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SUI ccess OF q Big Naval Job.

Secretary DANIELs's message con-
graduating Rear Admiral STRAUSS on
the completion Of the task Of removing
the mines from the gigantic mine field
in the North Sea was official notice
that a job of extraordinary magnitude
has been successfully accomplished by
the American Navy.
This mine field, which was designed
to restrict German submarines by
making 1t impossible for them to
cruise beyond rigidly limited area,
required the planting Of 10000 mines.
To accomplish this special bases for
the mine layers were necessary, new
machinery for use on ships and on
land was devised and put in opera
ton, and the art Of mine planting was
developed on a scale which had been
thought impracticable II not impos-
sible. 1t was on this mine field that
in the later days Of the war the naval
authorities based in part their conf
dence that the German submarines
would be held in check.
When the armistice was signed and
Germany surrendered her submarines
1t became necessary to remove the
mines, a labor at least as difficult and
dangerous as had been that of plant
ing them. AS Rear Admiral STRAUSS
had set them out he was ordered to
remove them. Several lives were lost
in the prosecution of the work, and n
number of vessels used as mine
sweepers were destroyed, but so well
did the naval experts manage the
business that the accidents were fewer
in number and less grievous In effect
than anybody had dared to hope.
While accurate figures are not now
available, 1t Is said that the lives lost
in planting and removing the mines
numbered about ten. If this is the
fact the navy has good cause for
pride In the management Of this bold
undertaking.
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old imperial boundaries" they hope to
obtain for Germany a controlling po-
sition when Bolshevism is overthrown
and new and stable conditions are
established. The effect of this would
be to give to Germany the same
advantages In Russia she endeavored
to gain under the treaty of Brest-
Litovsk.
The situation unquestionably puts
the power Of the Peace Conference
to enforce the stipulations of the Paris
treaty to a severe test. That the con-
ference will again demand the with
drawal OF German troops from the
Baltic Is evident. 1t has still in its
hands strong weapon for enforcing
this demand in its power to deny to
Germany the economic advantages
which she Is to receive only when she
accepts the terms of the treaty in
spirit as well as words.
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An American corporal has been
flogged by a Cossack General. An
American soldier has been fatally shot
by a Russian officer. A Vladivostok
newspaper has scurrilously assailed
American soldiers. An American
General has held up cargo Of arms
sent from this country to the ALI
Russian army in Siberia. The Allies,
with whom the Americans In Siberia
are cooperating, have ordered the
troops Of General KoLcHAK's armies
to evacuate vladivostok. General
KoLoHAK has appealed to the Powers.
The order has been withdrawn. The
japanese are at odds with the Rus
slams. The Americans are at odds
with the Japanese.
From the wclter of alarming con-
Trajectory reports from Siberia 1t Is
possible to draw only one conclusion.
1t is that the expeditionary forces
from the United States do not fit in
the scheme of Siberian life, Bolshevik,
,All-Russian or normal. They do not
fit in with other foreign forces. They
90 not even fit in with themselves, Ii
all the reports which seep out to the
world can be relied upon.
Meanwhile the questions Americans
are asking themselves are: Why are
our soldiers in Siberian What are
they doing for the United States in
revolutionary Russia? Why are they
not recalled to the country? And
why doesn't the Wilson Administra-
ton reveal the facts with regard to
this whole business justify its course
If it can be justified, or confess a
blunder has been made If blunder
has been made?
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Emigration and immigration.

A few months ago we were told
that 100000 or 100000 aliens who
have been domiciled In the United
States were on their various ways to
their native countries, each bearing
$1,000 or more Of good American
money piled up under the starvation"
wage scales Of American industries.
Now we are told that Of these mill
ions considerable number Of aliens
got across to Europe, looked around
them, and straightway applied for
tickets for the United States.
In much the same way we are now
informed that 100000 Germans and
a proportionately large number Of
Austrians are headed this way, Let
this announcement not excite us IN
duly. In 1907 we received from all
countries 1,2S5,349 immigrants, who
taxed the capacity of the fleets which
brought them. This was the high
water mark Of immigration when the
world was organized to handle 1t. Un-
der present conditions 1t would take
a long time to carry 10,000,0OO Ger
mans and, say, 100000 Austrians
across the Atlantic. A good many of
them would not like 1t on this side and
would go home.
There Is an immigration problem,
a serious problem. 1t is TO keep out
of this country revolutionists, anar-
chists, the sick and the weak-minded.
When we have effectively barred these
undesirables we shall have done a
great deal to protect the civic health
of the nation from aliens, and then
we may look with composure on the
infiowing and outfowing streams.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

