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POST OFFICE PROFITS.
1t Charges S4.s7 for a Pound Sterling
Worth $417.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sir: A
friend OF mine bought one pound sterling
at the post office in the form of an inter-
national money order to send to relatives
in England. 1t cost $4.s7 and Is cents
for the order. making $500 in all. I
see by the papers that sterling exchange
is at about $4.17.
Why does the Post Office Department
charge you par when English money is
deprecated?
Would the post office sell sterling ex-
change at $4.s7 IL 1t was the other way,
and English money was at a premium?
It is a nice little sum, 70 cents on
s4.s7, about 10 per cent. Is 1t also true
Of francs, marks and all the other de-
preciated currency? If so. the profit
must amount to nice tidy sum when
you consider all the money sent abroad
by post office orders. LIMEY.
OswEGo, September 16.
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Flanders. We shared in great vic
tory; yet the President declares that
instead of deriving any benefit from
that victory we are to incur q direful
penalty unless we ratify his treaty
without the crossing Of or the
dotting Of an l, just as It was writ
ten. Whether you will or not" he
says, "our fortunes are tied In with
the rest Of the world and the choice
we have to make now is whether we
will receive the influences of the rest
of the world and be dominated by
them or dominate the influences Of
the world and lead them"
This means, If 1t means anything,
that the victory over German impe-
rialism which we helped to win will
be of no benefit to this country unless
the Senate now consents to make the
Treaty Of Versailles the supreme law
Of the land under the Constitution.
II President WILSON'S prophecy is cor
rect, the effect of victorious war has
been to place us in position Of pros
pective subordination to the rest of
the world, unless we extricate our
selves by executing an agreement
which he has devised.
Any intelligent American who be-
lieves that the President is right in
this respect will believe anything.
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4 Power That VIII Not BE Trans.
ferred to q League OF Nations.

