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Camp Merritt, tho great embarka-
ton headquarters in New Jersey, is
to be abandoned, and troops returning
from overseas will be sent to Camp
Dix. The site OF Camp Merritt will
always command the respectful inter
est OF Americans, because through 1t
passed by far the greater number of
our soldiers outward bound to the war
and inward bound after victory had
been won. Undoubtedly an appropri-
ate tablet at least will be erected
there to identify this great camp
when patriotic visitors seek it out in
the future.
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A Showdown.

The nation having been challenged
by the leaders Of the soft coal miners,
President WILSON in behalf Of the
. American people and in the name of
the United States Government accepts
the challenge with fat demand for
Z showdown.
Mr.. WILSON'S notice to the officers
of the United Mine Workers is as
straight as it is strong. The mines
of the country will not close down.
The industries of the country will not
be tied up. The railroads of the
country will not be stopped. The pub
lie will not be prevented from earn
ing its living. 1t will not starve; 1t
will not freeze. Either the coal
workers now on the job will mine the
coal after next Saturday or others
will. And behind these new workers
will be the authority Of the United
States Government and the power of
the American people.
The declaration which President
WILSON thus delivers to the leaders
of the coal miners every other leader
of every similar organization in the
same precious business of sacrificing
the nation may take to himself. The
American people are done.
A few dozen noisy spokesman of a
, small fraction of our population have
. gone storming up and down the coun-
try about their rights and their de-
mands while the 110.O00,000 Amer
lean people busy at their work have
listened in disgust. Those loud mouths
have bullyragged police authority and
legislative authority while the public
. gorge rose. They have abused judicial
, authority while the American people
gathered wrath. They have threat
[. ened at the door of the White House
{ while the national fist was clinching.
| Everybody but the delirious Bolshe-
( visit whose name Is Red and the wild
eyed ranter whose occupation is in
element has seen for months to what
end all this was heading. Now comes
the showdown and, If they want it.
the reckoning.
Either these brewers of mischief
and believers Of threats will steI
aside from the public's path to peace
and welfare, or the public will cast
them aside. Any band organized tt
prey cpon the public, any conglomera
ton of such bands, defying the au
thority of the Government and the
power of the nation, the American PEG
pie will crack as they cracked tn,
Hindenburg line.
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The Sun Calendar
THE WEATHER,

For eastern New York ana sor,I
New England-Cloudy probablv rasun
day and tomorrow fresh north 10 Az ".
winds " east
For New Jersey-showers TODAY 49,,
propaoIy tomorrow; somewhat Iowa. ,s saa
perature; moderate east windR WINS
For northern New England c,o,,,.-
northerly Winds 4"oueraw
For western New York-Rain and .o..
what colder to-day and to-morrow. s gIn's
northeast and east winds. Hesh
WASHINGTON. Oct ga dis,prhsr..
was central Sunday night over tSa 'S n,,:
" %. neW.enSe and another was over ~.
southern Rocky Mountain region u tns
pressure prevails over the Northern s,a,s.aa
from the great lakes westward 10 M s'1 NJ
enc coast. Cold weather is general Wa,
OF .ne mississippi River except in tho w Ms.
Gulf States and warm weather nro' west
throughout the Eastern and soutbcss,sa,u,s
2.ates, tennessee and the Ohio VaiIas
n nnSepiiOnal variations in temperatar..:
northwestern States. Temperatures enn. lana Hna
the highest OF record for this dsis na
eur tSsrea sunday at a number Of points IN !.
tme Southeestern States, while tempers.
lures eQualling the lowest Of record o.,
the same Date occurred in the Dakotas nv. ~
western Minnesota. The highest to,rst and
ture reported was ss degrees in Gsors,.
and southeast Louisiana and tho io,r1s,
degrees below zero at Bismarc,.o "sst ~
There were rains within the last tws,,s'
-FOUR hours in the middle and New Fnyy
land states, the Ohio and central Mi.sI.
sippi valleys, the region Of the great az.
ana on the north Pacific coast and Iao.,
snows IN the plateau and Rocky Mounts,,
regions and the plains States. Hssy,
rains fell In Missouri, southern Illinois ss,
southern Indiana. There will be ~.
