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A Week for the Boy Scouts.

Boy Scout Week, which begins to-
morrow, has greater detectives than
the raising Of fund to help that
good organization along. 1t Is a ma
tional recognition Of what theSScouts
did to help win the war when they
sold $35O,0O0,OOO worth of bonds and
stamps. 1t Is an effort to educate
communities as to the value Of the
Boy Scout movement, to interest suit
able men, and particularly returned
soldiers and sailors, in volunteering
for Scout work; to enroll a million
associate members, men and women:
and to enlist at least million more
lads out Of the ten millions who are
eligible to become Boy Scouts Of
America.
In this city the mark set for the
drive is 100000 new Boy Scouts and
100000. Everybody, whether he
or she has boy, should do something
to help that movement which THEo-
DoRE ROOSEVELT described as dis
tinctly an asset to our country for the
development Of efficiency, virllity and
good citizenship"
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Mr.. Frank VanderlIp's Message on
Europe's Prime Need.

Mr.. FRANK VANDERBILT began tell
Ing US the other day what he thought
was the Old Worlds prime need now
and what this country ought to pre-
pare to do to help get its people back
on their feet. He warned that the
best thought and the best action Of
the leaders Of Europe must buckle
down to the real business in hand.
He charged the best thought and the
best action Of this country with the
duty Of looking at the facts squarely
and then dealing with them.
At the start Mr.. VANDERBILT was
greeted In some quarters as q prophet
Of black pessimism, for he told not
merely Of the problems but Of the
confused, distracted, fantastic efforts
to solve. these problems. But when
Mr.. VANDERBILT again spoke before the
Merchants Association in this city
on Wednesday last, and when he
spoke still again on Thursday before
the Pan-American Conference in Wash
ington, there certainly was no pes
simism to cast shadows before any
clear mind. There was, on the con-
trary, sunshine piercing the clouds.
There were as we'll both sound eco
Monies and horse sense. Mr.. WANDER
LIP, indeed, is telling us all plain
truths in very simple way He Is
showing us, to use almost his own
language, that the trouble which is
endangering Europe to-day is what It
pretty much is, always has been and
always will be anywhere in the whole
wide world-lack of work.
Lending money out Of our Treasury
to foreign Governments or foreign
corporations or foreign individuals
isn't the thing that is needed. Lend
ing nations and communities food
isn't going to lift them out of their
troubles. Giving 1t to them isn't going
to do the trick.
All the gold In the world couldn't
bring salvation to a man stranded in
the middle of a great desert. Merely
handing out food to peoples whose
shrieking need is self-supporting work
is more liable to pauperize them than
to make them productive. All animals
hogs or men, tend to grow sleepy
when they are we'll fed up. When
they are hungry they hunt or work
for food.
But man must have the chance to
work for his food. And in Europe to-
day that chance, as Mr.. VANDERBILT
sternly points out. does not lie in the
gold of our Treasury, In the bread lines
we set up over therein any form or
manner Of American charity to for.
eign Governments or to foreign indl-
viduals. That chance. II they have
preserved their economic machinery
but lack materials, lies In our en-
abllng them with supplies of material
to make that economic machinery pro-
ductive. II they have the materials
hut not the machinery It lies in our
enabling them TO get the machinery
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

National Round Table for Speech I'm
proyement. luncheon. Hotel McAIpin,
Annual dinner of the Art Alumni Asso-
citation Of the School OF Fine and Applied
Arts. Pratt Institute gymnasium, p ".
Alumni day celebration of New YORK
welcome home entertainment for MEM
oers OF che Seventy-seventh DIVISION.
whose homes are in the Yorkviile district.
central Opera House, p. NJ
Commencement of the Jewish Theological
Seminary and of the Teachers Institute,
sermon II a. NJ, 5sl West l25d street.
reception to members OF the graduating
classes classes OF the Washington Square schools
ss .,n Building. Washington square
Enterprise Music Association entertain.
Pi Epsilon Sigma dinner. Hotel Meal
pin. P. NJ
Road Masters Association, convention
Hotel McAlpin, all day.
An exhibition Of roses and peonies will
open at the New York Botanical Garden
and continue through Sunday.
pieces OF the Safety Institute OF America
In the assembly room OF the METROPOLITAN
Botanlcal Garden at BuitenEorg, Java"
In me Museum Building OF the New York
Botanical Garden al =. NJ
The twentieth anniversary OF the found.
Ing Of the Hebrew Educational Society
viii be celebrated at dinner at the IN
:titution's building. Hopkinson and sut.
National security Leagues flying
squadron" OF open air street corner talk.
ers VIII appear nightly throughout tbs
Broadway. Ninety-si1th street and proai-
way. Tenth street and Second avenuA,
Seventh street and Second avenue. Hou,-
and Avenue A and in front Of the Educa.
tional Alliance on East Broadway
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Straight Talk About "Points."