The Constitution of the United
States, as it was signed by the Presi-
dent of the Convention, GEORGE
WASHINGTON, 1872 years ago to-day,
vested in the Congress the power to
declare war; and that brief and I'M
mistakable wording has remained
unchanged.
The decision of the trainers of the
document was not arrived at hastily
or without debate. PINKNEY believed
that the Senate would be the best de-
postory of the war making power I;
that the House would be too numer-
Gus for such deliberations"
When PIERCE BUTLER of South Caro-
lima suggested that the power be vest
ed in the President he found no sup
port whatever, according to MADIsoN's
journal of the proceedings, and Ell
BRIDGE GERRY of Massachusetts, de-
clared that he "never expected to
hear in republic motion to en-
power the Executive alone to declare
war"
In the end the power to declare
war was put where 1t belonged. As
WASHINGTON said, in his message
that day to the President of the Con-
gress, '"The friends of our country
have long seen and desired that the
power Of making war, peace and treat
los chotrld ha f,,1lx, M afFoot,,
ally vested in the general Government
of the Union"
1t must be admitted that apprehen-
sion was not altogether lacking in the
convention before the decision was
made. Some men feared putting too
much power in the hands of the
executive that was to be. Some
doubted the qualifications of the
House; others, Of the Senate. But
there seems not to have occurred to
even the most cautious Of these men
the possibility that some time some
man might suggest-yes, demand
the transfer Of the war power of the
United States from this Government
to council Of other nations.
Still, with the foresight which
sometimes suggests providential as
sistance, the convention vested this
and other precious powers so COM
pletely in the Congress that none can
deliver them abroad until the Consti.
tuition is itself overthrown.
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Supreme Court Justice TIERNEY
properly expressed his severe disap-
probation of some social irregularities
revealed in a divorce trial. but i'm
properly rebuked Greenwich Village
for, as he thought, having been the
scene Of the unseemly behavior. The
Justice should refresh his memory of
Manhattan political geography and re-
call that the northern boundary Of
the Village is Fourteenth street, the
next village on the north being Chel-
sea. At any convenient opportunity
the Justice may question any old
Ninth Warder and learn much that he
will find interesting and maybe useful
about the boundary and interior
streets and avenues of the Village, the
numerical designation of the fire en-
CINE his informant's granddad ran with
and fought for, the route the MARIA
tors great granddad took to reach the
Village from the city, and even some
thing of the old places OF refreshment
there which sold an excellent quality
of imported rum, tradition says upon
which no duty had been paid, snug
Cling never having been under a So
cial ban there when the Village was
a village.
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lack Of respect for the men who are
criticising any portion of this treaty"
But alas this posture Of dignity
was not maintained for more than
three minutes, at the end Of which
we find Mr.. WILSON storming:
Let gentlemen beware. therefore,
how they dlsappoint the world; let
gentlemen beware how they betray
the immemorial principles of the
United StatesI"
OF course 1t is impossible to frown
at this curious exhibition. Nor will
any American, with the serious prob
lens of national life before him, in
dulge in the smile which Mr.. VII
SONS idlosyncrasies invite.
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wow AS A CENTURY AGO.
John Quincy Adams Warned Against
Meddling In Europe.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-S%: At
the same time that Jefferson was oppos-
ing the entry of America into any politi-
cal alliances with the European nations,
man of very different temperament
and Of very different views. John Quincy
Adams also entertained clear convlc-
tons identical with Jeffersons on the
subject and expressed them clearly.
In 1921 in a public address made at
Washington he warned us In direct
terms against being led into any such
POLITICAL alliance under the giise OF
aiding or protecting emerging races or
nations or people of Europe. His words
were:
America in the assembly of nations,
since her admission among them, has in
variably. though often fruitlessly. held
forth to them the hand Of honest friend
ship, Of equal freedom. of generous reci-
procity. She has uniformly spoken
among them, though often to needless
and often disdainful ears. the language
of equal liberty, equal justice and equal
rights.
"She has in the lapse of nearly nalf
a century without a single exception re-
spected the independence Of other ma
tons, while asserting and maintaining
her own She has abstained from in
reference in the concerns Of others even
where the conflict has been for prln-
ciples to which she clings as to the last
vital drop that visits the heart.
"She has seen that probably for CEN
ttrfa tn all AAA ~ hoN
Aceldama, the European world, will be
contests between inveterate power and
emerging right. Wherever the standard
of freedom and independence has been or
shall be unfurlsd there will be her heart
her benedictlon and her prayers. But
she goes not abroad in search of mon
sters to destroy.
"She is the well wisher to the freedom
and independence of all She is the
champion and indicator only Of her
own. She will recommend the general
cause by the countenance of her voice
and the benignant sympathy of her ex-
ample. She well knows that by once en-
listing under other banners than her
own, were thny even the banners OF
foreign independence. she would involve
nerselr Deyond the power or extrication
in all the wars of interest and intrigue.
OF individual avarice, envy and ambi-
ton which assume the colors and usurp
the standard Of freedom.
THE fundamental maxims of her
policy would insensibly change from
liberty to force. The frontlet upon her
brows would no longer beam with the
splendor of freedom and Independence.
but in its stead would soon be substi-
tuted an imperial diadem flashing in
false and furnished lustre the murSy
radiance OF dominion and power. She
might become the dictatress If the
world; she would no longer be the ruler
of her own spirit"
CHAs. STEWART DAWSON.
NEW YORK, September 16.
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Beginning on October 1 the deer
season in the Adirondack region opens
and the hunter can take an animal of
either sex, other than fhwn. Prevl-
ously the sportsman was limited to
two deer season, both bucks. When
the bill was introduced in the Leglsla-
ture to repeal the buck law THE SUN
said editorially that taking "the buck
law from the statute books would
mean the rapid determination of the
white-tailed deer in New York State
forests in the way its relatives, the
elk and the moose, were extermi-
mated" Later that view was con-
Cured in by the monthly magazines
devoted to the outdoors. notably For
est and Stream and outing.
For six years New York State has
had a buck law, but almost every year
bill repeating the buck law has been
introduced and sportsmen and others
interested in our wild life have had
to make journey to Albany to attend
hearing and to protest against the
measure. They were successful until
this year, when their opponent were
able to convince Governor SMITH that
the deer herd would not be injured by
wiping out the buck law. To obtain
the concession, they urged that the
deer limit be cut to one.
AS far back as 1917 GEORGE u.
PRATT, Conservation Commissioner,
urged the cutting Of the limit from
two to one, but to one buck only. He
said at that time, and 1t is his belief
now, that it is imperative that every
safeguard possible be thrown about
the does in order to maintain a con-
tinuous deer supply. Only last year
WARWICK S. CARPENTER, secretary OF
the Conservation Commission, wrote
a thirty-two page pamphlet on white
tail deer in New York, which was a
study of the operation of the buck
law. The facts proved that the buck
law was essential II the deer herd wa
to be preserved.
The figures speak for themselves.
The summary Of the deer population
as tabulated by game protectors in
1917 was 56,733, Of which 19O4e were
reported to be bucks and 1887 does
Approximately $1,000 men hunted that
year. The kill was 10000. 1t is CON
coded that a doe is easier to kill than
buck. How long can herd of 60.
900 deer, In round numbers. last with
81 900 huntersdn the field?
The members o1She New York CON,
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A MYSTIFIED GENEALOGIST
He Cannot Reconcile Mr.. Wilson's
Words With q Biography.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: !
am puzzled to reconcile a statement by
President Wilson with a statement in a
biography of him. Mr. Wilson IL re-
ported as having said at Columbus on
September 4,
have been bred, and am proud to
have been bred In the old Revolutionary
stock which set this Government up
when America was set UP as a friend
OF mankind.
In Woodrow Wilson; the Man and
His Work" by Professor Henry Jones
Ford, read:
Among the emigrsnts In 1907 was a
County Down youth. James Wilson,
who was bound for Philadelphia
and that he felt able to wed Anne
Adams, an Ulster girl. who had come
over on the same ship with him.
Woodrow Wilson's father was the
youngest son of James Wilson. and at
Steubenville. Ohio. he married Miss
Janet Woodrow. Her father was tho
Rev. DR.. Thomas woodrow originally a
Scotch Presbyterian minister. who had
settled In Carlisle, England. for sixteen
years. ana Janet was one OF eight chill
dren born to him there. Thence he
removed to Canada, and In 1887 he re-
moved to Chiliicothe. Ohio.
Considering the date of the Revolu-
ton and the dates of the immigration
on both sides. of Mr.. Wilson's ances-
tors, 1 repeat that l am puzzled.
GENEALoaY.
NEW YORK. September IS.
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GREENWICH VILLAGE PURE.
A Resident for Forty-seven Years De-
fends Its Character.

