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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20
A Pipe Line to the Sky.

The ascent of ROLAND RoHLFs to q
height Of six and half miles above
the surfice of this disturbed planet
appeals I'd the Imagination. If the
climate were better In that no mans
land the young ayiator's mail might
be filed with applications from per-
sons who would like to get as far as
possible away. from the skin of what
many consider an I'll tempered world.
But there is no balm In the upper air.
You have to carry your breath ma
terial with you. and the temperature
Of 48 degrees below zero. Fahrenheit
causes the explorer to feel Like a ST.
berian who has not laid in his win
ter's coal or like young nation step
ping into the presence of the Council
with nothing but self-determinatlon.
Some strictly business natures are
not thrilled by an exploit like that Of
RoHLFs. They welcome no returned
traveller from place hitherto unvis-
tied unless he brings tales of oil, coal,
radium or Notwithstanding to
capitalize and write prospectus
about. But isn't there commercial
idea In RoHLTs's experience? 1t Is
only a year ago that one of THE
SUNS readers uttered a dazzling
scheme for pipe line to the tropics
which should convey to the North
enough heat to make US all forget
that terrible winter when DIR. GAR
FIELD was the Fuel Administrator.
Beside that plan Is not a pipe line
to the six mile zone above us sim
plicity itself?
This idea Is not our own. Students
of that great practical American BEN
JAMIN FRANKLIN will recognize 1t as
the enterprise he suggested In a let
ter written to Sir JOSEPH BANKS in
1888 after BEN had seen MoNTGoL-
FIER's balloon rise in the sky over
Paris. at has been even fancied,"
wrote the speculative American, "that
in time People will keep such Globes
anchored in the air, to which by Pull
lies they may draw up Game to be
preserved in the Cool & Water to be
frozen when ice Is wanted"
A pipe line to the frozen sky ought
to be simple matter nowadays and
great help to man. FRANKLIN's
idea Of using aerostation for cold
storage purposes can be so modified
that the air will come down to the
warehouses through tubes suspended
from balloons. Naturally the people
will demand Iced air In pipes running
to their houses from a central plant.
The ice barons will disappear.
Washington, which will still be the
capital of the United States in spite
of efforts to substitute Geneva, may
be made habitable in the worst sum-
mers. Air below zero would be de-
livered at the summer resorts, maxi
ing them as pleasant as q city apart
ment, Men who rose with burning
brows after too much root beer would
find refrlgerating tap close at hand.
Polar bears would be willing to live
at the Zoo, With the hot pipes from
the equator and the cold pipes from
the sky the climate here would be
ideal. 1t would be like the descrip-
lions you read Of California in real
estate pamphlets.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20
under the sub-head "Confscation
Without remuneration:

under the sub-head "Confscatiol
Without Remuneration;
The Socialist plan of buying the
industries is also dream. THE capi-
talists will never voluntarily sell tho
industries that lay them their golden
eggs. II they do dispose of them to
the State It will only be because the
new financial arrangements suit them
better. Tho inherently weak State
can never force them to make bar
gain unfavorable TO themselves To
do this will require power. and this
power lies alone in direct action.
But It is idle to even speculate on
the aroused workers cowardly stoop-
Ing to buy back the industries stolen
from them. When the psychological
moment arrives the working class,
hungering for emancipation, will
adopt the only method at It's dis
posai and put an end to capitalism
with the general strike"
Judge GARY has declared his readi
ness to meet amy. workmen or. shoI
delegations to consider the adjustment
OF any question presented. He has
asserted the continued determinatlor
of the United States Steel Corpora.
ton to make the wages and working
conditions Of Its employees compare
favorably with the highest standards
of propriety and justice" But he de,
clines to treat concerning the affairs
Of his business with these organizers
Of industrial revolution, these trained
representatives Of a supergovernment
now trying to subject to its extrane-
Gus authority the interests and move
ments Of a great majority of his en-
ployees. He has no olive branch for
the outsiders who demand in the name
Of federated labor the abolition of the
existing unions in the, Steel Corpora
tons vast system and the transfer
Of industrial allegiance to an organi-
cation represented in this case by at
least one avowed prophet Of syndical-
Ism and confiscation.
And this Is fair statement, as
The Sun understands 1t, Of the olive
branch issue.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20
Rise and Decline of What Was Once
Called q LUXURY.

