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Mr.. Lewis Answered.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Our
good friend Merton f. Lewis through
THE Sun asks your readers to answer
several simple and hypothetical ques-
tons in connection with the construction
placed upon several provisions of the
proposed League OF Nations. He bases
Mexico might concede to Japan the PENN
sula of Lower California.
He asks. Would the United States
be permitted to prevent Japan from TAX
Ing possession? Would 1t be necessary
to bring the matter to the attention OF
the executive council? Would the coun-
ell have Jurisdiction? Suppose the coun-
ell should render decision that the
United States had no cause Of complaint
would the United States be bound by
such decision? Should the United States
refuse to accept such decision and I'M
dertake to prevent japan from occupy
ing the territory. would other nations
support Japan? Would they not be
bound to do so? Would other nations
boycott this country?"
All these questions are easily an
swered. I have carefully read all the
fHsioent mas skld upon the subject
But I am in the condition OF a capdi-
date who entered an examination for
| teacher. One of the questions asked
was What IL the capital OF Massachu-
setts?" The answer came after little
idelIberation: al know perfectly wei
what the capital OF Massachusetts is.
but 1 haven't the language to express
It," CHARLES r. SKINNER.
ALBANY. March "a.
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Mr.. Wilson Not Elected for Service
in Europe

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir: In
reply to the questions. asked by the
Plain Business Girl" let me say that
Mr. Wilson was elected by the people as
President OF the United States. with an
official home at washington, -. c. He
VAS not elected president OF the Wilson
George combination; he was not elected
president Of a humanitarian society or
the league of three or four nations,
Neither did his constituents decree or
expect that 80 per cent OF his valua-
bic time as a public servant would be
devoted to foreign interests in for
e.gn land, to the detriment OF the whole
American nation. at this the all i'm
portant crisis.
The Senators were elected to help not
only the President but the nation as
a whole. and this they have done to the
full extent of their ability: in fact, as
far as they were allowed to help.
The Senate faithfully supported Mr.. VIII
son throughout the world struggle, and
remained true and loyal until the session
Of Congress ended. while President Will
son delegated himself out of the country
as the sole representative OF the Amer
can people in Europe. fatty refusing to
convene a special session OF Congress
which he should have done, as duty and
circumstances demanded. Pray tell me.
does the criticism fall on the Senate or
the risafY "-AA !. ~ 4.EIGHrCH.
WARWICK, n. Y. March "a.
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Parade OF the Twenty seventh Dfvis1sA
starts Washington Square. 10 A. NJ.
Sophie Tucker Ball, Palm Garden, p. -.
Mary Garden Festival for France, E,e-
MaJor-Gen. W. NJ. Black will addrsG
the monthly meeting OF the Traffic Cub
of New York. Waldort-Astoria, s p. II.
Homecoming dinner to 1000 men Of the
Twenty-seyenth Division. Hotel Aston. Z
p. NJ.
the Prince OF Lales Fund Dance Commit
tee, Amsterdam Opera House, 8 p. NJ
Dinner for $50 soldiers of the Twenty
seventh Division. Park Avenue Hotel 9
p. N.
Dinner for 900 soldiers Of the Twenty
seventh Division. Hotel Pennsylvania, .
p. NJ.
Concert OF Danish. Dutch and Flemish
folk songs under the auspices OF the
Peoples Music League. Cooper Union s
p. NJ.
\. b. Wood will talk on The Need Tor
Immediate Prohibition" West Side 7. n.
The nrst OF a series OF ten lectures on
Farm Management and Agricultural Eco
nomlcs'' will be delivered by DR.. W, j.
Columbia University. ut s:l5 p. NJ.
Brooklyn Institute-Dr. Leon H VIM
cent will discuss some Literature OF the
Present War" Lecture Hall. p. NJ; Or.
sha!ler Mathews Will speak on American
Hall, S:l5 p. NJ.
New York League for Women Workers,
Waldort-Astoria, p. NJ
Society of Independent Artists. exhibit,
Waldorf Astorla- day and evening.
American Drug Manufacturers AssooiA-
ton. meeting, Waldorf-Astoris. 10 A. n.
Lecture by Edward Howard Griggs on
The Future OF Society-the Programme
OF Reconstruction" Carnegie Hall, 10 A. n
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A Book With q Sad Ending.

