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ter behind which the pieman stands to
perform his duties. Sometimes whole
pie disappears as II BY magic; even Its
aroma. rich and tempting, is not con
ferred on the eager throng. As II a
giant had swallowed It, II Is no..
But always when such an incident
occurs It Is observed that one Of the
gentlemen behind the pie counter
seems to grow a bit plumper, little
more rosy Of countenance, and pats
approvingly the protubersnt site Of a
perfect digestion.
The pieman himself is plump and
rosy, overlooking with good spirits,
full Of vivacity, eloquent Of the Joy
Of living. But az a distributor OF
pie the pleman does not win the ~
proval Of the faithful braves Of TAM
MANY's tribe.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

Meeting Of the legal section, American
social Hygiene Association, With addrss,,,
9y MaJof-oen. F. O'Ryan and Judge W
d Sooo' ~ West Forty-fourth street. !
Business meeting Washington Hssht,
. r,s,spsysrss association. tss West 18TH
=, Fs;ssui.. meeting Board of Estimate, City
Can . Man Save Money In These p.y,r
W.ss s;a. II tss personal sthG,enSy el,I
Entertainment ": c. c. s. Unit IS. River.
sac Park and Ninsty-seventh street, .
Dance for service men. Grace Church
Fourth avenue. p. N.
Meeting and dance Young Mems and
A aHSIs swomMsn's Democratic League, Nc
A, DlnnGr, p eis y Of 10 Amherst coIss. NC
Anglo. American Tradition, o, Liberty
Conferences. XeAipin. p. X. " N'''"
easss Ho e. the h,, GmpiS',ns Printers A'
A. Ms.'iini Daughter of the Revolution
AGRICULTURAL Society of America, meeting
Hotel Astor. s:ao A. N.
billiard tournament. Hotel Aston, : and
Meeting. New York City Federation o;
Women's Clubs. Hotel Astor, 1 p, NJ.
A. Ms.'i I :. Il & lowe New rOrker'' H'''
Guardia, Republican candidate for Pres.
dent OF the Board of Aldermen. Commerce
Club. Brooklyn, 1850 p. n.
Convention Of the Clinical Congress q
the American College OF Surgeons, Waldm'
all day.
International Conference Of Women Ply
sicians, Waldorf. all day.
| Rehearsal New York Euphony sOeiet!
Rehearsal National Opera Club wsldor'
10 A. II.
| Meeting and luncheon Of the Council Q
Alumnae OF Dartmouth College. waldorf
Meeting OF Sterling siivsrwars Manunc
| Meeting Of the Century Theatre cln'
Hotel Commodore, 2 P. NJ
Convention and luncheon, American lr.5
and Steel Institute. Hotel ConmodorA i2''
p. NJ.
CONVENTION and luncheon. American Iren
| p. NJ.
Reception and review, Seventy .hr,'
| Regiment, New York Guard. Armory. PARK
avenue and Thirty-fourth street
Builders" by DR.. Clinton L, B.beocA
schermerhorn Hall. Columbia unvsr'iN'
Smoker. Dartmouth Alumni H0t'l
Pennsylvania $3.50 p, n ,.
How Laws Are Made IN Albany. leetu,s
for Surrogate, New Era Club, ~ E,'
Broadway, 1850 p. NJ.
''The Wonderful Work OF Water WI p'
| the subject of an illustrated lecture " IN.
| Sherwood at the Museum OF NaturH mn
The Religious Leaders' Section Of ne
| American Social Hygiene Association WI
| meet at the Union Theological SEMINAR
$40 p. M, and the Legal seation VIII y ns I,
| at tho Bar Association Building AZ
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The Unsatisfacto.y Pieman n.

To the public at large it makes
precious little difference who among
Tammany bon wants gets the pie,
or whether any individuals slice is
broad at the base and fat or narrow
and thin. When the pie enters Tam
many the public knows Il has disap-
peared forever, calls for the bill and
goes on trying to earn enough money
to pay 1t.
Inside Tammany Hall the case is
different. There everybody is hun
cry. Everybody wants the biggest
slice of pie. Everybody watches the
pieman greedily while he slices the
nutritious Wand.
A successful pieman cuts fairly
distributes uniformly. or course he
cannot hope to ill every mouth, or
even any mouth; ne cannot aspire to
appease the unappeasable. But he
gives to each clamorous appetite
enough to overcome Its acutest pangs,
sufficient to maintain its possessor in
. state approaching comfort.
The rage Of Tammany Is stirred by
the charge that its present pieman
Is not that kind of pieman. When
the officiating pieman Yields the knife,
the dissatisfied adherents of Tammany
say some get big pieces Of pie, some
must go without any pie. A good deal
OF pie goes to those back Of the coun.
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YOUTHS EDUCATION.
A Contention That Many College Stud
les Arc of No Practical Value.

