lake region. There we're also general
rams rams IN the west Gulf states Another aus .
turbance from the north Pacific is centrai
over British Columbia, and there were
general rains in the north Pacific states
and rains and SHOWS in Idaho, western
Montana and northwestern Wyoming. over
the central West and the Southwest, the
weather was fair. with nearly normal pres,.
sure. Temperatures are still very hlgn
for the season in the Atlantic states ana
the highest temperatures OF record for ,ir me
day occurred between southeastern Nir-
ginia and eastern Georgia. From the wess
Gulf states northeastward through the
Lake region there was decided IAN sn
temper1ture to slightly below norma
conditions rule while in the west ~
Is generally warmer. There VII ne RON ~.
sunday In the Atlantic states followed 6y
fair weather Monday while In tho Laks
region. tho Ohio Valley. Tennessee ana
the east Gulf States the weather viii be
fair Sunday and Monday, except Tor
showers Sunday along the cast CUR coast
1t will be cooler Sunday in the Atlantic
and east Gulf States, the upper ONO fai,
ley and the eastern lower lake region ann
warmer Monday In the lower OHIO Naiie.'
west Tennessee and east Gulf states
storm warnings are. displayed on the
Washington coast.
Observations n. United states Weather Du-
reau stations taken at +. NJ. yesterday, seV
p,ttk Hfth Hon ina
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Let the Public Protect Itself 4;
Little More.

The Railroad Administration has
spent good deal of energy this fall
In an effort to impress ON railroad
workers the desirabillty of accident
prevention. Friday was the final day
of an intensive drive" on this SUBJ
ject, to which general public attention
was attracted by numerous posters
and banners.
This drive" was excellent in its
object and will no doubt be produc-
tive of much good, but the whole re-
sponsibility for railroad accidents does
not lie on the shoulders of railroad
men. The public is to blame for
thousands of casualties which no per-
son employed on the railroads can
prevent. OF the thousands of men
and women killed ON rights of way
every year in this country great
majority are wilful trespassers, and
many of these are not tramps, as is
generally supposed, but respectable
citizens who imperil their lives TAX
ing short cuts over railroad property.
1t Is not the railroad that sends fool
motorists on grade crossings In front
Of trains. 1t Is not the fault of the
railroad that, disregarding warnings,
many passengers jump off trains in
motion, or, ducking under crossing
gates, board moving trains. 1t is an
everyday occurrence in cars on steam
and electric roads, in New York and
in other parts Of the country, to have
passengers claw at the doors to open
them before it is safe so to do.
If the public would exercise as
much care to protect Itself as rail-
road men exercise to safeguard 1t the
list of deaths from railroad "acci-
dents" would be much shorter.
The sun., 1919-11-02
THE BUSINESS WAY.
Operating Statements Proposed TO
Supplement the City Budget.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: In
the editorial article entitled What a
Budget System Won't Do" you stated
the fact very concisely, namely, that an
organized budget viii only disclose
waste, not prevent It. But why did you
not proceed after that to call attention
to the fact that it will not even do that
clearly enough to cause any commotion2
To put extravaganza so plainly in evi-
dence that even a Government employee
would note it a system of expense ac-
counting with monthly and yearly oper-
ating statements, such as any business
avails itself Of and can hardly do with
out. should supplement and operate CO.
incidentally as a part of the budget sys-
TEN, so-called. This can be accom-
piished. in fact has been accomplished,
in Springfield, Mass, for instance, and
until it is done no amount of budget
schemes-all good so far as they go
win ever bring about the desired end
so much spoken of these days, and
merely spoken of at that
ACCOUNTANT.
WASHINGTON, November /.
The sun., 1919-11-02
AIRPLANES TO RAYTI.
We Might Garry the Mail Now Held
Up in This Country.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUN-Sr: I
understand foreign mail to Hayti has
been held up in this country by the
strike for nearly a month.
Would it not be more sensible to send
mail by airplane from Key West to
Hayti than to permit it 10 he stored in
New York warehouses while we are
foolishly carrying mail by airplane
from New York to Syracuse, Buffalo,
Rochester Chicago. &c, which points
are reached almost as quickly by train
and have a regular train mail service
several times a day?
Why not take the airplanes Off the
route from New York to Chicago, where
they are not needed, and put them on a
route from Key West to Hayti and other
points between which there is no COM
munication at all at present except by
wireless or cable? G. II. n.
NEW YORK, November L.
The sun., 1919-11-02
REGISTERING.
She Suggests Reason why Many
Women Stayed Away.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Sh-: ]
read in THE SUN an article asking the
reason for the registration of SO few
women
I can give you one reason-and there
may be more, but of this one am sure
and that is the necessity of going into
barber shop to register.
This may seem very trivial reason
TO the male mind, but 1t is fact.
Let me tell you my own experience.
l am mature woman, wife and a
mother of sons My place for regstra-
tion is a small barber shop on Flatbush
avenue. As my husband was III | was
forced to go alone and 1 chose an hour
when l hoped the shop would have no
patrons. But on opening the door 1
saw that each of the three chairs had
an occupant and also a barber, so six
pairs of eyes and six heads turned my
way as I quietly walked to the back of
the store, whore the tables were ar
ranged with the books FOR registering
voters
Six pairs of ears listened while my
answers quietly given, were, beloved
to the men and women at the table.
Then, when all was finished and my
ticket deposited in the box, as took
my way out of the store remarks, fol-
lowed by smokers. went with me to the
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sentative from the Fourteenth Con-
gress district OF this city.
Major PHILIP J. McCooK, the only
Republican who is up for Justice Of
the Supreme Court, was lawyer of
high standing before he enlisted and
went to France, there to be badly
wounded.
Captain HFNRY II. CURRAN, who is
running for President of the Borough
Of Manhattan, was successfully law
yer, Alderman and Magistrate before
he volunteered for service and found
active service with the Seventy-sev-
enth Division in the Argonne.
Each of these men If he had never
gone to the war-and all were be-
yond the selective service age-would
still be fit for the place to which he
aspires. In ths respect the Republl-
can party has set happy example.
ITS soldier nominees are not running
as veterans but as citizens better
qualified than the Tammany men who
oppose them.
The sun., 1919-11-02
Strange Activity of Certain New
Jersey Public Officials.