The formation Of safety razor
corporation capitalized at $4,000, 600
through the merger of three existing
companies is enough to make the
most optimistic barber suspend his
critical analysis of the causes which
lost the Giants the pennant and won
der whittier the art of shaving Is
drifting.
Thirty years ago, when mems fancy
for boards was rapidly disappearing
and when the fascination Of the bar
Der shop, with its gossip and Its well
thumbed weeklies, came over the
youth Of the land, the barber began
his golden age. A luxurious rising
generation scorned to WELD the blade,
oil the strop and toll over the whet-
stone. Between 1880 and 1890 the
population of the United States in
creased only one-fourth, but the num-
Der of BARRIERS doubled. The sad rec
cord Of American self-indulgence was
repeated in the last decade Of the last
century, except that it was a little
worse.
Then came the new era. Man be-
gan to shake off the shackles. Bust
ness was calling for clean face every
morning and business would not brook
the hardness Of men who waited until
the BARRIERS said they were next, sir.
A Buckle could have read in the CEN
sus figures of 1910 the decline, al
though not the immediate fall, of the
barber. He was still increasing faster
than the populations ratio of advance.
but not to the same alarming extent
that was observable in the last years of
the previous century. Why his numbers
increased at all was undoubtedly due
to the fact that the barber shops of
the period became beauty parlors.
Men who had begun to shave them
selves still went to the barber, and
as a means Of atoning for their crime
against his pocket they had their hair
cut oftener and they went in for
shampoos, messages and like atten-
tons. To recompense the barber for
the fifteen cents which he did not get
for shave his customers paid fifty
cents for something else.
That condition still prevails. al
though the actual future of the barber
business as source of employment
cannot be gagged perfectly until the
census men have made their rounds
next year. But the announcement
that three concerns sold 100000
safety razors last year is enough to
indicate that In time the old straight
blade Of the barber will be seen only
in the Smithsonian Institution.
The barber himself need not fear
starvation until the success of hair
cutting machines becomes as evident
as that Of the safety razors.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20

to COLUMBUS, we certainly owe an
other to ISABELLA, the Queen who
made his voyage in 1902 possible. The
subordinates Of the Spanish court
who supported her also deserve some
thing. The loyal sailors who upheld
COLUMBUS when rnutineers wanted
him to turn back must not be forgot
ten. Obviously we should hold those
mutineers in disesteem.
The possibilities of this piling up
Of debts are endless. From what re-
mote speculation did CopERNIcus draw
his theory Of spheres2 The man who
transformed floating logs into a raft,
the advanced thinker who followed
out a tree trunk and conferred the
canoe on the world, were the great
granddaddies Of the Leviathan. We
should look them up and do something
for them. Nobody pays any attention
to these worthless now, but COLUMBUS
wasn't the discoverer of the globular-
ity Of mans transient dwelling place,
ana he did not build the first vessel.
We detract nothing from his fame in
confesslng this; he had the courage to
believe he would not fall Off the edge
of the earth after a short sail. as
good many Of his contemporaries did.
Without the spherical theory and the
ship COLUMBUS could not have made
his venture regardless of his ability
to stand an egg on end.
Admiral CHRISTOPHER was good
and determined man and earned more
than he got. But we tremble when
we think Of the plight we shall be in
If the Aldermen make us pay up all
our debts to the great men who have
passed this way before.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20
WE CAN SIMPLY REFUSE TO
SIGN"
Former Representative Parker on the
Key 70 the Situation.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sir: 1t
is distressing that SO many people think
that we must sign treaty and general
league Of which we do not approve be-
cause they have the notion that sigma
ture issthe only way In which the world
and ourselves can have peace, forget
ting that the signature Of any three of
the great Powers makes the treaty bind
ing upon Germany and operative as to
the many European and other matters in
which we have little II any interest.
This provision was adopted to dispose
OF Italian objections and TO enable peace
to be made without her signature. II II
equally applicable to US or to Japan and
| In the key, Of the situation.
II we do not like the treaty and the
League we can simply refuse TO sign and
no harm is done We may surely hest
tate before covenanting that we will
NEEDLE with every Old World trouble on
the inconsistent but fundamental prin-
cIples of defending existing Governments
and encouraging the self-determination
that Is right of revolution Of all small
nations We can refuse to entrust our
! action to the decision of a council COM
posed mostly of foreign nations.
II the League were as strong as our
Articles Of Confederation and league Of
friendship, Of 1871 It would be even
more inefficient than that confederation
proved to be.
Shantung, Flume and Danzig have
already proclaimed what high explosives
are likely to be handed around at the
table Of the Leagues Council. Perhaps
the Philippines and Porto Rico might
be added TO ireland and India II that
Council so desire. The proposition to
increase our army to half a million men
shows the danger OF the situation.
Why delay peace by debating reserva-
tons? We can simply refuse to sign.
We lose nothing by this, We are told
that our trade may be boycotted. Some
nations have done so already and are
likely to continue that course IL we de-
prive ourselves of the right to protect
our own trade.
We claim no damages, or practically
none. We pay our own expenses We
will gladly pay the cost Of occupation
and lose all the damages for such
wrongs as the Lusitania IL we are re-
a large army for the benefit Of the
League and to make war at its call.
We can recover our debts from the
Allies far better by direct arrangement
than by submitting our rights to a
League Council in which they have the
majority vote. All proposed reservations
do not avoid the inherent danger of Join
ing league OF European and Asiatic
Powers. The United States can refuse
to sign this treaty and simply declare
that we are no longer at war.
Reservations and further negotiation
simply mean delay. II we want peace
now we can simply refuse to sign. We
are ready to defend France, with or
without an express agreement, which We
are ready to give, and declare that we
are no longer at war; leaving Europe to
settle her own affairs.
RIcHARp WAYNE PARKER
NEwAnk. September 10.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20
Just"