A Resident for Forty-seven Years De-
tends Its Character.
To THE EDITOR or THE suN-str: In
THE Sum of September ~ there appear
certain alleged structures on that part Of
the earth's surface known az Greenwich
Village. The criticisms to which I re-
fer, It appears, we're made by Justice
John M. Tierney of The Bronx.
The case before Justice Tierney was Of
a man charged with maintaining a
studio" In East Fifteenth street In
which he entertained women without the
knowledge of his wife. Inasmuch as
East Fifteenth street is not in Greenwich
Village I may be pardoned for the sus-
sestion that the Justice is evidently not
conversant with the confines or topog-
raphy OF this old time community--so
much written about In newspapers and
magazines.
Fifty years ago Greenwich Village was
peopled almost exclusively by native
Americans. To-day It is ethnologically
composite Of native Americans, Irish.
Italians and Hebrews numerically con-
sidered In the order In which they are
named.
Residing in this village for forty-seven
years. may be permitted to say to JUS
tice Tierney that there has not been for
twenty years an Illegal resort within its
confinesf
1t Is true that four or i've years ago
some half dozen places were set UP in
dingy Easements. not necessarily Of an
illegal character. but primarily designed
to get easy money from morhidly in
clined ladies and gentlemen who came
from uptown to see the sights and to
get a cup of tea, for which they paid
so cents. But the people and police
drove them out in quick order.
BERNARD MCFARLAND.
! NEW York, September Is.
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An Amazing Proposition.

We doubt whether the people OF the
United States appreciate the enormity
of the proposition which President
WILSON has evolved out of his inner
consciousness and has made the basis
of his demand for a ratification of
the Treaty of Versailles.
The United States went into the
war primarily for the defence of this
country against German aggression
and also to assist the Entente Allies
in the struggle. We sent two millions
of men to France, and tho bones Of
seventy thousand Americans remain
on the battlehelds Of Franz and
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Tapping Another Patronage Vein

The National Civil Service Reform
League very properly complains about
a hole In the bin designed for the en-
forcement of prohibition.
If the measure should become law
in its present form all the agents and
field inspectors used in the work of
keeping the country dry could be ap-
pointed without undergoing the strain
of civil service examination
What nice jobs this would provide
for such sunny Southern Democrats
as have not already been put on the
Federal payroll by Mr.. WILSON'S
heads of departments
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A kindly quip on Boston's nlgh
esteem for its old family names tells
of a visiting New Yorker asking a
little girl in Boston, What is your
name, sissy" She replied. II am q
CURTIS, But" she continued. a new
look OF grave pride glowing through
her spectacles. Mother was a SALToN-
STALL" The writer of the next
version OF the quip, IL he be an out
lander, may take the liberty of re-
versing the original order in which
these estimable names were arranged.
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Another Declaration Of Independence