The subjoined amazing assertion
was printed in the afternoon news
papers of Friday as n matter of rou
tine news:
BERNARD McFEELEY, Director of
Public Safety of Hoboken, to-day
followed the example of Mayor HAGUE
of Jersey City in refusing to allow
strike breakers to go to work. Learn
ing that men were coming to Ho-
boken by the Hudson tube this morn
ing McFEELEY stationed policemen
at the tube entrance and seventy
men, including four recently dis
charged soldiers still in uniform, were
taken to the police station and or
dered to return to New York city"
The example of Mayor HAGUE .o1
Jersey City is reported to have been
set on Thursday, when, it is alleged
he refused to permit men willing to
work on Jersey City piers to proceed
to their jobs.
The Governor of New Jersey has
intervened in the astounding situa.
tion, and yesterday it was announced
that he had asked for full particulars
concerning these denials of the right
to work.
The answers to his inquiry will be
of great interest. How long has II
been the business of New Jersey
Mayors and Directors of Public Safety
to interpose official authority between
men willing to work and the jobs they
seek to. fill?
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saved cut in two by The cost of living.
Indeed their very savings may be
further hazarded by the Governments
mismanagement of the corporations
In which the fruits of self-sacrifice
perhaps were invested.
We suppose there are many who set
out, perhaps twenty years ago, to save
$4,000, an amount which at . per
cent. would net $1,000 year--an in
come upon which an elderly couple
could then live without great sacrifice
Of pride or comfort. But what 81 900
would buy in 1900 and what 1t will
buy now are great In their difference.
There is nothing for the man to do
but to keep the pack on his shoulder
and abandon that picture of the pleas
ant autumn of life which was his
stimulant In his years of thrift.
Meanwhile the man hears theorists
crying that the high prices have come
to stay and that they do no harm be-
cause earnings rise to meet them.
Earnings Of men beyond threescore
bookkeepers and clerks and little
store keepers? Not on your efficient
life, Professor! Meanwhile, also, the
man sees the Administration fussing
around the edges of the food problem
and never touching the base. He sees
the Administration putting out n list
of fair food prices which has no re-
suit except mirth on the part of the
grocer and the butcher. He sees stu
pldity and extravaganza paid for with
taxes; and he pays the taxes.
Then the man looks at his bank
book or his railroad stock, and he too
would like to laugh, but the joke on
him is too chastity No golf or civic
improvement for him. Back to the
old stool
The sun., 1919-11-02
The Pieman of Tammany