Celebration of Columbus Day.
Reception by the National Committee on
and Lady Davies and Dr. Mary Gordon. at
home of Adolph Lewisohn. Ss1 Fifth ave-
Bible class, direction of T. H. stearns,
West Side Y. II. C. A. 1918 p. N.
Meeting. Daughters Of Ohio. Waldorf,
Meeting. Ohio Society. Waldorf. p. NJ
Meeting, Certified Public Accountants
,d Intsrn1sGpsl c'nr snS of Women Ply
Meeting; New York archaeological So.
ciety, Waldorf, p. NJ.
Dinner ua and dance American Gas A'so.
Lecture auspices Of the Ledsrle Lab.
orstories Hotel MsAlpin. 2;so P. n.
ter. D. A. r.. Hotel McAlpin. 1850 p. NJ
Meeting. Danes of Loyal Legion. Nc.
Meeting, New York City Mothers Club,
Meeting; Jewish women's Council. Me-
Meeting, Railway Signal Association, Me.
Alpin, A. N.
,r Meeting Suitcase and Bag Manufac-
'0s Mestn MeAl Rn.xers p Alumni M Association
McAlpin. p. NJ
=, First Of a series Of lectures on 9TH.
College of the City OF New York, LexinE-
ton avenue and Twenty third street, 1880
Meeting OF service men Of the Police De.
partment to form their own branch OF the
American Legion, Police Headquarters
=. NJ.
'selective Service and the Physician"
paper by Victor G. Petersen. NJ. D. and
discussion by Martin Conboy. Auspices Of
the Society of Medical Jurisprudence, New
York Academy of Medicine, $3.50 p. NJ
Concert, auspices Young Mems Hebrew
Association OF Borough Park, Fourteenth
avenue and Fiftieth street, Brooklyn, 9
p. NJ.
Block party in celebration of the pur-
chase OF new buildings for the Bikur
Cholim Kosher Hospital. Lafayette ave-
nue. between Sumner and Lewis avenues
Brooklyn. P. NJ
stitute. 516 Clinton avenue. Brooklyn,
1880 =. NJ
THE Real Labor Problem" address BY
DR. Nicholas Murray Butler before the
Institute of Arts and Sciences of Columbia
University, 1880 =. NJ.
Convention, Middle States Shoe Whole
sa!ers Association, Hotel Aston 1890 p NJ
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cally, best morally, best mentally.
On this roster will be the names OF
individuals who, by reason Of supe
rior initiative, courage, mental capac-
ity, under any circumstances would
have succeeded In leadership Of pub
lie affairs the men and women who
In the present generation make the
public will effective. These individu-
ais will not become conspicuous
merely because they saw army or
naval life. They are the individuals
on whom the management of public
affairs would have fallen had there
been no war. Their influence will be
preponderant, not simply because Of
their war records but because Of their
especial fitness for leadership.
In an association in which such
men and women have membership
partisanship may be excluded, but
politics in its broadcast sense should
not be excluded, and cannot reason
ably be excluded. unless 1t is pro-
posed to put the Legion on the plane
Of a simple social club, perhaps with
the advantages Of a fraternal benev-
olent society, which we do not under
stand is now, or has been, proposed.
This suggestion, In fact. is fatty con-
tradicted by the announced design Of
the Legion to foster Americanism and
urge Its defence against all its open
enemies and covert foes. Americanlsm
cannot be protected without partici-
patton in politics. Let the American
Legion put the ban on partyism,
but never misconstrue the honorable
meaning of politics.
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FAINT HOPE OF NEW
AMERICAN CARDINAL
Vatican Will Resume Cere-
monies Suspended by War.