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sn: The
report of the majority of the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations reads
like the Declaration OF Independence and
deserves a place in history alongside
the Gettysburg Address.
Now let the Senate pitch the I'M
American treaty out OF the window and
get down to the business OF the country
CHARLES r. SKINNER.
ALBANY. September 16.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

-. constitution Day. exercises at the Sub.
treasury in Wall street at noon and At
Root " 1''"s
=, Reception of Cardinal Mercier by Mayor
htylan at City Hall at noon and dinner to
Sne cardinal by Mayors Committee al
waldorf Astoria, P. NJ.
Opening session American Society o,
Meehanieal Engineers, Engineering So
street P. M
International convention OF women
physicians, 800 Lexington avenue, all day.
Convention of Episcopal sunragans to
eject successor to Bishop David H. Greer;
sessions at Synod Hall on grounds OF
Cathedral OF st. John.
Housewarming of National Association
opposed to Woman Suffrage. 2Ss Madison
avenue, all day.
Luncheon of American Manufacturers
Export Association, Hotel McAlpln, i?;1o
=. NJ.
Meeting OF George Washington Post No
100, Veterans OF Foreign Wars Of United
States Grand Opera House, Sis P. N.
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Lord CuRxos NAV be. probably ,

Lord CuRzoN NAV be. probably is,
right la his assertion that the histor!-
cally famous Peacock Throne Of Shah
JEHAN of Delhi was destroyed 200
years ago, and therefore that the al
legged original throne Turkey offers to
sell to England is spurious. II Eng
land for any proper purpose really is
in need Of peacock throne any one
of half a dozen New York hotels can
supply it. Genuine, too; occupied
yesterday. to-day, right along by
sure enough Peacock Alley Queens.
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Americas Representation

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: May
I not suggest that the Senators are not
only ignorant but without sense Of pro-
portion?
why should they object to England's
having six votes to Americas one? At
Paris England had two representatives !;
America had none. What's the differ
ence between six to one and two to
none2 E II. RYAN.
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The seniors have finished another
OF their annual golf tournaments over
the links of Apawamis, and of the
many interesting features found in
the stories OF their four days playtime
none will be OF more interest to junior
golfers under SIS than the scores of
Class d players. In that class one
player scored 1916 for 36 holes. 9th
ers came close to that gross total, one
with POI. But the 1916 for SO holes
means that the player made at least
90 holes in as good as fives; that over
the long and difficult course he had
rounds averaging 9S, only over fives
for IS holes. If these figures do not
reveal to non-golfers the fine play of
men over 20 let them consider the
fact that husky young players who
believed their game good enough
for a chance to win the national anna
teur championship made higher scores
in the elimination rounds at the recent
national amateur tournament over
the Oakmont links in Pittsburg.
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singular"

Visions were his by the millions,
Schemes for redeeming the earth:
Trying them out he spent billions,
Proving them quite without worth.
Nothing too big or imposing
Seemed for his genius to bloom;
Nothing that needed exposing
But he envlsaged its doom.
Visions of Europe reblooming
Under the blooming old League.
Visions OF labor resuming
Work without fear Of fatigue.
Strange that with visions abundant,
Glowing like gems in the sun
All in the plural. redundant
Vision itself he had none.
W. W, wHIrnLoox.
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With a new system of regulating
fares by the zones of entrance and
exit of each individual passenger,
which necessarily entails much Com-
plicated computation, the New Jers az
trolley cars afford good opportunities
to professors OF mathematics, whu
would be more than satisfied with COLI
ductors' pay.
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BANDITS RELEASE DR., SMITH
American Held by MeNi""n' ""
Ransom Reported Free.

special DespdtCh 10 lhL S''' -,
WASHINGTON, Sept l6-Dr '' ~
Smith, an American physician CIV
ployed by the Potosi Mining ConpaH''
who was kidnapped Saturday ho-
Santa Eulalia. Mex. apparently TO"
been released. A State Department
despatch received to-day from Chinuas
hua said that Smith had trlegrsp'''
he was on his way to Chihuahna', .,,,
A Chihuahua message reported u.S,
Il. Monson, a Swedish citizen Who vac
taken prisoner with Or SIM "" ,o
bandits attacked a train en- route '.
Santa Eulalia, returned o. CHihIa"i.,Ss
the same day. He said that 'r Sn noo
was being held for a ransom or Sov
Because OF the activities OF MeNor,I
troops searching for the hand'ts, a,
tempts made Sunday to locate and uss 10
with the bandits failed. Arrangemenu
were made later to pay the ransom =
noon to-day.
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Brirh. Light. Invad. . Pasture.