Conspicuous as is the pieman of
Tammany In the great affairs Of the
town, comparatively few citizens can
truthfully say they possess the privi-
lege Of intimate, personal acquaint-
ance with him.
The pleman seldom gets about.
Many of the literary societies have
never been graced by his presence.
The Shakespearian students have
never, we are told, been honored by
his appearance at their discussions
His voice is not raised in the chorus
Of the Children's Song League. Among
those who debate the influence of
IBsEN on the modern drama there is
scarcely one who knows the pieman
by sight.
Sometimes the pieman is adversely
criticised because he is not often in
such respectable circles. But this is
unjust to the pieman.
When a pieman has to bear the
heavy burden which rests on the pie
man of Tammany he has scant time
for outside occupations. If the pie
mans sole duty were to divide the
pie and hand out slices to the braves
he would have enough to do. But
the Tammany pieman not only has to
cut the pie which Is brought to the
Fourteenth street wigwam by the in
defntigable braves; he makes it his
duty to eat all of it. However weary
he may be, however exhausted with
the labor of his office, however tired
draws to a close the pieman must hunt
shout the pie counter, find all the
fra agments which have escaped con-
and, despite the repletion a
heavy days eating has induced, con-
sumo them. Did he not do this some
one else might get bit of pie, and
the pleman has sworn no other shall
feast on pie while his health and ap-
petite remain unimpaired and his ca
pacity is still receptive.
Stern devotion to duty keeps the
pieman from the pleasures of the
town and deprives his fellow citizens
of his eleN ating company, and there
are Tammany braves who swear that
this shall no longer be, though TO
bring about a change they must get
new pieman who will not eat all
the pie,
The sun., 1919-11-02

After every war the voters of this
country are used to finding the names
of soldiers on the ballot, so it is not
strange that veterans of the greatest
of all conflicts should be running this
year. What is peculiar, however, is
that the three service men who are
striving for important offices in New
York are Republicans. What is more
to the point, they are not running
because they are veterans.
Major FIoRELLo LA GUARDIA, who is
the candidate for President of the
Board of Aldermen, was a public SER
want of distinction before the war.
having served in the Government con-
sular service, as Il Deputy Attorney.
General of this State and as Repre-
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At the Railway station.

Here haste and tense expectancy combine
And here, amid intermnable noise,
Old sorrows meet and mingle with new
joys,
Eyes marry. loving fingers intertwine.
Hither comes Fate, as through some set
design
within whose hands all men are but as
toys;
At one brief breathless moment there is
poise.
And then the rush of feet in swerving line.
Here solitude and quiet seem as far
Removed as Is the orbit of star
That through the midnight spaces ninss
its beam;
And, as one watches those who pause or
Become like figures gimpsed within a
glass,
Phantssmagoric as the shapes Of dreami
CLINTON ScoLLARD.
The sun., 1919-11-02
Dry

Dry is Sahara Like a coal
Its sands beneath the FURNISHED bowl
OF Africs sky.
Dry is the breeze OF early morn;
Dry is the cornstalk now-the corn
Is also dry,
Dry is one kind Of apple pie.
Dry some of Wordsworth's poetry.
AS well as drol.
Dry the Mohave. with Its dust;
And dry the Constitution. Just
AS is 'Sheol.
Dry is the humor OF Mark Twain.
Artemus Ward. some folk maintain.
3 dryer guy
Dry Tantalus. one can't deny;
And also william Jennings Bry.,
The Perfect Dry.
Seek heights OF dryness where you will.
However, one o'ertops them still
For alkali.
There sec is all that's left Of sec
And poor Gambrlnus is wreck
Arid n. Y.
MAURICE Morris.
The sun., 1919-11-02
Hamilton on the Strike.