To TINE EprroR OF THE suN-S1: I
have read the editorial article entitled
rs II Worth q Young Name While to
Go to schooiY' In my, opinion the young
man IN right. There are thousands Of
lawyers and doctors who do not earn
$4,000 year. A great deaf Of the edu-
cation received In colleges is Of no prac-
teal value to men In after life. The
time devoted to many of the subjects
Ia absolutely wasted. Such was the
opinion Of Henry Adams expressed in
that very interesting book entitled The
Education Of Henry Adams" The
trinina knowledge of languages acquired
In schools and coIleres has no practical
value. I used to hear II said that the
studv Of the higher mathematics and
other subjects taught In high schools and
colleges disciplines the mind, but Il seems
TO me that IL a fallacy. In the city Of
New York We are spending a great deal
of money for. education most Of which
will be utterly useless to those who ac-
quire It.
do not think the city OF New York
should be called upon to maintain a free
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ABSENT vor1wo.
Michigan and Ohio Arc Reported .
Have Pound It Satisfactory.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--str: Com
mercisi travellers are the life blood OF
American business. Over 10000 OF
them cover every hamlet. village, town
and city in the United States, It's Terri
tories and dependencies. Naturally q
very large percentage, estimated at so
per cent. or over 10000, are absent
from their homes OF voting places on
election day. Thus we lose in the cleo
torate the Judgment Of the best posted
business men and practise q great in
justice to this enterprising army of
workerA
Amendment No. TO the New York
State Constitution. which viii be voted
upon on November Z, empowers the
Legislature to enact laws providing a
method of absent voting which should
be supported by all political parties and
trust will receive very few negative
votes.
This IN not q new proposition. The
state Of Michigan in its original Consti-
tuition, adopted in 1885, provided for ''ab-
sent voting" About ten years ago the
State Of Ohio adopted absent voting"
No unfavorable conditions have arisen
regarding the absent voting plan in these
two States or In other States where It
has been adopted. W. r. wAKENAN.
NEW York, October %.
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The Sun Calenda,
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York Nou
ana Southern New EnglanS Ser,r
with rain to-day and probable .'oo~
row: not much change in tsm, .o,mof'
fresh east winds. "pcraeure;
sor northern New Ensland--c,.,.-
10y anu to-morrow; probably r.,n, 70
Eor Msstern New York--Show.r.
~ prooSpiy Tomorrow; lower M-aey
'ur'' tresn east and southeast vinap0en'
WASHINGTON, Oct ,,p
hish over the New Rnriand s,,.surs I,
along the northern bord.r .etes ana
superior westward 20 the ps,,en om Lake
IN ,ne western Canadian provinososN ana
10 low over the southsrn nin. And Il
southern Rocky Mountain ,.ia,eea and
pressure distribution IL attsndnS This
westher and snow In Minnesota ~ cold
ness, hontana, northern Wvont W.
Ioeno ana rains In the north Panin and
sno the middle Atlantic. south statS
ana our States and the oentrai y, Atlantic
NAney: Temperatures above ,h.ntppl
Prevail generally east OF m. normal
RIVER ana over the south plain, s,..sppl
tne central Mississippi Valley rye ana
Iook 70 Tor cloudy, showery w.a,he out
Gay ana saturday generally .n.. ri.
Mississippi River, with lovor ts,nu OF N,
IN tne reSion Of the Great Lave. xufs
""'ensi ehange elsewhere. ."' 10
Ooservanons at United stat.s p..
N.u stations taken ct p. nj x.,,m b.
enty-nfth meridian time; ''eiuay, sr
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A Comet ticut Farmers Ideas on
Price Fixing,

