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The sun., 1919-10-26
The Administration Has Surren-
dered to the Man Who Won't Work.

Because Of the longshoremen's
strike the Post Office Department
threw up it's hands and quit it's job
of moving the foreign mails. Letters,
periodicals, parcels, the postage on
which has been prepaid and delivery
of which the Post Office has con-
tracted to undertake, lie on the piers,
awaiting the hour when men who
don't want to work for the pay OF
fered to them will allow men who do
want to work to get on the job.
The Government OF the United
States found the mails obstructed at
Chicago In the railway strike Of 1894
The administration Of the Executive
Department of the Government In
that year was in the hands of GRovEB
CLEVELAND. He sent soldiers to Chi
cago to protect the men who wanted
to work from the men who did not
want them to work. Under the pro-
lection of the soldiers the mails were
moved The public service violence
had halted was resumed. The su.
premacy of the law was upheld.
The Executive Departments of the
United States Government to-day does
not do what GROVER CLEVELAND did
When the peace Of the country is dis
turbed 1t does not seek to defend it.
1t lies down. When 1t lies down the
law is powerless, the agents of the Law
are paralyzed, the machinery of gov
eminent ceases to function.
The weakness Is in the Administra
ton. 1t has all the authoffN and al
the power of the Government at its
hand, but does not use them. The AID
ministration has surrendered to the
disorderly, and the Government i,
made helpless by its surrender.
The sun., 1919-10-26
One Hour Returned to Its Owner.

That hour which was plucked from
the twenty-four last spring is to-day
returned to It's owner. The citizen
who managed to get through the Both
of last March on twenty three hours
is rewarded to-day for his frugality
by having sixty minutes thrown in his
lap. He may do what he pleases with
it. He may choose any of the twenty
five hours as the one to be particu-
larly enjoyed because 1t is an hour
saved from the dead past.
Some men with prediction for
exactness rose perhaps at 2 O'Clock
this morning, turned back the hands
to l of the clock, read, sang or swung
Indian clubs until o'clock and then
| returned to slumber. These were few.
we fancy. But how many were there
who have been contemplating with Joy
! the prospect of having an extra hour
to spend in church?
| In hundreds Of suburban homes the
extra hour will be used to wash a
motor car. mend broken golf bag
or oil duck gun. But in the city the
odd hour Is likely to mean more read
ing, more walking or more sleeping.
Some may spend the precious 5000
seconds in examination of political
conscience.
! The economical will observe with
satisfaction on rising at their usual
Notwithstanding that they turned the
hands back last night-that they are
! able to go about the house without
turning on a switch, for this morning
1t Will be light at 6 o'clock. This af
ternoon they will observe. with CORE
spending regret, that it will be dark
about 80. Yesterday the sun set at
6 :O4; to-day. at 5:03-a difference Of
81 minutes to us, but eRly one min
ute in the conduct of the sun.
The sun., 1919-10-26
A CITY OF WONDER.

Past the upper corner of preci-
pice the moon rode into view. Night
had, for some while now, hooded the
marvellous city.
They had planned 1t to be symmet-
rical, its maps were orderly, neat; In
two dimensions, that is in length and
breadth, it's streets met and crossed
each other with regular exactitude,
with all the dulness of the science OF
man. The city had laughed, as it were,
and shaken itself free and in the rnird
dimension had scared away to consort
with all the careless irregular Wings
that know not man for their master.
Yet even there. even at those att
tudes, man had still chung to his SYM
metry, still claimed that these noun
tains were houses; in orderly rows the
thousand windows stood matching
each other precisely, all orderly, all
alike, lest any should guess by day
that there might be mystery here. SO
they stood in the daylight. The sun
set, still they were orderly, as scientific
and regular as the labors Of only man
and the bees. The mists darken at
evening. And first the Woolworth
Building goes away. sheer home and
away from any allegiance to man, TO
take his place among mountains; for
saw him stand with the lower slopes
invisible in the cleaning while only
his pinnac!es showed far up In the
clearer sky. Thus only mountains
stand.
Still all the windows of the other
buildings stood in their regular rows
all side by side in silence, not yet
changed, as though waiting one fur
tive moment to step from the schemes
of man, to slip back to mystery and
romance again as cats do when they
steal on velvet feet away from familiar
hearths in the dark of the moon.
Night fell Ind the moment came.
Some one lighted a window, far up an
other one shone with its orange glow.
Window by window. and yet not nearly
all. Surely, II modern man with his
clever schemes held any sway here
still he would have turned one switch
and lighted them all together; but we
are back with the older man of whom
far songs tell, he whose spirit Is kin
to strange romances and mountains.
One by one the windows shine from
the precipices; some twinkle, some are
dark; mans orderly schemes have
gone and We are among vast heights
lighted by inscrutable beacons
I have seen such cities before, and
I have told Of them in the Book of
Wonder.
Here in New York a poet found a
welcome DrSsANY,
The sun., 1919-10-26
The Outstanding Moral Issue In
This Campaign.