Every Government ought to con-
tain in itself the means of it's own
preservation
This wise utterance of ALEXANDER
HAMILTON Is aptly quoted by our
neighbor the World in approval Of the
Governments swift and fearless ac-
tion in the coal strike.
We suggest TO the World that the
sententious phrase applies with equal
force in any consideration of the cove
nant of the League of Nations in its
present form.
The sun., 1919-11-02

Speaking of sick men. its astonishing
how many Republicans are met with now
adays who look as It they needed doc
tors care They are heartily sick OF the
way in which their party leaders are bear
ing themselves In Washington one such
lugubrious New York Republican was being
commiserated by a friend, why, you
look as II you were seasick." NO. It is
not that; am only suN-sick The
Erening Post.
only faithful needing of the famous
admonition to keep neutral even in our
thoughts as between friends represses
utterance OF the reflection that the mere
increase in popular demand for SUN-
shine during the past few months ex-
ceeds the entire circulation OF the POST
mortem.
The sun., 1919-11-02
Even a Barometer Refuses to Work.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir:
invested in n high class. ball bearing
barometer this year, as my
family complained that / was always
predicting rain. The result has been
that 1t has rained with a high barome-
ter and cleared off with a falling one.
To-day the coldest and most disagreeable
rain of the season is drenching us, but
the barometer stands at 1850, the high
est IL has been this summer. NJ.
RIDoEFIELD, Conn. October 30.
The sun., 1919-11-02

While most of the small peoples Of
the world have been clamoring for
autonomy of government the north
ern Mongolians, with that peculiar
perversity of the Orientals, have de-
c,ded that autonomy is a failure and
that they will return to their former
status as people of China.
At the time of the Chinese revolu-
tion the northern part of Mongolia,
which was rather loosely held to the
Chinese Empire. made up Its mind
that what it needed was independ-
ence. Owing to the supposed en-
croachments of Japan and Russia
upon Chinese territory 1t was be-
lieved in America and Europe that
there were possibilities OF serious
trouble in the situation. And there
might have been had not the war
brought about a change in the Rus
sian diplomatic policy. Despite in
ternatiopal opposition the new State
was formed and its independence rec
oPnized by China and Russia. After Ave
years Outer Mongolia, as the State was
called, decided that it was deceived
by intriguers into declaring for au-
tonomy and II asks that it may return
to China. China agrees and assumes
the debts with which the prodigal is
burdened. Autonomy is not always
that magical power which will bring
Of itself freedom and good govern
ment. More important than a decla-
ration of independence, 1t is evident.
are able leaders and people capable
of self government.
The sun., 1919-11-02
The Bard's Advantage.

From the KGHsGs CITY Star.
I pen a blurb of Tibet. and write lust
what ] please.
OF bulbul birds that tinkle and throh in
hakshccsh trees
And l can fool my reader completely, for,
you see,
While I've not been in Tibet, no mora
poor chap, has he.
TESSYsoN j. DAFT
The sun., 1919-11-02
4 Peep Into the Future.
From the Washington Post.

When the argument is over,
And the world goes on It's way
Through a universe OF clover
Reaching past the Milky Way
Then on history's page we'll ponder,
With Its sorrow and its doubt,
And Wen wonder what in thunder
The whole business was about!
PHIIANDER JOHNSON
The sun., 1919-11-02

If naval intelligence officers are to
shoot at sailors accused of desertion
on Broadway just as the theatres dis
miss their audiences and internal rev.
enue officers with fingers on revolver
triggers are to raid saloons on Forty
second street innocent bystanders will
petition Uncle SAM to send none ex-
cept sure shots to aid in keeping the
peace in New York.
The sun., 1919-11-02
POEMS WORTH READING.
The Old Road.