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Your
editorial article What 10 sauce for the
goose. &c." IL excellent There 10 more
truth than fiction in It. That Is just
what tho farmers will do when food con-
sumption exceeds production.
Consumption is increasing much more
rapidly than production. At tho present
rate Of progress It will not be long be-
fore consumption overtakes production.
Then the farmers will fx their own
prices and get them 100.
Tho question win then be not how will
consumers like II but what will they do
about Il?
10 there any way they can compel the
farmers to raise food for them except
slavery Can they make slaves of FIVE
or ten millions OF farmers7 We can
shoot as we'll a. they. What will they
do about lit g. r. sHRpARn
STAFFORD SPRINGS. Conn. October 2s.
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natealions over critical mountnin
gap, well named the Hara-kiri Pass
because Of the narrow margin Of pos
sibility Of successful defence. Never
theless, SAIoo was driven back. Be
cause of bullet then received in his
right arm TERAuoHr, when in high
rank. was the only subject in the en-
pire permitted to use his left dlgits
to shake hands with the Son Of
Heaven.
In later years came the unconscious
transformation Of TERAucHI, who had
in 1877 opposed with life and limb the
militarism Of SAIeo. He became one
of the most strenuous opponents Of
the men Of civilian ideas, who believe
much In moral influence and in a
minimum Of force in government Of
the State.
OF TRAAUcHfs military record Asia
and Europe know. He spent three
years in Paris, was chief of stan in
the war with China and superin-
tended the home operations In the war
with Russia. Then when Corea was
annexed and oil japan was hot with
wrath because Corean patriot as
sassin had shot 1ro, tho civilian and
Japan's greatest modern statesman,
the powers In Toxic made TxRAUcHI
Governor General Of Corea. From the
viewpoint Of reason, Of statesman
ship or Of success, this was a blum
der. The soldier in civil office failed.
In the trumped up charge Of a gen
eral Corean plot against TERAUcHI's
life the japanese name and fame for
Justice got its blacklist mark.
No alien can be accused Of harsh
criticism Of the actions of Japan In
Corea, since the japanese themselves
have so intensively rebuked militar-
ism. For, Just when in 1919 German
ideas prevailed, and Germany's tri-
umph seemed assured, the military
party in japan, flushed with the Shan.
tung success, made TEaAUcHl Pre-
mier. Yet after only a few months
Of an almost autocratic rule and the
Premier's high handed dissolution Of
the Diet. because Of the opposition Of
outraged public opinion, TERGdcHl
was driven from once. Then, after
nifty years Of struggle, the men who
believe in the moral more than the
physical forces for government came
into power. Arduous is their task
but with time and patience even the
mulberry leaf becomes satin"
Yet the record of a brave soldier
a gallant gentleman, patriot who
according to his light, was sincere, Il
unsullied and sure. The fame OF
TERAuoHI the Field Marshal will five
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Our Back Against the wall.

The American consular agent al
Puebla, Mexico, has been kidnapped
and is held for ransom In the sum Of
$4,000.
The State Department has been
reused to the point Of making urgent
Representations" to the Carranza Gov.
eminent concerning this outrage
against the American nation.
The attitude Of the State Depart.
ment will be strongly upheld by all
Americans It would be upheld II II
were a good deal more emphatic
Shall we never get our back against
the wall with Mexican bandits?
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II We Really want Protection on she
Sea We Must Par for It.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Rear
Admiral Samuel MCGOWAN. chief OF the
Bureau Of Supplies and Accounts Of the
navy, has told q House committee that
the officers and men Of that branch OF
the service need an increase in pay.
Admiral MCGOWAN is not the only one
who has presented these facts to various
Congressional committees, and II lie
about time that Washington considered
this matter in a serious light ana did
something quickly.
Tho United States Atlantic feet 10 said
to be seriously crippled for lack OF Of
ficers and men. whether the people in
general realize Il or not. Why7 Because
wages are SO attractive on the outside
that no one excepting a real patriot or a
natural born sailorman will accept the
sea a. his profession on the wages that
Uncle Sam pays his men who wear the
blue.
Probably no business men in the coun-
try ever rise TO control and be responsible
for the same vast amounts Of money,
property and lives at the same salaries
paid to officers Of the army and navy.
During the late war q temporary full Ad-
miral was In command Of the Atlantic
feet The bettieships alone under his COM
mand can be estimated to cost not one
cent less than $500. ooo.ooe and II re-
quired about $4,000 men to man them
This does not include the destroyers.
supply ships and other craft which were
attached to his fleet and which, II added
n, would,c cause the above figures to mount
higher and higher. For this slight" re-
sponsibility the gentleman who wore four
stars on his collar and protected the
American coast from PASSPORT to Key
West received about the same salary az
the president OF . medium sised city
bank.
A short time ago 1t Is reported Rear
Admiral was forced to reduce his life
insurance to meet the high cost Of liv-
Ing A Junior officer with the rank OF
Ensign or Lieutenant. Junior grade, 10
completely "out Of luck" II he happens
to be married.
Then where does the bluejacket come
in--the man who feeds the coal and oil.
washes down decks keeps the bright
work polished, paints and red leads the
ship to keep It's sides and body from
deterioratins, mana the stns, search
lights and wheel7 The "gob" had better
stay single.
We clamor for protection when our
coasts are threatened, We demand that
tho lives Of our citisens be safeguarded
on the high seas. we ciench our nsts and
grow red hot when postage stamp ma
tons insult our flag and permit bandits
to slaughter our citizens, but when all
10 quiet and serene We don't worry about
our men In tho service and how much
we pay them. What about II Congress
haven't these men o right TO liver
PArcHoaus October -. J. J. r., JR.
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A FARMERS UNION3
We May BE Driven to It by Organized
Labor, Says One Farmer.