The greatest moral issue at the COM
ing election will be decided not by
the voters of the whole city but by
the men and women of Manhattan and
The Bronx. These two counties form
the First judicial District of the
State. About half million men and
women will choose two Justices Of the
Supreme Court. The leader of Tam
many Hall, Mr.. MURPHY, caused the
moral issue by refusing, as Mr..
CROKER refused to his sorrow years
ago, to renominate a deserving judge.
The local Republican party took up
the gage and nominated Justice NEW
BURGER as one of it's own candidates,
its other nominee being Major PHILIP
]. McCooK, not only a war hero but
q lawyer whose fitness for the bench
Is testified to by the Bar Association.
The two candidates receiving the
highest number of votes will be
elected. The voters of the district
who wish to teach political bosses TO
keep their hands off the bench will
naturally vote for the Republican
McCooK and the Democrat NEW
BURGER to the exclusion of Mr.. UNTER-
MYER and Mr.. Luce, neither Of whom
has been Endorsed by the Bar Asso-
citation and the first of whom is par
ticulsrly to he opposed because IL was
for Mr.. UNTERMYER's benefit that
Leader MURPHY refused to renomi-
nate Justice NEwBURGER.
1t Is to the selection of the two
Justices that the voters of Manhattan
and The Bronx will doubtless give
their first attention. Marking the rest
of the ballot will be an important,
but secondary, employment.
The sun., 1919-10-26
POEMS WORTH READING.
Atrophy.

pra.d,,, IN. atronbv NJ the body, or any
n.r, n, ,,-of its homes. muscles,
vIror or grace.
put vet mora abborrent the invisible
.,ronhv n, tba mind and spirit,
vhereof tho physical deformity Is
IN. reianties. ,vmboi
TIL. chinese mother calling her little
daughter 10 her. and telling her than
81. rou., h.ya h.r fac, bound II she
aver .xnect. IN be married:
Than .oftenInr tho dainty. perfectiy formed
little members with not water be-
fore tha cruei bandaees are applied.
The pressure exerted ever more vigorously
with each revindins
Tn. ohiId's axonie. increasing. so that
those who have heard such a tiny
victims shrek, echoing through q
Chinese street saw they can never
Io.a tho horror from memory.
rinsIIv tho actual breaking of the bones
inside the torture bonds as the feet
yrov with the wars and their re-
duct,or 70 IN. shattered ruins
dasmea tho acrne OF beauty, and by
eha.tly parody compared to liliesi
Such tbe symbol. so abhorrent in itself.
ana no les, in its sienincance for all
thwarttns and crushing of the en-
dovment,. functions and potencies
Of life.
The are long and still inflicted loss and
anguish through the miscarriages OF
Beauty. Use and Joy:
Atrophyl-
OF delight in Natures inconceivable wealth
OF form and color;
or innocent slee in wholesome humor.
laughter, and freedom of spirit;
OF keen relish. without giuttony or abuse.
OF delicious foods and drinks;
OF RAPTURE in Sex and its incaiculabls en-
hancement OF the richness and zest
Of human experience:
OF tov in superb architecture. painting
and sculnturs:
OF tho revivifvins xIadness Of friendship
and thu thrilling emotional contacts
q, frank comradeshin:
OF glory IN the sure sense of a divine Jus
tice. Guidance and Love. working
vie,oriou.lv even in and through all
human enmitv. rssistance and blind
The sun., 1919-10-26