The Livingston-Niagara Power Company
have installed a large two sided vertical
electric sign front OF their offices in the
whiting Block at the corner OF Genesee
and West Main streets. It's a good adver-
Using move for the company. but far
better for the village OF Avon. showing
that this is a wide-awake progressive cow
munity.
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The most important political com
plications which can accrue from the
irregular seizure OF Fiume are per-
haps mere trivialities beside the pos
sibility that the poet thus inspired may
write an immortal epic.
The sun., 1919-09-17

WASHINGTON, Sept. ie.-pres,u-.
FALLEN generally throughout the oonr, nt
except In the Pacific states and ~ uIt,N
region, with an extensive cloud ,oprn.,aklss
mostly at high attitudes over the Misatuoa
valley, the plains States, the Sonth sou1
East There was not much precini,. , ana
however, except in west central Fio,iSNn
Texas and New Mexico, where n. O riga
fall was quite heavy as a ruiz T ran.
peratures are higher over the central IN
north districts east OF the Rock Monn,ta,nd
and uniformly above the seasonal svS.snus
elsewhere they are near the normsS
showers are probable "Wednesday nm.
or Thursday in the Southern States Ih t
lower Ohio Valley and the upper Az an
region and on Thursday in the unpsr Gu 1s
Valley and the western lower lake rse,ou Onio
the middle Atlantic States and New H.. ~
land the weather will be generate Lnt.
wednesday and Thursday, excent in Ia. lar
esn New England, whore there will :,
will not be of Importance. N"ANs"
Observations at United States we.,ho, n
reau stations taken at P. M yesteniay . De
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Psychological Reaction Of an Expert.
enced TheatregOer.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: While
looking at the photographs which from
day to day appear showing Woodrow
Wilson speaking for the League of
Nations / have often wondered a. the
feeling of "Reminiscences that comes over
me. At last 1t has come to me most
wildly: Francis Wilson in 1.-THE Merry
Monarch" ELLIS ANDREWS.
NEW YORK. September 16.
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The Sun Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York and Nsr ?.
sey-Partly cloudy to-day: to,w,. Ser.
fair; little change In Temperature. SIr,,
rIable. va
For Northern New Enriand-n
to-day; tomorrow fair; moders,o' showers
west to west winds SOUTH
For Southern New EnRland-p.
e,ouoy to-day; tomorrow fair; 1,yIy
ehange IN temperature; gentle 10 moa. niue
southwest to west winds, "ouerats
For western New York-Fatr tt,
tomorrow partly cloudy; gentle IN Jay
crate west winds. 10 mod
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Humpty Dumpty went on trip.
Humpty Dumpty made big slip.
And all OF his phrases and all his bons
mots
Couldn't make Humpty Dumpty's little
League 80.
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Temperate. but Only for a Moment.

Half way down in his speech at
Portland on Monday Mr.. WILSON ap-
peared to be trying to make amends
for his "quitters" and "gIbbet''
speeches, for he said:
Il hope you win not construe any,
thing ] say a. Indicating the Least
The sun., 1919-09-17
From the Avon Herald.

From the Apon Herald.
A check was made OF the cars pasninE
the Four Corners at East Avon. and at the
intersection of Spring street and Wads-
worth avenue last week, the figures of
which we will give In our next issue
The sun., 1919-09-17

One way to celebrate to-day the
1920 birthday of the Constitution is to
expose at least the same number of
defects in the league.
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There Had Been Considerable Mankind
Already.

Columbus set sail In haste.
III mankind Is to have a predestined
mediator 1t is high time somebody found
IT," he cried.
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LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS

The temperature in this city YESTERDAY
as recorded by the official thermoms,s,
Is shown in the annexed table:
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Question of the hour: When is a
BULLTTT a bomb?
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Highest temperature, Sc. at $50 p. ~
Lowest temperature, so, at A. NJ
Average temperature, IS.
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London office, 4O-43 Fleet street.
Paris Office Rue de la Michodiere, on
Rue du Quatre Septembre.
Washington ONCE, Munsey Building.
Brooklyn Office, Room 202, Eagle Build
Ing an2 WaHhlnRfon street.