A book about our Postmasters-
General and what they accomplished
in Office might be made an interest
Ing volume 1t would hU<. a human
quality lacking in ordinary histories
Of the postal service; the author
would have the advantage of starting
with the most human Of the Fathers,
BEN FRANKLIN, who was so conscien-
tious a Postmaster-General that he
visited seventy-four of the seventy five
offices that were established under his
administration. The chapter on RE-
TURN JONATHAN MEIGs, Jr., would of
course tell the delightful legend Of the
manner in which his grandfather
came to name his father 80.
There we're Postmasters. General
who were great men before they took
office. Some were great men In Office.
Others were great after they left Of
fee. Some were fine men In all three
periods, like JOHN MCLEAN, who was
so good Judge that MONROE made
him Postmaster-General and so good
Postmaster-General that ADAMS
kept him in office and JACKSON
wanted to have him stay; but the I'M
bending MCLEAN, fearing JACKSON a
spokesman, refused, whereat ANDY APP
pointed him to the Supreme Court
bench, and there he stayed and lived
to write the dissenting opinion In the
bred Scott case.
Even If 1t all were confined to n
recital of the accomplishments, or
failures. in Office Of the forty or more
men who have bossed the American
postal department, the book would
have plenty Of attractions 1t would
DO the story Of an almost continual
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-25
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT
MANHATTAN,

Real Reconstruction" by David A. No
dell. at Wadleigh High School. 18th street,
west of Seventh avenue.
The Making OF New China" (nrst OF q
course OF lectures on Tho Life OF Asiatic
Sationsl), by Sidney Neville Usher, at
Public school 66, Eighty eighth street, east
OF First avenue. stereopticon views.
Guy de Maupasssnt." by Louis u. will
knson, Lit. D., OF Cambridge Universfty
at Public school go l4ith street. west OF
Seventh avenue.
THE Czecho- sIovaks." BY Mrs. Anna v.
and wadsworth avenue. stsreopueon
views.
STORY Of Hiawatha." By Garrett p. Ser
viss. at Metropolitan Temple. Seventh ave-
nue. and Fourteenth street. stereopteon
views.
THE BRONX
violin and Violin Music" by August
Wingebach, at Public school IS. ls9th
street, Hoffman street and Lorillsrd place.
"The sonata by Helen $. Rapalio, at
Public School 81, l5Sth street. jackson and
Trinity avenues. illustrated by piano and
violin music.
"1rdysrd Ktrling" hySS0t ]. @. Carer
Troop, Phi. u. tormerly Or ChtcaE6~S al
versity), at Public School 90, 2o7th street
and Hull avenue
Theodore Roosevelt" by DIR. Henry n.
Rose at New York Catholic Protectory,
Van Nest, New York. Motion pictures
Tho Balkan Peninsula and Peoples" By
Raphael Constantian, NJ. D., at St. An
selms Hall. linton avenue, near ibsth
street.
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Let Europe Go BACK to work.

The quickest way, perhaps the only
way, to quench red riot In Hungary,
in Poland. in Germany7-in all Eu-
rope-is to get men back to work, get
communities back to work, get ma
tions back to work. While the Paris
Conference delays the peace treaty
interminably and insufferablt they
cannot 20 back to work..
Mr.. WILSON has insisted that his
League Of Nations was more impor-
tant than the peace treaty. From tho
day he set foot in Paris he has held
the treaty aside to give the right Of
way to his league. His argument has
been that II the world did not have
his league there would be no way to
enforce the treaty.
But every day that the peace treaty
has Jagged the ominous fact has
doomed bigger that IL men and states
and races, drifting on the seas Of an
|archy, went hunting long enough in
vain for orderly government, went
hunting long enough in vain for their
very bread, there would be left no re-
sponsible authority, no organized mo.
rality. with which to make peace
treaties, league or no league.
Even though men, women and chill
dren were not starving, what could
more surely breed discomfort than
idleness? What could more violently
foment hatreds, disturbances and
crimes than hunger among millions of
human beings wanting to earn their
living, but unable to go back to work
while the Paris Conference dawdled
over a league of nations weary month
after month?
Maneuvring for Mr.. WILSON'S
league to the postponement Of peace
II persisted in long enough, might
throw more than Hungary and Poland
into commissions Of Bolshevism; II
might topple the greater part Of the
Old World Off the solid foundations
Of government
Get the peace treaty ready for sign.
ing. Let Europe 90 back to work.