Just hshin'." says Lansing. refusing to
talk.-HeGdltHe.
The Secretary knows the truth. can con-
firm or can deny
The revelations OF intrigue
About the treaty and the league,
But lacking orders from his Chief, he
daren't nod or give the lie,
But allows It to be said that he's 'just
hshin,"
The Chief concerned with matters that are
greater than the state
Ignores the very trivial tale
In hopes that soon It will grow stale
Before the nation cries out for, the secre-
tsry to relate;
However. It may be said that he's dust
travelling"
The peoples intense interest In the treaty
crisis grows;
Is the story that was told
Fact or exaggeration bold?
And they are rightly anxious for the word
of him who knows;
Still OF them It may be said that they're
lust waitin'."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20
SNATCHES FROM LOWELL.
His Straightforward Reply to
French Historian.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-sir: There
is no book on my shelves from which I
get more entertainment than from James
Russell Lowells Letters. edited by
Charles Eliot Norton. II is book TO
have at hand and open at odd moments.
I have just come upon this, in volume
H., page 426
N. Guizot asked me- How long do
you think the American republic will
endure7" Ny answer was, $50 long az
the ideas OF its founders continue to be
dominant" I naturally explained that
by Ideas I meant also the traditions
OF their race IN government and morals
Again. opening volume I. at page l2s,
read. There never has been a leader Of
Reform who was not also blackguard."
1t is not always necessary to agree
with Lowell, but he cannot be IGNORED.
NEW YORK, September 10. RI.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20
LEvIATHAN.
Not a Whale, Maybe, but Fresh
Water Serpent.

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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20
PERSHING SHAKES
1000 ARMY HANDS
Dimple GroUs as Officers
Welcome Him.
Special Despatch to The SUI.

SpeCldi Dc6DdICh 10 lHE Dun.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 19.-Gen. Per
shing received his official army welcome
to-day when in Secretary OF War
Bakers office he shoQk hands with per-
haps 1000 officers on departmental duty
in Washington. Gen. Pershing and his
nine aids wore their Sam Browne belts
In the line that filed past Gen Per
shing were officers of all branches and
degrees of the service, from new Sec
ond Lieutenants to retired Major-Gen-
erals and one retired Northumberland
Gen. Pershing survived the AFFAIR IN
excellent shape. He remembered many
of the older officers-some he mad met
in army posts and some with whom ne
had. been in action. Frequently during
the hour and half of the reception
he stopped officers and reminded them
OF names of towns or campaigns u
which they had met.
The dimple that is becoming a topic
of considerable conversation among the
persons here interested In dimples was
apparent all afternoon. 1t Is quite
big one and 1t grew larger as the after
noon went on. Gen. Pershing stood
with his feet spread apart and seemed
TO be having a good time.
At the close of the reception Secretary
Of War Baker who had been futterlag
in the background, and Gen. March
Chief of STAFF, inquired as TO how his
right hand had held out. Reassurinsy
Gen. Pershing spread out his palm and
shook hands with hims II cordially TO
show that he was in good form still
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20
ONE WoRKINGMAN SPEAKS.
A Warning Against the wiles OF
High Toned Dictators."

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Az
workingman permit me to make a few
observations regarding the attitude OF
President Wilson on the labor situation
and the mandate from him that there
shall be no more strikes for six months
to come. or probably twelve months, or
maybe indefinitely.
do not agree with him; neither
do I agree with the Cumr ms bill on
labor. which has the same drastic clause
to prohibit strikes. ask, where an in
tolerant employer domineers over men,
what other resource besides the strike
have they?
I know Mr.. Wilson's aim is to put
down high prices for all commodities and
necessaries OF life. But when he al
lows ghouls and prohteers to reap
a harvest In this way. why not re-
strict the export trade on all foodstuffs
to foreign countries7 Feeding foreign
countries and their mendicant populations
is bad programme while he leaves the
poor Of this great American land paying
extortionate prices for necessaries,
The vanity OF executive dictators
whose actions are truly laughable /,
Fancy the poor men and their families
dependent on them soldiers who sacri-
feed everything in this world TO go over
the seas to fight German militarism and
when they come back from the bloody
shambles some of their families HAY
been evicted from their homes and the
cannot find employment.
Does Mr.. Wilson step in and try to
comfort those men by having Congress
pass a law to give them a bonus to help
them and their families?
Mr.. Wilson's plan is TO leave the labor
grievances to be submitted TO a board
of arbitration like the late marine
strike. In which Messrs. Maher and Dele
hunty appealed to the President at that
time. They know the result. Mr..
Hines and President Wilson are forming
another league and the covenant win be
more drastic than the Versailles one. and
say right here, if the labor chiefs,
Messrs. Garretson. Lee. Stone, Shea and
many others, abide by the decisions OF
the high toned dictators they will find
themselves in a mhelstrom Of trouble.
The courts of arbitration are only per-
feet humbugs. A WoRxINoMAN.
NEW YORK. September 10.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20
James Hamilton Lewis, Prophet.