MONDAY and probably Tuesday in the on
Valley, the region OF the great LAKE. Va.
the Atlantic States north OF Virginys aIa
the south Atlantic and east Gulf st.,..
the weather will be generally fair MONA,
ana tuesday. The temperature wifi 4.
somewhat lower in the middle AtIar,,.
and New England states. tho Ohio VslIsv
tennessee and the southern portion Of ~.
region OF the great lakes VI 'u'
reau stations taken at s p M yesterdav pu'
enty-hfth meridian time: wv
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He Intends to Mark His Ballot for
Newburger and Foley.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sr: AS
an ex-Judge Of the Supreme Court I am
constantly being asked for advice as to
voting for Judges. particularly by citi-
gems OF Independent proclivities.
find among voters great confusion,
caused by the fact that many of us this
year are acting on strictly non-partisan
lines I, for instance, am advocating the
reelection of Justice Newburger. and am
also interested in the election Of James
A. Foley. Democratic candidate. to the
Office OF Surrogate.
In advocating Senator Foley's election
want to call to the attention Of the
voters that the Bar Association Of the
city Of New York has a committee,
styled the Judiciary Committee. of which
! william d. Guthrie is chairman. which
has painstaltingly examined the qualifi-
cations of all candidates for judicial
office.
This committee has investigated SEN
ator Foley's personal character and pro-
are excellent"
| It has examined his reputation as q
public servant during twelve years OF
prominent service" and reports that 1t
is without blemish.'
| It has examined his public activities
and reports that they have been "con-
spicuously creditable and satisfactory"
and that he has shown "exceptionaf
familiarity with State government and
thorough knowledge Of legal and
constitutional principles.
It has examined his professional prac-
tice and his work as referee and has
found legal scholarship" and capacity
for judicial service"
1t would be difficult to add to the
eulogy of the committee Of the Bar AS
ISOLATION. but 1 would like to add one
further fact and that Is that Mr.. Balm
bridge Colby, ex-Judge Clarence ].
Shearn, Mr.. Herbert r. Limburg and
other gentlemen who are managing JUS
tice Newburgers campaign are upon SEN
ator Foley's Non-Partisan Campaign
Committee, which also has among Its
members ex-Presiding Justice Ingraham,
ex-Presiding Justice O'Brien, ex-Justice
Francis NJ. Scott, ex-Justice John w
Gcff and a large number of prominent
lawyers, including Francis Lynde Stet-
son, Charles C. Birmingham, Charles H
Strong and many others.
1 see that a newspaper published ir
German, called the Stddts-Zeitun9, is op'
posing Judge Newburger because Balm
bridge Colby and I support him, the APP
parent ground of objection being that
Colby and I took more or less promi-
nent part against Germany, and the
Staots-zeitun0 therefore calls on Cor
man-Americans' to oppose the candi-
dacy of Judge Newburger.
supposed that we were united
country, that the honor lists for bravery
and the lists of dead and wounded, botf
filled with names of German origin, had
; forever done away with the term Ger
man-American, and 1 particularly cal
the attention Of loyal American voters
of German descent to the attitude Of thii
German newspaper.
JAMES w. GERARD.
) NEW YORK, October rs.
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COLONIAL IRISH.
The Puzzle OF Census and Army Roll
Figures.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: I
read with much interest NJ. ]. O'Brien's
structures on "A Century of Population
Growth"
am not sure that his analysis Of the
figures can be accepted. 1t must not be
overlooked that the same method was
adopted in arriving at the number OF
each nationality, namely, the nationality
indicated by the names OF heads of
families.
Mr.. O'Brien states that the Boston
marriage records for the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries contain nearly 1000
Irish names. He fails, however, to give
the number of all marriages for that
period. A large number Of the 1000
must have been dead by 1875. and their
descendants probably intermarried with
the native stock. their patronyms being
the sole evidence Of their Irish blood.
That there were thirty-seven O'Briens
in Massachusetts, in 1890 while eighty
three served in Massachusetts, regiments
and the navy is not astounding. Some
must have died In the service and many
no doubt sought fortune in other parts
of the country. The New England en-
COulu IlOl nave Deen COnRenlal
to the Celtic freshman in the latter part
of the eighteenth century.