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It is now the Red Danube!
TRADE BRIEFS.

Consul Mckay states that in normal
times cakes and other bakery products of
the higher grade would undoubtedly md
q ready market in Valparaiso. Chile
In spite of the tropical climate In the
Dominican Republic there 10 a market for
gloves. These must be OF black or white
cotton materials. They are worn only at
funerals And on some other speeiR ocea-
sions arN nicA the native custom requires
their use as q matter OF etiquette.
The imports OF olive oil into New Zea-
land for tho year 1917 amounted TO 9.6e6
gallons. OF which tho United Kingdom
supplied 1850 gallons, Australia 100 gal
Ions, France 448 gallons, Italy 1870 gal
Ions and Spain 10 gallons. as compared
with 9.328 gallons for 1914, OF which the
United Kingdom supplied 2,45s gallons,
France 1894 gallons Greece 1.o06 gal
Ions, Italy 8,164 gallons, Spain o5s gal
Ions and Turkey Gle gallons.
Eighteen dozen clinical thermometers
were bought from a New York State man
ufacturer as the result of tho inspection
OF sample Thermometers obtained from the
Madras consulate, India.
At the present time the port Of Man
chester. England, is the second oil i'm
porting centre In that country. In the
]
there are oil tanks with a capacity for
3T.5s4,10s gallons.
There 10 a probable opportunity. Ae-
cording to v!ce-consul Grifith Of Santa 60
dc Cuba, for tho sale OF portable houses
to sugar mill owners and other large en-
pioyers OF labor on that island. Such
houses, however. could not be sold to
householders for private building purpose,
because OF the universal use OF the Spa
style OF structure. featuring tho patio OF
central court
There 10 a large and growing demand
for American products In tbs region abou,
Punta Arenas. Chile, particularly for food
stuns mineral waters, textiles, chemicals
drugs and toilet articles and preparations
! Being a sheep ranching country there Is
also a good demand for smooth. barbed
and galvanized wire for fencing purposes.
4 Danish manufacturer. 4. I.asson Of
Copenhagen. has invented a new plough
blade for tractors. In the form of disk
like plAtes placed At both snds of tn,
| plough
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I'd the Avenue.

Those who are so fortunate to-day
as to see the march of the Twenty
seventh Division will store in the
cameras Of their memories their first
adequate picture Of the hugeness OF
the war. These $4,000 men. swinging
up the avenue in close formation for
hours, must be the most impressive
parade that New York ever has seen
and the realization OF the colossal
oroportiops Of a world in arms will
tome to the watchers with the knowl-
Sage that this division was less than
one hundredth Of all the men that
America had prepared for the strug-
Ele; scarcely more than a thousandth
BART Of all the soldiers Of all the ma
lions engaged.
But that is mere magnitude, while
this is the day Of admiration. Here
are men who represent all parts of
loyal old New York State. Here are
men most of whom were in the Ma
tional Guard before there was a whis-
per Of a world war. Here are men
who have been in the military ser
vice of their country most Of the time
elnce they were called to the Mexican
border in 1915. Here are men who
went as a division through the last
summer of the European struggle,
their officers unchanged except where
AzRAEL wrote an order Of honorable
discharge. Here are the first Yam
KEGS to fight in Belgium and the first
men of any nation to break that line
which German military science had
established as the last-and unbreak.
able-barrier against the enemy.
1t is q fine thing for the town to
see this wonderful machine from with
in the machine. But the men who
make up this magnificent engine are
not machines. such as the exile in
Holland made of his Germans. They
are trained Americans, each with his
own keen sense Of self and duty
They are part of the avalanche oil
youth, health and spirit that Americn
directed against a scornful enemy
They are the sign of American power
No one who sees them will doubt
again the ability of this nation to pur
sue Its own Just course.
While we watch to-day the Ions
lines of the medalled heroes let none
forget that these are not all Of the
Twenty-seventh Division. Two thou
sand men who paid most dearly FOL
the glory that Is to-day's are not Of
to-day but of eternity.
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The Late Fiftylseven Billion Dollar
! Congress.