DR.. WENDELL c. PHILLIPS, who pre-
sided at the dinner given on Wednes-
day evening in honor of the foreign
delegates ito the Victory Convention
Of the American Medical Association
in Atlantic City next week, spoke of
American purpose in the war with a
frankness and truthfulness emlnently
refreshing. Among other p.thy re-
marks he said:
You have heard a good deal about
the Fourteen Points up TO a few
months ago. but you are not hearing
80 much about them to-day
I'VE have almost forgotten them
The American people feel that II
was the two million bayonet points
that helped win the war
Primarily We went into the war
TO save our own hides"
There is sincerity. a plain, down.
right quality of Intellectual honesty
about DR.. PHuLIPss diagnosis Of
Americas reason for fighting Ger
many that makes 1t as welcome as a
cool breeze on a hot day. He epito-
mized the declaration of war in a
sentence and put in words the def
mite sentiment Of his fellow citizens
who offered their all, not for a vague
idealism but to attain a conspicuously
practical patriotic object.
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Committee on Foreign Relations, the
Hon. GnBERT NJ. HIrcHcocK Of Ne
braslka. is now making in Mr.. WIZ
SONS behalf.
Z. He could have restrained his too
facile tongue and pen from utterances
designed to create In Europe the i'm
preston that he spoke with authority
for the people of the United States Of
America, when In fact he went
abroad not only without a mandate
from the people for whom he assumes
to speak but actually after having
appealed directly to them for such q
mandate and after having been with
unmistakable emphasis repudiated by
them as their spokesman.
8. He could have kept us out Of
ENHANCEMENT with foreign affairs
with which we have nothing to do.
He could have kept us on the straight
and always glorious road Of indepen-
dent, self-reepecting policy.
0. He could have spared us the hu-
initiation of being made by his unau-
thorized activities to serve as the Mr..
Fixlt Of all the world; the meddler
In the concerns Of every little tribal
nation which has been the subject Of
study by his personally selected geo.
graphical and chronological experts I;
the shameless betrayer In some cases
Of their just rights and reasonable
claims In order that his League Of
Nations might not come back home
with him on the George Washington
q cadaver.
These are few of the things which
President WILSON has done which he
might not have done and the things
which he has not done which he
should have done since he forsook his
post of constitutional duty and I'M
dertook, unbidden, to reorganize the
foreign world according to a plan for
which no one but himself was prl-
marily responsible.
The list Is capable of considerable
extension. 1t will give us Joy to
extend It II our esteemed reader in
Worcester Is unsatisfed with the
specifications given here.
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Passing Of . Great sho Wman.