You'd human will; how magnificently
one man might have died for his
caste, died for the system he exempll-
fled. died for the honor of the pre-
negatives his rebelllous subjects threat
ened to take from him! Not one of
the princes was dramatic, to say
nothing of heroic. Each and every
man and woman of them, following
the example of the self-procla!med
bell wether of the flock, surrendered
with more discretion than valor or
ran as fast as his legs or an auto
mobile could carry him.
The Gar provides better figure
for those who would make monarchs
attractive than any of the others. He
at least went into mystery, and as
he departed bore himself well. But
all the others offer poor material for
hero building. They quit cold. earn
ing honorary memberships the safety
first society as soon as trouble OBJ
scured the sun of divine right under
whose rays they had profitably basked
so long. A horde Of the fat and the
skinny, the mad and the sane, young
and old, laid hands on their possess
sions and took 1t on the run for cover.
If they believed what they taught,
! they painted themselves cravens; If
| they ran because they did not believe,
they confessed themselves frauds.
They dealt blow to the king or to
the ldngship, whichever way the mind
turns; they abandoned an ancient in
stitution in its hour Of peril to make
sure they might continue for a little
time to wear whole skins.
There have been kings who lived for
their countries and their peoples.
There have been kings who died for
their countries and their peoples
None of them is numbered among
those who had engagements elsewhere
when the signal came for the brave
to risk something or to lose all.
The sun., 1919-10-26
The Kings Who Fled =.

Royalty of the twentieth century
breed in exile is not an awe or pity
inspiring lot. The fall of princely
houses has not been dignified by the
masterful bearing in the ordeal of re-
nunciation which true believers In the
divine right of one man to rule an
other might have been expected to
display. There were noble opportuni-
ties to write splendid tragedies in the
dethronement proceedings which fol
lowed close on the armistlce, but act
ors competent to take advantage OF
. them we're not In the cast. They did
not fight. but fed, forsaking their
regal crowns but not forgetting the
golden, crowns they could lay their
hands on.
! A prince properly convinced Of his
divine privilege and obligation, with
| the spirit TO defend It, had a splendid
stage on which to fight for that for
which he had strutted. Defiance to a
"mlsled" people, fidelity TO the station
and the Office to which Con had called
him, refusal to compromise for per,
sonal comfort, even for life itself, the
unfiinching pose of a man exalted BY
blood and training and something be
The sun., 1919-10-26
ASTOR THE LAST OF THE
STAIN ART SENATORS. Z
He and Seven Others Stood to the End
for a Great Principle.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Sir: The
death of William Waldorf Aston recalls
the Stalwart- Halfbreed struggle In the
Republican party in this State in 1881.
When President Garfield nominated WILL
lam H. Robertson to the United States
Senate for Collector of the Port of New
York his confirmation was strongly op-
posed by Senators Conkling and Platt
They resigned their seats, but imme-
diately became candidates for reelection.
As the contest was progressing Presi-
dent Garfield was shot. This fact In
tensifed the character of the struggle
and 1t was prolonged for many weeks.
finally resulting in the defeat OF Senators
Conkling and Plat.
A minority of twenty-nine Senator'S
and Assemblymcn stood united for their
reelection to the last-eight Senators and
twenty-one Assemblymen. Among the
Senators who remained steadfast to the
end was William Waldorf Astor. and he
is the last of the line of the Stalwart
Senator's. Among the other Senators who
have preceded Astor in their demise were
Braman of Albany. Eidman and Strahan
of New York. Halbert of Broome will
iams OF Erie and Winslow of Jefferson.
The Stalwarts were criticised because
OF their Interpretation of the provisions
Of the Constitution of the United States
upon nominations by the President to the
Senate for confirmation. They contended
that according to the Constitution such
nominations could not be made effective
but by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate" constituting confir-
nation. They insisted on giving virility
to that provision of the Constitution. The
Halfbreeds regarded 1t as a substantial
nullity.
The language of the Constitution OF
the United States respecting the power
OF the Senate of the United States in
acting upon treaties submitted by the
President and nominations to public
Office by the President is substantially
the same and the unanimous acauies.
cence by the people of the United States
in the consideration of the present peace
treaty submitted by the President is a
vindication of the attitude Of the Stall
wart movement of 1881. for which it re.
| ceived much unjust censure.
Z. W. CuLLINAN
OSwFCO 0ctpbar o.,
The sun., 1919-10-26
Those Who Tended Bar.