According to our best recollection
It was this newspaper which had the
Honor of bestowing upon the Fifty
first Congress the name and fame by
and for which that body was long
unenviably notorious as 'the Billion
Dollar Congress"
The growth In the total appropria-
lions voted in the middle and late
eighties is shown in the table here
subjoined:
Forty-eighth Congress. $655,269.402
Forty-ninth Congress. rae. S42, 4sSk
Fiftieth Congress. ..... S17.963.S59
Fifty-frst Congress. .1.oa5.6s6.a21
1t is only a little more than a quar-.
ter of a century since the billion dol.
lar mark was reached and passed In
the total appropriations of an Ameri-
can Congress during the two years
Of its legislative existence. Many OF
T.HE SUNS readers will recall the
CONSERVATION produced by the an,
nouncement of an aggregate then re
garded as stupendous because 1t was
without parallel or precedent in the
history Of the country.
1.-THE monthly compendium OF the
House of Representatives, made pub
liz yesterday, shows that the Sixty
NTH Congress during its three SEES
sions of war legislation appropriated
about $1,000, 100000. This is con
siderably more than fifty times thu
total which gave the celebrated Bill
ION Dollar Congress Its historic nam,
md fame.
Two salient facts about the Fifty
seven Billion Dollar Congress may b,
stated briefly:
1. Tho expenditure by the Wilson
Administration of the money thus ap
propriated for the winning Of the Wa
has yet to be audited in the politica
sense: but the process OF audit In tn
political sense is bound to come.
.. The Republic Is prosperous AM
patriotic enough to support a fifty
seven billion dollar Congress when
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THE ROSE SIpGWIcK FUND.
An American Tribute Proposed to an
English Scholars Work.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Str: To
make closer the bonds OF friendship and
understanding between England and
America and to commemorate the ser
vices of one who gave UP her life In
this cause It Ii proposed to establish In
tho United States . fellowship in
memory Of Rose sidgwick Of the Brit
ish Educational Mission to America. who
died In New York city on December IS,
1918.
During the tour OF American colleges
and universities which she had Just con-
cluded Miss sidgwick had everywhere
left a deep impression of her lovable
personality, her high ideals and her ad-
mirable expression of the finest type
OF English scholarship. Her American
friends desire TO found a lasting tribute
to her character and services, and in 70
doing to carry on the work in which she
died.
At a meeting held at the women's
University Club in New York city on
February Is. 1919. a committee was or
ganized to secure. the necessary money
| and establish this fellowship. The COM
m.ttee consists OF representatives OF sew
| eral colleges. universities and organtza-
lions, with a number of individuals es.
pecially interested. Dean Gildersleeve
Of Barnard College Is chairman. Mrs
Rebecca Hooper Eastman secretary and
Miss Mabel Choate treasurer.
Not less than S25.o00 will be required
to carry out the plan. II L. expected
that the fund will be entrusted to the
| to Sor tpfa
national educational relations shortly to
be opened in New York city. The fell
lowshlp will be awarded annually to an
English woman for a year Of graduate
study in an American college or un!ver-
sity.
| In a letter from the British Embassy
in Washington, dated January II, 1919
Sir Henry Darlington Smith. British
| High Commissioner. expresses hearty
approval OF this plan. He states thai
nothing could be more in accord with the
aims which Miss Sidgwick had in view
than the establishment of such fellow
ship, and that such exchanges Of stu
dents as this would assist In promotins
would be one of the most effectual aids
in developing closer relations between
our two countries,
The committee Is now beginning &c
invite subscriptions to the fund. Checks
should be made payable to the Rost
Sidgwick Memorial Fund and sent TO the
treasurer, Miss Mabel Choate, s Eas'
Sixty-third street. New York.
| We should be very grateful TO yor
for conveying 10 your readers an appea
| for help in creating this tribute TO ar
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FRONT LINE HEROINES.
Parade Honors Asked for the Saliva
ton Army Lasses.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: I
read with much pleasure your editorial
article headed And Saved Many Lives"
referring to the work OF the Twenty
seventh Divisions Red Cross unit. but
you do not go far enough.
Ask the boys who 1t was that IN the
front line trenches. often at great per-
sonal risk. never faltered In we'll doing,
and they will answer, The Salvation
lasses, God bless them Should not
these heroInes also have a place in the
Tine? What they have done will neves'
lie forgotten. and they should receive
public recognition during the parade on
Tuesday next. e L. SALON.
NEW YORK, March 23.