In the partnership Of FRED THoMP-
SON and ELMER S. DUNDY, THOMPSON
was the creator, the inventor, the man
with a head full of gorgeous, bizarre
plans for the amusement of the public,
while DUNDY was the guardian Of the
bank roll. THOMPSON, who died yes
terday, liked to tell of day when
Luna Park was building on which he
decided 1t was essential for him to
have new pair of trousers II he
was to continue to appear in conven-
tional society. He appealed to DUNDY,
whose death occurred a dozen years
ago, for the money to pay for them,
but DUNDY showed him how much
paint or canvas or lumber 1t would
buy, and THOMPSON went without.
Luna Park was built on credit and
enthusiasm.
The Thompson spectacular Illusion
THE Trip to the Moon" was a fair
sample Of the elaborate productions
THOMPSON delighted in. He enjoyed
planning and building 1t, and then he
enjoyed watching the patrons of his
enterprises take pleasure in 1t. With
out DuNDY az an adviser he would
never have had a penny as 1t was, he
made fortunes and lost them quickly
and cheerfully.
The Hippodrome was built and
opened to the public by THOMPSON
and DUNDY. Its great size and gilt
tering productions are typical of their
ambitions in theatrical enterprises.
Its attendance has been tremendous,
yet the number of persons who have
visited Luna Park is naturally greatly
in excess of that which has patronized
the mammoth show house on Sixth
avenue.
When Luna Park opened its pro-
prietors took pains that 1t should be
clean. They had no room for the
obscene or suggestive in their own
productions. They would tolerate no
misbehavior among those who visited
the park. That Luna should be safe
days and evenings for respectable
women and girls without escorts was
a principle of the code which gov
erned 1t. They were leaders in the
improvement of Coney Island. The
excellent reputation that resort bears
to-day is the fruit of the efforts they
and other far sighted business men
made to clear it Of the Objectionable,
to establish 1t and maintain 1t as
resort for we'll behaved men and
women and children.
Mr.. THOMPSON was a purveyor of
wholesome pleasures literally to mill
Ions of persons. He earned his fame
as a Snowman by vision. daring and
industry. He got much out Of life,
but he gave more to others.
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BETTING REFORM.
A welsher's Victim Calls for Open
Covenants at the Racetrack.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Str: There
Is a law in New York State against
betting and gambling on horse races
Anybody who has been at Belmont Park
or any other racecourse in this State
knows how the betting Is carried on
before the eyes of the representatives
Of the law without these interfering
with the lawbreakers at all. In this
way one takes a chance Of losing his
money by the cleanout OF the book
makers or OF getting arrested or both.
Now wouldn't 1t be better to have
as in any other civilized place open bet
ting places. or as they have in some
States the mutuels or something OF the
sort, where ones money has more safety?
1 placed a bet on a horse last week
1t won at big price. After the race
was over I looked for the bookmaker
but he had evaporated.
Knowing that the principal fun at the
races is the betting. why in humanlty's
name don't we have st in the natural
and human way? LOSER.
NEw YORK, June 6.
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THE REGULARS.
4 Chapter Of American History
which II StIm to Be Written.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: MT.
Hitchcock somewhat misinterprets my
position about the Regulars. I merely
wish to emphasize the fact that they
so far have had no historians, not
merely in this war but in previous wars.
do not refer to press agents; 1t sounds
too businesslike.
quite agree with Mr.. Hitchcock
about the marines: they too are Regu-
lars. But they were until tive years
ago a small, compact body, with a very
distinguishing uniform. and glorious
record. No wonder they quickly found
their story told by Catlin and Bundy.
A Regular Army division has no such
luck as q rule II has not. indeed, been
the fashion to tell the story Of the
Regular divisions. brigades and regi-
ments. Few people know the story Of
tho Regulars In the Mexican war ; fewer
still Of THE SUMS readers ever heard Of
sykes's Brigade Of Regulars in the civil
war and Its splendid record.
Had It been from Massachusetts or
Pennsylvania or Ohio or Michigan
everybody In those States would know
all about It So to-day: the Seventy
seventh. tho Twenty-eighth. the Nine
tieth Division-who Of the Fourth
Estate, as Warrington in "Pendennis'
calls the press. would fail to tell Of
them In their homo States especially ?
But few even remember the gallant
deeds Of the First. They have no homo
State or section to cherish their memory.
This IL what mean when say a
Regular Is q United States soldier. and
not from any particular State or sec
ton. 1t 10 not a question of envious
comparison; It is merely that much his
tory Is to be written and I would not
like to see the Regulars forgotten.
have q notion that some very good
history will be written by some quiet
West Pointer with a fluent but modest
pen and writing. as said the other day.
In a style like Grant in his memoirs.
Twill be good reading.
A STUDENT OF HISTORY.
NEW YORK, juno 8.
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The Rhine Republic as q Block to
Peace Negotiations.

DR.. HANS DoRTEN, the President of
the Rhine Republic, is making rapid
progress in the preliminary steps Of
the establishment of this new claim
ant for Statehood. He has organized
a Cabinet of Rhlnelanders, issued u
proclamation forbidding obedience to
the laws of the governments which
formerly controlled the Rhine prov
inces and has unfurled a white flag
with green diagonal bar, the white
to represent the peace sought by the
new republic and the green to SYM
bolize the Rhine.
The seriousness with which DR..
DoRrEN has taken himself and the
new State has aroused considerable
opposition in Berlin. Prussia sees
herself shorn Of an especially rich
a
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Why, This Is Beverage That Has
Been Allowed to Ferment!