Our pro-Wilson neighbor the World
speaks dlsparagingly OF a rainbow
clad statesman of international scope
and fame:
JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS, formerly
Senator from Illinois, makes many
startling discoveries, his latest being
a purpose on the part OF President
WILSON soon to announce the doc
trine of soclalizing coal, oil and ma
tional highways of rail and water
'one reason why Mr.. LEWIS Is not
now member of the United States
Senate may be found In the fact that
his loquaclty has an unfortunate
habit of running away with his
imagination"
We have more respect for ex-Sena-
tor LEWIS as forecaster and prophet
when the plans and ambitions OF
WOODROW WILSON are under discus
sion than the World affects to enter
tain. When he says that the Presi-
dent will soon announce the doctrine
of socializing coal, oil and national
highways of rail and Water we are
reminded of the fact that on October
II, 1913, while he was a Senator of
the United States and n tireless
spokesman for and defender of the
President in the Senate, Mr.. LEWIS
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20
THE GOAT BY THE HORNS.
Henry Clay's Predicament and the
Small Boys Advice.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: In
my youth we used to hear that there
was story which Henry Clay was fond
Of telling abou. himself.
The great statesman was taking a
walk in the common then forming the
outskirts Of the city OF Washington
when he was suddenly confronted by
an angry biilygoat With the Instinct
OF self-preservation he seized the goat
by the horns and held on.
But the contest was unequal. Clay
was begjnning to be tired out and was
body tf need of advice. when he heard
voices in the air. They came from
sundry small boys who were looking on
at safe distance. and who shouted
LET 60. you fool, and run like hell!"
J. d. B.
PHILADELPHIA. September 10.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20
HIGHER CIVIL WAR PENSIONS,
House Committee FnVors $50
Minimum to Aged Veterans.

WASHINGTON. Sept, l9.-TAe H1uT
Pension Committee reported fururao'F
to-day bill granting m,uWu.
monthly pension of $50 to the veterans
of the war between tho Statcs Tier
widows would receive $50 a month and
their children under Is years Old 81
month, while nurses would receive $50
a month The measure would adj 500
100000 to the pension roll in Us first
year
speedy enactment OF tho ri' Is
matter of great urgency" declared the
committee report, pointing out te ~,
creased cost of living and the ages O!
the veterans.
The bill would grant 's7G mon Hly n
all totally disabled veterans au4 SEQ
month to those who suffered such
disabi In service
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20
NEW RANK FOR CR0WDER,
Bill Authorizing Promotion to He
Reported to Senate.

WASHINGTON, Sept 19.-1n recogni-
i've service act the Senate miiitarv con-
mittee to-day ordered n favorable re-
port on the bill by Senator Knox
tPs.) authorizing the elevation of
Major-Gen. Enoch II. Crowder. Judge
Advocate General OF the army to the
rank Of Lieutenant General, on his re.
tirement
At the request of Secretary Baker the
House Rules Committee will meet next
week to consider its bill proposing the
permanent rank of General for Peyton
c. March, chief of staff, The Secretary
asked Chairman Campbell to-day for a
special rule giving the March bill priv
LEGGED consideration in the House.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20
EVENTS TO-DAY.

The League to Enforce Peace will hold
Terminal Sales Building, 1870 West Forty
second street, $3.50 A. NJ.
Celebration of the golden Jubilee of the
Irish World" Cooper Union, p. NJ.
Field Day for Cripples," under the
auspices of the Red Cross Institute for
Crippled and Disabled Men, Twenty-third
street and Fourth avenue, =. NJ.
Annual festival of the United italian
Societies to celebrate the forty ninth an
niversary OF the Union of Rome 10 the
Italian kingdom; officers and crew OF the
battl ship Conte di Cavour will be guests
OF honor: Manhattan Casino, afternoon,
Alumni New York Homeopathic Medical
College and Flower Hospital meeting,
Hotel McAlpin, I p. M.
Interboro Coat and Apron Association.
dinner. Hotel McAlpin, 1870 p. NJ.