ROME, Oct, 10 (Delayed) Accord
to a report in circulation in Vatican
quarters there is still probability that
new American Cardinal will be ap-
pointed at the Consistory which the
Pope will hold during the first fort
night in December. The probability is
considered very slight. however
The Consistory in December will wit
ness the Inauguration of the series Of
great ceremonies at the Vatican sus-
pended during the war. In the first
months OF 1920 there are to be three
canonizations eliminating with that OF
Joan OF Arc. which is fixed for Whit
suntide, and will be glorilcation of
the loyalty to religion Of the warrior
spirit OF France.
In an article devoted to the proposed
world conference of churches, the
Ctviltd C'dttoltca, a leading review pub
lished in this city by the Jesuits, quotes
from letters addressed to Cardinal Gas
parri, Papsl Secretary of State, by Rob-
ert II. Gardner of Boston. Mass, in
which Mr.. Gardiner acknowledges the
Roman Church deserves praise for
having recalled her children to unity"
TIE review repeats recent arguments
that the Holy See cannot be represent
ed at the world conference, and cannot
permit Catholics to participate, but
hopes advantages will come from the
conference, at least to those Protes-
tants who in good faith strongly feel the
need Of a return to a united church. and
are seeking the way with true upright
ness OF heart"
IAN Catholics, led by the Pontin." it
says. win with this in mind pray for
promoters OF the conference"
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Foolish Talk From Producers.

We read that 1t is announced by the
master bakers of this State, now In
convention in Syracuse, that the five
cent loaf is "gone forever" that even
IL -four should be cheaper labor will
keep bread up.
If producers generally were to take
the attitude that old prices are "gone
forever" then the members Of the In
dustrial Conference might as well
pack up and leave Washington at
once, perhaps pausing only to adopt
Professor IRVING FISHERS theory Of
a mercurial dollar which should rise
or fall as values moved.
The prevalent trouble with business
men who say that the present prices
are here to stay is that so long as
they are doing nicely themselves they
are content with the situation. But
there will be no national happiness or
content until fall in prices brings
back a decent living to the people who
are neither business men with easily
adjustable prices nor organized opera
tives with tyrannical demands.
Perhaps we shall not see five cent
loaf again, yet 1t is not only wrong
but dangerous to suggest that the
cost of bread, which is of course only
one of hundred items of daily ex-
pense, will not fall. No one industry
can expect to see its own prices kept
up and its neighbor's put down.
II the baker could say that he hoped
to lower his price to nine cents and
then to eight-and did something to
prove his sincerity, and If the butcher
and the candlestick maker followed
suit, they would aid not only the peo-
pie with small and fixed salaries but
also themselves, by bringing down bit
by bit the false structure Of prices
which stands in the way of personal
comfort and the success of America S
world trade.
We hope that we shall not hear
from the representatives in the In
dustrlal Conference of either employ
ers or labor any stubborn talk about
the impossibility of reducing the
prices of goods or the wages Of labor.
Both of the .millstones between which
the general public is being crushed
must be moved at once. First find
the way to lower food costs; all liv-
ing costs will fall with them. Then
let wages be commensurate with the
cost of living.
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Won der G0ltx's Army.