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-ST: II
'yindex" will try the following / am
sure he will be indicated II his friends
sample it after II is properly made.
Take one ounce OF hops and pour over
II one gallon OF fresh water. Bring to
boil and boil for ten full minutes
fifteen is better. Then add one quart
OF cane (Ncw Orleans) molasses, or
one and a quarter pounds OF cane sugar.
Put in one-quarter Of common yeast
cake after the mixture has become luke
warm, then set aside for fermentation.
Ferment fer thirty-slx hours in a room
with the temperature between Go and 90
degrees. 1t should be in an agate ware
or stone ware vessel. and merely COW
cred with a piece OF cheesecloth to keep
dirt out and let gas escape. After
thirty-six hours skim carefully and
bottle in air tight bottles. This makes
jolly nut brown ale equal to the best
ale obtainable both as TO taste and
color. JOHN w. ALTON.
NEW YORK, June s.
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Latin Journals Join,

1T is a matter OF pride to the Asso-
ciated Press" said he, that this invita-
ton TO our fellowship was instantly ac-
Cepted. and that We now list among our
members the most important journals in
the country to the south OF the United
States, for We have had members In
MexiSo and Cuba for years.
The bases OF our relationship with
our new members are those Of equality,
OF mutual respect, OF full confidence Our
South American members know that the
news reports sent them will be straight
news with no Interior purpose. and we
have the same belief as to the news COM
ing north.
Il am sure that II must be clear that
the interest OF the Associated Press In
the specific commercial projects that this
conference is discussing must be purely
platonic, Any aid to general buying and
selling that this fellowship In effort of
the newspapers OF North and South
America brings will be only n by-product
OF a relation that had no such object in
mind as an incentive 10 its creation
A cablegram of congratulations and
good wishes from the President OF
Ecuador was read at the morning session
o. the conference.
Society, official and diplomatic circles
made a brilliant scene in the Pan-Amer-
lean building and grounds tonight at the
reception given in honor OF the delegates
to the Pan-American Commercial Confer
ence held here this week. The Mexican
Ambassador, Senior Bonillas the Ven
eZuelan Minister. Mr.. Dominica: Senior
EliZalde. Ecuador Minister the acting
Secretary of State and Mrs. Frank 1.
Polk and the subcommittee OF the gov
erning board named for the conference
formed the receiving line
The Aztec gardens and the annex
were decorated for the occasion. The
guests were received In the hall of the
Americas and wandered thence TO the
out OF doors Supper was served on
the facade overlooking the gardens and
the sunken lily pRnds.
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to work their material into produc-
ton. II they have neither Industrial
machinery nor material II lies In our
enabling them to get both. But the
less charity the better. The less
lending Of mere money the better.
What they need is the opportunity to
provide their own daily bread.
This is as simple as A, b, @. The
man who can earn his own living can
be master Of his own destiny on this
earth. So can the nation. Neither men
nor races can Lift their heads above
servitude as long as they must eat, or
are content to eat, out of the hands
Of others
Economic sustenance-not gifts, not
soup houses-can put every nation In
Europe on Its feet in a comparatively
short time. When nations and men
want to work-and we cannot doubt
that the peoples Of Europe, emerged
from their weller of war, will want to
work when they have the chance
economic sustenance Is worth paying
for. The Old World will pay for
It The Old World will pay for It
and gather good dividends for itself
as It begins to thrive and prosper I'M
der the workings Of the laws which
the Almighty ordained for mankind.
The world at this juncture owes
Mr.. VANDERBILT a great deal for his
clearness Of vision, his directness Of
purpose and his courage of speech to
put US face to face with the real prob
lem which is to be solved and with
the only method to solve 1t In the right
way and the lasting way.
The sun., 1919-06-07
HOME BREWED ALE.
A Recipe, With an Admonltion Rela.
tive to the Yeast.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sus-Sir: In
response TO the letter Of "vindex'' rela-
tive to home brewed ale here Is the
recipe. although I believe It might bet
ter be described as beer. What's the
difference. anyway. in a dry land?
Two and a half gallons OF water
brought to a boil. Add three ounces of
hops encased in thin cloth bag. and
keep boiling two hours Then add one and
a half pounds OF toasted brown sugar,
two and a half pounds OF malt extract
Add two and a half gallons more OF
water and a small package Of gelatlne
for clarifying purposes; boil twenty min.
utes longer. When the mixture becomes
lukewarm add three-quarters of a cake
Of yeast and ninety-slx hours later you
will have beer.
After July / do not add the yeast and
the cops won't get you TEEToTALER.
NEW YORK, June 6.
The sun., 1919-06-07