1t should also be noted that the war
lasted seven years and that there must
have been great many reenlistments.
This would account for goodly number
Of names of a fighting race like the Irish.
Previous to 1875 we received two streams
| OF people from Ireland-the Celtic-Irish
and the Scotch-Irish-the latter of
British extraction Hanna in his Scotch
Irish" estimated their number at the
outbreak of the Revolution at $50, 900.
ehout an eighth of the population
The Celtic-Irish were of the Catholic
faith, and the best evidence that they
formed a small proportion of the popu-
iation is the fact that there4were only
twenty-six priests in the entire country
in 1875. JOHN HArroN.
New YORK, October rs.
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American Doctrine MS Theodore
Roosevelt Taught 1t.

On this anniversary Of THEODORE
RoosEyELr's birth, the first since his
untimely death on January 6, 1919,
the nation is disquieted by the appar-
ent determination of a few headstrong
men and their dupes who have under
taken for their own ends to upset the
established instruments Of production
and distribution and who threaten to
assail the institutions of government
to attain their purpose If organized
society opposes their revolutionary
project.
These reckless agitators seek to set
up within the government a rule based
on class distinctions antagonistic to
all American theory and practice.
To them and to all other citizens
these sentences from THEODORE RoosE-
vELT's message of December 8, 1908.
to the Fifty-ninth Congress have a
peculiar significance to-day:
The vital lines of cleavage among
our people do not correspond and
indeed run at right angles to the
lines of cleavage which divide oocu-
patton from occupation. which divide
wage earners from capitalists, farm
ers from bankers, men of small
means from men of large means, men
who live In the towns from men who
live in the country; for the vital line
of cleavage is the line which divides
the honest man who tries to do well
by his neighbor from the dishtNest
man who does i'll by his neighbor.
ut is the mans moral quality, his
attitude toward the great questions
which concern all humanity, his clean
illness of life, his power to do his
duty toward himself and toward
others which really count and II we
substitute for the standard of per-
sonal judgment which treats each
man according to his merits another
standard in accordance with which
all men Of one class are favored and
all men of another class dlscrimi-
mated against we shall do irrepara-
BILE damage to the body polite.
II believe our people are too sanA
too self-respecting, too fit for self
government ever to adopt such an
attitude. This Government is not and
never shall be government by plu-
tocracy. This Government is not and
never shall be government by mob"
OF those who preach that all gov
eminent is wrong, that the authority
society exercises over individuals
, should be abolished, this great states
man gave an accurate description II
his message to the Flfty-seventh Con
gress when 1t. began Its session II
1901. President ROOSEVELT had sue
ceeded President MCKINLEY, the vic
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"Reminiscences of Roosevelt the Naiuril.
list" by Henry Fairfield Osborn. Carl .
Akeley, Ernest Thompson Seton and
others. American Museum of Natural HL
Meeting and luncheon Of the Minerva
Club, WaldorfAstoria, II A. NJ,
Roosevelt Memorial Association. banQns.
Waldorf Astoria, p. NJ
Exhibition of fifteen paintings the Mo
beth Gallery. $50 Fifth avenue, all day.
Dance. Barbara Frietchie Post Ansr.
can Legion. Hotel Pennsylvania, P. N
Mass meeting of the Irish Progressive
republic, Central Opera House, p II.
Bible class, direction of T. H. StearuL
West Side Y. NJ. C. A, 7:15 p, NJ
Conference of the American Association
sell Sage Foundation, 100 East Twenty
second street.
Reunion of veterans OF the old Twenty.
second Regiment, armory at l6Sth street
and Fort Washington avenue, P. NJ
Exhibit OF the Flag Pictures" by Chuds
Hassam, in connection with the Roo'e
welt Memorial Day celebration. parish
house of the Church of the Ascen'i'r
Fifth avenue and Tenth street.
Hearing by the subcommittee on ava
ton of the House Committee on War De-
partment Expenditures. Federal Building
10 A. NJ.
Roosevelt Day will be celebrated by S'
women's executive committee Of the H.
publican State Committee, the Repunncan
Club, 81 West Fortieth street, 8 P. NJ
Reception for newly natursllzed ciilzenf,
auspices of the League for Foreign bon
Citizens s5 Second avenue, 1880 P. NJ
Yorkville Community Council meeting,
Public School g. Madison avenue 81
Eighty-eighth street, $3.50 P. VI. Marta
Conboy will make an address.