The army of Field Marshal Won
DER GoLTz, which the armistice left
intact in western Russia. has devel-
oped, as it has been confidently proph-
esied it would develop, into an irritat-
ing factor in the complicated Baltic
situation. The Peace Conference has
been demanding the withdrawal OF
this army and its return to Germany
for rehabilitation. The replies Of the
Berlin Government have been through
out eyasve; it declared in the first
place that orders to withdraw had
been sent to Field Marshal Won DER
GoLrz, and again that the army was
no longer an organized force but
bodies of men which found conditions
agreeable and which had refused to
leave the country.
To these contentious Of the Berlin
Government a new significance has
been given by the capture last week Of
Riga from an army Of Let's who were
occupying that city. The commander
OF the attacking force, according to
the information received. was Colonel
AvALoFr- BERMoNDT, at the head of the
Russian. army in the Baltic region.
There is no suggestion that Won DER
GoLrz was personally present at the
siege but It is definitely asserted that
German guns and military supplies
were employed In the capture Of the
town. The Peace Conference has re-
ports from Germany that within the
last month troops were recruited in
Berlin for service in the Baltic region
and that supplies have been sent to
Lithuania from Germany.
The mission of the stranded Ger
man army" in the Baltic thus becomes
obvious. The German barons of the
Baltic. among whom was Count KoL-
IER. who was active in uniting the
German troops with the Russian
army for the recent attack upon Riga.
have not abandoned their project to
Germanize the Baltic provinces.
They saw in the establishment of the
separate States Of Latvia, Lithuania
and Esthonia under the protection Of
the Allies a growth in nationality
which it would be difficult for them
TO combat. BY aiding the Russians,
who oppose the separation Of these
States upon the announced principle
of the restoration of Russia on the
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THE BARBER ECONOMIST.
His Prices Must Rise, but Public
Corporation Is Something Else.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir: On
the subject of the present attitude Of the
public toward increased fares It may be
Of interest TO repeat an incident which
recently happened in a not far distant
city.
My informant is a retired merchant Of
the highest type OF the successful busi-
ness man. During the many years Of
his business activity he was in the habit
of using a barber shop in the immediate
neighborhood OF his ONCE. After retir-
ing, however. he accustomed himself to
the shop in the club he daily visited.
He had occasion a short time ago to
visit the downtown section after several
years of absence, and he bethought him.
self to patronize his old shop. He was
greeted with hearty welcome, and while
being ushered to a chair he noticed q
long petition lying on the cash counter
Of the head barber. The tonsorial art
was applied TO his hair. upon his face.
and boy polished his shoes He
received a check for rs cents. and with
out demurring he proceeded to the desk
to pay his bill. The head barber. after
some little conversation. finally said to
Mr.. r. Wont you sign this petition?"
What is itY' said Mr.. r.
why, sir, II Is a protest which Is
being circulated all over the city against
any increase in trolley fares or the in
auguration of the zone system"
us that so?' said Mr.: r. do you
remember when used to come into this
shop years ago paid % cents for a hair
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The warning to Good Citizens From
the Registration.

With women entitled to vote, with
the army demobilized, with the coun-
try relieved Of the. strain of military
operations in Europe and support Of
those operations in this country. more
citizens should have registered for the
fall election than did. But sufficient
number of citizens Independent of
Tammany have registered in Manhat-
tan and The Bronx, which make up
the First judicial District, to defeat
Tammany's grab for tho courts If the
issue Is made clear, and sufficient
pumber have registered in the other
boroughs to hamstring Tammany If a
vigorous campaign Is carried on by
and for the local defenders Of good
government.
Tammany has no AL SMITH to win
votes for Its ticket this year, as it had
last year. 1t has no FRANK BOWLING
to win votes for its ticket, as it had
in 1917. Tammany's purpose in the
present campaign is so plain no citi-
zen can misunderstood 1t. None OF
Tammany's candidates overshadows
Tammany in this canvass. None OF
them can divert attention from the
Tammany scheme to entrench itself
on the bench.
This is not an of year in the First
judicial District or in the city of New
York. There are no off years for
Tammany. AS long as Tammany ex-
lists there can be no of years for
the defenders of good government
where Tammany seeks to rule. The
task now Is to inform every registered
man and woman what bench dom.
mated by Tammany means, and when
that is made plain the qualified cleo
tors will do the rest.
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Politics In the American Legion.

Among the gentlemen who are or
ganlzing the American Legion and en-
deavoring to get that potentially
powerful society of veterans off to a
good start a commendable purpose
to keep it out Of partisan politics is
displayed. They want their associa-
ton to be above squabbles for jobs,
beyond the sphere of spoilsmen. We
hope they will succeed and that each
successive generation of the Legion's
officers, solidly backed by Its mem
bers in their millions, will maintain
an infexible front against the petty
manipulators of great events who sub
ordinate principles to personalities
and use policies for Individual gain.
1t is nonsense TO suppose, however,
that the American Legion can or will
avoid politics in the broad sense of
that much abused word, and 1t Is not
desirable that 1t should. The men,
bership Of the Legion, assuming that
IL will become and remain an organi-
zation fairly representative of the
American war effort of 1917-1919. will
represent the best men and the best
women in the country-best physi.
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WILL FIRE 21 GUN SALUTE.
National Budget Committee Opens
Campaign October is.