Give me the old road still.
I am tired of the garisn city street,
Where wealth and fashion and folly
meet
Give me the old road still
Give me the old road still.
| have travell'd far the worlds broad
ways
Since the golden dawn of my morning
days
Give me the old road still
Give me the old road STILL
With its zigzag fence and its chestnut
trees,
And its springtime mud to the horses
knees
Give me the old road still
Give me the old road still
1t is dusty and narrow-a country
Yet it winds me back to my youth
again
Give me the old road still
Give me the old road still.
1t has no secrets of fortunes lore
But, oh, it passes my mothers door
Give me the old road still
JOHN JEROME ROONEY.
The Magic Fan.
The magical fan in its ivory sheathings.
Frctted with frost In arabesque wreathings,
All Its sweet pictures hidden away,
TIL an hour without date, fast folded It
lay;
Then we saw. once more. the imperial
gesture
Sweep OF the arm clothed in flmy vesture.
And Nature. the goddess, unfolding her
fan.
Old and yet new since the world began,
All the old pictures - for here was
the panel
That showed the full brook leaping out OF
its channel:
Leaf buds that glisten with silvery sheen
And amber red buds that tomorrow are
green;
And here the gray orchard In rose oloom
But the blossom wind there In 'noment
is strayingi
Where lately the field its emerald showed
With wave of the fan in gold it GER
1owedi
And the forest became as a faery pavilion,
An inn by the wayside inviting the million,
Tarrying, fitting or staying to build;
Their wing brooded homes with melody
filled
Oh magic transition that came without
warning
The fan was>a tent. In a night or a morn
ing
That was a vile OF the goddess turn
That no marital vision might surely dis
cern!
A tent and all life rejoicing beneath
Soon to the size OF fan she will sheathe
IT;
And some time. undated. will fold us all
Fold US as though We never had been!
EpTTH NJ. THOMAS,
The sun., 1919-11-02

From the Richmond Planet.

There is a growing demand for courtshlp
books nowadays here and the wants must
be supplied. The writer somewhat feels
the need OF a few lessons himself. for the
reason that the old style is too slow and
uncertain.
The sun., 1919-11-02
Advice.

Prom the Detroit Free Press
Remember this when duty calls,
1t never pays to shirk,
You're lodging opportunity
When you are lodging work.
The sun., 1919-11-02

The movement to save from auction
the mansion of former President
MONROE Is commendable, but 1t must
not be forgotten that there Is some
thing else of MoNRoEs which will bear
saving at this time.
The sun., 1919-11-02

Highest temperature, 20. at 80 p. NJ.
Lowest temperature, 90, at 10 p. NJ.
Average temperature. 65.
The sun., 1919-11-02
L,OCAL wEATuER REcoRps

The temperature in this city yesterday,
as recorded by the official thermometer,
is shown in the annexed table:
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-05-22
BROwNFIELD BOY CRUsHEs
HAND IN PLANTER

The little seven year old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Bynum happened
to very painful accident late Tues
day evening at their home a few
miles north Of Brownfied The lit
tie boy had just returned from school
and went to the field where his older
brother was planting. AS he had oft
en- done in the past, he got up on the
planter behind his brother to ride and
the possibility is that he became over
balanced and grabbed the chain
which drove the planter and caught
between it and the sprockets, crush
ing the thumb very badly The child
was brought here Tuesday night by
his parents to receive treatment from
local doctors. II is thought that Il
will be necessary to amputate the
thumb at the first joint
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-05-22
SEVERAL BRICK BUILD
INCS BEING PLANNED

T. c. Fain has recently let a con
tract to Sam Dane for the construc-
tion Of a modern one story brick
which will be erected on the north
side Of the square This building
will be occupied by Sam Daugherty,
who will open up an up-to-date cafe.
Work is expected to begin the last Of
this week or the first Of next.
J. A. Hodges is planning the erec-
tion Of brick building so by il5.
and the possibility is that only few
days will take to fix some details be-
fore definite steps are taken. We
know Of several other parties who
are now working on plans for the
erection Of bricks, but as definite
steps have not been made we will
not mention them. There is also in
course Of planning, several nice
homes for the residential section Of
the city.