Convention, National Association OF le.
Industries, Hotel Aston, II A. NJ ana
p. NJ. Joint sessions 20 be he'd WV"
Mexico and Central America Is tA'
subjec; OF an illustrated lecture for Gnu
dren at the Museum OF Natural Hs'oN
$3.50 p. NJ.
Herbert Hoover will be the guest OF ~ ~
Rocky Mountain Club at Roosevelt ON
ner at the Waldorf-Astoria in the evehlns.
There Will be a welcome nome ulha..
in honor of Emma Goldman and AIeSahus,
Berkman, under auspices Of a commune
OF their friends and the FerreT schoo' a.
the BrevOort Hotel in the evening
Recent Explorations in the Southwe.s;
by DR.. Clark Wissler, and 'sciehth'
| Method In History" by DR.. A. A Golden
the section Of Anthropology and FsIeht.,
ogy Of the Academy OF Sciences al w ~
| Museum of Natural His story AT $40 -, -
1.-THE Problems and a Programme ~ nv.
construction" the first Of series Vt " y.
lures on economic questions W. N,
| delivered by Arthur Dougneriy ices AZ ~. I'
| Manhattan Trade School l2s East 4"oA"
| second street, at Sis T. NJ. ,,,
! There WI be i iCc'ur" m me 49,. 80
| wonders of America, illustrated 10y ny ~, IN
pictures before the Marquette Cluo a. Wv
| Hotel Plaza at SIS Y. NJ M . ~.
| "kurdistan and Armenia VIII Sv4ssy
! subject of an illustrated lecture ny ff-,tn,
| Neville USHER at the Wash'nE.on, !1art1
| High school. Irving place ana SN'''
street at S:l5 =. NJ.
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interest this year because no other
Office is voted upon by the whole city
Of New York. A peculiar light Is
shed on the general attitude Of this
town. usually Democratic. toward the
national conduct Of the Democratic
party by the fact that in Greater New
York, where Mr.. WILSON had u plu-
rality of 10000 in 1916, Mr.. HYLAN
plurality Of $4,000 in 1917 and
ALFRED f. SMITH a plurality Of 25S,-
600 in 1918, the Tammany prophets
show practically no confidence of
electing Mr.. MORAN. Not all are CIV
ing as excuses the public service rec
ord Of Major LA GUARDIA and his
popularity as a soldier, although that
sounds less disloyal than confessing
that the Democratic party nationally
has given the people Of New York a
bad taste in the mouth.
The fact is that the independent
voters Of the city, who realize that
the President Of the Board Of Alder
men is an important factor in the
Board of Estimate and is also the
vice-Mayor, do not have to go beyond
Major LA GUARDIA's splendid public
record. In the consular service, IN
the State legal department, In Con-
gress and In the Army he has shown
himself to be a public servant Of the
first class. If he were not elected II
would be a sad commentary on the
intelligence Of the electorate, not to
mention their patriotic gratitude.
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i'm of an assassin's bullet. Concern
ng anarchists and anarchy and their
biologists he then wrote:
The anarchist. and especially the
anarchist In the United States, IL
merely one type Of criminal. more
dangerous than any other because he
represents the same deprsvity in a
greater degree.
"rhe man who advocates anarchy
directly or indirectly. in any shape or
fashion. or the man who apologies
for anarchists and their deeds, makes
himself morally accessory to murder
before the fact.
THE anarchist is a criminal whose
perverted instincts lead him to prefer
confusion and chaos to the most
beneficent form of social order. His
protest Of concern for workingmen
is outrageous in It's impudent falsity;
for II the political institutions Of this
country do not afford opportunity to
every honest and intelligent son of
toll, then the door of hope lie forever
closed against him.
THE anarchist is everywhere not
merely the enemy Of system and
progress but the deadly foe Of lib
erty. II ever anarchy is triumphant
its triumph will last for but one red
moment. to be succeeded for ages by
the gloomy night of despotism."