To THE EDITION OF THE SuN-Sir: Mr.
Quackenbush's letter relative to returns
on farm products states a typical case to
any one familiar with the facts Of food
production and its financial returns
Moreover. providing food for forty-two
hour man by working eighty-four hours
oneself invites speculation on the right
eous advisability Of an organisation for
farmers similar to the A. r. of l.
az 10 quite interesting to think of the
possibilities of such an organization Ga
farmerS national union) under the eff
Client Leadership of q man Of Mr.. Com
psrss caiibre, and I know of no reason
under our present conditions why such an
organisation could not or should not con-
troll the production Of food. II the dis
trfbution Of food 10 on a certain basis,
surely its production should be the same.
Unless Il II on the Same basis we have
an injustice wrought by one class on an
other. and that 10 certainly abhorrent to
American ideals. II the consumer and
all concerned with the handling of his
food are to live by working forty-two
producer Of that food be compelled to
work eighty-four hours q week
Considering just one phase of farm
ing. dairying. your average man would
| Say offhand that q so-called "six-hour
day" seven days week, 10 impracticable.
| 1t Is not. and for the simple reason that
the whole country knows It can't exist on
forty-two hours of work O week. Men
| In the trades don't strike for six-hour
days for the sake of the six hours them
selves. They strike to make their high
| wages possible. either through decreased
production and thus increased value of
the product or else through double pay
for overtime They don't give a plea
yune for the six hours; they are after
the increase In wages that six-hour
basis win bring them. They want six
hour basls-nct o six-hour day
To express 1t correctly then, IL It IL
just for the six-hour basis to apply to the
man who drinks the milk It is also Just
for him who produces It. Therefore the
labor return to a dairyman may be Just
ly figured on a six-hour basis-a living
wage for six hours and double that for
overtime. And II is just for the Dairy
| mems League to figure the fair price for
milk on such a basis and to obtain that
price by using the same tactics which
the rule or ruin" policy Of American
labor uses to gain Its ends.
II you will multiply the suffering that
this one application OF a six-hour basis
would cause by the number of phases OF
farming you will get some idea Of the
chaoo which may possibly come to pass
within the next decade unless our labor
unions return to a common sense pro-
gramme. WILLIAM H woopRurr.
/ CHEsTER N J.. October a.
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R0zALEs FOR PRESIDENCY.
Membrero's Followers Ask Him to
Run I'm Honduras.

SAN SALVADOR, Republic OF Salvador,
Oct 22.-Gen. Maxine b. Rozales has
been asked by followers of Alberto Mem
brero. Vice-President of Honduras to
become a candidate for the Presidency
Of that country. Gen. Lopez Gutierrez
having refused TO make the canvass. II
IL understood that the various Generals
In the forces led by Vice. President Men,
brero have been in sharp disagreement,
with the followers OF Gen. Gutierrez and
have left Tegucigalpa in a mysterious
manner. Among those who have de.
parted from the Honduran capital IL
Gen. Carlos who has 1900 men at his
disposal.
The sun., 1919-10-24
Tue Last Of the Military PremIers
OF Japan.

Ever since that pivotal day in
Asiatic history. April 6. 1868. when.
in the sacred hall and In the presence
Of all the gods and the assembled
court and territorial mobiles Of Japan,
the Mikado took oath to decide all
things according to public opinion
there has been an internal struggle In
Japan greater even than the external
struggle In the wars with China and
Russia and Germany.
The Mikado's oath was to form a
representative government, to abolish
the uncivilized customs Of former
ages. to make access to the throne
and the imperial person easy, and u
substitute the reign Of reason for that
of force.
The soldiers and the military party,
entrenched in power, said this was
impossible. mot yet" or "To-mor-
row" (miyonichi). was their word.
The men of light and leading said
1<Ct uo OCSh OhSC anu CuuNatt
our people In self-government." Hence
the struggle which 10 already a half
century old.
Yet what men who start revolu
lions can control the forces that are
latent in them? Once released. these
forces usually bowl over their orig
inal engineers; or. what Is much thu
same, the power holding starters
themselves, in face Of opposition
harden into reactionaries.
When, in 1877, SAIGo, who had beer
"the sword Of the revolution" OF 1868
rose against the new democracy Their
beginning, In the armed Satsuma re
bellion, though nominally against "ths
bad co1nsellors OF the Emperor" ant
was suppressed only after the loss Of
seven months time, $4,000 lives ant
800, 900! 900, the young captain, SEEK
TERAUcHI, halted the march Of SAIGo'.
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strike Cross Currents.