The British royal family on Derby
day drove from the station to EPSON
Downs in horse drawn carriage.
This may have been only a hint to
loyal subjects that they should encour-
age horse breeding to the extent of
keeping in commission at least one
or two pairs OF roadsters. and II may
be confirmation of a rumor which has
sailed oversee that II viii be In ex-
ceedingly good form in London and
Paris this summer for those who want
to be considered correct followers OF
fashion to be seen in horse drawn
vehicles in Hyde Park and the Bots de
Boulogne. The social principle here
involved may have prompted the reply
OF a butler who responded to the re-
quest OF his very rich mistress to be
sure and have Strawberries served for
her lunch. II fancy that Madam will
not care to have them served: they've
become very plentiful in the market
just now"
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TRADE BRIEFS.

commerce and Industry hall IL TO be
built by popular subscription in Toxic
II Is to cost $500 900 and will be modelled
after similar institutions in America
A new company has been established in
Copenhagen under the name OF Dansk-
Baitisk Handelskompsgni. which Will work
in connection with the Dansk- Finsk Han
delskompagni in Helsingtors The capital
stock Is s2os. 900.
japanese manufacturers OF machinery OF
every description are directing their atten-
ton toward China, whose demand is
steadily increasing. japanese exports In
c!ude stone crushers. electric dynamos and
gas plants
About nifty Formosan cRmphor manufac-
turers have amalgamated In order to re-
duce the heavy losses which they are said
TO have sustained lately on account OF the
increased cost OF production.
Approximately 100 900 cattle are mar
keted annually In Guatemala: 10000 Of
these would be available for export under
favorable conditions. These cattle aver
age about 300 pounds in weight.
Japan exports bean oil chiefly TO Aus
tralia, England and the United States, and
the amount exported has greatly increased
during the past fve years In 1914 e1-
ports were valued at s724.24, while in
1918 they were valued al S3.43O.4s3.
The shell exports of the Philippines for
1918 amounted to S2S5. OOO Philippine
shells comprise six kinds OF commercial
value: the gold lip pearl or the mother OF
pearl. the window shell. the trochus, the
green snail. the black lip pearl and the
tortoise shell.
The war has greatly stimulated the
Japanese TO undertake the manufacture Of
leather and several large factories have
been established In Toxic and other dis
riets owing to the undeveloped condi-
ton OF the live stock Industry in Japan
practically all the leather used In the
manufacture OF boots and shoes had here
tofore been imported.
The sun., 1919-06-07

Mr.. WADswoRTH Of New York will
please many old fashioned Represen-
tatives who are sticklers for the recog-
milton OF that body's premier place in
the composition OF the Congress by his
designation OF the House as the upper
branch. Il think" he said. referring
to a matter before the Senate, that
heard a measure handed down from
the House OF Representatives an
nouncing the passage Of" &C. Ger
tainly to that branch of the Congress
was allotted by the Constitution MAX
ers the high privilege OF originating
all money bills.
The sun., 1919-06-07
DIX INVALID CENTRE ENDS
Many Wounded Soldiers Recovered
After Getting Treatment.

CAMP DIX, June 6-The Overseas
convalescent centre here was closed to-
day and all OF the forty remaining
patients will be finally discharged BY
tomorrow night. The centre was es-
tablished to care for returned veterans.
either wounded or III. who had recov-
cred sufficiently to leave the base hos
pitfalls but had not reached maximum
physical development. In hundreds OF
cases crippled limbs have been mada 20
function normally by the treatment
given.
Almost every one Of the THOUSANDS
who have passed through the centre had
employment waiting for him upon his
discharge. II the loss OF a limb W
htted him for his previous occupation.
special training was given 10 him and
a course at some educational institution,
70 nj him for other work
More than $500 men went through the
trade school conducted at the centre w
the Government. aided by the y "
c. A The centre here was the frs. one
esta olished and was used as a model Tor
those at other rehabilitation camps
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Song of the Experts.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: A
Paris despatch says that a shipload OF
United States peace experts are coming
home. Fine and dandy. And In the
smoking room of the after main deck
they will gather. lift high their glasses
of - and in solemn Joy tunefully
chant IN chorus:
Home again. home again. from q for
eisn shore
And o It nils our hearts with Joy 10
leave that awful bore
NEW YORK. June s. b. FLAT