One more extract from the grea
volume Of THEODORE RoosEvELT's wis,
and fearless utterances must suffice
at this time. On May 10, 1905, {
committee representing striking Chi
cago teamsters presented petition II
the President. Among other whole
some things he said to the member
of this committee:
II am a believer in unions. 1 am
an honorary member of one union.
But the union must obey the law,
Just as the corporation must obey the
law. AS yet no action whatever has
been called for by me, and most GER
tainly II action Is called for by me I
shall try to do exact Justice under
the law to every man. SO far as I
have power. But the first essential
Is the preservation of law and order.
the suppression Of violence by mobs
or individuals"
There could be no doctrine NOR
inspiring to honest citizens than tina
preached by THEODORE Roosevelt
There could be no time more apprt
pirate for its consideration than th
present.
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WIFE OR WIDOW,
Another Chapter in the Mystery Of
War Risk Insurance.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sir: I
have read with much interest Mr.. Joseph
w. Gavan's reply to my latest article
in THE SUN in reference to widows
allotment, and assure YOU that being
a soldier Of long years of service ad-
mire a good bombardment by ehrapnel
or gas
My position is exactly the same now
as 1t was prior to the reading OF Mr..
Gavan's Illuminating article. II Is pos
sible that the widow" has referred her
case to this Office. So have more than
400, 900 others, as our files will show, and
with very few exceptions we have been
very successful in assisting in settling
claims
This office has no means OF knowing
whether a case Is settled after It leaves
our hands as the beneficiaries Of allot-
ments, with very few exceptions, never
think It necessary to inform us of the
receipt of their allotmenta The bureau
furnishes us no information as to the
awards It makes. unfortunately. and un-
less we receive further letter from the
beneficiary Of the allotment in reference
to same we must take It for granted that
the case has been settled and closed.
As I stated In my last article, IL Mr..
Gavan or the widow" will kindly fur
nish me the address of the widow
will be able to locate the case in our
files and It Is possible that therein
will find why the allottee has not received
her allotment.
am pleased to see that Mr.. Gavar
| ia willing TO admit that nv office at lea 81
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One Office on which the Whole
City VIII Vote.

Unless the Appellate. Division should
reverse the decision of Justice GLE
GEBIcH the name of Major MIcHEAL
A. KELLY, candidate of the Liberal
party for President of the Board Of
Aldermen, will not appear on the bal
lot at next weeks election. The
elimination of Major KELLY, whose
platform is personal freedom and op-
position to the Covenant of the
League of Nations, would reduce the
contest for the Presidency of the
Board of Aldermen to the Republican
candidate. Major FIoRELLo II. LA
GUARDIA, and the Tammany candidate.
ROBERT L. MORAN, and Major KELLY's
followers, whose numbers have been
estimated at 10000 or more, would
have to make choice between the
two If they wished to vote on the
office in question.
That choice, assuming that 1t will
have to be made, ought to be easily
arrived at. Nobody has any doubt
about Major LA GUARDIA's attitude
toward the unchanged Covenant. He
flies as straight In politics as he few
In aviation. Any New Yorker who
wishes to vote for a candidate who
has shown that he is sound on wal
ana sound on peace must prefer Major
LA GuARDIA to the Tammany candi
date, who, in the absence of a dis
claimer, must be assumed to be 9
follower Of the head Of the nationa
Democratic party, Mr.. WILSON.
The election of a President of tn,
board OF Aldermen is of particula
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His Day.
October 81. 1858.

october II, 1858.
There were Earth-men and Wlng-men;
But where was the winged clod?
There were Dream men and Thing-men;
But who with q dream was shod?
Give thanks when ye pray, my brothers,
Give thanks for the day, my brothers,
That brought us a master OF Dream and
Thing,
soul compacted OF Earth and Wing.
A Man by the grace OF Godl
There were Love-men and Sword men;
But none that was fame and rod
There were Hand-men and word-men;
And single the ways they trod-
Give thanks when ye pray. my brothers,
Give thanks for the day, my brothers,
That brought us a master of Hand and
Word,
A righteous servant OF Love and Sword,
a Man by the grace of God!
WILLIAM SAMUEL JOHNSON