We are informed that all of Eng
land is amused over the assertion of
a London newspaper that Sir ERIC
GEDDEs, the British Minister of Trans
United States. Sir ERIC himself is
reported to have "smiled enigmatic-
ally" when asked for details\ The
fact that he mixes good cocktails is
offered as clrcumstantial evidence of
his past But that is in England. On
this side Of the water there have been
times and regions when every social
male could make a potable cocktail.
Americans did not leave the delicate
task to a butler.
To our way of thinking it would be
more depressing If 1t were discovered
that Sir ERIC, after being First Lord
of the British Admiralty and Ma or-
General in her army, had gone and
become a bartender. Over here there
have been many examples of bartend-
ers who have risen to wealth and to a
power that extended beyond the pre-
cinct of the bar. One became a master
in finance and left not only fortune
of a hundred millions but a memory
among his associates that his word
was unbreakable. Another former
bartender became one of the highest
officers of this city's government and
man of the greatest zeal in educa-
tional affairs.
It has been stated repeatedly, and
without contradiction from the hero
of the tale, that JOHN MAsEFIELD
tended bar in Sixth avenue; and when
that first class poet paid visit to
New York few years ago he went
to call on his former employer and
to see how the old place was getting
on. We do not believe that ROBERT
BRIDGES ever served drinks profession
ally; and sometimes, upon comparing
his products with MAsEFIELDs, we
have wished he was as broad in song,
| If not in experience, as JOHN Is.
When we hear that the eminent So
and-so was a bartender or hod car
rier or an efficiency expert in his
uniformed youth we do not lift our eye
brows. We do not even ask whether
he was good at his early trade. If Sir
ERIC was ever bartender we must
assume, from the character of his
wider public employment during the
war, that he was a good bartender.
The sun., 1919-10-26

My penny whistle I would pipe
To celebrate the loganberry,
So rich and round and full and ripe,
Peer OF the erst Manhattan cherry.
Distilled with skill that wonder wakes,
Compact OF sweets like Hyblts honey,
loudly shall aver II takes
All-almost all. that is-my money.
Though Bscchus must recut his coat.
And Bacchus' pards be turned to kit
tens.
Replne noti Resdjust your throat:
Fling old time brews a set OF mittsns.
How luscious is the logan, Yea,
As lucent syrups tinct with CHINA.
Wink at the barkeep, say you! Pray
Don't-or as Scots would have It. Ginna.
And as you snir it's choice bouquet
You'n think Of new inown fields OF
daisies,
Or daffodils that nod or hay
Wherein the poet Pye poured praises
Now that Its virtues all are reckoned,
Come. pour libations of the loEanl
(But. HeOe. never mind a second
One is sunicient for a slogan.
AAuaics MORsIs.
The sun., 1919-10-26
PROTECTING THE FOOLS.
A Good Many Things Must Be Pro
hiblted to Save All the idiots.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: no.
ticed in my morning paper a letter from
Boston on Jamaica ginger.
For the love of Mike, where is the fool
killer?
Why not advocate a law prohibiting
the growing of apple trees so the small
boy will not be tempted TO eat the green
fruit and therefore not need the ginger?
Suppose few men kill themselves with
that necessary household remedy? The
country can well spare their kind.
After my morning shave l have been
in the habit of using bay rum, and I
cannot any more procure my usual brand
because. containing 81 per cent alcohol,
It Is against the law or too expensive
do not know whlch-to manufacture II.
Is 1t not time for some one to protest
against such fanaticism?
And let not your Boston correspondent
think / want to drink bay rum or. ia
maica ginger. l drink nothing stronger
than coffee. unless 1t is buttermilk.
CHARLES LEROY.
NEWARK. October 25
The sun., 1919-10-26

Chicago has a woman theatre broker
whose extortions," Jays a writer who
could just as easily have written
whose cleverness." explains "the fact
that Chicago theatregoers have to pay
$3.50 for a seat they paid only So for
a year ago. 1t Is time that Chicago,
awake to everything else, awoke to
the loveliness of philosophy. 1t is just
as unnecessary and as foolish to pay
more to see a play than 1t is worth
as it is unnecessary and foolish to
pay more for drink than it is worth.
New York long ago discovered this and
no longer buys SIS theatre tickets; it
philosophically lets visitors from Chi
cago buy 'em.
The sun., 1919-10-26
ENDING IN A MYSTERY
Signatures TO Business Letters Which
Are Hard to Make Out,

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.-Sir. Hay-
of correspondence 1t has often occurred
to me that in spite of our modern busi-
ness methods there still remains room
for improvement in one of the chief
essentials Of correspondence. the sigma
ture.
1t seems rather inconsistent for bust
ness men TO spend large sums for office
equipment and to pay good salaries TO
stenographers and typists to get out
their mail in-the best possible form and
then to spoil the good results OF all their
trouble by winding Up their letters with
signatures which few persons outside OF
those familiar with their scrawls can
decipher without the loss of time and
study.
Yet the fact remains that many busi-
ness men persist in adhering to the old
method Of signing their correspondence
with signatures which in some cases
would battle a professional handwriting
expert. When they sign their names
with the fiourishes and the twists and
turns that appear essential to them they
overlook the fact that in many cases the
recipients OF the letters will find IL a
difficult matter to determine from whom
the letters came.
II some of these business men would
cast aside their old fashioned idea that
complicated signatures add dignity to
their letters they would be doing modern
business methods good turn. Moreover
they would be placing less strain on the
eyes. nerves and tempers of those who
have to decipher their signatures.
Obviously trouble could be avoided (:
every business man would have his
typist type his name on each letter. and
then he could apply his signature under
meath. D. w
NEW YORK. October 25.
The sun., 1919-10-26
Back t. Aladdin!