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New York can count on the fingers
Of one hand its great military home
coming parades since 1912. Just 106
years ago to-day this city honored the
return OF Captain DECATUR in a man
ner which then was considered super
lative. In 1865 the arrival Of the
States volunteer and Guard regiments
evoked from the city celebration
which. however, cannot compare in
point OF preparation and organization
with that in which Admiral DEWEY
marched up the avenue to the tune
OF Hail! The Conquering Hero
Comes" And to-day. and probably 4
several other similar days this year
New York will register the high water
mark Of spectacular festivity in her
brilliantly prepared greeting to return
ing troops.
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advance In transportation and science.
1t would tell how FRANKLIN managed
to establish posts from Maine to
Georgia, and how the philosopher
fixed postage rates which remained
unchanged for fifty years. 1t would
tell Of EBENEzER HAZARDS effort to
keep up the standard after FRANKLIN
went on higher missions.
There could be something about the
haughtiness Of CHARLES A. WICK
LITE, the naughty "Duke" from Ken
lucky, who despised the poor; and
about the inefilciency of WILLIAM T,
BARRY. McLEAN's successor in ONCE
whose son challenged WILLIAM Cos1
JOHNSON of Maryland to a duel for
exposing in the House the bad
conduct Of the Post Office Department.
CAVE JOHNSON, under whom adhesive
stamps were first sold, should have O
place. NATHAN X. HALL, who reduced
the postage rate to three cents In
1851 and who first put out stamped
envelopes, is worthy Of mention
There was JAMES CAMPBELI, who
went in for the prepayment Of post
age and the reglstrat ton Of letters
There was AARON V. Brown, who ir
1857 established transcontinental mai
routes westward from st. Louis.
A long and golden chapter, please
for MONTGOMERY BLAIR. He KEEP
disloyal newspapers out Of the mails
in the civil war. He established free
delivery in cities and the use of posta
railroad cars; and 1t was he who abol
ished the element Of distance as 9
factor in the cost of letter transmis
sion. After him, chronologically. come
DENNIsoN, who put in the money or
der system. and CREswnI, who made
the summer hotel possible by letting
the public use postal cards
There were MARSHALL JEWELL
whose policies in Office led to the ex
posture. later on, Of the Star Rout,
evils; TIMOTHY o. HOWE, under whose
administration the letter rate fell I,
two cents; WILLIAM f. Villas, VIII
showed us that It Is possible. for tel
cents extra, to have n letter delivered
more rapidly than another letter: ant
number Of other conscientious men
who still live. who did a good dea
for the nations post.
The problem Of the author woult
not be to have the book interestin,
but to have It end happily. He nigh
content himself with saying Of cours,
that under ALBERT 8. BUKLEsoN thu
United States went extensively int
the parcel post. But to continue t.
the bitter end and tell how Mr.. BURIE
SON utterly rained mail deliver.
system that for decades, for a cen
fury, had been the pride Of variou
generations of Americans would b,
rather a sad finish.
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FRANK DUMONT.
A VISIT 10 the OLD Minstrel Described
BIZ q Friend.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sur-str. A.
one Of those who year or more ago sup
plemented the theatrical "reminiscences OF
the late Frank Dumont. then appearing
in letters to THE SUN. read with ap-
probation the sketch OF his career
given In an editorial paragraph In The
Sun. AZ n result OF an exchange OF
letters had with him regarding oues-
ton about certain structural features
Of the Old Bowery Theatre that We de-
bated in the columns Of THE Sun he
invited me to visit him at any time
might be in Philadelphia, and ! had
the pleasure Of meeting him shortly
thereafter In his playhouse at Ninth and
Arch streets in that city.
In one Of his letters to me he said
he had recently passed his SEVENTEEN
birthday. and expected to meet a griz-
zled. feeble veteran Of the stage. To
my astonishment beheld an alert, clear
skinned. bright eyed man who appeared
to b at least twenty years younger than
no actually was In his thick. straight
brown hair there was not . trace OF
gray. nor was there a sign Of q wrinkle
on his round. plump. smooth shaver
face.
Mr.. Dumont explained to me that he
usually went on as the interlocutor in
the first part Of the performance. but
that slight cold prevented him from
doing SO that day. In the course Of oui
chat he told me he had q collection OF
playbills dating back nearly sixty year,
that. he SAID, money could not induce
him TO part with. It occurs 10 me, nov
that he is no more. that historians OF tn,
American stage should make an effort
to obtain this collection and keep II
intact CHARLES ]. DuMAa
BRooKLrN, March -.