The National Budget Committee will
hold twenty-one meetings In New York
city on October Is as the start of its
campaign fo- 10000 clubs throughout
the nation for the discussion of impor-
tant political and economic matters. The
committee calls the opening salvo Of
meetings "twenty-one gun salute" II
is planned to double the number of meet
ings and speakers each week until by
the first of the year 1000 centres have
been established. The work is under the
direction OF Capt Stanley II. Howe
Among the speakers who will begin
the campaign are John r. Pratt, DR..
Samuel McCune Lindsay, Charles F..
Neshit and Stanley II, Howe of the Ma
tional Budget COMMITTEES; DIR. William
Il. Otis and DR., Nelson =. Meade of the
College of the City of New York; Ma
thaniel Phillips, president of the League
for Foreign Born Citizens; George II.
Bell, formerly Commissioner of Licenses,
and John A. Kingsbury, formerly d.
rector of citizenship in the Army Edu-
cational Commission.
The meetings will be held in clubs,
settlement houses, churches. schools and
Y. NJ. C. A buildings
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BOOKS ARE NOT COOKS.
Man Can Live without EN-, the
Strikers Are Reminded.

To THE Enron or THp suN-Sjr:
wonder IL the d,safreoted workers in
the printing trade appreointe that a
public can easily grow awav from a
liking for nr,nted literature in this day
Of widespread SCREEN Admiration? I
put this In them as n lover of litera-
ture.
The reading NJ current hooks ana
magazines ia after all a habit. lust as
is going IN the scream entertainments. A
persor can do vv,thovt either or course
the need for eood hooks and periodicals
Ia a stjnulant and an insplration to
the average mind. hut q is not a neces-
sitv. like the conrmption Of food and
drink
The striking nc,nbers NJ the printing
trades wound do well tn vemember that
the boo,, and mapaxipe industries do not
live bv tho sunnort of the occasional
reader The,, are sunnorted bv the men
with whom, reading has become a habit.
Jbe ev,I ~ . shvtdowr ia the enforced
breaking ~ this babit. The literary
consuner will he comne,ied 70 seek
another form, NJ d,vars,on. and To sup-
ply this Is very easv in these DAYS
of nicturs nalaces around the corner.
most NJ ther, nresenting aim fiction by
the verv authors whose work the former
literary consumer will, bs missing
through the shutdown in publishing.
To give Won an idea: the looming
attraction" n.y. ~ the neiebborhood
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because while Great Britain was still
fighting on the battlehelds Of the Con-
tInent Great Britain was planning
her campaign of world trade to begin
the day the fighting stopped. 1t hap
pened because Great Britain. when
the end Of the war was In sight, be-
gan to arrange the foreign credits,
began to get the goods ready and be-
gan to call In the ships to carry the
goods 1t came about because, while
the leaders Of our own Government
were hearing voices In the mir and
prating back to those voices In the
air, the leaders of British Gov
eminent, along with the leaders Of
British industry, British commerce
and British finance-even the leaders
Of British labor--hearing the call Of
material opportunity, were solidly on
the practical job Of seizing 1t as some-
thing necessary to the welfare and
existence of n modern nation.
Gigantic as they are the British
exports to-day are only a part Of
what they are going to be in the next
few months; for Great Britain right
now is importing huge supplies Of
raw naturalization, for example
which. while the fighting lasted she
was holding down to the lowest pos
sible limit. These imports Of raw
material are flowing into Great
Britain's mills and factories In ever
increasing quantities to come out as
finished products bound not only for
the countries Of Europe-Germany;
first of all--but for the Orient, South
America, the United States
Great Britain, in our own Yankee
vernacular. got the jump on us. Great
Britain got the jump on everybody
else. Nobody need blame Great Brit
ain for that. 1t was her right In the
community of nations. 1t was her
duty to her own people. But If there
is no blame for Great Britain, who
was ready to leap and did leap at the
main chance when the time came,
what are we to say about ourselves
who, so far as concerns national team
work from the Government at the top
to the hammer and the hoe at the bot
tom, are still Numbering?