From the Edison Monthly.
"Insistent. incessant. these modern de-
mands, I believe I shall try to de-
camp,
I want to go back to Aladdin" said the
weary old Slave OF the Lamp,
1T made them all coffee for breakfast,
Drowned toast slice after slice,
coddled the eggs (hens' not rocs eggs
but still eggs of fabulous price),
sucked all the dust from the carpets
polished the brass till It CLEANS,
ran the machine for Miss Susie. the while
she was sewing her seams
washed tub full OF silk nothings, and
ironed them while they were damp,
All mental tasks for a Genius like me "
said the weary old Slave OF the
Lamp.
II heated the water and towels for my
lady to have her shampoc
treated her scalp, and patiently famed
till her hair was all dry through and
through,
I warmed and massaged her old grandpa
who fancies he's getting the govt,
played a full hour for the young folks &c
dance. I lighted the house. in and
out,
Now I want to go back to Aladdin, a lazy
and lovable scamp;
The leisurely East, not the strenuous West
is my choice" said the Slave of the
Lamp.
EDNA A. CoLLAxoRn
The sun., 1919-10-26
King Albert in the Heart of America.

The special train bearing the Bel
CLAN royal party eastward from the
Pacific coast stopped for fifteen min
utes at Hutchinson, Kansas, and the
Ne,os of that town remarks that thou
sands Of Hutchinson people saw their
first real king and queen and King
ALBERT and Queen ELIZABETH saw
some real folks "as they looked over
the mass of humanity that swarmed
around the station grounds to give
them hearty welcome"
I Hutchinson is not far from the
geographical centre of the United
States. 1t knew all about Belgium
because 1t had sent OF its own accord
The sun., 1919-10-26

hundred and ten millions whom he
threatens, as he quits the Conference,
with an industrial paralysis bringing
destruction and disaster and death to
them, If he can make good that threat,
beyond the imagination's power to
measure in advance. We think these
things are likewise of considerable i'm
portance to Mr.. GoMPERs individu-
ally and personally; for his avowed
conception of the relation of his or
ganization to an infinitely greater and
more powerful organization than that
which he advises or controls Is not
the conception Of mild Socialism
merely, or Of industrial philosophy
merely. 1t Is the conception of horrld
anarchy.
The other side Of this threatened
aSSuc UclWtth ODcuieiiSe W law anu
defiance Of law never, perhaps, has
been presented more forcibly than by
an American President whose name,
we nre glad to believe, is admired and
revered by millions of Mr.. GoMPERs's
followers even more than the name of
the president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. Speaking ut Spring
field, Illinois, nearly eighty-two years
ugo ABRAHAM LINCOLN said:
Let every American, every lover
OF liberty, every we'll wisher to his
posterity. swear by the blood of the
Revolution never to violate in the
least particular the laws OF the coun-
try, and never to tolerate their viola
ton by others. AS the patriots of
Seventy-six did to the support of the
Declaration of independence, so to
the support of the Constitution and
laws let every American pledge his
life. his property, and his sacred
honor-let every man remember that
to violate the law is to trample on the
blood of his father. and to tear the
charter Of his own and his chill
dren's liberty. Let reverence for the
laws be breathed by every American
mother to the lisping babe that pratt
ties on her lap; let it be taught in
schools, in seminaries, and in col
leges; let II be written in primers,
spelling books. and in almsnaos let
1t be preached from the pulpit. pro-
claimed in legislative halls. and en-
forced in courts of justice. And. In
short. let It become the political
religion Of the nation, and let the old
and the young. the rich and the poor,
the grave and the gay of all sexes
and tongues and colors and condi-
tons, sacrifice increasingly upon its
affairs. While ever a state OF feeling
such as this shall universally or even
very generally prevail throughout the
nation, vain will be every effort, and
fruitless every attempt. to subvert
our national freedom"
If the issue Of patriotism and ODE
dience to law is squarely made be-
tween SAMUEL GoMPERs and ABRAHAM
LINCOLN what American who knows
America can doubt the result?