Whatever the merits Of the case
itself, the new demands Of railway
workers might seem, on the one hand.
to be In danger Of going under the
steam roller Of the soft coal miners.
II the soft coal miners are able to tie
up the mines next week, as they
threaten to do, the railway workers
for the most part will quit work any
how without striking. There being
no coal to drive the locomotives, the
railroads could not operate; and If
they could operate. there being no
coal for industry, there would be no
traffic for them to haul.
II the soft coal miners can put the
railway workers out Of their jobs and
are going to put them out Of their jobs
almost Immediately. what would be
the use Of the railway workers going
to the trouble and expense of doing
to themselves with their own strike
what the coal miners propose to do to
them with their striker
On the other hand. there may be
more than gamblers chance that In
view Of the threatened tieup Of the
countrys transportation, whether by
mine workers or rail workers, the
Government might not turn the roads
back to their owners by or before the
end of the year. The Government
might announce that 1t would keep
the roads operating II to do SO 1t had
to hang on to them till GABRIEL blew
his trumpet II the Government did
hang on to the roads 80 as to keep
them operating, strike or no strike
by railway workers or by soft coal
workers, it would have to get the coal
to operate them.
II the Government took the mines
in charge 30 as to have coal for the
roads It would not be long before the
coal strike was ended. If the Gov
eminent Kept the roads in charge
there would not be much more to the
rail strike In the United States than
there was to the recent rail strike In
Great Britain.
IL It impossible that the railway
workers are coming forward with
their demands at this time with the
very purpose Of continuing Govern
ment operation Of the roads into the
new year, at the same time, Of course
assuring the necessary operation OF
the coal mines without which the
roads could not operatef These arr
what might be called not merely cross
currents in strikedom. but strike gas
sing In the strike trenches.
In these days Of strike complexities
strike puzzles and strike mysteries
some things may not be probable, bu
nothing is impossible.
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MIR. Gompers's Bolt.

On the face of It, SAMUEL Com.
rxRs, with the boitlng Of himself and
Of his delegates from the National In
dustrial Conference, has put himself
and them in opposition to the public.
Whether some of US favor labor
unions or whether some Of Us oppose
labor unions, 1t is undeniable by any
body that the Conference was not
called by the President and that the
Conference did not assemble to be-
come an agency only Of unionism. 1t
is undeniable by anybody that the
Conference was called and that the
Conference assembled to bring all
labor--union labor and non-union la
bor-into better relations with all en-
ployers-union employers and non
union employers-in the common
cause Of the whole public. which in
ciudes, of course, not only union labor
and union employers but non-union
labor and n0n-union employers.
So far as the record which 10 made
public shows there was no objection
In the Conference to the principle
Of collective bargaining by the repre-
sentatives Of the public. There was
NO objection to the principle Of collec.
tive bargaining by the Representatives
Of the employers There does appear,
however, to have been an objection
by Mr.. GoMpKss and his delegates to
any resolution on collective bargain
ing, to any principle Of collective bar.
gaining, that should specifically state
or should specifically be understood to
mean collective bargaining by and
through any labor organization, any
labor association, any labor group
union or non-union, desiring so to dc
collective bargaining.
So far as the record shows Mr.
GoMPxRs and his delegates refused tc
sccept, to vote upon or to have any
thing to do with any resolution tina,
recognized collective bargaining fol-
union labor, for non-union labor-fol
ell labor.
II the record as 1t thus comes Il
the public Is correct-if 1t is the fact
that Mr.. GoMPERs and his delegates
bolted because they would not ap
prove, would not recognize the righ'
Of all labor to do collective bargain
ing, then for the breakdown Of the
Industrial Conference Mr.. GohPERi
and his delegates have to answer moi
merely to the majority membership
from which they bolted, not merely
to the President Of the United States
who called them all together, but t
the American people.
Though they have gone from thu
Conference, though they may nevel
return to II, 1t is now up to Mr.. Con
PEas and his boiling delegates to stat
clearly. explicitly and finally to tn
American public whether they do o.
do not recognize the Fundamental
right of everybody, II It is the RICH
Of anybody. to collective bargaining
whether they insist that collective bar
gaining shall be the exclusive right o
labor unions and of nobody else.